That was quite thoughtful. I nodded and paid twenty dollars.
"Classmate, if you help me with the wrong questions, I will pay you. Take it."
The girl in our class was delighted and pushed his hand, "Hurry up and take it. Why are you still standing there? Are you so happy?"
"I didn't expect that even you don't understand me." The male classmate looked at her with disappointment, "Am I the kind of person who can be beaten with money?"
Then he turned to me and said, "Classmate, please take the money back. Classmates should help each other. I just did what I should do. If you have any difficulties in the future, you can come to me."
Wow, this boy is quite interesting.
I nodded, didn't insist any further, took the twenty yuan back, and sat back in my seat to look at the book of wrong answers.
Since my sleepiness has been disturbed, I might as well not sleep and do something meaningful.
Since he is willing to be taken advantage of by me for free, what else can I say?
Seeing that I returned to my seat without saying a word, the boy wanted to call me, but was pulled back by a girl in our class and gave up reluctantly.
Since then, I often saw him hanging around our class during breaks.
He gradually became familiar with the students in our class. He would occasionally talk to me and ask me if I had any questions that needed his help.
Since he asked me this, I would feel embarrassed if I continued to be reserved. Every time he asked me this, I would throw him a bunch of wrong questions.
Sometimes I think he has a really good temper. He always completes the questions for me carefully and marks the steps that are easy to make mistakes in.
I'm not the kind of person who likes to get things for free, so I asked my dad to ask someone to investigate his family situation.
His family was indeed very poor, and because of poverty, they even thought of not letting him go to school. But there was nothing they could do. His grades were really good, and his junior high school teachers took turns to come to his house to lobby him, which changed his parents' minds and allowed him to continue going to school.
The information was in front of me, and my dad looked at me and said, "Why do you suddenly want to investigate someone else? Is there anything special about this boy?"
"I think he wants to get my attention." I told my dad what he had done during this period. "He might want our family's help, but because of his face, he can't ask directly, so he starts with me. Since I have received his kindness, I must help him, right?"
I didn't notice that my father's expression was strange for a moment. I just heard him promise me that he would help him so that their family could live a better life.
After doing all this, I put the matter of that boy out of my mind.
But I didn't expect that he would find me angrily when I was in school.
"Student Pei Xinyan, what do you mean?" He looked very angry, with flames in his eyes. The big eye widened even wider, but the smaller one didn't change, and the features of his disability seemed even more obvious.
According to the information, his parents run a small farm, but there are too many farms like that in our area, and most of the time when the agricultural products are ripe, they cannot be sold completely.
Even if the products are sold, the price will be pushed down again and again, as many of the farmers in that area are poor households.
I didn't understand why he was like this, so I asked him, "My classmate, what do you think I mean?"
"I help you with the homework because I want to make friends with you. Why do you let your family spend money to humiliate me?" He was very angry, with his nostrils wide open, as if I had done something that was hated by God and man.
This... Could it be that he doesn't want to get funding?
Based on the principle of peace, I wanted to comfort him, "Well, classmate, if you don't want the financial aid, I can ask my family to cancel the financial aid. Don't worry, everything is based on your wishes."
"You!" The anger in his eyes did not diminish, and was even stronger. "You are insulting my personality!"
He kept being so vague and didn't make things clear, and I got a little angry.
"Isn't it obvious? I came here to learn, not just to make friends. I asked you to help me with my homework, and you didn't charge me. And you often talked to your friends about your family's difficult situation. I applied for poverty assistance for you because you helped me before. You felt that I humiliated you by taking the money, so I asked my family to withdraw the assistance. You said that I insulted your personality. So what do you want? Give me a definite answer, do you want this assistance or not?"
I angrily told him a lot of things, who is this person here? He hangs around me every day, talking about how poor his family conditions are, and how his classmates isolate him too much. Don't think I don't know that he is trying to attract my attention.
Don't you just want poverty relief? Can't I just give it to you?
Who says that receiving poverty subsidies is an insult to human dignity? How many students in poor mountainous areas have received poverty subsidies? They use the subsidies to get into better schools, get out of the mountains, and change their own destiny. How can this be considered an insult to human dignity?
I calmed my breath and continued, "My dear classmate, I often even get your name wrong, how can I possibly be friends with you? This is school, we are all students, and we shouldn't be stuck at the classroom door if there is any misunderstanding. Let me give you a day to figure out whether you want this subsidy or not. If you really feel that this subsidy insults your personality, then you can choose not to accept it, and I will immediately ask my family to withdraw it."
"Also, don't tell me whether to make friends or not. My main task in school is to study. Making friends is not the first thing I should do at my age."
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