Siheyuan: If you ruin the reputation of the whole courtyard, I will move out

"I know all your salaries," Yan's mother said, "Ziyou's tutoring class is not cheap."

Zhang Yu returned the money to Yan's mother and said, "I not only work, but also make some investments, which is enough for my living expenses." Hearing this, Yan's father, mother, Tian Yulan and even Yan Ziyu were all surprised.

Yan's father and mother knew their son very well: he had been idle since he was a child, doing nothing, and had never done anything serious. If not for this, they would not have given up training him to inherit the family business, and they all hoped that their grandson would become a talent in the future. When they heard their son mention investment, they immediately suspected that he was. "Son, don't touch gambling! Although you are not very reliable, your mother and I are quite happy that you are not as decadent as some dandy boys." Yan's father reminded him earnestly.

Zhang Yu said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "Dad, what are you talking about? I'm just buying some stocks. It's just a small business."

Yan's father said seriously: "The stock market is not that simple. The Yan family has always been committed to a steady and cautious business style. We are not pursuing the dream of getting rich overnight." Although they became rich suddenly, they understand their own status and focus on real business. Although the speed of making money is not fast, it is stable and reliable.

The Yan family is not considered powerful in Jiangzhou City, but they have accumulated some wealth, including assets worth hundreds of millions of yuan. Moreover, the stability of the family assets has a lot to do with the strict self-discipline of Yan's father.

"I just made a small investment during the bull market. I bought some low-risk stocks and didn't make much money." Zhang Yu defended himself by saying that he was speculating in stocks to find some topics to talk about, but he didn't expect his parents to react so strongly.

"Yan Peng, our family is not short of money. Don't take the risk of speculating in stocks. Look at my friends. Many of them have lost everything and even committed suicide." Yan's father stressed seriously. "If you really need money, tell me. If you really don't want to, you can go to work in a factory."

Tian Yulan followed up by saying, "Pengpeng, you have to listen to Dad. We have been through more than you have eaten rice. The stock market is infinite, and if you make a small profit, you want to double your profit. Once your desire gets out of control, the result may be nothing. This is not only for your own sake, but also for your wife and children." Then she turned to Tian Yulan and said, "Lanlan, you should also persuade Yan Peng."

Tian Yulan was indeed a little unaware of Yan Peng's behavior: "Mom, I just found out today that he was speculating in stocks. By the way, Yan Peng, where did you get the money to speculate in stocks?" At this time, Zhang Yu felt like he had shot himself in the foot.

"I didn't invest too much, only five thousand, and I just made a small profit because of good luck a few times." Zhang Yu tried to make excuses for himself, but the issue of the 100 million gold bars still could not be explained.

Yan's mother also stood on Tian Yulan's side. "I think Yan Peng's monthly pocket money of 1,000 yuan is still too much, Yulan, give him less in the future." Yan's mother agreed to reduce it.

Zhang Yu was somewhat dissatisfied, but in order to maintain the image of the original owner Yan Peng, he swallowed his anger and said, "Mom, I'll remember to reduce it by half from next month." In fact, he was somewhat dissatisfied with the original 1,000 yuan pocket money. He could hardly afford to eat!

Seeing his parents take the money and walk away, he had no intention of begging. No matter whether he was in a courtyard or in a good world, he would be self-reliant and never rely on his parents. Zhang Yu also knew that his parents gave the money, firstly out of concern for him and his grandchildren, and secondly, they wanted to visit their grandson Ziyou under the pretext of giving money.

Before leaving, he said to Yan's parents, "Mom and Dad, we will bring Ziyou back for dinner next weekend. You have to prepare some delicious dishes for us."

"Really." Mother Yan smiled and said, "Okay, I'll prepare some seafood. Do you want to eat Australian lobster or crab? Otherwise, I'll cook a pot for you."

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "You don't have to make anything too complicated. Just some ordinary home-cooked dishes will do. Youyou likes this the most."

Mother Yan nodded: "No problem, I will send you the menu later. If there are any dishes that need to be added or removed, just tell me."

Zhang Yu could feel the selfless love of Yan's father and mother for him, and this emotion made him a little uncomfortable.

Perhaps due to the influence of the images of Zhao Meilan and Su Daqiang in the TV series "All Is Well", he feels a little uneasy about this parent-child relationship.

After seeing his parents off, Zhang Yu returned home and found that Tian Yulan was in a bad mood and Yan Ziyu was not there either.

"Did Youyou go take a shower?" Zhang Yu asked.

Tian Yulan snorted coldly and did not respond to Zhang Yu.

“How could my beautiful and generous wife be unhappy?” Zhang Yu tried to coax her.

"Why didn't you tell me about your stock trading?" Tian Yulan said angrily.

"It's just 5,000 yuan for just one play with colleagues." Zhang Yu said with a smile.

"But we can't do this. There should be no secrets between us. If he can trick me into investing in stocks today, there might be someone else tomorrow."

Zhang Yu heard the teasing in his wife's words and replied with a smile: "What third party would be interested in a man like me who only has 500 yuan left in his pocket every month?"

