Qi Rang put down his schoolbag, calmly looked up at him, and asked, "Zhang Lixin, is there something you need?"
Little Zhang Lixin said fiercely, "Qi Rang, I'm going to marry Liu Beibei when I grow up."
"Oh, then I wish you a long and happy life together."
Liu Beibei immediately became agitated upon hearing this: "Zhang Lixin, you shameless bastard! When did I ever say I wanted to marry you!"
Zhang Lixin also said anxiously, "Why won't you marry me? My family is richer than Qi Rang's family!"
"But Qi Rang is more handsome than you!"
"I can buy you pretty clothes to wear!"
"But Qi Rang is more handsome than you!"
"I can even put a crown on your head!"
"But Qi Rang is more handsome than you!"
"..."
That's a brilliant move—using the unchanging to respond to all changes.
Before Zhang Lixin could come up with a solution, Teacher Qiao walked into the classroom and announced the start of the day's classes.
The first lesson was drawing. The theme was my mom and dad, and after we finished drawing, we had to take it home to show them to our parents.
Qi Rang spent thirty-five minutes carefully drawing his mother, and then hastily finished drawing his father in the last five minutes.
"Qi Rang, may I use your red watercolor pen? Mine is out of ink." Sitting next to Qi Rang, Shen Jie scribbled a few strokes on the white paper with the red pen, leaving only a few dry marks.
Qi Rang pushed all his watercolor pens over: "You can use them, I'm finished painting."
"Thank you." Shen Jie looked at Qi Rang's large box of watercolor pens, a little envious. "You have so many colors of watercolor pens, how many kinds are there in total?"
"Fifty-four colors, my mom bought it for me."
Shen Jie exclaimed in surprise, rummaged through a pile of red watercolor pens for a while, and finally chose the brightest red one. Before she could even open the cap, the pen was snatched from her hand. Liu Beibei stood to the side, looking fierce: "You're not allowed to use his things!"
Her voice was a bit loud, and since Shen Jie was timid to begin with, she was both scared and aggrieved by her shout, and burst into tears.
Teacher Qiao quickly came over with tissues, comforting her while wiping away her tears. Qi Rang picked out a new red watercolor pen and handed it to her: "Use this one, the color is prettier than the previous one."
Shen Jie tried to take it while crying, but before she could even touch it, Liu Beibei snatched it away again: "You're not allowed to give it to other girls!"
Qi Rang frowned, looking at Liu Beibei with a hint of anger: "This is my pen. I can give it to whomever I want to use it. It's none of your business."
Liu Beibei was about to cry too: "You yelled at me for another girl!"
Zhang Lixin, who had been waiting for an opportunity, seized the chance and quickly came over to fawn over her: "Beibei, don't cry, I'll give you candy."
"I don't want your candy!"
Liu Beibei's tears welled up in her eyes. Seeing that one of them was still not calmed down and the other was about to start crying, Teacher Qiao quickly looked at Qi Rang and said, "You should comfort her."
Hearing what Teacher Qiao said, Liu Beibei also looked at Qi Rang expectantly, as if waiting for him to coax her.
Under their expectant gazes, Qi Rang took a pen from his pencil case and casually wrote four numbers on a piece of white paper: "Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to make the result of these four numbers equal to 24."
Teacher Qiao: "..."
This was the first time she had ever seen someone use the "24-point" method to coax a girl.
Liu Beibei was genuinely taken aback and began to seriously study the four numbers Qi Rang had written to her, as if they were a love letter from Qi Rang.
Teacher Qiao breathed a sigh of relief; the lesson had passed without any major incident.
During the morning snack break, Liu Beibei offered her strawberry cake to Qi Rang: "Qi Juanbao, you like strawberries, right? Here, you can have mine too."
Qi Rang glanced at the cake in her hand, then picked up and ate only the strawberries on it. Liu Beibei looked at the bare cake and fell silent.
Shen Jie also handed over her strawberry cake: "You can have mine too, thank you for lending me your watercolors."
Without any shame, Qi Juanbao picked the strawberries off her cake and fed them to her.
Zhang Lixin came over excitedly with a strawberry cake, and Qi Rang casually picked up the strawberries from the cake and ate them.
Zhang Lixin: "..."
"Qi Rang! I challenge you to a duel!" How dare you eat his strawberries! He was going to give them to his Beibei!
Qi Rang realized he was getting too carried away, and before he could say anything, Liu Beibei stepped forward: "Zhang Lixin, you're not allowed to bully my Juanbao!"
Qi Rang's brow twitched slightly: "Call me Qi Rang."
Liu Beibei chimed in, "Zhang Lixin, you're not allowed to bully my Qi Rang!"
Zhang Lixin's eyes turned red with anger: "Liu Beibei, you can't be with him forever!"
"Why not? I want to go to elementary school with him in the future!"
Upon hearing this, Qi Rang calmly asked, "Were you also admitted to a top-tier primary school through a special admission program?"
Liu Beibei: "..."
She didn't even understand what "direct admission" meant.
At noon, it was nap time, and Liu Beibei, as usual, kept peeking at Qi Rang until he fell asleep. The afternoon was chaotic again, but little Qi Rang finally enjoyed the happy time after school.
I can see my mother again.
Zhang Lixin stood aside, waiting for his mother to pick him up. Liu Beibei had already been picked up by the family car, so he could now openly vent his malice on Qi Rang.
