"Your principal, Li, feels that this request might interfere with your studies, so he's reluctant to ask."
Zhou Xiang shook his head, "It's okay. Ling Ran will also come to my house to study on Sunday. It's perfect for us to study together."
Principal Li's eyes lit up. "Can my little Shitou come along?"
"Are you sure? He's not someone who can take setbacks. If there are four of us, he'll be the only one who'll have a hard time learning. Are you sure he won't be devastated?"
Zhang Youling also thought her lover's idea was a good one, so she decided, "Sure! Just ask him to come, even if he doesn't want to."
Zhou wanted to feel sorry for Li Shipeng in his heart. He believed that his heart was broken after meeting such irresponsible parents who loved to shift the blame.
"Okay! Come at 8am and be back at 4pm. Have lunch at my house. It's a waste of time to go back and forth."
"How can this be possible? Everyone has a ration of food. Why don't we ask them to bring their own food?"
Zhang Youling felt very embarrassed.
"Then don't come!"
"Okay, okay, I won't take it. If you eat your family out of money, you'll see if your parents will beat you up."
"No, my parents are very open-minded, don't worry!"
Zhang Youling looked at Zhou Niao, who was setting up a stand for cucumbers, and asked softly, "Is this your older brother? The one who studies painting?"
Zhou Xiang nodded.
"It doesn't look like it, but he's quite capable at his job! That little stand is very well built."
"Well, he learns these things pretty quickly. Just now, when I was building the watermelon rack, I explained the principles of the rack, and now he can build the cucumber rack by himself."
Zhang Youling sighed softly, "What a pity!"
"You are not a fish, so how can you understand the joy of a fish? Because his mind is simple, he is easily satisfied and happy. Perhaps, he is happier than us!"
On the way back, Li Gengxue and Zhang Youling were still thinking about Zhou Xiang's words.
"Old Li, what you just said is not something a ten-year-old can say. Is Zhou Xiang really only ten years old?"
"Current events create talents. Perhaps with more experiences, one has more emotions. Besides, the world of geniuses is different from that of ordinary people like us."
After the two principals left, Zhou Xiang started helping his elder brother build the cucumber rack.
"Sister, I want to eat peaches."
Zhou Xiang saw his eldest brother drooling over the small hairy peaches on the peach tree and smiled, "Just wait, I'll pick them for you."
He walked to the peach tree, pretended to reach out to pick a peach, and smuggled out a normal-sized peach from a blind spot where his brother couldn't see.
"Hey! Go wash up."
Zhou Niao looked at the peach in front of him, then looked at his sister, "Sister, can you perform magic?"
Zhou Xiang nodded and said, "Don't tell anyone, otherwise, there will be no peaches to eat next time."
"Okay, I won't tell anyone."
He took the peach and went to the bathroom to scoop water to wash his hands and the peach.
"Sister, eat."
Zhou Xiang pushed his brother's hand away and said, "Brother, eat it. I can do magic, so I have eaten a lot of peaches. You can eat it yourself!"
Looking at his elder brother eating peaches happily, even squinting his eyes because they were so delicious, Zhou Xiang felt that he must be happy at the moment. Simple people are easy to satisfy.
On Sunday morning, Zhou Xiang finally met Teacher Sun. "Hello, Teacher Sun, how is my eldest brother doing in school?"
Sun Qing smiled and nodded. "Very good. In class, he asks questions when he doesn't understand something. I also teach him some simple Chinese characters and pinyin. He learns very quickly."
"That's good. Thank you for your concern, Teacher Sun."
"It's okay, it's okay. I'm having fun teaching."
Zhou wanted to make a pot of tea and put it in the main room to make room for Teacher Sun and his elder brother.
Together with Ling Ran, who had already arrived, they carried the dining table from the kitchen to the yard.
"Why do you need four small stools?"
"Someone will come in a while."
Ling Ran was just about to ask who was coming when he saw Li Shipeng walk in with a boy of about eleven or twelve years old.
"What are you doing here?" Lin Ran asked Li Shipeng unhappily.
"Come and study! What? You can come, but I can't?"
Lin Ran sat down at the table angrily. "Hmph! Two idiots!"
Zhou Xiang greeted Yang Yang, "Yang Yang, please sit down! Our house is small and the weather is warm, so we can study in the yard."
Yang Yang nodded and put down his schoolbag. "The light in the yard is good."
Li Shipeng and Yang Yang didn't care about Ling Ran's attitude at all. They just sat down and took out their books to do their homework.
After a while, Li Shipeng felt that his three views were shattered. He could understand Zhou wanting to teach Yang Yang, but what did she mean by her teaching Ling Ran?
Yes, she had taken extra classes with that idiot Wang Yeqin, but those were only physics and chemistry!
She taught Ling Ran all the subjects! How could he be so talented? No wonder his parents always looked so disappointed in him.
No, I can't catch up with Zhou Xiang, this monster, so how can I catch up with Ling Ran? Ling Ran is already in the third grade and he still has the nerve to ask Zhou Xiang for advice, so I am only in the second grade and I am not afraid of being embarrassed.
There's a free teacher, why not ask? Humph! Ling Ran, this cunning fox, has better grades than when he skipped a grade. It must be Zhou Xiang who taught him.
Yang Yang didn't care about these things and just tried to figure out what he didn't know. In the provincial competition in June, his last-place result might not allow him to advance to the semi-finals. Sure enough, he heard what Zhou Xiang said.
"Yang Yang, you can't review like this. You might get eliminated in the preliminaries. Not only do you have to thoroughly review what you've already learned, but you also have to learn knowledge two grades above yours. The last competition already covered first-grade knowledge, so this time you need to review until second grade to perform well in the competition."
Seeing Li Shipeng's shocked expression, Yang Yang smiled happily and said, "Okay, I'll study at home and ask you again on Sunday."
"You can ask Teacher Yang first. The competition is only about six or seven weeks away. How many questions can you ask me? Ask me any particularly difficult questions or questions you're unsure about."
Yang Yang nodded, his eyes flickering.
Zhou thought that no matter what he thought, it had nothing to do with him anyway.
After seeing off Teacher Sun, Zhou wanted to ask the three to study on their own while she would go to cook. It was her idea to leave them alone for lunch. To avoid her second sister's nagging, she decided to take the initiative to cook.
Seeing her sister taking the initiative to cook, Zhou Yu happily continued knitting sweaters. With so many sweaters, she had to make use of all the available time.
Because Zhou's father was determined to change, he knew that his daughter was busy on Sundays, so he came home early to help with cooking.
Seeing two more boys in the yard, he was stunned for a moment.
"Uncle Zhou is back?" Ling Ran greeted him enthusiastically.
"Hmm! Who are these two?"
Father Zhou nodded and then asked Ling Ran.
"Oh, let me introduce you. This is Principal Li's son, Li Shipeng. And this is Zhou Xiangxiang's classmate, Yang Yang. Principal Li arranged for them to study together."
Li Shipeng and Yang Yang had already stood up. "Hello, Uncle Zhou! Sorry to bother you."
Father Zhou nodded, "Okay, sit down and study! Don't be polite, just treat it like you're at home."
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