Chapter 305: A Wild Child
Jiang Ting scratched his head with a silly grin on his face, “Xiaoxin is the sweetest girl. Everyone likes to play with her.
“…”
What a simple-minded boy.
“Xiaoxin has been in low spirits lately and didn’t tell us what she had been through.” Having taken out some biscuits from her handbag, Qin Muxuan touched Jiang Ting’s head fondly, “Please protect Xiaoxin and don’t let anyone bully her, OK?”
“Who bullied Xiaoxin? I’ll beat him to death!” Hearing that, Jiang Ting rolled up his sleeves and wanted to fight the people who bullied Qin Xin at once.
Qin Muxuan held his collar at once, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, “Calm down. I haven’t found out who has made Xiaoxin sad.”
Jiang Ting still seemed incensed with his eyes goggled, “Does Xiaoxin get hurt?”
The boy asked that in a huff as if he would take his buddies to get justice for Qin Xin as soon as he got a positive answer.
Qin Xin ruffled his head and smiled, “Nothing. No one hurt her.”
“I’m here to see who has hurt Xiaoxin.” After saying that, her voice turned tenderer, “However, now I see she got your protection, I can be relaxed now.”
The boy’s hair which had stood on end now drooped. Still, the boy straightened bashfully but also proudly and patted on his chest, promising, “As long as I am here, no one will bully Xiaoxin!”
A bit dumb but also innocent.
However, his charisma didn’t last for long.
Suddenly, there was a hubbub in the classroom, giving out a loud noise. Qin Xin’s angry shout could be heard clearly, “Jiang Qinqin, give me my cherry hairpin back!”
“No way. A wild child doesn’t deserve to have the cherry hairpin.”
“You are a wild child. No one wants you. Even if you are sold for candies, no one would want you. Qin Xin, you are a wild kid whom no one wants, ha ha…”
Those girls’ voices sounded sweet, but the words came out of their mouth were truly hurtful.
Jiang Ting realized who took the lead at once. With his face turning red, he rushed into the classroom furiously. After that, he, with height advantage, snatched the hairpin which had been held up by the girl with a bun and then gave it back to Qin Xin who had been jumping to get her hairpin back.
Jiang Ting, not daring to look at Qin Muxuan’s face, stood between the two girls and glared at the girl with a hair bun, “Jiang Qinqin, why didn’t you take Xiaoxin’s stuff away?”
Jiang Qinqin, the chubby girl with fair and tender skin, snorted and tipped her chin arrogantly, saying, “Who took her stuff away? I didn’t do that. I just want to have a look at it. It’s not like I won’t give it back.”
“You shouldn’t swear either.” Jiang Ting frowned and ordered, “Apologize to Xiaoxin, now.”
“No! A child without parents is a wild child! I didn’t say it wrong!” Jiang Ting’s words seemed to hit a sore spot of Jiang Qinqin. The girl flew to a rage at once, “That bloody red thing is so ugly. I won’t have it even if she gives it to me.”
“I don’t want a brother like you either!” She roared and rushed outside.
Qin Muxuan reacted fast. She grabbed the back collar of the girl’s clothes immediately and picked the girl up to her front. After that, she towered over Jiang Qinqin with a cold look, “Who told you that Qin Xin doesn’t have parents?”
Qin Muxuan’s stern attitude frightened Jiang Qinqin. The girl was too little after all.
“Qin Xin’s parents never picked her. She also told us that she didn’t have father.” Jiang Qinqin retorted defiantly while struggling to get rid of Qin Muxuan’s hands, “My grandmother said that a child without parents is a wild child!”
A wild child, a wild child…
Those three words truly irritated Qin Muxuan. She felt as if she was on the edge of losing control with the blue veins popping out of her forehead.
Meanwhile, Jiang Ting looked at Jiang Qinqin in a rage with his face wrinkled.
Qin Xin saw that her teacher had come. Then she ran to Qin Muxuan and grabbed the latter’s coattail while saying in a low voice, “Xuanxuan, you should let go of her first.”
Qin Muxuan, lips compressed to a line, took a deep breath and tried to hold back her anger. After that, she patted on the chubby girl’s face with squinted eyes and said, “I won’t spare you next time if I find you bully Xiaoxin again. Do you remember that?”
Only until the teacher had walked over did Qin Muxuan let go of the chubby girl.
Jiang Qinqin rushed behind the teacher and then nerved herself again because she thought her savior had come, “Miss, she bullied me!” She made a complaint against Qin Muxuan at once.
“Jiang Qinqin, if you dare to talk nonsense again, I’ll beat you!” Jiang Ting’s cheeks seemed to be on fire. Then he explained what had happened to his teacher right away, “Miss, she has taken away Xiaoxin’s hairpin and called Xiaoxin a wild child without parents!”
Hearing the words ‘wild child’, Qin Muxuan put on a sulky again as if she was about to lose her temper right away.
The teacher who had accidentally exposed that Qin Xin was from a single-family felt guilty secretly. Having glanced timidly at Qin Muxuan who was wearing a sullen look, the teacher pulled Jiang Qinqin out from her behind embarrassedly and then asked the later, half-crouched, “Qinqin, did you take away your classmate’s stuff and scold her?’
Jiang Xinxin rolled her eyes and didn’t say anything without looking at her teacher.
Seeing that, the teacher realized that Jiang Qinqin truly had bullied Qin Xin. With her eyebrows knitted, she still tried to persuade the girl with a soft voice, “Haven’t I told you that a good kid should never take away other’s stuffs and abuse others? You have made a mistake. Now you should apologize to Xiaoxin, is that right?”
The students in this kindergarten were all from rich families. The teacher couldn’t afford to offend any of them, so she could only try to persuade the child one after another.
