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Chapter 29: Daddy, You Need To Strive To Earn Money (1)
It was normal for children to get into fights because they didn’t know what they were doing.
Still, Wellington Kindergarten had not had a similar fight for a long time. Whenever there was a conflict between children, it would be suppressed by the teacher at once.
Therefore, today’s fight was purely an accident. The teachers present were all taking care of other children at the time and couldn’t concentrate here. In a blink of an eye, both sides were going at it with all guns blazing.
“Headmaster, the children’s parents have already been notified. They will make time to come over in the afternoon.”
The headmaster nodded. “Got it.”
The repeated crying in the infirmary was deafening, especially those children who were beaten by Yi Qian. Their screams were the most desperate.
Indeed, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Huo Xiaoxiao watched as the teachers and doctors circled around the injured children who were crying the most, soothing and coaxing them.
On the other hand, although their faces were bruised, Yi Qian and the others didn’t cry or make trouble. They stood on one side quietly, and the teachers neglected to treat their bruises.
“Teacher, Yi Qian and the others haven’t been treated yet!”
A child’s crisp voice reminded several teachers who were busy and muddle-headed. They hurriedly pulled Yi Qian and his friends in front of the doctor and asked the doctor to treat them.
The doctor carefully looked at the bruises on Yi Qian’s face and took out a cotton swab and an ointment. “Kid, I’m going to rub the medicine now. If it hurts, you can cry like them, but don’t move, you hear me?”
“We won’t cry! We are not two or three years old anymore, and it’s shameful to cry like that!”
“Yeah, right! The middle class bullied the juniors, yet they still have the face to cry. Such a disgrace!”
“A crybaby who likes to bully people!”
As soon as they spoke, the children who had just stopped crying immediately looked up and began to wail again.
The exhausted teacher turned his head, looked at the few kids who had just spoken, and scolded them, “Lu Jingyi, Xiang Chen, and Jiang Yue, you are not allowed to talk!”
The children curled their mouth and lowered their voice to whisper to Huo Xiaoxiao, “Huo Xiaoxiao, are you okay? I saw him pushing you to the ground.”
Even if they were beaten up like this, they still cared about her and were quite loyal.
Huo Xiaoxiao shook her head. “I’m fine. Thank you for helping me teach them a lesson.”
“They always bully people. We’ve long found them unpleasant to the eye. It’s good that you’re fine. Don’t worry, if anyone bullies you in the future, we will beat him for you! Since you’re Yi Qian’s friend, you’re our friend!”
A kid at the door ran over anxiously and said, “Lu Jingyi, I just heard the teacher say that your mother is coming, and Xiang Chen, your father is coming too.”
Lu Jingyi and Xiang Chen, the two children, who appeared as if they could stand against the whole world, immediately panicked.
“My mother is coming?”
“My father is coming?”
From their anxious expressions, anyone could discern that their school days must have been perfect.
“Jiang Yue, is your father coming?”
“My father has been abroad for many days. He certainly can’t come,” the little kid named Jiang Yue said triumphantly.
“Then
 Yi Qian, is your father coming?”
Yi Qian said, “My father has also gone abroad.”
“What about your mother?”
“She’s out filming.”
“Oh, so only my father and Xiang Chen’s mother are coming?”
Seeing the two children crying without tears, the doctor laughed and joked, “Now you know how to be afraid? Why don’t you remember to be afraid during the fight?”
Lu Jingyi and Xiang Chen panicked even more after such a tease.
“Aunt, what you said is wrong. They stood up for me because they saw the children bullying me. They didn’t mean to fight. They
 should be praised for standing up bravely for justice.” Huo Xiaoxiao looked at Lu Jingyi and Xiang Chen and said, “Don’t be afraid. Even if your parents come later, they won’t blame you.”
The doctor looked at Huo Xiaoxiao with astonishment and said, “Kid, it’s a good thing to act bravely for righteousness, but if you don’t do it properly, there will still be trouble.”
Huo Xiaoxiao understood what the doctor meant. Children who could enter this kindergarten belonged to wealthy and respectable families. No one had a lacking background. Although the children were unaware of each other’s inside information, adults were not.
If the beaten children’s parents had a large background, it was inevitable that Lu Jingyi and Xiang Chen’s parents would choose to blame their children for settling the matter.
