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MiaoMiao sat on her mother’s lap, with her father, the family of three all sat in the backseats and a driver drove them to the hospital.
“Mommy, when we go to the hospital, do I need to get a shot?” Previously she was distracted by Sister System, and it was only when she was sitting in the car did MiaoMiao rememeber that the hospital is not a good place.
Small children get sick easily and MiaoMiao has been in the hospital multiple times. Getting shots did not happen often but it has happened a few times. Thinking that she might get a shot on her little butt, MiaoMiao was a little scared.
“No, today we are only doing a physical examination, there is no need to get a shot.” Fu Rou patted her head and gently comforted her.
MiaoMiao sighed in relief. Don’t need to get a shot is good, although taking a shot doe not particularly hurt, it is still uncomfortable.
After reaching the hospital, the smell of disinfectant filled the surrounding area. MiaoMiao furrowed her brows in disgust. Before the examination, she looked towards Wen FuChen, “Daddy, can you do an examination too? Daddy looks tired recently.”
“Daddy isn’t tired, Daddy is earning money so MiaoMiao can buy cute little dresses.” Wen FuChen’s heart warmed at the thought of how caring his little daughter was despite being so young and held his daughter’s little hand.
MiaoMiao was a little dazed, Daddy isn’t going to do an examination? But Sister System said that he must do an examination!
MiaoMiao thought for a long time, but could not come up with as good idea. Finally she could only shamelessly say: “It cannot only be MiaoMiao doing an examination alone. Daddy and Mommy must do an examination too. Daddy, Mommy, and MiaoMiao needs to do an examination together, otherwise MiaoMiao won’t go.”
“The little princess is becoming more and more wilful.” Wen FuChen reached out a hand and poked MiaoMiao’s nose and then in a pampering voice said: “Then Daddy and Mommy will also do an examination with you.”
“That’s perfect actually, we originally planned to have an examination once a year and we had originally planned to do one next month. But if we can get it all done today, then you won’t be able to make the excuse that you were busy and push it off again.” Fu Rou smilingly said.
Wen FuChen thought that this was reasonable, and the family of three did a physical examination.
Because the examination had a lot of data, the final results would only come out in a few days.
After returning home, MiaoMiao did not forgot about this matter, seeing that her father was about to leave the house, she wore her furry little bunny slippers, stood at the doorway and said: “Daddy’s work is difficult, don’t forget to not drink alcohol and come home earlier.”
MiaoMiao remembers that everyday her mother would stand here and say this to her father, today she will be the one reminding him.
“MiaoMiao has all grown up, she knows to care for Daddy now. Daddy will be listen.” Wen FuChen happily said to MiaoMiao. He looked towards Fu Rou, “I’m going to go to the company now, I’ll come home earlier tonight.”
Fu Rou looked at his his eyes that will filled with gentleness and love. Even though they had been married for quite a few years, they had never changed. “Don’t work too hard, remember to take breaks.”
“Okay.”
After her father left, MiaoMiao stepped on her little bunny slippers and ran to her mother’s side and hugged her mother’s legs. “Mommy, MiaoMIao wants to go play with Xiong Da and Xiong Er.”
“You haven’t finished your winter vacation homework yet, but you still want to play. Have you forgotten the make-up work the teacher assigned to you?” Fu Rou knelt down and picked up MiaoMiao and walked towards her princess room.
Once she heard about doing homework, MiaoMiao pouted, “MiaoMiao doesn’t want to do homework.”
“Nope, you haven’t done the homework from the previous days. You need to make up for it now.”
MiaoMiao is three and a half this year and is in a small class. She is studying at a private high-end kindergarten. In addition to playing, the kindergarten also has various courses. There are simple Chinese, mathematics, English classes and the most basic content is taught so that the little kids can learn. The kindergarten even has little quizzes.
Other than this, there are also electives available, these elective classes do not have exams and are used to cultivate a child’s interests and hobbies, and generally do not have homework.
