DTBS - Chapter 35
Chapter 35: Very Protective
"Where did you learn those things?" Tao Aiqin was curious about the System's change. "So weird."
"I'm with you every day, where else would I learn them?" The System bounced the question back.
After Tao Aiqin came out of the changing room, Tao Qiuyun quickly noticed her. She walked over, bent down to touch the ears of the cat costume, then picked her up, laughing, "Now you've really turned into a little cat."
"Hmph!" The little cat seemed unhappy, poking her face with her paws. "What was Bad Mama talking about with Teacher Chang?"
"We were talking about taking pictures for you," Tao Qiuyun reached out and pinched her soft little face. "We'll ask the teacher to take beautiful pictures of Qinqin, okay?"
Chang Suiyou also walked over and smiled at Tao Aiqin. "Teacher will definitely try her best to take good pictures of the little cat. Then we'll show the photos to Mama. When Mama is happy, her illness will get better quickly too~"
After speaking, seeing Tao Qiuyun staring at her, Chang Suiyou felt a little embarrassed. "Sorry, was I talking too childishly?"
"No," Tao Qiuyun was understanding. "Teacher Chang is doing great. She has no distance from the children, very professional. I should learn more."
Hearing her praise, the woman's face beamed with joy. She bent down and picked up the box of mineral water. "Then you two go play around, I'll go deliver water to the other parents first."
"Okay," Tao Qiuyun nodded, grabbed the little cat's paw, and waved it. "Say goodbye to Teacher Chang."
The little cat was shocked.
Tao Qiuyun... would actually do something so cute? Could it be that Chang Suiyou had really stolen her home?
"Sys! Did the main system reply to you yet? It's been so long."
"The email is still unread. Don't rush. Besides, didn't you say before that Teacher Chang doesn't seem like a bad person?"
"Maybe not a bad person, but look how close she is with the villain mom. Didn't you notice that Tao Qiuyun has very little distance from this teacher? She seems to have a natural closeness to her."
"Could it be because Teacher Chang's smile looks a lot like the female lead's?" the System guessed.
"That's the problem, Sys! Stand-in literature is the scariest thing."
"Tao Qiuyun doesn't seem like the type to look for a stand-in," the System silently defended her. It felt she was already miserable enough, stuck with a daughter like this.
"Better safe than sorry! We need to prevent it before it happens!"
After watching Chang Suiyou's busy back, Tao Qiuyun turned around, ready to hold her daughter and go rest elsewhere. Before she had walked a few steps, she saw a little girl pushed to the ground by a rather sturdy boy. The boy pointed at her and laughed loudly, while the little girl's eyes were filled with tears, looking pitiful.
At the same time, the little cat in her arms struggled constantly, her eyes practically spitting fire, and she said urgently, "Bad Mama, hurry and put me down! Qinqin is going to help Mengmeng!"
So that was Mengmeng?
Tao Qiuyun put her down. Seeing the little one's short legs moving incredibly fast, she couldn't help but smile.
Her daughter was rushing to comfort her friend, what a beautiful friendship, what a kind little cat, truly...
Tao Aiqin used a cat punch to knock the little chubby boy to the ground. The boy immediately burst into tears from the pain.
Uh... that's good too. This way she won't be bullied.
Tao Qiuyun still praised her daughter's actions. Daring to resist violence and not choosing to swallow her anger is a quality many people lack.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" A middle-aged woman dressed flamboyantly ran over. Seeing her precious son sitting on the ground crying, she rushed forward to comfort him. "Oh dear, what's wrong with my precious baby? Why is your face red? Did someone hit you?"
"Her!" The little chubby boy extended his chubby hand, pointing at Tao Aiqin not far away. "She slapped me!"
"Mengmeng don't cry, let me blow on it, all the pain will fly away!" Tao Aiqin wasn't flustered at all, still comforting the little girl in front of her.
"Okay, I won't cry." The girl raised her hand to wipe the corner of her eye and gave Tao Aiqin a smile.
The little cat stood on tiptoe and reached out to touch her head.
Sigh, poor little girl, she got bullied again when she wasn't paying attention.
