234 Ye Shuang Outsmarts a Six-Year-Old (2/2)
Obviously, the boy had turned to someone to buy out other people to do his dirty bidding. The family had always been generous during new year, and new year was not that long ago. Therefore, this wild child went through his own stash and found people to fight the war for him.
”You… Go to your room!” Old Man Wang exploded. If not for his temperament improving after he struck the mother load, with his previous personality, he would have sent the boy flying with a slap to the face. The boy winced and finally got his lesson. He jumped down from the sofa and staggered his way up to the second floor.
Wang Xueyu looked at the five ruffians with curiosity. Since he had grown up there, he naturally could recognize the five as bad news, but Wang Xueyu was more curious about another thing. ”You said you brought them back, but why would they follow your order so obediently? Why wouldn't they just run?”
The five ruffians cried even harder. It was not that they did not want to run—they simply could not. The man was too powerful. He had his hands casually in his pockets, but there was a bag of chocolate balls in his pocket. Of course, the chocolate balls were not the main point—the main point was that whoever dared to run would be shot by a chocolate ball! The man aimed at the back of their knees, so before they could run away, they would be forced to kneel down to the ground. The worst thing was, when they were dragged back, they would be forced to compensate for the chocolate ball—one piece for 100. Even handcrafted chocolate from Belgium did not cost that much!
The five ruffians were filled with sadness and sourness. Under the both pressure from physical threats and money loss, the five ruffians eventually chose to surrender.
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After that one night, Ye Shuang's presence at the Wang family was noticed even more. The despaired Wang Xueyu became even more saddened. To everyone's surprise, even the wild child had surrendered—he at least would not dare come at Ye Shuang openly anymore.
There was no choice; he had to admit defeat. The bad things that he had done were exposed, and that night, he had been beaten up severely by Old Man Wang. This kind of punishment that happened ever so rarely made the wild child's resentment toward Ye Shuang disappear completely.
The boy was not an idiot. With the teaching from his biological mother, he had learned how to watch people's expressions at a young age. When it came to who he needed to play nice with and who he could bully, the boy knew it clearer than anyone else. The boy did not dare to come after anyone of the family, but similarly, the family would not purposely make life difficult for a six-year-old. Therefore, they had been co-existing in relative peace. Other than the people that even Old Man Wang had to be respectful around, he could freely bully other outsiders. After all, no matter how big the prank the boy had played on them, they did not dare to really take revenge on him.
It was because of this realization that the child had not been physically punished before. However, this time, he came up against his natural enemy—the target this time was a big character and someone that Old Man Wang admired. At the same time, Ye Shuang was someone that would not hesitate to not give the boy face. Who said a child had to be forgiven for his every mistake? She forgave you because she was being understanding of his naivete, but he should not expect that she would forgive him every time.
Because of that, on the second day, when the wild child saw Ye Shuang, one could imagine how obedient he was. Now, whenever he saw Ye Shuang, he could feel the pain on his behind. He really did not expect that Ye Shuang was the kind of person that would say anything that was on his mind.
”Ha ha, I'm shocked that there is someone in this world that youngest son would be afraid of.” Old Man Wang faced Ye Shuang and laughed heartily. The sight of the awkwardness on his face from the day before when the boy was pulling all those pranks had completely disappeared. He raised his hand to make a lousy move on the Go board and said, ”Xiao Ye, why don't you stay with us? I'll give you a salary of 10,000 a month. You can stay here at the home, and your job scope will only be to teach my son.”
Ye Shuang smiled and ended the game with another move. She saw the twitch on the old man's lips, and she replied, ”If Uncle Wang is really willing, I can introduce you to a good private school with boarding. The students will be allowed to return home every two weeks, and everything is done in a military fashion. Every morning, the students are hauled up from bed to run for one kilometer and then breakfast and class. The whole day is spent in class, and at night, the students have to do their homework. As long as you are willing to part with your son for one semester, I swear to you he'll return a changed person.”
The teachers at the school could not be said to be of good quality, but every one of them had a steel heart. The headmaster had a clear philosophy. He believed that an idle mind was the devil's playground, and that was especially true for kids. Therefore, he would make them tire like a dog every day and dry out all of their energy, leaving no energy for fights and romance.
Of course, skipping school was impossible. After the bell rang, the teachers would check the rooms with the student council. Those who came late to class would be openly shamed at the weekly school gathering, much less those who were caught skipping school.
People liked to say that children were shameless, but actually, a child's sense of pride was bigger than anyone else. The school's politics were no different from an army's. In any case, Ye Shuang knew the school well because quite a few wild children from her own neighborhood had been corrected after attending this school.
”That won't work.” Old Man Wang shook his head. ”My youngest son couldn't be left at a full boarding school. His mother comes to see him every half a month—that was our argument.”
”A child's education should be separated from visitation.” Ye Shuang smiled. ”Uncle Wang, this is ultimately for the child's own good. You shouldn't really consider making the child stay at home and skip school simply because the mother wants to see him, right? Actually, you know that is the woman's trick, and if Uncle Wang had just let Mrs. Wang handle this issue, the woman would have been taken care of already, and things would not have reached this current state.”
