CHAPTER 161: CHAPTER 161: BAIHUA SCHOOL (PART 2)

The teacher on the podium was getting anxious, "Why aren’t you packing your things? Every time it’s like this, and in two days you’re sent back again. In the future, when you go to middle school, high school, university, or even work, you’ll have to go out...

Be brave, your future is still very long, you can’t stay in this deep mountain all your life."

The students sitting there motionless looked at the teacher pleadingly, "Teacher, can we... not go?"

The teacher frowned, looking sternly at the student who spoke, "Not go? Your grandmother is sick and doesn’t have medicine, and you say you won’t go?"

Hearing the teacher mention her grandmother, the girl lowered her head in silence, and after a moment, she quietly packed her things.

"Teacher Tian! Teacher Tian!"

The principal below shouted loudly into the classroom.

Teacher Tian quickly walked out of the classroom and looked down, "Hey, Principal."

The principal happily held up an envelope, "Quickly have the children come down to split the money, last time’s part-time job money has come in."

Upon hearing this, Teacher Tian quickly turned her head and shouted, "Those who went for the part-time job last time, come downstairs, it’s payday."

Upon hearing the word ’payday,’ the students finally started to move.

"Let’s go, we’re going down too." Xuan Shiyi walked downstairs with long strides.

Before Lin Xiaoyan left, she glanced at the classroom; there was no joy on the faces of those children.

She felt puzzled inside, something seemed off.

When they went downstairs, they saw many students seated in the big bus, some with faces full of expectation and joy, while others were expressionless, with gloomy eyes.

"Who are these?" The man saw Xuan Shiyi and several others coming down from upstairs and looked at them assessing.

The principal quickly introduced, "These are the few who came for a visit to the mountain, and they came to check out our school."

"Oh." The man put away his cautious look and greeted them with a smile.

"If any of you have the intention to donate or sponsor students, you can do so on our website."

The man took out his phone, opened the aid website, and introduced it to them.

After Xuan Shiyi finished looking, he smiled and said, "Alright, if we have that intention, we will definitely consult the website."

"Okay, then thank you all in advance." The man was very satisfied to hear this.

"Here, come quickly."

At this moment, the students from grades five and six came down, just as the bell for the end of class rang.

The principal saw the fifth and sixth graders and waved happily for them to come over.

"Your part-time wages have come in from last time, I’ll call out a name, and you come over to collect your wages."

The principal opened the list in his hand and began to read.

At this moment, all the students of the school had finished class and flocked over.

Lin Xiaoyan watched the students squeezing in one after another, and she smiled as she made her way out.

Suddenly, she didn’t know whom she bumped into, and a familiar scene appeared before her eyes.

When Lin Xiaoyan "saw" those scenes, her face suddenly darkened.

She looked at the little girl she had just bumped into, and saw that the girl was looking at the money in the principal’s hand with yearning on her face.

At the same time, she looked enviously at those fifth and sixth graders who had received their wages.

The girl’s skin was dark, but if you looked closely, her features were delicate, and her eyes were bright, as if they had light in them.

The man in the suit smiled as he surveyed the surroundings, and suddenly his gaze fell on that little girl.

Lin Xiaoyan noticed the man’s gaze fixed on the little girl, and her heart tightened.

"What’s wrong?"

Lu Lan noticed something was off with Lin Xiaoyan and asked softly.

Lin Xiaoyan found that the man was looking over at her, so she immediately lowered her head and turned to look at Lu Lan.

Lu Lan looked at Lin Xiaoyan, who was full of anger, and her gaze turned to the man who was looking over, staring sharply at him.

The man was startled by Lu Lan’s gaze, and he quickly looked away, sensing that these people were not simple.

Not wanting to make things more complicated, he urged the principal and walked over to stand in front of the little girl.

"Hello, little girl, I have a friend getting married, can you be a flower girl?"

The little girl didn’t expect such a surprise so soon, she looked at the man nervously and shyly, gathering the courage to ask, "Will I get paid?"

"Yes! They’ll give you a red envelope. As long as you do well, they’ll give you a big red envelope!" The man realized that up close, this little girl was indeed very pretty.

"Great! I’ll go." The little girl nodded repeatedly in agreement.

The man nodded in satisfaction, turned around and told the principal, and said that the little girl also needed to leave soon.

Upon hearing this, the principal looked over and then his face filled with concern, "She’s too young, her grandmother is lying in bed, and without her returning, there’s no one to care for her grandmother."

The girl listened to the fact that her grandmother wouldn’t have anyone to care for her, and the look of delight faded from her face.

The man heard the problem and laughed, "It’s okay, I can ask her neighbor to take care of her for two days, how about fifty yuan a day?"

After saying this, he sighed, "To be honest, the one getting married is my friend, and they insisted I find a flower girl who is sensible and obedient..."

The principal, after hearing this and hesitating for a moment, scanned his eyes around, "Lezi, come here."

A snotty, dark little boy came running over.

"Lezi, go home tonight and tell your grandmother to help take care of Xiaomi’s grandmother for two days, fifty yuan a day.

If your grandmother can’t do it, ask someone else for fifty a day..."

The principal stopped here, "Forget it, I’ll make the trip myself."

The man saw that the principal agreed and was satisfied, looking at the girl who was full of joy.

The children soon got on the bus, and Lin Xiaoyan was somewhat anxious as she walked to Xuan Shiyi’s side.

"I just now..."

"Wait a moment." Xuan Shiyi interrupted Lin Xiaoyan, not letting her continue speaking.

Lin Xiaoyan stopped and looked worriedly at the slowly leaving bus.

She looked at those children in the bus, some staring blankly outside, others full of joy...

Seeing those kids, Lin Xiaoyan’s heart ached a bit.

Clearly... clearly their lives were already hard enough, why were these people so cruel, imposing even more suffering on these children?

After the bus left the school, Xuan Er, who hadn’t spoken the entire time, suddenly spoke, "Let’s go back."

The principal hadn’t reacted, and Lin Xiaoyan and the others had already gotten into the car and left.

There was a moment of silence in the car.

Lin Xiaoyan’s heart was anxious, "That bus..."

"Did Daoist An notice it?"

Suddenly, Xuan Shiyi asked.

"Huh? What?" Daoist An was a bit confused.

"Daoist An, you didn’t take a close look at the school built by that so-called philanthropist you mentioned. Is there something fishy?"

"Fishy?" Daoist An’s heart tightened, and he immediately recalled the location of the school.

"That school is built halfway up the mountain, open and unobstructed in the front, backed by..."

"Hehe..."

Xuan Shiyi chuckled softly, interrupting Daoist An.