Wang Yao's situation

Among the guests, some believed in Liu Xiangmei, thinking she was a good person and wouldn't do something so unscrupulous; others felt there was no smoke without fire, and the restaurant's food was indeed too delicious, making them want to eat more, so there was probably something fishy going on.

In short, Liu Xiangmei was right; nothing she said mattered until the test results came out.

After everyone who had been watching left, Liu Xiangmei found a stool and sat down. She needed to calm down; everything had happened so suddenly.

Wang Yao squatted down in front of her and whispered, "Mom, don't worry, the truth will come out in a few days and everything will be fine."

Liu Xiangmei nodded, her mind still in turmoil. She wondered what the test results would be in a few days. If nothing was found today, the results from the health and epidemic prevention station would probably be the same.

Has anyone from outside the restaurant ever been inside the kitchen? I don't think so! Really not?

Liu Xiangmei was unsure, so she asked Chen Xiu and Old Man Li. Only after hearing them firmly say that there was absolutely nothing wrong did she feel relieved. If there was nothing wrong, then they probably wouldn't find anything problematic during the examination.

Liu Xiangmei kept thinking, who reported her? Who wanted to harm her?

They're from the Wang family. No, that's impossible; they're back in their hometown.

Who is that? She's not exactly a kind person, but she's certainly not someone who's offended anyone excessively.

Oh right, and there's Yu Daqiang and his wife, but is it really necessary? They're just doing the same business, is it really necessary to kill her?

Moreover, she, the one whose business was stolen, didn't say anything. The couple who stole her business had no reason to turn around and harm her instead! Liu Xiangmei was completely baffled.

The other three also suspected that Yu Daqiang was responsible, since no one else but his family would do such a despicable thing, but they had no evidence.

This incident escalated on Dingyuan Road and then spread rapidly.

Wang Yao was the first to be affected by public opinion.

By the time she finished her lunch break and returned to class, almost all of her classmates already knew about it.

"They're incredibly audacious. How could they dare to put those things in? They're risking their lives for money."

"Who knows? Getting into the best high school in the county from the back mountain and even getting into the honors class, you can't do it without being ruthless. If your daughter is this ruthless, how could her mother be an ordinary person?"

"Don't talk nonsense. We don't know the test results yet. We're classmates, after all. We can't just spread rumors."

"The police have come to the door, how could it not be? There are dozens of shops around the school's front and back gates, why aren't they checking the others!"

“Exactly, there must be something wrong that led to the investigation! She and her mother are both so beautiful. I originally thought they were Snow White and the first queen, but it turns out they are Princess Anle and Empress Wei! [1]”

"No wonder I love her mom's cooking so much. I've been eating it for two days in a row. Am I addicted? Help!"

"Keep your voice down, don't let her hear you..."

As the preparatory bell rang, the buzzing discussions in the classroom also ceased.

As if the people and things being discussed and rumored about had nothing to do with her, Wang Yao continued to attend classes normally, take notes normally, and even answer questions in class as usual.

From afternoon to evening, Niu Ling ignored Wang Yao's gazes, whether direct or subtle, but she couldn't take it anymore.

During the last evening self-study session, Niu Ling slammed her hand on the table and stood up, pointing at the few students who were talking the loudest in the class, saying, "Are you all gossipy women? Will you die if you don't gossip? The police said they had to wait for the investigation results, but you guys convicted people right away. You're really something. I didn't even know we had a judge in our class."

Guan Qian, who sat in front of me, snorted and said, "What's it to you? They didn't say anything about you. You're just meddling in other people's business. If you want to be a hero, you don't have to do it by protecting a drug dealer's daughter!"

Niu Ling really hated Guan Qian. Why was there always this kind of person everywhere? And her mouth was so foul. She reached out to teach Guan Qian a lesson for her nonsense.

But as soon as she reached out, Guan Qian jumped up and shouted, "Hit someone! Hit someone!" and Wang Yao grabbed her hand.

Looking down, I saw that Wang Yao's eyes were red and swollen, but she stubbornly refused to let the tears fall.

Niu Ling wanted to comfort Wang Yao, but after an entire afternoon and evening, she still couldn't figure out how to comfort her. She was so stupid. Niu Ling hated her own stupid brain and mouth.

In fact, Wang Yao didn't need comforting. She just looked sixteen years old. Having experienced her past life, she had learned to adjust herself. However, she was still moved by Niu Ling's protection.

Wang Yao smiled at Niu Ling, pulled her hand to sit down, and then got up and walked to Guan Qian's side, "The homeroom teacher's office or the police station, you choose one."

"Wh-what? I don't want to choose." Faced with Niu Ling's arrogant and provocative behavior, Guan Qian was frightened; she didn't want to choose either of them.

"Let's go to the homeroom teacher's office first, then the police station." He said, reaching out to pull Guan Qian's hand.

"Wang Yao," class monitor Cheng Ting called out, "It's all a joke, don't alarm the teacher. Besides, your grades aren't very good to begin with, and if you cause trouble for the teacher, the teacher will have even more complaints about you."

Wang Yao remembered that this was the first time Cheng Ting had spoken to her. Although they sat at desks in front of and behind each other, the class monitor never bothered to turn around and talk to her, who was second to last in the class.

