Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

In early April, the soil thawed and the strong laborers in the village began to dig the pond. At that time, there were few excavators, usually only construction teams had them. Ordinary villagers had no access to them. They could only use the most stupid method, digging with shovels.

They dug mud one shovel at a time. Some families did not have strong labor, so women were responsible for transporting the mud.

When Zhang Xiuhua came back, she saw the villagers were busy. She didn't help because she was the type who only talked but didn't bother to do anything. She helped to look after the orchard while Li Jianguo went to dig.

In about a month, the 20-acre pond was dug and water was started to be diverted from the reservoir.

The old village chief defeated other villagers and successfully obtained the five-year contract for the fish pond. I don’t know where he got the fish fry from, but he scattered them all in the pond and also scattered some fish fry into the ditch.

The bait was spread, but it would take another year before it could be sold. Zhang Xiuhua's store business was lukewarm. It didn't get too bad, but it didn't get any better.

In the blink of an eye, it was June. Zhang Xiuhua hurried home and saw Zhuzhu sitting alone on the sofa, watching TV intently.

Li Jianguo usually has to stay in the orchard and has no time to go home, so there is no one to take care of the child.

"Have you finished your homework?" Zhang Xiuhua stood in front of her to block the TV. This child is in the graduating class this year, and the exam will be in half a month, so she is not in a hurry at all.

Zhuzhu was just at the critical moment. Seeing her mother blocking her way, she was extremely anxious. She tilted her head and looked out from the side, "I'll go write it later. Mom, I'll be there soon. I'll go write it after I finish reading it."

Zhang Xiuhua sat down as well when she heard it. "When? Where?"

The TV was playing Journey to the West. If she hadn't mentioned it, Zhang Xiuhua would have almost forgotten that this was Zhuzhu's first drama. But she looked around for a long time but didn't see Zhuzhu.

"When will you come out?" Zhang Xiuhua was a little anxious. It was already past seven o'clock and Zhuzhu hadn't written a single word.

Zhuzhu shook her head, "I don't know."

So they watched the two episodes, and it was already nine o'clock, but Zhuzhu still hadn't appeared. She sighed in disappointment and turned off the TV.

Zhang Xiuhua urged Zhuzhu to do her homework quickly, "You're going to school tomorrow, why aren't you in a hurry at all?"

Seeing that her mother was angry, Zhuzhu didn't dare to say anything and quickly went to do her homework.

After taking a shower, Zhang Xiuhua went to the kitchen to cook two dishes.

Under the dim light, Zhuzhu was writing furiously. As a graduating class student, she had a lot of homework every night.

After Zhang Xiuhua finished her meal, she was still writing, so she asked her how long it would take.

Zhuzhu didn't even look up, "It'll take another three hours."

Zhang Xiuhua sighed and said that it was already early morning, so she went to the kitchen and fried some egg bubbles.

Zhuzhu smelled the fragrance and sniffed her nose, "It smells so good."

Zhang Xiuhua sat next to her and fed her one with chopsticks, "Eat it!"

Zhuzhu was eating while doing her homework.

Zhang Xiuhua stayed with her until the early morning before Zhuzhu finally finished her homework and went back to her room to sleep.

The next morning, Zhang Xiuhua went to find Li Jianguo and re-fry the egg bubbles she had fried last night so that Li Jianguo could have a taste.

Li Jianguo was weeding in the orchard. When he saw her coming back, he immediately smiled and asked, "Why didn't you come last night?"

"Zhuzhu didn't do her homework." Zhang Xiuhua was a little worried. "You don't go home all day. This is not good. Zhuzhu is no different from a left-behind child. She did her homework until the early hours last night. I don't know what time she goes to bed on weekdays? How can she go to class if she goes to bed so late every day? Children of her age have poor self-control. She needs to be supervised by adults!"

Li Jianguo really didn't know about this. He became anxious when he heard this and looked at the fox cage unconsciously, "What should I do?"

Zhang Xiuhua thought for a moment and said, "How about building a house here and letting Zhuzhu live here?"

The houses here are very small, and each person can only live in one room. Two houses were built, one for Li Jianguo and the other for Liu Shujun.

"No need. She will take exams in June and go to middle school next semester. There's no need to build a house." Li Jianguo thought it was unnecessary. "How about I ask my sister-in-law to look after mom for another month and let Zhuzhu live in my mom's house?"

Zhang Xiuhua thought that her sister-in-law would agree to postpone it for just one month, so she nodded and said, "That's fine!"

Seeing her gloomy face, Li Jianguo comforted her, "It's okay. Zhuzhu has always had good grades. And she is just entering junior high school from elementary school. It's not that strict."

