Chapter 456: School Bullying

Jin Jia Lao Furen did not stay behind.

The main reason was that the house was too small to accommodate her!

Plus, Lady Jian was so enthusiastic, insisting that her in-law stay at her own home, that it was hard to refuse.

Lady Jian was feeling guilty; she was worried that Shi Youxuan and Jin Jia Lao Furen would say things she didn't want to hear, and then stir up trouble for the marriage.

She was overthinking it; Shi Youxuan hadn't said anything at all.

……

This day, when Shi Ran came home from school, she didn't come over to lie on her mother's belly to talk to her "little brother" as she usually did.

Instead, she kept her head down, hurriedly threw out a sentence: "Mom, I'm going to do my homework," and returned to her room.

Fang Jie, who had picked up Shi Ran from school, was also acting strange; she went straight to the kitchen without even saying hello, and once inside, she didn't come out.

Half an hour later.

Shi Ran was still in her room, and there wasn't a sound.

Shi Youxuan knocked on the door: "Knock, knock."

"Ranran, open the door."

"I'm doing my homework, Mom, you go rest, don't disturb me."

Shi Youxuan: ……

Something was wrong.

Did this child think she was stupid?

Since when had she ever spent such a long time doing homework after coming home from school?

Shi Ran usually complained that the preschool curriculum was too simple, and even after entering the Rocket Class, it was the same.

The homework assigned by the teacher was always finished within ten minutes, and she would even play while doing it!

"Open the door, I have something to say to you."

Shi Ran said in a muffled voice: "You can just say it from out there."

"Open the door, be quick about it."

The more her daughter refused to open the door, the more she felt something was wrong.

"Wait a second, Mom, wait a moment."

There started to be noises in the room, "clatter, clatter," no idea what kind of mischief she was up to.

Finally, the door was opened—he-he!

"What are you doing? Playing the masked man game with me?" Shi Youxuan reached out to untie the bedsheet on her daughter's head!

The child had taken the bedsheet and wrapped it around her head, covering herself tightly, with only her two eyes exposed.

"Don't untie it, I have a cold, don't want to infect you." The little girl reached out to block her, even giving a reason.

It was just that this reason wasn't perfect at all; if she had a cold, why not take medicine, but instead wrap herself up?

Never heard of such a thing.

"Take the bedsheet off, let me see what's wrong with your face? Shi Ran, I'm warning you, don't play tricks on me; everything you're playing, I've already played."

Shi Youxuan wasn't lying; back then, in order not to be bullied too miserably by Shi Yuke, she thought of all sorts of ways to deal with her every day, and this trick was indeed one she had played before.

Shi Ran: ……

The little girl had no choice but to unwind the bedsheet circle by circle, but she still kept her head down.

"Look up."

Shi Ran reluctantly raised her head, and although Shi Youxuan was mentally prepared, she was still startled by her daughter's appearance!

"Heavens! What happened?"

There were three scratches on the little girl's face, clearly marks left by fingernails, and the corner of her mouth was also slightly swollen.

However, the injuries weren't serious; she could just apply medicine at home.

Shi Youxuan brought the medicine kit over, took out the ointment, and while applying it, asked her who she had fought with and why.

"Didn't fight, I accidentally bumped into a wall when I was leaving school..." Shi Ran's voice grew quieter and quieter, and finally, before she could finish, the sound disappeared completely.

What a lousy reason; she didn't even believe the lie she had made up.

Shi Youxuan stared at her and coldly spat out three words: "Tell the truth."

"I'm sorry, Mom, I was wrong." The little girl apologized.

She had promised her parents before not to fight with classmates, especially male classmates, but today she really couldn't help it.

Her daughter was very sensible now; she wouldn't fight with others for no reason.

Shi Youxuan decided to get to the bottom of the matter first, so she said: "Don't apologize yet, tell Mom clearly what exactly happened, and who started it first."

The little girl suddenly burst into tears with a "waa—".

