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The Power of Kindness and Language Learning |
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As the bell rang, a group of "bored" girls surrounded Rui, but Xiaomei just
glanced and walked out of the classroom.
When Xiaomei returned to the classroom, she saw Rui crying. She asked Rou what
happened. "Those girls were asking Rui this and that, and then she cried. Maybe
she couldn't understand what they were saying," Rou smiled and said. Xiaomei
sighed and said to those girls, "Hey, are you all census takers? If you have
nothing to do, help her with Chinese, or just stop babbling..." The girls were
scared and backed away.
"Can you be my teacher?" Rui said softly. Xiaomei looked at Rui and said, "Oh,
then you better study hard. I don't have too much patience..." "Okay!" The two
laughed...
From that day on, Rui followed Xiaomei all the time. Through hard work, Rui
finally learned to speak Chinese smoothly.
One day, Rui accidentally stepped on the foot of a boy named Lin, the most
handsome boy in the class, who was also the head of the grade. Because of Rui's
proud personality, she didn't pay much attention to it. But this made Lin angry,
and he picked on Rui. Xiaomei found out and went to talk to Lin. "She's from
Korea and doesn't know better. Please don't mind," Xiaomei said. Lin wanted to
let it go, but then he thought, "No, I want Xiaomei to apologize for her
(because no one had ever heard Rui apologize before)...! "How can we just leave
it like this?! If she doesn't apologize to me, you can do it for her!" Lin
smirked. Xiaomei clenched her fists and then relaxed. "Fine! You can have it
your way! I'm sorry!" she said and then left in a huff, while Lin just stood
there laughing.
Rui followed Xiaomei and kept thanking her. Xiaomei suddenly turned around and
said, "Ha! I don't deserve that! If you really want to thank me, just stay out
of trouble!" "Hehe..." Rui blushed and lowered her head. "By the way, Xiaomei,
why are so many people 'afraid' of you? I think you are very kind!" Xiaomei
sneered, "Ha! You can ask others!" |
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