Chapter 198

All day, Zhang Fan spent it at school, not even going home for lunch at noon. Instead, the whole family stayed in the school's office, eating the reserve rations from the Yu pan zhi.

At noon, after finishing lunch, Zhang Fan was supposed to go to class. This was actually the first time Zhang Fan had taught so many children! Fortunately, the teaching materials were all prepared with the help of the Beast God; otherwise, Zhang Fan would definitely still be busy!

When the class bell rang for the first time, Zhang Fan had already eagerly grabbed the teaching materials and set out from the office. By the time he reached the door of Classroom One, the first bell had just finished.

With each step, as the second class bell rang, Zhang Fan finally entered the classroom.

Seeing the children sitting neatly, Zhang Fan felt very happy, and a smile naturally appeared on his face.

Smiling, he swept his gaze across the whole classroom for a moment, then Zhang Fan gently said, "Class!"

At that moment, the monitor of Class One immediately said, "Stand up!"

Just then, at the monitor's command, all the students had already risen from their chairs!

After all the children had stood still, the smile on Zhang Fan's face deepened further, and he said, "Hello, classmates!"

"Good morning, teacher!" Upon hearing Zhang Fan greet them, all the children were delighted, for they knew that the one standing before them now was the Beast God's Divine Envoy.

Without him, there would be nothing of what the Heaven Lion Tribe has now. Back then, they spent each day in fear and anxiety; although the Heaven Lion Tribe was considered one of the four great tribes, there were still many small and medium-sized tribes around that eyed them covetously.

Every winter, many children would not survive the harsh cold and would ultimately return to the Beast God's embrace. But now, they not only endured the bitter cold, they also live very comfortably!

What's more, they unexpectedly received blessings personally granted by the Beast God! What great fortune! And all this fortune is inseparable from the Beast God's Divine Envoy! If it weren't for his arrival, the Heaven Lion Tribe would probably not have this prosperity at all.

The students of Class One understand all this. Because they are the oldest among the underage children in the entire tribe, they have witnessed the tribe's changes over the past year.

Zhang Fan looked at the children with respectful faces, unsure what to say, hesitated a moment, then spoke lightly: "Everyone, please sit down! It's time to start class! Please listen carefully!"

Having said that, Zhang Fan turned around, picked up the chalk prepared by the Beast God, and began writing and drawing on the blackboard in a serious manner.

What he is writing now, even elementary first-graders on Earth could recognize as pinyin. But for the children on Shouren Xingqiu who have never been exposed to writing, these are strange, weird symbols.

Not long after, Zhang Fan finished writing, turned his head, and saw the children's bewildered faces.

Seeing this, Zhang Fan couldn't help but chuckle, then gave a light cough before saying, "Children, please look at the blackboard first!"

After all the children had focused their gazes on the blackboard, Zhang Fan smiled even more broadly.

"Now please watch my mouth shape and follow me in saying: aoe…"

"Ao…" Upon hearing Zhang Fan say they should watch his mouth shape, the children's gazes, which had been fixed on the blackboard, instantly shifted to his lips, staring intently at his mouth shape and then began to chant along with him.

The class passed quickly; just as Zhang Fan had finished teaching the children the vowel sounds, the dismissal bell rang outside.

To avoid cutting into the children's rest time, Zhang Fan merely assigned an oral homework for everyone, then announced that class was dismissed.

The next three lessons, Zhang Fan taught the same content, only the audience changed.

With this change, Zhang Fan also discovered a problem: the younger the children, the harder they seemed to teach. Especially Le Le's Class Four, which truly had fifty kids, and about ten or so of them were unwilling to study.

Naturally, to motivate the children's enthusiasm for learning, Zhang Fan adopted a reward-based teaching approach.

As long as the children listened attentively, each could receive a corresponding reward, such as small red flowers, big red flowers, and the like.

Thus, the children who originally didn't want to attend class, in order to earn some unique rewards, all perked up and listened attentively.

Later, Zhang Fan's method was also borrowed by other teachers in the school, so the enthusiasm for learning of every student in the whole school was stirred up, and the learning atmosphere reached an unprecedented high!

After a period of time, no child in the whole school was unwilling to learn anymore. Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhang Fan simply had all the school's students take their first-ever exam together.

And after Zhang Fan announced the exam, the whole school's students redoubled their efforts to achieve a good ranking! Thus, after school, the children returned home and did not want to stop, fearing that if they rested, they would be overtaken by other classmates.

Seeing the children study so earnestly, the students' parents were overjoyed. Just think: the children who used to be mischievous and troublesome suddenly became sensible. They no longer clamored to go out and play, but instead stayed home obediently to study.

Moreover, after each dinner, they would voluntarily help their parents clear the bowls and chopsticks, wash dishes, and so on.

Zhang Fan naturally noticed these things, so when the exam results came out, he waved his hand and directly convened a parents' meeting, publicly praising at the meeting those children who studied diligently and achieved excellent grades.