"Mom, I was wrong, I was the one who started it, I couldn't help it... boo-hoo!"

If Shi Youxuan had been patient at the beginning, she couldn't help but be angry now.

She guessed that her daughter's old habit had flared up again, and she was being naughty and troublesome at school.

Shi Ran wasn't the type to suffer in silence; usually, if she felt even a little bit wronged, she would blabber it all out first. Now that she had admitted twice that she started it and still wouldn't say why, she must have been the one to provoke it.

"You still have the nerve to cry? You troublesome little girl, can't you be a bit more sensible?"

Shi Youxuan pulled the child over and hit her twice on the bottom: "Do you know what time it is now? Your father hasn't had any news at all, and you're still out there fighting with people..."

The more she spoke, the angrier she got, and the angrier she got, the louder her voice became.

The aunt and Fang Jie heard the commotion and ran over in a hurry.

The aunt pulled Shi Ran over and shielded her behind her back, while Fang Jie blocked Shi Youxuan and said to her: "Madam, you cannot hit the young miss without distinguishing right from wrong; this matter is not the young miss's fault, it is all those other children's fault."

Fang Jie's explanation did not have a good effect; it only made Shi Youxuan even angrier.

She said to Fang Jie, "Move aside, this child must be punished; if I don't discipline her well now, I won't be able to control her when she grows up. If she develops a lawless personality by then, will you take responsibility?"

After yelling at Fang Jie, Shi Youxuan yelled at her mother-in-law again: "Auntie, don't protect her. I must teach her a lesson today. Causing me trouble at a time like this, is she trying to be the death of me?"

Shi Youxuan had been suppressing herself all these days, suppressing her inner feelings, not daring to let her emotions fluctuate too much for fear of affecting the fetus.

But today, Shi Ran had truly angered her, and all the emotions suppressed for many days were released onto Shi Ran.

Shi Ran just cried and apologized, offering no explanation, and begged her mother not to be angry...

Auntie didn't speak, only wiped away her tears.

But she still protected the child and wouldn't let her be hit; she knew Ranran was a good child, and the fighting incident could not be blamed on Shi Ran, as Fang Jie had already told her in the kitchen just now.

It was just that Auntie didn't explain either; she was afraid that if Shi Youxuan knew the truth, she would truly fly into a rage and hurt the fetus!

And hitting Shi Ran was just an emotional release, so it should be fine.

In the end, Shi Youxuan still dragged Shi Ran over and spanked her a few times.

"Mom, please don't hit me anymore..."

Shi Youxuan thought Shi Ran was afraid of the pain.

Who would have expected her to say: "Don't tire yourself out hitting me, I'll hit myself."

The little girl still had tears on her face, sobbing aggrievedly, and used her two little hands behind her back to hit her own bottom.

"Stop, come here."

Shi Youxuan suddenly widened her eyes; when the little girl put her hands behind her back, her sleeve pulled up, revealing scars on her wrist.

She rolled up the child's sleeve, and there were several blue and purple bruises on her snow-white little arm.

She then rolled up Shi Ran's pant leg, and there were also bruises on her leg.

But the colors were different; some were old injuries.

Shi Youxuan didn't ask any more questions and directly called Shi Ran's teacher to demand an explanation of what exactly was going on.

The teacher said: "Shi Ran's mother, I am on my way to your house and will be there soon."

Once the teacher arrived, this matter could no longer be hidden.

It turned out that in the past few days, a rumor had suddenly spread in the class that Shi Ran's father had run off with another woman and abandoned the mother and daughter.

At first, Shi Ran angrily rebuked the classmates who were spreading the rumors, telling them not to talk nonsense.

But this matter did not subside; instead, it became more and more intense.

Not long after, not only had the previous matter not subsided, but it was also rumored that Shi Ran would no longer be the daughter of the school's Chairman and would soon be kicked out of the Rocket Class and transferred to a regular class.

The few people spreading the rumors even incited the whole class to alienate Shi Ran and not play with her.