Chapter 33: A Heavy Price

"You don't know that the slap didn't hit you in the face, how much do you have to call me uncle according to your seniority, just perfunctory to me? If you don't solve this matter today, I will pull my master over tomorrow, and I will go back to the eldest master of the clan, so that everyone can evaluate and see if what you are doing is right. ā€

I walked up and sat down on the principal's desk.

"You...... Uncle, come down and take me to see what is going on. The headmaster compromised.

I pulled Wei Linjuan and led the principal to the classroom.

The two girls hadn't left yet, and the male teacher was there, and when I pushed the door open, I was listening to his righteous words denouncing me, saying that he would go to the head of the grade tomorrow and give me a punishment.

As he was talking, he turned his head and saw me and Wei Linjuan...... and the headmaster behind him, suddenly fell silent.

"Tell me what's going on here, from beginning to end." The principal asked me to say.

I recounted what I had seen and done earlier, and then asked Wei Linjuan why she had beaten her before.

"I—I didn't bring any money, and if I didn't give it to them in the morning, they beat me."

Ms. Wei said she lived next door to the girls' village and was often bullied when she was in elementary school. Usually, they will meet in the second half of the way home.

Didn't I give her two packs of spicy strips yesterday, she parted ways with me in the second half of the way, and was eating, when I met these two girls. They asked her to pay for it for them, and they wanted to eat it.

Of course, the two of them pushed Wei Linjuan and said that they would bring them money to eat this morning.

Wei Linjuan didn't dare to ask for it from home, she was afraid of meeting the two of them again this morning, so she hid far away when she went out, and ran to school only after class, which was the real reason for being late.

When the two girls heard this, they couldn't sit still, pointed at Wei Linjuan and said that she was a thief, that Wei Linjuan had stolen their money, and that the principal should call the police to arrest her.

At this time, another girl picked up Wei Linjuan's schoolbag from the ground, opened the zipper, poured out all the books inside, and then kicked it with her foot, and found two two-dollar tickets from it.

"I found out that the money in my drawer was missing at noon today, so I thought of Wei Linjuan behind me, and I heard that she came to my seat during the break between classes when I went to the toilet, so I asked if she took it, but she didn't admit it, you see, now I found it."

"Mine too, we each lost a dollar."

She shook two bills: "Wei Linjuan's family is so poor, it is impossible to give her so many pocket flowers." ā€

Wei Linjuan beside me burst into tears, bowing her head and whimpering: "I didn't take their money, I haven't touched this money." ā€

The headmaster, realizing that things were complicated, told them to pack the books and follow him to the office.

When we arrived at the office, the principal first asked the male teacher to sit next to him, and then stared at the few of us in front of him: "Don't lie, I've been a teacher for half my life, and I know a few roundworms in your stomach, and this matter is big or small now." If you don't weigh two taels, you can't beat a thousand catties, in short, don't lie to people. ā€

The principal looked at the two girls, and the appearance of not being angry and arrogant was really timid.

He took out a few more pieces of paper and handed a few of them: "Now, please write all the things you have happened to this matter on a piece of paper, sign them after writing, and let me see them." ā€

We were separated, and I wrote down everything about it today, and then signed the name.

The principal looked at it and immediately noticed that something was wrong: "You two, both write the same?" Just that coincidentally? ā€

The two girls nodded: "We didn't lie. ā€

I know that this is a collusion, and the two must have discussed it beforehand.

"You're sticking to what you're saying, aren't you, so let me ask you something, okay?"

The principal stood on my side and asked me boldly.

I also chose to use the principal's method: "You two take a new piece of paper, stand with your backs, I ask you, and you write down your answers." ā€

Even though the two girls didn't want to agree, they had to compromise because of the pressure from the principal.

"You said Wei Linjuan stole your money, didn't you? Please write yes or no. ā€

"Because of stealing money, you ended up beating Wei Linjuan, didn't you? Please write yes or no. ā€

"You found out that you lost your money, who communicated with each other first?"

"Were you the first to hit Wei Linjuan, and was she the only one stealing money? Please write yes or no. ā€

"Did you talk about this before you started hitting someone? Please write yes or no. ā€

"Who of you came up with the idea of beating someone first? Write your name or another person's name. ā€

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After a series of questions, the two girls were already sweating profusely.

At the urging of the principal, it took a long time for them to say that they had finished writing.

I took the paper from both of them and handed it to the principal, and we looked at it together.

