At the beginning, Gu Jia and Jiang Nansun were intercepted, and Qiao Yingzi pursued them

Xia Huanhuan hugged her big castle nervously, her little face full of grievance and anxiety.

"This is a special reward from my grandfather! It can't be exchanged!"

"Hey kid, just change it when I ask you to. Why are you talking so much? Mom will give you a bigger one when you get back."

As Nan Li spoke, she reached out to take the puzzle piece.

Xia Huanhuan kept shrinking back and looked at Qin Fan for help.

If it weren't for the wrong occasion, Qin Fan would have started scolding his wife again.

You finally managed to embarrass your cheap father-in-law once, and you rushed to help him make amends. More importantly, you wronged my daughter. You are deliberately going against me!

Yan Peng hurriedly stopped him, "Forget it, it's just a gift. It doesn't matter. As long as grandpa's thoughts are there, that's enough, right, Ziyou."

Tian Yulan touched her son's head with an inexplicable tone.

"In my opinion, Ziyou really needs to learn from Huanhuan. He's just too introverted. I always tell him to develop some hobbies, but he refuses and just studies."

"Not bad. He got first place at the end of last semester, and he's been first on every quiz this semester. The teachers all like him..."

Tian Yulan boasted about her child's love of study and good grades on the surface, but her implicit meaning was that it didn't matter if she had such a broken toy, because her child Ziyou loved studying and had no time to play with toys anyway.

By the way, he also dissed the playful Xia Huanhuan.

Nan Li's eyes narrowed with disdain. She was about to say something, but saw Qin Fan continue to direct the fight towards Nan Jianlong.

"Dad, look how mad Lanlan is at you. She's complaining that not only are your gifts not thoughtful, but you also don't know how to give Ziyou gifts that can help him study. You always give him toys. He's a top student, and he doesn't play with toys, so it's useless to give him any."

When it comes to a fight, you must never follow the other person's line of thought.

If I follow Tian Yulan's words and argue for my daughter, I will fall into her language trap and passively start comparing the academic performance of the two children.

The result was that Yan Ziyou beat Xia Huanhuan.

How could Qin Fan give Tian Yulan the opportunity to show off?

Originally, Tian Yulan had directed her spearhead at Xia Huanhuan, but after he said this, it became Tian Yulan's implicit criticism of Nan Jianlong.

.......

559: Verbal sparring! Tian Yulan's defense is broken!

Nan Jianlong felt as if he had been stabbed in the chest and looked at Yan Ziyu with shame.

"Youyou, this time it was Grandpa's fault. I didn't understand your preferences in time and simply thought you would like this puzzle. Later, Grandpa will give you a set of Olympiad exercises as compensation. Please don't blame Grandpa, okay?"

No one knew how devastated Yan Ziyou was inside.

Adults are really too much. Why do they start giving us exercises in the middle of a conversation?

Do you think my burden isn't heavy enough and keep adding to my workload?

A bunch of monsters, I hate you!!!

Tian Yulan shook her son's shoulder and said, "Why don't you thank Grandpa?"

Yan Ziyou showed a smile that was uglier than crying, "Thank you, Grandpa, I'm not angry with you."

"Okay, okay, Youyou is so sensible!"

Yan Peng hurriedly picked up his chopsticks and said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's eat!"

Looking at her lively family, Tian Yulan felt very touched.

I had a fight with Nan Li before entering the house today and was completely defeated.

He had just wanted to get back at his stepfather, but Qin Fan shifted the blame to him, and he ended up implying something about his stepfather, forcing him to apologize to his son in public.

This way, I would seem to be very petty.

Am I, Tian Yulan, a narrow-minded person?

So the fire fell on Xia Huanhuan again.

"Huanhuan, are you focused at the start of the new semester? How did you do on the initial placement test?"

Xia Huanhuan didn't want to talk about her academic performance the most, so she lowered her eyelids slightly.

"The results of the baseline test haven't come out yet."

"What about the test last week? How many points did you get?"

To be honest, apart from showing off her child's academic performance, Tian Yulan really has no other way to compare to Nan Li.

In terms of her background, her biological father was an alcoholic and a domestic abuser. After her father passed away, her mother became a mistress. This is not a good reputation.

In terms of academic qualifications, Tian Yulan is only a third-tier undergraduate, while Nan Li is a 985 undergraduate.