However, Qi Rang ignored him the entire time.
A red Cayenne pulled up in front of the kindergarten, causing quite a stir. A young woman, clearly a wealthy socialite, stepped out of the car, wearing extremely high heels.
The other children in the kindergarten, as well as their parents who came to pick them up, couldn't help but look at her. The woman had a smile on her carefully applied red lips, and her slender fingers adjusted the expensive sunglasses on her nose, as if she was enjoying the attention she was receiving.
"Zhang Lixin, your mom's here to pick you up." Teacher Qiao was already used to this scene. Whenever Zhang Lixin's mom came to pick him up, she would always make a big show of it. Today's scene was relatively small.
However, she also has her natural enemies.
Just as Teacher Qiao was thinking this, a silver-white Mini Cooper pulled up in front of the door. A woman got out of the car; she had beautiful long legs, and even her black casual work pants couldn't hide their smooth lines. She wore a light blue shirt under a white mid-length coat, and her long black hair was styled in a bun.
Although she drove a much more low-key car and dressed much less casually than Zhang Lixin's mother, all eyes that were previously focused on Zhang's mother shifted to her.
"Mommy!" Qi Rang saw Yang Wei and happily ran to her. Yang Wei caught him, squatted down, and ruffled his hair: "Juan Bao, have you been a good boy/girl today?"
"have."
"I'll give you a kiss as a reward." Yang Wei kissed him on the cheek, and then Zhang's mother pulled Zhang Lixin over.
"Mrs. Qi, what a coincidence."
Yang Wei looked up at her, stood up and smiled, saying, "Yes, Mrs. Zhang."
For some reason, Mrs. Zhang had always harbored inexplicable hostility towards her, and this time was no exception. She glanced at Yang Wei's car, smiled, and said, "Mrs. Qi, why are you still driving this car? It's been two years, hasn't it?"
Yang Wei's lips twitched; she didn't really want to talk to her. She greeted Teacher Qiao and then pulled Juanbao out. As they passed Zhang Lixin's mother, Qi Rang suddenly said, "Auntie, your foundation has come off."
Teacher Qiao couldn't help but chuckle from behind. Yang Wei quickly pulled Qi Rang away, and when the car drove off, Zhang's mother was still standing there looking in the mirror.
While driving, Yang Wei asked Qi Rang beside her, "Juanbao, did you offend Zhang Lixin again at kindergarten?"
Qi Rang thought for a moment and said, "He probably thinks I stole his wife."
Yang Wei: "..."
No wonder Mrs. Zhang dislikes her so much.
Before going to bed that night, Qi Rang still hadn't solved the problem Qi Xiaoyan had given him. He frowned, then ran over and knocked on their bedroom door: "Dad, I want to sleep with Mom."
Qi Xiaoyan, who was pinning Yang Wei down, frowned impatiently and went downstairs to open the door for Juanbao: "Have you figured out the answer?"
"……not yet."
Qi Xiaoyan raised an eyebrow.
"But I still want to sleep with my mom!"
Qi Xiaoyan snorted coldly and said, "It's one thing to not be able to solve a math problem, but to try to cheat? I named you Qi Rang because I hoped you would be polite and humble, but you can't even do that."
Qi Rang frowned slightly and retorted sarcastically, "Your mother named you Xiaoyan (meaning 'Smiling Words') hoping you would speak with a smile, but you haven't lived up to that!"
"Pfft!" Yang Wei inside the door couldn't help but laugh. "Juanjuan, what Juanbao said makes so much sense."
Upon hearing Yang Wei's voice, Qi Rang desperately tried to squeeze through the crack in the door, but Qi Xiaoyan blocked him: "How about this, I'll give you another chance."
Qi Rangcai wasn't fooled: "The questions you gave me are too difficult; there's no way I could possibly solve them."
Qi smiled and said, "This question is very simple, it's single-digit multiplication."
Qi Rang was somewhat surprised: "Really? That's too easy!"
Qi Xiaoyan smiled and spoke as he had hoped: "What is the product of the 135th and 426th digits of pi?"
Qi Rang: "..."
He'll be sleeping alone again tonight.
Author's Note: Special thanks to: lestat (a little angel who threw a landmine), waterdrop (a little angel who threw a landmine), to protect innocence for a lifetime (a little angel who threw a landmine), to protect innocence for a lifetime (a little angel who threw a landmine), dingdongvv (a little angel who threw a landmine), and betty (a little angel who threw a grenade). Thank you to all the little angels who fed me! Love you all, muah! (づ￣3￣)づ╭? ——Tomorrow night is a father-son story about Juanbao and his dad :)
54
Friday was the anniversary of the No. 1 Primary School in the city. The school gave the students a day off and then organized a three-day, two-night hot spring trip for the teachers.
On Thursday night, Yang Wei was packing her travel essentials at home when Qi Xiaoyan stood by watching her, his face dark and gloomy all night.
"Be careful when you go out, and absolutely do not drink alcohol."
Yang Wei folded a coat neatly and said somewhat helplessly, "I know, you've said it seven times already."
"They have to call me every day to let me know their whereabouts."
"Um……"
"No, let's do three times, once in the morning, once at noon, and once in the evening."
"..."
Is that hot spring a mixed-gender bathing area?
"Probably."