"Mom, Ninth Master, why did you come back together?" Jiang Yukuo asked with a smile.
Mu Jiuchen breathed a sigh of relief seeing the three siblings return safely. He had just arrived home to find the children missing, and the servants said they had gone out to play. He had been worried.
Jiang Nuan looked at the three siblings, her gaze calm, and her tone even: "Go and get your homework for me to check."
Jiang Yukuo: "..." Mom was indeed here to check homework.
Jiang Shaoqing and Jiang Siyun nodded.
"Mom, I'll go upstairs and get it right away." Jiang Siyun's voice was sweet, her large eyes full of cunning.
Glancing at her older brother who was standing still, she smiled gleefully.
Jiang Yukuo: "..." You're doomed!
Soon, the siblings came down with their homework for their mother to check.
Jiang Yukuo glanced at Jiang Shaoqing and asked him to go upstairs. Jiang Shaoqing felt something was wrong and obediently followed.
Jiang Yukuo quickly followed them upstairs.
At the corner, Jiang Yukuo pulled his brother towards his room.
"Xiao Er, hurry, hurry, I haven't finished my math olympiad yet, come and help me quickly."
Jiang Shaoqing heard this and confirmed his suspicions!
"Brother, didn't you say you were finished?" Jiang Shaoqing was dragged by him into the room.
Jiang Yukuo winked at him: "When have my words ever been true? Hurry up."
Jiang Shaoqing asked: "How much do you have left?"
Jiang Yukuo: "I haven't done any of it."
Jiang Shaoqing: "..."
He struggled briefly: "Let me go quickly. You haven't done a single problem, how can you finish it now?"
"I hate math olympiad too, but I rack my brain to study every day, while you rack your brain to play."
Jiang Yukuo looked at his brother's unwillingness to help and let him go: "Xiao Er, other than math olympiad, I've finished everything else."
"Is that so? Then take out all your homework and let me see." Jiang Shaoqing didn't believe him. His brother always colluded with him to lie to their mother, relying on their identical faces.
Jiang Yukuo quickly dragged his brother into his room. Inside, he showed the other homework to his brother.
His desk was messy, with some scrap paper scattered on the floor.
Jiang Shaoqing looked at it with disdain: "Brother, can't you maintain some hygiene?"
Jiang Yukuo: "Sigh, what artist doesn't throw away scrap paper? With a whole basket of scrap paper, good works will emerge."
"Look quickly, this is my homework, only the math olympiad is undone. You take the practice book down now and pretend to be me doing the problems in front of Mom."
Jiang Shaoqing stared at him wide-eyed, exclaiming: "You're doing it again! What if Mom finds out?"
Jiang Yukuo chuckled: "You've done this kind of thing many times. Mom can't tell the difference. Hurry up, I'll transfer you 1000 yuan in pocket money later."
Jiang Shaoqing's face, which had been refusing, immediately relaxed. He held up three small, tender fingers: "Three thousand."
Jiang Yukuo's eyes widened instantly: "...This is only a few homework problems, and you want 3000? How can you be more calculating than me?"
"Hmph! If you don't give it to me, I won't help you do the problems." Jiang Shaoqing tilted his head arrogantly, as if saying, give it or don't.
Jiang Yukuo: "..." How did I fall into this trap myself!
"Fine, fine, here."
Jiang Shaoqing took out his phone, smiling at his brother, looking like a little money-grubber. Who doesn't love money?
"Scan the code, pay!"
Jiang Yukuo looked at his brother several times, and finally, albeit reluctantly, took out his phone to scan the code. This money was also easy to earn.
Downstairs, Jiang Nuan had finished checking the homework of the other two children. She saw Jiang Shaoqing running down with homework.
His demeanor and tone were exactly like Jiang Yukuo's.
"Mom, I was writing songs until very late last night, so I didn't have time for my homework. But there's only the last part left, I'll do it for you now."
Jiang Nuan nodded slightly and said: "Don't stay up late writing songs anymore."
Jiang Shaoqing quickly nodded, imitating his brother's tone and mannerisms perfectly, and his handwriting was exactly the same as Jiang Yukuo's.
This was a little secret between the two brothers.
Mu Jiuchen saw his son doing homework for the first time and was quite interested, watching from the side.
He blinked as he watched his son finish the math olympiad in one go. Every question was correct, and he hadn't even understood two of the problems before his son had already written down the answers.
"Mom, I'm done. Have I made great progress? Am I amazing! Mom, you have to reward me!" Jiang Shaoqing imitated his brother's tone and actions, making it difficult for Jiang Nuan to discern the truth.
Jiang Nuan looked at him strangely, then asked: "Little schemer, Mom asks you, what is higher than the sky in this world?"
Mu Jiuchen was stunned. Was there anything higher than the sky?
Jiang Shaoqing smiled and replied: "Mom, a heart is higher than the sky!"
Mu Jiuchen was stunned: "..." It could be like this? He learned something new.
"Mom, don't worry, I definitely won't be proud."
Jiang Nuan then asked: "What is the method for ice to quickly turn into water?"
Mu Jiuchen quickly chimed in: "Nuannuan, I know this! Put it in hot water, and it will melt quickly."
Jiang Shaoqing rolled his eyes at his father. Mom was clearly testing their intelligence, why couldn't he think differently?
No wonder he was so foolish and hadn't pursued Mom for so long.
"Ninth Master, you're wrong. Remove the two dots from the character 'ice'."
Mu Jiuchen: "..." So stupid!
Mu Jiuchen looked at Jiang Nuan and smiled: "Nuannuan, ask me another question, I'm sure I can answer this one correctly."
Jiang Nuan looked at him: "This is testing a child's reaction ability, why are you interfering?"
Mu Jiuchen looked at her bright, watery eyes, sparkling with charming smiles: "I think it's very interesting."
Jiang Nuan: "Alright, what thing climbs higher the hotter its temperature?"
Mu Jiuchen answered without hesitation: "A sloth!"
Jiang Shaoqing looked at his father, blinking his starry eyes, with a look of disdain: "Dad, you're so stupid, it's a thermometer!"
Mu Jiuchen: "!!!" He couldn't face his son.
At this moment, the maid walked over: "Ninth Master, Miss Jiang, dinner is ready."
Mu Jiuchen nodded slightly and looked at Jiang Nuan: "Nuannuan, shall we have dinner together?"
Jiang Nuan glanced at the time. Why was dinner so early at their house?
She then nodded. It didn't seem appropriate to leave at this time.
After having dinner at Mu Jiuchen's house, Jiang Nuan took the three children home. They had to go to school early the next morning and couldn't stay any longer.
Upon returning home, they saw Jiang Xingyu and Yun Xia. Jiang Xingyu called the three children to play.
Jiang Nuan asked Yun Xia: "Xiaxia, has Yuan Yuan returned yet?"
Yun Xia nodded: "No, she hasn't returned. I thought she would come back with you?"
Jiang Nuan smiled: "She was taken away by He Mingrun."
"Oh!" Yun Xia understood and asked curiously: "So, Yuan Yuan is sad and upset because of He Mingrun?"
Jiang Nuan nodded and explained the situation to Yun Xia.
Yun Xia also knew about such things and felt very sorry for Yuan Yuan: "Family background is a gap that is difficult to cross. Yuan Yuan will have a very hard time, but if she perseveres, she will find happiness."
"Knock knock..." Someone knocked forcefully on the door.