Wang Shuning looked at Jiang Mianmian who had been lowering her head and asked, "Jiang Mianmian, why did you take the White Rabbit candy from Hu Yongping's drawer? That was a gift from Mu Ziheng to Hu Yongping."
Jiang Mianmian's eyes were wet. "I haven't eaten it. Zhu Yuanyuan said that White Rabbit milk candy is very sweet, so I really wanted to eat it. It's just one candy, so I thought it would be fine."
Zhu Yuanyuan is Mu Ziheng's deskmate.
Su Fangmei said to Jiang Mianmian seriously, "If you take someone else's things without their consent, you are a thief. That is bad moral character. Not only should you apologize to Hu Yongping and Mu Ziheng, but you should also compensate Hu Yongping with a White Rabbit candy."
Jiang Mianmian was so sad that tears fell from her eyes. Mu Ziheng bit his lip and didn't know what to do when he saw her crying.
He was about to speak, but Hu Yongping spoke first, "I don't want the White Rabbit candy anymore. Even if you give me one, it's not the one Ziheng gave me. You should apologize to us now."
Seeing Hu Yongping's serious expression, Jiang Mianmian cried and apologized to the two of them. Then Hu Yongping took Mu Ziheng's hand and left the office, leaving Jiang Mianmian crying loudly to be comforted by Su Fangmei and Wang Shuning.
Wang Shuning was a little surprised. The way Hu Yongping handled things was completely beyond his expectations.
Some say he is precocious, but he wants to break up with Mu Ziheng because of a White Rabbit milk candy; some say he is childish, but his behavior just now was unexpected.
The next class was Su Fangmei’s Chinese class. Jiang Mianmian was still crying and didn’t attend the first half of the class.
Wang Shuning asked Jiang Mianmian if she was willing to change seats, and Jiang Mianmian nodded to indicate that she was willing.
After she went back, Su Fangmei moved Jiang Mianmian to a table in the back row.
After class, Su Fangmei told Wang Shuning in the office: "Jiang Mianmian's family is relatively poor. If Hu Yongping really asks her to compensate for the White Rabbit candies, I don't think this child will be able to afford it."
Wang Shuning took out a quarter of the test papers he had written and locked them in a drawer. "This paper was written in vain. I'll give it to them as homework when the time comes."
I thought the matter was over, but that night Jiang Mianmian's mother dragged Jiang Mianmian to Hu Yongping's house to argue.
"It's just a piece of candy, why are you so stingy? Look how you bullied my Yuanyuan. She was still crying when she got home. You also want to change her seat. If she moves to the back row, my Yuanyuan won't be able to see the blackboard clearly. What should I do if her grades drop?" Jiang Mianmian's mother yelled at Hu Yongping.
Hu Yongping's parents had no idea what was going on. It was only after Hu Yongping told them what happened that they realized what was going on.
Dragging her son behind her, Hu Yongping's mother took a step forward and bumped into Jiang Mianmian's mother's stomach. "Your daughter is right to steal things! My son just doesn't want to sit with a thief. You can't teach your daughter well, and you embarrass her in school. You still have the nerve to come to my house to quarrel. I didn't come to the door to fight, which is considered to be your daughter's face."
Jiang Mianmian's mother: "It's just a piece of candy. How can it be considered stealing? If the teacher hadn't stopped him today, your son would have beaten my daughter."
Hu Yongping yelled, "No, I didn't intend to hit her. I just questioned her why she stole my things and made me misunderstand Ziheng."
Hu Yongping's mother angrily said: "Did you hear me? My son will never hit a girl."
Jiang Mianmian's mother: "You have to change the seat back tomorrow. Since it's your son who wants to change seats, let him sit in the back. Why should my daughter change?"
Hu Yongping's mother: "The seat was changed by the teacher. If you have the guts, go to the school tomorrow. Make a big fuss about it. It would be best if everyone on the island knew that your daughter has been stealing food since she was ten years old. There are many families on the island who are not well off and cannot afford candy. Why haven't I heard of other children stealing candy from classmates without asking?"
Jiang Mianmian's father, who had just returned from fishing in the sea, hurried to Hu Yongping's house to take his wife and children back, and even lost one of his shoes along the way.
"You bastard, your daughter-in-law and daughter have been wronged and scolded by others, and it would be fine if you didn't help us vent our anger, but you even sided with outsiders. Whose husband are you anyway?" Jiang Mianmian's mother smashed her husband's face with a slipper.
Jiang Mianmian's father threw her to the ground and yelled, "If you hadn't given all the money in the family to your parents, my daughter would have had to take someone else's for a White Rabbit candy!"
"My mother is sick and needs to take medicine all the time. What's wrong with me giving her money to buy medicine? Do you want me to just watch her die without helping her?" Jiang Mianmian's mother slapped Hu Yongping's father in the face.
Jiang Mianmian's father grabbed her hair and dragged her into the room, closing the door. "Give me money to buy medicine! Your brother is so stingy. Why does my family have to pay for everything? Did he just pop out of nowhere? If it weren't for my daughter, I would have divorced you a long time ago."
There was a tinkling sound in the room. Jiang Mianmian, who was squatting in the corner of the hall, clenched her teeth and shed tears.
The next day, Jiang Mianmian's face was pale when she came to school for class.
The whole day, except for looking up at the blackboard during class, he spent the rest of the time lying on the table with his head buried in his arms.
During the lunch break, other children were playing outside the classroom, only Jiang Mianmian was still lying in the classroom.
Wang Shuning walked in and bent down, and heard several consecutive sobbing sounds. He reached out and lifted Jiang Mianmian's head, and found that her eyes were red and her clothes were wet with tears.
"What's wrong? Did your father scold you when you went home yesterday?" Even though he did something wrong at the time, he was just a child after all.
How many children have never stolen change from home when they were young? Although there is a big difference between stealing at home and stealing outside, it is just a piece of candy after all, and you can't blame them for the rest of your life.
Jiang Mianmian cried, "My father didn't say anything to me, but he had a fight with my mother and said he wanted a divorce. I didn't mean to steal Hu Yongping's candy. I just saw Zhu Yuanyuan eating it. I've never eaten it myself, so I took it because I wanted to eat it."
"All the kids in my class had eaten milk candy peach cakes, but I had never eaten them. Hu Yongping often ate candy, so I thought it was okay to take one."
"Teacher Wang, I don't want my parents to get divorced. I will never eat candy again. Can you help me talk to my parents?"
Su Fangmei heard the crying and walked in. "You don't know the situation at her home. I'll talk to her. You go outside and look after the other children."
Outside the classroom.
"Teacher Wang, is Jiang Mianmian still crying?" Hu Yongping took a peek into the classroom, ran over with a stone in his hand and asked Wang Shuning.
Wang Shuning squatted down and asked gently, "Does Hu Yongping insist on changing seats because he hates Jiang Mianmian?"
Hu Yongping hesitated for a few seconds and shook his head. "I don't hate her. I was also wrong in this matter. I shouldn't blame Ziheng for a piece of candy. But she took my things, and I felt uncomfortable. I don't want to sit with her anymore. My parents said that as long as you haven't done anything bad, you can't wrong yourself in anything. Jiang Mianmian used to cry all the time, so many classmates didn't come to play with me after class. I didn't want to be her deskmate for a long time."
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