Chapter 543: I Saw Anna Beating Meilanni As Soon As I Came In

"Sister?"

Just as the two siblings were hugging warmly at the door, and in their hearts were promising each other that they would always be each other's harbor, a tiger-headed, brainy little head poked out and asked curiously:

"So it was Big Brother who came back! Then are you still beating Meilanni today?"

???

Accompanied by this question with a lot of information, Li Ang only felt the person in his arms stiffen, and heard the sound of grinding teeth clearly in his ears.

"Beat! Must beat!"

After loosening the arm around Li Ang's waist, the sickly girl stomped her feet hard and said hatefully through gritted teeth:

"It's no use even if your Big Brother is back. Today, even if Mom and Dad are back, she won't escape this beating!"

?!?!?!

Ah?! Is it that serious?

Seeing Anna, who almost never mentioned her parents, actually starting to talk nonsense out of anger, Li Ang hurriedly hugged his sister, who was furious, and tried to persuade her:

"Don't, don't, don't, don't rush to make a move, education first, education first!"

"I'm beating her to educate her! Brother! Let me go! Let me go!"

Under William's reminder, Anna, who had regained her anger, struggled hard while complaining angrily:

"It's all because you always stop me from beating them. Do you know what they did?"

"Uh... what did they do?"

"They only went to school for the first week, and they teamed up with those noble children to drive away the teacher and started some kind of class parliament!"

"It's the Class House of Representatives."

After correcting his sister's wrong statement, little William explained with a serious face while fastening his pants:

"We learned the Kingdom's bicameral system. Those whose families are big nobles are put into the Upper House; those whose families are particularly rich, or who study particularly well, or are particularly good at fighting, join the Lower House.

Usually, the Upper House drafts class regulations, but the regulations they set must be voted on by the Lower House to pass, and finally, the class monitor elected by the Lower House promulgates them and is responsible for negotiating with the principal and teachers. The model is very rigorous."

"..."

Good guy, it's a perfect replica. Are children nowadays too fierce? When I was their age, I was still arguing with my deskmate about whether there were urinals in the girls' bathroom!

"You still have the nerve to say!"

After listening to little William's correction, Anna, who was in Li Ang's arms, struggled even harder, and said angrily:

"Meilanni asked me for two bags of small cookies, saying she wanted to share them with her classmates. As a result, she used the cookies I baked to buy votes, relied on bribery to get the support of that what-you-call-it house, and became the class monitor!

Brother! Do you know? After she became the class monitor, the first class order she passed was to unite all the children in the class and drive away the religious studies and home economics teachers!

Those two teachers are almost a hundred years old combined. When I went there, one pointed at my nose and scolded me, and the other hugged the scripture and cried bitterly. I didn't even know how to apologize to people!"

"..."

Ah this... that is indeed a bit too much, it should be educated properly.

Frowning with a headache, Li Ang hugged his sister, who was struggling, into the house. After glancing at the closed door of the inner room, he looked at William beside him with a serious expression:

"Other things aside, why drive away the teachers? If the reason isn't appropriate, don't blame Big Brother for not helping you stop them."

"As for the reason, those two teachers are indeed too rotten."

Little William tilted his head, thought for a moment, and answered:

"The home economics teacher is the head teacher's cousin. Her cooking is really very bad, and she is always particularly good to those noble children, but particularly fierce to us children who dress ordinarily.

Meilanni and I were assigned to wash potatoes, gut fish, and scrape fish scales in home economics class, and then we had to eat the food made by those noble children that failed. It was very, very annoying."

"The religious studies teacher is about the same. He only lets us read the scripture loudly every day, then checks our recitation. If we can't recite it, he hits our palms, and then scolds us for being unpious little bastards, saying we should go to hell after we die and be caught by the devil.

Meilanni and I had only transferred there for a week and weren't as familiar with the scripture as others, so every time he hit our palms, we were included.

Meilanni couldn't take it, found some tricky questions in the scripture to stump him, and then asked him if he wasn't pious if he couldn't answer, and if he should have his palms hit, and ended up being kicked by him."

"..."

So that's how it is... After listening to William's explanation, Li Ang and Anna

"Then why didn't you tell me when I asked you just now?"

Hearing this, William didn't speak, but instead looked at Leon with some hesitation. After seeing the little guy's expression, Leon vaguely guessed the reason why they hadn't said anything before.

Knowing that the children at home had suffered grievances, Anna would definitely go directly to confront them, but her health hadn't recovered yet; she still had to take medicine for at least a few more months. Moreover, he had been away from home all these days, so they felt that saying anything would probably cause more trouble, and it would be better to just take the beating and be done with it.

Besides, if they were ordinary children, they might think that their "parents" would definitely be able to help them seek justice, but these two little guys had known clearly since they were young that their older brothers and sisters were not omnipotent. If they could solve this matter just by taking a beating and writing a self-criticism, they would mostly choose to just take the beating and end it.

These two little guys are really... so sensible that it makes one's heart ache, and so insensible that it gives one a headache...

……

"Maybe the children have grown up and don't want to tell the family about everything."

Worried that telling the truth would make Anna unhappy, Leon gave a vague, evasive answer, and then said to William:

"You guys endure it for a few more days. Big Brother has been too busy with work these days to take care of things at home, but after I finish this period, I will go to your school to check it out immediately."

After letting go of his sister, who was no longer struggling, and crouching down to pat William's head, Leon promised solemnly:

"Big Brother promises you that if it's really as you said, then these two teachers will definitely be replaced, and they must also apologize to you and the other children.

But if you encounter similar things in the future, you are not allowed to act on your own and gang up with classmates to drive people away. You must tell the family first. As long as you are in the right, Big Brother will definitely stand up for you!"

"……"

Is it enough just to be in the right?

After looking at Leon's serious expression, William tilted his head and pondered for a moment, then nodded his little head vigorously.

"Okay! Next time we will definitely make sure we are in the right first!"

"……"

Although the words didn't sound wrong, but... why do I always feel that what you understand doesn't seem to be what I wanted to tell you?

Smiling helplessly, and then scratching his younger brother's head, which always had such strange trains of thought, Leon stood up again and patted him on the back.

"Alright, call Melanie out and tell her she doesn't have to take this beating."

"Hmm!"

Relying on his excellent eloquence, after successfully nipping a family war in the bud, William ran quickly to the inner room and knocked hard on the locked door.

"Come out, it's alright now!"

"I won't!"

After hearing the knocking, Melanie's vigilant shout came from inside the room.

"You must have finished your beating and are coming to trick me into opening the door to get beaten! Give up, I absolutely won't go out before dawn!

If I go out now, I might get beaten for an hour. If I can hide until tomorrow when it's time for school, Sister Anna will beat me for ten minutes at most so I won't be late!"

"Come out quickly!"

After knocking on the door for a long time without success, William was clearly a bit impatient and shouted directly:

"Big Brother is back, Sister doesn't have time to beat you now!"

"I won't, you're lying, don't even think about making me take the beating with you!"

"Then don't blame me!"

Seeing that she was so disloyal, William couldn't help but narrow his eyes and turned to say to Leon and the other person:

"I report that Melanie stole my pocket money and bought roses, preparing to mail them to the home economics teacher's house so her husband would think she's cheating!

Yesterday, she also wrote a report letter to the Holy Church, reporting that the religious studies teacher was too unfamiliar with the scriptures and suggesting that the Holy Church verify his clerical qualifications to see if they were bought with money!"

(End of chapter)