A Guide to Raising Younglings During Natural Disasters

Natural disasters were incessant. Ning Xia had survived alone for six years and finally decided to return to her old home in Qianzhou to start anew. Unexpectedly, she rescued two skinny little ones...

Chapter 159: Sangsang’s Learning Mind

Lao Liao, Li Gang and others stayed for another two days before returning.

Xiaojie was so happy when he knew he could go to the state military academy.

"Brother Xiaojie, will you not be able to come in the spring?" Sangsang asked him.

Old Liao laughed and said, "That's right! Not only can I not come in the spring, I can't come next year or the year after next!"

Xiaojie quickly hugged Sangsang, who was about to cry, and said, "Uncle Liao, don't scare her!"

"I'm not kidding her! Do you think it's now or the past? Just take a drop-off! This place is so far from the state capital. Unless transportation is restored to its previous state, you won't be able to come back until you graduate!"

Even the young man next door who went to study hasn't come back in three years!"

Sangsang's tears fell even harder.

Xiao Jie gently wiped away her tears, "Sang Bao, be good. When Xiao Jie brother is stable, I will come back to play with you and bring you some delicious food, okay?"

Sangsang nodded with tears in her eyes, "And Monkey Xiaopeng and Monkey Xiaoyou want one too!"

Xiao Jie raised a gentle smile, "Okay! Hou Xiaopeng, Hou Xiaoyou, Lin Yi, and Sister Xia Xia all have them! Qingtian and Uncle Mu and Aunt Qing also have them!"

Li Gang rubbed his thick hair fiercely, "You kid, do you have money? You just agree to it!"

Xiao Jie smiled, "The squad leader and Uncle Liao have them! I'm going so far, there's no way they won't give me living expenses, right? I'm still growing!"

"Let go, I have some." Tang Shi'an replied silently.

"Thank you, Uncle Tang!"

"You little bastard." Li Gang cursed with a smile.

Ningxia silently complained that Xiaojie's biological father was a rich man. If they really wanted to reconcile, Xiaojie would be fine even if he just threw the lace around.

After thanking Ningxia solemnly again, Xiaojie followed Li Gang and the others.

Ningxia looked at the tall young man with mixed feelings. Born in troubled times, she wished him a bright future!

"Okay, Sangbao~ Your brother Xiaojie has left~" Ningxia joked as she looked at the small figure standing at the door for a long time.

Sangsang pouted, "Bad Xia Xia! Don't laugh at me! Don't call me Sangbao!"

"Hey! Don't you like people calling you Sangbao?" Ningxia continued to be sarcastic. She didn't take the separation between the two children to heart. With Sangsang's personality, she estimated that she would forget about it in a year at most.

"Don't shout! Sangbao can only call me Brother Xiaojie! No one else is allowed to shout! Wuuuuuuuuu~" Sangsang ran back to the bedroom while shouting and crying.

Seeing the indescribable looks from Mu Yuanqing's family of three, Ning Xia touched her nose and pushed Lin Yi, "Go and comfort him!"

Lin Yi had no choice but to go into the house with his shoulders drooped to coax his ancestors.

"What can you do? You know she has a bad temper but you still provoke her. She is obviously sad." Mu Yuanqing let Qingtian go and let her go play with Hou Xiaopeng.

Ningxia glared at her, "She has a bad temper, so I have a good temper? I've spoiled her!"

"Just keep talking tough. Xixi and I are about to go home. We don't know what the mess at home has become!"

"Don't worry about Brother Liao's work. He's just a little greedy, but he's very careful. If he says it's done properly, then it's done properly!"

"Let's go! Will your Maomao still come to my house?"

"No, the weather is better now. Lin Yi said it can eat and sleep well these days, so let it stay at home."

"Alright! Liu Qingtian! Why are you trying to pick on the monkey Xiaopeng? Come play with him another day!"

“Yes! Yes!”

"What the hell! Your sister Sangsang will peel off your skin if she comes out. Go home now!" It has been difficult to control her at Ningxia's house these days, and everyone pampers her as the youngest. She is really about to rebel!

Mu Yuanqing held Liu Qingtian tightly in his arms, who was still shaking, and went home in a rage.

Ningxia also went back with his injured leg.

The coalition forces brought her two big wild boars, and the yard was full of meat. Mu Yuanqing took back dozens of kilograms of meat, and there were still more in the yard waiting to be processed!

Fortunately, the weather is good, so it won’t be a bad idea to keep it for ten days or so.

"Sister Xia Xia, are you making sausages?" Lin Yi moved closer to Ningxia.

Ningxia nodded. He only had two small intestines in his hand, and not many sausages could be made from them. He just wanted to satisfy his craving.

"Where's Sangsang? Have you finished learning the big characters today?"

Lin Yi gets a headache when talking about this. Ever since Xiaojie left, Sangsang's studies have become the top problem in the family. He can't learn anything no matter what he is taught.

When Xiaojie was around, Sangsang could skillfully perform addition and subtraction within ten in just two days. Now Lin Yi has been teaching her for four days, but she still hasn't learned subtraction within ten.

Ningxia initially thought that there was something wrong with Lin Yi’s teaching method, so she tried it herself, but ended up not as good as Lin Yi!

When Xiaojie was around, Sangsang could learn two new words a day. After a winter, Sangsang had learned a whole page of large characters. He could read picture books clearly on his own without any help.

As a result, as soon as Xiaojie left, Sangsang's learning ability seemed to be taken away. It took her two days to learn a word, and she couldn't remember it well. When she was asked to write it again the next day, there was either a dot here or a stroke there missing.

Ningxia didn't mind the out-of-sight incident, so after checking twice, she left everything to Lin Yi. Anyway, Xiaojie also gave Lin Yi some guidance when he was around.

Now, Ningxia has to be stunned for a while before she can remember the solution to Lin Yi’s math problems, and she may not get it right the first time.

"I didn't make any mistakes in writing what I learned yesterday, but I got all the math problems wrong except for the addition."

Ningxia patted his shoulder and said, "You have to keep working hard! The future of our Sangbao depends on you!"

Lin Yi said that the thing in this world that is more painful than being hungry is tutoring Sangsang in his studies. He is a good person normally, but when it comes to studying, he is no different from a pig. Oh no, even a pig is smarter than Ningsang.

"Let her continue writing! I'll help you."

"I don't need any help here. This is the last bit of pork. It will be gone once I finish it. It's still early today, so let's make pork and leek dumplings!"

"Can we pick the chives at home again?" Lin Yi wondered. He remembered that Uncle Lei and his men had almost destroyed them.

Ningxia nodded and said, "The innermost pot has fewer fruits, but a lot has been harvested in the past two days.

"Hasn't Sangsang been clamoring for soy milk for days? Go to the stairwell and push the mill over to the kitchen. My beans are almost soaked now, so let's have some tofu."

Lin Yi frowned, "Sister Xia Xia, your leg injury hasn't healed yet!"

Some time ago, when I was fine and not injured, I was lazy at home every day and couldn't cook two meals a day. Recently, after I got injured, I became very diligent and couldn't stop working once I entered the kitchen.

Ningxia smiled and said, "Don't worry! I haven't stopped taking the medicine and I change it regularly. Besides, you've already arranged the kitchen, so I sit down most of the time and don't feel any pain at all."

She had been in an unprecedentedly good mood for just a few days. She had escaped death before, but this time she felt particularly different. There were so many unexpected things in life, and she had two extremely lovely younger brothers and sisters. She just wanted to live every day wholeheartedly.