There was a knock on the office door, and the childcare worker opened it with a look of urgency on her face.
"Director, Xu Yuan and Qian Erpang are fighting."
Lin Qingping hurriedly took Luo Yan and Xiao Xiu back to the middle shift...
Qian Erpang pinned Xu Yuan down and beat her until she cried out in pain.
Qian Erpang was strong, and the caregiver couldn't separate them. Lin Qingping helped to finally separate the two children.
"Why are you fighting?" Lin Qingping asked Xu Yuan and Qian Erpang.
Xu Yuan kept crying, while Qian Erpang fumed.
"She called me a pig and said that pigs shouldn't be allowed to participate in competitions."
Qian Erpang was also on the list of participants in the kindergarten competition, but Xu Yuan was not. When she heard Qian Erpang talking about the competition, she was dissatisfied and scolded him.
How could Qian Erpang let Xu Yuan scold him? He immediately pinned Xu Yuan down and beat her up.
Xu Yuan burst into tears, "He ate all of his sister's food, he's a pig."
"I ate my sister's food, not yours, so why are you criticizing me?"
"Shut up, all of you!" Lin Qingping was so annoyed by the noise that she felt like her head was about to be blown off.
"Director Lin..." At the door, a little girl who was so thin she was practically skin and bones timidly called out to Lin Qingping.
"Qian Zhaodi, what are you doing here?" Before Lin Qingping could speak, Qian Erpang angrily questioned her.
"I heard you got into a fight, so I came to check on you..."
As Qian Zhaodi spoke, she secretly glanced at Xu Yuan, whose face was injured, and whispered, "Qian Erpang."
"She's from the East Wing, don't cause trouble for Dad."
"Mind your own business..." Qian Erpang shoved Qian Zhaodi away.
Qian Zhaodi was pushed back several steps and fell, revealing a bloody, exposed wound under her long sleeve.
Lin Qingping saw this, stepped forward, grabbed Qian Zhaodi, and pulled up her sleeve, revealing that the wound extended from her wrist to her elbow.
The scabbed wound reopened and bled again, causing Qian Zhaodi's face to contort in pain.
"How did you do that?" Lin Qingping asked.
Qian Zhaodi hurriedly stood up, pulled down her sleeves, and ran away.
Qian Erpang was startled by the wound on Qian Zhaodi's hand and silently retreated to his seat.
Xu Yuan, however, did not let Qian Erpang off the hook.
“Your second sister got hurt because of you. You always steal her food. When she has nothing to eat, she runs to the back door to steal vegetables and picks wild fruits in the mountains. You’re a pig, a gluttonous pig.”
Qian Erpang shouted, "This money-losing good-for-nothing will belong to someone else sooner or later. I'm eating my own food, you don't need to tell me."
"Still arguing?" Lin Qingping said. "If you keep arguing, you'll end up like Deng Ling, without any more little red flowers."
Qian Erpang and Xu Yuan shut up.
Luo Yan saw the injury on Qian Zhaodi's arm and heard what Xu Yuan said, putting it all together.
Could it be that Qian Zhaodi's dinner was stolen and eaten by Qian Erpang last night, and Qian Zhaodi was so hungry that she ran to the back door to get food, attracting wild boars...?
When Qian Zhaodi was running away, she happened to run into Grandma Kong who was picking bok choy. The wild boar then abandoned the fast-running Qian Zhaodi and attacked Grandma Kong instead.
It seems the Qian family has a strong preference for sons over daughters.
She remembered that her father knew Qian Erpang's father, and that her father could go and give him a lesson to avoid harming others and herself.
During lunch, Luo Yan paid special attention to Qian Zhaodi.
The children lined up to enter the restaurant and sat in rows. The caregiver served each child a bowl of rice and a plate of vegetables, with three different dishes piled up on one plate.
As soon as Qian Zhaodi sat down, Qian Erpang, who was sitting in the row behind her, came up and poured all of Qian Zhaodi's food into his own bowl.
The caregiver said something to Qian Erpang, but Qian Erpang ignored her and kept eating.
The caregiver could only take away Qian Zhaodi's bowl, mix some rice and vegetable soup together, and give it to her to eat.