"You're the one who hit my son?!" The middle-aged woman, holding her handbag, stood in front of the two little girls. The height of an adult was very imposing, like a dark cloud pressing down. "Little girls shouldn't be so shameless."
Mengmeng was a little scared and clutched Tao Aiqin's sleeve tightly.
"Nonsense!" Tao Aiqin immediately jumped up, looking at the middle-aged woman's eyes with a clear gaze. "Qinqin never hits people! You're slandering Qinqin, Qinqin can sue you."
"Then my son said you hit him!" The middle-aged woman was very angry, turning sideways to reveal the smug little chubby boy.
The little chubby boy pointed at Tao Aiqin. "She hit me, she's lying."
"Ah!" Tao Aiqin was shocked. "Qinqin only hits beasts. Auntie, he must not be your son. How could anyone bully a girl? He often bullies Mengmeng, and Mengmeng is a girl. Great Grandfather said that anyone who bullies girls is not human, they are beasts."
"You!" The middle-aged woman was furious, her face red, seeing her son called a beast. She raised her hand.
Tao Aiqin had been watching her movements. Seeing the situation was bad, she decisively pulled the girl beside her and ran, heading towards Tao Qiuyun, shouting against the wind, "Mama! Mama! Your daughter hit a little beast, and now the big beast wants revenge for him, hurry and hit the big beast!"
Tao Qiuyun's breath hitched. Thanks to Tao Aiqin's shout, she became the center of attention again.
Besides, you keep saying "beast" with every other word, how could they not hit you!
"You're this child's mother?" The middle-aged woman came over with her son to demand an explanation. She was first startled by Tao Qiuyun's naturally elegant demeanor, but upon noticing that her T-shirt and casual pants had no brand, she couldn't help but look down on her a little. "Is this how you teach your daughter? Truly ill-bred and lacking in quality, like she has no mother."
"You're Mengmeng, right?" Tao Qiuyun squatted down, wiped the little girl's tear stains with a handkerchief, and said softly, "Did you hurt anywhere when you fell?"
"No, no," Mengmeng's voice was also soft.
"Hey! I'm talking to you!" The middle-aged woman took a step forward.
"If it hurts anywhere, you need to say so." Tao Qiuyun ignored her, checked and confirmed that the girl only had a slight scrape on her arm, and then felt relieved.
"Are you deliberately ignoring me? I didn't expect adults to be so ill-bred. Like mother, like daughter! The mother and daughter are the same! Are you raising the child alone? A single-parent family? Did your husband run away because he couldn't stand you?!"
"Qinqin," Tao Qiuyun pulled the little cat's hand, pointed towards the middle-aged woman, and said with a smile, "Listen, the big beast is calling."
"Pfft!" The little cat couldn't help but burst out laughing on the spot.
She said to the System in her heart: Sys, I love her so much!
"You!" The middle-aged woman was so angry her face turned red. She wanted to go up and fight, but then she saw Tao Qiuyun was tall with long legs. If she couldn't win, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing?
At this moment, she finally spotted her husband nearby. She rushed over and grabbed him, saying angrily, "Where have you been? Smoking all day, and you come to your son's school and still go to the bathroom to smoke, smoke, smoke! Your son got hit! Your wife got cursed at too!"
"Huh? In broad daylight, so bold!" The man with a bulging belly followed the middle-aged woman over. Seeing the red mark on his son's face, he felt heartbroken and immediately roared, "Who the hell did this! If you've got guts, stand out!"
"Them." The little chubby boy pointed at Tao Aiqin.
As soon as the man saw Tao Qiuyun's face, his anger subsided slightly. He straightened his clothes and stepped forward, saying, "It's not easy for a woman to raise two children, is it? I'm not a petty person. How about this, you apologize to us and treat us to a meal, and this matter will be settled."
"Your son apologizes to Mengmeng, and your wife apologizes to Qinqin, and this matter will be settled," Tao Qiuyun stood up, instantly looking down at him.
The middle-aged man awkwardly stepped back a few steps, thinking: What's the point of a woman being so tall?
His expression was displeased. "What do you mean? You hit my son and cursed my wife, and you think it's our fault?"
