Chapter 107 Grandma! Mom! Dad! I know I was wrong!!
The room was silent for a moment.
When Zhao Huayang realized what Zhao Yuanyuan was saying, he stopped crying. Looking at his sister's determined expression, he suddenly felt a little flustered.
"...Yuanyuan, why do you suddenly want to go to school?" Liu Cuifen looked at her daughter in surprise, but her arms still tightly protected her son.
Zhao Guodong was already unable to bring himself to strike back because of his wife's scolding, and now he threw the stick with a gloomy face, then sat back in silence, without any reaction to his daughter's words.
Seeing that no one in her family supported her at the first moment, Zhao Yuanyuan clenched her hands at her sides and spoke in a firmer tone, even with a hint of resentment.
With red eyes, she asked Liu Cuifen, "Mom, why can my brother study but I can't?"
Liu Cuifen felt distressed when she saw her daughter's tearful eyes. She was speechless for a moment and looked at her mother-in-law in panic. Seeing that she was watching quietly without expressing her opinion, she retorted fiercely: "You are a girl. Why do you study if you don't help with housework? What's the point of studying?"
Little did she know that just this one sentence had completely aroused all the resentment and even hatred in Zhao Yuanyuan's heart.
She raised her hand to wipe away the tears of grievance that her family had favored her brother in both lives, and said bitterly: "I just want to study! Since my brother hates going to school so much, let him drop out and I will go to school. I will definitely listen to the lectures more seriously than him, and I will have a better future than him!"
"Pa!!" A slap landed heavily on her face.
Zhao Yuanyuan's head was tilted to one side due to the beating, and soon bright red fingerprints appeared on her face.
It was her mother who beat her.
"Zhao Yuanyuan! Are you confused after eating? If you say one more word, don't call me mom anymore!" Liu Cuifen also began to cry. She hugged her bewildered son and looked at her daughter with eyes that contained both hidden heartache and a bit of hostility and anger.
Of course she felt sorry for her daughter.
But once this maternal love touches her son, once her son's interests are encroached upon by her daughter, her preference for her son will immediately overwhelm her love for her daughter.
Liu Cuifen’s sudden outburst completely stunned Zhao Yuanyuan.
She covered her red face, feeling the burning pain and the brief buzzing in her ears. Tears fell from her eyes and her heart grew colder.
She didn't dare to meet her mother's disappointed or even angry eyes. She could only look at her grandmother, take a deep breath to suppress the pain in her heart, and pleaded in a hoarse and stubborn voice: "Grandma, please, let me study!"
She raised the back of her hand to wipe away her tears, and suddenly knelt down in front of the old man. There was humiliation and determination in her eyes.
He Guizhi watched the farce coldly, and finally asked Zhao Guodong, who had been sitting there in silence, "Boss, your daughter wants to go to school, what do you think?"
Zhao Guodong: “…”
The tall man was silent for a long time before he answered in a deep voice: "Mom, since Yuanyuan wants to go to school, then send her to school. The tuition and the work points she lost... Cuifen and I will work hard to earn them back, and we will not use Guozhi's share anymore."
His originally straight back seemed to become a little hunched in this hot afternoon.
Zhao Guodong ignored his wife who was about to say something but stopped herself, and said to his daughter who was kneeling on the ground and looking up with joy, "Yuanyuan, remember what you said just now, study hard, and don't learn from your brother. Your parents don't ask you to have a great future, but you have to remember that if you fail to live up to what you have kneeled here to ask for today, you can't blame any of us in the future."
Zhao Yuanyuan nodded heavily with tears in her eyes, "Yes, I will study hard and make you proud!"
Star:"……"
The kid tilted his head in confusion.
I don't understand the connection between these two sentences.
Why do we study hard to bring honor to our parents?
Why did the two people who were obviously a little angry suddenly become less angry after she finished speaking?
