Chapter 17 Eating an Apple
It is said that learning a language is easier when the child is young. If a sufficient language environment can be created when the child is young, the child will be able to learn multiple languages.
Jiang Shen threw aside the "Seoul University Korean" he bought and scratched his head in distress.
Why does Yuanyuan want to learn Korean?
Looking at the Korean book thrown aside, Jiang Shen thought of the scene when they were about to leave the practice room that day.
He had just finished dancing practice and suddenly realized that he had forgotten about Zhang Tuanyuan. He turned around and saw her quietly coloring in a picture book.
Looking at the child sitting quietly and doing his own thing, he inexplicably felt a sense of peace in his heart.
But suddenly, he remembered what Aunt Miao said, "She always plays alone, and when other children look for her, she will shyly run away."
Suddenly, his thought changed from "It's great to have children who don't need adults to worry about them" to "It's so pitiful that this child is all alone and has no friends."
Ren Fenghe, who was concentrating on drawing a picture book to relax, was played the BGM of Erquan Yingyue.
He suddenly thought of the fact that he had not been able to satisfy Zhang Tuanyuan's wish to call her mother, and he said without hesitation, "You have been with me here for a long time, it's my turn to accompany you. Tell me, what do you want to do?"
The girl opposite seemed to think for a while, then slowly put the picture book down, looked up at him and said, "Anything is fine?"
"Of course!" Jiang Shen was so confident that he almost patted his chest to make a promise.
He thought that Zhang Tuanyuan might want him to accompany her to play in the community downstairs, or to entertainment places such as parks and amusement parks, and he was also prepared to go out in disguise.
But Zhang Tuanyuan's wish was far beyond his expectations.
Zhang Tuanyuan said, "I don't understand what the brothers said just now. Can you teach me? I want to learn."
Jiang Shen’s first reaction was: Did the teammates drug Yuanyuan during those few minutes? Yuanyuan likes them so much, why does she want to learn Korean?
The second reaction is: It’s always good to have many skills, children learn languages quickly, so teach them!
"Okay, I'll study how to teach you." He agreed immediately.
Recalling how confident he was when he agreed, Jiang Shen couldn't help but cover his face with his hands, rubbed his face twice, and wailed silently. Why did he agree?
How could he, a poor student, dare to agree to teach others foreign languages?
He had average grades since childhood, had no talent for studying, and could never learn English well. After going to Korea to become a trainee in junior high school, he simply stopped all academic classes.
If he hadn't been under pressure to survive, he wouldn't have been able to master Korean so quickly.
In a foreign country, with a language he didn't understand and no talent for learning, in order to survive and to increase his chances of debuting, he managed to learn the Korean language for daily use by guessing with the help of trainees of the same nationality who he had a good relationship with.
Later, when he joined the debut group, the company officially arranged a language school course for him. His chaotic Korean grammar was corrected and he could use Korean fluently.
The summary is - he has no talent for learning, has not learned much, and does not know how to teach others.
He was using this textbook in the language school at that time. He could try to teach Zhang Tuanyuan the same way his teacher taught him Korean, but the title of the book was "Korean at a So-and-So University", so it would be too much of a hassle to use it to teach a child.
"Are you ready?"
Ren Fenghe folded his hands on the table, rested his chin on them, and stared at Jiang Shen with his round eyes.
She looked at Jiang Shen for a while and then asked.
Jiang Shen had a lot of books at hand. In addition to the "Seoul University Korean" that he threw away, there was also "Yonsei University Korean". Ren Fenghe knew these two books. When she had the idea of learning Korean before, she searched for Korean textbooks, and many people recommended these two books.
But in the end she didn't buy it or learn it. She didn't have the energy to do anything else every day, and the only thing that could keep her moving was looking at materials.
In addition to these two classic textbooks, there are also brightly colored books stacked on top of each other, which look like children's textbooks.
A week had passed since she made the request, and December was almost over. Jiang Shen had bought so many books, so he should be ready, right?
Hearing Ren Fenghe's urging, Jiang Shen reached out seriously and took out a hard-earned Korean elementary school textbook.
"Come on, let's start with the forty sounds. Wait, have you ever learned pinyin?"
Some of the pronunciations of the Korean forty sounds are somewhat similar to pinyin. He used this knowledge transfer method to learn the forty sounds.
Jiang Shen looked down at Ren Fenghe, and Ren Fenghe blinked.
She didn’t know whether Zhang Tuanyuan had learned it before, so she just pretended to be stupid and didn’t answer.
Seeing this, Jiang Shen assumed that she had not learned it, and muttered to himself, "It seems that we can't just teach Korean. Since we have to learn it, we have to learn pinyin and Chinese characters as well, so why not learn English as well."
In this way, Jiang Shen started the journey of educating his child without any guidance, and Ren Fenghe's language learning was officially put on the agenda. They had a fixed wake-up time, getting up at eight o'clock every day. After breakfast, Jiang Shen would take Ren Fenghe to study.
After only two days of teaching, Jiang Shen discovered that Ren Fenghe had a serious academic imbalance. He could learn pinyin and letters quickly, but he always confused the forty sounds.
No, maybe it wasn't a one-sided study. He changed Zhang Tuanyuan's mind that she had never learned pinyin and thought that Zhang Tuanyuan's mother had taught her pinyin and letters.
In comparison, his Korean 40-syllable course seems very poorly taught.
In order to save face, after finishing his classes in the morning and practicing in the afternoon, he would bury his head in the dining table and prepare lessons carefully before Ren Fenghe went to bed.
Ren Fenghe was watching Pororo playing on the tablet in the living room, but she heard Jiang Shen's voice coming from the small living room. She couldn't help but pay attention to Jiang Shen.
