Chapter 190 Don't Show Your Wealth
Lu Yiming looked helpless. Being a teacher is a very troublesome job, especially teaching relatives' children. You can't hit or scold them. If you teach well, it's your duty. If you don't teach well, it means you didn't try your best. It's really a chore.
Luo Rujun was very happy when Ning Xuehua agreed. She turned her head excitedly and looked at Lu Yiming, asking seriously, "What textbooks are better for learning English? I heard that Li Yang's Crazy English is very popular recently. I bought a whole set for our Letian. Do you want me to bring it back for Xiaotian?"
Lu Yiming declined the offer and patiently explained the matter to his aunt: "When I was in the first year of high school, Li Yang gave a speech at our school. After listening to it, I thought he was a psychopath. In fact, anyone can learn English well if they only study English every day, but we students have to study several courses now. If we only study English, we may not even be able to get into a junior college in the end."
When Luo Rujun heard that her son would not be able to get into a junior college, she was of course not happy. She looked at Lu Yiming in astonishment and said, "If you say so, then I bought those books for nothing? I spent more than 60 yuan on them."
More than 60 yuan for 20 kilograms of pork. As a housewife, it would be strange if Luo Rujun didn't feel bad.
Hearing that the money was wasted, not only Luo Rujun was very unhappy, even Duan Letian felt so aggrieved that he wanted to cry out.
Because of this incident, he didn't go to the store for half a month, and the sixty yuan for buying "Crazy English" was deducted from his pocket money.
"Li Yang, right? I'll remember you, hehe! If I see you again in the future, I'll make you pay me back!"
Naughty kids are the most vindictive, and Duan Letian has apparently regarded Li Yang as his lifelong enemy.
Luo Rujun didn't bother to pay attention to his son's wild thoughts, but asked Lu Yiming anxiously: "What should I do now? Should I buy new textbooks?"
Lu Yiming smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "That's not necessary. Cousin Letian is still young. Forcing him to learn by rote will only stimulate his rebellious psychology. We should teach him in an entertaining way so that he will be interested and take the initiative to learn English."
After thinking for a while, Lu Yiming continued, "Well, let's do this. I will teach him the 26 English letters first, and then find some interesting English reading materials and English games to stimulate his enthusiasm for learning."
Seeing that Lu Yiming had come up with a reasonable teaching plan, Luo Rujun was immediately relieved. She wished she could let Duan Letian drop out of school and learn English with Lu Yiming first.
But thinking of what Lu Yiming said just now, Luo Rujun rationally gave up the idea. She said anxiously: "Look, Xiaotian will take the junior high school entrance exam soon, so I'll leave the English matter to you."
Lu Yiming rolled his eyes when he heard this. He is only in the third grade of elementary school. How can you ask me, who is going to take the college entrance examination in a few months, to take time out to tutor him just for the exam three years later? Is this reasonable?
But now Ning Xuehua has already agreed, so just fool around for now.
"Well, you are too polite, cousin."
After sitting for a while, Ning Xuehua stood up and said, "Then I'll go cook."
Lu Yiming called Duan Letian over, pointed to the alphabet , and began to arrange a study plan: "Come here, I will teach you to sing the alphabet song. If you don't memorize these 26 letters today, you won't have dinner."
After hearing this, Luo Rujun smiled with satisfaction.
A strict teacher produces excellent students, that’s how you should teach!
In the 1990s, corporal punishment was still very popular.
To be honest, it was not difficult for Duan Letian, who had learned Chinese Pinyin, to recognize the letters. Moreover, he was threatened by Lu Yiming. In order to have dinner, Duan Letian worked very hard.
Duan Letian studied until the meal was served, and he was able to recite the 26 letters with some difficulty. Seeing this, Luo Rujun was overjoyed and praised him, "Baby, you are great. Come over and have dinner. After dinner, I will take you to the pedestrian street to play."
Lu Yiming sighed.
As expected, if students learn well, it’s because they are smart, and if they don’t teach well, it’s because the teachers are not attentive. This is a typical Xia Guo-style parent. I really worry about the future of the education sector.
After dinner, Duan Letian clamored to go out and play, so Luo Rujun took him away.
It was past eleven o'clock in the evening when Lu Ding returned home with his briefcase.
Ning Xuehua, who was watching TV in the living room, saw him and asked quickly, "Why did you come back so late again? Did you have dinner?"
Lu Ding put his briefcase on the shoe cabinet, took off his coat, pulled off his tie, and said, "I didn't eat."
"Then I'll heat up some food for you."
Ning Xuehua put the melon seeds in her hand back into the tin box and walked towards the kitchen.
After a while, the food was served. Ning Xuehua came to Lu Yiming's bedroom door, knocked on it, and then spoke: "Xiaoming, your dad is back. I heated up the food. Why don't you come out and eat something? You must be hungry after studying for so long."
Lu Yiming touched his stomach and indeed felt a little hungry, so he came out to eat together.
Thinking about what happened tonight, Lu Yiming felt it necessary to discuss it with Ning Xuehua. Today he was tutoring Duan Letian in English. What if someone came to tutor him in math one day, and another one in comprehensive subjects... would he still be able to take the college entrance examination?
Also, wealth should not be shown off, this has been a truth since ancient times. If Ning Xuehua tells everyone about it like this, what will those relatives think and what will they do?
To some extent, Lu Ding's Dingyuan Mould Factory was brought to ruin by those relatives who were incompetent at everything and had nothing left.
So, relatives are really a magical species.
"Mom, let me tell you something. I'm about to take the college entrance exam, so don't tell anyone about how I make money. I don't even have enough time to read, and you're still trying to find things for me to do. This is inappropriate."
Lu Ding couldn't help but stop eating with his chopsticks, looked up and asked, "Why are you talking about this suddenly?"
Lu Yi had no choice but to tell the truth: "My cousin's aunt came today and asked me to tutor Xiaotian in English. Mom agreed. She also told me that I made $300,000 from programming."
After hearing this, Lu Ding suddenly felt unhappy. He immediately blamed his wife Ning Xuehua in a serious tone: "Why are you like this? Don't you know that Xiao Ming is going to take the college entrance examination soon?"
Ning Xuehua was immediately unhappy when she heard Lu Ding's tone: "Of course I know. I just thought elementary school English was easy. It wouldn't take up much time anyway. Do you think I'm a person without sense of propriety?"
Lu Ding couldn't help but complain: "What sense do you have? If I hadn't stopped you, you would have called everyone in your hometown to let them know that Yiming is a billionaire."
Ning Xuehua stood up and started to clean up the dishes when she heard this: "You are the only one who talks too much! I think you should not eat this dinner. I work hard at home all day long, and you start to criticize me as soon as you come back..."
Lu Yiming didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and he quickly stepped forward to stop the fight and comforted Ning Xuehua, "Mom, Dad didn't mean that. Think about it, as the old saying goes, don't show off your wealth. If you tell everyone that I've made money, what if others have evil intentions towards me? Don't forget that I, your son, just experienced a kidnapping. You don't want this to happen to me again, do you?"
