Chapter 25: What’s Wrong with Me Hitting Someone? p2
The second years slowly returned to their classrooms. Some of the students who had been scolded upstairs still stood there, not moving.
Qian Caiyue told Peng Zhen to go back to the office with her, but Zhou Wanfeng blocked his way with a cold gaze, her expression dark, as if to say, Who dares to move without my permission?
Qian Caiyue was stunned. It was the first time she had seen someone so bold as to ignore a teacher. When Peng Zhen was blocked by Zhou Wanfeng, his heart sank. He suddenly understood that if the people involved didn’t come down today, he wouldn’t be able to leave.
It didn’t matter who came. Zhou Wanfeng’s gaze and her sharp aura said it all.
In the distance, Zhu Junling and Ding Gaoming were wringing their hands anxiously. “My god, my class president, how big is she going to make this?” Ding Gaoming was so nervous his heart was pounding.
Suddenly, they heard Peng Zhen calling out names. He was calling them out one by one.
Fan Dayong from Class Three, Ruan Tao from Class Five…
As Peng Zhen called out the names, the people who were called came down one by one.
They had lost their arrogant and domineering attitude from yesterday and were standing obediently next to Peng Zhen. Liang Shuai came down, clutching the back of his head. There was a lump on the back of his head. He hadn’t fainted, he just couldn’t get up from the pain. Especially after seeing Peng Zhen get beaten, he didn’t dare to get up.
Not more, not less, a total of eight.
Qian Caiyue frowned. The short girl had ignored her the whole time, and had even, right in front of her, walked up to the few students who had come down.
“Who soaked my books?” a cold voice rang out.
The boy with the mole on his face still had a provocative look in his eyes. Zhou Wanfeng walked straight up to him and, smack, smack, smack, slapped him three times.
“I’ll f*ck your mother’s XXX!” the boy shouted, jumping up to throw a punch, but his wrist was grabbed by Zhou Wanfeng. She twisted his elbow and delivered a chop with the side of her hand. The movement was simple and neat.
Qian Caiyue was completely stunned and shouted, “Stop! What are you doing in front of me?”
In the blink of an eye, the boy with the mole was thrown to the ground by Zhou Wanfeng.
She continued to walk towards the next boy and asked with a blank expression, “Who hacked my desk?”
Two boys raised their hands tremblingly. Zhou Wanfeng walked past one of them and was about to raise her hand when she was stopped by Qian Caiyue. “Come back to the office with me! If there’s a problem, we’ll solve it! What are you doing now?”
Zhou Wanfeng directly broke her arm lock and twisted her wrist. Qian Caiyue stumbled, her hands empty. As she steadied herself, she heard a series of slaps, and she was so angry that she was about to lose her mind.
In all her years of teaching, she had never seen such an arrogant and domineering student who ignored a teacher.
“Who smashed my bicycle?”
Qian Caiyue couldn’t stop her at all. She just watched as the girl beat up everyone one by one. Some of them fought back in a rage, but they were no match for her. It was only a matter of seconds, so fast that Qian Caiyue couldn’t do anything.
Du Yong’an from the political and educational affairs office came running over. He was cursing the student who had gone to the cafeteria to call him for not explaining things clearly. Not long after Teacher Qian had left, before he had even finished his meal, another student had come to call him, along with the homeroom teacher of First Grade, Class Nine, Sun Mulan.
The moment he saw Sun Mulan’s anxious expression, he had a bad feeling.
“Director Du, I just found out that Zhou Wanfeng went to the third-grade class to hit someone, but her classmates told me that there was a reason for it.”
The moment Du Yong’an heard the name “Zhou Wanfeng,” his head immediately started to ache. He still remembered her suffocating tone in the conference room.
“What exactly happened?”
“My Class Nine students told me that some third years had forced him to steal the class fees. When he didn’t do it, he was cornered in the restroom by a group of third years and beaten and kicked. It was Zhou Wanfeng who went and brought him back. This group of people held a grudge, and today they destroyed Zhou Wanfeng’s desk, soaked all her textbooks and workbooks in a bucket of water, and smashed her bicycle to pieces…”
After hearing this, Du Yong’an said, “So, Zhou Wanfeng went to the third-grade class and beat them up.”
Sun Mulan nodded. That was the situation as she knew it.
But the matter was far more serious than she knew.
Qian Caiyue was even more furious. She knew that Zhou Wanfeng was just a first-year student. She had learned from her classmates that she had dragged Peng Zhen all the way from the classroom to downstairs, and had beaten him up whenever he resisted. This brutal act of violence had now spread throughout all the classes.
