Zhao ii went to school the next day, and after much coaxing and persuasion, she convinced her mom to let her wear her new sneakers to school.
Shi Yang ca to pick her up, glanced at her bright new orange shoes, and asked with a smile, "Do you like them?"
Zhao ii nodded vigorously, "I love them."
Shi Yang smiled fondly and gently ruffled Zhao ii’s hair.
For Zhao ii, first-grade classes, except for practicing writing in Chinese, weren’t very difficult. She understood in class and during exercises, she would look around, chat with the students front and behind, fool around, kick the front desk, and snatch her deskmate’s pencil box.
Teacher Wang nad Zhao ii: "Zhao ii! Do your exercises properly, no talking!"
Two minutes hadn’t passed when Teacher Wang scolded again, "Zhao ii! Don’t throw erasers at your classmates!"
Finally, Teacher Wang’s eyes widened, and she called Zhao ii out from her seat to stand in front of her.
Teacher Wang scolded her: "What’s wrong with you! Hyperactive? Have you finished your exercises? Why are you kicking the front desk? That paper ball that flew over, you threw it, right? Last class you broke your deskmate’s pencil, didn’t I criticize you? And now you’re snatching people’s pencil boxes? Can you sit quietly for a mont?"
Listening to the teacher count her faults one by one, Zhao ii finally realized where she went wrong and quickly apologized, "Teacher, I was wrong."
Teacher Wang was almost amused by anger.
Zhao ii is actually very smart. The teacher quite likes her, but she has too many minor issues in class, she can’t sit still for a second. When criticized, she admits her mistakes very nicely, turns her head and forgets all about it, going back to her old ways. The teacher simply doesn’t know what to do with her.
Teacher Wang sternly said, "Today I must punish you properly. You, go stand on the stage facing the entire class for punishnt. You can return to your seat after class ends."
If it were an ordinary little girl being criticized like this by the teacher, and then being punished to stand, she’d surely have red eyes and start shedding tears.
But Zhao ii isn’t just any little girl; after all, she’s the leader among the children in the housing estate. Standing on the podium at first, looking at the crowd of little head below, she felt a bit embarrassed. After standing for a while, she got used to it and was amazed to find that standing on the podium, looking down at her classmates making little movents was absolutely apparent.
Zhao ii internally pondered on how the teacher always manages to catch her doing little things, she better take notice in the future.
Zhao ii stood there for a while. The initial novelty wore off, feeling bored. She seized the mont while the teacher wasn’t watching, sneaked to the side of the lectern, quickly grabbed a piece of chalk, and secretly returned to the front of the blackboard.
She fiddled with the chalk for a bit, then seeing the teacher was engrossed in reviewing the lesson plan, not looking her way, mischievously twisted her eyes and secretly began drawing on the edge of the blackboard where there was space.
All Zhao ii can draw are fireworks, taught by Shi Yang. She drew four water-drop-shaped patterns facing each other, then continued drawing water droplets behind each with so distance between them, combining all the droplets to form fireworks.
Zhao ii drew extraordinarily well, the fireworks spread beautifully.
After finishing, Zhao ii admired it, thinking it looked really nice, completely inheriting Brother Yangyang’s knack for it.
Suddenly a crisp voice from below the podium called out, "Report to the teacher! Zhao ii is drawing on the blackboard!"
Zhao ii was shocked by the sudden shout, reflexively reached out to wipe the blackboard.
"Zhao ii!" Teacher Wang looked at the drawing on the blackboard that hadn’t been wiped clean, paused for a mont, and frowned, "What’s going on with you? You’re supposed to stand for punishnt to reflect on your mistakes, not to draw on the blackboard!"
Zhao ii lowered her head, obediently admitted her mistake, "Teacher, I was wrong."
Teacher Wang was furious, pointing towards the classroom door, "Go stand in the corridor! You’re not allowed to co back until class ends!"
Zhao ii dejectedly headed outside the classroom, glancing sideways at the person who reported her.
Sitting in the second row, a handso boy with red lips and white teeth, bushy eyebrows, and big eyes, Xu Xu, was looking right at Zhao ii.
Zhao ii reached out and pointed at Xu Xu from a distance, silently warning him: You little brat, always ratting out to the teacher! Just you wait!
"Report, teacher! Zhao ii is glaring at !" Xu Xu raised his slender neck and spoke to the teacher.
Teacher Wang was exasperated: "Zhao ii! You dare to scare your classmate! Today I’ll punish you by making you write the new words twice!"
Upon hearing she had to copy new words as punishnt, Zhao ii was dumbfounded, obediently walked out to stand at the classroom door.
Zhao ii is smart, she isn’t afraid of studying, but only that cursive writing, which Teacher Wang likened to ssy scrawl, is her biggest pain.
Zhao ii greatly dislikes practicing writing, and even more so copying new words.
Having been punished by the teacher, all her fiery anger was directed at Xu Xu. She stood in the corridor, listening to the class chatting away, angrily cursing Xu Xu: Always ratting on , so obsequious.
After finally waiting until class ended, Zhao ii dashed back into the classroom, waited for the teacher to leave, and turned to rush towards Xu Xu.
Zhao ii is very popular in class, despite her mischievousness, her classmates all like her, find her interesting and fun.
So when Zhao ii went to confront Xu Xu, the classmates around him imdiately ran to stand behind Zhao ii, showing unanimous support against Xu Xu.
It mainly stems from all children hating tattling and brown-nosing.
Xu Xu, in the eyes of the classmates, is labeled as the undeniable "Brown-Noser NO.1".
Zhao ii wore a cool and cold expression, squinted at Xu Xu, "Why did you report to the teacher?"
Xu Xu with big eyes and double eyelids, his black hair cut in the latest student style, showing off his thick eyebrows and prominent nose, red lips, looked at Zhao ii, his eyes as dark as ink, "I didn’t report you."
Zhao ii’s eyes widened in disbelief, "You just tattled on to the teacher, and you dare not admit it!"
Xu Xu blinked twice, "I wasn’t tattling on you, the teacher said, classmates should help each other. I was helping you correct your flaws."
Zhao ii reached out and poked Xu Xu’s forehead, "You’re so noticeable! Are we that close? If you dare report again, watch out, I’ll beat you up!"
Zhao ii rolled up her sleeves, showing off her tough kid posture, seed both cool and intimidating to her peers.
Xu Xu frowned, his mouth pouted, "I... I..."
Zhao ii pointed at Xu Xu from a distance, warning him, "I’m really good at hitting, you better be careful!"
Xu Xu stared blankly at Zhao ii, his voice trembling with tears, "I didn’t an to tattle on you."
Xu Xu had a nice face; his pale cheeks crying, tears welled up in the corners of his eyes.
Zhao ii saw him crying, paused, panicked, quickly withdrew her hand, and glared at him, "You, you speak properly, why, why are you crying?"
Xu Xu wiped his tears, "I didn’t an to tattle on you, I wanted to be good friends with you."
Zhao ii: "...."
Xu Xu: "I like you; I want to play with you... boo hoo..."
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