Xingxing shook his feet dangling from the bench and asked Qiuqiu, "Is this the art of human speech?"
Qiuqiu nodded solemnly: "Yes, kid, we all still have a lot to learn."
Xingxing nodded thoughtfully, but as to whether he understood or not...
Zhao Yuanyuan achieved her goal.
But the story doesn't end there.
After dinner, Zhao Huayang was kicked on the butt by Zhao Guodong and made to kneel under the earthen wall outside the door.
The increasingly scorching sun baked the entire earth into a scorching heat. Xingxing sat with her sister on the high doorstep, helping her grandparents to "supervise" her brother as he knelt down as punishment.
Inside the house, the parents were discussing sending their children to school. Since the eldest children were all in school, the youngest twins would also have to go to school in the future. This involved the work points earned by the two brothers and the effort they put in...
"Brother, how long will I have to kneel?" Little Yueliang held a peanut and tried to peel off the peanut shell bit by bit with her little hands. While doing so, she looked at Zhao Huayang who was kneeling at the foot of the wall with her curious eyes.
Xingxing thought for a moment and replied to her sister: "Dad said that big brother should get up when he knows he is wrong."
Little Moon picked up the peanuts she had finally peeled and stuffed them into her brother's mouth, then lowered her head to continue struggling with the remaining half.
After hearing her brother's answer, the little girl said the most heartbreaking words in the softest voice: "But... Big Brother said it was wrong before he knelt down. Didn't Big Dad hear it? Do you want me to say it again for Big Brother?"
Qiuqiu clearly saw the sad and gloomy little mushroom kneeling at the foot of the wall with an expression of incredible shock.
Xingxing shook her head and said slowly, "Dad heard it, but he was very angry, so he pretended not to hear it."
Little Moon suddenly realized, "I know, brother! When dad makes mom angry, mom will pretend not to hear what dad said!"
The baby's voice was so crisp and sweet that everyone inside and outside the room could hear it clearly.
The two children didn't care about the adults' suspicious silence and continued chatting.
"Brother, is going to school a good thing?"
Xingxing shook her head: "I don't know~"
Little Moon was also confused, "Little Moon doesn't know either, but Big Brother and Big Sister must know!"
Xingxing helped her sister pick up the peanuts that had rolled on the ground, wiped the dust off with the corner of her relatively clean clothes, and then fed them to her sister.
While chewing the sweet and tender fresh peanuts, Little Moon mumbled softly, "Big brother likes to go to school, but he doesn't like to do homework. Third sister also wants to go to school. They are older than us, so they must know more than us!"
Children’s cognition is very simple.
What everyone wants and strives for is mostly good.
Little Moon thought that the school that her older brother and third sister wanted to go to must be a good thing.
She wants good things too!
"Brother, I want to go to school too~" Little Moon grabbed her brother's clothes and shook them coquettishly.
Xingxing pinched her sister's soft little hand and said slowly: "Yeah, when we grow up a little bit, we can go to school~"
"How long do we have to wait?" Little Moon looked at Zhao Huayang, who was kneeling unsteadily at the foot of the wall. Something in her head suddenly lit up. "Brother, do we have to kneel down like big brother and third sister to go to school? If I kneel down and kowtow three more times, will grandma let us go to school tomorrow?"
After asking, the child also drew inferences from the experience, "Brother, you don't have to kneel, I'll kneel for you, I can kowtow many times at once! My head is so hard!!"
Xingxing touched her sister's head and said worriedly: "Let me knock it. You should take good care of your head. If my head is damaged, I can go find a doctor to fix it."
Qiuqiu: “…”
Zhao family: "..."
Excuse me, what kind of head is so hard? And what kind of head can be repaired if it is broken?
Even Zhao Yuanyuan, who was hiding in the house and concentrating on planting plants in the spiritual plant space, was speechless for a long while and silently rolled his eyes to the sky.
