"Does it hurt?" Jiang Wei hesitated, and even lowered his head and blew lightly on Zhi Ying's palm, as if this would take away her pain.
Zhi Ying shook her head: "It's okay, it's just a little injury." She lost her temper when she was caught off guard by the sting of the medicine just now.
"Mhm." Jiang Wei continued to lower his head and carefully dealt with Zhi Ying's wound.
Because of this incident, the atmosphere between Jiang Wei and Zhi Ying began to thaw, and Zhi Ying would sometimes smile at him.
Before the exam, when everyone was nervously preparing for the exam, a rumor about Zhi Ying began to spread everywhere.
The rumor was that Zhi Ying saw that her classmate was dying and didn't help, and she even joined others to bully her classmate.
Originally, who would believe such a thing without evidence? But Zhi Ying has always been in the middle of rumors. Although she had been dragged down from the altar by Jiang Wei, there were still many people willing to step on her and throw some mud on her.
"Who is bullying?" Han Jiaojiao asked Zhi Ying. Li Ge was away, and the three of them sat around Li Ge's seat.
"I don't know, they probably recognized the wrong person." Zhi Ying did not match up with what happened to her and Yu QIngyin that day to this rumor.
"There is another person named Zhi Ying in our school," Zhao Qian asked rhetorically, rolling his eyes dramatically as he said what he believed to be the truth, "No!"
Li Ge ran over after inquiring, "They said Zhi Ying saw gangsters from the next school bullying Yu Qingyin that day, you ran away, and someone watched you walk with those people later."
"With whom?" Zhi Ying asked vaguely after being stuffed with a mouthful of dried fish by Han Jiaojiao.
Li Ge frowned, and his round face turned serious, "I have a photo in my hand, and that person is indeed you. Did something really happen?"
Zhi Ying took over the phone, and the other three surrounded her, trying to get a glimpse of the photo.
It was captured that day when the curly-haired girl bought her a bunch of ice cream.
Looking at the pile of ice cream in her hand in the photo, Zhi Ying felt her teeth clatter and her stomach turn cold.
"I saw that Yu Qingyin was being surrounded, pulled her away, and then called the police." Zhi Ying didn't understand why people said that she saw someone was dying and she didn't save them. Could it be that Yu Qingyin was caught again later?
"Then who are these people?" Zhao Qian pointed to the group of people with long sticks in the photo. Absolutely no one would believe them if they said they were not gangsters.
"Oh, it's the people who wanted to beat Yu Qingyin." Zhi Ying answered innocently, "The development was too fast, I don't know why either."
"You rescued Yu Qingyin? Then the group of people who beat Yu Qingyin bought ice cream for you?" Li Ge didn't understand the connection between these two things, although he believed that Zhi Ying was not such a person.
But some people say that Zhi Ying found someone to beat Yu Qingyin, and then deliberately rescued her, so that Yu Qingyin would thank Zhi Ying.
Li Ge listed another rumor, and then was mercilessly ridiculed by Qin Li next to him.
"Zhi Ying likes Yu Qingyin? What kind of rumor is this?" Qin Li was entertained with the math question, "Zhi Ying, are you lesbian?"
"What nonsense?" Han Jiaojiao rapped Qin Li's table as a warning.
"I went to save classmate Yu, but then she ran away by herself, and then the group of people wanted to beat me." Zhi Ying traced the development of the matter.
"You were beaten by them?!" Li Ge stood up instantly, and was about to rush out to find his father, asking him to take care of the gangsters near the school.
"No." Zhi Ying scratched her head, "Then it seems that the police came. They got lost in the alley and asked me to lead them out. Then, the scene in the photo happened."
"…" These were the most moral gangsters Qin Li had ever heard of, they knew how to be grateful.
"According to my many years of experience, this kind of thing is generally only known to the parties involved. That is to say, it is either you or Yu Qingyin that let out the news." Li Ge's eyes turned deep, and the analysis was clear, "But Zhi Ying, you are not so boring and would not slander your own reputation, so there is only one truth, and the suspect is Yu Qingyin!"
"Keep your voice down!" Han Jiaojiao glared at Li Ge, the people in the front row had already glanced back at them.
"What did she slander me for? We aren't even familiar with each other, and she ran away right after." Zhi Ying thought for a while, "Maybe she misunderstood us after seeing us together."