At the same time, he prepared some prizes, such as backpacks and pencil cases embroidered with cartoon animals, and of course the most numerous were sheets of large red award certificates.

Parents looked at their own children, who had earned so much honor through their own efforts, and each felt immensely proud. As soon as the parents' meeting ended, they couldn't help but bring their own children to surround the homeroom teachers of each class, striving to make their presence known.

Even the children who had not received awards were brought by their parents to the homeroom teachers, where they eagerly sought to make their presence known.

What a lively scene—how could one word 'lively' possibly describe it?

Zhang Fan looked at the scene before him and couldn't help feeling amused. This scene was practically identical to what he saw when he first entered school, watching those classmates with their parents.

Back then, seeing other children have their parents attend parents' meetings while he had none, he secretly envied them for a long time; and now, as he himself is a teacher...

Experiencing this again, he no longer felt envy, only a sense of melancholy. It's just that these parents are truly damn good at talking, at causing trouble, at showing off—it's really hard to ignore them!

Well, as soon as Zhang Fan showed up, he was immediately surrounded by a large crowd of parents and students.

Listening to them chatter on about praising their own children, Zhang Fan was truly speechless. Yet at the same time, as a parent, he could clearly understand the parents' wish for their children to become dragons.

Therefore, while the parents were speaking, he would listen quietly, then, according to his own understanding, give them some practical suggestions and advice.

Who would have thought that, precisely because Zhang Fan was talkative, it made those parents even more enthusiastic! Only when the dismissal bell rang did the parents, urged by their children, reluctantly say goodbye to Zhang Fan.

Only after the school's children were all led home by their parents did Zhang Fan and the other teachers finally let out a sigh of relief.

"Phew~ Finally over! Fan Fan, the parents' meeting you mentioned is really exhausting! Those parents—I never knew they could talk so much! You say, why didn't I notice this before?"

Zhang Fan saw Fei Er walking toward him, asking as he came, and gave a helpless smile, saying, "That's because you've never been a teacher before, nor a parent—how could you possibly understand these things?"

Upon hearing Zhang Fan say that, Fei Er suddenly understood, looking enlightened, and said, "Oh~ So that's what you meant by not being in the know, not knowing the reason! I never noticed before, simply because I hadn't carefully observed these little details."

Seeing Fei Er's look of sudden enlightenment, Zhang Fan felt reassured, smiled, and nodded at Fei Er, saying, "Even a youngster can be taught!"

After all the teachers had gathered, Zhang Fan had Le Le bring his younger brothers along with Nuoya's Ge Sen brothers and Wu Na's Ti Ya brothers to go play.

Meanwhile, the adults continued to stay in the principal's office to hold a summary meeting. At the meeting, each teacher put forward his own unique insights regarding the exam.

In response, Zhang Fan earnestly took out a notebook and pen, recording everything down. Of course, besides Zhang Fan, the other teachers were not slacking either; each person followed Zhang Fan's example, scribbling and drawing in their notebooks.

Fortunately, in the several months before the school year began, Zhang Fan had already given special training to all the teachers, especially Ba Ke Er! As Zhang Fan's male partner, when Zhang Fan used to teach the children at home, he also often watched.

That is precisely why he was appointed by Zhang Fan as the language teacher.

By the time the meeting ended, it was already about 6:30 p. m. After working a full twelve Shouren Xingqiu hours, everyone had become accustomed to it.

The initial panic when school first started was long gone. Walking out of the meeting room, Zhang Fan and the others saw the children already crouching at the office door, not knowing how long they had been there.

Leyuan even fell asleep from exhaustion, now lying peacefully in Le Le's arms. Seeing this scene, Zhang Fan inexplicably felt a sore nose, and tears involuntarily began to well up in his eyes.

As soon as the children saw the office door open, they rushed to throw themselves into the arms of their Am and father.

And Le Le was still sitting quietly on the ground, tightly hugging his little brother; as soon as he saw Zhang Fan come out, he happily smiled, but didn't say anything.

Needless to say, Zhang Fan also knew that Le Le was afraid that if he spoke, he would wake his little brother; seeing Le Le's careful demeanor, Zhang Fan also didn't know what to say.

He could only walk over silently, gently rubbing Le Le's soft hair, smiling as he took Leyuan from his arms; then he turned and handed Leyuan to Ba Ke Er, and turning back, he picked up Le Le.

"Le Le, are your legs sore? You've been waiting a long time, right? Your little brother is asleep—why didn't you come tell Dad? Come, Dad will hold you and go home!"

Zhang Fan said to Le Le in a low voice without any blame. Le Le is a very smart child, and also a sensitive child. He clearly knows that he is not Zhang Fan and his husband's biological child, so he is always afraid of being abandoned again.

He loves his father and dad and his three younger brothers, so he is even more afraid of losing them; thus, he unconsciously always tries to please them carefully.

As for these, Zhang Fan and Ba Ke Er, as a couple, naturally also noticed them. So, each time they would deliberately emphasize to Le Le, telling him that in the eyes of his father and dad, the only difference between him and his three younger brothers is gender.