Feng Yuan put away his little hand that had been counting money. He tilted his head to look at Xu Jiale, a trace of confusion in his milky voice: “Boss of the kindergarten?”
“That’s right, it means the big boss.”
Xu Jiale looked honest, but he actually knew quite a lot about the gossip inside the kindergarten: “Pan Yong is really sturdy. Ever since he was in the lower class, he’s loved bullying people.”
“Yuan Yuan, you’ve been counting money all day today. If he finds out, he’ll come looking for you.”
Feng Yuan became interested in this identity of being the kindergarten’s boss.
His pair of round eyes sparkled brightly: “Le Le, if I defeat him, does that mean I’ll be the boss?”
Xu Jiale: “……”
Xu Jiale looked at Feng Yuan, then thought about Pan Yong, who was taller and sturdier than Feng Yuan.
He tactfully advised: “Yuan Yuan, there’s nothing good about being the boss. We don’t need to be the boss. We can be good babies.”
Teacher Kang Kang said in class every day that they had to be good babies.
But Feng Yuan didn’t want to be a good baby.
He just wanted to be the boss.
“Right, this Pan Pan, has he ever bullied Qin Xun?”
Qin Xun was also in the senior class.
“No, the Qin Xun who plays really well with you, everyone says he’s a jinx, that you can’t go near him. If you get close, you’ll have bad luck.”
“Pan Yong hasn’t bullied him. He bullied me.”
As Xu Jiale spoke, he accidentally let it slip.
When Feng Yuan heard that Xu Jiale had been bullied, his round eyes immediately widened: “How did he bully you?”
“H-he spent all my pocket money.”
Xu Jiale’s family background was quite well-off. But his father didn’t like him and didn’t like giving him pocket money.
His father said that if a child held too much money in his hands, he would develop bad habits.
So, Xu Jiale’s pocket money was still very little.
And even that little bit of pocket money had been targeted by Pan Yong and spent.
“Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”
Feng Yuan furrowed his brows, his little face unhappy: “If you had told me earlier, I would’ve helped you get it back.”
“You can’t get it back. You don’t know how fierce Pan Yong is.”
It really seemed like Xu Jiale had some psychological shadow due to Pan Yong.
He kept talking about how powerful Pan Yong was. He even told Feng Yuan not to provoke him on purpose.
Feng Yuan let out a heavy snort.
He zipped up his schoolbag, the one with money in it, and then got ready to stand up.
But before he could even get to his feet, someone at the door called his name first.
“Feng Yuan, someone’s looking for you.”
The voice calling out sounded a bit flustered.
Feng Yuan lifted his head and looked toward the door.
The next second, his wrist was grabbed by Xu Jiale.
“Yuan Yuan, he’s here, he’s here, he came to find you! What should we do? The teacher’s still in the office.”
“Don’t go out, I’ll go find the teacher!”
Xu Jiale also looked toward the door, and he saw Pan Yong standing there.
If Pan Yong came looking for Feng Yuan, there could only be one reason.
He was here to ask Feng Yuan for money to spend.
It was said that he especially loved eating chocolate. But because he ate too much chocolate and ruined his teeth, his family had banned him from having chocolate. They also banned his pocket money to stop him from buying it himself.
“Le Le, don’t go find the teacher.”
Feng Yuan held back Xu Jiale, who wanted to go.
As the firmly established little troublemaker of the lower class, Feng Yuan didn’t like seeing teachers anyway.
He pushed his schoolbag further into the drawer.
“Le Le, you stay here and watch my schoolbag for me. I’ll just go out for a bit.”
“Yuan Yuan, don’t go out.”
Xu Jiale still wanted to stop him, but Feng Yuan simply wouldn’t listen to his nagging.
It was break time. Although there were teachers outside, they wouldn’t be watching every single child.
The children’s activities were still quite free.
Feng Yuan, with his little short legs, walked toward Pan Yong, who was standing at the door.
He recognized Pan Yong at a glance.
Tall, sturdy, dark-skinned, single-lidded eyes.
“You’re looking for me?”
Feng Yuan walked right up to Pan Yong, lifted his little bun-like face, and asked fearlessly.
Pan Yong hadn’t expected him to recognize him and was a bit surprised.
“Feng Yuan, right?”
Pan Yong also knew about Feng Yuan: “I heard you brought a lot of pocket money today. You’re so little. Do you even know how to spend it?”
