"Bang, bang, bang!" Teacher Wei knocked on Mei Si's door.

"Who is it?" Mei's father asked as he put on his thick cotton-padded coat and pushed open the door.

"Is this Mei Si's home?" Teacher Wei asked.

"Yes, who are you?"

"Oh, I'm May's homeroom teacher."

"The homeroom teacher? Oh, oh, oh! Teacher, please come in!" Mei's father quickly opened the courtyard gate to let Teacher Wei in.

"Teacher, come inside quickly, it's cold outside." Grandma Mei came out of the house and beckoned Teacher Wei to come inside.

"Hello, teacher." × Mei Liang, Mei Si.

"Good, good, good, good..." Little Mei, sitting on the kang (heated brick bed), also followed suit.

"Pfft! This little kid is so funny and pretty too. Is this Mei Si's younger sister?" Teacher Wei was amused by the clever little Mei Si.

"Can't tell the difference between male and female?" Mei Si never expected that Teacher Wei, who could understand ancient poems, couldn't tell the gender of Mei Xiaodi.

"..." Teacher Wei paused, feeling that he was being looked down upon by his students.

"Don't talk nonsense. The teacher is just praising your brother for being good-looking, like a little girl," said Mei's mother, ruffling her daughter's hair.

"Here, teacher, have some water to warm yourself up." Grandma Mei quickly poured a tub of hot water for Teacher Wei to ease the teacher's embarrassment.

"Thanks."

"Please sit down, Teacher Wei." Mei's father patted the kang (a heated brick bed) and invited Teacher Wei to sit down.

"I came here today to talk to you about Meisi."

Teacher Wei warmed his hands by covering the jar with his hands as he spoke.

"What's wrong, Sisi? Did you get into trouble?" Mei's mother asked, glancing at her daughter.

"No, Mei Si is very well-behaved at school, it's just..." Teacher Wei didn't know how to describe Mei Si.

"Teacher, please tell me what's wrong." Mei's father was getting anxious; he felt that his daughter might have been bullied at school.

When Mei's father thought about how Mei Liang hadn't fulfilled his responsibilities as an older brother, he couldn't help but glare at Mei Liang fiercely.

Mei Liang: Isn't this my sister's homeroom teacher? Why is she glaring at me?

Mei Liang was a little confused. It was Mei Si who caused the trouble, not him. He didn't understand why Mei's father was glaring at him.

"Mei Liang, take your sister out. Weren't you going to find your two classmates?" Grandma Mei felt that it was best for the children not to be present when she was talking about them.

"I didn't..." Mei Si had already told her apprentices yesterday that since it was getting cold, they should practice at home on their own and come to her if they had any problems.

"Let's go, I have something to ask you." Mei Liang quickly pulled Mei Si outside.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go..." Little Mei quickly crawled to the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), wanting his older sister to take him with her.

"Don't get involved. Come on, let's go play in the inner room." Grandma Mei picked up Little Mei and carried him into the inner room.

"It's like this, Meisi is a very smart child. As long as you explain things to her clearly, she can remember them, but when it comes to exams..."

"What happened to the exam? Was your score too low?"

Mei's father felt that the homeroom teacher was hesitant and indecisive.

"It's not about the grades, it's that she always loses points for no reason."

Teacher Wei said with a frown.

"Then why?" Mei's mother knew that her daughter's test scores were not high, but she thought it was because the child was young and did not study hard.

"Her perspective on things... well... is different from others. She knows how to do many problems, all she has to do is write down the answer, but she always uses strange ways of thinking to solve them." Teacher Wei was helpless, not understanding why Mei Si thought differently from others.

Teacher Wei: Mei Si's family seems quite normal, so why did she... turn out so badly?

“This is related to Sisi’s personality. She’s very straightforward. We have to explain things to her clearly. If we only say the first half of a sentence and leave the second half for her to figure out, she’ll definitely think of strange things.” Mei’s mother understood what Teacher Wei was trying to say. Her daughter’s loss of points was definitely related to her straightforwardness. Her daughter never thought in a roundabout way.

Mei Si's personality is also a source of great distress for her mother. She worries that once Mei Si starts working, her daughter's personality will easily offend people at work.

Teacher Wei and Mei's parents had a unique discussion about Mei's personality. The three decided to work together to teach Mei to think about problems in a roundabout way.

During winter break, because of their little brother Mei, Mei Liang and Mei Si had a task: to go to the store with Grandma Mei every day to look after the child.

"Why not send him to his maternal grandparents' house?" Mei Liang didn't want to spend all his time in the store; it was too restrictive. Summer vacation was much better.

“Your brother is still breastfeeding, we’ll send him over after he’s weaned.” Actually, Mei’s mother was quite worried about her eldest son and daughter looking after the child. Boys are naturally careless, and her daughter… she was even more careless than her son.

But there's nothing I can do. My son is climbing faster and faster now, and if Grandma Mei doesn't keep an eye on him for a second, he'll disappear somewhere.

The store has everything, what if he gets hit by something? I can only leave the two kids to watch over him for now, and send him back to my parents' house after the New Year when he's weaned.

“You’re not happy about watching your brother?” Mei’s father asked as he came out from the inner room.

"No, I'd love to. I was just curious. Didn't Sisi go straight to my maternal grandparents' house back then?" Mei Liang only dared to speak like this because his father wasn't in the main room, but he didn't expect his father to have such sharp ears that he still heard him.

“You’re acting more like an older brother! Look at Sisi, she’s just like an older sister,” said Mei’s father, glancing at his son.

"..."

Mei Liang: That's because I'll be the only one looking after the child, so Sisi won't be able to help.

Mei Liang guessed correctly. The next day, the two followed Grandma Mei into the store's break room. As soon as Grandma Mei went to work at the front, Mei Si also left.

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