I didn't expect Xie Yilin to not only be very sober, but also very scheming. She saw through my intentions and started using tricks when she couldn't throw a tantrum. While screaming for help, she rushed towards me with the intention of hugging me and then accusing me of harassing the female teacher. Seeing this situation, I quickly dodged away from her and said coldly: "The more you use tricks, the more it shows that you have problems." Just as I was speaking, there were noisy footsteps behind me. When I turned around, several teachers were rushing towards us wearing clothes; they had obviously been alarmed by Xie Yilin's cries for help.
Looking back at the student dormitory area, I noticed some people peering out of windows. This situation made me feel depressed because it reminded me of last year's scene during school opening day. Was it possible that every year on school opening day something bad would happen to me? What kind of logic is this?
"Teacher Xie, what happened? What's going on?" Several teachers surrounded Xie Yilin asking her what happened.
"He," Xie Yilin pointed at me and shouted loudly: "This student... he... just now while I was taking a walk in the snow he came over to talk to me and even touched my body."
"Liu YiHeng! You are so bold! Do you want to die?! How dare you harass a teacher!" Upon hearing these words from Xie Yilin two male teachers immediately rushed up pushing and shoving me.
I felt like cursing heaven; what kind of mess is this?
"Alright Wang Teacher Hu Teacher," said another teacher who intervened before things got worse: "He is still young; let him go with just a warning."
To make matters worse, Xie Yilin pretended to be good-hearted by standing up for me. I looked at her with a cold smile.
"Hmph, you little brat! Go find the political education director tomorrow morning and submit your self-criticism, or else be careful of what I'll do to you!"
The two male teachers scolded me before escorting Xie Yilin back. The crowd dispersed and I helplessly walked back to my dormitory room where those jerks avoided me like they had seen a ghost. They obviously didn't see the conversation between Xie Yilin and myself; they only thought that I really harassed her.
Who would dare harass a teacher? Only scum students would do such things. No wonder they were avoiding me.
Back in my room, lying on my bed, I sighed bitterly and cursed under my breath before going back to sleep.
I finished breakfast and had just walked into the classroom corridor when I was called over by the political education director. He gave me a big lecture and almost made me call my parents. In the end, I was forced to hand in an 800-word check before it passed.
Afterwards, I ran into Xie Yilin's scheming expression again. She glared at me coldly, turned her head and went into the office, making me so angry that my nose almost twisted.
Feeling upset, I planned to go out for lunch. It happened to be market day today with heavy snowfall and many people on the streets.
I bought buns and soy milk which I ate carelessly while wandering around aimlessly on the street until unknowingly arriving at a crowded place.
Upon seeing this situation, I quickly joined in and squeezed through the crowd only to find two people performing acrobatics in front of us.
Both of them were very strange-looking individuals who were hard to forget after one glance. One of them was an older man about forty years old wearing a patched cotton coat with silver-white hair that even his palms were red-and-white colored.
At first sight of him, I thought he had applied white powder all over himself but upon closer inspection realized that wasn't true; he hadn't put on any makeup or powder - he was naturally white-skinned which scared people as even his eyebrows and body hair were also white!
Seeing this situation made me realize that he must have albinism which is something we learned about in biology class - it's a genetic mutation with quite high incidence rates so there isn't anything too curious about it.
However, what really caught my attention was another person: A girl who looked like she was around ten years old wearing thin cloth shoes on her feet along with black corduroy pants patched up here-and-there paired with a pink multi-colored shirt underneath her outer coat which seemed to only have a tight-fitting sweater inside.
It was so cold outside and she was dressed so thinly that her little face turned purple, and her whole body trembled slightly.
However, even so, she still had to perform some difficult acrobatic movements under the command of the albino man.
"Come on, come on, swing and chop! This is called a thousand-pound bite! Chop it well--"
The albino man was obviously from out of town and his Mandarin was not standard. He pulled over a long stool with one end stepped on by his foot while shouting in an awkward accent. Then he pointed to the other end of the stool as a signal for that girl.
The girl shrank her shoulders and hesitated visibly but eventually went forward helplessly. She opened her small mouth and bit down on the corner of the stool with her teeth before grabbing onto it with both hands. First lifting one leg back until both legs were spread apart at 180 degrees, then gritting her teeth and exerting force with both hands to lift herself up until both slender legs were raised vertically.
At this point, she was already in an inverted position relying only on support from her two hands and biting strength from her teeth.
Seeing this situation, people around couldn't help cheering loudly.
However, what followed next was even more amazing: The girl slightly bent inwardly so that she could maintain overall balance; then she released one hand leaving only biting force between another hand's grip and teeth to keep balance.
"Great!"
Seeing this situation again caused people around to burst into applause once more.
But it didn't stop there -the girl's performance became even more astonishing- as she actually let go of both hands completely relying solely on biting strength between her teeth while remaining upside down atop the stool!
"Well done!"
This time everyone erupted into a series of exclamations and cheers immediately upon seeing such incredible feat performed by that young lady.
At this moment,the albino man saw what happened; he loosened his feet allowing that girl to maintain balance by herself.Then he picked up a copper gong from the side, turned it over and used it as a bowl to beg for money around the crowd: "Ladies and gentlemen, please give me some money. Please give me some--"
"Go away! You want money? Hmph!" As a result, those who were watching the excitement around him immediately burst into laughter upon seeing him begging for money; half of them dispersed instantly.
The albino man was very embarrassed but still maintained his smile while bowing respectfully to ask for reward. Unfortunately, people in this poor and remote area were too stingy so he only begged for a few coins after making rounds.