It's the students' fault if they are too popular.

Ruan Qian blinked. It was the first time she had such a debate with her teacher. She said softly:

"This world is not black and white. Many things cannot be generalized. I believe Xiaobei will make the right choice when faced with major issues."

The teacher looked at her and didn't respond for a long time.

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Ruan Xiaobei's final punishment was to suspend his studies for one month.

Inevitably, I have to let my mother know.

Ruan Xiaobei sent Ruan Qian to the station. While waiting for the bus, he said:

"Sister, you have really changed a lot."

The sister in his memory was weak, like a newborn kitten, without claws, without sharp teeth, innocent and harmless. Now the kitten has grown up, but it is a leopard, stronger than them all, surprising everyone around.

"Is there?" Ruan Qian said.

"He speaks just like our Chinese teacher." Ruan Xiaobei said, holding the back of his head.

Ruan Qian didn't answer him, turned around slowly and said:

"What are you going to do next?"

The atmosphere cooled down. Ruan Xiaobei kicked the can and said vaguely:

“…I want to work on computers.”

"What did you say?" Ruan Qian stared at him as if she wanted to eat him.

"Wait, sister, I mean, I want to buy a computer!" Ruan Xiaobei looked like he was afraid of being beaten. "I participated in an information competition at school, and everyone else had their own laptops..."

"You mean you went to the Internet cafe to study?"

"Well, actually... I'll play games for a while after completing the study tasks for the competition."

Ruan Xiaobei told the truth.

Ruan Qian was silent and said, "My family doesn't have the money to buy you a computer."

"Sister, I saved the money myself."

"How many?"

"……five hundred."

"Five hundred is not enough for a computer, right?" Ruan Qian said, looking at the time.

"My classmates have a lot of unwanted parts. There are a lot of rich people in the school, so I asked them for them." Ruan Xiaobei laughed at himself. "I have the CPU, memory, graphics card, and motherboard. I want to assemble a desktop computer, and I want to find you..."

"Four hundred." Ruan Qian took out her wallet and looked up. "This is all I can give you."

The little girl's heart was bleeding, this was originally the money prepared to treat Teacher Tong to a meal, but when she heard her brother asking others for spare parts, she felt a little sad and still took it out.

When you enter society in the future, computer skills will be indispensable.

Just think of it as an investment.

"Sister, where did you get so much money?" Ruan Xiaobei was shocked. Most of his money was earned from selling snacks in the dormitory. There were a lot of rich hungry ghosts in the dormitory, and they would buy snacks even at double the price. He didn't expect that his impoverished sister also had so much money.

"I'm being kept."

The bus came, Ruan Qian jumped on it, threw down these words, and her face couldn't help but blush.

He pretended not to hear Ruan Xiaobei's anxious calls outside the window.

The time for returning to school was exactly right. She ran quickly to school, but was stunned at the school gate.

Director Zhang stood at the door, examining every student who came in.

Chapter 59: Why Be Nice to Her

Ruan Qian stood at the school gate, watching the students entering the school one by one. She couldn't move, her legs felt like they were filled with lead and she couldn't move an inch.

Will Director Zhang leave after waiting for a few minutes?

Why is Director Zhang examining here today?

Or maybe she didn't make enough preparations from the beginning, she never left the school at noon, and maybe Director Zhang was here every day at noon.

There was not enough time, and she had to go back to the dormitory to change into school uniform before class, so she had no choice but to walk towards the school gate.

When she passed by Director Zhang, she pretended to be calm and took out her work card. Director Zhang took it and looked at it, narrowing his eyes:

"What are you doing out there?"

"Help...Teacher Tong."

"Dressed like this? Where's your school uniform?"

Director Zhang's square face seemed to have only hard horizontal and vertical lines. He frowned and felt that the girl in front of him looked familiar. According to his experience, when people change clothes and leave school, their destination is most likely an Internet cafe.

So, he made a move that made Ruan Qian's breathing stop -

Take out your phone.

"Hello, is this Teacher Tong? Excuse me."

"A student said he was going to help you with something at noon. Is that true?"

"No, right?"

Ruan Qian's heart was pounding. Director Zhang looked at her with a sneer and easily saw through her clumsy act.

"What on earth did you go out for?"

"I……"

Ruan Qian's hands tugged at the corner of her clothes. What should she say? Did she pretend to be an adult and go to her brother's school? At this time, perhaps only telling the truth would not make the situation worse.

The situation won't change anyway.

She drooped her head and, like a puppet with its strings cut, told everything that happened at noon.

The part about debating with the teacher was omitted.

"That's fine," Director Zhang almost wanted to applaud her after hearing this. "You helped your brother take the punishment, and now you have to take the punishment yourself after you come back."

"Leaving school illegally, you can just leave school whenever you want? You have no discipline at all!"

"Who taught you not to hand in your cell phone? Who is your homeroom teacher?"

"He even pretended to be a parent. I was too embarrassed to call him to verify! He is bringing shame to No. 1 Middle School!"

Ruan Qian lowered her head, her face pale.

She had no complaints. She did do something wrong and needed to take responsibility for her actions.

She thought she had grown up and could handle things in life well, but instead of making her brother's punishment lighter, she dragged herself into trouble. Things did not get better because of her, but got worse.

In the mature and orderly world of adults, her self-righteousness seemed so ridiculous.

