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

As parents, Jilin and Tong Shuyu have the same worries as Jidong and Xiangxiang.

Even though the couple have good jobs and a decent income, their children are a source of worry for them.

After finishing work, Tong Shuyu has to rush home to help her children with their homework.

Compared to the two children of Jidong who were very active, the daughter Lele born to her and Jilin had a bigger problem. This child was just too lazy to move.

I need someone to urge me to get up in the morning, to eat at noon, and to do my homework at night.

Jilin often had to work overtime, so the burden of raising the child fell on Tong Shuyu. She hired a nanny to take care of the child's three meals a day, so she didn't have to worry about her daily life. But the nanny didn't care about the child. And the tutor didn't teach the child's hands-on skills. She had to teach him herself.

“Why don’t you write it?” Tong Shuyu was almost crying with anger. Why was this child so disobedient?

She received a phone call and asked her to rewrite the new words she had learned in class today. When she came back half an hour later, the child had not written a single word! Instead, she was very enthusiastic about kneading clay!

Tong Shuyu was so angry that she was like a puffer fish. She could only suppress her anger and asked Lele to put the clay into the drawer and do her homework.

Lele could only take out the book reluctantly. Seeing her hesitation, Tong Shuyu's anger, which had just been suppressed, burst out again.

By the time Lele finally finished her homework, it was already past nine in the evening. If she didn't go to bed, she would probably be absent-minded in class tomorrow. Tong Shuyu could only urge her daughter to go back to her room and sleep.

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Zhang Xiuhua has been having a lot of fun recently. She has been completely retired in the past few years and rented her orchard to villagers. Whenever she wants to eat fruit, she goes to the orchard herself and picks some to satisfy her hunger.

But she spent most of her time traveling with Li Jianguo. They had been to Europe, the United States, and more often in China, looking around.

I went to Jiangxi Province today and stopped by to see Jilin.

The couple was carrying a lot of bags and just walked downstairs when they heard someone crying, not crying loudly, but sobbing.

Zhang Xiuhua thought the couple was having a quarrel and was too embarrassed to disturb them. She tried to go around them, but they stood up. When they stood up, their eyes met, and Li Jianguo and Zhang Xiuhua were dumbfounded.

"Xiaoyu? Why are you crying? What happened?" Li Jianguo took the lead in breaking the awkward atmosphere.

Zhang Xiuhua asked in unison, "Did Jilin bully you?"

Tong Shuyu wiped her tears quickly, "No! It's not Jilin's fault. It's Lele. He's too slow in doing things. I'm so tired!"

Teaching this child is a hundred times more tiring than her work. She wanted to beat him many times, but she couldn't bear to do it when she thought of the beatings she received from her parents when she was a child.

Zhang Xiuhua immediately felt distressed and went forward to hug her shoulders, "You are tired! Your name is Jilin!"

"He's been busy with a project lately. He has to work overtime." Tong Shuyu led the way. "When he came back, Lele had already fallen asleep."

"What kind of project is he working on that keeps him so busy?" Zhang Xiuhua felt that Jilin was being unreasonable. "No matter how busy he is, he can't abandon his family. It's not like he's working on a state secret project, so he has to remain anonymous!"

Jilin works at the Mechanical Research Institute. Unlike the state-run engineering projects, he doesn't need to live in a secret place. He can go home to eat and sleep. He has more free time. She suspected that Jilin was lazy again.

Li Jianguo also thinks it is possible, "Some men will lie and say they are working overtime at the company to evade family responsibilities."

Li Jianguo would not think so if it were any other child. But he was not surprised at all when Jilin did such a thing. This child would just shirk his responsibilities. No matter how Xiuhua tried to change him, it was useless. Fortunately, he now had a stable job and could support his family.

Zhang Xiuhua felt that Tong Shuyu was too pampering to Jilin. "Jilin has always been lazy, and has been like this since he was a child. He would rather sit than stand, and lie down than stand. You must not beat around the bush with him. Just give him orders directly. Don't be polite to him. Otherwise, you will be the one who will tire yourself to death."

Tong Shuyu opened her mouth and said, Lele just takes after Jilin.

When the three of them got home, Ji Lin had already returned and was washing up in the bathroom.

When he came out of the shower, he found his mother and Uncle Li coming. He was a little surprised, "You came so late? Why didn't you call me to pick you up?"

Zhang Xiuhua waved her hand. "Let me ask you, what project of yours requires you to come home so late?"

"I'm helping a company improve its equipment recently. Their equipment is too old." Ji Lin was confused. "What's wrong? Do you want me to help you research some equipment?"

"No!" Zhang Xiuhua frowned, "You can't go on like this. If you are a workaholic and only think about work, why did you get married and have children? If you had a child, you wouldn't teach it and just leave it to Shu Yu. Aren't you cheating people?"

To be honest, she could understand Tong Shuyu. Maybe it was because she paid for her education, so in the marriage between Tong Shuyu and Jilin, Tong Shuyu felt that she was inferior to Jilin and had paid more. But if one of them always had to give in, problems would arise sooner or later.

Ji Lin looked at Tong Shuyu in confusion, "What's wrong?"

Why the hell is he acting like he's taken gunpowder as soon as he walks in the door?

Tong Shuyu couldn't explain it. It was really embarrassing to cry in the community garden late at night.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't give her son a chance to refute. "I just want to ask you, can you come back early tomorrow?"

