TGLC Chapter 7.4

“How do you know I was like this when I was a child? Have you seen what I looked like when I was a child?”

Duan Zihui had seen her when he was a child, but he had never seen her act silly.

“Which children aren’t stupid when they’re young?”

Xie Qingyu: “Oh, then it seemed she inherited it from you.”

After a quick exchange of words, the two of them got in the car.

But they didn’t expect that Zhuzhu actually listened to what they said just now.

Sitting in her seat, she turned her back to Xie Qingyu and said angrily, “Mom, you actually said I was stupid.”

“I don’t want to play with you anymore.”

Xie Qingyu: …

She was so busy bickering with Duan Zihui that she completely forgot that there was a little baby here who could understand what they were saying.

She immediately pulled her over and coaxed her, “Baby, how could Mommy call you stupid? Mommy called you cute!”

Zhuzhu snuggled in her mother’s arms, hugging her little arms and puffing out angrily.

She didn’t believe her mother’s nonsense.

She said: “Then you are cute! Your whole family is stupid, and your whole family is cute.”

Xie Qingyu: “???”

When did this girl start cursing someone’s entire family?

Xie Qingyu frowned and asked, “Zhuzhu, who taught you this? How can you curse like that?”

“How can you curse someone’s entire family?”

Zhuzhu pouted and said, “This was taught by the older brothers downstairs.”

Xie Qingyu understood. It must be that when the group of kids downstairs was swearing at each other, Zhuzhu followed suit.

She said helplessly, “Zhuzhu, it is uncultured to criticize someone’s family. Do you want to be a well-mannered child?”

Zhuzhu tilted her head and thought for a while, and then she looked at the scenery outside the window and nodded: “Yes, Zhuzhu is a well-educated child.”

“What about next time?”

Zhuzhu said: “Next time, Mommy, don’t call Zhuzhu stupid.”

Xie Qingyu: …

She covered her forehead and smiled helplessly.

The car slowly drove away from the residential complex. The greenery on both sides turned into street trees. Traffic was bustling around, and the sunlight was like broken gold.

Duan Zihui listened to the conversation between the mother and daughter, and suddenly, he felt that the sunshine outside was very warm, and time became gentle.

She no longer speaks without thinking like before. Although she still likes to argue with people, she seems much gentler and knows how to let her children curse in a less harsh way.

Oh, there was another child who belonged to them here.

Duan Zihui pressed a button to play music and then asked where they were going.

“Where is the supermarket?”

Xie Qingyu then remembered something.

“Is this your first time here?”

Duan Zi replied: “Yeah.”

Xie Qingyu: “Then let me tell you, do you know the way?”

Duan Zi replied: “…I can use the navigation.”

He drove the car and laughed at her: “You are so young, so how can your IQ be lower?”

Xie Qingyu became more and more sleepy as she sat in the car. Her mind was confused, and her IQ was naturally a little off.

She wanted to refute Duan Zihui, but didn’t know how.

Zhuzhu, however, remembered her mother’s words about her being stupid. She pointed to her own head and said, “Because when my mother gave birth to me, she gave me all her intelligence.”

“So Zhuzhu is smarter than Mom.”

Xie Qingyu watched as the two of them teamed up to bully her. She closed her eyes and ignored them.

“…Okay, okay, you’re smarter than me. I’m the dumbest, okay?”

Duan Zihui replied: “Wouldn’t it be better if you admitted it earlier?”

Xie Qingyu opened her eyes and stared at his back: If this wasn’t his car, she would have kicked him out.

You can’t spit out ivory from a dog’s mouth¹The phrase “You can’t spit out ivory from a dog’s mouth” is a Chinese idiom. It means you cannot expect kind, refined, or valuable words from a crude, rude, or malicious person.

A person’s words reflect their character. Just as a dog’s mouth produces barks and not precious ivory from an elephant, a person with a bad or coarse nature cannot produce good or virtuous words.!

If he hadn’t come today, she would still be sleeping soundly in her bed at home.

 

 

 

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