Me at two years old, a queen!

Wang Jinbao was just about to show his fatherly love by helping his son finish correcting his test paper when Zhuangzhuang refused. Wang Jinbao grabbed his hand and asked:

"What's wrong? Can't I help you correct it faster?"

Afraid that the two of them would start arguing again, Xu Tinglan said, "I'll do it. You take a break. Anyway, I don't have much work lately. I've been tutoring Duoduo in her studies recently, so I'm more familiar with it!"

Wang Jinbao knew that Xu Tinglan was a graduate of a prestigious university, far surpassing his own level of knowledge, so he quickly replied, "Okay, okay~, then I'll trouble you. I knew I hadn't made a mistake coming today."

"I don't know pinyin or anything like that either. And this kindergarten, isn't it enough if they can recognize characters? If they can recognize characters, why do they care about initials and finals!"

After saying a few more words to Zhuangzhuang, he grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds and went off to play with the dog and pet the cat.

Seeing that Zhuangzhuang already had someone to teach him, An'an worried that she wouldn't be able to finish correcting her own test paper, so she tugged at Duoduo and whispered, "Duoduo? Let's go ask your mom to help us correct ours too!"

Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Duoduo quickly shook her head and whispered, "An'an, I can't understand what my mom is saying, so you definitely can't either!"

Duo Duo didn't say that she usually understood the problems her mother explained to her, but her mother would sometimes get confused while explaining them. Duo Duo thought that An An probably wouldn't understand either.

Then she looked at Lu Junxing, the smartest person there, grabbed An'an, and, holding the test paper, went towards Lu Junxing: "An'an's dad~, can you teach me?"

An An: "!!!"

An'an used to do her homework after school when she went to tutoring classes, but later, the tutoring center announced that the kindergarten's after-school enrichment program hadn't started yet.

So all the homework she did during this period was just scribbled on her own, and An'an felt a little guilty as she held the test paper in her hand.

She recalled how, when her father's assistants were reporting to him, Lu Junxing, like a ruthless devil, coldly shouted, "Redo it! Redo it!"

An'an stopped in her tracks. Wang Jinbao, who had just finished eating a handful of sunflower seeds and was about to grab another, came in and saw the situation. He felt it wasn't right for him to be so carefree alone, so he pulled the little girl over:

"Don't you know how to do it? Come on, let Uncle teach you!"

Five minutes later,

An An: "Ah~ Oh~ Uh~"

Wang Jinbao listened to the pronunciation on the encyclopedia and checked each one: "Yes! That's how it's pronounced, excellent!"

Pointing to the character "安" in the next question, he said, "Come on, let's read your name again!"

An'an: "Ah~, um~"

Wang Jinbao has poor eyesight. He held up his phone, looked at the pronunciation on it, nodded, then tapped on the next pronunciation. After listening, he frowned and asked in puzzlement, "Why is it pronounced like this?"

Then he pointed to it again for An'an: "An'an, listen, this says it's pronounced 'an,' like the 'an' in 'saddle,' oh, it's also An'an's 'an'."

An'an scratched her head, pointed to the "a" and "n" on it, and said, "Why? This is 'ah', and this is 'en'!"

"I did nothing wrong! Zhuangzhuang's dad, it's your phone that's faulty!"

Wang Jinbao had never learned pinyin. His hometown was poor when he was a child; the entire school consisted of only one elderly teacher, his wife, and a gatekeeper.

He's not bragging, but you'd be hard-pressed to find two people like him in their village who can read.

So right now he didn't know if what An'an said was right or wrong. Remembering that his phone was several years old, he wondered if it was broken, and patted it again.

"That doesn't make sense either. Isn't Baidu supposed to be the most accurate?"

"An'an? Think about it, is this how your teacher taught you?"

An'an's neatly styled princess hair was now completely messed up from scratching in just a short while. Only her chubby little face prevented her from looking like a little beggar.

"Hmm~, I don't know~,"

"Then think about it carefully. Don't you go to school every day?"

"Well, I can't remember."

As An'an spoke, she pointed to her forehead: "My brain is still like a little baby's, we can't expect too much from it~"

"When will your brain grow up and start working properly?"

"I don't know. She's still a little baby; she doesn't need to know everything!"

Wang Jinbao sighed, feeling that he couldn't let such a good child be ruined in his hands, so he took An'an to listen to Xu Tinglan's teaching with Zhuangzhuang.

"The initial consonant is the consonant that precedes the final vowel, together with the final vowel forming a complete syllable. The final vowel is the part following the initial consonant in a Chinese syllable; it consists of one or more vowels and may contain a nasal consonant as the final consonant."

"Do you understand?"

An'an and Zhuangzhuang, holding pens, stared blankly, their heads spinning. Hearing this, they quickly shook their heads.

Xu Tinglan: "It's okay. Look here, b, p, m, f, d, t, n, and the ones after that are initials. So now do you know what initials are?"

Zhuangzhuang and An'an looked at the familiar letters on the test paper, nodded, and then quickly shook their heads.

Xu Tinglan: "Do you guys recognize this person?"

An'an: "I know it, this is 'Po~'!"

Xu Tinglan: "What about this one?"

Zhuangzhuang: "I know, I know, I remember this is 'de~', and I recognize the rest!"

An'an: "Yes, we all know each other!"

Xu Tinglan: "Okay, so you've learned the initials, haven't you? Why are you still saying you don't understand? Come on, let's hurry up and learn the finals!"

"The finals in Standard Mandarin can be divided into three categories: simple finals, compound finals, and nasal finals. Simple finals are finals composed of a single vowel, for example..."

A few minutes later, Xu Tinglan took a big gulp of water, her mouth dry, and asked, "Now do you know what initials and finals are?"

Upon hearing this, An'an and Zhuangzhuang shook their heads. Xu Tinglan felt a wave of dizziness: "Weren't you able to read it just now? How come you're saying you don't know it now?"

And so, Xu Tinglan packed the two little ones up and sent them to Lu Junxing's side again.

Lu Junxing: "The initial consonants are 'b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, h, j, q...', which are 21 in total. The final vowels are 'a, o, e...', which are 39 in total. Do you understand?"

Duoduo, Zhuangzhuang, and An'an nodded repeatedly: "We understand!"

Lu Junxing: "Okay, so next is how to spell it! Now you guys try to spell it out first, and I'll see?"

Duo Duo suddenly realized that she didn't hate studying, but rather disliked the feeling of not understanding. After this half hour of interaction, Duo Duo was no longer afraid of Lu Junxing.

She even idolized him, seeing him as someone even more impressive than her own father. Upon hearing this, she immediately raised her little hand, eager to show off: "I can do it! Daddy An'an, I can!"