After the injuries of several children were properly treated, they were brought back to their classrooms by the teachers of each class.
Huo Xiaoxiao was taken back by Xu Manyin.
“Xiaoxiao, Teacher has already contacted your father for you. Your father will be here in the afternoon, along with the parents of the other children. Don’t be afraid; Teacher will accompany you.”
Huo Xiaoxiao knew her mischievous thoughts. She raised her head and yawned.
She had confidence in Huo Suicheng. Her father, Huo Suicheng, would never like such a shallow woman.
As soon as she entered the classroom, her classmate, Zhou Zhou, came up with an angry face. “Huo Xiaoxiao, are you okay? Just now, I was so useless. I failed to protect you and your seesaw. Wait for me to grow up a little bit, and I’ll beat up the kids who bullied you!”
The other two kids also clenched their fists. “Us too. When we grow up, we’ll avenge you.”
Huo Xiaoxiao convulsed with laughter. The children’s world was really too innocent and lovely. She wanted to squeeze their angry little faces.
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“Then, you have to grow taller quickly.”
The trio nodded before picking up their feeders and sipping them at the same time.
They would drink more milk and grow up!
Three o’clock in the afternoon was the dismissal time in the kindergarten. The students stayed quietly in the classroom, waiting for their parents or guardians to pick them up.
The child whose parent or guardian came to pick him up first raised his head proudly. He carried his small school bag back home under the envy of his classmates.
Huo Suicheng arrived after the fifth child.
Seeing Huo Suicheng, Huo Xiaoxiao picked up her school bag and rushed out. She jumped into Huo Suicheng’s arms.
“Daddy!”
Huo Suicheng picked her up. “How did Xiaoxiao feel on her first day in kindergarten?”
Huo Xiaoxiao couldn’t wait to say, “Daddy, let me tell you. Today
 Today, when I was playing outside
 some children wanted to snatch my seesaw. And then
 then he grabbed it. Held me
 held me
”
Huo Xiaoxiao was so anxious that she couldn’t speak her words skillfully.
To put it simply, her language abilities couldn’t keep up with her mind, causing her to stutter.
Xu Manyin also walked out of the classroom with a smile. “Hello, Mr. Huo. Do you remember me? I’m Xu Manyin.”
Huo Suicheng had a bit of an impression of her, but he didn’t expect that she would be coincidentally working in the kindergarten.
“About today, I can tell you—”
“No, my daughter will say it by herself.”
With that, Huo Suicheng left with Huo Xiaoxiao in his arms, hardly looking at Xu Manyin.
He already knew about the matter when it had happened, but he still asked Huo Xiaoxiao not to be anxious and speak slowly.
Huo Suicheng ignored Xu Manyin as she had expected. She continued with a smile, “Then, he grabbed my seesaw and pushed me to the ground, but it didn’t hurt.”
She spread her both hands. “Yi Qian and his friends fought the bad kids in order to protect me. They were all injured.”
With that, Huo Xiaoxiao remembered the doctor’s words and asked anxiously, “Dad, will Yi Qian and his friends be alright?”
“They were protecting you, so why will something happen?”
“Will Daddy help them later?”
“They protected you. Daddy certainly has to protect them.”
With Huo Suicheng’s promise, Huo Xiaoxiao was relieved.
The parents of several students had come to the headmaster’s office. A sarcastic voice belonging to the parent of a bully could be heard from afar.
“Headmaster, I sent my son to your kindergarten to study, not to be beaten. Look at his face, is there any place not swollen? How do you educate children? They were so arrogant to beat my child! I’m telling you, I’ll not let this slide easily!”
“Chengcheng’s mother, I also learned what happened from the headmaster. I think your son is not innocent in this matter. He bullied people first. My son may have made a mistake, but it’s just that the child didn’t know the degree of seriousness, so he was slightly heavy-handed. That’s all.”
“Slightly heavy-handed? I finally know children take after their parents. Look at my son’s face; is this slightly heavy-handed? Also, your son said that my son bullied someone. Little kids don’t know the severity of pushing a person with full strength. How could he bully people?”
“Yes, and my son was beaten like this by your son. Anyway, it is wrong to beat people. They must apologize to my son.”
“Father of Jingjing, don’t blame me for speaking harshly. Children should be educated well so that they won’t be prone to violence when they grow up.”
Huo Xiaoxiao hugged Huo Suicheng’s neck.
