Chapter 579 I feel a little regretful! Forget it, just coax him
As soon as Master Li left, the school was in an uproar.
The students were whispering to each other, looking at Gu Qingchen with eyes full of awe and fear.
"She actually pissed Master Li off!"
"This is bad. The headmaster will definitely know about it."
Gu Qingchen stood there, watching Master Li's disappearing back, and glanced at the books scattered on the ground. For some reason, the sense of victory in his heart faded a lot.
She just wanted to argue with him and didn't think about making him angry and leave.
Qian Zhenyun walked quickly to her side, his face tense, and pulled her sleeve and walked out.
"Sister, come with me!"
He pulled Gu Qingchen all the way to the sycamore tree. There was no one there, only the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the leaves.
"You've gone too far!" Qian Zhenyun let go of his hand, his usually calm face filled with anxiety and a hint of reproach. "Master Li is old, how could you anger him like this!"
Gu Qingchen felt a little uneasy, but he refused to admit defeat: "He is narrow-minded. I was talking about the truth, and he couldn't argue with me. Can you blame me for this?"
"Reason?" Qian Zhenyun's voice rose a few notches. "You're not being reasonable. You're deliberately making things difficult for the Master!"
"I didn't!" Gu Qingchen retorted with his neck stiff.
"You did!" Qian Zhenyun looked directly into her eyes, with a seriousness and disappointment that Gu Qingchen had never seen before. "Sister, do you think that when you were locked up in the little room, I secretly brought you food, and the teacher really didn't know?"
Gu Qingchen was stunned and blinked: "How could he know?"
"I went to bring you steamed buns on the first night, and as soon as I turned around, Master Li called me." Qian Zhenyun took a deep breath and told him everything that happened that night.
"The teacher asked me what I had hidden in my arms. I didn't dare lie, so I took out the steamed bun. I thought the teacher was going to punish me and was ready to hit the palm of his hand." His voice lowered, "But the teacher didn't. He returned the bun to me and told me to keep it."
The stubborn look on Gu Qingchen's face gradually solidified.
Qian Zhenyun looked at her and imitated Master Li's tone, saying word for word, "Master said, 'Although that girl has a bad temper, she is still a child after all. How can she reflect on herself if she is hungry?'"
"He also said," Qian Zhenyun's eyes were red, "'The rules cannot be broken. Next time if you have any problems, you can come directly to me.'"
It turned out that when she thought she was isolated and helpless and was at odds with the entire private school, Master Li, whom she regarded as "old-fashioned" and a "bad guy", secretly condoned all this.
It's not that he doesn't know, he just pretends not to know.
Gu Qingchen's heart seemed to be tugged by something, sour and swollen, an indescribable feeling.
The arrogance that had finally risen up was instantly extinguished as if a basin of cold water was poured over him from head to toe.
She lowered her head, her fingers unconsciously twisting her belt, without saying a word.
Qian Zhenyun looked at her like this, and his tone softened, with a hint of pleading,
"Sister, Master Li is just strict, but he's a good man. We've only been here for two days, and you've already pissed him off like this. You...you shouldn't treat him like this."
The wind blew, and a few sycamore leaves fell slowly.
Gu Qingchen looked at the fallen leaf in front of his toes and felt for the first time that he seemed to have done something wrong.
The mistake was not in quoting from classics or challenging authority, but in using her sharpest thorn to pierce a person who actually had good intentions.
For the first time, a clear sense of pity arose in her heart.
Under the sycamore tree, Gu Qingchen's head drooped lower and lower, like a defeated rooster.
She gently crushed the fallen leaves on the ground with her toes, making a slight rustling sound.
It turned out that when she was showing off, thinking she was extremely smart, and refuting the teacher speechless, she was the stupidest one.
No one took her child's defiance seriously at all. Instead, when she was being punished, they were still concerned about whether she was hungry.
"Then... where is he now?" Gu Qingchen's voice was muffled, with a barely perceptible nasal tone.
Seeing her expression soften, Qian Zhenyun felt relieved and pointed to a row of quiet courtyards behind the school.
"Master Li has his own study. He usually goes there to mark homework or when he's feeling down. I think... he should be there now."
Gu Qingchen raised his head, a hint of hesitation flashed in his eyes.
To apologize? She had never in her life seriously admitted her fault to anyone.
But when she thought of Master Li's bright eyes and Qian Zhenyun's words, "She's still a child after all," she felt very upset.
"Forget it." She took a deep breath, as if she had made up her mind. Some of her spirit returned to her little face, but this look was no longer as ostentatious as before, but more serious.
"I'd better go and coax that stingy Master Li."
Qian Zhenyun was a little worried: "Sister, please don't make him angry anymore."
"I know!" Gu Qingchen waved his hand and walked towards the study first. "I promise not to make him angry this time!"
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