“Wan Li Li, let go of me, did you eat a bear heart and leopard gall to be this brave? How dare you scratch me?” Sun Ying flushed with anger, her father had never hit her before, and today she was scratched by a foolish timid rabbit like Wan Li Li. If word were spread, how would she live in the future?
“Sun Ying, you must apologize to me today. If you don’t apologize, I won’t let go.”
“Peh! You are quite full of yourself to ask me to apologize to you! Did you just forget how your father pleaded with my father? I will make my father expel you after this!”
“Oh, it sounds like your father is very noble. Yet, he still accepted money from my father.” Wan Li Li was so angry that she also shouted.
Liu Xiao Hui just came in from outside, and heard only the last few words, “Ah, Principal Sun accepted bribes, how much did he accept?”
Wei Min was also not afraid of making a bigger fuss from it, “How many thousands? Wan Li Li, can you be more specific!”
Su Mian suddenly recalled that Principal Sun’s reputation in her previous life was ruined by accepting bribes. He was reported jointly by several parents later, and he went into the police station.
Sun Ying was furious, but her father did accept bribes and she could only stare at Wan Li Li fiercely.
Wan Li Li didn’t show any weakness, now that all pretences of cordiality had been shred, she had nothing to fear anymore. Sun Ying used to threaten her before.
Su Mian wanted to laugh so much when she saw Sun Ying being told off right in her face. However, the atmosphere did not feel right, so Su Mian quickly cleared her throat, “Don’t fight, don’t fight anymore. Let’s just talk it out.” After she finished talking, she and Wei Min forcefully separated the two of them.
“Sun Ying, didn’t you promise that you wouldn’t bully Wan Li Li?” Su Mian knew something must have happened, otherwise Wan Li Li would just be too soft to start a fight with Sun Ying.
“I just wanted a look at her letter, then she jumped on me like a tiger!” Sun Ying said lightly, avoiding the heavyweight.
“You’re talking nonsense, it’s obvious that you wanted to read my letter, but I refused, then you tore up my letter!” Wan Li Li spoke right at the point at the critical moment.
“She both cried and laughed while reading the letter. I was curious about it, but she never shared it with me. It was just an accident, I didn’t do it on purpose!”
Sun Ying was used to doing whatever she wanted. Why should people show her their letter in the first place? And she even tore the letter when the others refused to let her have a look.
The two were so much into fighting that the two halves of the torn letter were still thrown on the floor. Su Mian picked it up and said, “It will be fine after sticking it back, it won’t affect reading.” In that era, there was no transparent tape, glue was applied on the end of the torn letter and two torn halves of the letter were then put together.
It was still alright if Su Mian didn’t try to comfort her. Now that she did, Wan Li Li cried, “My mother wrote me this letter. She hasn’t written a letter to me for such a long time.”
“Why didn’t your mother come to see you along with your father this weekend?” Wei Min was quick to ask.
“They got divorced, and my father married someone else.” Wan Li Li became more sad as she thought about it more, and she laid crying in Wei Min’s arms.
Everyone finally understood how Wan Li Li behaved towards her father, as her current mother was her stepmother.
Only then did Sun Ying feel that she was a bit over. She didn’t expect it to be the letter written by Wan Li Li’s blood related mother. She looked at the roof and quickly said “I’m sorry”.
This matter was over, but Principal Sun’s reputation for taking bribes also spread.
Su Mian counted that Wei Zhen Hui had left for almost two weeks. According to the duration of the war in her previous life, this battle should be over already, and he promised to write to her.
The next day, Su Mian went to the reception office after self-study. The person in charge of distributing the letters was an old man. He had a headful of gray hair and wore a pair of reading spectacles, and was earnestly putting the letters into the small wooden boxes of each and every class.
Su Mian hurriedly greeted him, “Uncle, do you have a letter for Su Mian from the third year’s class six?”
The uncle looked up with his two turbid eyes from beneath the spectacles, and stared at Su Mian for a few times before looking for the letter. He looked into the bag for a long time and turned around and shook his head at Su Mian, “I don’t, student, you can come back for it in another two days!”
