Chapter 54

Ye Wanqing had always worried Ge Yue would cry when she went to kindergarten, afraid the little one would not adapt.

Because the memories of her previous life were too deeply rooted, her fixed impression of Ge Yue was still that cold, quiet woman who liked staying alone in her room, sunk in the world of painting, quiet to the point of being solitary…

For this she had Ge Yuan pick her up and drop her off every day, so she would feel her brother’s and sister-in-law’s love, and even at school would not be afraid of being abandoned by them.

She had never expected there would be a day a teacher came to the door!

Ye Wanqing rode her bicycle home after school and from far off saw a strange young woman standing at her door. Ge Yue stood beside the young woman holding the strap of her little schoolbag, biting her lower lip, big eyes full of guilt.

She got off the bicycle, and the other party walked over.

“Excuse me, are you Ge Yue’s parent?”

“You are… Ge Yue’s teacher?” Ye Wanqing asked.

The young woman had an extremely particular air. Ye Wanqing had been a teacher herself and was very familiar with it.

“Yes. My surname is Yun. You can call me Teacher Yun.” Teacher Yun first briefly introduced herself, then stated the purpose of coming today. “Today I mainly wanted to do a home visit, because… little Ge Yue is too active in the kindergarten class. Quite a few parents have come to school looking for me, so I wanted to come see the situation, and also talk with you about little Ge Yue.”

“Mm… did our Ge Yue cause trouble at school? Teacher Yun has really worked hard.” Ye Wanqing quickly opened the door and invited Teacher Yun into the courtyard, a little nervous. “Teacher Yun, please come in. We’ll talk inside.”

“Thank you.” Teacher Yun smiled and stepped into the courtyard.

Ge Yue, still standing outside the threshold, pouted.

While Teacher Yun was not looking, Ye Wanqing reached out a finger and poked Ge Yue’s forehead, and glared at her.

Today Old Zhong and Ge Yuan were not home yet, but Ge Yue actually had a key. Making Teacher Yun wait outside was definitely because she wanted Teacher Yun to get impatient and leave, so she would not be scolded.

This little thing!

Ge Yue blinked her big eyes twice, reached out a chubby paw and rubbed her forehead, and followed behind Ye Wanqing like a little tail.

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“It’s like this. Your Ge Yue has performed quite well at school. She’s lively, generous, and willing to share food and toys with the other children. All of this is worth praising. It’s just…”

Ye Wanqing’s heart lifted.

Teacher Yun sighed and shook her head helplessly. “It’s just the little girl’s temper is a bit big. Counting today, since she started she has already fought with people five times. This behavior is not very good.”

“Ah?” Ye Wanqing quickly looked at Ge Yue, grabbing her and looking left and right. “Little Moon, you weren’t hurt, were you?”

She had not expected this little thing would actually fight.

Thinking of a certain person’s combat value, could she say this was a family tradition?

“No!” Ge Yue puffed out her little chest, very proud, eyes shining. “I won every time! I’m super great!”

“That’s good…” Ye Wanqing said on instinct.

Good?

Watching the two of them interact, Teacher Yun’s face quietly darkened.

Ye Wanqing suddenly reacted and quickly salvaged it. “No, I mean it’s good our Ge Yue wasn’t hurt. But… are the other children all right?”

Teacher Yun smiled politely. “There isn’t any big problem. Just a few bloody scratches on the face. Only, although the injuries aren’t very serious, the parents still ache when they see them. If Ge Yue keeps on like this, always being complained about by other parents isn’t very good either.”

“Mm.” Ye Wanqing nodded, then asked, “Then why did the children quarrel?”

Teacher Yun explained, “The other children saw Ge Yue’s toys and food were fairly new and were curious, so they wanted to play. Ge Yue wouldn’t let them, and the two of them fought.”

Ye Wanqing smiled lightly. “Just now when Teacher Yun praised Ge Yue you said she was willing to share food and toys with others. I also feel our Little Moon is generous by nature. Fighting over this, I think the reason shouldn’t be with our Ge Yue, but that the other side was too overbearing and wanted to snatch our Ge Yue’s things?”

“But they still can’t fight.” Teacher Yun was a little melancholy.

“I also think fighting is bad. Then how does Teacher Yun think this problem should be solved? Have the other children be more sensible and not snatch our Ge Yue’s things, or have our Ge Yue be more obedient, and not make a sound even when someone snatches things at her door?”

Teacher Yun said nothing.

In her home visits she had not run into a situation like this. Other parents were both respectful and fond of the teacher. This parent seemed rather different.

Worse, she actually felt this parent was right!

Ye Wanqing smiled, and pressed on. “Actually, I’m not saying our Ge Yue has no fault at all. For example, when someone snatches her things, she can let the teacher step in at the first moment, instead of solving the problem with force. Right?”

