Daily Life in the Pet Shop Ch. 225

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"Xiao Yuan, stand up straight." Xiao Yuan lowered his head and walked over to Du Qianze, not daring to look at him.

"Daddy Du," Xiao Yuan whispered.

"Do you know what you just did? Do you think what you did was right?" Du Qianze said sharply.

"No." Xiao Yuan answered softly.

"Since you know it's wrong, why did you still do it?" Du Qianze had spent some time with Xiao Yuan and thought he was very well-behaved. Compared to other kids his age, Xiao Yuan was way too cautious. Sometimes Du Qianze wished Xiao Yuan would be a bit more willful, but being willful didn't mean you could just bully others.

"He's a bad person, he bullies Daddy Du," Xiao Yuan said, very upset.

"You..." Upon hearing this, Du Qianze couldn't continue his sentence. He could only pull Xiao Yuan into his arms and say, "You're helping Daddy Du get revenge, and I'm happy about that, but you shouldn't use these methods, understand? What you did is just bullying someone using your power. What if those cats and dogs had bitten Uncle Hai Yang? We would have had to pay for his hospital bills. Did you think about that?"

"I know, that's why I told Xiao Xing in advance not to bite him, just to hold him down," Xiao Yuan wiped his tears and said.

"Stop crying. Daddy Du isn't blaming you. It's just that you're still young and don't fully understand right from wrong. You need to think things through before acting. If you can't figure it out, you can ask us."

"Bad people need to be punished for their wrongdoings, but the way you go about it shouldn't be so direct and harsh. It's best to make it so no one notices the flaw. Got it?" Du Qianze didn't want Xiao Yuan to become someone who couldn't tell right from wrong or bully others, but he also didn't want him to become someone who just got bullied.

"Okay," Xiao Yuan nodded.

"You can punish bad people, but you must remember that the methods you use can't go beyond the law, and you can't let yourself get hurt. Understand?" Du Qianze continued his lesson.

"I remember," Xiao Yuan said. Although what Du Qianze taught him was different from what his teachers taught, Xiao Yuan felt that Du Qianze's lessons were better.

"Your Uncle Hai Yang wasn't bullying me. He didn't let me eat just because of work. You misunderstood a good person. You need to apologize to him, understand? This incident teaches you that you shouldn't judge things just by what you see. You need to understand everything clearly before you act."

"Are you sure you're teaching a child? Xiao Yuan is so young, does he even understand? Plus, you're basically teaching him to do bad things," Fang Yue said in shock after hearing Du Qianze's words. Du Qianze was pretty cunning, and she wasn't sure if it was okay to teach a child like this.

"I'm not teaching him to do bad things. It's just that sometimes, when you're bullied, you need to know how to fight back," Du Qianze didn't think he was teaching anything wrong. This was his experience. If you always get bullied and don't know how to fight back, you'll just keep getting bullied forever.

"Alright, you're not wrong," Fang Yue said. Nowadays, the soft and pure approach wasn't popular, and people like baozi* were the most hated. What Du Qianze said wasn't wrong.

(*it's not food, it does mean a steamed bun but stand for a slang means good-natured, saintly, overly kind, submissive, or easily manipulated.)

"Uncle Hai Yang, I'm sorry," Xiao Yuan came over to Hai Yang, said the apology, and immediately turned to run off.

Hai Yang rubbed his waist and complained to Du Qianze. The kid's apology wasn't sincere at all, and his waist was still sore.

"This is my pocket money and the snacks my dad bought me, all for you," not long after, Xiao Yuan came down from upstairs, holding a pile of things, and walked up to Hai Yang.

"Forget it, I can't be bothered to argue with you. Leave the snacks, take your pocket money back," Hai Yang handed the wallet back to Xiao Yuan, patted his head, and thought that Du Qianze had actually done a good job educating him. The kid's apology was a bit sincere after all.

"Look at this, for the sake of your face, I've suffered so much. My old waist... it almost broke. If you don't lose a few pounds, how are you going to make it up to my waist?" Hai Yang was still thinking about Du Qianze's weight.

"Recently, I don't have any scripts, and the schedule's light. Let me lose weight slowly, don't rush. I'll definitely get it off," Du Qianze comforted Hai Yang half-heartedly.

"Who knows when suddenly something will come up? At that time, can you lose a few pounds a day? It's better to lose it earlier. Isn't Fang Yi running and working out every day? You should join him. It'd be best if you could build some muscle too, so you can show off your body when you act in the future." Hai Yang was directing Zhou Chongwen while talking to Du Qianze. Just as his words finished, Zhou Chongwen pinched Hai Yang's waist hard.

"Ouch, that hurts! Be gentler!" Hai Yang held his waist and cried out in pain.

Du Qianze saw that Hai Yang's words were getting more ridiculous and didn't want to deal with him anymore. He decided to go upstairs and cook. With so many people to feed, the sooner he started, the better.

Actually, Du Qianze was really happy that Xiao Yuan defended him like that. This kid might be simple-minded, but it wasn't easy to get him to care about someone. Du Qianze's efforts had finally paid off.

"I heard you gave Xiao Yuan a lecture today," Fang Yi asked during dinner.

"My waist..." Hai Yang interjected just in time, though his waist was feeling much better.

"Mm, Xiao Yuan went a bit too far, so I just said a few words to him," Du Qianze said, sounding a little nervous after hearing Fang Yi's question. He wondered if Fang Yi thought he was being too harsh.

"That's great! I'm not very good at educating kids, it's been bothering me. You should pay more attention to him in the future," Fang Yi said.

"Got it," Du Qianze nodded firmly.

In the following days, aside from the issue of needing to lose weight, Du Qianze was living quite comfortably. He had created a second Weibo account specifically for Father Du and Mother Du to follow, where he posted updates on the pet store daily. Mother Du liked his posts every day, and sometimes they would chat on Weibo. According to Mother Du, Father Du also checked his Weibo daily.

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