Jiang Qinqin, seeing Jiang Ting and Song Ye standing beside Qin Xin like her bodyguards, closed her lips tightly with her hands behind her back and refused to follow the teacher’s order.
Qin Muxuan frowned and wanted to say something again. Suddenly, Song Ye who was standing on Qin Xin’s left spoke.
He had just rushed over, so he was still huffing. Still, his voice sounded very firm, “Qinqin, apologize.”
Jiang Qinqin never scared of anything except for this boy who was three months younger than her getting angry. Hearing that, she shrank her neck with her head lowered and said reluctantly, “Qin Xin, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have taken your hairpin away.”
“And?” Song Ye asked, with his eyebrows wrinkled.
Jiang Qinqin peeped at him, finding the latter wearing a cold face now. Then she didn’t dare to try any tricks anymore. After she walked over to Qin Xin, she said sincerely with a loud voice, “Sorry, Qin Xin. I will never snatch your things again or call you a wild child. Please forgive me!”
“Then, you cannot take the lead in bullying me…”
Jiang Qinqin, under the huge pressure, nodded and agreed, “OK.”
“I’ll forgive you then.” Qin Xin smiled with her eyebrows curved, looking incredibly beautiful.
The chubby girl was amazed by that look. However, as she saw Song Ye putting on the hairpin on Qin Xin’s hair, she stamped her feet and snorted, then ran away.RêAd lat𝙚St chapters at Novel(D)ra/ma.Org Only
Qin Muxuan looked at the chubby girl who had run off in anger and then turned to the two boys who were comforting Qin Xin. ‘The boys are the reason for this.’ She sighed inwardly.
“Miss Qin…” The teacher looked at Qin Muxuan and dithered.
Qin Muxuan nodded and stepped outside, “Let’s talk about this over here.”
After they had a discussion in the teacher’s office for a long while, Qin Muxuan was guaranteed that no one would call Qin Xin a wild child again. Then she asked a day off for Qin Xin and brought the latter to the shooting site.
“Xuanxuan, I can’t believe you really take me to the shooting site!” After they arrived, Qin Xin started to look around with excitement in Qin Muxuan’s arms and found everything so fresh.
“Qin Xin, you have said that over fifty times.” Qin Muxuan rubbed the little girl’s nose and sighed, “If you say that again, I’ll send you home straightly.”
“Ha ha ha.” Qin Xin made a gesture of zipping her mouth and stayed quiet ever since.
Qin Muxuan chuckled. After she greeted a few staffs on the way, she took Qin Xin to the dressing room.
“Xuanxuan-” Every time Qin Xiaobai saw Qin Muxuan, his eyes would spark. However, as he saw the girl in Qin Muxuan’s arms, the look in his eyes turned gloomy. “Miss.”
He said those words so fast that Qin Muxuan didn’t notice his mood swings. After she put Qin Xin on the ground with a beaming smile, she took her to him and introduced them to each other, “Xiaoxin, this is my niece, Qin Xin.”
‘So, this is not her daughter.’
Qin Xiaobai thought happily.
“Xiaoxin, this is Qin Xiaobai whom I always tell you about. He’s a great actor and cares for me all the time. You can call him Brother Xiaobai.”
Qin Xiaobai took out a lollipop which he had always carried with him ever since he had met Qin Muxuan last time and gave it to Qin Xin with a smile, “Hello, Sister Xiaoxin, we met again.”
“You two have met before?”
“We met each other at the airport. She was lost at that time and I took her to the security personnel.”
Qin Xin also recognized him. Then she threw herself into his arms and called him with a sweet voice, “Hello, handsome brother!”
“It’s Brother Xiaobai, not handsome brother.” Qin Xiaobai was almost run down by her. Then he patted on her head and corrected her.
Qin Xin wriggled in his arms, “You are Brother handsome!”
They interacted with each other closely without feeling awkward at all just like siblings.
Seeing that, Qin Muxuan felt her eyes watery. She blinked hard to hold back her tears.
‘It’s not bad.’
‘As long as I can keep the things as they are, it doesn’t matter if they don’t know each other’s identity. The current situation is already good enough.’
Qin Muxuan wiped off a tear on the corner of her eye when she tried to fiddle with her hair bang. Then she chuckled gladly and pulled Qin Xin from Qin Xiaobai’s arms,
“Don’t muss Xiaobai’s costume. He’s going to act in the play very soon.”
Hearing that, Qin Xin stop sticking to Qin Xiaobai at once and looked to Qin Muxuan with her eyes flickering, “Can I watch it?’
“You have to ask your Brother Xiaobai.” Qin Muxuan didn’t want to get tied up with this girl and passed the buck to Qin Xiaobai.
“I promise that I won’t say anything or run about. I’ll stay there quietly without going anywhere.” In order to watch the whole process of the shooting, Qin Xin grabbed the hem of Qin Xiaobai’s costume and stared at him with a pitiful look. Those promises kept coming out from her mouth and she nearly vowed to the sky.
Qin Xiaobai was totally defeated by that and agreed resignedly, “OK, but you have to follow Aunt Jian and shouldn’t run around.”
“OK, no problem!” Qin Xin nodded vigorously with joy. Then she held his hand and pulled him to the outside, seeming more impatient than the boy who was about to act.
Qin Muxuan was afraid that she would fall. Then he held her hand in order to protect her.
After that, Qin Xiaobai followed Qin Xin’s steps closely as if he was a worried nanny who was afraid that his lady would fall down.
“Ha!” Jian Xi was amused by that scene and bumped Qin Muxuan who was still in a daze, saying in a very soft voice, “Your son and daughter are so funny. They should act in a comedy together.”
Qin Muxuan looked at the backs of her children with mixed feelings while murmuring, “Am I being so selfish?”