Chapter 95 Too Arrogant
That day when Qiu Ye was selling meatballs, something unpleasant happened.
Qiu Ye rushed back to her godmother's house after school, grabbed the meatballs and tea eggs prepared by her godmother, and then sprinted to the cafeteria of Normal University.
This afternoon's sales were pretty good, she took two hundred meatballs and only one basin was left.
At this time, a shadow emerged from the side and came to Qiu Ye's stall, stretched out his hand to grab a boiled dumpling and stuffed it into his mouth, then spat it out with a "Ptooey" sound, saying: "What kind of trash is this? Not even dogs would eat it, yet you're selling it?"
Qiu Yeding took a look and it was the child of Third Uncle's family, his own cousin Qiu Jiabao.
Qiu Ye's eyebrows were upside down, her big eyes wide open as she shouted: "What are you doing? Why are you stealing things again?" Can't this child learn to behave properly? If he wants to eat something, can't he just say so? As his older cousin, wouldn't I give it to him? Why does he like to steal all the time?
Qiu Jiabao didn't like his cousin's questioning, "What's wrong with me grabbing it? My grandmother said that from now on, everything in your house belongs to me. So the things you have now are also mine. I love grabbing them, what can you do about it?" Qiu Jiabao said matter-of-factly.
Qiu Ye is really something, grandma is so biased, her partiality has reached the sky. Her own parents are still alive and she has both sons and daughters, how could it be possible for this cousin to inherit her family's property? It's truly an absurd idea.
Qiu Ye Gang wanted to properly educate his younger brother, thinking that as his older sister, she could still set him straight with a few words and put him on the right path, so he would become a good young man who contributes to the Four Modernizations.
Before she could finish her sentence, the child rebelled against her.
"You're so young... what are you doing?" Qiu Ye's voice was calm and steady at first, but rose sharply with the last sentence.
This kid is really hateful, he took advantage of my inattention and with a flick of his hand, he overturned the bowl I was using to make dumplings. The dozens of dumplings that were still in the bowl rolled all over the place.
Qiu Jiabao looked pleased with himself, pinching his mouth and eyes. He made a face at his furious older sister and then ran off in a flash.
Qiu Ye's anger made her jump up and down on the spot, she wanted to go catch that detestable kid and hang him up for a good thrashing, let him know this is her territory, being arrogant here comes with a price.
But she still had a few tea eggs left unsold here, and she couldn't leave, so after jumping up and down in place for a while, she started picking up the scattered balls on the ground and gathering them together. While picking, she comforted herself. Fortunately, fortunately, it was the bowl of balls that was overturned, and she didn't lose anything. If that annoying kid had overturned the bowl of tea eggs, she would have been heartbroken.
Qiu Ye looked at the twenty or so balls in front of her and thought to herself, "These balls are spoiled, people can't eat them anymore, but dogs can." The Security Department of the Normal University had a big wolf dog that they fed. After a while, she would go feed these balls to the dog and see if it would eat them.
Qiu Ye had just finished collecting, and Qiu Feng came over with two buckets on his bicycle. Seeing the dirty dumplings in front of his sister, he frowned.
"This is so careless, this is a crime." His sister always said that wasting was a crime. He remembered it all.
"Brother, it's not that I wasn't careful, but just now that little devil Qiu Bao came to make trouble, snatching and flipping things around... then he ran away. I still have to take care of the stall, so I couldn't go chase him. All I could do was watch him run off."
"This little rascal dares to come and cause trouble, his guts are really big! In a moment you go back home yourself, I'll chase that little devil, if I don't catch him, it's hard to dispel the hatred in my heart, humph!" Qiu Feng said, quickly got on the car and sped away.
Qiu Ye looked at the boy in front of her, who was swaying his hips left and right, and only managed to shout out a sentence: "Go home early, don't eat dinner late." The figure then disappeared.
At noon, when Qiu Ye had sold out of glutinous rice balls and was carrying an empty bucket home, his elder brother was already seated at the dinner table.
"Brother, your action is quite fast."
"That's nothing, just a small brat, does it even take an afternoon? I just hit him a few times and he started crying and screaming, such a weakling, I can handle him with ease." Qiu Feng said proudly, feeling that his abilities were being wasted.
Qiu Ye hummed in response, not daring to hit his older brother. A thirteen-year-old big kid like him still needed help taking care of a six-year-old little kid? That was just ridiculous.
"What's going on, what are you talking about?" Zhao Shuyan brought the dishes out of the kitchen and saw that the two children were being mysterious, and also noticed that they had come back separately today, which made her very curious.
"Dry mother, you don't know, today my third uncle's family's youngest child, took advantage of me not being there, went to bully my sister..." Qiu Feng quickly told the dry mother what had happened.
