She looked at the boy, "Doesn't your class have a lot of people talking about this now?"
"Not really, everyone is forbidden to talk about it, the teacher won't let us spread it around."
Ye Ning said, "So, where is that notebook now?"
"It was taken away a long time ago, I think the Director of Education took it, nobody knows where it went."
In the moment Ye Ning nodded, he had already finished sweeping, and with a smile, said, "Finished sweeping, we can go now."
Ye Ning said, "Thank you."
"It's nothing, actually... I was just lying to you."
"What?" Ye Ning looked at him, had he been lying all this time?
"It wasn't because I didn't hand in my homework..." He lowered his head, embarrassed, "I was... Those people you beat up today, they were also punished to sweep, but they didn't come... I was pushed to come and sweep by them."
So it turns out... he was bullied into doing it.
Ye Ning straightened up and looked at him, "Stop sweeping."