Of course, Yu Qingyin couldn't have misunderstood. She knew the curly-haired girl and the bunch of followers behind her, so she knew that Zhi Ying didn't know them
However she didn't want to see that Zhi Ying had no troubles with them either.
Even if Zhi Ying came to help, those people wouldn't dare to do anything at all anyway. At most, Pei Qi would slap her, and the people standing behind her were just there to support the scene.
After Yu Qingyin ran away that day, she covered her face along the way, scolding Pei Qi to the ground, and cursing Zhi Ying to get beaten. Who let her see herself be made a fool of herself, and still sit next to Jiang Wei, her grades were so amazing? She could only be second place.
Her school bag was thrown into the trash can by the group of people. Yu Qingyin could only walk home empty-handed. She had long hair, and used it to cover the slap print on her face with one side of her hair, and walked home quickly.
But the more she walked, the more she found that there were always people looking at her with strange expressions.
Yu Qingyin only glared back viciously, the strangers didn't know her anyway.
Others wanted to approach her, but Yu Qingyin walked away from them like they were a plague god. She saw the old women with white hair and was disgusted by them, thinking they were dirty.
There was actually even a middle-aged man with a bald head who wanted to approach her, and he said something, telling her not to go.
Were people so shameless these days? People on the street wanted to do stuff to her. Yu Qingyin knew that she was good-looking, so she had always been very vigilant about these people.
Under the strange eyes all the way, when she got home, her parents were busy with their own affairs. Yu Qingyin was changing clothes at home only to find that her trousers had a big slit where her buttocks were.
On the way home just now, Yu Qingyin's entire underwear was exposed.
After understanding the expressions of those people, Yu Qingyin lay on the table and sobbed for a while, finally transferring all of her hatred to Zhi Ying.
First, she shared the grievances with her girlfriends in other classes, then aroused their curiosity, and finally revealed the fabricated facts little by little.
As for where the photos came from, there were always people near the school taking photos, carrying a camera around and taking pictures. Yu Qingyin was photographed several times, and later her best friend discovered it by accident.
"The matter of spreading rumors can be big or small. Since she wants to spread it, let's help her set fire to it." Han Jiaojiao sneered at Yu Qingyin, who was sitting upright in the front.
"Don't waste your time on this kind of thing." Zhi Ying said earnestly, "The exam is coming soon."
Together with Qin Li, when the four of them heard her words, they couldn't help but cast sympathetic eyes at her.
Once you got used to some things, it was hard to change. Jiang Wei's total score was still higher than Zhi Ying's, it has become an unchangeable law.
"Ying Ying, you should do your best to prepare for the exam." Han Jiaojiao patted the poor Ying Ying, but she was determined to let Yu Qingyin burn herself.
Of course, in the evening, Han Jiaojiao approached the subject that Zhi Ying's mental state was not very good recently without coming straight to the point.
Sure enough, her father immediately became nervous: "Is it because of Jiang Wei, sigh, that child is also unlucky."
"No, it's because of other things." Han Jiaojiao glanced at Lao Han, and then lowered her head and pushed at the food in her bowl, as if she had something to hide.
"If there is something, say it. Don't mention it and then stop midway." Lao Han frowned, "I can't follow you guys all the time, and I won't know anything if you don't say something."
"It's someone spreading rumors behind their backs." Han Jiaojiao said angrily, "Said Zhi Ying bullied classmates in the class."
"Bullied who?" Lao Han actually showed a smile, "That child is usually reluctant to sleep, so why would she waste time to bully people?"
"Of course not!" Han Jiaojiao continued to pour oil, "It's that Yu Qingyin, who can't get it right by studying every day, she only knows how to cause rumors."
Han Jiaojiao was also in the top ten in Class Zero. Yu Qingyin and Qin Li were in the last places all year round in the class. Of course, she was qualified to say that their grades were not good.
"Yu Qingyin?" Old Han paused, "What's going on, she's so behaved, did you misunderstand something?"
Behaved?! Han Jiaojiao rolled her eyes in her heart, some people just took advantage of their looks.
"No, originally there were gangsters finding trouble with Yu Qingyin, but Zhi Ying rescued her, and now Yu Qingyin is spreading rumors about Zhi Ying." Han Jiaojiao explained the ins and outs of the matter to her father.
"I see, tomorrow I'll go to the school to investigate. But classmate Yu has always been well-behaved, there should be some misunderstanding." Although Lao Han had taught so many students and his eyes were sharp, he didn't pay much attention to Yu Qingyin. Adding on the frequent compliments from Teacher Zhou Hui, he still had a good impression of her,
Although Han Jiao Jiao was dissatisfied, she also knew that she couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, that is, she couldn't rush things since they were all hypothesizing without evidence.