They didn’t seem to be easy to deal with.
Feeling the strength of Huo Xiaoxiao’s grip, Huo Suicheng frowned slightly. He pushed open the door of the principal’s office and looked at the few delicate but aggressive women sitting on the sofa.
“Mr. Huo, you are here. Please take a seat.”
Huo Suicheng sat down on the sofa.
“Everyone, let me do the introduction. This is Huo Xiaoxia’s father, Mr. Huo
”
“Mr. Huo, right? The headmaster just informed me. Your daughter said that my son bullied her, and that’s why those children beat my son. However, my son is always obedient and never takes the initiative to bully others. I would like to ask your daughter: did my son really bully her?”
Huo Xiaoxiao looked at Lu Jingyi and Xiang Chen, who silently stood beside their parents, and Yi Qian and Jiang Yue, who stood beside their housekeepers. She instantly knew that they had been wronged.
These adults were so noisy, and they even let these children listen.
“Bullied!” Huo Xiaoxiao looked at the woman and said, “I was playing on the seesaw. He suddenly rushed over and asked me to let him play. When I didn’t agree with him, he pushed me to the ground. He bullied me first.”
Chengcheng’s mother immediately retorted, “He just pushed you; how does that make him a bully?”
“Isn’t he bullying by pushing me? He
 He is older than me and pushes me because he is taller than me. Isn’t he bullying me?”
“My son was just playing with you. How can you say that he was bullying?”
Huo Xiaoxiao really admired these adults who dared to distort the truth in order to protect their children.
If she was not a child who couldn’t even speak clearly, she would have liked to get into an argument with her.
Her little mouth deflated, and she turned around and hugged Huo Suicheng’s neck while crying, “Daddy, he bullied me and pushed me. I fell on the ground, and it hurts so much!”
Huo Suicheng touched the back of Huo Xiaoxiao’s head. “If your son didn’t bully my daughter, does that mean my daughter’s lying?”
“I didn’t mean it like that. I just think that the children are ignorant, so they misunderstood. Besides, if you say that my son is a bully, I have to believe you? Is there surveillance?”
Surveillance?
Even if there was surveillance, without sound, she would defend her son and say he was having fun, right?
Huo Xiaoxiao snorted coldly.
Indeed, you could tell what a child was like by looking at his parents.
With such a mother, it was no wonder that he liked to bully.
Huo Suicheng lightly swept over. “Unfortunately for you, today is my daughter’s first day in kindergarten. I bought her a smartwatch with a recording function, and I turned it on in advance just in case.”
Huo Xiaoxiao’s cries immediately stopped.
Her dad was spying on her daily life!
Fortunately, she didn’t say anything outrageous today; otherwise, she would have been exposed.
Huo Suicheng played the recording on Huo Xiaoxiao’s smartwatch.
The noise from today’s outdoor activity sounded from the smartwatch.
“Hey, you’ve been playing for a long time. Give this place up for us to play!”
“No, I still want to play.”
“Go away!”
The little boy’s domineering voice came, “Go away? Do you know who we are? We’re in the middle class! You kids go away and let us play.”
“We won’t leave. We got here first; why should we give it to you?”
“Because we are older than you! You two or three-year-old kids, do you want to fight?”
“We’ll tell the teacher!”
“All you little kids can do is tell the teacher.”
“You
”
Boom–
The sound of Huo Xiaoxiao falling to the ground came from the recording, followed by a scream and punches and kicks.
This recording basically confirmed the fact that the children were bullies.
Huo Xiaoxiao raised her small face with tears on her cheeks and shouted, “Humph! You said that your son doesn’t bully others. Fortunately, my father recorded it all. Otherwise, you would have continued to falsify others. You are all adults, yet you look like this. Shame on you!”
The faces of several parents were even more ugly.
At this moment, the headmaster took the initiative to mediate.
“Chengcheng’s mother, I know that Chengcheng’s face looks serious, but don’t worry; the doctor has checked him. They are all just skin injuries. Children have a fast metabolism, so he will be fine in two days. After all, this matter was started by Chengcheng, and I can’t take his side. I suggest that we should forget it altogether. They are all children, and there will inevitably be conflict.”
The parents exchanged glances back and forth, and they seemed very unwilling.
