Marrying My Bestie's Ferocious Brother - He Calls Me His Baby!-Chapter 267 - 266: Want to Bet With Me? If You Lose, Serve Me Foot-Washing Water!
"Step over?"
Lin Wan Yi looked at Liu Meihua blocking her way and didn’t move.
She still held Gu An by the hand.
"Vice Director Liu, it’s a new society now; this kind of road-blocking and mugging isn’t in vogue."
Lin Wan Yi’s voice wasn’t loud, but it was heard clearly by those around.
"You!"
Liu Meihua was so angry that the powder on her face was falling off.
"This is a kindergarten! It’s a place of education!"
She pointed at Lin Wan Yi’s nose.
"I’m not going to argue with someone like you! Zheng Xiulan, if you dare bring her inside, I’ll report you to the military district!"
"I’ll report you for favoritism! For inviting a wolf into the house!"
Zheng Xiulan’s face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.
So many parents were gathered at the entrance, and there were quite a few children peeking their heads out.
This was a big embarrassment.
"Let’s talk inside!"
Zheng Xiulan pushed aside Liu Meihua who was blocking the way and pulled Lin Wan Yi towards the conference room.
Liu Meihua staggered from the push.
She steadied herself and glared viciously at Su Qing and others who were watching the spectacle.
"What are you looking at! Got nothing better to do?"
After speaking, she chased after them in her high heels, going "clack clack clack."
Conference room.
Long table.
Zheng Xiulan sat at the head seat.
Liu Meihua sat opposite her.
On both sides sat five or six timid young teachers.
Lin Wan Yi sat in the corner on a folding chair, holding that cloth book in her arms.
The atmosphere was suffocatingly tense.
"Bang!"
Liu Meihua made the first move, slamming her palm heavily on the table.
Water from the cup splashed all over the table.
"I’m laying it out right now!"
Liu Meihua stood up, spittle flying.
"The walls must be painted white!"
"And there should be eight big characters: ’Study well and make progress every day!’"
"And they have to be in regular script! In red paint!"
She glanced around, her gaze like a knife scraping the young teachers’ faces.
"That’s what righteousness is! That’s what education is!"
A few teachers kept their heads down, not daring to make a sound.
Everyone knew that Vice Director Liu had connections and was notoriously vindictive.
Zheng Xiulan’s chest rose and fell sharply.
"That’s a wall for children, not a bulletin board for the leaders!"
"Make progress every day? The children can’t even recognize a few characters, do you think they enjoy looking at that?"
"It must be written anyway!"
Liu Meihua remained unmoved.
"If they don’t understand, they can be taught! It’s a matter of principle!"
She pointed her finger at Lin Wan Yi in the corner.
"Drawing those weird sheep? That’s poisoning!"
"Look at that sheep, lazy, with a pile of dung on its head, what does it look like?"
"And that wolf, wearing a shabby hat, looking all destitute!"
"If such things are painted on the walls, what if kids learn from it? Will they start catching sheep or being lazy?"
"That’s humor! It’s childlike fun!" Zheng Xiulan argued logically.
"That’s vulgar fun!"
Liu Meihua’s piercing voice almost broke through the eardrums.
"Xiao Zhang! You tell us!"
She suddenly called someone by name.
The young teacher named Xiao Zhang was so frightened that she shivered, and the pen in her hand fell to the floor.
"Director... Director Liu..."
"You say! Is writing big characters better, or those mess drawings?"
Liu Meihua stared fixedly at her.
Xiao Zhang looked at the furious Zheng Xiulan, then at the fierce Liu Meihua.
She was almost in tears.
"I... I think... writing... writing is quite good..."
Liu Meihua smiled smugly.
She turned her head to look at Zheng Xiulan, raising her chin high.
"Did you hear that?"
"The masses see with clear eyes!"
Zheng Xiulan was so angry that her hands were trembling.
This was coercion!
This was blatant abuse of power!
"The masses?"
From the corner, Lin Wan Yi, who had remained silent, suddenly spoke up. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
She stood up.
She casually tossed the cloth book in her hand to the center of the table.
"Thud."
The sound was soft.
But in the quiet conference room, it was extraordinarily clear.
"The masses Vice Director Liu refers to, does that mean these silent teachers, or those outside who are just a few years old?"
Liu Meihua turned her head suddenly.
"Do you have a place to speak here?"
"You’re an outsider without a position, and you dare to act out in the conference room?"
Lin Wan Yi laughed.
She walked to the table and pointed at the bright cover of the cloth book.
"I don’t understand about positions."
"But I understand one thing."
"A kindergarten is for children, not for the Vice Director."
"You!" Liu Meihua was exasperated.
"You say writing characters is good, do the children like it?" Lin Wan Yi countered.
"Does liking it matter? What’s important is the educational significance!"
Liu Meihua waved her hand, as if shooing away a fly.
"What does a spoiled capitalist young lady like you know about revolutionary education? All you know is enjoyment!"
Here it was again.
Using background to press others.
Zheng Xiulan was about to react when Lin Wan Yi raised her hand to stop her.
Lin Wan Yi looked at Liu Meihua, her face not at all angry.
Instead, there was a hint of pity.
"Since Vice Director Liu is so confident."
Lin Wan Yi pulled out a chair and sat down openly.
"Then let’s let the real ’masses’ choose."
"What do you mean?" Liu Meihua frowned.
"Let’s make a bet."
Lin Wan Yi raised one finger.
"That wall is not short."
"Let’s each take half."
"You write your eight big characters with the reddest paint, in the largest regular script."
"I’ll paint my sheep."
Lin Wan Yi pointed to the cloth book on the table.
"Give me one day."
"Tomorrow morning, let’s open the gate."
"See if the children run to your writing or my drawing."
The conference room went dead silent.
Everyone’s eyes widened.
What courage!
This was openly challenging the Vice Director!
Liu Meihua was stunned for a moment, then burst into an ear-piercing laugh.
"Hahahaha!"
"Ridiculous!"
"You want to compete with me?"
She pointed to her own nose.
"I’ve worked in the education front for twenty years! You think I’d lose to someone who draws picture books?"
"This is your own doing!"
Liu Meihua slapped the table forcefully.
"Fine! A bet it is!"
"I’m not just going to write; I’ll get the district’s best calligrapher to write!"
"I want you to lose convincingly!"
Lin Wan Yi nodded.
"Alright."
"But since it’s a bet, there has to be a stake."
"If you lose, what then?"
Liu Meihua sneered.
"Me lose?"
"If I lose, I’ll quit being Vice Director!"
She was so confident.
In those times, red slogans were political correctness; who dared not like them? Who dared say they weren’t good?
Lin Wan Yi shook her head.
"No need for that much."
"If you lose."
Lin Wan Yi leaned forward, hands on the table, looking directly into Liu Meihua’s sharp eyes.
"You’ll stand under that wall."
"In front of all staff and students, in front of all the parents."
"Serve me tea, fetch water, grind ink, mix colors."
"Until I finish painting the entire wall."
"What?"
Lin Wan Yi raised an eyebrow.
"Vice Director Liu, not daring to take the risk?"
The next day.
Outside the kindergarten wall.