Han Jiaojiao: [My task has been completed, how about you, Li Ge? ]
Li Ge: [Completed the task perfectly, my father said that he is going to thoroughly investigate the safety of the surrounding environment of the school. ]
Zhao Qian: [The alley Ying Ying talked about today, I remember there was a camera. ]
Li Ge: [Huh? How do you know, I've never heard of it. ]
Zhao Qian: [I heard from my police relatives that Yan City is a big tourist city. In order to ensure the safety of tourists and locals. Remote places, such as small alleys, are equipped with cameras that rotate 360 degrees in high-definition. ]
Li Ge: [Done talking, I'll go to my dad. ]
After a while, another message appeared in the group.
Qin Li: [It's good that you all have power and money. ]
Han Jiaojiao: […]
Zhao Qian: […]
Zhao Qian: [Damn, how did you get in? Who let you in? ]
Qin Li: [I don't know who pulled me in :-)]
Han Jiaojiao: [You didn't see anything just now. ]
Qin Li: [Let me stay in the group, I won't reveal anything that I saw. ]
Han Jiaojiao:[:-)]
Zhao Qian and Han Jiaojiao chatted privately for a long time, and found that Qin Li was not brought in by the two of them.
[It was probably Li Ge who did the good deed. Forget it, forgive him and he wouldn't dare to say things anyway. ]Zhao Qian thought for a while, and felt that Qin Li, who had listened to them a lot anyway, it didn't matter if he's in the group anymore.
…
Zhi Ying didn't know what her friends were planning, so she was only studying for language arts and composition.
"Has your injury healed?" Jiang Wei asked suddenly.
Zhi Ying stopped writing and replied blankly, "It's been healed." It wasn't a serious injury.
Jiang Wei turned his head: "Really, let me see." After that, he spontaneously held Zhi Ying's hand on the table.
"It's healed." In order to prove that what she said was true, Zhi Ying even moved in the direction of Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei squeezed Zhi Ying's delicate wrist lightly, and looked down at her open palm, thinking about something.
But Zhi Ying actually thought he didn't see clearly, and was still worried about whether she was injured or not.
Jiang Wei was really kind-hearted, Zhi Ying thought to herself, and said, "It's really okay, only a little scar."
Jiang Wei gently stroked Zhi Ying's wrist where there were still faint brown marks, and murmured in a low voice, "Remember to apply the medicine until the scar disappears."
"Oh." Zhi Ying nodded and was about to withdraw her hand.
"What are you two doing?!" Zhao Qian immediately stepped forward and parted the hands of the two of them. "In the public, have some face, brother!"
Zhao Qian mistakenly thought that Jiang Wei was holding Zhi Ying's hand and wanted to fight. After all, the image of the two as rivals had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Jiang Wei had something in his heart and was unwilling to pay attention to Zhao Qian, so he slowly retracted his hand and read his book.
As for Zhi Ying, she was used to the random surprises of her friends, and she also resumed to immerse herself in studying her composition.
Han Jiaojiao fell behind and asked Li Ge why he pulled Qin Li into their group of three.
"Huh? When did I pull him in?" Li Ge tried hard to recall, only to remember that he had just pulled someone in order to send photos.
After listening to Li Ge's explanation, Han Jiaojiao sighed: "That's the only way. Anyway, although he looks a little bit annoying, he's still better than the rest of the class."
"Not kicking him out?" Li Ge said it for granted, as if he was not the one who pulled him in.
"Forget it, let's get rid of Yu Qingyin's matter early." Han Jiaojiao felt heartbroken when she remembered the teachers' attitude towards Yu Qingyin.
"My dad called last night to go through the surveillance and investigate this matter thoroughly." Li Ge still believed that his dad, as a principal, would safeguard the interests of students' safety.
Yu Qingyin was still letting her "girlfriends" spread news around, and she was often lying on the table to maintain a "sad facade."
The unsuspecting language arts teacher had already privately talked to her.
It turned out that Yu Qingyin actually hoped Zhi Ying would get beaten up despite helping her just because Zhi Ying had good grades, and could sit next to Jiang Wei, but she managed to hide her feelings really well.
Nonone managed to find her true feelings and even the impression of Zhi Ying became negative in the eyes of the teachers and fellow students.