Chapter 02

Three months later.

Wen Ning, whose husband died half a year ago, was refusing compensation in the civil court, and instead of living a relatively cushy life with the compensation from her long-dead husband, she would rather have her own lawyers deal with the perpetrator with the maximum criminal law –

If her husband’s death had been due to illness and not from an unmitigated disaster, then Wenning might not have taken it so hard.

Outside the courtroom it was a rainy spring day, and the freshly sprouted shoots endured the pounding of the wind and rain.

The young lawyer said he would continue to represent the case, and if the first trial didn’t get the result they wanted, he would go on to appeal.

These words about properly comforted Wen Ning’s heart.

“Thank you, Lawyer Gu.”

Wen Ning refused to take the lawyer’s vehicle, unwilling to add new trouble to the bystanders, and walked alone with a black umbrella, aimlessly into the middle of this fine spring rain.

But seeking to be blameless.

She thought she did.

“Stinking pussy who killed her husband!”

“Still have the nerve to sue my husband, my husband was originally disciplining his own daughter, your husband was a meddler or he wouldn’t have died, fucking deserved it!!!”

Behind her was a spluttering middle-aged woman, completely without an umbrella, rashly penetrating into the midst of the pouring rain, cursing and swearing for quite a while and not stopping.

Stepping in the pond, she accidentally touched the silt on the concrete floor, and the whole pond became completely chaotic.

She looked over at the bloated figure of the man who was screaming, her mind already having a judgment.

Folding back, Lawyer Gu blocked her way. She didn’t softly and helplessly hide behind someone else, as much as she could without letting her feet get so flustered, and saw the woman wade away once more, and thanked her again in a soft voice.

She thought back to her involvement with the family, when it was clear that she was the one who had lost her husband, and she was the one who should have been angry.

All she had asked for was that they be brought to justice.

Instead, the other party used the most foul language to abuse herself.

I heard Li Yuanzhe, who died early, say that there was a little girl in the class next to his who grew up in an extremely patriarchal family, with idle parents who spent their days in mahjong parlors. Listening to him, it was nothing more than concern for a weak little girl. As a teacher, he had a great sense of responsibility and was particularly responsible for the schooling and lives of those children.

The problem lay in the girl’s home.

On the eve of the home visit, the class teacher next door, surnamed Wang, approached Li, hoping to be accompanied.

Li Yuanzhe coincidentally ran into the man of the house burning his second daughter with a cigarette, and heard that the eldest daughter had dropped out of school to work in a hair salon, and the second daughter was still in sixth grade; there was still a son in infancy waiting to be fed.

With a family structure like this, it’s hard not to suspect parental favoritism.

Though most people would shrug off responsibilities that didn’t concern them, she knew that Li Yuanzhe wouldn’t do that, and as expected, he went with his new intern, Ms. Wang, to conduct a field visit to a village in the middle of the city.

The parents can’t even talk about any respect for their own daughter, let alone for their own daughter’s teacher.

I heard that as soon as they walked in the door, they started to put up a fight.

In front of the teacher, they lost their temper with their daughter, who was not good enough, but not enough, and then directly forced their daughter to go to the empty corridor with only half of the railing left to face the wall. During the period, naturally, there is no shortage of pushing and shoving.

The kind-hearted teacher Li in order to stop a father’s senseless abuse, in front of the girl, in this push and shove crashed to the ground.

The girl was not spared and is still lying in the intensive care unit of the hospital.

During this time, there are many specific details that have not been released.

Ms. Wang also seemed to have suffered a mental shock after this incident, and lay in a sanatorium for nearly half a month before returning to school.

By this point in the case, her husband’s death was tied to that originally unrelated home visit, to the school, and to the irresponsible parents.

There was no way she could keep her child still in that elementary school.

Taking advantage of the lunch delivery time, Wen Ning and Li Che vaguely mentioned about the matter of transferring to another school.

Li Che nodded his head in a well-behaved and understanding manner, as if his father’s death hadn’t caused him any harm because he was so young that he was afraid that he didn’t remember his father’s voice and smile anymore.

“Mom, I’ll listen to everything you say.”

Li Che, who had lost his father, still bloomed with a rotten smile that belonged to a child, only that smile didn’t look very genuine, as if it was intentionally designed to mimic an adult.

There was a maturity in him that did not belong to this age group, but such precocity was excessively cruel for a child.