Zhao Shuyan furrowed her brow after hearing this, this child really has no home training, what kind of parents raise what kind of children, it shows how important the role of parents is in a child's growth.
"Xiao Ye, are you okay?" Zhao Shuyan didn't care about the educational problems of other people's children, as long as her own child wasn't bullied.
"Auntie, I'm fine. Qiujiabao just flipped over the bowl with the meatballs, nothing else happened." How could a nine-year-old child be bullied by a six-year-old?
"Brother, it's you, how did you deal with Qiu Jia Bao? Didn't leave any obvious evidence, did you?" Qiu Ye hoped that her brother wouldn't be impulsive and forget the things she had taught him. When hitting someone, don't hit their face, instead aim for areas on the body where pain is more intense, so it won't leave much of a mark afterwards, how great would that be?
"I'll take care of it, you can rest assured." Qiu Feng said with a grin, very confident in his own abilities.
"You two, always causing trouble for your parents. Just you wait and see, tonight your grandmother will definitely bring that child to your house to cause a ruckus. Can't you think of a better solution? Must you resort to violence?" Although Zhao Shuyan's words were directed at the children, in reality she was on their side. It's just that when educating children, one can't say such things.
Qiu Ye also knew this truth, but if she let this child continue to be so arrogant, then her small business would be finished. She dared to confirm that if Brother didn't discipline Qiu Jia Bao, tomorrow Qiu Jia Bao would still go and cause trouble. Even now, if Brother disciplined him severely, he couldn't guarantee that the child wouldn't go again tomorrow. This matter could only be dealt with when the time came.
As for Grandma coming to find Dad and Mom, she had thought of that too. Although she didn't want to trouble Dad and Mom, she also had to let them know that her cousin was bullying her, right? She dared to guarantee that as long as Mom and Dad knew she was being bullied, they would not indulge Grandma's behavior, and Grandma coming here would not get a good outcome either.
"Auntie, this is the best and fastest solution. You haven't seen how spoiled he is by his grandma and mom, it's gotten to the point where simple persuasion and education don't work on him anymore. If we don't teach him a lesson and let him feel some pain, he won't remember it in his heart and will continue to make the same mistakes in the future. As his older cousin and also as the victim, I have the obligation to guide him onto the right path. Besides, special situations call for special education, this is all allowed." Qiu Ye said with a sense of justice. What she most wanted to say was that he could bully others if he wanted, but bullying her was not acceptable.
"You just guarantee to hit him once and he will remember the lesson, then he won't go causing trouble again?" Zhao Shuyan was not optimistic about Xiao Ye's words.
"If one punch doesn't work, then two punches, three punches, until he remembers." Qiu Feng said firmly at this time, raising his head from the rice bowl.
Qiu Ye listened and nodded vigorously in agreement.
Zhao Shuyan looked at these two violent children, shook her head helplessly, but she didn't want to intervene with the children. In her heart, she also thought that the children were right. Had she been brainwashed by them?
In the evening, Qiu Ye finished dinner and was studying at her godfather's house when she heard a loud voice shouting from the stairs. It sounded like her own grandmother. She exchanged a glance with her brother, and they made eye contact, then smiled and asked Fang Haibo to excuse them for a trip home.
When Fang Haibo returned home in the afternoon, his wife told him about the brother and sister's feat at noon and their related remarks. He also agreed that education should not be confined to formalities and should be tailored to individual needs.
So he readily approved of it and let the children clean up their own mess, which is also a kind of education that helps them grow.
Qiu Feng and his sister rushed upstairs just in time to see everyone except Qiu Jiaqing standing inside the main house, arguing with their parents and looking like they were about to start a fight.
Old Lady Qiu caught sight of the two brothers, Qiu Ye and his brother, returning with a glance, and quickly stepped forward, as if to scold Qiu Ye. She seemed to have set her sights on Qiu Ye, always finding fault in everything she did.
But this time Qiu Feng and Qiu Ye reacted quickly, both had been taught a lesson once before, if their actions were still like before, then they just didn't learn from their mistakes.
Qiu Ye quickly retreated a step back, while Qiu Feng took a step forward, blocking the slap that was about to land on him from his grandmother. He shouted loudly: "What are you going to do again? Last time you beat my sister for no reason and my parents didn't even bother to argue with you. Are you trying to use this trick again? Believe me or not, I'll call the police and have all of you arrested!" Qiu Feng was very much like calling his grandmother who always resorted to violence an "old witch", but last time his sister had already warned him that such a term could only be used in his heart and not spoken out loud, otherwise he would give them a handle to grab onto. After all, this person was his father's mother!
Qiu Feng was shouting in his heart, old witch, old witch, old witch...