Chapter 181: What Does Your Dad Do

Hearing that again, her whole body trembled violently, the previous arrogance completely gone, her voice choked to the extreme as she said:

"Principal... I was wrong! I really know I was wrong! Please just forgive me this once!"

Her lips were shaking, her face utterly pale:

"I-I just lost my head for a moment just now, I know corporal punishment is wrong too, actually, actually I just wanted to scare them a bit, I didn’t really mean to hit them!"

If she really got fired, probably no kindergarten in all of Hai City would dare hire her as a teacher again.

Her future would be completely ruined!

The principal looked at her red-rimmed, regretful eyes, and his feelings were especially complicated.

Xie Qin had been teaching at Hai City Kindergarten for more than three years.

She wasn’t just kind to the other teachers, she was also extremely sincere with the children.

In his forty-plus years as principal, he’d never seen a teacher so patient and so kind, like she was born for this job.

Later, many teachers at Hai City Kindergarten failed their evaluations and left, batch after batch, coming and going, and only Xie Qin stayed.

Not only that, she’d been rated Excellent Homeroom Teacher multiple times.

Even he was full of praise for her teaching ability.

But the principal never imagined Xie Qin would turn into what she was now, like she’d become a completely different person.

If this had been three years ago, when she’d just started working at the kindergarten as a teacher...

Don’t even mention using a steel ruler to punish a student, she couldn’t even bear to yell at them once!

After all, she was a teacher he’d thought very highly of. Seeing her hanging her head and crying so hard, the principal couldn’t bring himself to scold her anymore.

He just patted her shoulder, sighed with heavy eyes, and reminded her:

"Alright, instead of wasting time here with this old man, you’d better hurry back in and properly apologize to that Qu Qianqian and Zhang Yiming. Kids are forgetful. Maybe they’ll just forget this in no time!"

...

After the principal called Xie Qin outside, with no teacher around, the classroom got noisy again.

Seeing that Xie Qin wasn’t there, Song Wanwan didn’t dare stir up trouble anymore either.

Qu Qianqian had also recovered. She directly threw her arms tightly around Little Lu Li in front of her, rubbing her little face against her like crazy:

"Goddess, you really deserve to be my goddess! You’re amazing! Other than my Little Black, you’re the first one who’s ever protected me. I’m going to give you all my makeup! Because my dad said, a life-saving grace must be rep– rep... hmm... paid back with everything!"

Chubby little Zhang Yiming scooted over, and when he heard that, he couldn’t help rolling his eyes at her: "It’s ’a drop of water shall be repaid with a spring,’ I keep saying you’re illiterate and you still don’t believe me!"

Qu Qianqian curled her lips and waved her tiny hand carelessly. "Close enough, why are you being so picky!"

"It’s obviously not even close, okay?" Zhang Yiming was speechless, then his chubby little face turned to the little girl, grinning wide:

"But Li Li, you really are incredible! I was almost scared to tears just now, thank goodness you were here!"

"Mm, don’t be afraid." The little girl puffed out her fair, chubby cheeks, her milky voice full of a grand, commanding air. "I’ll protect you guys!"

Qu Qianqian had a short memory. She quickly forgot how she’d almost been scared to death by Xie Qin just now. Blinking her big eyes, she turned to ask Qin Xiyin, who’d been silently sitting there:

"Oh right, Xi Yan, I still don’t know what your dad does for a living?"

Zhang Yiming was curious too: "Yeah, what does your dad do? Is he a coal digger like my dad?"

Qu Qianqian shoved away Zhang Yiming’s head that had leaned in, lifted her little chin, and snorted proudly:

"You wish! Xi Yan’s dad must be like my dad, someone who sells smiles! My dad said selling smiles makes lots of money, tons of people do it."

"Nonsense, digging coal is what really makes money!"

Zhang Yiming protested loudly, "I went to a construction site and saw those uncles digging before. For just one hour, my dad gave them two hundred yuan!"

As soon as Zhang Yiming said that, not only Qu Qianqian, but even Little Lu Li and the usually quiet Qin Xiyin all showed incredibly envious looks.

Qu Qianqian’s eyes went wide as she cried out in shock, "Wow—two hundred yuan, that’s so much money!"