Zhao Huayang, who was standing at the foot of the wall, finally couldn't stand the two idiots' chat any more. The gloomy and sad little mushroom faded away his depression, turned around and corrected them unhappily, "Are your heads filled with straw? You are so stupid that you don't understand anything!"
After being scolded by the older brother, the two children did not get angry. Instead, they ran over holding hands, and poked their heads around Zhao Huayang and asked him questions like two kittens watching a show.
"Big brother, how do you put straw in your head? Do you just put the straw in through your mouth?" Little Moon is very curious.
Xingxing nodded and asked the little question in her heart: "Big brother, can humans still survive if they have straw in their heads? Will their heads catch fire and burn all their hair if they get angry?"
Two little heads gathered together and stared at Zhao Huayang with their heads tilted.
Zhao Huayang: “…”
Zhao Huayang, who has always hated studying, reading, and doing homework, and only liked knowledge without thinking, suddenly realized from his two younger brothers and sisters how precious and important "knowledge" is.
He closed his eyes patiently, then took a deep breath and shouted, "Grandma! Mom! Dad! I know I was wrong!!"
The howl was so loud that the two stupid little heads next to him staggered and fell to the ground one on top of the other. The next second, they were burned by the scorching ground and got up quickly.
"Big brother!" Little Moon's face turned red with anger, and she put her hands on her hips and complained, "You are not sorry for us at all! You don't even know you are wrong!!"
Xingxing brushed the dust off her sister's butt, hugged her, turned around and said to the parents who were yelled at by the older brother: "Mom, don't wear these pants anymore..."
Open-crotch pants burn your butt.
Xie Jiaxiu had already been amused by the two little guys, and now seeing her two precious kids looking so aggrieved, she couldn't stop laughing. She nodded in agreement, then reached out and pulled the two little guys to the side room to prepare for a nap.
As for whether Zhao Huayang, who was kneeling outside, realized his mistake... I believe that the child has been frightened by his terrible and uneducated brothers and sisters, and will at least study hard in the short term.
The weather was very hot. After a while, Zhao Guozhi pushed open the door and walked in lightly.
The two children were already lying head to head on the bed, with the younger sister sleeping soundly while holding her brother.
Xie Jiaxiu sat on the edge of the bed, holding the pants that her two children often wore in her hands, and was measuring on her own clothes how much cloth would be needed to mend them.
Zhao Guozhi picked up the palm-leaf fan beside the bed and fanned his two children and wife while asking in a low voice what Bu □□ was doing.
Xie Jiaxiu, who had a thimble ring on her finger, took the thin sewing needle and gently inserted it into her hair. She lowered her head and sewed the edge of the wound with skillful movements. At the same time, she repeated to Zhao Guozhi what had happened in the field at noon and what her son had said after she returned home.
After that, she stopped what she was doing and said to her husband, who looked serious, "Guozhi, the more I thought about it, the more scared I became. Fortunately, Xingxing has always been careful with Xiaoyue, otherwise I don't know when I would have realized this."
Zhao Guozhi saw the relief and fear in his wife's eyes. He fanned her with a fan and comforted her in a gentle voice: "I understand what you mean. It is inevitable that we will make mistakes when we become parents for the first time. This time, thanks to Xingxing, we must protect the two children in the future. No matter whether it is Xingxing or Xiaoyue, we promise that there will never be a next time."
Zhao Huayang was admitting his mistake outside the house, and two parents were admitting their mistakes inside the house. Perhaps on this hot afternoon, these people who were admitting their mistakes, amid the noisy cicadas, would really realize their mistakes, and pay attention to them in the future, avoid them seriously, and never make the same mistake again.
Little Yueyue muttered as she hugged her brother tightly, unaware that her parents were happy and worried about her.
My brother’s body is cool and it is super comfortable to hug him. Even in her dreams, Little Yueyue feels that she can sleep for another hundred years hugging her brother!
Never be separated from your brother.
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