“How about we be friends? I’ll take you to spend it.”
Pan Yong wasn’t the type to just directly ask people for money. He would still come up with some wording.
Unfortunately, Feng Yuan wasn’t interested in wording.
He smiled at Pan Yong and asked, blunt and simple: “You’re taking me to spend money. Then, did you bring money?”
“I don’t need to bring money.”
Pan Yong stuck his little hands in his pockets, striking a pose he must’ve learned from somewhere. He lifted his chin, showing a proud demeanor: “I take you to spend money. As long as you have money, that’s enough.”
“It’s my money. I’m not letting you spend it.”
Feng Yuan made his stance clear.
He wasn’t the least bit afraid of Pan Yong’s threatening gaze.
“The teacher’s coming. If you still want to find me, then let’s meet at the little garden at noon.”
Feng Yuan glanced at the time on his smartwatch. He remembered class times very clearly.
Class was about to start, and the teacher should be coming over.
He didn’t have time to stir up trouble right now.
He tossed out a time and place, then turned around and went back to the classroom.
Pan Yong, still standing where he was, looked at Feng Yuan’s small back. For some reason, a faint bad premonition suddenly rose in his heart.
But he forcefully pressed that feeling down.
He had been running rampant in the kindergarten for so long and had never suffered a loss.
This Feng Yuan, looking so small, couldn’t possibly be his match.
The figure of a teacher appeared not far away.
Pan Yong didn’t want to be seen by the teacher either, so he darted off and disappeared in a flash.
The noon meeting between Feng Yuan and Pan Yong somehow got leaked by some child.
Once the news spread, it stirred up a huge commotion.
Everyone was saying they were going to duel.
The children from Green Leaf Class also heard this news.
Even the classmates who usually didn’t like to talk to Feng Yuan, because he picked up junk, couldn’t hold back and all came to him.
“Feng Yuan, Pan Yong is from the senior class. You can’t beat him.”
“Yeah, don’t go looking for him at noon.”
“If he asks you for money, I’ll help you give it. My family gives me a lot of money.”
These children didn’t actually have much malice toward Feng Yuan.
They had only heard others always say that Feng Yuan picked up trash, that he was a dirty and smelly child.
But since they were in the same class as Feng Yuan, they knew—
Feng Yuan didn’t smell.
“Has he ever asked you guys for money?”
Feng Yuan didn’t take his classmates’ attempts to stop him to heart. He tore a sheet from his exercise book and handed it over.
“If he’s spent your money, just write it down in this notebook. However much he spent, write it all down.”
“I’ll get it back for you.”
Feng Yuan received the goodwill that his classmates had shown him.
And in return, he gave them something back.
At first, none of the children wrote their names and amounts on the paper. Not until a chubby kid took the lead.
He wrote his own name, then wrote down 230.
Pan Yong had spent 230 yuan of his money buying a small box of chocolate at the school gate.
With the chubby kid taking the lead, the other children also started writing.
After they finished, Feng Yuan gathered up the sheet of paper, his little face serious.
“Alright, I’ll go get it back for you.”
“Yuan Yuan, y-you be careful. It doesn’t really matter if we get the money back or not.”
Because of Feng Yuan’s matter of agreeing to a duel, the entire Green Leaf Class seemed, invisibly, to have grown a little more united.
At noon in kindergarten, the children didn’t go home.
After eating lunch, Feng Yuan slipped out with the excuse of needing to pee.
He jogged his way to the little garden.
Next to the flowerbed in the little garden, Pan Yong was already there.
The two little ones met.
Feng Yuan didn’t waste words and directly held up a sheet of paper for him to see.
“Pay the money back.”
Pan Yong: “…”
Pan Yong: “They willingly spent it on me.”
Pan Yong narrowed his eyes: “You’re bringing me this paper because you want to play the hero, is that it?”
“I already saw through you. You just don’t want to be friends with me, don’t want to go to the mall and play with me as my friend.”
Feng Yuan looked at him with open disdain on his little face: “I’m not making friends with bad kids.”
Between the two little ones, not even half a sentence could go smoothly.
There was no way they could have a proper talk. Pan Yong flexed his fists, then swung one straight toward Feng Yuan’s stomach.
Usually, whenever words failed him, he would use his solid fists to make the other party obey.
Pan Yong’s build was on the bigger side, even among children his age.
He had the advantage of size. When it came to bullying others, that gave him the upper hand.
