The child, who was still a minor at the time, also understood the difficulties faced by some adults and did not dare to make more requests. She just hoped that the teacher who treated her very well could eat enough and not go hungry.
How could a parent have ever seen a child cry so sadly? After going through many twists and turns and making some arrangements, she finally felt better.
"After a while, those people went back to messing with the newcomers, and gradually they stopped paying much attention to her. So your Uncle Zhao and I used our connections to have her sent down to a remote village. The captain of that village was a soldier who used to work for your Uncle Zhao. He lost his parents and had several underage brothers and sisters, so he retired."
"He's a man of integrity, and your Uncle Zhao has done him a favor. The villagers are also simple and honest. Although they are somewhat uncomfortable with the status of the transferred personnel, they won't go out of their way to make trouble. Despite all the turmoil outside in recent years, the villagers have continued to live their lives as usual. The village is far from the town, so life may be a little harder, but at least they won't suffer too much humiliation. And there are people to take care of them. Compared to staying in the capital, at least they can live a stable life."
Meng Ying sighed after she finished speaking, "We have limited abilities, and we have a large family to support. This is all we can do."
Call her selfish or heartless, even if you sympathize with her, she would never risk her entire family to rescue someone.
In her heart, the safety of her family comes first.
Jian Shu had been listening quietly, but now he couldn't help but speak up, "You've done a great job. As long as people are still here, there's always hope."
In an age when even relatives are unreliable, as a student's parent, being able to save her and arrange a proper way out for her is already the most you can do.
If they hadn't helped, those teachers might have been tortured to death. Even if they survived, they would have been sent to an unfamiliar place without any relatives, and it was unknown whether they could survive.
After all, sometimes, what people lack is that breath. Once they lose their spirit, they don’t want to live anymore.
If that teacher knew that there was a student who was always thinking about her and hoped that she would live well, with her character, she would probably be able to hold on.
"You two sisters even speak the same way." Meng Ying looked at Jian Shu, as if she saw Zhao Yueling who had said similar words back then.
"After the teacher left, Lingling was worried about her. Over the years, she secretly wrote letters to encourage her and even sent money and notes, asking people to take better care of her. She wrote two letters in a row, without fail."
For fear of causing trouble at home, I didn't dare write too many letters. I only dared to send letters and other things together during the New Year holidays.
The child who stood up in class, holding out his hand to block the teacher's way, gradually lost his youthful spirit and began to act like an adult, learning to consider the overall situation and think carefully. Is this the price of growing up?
"Lingling has never forgotten what happened back then." She even hated herself for being a coward who gave in back then.
When we talk about it today, how much of the resentment is directed at the classmates who stood by and watched, and how much is directed at ourselves who were powerless to do anything?
It's not that she doesn't know that she can't change anything, but she just can't let go of the past that she witnessed with her own eyes.
Perhaps, only when the teacher from that time stands in front of her again and calls her "Student Zhao Yueling" with a kind smile, can she move on from her memories and reconcile with herself back then.
Meng Ying smiled bitterly. "I thought she was much better, but until you mentioned it, I realized she still couldn't let it go. It's because we, as parents, weren't competent enough."
In the period immediately following the incident, Zhao Yueling often woke up from her dreams and was often distracted during the day. During that period, Meng Ying had to go to work during the day, and at night she and Zhao Mingze would take turns watching over her. She also told Zhao Tianrui to pester his sister to go out and play more often and not let her stay home alone.
After a while, the teacher left, and she gathered herself together to write a letter to the teacher. Slowly, she regained her strength and followed her closely for a while, only feeling relieved after she was sure she was alright. Unexpectedly, it was all just superficial.
"If you talk about incompetence, I, as her sister, am even more incompetent. I don't even know about the things she encountered." Jian Shu curled the corners of his mouth and said self-deprecatingly.
"You were busy at that time and didn't come home for a while. When you came again, Lingling had almost recovered. You also noticed something was wrong at that time and asked a few questions casually, but I sent you away with a few words. If you hadn't asked today, I wouldn't have told you." Meng Ying explained.
Jianshu recalled and finally dug out this scene from his distant memory.
During that time, something had happened at the department store, and their finance department was incredibly busy. She was also on edge, and hadn't been back to the compound for several weeks. When everything was resolved and she went back to visit Meng Ying and Zhao Mingze, she did notice that Zhao Yueling was a little off, and didn't seem very happy.
But she didn't think much of it at the time, thinking she was having a conflict with someone. She asked a few questions casually, but couldn't get an answer. When they met again later, Zhao Yueling had returned to normal, so she didn't take it seriously anymore, and her previous doubts had long been thrown out of her mind.
Unexpectedly, these things happened during that period.
"Lingling was afraid that we would worry, so she hid it very well." Otherwise, she would never have discovered it until today.
Thinking of this, Jian Shu had a guess, "Aunt, was the teacher's accident very close to today?"
Meng Ying nodded. "Calculating the date, it's about three days from now."
The puzzle closed, and a glimmer of understanding flashed in Jianshu's eyes.
That's right. Zhao Yueling, who always concealed herself well, suddenly exposed herself today. There were probably several factors involved. It was normal for her to lose control of her emotions when she was so excited. Plus, she mentioned the campus and her classmates, which hit Zhao Yueling right in the nick of time.
"It seems I brought up a bad topic today." Jian Shu felt a little regretful. She had mentioned campus love for no reason! How could she possibly divert the topic to other places without mentioning it?
Now, people are already in a bad mood, and she has gone to the trouble of making them recall those unpleasant past events again. Isn't this just rubbing salt into the wound?
It was really hard for Lingling to act as if nothing had happened and then talk to her about other topics.
Meng Ying felt helpless when she thought about this. It seemed that Lingling would be in a low mood for the next few days.
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