Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 483

Chapter 483: Chapter 370: After Minor Heat

After the minor heat wave, summer truly begins, and the millet, sorghum, and soybeans in the fields have been hoed two or three times, with the rows almost ready to be closed. The corn and sorghum have also been thinned and are starting to grow rapidly.

Hearing that many vegetables in her village’s backyard were ready to be harvested, Zhou Jiao didn’t dare to take her son back to the village.

"To raise without teaching is the father’s fault. To teach without strictness is the teacher’s laziness. If the child doesn’t study, it’s inappropriate. If the young do not learn, what will the old do?"

For her child, Zhou Jiao now works diligently, finally completing two picture books for toddlers to learn words.

Since the child is precocious and unusually strong, she decided to educate and nurture him in advance.

To help the child learn to control his strength, she spends two hours every afternoon either playing with clay or tofu with him, using different soft and hard fruits and toys, softly demonstrating repeatedly, guiding him to use his hands.

To help the child understand her words, she talks endlessly every day with simple phrases, demonstrating her actions repeatedly, guiding him to understand body language.

She even pretended to scream in pain by reaching her hand toward the stove fire or pricked her finger to make it bleed and cried pretendingly, to instill a sense of safety in the child.

All of this hands-on effort finally paid off when she saw the child gripping tofu with moderate force easily, without it breaking anymore; when she saw the child shaking his head at sharp objects like scissors; when she saw the child’s words becoming clearer, learning more single-syllable words.

Zhou Jiao knew all her hard work was not in vain.

The last time they went to the market, Zhou Jiao gestured to seal her lips again, and the mother and child went for a stroll. When the child opened his mouth, she signaled, and he quickly kept quiet, only calling out to the cattle when they returned home.

At that moment, she couldn’t help but shed tears. Through her tears, the child touched her face, and her heart ached even more.

Zhou Jiao didn’t know if this kind of education was good or bad, but before the child reached a full year old, she couldn’t, and didn’t want to, let others notice the child’s intelligence. Keeping the child safe had become her only desire.

That afternoon, Zhou Jiao spent time with her son, pondering repeatedly, and finally made a decision.

She would take her son to nearby cities before August, letting him experience when to stay silent and when to be carefree.

During work hours, Zhang Guoqing was very busy, extremely busy, and apart from coming home to eat and sleep, Zhou Jiao hadn’t seen him during the day for a long time.

During weekends, Zhang Guoqing was even busier, busily experiencing the joy of a bountiful harvest from dawn to dusk, and Zhou Jiao hadn’t seen him on weekends for a long time.

One weekend, when Zhang Guoqing returned home early from the village with an ox cart and saw that Zhou Jiao had taken off with the sidecar, he raised his eyebrows and smiled, secretly pleased that his wife had thought things through and knew to take the child out for fresh air.

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