Unexpectedly, Qin Yao had no reaction and continued to pick up food and eat without even looking at the father and son.
Liu Ji was delighted and immediately turned to look at Erlang. The young boy looked panicked, obviously he didn't expect that his mother didn't scold his father. His eyes rolled around quickly and he ran away.
Liu Ji immediately chased after him, "Don't run, you rebellious son!"
Erlang's voice begging for mercy was heard from the backyard. "Father, I was wrong. I shouldn't have disobeyed you. Please let me go. If I delay any longer, all my good time will be wasted. It's better to use this time to read a few more books. Oh!"
Erlang covered his head and screamed in pain, then continued to run forward to avoid being hit again by the shoe thrown by his father.
Liu Ji is most annoyed by the fact that this kid talks about reading and practicing calligraphy all the time. If it weren't for this brat, he wouldn't have to get up before the rooster crows to read every day!
Just now he even wanted to frame him in front of his wife. Fortunately, his wife was sensible, otherwise he would have lost his life at the dinner table today.
"Liu Zishu, you've hit a wall. If I don't beat you into submission today, I'll take your last name!"
Erlang turned around and reminded his father: "We have the same surname. Even if you don't beat me, you still have the same surname as me, unless you let me take my mother's surname."
Liu Ji raised his eyebrows. What a bold guy! It was really lawless!
He rolled up his sleeves, looked around the yard, picked up the broom by the wall and started swinging it.
In the dining room, listening to the chaos in the courtyard, Dalang shook his head, turned around and patted the twins' heads, "Eat quickly, eat more, and remember not to disobey your elders in the future."
Sanlang asked in a daze, "Brother, is father also considered an elder?"
Dalang glanced at Erlang, who was running past the main hall door in a panic, and his father, who was chasing him with a bamboo stick, and nodded solemnly, "Forget it!"
"Oh." Sanlang nodded his head, indicating that he remembered it, and he also told his sister, "Fourth Mother, don't disobey Father."
Si Niang looked at the young man proudly. She was smart and would not cause trouble for herself.
However, after Erlang's move, the four brothers and sisters clearly realized that their mother's attitude towards their father's education of them had changed a lot from before.
Suddenly, the four brothers and sisters realized an important problem—their parents seemed to be on the same side.
This is indeed the case, because Qin Yao suddenly discovered that the children at home had developed the habit of only listening to their mother and refuting their father.
At first she didn't think there was anything wrong with this, but as the children grew up, the situation seemed to become more serious.
It is so serious that even when Liu Ji’s starting point is right and the reminders he gives are correct, the children will still refute him.
On the contrary, they treat her words as if they were imperial decrees, and resolutely implement them regardless of whether they are right or wrong, and even use them to refute other different voices from the outside world.
Qin Yao herself was in the situation and didn't realize it at all. It was Yin Le who reminded her.
And Erlang's condition is particularly serious.
Several times when picking up the children to take them home, Erlang deliberately mentioned the way other classmates' parents got along with each other, and expressed strong contempt for the traditional family model where the woman stays at home and the man stays outside.
In serious cases, when talking about their troubles with classmates, he would verbally ridicule them because they chose to go to their father to solve the problems.
Yin Le didn't take it seriously at first, after all, it was just a quarrel between two children. Later, after listening to Erlang's talk, he started to pay attention and observe secretly.
This observation revealed that the situation was more complicated than I thought.
On the one hand, the children highly recognize the way their parents get along with each other. On the other hand, they are strongly excluded by children from other families with traditional division of labor, which makes the children themselves very conflicted and not sure who is right.
Not everyone in Jinshi Town can accept Qin Yao as a woman serving as the village chief, walking around and acting ostentatiously.
Of course, in front of her, I would definitely praise her for being capable and awesome.
But the only people who were truly grateful were the people in Liujia Village and the workers in the stationery factory.
Behind the scenes, Qin Yao knew that many people were extremely dissatisfied with her actions. Moreover, she had rejected many people's requests to join the stationery factory because the factory had too many employees.
Under such a contradictory situation, the four Dalang brothers and sisters, who are in an important stage of constructing their worldview, will inevitably receive contradictory shocks from the outside world.
Qin Yao shrugged. What else could she do? She was just so good.
Having said that, since the children couldn't figure out who was right and who was wrong, she used her actions to give them a shot of prevention and tell them about the diversity of the world.
Before going to bed, Qin Yao asked Liu Ji to cook four bowls of sugar water, and knocked on the door of the children's room with her.
Liu Ji glanced at her secretly. What was she doing?
Qin Yao signaled him to calm down, "Why are you panicking? I'm not going to eat you."
Suddenly I remembered that their family has never had a face-to-face talk with their children at night by their parents. Today is the first time.
Si Niang was ordered by her brothers to run to the door in her homemade cotton slippers and open it with a creaky sound.
The little head poked out and saw it was his father and mother, and exclaimed in surprise.
Dalang, Erlang and Sanlang, who heard the noise on the bed, looked over curiously. When they saw their parents walking into the room with sugar water, they looked at each other, with some surprise and some joy.
Dalang felt surprised, but he had a feeling that tonight would be a wonderful night and was full of anticipation.
Erlang was different. He had just had a quarrel with his father during dinner, and he always felt that his parents were coming to settle a score with him.
Sanlang was the happiest. He couldn't hide the greed in his eyes and stared at the sugar water.
Afraid that he would have to get up at night to go to the toilet, his family forbade him to drink much water before going to bed, let alone sweet sugar water. He could not wait to climb out of bed, approached his parents and asked knowingly: "Dad, is it sugar water?"
Liu Ji nodded in amusement and handed him a bowl. "Sit down and drink slowly, but don't drink too much, or you might wet the bed at night."
As he spoke, he saw Erlang sitting on the bed. Feiyang's eyes darkened and he said unhappily, "Do you want to drink or not? If you want to drink, come down and don't dirty the bed."
Sanlang and Si Niang are already sitting at the table, holding their bowls and eating. A bowl of hot sugar water on a winter night is simply too delicious~
Erlang is very similar to his biological father in one aspect: he refuses to waste time and never makes things difficult for himself. He got off the bed, took the sugar water handed to him by Liu Ji, and sat down next to his younger brother and sister.
The three siblings looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.
The slight sense of grievance in Erlang's heart disappeared after he drank a mouthful of sugar water.
Dalang put on his coat and closed the door, then sat down at the table expectantly. While taking the sweet soup given by A Niang, he asked curiously:
"Father and mother, what are you going to do?"
Qin Yao pointed to an empty seat and motioned Liu Ji to sit down as well. She stood in front of the four fathers and sons with her arms folded and said with a smile:
"Nothing, your father and I were bored and couldn't sleep, so we came to chat with you." (End of this chapter)
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