In terms of position and salary, Tian Yulan is the floor manager of a shopping mall with a salary of less than 20,000 yuan. Nan Li recently jumped to Wei Nuan Home Textiles as the acting marketing director with a monthly salary of nearly 30,000 yuan.

Xia Huanhuan pouted and turned to Qin Fan for help again.

This cheap dad is still very supportive and smiles gently at his daughter.

"Huanhuan, it doesn't matter if you don't do well on the test once. Mom and Dad won't have any expectations of your grades. Let's not compare grades, let's just eat well."

Encouraged by her cheap dad, Xia Huanhuan finally smiled.

I thought that if I didn't accept the attack, Tian Yulan would stop, but I didn't expect this woman to start chasing me relentlessly.

A faint sneer crossed her face. "You two are so carefree about your children. The most important thing for students is learning. If not grades, what else can they compare to?"

"That's right, you little girls really don't need to work so hard. It would be great if you could go to Fengfan Junior High School. But it's different for us boys. We must get into Hanlin."

"Hanlin is the top middle school in our district and one of the top middle schools in the city. Ziyou is already in the fifth grade. If he doesn't work hard, it will be too late by the sixth grade."

Nan Li held her breath and said, "What does this have to do with boys and girls? Children this young are always fighting over this and that. It's really annoying to hear them."

Tian Yulan said cheerfully, "I often tell my daughter, Ziyou, that only those who endure hardships can achieve great things. You must never slack off in your child's studies. If you feel sorry for her now, you will harm her in the future."

Nan Li disagreed. "We don't want our children to work so hard. They have a good starting point and have never lacked anything since childhood. Childhood only comes once, and happiness is the most important thing."

"We don't lack anything at home, but what parents give and what children fight for are two different things. After all, the ability of a family of origin is limited."

Nan Li nodded. "Original family is indeed very important. Our children don't have that sense of deprivation. For generations, we haven't needed to rely on anyone, nor have we needed to rely on any excuse to change our fate. We don't have that sense of urgency at all."

Watching the two stepsisters arguing with each other, Qin Fan was truly enlightened.

Tian Yulan is a more aggressive type. She never mentions grades in every sentence, but every sentence she speaks is inseparable from grades.

Nan Li was sarcastic and mocked the mother and daughter for relying on marriage to turn their lives around.

By the way, he refuted Tian Yulan's previous statement that "you are just a little girl, there is no need to work so hard." Tian Yulan herself is the type with poor academic performance.

If she really agreed with this statement, she would not feel inferior.

In fact, Qin Fan is more inclined to Tian Yulan's philosophy. The first priority for students is to study. No matter how fast the value of academic qualifications depreciates in modern society, people with high academic qualifications and those with low academic qualifications are still two clearly defined groups.

Knowledge changes destiny is definitely not an empty talk. It has indeed enabled many children from poor backgrounds to enter the middle class through learning.

Although few people become rich, it is a fact that their income and quality of life have improved visibly.

Before this, Qin Fan had put in a lot of effort to make Peng Jiahe study well. Later, he had no other choice and he had no time to supervise Peng Jiahe, so he could only give her cheats.

Now there is another poor student Xia Huanhuan, and we are helpless.

Nan Li simply has a distorted understanding of quality-oriented education. She simply thinks that giving children a happy childhood is quality-oriented education. I really don't know how she got her degree certificate.

Tian Yulan couldn't stand Nan Li's implicit ridicule anymore. She put her chopsticks on the bowl, frowned, and stared at Nan Li with cold eyes.

This woman is quite interesting. She was the one who started the war, and she was the one who couldn't win the argument and was ready to turn against him.

Having said that, if it were Qin Fan, he would probably not be able to bear it if Nan Li exposed his shortcomings like this.

Nan Jianlong had a gloomy face and sat there without saying a word.

The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence.

.......

560: Damn it, he’s pretending!

Yan Peng was holding up his cup and was about to smooth things over when he saw Qin Fan say:

"In fact, I think whether to push your child hard or not depends on the environment and trends. In one's life, the thing that is most difficult to escape is the trend, just like me."

"When I was young, there were no extracurricular tutoring classes. My grades depended entirely on my hard work in school. However, back then, the teachers taught a lot and gave me a lot of homework. After finishing my homework every day after school, I didn't have much time to play."

"The competitive pressure back then was far less intense than it is now. I remember when I took the college entrance examination, there were less than six million candidates in my class. This year, there are over ten million, nearly double the number. You can imagine the competitive pressure."

