Ye Xiaoxiao was particularly pleased during this time, as the midterm exam results of her younger brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law came out, and they had all made great progress.
"Sister-in-law, look, I got 99 points on my test this time!"
Li Yanni excitedly waved her math test paper in front of Ye Xiaoxiao. Li Yanni is such a good student.
It's getting better and better. But it's only first grade. The things it teaches are simple to begin with.
"Not bad, not bad." Ye Xiaoxiao smiled and patted her sister-in-law's head, then took out a handful of White Rabbit milk candies from the counter. "This is a reward for you."
The fifth child's grades were even more outstanding. This time, he scored 90 in Chinese and 88 in math, ranking among the top three in the class.
Ye Xiaoxiao specially bought him a new schoolbag and praised him:
"That's how it should be: study hard and get into a good university."
Although the sixth and seventh children haven't made much progress, they're much more diligent than before.
Ye Xiaoxiao's rule is that students are not allowed to sleep until they finish their homework, and they have to rewrite it if they don't do it well.
These two mischievous kids had no choice but to obediently do their homework.
Fortunately, both of them have made progress. The sixth student can now score 70 points in both subjects, and the worst student, the seventh student, used to only score a few points, but now he has 20 or 30 points.
"Look at Old Master Li's family, all their children are doing well in school."
The villagers all said, "It's all thanks to his sister-in-law's strict discipline."
[Completion rate of the educational task for younger siblings: 5%, reward: 50 yuan.]
Ye Xiaoxiao was now even starting to look down on this small amount of money. [How did you calculate this reward? It's only this little bit.]
It depends on the total score of the student with the lowest score.
Upon hearing this, Ye Xiaoxiao immediately took Lao Qi's two midterm exam papers. He scored 23 in Chinese and 27 in Mathematics, exactly 50 points. She squinted at Lao Qi.
The seventh brother was so frightened that he dared not look at his sister-in-law.
"Sister-in-law, I've improved a lot. My teacher even praised me, saying I'm no longer last place."
Ye Xiaoxiao thought about it and realized that the boy had indeed improved a lot. So she let it go.
"Work hard in the future, and be sure to get two perfect scores."
That way she can get two hundred yuan.
Li Chenyang felt proud upon hearing this. Although he himself didn't particularly enjoy studying, he was happy to see his younger siblings doing well.
That morning, Ye Xiaoxiao was doing accounting at the counter when she heard a commotion outside.
"You went gambling again, didn't you? You've gambled away all the money in the house!" It was Chen Shengli's voice.
"What's it to you! I can do whatever I want!" Ma Yanling retorted shrilly.
Ye Xiaoxiao peeked outside and saw Chen Shengli chasing and hitting Ma Yanling, who was running and cursing. The couple was arguing again.
"That Ma Yanling, she got beaten up over the New Year and still hasn't learned her lesson," said Granny Wang, sitting in front of Ye Xiaoxiao's house, shelling beans as she spoke. "I heard she lost another five yuan yesterday."
Five yuan is no small sum; it's enough for an average family's living expenses for half a month. Ye Xiaoxiao shook her head, thinking that gambling is extremely harmful.
Unexpectedly, two days later, Ma Yanling actually came to their door.
"Sister-in-law, look how boring life is these days," Ma Yanling said with a smile. "Want to join us for some fun?"
"What do you want to play?" Ye Xiaoxiao asked knowingly.
"It's just playing mahjong, a little gambling is harmless," Ma Yanling said, leaning closer. "Look at you, you're so rich now, it's no big deal to gamble a little."
Ye Xiaoxiao sneered, "I think you've gone mad. Don't you want to live at home anymore?"
"Oh, don't say that," Ma Yanling tried to persuade her, "We're just having some fun..."
"Go by yourself, I'm not interested in this." Ye Xiaoxiao said, her murderous gaze making Ma Yanling shrink back and walk away dejectedly.
"That Ma Yanling is hopeless," Ye Xiaoxiao said angrily.
Li Chenyang said from the side, "Don't be angry, that's just how she is, nobody can control her. Don't get involved with her."
"Absolutely not. That woman is never on the right path," Ye Xiaoxiao said. "Life's finally gotten a little better; if she all goes gambling, what will become of us?"
As Li Chenyang spoke, he went to the yard to repair bicycles for people.
Just then, Zhou Kuan passed by the door. This guy has been coming this way a lot lately, saying he's here to buy things, but actually his eyes keep glancing at Ye Xiaoxiao.
"Sister-in-law, get me a pack of cigarettes," Zhou Kuan said, rubbing his hands together.
Ye Xiaoxiao ignored him, offered him a cigarette, and accepted the money.
Zhou Kuan, however, remained standing there, staring intently at Ye Xiaoxiao.
I just felt that this woman from Dongshan became incredibly alluring after giving birth.
He could only sigh inwardly at Li Chenyang's good fortune in marrying a wife who was not only a high earner but also so beautiful.
Seeing Zhou Kuan's lecherous gaze, Ye Xiaoxiao didn't indulge him: "Take the cigarettes and leave. What are you standing here for?"
Zhou Kuan chuckled: "Sister-in-law, you're the prettiest person in all these surrounding villages. Want to go play mahjong...?"
Before he could finish speaking, Ye Xiaoxiao interrupted him:
"Zhou Kuan, if you're up to no good, don't come buying anything from me. You'll regret it!"
Everyone in the village knows about the messy affair between Zhou Kuan and Ma Yanling.
Zhou Kuan chuckled and left after Ye Xiaoxiao said that.
Seeing his expression, Ye Xiaoxiao sensed that he had ill intentions, so she turned around and told Li Chenyang about it.
Li Chenyang was furious when he heard this. His wife had been harassed by that bastard Zhou Kuan.
The angrier he got, the angrier Li Chenyang became. He threw his things down and was about to go out and cause trouble for Zhou Kuan.
"Alright, don't you know me? He's all talk and no action. If he actually did something wrong, I'd beat him to a pulp. I'm telling you this so you won't associate with him anymore. He's no good."
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