He had to ask Yaya first. If Yaya was willing, then Grandpa Yue and the others would probably agree.
But if Yaya wasn’t willing, then he didn’t need to bring it up with Grandpa Yue and the others either.
There was no way he would force Yaya to do something she didn’t want to do!
Whether he could go to school with Yaya was a very important matter to Huo Jiusi, so the moment Yaya woke up from her nap, he hurried to ask her.
“You want to take me to school?” Yaya blinked.
Huo Jiusi nodded firmly. “Right, just like how you come with me to kindergarten. If kindergarten works, school should work too.”
“Yaya, I believe you definitely won’t cause trouble in class or disrupt the order. That’s the only thing the school and teachers worry about. If we can manage that, what reason would they have to say no?”
Although Yaya thought what Huo Jiusi said made sense, she still felt the school probably wouldn’t allow it.
Huo Jiusi could tell what Yaya was thinking. He grabbed her little hand. “Yaya, don’t you want to go to school with me? You’re totally ready for elementary school now. If you come with me, you’ll definitely understand everything the teacher says.”
“If there’s something you don’t understand, I’ll explain it to you. That way we can always be together.”
Huo Jiusi swung Yaya’s little hand back and forth. “Yaya, won’t you please?”
“What if even after you explain it, I still don’t understand?”
Yaya never thought of herself as a particularly smart kid. The reason she could already do the four basic operations and recognize quite a few characters was because in her past life, even though she had a cat’s body, her soul was still that of a child. She’d learned some of these things before and had a foundation.
As everyone knew, elementary school knowledge was basic. The most important thing in elementary school was for children to develop good study habits.
Once you got to middle school and high school, that’s when you needed intelligence—it wasn’t purely about effort.
Effort only counted for four parts; the other six parts depended on comprehension and insight.
If you couldn’t comprehend or grasp it, then no matter how hard you tried, it was useless.
“Yaya, if you really don’t understand when the time comes, we’ll figure it out then.”
Huo Jiusi didn’t directly tell Yaya that he could repeat a grade to stay with her and wait for her to catch up.
He knew Yaya wouldn’t agree to him doing that.
“Yaya, let’s first talk about whether you want to go to elementary school with me. Let’s handle things one at a time. There’s no need to rush about things that haven’t happened yet.”
Yaya thought about it carefully. If she could go to school earlier, that would actually be pretty good.
She could finish her education several years earlier than kids her age, and then she’d have more time to do other things.
“Little devil, I’ll go to school with you.” Yaya’s gaze was determined.
“Then wait here for me. I’ll go convince Grandpa Yue and the others.”
Yaya called out to Huo Jiusi, who was about to run out the door. “Little devil, I’ll come with you.”
“Okay.”
Huo Jiusi picked Yaya up, and the two of them went to the living room.
The whole family was in the living room. Yue Guohuai, Wan Jiayin, Yue Mingde, and Meng Fang were playing mahjong.
Yue Mingli and Ye Zhiqiu were watching from the side.
Yue Youxin and Yue Youhui were watching TV.
“Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle, Second Uncle, Second Aunt, Mom, Big Brothers Xiaoxin and Xiaohui, I have something to announce.”
Yaya cupped her two little hands around her mouth like a megaphone and said it very loudly.
Everyone immediately focused their eyes on her.
Yue Guohuai asked with a chuckle, “What does our precious girl want to announce?”
“Grandpa, I want to go to school.”
Yaya went over to Yue Guohuai’s side and grabbed his hand. “Can I go?”
“Of course you can.”
Yue Guohuai thought Yaya meant going to kindergarten. “In March you can go with Jiusi.”
Yaya corrected him. “Grandpa, not kindergarten—school. Elementary school.”
Everyone looked at each other, all thinking they’d misheard.
“Precious girl, you want to go to elementary school?”
Wan Jiayin stroked Yaya’s head. “But by September when school starts, you won’t even be a year and a half old yet.”
Going to elementary school at a year and a half old—no one in the whole country had ever heard of such a thing.
But for their Yaya, it wasn’t necessarily impossible.
Wan Jiayin and Yue Guohuai exchanged a glance. Both had already made up their minds. Wan Jiayin spoke up. “When school starts in March, I’ll call the principal of our compound’s elementary school and see if they can make an exception.”
The family all knew that Yaya set aside time to study every day, and they were clear on her level.
It was precisely because of that that they dared to ask the school to make an exception.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t have agreed to this either.
Yaya was still little. If she went to school and got bumped or bullied, it would break their hearts.
Their family loved children, but they didn’t spoil them. And they wouldn’t say that just because they thought Yaya was great, everyone else had to think so too.
And just like that, the matter of Yaya going to school was settled. Yue Youxin and Yue Youhui ran over. Yue Youxin scooped Yaya up. “Wow, Yaya, you’re amazing! I thought Xiaohui was smart enough, but you’re even smarter than Xiaohui. From now on, you’re the smartest in our family!”
“Yaya is smart because my big brothers are smart.”
Yaya hugged Yue Youxin’s face and kissed his cheek. That made Yue Youxin absolutely delighted. He secretly made up his mind to train hard so he could become a big brother Yaya was proud of.
“Yaya, me too.”
Yue Youhui brought his face close to Yaya and pointed at his cheek. Yaya was very generous and gave Yue Youhui a big kiss too.
Yue Youhui also made up his mind. He couldn’t slack off—he had to work even harder. That way, if there was ever something Yaya didn’t understand, he as her big brother could teach her.
The next day was the second day of the New Year. Ye Zhiqiu took Yaya to Fu’an Alley.
Ye Yunlin and Wang Shuying had come over, so Ye Jiawen and Ye Jiawu hadn’t gone back either. Their family was spending the New Year in Guojing.
When Ye Zhiqiu and Yaya reached the door, they happened to run into Ling Hang.
“Sister-in-law, Yaya.” Ling Hang was rarely a bit embarrassed as he greeted them.
Ye Zhiqiu saw Ling Hang carrying bags of gifts and knew he’d come specially to visit Ye Yunlin and Wang Shuying.
His relationship with Ye Jiawen was especially stable, particularly after everything that happened with Wen Liang.
Ye Jiawen felt Ling Hang was reliable, and Ling Hang had become even more determined to spend his whole life with Ye Jiawen. This New Year, the two of them planned to make it official with their parents.
Today Ling Hang would come visit Ye Yunlin and Wang Shuying first. On the fourth day, Ye Jiawen would go to the compound to visit Ling Hang’s parents, Ling Chao and Gu Jianhong.
“My second uncle and second aunt are both very easygoing people.”
Ye Zhiqiu patted Ling Hang’s shoulder. “Don’t be nervous.”
“Uncle Ling, go for it!”
Yaya made a cheering gesture toward Ling Hang, then waved for him to lean in close.
“Uncle Ling, work hard to become my uncle-in-law soon, okay?”
