Chapter 72: Bedtime Story (2/2)
Tang Jinyu thought about it seriously, ”Don't bully, he's pretty good.”
Xia Ye put on cotton socks for him, scratched the soles of his feet, and the little guy laughed and rolled onto the bed to hide. Xia Ye sat on the side of the bed and asked, ”Why, isn't it best for you to be with Ji Yuanjie now?”
”Not bad.” Tang Jinyu was ticklish, and a little head popped up under the quilt to see him, ”Xiao Ji is at the same table as me, and Guo Xiaohu is our deputy monitor.”
”Will the Xingxing still be your class monitor?”
”Yeah, it has always been her!”
Xia Ye laughed and asked him, ”Is anyone in the class bullying you?”
Tang Jinyu shook his head.
How could someone bully him? He usually pulls Xingxing and Guo Xiaohu to not to let them bully others.
Han Yixing’s sense of collective honor was particularly strong, while Guo Xiaohu came up for a while and suddenly expressed his desire to burst out. They are now famous throughout the four-year classes in school, and the children in other classes are afraid of what school awards they will rob.
Xia Ye took the story book and turned over that page, but before speaking, he was still worried. ”You and Guo Xiaohu didn't know each other before. He is not a child in this community. Why did you suddenly play together? He seems to be very good to you.”
Tang Jinyu said, ”I helped him once before.”
Xia Ye was a little surprised: ”You still helping people?”
”Yeah, I will speak for him.”
This story was a bit long, but Tang Jinyu still told Xia Ye.
The little guy spoke a bit slowly, but he explains what happened.
The thing was like this.
This was in the second grade of elementary school.
Guo Xiaohu’s family was indeed a nouveau riche, just like what it was said outside. His family had money, but his background was not good, his parents are not well-educated, so he has the courage to fight. His family had made a fortune in doing earthwork business in the sea.
There were people in the school who were in the same unit as Guo Xiaohu's father. They were reluctant to organize and didn't dare to go on their own. But now seeing that the Guo family came out to do a big business alone, they were dissatisfied. The parents have grievances, so naturally the children will follow suit. When several classes in the school were taking gym class together, Guo Xiaohu played football and rushed to the front. He had good physical strength and seldom passed the ball to others. One of the boys was not happy and pushed Guo Xiaohu.
”What's so great about you, so what if your dad is a nouveau riche!”
Guo Xiaohu didn't understand the specific meaning of nouveau riche, but was irritated by the opponent's contemptuous tone, so he went up and hit them.
The two of them were fighting at first, but then the ones who were fighting with each other kicked others, and so the other kids also started fighting. Many children were fighting together in the playground. It immediately alarmed the assistant principal and called their teacher’s for a lesson.
When Xia Ye heard this, he couldn't help but interrupted and asked, ”Did you fight too?”
Tang Jinyu shook his head: ”No, brother I can't play football, so the teacher asked me to stand as a referee. Whenever they fight, I blow the whistle hard.”
”Did it work?”
”They never listen.”
Xia Ye didn't hold back, and smiled.
Tang Jinyu said angrily: ”Later, the assistant principal came and asked everyone to write a review. Our gym teacher was in the bathroom and followed us when we came back. We wrote five hundred characters, and he wanted to write five thousand characters.”
Xia Ye: ”Did you write?”
Tang Jinyu still shook his head, looking a little weird and said: ”I was responsible for listening to them reviewing and I listened to them all afternoon.”
Tang Jinyu felt that this was also a punishment, it was simply a spiritual punishment. He would have to memorize it after hearing it for so long, so he might as well write a copy himself.
”Later, the teacher called the parents. That classmate and his mother kept talking about Guo Xiaohu. Mother Guo apologized and they said that the teacher asked if anyone saw what happened, I had a good memory, so I went up and said something..” Tang Jinyu lay down. Then, put his feet up to support the little quilt, and made a tent to amuse himself, ”Brother look, a camping tent!”
Xia Ye wrapped the little guy in a quilt and asked him, ”What did you say?”
The little guy wrapped in the quilt twisted and lay down comfortably, ”Just those on the playground, I just said everything that I saw.” Those people cursed and pushed, but Guo Xiaohu also beat him back. He was honest, he didn’t help any kid.
After Xia Ye asked, he was relieved. He picked up the book and told him a story. Tang Jinyu lay there with his eyes open and listened. When Xia Ye looked at him, he immediately closed his eyes and made himself look like he was sleeping.
In order to imitate the image, he deliberately slowed down his breathing and made it heavier.
After pretending for a while, he fell asleep for real.
Xia Ye didn’t have time to finish telling a story, his fingers paused flipping the pages, shook his head with a smile, closed the book and placed it on the small desk aside, tucked the corner of the bed for the little guy on the bed, and turned off the lamp, leaving only one a small night light.
The small night light was half-moon-shaped, and the tender yellow moon was very cute, leaving a warm glow.
The bedroom door slowly closed, and Xia Ye glanced at the little guy inside and closed the door softly.
He said goodnight in his heart. His little friend must have had a particularly beautiful dream, his sweet little dimple would be revealed even when he fell asleep.