Old Man Wang was both persuaded and embarrassed. He did not want to appear like he was unable to handle a small incident like this, so he had never considered asking his wife to deal with the mistress. It was fine for a man to have a little something on the side, but it was a different issue if he brought something home with him.
Of course, Mrs. Wang did not know about Old Man Wang's issue of pride—she assumed her husband was giving face to the mistress and taking good care of the b*stard son. To not influence their relationship, especially since there was a ticking time bomb in the b*stard son, Mrs. Wang did not dare to take over the issue on her own, afraid that it might lead to an argument within the family.
Therefore, one wanted the other to take over but did not have the face to ask for it, and the other wanted to take over but was afraid of crossing the line. Neither wanted to talk about this awkward issue, and it had been allowed to fester until now.
Ye Shuang saw through Old Man Wang's thoughts, and she sighed. ”I hope Uncle Wang does not mind me saying something honest. It is really not a long-term solution to allow the child to continue like this. Even if you don't wish for him to do anything great, at the very least, he should be taught not to harm his own family.
”At his age, he already knows how to buy out others to do his bidding. In the future, if this is not corrected, it will only lead to something worse. Many people think that one should not bother too much about what a child does, but if you do not teach him while he is young, when he grows up, it will be much too late.”
”I'll think about it.” Old Man Wang brushed it off. Many things were easier said than done. He already knew about what Ye Shuang was saying, but he did not know how to take the first step.
He would consider talking it out with Mrs. Wang, but it was true that they could not leave the son's education any further. It was about time for the boy to enter school. Starting from the second half of the year, it was time for his schooling age. Old Man Wang's original intention was to send the boy to the city's upscale school, but thinking about it once more, perhaps a military school was not such a bad idea.
Ye Shuang did not say anything more than that. After lunch, she sat around the house for a while before standing up and leaving the house to take a call. When she returned, she said that she needed to leave because something had come up. Old Man Wang wanted her to stay; after the chat in the morning, he wanted to get to know the young man. He was surprised that Ye Shuang would leave in such a hurry.
However, Wang Xueyu was very happy. Qiu Yu had been left stranded at the home for two days already. If Ye Shuang continued to stay, after the whole week was over, Qiu Yu would have returned to university without even raising a ripple at the family. When she returned next time, people probably would not even remember that this female friend of his had stayed over for a weekend.
Ye Shuang left the Wang family's mansion at 9 pm. Ye Shuang exited the small town and went on the highway. She used five hours to drive back to San Lin City. Even though the highway was deserted since it was late at night, she did not make use of the chance to drift. This was because she wanted to buy time so that she could return to San Lin City in her female form. She changed her clothes and shoes in the car. The important issue was a lie; mainly, it was because Ye Shuang did not want to find a child to kiss.
It was true that Old Man Wang's village was wealthy, but since none of the adults wasted time to learn about manners, the children had been reared the village way. The kids were left wandering the street, and they rubbed their snot and saliva on their sleeves. Seeing that, Ye Shuang did not have the appetite to kiss anyone of them.
The next morning, she woke up early. She left home to go shopping for some cooking ingredients. When she left, she ran into Anthony, who was leaving his place to get to work. He saw Ye Shuang and asked in surprise, ”Xiao Shuang, when did you return?”
”I came back last night and went to sleep directly.” Ye Shuang greeted the man and walked into the elevator with Anthony. She pressed the elevator button and asked, ”Is Albert still following you everywhere?”
”He is busy with other things.” Anthony used his hands to make a wicked expression and added with glee, ”After he was dragged into the illegal possession of items earlier, Albert's identity was fully exposed in the city. When people heard that an FBI agent was on holiday in San Lin City, the local police force and Interpol were over the moon. To resolve the earlier misunderstanding and to make it seem like they were not trying to go after Albert and were biased against him, they invited him to do a friendly lecture.”
FBI agent coming to China to give a lecture? That must be a joke. Even though it was not impossible, it had to have gotten the yes from the leaders of all the parties involved.
Ye Shuang could see Han Chu's involvement all over this. Perhaps even Yao Zhixing had gotten himself involved somehow. In any case, both of them had broad connections—one was all over the nation, and the other was famed locally. With their combined power, it was simple if they wanted to make things difficult for someone.
After the lecture, they could bring Albert to visit some unimportant location, and after the visitation, he could be invited to observe the military practice. After that, perhaps they could bring him to chat with the important officials. As long as Han Chu and Yao Zhixing felt like it, they could give Albert the best treatment.
China was most famous for chatting with leaders, having dinner, visitation and observation—one San Lin City was enough for Albert to 'play' for a whole month, but what about one month later?
Since he had such close relationship with the Chinese government, it would be strange if Albert was not summoned back to the FBI for questioning. To be frank, this was an open conspiracy.