"Sister, I really made you laugh at me today. I don't know how much your article is worth, and this kid has spent the money. Why don't you tell me an amount and I will compensate you." Zhao Xiulan said to Li Xia apologetically.

"Sister-in-law, you misunderstood. I didn't come here today to ask for any compensation. I just felt that if I didn't tell you about this and didn't tell Xiaohao that it was wrong when he did something wrong for the first time, he would go astray." Li Xia explained.

When Zhao Xiulan heard Li Xia's words, she was so grateful that she didn't know what to say. She thanked Li Xia repeatedly.

"But sister, you are a good person, but as Xiaohao's mother, I still have to compensate him." Zhao Xiulan insisted.

"It's just that I don't have much money on hand right now. Otherwise, you can take a few chickens back to eat. I have saved a lot of eggs. You can take them all and see if they are enough. If not, I will think of other ways."

Zhao Xiulan said embarrassedly.

Zhao Xiulan told me that Jiang Xiaohao's sister had heart disease since childhood and had to take medicine every month, so the family lived a tight life.

"Although Xiaohao is a little naughty and not very good at studying, he is very sensible and often helps me with housework at home. In fact, he is very smart. If he has more time to study, he will definitely get good grades." Zhao Xiulan said after sniffing.

She had already wiped away her tears. In her opinion, crying was not the style of a martyr's widow.

No matter how difficult life is, she will live her life well.

Li Xia asked Zhao Xiulan: "Don't the families of martyrs receive subsidies every month? You live in the army, so you can report this situation to the army, and the organization should be able to provide some help."

Zhao Xiulan said embarrassedly: "In fact, the organization has already provided us orphans and widows with a lot of help, and the subsidies we receive are also more than those of ordinary families.

We can no longer ask for help. Xiaohao's father also said before he died that when we encounter difficulties, we cannot expect the organization to solve all the problems. The country is also in trouble. We have to solve what we can solve ourselves. If everyone asks the organization for help when they have difficulties, then the organization will also be in trouble. "

Li Xia has seen many people who try to take advantage of the money, especially when she was in college. There were classmates in her class whose families were obviously well-off, but they still applied for poverty subsidies. Now, after hearing what Zhao Xiulan said, she couldn't help but sigh that people are really different.

Li Xia said: "Sister-in-law, this is the truth, but special matters should be handled specially."

"If you report Shanshan's poor health to the organization, they will find a good doctor for her so that she can receive standardized treatment as soon as possible. You always think that you can't take advantage of the country. You don't tell me when you have difficulties, but just bear it. This has delayed Shanshan's treatment."

"This..." Zhao Xiulan was obviously thinking about the problem from this perspective, and was immediately persuaded by Li Xia. "Okay, I'll listen to you."

She didn't want to ask the organization for money, but she would be grateful if the organization could help her daughter find a good doctor.

Li Xia nodded, then looked at Jiang Xiaohao who was still silent, and said, "Xiaohao, although you did this to buy shoes for your mother, stealing is stealing, and wrong is wrong.

There is a saying that goes, "Don't do good deeds even if they are small, and don't do bad deeds even if they are small." Maybe in your eyes, stealing an article from my aunt and giving it to someone else is no big deal, but do you know that if I didn't know that the article was stolen by you, and thought that I lost it myself, and rewrote it and submitted it to the newspaper, then I might be accused of plagiarism?"

Jiang Xiaohao stared at Li Xia blankly and shook his head, his face full of helplessness and regret: "I'm sorry, Aunt Li, I'm really sorry, I didn't know it would be so serious..."

Li Xia believed that he didn't know the seriousness of the matter, but that didn't mean his behavior was wrong, and she would not forgive him so easily. This would only make Jiang Xiaohao feel that it was okay to make mistakes when a person had his own difficulties.

Li Xia asked, "You are still young, and I believe you don't know the seriousness of it, but you definitely know that stealing is wrong. Tell me what happened, I want to hear what happened. Did you deliberately get close to An An and become good friends with him in order to steal my manuscript?"

This answer is very important in Li Xia's heart. If Jiang Xiaohao really approached An An in order to steal her manuscript, even if Jiang Xiaohao had his own reasons, she might not support An An and continue to be friends with him.

Jiang Xiaohao immediately shook his head and denied it: "Auntie, I didn't! I really treat An An as a good friend!"

He said sadly: "I became friends with An An because I thought he was a good person, he had good grades and was kind. When I became friends with him, I didn't know the person who asked me to steal the manuscript.

Actually, I didn’t think about stealing anything, and I had already been preparing for my mother’s birthday. During the summer vacation, I went to catch cicada monkeys every day to exchange for money. There were too many children catching cicada monkeys in the town. Although I couldn’t catch many every day, I could still save enough money for a pair of rubber shoes. Just two days ago, I actually saved enough money...but..."

But that day, when he was carrying the meatballs he had saved since lunch and was reluctant to eat them and planning to take home for his mother and sister, he accidentally bumped into Su Wenyan.

His lunch box was knocked over, the soup in it spilled on Su Wenyan's skirt, and the meatballs rolled into the mud.

He didn't even have time to feel sorry for Rouwanzi before he heard Su Wenyan say that he had soiled her skirt and asked him to pay for it.

"She said she bought her skirt from Friendship Mall. It was very expensive, costing 40 or 50 yuan... I said I didn't have any money, so she said she would ask my mom for money..."

When talking about this, Jiang Xiaohao's eyes were red. His mother Zhao Xiulan was reluctant to spend money because of his sister's illness. Forty or fifty yuan was enough for their family to spend for a long time.

My mother is reluctant to buy me even a pair of rubber shoes for a few dollars, so how can she afford forty or fifty dollars?

He was so anxious that he begged Su Wenyan not to go to his mother and said he could help her clean it. But Su Wenyan said that the material was stained with oil and it would be bad even if it was cleaned, and he had to pay for it anyway.

Later, she said that he really had no money to compensate, so she asked him if he had a good relationship with Captain Gu's son Gu Shi'an. As long as he helped her get something from Gu Shi'an's house, not only would she not ask him to compensate, but she would also give him some money as a reward for his hard work.

Su Wenyan also told him that she was writing bad articles and heard that Li Xia wrote good articles, so she wanted to see how she wrote and learn some skills. After she read it, she would return the manuscript to him and he would return it.

Su Wenyan's words convinced Jiang Xiaohao, and he agreed to her request for some reason.

"Later, she really returned the manuscript to me, and I put it in An An's schoolbag... In fact, I regretted it after I stole the manuscript, especially when I saw An An was so nice to me and brought me delicious food made by Aunt Li. I felt very sorry for him and unworthy of being his good friend." Jiang Xiaohao said guiltily.

He felt that he was not worthy of An An's kindness to him, so he started to distance himself from An An in the past two days and even gave An An the potato pancakes his mother made for him.

But he couldn't get rid of this feeling of guilt. So when he found out that his mother knew about this, he asked her to beat him hard.

After listening to this, Li Xia felt mixed emotions.

This Su Wenyan really went to great lengths to steal her manuscript. The thing about having to pay compensation for getting her skirt dirty was definitely something Su Wenyan deliberately planned to scare Jiang Xiaohao and make him listen to her.

She must have made inquiries before choosing Jiang Xiaohao as her target.

His father has passed away, and his family is in poor conditions due to his sister's illness. The probability of such a child making a wrong choice when encountering such things is too high.

"Is everything you said true?" Li Xia confirmed again.

Jiang Xiaohao nodded vigorously: "Auntie, it's all true, I can swear by my father!"