Lin Wei thought she had misheard and blurted out, "What? I punished the students?"
Seeing the genuine surprise on her face, Feng Ying explained, "I believe you won't punish students easily, but now that the parents of the student have come to my house, I still have to find you to understand the situation."
In fact, Lin Wei is still confused. She has been a substitute teacher for only a short time, and has never used a ruler or corporal punishment on students, let alone hurting any students.
But she knew that now was not the time to argue about this, so she nodded and said, "I understand, but I just want to ask, where is Zhao Mei injured?"
Every time Lin Wei entered the classroom, she would habitually take a quick look at the situation inside. It happened that she was in the morning reading class in Class 2 today, so she discovered that Zhao Mei was absent as soon as the class started.
She asked the class monitor and several students who were close to Zhao Mei, but the answer she got was that they didn't see her. Some people even asked her if she was sick.
Lin Wei felt a little strange at the time. Generally speaking, when students are sick, parents will come to the school to ask for leave, or at least ask classmates to convey a message. Gao Xiulian raised three children, it's impossible that she didn't know this.
But since they lived in the family quarters, it was impossible for the child to be lost. Moreover, when she went out, she did not see any big noise next door, so she did not go to the Zhao family to ask.
Anyway, we’ll know the situation when we get back at noon at the latest.
But Lin Wei didn't expect that before noon, she would know the reason why Zhao Mei didn't come to class. But she felt a little strange. She saw Zhao Mei at home yesterday, so why did Gao Xiu Lian say today that she had injured someone?
Feng Ying did not arbitrarily conclude that Lin Wei had hit someone because of what Gao Xiulian said, so she did not think there was anything wrong with Lin Wei's question. She said, "The wound was on the palm of her hand. I saw two scabby scars, as if it was caused by a thin branch."
Lin Wei frowned and said affirmatively: "I didn't break the thin branches, and I didn't have anything like that in my hand. The teachers in the office and the children in the two classes can prove this to me. Can I ask again, why did Comrade Gao think that I was the one who beat Zhao Mei? Did the students say so themselves?"
"She said it was Zhao Mei who said it herself, but I asked her twice just now and her answers were cut off each time." Feng Ying hinted, "Comrade Gao and Zhao Mei are both in my office now. I came to see you because I hope we can talk face to face and find out what's going on."
Although Feng Ying didn't make it very clear, Lin Wei was the person involved and she knew very well whether Zhao Mei was beaten or not.
In this case, it is very interesting that Gao Xiulian intercepted Zhao Mei's return twice.
Lin Wei felt that Gao Xiu Lian knew very well how Zhao Mei's hand was injured and that the injury had nothing to do with her. But Gao Xiulian didn't care and wanted to take the opportunity to put the blame on her.
Moreover, Lin Wei suspected that Zhao Mei was not willing to lie, but under Gao Xiu Lian's coercion, her unwillingness seemed powerless.
But her attitude could also be a breakthrough.
Lin Wei went over the current situation in her mind and said to Feng Ying, "I'll go next door and talk to Teacher Li and ask her to help me look after the children in the class."
Feng Ying nodded: "Go ahead."
Because morning reading classes basically let children memorize the text or study on their own, teachers have more freedom. When the school arranges the curriculum, it is common for one teacher to teach morning reading classes for two classes at the same time.
Teacher Li was leading the morning reading for two classes today, so when Lin Wei didn’t see anyone next door, she went to the class in front to look for someone.
The classrooms in the military primary school are arranged in a row of four. The three first-grade classes and the first second-grade class are in the first row, the remaining two second-grade classes and the first two third-grade classes are in the second row, and so on.
Also because of the order, the second grade class one classroom is on the far left when entering the school gate, and Lin Wei has to walk past the doors of the three first grade classes.
Just as they reached the door of the first-grade class three classroom, Huang Aiyun came out and asked Lin Wei in confusion, "Isn't Teacher Li leading the morning self-study class today?"
Lin Wei nodded and said, "She is the one taking care of him. Principal Feng wants to see me about something, so I want her to help me watch the baby for a while."
Gao Xiulian said "oh". She was bored in the classroom. Seeing Lin Wei go to the next room, she followed to join in the fun and asked curiously, "What does Principal Feng want to talk to you about?"
Lin Wei was thinking about something and didn't pay attention to what she said. It was not until she walked to the door of the first classroom and found Huang Aiyun still following her that she hesitated and asked, "Did you just talk to me?"
Huang Aiyun: “…No.”
Lin Wei nodded and looked into the classroom.
The third and fourth grades of elementary school are a watershed, and many children drop out of school during this period. Therefore, although there is one more class in grades one, two, and three than in grades four and five, the number of students in each class is also relatively larger, basically starting at fifty.
Although there were many students in the classroom, the adults were still quite conspicuous. Lin Wei quickly spotted the female teacher sitting at the back of the classroom and waved to her when she looked up.
Teacher Li came out quickly and asked, "What's the matter?"
Lin Wei got straight to the point and said, "This is what happened. A student's parent came to see Principal Feng and said that I beat her child. Principal Feng asked me to talk to the student's parent in person, so I came here to ask you to help look after the children in my class."
After listening to Lin Wei's words, before Teacher Li could even speak, Huang Aiyun asked, "Why did a parent suddenly come to see you? Did you punish the student?"
