Chapter 79: Mei Ya’s Homework
Since elementary school, Mei Fang, Lin You Xi, and Xia Yuan have had the habit of celebrating each other’s birthdays together.
However, since Lin You Xi and Mei Fang’s solar calendar birthdays are close, both in February, to avoid overlapping celebrations, Mei Fang only celebrates his lunar birthday.
Mei Fang’s official lunar birthday is on the 29th day of the 12th month, the day before New Year’s Eve, so he usually moves it forward a few days to find a suitable date.
This year, they agreed to celebrate their birthdays together on Minor New Year.
Xia Yuan has been struggling with what gift to give Mei Fang.
“Ah Fang, what kind of birthday gift do you want this year? I feel like everything I could think of, I’ve already given in previous years. A piggy bank, a wind chime, a mug, gloves… Since you’re now a middle school student, how about something different?”
“It’s okay if you don’t give me anything… I don’t really care.”
“That won’t do! You’ve always received gifts, so how can you not get one this year?”
Xia Yuan pinched Mei Fang’s shoulders, “How about… a scarf?”
“A scarf? You Xi told me yesterday she plans to give that…”
“So You Xi beat me to it!”
Xia Yuan was a bit pouty, “I forgot to ask her when we were playing games yesterday. She must have decided on it a long time ago and didn’t tell me…”
“If you really want to give one, I don’t mind having another scarf,” Mei Fang continued writing code, “Anyway, I need to rotate them.”
“Then… which one will you wear first, mine or You Xi’s?”
“…”
Mei Fang was silent for a moment, “I’ll wear whichever looks better.”
“You pervert, you’re thinking too nicely!”
Xia Yuan waved her hand and tapped Mei Fang’s head, “Listen, why don’t you stop looking at all these codes today? It’s holiday, isn’t it? How boring is that? Once Xiao Ya finishes her homework and You Xi comes over after dinner, we can all play Monopoly together.”
“That’s probably not going to happen.”
Mei Fang shook his head, “She definitely won’t finish her homework today. My mom said she won’t let her play if she hasn’t finished.”
“How is that possible? I just checked Xiao Ya’s winter break homework, she only has two pages left of math, just a few connection and arithmetic problems. It won’t take long. They seem to be reciting multiplication tables now. Why would a second-grader have so much pressure?”
Rip—
While Xia Yuan and Mei Fang were discussing, a tearing sound came from the living room.
“You have such confidence in Xiao Ya, go see what she’s doing.”
“…”
Xia Yuan half-doubted as she left the study to the living room to find Mei Ya. She found Mei Ya rubbing a ruler against her hair repeatedly. Seeing Xia Yuan appear, she happily waved.
“Sister Yuan Yuan, I have a secret to tell you, but you can’t tell anyone else—actually, I’m a magician!”
Xia Yuan had always been very patient and caring towards Mei Fang’s sister. Seeing Mei Ya excited, she smiled and approached, “Wow, Xiao Ya, can you show Sister Yuan Yuan your magic?”
“Watch closely, I’ll only perform once, don’t let my brother know.”
Mei Ya held up the ruler she had rubbed on her hair, “This is my super magic wand. When I channel my power, it will do this…”
Mei Ya stretched the ruler over the pieces of paper on the coffee table, and all the pieces were attracted to the ruler.
“What an amazing magic!” Xia Yuan clapped enthusiastically, “No wonder you’re our Xiao Ya. You’re truly amazing, you’re really a magician!”
“Hahaha!”
Mei Ya laughed with her hands on her hips, “Sister Yuan Yuan, you’re so easy to fool! You actually believed I was a magician. This is just a common static electricity experiment, you must have learned it before, weren’t you paying attention in class?”
Xia Yuan was speechless.
“I wasn’t trying to trick you…”
Xia Yuan wiped her sweat, “Now that we’ve done the experiment, can we go back to doing homework?”
“This is also homework, it’s part of our natural science assignment.”
“There’s homework for natural science during winter break? It’s supposed to be an elective course…”
“Don’t listen to my sister’s nonsense.”
Mei Fang suddenly appeared and grabbed Mei Ya by the ear, “You’re willing to do anything except homework, I wonder who you take after… Your dad.”
