Chapter 165
A child changes every day; parents have to work hard to keep up with their growth.
On the second day of school, Wei Maomao didn’t sleep in, but from the moment she woke up, to breakfast, to getting into the car, she had a gloomy expression.
Zhang Shilan couldn’t figure out why, and seeing that even Cheng Tingyan couldn’t cheer her up on the car ride, she could only assume it was the typical “I don’t want to go to school” morning grumpiness.
No one knew about Wei Maomao’s unspoken frustration.
Frustration, she was truly frustrated!
One second, she was punching and kicking the evil Cheng Feiying, who bullied Yan Yan, feeling incredibly satisfied, the next second, the villain turned into a giant spider, shooting spiderwebs everywhere, trapping her hands and feet! He even dared to badmouth Yan Yan in front of her! And she couldn’t move, couldn’t attack, she could only be tied up, fuming all night, her mouth wasn’t even covered, but for some reason, she couldn’t even speak, couldn’t argue.
This dream! It was too frustrating!
And the key was, Wei Maomao couldn’t tell them she was unhappy because she couldn’t hit the bad guy in her dream…
Sigh! Angry!
The little chubby baby, her mood low, stomped towards the kindergarten gate, her steps heavy.
Zhang Shilan and Cheng Tingyan, watching from behind, were both amused and worried.
But they didn’t know that their amusement and worry would soon turn into…
“Look at you, so dark, and you insist on wearing white, afraid people won’t notice how dark you are? Look, look, among all the children here, are you not the darkest one? And look at your white clothes, doesn’t it make you look even darker? Don’t wear this next time! I’m embarrassed to even send you to school, I’ll have your mom do it. Look at that chubby little girl, so fair, she’s the one who should be wearing white. You’re so dark, your eyes are so small, wearing this makes you look like a big, black mouse covered in a white cloth, I’m embarrassed to even walk with you!”
Wei Maomao, walking towards the kindergarten, heard the loud male voice nearby, it gradually overlapped with Cheng Feiying’s voice in her dream, her fists clenching, she looked down at her white dress, stopped, and turned towards the voice.
She saw a finger, pointing at her rudely, a few steps away, it hadn’t even been retracted yet.
Caught red-handed talking behind someone’s back, even if it was just a short, chubby little girl, the man still felt a bit embarrassed, he quickly lowered his finger, directing his annoyance at the child next to him, he pushed her. “Go inside, quickly.”
Wei Maomao glanced at the little girl next to him, wearing a white T-shirt, tears streaming down her face.
Mmm?
It was the one from her class, named Xiuxiu?
Yesterday, when Wei Maomao wanted to bring some egg pancakes home for her family, Xiuxiu was the first to respond, Wei Maomao still remembered her. Oh, right, she was also the one who asked Teacher Hu to save her egg pancake later.
No way?
He ate the little girl’s egg pancake yesterday, and now he was saying she was dark?
Her fists clenched even tighter!
And at this moment, Lu Xiuxiu also noticed Wei Maomao looking at her and her dad.
Even kindergarteners cared about their image. Being called a big, black mouse covered in a white cloth by her dad was already bad enough, and now her classmate heard it too!
Lu Xiuxiu broke down.
“I’m not dark! I’m not dark! Daddy is mean! I don’t want to go to school anymore! I want to go home, I want to go home! Waaah…”
From silent tears to loud wails, her cries triggered the other children who hadn’t entered the kindergarten yet, and the solo performance instantly turned into a chorus…
The man, standing at the center of the storm, receiving condemning looks from the other parents, also felt uncomfortable.
“What are you saying! I was just telling you the truth! Aren’t you dark? Who taught you to call your dad mean! Go inside quickly, let the teacher teach you some manners!” The man said, grabbing the little girl who was trying to run away, he pulled her forward.
The teachers, welcoming the children at the kindergarten gate: “…” What to do, he looked like a truly bad guy!
Okay, it was another moment where their job conflicted with their morals! They hated working!
“Xiuxiu, have you heard of genetics?”
A small, chubby hand, with five cute dimples, along with a calm voice, covered the little girl’s hand.
Although she didn’t understand what her classmate was saying, Lu Xiuxiu, who had been struggling and crying in her dad’s grasp, suddenly felt a bit embarrassed… her cries subsided.
