Chapter 15: Painting while Facing a Real Tiger
News of the discovery of the coal mine quickly spread.
The mayor and the leaders of the county came to the village.
Shanbai Village, which had not been visited by any leaders for several years, was now visited by several groups of leaders every day.
Old Wang, the village chief, was overjoyed.
However, the villagers were also worried that they would confiscate the coal mine.
This way, they would not be able to gain any benefits.
Sun Chengfu found Xie Zhou.
Xie Zhou was now their backbone.
Whenever something happened, they would instinctively ask for Xie Zhou’s opinion.
Xie Zhou didn’t say what to do. He just told them to take good care of the leaders and see how things would develop in the future.
They still did not know what the leaders were planning to do. It was useless to think too much.
On this day, another group of leaders came to Shanbai Village.
It was the leader of the county’s education bureau.
They were apparently at the school for an inspection.
In reality, everyone knew what they were planning.
Visiting the school for an inspection was just an excuse.
Old Wang brought a few leaders to the kindergarten.
The leaders’ minds were not on the school. They merely wanted to walk around the school classroom and deal with it half-heartedly.
Unexpectedly, when they reached the classroom door, everyone’s faces turned pale.
The children in the classroom were noisy.
The tiger at the front was squatting listlessly.
What was even more frightening was that not far from its mouth lied a little fatty.
His butt was right next to the tiger’s mouth.
From time to time, he would even turn around to look at the tiger behind him. Then, he would lie on the ground and scribble on a piece of paper with his butt sticking out.
The other children did the same. They glanced at the tiger and drew on the paper.
There was also a little girl with a little flower snake wrapped around one arm and a little fox lying on the other half of the table.
The little girl lied on the table with one arm under her head, playing with the little flower snake.
A few leaders came over and saw this scene.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
One of the leaders shouted, “A tiger, why is there a tiger here? Quickly rescue the children!”
Old Wang was also scared out of his wits. He had only heard that Xie Chaochao was always accompanied by animals but had never seen it with his own eyes.
Seeing the tiger and the snake, his legs were trembling in fear.
Sun Limin heard the commotion and immediately walked to the door. When she saw the village chief, she knew that another leader had come to inspect.
Sun Limin immediately explained when she heard the shouts from the leaders.
“Leaders, you have misunderstood. We are merely having an art class. Today, we are drawing a tiger. That tiger is for the children to sketch!”
All the leaders were stunned.
Sketching the tiger?
A real tiger!
Were they making something out of nothing, or were the people from Shanbai Village were truly too valiant?
To draw a tiger, one would have to refer to a real tiger!
“What about those?”
One of the leaders pointed at the little flower snake and the little fox on Xie Chaochao’s table. His eyes were filled with fear.
Sun Limin smiled awkwardly and said, “They are Student Xie’s good friends!”
Good friends?
A few leaders shuddered and stopped thinking about inspecting the school.
They scurried out of the school.
They had even completely forgotten about the real purpose of coming to Shanbai Village. They got into the car and left.
The people in this village were too valiant.
Regarding these leaders leaving in a hurry, Shanbai Village didn’t care at all.
As long as they did not steal their coal mines, it was the best.
Old Wang saw that the leaders had left quickly without the need for him to fool them. He felt that it saved him the trouble.
He also no longer cared about the school using real tigers as models.
With Xie Chaochao around, there shouldn’t be any problem!