Qian Zhaodi didn't dare to utter a sound and wolfed down her food as if she hadn't eaten for a long time.
Xiao Xiu noticed that Luo Yan was looking at Qian Zhaodi, so he picked up some meat from his plate and put it into Luo Yan's bowl.
"Yanyan, eat..."
Luo Yan stopped Xiao Xiu from putting any more meat on her plate and even gave Xiao Xiu the celery she didn't like.
Xiao Xiu didn't mind at all and ate all the food.
After lunch, Luo Yan went back to the classroom for half an hour of activities before taking a nap. She went to the bathroom and heard crying. She followed the sound and found Qian Zhaodi crying at the back of the bathroom.
"Don't look! Get out!" Qian Zhaodi sniffled as she shooed Luo Yan away.
Luo Yan had no interest in watching others cry. After urinating, she was about to leave when Qian Zhaodi grabbed her handbag strap.
"Do you have anything to eat?" Qian Zhaodi asked Luo Yan, her eyes glued to Luo Yan's handbag.
Qian Zhaodi had seen Luo Yan hand out candy before. Luo Yan didn't even flinch when she gave out so much candy, which Qian Zhaodi found incredibly extravagant.
Luo Yan has food, and Qian Zhaodi is indeed pitiful, but if she gives it to her this time, Qian Zhaodi may not think that she is kind. Instead, she may think that she can get whatever she wants by stealing.
Luo Yan turned around, facing Qian Zhaodi, who was four years older than her, without any fear, and lightly ran her fingers across her face.
"Sister, so shameful, so shameful..."
No one said Qian Erpang was shameless for stealing her food, but she was called shameful just for asking Luo Yan if there was anything to eat. Qian Zhaodi's eyes reddened.
"You're the one who's ashamed."
Luo Yan snatched the handbag strap from Qian Zhaodi's hand, made a face at Qian Zhaodi, and turned to walk out of the bathroom.
Qian Zhaodi covered her face and started to cry, but no matter how much she cried, none of the children who came to relieve themselves paid any attention to her.
When it was time to leave school, Luo Yan led the group to the main gate.
Hua Li hadn't arrived yet. Xiao Xiu stood with Luo Yan and saw Qian Erpang's mother coming to pick him up, completely ignoring Qian Zhaodi.
Lin Qingping called out to Sun Huizhen, carefully lifted Qian Zhaodi's injured hand, and pulled up her sleeve to show Sun Huizhen.
Qian Zhaodi's arm injury had already been treated by the health care doctor. Because of the hot weather, it wasn't bandaged; they just applied mercurochrome after stopping the bleeding, making the wound look even more gruesome.
Sun Huizhen glanced at it and said indifferently, "It's not broken, it'll be fine in a few days, what's the big deal?"
Lin Qingping had witnessed too many families who favored sons over daughters and how girls were treated; Qian Zhaodi's case was not even the worst.
"After all, she's a girl, it wouldn't be good if she had a scar. You should take her to the hospital to get it checked out."
Sun Huizhen gave a perfunctory "hmm" and walked away, holding Qian Erpang's hand.
Qian Zhaodi followed silently behind her mother and younger brother, like an emotionless tail.
Sun Huizhen greeted Hua Li, who was riding a bicycle to pick up her child, with a smile.
Hua Li recognized Sun Huizhen and nodded with a smile.
Turning around, Qian Zhaodi saw Hua Li pick up Luo Yan, kiss her, and put her on a chair. Her eyes were full of envy. She didn't notice that Sun Huizhen was also looking back at Hua Li. She bumped into Sun Huizhen and was slapped across the face by her.
Qian Zhaodi covered her face and wept silently, tears streaming down her face.
When Sun Huizhen returned home, she ran into Qian Song seeing Kong Dahong off.
Recognizing that he was Political Commissar Kong Dahong, Sun Huizhen warmly invited him to stay for dinner.
Kong Dahong refused in a lukewarm manner, but when he saw Qian Zhaodi, he suddenly said something.
"Qian Song, you still have a bright future. Don't let feudal ideas ruin your life..."
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