Chapter 57: Just Not Him

Lin Qinghuan suddenly remembered that on the day she cut ties with the Lin family, she had run into Da Bao and Xiao Bao. Their little faces were dirty, and they were heartbroken because Niu Dan had snatched their wild eggs.

These two kids were very sensible. They had been through a lot of hardship with Xiao Hanting. Lin Qinghuan’s protective instincts flared up.

“Kids, come up here first!”

Hearing her voice, the older boy leading the group scrambled onto the bank. After putting the small fish and shrimp he had caught in a shady spot, he walked over to her.

“Sister, is something wrong?”

Niu Dan was big and chubby, clearly the spoiled darling of his family.

When he saw Da Bao and Xiao Bao, his first instinct was to sneer. But with Lin Qinghuan standing next to them, he kept his mouth shut.

“There weren’t that many kids catching fish yesterday. Why are there so many today?”

“It’s like this, sister. They’re also good swimmers and wanted to earn some money, so I took it upon myself to let them join.” As he spoke, he lowered his head nervously, as if afraid Lin Qinghuan would get angry.

Lin Qinghuan stayed silent and scanned them with a serious look.

Children were just children, after all. Whatever they thought was written all over their faces. They all looked panicked and lost.

“Everyone else is fine. But I don’t want him.” Lin Qinghuan looked straight at Niu Dan and delivered her verdict.

“Why?!” Niu Dan’s face turned red, and he protested resentfully.

There were so many kids here, and she was taking all of them. Why was she singling him out? This was clearly targeted at him.

“No reason. I just don’t want you earning money from me. Is there a problem? Or does someone say I have to buy from you?”

The kids seemed to have never seen anything like this before. They all stood stunned, not knowing what to say.

But Niu Dan usually threw his weight around and bullied many younger kids, so it wasn’t surprising that some adults disliked him.

“Y-you’re bullying me! I’m going to tell my mother! Wah!” He plopped his chubby body onto the ground and began to cry loudly, throwing a tantrum.

Lin Qinghuan casually picked at her ear, unconcerned.

After three minutes of crying, seeing that nobody was paying him any attention, Niu Dan stopped on his own.

‘How can this be? In the past, whenever I cried, my mother would coax me and then promise me anything. Why doesn’t that work now?’

“Have you cried enough? If you have, think hard about what the problem is with you. Why do I take every other kid, but not you?”

She didn’t want to waste time arguing with a child, but Niu Dan had to apologize for what he had done and be forgiven by Da Bao and Xiao Bao. Otherwise, she still wouldn’t take his catch.

Niu Dan fell into thought. He didn’t think he had done anything wrong. This was also the first time he had been scolded like that, so his heart burned with a nameless anger.

While he was sulking, he happened to glance at Da Bao and Xiao Bao. Suddenly, he remembered the key to the problem.

“All I did was take their wild eggs. It was my mother who said they were little bastards, born but not raised, and that I could bully them any way I wanted.”

Niu Dan ratted out his mother completely. Although he didn’t think his mother had said anything wrong, he still felt a pang of guilt.

“Oh? Born but not raised? At least they have better manners than you. You, on the other hand, have a mother, yet you’ve been raised like this. You’re hopeless, you know?”

Lin Qinghuan really wanted to give this little brat a couple of flicks on the forehead. This kid really would say anything. He was at least half responsible for this matter.

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