It was still the lunch break. A time when they could have been resting or doing their homework. Now, in every class they passed, everyone was excitedly discussing what had just happened.
It was a sensation throughout the entire grade.
This was especially true in the third-grade teaching building. Everyone knew how arrogant Peng Zhen usually was, and now the entire third grade was in shock.
Du Yong’an knew that this was not the same as the fight in class last time. He immediately reported the matter to the school leadership.
The second grade was the least affected, but they couldn’t help but be excited to watch the show.
And the first-grade new students. Many of them had been cornered in the restroom by the upperclassmen.
Just during this lunch break, all the homeroom teachers of the entire grade held an emergency meeting.
Regarding the sensational beating incident that had occurred during the lunch break, the school leadership strictly required all classes to “…minimize the impact, strictly control private discussions and the spread of rumors among students, and even more so, prohibit students from believing one-sided stories and spreading false rumors. All students who discuss this privately will be criticized and educated. The students involved will be strictly and carefully questioned and dealt with…”
The short meeting’s main purpose was to minimize the negative impact. It required all homeroom teachers to educate and manage the students in their respective classes, not to discuss, not to spread, and not to be curious.
Before the lunch break was even over, the homeroom teachers returned to their respective classes with their meeting notebooks and conveyed the content of the meeting.
Downstairs at the first-grade teaching building, Zhou Wanfeng’s books were still drying on the flowerbed in front of the Class Nine classroom. This matter could not be suppressed.
The entire first-grade new students were extremely excited.
Especially when they found out that the class president of First Grade, Class Nine had gone alone and beaten up the upperclassmen, and that even their homeroom teacher couldn’t do anything about it.
Class Eight was right next door. When Wang Chenggang was announcing the content of the meeting, the discussion below was even more heated.
“I saw it. After the class president of Class Nine went into the classroom, she came out with a stick in her hand. At first, she walked slowly, but then she started to run. She went alone. Not long after, the third years started to make a scene.”
“I saw all the first-floor students from the second-grade teaching building go over to watch. She shouted for them to come down in ten minutes. It seems the third years had cornered her on the way, and today they had smashed all her books and her bicycle, so she just lost it.”
“I ran over to see. The class president of Class Nine is really tough. She just raised her hand and smack, smack, smack, three slaps, fast and neat. Someone tried to fight back, and crack, crack, crack, she just threw them over her shoulder, or grabbed their shoulder and kneed them. My god, it was so exciting to watch. Just a few moves, and she threw someone taller and heavier than her.”
“Everyone, be quiet! Don’t discuss this matter anymore! The school requires students to be prohibited from discussing this matter! Study hard and do your homework! This matter is over, don’t talk about it anymore!” Wang Chenggang said with a stern face, emphasizing it again and again.
Although the students shut their mouths, their sparkling eyes and excited expressions, as if they were on steroids, made it impossible for them not to discuss it for a short time.
This matter was so serious that Sun Mulan, Qian Caiyue, and the other homeroom teachers couldn’t handle it at all. It was all handled by the teachers from the political and educational affairs office.
As the director of the political and educational affairs office, Du Yong’an had dealt with many student disputes and fights, but this was the first time he had encountered such a tough nut.
And this tough nut was a first-year student.
Du Yong’an couldn’t understand at all how Zhou Wanfeng had grown up. She was clearly only twelve, and before this, she was just an elementary school student. But now, this twelve-year-old first-year student made him feel that she was tricky.
To put it this way, she knew very well how to protect her own interests.
She also knew other people’s weaknesses and how to use them to protect herself.
He had never seen anyone who had just been in a fight be so rational and calm.
It was the same conference room as last time, and Zhou Wanfeng was sitting in the same seat. But this time, only Du Yong’an and another teacher from the political and educational affairs office, Teacher Ma, were in the conference room.
Teacher Ma was relatively young. After glancing at Director Du, he was about to start the questioning according to the procedure, but before he could open his mouth,
Zhou Wanfeng beat him to it. Her eyes were calm, her expression composed. She said directly, “I cannot accept any punishment or criticism from the school.”
Teacher Ma was taken aback, then frowned. “You’ve caused such a terrible negative impact on the school, taking a stick to another class to hit someone. Do you think you’ve done nothing wrong?”
“I did hit someone, but I didn’t do anything wrong. First, Peng Zhen and his group, relying on their numbers, intimidated and coerced the lower-grade students. They even extorted protection fees and used force to compel Zhu Junling from Class Nine to steal the class fees for them to squander. Five of them cornered him in the restroom and beat and kicked him. He’s not the only victim.
