Chapter 496 - 496: My Cooking Skills Are Decent

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A few children played around, while the adults chatted and laughed together.

Around eleven o’clock, everyone returned to their houses to prepare lunch.

Lin Wan wanted to cook, but she was quickly carried to the yard by Li Yanchen.

He said, “You’ve already proven yourself. You can just do the livestream here. Leave the cooking to me.”

[Mr. Li is so manly. He carried Sister Wan over to the yard like she weighed nothing.]

[I wish my husband would carry me away when I’m cooking, but in reality, it’s the opposite. He’s the one who tells me to cook every time.]

[I wonder if Mr. Li doesn’t want Lin Wan to cook or if he’s worried that Lin

Wan’s cooking skills aren’t good enough.]

[Of course, he’s worried. Mr. Li is the perfect husband.]

Lin Wan responded to the comments. “My cooking skills are decent.”

[Lin Wan replied!]

[Mr. Li probably doesn’t want Lin Wan to tire herself out.]

[My husband is the same. He never lets me do household chores. Whenever he’s home, he takes care of cooking, cleaning, and laundry.]

[I’m envious.]

“Ms. Lin, are you responding to the comments?” Li Zexin approached her.

[Xinxin, you’re here!]

“Hello, everyone.”

[Hello, Xinxin. You will be going to school next week, right? Have you finished your winter vacation homework?]

[Wow, someone remembers that Xinxin has homework to do.]

[Of course, I know that our Xinxin is in the third year of junior high school. He is about to face the most crucial half-year.]

[Xinxin, can you see my comment? I wish you the best in getting into your ideal high school.]

“Thank you, I’ve finished my homework.”

“I’ve finished my homework too.” Li Zekai ran over and leaned against his older brother.

[Jiejie, weren’t you at Tutu’s house?]

“I’m back! Aren’t we supposed to be home at noon? I came early,” said Li Zekai.

“I don’t have much homework. I finished it last year, and I did it very seriously.”

[Jiejie, are you an overachiever?]

[You finished it last year? You’re such a good kid.]

[Don’t most students start doing homework the night before school starts?

Jiejie is so self-disciplined.]

“Yes, I like to finish my homework first, so I can play without worry. If I don’t finish my homework, I’ll worry about it while playing, and I won’t be able to enjoy myself,” Li Zekai said. The more he was praised, the more he wanted to do well.

[Is there a recording of this segment? I want to show it to my son.] [Good kids are always from other people’s families.]

[I’m a college student, and I’m just like Jiejie. I always liked finishing my homework fast. ]

“Brothers and sisters, my parents didn’t force me to do my homework. It was my own choice,” Li Zekai said.

[Such an easy-going child.]

“What does ‘self-disciplined’ mean, big brother?” asked Li Zekai as he pointed at the comments.

“It means being self-aware… being able to manage yourself,” said Li Zexin.

“Oh, I see. When I was in kindergarten, I didn’t like doing homework, but I suddenly started to enjoy it after first grade. Besides homework, I also love reading books. ”

Li Zexin was about to lose his patience. He patted his brother on the head.

“That’s enough.”

[Hahaha… Jiejie is getting more and more smug.]

[Positive energy!]

[Let Jiejie speak.]

[I screen-recorded it. I’ll show it to my child later and tell him that when he’s playing, others are secretly working hard.]

[So young and already so diligent!]

[My son doesn’t believe that Jiejie does homework willingly. He says Jiejie was playing with Tutu from start to finish during the livestream. I told him that Jiejie did his homework at home, but he says he didn’t see it.]

[I have the same type of child here. My daughter came home and said even the class monitor doesn’t study. I asked who clocks in fastest for homework completion in the group chat. She didn’t respond.]

[Is elementary school this intense nowadays? When I was in elementary school, I only knew how to play.]

[Nowadays, many kids have a bunch of extracurricular classes. They also lie to their classmates and say they don’t study at all. It’s really frustrating. The key is that many naive kids actually believe it.]

[Let me share an example too. In second grade, my daughter once asked a classmate who always scored 100 in math how he did it every time. That kid said that he didn’t study at home. Coincidentally, I had that kid’s mom on WeChat, and she had just posted a picture of him reading a book while waiting for the bus the day before. I showed it to my daughter. From then on, my daughter no longer believed the lie that students can do well without studying.]

[Speaking of that, I’ve also gone through the same at home. As far as I know, the kids who perform well in their studies face greater challenges in the homework check-ins. In first grade, they must have studied ahead of time.] [Kids these days are really overworked.]

“Not studying seriously won’t lead to good results,” said Lin Wan. “If you don’t study as hard as others and still expect the same results, that’s not fair to others. Most people get what they put in.”

“Yes, Ms. Lin said it! If you don’t put in effort, why should good grades come to you? If you don’t invest, why expect to reap rewards?” Li Zexin said. [Xinxin, back then, didn’t Lin Wan encourage you like that?]

[She probably advised Xinxin to study hard just like this.]

[Xinxin has a good foundation. He deliberately pretended to be bad in junior high school. After picking up his books again, he caught up.]

[Lin Wan is really nice.]

[Lin Wan is a very positive person. About her pretending to be bad in the first episode… I still can’t figure out why she did that.]

[Women have those days every month when they don’t want to do anything and don’t feel good. Sister Lin is a woman too.]

“What does that mean, big brother?” Li Zekai pointed to the comment.

Li Zexin paused. How was he supposed to explain that? He just decided to make something up.

“It means that everyone has bad moods sometimes for no reason. For example, I have a bad temper sometimes.”

“Didn’t Auntie Lin say it’s all in the past? No one is allowed to bring it up.”

[Hahaha… does Sister Lin feel that it’s a stain on her life?]

r If someone treated me like that. I would act indifferent. too.

[Of course, back then, the kids didnt understand Lin Wan. It was understandable that they didn’t get along. Let’s move on.]

“I’m still a positive person at heart. Although there are times when I want to pretend to be indifferent, I’ve already explained the situation, and I won’t explain it again. Regarding studying, what I want to say has been said by Xinxin and Jiejie. That applies to work and life too. All three of the children are quite self-disciplined. At least for the past six months, we haven’t had to remind them to do their homework,” Lin Wan said.

[When one person works hard and the other two play, it can be awkward in one family.]

[I’ve noticed that Sister Wan rarely plays with her phone. She always has a book when she’s free. It probably sets an example.]

[Exactly! I’ve noticed that too. Sister Wan can go a whole day without touching her phone.]

[Mr. Li is the same. He only takes out his phone when there’s a call. Most of the time, he doesn’t use it..]