"Ah Ci is here. Auntie, here are the bean buns. Your uncle and your father are going to grind yellow rice. Auntie will fry rice cakes for you when the time comes. It will be so delicious."
"Okay! Auntie, I'll help you."
Wang Juan moved in to make room for Lin Yian.
"Ah Ci is so considerate. Now that you're back, those guys have finally stopped at home to study. In previous years, they would have run away long ago."
Lin Yian didn't say anything. He carefully scooped a lump of bean filling into the dough and began to shape it.
This is the charm of the exam, not her ability.
Otherwise, why are there no students in Internet cafes or game rooms before school starts? That’s the time when they are frantically catching up on their homework.
Although Lin Yian had never made bean buns before, he was able to defeat the opponent with his strength.
Gradually, the sticky noodles in the basin were gone.
The mother and daughter were almost done with their work here, and Fan Zhu had also finished the last stitch over there.
"Ah Ci, come here. Try on the hat that grandma knitted for you."
Lin Yian walked to the basin and washed her hands. She carefully took the woolen hat from Fan Zhu and put it on her head: "Grandma, Auntie, does it look good?"
Fan Zhu looked at her little granddaughter in front of her. Aci had fair skin and short hair, and with a hat on, she looked even more delicate.
It looks gray and cold, and if you didn’t know better you’d think it was a boy.
"She's beautiful. Ah Ci is the one in our family who looks most like your grandmother. Don't you think so, Mom?"
The boys all look more like their fathers. Jiancheng looks a bit like his mother, but his facial features are not as beautiful as Aci's.
"Aci's face is much more blessed than grandma's. Ask your brother to boil some hot water for you so that you can wash your hat before wearing it again."
Lin Yian got off the kang with his hat on: "Grandma, I can boil water, I can do it myself, no need to trouble my brother."
"Grandma, you called me?"
Lin Jiancheng opened the door and walked in, and heard his grandmother assigning him a task.
Although Fan Zhu was not young anymore, her eyes were still bright. She did not ignore the red marks at the corners of her little granddaughter's eyes, and naturally noticed the expression on her eldest grandson's face.
"Yes. Bring some firewood to boil some hot water for your sister. You all are hiding in the house. I don't know what you are doing?"
Lin Yian walked up to Lin Jiancheng and showed him his new hat.
"Brother, look! Grandma knitted me a new hat. Does it look nice?"
Lin Jiancheng reached out and tucked the hair around Lin Yian's ears: "It looks good. Ah Ci should dress nicely."
Why would someone be so cruel as to hurt such a well-behaved and pretty girl?
And that person!
She is Aci's biological mother.
Even her own mother didn't protect her, and she even helped outsiders to bully her. How sad Ah Ci must be...
"Then I'll go boil some water and wash it, so I can wear it during the New Year!"
Fan Zhu put down the weaving stick until she heard the sound of the courtyard door closing outside the house.
"Jiancheng, tell me. What happened?"
Lin Jiancheng never thought of hiding it from his grandmother and mother, nor did he want to hide it.
We must seek justice for Ah Ci in this matter!
"Grandma, Mom. My two teammates are both from Kyoto and their families are well-off. So before I met Ah Ci on the train, I asked them to help me find Ah Ci in the capital..."
Lin Yian happily went to Lin Jianzhen's room and showed his new hat to his three younger brothers.
Only after receiving Yishui's praise did he go back to boil water with satisfaction.
"You three should study hard. If you all pass the test tomorrow, I will give you a reward."
Lin Jianzhen looked at Lin Yian's back as he left. His dizzy and dazed mind from reviewing was finally awakened a little by the word "reward".
"Third sister said there is a reward, what will it be?"
Lin Jianhua rubbed his sore neck and took a sip of the hot water that his sister had poured for them before she left.
"My sister said there will be rewards, so we just need to wait, but she didn't say there will be no punishment for poor test scores."
The remaining chaos in Lin Jianzhen's brain was shattered by Lin Jianhua's words.
"No way, Third Sister didn't say that. Fourth Brother, did you hear that?"
Lin Jianbin drank the hot water in the cup in one breath, then picked up the kettle and poured himself another cup.
"She didn't say there would be no punishment. Hurry up and memorize the historical knowledge points I marked for you first. Maybe you can pass it."
"Memorize geography first."
Lin Jianhua took out a geography book and placed it in front of Lin Jianzhen.
"Memorize history! Lao Wu is sensitive to time points, so he gets more points for memorizing history."
Lin Jianhua refused to give in: "Brother Four, how did you know that Sister would definitely ask questions about historical nodes? It would be better to focus on geography. Brother Five can memorize landform features quickly and it will be easy for him to score points."
Lin Jianzhen looked at the brother and sister who were about to fight, and carefully picked up the neglected biology book beside him.
Let him memorize this first.
Don't take the reward, but don't let him be punished!
"Jiancheng, what you said is true! If I had known..."
Wang Juan was so angry at what Lin Jiancheng had just said that smoke almost came out of her head.
But what could I have done if I had known earlier?
The family was in chaos at the time, and Wang Chunni insisted on taking only her daughter and not her son, saying that her daughter would get a better education in a big city.
"Lin Anguo, you've spent most of your life either dealing with beasts or rolling in the mud. Now that I'm famous... I have a chance to live a good life, and I'm willing to take my daughter out to enjoy the good life. You should thank me!"
"The son is the root of the Lin family, I won't fight with you for it; but I must take the daughter away, I am her mother, how can I not treat her well!"
Lin Anguo was relieved, and they couldn't say anything more.
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