Lin Wei smiled bitterly and said, "No, I don't know why the parents of the students think that I beat the child."
"Which student's parent is this? Is the student seriously injured?" asked Teacher Li.
Lin Wei said, "You should know the parent of Zhao Mei from Class 2. She is Gao Xiulian, who lives next door to me. As for the injury, Principal Feng said it might have been caused by a thin branch. It's not serious, but there are two blood marks, which have already scabbed over."
When they heard that the parent was Gao Xiulian, Huang Aiyun and Teacher Li looked at each other and thought of how she had previously disrupted Huang Linwei's work. They also understood why she was sure that Lin Wei had beaten the child.
They didn't think of the possibility that Gao Xiulian beat the child and put the blame on Lin Wei, nor did they think that Lin Wei really beat the child. She just felt that the two had a grudge against each other before, and Gao Xiulian's daughter was Lin Wei's student. It was not surprising that she believed that it was Lin Wei who did it when the child was beaten.
Huang Aiyun asked: "So what are you going to do now?"
"Go and explain it to her clearly. I have never hit any students and I have a clear conscience," said Lin Wei.
Teacher Li felt that this was not a very optimistic situation. If the child pointed out that Lin Wei had hit someone, even if she had not done so, others might not believe it, so she asked, "What did the child say?"
"It's not clear yet. We'll know when we meet." Lin Wei shook her head and mentioned asking Teacher Li to help look after the children in the class.
Teacher Li agreed: "No problem."
Seeing that Teacher Li agreed, Lin Wei didn't delay any longer and went straight in from the left and followed Feng Ying to her office.
There are a total of six rows of houses in the military primary school. The first five rows were built to serve as teachers. Although two rooms in the fifth row were converted into dormitories and one room into a kitchen, the four rooms in the first row remained unchanged.
When the last row was built, it became an office, so the width of the house was similar to that of the first few rows, but the number of houses was doubled.
Among them, there are five teachers' offices, one principal's office, and the remaining two are used as warehouses and one is a dormitory. However, since the school faculty and staff are basically all military wives, they have been empty for a long time.
The principal's office was in the middle. Because Gao Xiulian reopened the office door after the conversation, she heard footsteps before the two entered the office.
She winked at Zhao Mei, stood up and looked towards the door.
When she saw Feng Ying, Gao Xiulian smiled and called out enthusiastically, "Principal Feng." But when Lin Wei followed her into the office, her face fell.
Lin Wei noticed the change in Gao Xiulian's expression, but didn't care. She just turned to look at Zhao Mei.
Because she was pinched and it hurt a little, Zhao Mei almost cried, so although she stopped crying quickly, her eyes were still a little red.
But after looking for a while, Lin Wei lowered her head, so all Lin Wei could see was her nervously clasped hands.
Principal Feng was a man of swift action. He did not like to drag his feet or spend too much time on preparation. Anyway, both parties knew what was going on. He asked everyone to sit down and said directly, "Let's get started."
Gao Xiulian was stunned: "Start what?"
"Comrade Gao, tell Teacher Lin why you insist that Zhao Mei's hand injury was caused by her," Feng Ying said, and then turned to Lin Wei, "Teacher Lin, tell Comrade Gao why you insist that you didn't hit Zhao Mei. Who of you two should start first?"
Lin Wei said: "Since it was Comrade Gao who brought up the matter, let her speak first."
Gao Xiu Lian originally thought that Feng Ying would first summarize what happened after calling everyone together, and that Lin Wei would be panicked or dissatisfied after being accused and would raise objections to Feng Ying's words. But because her daughter insisted that the injury on her hand was caused by Lin Wei, Lin Wei's defense was useless. She would be convicted of abusing her power for personal gain and bullying children, and then be expelled from the military primary school.
But now, Feng Ying didn't say a word. What was the point of letting them make their own statements? And Lin Wei, why don't you rush to defend yourself and give me the chance to speak?
These two people did not play by the rules, which made Gao Xiu Lian a little confused. She kept mumbling "uh..." for a long time but didn't say anything.
Feng Ying frowned slightly when he saw this: "Comrade Gao?"
Gao Xiulian came to her senses with an "ah" sound and began to make up a story: "This is what happened. I came home from get off work on Saturday night and saw that Xiaomei's hand gestures were not right when she was doing her homework, so I went over and opened her hands. I was shocked when I saw it! Her palms were all blue, and there were two bloodstains! I was so angry at the time and asked her what happened. At first she hesitated and didn't dare to say anything. Later, she was forced by me and told me the truth..."
"I sent my child to school so that she could learn knowledge, not for you to abuse her! My daughter is still so young, how could you be so cruel and beat her so hard that there is not a single piece of good flesh on your hands?" After Gao Xiulian questioned Lin Wei, she turned to Feng Ying and said, "Principal Feng, you have to take good care of teachers like her who have no professional ethics and abuse their power for personal gain and abuse children!"
Fearing that Feng Ying would favor Lin Wei and take this matter lightly, Gao Xiulian said, "If you continue to let someone like her who lacks teacher ethics stay in the teaching team, how many parents like me who love their children will dare to send their children to school in the future? This will not only affect the reputation of all teachers, but also the reputation of the Military Region Primary School and you!"
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