CH 273

“Stop pretending. Why don’t you replace me in lessons and I’ll replace you to do work?” Dawang used his trump card.

Lin Lan was actually very moved.

Dawang glanced at her with a condescending look, “How about it?”

Lin Lan stiffened her back, “What’s with your attitude? You’re very courageous to talk to your mother like that. You bribed the family member of the Director of the Public Security Bureau— you deserve to be beaten!”

Dawang rolled his eyes and began to look up at the sky.

Lin Lan noted that he was obedient in front of Han Qingsong, but he was being rude in front of her, so she wanted to show him something formidable.

She went to get Han Qingsong’s cane, “Why do you think I dare not hit you?”

Dawang gave her a look that said, “Hit me if you want, I’m standing here just for you to do that,” He even shoved his backside out for her voluntarily.

Lin Lan slapped the little rattan cane on the haystack, “Are you afraid?”

Dawang pursed his lips.

Sanwang pursed his lips and smiled, learning from his eldest brother. Even if the sky was falling, his brother was with him. Besides, their mother was reluctant about hitting them anyway.

“What are you laughing at? Cover your teeth this instant. I told you to close your mouth when you go to sleep after all. If you keep doing that, you’re going to have buck teeth in the future and it won’t look too good.”

Sanwang immediately closed his mouth and licked his teeth with his tongue to see if he really had buck teeth.

Lin Lan rattan poked at Sanwang, “Hurry up and go to school, your brother and sister are already gone.”

From the first day of school, Dawang was the one who had the school bag. After the first day ended, up until today, it belonged to Erwang.

Sanwang ran away in a hurry, leaving his big brother, no longer bearing the consequences together.

Dawang snorted, coward!

Lin Lan tentatively hit him with the cane. Although she didn’t use much force, the thin rattan would still be capable of hurting his legs.

Dawang’s brows didn’t move as if he didn’t feel anything. He was full of energy and was eager to play truant while his father was not at home.

“Go to school quickly. Just go with the teacher if you want to go to work,” She deliberately went to watch Han Qingping’s classes before. He didn’t delay the classes even when he was working as he did both simultaneously. He also taught how words should be written in a detailed manner, so Lin Lan thought that it was pretty good.

Erwang and Maisui learnt well. Although Sanwang couldn’t sit still, he learned to sing. Though, when it came to writing words, he only knew a few.

The knowledge would slip in from his left ear and exit from his right. When learning about Pinyin(5), he studied the vowels for a long time. He would write a bunch of nonsense when he was told to write and would mumble a bunch of gibberish when told to read.

(T/N: it’s a standard system of romanized spelling for the Chinese language.)

Or, he would recognise the alphabet ‘b’, but wouldn’t be able to spell ‘ba’. When the teacher taught him, he would seem to understand, but the moment they focused less attention on him, he would change entirely.

He could probably anger a dead person to the point of revival.

After hearing Han Qingping’s complaint, Lin Lan wanted to help her children with their homework, but when she thought about it, she realized that it would reveal herself.

She now really understood what her best friends said at the time— tutoring children with homework was like having a heart attack or having to do a heart stent. At that time, she thought it was just an exaggeration, but now it seemed that it was not an exaggeration at all!