Chapter 30: Don’t Want A Mom! (1)

When Huo Xiaoxiao returned home, she narrated what had happened in the kindergarten in front of Old Master Huo with an excited voice and vivid expressions.

She also couldn’t help but play out the situation of being pushed to the ground.

“Grandpa, those kids are so bad and arrogant. He just… grabbed my hand like this and pushed me to the ground.”

Old Master Huo listened with keen interest at first, but hearing that Xiaoxiao was being bullied in school, he felt an ache in his heart. He pulled her in front of him and carefully looked her up and down.

“Pushed you to the ground? Are you hurt?”

Huo Xiaoxiao shook her head and spread out her white and tender palms. “No, the ground is full of sand. It doesn’t hurt, and my hands are fine.”

“Good. Next time someone bullies you like this, you must tell the teacher. You are young, so you will most likely get hurt.”

Old Master Huo was distraught.

In Kindergarten, Huo Xiaoxiao was perhaps the youngest. She was easily bullied due to her age. If it had not been for his body’s condition, he would never have agreed to send the child to kindergarten so early.

“En, I understand! And then… Yi Qian and his friends beat up the little villains and made them cry.”

Old Master Huo laughed out loud. “What happened then?”

“Then, the headmaster called the parents. They wanted Yi Qian to apologize. Yi Qian and the others protected me, so I also protected them.”

“So clever.”

After listening to Huo Xiaoxiao’s ‘thrilling’ experience, Old Master Huo started feeling uneasy after thinking about it over and over again. He had already been too hasty to send her to the kindergarten.

She was already bullied by other children on her first day. There was no telling she would be bullied by others in places he couldn’t see.

Being so young and having no understanding of anything, she could only be bullied in kindergarten.

Old Master Huo sighed. He believed that his granddaughter was weak, pitiful, and helpless, and he unconsciously started imagining her being bullied in kindergarten. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.

In the end, he went upstairs to find Huo Suicheng and directly said, “I don’t think Xiaoxiao should go to kindergarten for the time being. She’s still so young, and she cannot protect herself. Let’s wait for two more years before sending her. What do you think?”

Huo Suicheng probably guessed why Old Master Huo had suddenly changed his mind. “So, you heard about it?”

Old Master Huo did not deny it. “When you were a bit over two years, I sent you to kindergarten. On your very first day, you beat the kids until they cried. Unlike you, however, she’s just a little girl. She will be bullied and beaten up.”

“…You are in poor health, and you don’t have the energy to take care of her.”

“Still, I can take care of her for a year or two. This matter will end here. Don’t send Xiaoxiao to kindergarten tomorrow.”

The old man had a bad relationship with both his parents and son, so all his tenderness and love were poured into his granddaughter.

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Perhaps even Old Master Huo himself did not realize that the guilt and atonement had become a part of his love for Xiaoxiao.

Huo Suicheng turned silent for a moment. He didn’t want to disobey Old Master Huo, but he also did not want to comply with his wishes and not send Huo Xiaoxiao to kindergarten.

“Dad, let’s have Xiaoxiao make the decision tomorrow. If she’s being bullied in kindergarten, she certainly wouldn’t want to go there. I’ll respect her opinion. What do you think?”

Old Master Huo thought for a moment and found it reasonable, so he nodded. “OK, then respect Xiaoxiao’s wishes. You’re not allowed to force her.”

“Of course.”

Hence, the two reached an agreement.

Early the next morning, Huo Xiaoxiao dressed neatly, carrying a schoolbag and waiting for Huo Suicheng to send her to school.

But Old Master Huo asked her, “Xiaoxiao, didn’t you always say that you don’t want to go to school? Tell Grandpa honestly, do you want to go to kindergarten? If you don’t, we won’t go there. Grandpa will play with you at home, OK?”

Huo Suicheng was also coming down the stairs.

Huo Xiaoxiao looked up at her father.

He had said that her grandfather was not in good health and needed to rest. Being at home, she would only make his health worsen.

Moreover, after yesterday’s events, Huo Xiaoxiao felt that to walk the path of life once again with an adult mind was another kind of harvest. She would have a different outlook and perspective, and nothing bad would come out of it.

“Grandpa, I’m going to kindergarten.”

Old Master Huo was puzzled. “Didn’t you always want to stay home before?”

Huo Suicheng had just come downstairs at the moment.

Old Master Huo glared at him. “Did you threaten her just now?”

Huo Suicheng looked at the grandfather-granddaughter combo blankly.

“Grandpa, no, I really want to go to kindergarten. Don’t worry. If someone bullies me, I’ll tell the teacher. Besides, there are other children who will protect me.” Huo Xiaoxiao said with a grin, “Grandpa, take care of yourself at home. When I miss Grandpa, I’ll call Grandpa.”

