CHAPTER 194: CHAPTER 194: BEGGAR

A group of people came out of the woods and walked towards the school gate. Both Lin Shan and Lin Chuan were limping a bit as they walked, and Lin Xia wasn’t doing any better.

When the three of them found these people, they were already dragging Lin Shuang across from the woods. The three tried to stop them, couldn’t reason with them, and ended up fighting.

How could three children possibly win against adults? If the other party hadn’t wanted to avoid trouble, these three might have been in serious danger by now.

Lin Daliang left work half an hour later than the students. Every day when he got home, his three daughters would have already prepared lunch, but today, the yard gate was still locked.

He thought there was some delay at school, so he washed his hands and started cooking while waiting for the kids.

But he waited and waited, the food was ready, yet the kids were nowhere to be seen.

It was then that he started to get anxious, locked the door, and ran to the school.

When he reached the school gate, the others had already come out and were about to head home.

"What happened to you all?" Lin Daliang’s heart was pounding uncontrollably.

He looked at the children, each looking disheveled, clothes torn, and faces with cuts, and was terrified.

"Dad? Why are you here?" Lin Xia called out.

"What on earth happened? Were you fighting at school? Why do you all look so battered? How did you all get hurt?" Lin Daliang asked again.

"Dad... I’m sorry!" Lin Shuang stepped forward and said softly.

"Alright, alright! Let’s just go home and talk!" Since no one else spoke, Lin Xia had to say.

"Qianqian, why don’t you come over for dinner too?" Lin Yun turned around and invited the Sun siblings.

"No, we’ll go home to eat! They must be waiting for us too by now!" Sun Qianqian said and pushed her second brother, "Let’s go, second brother! Mom and Dad must be worried!"

Sun Bing then started walking slowly, though without looking back every three steps.

People of this era are quite reserved, and they wouldn’t want such things to be noticed, but he couldn’t quite control his expression.

"Let’s go too!" Lin Yun reached forward to hold Lin Shuang’s hand.

Lin Daliang watched this group of limping kids, holding his forehead.

What a mess. These kids must have been in a fight, but each has their lips tightly sealed.

He, too, was aggrieved and didn’t help them carry their schoolbags, noticing that Lin Shuang didn’t even have hers.

From the way she apologized earlier, Lin Daliang could roughly guess that the fight might have been because of her.

Although he was angry that the kids got into a fight, he was also relieved by their unity.

Thus, they reached home to find that their dad had already prepared a meal.

They ate without fuss and, without time to rest, rushed back to school.

During this, Lin Daliang took out the first aid box that the eldest daughter had brought back and cleaned the kids’ wounds.

No matter how he asked, they wouldn’t speak about the fight.

Seeing that her brothers and sisters wouldn’t say anything, Lin Shuang didn’t dare to either.

She thought her siblings were keeping quiet to not worry their dad, and she didn’t want to worry him over her matters, so she said there was nothing serious.

Seeing he couldn’t get any answers and that it was almost time for work, Lin Daliang reminded them not to fight anymore and left for work.

The five were left looking at each other, and finally, Lin Xia said it was nearly class time, so they hurried to school.

On the way, they pressured Lin Shuang to reveal that her books had been torn.

"There’s a girl in my class, she’s... she’s my uncle’s daughter. She saw me when I went to their house and called me a beggar, saying I don’t belong in the same class as them, and she tore up my books with some classmates!" Lin Shuang said with anger in her eyes.

"I’m not a beggar, I have a mom and dad, brothers and sisters, but they don’t believe me. They say I’m just living off others’ charity and call me a beggar who begs for a living..."

"It’s infuriating! How could such young kids be so malicious? Don’t worry, we’ll go with you to your classroom and stand up for you!" Lin Xia’s temper flared up again.

It looked like she was going to beat someone up to vent her sister’s anger.

"We also need to talk to their class teacher about this! How could they let this happen?" Lin Yun said.

The two brothers also clenched their fists.

When they first arrived, they had never been treated this way. The classmates were all centered around them.

Kids can also be perceptive. Seeing how well the brothers dressed and what they used, they were now commuting students. There wasn’t time to befriend them, let alone offend them.

It was literally whatever they said, without any retort.

The same went for Lin Yun and her sister; there were no difficult students or special cases.

In a class of forty-three students with only eleven girls, all their classmates, whether boys or girls, treated the sisters particularly well and tried to please them, just judging by how they dressed.

So, hearing how their sister was excluded by her classmates made them a bit angry.

Lin Shuang’s clothes weren’t bad either, and Lin Yun had even made her an outfit in her spare time that looked really nice.

But just because that supposed uncle’s daughter called her a beggar, her child-minded classmates started excluding her.

The four sent their sister to the classroom. They arrived later than usual, and the classmates were already there.

The classroom was noisy with kids playing and jumping around.

When Lin Shuang walked in, a little boy made a sneering noise and said, "The little beggar is back?"

Lin Xia exploded. She went up and grabbed the boy by the collar. "Who are you calling a little beggar?"

The boy was frightened and immediately began to wail.

The children in the classroom fell silent, watching this scene without daring to speak.

Because Lin Xia was in middle school, and Lin Chuan and his brother were in higher grades, the kids knew to be scared.

Just as he was crying, Lin Xia reached out to point at the boy and was about to say something when their class teacher arrived. "What are you doing? Bullying the younger ones at such a young age?"

Their class teacher was a woman in her early twenties, probably not yet married, with two braided pigtails, and looked decent.

"Teacher...teacher, they’re bullying me!" the little boy immediately ran over to the class teacher.

"You’re the second-grade teacher, right?" Lin Xia didn’t show the fear one might expect when seeing a teacher and asked with her head up.

"Yes! What class are you from? Why are you in this classroom and bullying young kids?" The female teacher fired off a bunch of questions.

"Firstly, I wasn’t bullying your student! I was just teaching him not to speak nonsense! Secondly, we’re Lin Shuang’s brothers and sisters! Here to talk to you about what happened!" Lin Xia opened her mouth clearly.

"Oh? Lin Shuang’s brothers and sisters? What do you want to talk about? Let’s go talk in my office!" The second-grade teacher knew these kids were students at the school, so she decided to call them to the office to discuss, intending to speak with their class teacher.

"No need to go to the office! We’ll talk right here! In front of all your students!" Lin Xia, the spokesperson, said.

"It’s almost class time, there’s no time for your nonsense! What class are you in? I’ll go talk with your class teacher!" The second-grade teacher didn’t give them a chance to disrupt things.

"Alright! Then let me ask you, do you know that your student tore up my sister’s books?" Lin Xia, seeing that this teacher kept shielding her student, asked directly.