That day, Lu Yuning went to physical education class. She played jump rope with Lu Yuchun and Lu Yuping on the playground for quite a while before returning to the classroom to get some water.
The moment she reached her seat, she saw that all her textbooks had been torn to pieces!
Lu Yuning’s expression changed. She hurriedly crouched down to pick up the torn pages, her eyes instantly turning red.
“Who did this?!”
Lu Yuchun and Lu Yuping were a few steps behind her. Hearing the commotion, they hurried into the classroom, and their expressions changed drastically when they saw the books in Lu Yuning’s hands.
“What happened?”
Lu Yuchun was furious. “This is way too much! Who did this?”
Lu Yuping said, “Yuning, I’ll go get the teacher.”
Lu Yuning said nothing and didn’t stop her either. Lu Yuping immediately turned around and ran to find the teacher.
Lu Yuning thought and thought, but she couldn’t figure out who could have torn her books into this state. As she stared at the torn book covers, something flashed through her mind, but before she could think deeply about it, the homeroom teacher arrived.
The teacher frowned as she looked at the books in Lu Yuning’s hands. She first gently comforted Lu Yuning, then asked Lu Yuping to bring the class monitor over and have everyone come back to the classroom…
Even though the homeroom teacher investigated the matter in class, there were no surveillance cameras in this era, and nobody had seen who did it, so naturally, they couldn’t find the culprit.
Lu Yuning had already been prepared for this.
But she also knew that these were just children. It was impossible for them to do something so perfectly that there would be no traces at all. As long as she paid attention to everyone’s behavior afterward, she would be able to figure out who had done it.
This time, the other party had completely crossed her bottom line!
She would absolutely not let it go!
Therefore, Lu Yuning remained silent for the rest of the day’s classes, but she kept a close eye on her classmates.
Fortune Child and Lu Yuxia were both sitting two seats away from her. Seeing Lu Yuning’s red eyes, Lu Yuxia couldn’t help frowning and sighing.
“I’ve never seen Little Sister Yuning cry before.”
Fortune Child nodded. “Who told her to always show off? Look at her now. She got bullied by someone, didn’t she?”
Lu Yuxia was helpless. “What exactly happened between you and them? Why are you two so at odds?”
Fortune Child was aggrieved too.
“I don’t know either. They were the ones who stopped talking to me first.”
Lu Yuchun had clearly still played with her before, but after she started playing with Lu Yuning, she never played with Fortune Child again.
Fortune Child herself found it completely baffling!
Lu Yuxia blinked.
“Did you show off too much before and make Yuning unhappy?”
Fortune Child widened her eyes.
“I did not!”
Lu Yuxia laughed. “You didn’t? Why do I feel like you still love showing off even now?”
Otherwise, why would she wear that same floral dress every day? Why wear little leather shoes? Why keep broken biscuits in her pocket all the time?
Wasn’t it just because she loved showing off?
Fortune Child: “…”
She pursed her lips.
“No matter what happened, we’re still sisters. We can’t just watch Yuning get bullied.”
Lu Yuxia nodded.
“That’s right. I’m definitely going to help Yuning find the person who bullied her…”
Fortune Child nodded in agreement.
Just as the two of them were talking, Qian Fenghua suddenly exclaimed beside them.
“No way?”
Fortune Child, Lu Yuxia, and even Lu Yuning, who was sitting not far away, all turned to look.
Qian Fenghua’s deskmate, Liang Xiaoyue, hurriedly tugged at her, but she still couldn’t stop Qian Fenghua from speaking.
“I know who did it! Yuning, it was Lu Yuxin!”
Qian Fenghua looked at Lu Yuning righteously.
“Xiaoyue saw it with her own eyes!”
Fortune Child: “!!!”
Lu Yuning narrowed her eyes!
Lu Yuxia was shocked at first, then her face flushed red with anger. She stood up.
“You’re talking nonsense!”
Fortune Child had been with her for the entire class. How could she possibly have run back and torn Lu Yuning’s books?
Absolutely impossible!
But Qian Fenghua was convinced that Liang Xiaoyue wasn’t lying. She also stood up angrily.
“I’m not talking nonsense! Xiaoyue said she saw it with her own eyes!”
Liang Xiaoyue hurriedly stood up and waved her hands.
“No, I didn’t! I only saw a shadow when I was coming back. It was wearing floral-patterned fabric. I didn’t actually see whether it was Lu Yuxin.”
Lu Yuxia laughed angrily.