With Cheng Ting's support, Guan Qian felt like she had found a backer, and she straightened her back. "That's right, if you're bad at studying, don't cause trouble for the teacher."

Wang Yao looked at the two people. One was bullying others because of their master's power, and the other had an arrogant attitude. They seemed to be thinking of her, but their words were full of contempt for her. She couldn't help but laugh.

"Class monitor, why didn't you say anything fair earlier? Now you're standing up for me," Wang Yao's smile faded, her eyes like frozen abysses as she stared straight at Cheng Ting. "Whether the teacher will have a problem with me is none of your concern. You should worry about how to be a qualified class monitor."

After saying that, he pulled Guan Qian and walked outside.

Guan Qian twisted her arm and yelled, "Wang Yao, what are you doing? Let go of me! I'm not going! Are you trying to kill me? Let me go..."

But no matter how she twisted, Wang Yao held her wrist tightly in her hand, and her cries alerted the students in the classrooms along the way and the teachers in the offices.

"What are you doing? Shut up! Everyone else is studying properly. What are you two doing?" Class teacher Fei Nan came out of the office and saw that the two people walking towards him were his students. He was annoyed.

"Get in here, all of you." Fei Nan turned and went back to his office. "Speak, what happened?"

Guan Qian knew she was in the wrong, so she lowered her head and dared not speak.

Wang Yao told me everything, “Teacher Fei, I can’t stand being falsely accused of being the daughter of a drug dealer, and I can’t stand my mother being falsely accused of being a drug dealer.”

As she spoke, her voice trembled slightly, but she still insisted on finishing: "Even the police wouldn't dare say that. How dare Guan Qian convict my mother with just a few words? This is slander, defamation, and insult. I'm going to call the police."

Guan Qian quickly defended herself: "No, I didn't. I just heard it from others. I just casually picked up a couple of phrases. It doesn't count. I didn't mean to."

But no one listened to her explanation. Fei Nan looked at Wang Yao and felt that this student was different from all the students she had taught before.

Despite the major incident at home, she acted as if nothing had happened all afternoon; she ignored her classmates' gossip; and now she's like a stubborn mule, determined to achieve her goal no matter what.

This was the first time Fei Nan had seriously considered this student.

Of course, she had briefly paid attention to Wang Yao when she was appointed as the homeroom teacher of Class 3. After all, the teaching quality of Jinchuan Town Middle School was the worst in the county, and Wang Yao graduated from this middle school and was admitted to the key class of the county's No. 1 Middle School. This shows how hard Wang Yao worked in junior high school.

However, no matter how hard Wang Yao tried before, she was still second to last in Class 3 and not worth the homeroom teacher's continued attention.

After a long pause, Fei Nan said to Wang Yao, "Guan Qian was indeed wrong. I made her apologize to you because she really spoke without thinking. But I still hope you can turn things around peacefully. This is just a quarrel between you classmates. It's not worth making a big deal out of it, and it will also affect the reputation of our school. So it's best to make a small matter amicable. What do you think?"

Wang Yao pursed her lips and remained silent.

"Boom!"

Thunder rumbled outside the window, and the open wooden window slammed shut with a "bang" in the wind. The only sound in the office was the creaking of the electric fan, which was quite annoying.

Fei Nan gave Guan Qian a look.

Guan Qian pouted and bowed to Wang Yao, saying, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have talked nonsense. I'll be more careful in the future."

Wang Yao ignored her and remained silent for a while before saying, "I demand that Guan Qian apologize to me on the podium in front of the whole class."

Fei Nan breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, they didn't stubbornly stick to their guns.

When the three returned to the classroom, it was in a chaotic mess, and no one was managing it. The class monitor, Cheng Ting, was looking down, seemingly deep in thought about a difficult problem or something else entirely.

"Quiet~" Fei Nan slammed the blackboard eraser on the teacher's desk. "I know what happened just now. Guan Qian spoke recklessly and talked nonsense, hurting Wang Yao. Now Guan Qian has to apologize to Wang Yao in public."

Unlike before, now that she was apologizing in front of all her classmates, Guan Qian felt incredibly ashamed. Her face flushed red, she lowered her head, her fingers fidgeting with the seam of her pants, and she mumbled, "I'm sorry."

Wang Yao: "If you don't apologize properly, then go to the police station."

Guan Qian immediately looked up and glared at Wang Yao, but she couldn't do anything about it, so she had to repeat herself: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that to you, I was wrong."

"What do you mean by that?"

Guan Qian gritted her teeth and said, "Wang Yao, don't go too far."

Wang Yao immediately turned around and said, "Then I'll go call the police right now."

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said you were a drug dealer's daughter. I apologize and I won't do it again." Guan Qian said in one breath, loudly and clearly.

Wang Yao then turned around, her gaze slowly sweeping over every face below the podium. The classroom fell silent, with only the sound of breathing remaining.

“I know what some people said behind my back today,” Wang Yao said, her voice not loud, but every word seemed to be nailed to everyone’s hearts. “What Guan Qian said wasn’t the worst; I remember the dirtier and more vicious things she said.”

She paused for a moment before continuing, "I reserve the right to pursue legal action. If the test results prove my mother is innocent, and there are still people who can't control their mouths, then I will definitely call the police, I definitely will!"

At this moment, none of the students dared to look at Wang Yao anymore, because Wang Yao's gaze was too sharp, like a drawn sword.