At this time, the requirements for junior high school are not high. As long as the grades are not in the single digits, the middle school will accept you.

Li Jianguo told her a piece of good news, "Yaoyao's monthly exam results are out, and her score has risen to tenth place. She has improved a lot compared to before."

Zhang Xiuhua's eyes lit up, "It seems that tutoring really works."

This also indirectly proves that premature love is very harmful. Look, Yaoyao is now concentrating on studying, and her grades are improving quickly.

"Yeah." Li Jianguo smiled from ear to ear, "She just didn't want to study before. If she studies hard, her grades will improve quickly."

"I hope she can keep it up." Zhang Xiuhua thought for a moment, "She's been assigned to a new class, right?"

"Yes! Classes are divided according to monthly exam results. Classes are divided not only according to arts and sciences, but also according to grades. Classes with good grades go to experimental classes. Yaoyao didn't get the best experimental class. But she said that she will divide them again next time."

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "As long as she doesn't give up, she can get into university just as well as a regular class."

Li Jianguo also told her that Jilin's school was divided into classes, and Jilin was assigned to the best class. "Although Jilin is not as smart as Jidong, when he wants to learn, he will go all out and study until ten o'clock every night. This child was so lazy before."

Everyone in the village knows that this kid is lazy. Take cooking for example. Among the six kids in the family, Jilin's cooking is the worst. Because this kid likes to be lazy, he will mix the seasonings all at once before cooking, and then put them in. He saves trouble, but many dishes need to be put in at different times to taste good.

Even though he was such a lazy kid, he actually studied hard. Zhang Xiuhua smiled, "He wanted to go to college. If he failed, he might have to do hard labor, and he was afraid."

Li Jianguo felt that Xiuhua was really good at teaching children, and she taught each child in a way that suited them. If Zhang Xiuhua used the same method as Jilin to teach Youcai, it would definitely not work because Youcai didn't like others nagging him.

He sighed, "I can only grow fruit trees. It's really hard work."

Zhang Xiuhua helped weed and asked him how many families were growing vegetables this year.

"A lot!" Li Jianguo narrowed his eyes and smiled. "This year our two small shops won't have to worry about running out of vegetables to sell."

Because vegetables are seasonal, and not many families can afford to build greenhouses, so there are fewer vegetables in spring and winter.

Zhang Xiuhua chatted with Li Jianguo for a while, and thinking that the class at the village primary school was about to end, she went home to cook for Zhuzhu.

She cooked two dishes and a soup, and Zhuzhu returned home, yawning.

"Don't watch TV tonight. Wait until you finish your exams. You can watch it as long as you want." Zhang Xiuhua really believed her evil last night and shouldn't have let her keep watching.

Zhuzhu was a little reluctant, "But I haven't seen me yet."

"This TV series will be rebroadcast." Zhang Xiuhua said confidently, "You will have plenty of time in the future."

This TV series should be the one with the most rebroadcasts.

Zhuzhu wanted to say more, but Zhang Xiuhua changed the subject, "Your father asked you to stay at his place at night, so that you can control yourself."

Zhuzhu immediately became anxious when she heard this, "How can we do that? What if someone comes to our house and steals things?"

"Don't worry, there are people living next door. If someone steals something, they will hear it." Zhang Xiuhua thought it through quickly.

"That's not necessarily true. What if they hear the noise? They won't want to get up at night." Zhuzhu was putting herself in other people's shoes. Sometimes she was too lazy to move. Even if she heard noise outside, she didn't want to get up and just wanted to stay in bed.

"That's for you. You're going to junior high school soon. If your grades aren't good, your teacher will have to give up on you." Zhang Xiuhua also told her, "If you want to be an actor, you have to take the art exam. The scores in cultural subjects are very important."

Seeing her serious expression, Zhuzhu felt guilty and agreed quickly.

Zhang Xiuhua was still worried, so when Zhuzhu went to school, she asked Aunt Wang and her family to help look after her house to prevent any thieves from breaking in.

Although her family didn't have much food, the electrical appliances in the house were worth a lot of money.

Aunt Wang agreed readily, "You really should take care of Zhuzhu. When you were at home, she was so well behaved. But now, as soon as school is over, she invites her classmates home to play. Those children play until dark and don't go home. If this continues, Zhuzhu's studies will be affected."

Zhang Xiuhua really didn't know about this. No matter how sensible Zhuzhu was, she was just a twelve-year-old child who liked to play with her friends. Without adult supervision, she would completely let herself go.

She thought that if Zhuzhu really became an actress in the future, she couldn't just leave her alone. She had to let Li Jianguo always be by her side to take care of her, so that she wouldn't learn bad things from bad people and develop bad habits.