When her attention was distracted again, she simply pressed pause and listened.
"Look at this little box with a piece missing. It sounds like a t when it's at the beginning of a word..."
Ren Fenghe couldn't help laughing. Why did he have to write down and memorize the lines in advance just to prepare for the lesson?
Hearing the laughter, Jiang Shen turned his head and saw Ren Fenghe's bright eyes.
After looking at each other, Ren Fenghe made a cheering gesture and fell back on the sofa to watch the video.
When Jiang Shen was watching short videos to kill time, he found that some parents would play the original version of "Peppa Pig" for their children, saying that it could create a language environment.
So, he followed suit and found "PORORO the Little Penguin" and played it for her every day.
At first Ren Fenghe was disgusted and didn't want to watch it at all, but as he watched it more he actually found some fun in it.
Jiang Shen felt warm at heart after receiving Ren Fenghe's encouragement, and he continued to prepare for class.
Suddenly, a message popped up on the phone.
He glanced at the pop-up window and saw it was an advertisement. Just as he was about to look away, he saw the date.
Today is already the 24th.
Thinking about what holidays today and tomorrow were, Jiang Shen could no longer sit still. He stood up from the table, strode into the room, and took all his equipment for going out.
Ren Fenghe looked at Jiang Shen, who was wearing a black hat and a black mask, in confusion and asked, "Are you going out?"
She looked at the clock. It was only eight o'clock, but there were a lot of people outside.
Jiang Shen paused and looked back at Ren Fenghe in embarrassment.
Yuanyuan can't be left alone at home.
Ren Fenghe was very tactful. He put away the things on the table, took his things and went to his room. "I will go back to my room. I won't touch the electrical appliances and knives."
Jiang Shen remembered what Zhang Tuanyuan’s mother had said to him.
"I can hire another aunt to take care of her, but without me around, which aunt will be attentive?"
"I didn't know before that the nanny I hired would actually leave Yuanyuan alone at home. She is so young, how scared she must be to be alone at home."
Jiang Shen made a decision, and he walked quickly again, but this time he walked back.
He walked up to Ren Fenghe and picked her up.
"Come, let me dress you up too, and let's go out together."
"The thing is going to fall!" Ren Fenghe, who was picked up, said hurriedly as he didn't hold the thing firmly in his hand.
Jiang Shen quickly freed one hand to hold the notebook that was about to fall out.
Jiang Shen walked to Ren Fenghe's room, put her down, and opened Ren Fenghe's wardrobe.
Looking at the closet he had filled, he selected clothes one by one, rubbing his shoulders with his other hand.
He picked out a thick black coat and put it on Ren Fenghe.
Looking at Ren Fenghe wearing a black coat, he took out a black children's hat and put it on Ren Fenghe.
Great, that's exactly like him.
Parent-child outfit, very good.
Jiang Shen was extremely satisfied.
"Let's go, we're going out." Jiang Shen said.
"I haven't changed into my pajamas yet." Ren Fenghe reminded.
Jiang Shen was surprised and asked, "You kids would mind this, too?"
Ren Fenghe said seriously: "Children also need dignity."
Jiang Shen was amused and took out a pair of pants from the closet. "Just put them on over your pajamas. Don't catch a cold if you keep putting them on and taking them off. I'll wait for you outside."
After saying that, Jiang Shen considerately closed the door for Ren Fenghe.
Ren Fenghe didn't understand why Jiang Shen suddenly wanted to run away when everyone was doing their own thing peacefully just now.
It's so cold and it's night time. It's really painful to go out.
Ren Fenghe sighed and really put his pants on over his pajamas. She pulled her pajamas down, tiptoed to open the door and went out.
Jiang Shen had already put on a mask and was holding a lunch box in his hand.
Seeing Ren Fenghe coming, he squatted down and handed the food box to Ren Fenghe, "Eat an apple."
Ren Fenghe poked his head out to look.
Inside are washed apple pieces, with some of the red apple skin cut off and some left, making it look like a rabbit with long red ears.
Looking at the red apples, Ren Fenghe remembered the Christmas decorations he saw in the community.
"What day is it today?" Ren Fenghe asked as he picked up the apple piece.
"December 24th, Yuanyuan, do you know what holiday today is?" Jiang Shen saw her take an apple, closed the lid of the lunch box, and walked out holding her hand.
Without waiting for Ren Fenghe to answer, Jiang Shen said, "Today is Christmas Eve. Eat more apples so that you can be safe and sound."
Ren Fenghe is not interested in Apple.
To her, apples are the most boring fruit. They are not as easy to eat as bananas, nor as sweet as pears, and they lack the distinctive flavor of durian. Unless she is hungry, she will never want to eat apples.
But after Jiang Shen finished speaking, he kept looking at her, as if waiting for her to eat the apple.
Ren Fenghe thought about what he had just said and took a bite of the rabbit apple as if possessed.
Apples soaked in salt water are more unpalatable than ordinary apples for fear of oxidation, but Ren Fenghe tasted a wonderful flavor.
If I have to explain what this tastes like, maybe it’s the taste of blessing?
"You eat too." Ren Fenghe said.
"Put on your shoes, wash your hands and then eat. Come on, lift your feet." Jiang Shen knelt on one knee in front of Ren Fenghe and bent his back to put on her shoes.
Looking at Jiang Shen’s hairy head, Ren Fenghe blinked slowly and then took another bite of the apple.
Damn, she actually felt fatherly love from Jiang Shen.
What an outrageous star-chasing experience.
Ren Fenghe stuffed the whole apple into his mouth and chewed it depressedly.
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