The principal looked at the "love letter" on the table and Zhou Min's homework, then looked up at Teacher Gao and said, "Xiao Gao, you haven't investigated the matter thoroughly, so how can you arbitrarily say that it's Zhou Min's fault?"
"And how could Ji Jiabao's parents say such things about Zhou Min?"
"Apologize immediately."
The principal hoped to quell the situation. Teacher Gao had been a teacher at their school for many years, and the fact that he was able to protect himself in this situation was certainly because he had some ability.
Regardless of his own abilities or his family's connections, the principal didn't want to offend him too much.
Chen Suwen looked at the principal in surprise, "Is a simple apology all it takes to get it over with?"
"This concerns my daughter's reputation. Is an apology all you're going to do?"
"According to them, they want to mess with my daughter and make it impossible for her to stay in school, right?"
"Are you just going to downplay this and make it a small matter?"
how?
Teacher Gao is a teacher at the school. Is the principal planning to collude with him to bully ordinary people like them?
The principal sighed, "Zhou Min's parent, what do you want?"
Zhou Min wants to stay in school and continue her studies, so she can't afford to offend Teacher Gao too much.
Having offended the school teachers, does she still want to have a good time at school?
Let alone offending just one teacher, most teachers in the school don't like a student who talks back to them, makes them lose face, and might even get a demerit.
If Chen Suwen continues to be relentless and embarrasses Teacher Gao, Zhou Min will have a hard time at school in the future.
Chen Suwen snorted, "An apology alone isn't enough. They have to pay compensation."
"You must compensate my daughter for emotional distress, lost tuition fees, and damage to her reputation!"
Chen Suwen knew, of course, that if she really got Gao a major demerit or lost his job, her daughter might not have a good time at school.
But that doesn't mean she'll let Teacher Gao and his nephew and his mother off easily. However, such revenge needs to be done in private, not now.
What she did in public will affect how others perceive her daughter.
Just as the principal and the others thought, going too far would make Zhou Min's life at school difficult and she would be targeted by the teachers, which wouldn't do.
She had no intention of letting her daughter drop out of school; the girl was only fifteen and hadn't even started high school yet, nor did she have any intention of sending her to the countryside to work.
The college entrance examination will be reinstated next year, and it won't be easy for her daughter to return to the city after being sent to the countryside, so she has to continue her studies at school.
Once the college entrance examination is reinstated, she can become a graduating student in the normal way.
Although she might not take the college entrance exam until 1978 or 1979, it's still better than wasting several years after being sent to the countryside.
She didn't know what Zhou Min would encounter if she really went to the countryside to work, and if something bad happened to her, no amount of compensation would help.
"Compensation for emotional distress, lost tuition fees, and damage to reputation—all in all, let's say two hundred yuan," Chen Suwen calmly demanded, making an exorbitant demand.
"Pay back? Two hundred yuan? Why don't you just rob someone?" Ji Jiabao's mother cursed after hearing the number Chen Suwen mentioned.
Chen Suwen was no pushover either, and she started arguing back and forth with Ji Jiabao's mother.
Seeing her mother arguing with someone, Zhou Min quickly stood behind her, worried that her mother would be at a disadvantage if the two started fighting.
As for Ji Jiabao, when he saw his mother arguing with someone, he quickly hid behind his uncle, worried that if the two started fighting, he would be caught in the crossfire.
Seeing the two arguing in front of him, the principal quickly stood up to mediate.
This is the principal's office, not a market. Can you please stop making noise?
Under the principal's "persuasion," Teacher Gao also managed to convince her sister to back down, while Chen Suwen insisted on paying compensation.
"Two hundred yuan is too much, fifty at most." Teacher Gao bargained, and it was clear that his sister couldn't participate in the conversation, otherwise the two of them would continue arguing.
"Two hundred yuan, not less!"
"How about sixty? No more than that."
"Two hundred is two hundred. My daughter is a good girl, and your rumors have ruined her reputation. You think you can settle things with such a small amount of money? Don't even think about it."
"Two hundred yuan, not a penny less."
"Sixty yuan, not a penny more!"
"Two hundred! If you're short even a penny, do you believe I'll report you!"
"..."
Finally, after some haggling between Chen Suwen and the Gao siblings, they settled on a compensation of 110 yuan.
Chen Suwen took the money, gave ten yuan to Zhou Min as pocket money, and took the remaining one hundred yuan home first, to be deposited for Zhou Min after she got home from school.
"Hmph, Zhou Min in my family needs to study. She'll go to high school and then college!"
“If any of you dare to ruin her studies or damage her reputation, I won’t be as easy to talk to as I am now.”
Chen Suwen stuffed the money into her pocket and looked at Ji Jiabao and her son, saying, "Your poor study habits and resulting grades drop are your own problems, not my Zhou Min's fault."
"If I find out you're still trying to harm my Zhou Min, I'll teach you a lesson."
She's not someone to be trifled with. Hopefully, Ji Jiabao and the others will remember this lesson after being swindled out of more than a hundred yuan by her.
"Mom, are you really willing to let me continue my studies, even go to university?" Zhou Min happily hugged her mother's arm, looking at her with admiration.
Chen Suwen gently rubbed her face. "Of course, but the prerequisite is that your grades have to be good. Otherwise, what if you don't get into high school and can't get a spot in university?"
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