Chapter 90

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Li Xiulan heard these words and felt as if the sky were about to collapse.

She knew Wang Dashan's studies were poor, but she never expected them to be poor to this extent!

Chinese actually only scored 38 points, math actually only scored 19 points!

You have to understand, although she, Li Xiulan, wasn't some outstanding student, when she attended primary school in the past, she could also easily score seventy or eighty points!

Her own eldest son, what on earth happened to him?

He could actually be this outrageously bad!

"Wang Dashan, you hurry up and honestly explain, what exactly is going on!"

Li Xiulan turned back and dragged Wang Dashan over, making him explain clearly what happened.

Wang Dashan hung his head, his face full of guilt, held it in for a long time, and didn't utter a single word.

"Wang Dashan, your mom is right here now, hurry up and speak clearly, who usually helps you do your homework?"

Lin Xiaoyue finding Li Xiulan this time was precisely to clarify this matter.

If it was done with parents' help, then she would have to educate Li Xiulan.

As a parent one should supervise the child doing homework, not help the child do homework.

"It was done by me myself!"

Wang Dashan was very hard-mouthed.

His hard-mouthedness was famous long ago; back when he attended preparatory class, Lin Xiaoyue taught him arithmetic, he clearly knew the correct answer, but just insisted on not saying the correct answer, this matter has already passed over a year, but Lin Xiaoyue still remembers it vividly to this day.

"You're talking nonsense, if you could complete homework yourself, how could this quiz possibly score this badly!"

Lin Xiaoyue rebuked sharply.

Wang Dashan yet remained hard-mouthed:

"That's because I didn't want to take the test!"

This made Lin Xiaoyue angry-laugh:

"Then you say, why didn't you want to take the test? You clearly just don't know the questions on the test paper, and you're still being hard-mouthed, right?"

Li Xiulan saw Wang Dashan being this hard-mouthed and also got angry.

The bamboo strip in her hand couldn't help but swing toward Wang Dashan's buttocks, striking with crackling slaps.

"I'll make you hard-mouthed! I'll make you hard-mouthed! Hurry up and speak!"

Wang Dashan was beaten until he covered his buttocks and twisted his body hurriedly dodging, and wailed loudly crying again.

The crying could even be heard by classmates in the next-door classroom.

"I'll speak, I'll speak, stop hitting, if you hit more I'll die!"

Under the tremendous power of "Glass Noodles Stewed with Pork", Wang Dashan's hard-mouthed habit was ultimately cured.

He hurriedly confessed truthfully:

"It was my younger brother who helped me write the homework!"

This finally solved the case.

But it also surprised Lin Xiaoyue unexpectedly.

"Your homework was actually done by your younger brother? You mean Wang Erhai who is currently in preparatory class?"

Lin Xiaoyue had seen older brothers help younger brothers do homework, but had never seen younger brothers help older brothers do homework.

So her face showed some disbelief.

"Not him, Wang Erhai is my second brother, I'm talking about my third brother, my third brother hasn't attended school, he's still at home! As soon as I get home from school he pesters me, wanting me to give him homework to do, what method could I have?"

Wang Dashan looked very innocent, as if he were the victim.

Lin Xiaoyue was stunned.

"You say your homework was done by your third brother who hasn't even attended school yet? Aren't you joking with me?"

She didn't believe this was fact, felt Wang Dashan was lying.

"Child's mother, you must properly discipline Wang Dashan, his grades being poor is one thing, but he actually learned to lie, this won't do!"

Lin Xiaoyue spoke to Li Xiulan like this.

Li Xiulan however smiled bitterly:

"Teacher, perhaps he isn't lying, my youngest son, although he hasn't attended school, really likes reading books, usually when there's nothing to do he holds books unwilling to put them down, now he can already do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and can recite many ancient poems!"

Li Xiulan understands Wang Xiaohua's situation very well.

It's just she's busy with work, lacks supervision of Wang Dashan, no matter what she wouldn't have thought Wang Dashan, to be lazy, would actually let his younger brother help do homework!