Zhang Shilan and Cheng Tingyan, after sending Little Maomao to the kindergarten gate, were watching her enter. But the little one stopped just a few steps away, and another child started crying loudly, then more and more children started crying… The scene quickly turned chaotic.
Zhang Shilan, seeing her motionless little baby in the distance, was a bit worried, but she also couldn’t leave Yan Yan, so she held her hand and squeezed through the crowd. She planned to send the little one in first, then take the older one to the elementary school next door.
But just as Zhang Shilan bypassed a few children rolling on the ground and their struggling parents, before she could even reach her baby, she heard the word “genetics.”
Cheng Tingyan also heard it, her experience these past few days told her that something wasn’t right.
Before Zhang Shilan could even react to her baby’s words, her hand was empty, Yan Yan had slipped away, weaving through the crowd like a little loach.
“Genetics means that what we little babies look like depends on what our parents look like. We’re our parents’ children, we’re fair because they’re fair, we’re dark because they’re dark, we’re short because they’re short, our eyes are small because their eyes are small, Xiuxiu, do you understand?” Wei Maomao said, squeezing the little hand in hers, which was a bit damp from tears.
“…“ Lu Xiuxiu, confused, hiccuped, then turned to her dad. “Dad, you’re so dark. So I’m dark because of you?”
It was at this moment that Cheng Tingyan squeezed through a mom who was struggling with two children and reached Wei Maomao’s side. Hearing the little girl’s words, Cheng Tingyan roughly understood what was going on.
As expected of her righteous little chubby bunny!
But!
This was real life, not a show, that was a stranger, an adult, not the dads who were constrained by the cameras…
It was still dangerous!
Cheng Tingyan quietly approached, recalling the three moves she had seen online in her past life.
Throwing dirt in his eyes, kicking his groin, and what was the third one…
Just as Cheng Tingyan was preparing for the worst, the little girl with tears streaming down her face continued.
“Dad, your eyes are also small! Mmm… so small! Your eyes are so small! My eyes are small because of you! You’re also a big, black mouse!”
From aggrieved to assertive, all it took was a piece of common knowledge.
“What nonsense are you talking about! And you, little girl, where are your parents? Why aren’t you going to school?” The man said, his face red with anger, he didn’t dare to look at the other parents.
Wei Maomao ignored him, she just held the little girl’s hand again. “Xiuxiu, do you understand now? What you look like isn’t something you can choose. Other people in this world can comment on your appearance, but your parents can’t say you’re not pretty, because they were the ones who chose it.”
“Hey, you little girl, what’s wrong with you!”
Zhang Shilan, worried, finally reached them, she pulled the three little girls behind her.
Only then did Wei Maomao, caught up in her righteous indignation, notice Cheng Tingyan standing next to her.
“Yan Yan~~~” The righteous, armored bunny instantly turned into a soft, clingy bunny.
Cheng Tingyan: “… “
Lu Xiuxiu looked at her suddenly empty hand, confused, mmm… it’s okay, she could be brave on her own!
Cheng Tingyan glanced at the little chubby bunny clinging to her arm, she hesitated, but didn’t pull away the little paw that had just wiped another child’s tears.
“Are you this child’s parent? Your child…” The man said, finally finding someone to talk to, he was about to unleash his complaints.
“I’m quite fair, right? My daughter is also fair. My eyes are big, right? My daughter’s eyes are also big. This is genetics, only biological children can be so similar, right?” Zhang Shilan said quickly, drawing the man’s attention to herself, she then smiled and looked him up and down. “A parent’s love is unconditional, if we, as parents, don’t even love our children, who else would? Right, Dad? Look, there are so many people here at the kindergarten gate, if a child learns from you and says hurtful things to your child, would you be happy?”
The man: “… “
Zhang Shilan wasn’t usually this aggressive, but it was better for her to be the target of his dissatisfaction than the little rascal.
Neither of them was there to argue, and the teacher at the gate came out to take the children inside, so after a few words of reconciliation, the matter was settled.
Of course, Zhang Shilan, cracking her knuckles, this reckless act, a spanking tonight was a must.
And, what genetics, what not being able to choose, it was the parents who chose… Where did she learn these things…
Couldn’t it be, “My dad said”?