Although Feng Yuan was small, his fighting experience was no less than his.
Back in the World of Mountains and Seas, Feng Yuan had already been a little expert at fighting.
One big and one small. The two children scuffled together.
Some kids who had secretly come to watch the commotion, upon seeing this scene, boldly shouted out a cheer.
In the middle of the struggle, Feng Yuan spared a glance.
The one who shouted was Xu Jiale.
After Xu Jiale shouted, the children from Green Leaf Class who had come along all started shouting, too.
They could see that Feng Yuan seemed to be on the verge of winning the fight, so they all began to cheer for him.
Pan Yong, being beaten by Feng Yuan, now had little stars flashing before his eyes.
His body was shoved down.
Feng Yuan sat on top of him, his whole little self full of imposing momentum.
“Are you still going to ask other people for money to spend in the future?”
“N-no, I won’t.”
“The money you took, are you going to return it or not?”
“I’ll… return it…”
“And this boss position, are you still going to keep it?”
“N-no, I won’t…”
The beaten-down Pan Yong, at this moment, only wanted to admit defeat.
He was completely pinned down by Feng Yuan.
Feng Yuan had landed plenty of blows on him, while he had only managed to tear Feng Yuan’s clothes.
This duel, without a doubt, was Feng Yuan’s victory.
However, just as Feng Yuan had won the position of kindergarten boss, before he could hear the cheers and worship of the children, what came first were the teachers rushing over after hearing the news.
When the teacher saw the children fighting, their head practically ached.
“Feng Yuan, get up right now! Put your fists down!”
The teacher hurried over and separated Feng Yuan and Pan Yong.
When Feng Yuan saw the teacher, he was still obedient.
He stood quietly in front of the teacher, neither talking back nor interrupting.
Looking at him in this little state, the teacher even felt like crying inside.
In their private office chats, the teachers had often talked about Feng Yuan, this little cub.
This cub was the most beautiful little one in the entire kindergarten.
However, this cub was also the one with the highest level of instability in the entire kindergarten.
And now, sure enough, this cub had caused trouble for them.
This kind of matter wasn’t a small one.
The teachers, exhausted, had to notify the parents and even hold parent meetings.
Li Sheng received the school’s phone call.
He didn’t rush to notify Feng Qi, but personally came himself to meet with the teacher.
Once Li Sheng showed up, the matter of the fight was basically considered settled.
Feng Yuan wasn’t held accountable by Pan Yong’s parents.
Pan Yong’s parents stormed over in a rage. But the moment they saw Li Sheng, they slapped their own son across the face in fury.
Little Pan Yong, who had just been beaten up by Feng Yuan and then smacked by his dad: “?”
What was going on?
Did his dad’s slap land on the wrong person!
Father Pan slapped his son, then paid back the money on his son’s behalf. In the end, he dragged the boy off for more lecturing.
Feng Yuan was completely fine, retreating without a scratch.
When he came back from the office, all the children in Green Leaf Class rushed up to him, their eyes sparkling. In unison, they called him Boss.
Feng Yuan, his little face reserved, lifted his chin proudly and accepted the title of Boss, then delivered his speech.
“From now on, if anyone bullies you, report my name—Feng Yuan.”
“Okay, Boss!”
Surrounded by the children, Feng Yuan, the newly appointed kindergarten boss and big brother, slept especially soundly during nap time.
In the afternoon, Feng Yuan was pulled aside by Qin Xun, who carefully checked him over from head to toe.
After finishing the inspection, Qin Xun let out a sigh of relief.
“Yuan Yuan, I was only gone for a little while at noon. How did you end up in a fight?”
“Next time, if you’re going to fight with someone, you have to tell me beforehand.”
Qin Xun reminded Feng Yuan worriedly.
After his reminders, only then did he bring up the main matter with Feng Yuan.
“The big cardboard box you wanted, I found it for you. Do you really plan to hide inside it and surprise Uncle Feng Qi?”
“Mm! Yes!”
Feng Yuan had carefully planned out his dad’s birthday.
With full confidence, he promised to give his dad the most unforgettable birthday!
Qin Xun looked at his confident little expression, a bit afraid that something unexpected might happen.
“Yuan Yuan, how about… you just give the gift directly? Don’t prepare a surprise anymore.”
Hearing Feng Yuan talk about a surprise made Qin Xun’s heart thump nervously.