Lin Xiaoyue however still didn't believe:

"Child's mother, are these words of yours serious? Your eldest son's studies are a complete mess, yet your youngest son hasn't even attended school and can already do first-grade problems?"

This kind of thing Lin Xiaoyue had never heard of or seen before.

In a family, either all study well, or all study poorly, or one is slightly better and one slightly worse, the gap won't be too large, because they grow up in the same environment, there won't be one in heaven and one on earth.

Very few families have children where the older brother's studies are a complete mess but the younger brother has great academic aptitude.

"Teacher, I'm not deceiving you, my youngest son is indeed very clever, you can rest assured, later I'll go talk to him, just have him not help his older brother do homework anymore."

Lin Xiaoyue however didn't believe.

She insisted on seeing Li Xiulan's youngest son with her own eyes, to see if he really was that magical.

So she said to Li Xiulan:

"After school lets out this afternoon, can I go to your house and take a look at your Youngest Brother?"

Li Xiulan agreed readily:

"Sure!"

In the blink of an eye, afternoon dismissal arrived.

Guided by Wang Dashan, Lin Xiaoyue arrived at Li Xiulan's home.

Li Xiulan was in the Kitchen cooking Chicken.

She learned the teacher was coming for a home visit today, so when she returned from School in the afternoon, she decided to kill a Chicken to treat the teacher.

"Teacher Lin, please sit inside the house; my Dinner will be ready soon, stay and eat a Meal here later!"

Li Xiulan warmly hosted Lin Xiaoyue.

She held an almost blind reverence and respect for the teacher.

Because in her Cognition, a teacher is the symbol of having culture and knowledge.

While she is a Village Woman with no knowledge and no culture.

"Is this your Youngest Brother?"

Upon arriving at Li Xiulan's home, the first thing Lin Xiaoyue saw was Wang Xiaohua, looking timid and shy.

Wang Xiaohua's personality differs greatly from Wang Dashan's; Wang Dashan is carefree and very outgoing, while Wang Xiaohua is sensitive and shy, with an introverted personality.

"Yes, Xiaohua, this is Teacher Lin, quickly greet the teacher!"

Li Xiulan urged Wang Xiaohua to greet Lin Xiaoyue.

Wang Xiaohua called out in a tiny, timid voice: "Teacher, hello."

Her voice was so quiet it was almost inaudible.

Like the sound a mosquito makes.

"Xiaohua, can you count?"

To verify her idea, Lin Xiaoyue immediately tested Wang Xiaohua.

"A little..."

"What does 5 plus 6 equal?"

"11." Wang Xiaohua gave the answer without a moment's hesitation.

"What about 13 plus 19?"

"32." Wang Xiaohua still gave the answer without a moment's hesitation.

Lin Xiaoyue was somewhat surprised.

Such a tiny little bean of a child, only four or five years old, actually able to calculate addition and subtraction like 13 plus 19 without a moment's hesitation — in this remote, backward Rural Area, that is Indeed already very remarkable.

"Xiaohua, you're amazing; your mom says you can also recite ancient poems, is that true?"

Wang Xiaohua then said: "I can recite 'Spring slumber, unaware of dawn; everywhere I hear crying birds. Night came with wind and rain sounds; flowers fall, who knows how many.' And also 'Bright moonlight before my bed; I suspect it is frost on the ground. I raise my head to gaze at the bright moon; Head Down, I think of my hometown!' And some others; I know all the ancient poems in these two books!"

Praised by Lin Xiaoyue, Wang Xiaohua was no longer so shy; he took out a wrinkled first-grade language textbook and a second-grade language textbook, saying he knew all the ancient poems inside.

Then he also said: "I also know the multiplication table!"

"That amazing? Then let me ask you, what is 8 times 6?"

"Eight six forty-eight! Equals forty-eight!" Wang Xiaohua blurted out the answer.

Lin Xiaoyue's face involuntarily showed an Excited expression.

She has taught for many years, but a child as Clever as Wang Xiaohua is the first she has ever seen.

This child, if raised well, when he Grows Up in the future, will Absolutely be Promising!