Chapter 52: Puppy Love? (1)
What the children were most afraid of was the teacher calling their parents to come to the school. When the teacher said that he would call their parents, they would immediately be obedient.
But, Yi Qian and Zhouzhou, who were taken to the infirmary, were not only not afraid of the teacher asking their parents to come, but they even continued to fight.
“You two, stop glaring at each other!”
The teacher separated those troublesome children. “Let me ask you, why did you suddenly fight?”
The two of them kept silent and played dumb.
“Yi Qian, tell me, why do you fight with Zhouzhou? Haven’t I told you this before? No fighting with other children in kindergarten?”
Yi Qian pursed his lips. “Yes, you have.”
“Who hit first?”
Yi Qian was unhappy. “I hit him first.”
“Yi Qian, you are older than Zhouzhou. How can you bully him? Why did you hit him?” Seeing Yi Qian not speak, the teacher asked Zhouzhou, “Zhouzhou, say something.”
Zhouzhou raised his hand and rubbed his bruised cheekbones. “I was playing with Huo Xiaoxiao. He… He won’t let me play with Huo Xiaoxiao.”
“Huo Xiaoxiao?” The teacher was amazed. “Yi Qian, why didn’t you let him play with Xiaoxiao?”
“Xiaoxiao is from our class, not theirs, so he should… should play with children in their class. Why was he playing with Xiaoxiao?”
“But Xiaoxiao can choose whoever she wants to play with…”
Yi Qian clenched his fist and shouted at Zhouzhou, “I said no! If he plays with Xiaoxiao again, I’ll beat him! ”
“Yi Qian! I’ll call your father now!”
After hearing Yi Qian’s words, Zhouzhou was unhappy too. “Who are you to forbid me from playing with Xiaoxiao! I don’t care. I want to play with Xiaoxiao! She used to be in the same class as me. If it was not because of you, she would always play with me every day!”
“You can’t play with her!”
“I want to play with her! I like her. You can’t play with her!”
“You can’t like her! She is mine!”
“Alright, stop quarreling!” Seeing that the two were about to fight again, the teacher immediately separated them. “Yi Qian, Zhouzhou, listen to me. I know you two like Xiaoxiao, and I like Xiaoxiao too. She is cute and clever; who doesn’t like her? But Xiaoxiao can play with whoever she wants. Neither of you can interfere with it, understand? If not, she will be unhappy. You know it, right? Do you want her to be unhappy?”
Yi Qian shook his head.
Zhouzhou also shook his head.
“That’s right. So Xiaoxiao can play with whoever she wants to play with. Yi Qian, you must not be so overbearing in the future. I will call your dad later about your fight today, and you must not be so naughty in the future!”
Lu Jingyi and the others, who were eavesdropping outside the infirmary, were anxious when they heard this.
“What should we do? The teacher is going to call Yi Qian’s daddy!”
“Just let him call. Do you think Yi Qian’s daddy will beat him like your daddy? Yi Qian’s daddy won’t beat him.”
“But Yi Qian hit him first, so it was his fault. What if he gets beaten?”
“…” So all of you knew it was Yi Qian’s fault.
Huo Xiaoxiao asked these little kids, “Why does Yi Qian dislike Zhouzhou so much?”
Lu Jingyi and the others looked at Huo Xiaoxiao, “Don’t you know?”
“Know what?”
Lu Jingyi said frankly, “Yi Qian likes you.”
Huo Xiaoxiao had a question mark on her head.
“Me? That kid…” Her high-pitched voice died down under the gaze of several kids. “He likes me? How is that possible?”
“Of course, it’s possible. Yi Qian likes you, so you can’t play with Zhouzhou.”
“That junior class even made a rumor that you also like Zhouzhou. What’s good about that little kid? How can you like him?”
Huo Xiaoxiao laughed out loud.
Has he even grown up yet?
Does he even know what liking someone is?
He even forbade her to play with other kids. What were these children thinking all day long?
Huo Xiaoxiao didn’t take this seriously.
They were just three or four years old children. What did they know about liking and disliking someone?
It seemed like they thought she was fun and just wanted to play with her.
No wonder that little boy, Yi Qian, was always unhappy with Zhouzhou. It turned out that he “liked” her.
“Xiaoxiao, don’t play with Zhouzhou. He also likes you, but you belong to Yi Qian. You can’t like others.”
“…”
With his sharp eyes, Xiang Chen saw the teacher walking toward the door in the infirmary. “Go, go, go! The teacher is coming!”
The children scattered in a hurry.