“Waaah, Brother, bad, help me Sister Yuan Yuan!”
“Let go of Xiao Ya, you might hurt her. Do you hear me!”
Xia Yuan hit Mei Fang a few times, but seeing he wouldn’t let go, she started pulling his ear instead. Only then did Mei Fang let go.
“Just bully your sister, you should guide her to do her homework properly.”
“Exactly, Brother is a big pig.”
Mei Ya stuck out her tongue at Mei Fang, who looked indifferent, “If she doesn’t finish her homework, Mom will only scold me for being irresponsible. I’m used to it and don’t even try anymore.”
“How can you be so impatient as a brother? Let me help Xiao Ya with her studies, I promise to make her obedient.”
“Okay! Sister Yuan Yuan, teach me! Let’s go inside and do homework!”
Mei Ya dragged Xia Yuan by the hand into the bedroom to do homework.
Mei Fang stretched lazily, found the remote control, turned on the TV, took a few oranges from the fridge, covered himself with a thick blanket, and lay on the sofa sideways watching TV.
The current hot show was “Wulin Wai Chuan.” Mei Fang had watched it 100 times between his past and present lives, but he still found it interesting.
An hour later, Mei Fang was almost falling asleep waiting for the commercials when the bedroom door finally opened.
“Brother! I finished my homework!”
“Mei Fang, look!”
Mei Fang was awakened by Xia Yuan and Mei Ya shaking him.
“I can check my homework now! I finished it, isn’t that great?”
Mei Ya wiped her nose and handed Mei Fang her homework.
Mei Fang frowned and scrutinized the homework, then looked up at Mei Ya.
“Did you do this yourself?”
“Of course!”
Mei Ya remained calm.
But Xia Yuan next to her was already feeling guilty and turning away.
“Let me test you… What is 3 times 7?”
“Um…”
Mei Ya frowned and muttered, Xia Yuan whispered, “Multiplication table, multiplication table!”
“Oh right… one one gets one, two threes get six, three threes get nine, four fives get twenty, three fives get fifteen, three sixes get eighteen, three sevens…”
Mei Ya shouted loudly, “This time it won’t be wrong, three sevens are twenty-four!”
Smack!
Mei Fang saw Xia Yuan rubbing her forehead.
“Show me your palm! I’m going to spank you! Asking Sister Yuan Yuan to write your homework for you, huh?”
Mei Fang picked up the ruler nearby, ready to discipline his mischievous sister.
“Waaah, I won’t do it again, Brother, please forgive me, I’ll write my homework next time, waaah—”
At this moment, Xia Yuan was also advising, “Ah Fang, you can’t physically punish such a young child! Xiao Ya is just playful, she’ll learn next time…”
“Ah? How dare you corrupt my sister? Give me your hand, take off your glove!”
Xia Yuan knew she was in the wrong, so she stood upright and obediently extended her hand, allowing Mei Fang to lightly spank her three times.
“Brother, you’re so biased… You spanked me so hard, but Sister Yuan Yuan so lightly… I don’t like you anymore!”
“Dislike me if you want, but you can’t change your brother. I spanked you harder because I am your brother, we are family, and family can be spanked this way.”
“Then does that mean Sister Yuan Yuan is an outsider, you spanked her so lightly!”
Mei Ya cried to Xia Yuan, “Sister Yuan Yuan, in the future, don’t marry my brother, he’s mean to his own family, he’s really useless!”
“Mm-hmm…”
The aggrieved Xia Yuan rubbed her spanked hand and nodded, “Sister Yuan Yuan understands!”
“Wow?”
Mei Ya instantly switched from crying to her usual self, she tugged at Xia Yuan’s arm and whispered, “Sister Yuan Yuan, don’t take it seriously, Xiao Ya was just joking earlier. My brother’s spanks don’t hurt, I just make noise, you can still marry him.”
“Is that so…”
Xia Yuan scratched her head and looked elsewhere, embarrassed.
“Right… It’s almost two o’clock, why hasn’t You Xi come yet? We planned to play Monopoly together!”
“I’ll call her.”
Mei Fang walked toward the house phone.
Today, two chapters are updated together! I’ll post my preface for the release soon, which will be at midnight tomorrow. I need everyone’s support then.
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