"Son, what have you been up to lately?"

A hint of resentment lingered on her bright face as she looked at the background image of the lunchbox-like child. She seemed to be lying in a holographic pod, as if she had come out of the holographic space to answer her video call.

"Learning," said the little boy with a hint of melancholy on his face as he spoke of it, "is a lifelong pursuit of learning."

Bright and beautiful: !!!

"My child, why are you like this..."

"But speaking of which, Mom, I can't read yet. Why didn't you teach me before, Mom?"

Faced with the resentful gaze of the lunchbox, Mingmei instantly felt suffocated.

You're not a lazy bum, but your mom is!

Even though your mom works overtime to earn money, it's only for the money. Who has time to tutor you in reading all the time?!

Mingmei almost blurted out, "As for studying, ask your dad," but Hefan retorted with disdain, "Dad doesn't teach me either. What kind of parents are you two?"

Bright and beautiful: ?

Child, do you realize that your attitude of being the opposite of a mother and father is very wrong?

"Sweetie, if you can't read, what are you going to learn now?" Not wanting to discuss this topic with her child, Mingmei turned the conversation back to herself.

"Recognizing characters".

Mingmei: ...

"Why are you suddenly teaching your child to read? Did your great-uncle make you learn?" Mingmei was surprised that Yan Hui's education was so serious—teaching the child to read! (Yan Hui: Are you misunderstanding me?)

"My great-uncle didn't do that. He takes me fishing every day!"

Mentioning Yan Hui, Fanhe pouted with such dissatisfaction that it could practically hang an oil can on his lips. The key was that Mingmei wasn't fooled and asked directly, "Oh~ just you? Where are the others?"

lunch box:? ?

Speaking of this, the little lunchbox kid's tattling spirit subsided a bit, and after seeing this, what is there that she doesn't understand?

Now the other three older brothers are no longer forced to go fishing, because their great-uncle said they can all calm down and study. This made the little girl, Lunchbox, so angry that she also said she needed time to study, and that she could too.

He was immediately met with a barrage of criticism from his great-uncle: "You study? Can you even read?"

Although little Lunchbox has learned a lot of knowledge through her endless questions, she still can't read.

Whose baby can recognize words at three or four years old?

The little girl got angry about the lunchbox, and then she was betrayed by her cousin Mei Xingan, who was a few months older than her!

Great! Little Xingxing has learned to read quite a few characters! _(：3」∠)_

So, in order to prove themselves, the kids nowadays learn to recognize characters in the virtual space every afternoon after fishing.

After hearing that it was all the little boy's own choice, Mingmei suddenly lost the desire to stick close to her own child.

It's really unnecessary for someone so young to be so curly-haired!

Why can't her child think the other way around and be proud in front of his older brothers that he doesn't need to study and can just play?

Mingmei couldn't help but think this way, and even asked it, but as a result, the corners of Lunchbox's mouth could no longer turn up.

Because the other three indicate that they can play more things after recognizing the characters.

Bright and beautiful: ?

What other things can we do?

"Son, what do you want to do after you learn to read?" Looking at the little boy's high enthusiasm for learning, Mingmei felt that something was wrong.

She, the child's father, and even the child's maternal grandmother are not shrewd people, so it's strange that this child is working so hard.

"Open the starship!"

Mingmei thought she was hearing things: "What?"

"Pilot a starship! My cousin Hanhan told me that the only thing separating me from piloting a starship is learning to read!"

Before I knew it, my lunchbox had provided my mom with an important clue.

"Pilot a starship? What would you do pilot a starship at such a young age?"

When asked this question, it was the lunchbox girl's turn to refuse to answer. She covered her mouth, looking like she had a secret she wasn't going to share.

Mingmei felt even more heartbroken upon seeing this.

My child is only four years old and already has his own little secrets?

When Mu Chen returned that evening, Mingmei recounted her conversation with Fanhe to him, adding, "What are we going to do if our daughter has secrets at such a young age?"

"Is there a secret?" Mu Chen asked, puzzled, wondering if he had missed something. "Wasn't she just tricked into studying by Han Han?"

"Huh? Isn't it your uncle?" Hearing that this matter was related to Hanhan, Mingmei thought about it carefully and still felt that it was Yan Hui.

"Didn't Hanhan tell our daughter that she could pilot a starship once she could read?" Mu Chen raised an eyebrow, and seeing that Mingmei still hadn't grasped the point, he reminded her again, "Lunchbox herself said she was learning to read in order to pilot a starship, so her real purpose is actually to pilot a starship, and the concept that piloting a starship requires reading was something Hanhan told her..."

"So, Lunchbox actually wanted to pilot a starship, and Hanhan found out and told her to learn to read. As for the secret, it probably involves how Hanhan helped our daughter pilot the starship and do other things~"

Mu Chen smiled, his eyes full of amusement. As for what they were going to do with a starship, considering their current background, wasn't it obvious?

"What a joke, a bunch of little kids..."

Mingmei looked disapproving, but Mu Chen, seeing that Mingmei didn't seem to have grasped the situation yet, couldn't help but put his arm around his wife, snuggling close to her, and reassured her, "Don't worry, your uncle is here, he won't let them cause trouble."

Just as Yan Hui was about to confidently throw the last troublesome kid into the holographic space to study, Mingmei finally came knocking.

"Shh-"

Regarding Mingmei's sudden outburst, Yan Hui said, "Don't startle us, let's talk about it later."

Mingmei: "..."

Did her uncle really not know that there were no fish in this artificial lake?

"Speak."

After lying on the folding chair and hitting two empty bars, Yan Hui was finally willing to talk to Mingmei: "I thought you would go straight to the villa to see the children."

"I'm here to ask you about your upcoming education plans."

Hearing Mingmei ask this, Yan Hui turned over on the recliner to look at Mingmei and asked, "Why did you suddenly ask this?"

Do you know what their children want to do?

"I know, it's just that I'm an unpopular old man, the fledglings are leaving the nest, and they want to escape."

Mingmei was speechless when she heard Yan Hui's words.

This uncle, who has always looked like he's in his twenties, is calling himself an old man.

Why is the departure of baby birds from the nest associated with a prison break?

"So you plan to let them run wild and send them to whoever they want to go with the flow?"

“Ruan Ruan, you’re so old and you treat the lab like home every day. Instead of letting me, a retired old man, take care of the child, why don’t you let Ruan Ruan take care of him? Otherwise, if he continues like this, your mother will start nagging him about being all alone during the New Year.”

"Mom is doing this for your own good."

"So, as a daughter, you need to be more filial, help your mother, and make your Uncle Ruan Ruan worry less."

Mingmei: "..."

I always feel like something changes when it comes out of her uncle's mouth.