She raised her hand to show the smartwatch on her wrist.

Old Master Huo sighed and rubbed Xiaoxiao’s little head. “Xiaoxiao still cares for Grandpa. All right, let’s eat first. After breakfast, Grandpa will take you to the kindergarten.”

Huo Suicheng said, “I’ll take her.”

“The company and the kindergarten are in two different directions. You’re already busy with work, so I’ll send her off. It’s not that far anyway.”

Huo Suicheng didn’t argue with him too much. “Okay, I’ll have to trouble you.”

Huo Suicheng went to the company first. After breakfast, Old Master Huo sent Huo Xiaoxiao to the kindergarten.

On the way, Old Master Huo kept nagging her that if someone bullied her, she must tell the teacher as soon as possible and not hurt them like her father did when he was a child.

Speaking of Huo Suicheng’s childhood, Huo Xiaoxiao turned energetic and asked enthusiastically, “Grandpa, when did Dad go to kindergarten? Did he bully others in kindergarten when he was a child?”

“When your father was young, Grandpa was busy, so I sent him to kindergarten. Back then, he was only a few months older than you. Ooh! Little fellow, your father was very naughty. The kindergarten kids cried and cried on his first day.”

“Did the teacher call their parents?”

“Of course. When I went there, your father was in a mess, and his clothes were torn. However, the children who were beaten looked even more embarrassed.”

“Why did Daddy fight? Did other kids bully him?”

Old Master Huo turned silent for a moment before he sighed. “I don’t remember. Xiaoxiao, let Grandpa ask you something: Do you… miss your mother?”

Huo Xiaoxiao was startled.

For so many years, the word “mother” had been forbidden in the mouths of her grandfather and father. Why would he suddenly mention her mother today?

The word “mother” hadn’t really crossed her mind so far.

All her memories of her mother stopped at the hand that had cautiously stroked the back of her hand like a feather when she was a newborn.

Old Master Huo touched Huo Xiaoxiao’s cheek affectionately.

Huo Xiaoxiao said gloomily, “I don’t know. I haven’t seen her, so I don’t miss her.”

In fact, her mother had never appeared in her dreams.

After all, in the dream, she also lived to be three or four years old. She never saw the person who had given birth to her.

People who had not appeared in her life, and people who she had not seen, Huo Xiaoxiao really didn’t have many sincere feelings to miss.

“Then, do you want a mommy?”

Huo Xiaoxiao thought about it seriously.

If she were to live to three or four years old, she wanted to meet her mother, but she only wanted to see her.

Her father didn’t like her mother, so it would be foolish to cry and ask for a complete family.

She was doing well without her mother.

“Grandpa, do you know? My kindergarten teacher is Teacher Xu, the same teacher Xu who was at home before.”

Old Master Huo patiently listened to her. “What then?”

“I know that Teacher Xu wants to be my mother, but I don’t want her to be my mother. If Dad has someone he likes, I can also try to like her, but she can’t be like Teacher Xu…” Huo Xiaoxiao paused for a moment, not knowing how to describe it. “Anyway, anyway, she just can’t be like Teacher Xu!”

If a stepmother came into her life, there would be a stepdad in the future. She didn’t want her dad to find a scheming woman and then give her a younger sibling to ostracize her.

Recalling her father’s women from the dream, none of them was easy to deal with, each more tricky than the previous.

When she thought about it this way, Huo Xiaoxiao felt that her future was being threatened. If she was not careful, she would not have a good life.

Now she hoped that her dad could stay sensible outside and wouldn’t be easily seduced by a woman.

Old Master Huo smiled. “You little rascal, who taught you this?”

“I heard others say that after Dad finds a mother, he wouldn’t want me anymore.“

“How is it possible? If he dares, Grandpa will kick him out!”

Old Master Huo also knew in his heart that Huo Suicheng was only in his early thirties. At such a young age, there were infinite possibilities for the future. If he really found a partner one day, it would be reasonable.

“Then what kind of mother does Dad like?”

This question really stunned Old Master Huo.

For so many years, he had never seen Huo Suicheng approach any type of woman.

When Xu Manyin came to Huo Mansion, he once thought that this was the type Huo Suicheng liked.

“Well, Grandpa doesn’t know… Grandpa promises Xiaoxiao that if one day your dad wants to find you a mother, he must get Xiaoxiao’s permission; otherwise, Grandpa won’t spare him!”

“Grandpa is the best!”

Ten minutes later, the car stopped in front of the kindergarten.

Old Master Huo personally sent Huo Xiaoxiao to the kindergarten.

Standing at the door of the kindergarten with a cane, he watched the teacher holding Huo Xiaoxiao. His nose turned sour, and his old muddy eyes gradually moistened.

If he hadn’t been so busy with the company back then, he would have seen Huo Suicheng enter the kindergarten like this.

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