"Children like Huanhuan and Ziyou's generation happened to coincide with the peak of childbearing. With over 15 million competitors their age, the pressure on them was naturally even greater. It can only be said that they were born at the wrong time."

Yan Peng felt the same way and glanced at his child with sympathy.

"I predict that in two or three years, the fertility bonus period will arrive. The number of newborns in that generation will plummet, and the educational resources and social public welfare allocated to each child will passively increase."

"It can be said that those born in the 1980s and 1990s haven't had any good things, only bad things, such as high housing prices and delayed retirement. Those born in the 2000s and 2010s are facing serious internal competition, starting in kindergarten. Only those born in 2015 and 2016 are the happiest, with relatively less competitive pressure."

"This is determined by the trend, not by individuals."

Once you understand this major trend, you will know what to do in two or three years.

Get married and have kids quickly!

The next ten years will be a period of fertility bonus for at least the next ten years. This is a gift given to the next generation by the trend and must not be missed.

The number of children born during this period is around eight million and will continue to decline in the next few years until it hits bottom.

Compared with 17 million in 2017, the number has dropped by half, which means that the resources allocated to each child on average have increased by half out of thin air.

Even without mentioning these resources, just talking about competition, the pressure is reduced by half.

These children do not have much pressure during their school years and can easily find jobs after graduation. It can be said that their happiness is the sequelae of the fierce internal competition among the post-2000s and post-2010s, and is built on the corpses of the previous two generations.

Compared with the previous generation, children born today have already won at the starting line without doing anything.

Of course, it doesn’t matter for children born in 2017. They can take the postgraduate and doctoral exams and look for jobs a few years later to avoid the peak of competition and get a higher education at the same time.

Competing with 17 million peers and competing with 8 million people are completely two levels of difficulty. The latter is simply too happy!

"aweason!"

Yan Peng exclaimed exaggeratedly and picked up the wine glass.

"Brother Shan, your ability to see the big picture is truly remarkable. It's like a revelation to me. Many questions I couldn't understand before now now have answers. Come on, let's go."

Qin Fan clinked his glasses with his. "The statistics are right there. If you think about it yourself, you'll definitely be able to figure this out."

Tian Yulan's anger instantly subsided. "Brother-in-law is absolutely right. The overall environment is like this. If I don't work hard, my child will have no future!"

In contrast, Nan Li was a little unhappy. Her husband didn't help her, which made her very unhappy. She pinched him hard with her hand under the table.

Qin Fan felt a little aggrieved. The objective laws were there, and anyone could see them. He couldn't possibly lie with his eyes open, right?

Qin Fan smiled and said, "Lili advocates quality education, and I support it. Huanhuan, if you really don't like studying, then let's learn something else."

Xia Huanhuan looked confused, "What to learn?"

"Piano, ballet, golf, equestrianism, painting, Go, appreciation of ancient poetry...and pick a language you like, like French or German. After your winter break, Daddy will take you to practice skiing."

"Ah? There are so many things to learn!" Xia Huanhuan was a little scared.

"I don't ask you to strive for the best, but I hope you can be passionate about something. Let's cast a wide net first, then find what you really like to do and work hard for it wholeheartedly."

There were some things Qin Fan didn't say. These hobbies were more expensive than each other, and even middle-class families would find it difficult to afford them all.

By letting Xia Huanhuan learn these things, she gradually learned to distinguish between different circles. For example, in golf, equestrianism and skiing, the equipment alone can indirectly reflect the other party's conditions.

In this way, at least more than 90% of poor boys can be prevented from abducting cheap daughters, because those poor boys simply cannot squeeze into this circle.

This is the most earnest expectation of an old father for his daughter.

He doesn't care about Xia Huanhuan's grades, but he can never be like Jiang Nansun and run for targeted poverty alleviation for the so-called love.

If one day she were to bring a poor boy home while pregnant, and take his arm and say that he would be hers for life, Qin Fan would probably be so angry that he would kill that bastard.

"Sure, Brother Shan, did you make a fortune on this business trip?"

Yan Peng patted Qin Fan's shoulder in surprise. He knew very well the other party's previous income level, which was only slightly higher than Tian Yulan's and not as good as Nan Li's. He didn't expect that he would become successful in the past two years of business trip.

Qin Fan nodded modestly, "I did make a small profit, which is more than enough for my daughter to develop some hobbies."

Nan Jianlong seemed to have found an opportunity. "Huanhuan can come to my place to learn piano. I have a piano at home. I will teach Huanhuan myself."