“Second, after evening self-study, they ganged up with their companions to rob a classmate on the way. I personally saw my classmate, Jiang Yi, being pinned to the ground and robbed of his wallet. To prevent them from retaliating, he didn’t even dare to speak up. There are probably more victims like him.
“Third, last night, Peng Zhen and his group of eight cornered me on my way home from evening self-study, armed, and tried to rob me.
“Fourth, just today, my desk was vandalized, all my textbooks and workbooks were soaked, my backpack was cut, and even worse, my bicycle was damaged beyond repair.
“For a group of people like this, what’s wrong with me hitting them? Smoking, robbing, beating, extorting, forcing people to commit crimes. What’s wrong with me hitting them?”
Teacher Ma turned to look at Director Du. He was at a loss for a moment.
Director Du leaned closer to his ear and whispered, “Don’t be influenced by her. Don’t follow her line of thought.” He then looked at Zhou Wanfeng. “Zhou Wanfeng, I will find a classmate to verify the things you have said. But now we need to talk about your problem.”
“I don’t have a problem.”
“You do. You shouldn’t have hit someone, especially at school. To go directly to a class to hit someone, do you know how bad the impact is?”
“Director Du, if all you can see is me hitting someone, then I can’t let you handle this matter. I’ve told you the cause and effect, but you’re still focusing on me hitting someone. Then if the person in all the above incidents was not me, do you think you would have known about these things?” Zhou Wanfeng looked at Du Yong’an with a sarcastic expression.
Du Yong’an pursed his lips and fell silent.
“Director Du, if it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t have known about the group beating and robbery yesterday. You wouldn’t have known that someone’s bicycle was smashed and their books were soaked at school today. It’s only because it was me, and Peng Zhen and his group couldn’t beat me, that the matter was exposed. Then if it weren’t for me, were the ones who were beaten and robbed just deserving of it? No one cares when they hit people, and the victims don’t dare to fight back for fear of retaliation. A few of them ganged up on me, and I fought back. And you come over and accuse me of being wrong?”
Zhou Wanfeng’s eyes turned cold. “What did I do wrong? Shouldn’t I have fought back openly? Should I have learned from them and cornered them on their way home from school? If the school decides that I’m wrong, then please allow me to call the police and have a third party investigate. For a teacher who assumes I’m wrong from the start, I trust the police more.”
“Of course, I feel a little guilty towards the school. Third-grade graduates, hitting people, robbing, and even forcing and extorting. These are all illegal records. It will be bad for their further education and employment, and it will affect the school’s reputation, and also the admissions for next year. But I have no choice. I’m also one of the victims.”
Hearing this, Teacher Ma couldn’t believe his ears. That these words had come from the calm and composed first-grade girl before him. Her eyes were sharp and calm, her logic clear, and especially at the end, it was a blatant threat.
But she had said it with such righteousness.
Teacher Ma was at a loss for words, slightly stunned. He then looked at Director Du, as if to say, How do we handle a student like this?
Du Yong’an looked at Zhou Wanfeng with a headache. The headache was that she hadn’t deliberately caused trouble. She had been provoked. In theory, she was the victim, but her retaliation was too excessive, and it was true that it had caused a bad impact.
But she could also quickly and directly grasp the things that they or the school cared about. Basically, Du Yong’an could say that in all the elementary, junior high, and high schools in Yunhai City, whenever there was a fight, it was basically handled by the school, that is, the political and educational affairs office.
If the school didn’t handle it actively, it would have a bad impact on the school. If it could be solved internally, it would be solved internally.
If Zhou Wanfeng wanted to call the police, they couldn’t stop her. But they were a private school, and admissions had always been a problem. If their reputation got any worse, it would probably be even harder to recruit students next year.
If this matter couldn’t be handled, his tenure as the director of the political and educational affairs office would be over.
He glanced at Teacher Ma. Du Yong’an supported himself on the table and stood up. “I will find a classmate to verify the few things you have said. Since the fight during the lunch break has caused such a big commotion, the parents must come. It involves medical compensation… and of course, the compensation for your desk, books, and bicycle.” Seeing Zhou Wanfeng frown, Du Yong’an immediately added.
“Contact your parents to come over this afternoon. This time, they must come, no matter what,” he said. Last time, her parents had been busy and hadn’t come. Du Yong’an emphasized it this time. He really didn’t want to discuss these things with Zhou Wanfeng anymore. She was only twelve, but she was sharper and more experienced than an adult.
People always tried to downplay major issues, but she was making a big fuss out of it.
After giving his instructions, he went out to find Sun Mulan and asked her to help call a few classmates over for questioning.