"Men will become bad when they have money, so I hope your wallet is empty." Tian Yulan said firmly.

Zhang Yu hugged her waist and said, "I go home right after work. I spend the whole day with you and Youyou. How can I find time to look for other people? Besides, my dear wife is perfect. She can handle both housework and cooking. Who can be better than me? I am more worried that you will drive me away."

Tian Yulan gently patted Zhang Yu's forehead. "If you really dare, I will throw you out immediately and shave your hair."

Zhang Yu laughed and said, "If you shave my head, you will become a widow, right? Can you bear that?"

Hearing this, Tian Yulan could no longer remain serious and burst into laughter.

At this time, Yan Ziyou came out of the shower, caught a glimpse of his parents' intimate actions, and quickly covered his eyes with his hands.

“I didn’t see anything.”

Tian Yulan broke away from Zhang Yu, turned around and said to Yan Ziyu sternly: "You little brat, go to sleep quickly."

Yan Ziyou raised a finger mischievously, caught a glimpse of his mother's pretending angry face through his fingers, then ran back to his room laughing.

The affection between parents and family harmony have a profound impact on children, which cannot be replaced by any academic qualifications.

After Zhang Yu and Tian Yulan argued for a while, Tian Yulan took out a few pages of paper and handed them to Zhang Yu.

“This is Youyou’s schedule, and this is their school’s schedule.”

After taking it and looking at it, Zhang Yu couldn't help but show a look of surprise.

Tian Yulan almost fills up Yan Ziyu's life. In addition to classes on weekdays, there are various tutoring classes after school every day, covering Chinese, mathematics, and foreign languages.

That’s not all. Tian Yulan also enrolled her child in math Olympiad classes and weekend football classes.

From waking up at 6:30 in the morning until going to bed at 10:00 in the evening, Youyou has almost no free time.

Even on weekends, half of the rest day is taken up, either for make-up classes or on the road.

Faced with this busy schedule, Zhang Yu realized the need to have a serious talk with Tian Yulan.

"Wife, I think Youyou should reduce some of her training classes." Zhang Yu put the schedule on the table and said.

"No, if we stop Youyou's extracurricular classes, his classmates will not stop. Everyone is doing it." Tian Yulan answered firmly.

Zhang Yu shook his head: "Youyou is only a ten-year-old child after all. Most adults would find it difficult to sustain such an intensive study schedule."

Tian Yulan hit back: "What do you mean you can't hold on? I get up earlier and go to bed later than Ziyou, and I'm still doing well. I know how hard it was for me to study."

However, Zhang Yu still shook his head and expressed his concern: "That's not what I meant, but I think this arrangement is not very scientific."

"Science?" Tian Yulan looked at him in confusion: "Where is science? What do you know?"

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "That's it! I will re-plan my son You's daily routine this month. We will look at the results together after a month, and then judge whether you and I understand it." Learning requires methods. Tian Yulan's previous educational method for Yan Ziyou tended to be high-pressure management. As long as he had the physical strength, he would study hard.

This method is not useless, but it is not very wise. It does not make effective use of time and cannot stimulate children's enthusiasm for learning. As time goes by, Yan Ziyou will face greater difficulties in learning and become more and more tired of learning.

"Are you sure you can do it? Don't ruin your son." Tian Yulan said with some doubt.

Zhang Yu insisted: "It's only one month anyway. If the effect is not satisfactory, we can adjust it back."

Seeing Zhang Yu's determination, Tian Yulan stopped talking and thought that it might be a good thing for the child if Zhang Yu guided Yan Ziyou for a while. After understanding the difficulties she faced in managing the child, she was secretly delighted if she could take this opportunity to correct it and stand at a higher level when criticizing her husband's mistakes.

Zhang Yu spent some time studying his work and study schedule, and then made a preliminary plan, which he implemented the next day. Tian Yulan rarely saw her husband so focused on one thing, so she didn't disturb him. She washed herself and went to bed to rest.

Zhang Yu was busy until midnight before he went to bed, but the whole night went smoothly without any unexpected events.

The next morning, Tian Yulan had just gotten up and washed up, and before she had time to call her husband and son, she found that Zhang Yu had woken up and was preparing breakfast in the kitchen. This change surprised her greatly, because he usually would not get up until the last minute, let alone prepare breakfast.

"Do you want fried eggs or boiled eggs?" Zhang Yu took out eggs from the refrigerator and asked her when he saw her.

"I want fried eggs." Tian Yulan replied.

Zhang Yu did it skillfully, pouring oil and frying eggs quickly, and finished three in a few minutes. Then he took out the bread and put it in the bread machine to heat it up. The three elements of a breakfast - milk, eggs and bread - were all there.

Tian Yulan was stunned watching from the side, and finally believed that her husband could not only cook, but also make breakfast properly. "Go wake up Ziyou, and let's do some exercise after breakfast." Zhang Yu suggested.

Tian Yulan was slightly confused: "Exercise?"

Zhang Yu handed over a piece of paper, "This is my re-planned schedule for my son You."

Tian Yulan took it and saw that Zhang Yu had made drastic changes to her schedule, changing the early morning study time to exercise.

