"Why should I give it to you! I obviously saw it first!"
"I saw it too!"
Two or three little girls gathered together and twisted into a ball. Shen Youyou glanced at the center of them and found that they were fighting for a pink necklace.
"Give me your things and don't take them away."
Shen Youyou shouted sharply, and the children all stood on the spot.
The necklace was broken, and the pink plastic smelled cheap.
Shen Youyou glanced at the necklace in her hand without knowing why, and couldn't help but ask.
"Why are you robbing this?"
The little girls lowered their heads and said nothing. They stood in the middle and raised their heads, but then lowered them again.
Shen Youyou looked at the three of them again and again, and finally pulled out the girl with tears on her face.
"Tell Auntie why you want to snatch this necklace?"
She pursed her lips and slowly raised her head, probably because Shen Youyou's expression was not very fierce, so she spoke slowly.
"I didn't steal it, they insisted on me wearing this necklace, and I refused."
"Let you wear it?"
As soon as she opened the topic box, the little girl couldn't help it.
Probably the three of them had some dispute today, and the other two children wanted to tease her, so they said they would wear this cursed necklace on her body.
"A cursed necklace?"
Shen Youyou couldn't help laughing.
"There is no cursed necklace."
"This is the cursed necklace!"
The little girl in front of me jumped up immediately, with a hint of panic in her expression.
"The necklace belongs to Li Hong. Everyone has said that Li Hong became crazy because of this necklace."
"Li Hong?"
A flash of memories suddenly came to Shen Youyou's mind.
"The Li Hong you are talking about is the woman who came to the school to cause trouble yesterday?"
"Yes, she is that crazy woman. She is Li Hong. She used to have good grades, but then she said she wanted to go out and make a lot of money, and then she went crazy when she came back."
"Wait? Going to school? You mean, she was a student here before?"
"Stop talking nonsense. When the principal finds out, he will expel you."
Shen Youyou was a little confused after hearing this. Just when he was about to ask more questions, the class bell rang.
The little girls ran back to the classroom in unison. Shen Youyou and the others were thinking about their words behind them, and their thoughts were instantly confused.
In the school doctor's office, Dr. Du was sorting out the physical examination form. When he saw Shen Youyou passing by, he immediately said hello with a smile.
"Dr. Shen, I can do the rest of the work by myself. I can sort it out very quickly."
"It's okay, I'm just free when I'm free."
As Shen Youyou spoke, he also pulled up a chair and sat down.
It took the two of them an hour and a half to sort out all the physical examination forms. After integrating the information, Shen Youyou discovered that 80% of the children's height and weight were not up to standard.
"How could this be? This data is too exaggerated."
Shen Youyou held the completed data sheet and frowned involuntarily.
Doctor Du looked on from the side and showed some sympathy.
"Maybe these are children in the mountains. Hey, there is no way. The conditions are limited. They don't have enough food and clothing to keep them warm. Naturally, their nutrition can't keep up."
Shen Youyou remained silent, but his heart suddenly felt sad.
When she returned to the hotel in the evening, she opened Weibo, intending to record everything she saw and heard here, but before she could finish editing the text, the hotel door rang.
Shen Youyou hurried over to open the door, and it turned out to be the principal.
He was wearing a vermilion down jacket, and his hands were filled with all kinds of nutritious and luxurious supplements. Before Shen Youyou could recover, he had brought everything in.
It looked like he couldn't refuse.
"Dr. Shen, these are all good things. I specially hired someone to get many of them for you."
"Look at this Cordyceps sinensis, it's authentic and wild."
Shen Youyou glanced at these things and immediately raised his hands.
The principal didn't take it seriously and said hurriedly.
"You must accept this thing. This is not my personal money, but the school's money."
"You and Dr. Du are here to support us and provide medical assistance and popularization of medical knowledge to our school. It is normal for us to bring something to express our gratitude."
"So Dr. Du also has one?"
"That's natural. The thank-you gifts given by the school are all uniform."
Once this high-sounding reason was given, it would naturally seem bad for Shen Youyou to reject it, so he had no choice but to accept it.
After the principal left, Shen Youyou opened the gifts. She roughly estimated the price, and found that these two boxes of cordyceps and dendrobium cost more than 30,000 yuan.
Is the school so rich?
Many questions suddenly popped up in Shen Youyou's mind.
If you are so rich, why are the physical examination items so simple?
Why are all the children in school malnourished if they are so rich?
There must be something wrong here.
She called Dr. Du, and after verifying with him that the gifts they received were the same, she went straight to the point and told her doubts.
After hearing this, Dr. Du said directly, "Doctor Shen, do you want to find out why the child is malnourished?"
"Yes, you said earlier that the children are malnourished because of the poor economic conditions here, but when I look at these gifts today, I really don't think the school really has any money."
"So, the school is actually rich, but the money is not used on the children?"
"It's not impossible. After all, this school is a Hope Primary School. All expenses are allocated from the top. If someone uses public funds for private purposes, then the children will naturally have less money."
"That's right!"
After hearing this, Dr. Du agreed.
"Dr. Shen, who do you think it would be if it was embezzlement of public funds? The principal?"
"I don't know yet. These are all my guesses. I think the first thing tomorrow is to find a reason to go to the children's dormitory and canteen to take a look."
"Okay, then I will be in charge of the boys' dormitory and you will be in charge of the girls' dormitory."
"Um."
After the two reached an agreement, Shen Youyou hung up the phone, put down the phone, and suddenly saw Zhou Sheng's WeChat message pop up.
"On the call?"
"Who are you talking to on the phone?"
"Five minutes!"
"Ten minutes?"
…
There are several more at the back.
Shen Youyou quickly called back, and then told her what had just happened.
"So you're going to investigate the school?"
"Um."
Shen Youyou originally thought that Zhou Sheng would definitely support her in this kind of thing, but what she didn't expect was that Zhou Sheng was opposed to it the moment he heard it.
"Why?"
Shen Youyou didn't understand and hurriedly asked why.
Zhou Sheng didn't explain much, just one sentence.