Chapter 8 — Tuition Fees for Other People's Daughters

Tham Kien Quoc found out and immediately grabbed her: "Nhiem Nhiem, tell me, have I treated you well?" Tong Nhiem's face was ugly: "Uncle Tham, please let me go first." "Didn't you say that I am your reincarnated father?" He tightened his grip even more, "Now everyone is slandering me, why don't you say anything?" The interviewer turned the microphone to Tong Nhiem: "Tong, you wrote in the article that Mr. Tham sponsored you indifferently. Do you know his biological son... That's not true, do you know that his wife's stepdaughter Tham Chi lives in difficulty?" Tong Nhiem bit her lip: "I don't know." Luu Tinh stood behind the crowd and shouted: "You know! You also said Tham Chi deserved it, who said her mother was dead and left money for her?" "I didn't say!" Tong Nhiem panicked and tried to cover Luu Tinh's mouth. The security guard stopped her: "Don't move your hands." Director Tan took out a piece of paper from his document bag: "Tong Nhiem, there has been a preliminary verification of your poverty certificate. The village committee has just replied, the seal is real, but the content was not issued by them." Tong Nhiem's legs were weak, he had to hold on to the lamppost. The interviewer immediately asked: “What does that mean?” Director Tan said: "Some people take blank certificates and arbitrarily fill in the contents." Tong Nhiem raised her voice: "It wasn't me, it was my mother who did it! I don't know!" I looked at her: "Is your family really difficult?" She looked at me, her eyes turned from panic to hatred: "Even if I'm not in trouble, so what? Uncle Tham voluntarily gave me the money, what does it have to do with you?" That statement was clearly captured by the camera. The two girls who had just talked for her in the crowd bowed their heads. A male student said softly: "It's so nauseating." Tong Nhiem heard it and turned around to leave. Chu Duong stopped: "Posts, pictures, slander, leaking support applications, you say one sentence and you don't know and then you're going to leave?" Tong Nhiem gritted his teeth: "Who are you?" Ms. Truong walked out of the school gate, holding a notice in her hand: "Tong Nhiem, the academy requires you to cooperate in the investigation. You are suspected of falsifying documents, violating the privacy of classmates and intentionally leading public opinion. Starting today, all of your eligibility for awards will be suspended." Tong Nhiem looked at Tham Kien Quoc: "Uncle Tham, please help me!" Tham Kien Quoc let her go and stepped back: "My documents are fake, how can you help me?" Tong Nhiem looked like she had been slapped: "What did you say?" "I sponsored because I found you pitiful." Tham Kien Quoc quickly brushed off the relationship, "You lied to me, I'm also a victim." Liu Tinh laughed: "You two are truly a match." I picked up the red flower badge that was blown to my feet by the wind, written on it: Compassionate Family of the Year. I gave the badge to the interviewer: "Is this title still given?" The interviewer awkwardly retracted the microphone. Director Qin looked at Tham Kien Quoc: "The title has been revoked. The Relief Association will publicly explain." The blood on Tham Kien Quoc's face drained away. He suddenly knelt down in front of me. “Chi Chi, I'm wrong.” He grabbed my pant leg, "Dad, I'm suddenly confused. Don't take everything to the extreme. I've raised you for so many years, no matter how hard I work." The crowd was silent again. He cried very quickly, as if he had practiced for a long time: "When your mother died, dad was at the bedside. When you had a high fever, dad carried you to the hospital. You can't accept this dad just because of some money." I lowered my head to look at him. "That time I had a high fever, my youngest aunt was the one who carried me. Dad was drinking outside." He raised his head, tears still hanging on his face, his mouth open. "The last night my mother was in the hospital bed, my father stood in the hallway transferring money to Tong Nhiem, noting that it was New Year's lucky money." Tong Nhiem immediately raised his head: "How do you know?" I looked at her: “You

Admit it already?” Her face immediately turned gray. The staff next to director Tan filmed this entire episode. Tham Kien Quoc let go and sat down on the ground, as if he had suddenly aged ten years. I said: “You are not my father. Starting today, you will no longer use my mother's name to paint yourself in gold." He muttered: "You can't do that, Chi Chi, you can't..." I turned around and walked into the school gate. Behind, the interviewer asked director Tan: "How will this matter be handled in the future?" Director Tan's voice was clear: "Money that needs to be paid must be paid, people who need to be investigated must be investigated. No one can step on the suffering of a dead woman and a student to build a stele of praise for themselves." The results of the school's handling were announced faster than I thought. Tong Nhiem's poverty certificate was determined to be fake, the school subsidy was canceled, and the money received had to be refunded. Luu Tinh was warned for participating in posting and secretly taking photos, but because she proactively submitted her chat history, the disciplinary action was lighter than Tong Nhiem. The day the notice was posted in the academy lobby, Tong Nhiem rushed in front of me. "Tham Chi, are you satisfied?" Her shrill voice made people passing by stop and look. I hugged the book: "The announcement was not written by me."