Chen Yulan shouted to the crowd outside, "Zhong Ling, Zhong Ling, come out and prove it! Prove that it was you who said Zhou Xiang cheated. You even reported her for cheating in class, but the teacher covered it up, saying there was no evidence and even criticized you. You told me all this."

The crowd turned their heads in unison.

Zhong Ling, who was standing outside watching, shouted, "I don't know," then turned and ran away.

The logistics department sent someone to chase after him.

Ling Ran caught up with her in a few steps, grabbed her by the back of the collar, and handed her over to the logistics personnel who were chasing her.

"Let me go, let me go." Zhong Ling kicked her legs that were hanging in the air.

Why did this happen? Shouldn't Zhou Xiang have been caught cheating and expelled?

Zhong's mother was also called over. Seeing her daughter being carried, she shouted, "What are you doing? Do you still have the law and justice?"

No one paid any attention to her and put Zhong Ling in front of Director Wu, the person in charge of this incident.

Director Wu asked, "Zhong Ling, you and Zhou Xiang are in the same class. Tell me why you spread rumors?"

When Zhong's mother heard this question, what else could she not understand? After her daughter came back with her report card, she kept complaining that Zhou wanted to cheat and the teacher protected her.

I even got angry and scolded her, "You're always criticizing others. What does their test scores have to do with you? You failed two of your four subjects, and you still have the nerve to criticize Zhou Xiang? I think you can go home and study on your own. That way you can do housework and improve your grades at the same time. How great!"

At that time, my daughter even yelled at me: "I put a note under her desk hole, and the teacher said she didn't find it. If this isn't a cover-up, what is it?"

I was so angry that I was shaking all over. This girl is finished. She even dared to frame others. When she failed to frame others, she even slandered the teacher.

I was so angry that I ignored her for a few days. I didn't expect that she would go out and talk nonsense. Now that the matter has become so serious, it is impossible to resolve it peacefully.

"I didn't say that." Zhong Ling still refused to admit it.

Chen Yulan was unwilling to take the blame. "You are such a bad girl. Didn't you tell me that Zhou Xiang cheated? You also said that you reported Zhou Xiang. The teacher checked the desk hole and found no note. He criticized you, and you said that the teacher protected Zhou Xiang.

Oh, now that I think of it, how did you know there was a note in Zhou Xiang's desk? Everyone was busy taking the exam, so was it you who slipped it in?

The crowd immediately started talking.

"If this is true, then Zhong Ling is truly wicked. She slipped a note under someone's desk and then reported them. She's even more despicable than the soldiers back then!"

"Yes, yes, it's a good thing she wasn't born in that era."

"That's right. If she was born in that era, if you accidentally offended her, you wouldn't know how you died."

"I heard that she and Zhou Xiang are still good friends!"

"Bullshit, good friends can do such a thing?"

Zhou Xiang stood outside the crowd and saw that Zhong Ling still refused to admit his mistake even at this point, so he simply gave him another stab.

"Zhong Ling, just because you asked me for a pen, and I told you it was a prize and I wanted to show it to my parents when I got home, and I refused to lend it to you, you kept talking nonsense outside?"

Zhong Ling had been refusing to admit it, but when she heard Zhou Xiang's voice, everything in her mind disappeared and only hatred for Zhou Xiang remained.

"You got two pens! What's wrong with lending me one? We are good friends, shouldn't we put ourselves before our parents?

When I borrowed your pen before, you never asked me to return it. When I used your notebook, you also didn’t ask me to return it. Why don’t you lend it to me now?

Since you have so much to do at home, why not just focus on your chores? Why bother going to school? If you don't want to go to school, just drop out! Why bother studying at home? Why do you need to get a perfect score on the test?

You made me be laughed at by others, you made me be scolded by my mother, it's all your fault, if you just drop out of school, nothing will happen, in front of you, I am still better than you, more favored than you at home!"

Everyone looked at her in shock. Isn't this too shameless?

Then everyone looked at Zhong's mother, wondering how she had raised such a shameless daughter.

Mother Zhong was so ashamed that she couldn't leave.

"Why should I put you before my parents? My parents gave birth to me and raised me, who are you?

You use "good friends" as an excuse to take advantage of me all day long. You have tarnished the word "good friends".

What's wrong with my grades being better than yours? There are so many people with better grades than you. If you drive all those with better grades back home, leaving only you and the ones behind you, then you are the first, right?

You don’t work hard yourself, but you blame others for being better than you!

Whether you do housework at home has nothing to do with me, and how much housework I do at home has nothing to do with you! I got first place in the exam to bring honor to my parents and to the school!

You only care about yourself and have no sense of collective honor. Who do you think you are to dare to control my life?

I've always considered you just a classmate, and you considered yourself a good friend. How many notebooks and pens have you taken from me just to be friends with me? If your family can't afford your schooling, then don't go! Why should I be responsible for your school expenses?

I am not your parent, so I don’t have to pay for your emotions!"

After saying that, he turned around and looked at Zhong's mother. "Please return the things your Zhong Ling borrowed from me at school. I hate you too. Could I imitate Zhong Ling and frame you? Trouble you? If you don't educate your children, it's your parents' fault. Is this how your family educates you?"

Mother Zhong was stunned by Zhou Xiang's long speech and blushed with shame at her accusations. Moreover, the last sentence was too harsh. Her family and even her son would be looked at with prejudice.

He quickly took out ten yuan from his pocket and handed it to Zhou Xiang, "This is the money to pay you back for those things."

Zhou Xiang held the ten yuan in his hand playfully, "Can I learn from Zhong Ling? I just want the things, not the money!"

Looking at the speechless Zhong's mother, Zhou Xiang smiled and said, "It's easy to be willful, just make excuses, but no one should pay for other people's willfulness.

The rumors she spread brought disrepute to the school and the principal. I was called in and took four exams in a row before I restored the school and the principal's reputation. May I ask, why should I clean up the mess she made?

When I was taken away, my family didn't know why. My parents were terrified, but who cared?

All of you with your mouths full of nothing to do, why don't you just rub your mouths against the wall? Why are you always gossiping about other people? Now that something's wrong, are you all blaming each other?

Who will pay for the injustice I've suffered and the worries my parents have caused? Who among you has the courage to stand up and admit that you were wrong?

When you're talking about other people's faults, you're always so loud! You're so confident and justified! Why don't you speak up now? You're a bunch of cowards! "

Zhou Xiang threw the ten yuan in his hand to Zhong's mother, turned around and left, and the crowd made way for him.

Everyone lowered their heads, feeling ashamed by Zhou Xiang's accusations. To be honest, this matter was indeed the fault of those gossipers of theirs. If they hadn't spread the word, the matter wouldn't have escalated to such a big scale!