Chapter 18 Transmigrated as a Little Bitter Gourd 18
"Mom!" Ji Dong interrupted him: "Xianli is my son. I'm not happy to hear you say he's like a pig all the time. Would you be happy if I said Kaisheng has no manners and doesn't know how to behave in other people's homes?"
"Hey!" Tang's mother immediately exploded: "What do you mean my grandson has no manners?"
"What's so great about your son?"
"Ji Dong, I've noticed that your mouth stinks even more than the foot binding cloth of an old woman in the village."
"How can you talk like that? I think I should never have married my daughter to you in the first place."
Tang's mother opened her mouth but didn't give him a chance to speak.
This angered Ji Dong: "Who else would want your daughter besides me? Are you forgetting that you came to my house to ask when we would propose marriage so you could marry your daughter off as soon as possible?"
"So what if my son is chubby? I'm happy to let him eat."
Tang's mother clutched her chest, as if her chest was aching from anger.
Tang Juan heard them arguing and rushed over: "Why are you arguing?"
"What else could it be?" Ji Dong pointed at his mother-in-law: "I've already done enough for you out of respect for your elders."
"Pah!" Tang's mother was so angry that she smashed the bowl in her hand.
“Where can you be? No wonder Ji Xianli dared to talk to me like that; he was just imitating you.”
Tang Juan stopped them, but none of them noticed.
The boy, Tang Kaisheng, took a small stool and hit Ji Dong's good leg directly.
It doesn't hurt, but it's very humiliating.
"Damn! He really is a little bastard?"
Seeing that he was really angry and about to hit her, Tang's mother quickly shooed her grandson into the room and closed the door.
"Look how filial and intelligent my grandson is!"
"Knowing that beating a cripple is a good way to beat him."
Ji Dong shouted excitedly, "Get out of here!"
Get out of my house!
Tang's mother refused, saying, "This is also my daughter's home. I'm not leaving. If you try to kick me out, I'll go sleep at the police station."
Seeing that she couldn't stop her, Tang Juan yelled, "Mom! You've really gone too far!"
"What are you still making a scene for? Aren't you embarrassed enough already?"
Tang's mother pointed at herself: "You think I'm shameful?"
"You..." Seeing that Ji Dong's face was flushed red as if he really wanted to hit her, she still went to her room.
Before closing the door, he said, "You unfilial sons! You two are truly unfilial sons!"
Ji Dong: "Look at your good mother, do you even think what she's doing is acceptable?"
Tang Juan couldn't take it anymore: "I'll make her go back, don't be angry."
"How can I not be angry? I'm really fed up."
"Consider the wages you gave her as a waste, and let her leave my house. Consider it bad luck for our family these past few days!" Ji Dong roared.
Seeing that things weren't chaotic enough, Tang's mother opened the door and said, "My daughter gave me a salary of five thousand, and another three thousand for groceries. I don't care if you chase me away. I've earned eight thousand yuan, which is more than I earn in a year of farming."
"I still came out ahead, hehe!"
"Bang!" He slammed the door shut after saying that.
Ji Dong slapped Tang Juan across the face: "Didn't you say you only had five thousand?"
"You dare hit me?" Tang Juan asked incredulously.
"Don't change the subject!"
The Ji family's chaotic antics disturbed the neighbors so much that they knocked on the door to warn them, saying they had never seen such a troublesome family before.
The couple argued all night and even came to blows.
Ji Xianli didn't even come out to take a look or offer any advice.
Seeing that the commotion had escalated so much, Tang's mother knew she couldn't stay any longer. She packed her things and left the next day, taking all the boiled eggs from the kitchen with her before she left.
They even packed up and took away some of the glasses in the living room.
It's a pity that the couple doesn't keep cash at home, otherwise she would have taken it too.
When Tang Juan got up to cook eggs for her son, she found that none of them were left, and no one in the house was there either, so she knew why.
She took out some money and told her son to go out for breakfast.
Her face still bore the marks of a fight she had with Ji Dong yesterday.
From what he said yesterday, it seemed like he wanted to bring the old man back.
The old man has long forgotten about his son. He's doing quite well at the school gate, and now he's added another "project" to his resume: cola.
One yuan a cup.
Many people come to drink, and sometimes the old man will also make some bowl-shaped rice cakes.
Anyway, he's quite popular.
The old man thought he could sell at this stall for another two years, and that he and his son could save some money after deducting rent and living expenses.
Unexpectedly, while he was peeling potatoes at home, he received a call from his teacher.
"Teacher, Huaizhi is a good child. He won't do anything bad at school," the old man said anxiously as soon as he entered the office.
The other teachers all looked over in surprise.
"Grandpa Ji, don't worry, Huaizhi didn't do anything bad." The teacher didn't expect to frighten the old man.
The old man's forehead was still covered in a fine sheen of sweat, indicating he must have been in a bit of a rush on the way here.
"So he was bullied?"
"No, it's not that." The teacher asked him to sit down first. "It's not a bad thing. I just wanted to discuss it with you."
As she spoke, the teacher poured a glass of water for Ji Huaizhi's grandfather.
“Huaizhi wants to skip a grade,” the teacher said solemnly. “He wants to go directly to sixth grade and then take the entrance exam for junior high school.”
"What do you mean?" The old man didn't understand.
"He mentioned it to me yesterday, and then the child came to me again today, so I had him do a sixth-grade test," the teacher said slowly.
"I didn't expect him to get all the questions right on the sixth-grade test."
"Seeing that he was serious, I thought I'd ask his parents to come and find out more."
The old man laughed: "So you mean he's already doing homework for higher grades? He wants to skip a grade?"
The teacher nodded.
"This is a good thing, but teacher, do you think it's okay? We can't let him get too proud. The foundation still needs to be solid."
Grandpa Ji knew his grandson was good at studying, but he didn't expect him to be this good.
He was held back in his hometown before.
"I showed the test paper to the sixth-grade teacher, and he also tested Ji Huaizhi. The implication was that it was good, that Huaizhi is very smart, and that he studied at home during the summer vacation."
The teacher asked softly.
“I haven’t seen him reading books at home, I just always see him playing games on his phone.”
The old man didn't hesitate to undermine his grandson.
"Huh?" The teacher didn't expect his grandfather to say that, and smiled awkwardly: "Then he still has a lot of talent for studying."
"What are your thoughts on Ji Huaizhi skipping a grade?"
The old man waved his hand and chuckled, "I have no ideas. He has a strong will, so I'll listen to him."
"He's smarter than me."
The teacher continued, "Are Huaizhi's parents living in another city? Should I call them and talk to them about this?"
"No..." The old man refused without even thinking.
"No need, they can't interfere with this matter, I can make the decision."
The teacher hesitated for a moment, then heard Ji Huaizhi at the door call out "Report!"
"Come in."
The teachers around Ji Huaizhi looked at him curiously. Was he going to skip two grades?
I never expected that a child prodigy would emerge from this primary school.
It seems this child came from the countryside, right?
After staying in the office for a while, Ji Huaizhi and his grandfather came out, the old man with a clear smile on his face.
"I was thinking of setting up my stall at the school gate for another two years."
"Even when I'm in junior high, Grandpa, you can still keep setting up the stall."
"I know, I'm happy. Our Ji family's ancestral graves are emitting auspicious smoke. Your grandma would be happy if she knew."
Ji Huaizhi was taking his grandfather to the school gate when Ji Xianli, who was going to the restroom, saw him as he was going downstairs.
Watching their retreating figures with schadenfreude, he thought, "They must have called their parents in. Hmph, could it be because they cheated on the exam?"
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