"You bullied Mengmeng first!" Tao Aiqin hugged Tao Qiuyun's right leg and poked her head out. "You are the bad guys!"
Seeing this, Mengmeng, who clearly knew Tao Qiuyun was a good person, also imitated her good friend, reached out and hugged the woman's other leg, nodding in agreement. "Qinqin and them are good people."
Tao Qiuyun: "..." Thank you, you instantly made me look less fierce!
Presumably, there's no situation where two sides are confronting each other, and one side is dragging a child on each leg, right?
"You two look perfectly fine, but the injury on my son's face can't be faked!" The man was relentless. "What if it leaves a scar and disfigures him, affecting his future marriage? What will we do! My family has been single-line for three generations!"
"I suggest you take him to the doctor," Tao Qiuyun said with a serious face. "Otherwise, the mark will fade quickly."
After speaking, she bent down and picked up the little cat, showing her paws, and said earnestly, "Do you know what my daughter's hands are for? She's going to build spaceships in the future. What if her hands tremble because of the pain and delay the country's development? What will we do?"
"Bragging! Your daughter can build spaceships?" The man looked disdainful.
"Bragging, your son can find a wife?" Tao Qiuyun's eyes were indifferent.
"What the hell do you mean!" The man instantly lost his composure.
"Don't you know anything about your own genes? I rarely attack someone's appearance, unless I can't help it," Tao Qiuyun's eyebrows twitched slightly. "If your son wasn't propped up by this lady's looks, he'd probably be described as unbearable to look at."
"I'm not as pretty as you say," the middle-aged woman suddenly received praise from a young and beautiful peer, and for a moment she was lost in thought, subconsciously saying something polite.
"You!" This time, it was the middle-aged man who was overcome with anger. He raised his hand high, as if this was some family tradition.
"If you keep harassing us," Tao Qiuyun took out her phone. "I'll call the police and report the matter to them. I've even thought of the charge for you: picking quarrels and provoking trouble. How does that sound? You'll be detained, right? And it will be in front of your son, the whole school will know his father went to jail."
The man looked around. Many people were silently watching, and some teachers even wanted to step forward to mediate, but they hesitated because of Tao Qiuyun's cold face.
He slammed his hand down fiercely and said viciously, "You just wait!"
With that, he took his wife and son and left the scene, presumably to find a corner for a family meeting.
Tao Qiuyun didn't take his threat to heart. As for the onlookers, as long as it wasn't a social death situation, she didn't really care about the surrounding gazes.
"Qinqin's Mama," Chang Suiyou came forward when the matter was resolved. "I'm sorry, our teachers arrived a bit late. At that time, the atmosphere between you was tense, and we hesitated for a while."
"It's okay, Teacher Chang," Tao Qiuyun put the little cat down. "I had a great time."
"However," she pulled Mengmeng's arm, "Mengmeng has a scrape on her arm. Can Teacher Chang take her to get it treated?"
"Okay." Chang Suiyou squatted down worriedly, checked the little girl's injury, and seeing it wasn't serious, she blew on it. "Mengmeng, does it hurt? Teacher will take you to get it treated right away."
"Mengmeng doesn't, doesn't hurt. Qinqin helped, helped Mengmeng blow on it," the little girl smiled. "I want to be best friends with Qinqin~"
"Okay, we'll be best friends with Qinqin!" Chang Suiyou held Mengmeng's hand and took her to treat the wound.
Seeing this, Tao Aiqin also stepped forward, holding Mengmeng's other hand, and instructed, "Mengmeng, don't be afraid. If anyone bullies you, Qinqin will help you hit them back."
After speaking, the little cat showed a thoughtful expression, turned around to pull Tao Qiuyun, and added, "If Qinqin can't beat them, let her help us fight."
Tao Qiuyun couldn't help but laugh. She followed the little ones' steps and flicked the little cat's nose. "What, am I your thug?"
"Yes! I appoint you as Qinqin's exclusive thug, to fight bad guys for the Cat Kingdom," the little cat lifted her neck, looking very proud.
"Okay, I will help Qinqin drive away all the bad guys," Tao Qiuyun said seriously.
She would let her daughter keep this pure heart, grow up freely, happily, and without worries.
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