Chapter 564: Chapter 564: Clash of Contradictions

Unexpectedly, Qin Yao showed no reaction, continued picking up food and eating, not even glancing at the father and son.

Liu Ji felt delighted inside, immediately turned his head to look at Second Lang, the young boy seemed panicked, apparently not expecting that Mother didn’t scold Father, his eyes darted quickly, and he took off running.

Liu Ji immediately chased out, "Unfilial son, stop running!"

From afar, he heard Second Lang’s pleading voice from the backyard, "Father, I was wrong, I shouldn’t have defied you. Please let me go. Any more delay and all the good times will be wasted; better to use this time to read a couple more lines of a book... Ow!"

Second Lang covered his head and screamed in pain, hurriedly continued sprinting forward, to avoid being hit again by the shoe his father threw.

Liu Ji was most annoyed by this kid always talking about reading and practicing calligraphy, if it weren’t for this brat, why would he need to get up every day at chicken-crowing hour to read!

Just now he even wanted to frame him in front of his wife, fortunately, his wife was reasonable, otherwise would he have to explain his little life at the dining table today?

"Liu Zishu, you’ve bumped into the iron plate now, if I don’t teach you a lesson today, I’ll change my surname to yours!"

Second Lang reminded his father, "We have the same surname anyway, even if Father doesn’t hit me, you’re still sharing the same surname, unless you let me take Mother’s surname."

Liu Ji raised his eyebrows, what an audacious brat, really out of control!

He rolled up his sleeves, glanced around the courtyard, grabbed the broom bamboo stick by the wall and started swinging.

In the dining room, listening to the chaos in the courtyard, Da Lang clicked his tongue and shook his head, turned and patted the Dragon and Phoenix Twins’ little heads, "Eat quickly, eat more, remember not to defy elders in the future."

Sanlang asked in a bewildered whisper, "Big Brother, does Father count as an elder too?"

Da Lang glanced at Second Lang running past the hall door in a mess, and their father chasing behind with a bamboo stick, nodded solemnly for once, "Yes!"

"Oh." Sanlang nodded his little head, indicating he remembered, and didn’t forget to tell his sister, "Si Niang, don’t defy Father."

Si Niang haughtily glanced at her little brother, she was smart, wouldn’t get into trouble herself.

However, after Second Lang’s trick, the four siblings clearly noticed Mother’s attitude towards Father educating them had significantly changed compared to before.

Suddenly, the four siblings realized an important issue—their parents seemed to be standing on the same line.

Well, it was indeed the case, because Qin Yao suddenly noticed the children had developed the habit at home of only listening to Mother, contradicting Father.

Initially, she didn’t think there was anything bad about it, but as the children gradually grew older, it seemed more and more serious.

So serious that sometimes although Liu Ji’s intentions were correct, and the reminders were right, the children would still contradict him.

Conversely, treating her casual words as a holy decree, regardless of right or wrong, strictly executing them, even using them to contradict other differing opinions from outside.

Being in the situation, Qin Yao herself hadn’t realized, it was Yin Le who reminded her.

And Second Lang was especially serious.

Several times when picking the kids up to return home, Second Lang intentionally brought up the interaction models between other classmates’ parents, expressed strong disdain for the traditional female inside, male outside family model.

In serious cases, when discussing each other’s troubles with classmates, he would mock them for choosing to have their father solve the problem.

Initially, Yin Le didn’t care much either, it was just childish bickering after all. Later, after hearing Second Lang mention it several times, she started paying attention and observed secretly.

With more observation, she found the situation more challenging than she expected.

On one hand, the kids showed high approval of their parents’ interaction model, on the other hand, they were strongly excluded by children from families with traditional roles, making the children themselves very conflicted, not knowing who was actually right.

In Jinshi Town, not everyone could accept Qin Yao’s female identity as village head, walking outside, acting boldly.

Of course, in her presence, they certainly praised her for being capable and impressive.

But genuinely grateful people were only those from Liu Family Village and workers from the stationery factory.

Behind her back, Qin Yao knew many were strongly dissatisfied with her actions, moreover due to the stationery factory being overly staffed, she refused many requests for employment.

In such a conflicting situation, the Da Lang brothers and sisters, who were at a crucial stage of worldview construction, were bound to inevitably receive conflicting impacts from outside.

Qin Yao shrugged, what could she do, she was originally this outstanding~

Back to the point, since the kids couldn’t figure out who was right and who was wrong, she would use actions to give them a precautionary lesson, to show them the diversity of the world.

Before bed, Qin Yao specifically asked Liu Ji to cook four bowls of sugar water, joined him to knock on the children’s room door.

Liu Ji sneaked a glance at her, what was she going to do?

Qin Yao signaled him to calm down, "What’s the hurry, I’m not going to eat you."

Suddenly realizing, their home hadn’t had both parents face-to-face night talks with the children before, today was the first time.

Si Niang was sent by her brothers, wearing home-made little cotton slippers, running to the door, she opened it with a squeak.

A little head peeked out, seeing Father and Mother, and exclaimed in surprise.

On the bed, Da Lang, Second Lang, and Sanlang simultaneously looked over curiously, seeing their parents entering with sugar water, looked at each other, both surprised and delighted.

Da Lang was surprised, but had a premonition this night would be wonderful, full of anticipation.

Second Lang felt different, having just had a fight with Father during dinner, constantly felt the parents came to settle scores.

Sanlang was the happiest, the greed in his eyes couldn’t hide at all, staring directly at the sugar water.

Afraid of him needing to get up at night often for the bathroom, the family didn’t allow him to drink much water before bed, let alone sweet sugar water, eagerly climbed down from the bed, approached the parents knowingly asked, "Father, is this sugar water?"

Liu Ji nodded amusingly, handed him a bowl, "Sit down and drink slowly, but don’t drink too much, be careful not to wet the bed tonight."

Saying this, his gaze fell on Second Lang who was sitting on the bed, his spirited eyes dimmed, spoke irritably, "Do you want to drink? If you do, come down, don’t make the bed dirty."

Sanlang and Si Niang already sat at the table, holding bowls and started eating, having a bowl of warm sugar water on a winter night couldn’t be more delicious~

There was one thing Second Lang resembled his father in, he avoided internal conflict, never made things difficult for himself, promptly climbed down the bed, took the sugar water handed over by Liu Ji, sat beside his younger siblings.

The three siblings glanced at each other, couldn’t help but laugh. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Second Lang’s slight grievance also dissipated with a sip of sugar water.

Da Lang put on his outer coat to close the door, sat down at the table expectantly, while receiving the sugar water from Mother, curiously asked:

"Father, Mother, what do you want to do?"

Qin Yao pointed to the empty seat, gestured for Liu Ji to sit down too, then stood with her arms crossed in front of the five father and sons, and said with a smile:

"Nothing much, your father and I are bored and couldn’t sleep, came over to chat with you."