"Come with me to the student affairs office."

Director Zhang looked at her coldly.

Student Affairs Office.

Director Zhang asked her about her class and grades. When Ruan Qian said that she was ranked in the top 200 in the mid-term exam, Director Zhang was a little surprised. He didn't expect that she was still an upper-middle-level student. His attitude changed a little. Although he was still critical, it was obviously not as unkind as at the beginning. Instead, he looked like a teachable girl and wanted to influence her.

For the first time, Ruan Qian experienced the privileges of being an excellent student.

As a student, grades are your best weapon.

If my brother's grades were the best in the city, given the importance the school places on top scorers in the high school entrance exam, would any teacher threaten him with punishment?

I'm afraid it can be easily covered up with a simple "it won't happen again".

This is not a matter of social conventions, but rather that outstanding people should have privileges.

"The teacher believes that you are not going out for fun, but the school has its own rules... I'll take a call." Director Zhang said, taking out the vibrating phone in his pocket and answering it.

"Hello, Teacher Tong, yes, I'm in the student affairs office."

Ruan Qian's eyelids twitched, and she looked up and stared at the phone, wanting to hear every word on it.

At this time, Tong Yao was rushing from the dormitory to the student office. She hadn't gotten up yet when she received the first call, and she answered a few words casually. Now that she thought about it, she felt uneasy.

"Um, Director Zhang, is that student a girl? If so, I did ask her to go out and help me..."

"Ha, Teacher Tong, don't try to cover up her lies," Director Zhang smiled, "She confessed everything."

Tong Yao on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, then coughed awkwardly.

"I see...I'll be right there."

Director Zhang hung up the phone, glanced at Ruan Qian, and threw the surrendered work card on the table:

"Look, think about whose trust you have betrayed. Do you think you can take responsibility? Who helped you solve the problem in the end? You and your brother just got scolded, but in the end it was still the parents and teachers who were worried! Your brother is out of school for a month, so he needs to find a teacher to make up for it, right? He needs money, right? Who will pay for it? Will you pay?"

"You high school students all think you are so great. What can you do without your parents? Students just study hard. Do you think you can hold up the sky when it falls?"

Every word is like iodine applied to a wound. It hurts so much that you want to cry, but you know it is beneficial to the healing of the wound.

Ruan Qian thought that she had done something wrong again. She thought she could solve the problem properly, but the facts proved that she was still far from being as good as Teacher Tong.

Self-blame and guilt were like two worms gnawing at her, leaving her full of wounds.

The door of the student affairs office opened, and Tong Yao came in. She greeted Director Zhang, then looked at the little girl and said softly:

"Come with me."

Ruan Qian opened her eyes wide and looked at Director Zhang, and then Director Zhang made a "please" gesture to her.

He didn't intend to pursue it.

The mistakes the girl made were not serious. She would be criticized at most for leaving school at noon, and bringing a cell phone is the average for students. Impersonating a parent is something that happens in other schools. Moreover, it would not look good if this matter was reported - why did this girl have a teacher's ID card?

Tong Yao stepped in and in the end the class was deducted one point for moral education.

The little girl followed Tong Yao silently. Teacher Tong didn't say anything, and she didn't dare to say anything. Teacher Tong must be really angry with her this time. The work card in Teacher Tong's hand seemed to symbolize the withdrawal of favoritism.

She was really panicked.

Since she met Teacher Tong, she has only caused trouble for Teacher Tong. Teacher Tong spoils her no matter what she does, but she can rarely bring anything to Teacher Tong. That little bee? She was able to save money because of Teacher Tong's work badge.

From the beginning to the end, she was a parasite who depended on Teacher Tong.

"Teacher Tong..."

After she finished speaking, she bit her lip, both expecting and fearing a response.

Tong Yao stopped walking, and in the empty corridor, she turned around and looked at the little girl:

"Why are you leaving school?"

"Because...my brother..."

The little girl lowered her head and explained what happened clearly, even repeating the debate she had with the teacher.

Tong Yao took a step closer and asked in a low voice:

"Why didn't you tell me in advance? You think you handled it very cleverly and are very proud of being able to beat the teacher in the debate?"

Ruan Qian was stunned, lowered her eyes, and her eyelashes trembled:

"Because... I was hoping for the best and thought I could solve it myself. I wasn't... complacent. I knew I didn't solve it well..."

As she spoke, her eyes became moist, but she resisted the urge to cry. She blinked back the tears, her voice trembling slightly:

"But... I don't know what to do... Should Xiaobei expose his classmates? He is from another place, and I am afraid that he will be excluded by his classmates in the future... He should be punished according to school rules for going to the Internet cafe, but, exposing a friend..."

Her words were interrupted by a tap on the forehead.

Tong Yao's finger stopped at the little girl's forehead and poked it gently:

"I really want to knock you over the head like this sometimes."

Ruan Qian was stunned and stared at her blankly.

"Sell out your classmates to get a lighter punishment, or don't sell out and argue with the teacher. Are these your only two choices? Be humble and beg for mercy. Doesn't your brother have a computer? Isn't this a reason? Teachers are easily soft-hearted. Considering your brother's family situation, it won't be difficult to get the teacher to show mercy."

"Besides, when you can't make a choice, why do you insist on doing it alone? Why don't you consult an adult? Why don't you..."