While Hao Xue was riding her bike, panting heavily towards the store, Chen Lingli took advantage of the fact that her parents were out busy and sneaked to the home of her classmate Tang Xiaomi from the same village.

"Xiaomi, you must help me this time. I, I really can't afford to lose face like this."

Chen Lingli couldn't help crying.

Tang Xiaomi hugged her with sympathy, and said loyally that she would ride her bike to find He Tiantian right away and would never let Chen Lingli's parents sell the coriander that was about to bloom to He Tiantian's family.

Outsiders may not know what kind of people Chen Lingli's parents are, but who among their fellow villagers doesn't know?

Let me put it this way, in their Chentang Village, even if a female mosquito in the village flies over Chen Lingli's house, her parents will pull out its legs!

What's selling vegetables? Chen Lingli has experienced more shameful and socially deadly situations than this.

When I was in primary school, one year the homeroom teacher went to visit the homes of some of my classmates. According to the order, Chen Lingli’s home should be the last one to be visited.

But Chen Qiang and Liu Mei were so cunning that they calculated the time. When the head teacher arrived at their house, wouldn't it be lunch time?

According to the custom in the village, when the head teacher comes to visit the home, he or she must be invited to have a meal at home before leaving. It is said to be a "home-cooked meal". When the child's teacher comes, can we not buy some meat, kill a chicken, and prepare two meat dishes?

In order to avoid being treated to a meal, Chen Qiang and Liu Meiling waited at the entrance of the village and intercepted the confused head teacher.

So, the class teacher, who was supposed to start the home visit from Tang Xiaomi's home at the entrance of the village, followed Chen Qiang and his wife, crossed most of the village, and went to visit Chen Lingli's home first.

It would have been fine if she had just avoided the treat, but what made Chen Lingli even more frustrated was that when it was almost noon, her parents knew that Tang Xiaomi's family would definitely prepare a delicious meal to entertain the teacher today, so they quickly picked some cheap vegetables from the fields, put a few eggs on top, and took their three children to Tang Xiaomi's house to "deliver some food to the teacher."

What do you mean by delivering food? Is it a free meal?

Because of this pair of parents who cheated their children, Chen Lingli matured earlier than other children of the same age. After guessing her parents' thoughts, Chen Lingli's face turned red instantly and she refused to go.

"Not going? If you don't go, you'll just starve at home alone!"

Chen Qiang and his wife took their eldest daughter and youngest son and carried a basket of vegetables to Tang Xiaomi's house.

Sure enough, I got a big meal with chicken, meat and fish.

The price she paid was that Chen Lingli was laughed at by her classmates for three whole years!

Tang Xiaomi rode her bike to Hu Qiongfang's house. When she heard that He Tiantian had already gone to the store, she was so scared that she rode her 28-inch bike like it was a mountain bike.

Fortunately, when she arrived, Chen Lingli's parents had not arrived yet.

Tang Xiaomi quickly pulled He Tiantian aside and repeated what Chen Lingli had told her, panting.

Worried that He Tiantian would dislike Chen Lingli because of this incident, Tang Xiaomi couldn't help but plead for her -

"Tiantian, Lingli is different from her parents. She..."

Jiang Tian nodded: "We are all classmates, and Lingli sits in front of me. How can I not know what kind of person she is?"

"Besides, what does the mistakes made by parents have to do with their children?"

"If Lingli used the money earned by her parents to live a luxurious life, then she should bear joint responsibility for the mistakes made by her parents. It's not possible that when they enjoy the life, they are all family members, but when they take the blame, they say that all the bad things are done by her parents and have nothing to do with her, right?"

"But, I heard from Sanhua that Lingli and her sister's tuition and living expenses were all earned by themselves, so her parents' sins have nothing to do with them."

"Just wait, I'm going to teach them a lesson this time!"

Jiang Tian asked Tang Xiaomi to go back first so as not to be seen by Chen Lingli's parents.

After returning to the store, he pulled Hao Xue aside and went to complain to the "master's wife" muttering something.

Jiang Tian was also worried that Hao Xue would have some thoughts about Chen Lingli because of this incident. She would then tell Teacher Ouyang about it. Chen Lingli still had to finish junior high school at Caodi Middle School, and there was still a year and a half left. If she offended her class teacher, what good would come of it?

Therefore, when telling Hao Xue about this matter, Jiang Tian secretly gave the poor classmate Chen Lingli the character of "a little cabbage harmed by unscrupulous parents."

Lingli is a pitiful child. Both her parents are acting geniuses. Outsiders think that they treat their three children equally, but few people know what kind of life Chen Lingli and her sister Chen Conghui have been living over the years!

On the surface, Chen Qiang and Liu Mei are diligent and down-to-earth farmers. They grow and sell their own vegetables to support their three children's schooling. Even the knowledgeable Ouyang Sihai is deceived by the couple's honest and decent appearance.

The truth is, because they were stingy and liked to be clever, the couple couldn't sell any vegetables when they went to the town.

Later, they wanted their eldest daughter to stop attending junior high school and come back to help them sell vegetables.

The eldest daughter, Chen Conghui, was as smart as her name suggests. She ranked first in the school and third in the township in the primary school graduation examination. In order to attract this top student, Caoding Middle School squeezed out a little money from its meager school funds, waived her tuition for three years, and finally admitted Chen Conghui into their middle school.

But now that I have the tuition fees, what should I do with the living expenses?

Although Chen Qiang and his wife portray themselves as "hardworking and simple" in the village, they are actually the type of people who often make "ineffective efforts" and are good at moving themselves.

Others go to weed the fields when the weather is hot, so that the weeds they weed will be killed by the strong sun. This is called "effective weeding."

Chen Qiang and his wife were not afraid of being too hot to go out during the day, so after dinner, they lit torches and weeded the fields until late at night. As a result, the weeds they weeded were scattered by the dew at night, and hey! They came back to life!

This is probably the legendary "ineffective weeding", right?

In short, the harder Chen Qiang and his wife work, the more difficult life becomes for this family.

When Chen Lingli went to junior high school, the couple still could not afford the tuition. Finally, the two sisters came up with a solution. During the summer vacation, they made their own fishing hooks and went to the river to fish for yellow croaker. The eldest sister sold vegetables and Chen Lingli sold fish. Finally, before school started, they raised enough tuition and living expenses for Chen Lingli for one semester.

"Teacher's wife, how can they have the nerve to say that they are supporting their two daughters' schooling?"

"I heard that Chen Lingli's parents found out that she and her elder sister could make money by fishing for yellow croaker, so they insisted on helping them sell the fish. As a result, they gave the two sisters 50 cents each as pocket money from the money they earned from selling the fish. What's the price of yellow croaker now? You buy vegetables often, so you should know, right?"

Hao Xue was stunned.

She is a mother herself, and she could never have imagined that there would be such weird parents in the world!

Not only does he not help his own children, but he also takes money from his two children. How can he do that?