“You’re framing someone! Fortune Child is the only person in the entire class wearing a floral dress. If it wasn’t her, then who else could it be? What are you trying to do?”
Liang Xiaoyue’s eyes turned red as she shook her head.
“No, no. I only saw a shadow…”
Fortune Child finally came back to her senses. She was so angry that her whole body trembled, and tears uncontrollably streamed down her face.
“You! It wasn’t me! Why would I tear Yuning’s books?”
She might not get along with Lu Yuning, but she had never thought about harming her, much less doing something like this!
Lu Yuxia also nodded.
“Exactly! I’ve been with Fortune Child the whole time. There’s no way she did it!”
Qian Fenghua sneered.
“You’re always following her around and eating her little biscuits. Of course you’re going to speak up for her!”
Lu Yuxia was furious.
“You’re framing me?!”
As she spoke, she started rolling up her sleeves.
Qian Fenghua immediately shouted, “What? Are you planning to hit me? Come on! I’m not afraid of you!”
Liang Xiaoyue hurriedly tried to stop the argument from both sides. Seeing that things were about to get completely out of hand, Lu Yuning, who had remained silent all this time, stood up with a cold expression and slammed her hand down on the desk.
“Everyone, shut up!”
Everyone was startled!
Fortune Child’s tears were still falling, and she was hiccupping as she looked at Lu Yuning pitifully.
Lu Yuning was quite helpless. She looked at her and said, “I know it wasn’t you.”
Only then did Fortune Child break into a smile through her tears.
Lu Yuning didn’t look at her again. Instead, she turned toward Liang Xiaoyue, who had an innocent expression on her face, and Qian Fenghua, who was still looking indignant.
Lu Yuning said calmly, “Qian Fenghua, didn’t you go to the toilet during physical education class earlier? Liang Xiaoyue went with you, right?”
Qian Fenghua thought for a moment, then nodded.
“Yeah.”
The corner of Lu Yuning’s lips curled upward, but her smile was cold.
“The toilet is only a few steps away from our classroom. Earlier, the teacher only asked everyone in the classroom whether they had seen anyone come back early. But at that time, we were having class together with the third-graders. I’ll go ask my third brother later and see whether anyone in their class saw anything.”
She stared at Liang Xiaoyue, whose face had already begun to pale, and said coldly,
“Some people really shouldn’t think everyone else is stupid! If you want to frame someone else, you should first see whether you actually have the ability to pull it off!”
After saying that, she sat back down and coldly fell silent.
Everyone looked at one another.
Qian Fenghua wasn’t stupid either. She turned her head and saw Liang Xiaoyue’s expression.
What else was there not to understand?
Her face immediately turned red with anger.
“Next time, I’m going to ask the teacher to change my seat! You liar!”
Liang Xiaoyue’s face turned even paler, while Fortune Child and Lu Yuxia both glared fiercely at her.
Just you wait!
Hmph!
Liang Xiaoyue lowered her head and sat down. She bit her lower lip, unable to understand how Lu Yuning had managed to see through her.
If Lu Yuning hadn’t said those things, she would never have…
Soon, it was time to go home after the afternoon classes.
Lu Yuning put all her torn books into her schoolbag, planning to take them home and glue them back together. Lu Yuchun and Lu Yuping accompanied her.
After they packed everything up and left the classroom, Lu Yuning went upstairs to the second floor to look for the third-grade Lu Yuting.
The moment Lu Yuting saw Lu Yuning, he quickly packed up his things and ran out.
“Little sister, let’s go.”
Lu Yuning grabbed him.
“Third Brother, I came to ask you something. Did anyone in your class see any of the students from our class come back early during physical education class today?”
Since the first-graders were young, their classrooms were basically all on the first floor. The second floor was for the third and fourth grades, while the fifth grade had its own floor on the third level.
Lu Yuting was puzzled.
“What happened?”
Lu Yuning opened her schoolbag and showed him her torn books, then told him everything that had happened.
Lu Yuting immediately became angry.
“Why did you only come tell me now?”
Lu Yuning was helpless.
“I wanted to figure out what happened before coming to ask you.”
Actually, she had wanted to identify the suspect herself first. That way, it would be easier to find evidence.
But she hadn’t expected Liang Xiaoyue to be so clever that she would expose herself.
Now she only needed to find the evidence and tell the teacher.
And she was also going to get back at Liang Xiaoyue right in front of the teacher.
Lu Yuting pursed his lips, his expression turning cold.
“Wait here.”
He turned around and went back to ask his classmates.
There really was someone who had seen something.
