Help! I became a hot mom and taught my husband to be a bad kid

While Christina was singing, Su Yuze carried out the second item on his schedule, reading extracurricular books.

Today's Chinese textbooks have a section called "Happy Reading". There are recommended books for each grade and every winter and summer vacation. Although they are called recommended, they are often tested in exams, so they naturally become required reading. The required reading list for first grade includes a book by Grandpa Zhu Tian.

However, Su Yuze did not choose from those books, but picked up "Journey to the West", not the comic version, not the illustrated version, not the pinyin version, not the youth version, but the complete version.

"Do you really want to read this?" Su Tingxi hesitated. Even many adults, let alone a six-year-old, had never read this monumental work. Compared to the other three great masterpieces, Journey to the West was probably the most widely known, but few had actually read the original.

I've read Su Tingxi's work. Although it's primarily written in vernacular Chinese, it also contains a lot of prose, poetry, and lyrics. Putting aside the philosophy of life, the language alone is beautiful and deeply moving.

But Su Yuze is only six years old. "Journey to the West" is a re-creation based on folk operas, with a strong storyteller's tone, quite different from our everyday speech. Furthermore, the long paragraphs of text are not very user-friendly for a six-year-old.

"I must read it." Su Yuze was full of confidence.

He has watched the TV series and cartoons of "Journey to the West" many times, and can imitate some of the performances in them perfectly. He has even watched a lot of interviews and activities around them.

Su Tingxi asked him to start from the table of contents. If he encountered words he didn't know how to read, he could put them aside or look them up in the dictionary. Su Yuze chose to put them aside for now.

"Problems should be solved immediately. I suggest that children keep a dictionary at hand when reading and don't leave problems overnight." Li Jie obviously did not agree with Su Tingxi's teaching methods.

"I didn't expect our little Su Yuze would choose to read the original Journey to the West. No wonder he's such a fan of Sun Wukong," Dahai said, changing the subject while also engaging with netizens. "Let's do a poll among those watching our livestream to see how many of you have read the original Journey to the West?"

The staff behind the show immediately launched a vote, and judging by the results, there were indeed a few more people who hadn't watched it.

"Then let's do another poll. How many of you have watched the film or TV series Journey to the West?"

The result is self-evident, the red bars that have been seen are almost full.

At this point, Li Jie brought the topic back to "reading." "For those of you who have elementary school students at home, I strongly recommend that you start reading the Four Great Classics in elementary school. By the time you get to middle school and high school, you'll find that a lot of your reading skills were accumulated during elementary school."

"Only if you do all these things in advance in elementary school will you have more time to master math, physics, and chemistry in middle and high school."

She became increasingly excited as she spoke. "The same goes for English. We should brush up on English as early as possible so that we have more time for science studies later on." She didn't forget Wang Yifan. "Wang Yifan's English is pretty good. I'm sure learning English will be easy for him in the future."

Zhu Tian disagreed with Li Jie's words. "The Four Great Classics are good books, but they shouldn't be read in a 'brusque' way. That's too utilitarian. If we use this 'brusque' approach to read a book, whether it's domestic or foreign, classic or not, it will only destroy children's passion for reading."

The opinions of the two experts sparked discussions among netizens in the live broadcast room, with some supporting each other.

More people still support what expert Li Jie said. After all, Chinese is a hot subject in the college entrance examination every year. Regardless of whether you have students or not, you all know that Chinese learning now pays more and more attention to extracurricular reading.

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The liveliness in the live broadcast room had nothing to do with Su Yuze. His little face was frowned because there were many words he couldn't recognize just by looking at the catalog.

Ten minutes had passed as I finished reading the first volume's table of contents, guessing and guessing.

"Dad, why is the table of contents different from the one in the TV series?" He had seen the illustrated version of "Journey to the West", and the titles there were the same as those in the TV series, such as "The Monkey King Comes to the World" and "Appointed as the Horse Keeper". He read very quickly and could finish a book in one class.

"Can you spot any characteristics?"

"Well, it seems like the number of words in each chapter is the same," Su Yuze shook his head again when he saw the tenth chapter, "but not exactly the same."

"This is called the chapter-by-chapter format. The title is called 'chapter title.' Check to see if each chapter title is divided into two sentences, with the same number of words in each."

Su Yuze looked at it again and nodded in amazement, "Yeah, it's really the same."

So far, some netizens have been lamenting, "Is he really a math professor? Why do I feel like he's a literature professor?"

"Come on, what Sun Wukong's father said is elementary school Chinese knowledge."

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Su Tingxi did not continue to talk about the chapter-by-chapter format. This was pretty much all he knew, and Su Yuze really couldn't understand it.

I no longer asked him to continue looking at the table of contents, but asked him what he wanted to read.

When children read this kind of book, they mainly want to see how Sun Wukong fights monsters. And since they are so familiar with the TV series, they can just pick out a passage and appreciate the beauty of the language.

"Havoc in Heaven." Su Yuze blurted out.

Su Tingxi looked at the catalog and said, "Read from the fifth chapter to the seventh chapter."

Su Yuze calculated that three chapters would have about 30 pages. Thinking back to the nightmare he had just had while reading the table of contents, he thought he would be dead after finishing these 30 pages. He chuckled and changed his tone, "Dad, how about I watch Pigsy Carrying His Wife On His Back?"

"In the original novel of Journey to the West, there is no plot where Zhu Bajie carries his wife on his back."

"Ah?" Su Yuze couldn't believe it. Every time he watched TV, he was amused and laughed. Not only had he seen it on TV, he had also seen people perform this on other occasions.

Su Tingxi stroked his son's head and said, "Really not. It was adapted from a TV series. It's the romance and humor presented in the TV series."

"Forget it, let's just watch Havoc in Heaven."

The fifth chapter is "The Great Sage Steals the Elixir from the Peach Garden and Rebelles against the Gods in Heaven to Capture Monsters". It begins with the daily life of Sun Wukong after he was named the Great Sage Equaling Heaven.

"Dad, how do you recognize this and these two words?" Su Yuze was stopped after reading the first sentence. There were three words in total that he didn't recognize.

"Title, salary." Su Tingxi had already put down the book in his hand and began to read with Su Yuze. He simply read to Su Yuze, "The two immortal officials under the Qitian Palace serve morning and night, only knowing to eat three meals a day and sleep on a bed at night. They have no worries and are free..."

"Dad, why didn't people in ancient times speak properly?"