An Abrupt Parent Teacher meeting

I mentioned Grace and/or I had visited Kristine in her school 4 times in the last 6 school days.

1st was to deliver a bankbook to pay her school fees (Y6703 for school fee and Y2020 for lunch this semester. Her school bus costs another Y2000 paid separately to the bus conductress). Paying the school fee is somewhat unique: we had to deposit sufficient fund into a Bank of Commerce account, set the password to a set of identical digits determined by the school, and Kristine was supposed to take that bankbook to her teacher for withdrawal. Kristine forgot to put that in her school bag and we ended up delivering that to her school.

2nd was to take her out to Chaoyang Hospital to check her tummy ache (Colic condition). 4th was to deliver panadol for her headache.

The interesting one was the third trip, by Grace, as the teachers asked specifically for the mothers only.

Altogether, 8 parents were summoned to school to meet the class teacher MS Zhao after school. Only 7 showed up. Apparently, one of Kristine's close friends/classmates brought huge amount of cash to school. She showed that to another of Kristine's close friends, who managed to persuade the cash owner to distribute her cash to many other classmates. Suddenly, Kristine and her classmates were each holding hundred renmingbi bills walking around the class. Ms Zhao panicked, summoned the parents to find out what happened. Ms Zhao opened the meeting by saying the class was filled with students holding hundreds of cash bills in their hands. The higlights were more on why that student brought so much cash to school (she wanted to show how much hongbao money she received during Chinese New year), and the question remains why she allowed someone else to help her distribute the cash to her classmates.....