There were two toilets in the school. One was on the east side, near the second-grade classrooms, while the other was on the west side, near the first-grade classrooms.
Liang Xiaoyue had deliberately sent Qian Fenghua to the toilet on the east side, but no matter which toilet they went to, neither was very far from the Grade One, Class Four classroom.
In fact, because the eastern toilet was closer to the sandpit, and the third-grade physical education class happened to be held there, quite a few people had seen what happened.
They had even seen the entire process of Liang Xiaoyue returning to the classroom.
As soon as Lu Yuting heard this, he immediately brought the students who had witnessed everything to the first-grade teachers’ office and found Lu Yuning’s homeroom teacher. He told her everything.
The homeroom teacher immediately called Liang Xiaoyue over.
It happened that Liang Xiaoyue and Qian Fenghua were on duty that day, so they hadn’t left yet.
Fortune Child and Lu Yuxia hadn’t left either. They had even gone to find Lu Shier and the others from the upper grades and brought them over, simply because they wanted to stand behind Lu Yuning.
The Hong’an Brigade had the largest number of people surnamed Lu, so naturally, the same was true at the school.
Regardless of what kind of relationships the adults in each household had, among the children, they were all brothers and sisters. They were supposed to look out for one another.
By the time Lu Yuning and the others came out, the area outside the office was already packed with all the older brothers and sisters of the Lu family from the same generation.
Lu Yuning: “…”
This was a little excessive.
Lu Yuxia stepped forward and asked, “What happened? How did they deal with it?”
Lu Yuning smiled.
“Tit for tat.”
The homeroom teacher had already gotten to the bottom of it.
It really was Liang Xiaoyue who had done it. She simply couldn’t stand Lu Yuning constantly showing off, and after Lu Yuning refused to get some coarse hemp paper for her as well, she became jealous and did this.
However, she had also planned to frame Lu Yuxin for it.
In her mind, Lu Yuning and Lu Yuxin didn’t get along. As long as she spread a few rumors around the class, Lu Yuning would definitely suspect Lu Yuxin. Then it would become a matter between the two of them.
She could simply stand aside and watch the drama unfold.
—Lu Yuning guessed that Liang Xiaoyue had actually always been jealous of Fortune Child, which was why she had schemed against the two of them like this.
She simply hadn’t expected Lu Yuning to react so quickly. Not only had she avoided falling for the trap, she had also seen through her entire scheme.
Lu Yuning had already told the homeroom teacher that Liang Xiaoyue had to apologize, and she also wanted to tear Liang Xiaoyue’s books apart!
The homeroom teacher was very helpless, but Lu Yuning insisted. Otherwise, she would call her parents.
In the end, the homeroom teacher said they would go find the director of student affairs.
Lu Yuning wasn’t afraid.
Even if they went all the way to the principal, she would say the same thing.
She had to get revenge!
Otherwise, if Liang Xiaoyue could scheme against her today, then Zhang Xiaoyue could scheme against her tomorrow!
She didn’t want to waste her time playing these meaningless jealousy games with a bunch of little brats!
If she had the time, she might as well study properly and, like her little brother Lu Yubo, skip grades and take the university entrance examination!
At that moment, they were on their way to the director of student affairs’ office.
Seeing the large crowd gathered outside, Teacher Liu, the homeroom teacher, felt her head start to ache.
Only then did she remember that the Hong’an Brigade was basically led by the Lu surname. Regardless of what happened, the people surnamed Lu were all relatives from the same family tree.
Even though the country had said that such things were not encouraged, in reality, how could people here not care about such family ties?
Teacher Liu could already foresee what would happen next.
She sighed inwardly, completely unable to understand how a few children only a few years old could cause such a huge commotion!
When they reached the director of student affairs, he only asked Lu Yuning one question.
“You really want to tear Liang Xiaoyue’s books?”
Lu Yuning nodded.
“Yes, Director. I definitely want to tear them back!”
Director of Student Affairs: “…”
Fine, then.
Let’s do it that way.
And so, Liang Xiaoyue apologized to Lu Yuning with red eyes and tears streaming down her face. She then had to watch helplessly as Lu Yuning tore her books apart in front of all the students who had stayed behind.
Lu Yuning tore them according to how her own books had been torn.
Not one page more, not one page less!
“Look carefully. This is what happens when you do something bad!”
Lu Yuning threw down the torn books, turned around, and walked away, leaving behind Liang Xiaoyue, whose eyes were filled with fury. She could only clench her fists and bite her lower lip, not daring to say another word.