After turning off the lights, I couldn't fall asleep for a long time. I felt sorry for Yuan Xiaodan, but I didn't dare to help her because of what my fourth uncle and grandma said.
It wasn't until almost one o'clock in the morning that I closed my eyes in a daze.
"Hu Ling, I beg you...save me..."
Yuan Xiaodan's voice came faintly, and I opened my eyes. Her face was floating on the vase, shedding blood and tears, and her head began to sink slowly again...
"That's enough!" I shouted at her, "If you want me to help you, don't scare me every day. Tell me how you want me to help you, and I'll see if I can help you!"
Yuan Xiaodan's face slowly became normal, and she said sadly with tears in her eyes: "I was trapped in this gardenia by Chen Shanshan. She was afraid that I would cause trouble for her..."
Chen Shanshan? It really has something to do with her!
It turns out that Yuan Xiaodan and Chen Shanshan have been in the same class since elementary school. Because the two children have a good relationship and often play together, the parents of the two families have gradually become familiar with each other.
Yuan Xiaodan's father was originally the business manager of the county carburetor factory, but later because of the bankruptcy of the carburetor factory, Yuan's father was completely unemployed.
There are not many enterprises in Lishan County, a small county. It is difficult for Yuan's father to find a job without any skills, but there are seniors and juniors. Yuan Xiaodan's mother is in poor health and has been sick all year round. It is impossible for him to go south to work. For a time, Yuan Xiaodan
The living conditions of Yuan Xiaodan's family have plummeted, and even eating an ice cream cone in summer has become a luxury for Yuan Xiaodan.
However, Chen Shanshan's parents' company grew bigger and bigger, and gradually became a well-known entrepreneur in the city and the leader of the county's business district.
As the company grew, they had less time to spend with their children. The Chen family's parents were so busy that even having a meal with Chen Shanshan became a luxury. Chen Shanshan didn't want to eat the food cooked by the nanny at home alone, so she went to Yuan Xiaodan's house to eat every day, sometimes even
If I don't go back for a few days, I'll stay at Yuan Xiaodan's house.
Probably out of face issues, even though Chen Shanshan often lived at Yuan's house, Father Yuan didn't want to ask Father Chen for a job. However, Father Chen later found out about Father Yuan's unemployment and took the initiative to invite Father Yuan to his company.
After taking office, Dad Yuan joined Dad Chen's real estate company.
Since then, the Yuan family's life has made a qualitative leap, and is even much better than when Yuan's father was a business manager at a carburetor factory.
Money is a good thing. It allows people to eat more exquisite food, live in the best houses, give children the best education, and buy all the toys and snacks they want.
Money is also an abyss. It can make people lose themselves and fall into a world of wealth and indulgence, and it can also make people learn to flatter and abandon their dignity in order to get it, slowly losing themselves and becoming a dependency of power.
The parents' position has changed, and so have the two children's positions.
Chen Shanshan turned into a condescending princess in front of Yuan Xiaodan. She would lose her temper after a quarrel and would not take the initiative to apologize. The friendship between the two quietly deteriorated unknowingly.
When she was in the sixth grade of elementary school, Yuan Xiaodan discovered that Chen Shanshan had a quirk. She liked to steal things from her classmates after class. She would not use those things after she stole them, but would put them all in her schoolbag and carry them home.
To get her parents' attention.
And every time Chen Shanshan's parents discovered that she had stolen a schoolbag full of classmates' belongings, her parents would accompany her to the amusement park to have a happy day.
Because every time she was caught, Chen Shanshan would cry and say: "You never accompany me. It's so boring for me to be alone. After taking things from my classmates, they will be anxious and cry like me because they have lost something. I myself
Then you won’t be sad because you lost your parents.”
When Yuan Xiaodan heard her good friend cry and say this for the first time, he sympathized with her and did not alienate her because she had become a thief. He took Chen Shanshan's little hand and persuaded her to stop stealing things from her classmates, saying
If the teacher and classmates find out that it is not good, from then on, the relationship between the two people will become better because they have a common secret.
But Chen Shanshan did not listen to Yuan Xiaodan and stopped stealing from her classmates. Instead, she stole more frequently because her parents compensated for their ordinary companionship.
It wasn't until the second semester of sixth grade that Chen Shanshan's schoolbag filled with stolen things was discovered by her classmates. In panic, Chen Shanshan said that Yuan Xiaodan had stolen it and hid it in her schoolbag. She also said that Yuan Xiaodan stole from her classmates because her family was too poor to afford it.
s things.
Of course Yuan Xiaodan would not admit it and refuted it face to face. In the end, the teacher took the two of them to the office and called their parents to calm down the matter.
However, the story of Chen Shanshan stealing things from her classmates still spread among teachers and classmates. Fortunately, she graduated from elementary school soon, so this incident did not have much impact on Chen Shanshan.
Chen's father was very angry and slapped Chen Shanshan in front of Yuan Xiaodan and Yuan's father. The relationship between the two also became a lot estranged because of that incident.
However, the matter was not over yet. Dad Chen demoted Dad Yuan, who was already the deputy business manager, several levels in a row and directly sent him to be a doorman. The Yuan family's life plummeted again.
Father Chen was angry. After all, the two children had been good friends since childhood. It didn't take long for them to forget about that incident. During the summer vacation, the two played together again.
Chen Shanshan's habit of stealing things has not changed. After school was out for summer vacation, she invited Yuan Xiaodan to visit the supermarket every day and steal some small things in the supermarket until she was caught by the supermarket manager again.
The same trick was repeated again. There were no cameras at that time. Chen Shanshan once again said that Yuan Xiaodan had stolen the things and secretly told Yuan Xiaodan not to be afraid. Her father would settle everything. This time, Yuan Xiaodan compromised and admitted in person that she had stolen the things.
Later, Father Chen came and, as Chen Shanshan said, he spent money to settle the matter without causing a big disturbance.
This time, Chen's father was very happy. He bought Yuan Xiaodan a lot of clothes and school supplies, restored Yuan's father's job, and the family once again entered the upper class of the aristocracy. After school started, he even paid for her and Chen Shanshan to attend an aristocratic school together.
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Although Yuan Xiaodan was aggrieved, he also enjoyed the huge pie he had gained in exchange for his dignity. From then on, although he played with Chen Shanshan every day, the relationship between the two became increasingly unequal.
Maybe it was luck, or maybe kids from aristocratic schools didn't take money seriously. In the third year of junior high school, although Chen Shanshan still liked to steal things from her classmates, she was never caught.
Until later, under the operation of Chen's father, the two of them entered our school together again and lived in the same dormitory. Chen Shanshan stole Li Yang and their belongings and was found to have them in her suitcase. Once again, she took the blame.
On Yuan Xiaodan's head.
Unexpectedly, the incident was not contained this time, and was finally exposed by Li Xueyan. Yuan Xiaodan couldn't bear the humiliation, so he impulsively jumped from the balcony.