"Ji Qianxi? I'll remember that. This afternoon I'll take you to play with clay, and you're not allowed to cry anymore!" Hearing Su Yizhou, Ji Qianxi at his side obediently nodded.
Looking at Ji Qianxi, who was blinking her wide, doting eyes at him, Su Yizhou chuckled inwardly. *Kids really are easy to distract. Just a second ago she was thinking about Granny, and I solved it just like that. I really am a genius at coaxing children.*
Then he poked the back of the chubby kid sitting in front of him. "Big guy, what's your name?"
Hearing Su Yizhou call him a big guy, Chen Yu immediately looked displeased, especially since Granny had said that eating a lot is the only way to grow big and strong. "My name is Chen Yu. Don't call me big guy from now on, okay? Granny said the more you eat, the more blessed you are."
Looking at this Chen Yu, whose brain was still underdeveloped, Su Yizhou knew he finally had his chance to get back at this bad friend for always teasing him in their past life. He chimed in, "All right, all right, I won't call you big guy anymore. But from now on you have to roll with me and be my little brother. My name is Su Yizhou."
Six-year-old Chen Yu didn't yet know what a little brother meant; he took it as a peace offering from Su Yizhou and a sign that he wanted to be friends, so he agreed. Scratching his head, he had a nagging feeling that something wasn't quite right, little knowing that Su Yizhou was brewing a master plan to mess with him today.
The teacher watched the children finish their self-introductions, clapped her hands to get their attention, and prepared to start the next activity of the day.
Kindergarten is actually very relaxed. They call it a school, but your main activity inside is still—playing.
Every early childhood teacher can play the piano a little bit, so she played a few piano pieces for the children. Su Yizhou remembered scrolling through short videos in his later years where kindergarten teachers didn't play the piano, but instead sang, "Digging, digging, digging in the tiny garden," teasing hundreds of months-old babies on the internet into wanting to go dig in a garden, too.
After telling a few stories, lunch time began.
Su Yizhou watched Chen Yu go back for another helping of rice and looked at the boy's height, which was five or six centimeters taller than his own. He secretly thought that what Chen Yu's granny said actually seemed quite useful. In his past life, Chen Yu grew to be 1.88 meters tall, while Su Yizhou could barely scrape together 1.8 meters even with his shoes on. Because of their height difference, Chen Yu had lorded it over him endlessly, showing off for a long, long time. He secretly vowed to eat well and take his calcium pills in this lifetime.
Su Yizhou's target height: exactly 1.85 meters, not a centimeter more or less!
So, imitating Chen Yu, he went over to dish himself another bowl of rice.
After lunch came nap time. In kindergarten, many children can't control their bladder urges while sleeping, and a lot of kids wake up to find they've wet the bed.
Sure enough, Chen Yu wet the bed today. Although this was a normal occurrence for kindergarteners, Su Yizhou still couldn't hold back his laughter, thinking that if he had a camera, he would definitely record this scene to provide material for Chen Yu's future wedding.
*Chen Yu, you wouldn't want your future wife to have a lot of dirt on you, would you?*
Children usually get a sudden, inexplicable bout of homesickness after waking up (don't ask me how I know).
To make the children forget this homesickness, the teacher handed out molding clay to everyone. Whether you're willing to believe it or not, good-looking people have an advantage everywhere. Kindergarten kids also have a vague concept of beauty and ugliness.
Several girls ran over to play with clay with Su Yizhou, but our man of his word, the handsome Su, flatly and righteously refused. It wasn't that he didn't want to play with them, but today he had already promised to take Ji Qianxi to play. Besides, he had a grand plan to carry out, and playing with them was nowhere near as important as his plan.
His plan was to prank Chen Yu while they played with clay. And Ji Qianxi? Well, he'd just throw her into the prank as a bonus. After all, he had promised to take her out to play this morning anyway, so this would give her a sense of participation.
Su Yizhou focused intently on shaping the clay in his hands into two caterpillars. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, he tossed them onto the desks of Ji Qianxi and Chen Yu, who were both deeply engrossed in their clay. Chen Yu wasn't very scared, but it gave Ji Qianxi a fright that made her burst right into tears.
This was the first time since his rebirth that Su Yizhou had panicked like this. *Brothers, I made a cute girl cry. What do I do? Online, waiting for answers!*
Even though Chen Yu wasn't scared, perhaps out of a mischievous urge to mess with Su Yizhou or for some other reason, he started crying right along with Ji Qianxi.
As everyone knows, crying is contagious in kindergarten. Child A spreads it to Child B, who spreads it to Child C, then Child D... going from "Why are you crying?" to "Well, since you're crying..." and finally to "Then I guess I'll cry too."
Anyone who has attended high school knows this is the well-known process of entropy increase (I'm making that up), going from order to disorder.
Yet at this moment, the situation truly spiraled out of control. The emotions the teacher had painstakingly soothed after their nap erupted all at once. Right now, Su Yizhou wanted nothing more than to sneak off to the bathroom, pretend he knew nothing about what had happened, and sneak back after it was all over.
But it was already too late. The teacher had noticed the complete chaos in the classroom.
The teacher looked at Su Yizhou, the only one who wasn't crying, and squatted down to ask him what had happened. Su Yizhou tried to play dumb, scratching his forehead and putting on an innocent, naive face (??.??).
Yet at this moment, the clutzy Chen Yu suddenly seemed to awaken the shrewdness of his past life. He pointed right at Su Yizhou and exposed the truth about him throwing clay caterpillars onto his and Ji Qianxi's desks.
Looking at the clay caterpillars on the desks, the teacher finally figured out the cause of the commotion. She looked helplessly at the little troublemaker who had managed to make the entire class cry on the very first day of school—what did people in the future call them? Ah right, an "attention seeker."
Even with Su Yizhou's thick skin, he didn't dare meet the teacher's gaze and hurriedly began coaxing Ji Qianxi and Chen Yu beside him.
The teacher had no choice but to helplessly repeat her routine from that morning, comforting the children one by one, while secretly resolving to have a "good chat" with Su Yizhou's parents about this incident.
After a long session of comforting, the classroom finally returned to peace, and the teacher let out a sigh of relief, wryly marveling at this outwardly harmless-looking little boy.
Ji Qianxi felt a bit embarrassed. Sensing that her crying might have caused the trouble, she turned her head slightly to the side and said to Su Yizhou:
"Brother Su Yizhou, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have cried. Please don't bully me anymore, okay?"
At that moment, Su Yizhou froze completely. It was clearly his fault, but how did this little one end up taking the blame? *(Su Yizhou, sitting up abruptly in bed that night: "No, I really am a terrible person!")*