“My son may be a little bossy in character, but
 96Headmaster, look at his beaten appearance, and self-defense is also a law. So, he did not commit any mistake, right?”
The attitude of Refusing to admit her faults was really a nuisance.
Huo Suicheng raised his eyes and swept them over others with a gloomy expression. “Since you know that your son is domineering, as a parent, you must teach him well. Don’t blame others for disciplining your son.”
“You
”
“Chengcheng’s mother, this is Huo Xiaoxiao’s father, Mr. Huo Suicheng.”
The principal mentioned the surname, hoping that these parents would be more tactful.
Although she did not care about the outside business world, she had still heard Huo Suicheng’s name and recognized the Huo Family her husband had mentioned once. Despite not understanding any business, she knew that the more friends one had, the more options one had in life. Fewer enemies meant more money.
There was no need to offend Huo Suicheng for this matter.
The next instant, the arrogant expression on her face faded a lot.
“Mr. Huo
 My son is still young and ignorant. He didn’t mean to bully your daughter.” Chengcheng’s mother looked embarrassed. “Forget it. That will be all. Headmaster, in the future, I don’t want my son to continue to study in the same classroom with these children.”
“Then, I’ll change Little Chengcheng’s class.”
“Yes, as long as he doesn’t share a class with these kids who love to fight, anywhere is fine.”
After that, those parents didn’t want to stay here any longer to lose face. They pulled their sons to leave the place.
Although the adults had dropped the matter just like that, the few children who were beaten up and looked forward to seeing Yi Qian and others being scolded were not happy.
“Mom, why didn’t he apologize to me for hitting me!? My face hurts so much!”
“Okay, Chengcheng. Let’s not care about them; we’ll talk about it when we go back, okay?”
“No! I want them to apologize!”
“Behave!”
When the kid saw that his mom was not on his side, his tears cascaded down. He raised his head and started crying.
Seeing that the headmaster’s office would be like a loudspeaker again, the mother picked up her kid and went away.
“Crybaby, shame on you!”
Huo Xiaoxiao made a face at the child who was carried out. She heard a more earth-shaking cry coming from the corridor.
The principal apologized to Huo Suicheng for today’s incident. “Mr. Huo, I am sorry that this happened on the first day of Xiaoxiao’s school, but you can rest assured that our school will definitely pay more attention to this aspect in the future. We will not let it happen the second time.”
Huo Suicheng nodded. “It couldn’t be better.”
Lu Jingyi’s father and Xiang Chen’s mother also greeted Huo Suicheng with a smile.
“Mr. Huo, your daughter is really smart.”
Huo Suicheng rubbed the back of Huo Xiaoxiao’s head. “Thank you for protecting my daughter today.”
Xiang Chen patted his chest. “This is what we men should do!”
“Yes, if someone bullies Xiaoxiao next time, we will stand out for her!”
Lu Jingyi’s father lightly slapped him on the back of the head. “You can do what is right, but you have to be careful in the future, understand?”
“I know! I won’t hit him in the face next time!”
“Hit? Tell the teacher next time!”
“
Oh.”
Huo Xiaoxiao lay on Huo Suicheng’s shoulder and looked at Yi Qian, who had been standing beside the housekeeper of Yi’s silently. She winked at him.
Yi Qian was slightly taken aback before pursing his small mouth.
The kindergarten gang fight incident ended this way.
On the way back, Huo Xiaoxiao looked at Huo Suicheng in fear. “Daddy, I was so scared today.”
Huo Suicheng squeezed her small face and poked her relentlessly. “Really? I don’t think you were scared at all. Your little mouth can talk so well; who did you learn it from?”
“
Didn’t you notice my shaking legs?”
“Okay, tell Dad what you’re afraid of.”
“I’m afraid they will outsmart you, and then bully me.”
Huo Suicheng understood her implied meaning. “Who will bully you?”
Huo Xiaoxiao frowned. “Yes, I know that Teacher Xu treats me well because of Daddy, including many uncles and aunts. Without Daddy, they would definitely not treat me so well, so
 Daddy, you have to work hard to make lots of money. You must not do something bad; otherwise, Xiaoxiao will have a miserable life without anyone to support me in the future.”
“
”
Huo Suicheng didn’t know how she could have such worries at her age.
“Okay, Daddy needs to strive hard to earn money to support you.”
Huo Xiaoxiao cheered, “Love Daddy!”