Hearing this, Zhou Xue's expression became obviously ferocious, but she quickly retracted it when she realized that something was wrong, and a very awkward smile appeared at the corner of her lips. "It doesn't matter. If we don't get in this time, there will be next time. We will just try harder."

"There's no next time," Wang Yu said, "She's already ten years old. She will be eleven next year and she doesn't meet the age requirement for the Children's Mathematical Olympiad.

If she wants to compete, she should compete in the junior category. She can't even compete with children under ten years old, how dare she think she can compete with teenagers older than her?"

After her husband’s explanation, Zhou Xue realized the seriousness of the problem and was so angry that she wanted to beat her daughter like her husband.

As she clenched her fists, Zhou Xue remembered the policy she had made with her husband that 'one plays the good cop and the other plays the bad cop', and she gritted her teeth and endured it.

She said to her daughter in a gentle and even humble tone: "Xiaoyu! Mom knows that you study very hard and it is not easy to achieve your current results.

But you also have to understand your parents' feelings.

Your parents suffer from lack of education. If your parents had studied hard and got into a good university, they would be like your classmates' parents now.

Being a teacher, a doctor, a civil servant, doing business...

Then our family is like your classmate's, living in a high-end community and driving a four-wheeled luxury car.

How come it is like now, we can’t even find a decent job, we live in an old house that is older than us, and we have to take the bus or the subway to go out.

Do you think Dad wants to come home drunk every day?

It's all for work, to earn more money and provide you with better living conditions.

And mom, so that you can study with peace of mind, mom quit her job to take care of your daily life at home, and even go downstairs to play mahjong in the evening.

You think mom plays mahjong for fun, but she plays mahjong to win some money for groceries."

“……”Wang Xiaoyu lowered his head and picked at his fingers, trying hard to suppress the pain in his heart.

Seeing her daughter like this, Zhou Xue thought the conversation just now was very useful, and continued, "Mom and Dad have been through it, and they know what kind of suffering you have to endure without education, and how you will be stepped on by others.

Society is not as civilized and harmonious as described in your textbooks. Society is a large arena. Only by becoming a winner can you survive better.

So you have to study hard and you have to become a winner.

Our parents didn’t have these conditions when they were young, and no one told us these things, so we became losers and were reduced to being slaughtered at will.

You are different, you have parents who tell you this and provide you with very good conditions.

Your task now is to study hard and study diligently. You must know that if you don’t work hard now, you will have to accept your fate in the future.

Can you understand your parents' painstaking efforts? "

"..." Wang Xiaoyu pinched the corner of her clothes and remained silent for a long time, still lowering her head and not daring to look at anyone, "I'm already trying my best."

"But what's the result?" Zhou Xue asked back, "The result is not ideal!"

“…”

Worried that this was not profound enough, Zhou Xue gave another example: "For example, you go downstairs to buy popsicles! If you bring enough money, you can ask any boss to give you one.

If you have no money, just tell your boss how hard you work, and then your boss will give you one for free because of your hard work.

Is this possible? It's impossible!

Whether it is an exam or something else, what matters is the result, not the process.

Why is the result not good? Because you haven’t worked hard enough! "

"I've tried my best." Wang Xiaoyu couldn't stand it anymore and stopped her mother's endless instructions and retorted.

"But what's the result? If you have the guts, go tell the boss of the competition organizing committee how hard you've worked and see if they'll pay any attention to you."

"My results are not good, but what about you?" Wang Xiaoyu began to lose control, "Didn't you also say that you worked very hard outside?

Did you buy a house or a car in the end? "

"..." Zhou Xue was stunned by the yelling. After she came to her senses, she could no longer bear it and picked up the rolling pin that her husband had just taken and hit her at the same place where her husband had just hit her.

"You've grown wings, haven't you? You dare to talk back to your mother."

One, two, three times...

"You look down on your parents, don't you? Without your father and me, would you be able to come into this world? Would you have the opportunity to study?

Why are your father and I poor? It's because of you. I quit my job for you.

All the money your father earned was spent on you.

Not only do you not know how to be grateful, you even look down on me and your father.

I shouldn't have given birth to you and raised you. We have so much money that we can't spend it all. We can eat whatever we want and go wherever we want."

Wang Xiaoyu was angry at first and thought, just beat me to death, there is no point in living anyway. You gave birth to me and then beat me to death, this is the cycle of cause and effect.

But she was only a ten-year-old child and could not withstand the pain of being hit by the stick like a warrior.

In the end, I chose to surrender.

"Mom... I was wrong. I will change. I will listen to you in everything. Please don't hit me anymore." Wang Xiaoyu grabbed the rolling pin with her little hands and looked at her mother with tears in her eyes, trying to evoke a little mother-daughter affection.

Seeing her daughter begging for mercy, Zhou Xue felt that her goal had been achieved, so she finally let go and handed the rolling pin to her daughter, sighing and saying:

“You are my flesh and blood, and I don’t have the heart to hit you, but you are still young and don’t understand anything. If I don’t care about you and don’t hit you, you will blame me when you grow up.

Mom is doing this for your own good. Can you understand her painstaking efforts? "

Wang Xiaoyu hugged the rolling pin tightly and nodded with sobs, "I know I was wrong, I'm sorry, Mom!"

"It's good to know you're wrong," Zhou Xue stroked her daughter's small head, "We should correct our mistakes if we know we're wrong, and it's good to change them."

Wang Xiaoyu nodded obediently again.

Zhou Xue finally smiled with satisfaction and began to give examples: "I think you still don't squeeze your time properly. Successful people learn whenever they have time.

I won’t talk about what happens at school, but can’t you walk faster on your way home from school?

If you get home ten minutes earlier, you can spend ten more minutes memorizing words.

If you spend ten minutes less dawdling while eating, you can solve a few more math problems.

Also, when you go to the toilet, drink less water if you are not thirsty. Don’t want to go to the toilet as soon as you sit down to write the questions. It will waste your time!

And...that's all Mom can think of right now.

Well, Mom will think about it carefully tonight and make a schedule for you tomorrow, and you just follow it."

Living like this is not as pleasant as being beaten, because you won't have to endure it for long before being beaten to death. After thinking about this, Wang Xiaoyu inexplicably gained the courage to face it.

"Mom..." Wang Xiaoyu twisted her fingers and hesitated for a long time, "I'm not happy!"

"Happiness?" Zhou Xue felt as if she had heard a huge joke, "How dare someone who can't even be selected for the competition talk about happiness?

Happy? Your dad gets drunk outside for you, and I take care of you during the day and play mahjong at night. Who do you think is happy?

We are like this because of you, and you still dare to be happy with me? How dare you? "