“How is it possible?” Chen Qing asked and ran into the living room. After looking at the little girl carefully, he slapped Chen Xiaopang, “Stupid boy, look carefully, who is that?”

Chen Xiaopang was confused.

“You are silly. This is Ying!” Wang Cailian came in with Zhao Ying.

“She… Is she the ugly one?” Chen Xiaopang blurted out.

Chen Qing’s face turned black and he said, “You are ugly. Are you qualified to say that others are ugly? Besides, how pretty Ying is!”

Chen Xiaopang looked at Zhao Ying. She was really pretty.

“After dressing up, Ying is very beautiful!” Wang Cailian pushed Ying out happily, “After changing her hair style and putting on lovely clothes, Ying looks much better than those child stars on TV.”

Zhao Ying looked at Chen Xiaopang. Her big eyes were shining under the crystal light. Chen Xiaopang pretended to be angry and shouted, “She is beautiful but she has to live in my home!”

“How can you say that?” Chen Qing grabbed Chen Xiaopang’s ear and beat him.

Wang Cailian took Zhao Ying’s hand and went upstairs, “Ying, don’t listen to him. He is shy. In fact, he thinks you are pretty.”

Zhao Ying smiled, “I know, Auntie. Xiaopang just said it.”

“Well, so leave him alone. I’ll help you hang up the clothes we bought today…”

Chen Xiaopang disliked Zhao Ying even more. Although Zhao Ying was pretty, he decided to hate her.

So the next day when they went to school by car, Zhao Ying found that Chen Xiaopang ignored her again.

“I’m not angry with you for saying I’m ugly.”

Chen Xiaopang pursed and didn’t look at her.

Zhao Ying said, “If you are so mean, your father will beat you again.”

“It’s all because of you.” Chen Xiaopang couldn’t help shouting, “I have been beaten several times because of you!”

“You are a liar.” Zhao Ying said seriously, “Auntie said that you were beaten every day when I didn’t come. But Uncle didn’t beat you very often after I came.”

Chen Xiaopang opened his mouth. It seemed like this.

“Then… Then I don’t want to play with you.” He turned to look out the window angrily, “Don’t talk to me at school later.”

Zhao Ying looked at him for a while. When Chen Xiaopang could not bear to turn his head, he heard Zhao Ying say.

“Well, then we won’t talk.”

Chen Xiaopang planned to do so. But when he arrived at the school, he found that many of his classmates talked to Zhao Ying on their own initiative. Even Kang Liyang asked Zhao Ying whether to read his beloved comic book or not.

“Didn’t you hate her before?” After class, they got together and muttered. Chen Xiaopang asked Kang Liyang, “How could you let her read your book?”

Kang Liyang blushed, “I… I didn’t hate her. Zhao Ying is our classmate. We should get along well with her.”

Before Chen Xiaopang could get angry, he heard another boy say, “Do you think Zhao Ying looks like the princess of the universe after cutting her hair?”

Last time they said she was like a monster!

Zhao Ying had no reaction to the sudden increase of many classmates talking to her. She thought it’s normal! She used to be the darling of the class in the former school. Everyone liked her.

At Caesar, she was ignored at first. She thought it might be that they didn’t know her. Now they had been together for several days. They all knew each other! They would like to play with her.

Just now a girl asked her where she had her hair cut. It looked good. Zhao Ying thought she was very cute when she looked in the mirror yesterday. This year, her mother was busy and didn’t have time to cut her hair.

She was a sensible child, so she never said that. Anyway, her hair didn’t cover her eyes. Thinking this, Zhao Ying sighed again and frowned.

“Hum!” Chen Xiaopang beside her hummed again.

Zhao Ying counted that he had already hummed five times this morning.

“Are you thirsty?” She asked.

“Hum!”

He hummed for the sixth time.

“Water for you!” Zhao Ying handed over her bottle.

Chen Xiaopang pushed away. He endured for a long time. Finally, he took up his pencil and wrote a line of words on the paper.

“I will not talk to you.”

Zhao Ying agreed, took up her pencil and wrote a word on the paper.

“That’s how it’s written.”

Chen Xiaopang stared at her and opened his mouth. Then he covered his mouth and wrote again.

“Why are you so annoying?”

Zhao Ying lowered her head and said nothing. Chen Xiaopang looked at the little girl’s side face. A few hairs were streaming on her white and tender face. He was itching to move them away.

But before he could reach out, he heard Zhao Ying say in a low voice, “But I don’t hate you. Don’t hate me, okay?”

Chen Xiaopang felt that his face was suddenly very hot. He didn’t know that his face was red. He stammered, “You… What are you talking about? I… I didn’t say I hate you. I…”

His eyes suddenly fell on his book. He saw what he had just written.

Chen Xiaopang quickly tore the page off and then angrily said to Zhao Ying, “You are wrong. I didn’t write anything!”

