"stop!"
Li Chunlan was startled by the loud shout. She turned around and saw a policeman looking at her seriously. The anger that had just risen in her was extinguished by the gaze.
"Police, police comrades, why are you here?"
Then he turned around and stared at Shen Zhizhu fiercely.
"Did you call the police? You little bastard, you are here talking nonsense to us, but you secretly let someone call the police. I tell you, even if the king of heaven comes today, you have to give me the house deed."
When Gu Xueer saw Shen Zhizhu being beaten, she ran over and asked her worriedly.
"Are you okay?"
Shen Zhizhu was just worrying about where to lie down, when Gu Xueer came at the right time. She gave Gu Xueer a look, then fell directly into her arms, pretending to be weak.
"Teacher Xue'er, someone hit me. It hurts so much."
Listening to Shen Zhizhu's movements, Gu Xueer knew that she was fine, and even wanted to cause trouble. During her time in the school, she had gotten to know Shen Zhizhu's character.
However, she still cooperated and did not expose Shen Zhizhu's trick. She hugged Shen Zhizhu and coaxed him like a child.
"Ouch, don't cry, don't cry. The police are here and will definitely give you justice. It must be painful. My God, your face is red. It won't be swollen, will it?"
Shen Zhizhu, nestling in her arms, was silent for a while.
Gu Xueer really understood her own expression. It was just that this exaggerated attitude was a bit too exaggerated. Could the police officer on the other side believe it? But since it was already like this, let it be.
"Teacher Xue'er, oooooo, it hurts."
Gu Xueer immediately questioned Li Chunlan and Shen Jianjun, while patting Shen Zhizhu's back rhythmically with her hands.
"What's wrong with you? You came to the classroom to cause trouble and even beat up our students. What do you want to do? I advise you to apologize to classmate Shen Zhizhu as soon as possible."
Shen Jianjun and Li Chunlan widened their eyes. In their world, there was no precedent for them to apologize, let alone have the awareness to do so.
Li Chunlan, in particular, had run out of patience. When she saw Shen Zhizhu's dead appearance, she felt angrier than she was afraid of the police, so she pointed at Shen Zhizhu's nose and cursed at him.
"Well, you little bastard, you have learned to act now, right? With your personality, you can cry? If you can cry, a pig can climb a tree. Stop pretending."
Shen Zhizhu was indeed pretending. She dodged when Li Chunlan slapped her. Otherwise, with her strength and the way her arms were swollen, her face would have been swollen at best, and her teeth might have been knocked out.
But, if she doesn't say it, who would know?
Thinking of this, she shrank twice to make it more realistic, and then burrowed into Gu Xueer's arms twice, looking as if she was frightened by Li Chunlan's attitude.
Gu Xueer patted Shen Zhizhu on the back subconsciously and glared at Li Chunlan.
"You slapped her until her face turned red. You didn't give her any face in front of so many students. Now you're accusing her of being pretentious. Is there any aunt like you?"
The students nearby followed Gu Xueer and stood up for Shen Zhizhu. Although Shen Zhizhu was always far ahead in academics and they could never catch up, this made them very unhappy.
But after all, they were classmates who studied together and had built up a good camaraderie over the past few days, which made them unconsciously stand on Shen Zhizhu's side.
"That's right, how can you hit someone? Why can't you just talk it out nicely?"
"That's right, the school is for learning, not for you to mess around. You are not welcome here, leave here quickly, you are delaying everyone's studies."
This statement resonated with many people, and they began to yell at Li Chunlan and Shen Jianjun to leave, but who was Li Chunlan? How could she listen?
She pointed at the group of booing students and yelled at them as if she was scolding her kids at home.
"Just shut up, you two. If you want to study, just study. We are not forcing you."
Then he pointed at Gu Xueer.
"It was you, the one who called the police. You're great. I didn't expect that a teacher would be friends with someone as ungrateful as Shen Zhizhu. You have a bad taste. You're still a teacher. I think you should go back and find a man to marry as soon as possible, so as not to cause trouble for others."
Shen Jianjun very much agreed with Li Chunlan's point of view. In his opinion, a woman should take care of her husband and children, get married early, and give birth to and raise children for her husband's family.
It's ridiculous for you to teach here in public.
"You're right. A woman who looks so old doesn't stay at home to give birth to a child or take care of the child. What is the point of teaching here? Do you think she can teach clearly?"
Li Chunlan's words were extremely impolite, and even contained some insulting undertones.
Before Gu Xueer could get angry and refute, the group of students behind her became unhappy.
"How can you talk like that? What did our teacher Gu do to you that you have to say that to her?"
Some female classmates, who had experienced Gu Xueer's gentleness, were so angry when they heard someone say that about her that they wanted to run out and defend her.
"Teacher Gu teaches very well, clearly and easily. What do you know? You didn't even listen to Teacher Gu's class, and you're saying these things. You're so old, but you still look down on others. You have no shame."
"Yes, that's right, police comrade, take them away quickly."
At this time, Shen Zhizhu also got up from Gu Xueer's arms, looking well-educated, considerate and selfless.
"Uncle police, why don't we go to another place? Don't let my problems affect the studies of my classmates. These are the first batch of students who want to take the college entrance examination and they work hard every day."
These words successfully won a lot of sympathy. Everyone felt that Shen Zhizhu was really a good person. Even though he was beaten and chased to the school to cause trouble, he still thought about them.
They were so moved.
The police officer who was called in also felt a little sympathy for Shen Zhizhu because of her words, and the rational scale unconsciously tilted towards Shen Zhizhu.
It's no wonder they were like this, because when they arrived, they saw Li Chunlan slap Shen Zhizhu, and then ignore them, yelling at Shen Zhizhu and the crowd who were looking for them, and using insulting words. It was an obvious contrast, so they naturally wouldn't think that Li Chunlan was the victim.
So they agreed to Shen Zhizhu's proposal.
"Okay, then please ask these two, and you, to come with us. Will it interfere with your studies?"
On the way here, they heard Gu Xueer talk about the basic situation of Shen Zhizhu's family. They knew that it had not been easy for Shen Zhizhu to come this far, and he was still the top student in the school.
They are the future talents of our country. These are all trivial matters and can be done at any time. But we must not delay this girl's studies.
Shen Zhizhu shook his head.
"It's okay. It won't affect you. Just come back from studying in the evening. I also want to get a result of this matter as soon as possible. Let's go."