Fu Rou took out her homework and placed it on her little desk. Then she gave her a pencil and said: “Quickly start, after you finish Mommy needs to check. If you make a mistake you need to redo it.”
MiaoMiao held a pencil in her right hand and looked angrily at her mathematics home, her little brows were tightly furrowed.
Question 1: 4 + 5 = ?
She held out her chubby little hand, held up four fingers on her left hand and held up five fingers on her right. After counting the fingers from left to right and finding 9, she wrote down “9”.
Fu Rou saw this and immediately felt helpless.
Question 2: 7 + 8 = ?
MiaoMiao stuck out seven fingers, then she bent down took off her socks and wiggled her toes. She used a hand to cover up two little toes so that 8 toes were showing and counted her fingers and toes and finally wrote down “15”.
She continued doing her questions like this until she reached Question 9: 11 + 7 = ?
MiaoMiao: “… … Mommy, MiaoMiao doesn’t have enough fingers and toes, can I grow another one?”
Fu Rou almost laughed, “You want to be a six fingered little idiot?”
MiaoMiao pouted, “MiaoMiao isn’t good at calculating, I need to count my fingers.”
In MiaoMiao’s main courses (Chinese, Math, English), her worst subject is mathematics. Every time she does the calculation questions she always finds it very difficult. She finds it easy to read and do spelling tests in Chinese, and even English’s fruit and food vocabulary she found very simple.
“Mommy, why do little kids need to learn to do math?” MiaoMiao unhappily said looking at her mother.
“Because if you don’t know it, when you go outside to buy things you might be swindled.” Fu Rou patiently explained.
“Daddy said our family has a lot of money, so if MiaoMiao is swindled of a little bit of money it should still be okay. So can MiaoMiao not learn?” MiaoMiao tilted her little head and looked hopefully at her mother.
“No you cannot. If you don’t study properly, then you won’t be able to eat fried chicken legs this week.”
Once she heard that there might be no fried chicken legs to eat, MiaoMiao quickly picked up her little pencil and started doing the questions again.
She racked her brains and with great difficulty she finally finished the mathematics questions.
As Fu Rou marked her homework, MiaoMiao nervously gripped her pencil and made a little fist with her other hand, hoping that she would get more questions correct so she would not have to redo them.
However, in the end Fu Rou used an eraser to erase 13 of her answers.
There were 50 questions and 13 were wrong. These 13 questions all had relatively large numbers and it was difficult to calculate correctly using MiaoMiao’s fingers and toes.
MiaoMiao gloomily continued to do her questions. After counting for a long time, they were finally correct.
Fu Rou had a headache and worried about when her child goes to primary school. If during exams on addition and subtraction, if she doesn’t have enough fingers will she immediately take off her shoes to count? Then when she needs to learn multiplication and division, what will she do?
After finishing mathematics, the next was Chinese which MiaoMiao was good at. According to the teacher’s homework requirements, she needs to read a text aloud every day. The words of the text were marked with pinyin and she read it aloud in her clear childish voice. After she did a simple spelling quiz from the vocabulary.
Next was looking at pictures and saying the corresponding English word.
After finally finishing her homework, MiaoMiao breathed a sigh of relief and sat on a chair to watch some cartoons.
After a few days, the hospital sent the physical examination report over. Wen FuChen looked at his report that said he had early stage lung cancer and fell into deep thought. Finally he phoned the doctor and made an appointment to go to the hospital tomorrow to consult the doctor. If it can be treated, once the treatment starts, then he would also have push off some of the work in his hands.
After all, nothing is more important than your physical health.
MiaoMiao was writing homework in her room. The System’s voice suddenly sounded in her mind: “MiaoMiao, your Dad’s examination report has come out. His health is not very good. It is a result of his smoking that caused his physical problems. MiaoMiao needs to take care of your Dad and not let your Dad keep smoking, understand?”
“What is smoking?” MiaoMiao curiously asked.
“It is the box of things that your Dad puts in his pants pocket. Inside it has those thin slender sticks. Those are cigarettes, those will make your Dad’s body feel unwell.”
