Chapter 7: Truancy

Sun Limin brought a bunch of children to the classroom.

A few of the children were still sobbing.

Xie Chaochao sat quietly in her assigned seat. It was the first day of school, so there were no lessons. Instead, the children were given time to get to know each other.

The children in the village had also been warned by their families about what had happened at the end of the village.

The father-daughter pair that lived at the end of the village were both strange people. The place was haunted, so they had to stay far away from there.

The children were all timid. Hearing this, they did not dare to go near the house at the end of the village.

Knowing that Xie Chaochao was the child who lived inside, none of them were willing to sit with her.

Xie Chaochao sat alone at a long table.

Half the lesson had already passed, but the little fatty nearest to her was still crying. Xie Chaochao frowned at him with a look of disdain.

She then took out a candy from her bag and threw it to him. “Eat this candy, stop crying!”

Little Fatty picked up the candy on the table and cried as he ate it.

Seeing that Xie Chaochao knew how to coax her classmates, Sun Limin had an even better impression of the little girl.

Little Fatty stopped crying after eating the candy.

Looking at Xie Chaochao, there was hesitation in his eyes. In the end, he couldn’t resist the temptation and moved to Xie Chaochao’s side. “That… do you still have more? I still want to eat more!”

Little Fatty had never eaten such delicious sweets before, and his parents could not bear to buy them for him.

Xie Chaochao was very generous and gave Fatty another one. Fatty happily returned to his seat and couldn’t even bear to eat it at first.

“Hey, Big Fatty, she’s the little monster living at the end of the village. How dare you eat what she gave you?”

“Big Fatty, aren’t you afraid of becoming a monster like her?”

Although the little kid at the side said that, he was still a little tempted by the candy in Big Fatty’s hand.

“Is the candy she gave really that delicious?”

Big Fatty nodded heavily. “It’s delicious! It’s even better than anything I’ve ever eaten before!”

“I ate it just now, but I didn’t turn into a little monster!”

This made the other children even more tempted.

Xie Chaochao ignored the rest of the conversation.

She stared out the window. The main gate was tightly shut and she couldn’t get out.

Then she looked at the school’s courtyard wall. It was higher than both of hers, and she couldn’t get out either.

The little girl wanted to cry again!

Sun Limin was elated to see that all the children had stopped crying.

Their kindergarten took care of lunch. If the parents sent their children here, they could work without worry!

All the children of suitable age in the village were sent here by their parents.

During lunch break, all the children requested to rest on the table.

When Sun Limin returned from her office, everyone in the classroom was gone.

She thought that the children were being playful and had gone out to the school campus to play.

When she went out to take a look, she nearly fainted from anger.

Under the courtyard wall, the class’ children were lying on the ground, piled on top of one another. Even Xie Chaochao, whom she thought was obedient, had stepped on the human-shaped stairs and mounted the wall.

Sun Limin was scared out of her wits. She shouted anxiously, “Xie Chaochao, don’t move! Don’t fall!”

Xie Chaochao heard her teacher’s voice and jumped off the top of the wall without hesitation.

Sun Limin frantically ran out of the main gate and saw a tiger.

Xie Chaochao happened to land on the tiger and was carried away by it.

Sun Limin turned pale with fright.

It was all true. Xie Chaochao really did have a tiger at home.

Sun Limin walked to the courtyard wall where the children were still arguing.

“Fatty, let me lie at the bottom next time! I want to eat the gummy candy too!”

“No way. The candy that Xie Chaochao gives is the most delicious when I lie at the bottom. I’m not changing it with you!”

Sun Limin almost burst out laughing.

Xie Chaochao gave each of them a candy and bribed these children. They willingly became her stepping stone and helped her play truant!

How could she have thought of that!