"Yes!" Jilin agreed.

"From now on, you must be home before 7:30 every day." Zhang Xiuhua also knew the work of the research institute. It was impossible for him to work overtime for so long from 9 to 5. He must want to finish the project earlier, so he worked overtime.

Jilin thought for a moment and said, "Okay. Do you want me to show you around?"

"No!" Zhang Xiuhua felt that Tong Shuyu was just spoiling Jilin too much. If he had to do everything by himself, he would get sick sooner or later. "Starting tomorrow, you will help Lele with her homework. Shuyu will take a rest for a while."

Jilin agreed without even thinking, "Okay!"

Tong Shuyu hesitated to speak, he agreed so readily, could he not do it? !

In fact, Tong Shuyu's worries soon came true. Ji Lin was tutoring his child and he broke down. Was this his child? Why was she so stupid? It would be fine if she was stupid, but why was she so slow?

He, who is usually slow-tempered, was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead. He couldn't help but urge his daughter, "Hurry up! What are you dawdling about for? Isn't the pencil right next to you?"

Oh my god, is this kid a turtle? Are his eyes so big for show? The pencil is right in front of him, but he can't see it. Is he taking his words as fart!

Lele pouted, picked up the pencil reluctantly, and began to read the problem. "Seven plus six..."

I calculated it for a long time but couldn't figure it out.

The veins on Jilin's forehead throbbed. "Seven plus six, is this that difficult?"

"It's difficult!" Lele counted on his fingers and answered slowly, "I only have ten fingers, not enough!"

Ji Lin's eyes went dark, and after a long while he said, "When it reaches ten, you move up one."

Lele blinked his big innocent eyes and asked, "Dad, what does it mean to move up one place?"

Ji Lin: “…”

Zhang Xiuhua, Li Jianguo and Tong Shuyu were drinking tea in the living room. Zhang Xiuhua and Li Jianguo were discussing the next stop, but Tong Shuyu was absent-minded, glancing at the door of the study from time to time. Her house was a large flat, not a villa, and the soundproofing was average. She could hear a little bit while sitting in the living room.

At this moment, Jilin's furious voice came from the study. Tong Shuyu couldn't sit still anymore and immediately opened the study door. Lele was wiping her tears and crying.

When she saw her mother, she immediately ran over, hugged her mother's legs tightly, and complained to her father in tears, "Dad is too fierce! I don't want my dad to help me with my homework. He hits me!"

Ji Lin was so angry that his face turned blue. He grabbed Lele's arm and pulled her towards him. "If you don't do your homework well, I will be even more fierce! You are already in the first grade, and you can't even do single-digit addition and subtraction. How dare you cry?"

Lele wanted to hide behind her mother. Tong Shuyu felt heartbroken, but she still pushed her daughter out and said, "Learn from Daddy."

Lele looked at Zhang Xiuhua and Li Jianguo again, tears in his eyes, looking at you pitifully, "Grandpa? Grandma?"

Zhang Xiuhua's heart was about to break, but she still stood at the door without saying a word. If she stopped him now, Jilin would lose his dignity in front of the child, and he would be even more difficult to discipline in the future.

Seeing that no one in her family stood on her side, Lele cried even louder.

When Jilin came out of the study, he almost collapsed, "This is too difficult. Let's learn from Brother Jidong and find a tutor for Lele?!"

After Dong Ge hired a tutor for his two children, their grades improved dramatically. Their personalities also became more stable and not as erratic as before.

Tong Shuyu, however, was not optimistic. "Le Le is not stupid, she just likes to dawdle and is very lazy. She would rather sit than stand." The implication was that teachers could not teach this and parents had to teach it.

Jilin had a headache, "How could there be such a child?"

Zhang Xiuhua looked strange and said faintly, "You are just that kind of child."

Lele is a carbon copy of Jilin. Although he looks like Tong Shuyu, his personality is really like Jilin. So lazy genes are more likely to be inherited than diligent genes.

Li Jianguo couldn't hold it in any longer. "Your mother said that children shouldn't be beaten. When you were late for school and stayed in bed as a child, your mother didn't beat you. You have to be patient."

Jilin felt that Uncle Li was talking without any concern. Faced with a child like this, who wouldn't collapse?

"You should learn what I taught you when you were a child. Don't hit the child!" Zhang Xiuhua reminded him again and again, "If you hit her, it will easily cause her psychological trauma."

Jilin sighed, "Mom, you used models to seduce me when we were young. But Lele doesn't seem to have much interest in math."

"It doesn't have to be math. Maybe she likes playing the piano and singing. You should explore her interests first. As long as she doesn't go astray in the future and has a job, that's fine." Zhang Xiuhua has low requirements for her children. Their family has enough money. If they can't expand, being the lord of the city is fine, right?

Jilin and Tong Shuyu agreed. So they took turns taking their children to try out various hobbies.

Fortunately, they are now well off and can provide for their child. If it were a child from a poor family, Lele would have grown up to be a parasite.

Every time they signed up for a hobby, after a few days of classes, the child had no patience in class and the teacher was also driven crazy by her, so they had to take turns to take leave to accompany her.

Fortunately, after trying various musical instruments and sports, they finally found that Lele was more interested in painting. So the two began to focus on cultivating Lele's painting.