Chapter 1074: The Worrying Brat

"I still think..."

Shi Youxuan: "Shut up, Sheng Zichen, stop talking nonsense to me, let's go home." All her patience was finally exhausted.

She grabbed her son by the collar and walked toward the car.

"Don't do this, please don't do this, so many classmates are watching, I'll walk myself." Sheng Zichen protested; he felt embarrassed.

"You brought this on yourself. If you had just gotten in the car willingly, there wouldn't be any problems. You insisted on finding so many excuses, are you blaming me? Consider this a lesson; don't try to be clever in front of me next time. Today was light; do you want to try it again?"

"I won't dare, I won't ever dare again..."

Sheng Zichen wore a mournful face, but he was still hauled into the car by his mother.

Once in the car, he was still dissatisfied: "You're being too much. I'm a big kid now, not a little child. You can't keep using the way you educate little children to deal with me. I don't accept it."

He grumbled quite a bit, and Shi Youxuan found it amusing.

"You're a big kid? A big kid sees his mother after more than a month, doesn't greet her, and the first thing he does is run away. Does a big kid lack even the most basic manners?"

"Your father and I went to L Country this time for the sake of Brother Qi Heng. You didn't ask a single word about it; is this what a big kid should do?"

Faced with his mother's rapid-fire questioning, Sheng Zichen was speechless.

In his heart, he admitted that his mother was right. During this period, he had been completely focused on the upcoming Chef Conference, and he truly hadn't thought of anything else.

Sheng Zichen was not a stubborn child; he would admit his mistakes and correct them, and after correcting them... he would commit them again!

"Mom, I was wrong—" He held his mother's hand and acted spoiled: "It's all my fault, please don't be angry, I'll change, I will definitely change."

"You must have had a hard time going to L Country this time, you've lost weight. Tell me what you want to eat? When we get home, I'll cook something delicious to welcome you back and apologize..."

"My Brother Qi Heng must be fine. I didn't ask about him not because I don't care, but because I believe that with Mom there, there is no problem that cannot be solved."

The little guy's mouth was as sweet as if it had been smeared with honey: "Mom, in my heart, you aren't a person, you are a god-like existence. I must have saved the galaxy in my past life to be lucky enough to be your son. I'm so proud, so happy..."

The corners of Shi Youxuan's mouth lifted involuntarily, and the anger that had filled her vanished into thin air.

She wasn't stupid; she knew her son was deliberately trying to make her happy, but she was truly happy nonetheless.

It felt good to be flattered.

Litian sat to one side, dumbfounded, and quietly gave a thumbs up.

Can it even be done like this?

This skill isn't just possessed by the older brother Sheng Zichen; the younger brother Sheng Zihan has it too!

If the two of them were together, their mouths could sweet-talk someone to death without paying a price.

This is a skill he would never learn in his whole life; he didn't have that kind of talent.

"How about your exam results? Take them out." Mom reached out, asking for the grades.

Now it was Sheng Zichen's turn to be dumbfounded!

He hadn't said many nice things, and he was only happy for a moment?

What was meant to come had arrived.

"I left them at school, I didn't bring them." Sheng Zichen lied.

He hugged his schoolbag tighter unconsciously.

Shi Youxuan saw it, but she didn't expose him. Instead, she drew out her words: "Oh! You left them in the classroom? That's fine, I'll call your teacher; it's the same if she tells me."

She took out her phone, ready to dial.

The son's chubby little hand covered the phone directly, his little face mournful: "Mom, don't call the teacher to ask. Let me look, I think I brought them back, I don't remember clearly."

"Alright."

Shi Youxuan put away her phone.

The little guy slowly unzipped his schoolbag and kept rummaging through it.

He looked for a way out while he rummaged.

Shi Youxuan didn't rush him; she chatted with Litian about what had happened at home and at school while they were away.

Sheng Zichen pricked up his ears. On the surface, he was looking for the report card, but in his heart, he was anxious and particularly uneasy, worried that Litian would betray him and reveal his performance at school during this time!

With Mom and Dad away, he had poured his heart into the Chef Conference, and he hadn't listened in class; his grades were naturally proportional to his effort!

Litian was still a good brother. He wasn't usually good with words, but this time he said quite a lot, all about interesting things, and didn't say a single word about schoolwork.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

Shi Youxuan: "We're almost home, Zichen, have you still not found your report card?"

"I found it."

He handed the report card to his mother reluctantly. Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, his heart jumped back into his throat.

Chinese: 46 points.

Math: 52 points.

English... 12 points.

Rank: 45th in the class.

Note: There are 45 students in the class in total.

After reading it, his mother's expression was, unsurprisingly, not good.

"Mom, don't be angry, I promise..."

"Shut up."

What use were promises?

Shi Youxuan didn't know how many times she had heard such promises; her ears were calloused from hearing them.

Of course, it wasn't that the son didn't count for anything, but as long as he encountered something related to culinary arts, no matter what he had promised with such certainty, he would sacrifice everything for the sake of cooking!

She was truly very angry.

"You only cared about the Chef Conference, didn't you? You even forgot your own duty. You are a student, and your duty is to study. If you don't study well, in the future..."

Halfway through her sentence, she stopped herself.

She could not say any more; saying more would only make her angrier.

Zichen would definitely follow up with: "If you're bad at studying, just become a chef; out of three hundred and sixty trades, every one produces its own master." This was what Sheng Jiang had said to comfort his grandson when he felt bad for him, and then he had remembered it and regarded it as a golden rule.

"This time, let your test scores do the talking. If you don't get first place on the final exam, don't even think about attending the Chef Conference."

After she finished announcing this, she got out of the car.

Zichen followed behind her, pleading incessantly: "Mom, don't do this, you can't treat me like this, it's not realistic. There are only ten days left until the final exam, it's impossible for me to get first place..."

"If you can't get it, then don't go. Do you not understand what I'm saying, or what?"

Shi Youxuan ignored him, and no matter how her son pleaded, it was useless.

Flattery and saying nice things were even more useless; Shi Youxuan was immune to all persuasion, her attitude was firm—she only cared about results, and without results, anything said was useless.

Sheng Zichen didn't even eat dinner and stayed in his room to study.

He was trying to cram at the last minute.

Litian went before his mother to plead for his brother: "Mom, please change the form of punishment. My brother has been preparing for this Chef Conference for a long time, and he is determined to make a name for himself in front of the industry seniors this time."

Sheng Zirui: "Second brother is right, Mom, just let big brother go. It won't be too late to push him to study after the Chef Conference ends."

Sheng Zihan: "Mom, please just agree. If big brother can't go, he will definitely be very sad."

The children's persuasion did not make Shi Youxuan change her mind, and it only made her even angrier: "Heh, you all planned this together, right? Coming to plead for him all at once? Don't think that just because you're saying nice things I'll let him off the hook; keep dreaming."

"You are speaking up for him this time, but if one of you makes a mistake next time, will he come to plead for you? 'When brothers are of one mind, they can cut through metal' is for dealing with outsiders, not for dealing with your mother!"

Shi Youxuan became angrier and angrier; were these little ones trying to turn the world upside down?