"Doing this will affect Ziyou's studies." Tian Yulan said as she put down the schedule.

Zhang Yu picked up the phone and put it in front of Tian Yulan: "This view was put forward by our country's education experts and academicians of the Academy of Sciences in academic papers, and science has proven this." This shocked Tian Yulan again.

After reading the content on the phone, Tian Yulan was speechless and could not refute. "You have done a lot of homework." In the end, she could only sigh like this.

Zhang Yu smiled and said: "There is a similar reason for the morning exercises and morning training in schools. But in school, children may just cope with it, and it is not easy for teachers to take care of so many children."

Tian Yulan joked, "You seem to consider yourself an expert in education." Then she went to wake up Yan Ziyu, and Zhang Yu also went to wash up.

In fact, Zhang Yu actually knows nothing about parenting. This is all the knowledge that Wu Fei taught him in the world of "All Is Well". While his son was changing his clothes, Zhang Yu happened to finish washing up, and his time allocation was just right.

The most precious morning of the day passed quickly. After the father and son had breakfast, Zhang Yu took them to the community park downstairs to do some exercise to clear their heads, while Tian Yulan was responsible for cleaning the dishes and the kitchen. The two cooperated tacitly without resistance, and Yan Ziyou seemed very natural about it. The morning exercise was mainly to stretch the muscles and bones and to please the body and mind, and the nearby fitness facilities just provided convenience.

Yan Ziyou was refreshed after sweating slightly. Zhang Yu took him home and took out his English textbook. "From 7:30 to 8:00 in the morning on weekends, you will read the English text aloud and remember ten new words." Then, he set a clear schedule for Yan Ziyou in the time planner. As for Tian Yulan's requirements, she couldn't interfere too much. The learning tasks in the primary school stage were relatively light. Chinese, mathematics and English were regarded as the main subjects, and other courses such as music and art were secondary subjects. Yan Ziyou had good academic performance and was very hardworking on weekdays. Although Tian Yulan was strict, his learning initiative was still very high. Zhang Yu did not let Yan Ziyou study alone until he was tired, but accompanied him by his side, and gave timely guidance when he encountered something he didn't know.

When encountering an English word he doesn't know, Zhang Yu can always give the correct interpretation. Because he has spent nearly 20 years in the "perfect" world of America, and with his doctorate from Stanford, teaching English to children is a piece of cake.

Tian Yulan was busy with housework, but she also observed her son's situation. Seeing that Zhang Yu's tutoring was very effective, she felt relieved. However, when Zhang Yu started tutoring her son in Chinese, he suddenly seemed confused. The reason was simple - Zhang Yu, a Stanford PhD, had no idea how to solve the Chinese questions for elementary school students. This statement seems a bit absurd, but it is a real situation.

Holding Yan Ziyou's fourth-grade Chinese test paper in his hand, Zhang Yu felt a little tricky. Because the answers to some questions are not unique, such as a multiple-choice question about the pronunciation of the word "闷". Obviously, each option seems to make sense, but the official answer is the first tone. And this is just the tip of the iceberg - "闷" can have different pronunciations in different contexts, and can be pronounced in both the first tone and the third tone. However, the textbook only gives the first tone as the answer, and does not recognize the rest.

What is even more puzzling is that the reading comprehension section actually has a fixed and unique answer, which makes Zhang Yu feel very absurd. As the saying goes, everyone has a Hamlet in their eyes, and the interpretation of the same story is different, but in the primary school course, they are required to have a specific answer, otherwise they will get zero points. After teaching Chinese for an hour, Zhang Yu finally reluctantly accepted a reality: he failed in the subject of primary school Chinese.

Fortunately, they have found a balance in mathematics. Zhang Yu is very good at explaining mathematics knowledge to primary school students, and he can even help with additional difficult questions. However, some problems were found in the teaching process. Yan Ziyou did not do enough to lay a solid foundation in mathematics. Many calculation processes were not able to use formulas properly, and lacked the most basic quantitative thinking training. All of this was caused by Tian Yulan's teaching method. In the past, she paid more attention to memorization and a large number of exercises to improve scores.

Zhang Yu expressed concern about Tian Yulan's method of only asking students to practice questions to get high scores, and believed that a solid foundation should be laid first. For this reason, they agreed to temporarily give up practicing a large number of questions and return to basic knowledge, especially the flexible use of calculation formulas. Faced with this change, Tian Yulan was dissatisfied and almost argued with Zhang Yu. But in the end, Zhang Yu proposed a one-month trial period to convince her.

After breakfast study, at noon, busy Zhang Yu showed his cooking skills and made three dishes and a soup in half an hour. Yan Ziyou ate with relish and praised: "Dad's cooking is so delicious, can you let Dad cook in the future?" Hearing this, Tian Yulan responded dissatisfiedly: "Can't you be sweeter? Isn't the rice delicious?" The child quickly swallowed the dishes in his mouth and smiled slyly, "Cooking is also very delicious, I'm just afraid that you will be tired." Tian Yulan snorted: "Look, you and your dad have learned bad things, only good at sweet talk."