47: Chapter 45: Qin Yu’s Immense Sorrow 47: Chapter 45: Qin Yu’s Immense Sorrow Qin Mei had already tidied up the bowls and chopsticks, and she walked over, gently saying, “Big brother, I’ll write with you…”
Qin Yu glanced at her and thought that his little sister couldn’t possibly know more characters than he did, which might be good news for him.
He nodded with a mix of sadness and anger, “…Okay.”
The two siblings sat down at the table that had been wiped clean, one on each side.
Meanwhile, Rong Yan was sitting on another chair.
She was pondering something, although the house was burnt, it was truly drafty, with no real warmth to it.
On sunny days, the drafts weren’t much of an issue, but on rainy days, it would certainly leak.
Considering the supplies she had on hand…
maybe it was time to renovate the house?
After all, she wasn’t going to leave this village anytime soon, she had to at least stay until next year’s college entrance examination.
Looking at the adorable twins…
if she left, giving them a new house would be nice.
Consider it the rent for these past six months.
She was someone who acted as soon as she had an idea.
However, she had already spent a lot of her cash today, and the only money left was the one hundred yuan returned to her by the police officer.
She didn’t know how much it would cost to rebuild a house here; she’d have to ask Qin Ye later.
If it wasn’t enough, that wasn’t a problem, she still had items in her space that she could trade on the black market.
Half an hour later, Qin Mei handed in her work, “Sister-in-law, I’m done.”
As soon as Rong Yan heard this, she immediately stood up and walked over.
When she saw the little girl’s writing, she was slightly surprised.
“Your writing is quite neat.”
And there were at least five hundred characters.
She skimmed through and found thirty misspelled characters.
She promptly circled them with a pen.
Qin Mei’s face flushed with joy from the praise, her eyes sparkling with happiness.
“Below each of the misspelled words, I’ve written a correct example for you.
Write each character ten times for me.”
“Okay.” Qin Mei obediently followed the instructions.
Qin Yu sneakily glanced at his sister, then at her paper…
his pupils widened in shock.
We agreed to not study together, yet you recognize more characters and write better than I do.
Rong Yan tapped on the table with her hand.
“Stop looking around and concentrate on your writing.”
He subconsciously covered the paper he had just begun writing on with his hand.
He had been quite proud of his sloppy handwriting, but after seeing his sister’s writing, he wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Ten minutes later, Rong Yan took the paper Qin Yu had handed in and gave it a quick glance…
the handwriting was truly indescribable.
Barely three hundred characters and seventy mistakes.
That was what she managed to discern with effort.
“Write each wrong character twenty times.
Hand it to me when you’re done.”
Upon hearing her words, Qin Yu couldn’t help but widen his eyes, “Why twenty times?”
Didn’t you just have my little sister write each character ten times?
Rong Yan smiled, “Because your sister’s handwriting is better than yours.
When you can write as neatly as she can, then you’ll only have to write the wrong characters ten times.
Of course, if you don’t make any mistakes, that’s even better.”
“By the way, every evening after dinner, I’ll teach you both to recognize more characters.
By the time school starts after the New Year, I hope you both will have learned as many as possible.”
This was definitely not good news for him.