Once MiaoMiao heard it, she suddenly remembered that when her father holds those thin slender things it is usually in the study.
When she goes to the study, her father will immediately put those things into a heavy little trash can that is filled with some water and then open the windows. This is because her Dad said that she should not smell the smoke in the room.
MiaoMiao suddenly frowned, “Dad is so stupid, he knows that he should not smell these things but he is always sealed in that room smelling it. My dad is this world’s most stupid idiot!”
“… …” System: “That is correct, so MiaoMiao needs to stop your dad from continuing to smoke. It isn’t enough to only have your mom watch him.”
MiaoMiao nodded her little head and then ran to her parent’s bedroom. Her parents were in the bathroom showering.
MiaoMiao expressed some contempt, her parents were already so old, but when they showered they still need to help each other. She was a little kid so she needed an adult to help her shower, they are already adults though, but they still need people to help. They had grown up for nothing.
MiaoMiao found the pants her father put on the bed and from the pocket she took out the box of cigarettes. She opened it and looked and inside was filled with sticks of cigarettes.
She took out the cigarettes and put it by her nose to take a sniff. They definitely did not smell good, so she took the box and went to the living room’s trash can, opened the trash can and dumped all the cigarettes in.
After she thought for a bit, she took the chewing gum that was on the coffee table and filled up the box and then put it back into her father’s pants pocket.
After she was done, she quickly stepped with her bunny slippers back to her room to do homework. Otherwise when her mother came out from the shower and found that she hadn’t finished her math homework, she would definitely be punished by not allowing her to eat fried chicken legs.
Fu Rou had learned of Wen FuChen’s lung cancer in the afternoon. Although she didn’t show any expression, but at night after coaxing MiaoMiao to sleep, she went back to her room and complained: “I told you a long time ago that you should quit smoking. But all you do is smoke all day and now you have lung cancer.”
Wen FuChen helplessly sighed: “It has already become a habit.”
“Then you can’t slowly wean yourself off?” Fu Rou asked and couldn’t help but start crying. “Fortunately the physical examination discovered it. This kind of cancer should be treated as soon as possible. If something happens to you, what would MiaoMiao and I do?”
“Nothing will happen. It is just early stage, and I was lucky enough to have discovered it so early. This means that the heavens do not want me to die early.”
“Nonsense! If the heavens didn’t want you to die early then you wouldn’t have cancer.”
Wen FuChen: “… … but its still early stage?”
“So what if its early stage? From today onward, you are not allowed to smoke! I will remind your secretary as well. If they see you smoke then they will have to report to me. If you dare smoke then we will sleep in separate rooms!
When we heard that last sentence, Wen FuChen who was originally indifferent and relaxed was immediately anxious, “What do you mean, sleep in separate rooms! If the child knows, the child might think our relationship is bad. This can affect the child’s mental health.”
“If you don’t smoke then it won’t affect anything?” Fu Rou coldly snorted.
Wen FuChen: “… …” All of a sudden he had to go from one or two packs of cigarettes a day to being unable to smoke. It will definitely be hard to get accustomed to this.
The next day, when Wen FuChen was wearing his home clothes and eating breakfast, Fu Rou took out the clothes he was going to wear for today. When she was going to help him throw away the pack of cigarettes on the desk, when she opened it up to take a look, she discovered that it was all green?
She opened the the box and found out it was all chewing gum?
Fu Rou put the box into the pants he was going to wear today and put the clothes onto the bed.
After eating breakfast, Wen FuChen changed his clothes. When he left the house, before he got into the car, out of habit he went to take out his box of cigarettes from his pocket. When he found it, the corners of his mouth raised up.
His wife said she wouldn’t let him smoke, but she was still so considerate. Maybe she just wanted him to smoke less, after all there should still be a transitional period for quitting.
However, when he opened the box, the inside was all chewing gum… …
Wen FuChen: “… …” I can’t even smoke a cigarette, how can I even be considered a rich man?