Just by looking at it, you can already see if they are lying or not.

For a thing that is fabricated out of thin air, if there is no perfect drill training beforehand, there will definitely be mistakes in the details.

Because in fact, these two girls have not lost money, nor have they communicated because of losing money, so there are no answers to some questions at all, and they can only write them down casually.

Unfortunately, they were unlucky.

In the "After discovering that the money was lost, which of you first communicated with each other?" In this question, both of them wrote each other's names, which is really a coincidence, could it be that the two of them spoke in unison after meeting.

And in the "Who of you first came up with the idea of beating someone?" In this question, both of them wrote their names, and the above joke came up again.

I explained my train of thought, and the two girls panicked instantly.

Principal Liu looked at me at this time with a hint of approval in his eyes, and when he looked at the two girls, he was completely disgusted, and he already knew the result.

"You two bullied your classmates, extorted money, framed you, and deceived the teacher, if it weren't for the clever way that classmate Liu saw through your deception, would you have to bully Wei Linjuan in the future?"

"Now please two of you show how to speak at the same time. If you can't perform, please go back, and I'll go to your house to find your parents, and I won't be there tomorrow. ā€

The two girls were instantly stunned, their eyes were red, and they kept begging the principal.

"Let's go, go back, I won't use it tomorrow! Go to school in the county, our school doesn't need students like you, you can go wherever you like! ā€

The two girls regretted it at this time, standing there without moving, and kept sobbing: "Principal, I'm sorry, we won't dare in the future." ā€

"We want to go to school, don't drive us away."

Until it was getting dark, the two girls saw that the principal never let go, and knelt directly in front of Wei Linjuan.

"Wei Linjuan, I'm sorry, I won't bully you anymore."

"Can you forgive me, I will invite you to eat big knife meat every day in the future, do you remember when you were a child, you came to my house to play, and I gave you a glass ball?"

"Wei Linjuan, when I was in the third grade, once I didn't write my homework, you borrowed it from me, I thought you were a good person at that time, I also said, I said that I would help you find fairy grass and cure your disease, now I am stupid, I have learned badly, I hope you can forgive me......"

A sentence repeatedly hooked the heart of Wei Linjuan, a girl, and scenes from a long time ago appeared in front of them, they had laughed together and played together. Is it really necessary to leave them without school?

But Wei Linjuan thought of the fifth grade last year, when the two of them joined forces to make fun of and bully her, push and shove her, and threaten and deceive her, so that by today's beating and humiliation, the wounds on her body are swollen and painful, maybe they are still bruised and purple. She will never forget this unforgettable pain.

Looking at the face of the principal next to her, she knew that as long as she forgave the two of them, then they could still come to school, and if she didn't forgive, then they probably wouldn't have a chance to come again.

The dilemma of choice, both results flashed repeatedly in her heart.

There was a loud voice in her heart, shouting: I don't agree, I can't agree, why do these people forgive them after bullying you?

"I ...... I ......"

But she couldn't open her mouth and say those four words.

A girl cried: "Juan, I still want to go to school, if I am told to go home, I will get married, exchange money for my brother to marry, I don't want to have children." ā€

"Juan, if I don't study, my dad will let me go to the city to find my sister to work, I want to go to high school, I want to go to university."

Wei Linjuan knew that her words today would determine the fate of the two girls for the rest of their lives.

"I ask you, do you regret it now?"

The two girls cried profusely and kept nodding.

I looked at their pitiful appearance and gritted my teeth secretly. Most of the poor people have something to hate, and if they knew it was so, why bother in the first place?

I don't know how long it took, the principal smoked one cigarette after another, and Wei Linjuan turned around and finally made a decision: "You guys get up...... As long as we can get along, we will still be good classmates. ā€

Wei Linjuan sighed and walked out of the office, her back was reflected in the moonlight, looking extra strong.

Two girls kept saying thank you behind her.

Because of a person's kindness, they can no longer bear a heavy price.

It was already completely dark when I left school that day, so I helped Wei Linjuan sort out her clothes and sent her home. Although I still didn't take the homework book, when I came back the next day, I saw that the homework was neatly written in the notebook - two awkward but extraordinarily delicate words.

I turned to look at the two girls not far away, and they both immediately lowered their heads, not daring to look directly at me for a long time.

Later, the two girls would always invite Wei Linjuan to eat spicy noodles every now and then, and we became very good partners, often going home from school together, and nothing like that ever happened again.