“Well!” Zhao Ying smiled sweetly with two small dimples, “I knew you didn’t hate me.”

Chen Xiaopang felt his hand itch again…

“Xiaopang!” When he went to pee after class, Kang Liyang came next to him, “If you don’t like sitting with Zhao Ying, shall I change with you?”

Chen Xiaopang’s legs shook and he peed on his hands…

“No.” He glared at Kang Liyang and put his arm around Kang Liyang’s shoulder, “My mother said I must sit at the same table with her and take good care of her, or my pocket money would be less.”

He took the opportunity to rub his hand on Kang Liyang’s clothes, “If you become her deskmate, you can’t secretly read comics in class. She will tell the teacher.”

As soon as Kang Liyang heard that he could not read comics, he immediately shook his head, “Well, then you’d better bear to sit with her!”

“Zhao Ying, can you read all the sentences you learned today?” A chubby girl asked carefully with an English textbook.

Zhao Ying thought and nodded, “Yes, I can.”

“Then… Can you teach me to read? I… I can’t.” The little girl looked so nervous that she tore a corner off the book.

“Yes!” Zhao Ying reached out her hand, “Which one?”

The girl immediately cheered up and opened her book, “This sentence… And this one!”

“Look at Zhao Ying…” Two girls nearby whispered, “She is even teaching Shao Sijia!”

The little girl called Shao Sijia suddenly got nervous again. Zhao Ying had finished reading the sentence.

“Can you read it?” Zhao Ying asked her.

Shao Sijia blushed, “No… I can’t.”

“Then I’ll read it to you again.” Zhao Ying read it again.

Then Shao Sijia stammered and read only half of it right.

“Zhao Ying, don’t teach her.” The two little girls next to her lie on the table, “Shao Sijia is stupid. She can’t learn well. She comes last in every exam.”

Shao Sijia’s chubby face was twisted and she was already crying.

“No one is stupid.” Zhao Ying said seriously, “She can certainly read well.”

The two little girls were not convinced, “She just can’t read well. She can’t read well every time!”

“Let’s make a bet!” Zhao Ying narrowed her eyes and showed two sweet dimples, “I’m sure I can teach her these days.”

“Then… What if you can’t?” One of them asked.

Zhao Ying thought for a moment and said, “Then I’ll write you a chapter of the written book?”

“Okay!” The two girls were very happy. Zhao Ying’s handwriting was very good. The teacher always praised her.

Zhao Ying nodded and asked, “What if I can?”

“What do you want?”

She thought for a moment and said, “Well! Then if she can read it, we will be in one group for the next PE class.”

The two little girls looked at each other and looked at Shao Sijia, who was holding back her tears and biting her lips. Then they agreed.

“Zhao Ying…” When they left, Shao Sijia began to cry quietly, “You… You shouldn’t bet against them. I’m sure I can’t read well… Then you… What are you going to do…?”

Zhao Ying took out the fragrant and beautiful pink tissue that Wang Cailian had brought to her, “Wipe your tears. You haven’t read it yet!”

“They… They are right. I… I’m stupid.” Shao Sijia took the tissue and wiped casually, “I can’t learn anything well.”

“My mother said that you can learn well as long as you find the right way!” Seeing that she was still crying, Zhao Ying took a lollipop from her pocket and said, “Here you are.”

Shao Sijia stopped crying, took it over and licked it. Then she said, “Zhao Ying, you are so nice. You… Are you willing to be friends with me?”

“Of course!” Zhao Ying returned the textbook to her, “We are classmates. Of course, we can be friends. I will teach you to read after lunch.”

Chen Xiaopang soon heard about Zhao Ying’s bet with her classmates because of Shao Sijia. He came back from the playground sweating and sat down.

“Why do you want to teach Shao Sijia? She is more stupid than me. You will lose!”

Zhao Ying handed over the pink bottle, “Are you thirsty?”

Chen Xiaopang drank the water. The honey pear water made by his mother in the morning was so sweet!

But it’s not the time to drink the pear water.

“Didn’t you hear what I said?”

Zhao Ying took the bottle back and covered it well, “I heard that. She works so hard. She can read it well.”

Many years later, when the child becomes a graceful girl, she realizes that people’s efforts may not achieve the corresponding harvest.

Sometimes no matter how hard she tries, some things can’t be completed. No matter how sad she is or how regretful she is, what time takes away cannot be turned back…

At noon, Zhao Ying continued to teach Shao Sijia in the classroom. Chen Xiaopang and a few boys read comics in the last row. At ordinary times, he felt that he would suffer losses if he read less. But this time, he couldn’t read it like before. He kept looking ahead.

After listening to Shao Sijia, he wanted to read it for her.

“I can even read it but she can’t. She’s more stupid than a pig!”