The injury on his hand was like an electric shock, and Tan Ran woke up in the darkness again and again.

Looking at the clock on the wall of the dormitory by moonlight, it was already two o'clock in the morning.

She tossed and turned, unable to sleep, but she did not dare to get out of bed.

It's already at this point - even if you go to the toilet and are heard by the dormitory teacher, it will invite unwarranted disasters to disrupt school discipline.

The scenes in my mind recalled what happened to Calder tonight, from the beginning, the indifference of the student named "Lan Silin" when he was beaten, to the female student who attempted suicide when the mountain chief called to recuperate in the dormitory, and the constant mournful cries on the playground, everything is vivid.

She felt a fire burning in her heart, as if something was dying silently.

She thought of Gu Lingling who was trembling with fear on the playground again.

So, she turned around and wanted to see if Gu Lingling had fallen asleep, but saw that the bed was empty.

Where did Gu Lingling go?

Worried emotions overflowed in her heart, and after only a slight hesitation, Tan Ran crept up from the bed.

The two roommates were still asleep, and she cautiously walked through the beds on either side to the door, noticing that the toilet light was still on.

The dim light poured through the cracks in the unclosed toilet door.

She pursed her lips, knocked on the door, and froze—feeling a little ridiculous about her behavior—she gently and slowly pushed open the toilet door.

Gu Lingling was squatting on the toilet, curled up, her shoulders twitching for a while, crying silently.

Tan Ran was stunned, stepped forward, and quietly patted her on the shoulder.

Gu Lingling was startled and was about to scream, but Tan Ran hurriedly put her finger to her lips.

"Shhhh

Gu Lingling looked at her innocently, with tears on her face, pitiful.

Tan Ran's heart softened.

"It's late, why, no, sleep?" Tan Ran used lame sign language to communicate with Gu Lingling.

Gu Lingling pursed her lips and shook her head. Immediately, bow your head.

After a while, she looked up again, her eyes twinkling, and she began to sign slowly.

Tonight, I'm scared. called. I'm sorry.

Tan Ran was stunned, hurriedly stepped forward and hugged her, and explained in sign language:

"It doesn't matter."

Gu Lingling's eyes became redder and redder, and she waved her hands in a panic:

I don't scream, you won't be beaten. I was wrong, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

The gesture of "I'm sorry", she did it several times in a row, Tan Ran felt inexplicably uncomfortable in her heart, kept waving her hand, and hugged her into her arms again.

Gu Lingling's sobs came from her shoulder, she covered Gu Lingling's mouth, and her right hand, which was injured by the ring ruler, hugged her tighter.

She rested her head on Gu Lingling's shoulder, silently shed tears, and read softly:

"It's okay...... It's okay......"

……

Early the next morning, without waiting for Tan Ran's reminder, Gu Lingling got up early and took the initiative to help Tan Ran, who had an inconvenient right hand, fold the quilt.

Tan Ran was very happy in her heart - it seemed that after last night's little episode, Gu Lingling's stranger to her had been completely eliminated.

After the two of them washed together, they walked out of the dormitory building and arrived at the classroom with the two roommates.

Today, the head teacher has something to do temporarily, and the substitute teacher is a new Chinese teacher named Yu Zhen.

When she was reading this morning, she often lingered around Tan Ran and Gu Lingling.

Tan Ran was worried in her heart, her waist was straight, and she was engrossed in reading the words in the book.

Yu Zhen looked at her, pursed her lips, gently tapped her shoulder, and motioned for Tan Ran to follow her out of the classroom.

Tan Ran didn't know what to do, but she had to obey.

As Teacher Yu walked out of the classroom, walked through the corridor, turned into a safe corridor with few people, and closed the door, Tan Ran's heartbeat suddenly reached its peak.

Yu Zhen breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't be afraid."

Yu Zhen tried to squeeze a smile out of her. He took out a few more bottles of potion from his pocket.

"Roll up your sleeves."

Tan Ran was stunned and did so.

Yu Zhen opened the medicine bottle and carefully applied it to Tan Ran's right hand, and Tan Ran blinked in surprise.

"Teacher ......"

"Shhhh

Yu Zhen winked at her and lowered her voice:

"These are painkillers and anti-inflammatory medicines – don't tell anyone."

Tan Ran understands that "others" refers to other teachers.

She had never felt such care in this academy, and she was so moved for a while that she was even a little panicked, looking at Yu Zhen blankly, her eyes were slightly red.

"Thank you...... Teacher Yu. ”

"That's what we should do, and it's not what we should do to hit you." Yu Zhen brushed aside the bangs on the side of her face and carefully medicated Tan Ran.

"I saw everything you did to protect Gu Lingling last night. You're doing the right thing. However, I really can't ...... our school."

Yu Zhen didn't continue to say the following words, Tan Ran's eyes turned red again, and she shook her head violently:

"It's okay, we'...... I'm used to it. ”

"How can you get used to this kind of thing?" Yu Zhen sighed:

"What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong...... However, this school is already wrong from the most basic thing...... This school ......"

She muttered "this school" several times in a row, but she never had the courage to say more.

Yu Zhen was only twenty-three or four, and after graduating from university, she accidentally applied for a job at Kanglong Academy.

Half a month after joining the company, she has seen too much dirt in this so-called Academy of Chinese Studies, but she has always dared to be angry and dare not speak.

She always felt guilty about her students, but she never dared to say these words to her students.

Last night's Kaude, only Tan Ran was admonished in the Dawn class, but Yu Zhen didn't think Tan Ran had done anything wrong.

"I've seen it all, but I can't really do anything by myself......"

Yu Zhen whispered, with helplessness between her eyebrows. Tan Ran felt a warmth in her heart for the first time in a long time, and smiled at her:

"Teacher Yu, you are really good."

"I don't have any good ......" Yu Zhen smiled self-deprecatingly: "I'm just an ordinary person, I don't care how old you are." Besides......"

There was a sad look on her face, and she remembered some not-so-good memories.

She also beats students, but she is the lightest of all teachers.

Because all teachers have to be disciplined, if she doesn't do it, she won't be able to keep her job.

However, in her concept, students make mistakes, which should not be solved by corporal punishment, which is a backward, feudal educational idea.

It is foolish to give out filial piety with a stick. But in Kanglong Academy, this concept is regarded as the truth.

She's just a trainee teacher under the fence, how can she change all that?

"That's right......"

Yu Zhen seemed to remember something, turned her head, and said to Tan Ran:

"Tan Ran, I have read the information of our students in the Dawn class before......"

Gu Lingling, she ...... It's a very poor kid......