Not long after they returned to their class, Yi Qian also came back with a bruised nose and swollen face.
The boy was keen on saving his face, so he sneaked in through the back door. He sat in his seat as soon as he came in, then covered his face with a storybook.
But obviously, none of his brothers gave him any face. They took the book he used to cover and saw the bruise on his face.
“Wow, it’s so black and red. Yi Qian, does it hurt?”
Yi Qian glared at them before quietly glancing at Huo Xiaoxiao. When he saw her looking at him, he quickly snatched the storybook in Lu Jingyi’s hand and blocked Huo Xiaoxiao’s sight.
“Doesn’t hurt!”
“Yi Qian is so fierce. I think he put that kid on the ground and beat him.”
“The big bullying the small, you’re not embarrassed to show off?” Huo Xiaoxiao snatched Yi Qian’s storybook and looked at him. “Yi Qian, and all of you, don’t bully Zhouzhou in the future. He is younger than you. You hitting him means you bullied him.”
Yi Qian frowned and shouted at her, “Who told him to always come and play with you!”
Huo Xiaoxiao patiently explained to him, “He is my friend. Why can’t he play with me? All of you are also my friends. Don’t I usually play with you too?”
“No, you can only choose one between the two of us!” Yi Qian straightened his neck and said, “Tell me, are you playing with him or with me?”
“…” How could a child learn to isolate someone at such a young age?
“Then, what if I insist on playing with him?”
Hearing her words, it was obvious that she wanted to play with Zhouzhou, so Yi Qian stood up with anger. He took a few breaths and said, “You can’t! If you play with him, then from now on… then from now on, I… from now on…”
“From now on” was repeated four or five times, but he still couldn’t complete his sentence.
“From now on what?”
“From now on… I won’t bring you chocolate!”
Huo Xiaoxiao chuckled.
What a kid.
“I don’t want your chocolate. It’s your chocolate that made me fat.”
“Then from now on, I… I…”
“You will stop playing with me in the future if I play with Zhouzhou? Okay then.” Huo Xiaoxiao said helplessly, “Then we will stop talking from today on.”
Yi Qian almost jumped in a hurry. “I didn’t mean that!”
“Then what do you mean?”
Yi Qian stared at her angrily for a long time. It seemed that he couldn’t do anything to Huo Xiaoxiao, so he could only sit down. “I didn’t say that.”
Huo Xiaoxiao reached out and poked the bruise on his cheekbone. “Does it hurt?”
Yi Qian hissed, but he shook his head, pretending to be strong.
“Okay. At first, I was thinking about bringing candies for you tomorrow, but since you aren’t hurt, then forget it.”
“No… It hurts!”
Huo Xiaoxiao smiled. “Don’t bully other kids anymore. I’ll play with you and bring you candy. If I see you bullying other kids, I’ll never talk to you again!”
Yi Qian felt frustrated. However, he couldn’t say anything about Huo Xiaoxiao’s words.
He didn’t want Huo Xiaoxiao to play and laugh with other children, but she liked to play with others and didn’t allow him to prohibit other children from playing with her.
So annoying!
He lay on the table, holding the hair on the back of his head in both hands. He didn’t know what to do.
“Yi Qian!”
Yi Qian replied in a dull voice, “Hmm, I got it.”
——
In the teachers’ office.
Teacher Zhao was looking through the parent’s address book. “Teacher Chen, have you called Zhouzou’s parents?”
Teacher Chen hit his head. “Not yet, I forgot. I’ll make the call now.”
While speaking, he took out the address book to look for the phone number of Zhouzhou’s parents.
After thinking about it, he asked Mr. Zhao, “Mr. Zhao, what is the reason for the fight between Zhouzhou and Yi Qian? I heard it as soon as I got back.”
When Teacher Chen asked, Teacher Zhao suddenly laughed out loud. “What else? These two kids like Huo Xiaoxiao in our class, and they both want to play with Xiaoxiao. During extracurricular activities, Yi Qian saw Huo Xiaoxiao and Zhouzhou playing together. He was angry and didn’t want her to play with Zhouzhou, so they started fighting.”
Hearing that, Teacher Chen also laughed. “Those little kids—Hello? Is this Zhouzhou’s parent? I’m Zhouzhou’s homeroom teacher, and my name is Chen.”
On this side, Teacher Chen was calling to explain to Zhouzhou’s parents about Zhouzhou’s fight at school today. Teacher Zhao also found the phone number of Yi Qian’s parents. A call was made, and it rang seven or eight times before it was picked up.
