Quick Transmigration: Kitten's Healing Handbook - Chapter 69
Chapter 69: Light In The Cracks 2
Lin Yao, helpless, could only hug herself, her back against the wall, with nowhere to hide: “I’m sorry, please let me go. I’ll give you my notes, all of them…”
Xu Qiuran sneered: “You should have been so obedient earlier, but so many of us came all this way because of your refusal, we can’t have come for nothing. ”
Xu Qiuran looked at a girl nearby, wearing glasses, biting her lip, her hand clutching her clothing hem; it was obvious she was also frequently bullied.
Xu Qiuran shoved the girl: “What are you standing there for? Forgot what Miss Ben told you to do? Or do you want to continue being bullied, huh? ”
The girl, terrified, waved her hands repeatedly, tremblingly picked up the mop from the toilet, steeled her heart, poked it into the pit, and then rubbed it against Lin Yao.
The other girls and Xu Qiuran watched the two girls, excitedly taking pictures with their mobile phones: “The books only say that dogs bite dogs, but we didn’t expect to witness mice biting each other today! ”
“Still, Sister Xu has the best ideas, this trash is truly foul-smelling now, hahaha! ”
“Sister Xu, you and this smelly trash live in the same dormitory, how uncomfortable that must be! Why don’t you ask the teacher to change dormitories? Let this smelly trash sleep in a garbage heap instead. ”
Xu Qiuran proudly waved her hand, quite disgusted with Lin Yao’s appearance: “Such smelly trash, I won’t let her back in the dormitory, will she dare to go back? ” She looked at Lin Yao, who still dared not resist: “Dare you? ”
Lin Yao understood that the question was for her; she dared not not answer, so she could only reply tremblingly: “I dare not. ”
Xu Qiuran became even prouder: “Good to know you’re afraid. Tomorrow, kneel and give Ling Sheng your study notes, understand? ”
“Xu classmate, the notes are in the dormitory, let me go back and get them…”
Xu Qiuran looked at Lin Yao with disgust: “Your plan is quite clever. If you dare go back to the dormitory, tomorrow your desk will have something even more disgusting. ”
Xu Qiuran left with several girls; only the girl who had used the mop remained, crying and apologizing to Lin Yao: “I’m sorry, woo woo, I’m sorry, but if I didn’t do that, I would also be bullied like this. I was so scared, I’m sorry, woo woo…”
This was a private school; the facilities were actually very good, and the toilet was cleaned very well by the cleaning aunt. When the mop was lifted, there wasn’t actually much of an odor, it just caused physiological discomfort, but at that moment, Lin Yao clearly didn’t have the mood to comfort others.
Lin Yao picked up her schoolbag from the washbasin and prepared to leave, but the girl stopped her again: “Lin Yao, you will forgive me, right? One person being bullied is enough. If I hadn’t spoken up for you that day, I wouldn’t have been implicated like this. Ultimately, it’s because of you, you won’t blame me, right?!”
Lin Yao clenched her fists, biting her lip, struggling for a long time before saying, “No. ”
The girl didn’t stop Lin Yao anymore. Lin Yao hurried home; by the time she arrived, the water stains on her were mostly dry, but some traces remained on her school uniform. Her mother heard the door open and came out of her brother’s room to take a look: “Why did you come back at this time? You didn’t say anything beforehand, I didn’t make you any dinner, and why are your clothes so dirty? Where did you go galavanting? ”
“The dormitory, it was a bit noisy, I wanted to come back and review. I fell on my way back, and accidentally got my uniform dirty…”
“Mom, can I take a day off tomorrow…? ”
“You’re so grown up, and you still fall down? The final exams are coming soon, why would you take a day off? I have to send your brother to school tomorrow; you get up early and take the bus, don’t be late. ”
Su Laidi finished speaking without giving Lin Yao a chance to elaborate, and went back into her brother’s room.
Lin Yao returned to her room, put down her schoolbag, carefully placed her removed school uniform in the laundry basket, afraid of dirtying it further. She turned on the shower head to wash off the dirt, but her tears, as if weighing a thousand pounds, she couldn’t stop them from falling, mixing with the water from the shower head and flowing into the drain.
Lin Yao’s crying was also cautious. She crouched down, hugging herself, burying her head and sobbing softly. If her mother found out, would she say that she was too old to be crying so easily, would she think that she couldn’t even handle her classmate relationships and was trash, would she…?
Lin Yao tried her best to stop herself from thinking about those things. She couldn’t let herself cry in the bathroom for too long. Leaving the shower head on was wasteful, it was wrong…
Lin Yao took the clothes from the laundry basket to the washing machine, then went to the kitchen. The ingredients in the refrigerator were mostly things her brother liked; she couldn’t touch them. After searching for a while, she found some noodles, vegetables, and eggs.
After eating the noodles she cooked, Lin Yao cleaned up the kitchen and returned to her room.
The family’s financial situation was actually quite good, but apart from the gifts her father bought her, she didn’t enjoy any benefits from their affluence at home.
At home, she clearly knew she didn’t have the right to be a picky eater, but if she took a few extra chopsticks of the dishes her brother liked, her mother would glare at her, as if resenting her lack of understanding, even fighting with her brother over food. But the dishes on the table were basically all her brother’s favorites, so even at mealtimes, she had to watch other people’s faces, cautiously.
In junior high school, one semester, the school was changing school uniforms, and she mentioned it to her mother, but she received a barrage of complaints – complaining about the school being troublesome, crazy about making money, and complaining about her being inconsiderate; this unreasonable request shouldn’t even come to her, she should resist the school’s arrangements.
After that, Lin Yao never asked her mother for money again. She still bought the school uniform, but she used that month’s food money to buy it. Even though her family wasn’t poor, she ate worse that month than a truly poor student…
Fortunately, junior high school students have their little schemes, but the teacher’s authority was there, even if someone wanted to bully Lin Yao, as a student favored by the teacher, her classmates dared not do anything too extreme, at most they would just isolate her.
Lin Yao chose to come to L City’s No. 1 Private Middle School because the scholarship offered by the school was the highest at the time. For the past two years, she hadn’t asked her mother for tuition fees or living expenses, relying entirely on her top-of-the-grade scholarship, saving money diligently.
She would sign up for any competition with prize money. If she didn’t win first place, second or third would still give her some prize money. But this behavior in the eyes of her classmates meant that her family was poor and she could be easily bullied.
Back in her room, Lin Yao could only take out a few new notebooks, look at the textbooks for each subject, and recompile the key points and problem-solving strategies she thought would be on the exam into new notes for Ling Sheng tomorrow.
Early the next morning, Lin Yao took the school uniform hanging on the windowsill and put it on. It was fortunate that the household appliances were very intelligent; what she’d washed last night was already dry after just one night of airing.
Arriving at the classroom, Lin Yao, as Xu Qiuran had said, obediently knelt beside Ling Sheng’s desk and handed him the notes.