Teacher Yun nodded hard.

“But the reason children are children is that they don’t think as carefully as adults, and they’re more impulsive and naive… Someone has already bullied their way to the door. A normal child fights back first, right? Telling the teacher comes after. Otherwise the toy has been snatched, the food has been eaten. Will the other parent compensate? Even if they compensate, in the child’s heart is it still the toy and food they originally liked?

“So I think what Teacher Yun should mainly do now is contact the other parents and have them manage their own children, and not be bandits. If they’re this overbearing as children, what will they be when they grow up?”

Teacher Yun: “…”

Until Ye Wanqing gently and warmly saw her out, Teacher Yun was a little dizzy, and had completely forgotten the purpose of coming today. She had a feeling her feet were not on solid ground, lost in clouds and mist.

She seemed to have come for a home visit. How… did she feel she had instead been given a lesson by the other party?

Was this family’s parent also a teacher?

Maybe even a politics teacher!

Really too frightening!

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Ye Wanqing saw Teacher Yun off, turned around, and saw the little thing following behind looking at her with a pair of bright eyes, a particularly worshipful little look.

Even if she had been a tiny bit angry, it vanished like smoke now.

Even so, she still reached out and gave the little one a knuckle rap. “You, really capable! Teacher Yun said the ones who fought you were all little boys, and one was almost two heads taller than you. You actually won them all. How did you do it?”

“Grab hair, pinch the meat on the inside of the arm, and bite with teeth!” Ge Yue truly thought she had been praised, and in passing praised her brother. “Brother taught me. Brother is the most capable!”

Ye Wanqing: “…Little rascal, I was not praising you! I actually very much disapprove of you fighting in kindergarten. Do you know? You won before, but what if you didn’t win, and got hurt?”

Ge Yue blinked twice and said nothing.

“Promise sister-in-law, try not to fight from now on, all right? If someone bullies you, you run, then tell the teacher or come back and tell us. We’ll go vent for you!”

“Mm…” Ge Yue hesitated a little, and was also a bit troubled. “But Brother said people who can’t win a fight are spicy chickens. He doesn’t have a sister like that. I don’t want to be a little spicy chicken. I want to be Little Moon!”

Ye Wanqing: “…”

So what had her rough man taught the child?

Before teaching the little friend, she had better have a proper talk with the big friend at home.

“All right. I know Little Moon is a good child. You go find your little friends to play.” Ye Wanqing pinched Ge Yue’s round face and walked toward the kitchen, deciding to make dinner first.

But Ge Yue did not leave.

Although she was still young, she was especially clever. She sharply sensed Ye Wanqing actually did not approve of her fighting…

Mm, she must please pretty sister-in-law!

She absolutely could not lose favor!

The moment Ye Wanqing got home she had run into Teacher Yun. The bag she was carrying was hung on a chair in the main hall and she had not had time to put it back in the room.

Children who had done wrong all wanted to do something for adults to seek recognition. The moment Ge Yue saw her bag, her eyes lit up. She went forward, hugged the bag, and wanted to take it to the room for her.

Unfortunately the little one was short, with short legs. At the door the long strap of the bag tripped her. She pitched forward and hung on the threshold.

The bag in her hands also fell to the ground. The things inside all spilled out.

Done for!

She had actually done something bad!

Ge Yue’s little head looked left and right. Seeing no one, she quickly stuffed the spilled things back into the bag. Stuffing and stuffing… her chubby little paw suddenly picked up a pink sheet of paper, and was soon drawn by the faint fragrance on it.

She sat her bottom on the threshold, curiously opened the fragrant paper, and found it full of many characters she only recognized a little of.

“Little and white, a dot a sun not mouth, cloth white king fork. In your fork and and and big and fork white…”

Ge Yuan stepped into the courtyard gate and at a glance saw his little sister sitting on the threshold of the main hall, holding something and reading with focus… What she read out was all ghost-knows-what.

What little and white?

Illiterate!

“What are you reading?” Ge Yuan curiously glanced.

Ge Yue had no concept of privacy at all. She only felt her pretty sister-in-law having such fragrant paper was amazing, and quickly showed off. “Pretty sister-in-law’s. So fragrant. So many words!”

Ge Yuan: “…”

His eyes narrowed dangerously. He snatched the love letter from Ge Yue’s little hand and read it with a sunk face.

What little and white. Heh…

“Dear:

The weather has been hot lately. I hope you take care of yourself.

In those big, beautiful eyes of yours, I can always find your stillness, like distant mountains. Yet you are also brilliant, also fervent. There is no place that does not attract me.

Your cleverness, your sensitivity, also make me willing to take it as sweet. How I wish you would kiss my cheek with your gaze, and remember who I am. But you always look down on me…

I spit!”

Ye Wanqing, who had come out at the noise: “…”