“Hello, is this Yi Qian’s parent? I’m Teacher Zhao, Yi Qian’s homeroom teacher. I contacted you two days ago. Do you remember?”
“…” Yi Yang frowned slightly on the other end of the phone. He raised his hand and waved, signaling the assistant to go out first.
“I remember. Please talk.”
“Well, it’s like this, Yi Qian had a fight with another child in kindergarten today, so I needed to talk to you about it.”
“Fight? Why?” Yi Yang, who only got a few phone calls from the teacher all year round, had received a couple of phone calls from the teacher in the last two or three days. All of them were about the kid making trouble in the kindergarten.
Teacher Zhao told him about today’s affairs and finally said with a smile, “Mr. Yi, Yi Qian is usually very obedient, but this time, he was in the wrong. He took the initiative to hit someone. So, do you think you have time to come to school today? I want to talk to you in person about Yi Qian.”
Yi Yang sighed and glanced at the clock. “I’ll take out some time to visit in the afternoon.”
“Then I’ll wait for you in the kindergarten. That’s all for now. Goodbye.”
“Goodbye.”
When he hung up, Teacher Chen’s conversation was also coming to an end.
“Teacher Chen, what do you think…? Should I make a call to Huo Xiaoxiao’s father?”
“Xiaoxiao had nothing to do with it… But you’d better still make a call and explain the matter.”
“Okay.”
Teacher Zhao dialed Huo Suicheng’s phone number and briefly told him about the fight that happened today.
Huo Suicheng frowned. His tone was rather in disbelief, “What… what did you say?”
“Mr. Huo, please don’t get me wrong. Xiaoxiao has nothing to do with this matter. It’s just that the two kids were fighting because of her, so I thought it was better to inform you.”
“Two kids? Fighting because of Huo Xiaoxiao?” Huo Suicheng was speechless for a while. “Who?”
“One is Zhouzhou, and the other is Yi Qian. Xiaoxiao is usually liked by children in kindergarten, and these two children like Xiaoxiao. They often give Xiaoxiao chocolate. Today, they had a little conflict, maybe because of Xiaoxiao.”
Huo Suicheng didn’t listen much to Teacher Zhao’s later words. Two words suddenly popped up in his mind—Puppy love?
Chapter 52: Puppy Love? (1)
What the children were most afraid of was the teacher calling their parents to come to the school. When the teacher said that he would call their parents, they would immediately be obedient.
But, Yi Qian and Zhouzhou, who were taken to the infirmary, were not only not afraid of the teacher asking their parents to come, but they even continued to fight.
“You two, stop glaring at each other!”
The teacher separated those troublesome children. “Let me ask you, why did you suddenly fight?”
The two of them kept silent and played dumb.
“Yi Qian, tell me, why do you fight with Zhouzhou? Haven’t I told you this before? No fighting with other children in kindergarten?”
Yi Qian pursed his lips. “Yes, you have.”
“Who hit first?”
Yi Qian was unhappy. “I hit him first.”
“Yi Qian, you are older than Zhouzhou. How can you bully him? Why did you hit him?” Seeing Yi Qian not speak, the teacher asked Zhouzhou, “Zhouzhou, say something.”
Zhouzhou raised his hand and rubbed his bruised cheekbones. “I was playing with Huo Xiaoxiao. He… He won’t let me play with Huo Xiaoxiao.”
“Huo Xiaoxiao?” The teacher was amazed. “Yi Qian, why didn’t you let him play with Xiaoxiao?”
“Xiaoxiao is from our class, not theirs, so he should… should play with children in their class. Why was he playing with Xiaoxiao?”
“But Xiaoxiao can choose whoever she wants to play with…”
Yi Qian clenched his fist and shouted at Zhouzhou, “I said no! If he plays with Xiaoxiao again, I’ll beat him! ”
“Yi Qian! I’ll call your father now!”
After hearing Yi Qian’s words, Zhouzhou was unhappy too. “Who are you to forbid me from playing with Xiaoxiao! I don’t care. I want to play with Xiaoxiao! She used to be in the same class as me. If it was not because of you, she would always play with me every day!”
“You can’t play with her!”
“I want to play with her! I like her. You can’t play with her!”
“You can’t like her! She is mine!”
“Alright, stop quarreling!” Seeing that the two were about to fight again, the teacher immediately separated them. “Yi Qian, Zhouzhou, listen to me. I know you two like Xiaoxiao, and I like Xiaoxiao too. She is cute and clever; who doesn’t like her? But Xiaoxiao can play with whoever she wants. Neither of you can interfere with it, understand? If not, she will be unhappy. You know it, right? Do you want her to be unhappy?”
