"I go first, I go first!" Qin Lang was impatient and immediately raised his hand: "Auntie, I go first."
He Yan glanced at him and snorted, "I'll let you go first."
Qin Lang recited it immediately: "When I was little, I didn't know the moon, I called it a white jade plate, and then I thought it was a mirror on the Jade Terrace, flying to the blue sky."
Yun Qiao coughed lightly, and He Yan immediately shouted, "Mom, don't talk yet, it's my turn!"
Yun Qiao nodded: "Come here, come here."
He Yan crossed his hands in front of his stomach and recited seriously, "Song of the Ancient Moon, Tang Dynasty, Li Bai. When I was young, I didn't know the moon, I called it a white jade plate, and I thought it was a mirror on the Jade Terrace, floating in the blue sky."
Qin Lang's eyes widened as he protested loudly: "You didn't tell me to recite the first part. I can do it, too. I..."
Seeing that the two children were about to quarrel again, Yun Qiao immediately stepped in between them and said, "The author of the poem mentioned above does not count."
"Even if it doesn't count, you still lose!" He Yan said loudly.
Qin Lang was unconvinced: "How did I lose? I was suspicious just now, I turned my back to you."
"You're probably reciting it correctly, but the one behind you is flying in the blue sky. You recited it wrong! You recited it as flying!" He Yan said proudly, hands on his hips: "I didn't recite it wrong! So I win."
"Really?" Qin Lang scratched his head in confusion, and his eyes looked at Yun Qiao for help.
Yun Qiao was touched by his cuteness again. She coughed lightly and said softly, "Yes, Xiaolang, you were a little too anxious just now, so you made a mistake in reciting a word. Auntie, I know you can do it, but you were too anxious and made a mistake accidentally. Don't be so anxious next time. Recite slowly, okay? This way you will definitely not make the same mistake again."
"Okay." Qin Lang lowered his head in frustration.
He Yan said beside him: "So I won, right? I came in first!"
Yun Qiao nodded: "Yes, you are first."
Qin Lang also hummed reluctantly and admitted: "You win this time, I will definitely not lose to you next time!"
He Yan didn't care about next time, since this was her first time anyway.
She yelled "Yeah!" and jumped up with joy. She rushed to the east wing and shouted, "Grandma, did you hear that? I won! I want to eat braised pork on Sunday. Can I have that?"
It turns out that there are prizes for the competition between the two children, and whoever wins can order the food.
In the room, Feng Juan's cheerful voice could be heard: "Sure. Of course, grandma will cook a pot and give it all to Yanyan, okay?"
He Yan hesitated and said, "That, that's a bit too much, right? Yanyan is full after eating three or five pieces at most, she can't finish a whole pot."
"What are we going to do with the extra money?" Feng Juan teased her deliberately.
"There's extra food for everyone to eat together." He Yan said without hesitation.
"Does Xiao Lang have one too? But he just lost to you."
"Give him one or two pieces. Two at most." He Yan thought for a long time, frowned, and said, "He lost to me. He can't eat more than me."
Qin Lang heard this and was afraid that He Yan would regret not sharing it with him if he was too late, so he hurried over and said, "Two pieces is two pieces. You give me the braised pork this time, and next time I win, I'll ask grandma to make some big sausages and give you two pieces too."
The two children held hands and played together happily again. Yun Qiao looked at this scene with a smile in his eyes and eyebrows.
These two kids are quite interesting.
Yun Qiao walked into the room, picked up He Yi who was sitting on the kang, and held him in his arms. He smiled and asked Feng Juanyu, "Mom, did the two kids bother you yesterday?"
Feng Juan smiled and shook her head. "No, both children were very well behaved. I gave each of them a basin and put two handfuls of beans in it, one handful of yellow beans and one handful of mung beans. The two children spent more than half an hour picking them up."
Yun Qiao nodded: "That's good. It helps improve their hand-eye coordination."
Feng Juan said, "It's quite a sight. You can tell whose hands are more nimble. He Yi picked them all out for me, without misclassifying any. Qin Shuo is impatient. After picking for a while, he got impatient and overturned the basin."
Yun Qiao said, "Qin Shuo is three or four months younger than He Yi. He'll be older if he gets older."
Feng Juan hummed, then said, "There's something else I need to tell you."
"What's the matter?" Yun Qiao asked.
Feng Juan said, "It's Liuliu from Cui Xuezhi's family. Seeing that our child is in the elite class, she wants to go there too. She's not very capable, isn't she? Cui Xuezhi is worried that her child will be bullied by other kids in the elite class, so she wants Yanyan from our family to take care of her at school."
Cui Xuezhi had an accident when she gave birth. Due to premature birth and brain damage, her baby was developmentally delayed compared to other children since childhood. She didn't learn to speak until she was almost three years old.
She is the oldest among He Yan and Qin Lang, but she still cannot speak clearly and can only express herself in short sentences. Her comprehension ability is also not very good. She can only understand simple questions. She cannot understand the same question if it is expressed in a different way.
In order to educate her, Cui Xuezhi even quit her job in the art troupe and concentrated on raising the child at home.
After all, Cui Xuezhi has lost her fertility, and Liuliu is the only child in her life, so she must take great care of him.
In the past few years of raising her children, Cui Xuezhi has changed a lot. She is no longer competitive and her personality has become much calmer.
Yun Qiao still had no friendship with her, but because Feng Juan often brought her children to play together, she actually got along quite well with Cui Xuezhi.
Feng Juan knew that Yun Qiao and Cui Xuezhi didn't get along well, so she rarely mentioned Cui Xuezhi's name in front of Yun Qiao. This time, she rarely spoke up for Cui Xuezhi in front of Yun Qiao.
"Yun Qiao, Cui Xuezhi isn't having a easy time right now. She and Xiaodong have a cold relationship. Xiaodong is always on missions, often away from home for ten days or half a month. She's practically raised Liuliu by herself, and it's exhausting. Everyone saw how spoiled she was before, and you know her too. Now, for the sake of the child, she doesn't even bother dressing up. She's completely focused on educating the child and getting him up to par with normal children."
"Raising a normal child is exhausting enough, and Liuliu is developmentally delayed and slow to learn anything. I wonder how much more worry and effort it will take to educate him."
"So I think if we can help, we should give it a try."
Feng Juan advised: "Not for others, but for the children."
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