Wen Ning thought carefully about how too much of her own energy was involved in a lawsuit that had no end in sight, and her attention to her son had been distracted quite a bit, and she counted the things that she had not done properly as a mother, while Li Che never bothered to let her worry about it.

“Today’s wontons were cooked a bit rotten.”

“Where?” Li Che propped up her face, “A child’s teeth haven’t had time to fully grow in, so it’s suitable for softer food.”

“Mom, today’s lily knots are delicious, and the leek box is super flavorful, I’m full.” Li Che patted his pretentiously bloated little stomach and stretched out in the second-hand polo car that didn’t have a lot of room to move around in the first place.

Wen Ning stuffed the milk and strawberries in her hand into the child’s palm, and without hustling, she sent it all the way to the entrance of Center Street Elementary School.

During this time, she bumped into another familiar figure, but Ms. Wang was trying her best to avoid herself, pretending as if she didn’t recognize her at all. Wen Ning swept this evasive woman a glance, understand that she took this preparation is not easy, do not want to get involved in any relationship with this matter, but also hope that she can truthfully cooperate with the investigation of their own lawyers, not to cover up, so that the case is still unclear today.

Now, her son is still in this school, she can’t afford to get to the bottom of it.

But she was also a commoner, and couldn’t hold back from complaining–

If Ms. Wang hadn’t dragged her husband along on her home visit that day, wouldn’t all this have happened?

The matter had come to this.

Wen Ning still sent his child to that school for the time being.

The heart of their own considerations also had to hurry to put into practical activities, she turned over a few times, finally from the old classmate He Mei there to bring an international school enrollment form.

He Mei worked in foreign enterprises, more or less in the community has some contacts.

“No?”

He Mei, who had learned that Wen Ning wanted to enroll her child in Xin’an International School, was half-expecting it. He Mei, who was half-convinced, half-doubting.

“Wen Ning, you didn’t take someone else’s compensation money, I’ll be honest with you, the various costs of this school are not small, you’d better have a clear picture in your heart.”

Wen Ning smiled bitterly, “After saving up for so many years, it’s not so bad that I can’t even come up with a few years of tuition.”

“Your money is all hard-earned money, why don’t you think again?”

Wen Ning opened but a wonton house, she graduated from the enterprise stayed for more than half a year, the administrative position of the trivial only more or less, the boss wants her to top the pregnant colleague that position, her heart can not do so ruthless, simply resigned, opened a modest wonton house, do the business of the neighborhood, although not rich and wealthy, but at last be able to barely feed themselves and their children.

This money, really hard to come by.

For an ordinary person, trying to squeeze into an aristocratic school like that was inherently impractical.

“Thank you for the enrollment form, after that things about the fees are something I should consider as a mother, not something for my child to worry about.”

“You’re always like this, I know you don’t want Chul-chul to stay on Center Street, maybe we can think of a way to send him to Lian Yuan Street or another school ……,” He Mei said lustfully.

“Being a parent, why ever do you not want to leave the best educational resources to your child,” the fragile woman did not falter, even in this most down and out time of her life, she still calmly narrated, “When this didn’t happen, I also paid attention to this school, you don’t laugh at me for my whimsicality, I Like most parents, I always feel that my child’s talent is not bad, and I want to give him a better platform.”

“Then you can fill it out tonight, as for the recommended reading books, I’ve already bought them early too.”

He Mei handed over a white canvas bag, which was quietly loaded with quite a few original reading books imported from abroad.

“How much did it cost in total, I’ll transfer it to your paypal.”

He Mei waved her hand, “Why should we count so clearly between us?”

“I go to your house to rub wontons, it’s not a meal or two, last time my family’s elderly hospitalized, not still bother you to send me dinner?” She logically mentioned the favor she owed before at this point.

However, He Mei’s brows were always locked, as if she was hiding something big in her heart, but she couldn’t say it out loud.

Wen Ning, who was preoccupied with the enrollment form and the price of the foreign language books, not willing to let her friend suffer, did not notice this detail.

It was only after she left that He Mei was distracted enough to dial this old classmate’s number.

“The enrollment form has already been given to her.”

The other party answered briefly, and seemed to be about to hang up immediately, after all, the poor and the rich have vastly different concepts of the value of time.

He Mei was afraid that the other party would hang up immediately, and hurriedly added, “Zhou Yinchu, we used to be classmates, please don’t hurt Ning Ning ……”

Before the words fell, the phone had already been cut off.

It’s not clear whether or not it was listened to.