Yi Qian shook his head.
Zhouzhou also shook his head.
“That’s right. So Xiaoxiao can play with whoever she wants to play with. Yi Qian, you must not be so overbearing in the future. I will call your dad later about your fight today, and you must not be so naughty in the future!”
Lu Jingyi and the others, who were eavesdropping outside the infirmary, were anxious when they heard this.
“What should we do? The teacher is going to call Yi Qian’s daddy!”
“Just let him call. Do you think Yi Qian’s daddy will beat him like your daddy? Yi Qian’s daddy won’t beat him.”
“But Yi Qian hit him first, so it was his fault. What if he gets beaten?”
“…” So all of you knew it was Yi Qian’s fault.
Huo Xiaoxiao asked these little kids, “Why does Yi Qian dislike Zhouzhou so much?”
Lu Jingyi and the others looked at Huo Xiaoxiao, “Don’t you know?”
“Know what?”
Lu Jingyi said frankly, “Yi Qian likes you.”
Huo Xiaoxiao had a question mark on her head.
“Me? That kid…” Her high-pitched voice died down under the gaze of several kids. “He likes me? How is that possible?”
“Of course, it’s possible. Yi Qian likes you, so you can’t play with Zhouzhou.”
“That junior class even made a rumor that you also like Zhouzhou. What’s good about that little kid? How can you like him?”
Huo Xiaoxiao laughed out loud.
Has he even grown up yet?
Does he even know what liking someone is?
He even forbade her to play with other kids. What were these children thinking all day long?
Huo Xiaoxiao didn’t take this seriously.
They were just three or four years old children. What did they know about liking and disliking someone?
It seemed like they thought she was fun and just wanted to play with her.
No wonder that little boy, Yi Qian, was always unhappy with Zhouzhou. It turned out that he “liked” her.
“Xiaoxiao, don’t play with Zhouzhou. He also likes you, but you belong to Yi Qian. You can’t like others.”
“…”
With his sharp eyes, Xiang Chen saw the teacher walking toward the door in the infirmary. “Go, go, go! The teacher is coming!”
The children scattered in a hurry.
Not long after they returned to their class, Yi Qian also came back with a bruised nose and swollen face.
The boy was keen on saving his face, so he sneaked in through the back door. He sat in his seat as soon as he came in, then covered his face with a storybook.
But obviously, none of his brothers gave him any face. They took the book he used to cover and saw the bruise on his face.
“Wow, it’s so black and red. Yi Qian, does it hurt?”
Yi Qian glared at them before quietly glancing at Huo Xiaoxiao. When he saw her looking at him, he quickly snatched the storybook in Lu Jingyi’s hand and blocked Huo Xiaoxiao’s sight.
“Doesn’t hurt!”
“Yi Qian is so fierce. I think he put that kid on the ground and beat him.”
“The big bullying the small, you’re not embarrassed to show off?” Huo Xiaoxiao snatched Yi Qian’s storybook and looked at him. “Yi Qian, and all of you, don’t bully Zhouzhou in the future. He is younger than you. You hitting him means you bullied him.”
Yi Qian frowned and shouted at her, “Who told him to always come and play with you!”
Huo Xiaoxiao patiently explained to him, “He is my friend. Why can’t he play with me? All of you are also my friends. Don’t I usually play with you too?”
“No, you can only choose one between the two of us!” Yi Qian straightened his neck and said, “Tell me, are you playing with him or with me?”
“…” How could a child learn to isolate someone at such a young age?
“Then, what if I insist on playing with him?”
Hearing her words, it was obvious that she wanted to play with Zhouzhou, so Yi Qian stood up with anger. He took a few breaths and said, “You can’t! If you play with him, then from now on… then from now on, I… from now on…”
“From now on” was repeated four or five times, but he still couldn’t complete his sentence.
“From now on what?”
“From now on… I won’t bring you chocolate!”
Huo Xiaoxiao chuckled.
What a kid.
“I don’t want your chocolate. It’s your chocolate that made me fat.”
“Then from now on, I… I…”
“You will stop playing with me in the future if I play with Zhouzhou? Okay then.” Huo Xiaoxiao said helplessly, “Then we will stop talking from today on.”
Yi Qian almost jumped in a hurry. “I didn’t mean that!”
“Then what do you mean?”
