However, to Zhai Hua, what was most important was that her daughter’s English score had indeed improved. Later, she prepared lessons meant for those in the second year of high school for Jiajia. After the summer vacation, Jiajia returned to school and took a monthly English examination. In the end, her results were really much better than the past two semesters. That was when Zhai Hua understood that Qiao Nan had a way of teaching children.
After having this good result, what else was Zhai Hua calculative about? She was naturally more thankful toward Qiao Nan. After that, whenever Jiajia encountered any problems in her studies, Zhai Hua would always call to discuss with Qiao Nan.
Since Zhai Hua was willing, Qiao Nan was naturally not stingy. Furthermore, Jiajia was Zhai Sheng’s only niece. Qiao Nan should care about Jiajia more. Also, Jiajia liked the triplets so much. She was just returning favor with favor. If Qiao Nan taught Jiajia well, she might even have an assistant in the future. With Jiajia helping her bring up the three children and setting an example for them, who knows who would be the one who really benefited?
“Yes, don’t worry. It’s pretty good recently. Nothing’s wrong. I saw the English results. It didn’t deteriorate. When I went to Jiajia’s school last week, her English teacher even came to find me and praised me for paying attention to her results. Yes, don’t worry. It’s all good. If Jiajia encounters any situation in the future, I might even have to find you. It could be said that I’ve raised this daughter up for nothing. She only listens to you. She even angered me previously and asked if she was a gift from others. If she wasn’t my own child, I would have thrown her out a long time ago.”
Her daughter’s progress was complimented by her teacher. Zhai Hua felt relieved. As long as her daughter was well, there was nothing Zhai Hua would be dissatisfied with in this lifetime.
Upon thinking about the change Qiao Nan brought about to the Zhai family after she married over and that she herself had benefited quite a bit, Zhai Hua was pretty thankful that Qiao Nan was willing to marry Zhai Sheng. At least, following Qiao Nan’s arrival, the Zhai family became truly happy.
“That’s good.” After knowing that Jiajia’s current academic performance was stable, Qiao Nan felt happy. She had previously heard from Zhai Hua that Jiajia was very bad-tempered. She had also heard from Miao Jing that the Jiajia now had a similar temper to the young Zhai Hua in the past. As such, Qiao Nan had felt quite stressed and really thought that it would be difficult to teach Jiajia.
Qiao Nan guessed that Zhai Hua should have been angry back then. Jiajia was also singing a different tune back then. Once Zhai Hua was angry, she naturally exaggerated Jiajia’s situation.
Qiao Nan didn’t know that Jiajia’s temper was completely different when she was with her and when she was with Zhai Hua. Zhai Hua had not exaggerated. Simply put, sparks flew between the mother-daughter pair too easily.
Thankfully, Qiao Nan was fair-tempered and patient. Her character was very different from Zhai Hua. Between Zhai Hua and Jiajia, when the mom became short-tempered and her daughter followed suit, wouldn’t it be just like a bullfight where both parties weren’t willing to give in?
What was different was that if Jiajia really ran into a situation, she liked to understand the details from Jiajia slowly and ask about her feelings. At this age, Jiajia liked to gain the respect of adults and their equal attitude. As her aunt, Qiao Nan was willing to communicate with Jiajia with such a good attitude. There was no reason for Jiajia not to answer her.
After sharing her feelings, Qiao Nan didn’t change Jiajia’s attitude toward her English teacher immediately. Instead, she thought of ways to pull Jiajia’s interest in English back first. Only after Jiajia regained her enthusiasm for English did Qiao Nan teach Jiajia that everyone was an independent entity. It wasn’t something strange that Jiajia disliked her English teacher. Other students would encounter this situation as well.
It was just that every teacher’s dedication to students should be recognized by the students. Even if she didn’t feel thankful, she should at least acknowledge it. Jiajia should first respect the identity of her English teacher before dealing with English as a subject. Interactions between people were always that strange. Some people didn’t need a reason to get along well with each other. Some people would magnify small issues and become intolerant of each other’s reasons.
So be it that she didn’t like her. It was enough if Jiajia could treat her teacher in a neutral manner.
It was also because Qiao Nan’s method of handling Jiajia was relatively milder. She didn’t force Jiajia to do this or that. As time passed, Jiajia became more mentally prepared. When she saw the English teacher whom she disliked again, Jiajia’s rebellious emotions weren’t as strong as before.
Following the improvement of Jiajia’s English results, Jiajia’s English teacher also started to change her views of Jiajia. She didn’t find Jiajia to be a particularly perverse child. If she persuaded her and taught her more, she could still listen to her words.
With this good atmosphere, many situations became a positive cycle. The English teacher felt that Jiajia was still considered an obedient child. Her attitude toward Jiajia was naturally better than before and she was willing to care more about her. Seeing that her English teacher wasn’t as detestable as she thought and that there was a good side to her, Jiajia naturally felt that it wasn’t that difficult to accept her English teacher.
Once the teacher-student attitude changed, the relationship between teaching and learning was naturally achieved.
Because of this incident, whenever Jiajia encountered something in the future, she would definitely call her aunt, Qiao Nan, and listen to her advice.
Of course, upon seeing how close Jiajia was to Qiao Nan, her aunt, and that Qiao Nan’s position in her daughter’s heart had surpassed hers, Zhai Hua nearly drowned in jealousy.
Later, Miao Jing even persuaded Zhai Hua to cherish her good fortune. She shouldn’t overthink and create trouble. “Think about your bad temper. Jiajia’s your daughter. Her bull-like temper’s similar to yours. Don’t blame her for this matter. You should blame your genes. If both of you are put together to discuss the problem, both of you would end up dead or wounded.”
This was really…
Zhai Hua had formed a family and gotten a divorce. She also became a mother and raised Jiajia up. Miao Jing always felt that there would be changes to Zhai Hua’s character. Didn’t they say that a woman who became a mother was completely different from before? Her daughter was also a woman.
Who would have thought that Zhai Hua would become an exception? In front of the Wei family, Zhai Hua became easy to talk to at times as she wanted to maintain her marriage to Wei De. The problem was that Zhai Hua’s horrible temper was really the same before and after the divorce.
