Maodan suddenly felt as if an arrow had shot him in the heart and he lowered his head out of habit.
Li Yu also leaned over to take a look.
When I saw it, I was shocked.
My goodness, the newspapers from more than a year ago are full of outdated news, and the enrollment information is long out of date.
Fang Chenyu pointed at the word "wei" on the newspaper and asked, "Let me ask you, how do you pronounce this word?"
Maodan looked over, bit his lower lip, hesitated for a moment, and shook his head.
"You don't even know how to read? You still want to go to school? You can't even lie properly!" Fang Chenyu laughed mercilessly, reaching for the old book on the corner of the table, "Let me see what kind of book you are reading!"
Seeing that the book he cherished so much was about to fall into the hands of this bad guy, Maodan didn't care about anything else and immediately reached out to grab it.
The moment Fang Chenyu grabbed the book, he exerted force suddenly.
With a crackling sound...
The already fragile old book was immediately torn in two.
Pages scattered...
"Book....."
Maodan looked at the torn book in despair, his legs went weak and he fell to the ground.
The tears that had been accumulating in my eyes for a long time finally fell down.
Fang Chenyu froze on the spot, holding a half-volume old book in his hand, hesitantly saying: "Ah, yes... I'm sorry, I didn't mean it..."
After saying that, I changed my mind and felt that something was wrong!
I'm here to interrogate the 'prisoner' today, why do you feel guilty?
"Don't cry! Don't cry! I will compensate you with ten such rubbish books in the future. Don't say that I am bullying you. Besides, you were the one who lied first..." Fang Chenyu said sternly.
“Shut up!”
Li Yu glared at him, silently stepped forward to snatch the old book from his hand, and then followed Maodan to collect the remaining pages.
Unfortunately, several pages have been torn in the struggle.
Looking at the torn part, Maodan wiped away tears in grief and sobbed softly: "My book... my book..."
"Don't cry, Maodan. I'll buy you something better next time." Li Yu kept comforting her, then picked up the remaining book and asked, "Why don't you recognize the words when you read every day?"
"No one taught me how to read. I... I can only write... My dad said he would hire a teacher when he has money." Maodan sobbed.
"I don't believe it. Old Li, you test her." Fang Chenyu said in a low voice.
Li Yu picked up the book with his left hand, covered half of the word with his thumb, and stretched out his right hand in front of Maodan: "Maodan, write this word on my hand."
Maodan glanced at the half-blocked word with tearful eyes, and then quickly wrote it on Li Yu's hand.
After trying several words in succession, although Maodan's handwriting was not accurate, he obviously wrote each word quickly and perfectly.
Fang Chenyu kept swallowing his saliva, feeling extremely surprised.
Li Yu was silent and helped Maodan sit on the chair.
Looking at Fang Chenyu, he said seriously: "Don't try, you guessed wrong, she didn't lie."
Fang Chenyu's breath was choked: "Impossible! If she takes a few more tests, she must be faking it... This little liar is very clever, don't be fooled by her. Why doesn't she use pen and ink to write? This is too weird!"
"My family is poor! I can't afford to buy pens and ink!" Maodan raised his head in anger, with hatred in his eyes, and shouted: "Why do you always bully me! How did I lie to you... I never lied to you!"
Having said that, she jumped off the chair and ran to rummage through the drawers.
She dug out two memorial tablets, placed them on the table, and asked with tears in her eyes, "My family has lived here since I was a child... Why do you insist on calling me a liar?"
Two spirit tablets suddenly appeared before my eyes.
And Maodan's resentful look is captivating.
Fang Chenyu suddenly felt a heavy blow to his heart!
No one would joke about spirit tablets. We are taught in school how important spirit tablets are.
How could it be possible that he guessed wrong? It turned out that he was the one who was so self-righteous all along?
Li Yu walked up to him with a heavy heart and patted his shoulder: "Chen Yu, that's enough."
"No, no, no... Impossible!" Fang Chenyu was at a loss and shouted, "They must be pretending. How could there be such poor people!"
"He... they don't have to live this kind of life..."
"They can rent out their houses and earn money... and potatoes. They can sell them for a lot of money in Beijing. They can also grow melons and flowers. Why should they be poor? It's impossible for them to be poor!"
Fang Chenyu staggered back two steps, looking panicked.
The two simple memorial tablets on the table were so glaring in his eyes.
Li Yu said with a worried look on his face, "Have you said enough? Maodan would not lie, it is the newspaper that is lying. Why would you rather believe the newspaper than a living person in front of you?"
"How can they have the energy to do anything else while farming? I worked there for two days and I know what it feels like. After going to the fields, I don't want to do anything. I just want to sleep. How can you do business like this? You take it for granted."
"Chen Yu...we have all been deceived."
No wonder, no wonder Lao Li fell asleep as soon as he came back. He and Zhou Fugui were snoring one after another, and he was the only one tossing and turning in sleep.
Fang Chenyu looked palely at Maodan who was covering his face and whose shoulders were shaking.
She's not a liar...it's all just my imagination.
What the newspapers say is all false. There are still so many poor people in the world who cannot afford to eat meat, and there are still people who live such a hard life.
Does that mean my dad is the biggest liar in the world?
Fang Chenyu was distraught.
Li Yu could only stand beside him silently, also full of worries.
At this moment, the utopian world constructed in the minds of the two teenagers was shattered.
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