Yi Qian stared at her angrily for a long time. It seemed that he couldn’t do anything to Huo Xiaoxiao, so he could only sit down. “I didn’t say that.”
Huo Xiaoxiao reached out and poked the bruise on his cheekbone. “Does it hurt?”
Yi Qian hissed, but he shook his head, pretending to be strong.
“Okay. At first, I was thinking about bringing candies for you tomorrow, but since you aren’t hurt, then forget it.”
“No… It hurts!”
Huo Xiaoxiao smiled. “Don’t bully other kids anymore. I’ll play with you and bring you candy. If I see you bullying other kids, I’ll never talk to you again!”
Yi Qian felt frustrated. However, he couldn’t say anything about Huo Xiaoxiao’s words.
He didn’t want Huo Xiaoxiao to play and laugh with other children, but she liked to play with others and didn’t allow him to prohibit other children from playing with her.
So annoying!
He lay on the table, holding the hair on the back of his head in both hands. He didn’t know what to do.
“Yi Qian!”
Yi Qian replied in a dull voice, “Hmm, I got it.”
——
In the teachers’ office.
Teacher Zhao was looking through the parent’s address book. “Teacher Chen, have you called Zhouzou’s parents?”
Teacher Chen hit his head. “Not yet, I forgot. I’ll make the call now.”
While speaking, he took out the address book to look for the phone number of Zhouzhou’s parents.
After thinking about it, he asked Mr. Zhao, “Mr. Zhao, what is the reason for the fight between Zhouzhou and Yi Qian? I heard it as soon as I got back.”
When Teacher Chen asked, Teacher Zhao suddenly laughed out loud. “What else? These two kids like Huo Xiaoxiao in our class, and they both want to play with Xiaoxiao. During extracurricular activities, Yi Qian saw Huo Xiaoxiao and Zhouzhou playing together. He was angry and didn’t want her to play with Zhouzhou, so they started fighting.”
Hearing that, Teacher Chen also laughed. “Those little kids—Hello? Is this Zhouzhou’s parent? I’m Zhouzhou’s homeroom teacher, and my name is Chen.”
On this side, Teacher Chen was calling to explain to Zhouzhou’s parents about Zhouzhou’s fight at school today. Teacher Zhao also found the phone number of Yi Qian’s parents. A call was made, and it rang seven or eight times before it was picked up.
“Hello, is this Yi Qian’s parent? I’m Teacher Zhao, Yi Qian’s homeroom teacher. I contacted you two days ago. Do you remember?”
“…” Yi Yang frowned slightly on the other end of the phone. He raised his hand and waved, signaling the assistant to go out first.
“I remember. Please talk.”
“Well, it’s like this, Yi Qian had a fight with another child in kindergarten today, so I needed to talk to you about it.”
“Fight? Why?” Yi Yang, who only got a few phone calls from the teacher all year round, had received a couple of phone calls from the teacher in the last two or three days. All of them were about the kid making trouble in the kindergarten.
Teacher Zhao told him about today’s affairs and finally said with a smile, “Mr. Yi, Yi Qian is usually very obedient, but this time, he was in the wrong. He took the initiative to hit someone. So, do you think you have time to come to school today? I want to talk to you in person about Yi Qian.”
Yi Yang sighed and glanced at the clock. “I’ll take out some time to visit in the afternoon.”
“Then I’ll wait for you in the kindergarten. That’s all for now. Goodbye.”
“Goodbye.”
When he hung up, Teacher Chen’s conversation was also coming to an end.
“Teacher Chen, what do you think…? Should I make a call to Huo Xiaoxiao’s father?”
“Xiaoxiao had nothing to do with it… But you’d better still make a call and explain the matter.”
“Okay.”
Teacher Zhao dialed Huo Suicheng’s phone number and briefly told him about the fight that happened today.
Huo Suicheng frowned. His tone was rather in disbelief, “What… what did you say?”
“Mr. Huo, please don’t get me wrong. Xiaoxiao has nothing to do with this matter. It’s just that the two kids were fighting because of her, so I thought it was better to inform you.”
“Two kids? Fighting because of Huo Xiaoxiao?” Huo Suicheng was speechless for a while. “Who?”
“One is Zhouzhou, and the other is Yi Qian. Xiaoxiao is usually liked by children in kindergarten, and these two children like Xiaoxiao. They often give Xiaoxiao chocolate. Today, they had a little conflict, maybe because of Xiaoxiao.”
Huo Suicheng didn’t listen much to Teacher Zhao’s later words. Two words suddenly popped up in his mind—Puppy love?