After finally sending the two children into their respective schools and discussing with the kindergarten teacher about stricter security measures at the gate for pickup, Zhang Shilan returned to her car and took out her phone.
It was time to have a chat with that talkative friend.
As for Wei Chengli, who didn’t get an egg pancake and was even blamed, receiving a lecture from his wife, his whining was another story.
Unlike Zhang Shilan, who was worried, and Cheng Tingyan, who decided to add martial arts classes to her schedule, Wei Maomao, who had finally vented most of her frustration from her dream, wasn’t as silly as they thought.
At the school gate, two tall security guards were just a few steps away, she hadn’t said anything too harsh, it wasn’t that unsafe. But the incident at the school gate still caused some trouble for Wei Maomao.
Unlike yesterday, when she quickly entered the kindergarten and her classroom, after today’s incident at the gate, many people who had watched the live broadcast… recognized her. Some children explained it to their parents, some parents explained it to their children, anyway, the result was… during break time, there were crowds of children at both the front and back doors of her classroom, wanting to see her.
Being watched was one thing… but Teacher Hu, for safety reasons, wouldn’t let her go to the bathroom by herself, she had to tell the teacher, and the teacher would take her.
Sigh, a twenty-something-year-old, having to be escorted to the bathroom, and even having someone kindly ask outside the door, “Do you need help wiping?” “Do you have enough tissue?” “Be careful when you come out, don’t step in the pee.”
It was truly… unbearable!!!
And the strangeness didn’t end there…
After half a day of rumors spreading, she was now the little baby in the class who “could defeat adults,” a special, powerful baby.
This was specifically reflected in…
When the two children in front of her in the lunch line started arguing about the size of their chicken legs, she happened to cough.
The situation, which was about to escalate into a fight, “This chicken leg is so small, I don’t want it! I want your big chicken leg!” “I won’t give it to you, go ask the teacher for another one! This is my chicken leg!”, instantly turned into… “My chicken leg is small because my parents’ chicken legs are small, it’s okay, I’ll eat it.”
Within five seconds, the line started moving again, and Wei Maomao smoothly got her lunch.
It was… a bit speechless.
Of course, even more speechless things happened later.
“Maomao, go and cough a couple of times~~~ You were amazing at noon!”
“Good Maomao, help the teacher, I spent so long trying to stop them from crying yesterday!”
“I saw them crying yesterday, you also thought they were noisy, right! Go, go, go~~~ You can do it!”
“I even brought two scallions today to return to the teacher from the older kids’ class~~~ I’m being nice to you, right~~~ You also be nice to me~~ How about this, we’re making egg waffles for afternoon snack today, I’ll give you two extra eggs and some extra flour, you can make more and take some home, how about that?”
Finally, Wei Maomao, under Teacher Hu’s earnest (and forceful) request (bribery), stood up.
And so…
“I don’t want this ugly dragon, I want the one in your hand!”
“No way! In your dreams! If you want my dragon, trade it for the comic book you secretly brought!”
Turned into…
“Mmm, I’ll play with the ugly dragon, the dragon I got is ugly because my mom and dad’s dragons are ugly, it’s okay, I’ll play with it!”
Wei Maomao, who resolved the conflict without even saying anything and was even given a comic book as tribute, turned to Teacher Hu, whose face was beaming with joy, she felt a bit helpless.
Just… letting them blame their parents for their small chicken legs, their ugly dragons, was it really okay?
Wei Maomao couldn’t understand Teacher Hu’s happiness.
But Teacher Hu was truly overjoyed!
Hehe, with the little overlord in her hands, the world was hers!
Thinking about Teacher Lin, who had the class bully three years ago and enjoyed three years of peace, this year, she also had her dream bully~~~
Teacher Hu felt like she could already see three years of peaceful days ahead, until…
“Aren’t ordinary egg waffles good enough for you? Will adding this make it tastier?” At 4:20, Teacher Hu, working overtime, looked at her little overlord, who was crumbling biscuits into the egg waffle batter, worriedly.
“It’ll be delicious.” Wei Maomao said, diligently crushing the biscuits.
Fragrant and crispy Oreo egg waffles, just ten minutes, you had to try it to believe it~~~
