Chapter 41: Show Your Respect

After sending off the reluctant Tan family members, Wei Zhiqian brought Tan Mo to the study.

“You can study here,” Wei Zhiqian said as he pointed at his desk.

His desk was quite large, with two chairs placed side by side.

Tan Mo held a chair and mumbled, “Hey, hey, hey, hey.” She raised her short legs and tried to climb up the chair.

However, after a few tries, she still could not climb up.

The chair was too high for her.

Tan Mo wanted to cry. She recalled the days when she used to be a little snow fairy, spending her days lazily underground. She had never exerted so much effort before.

Being a human cub was too difficult.

Puff!

While Tan Mo was struggling with the chair, she suddenly heard a sneer.

She quickly turned around and saw Wei Zhiqian with a hand on his mouth.

But it didn’t work.

They were the only people in the study.

Other than Wei Zhiqian, no one else could be laughing at her.

Tan Mo’s eyes welled up with tears.

“Sorry, I couldn’t help it.” Wei Zhiqian covered his mouth once more, but he could not hide the smile on his face.

This little girl’s actions were too funny.

She was small and round.

For a moment, he felt like he was watching a cub climb a chair.

“Currently, there is no suitable chair for you. They are too high for you, as well as the table,” Wei Zhiqian explained as he carried Tan Mo to one of the chairs.

The table was too high for Tan Mo. Only half of her nose up could be seen while sitting.

Wei Zhiqian was speechless.

The more he looked at this little girl, the cuter he felt she was.

“Uncle, stop laughing!” Tan Mo reached out with her small hands, trying to cover Wei Zhiqian’s mouth that could no longer hide his smile. “I’ll grow taller very soon!”

Wei Zhiqian was bent over. When Tan Mo straightened her arm, she managed to reach his mouth and successfully covered it.

Her palm was soft and smelled of milk.

Wei Zhiqian remembered that Xiao Menghan gave Tan Mo a handful of milk candies after dinner.

He wondered why a cute baby wasn’t part of his family.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have to compete with the Tan family for her attention.

“Why don’t you study at the coffee table instead?” Wei Zhiqian pointed at the coffee table not far away.

The coffee table was low, which was quite suitable for Tan Mo.

There was also a thick carpet on the floor.

Wei Zhiqian asked someone to send in another cushion for Tan Mo.

Tan Mo tried it out, and it did fit perfectly.

Hence, Tan Mo officially started her extracurricular studies with Wei Zhiqian.

Wei Zhiqian found out that Tan Mo was indeed not talking big before.

He taught her math tonight, and Tan Mo recalled all the formulas for the first grade.

She only lacked practical application.

Therefore, Wei Zhiqian skipped the discussions and directly let Tan Mo do math exercises. She would ask him whenever she encountered difficulties.

While Tan Mo was doing the exercises, Wei Zhiqian was learning as well.

Wei Zhiqian realized that he could also learn outside the traditional classroom.

* * *

The next day after school, Tan Mo followed Wei Zhiqian to his car. They were heading to the Wei residence.

Many people had seen Tan Mo get in Wei Zhiqian’s car and leave with him.

Actually, Wei Zhiqian did it on purpose.

He wanted everyone to see that he was protecting Tan Mo.

No one would dare to bully her henceforth.

At that moment, a pair of jealous eyes stared closely at Wei Zhiqian’s car leaving.

“Sister, why did Wei Zhiqian treat Tan Mo so well?” Qin Muxiao’s eyes were green with jealousy. “What’s so good about Tan Mo?”

In the car, Qin Murong told Qin Muxiao with a cold expression on her face, “Regardless of what’s good, or even bad, about her, Muxiao, don’t make things difficult for Tan Mo anymore.”

“You want me to admit defeat? I can’t take this lying down!” Qin Muxiao raised her voice. She was so angry that she wanted to smash something.

“At least, don’t make things difficult for her on the surface. There is nothing we can do. She is being protected by Wei Zhiqian. You had been disgraced a great deal because Wei Zhiqian defended her last time. Even I had been implicated and got the impression that we were both unappreciated in the Qin family. If this happens again, we won’t have any prestige in school anymore,” Qin Murong said, trying to talk some sense to her sister.

“Are you asking me to submit to her?” Qin Muxiao was indignant.

“In any case, Wei Zhiqian will graduate in less than three years. All his friends will graduate and leave as well, while Tan Mo will have to stay in Jixia Academy for many years,” Qin Murong reminded her. “By then, no one in the school will be able to protect her anymore.”

As for Qin Muye, Qin Murong had never taken her seriously.

She was just a simple-minded idiot.

“You just have to endure another three years. Three years, can’t you? Then after that, no matter how you deal with Tan Mo, she won’t be able to fight back. Without Wei Zhiqian’s support, she’s nothing.” Qin Murong had been unhappy with Tan Mo for a long time.

However, she was more tolerant than Qin Muxiao.

“That’s right. Three years later, without Wei Zhiqian and the others, let’s see if Tan Mo can still behave arrogantly!”

Three years left…

She could tolerate it for now.

Tan Mo had no idea about the Qin sisters’ intentions. Then again, she hadn’t given them a second thought either.

In Wei Zhiqian’s study, Tan Mo saw pieces of paper on the coffee table, a fountain pen, and a bottle of ink.

“Uncle, what are you going to do?” Tan Mo asked, confused.

“The contents in the textbooks are not that difficult for you. They will be easy for you to understand. At present, your main goal is to learn how to use a pen to practice your handwriting,” Wei Zhiqian said.

Tan Mo could write a lot of characters, and she could already write characters for daily use.

Before she started kindergarten, he had early education. After she started kindergarten, he began to learn how to write.

Due to her limited strength, her handwriting was a little crooked, which did not look good. However, she eventually mastered it.

“I’m still writing with a pencil.” Tan Mo had never written with a pen before.

In her previous life, as a little snow fairy, she did not know how to write and had never used a pen. Therefore, in this life, she was learning how to write from scratch.

“I expect that, by the end of the semester, you should be able to take the third-grade exams.” Wei Zhiqian explained, “However, after the third year, Chinese and other subjects will be written with a pen. Only mathematics can be written with a pencil for now. Since you want to skip grades, you have to practice writing with a pen.”

Wei Zhiqian wrote his name on a paper.

The two characters were neat.

“Try to write my name.” Wei Zhiqian pushed the paper to Tan Mo.

“…” Tan Mo tilted her head and asked, “Little Uncle, why did you write your name?”

Wei Zhiqian paused for a moment. Then he said confidently, “I’m your teacher and your elder, so you have to practice my name first to show your respect.”

Tan Mo was speechless.

‘Don’t think that because I am a six-year-old, I am gullible.’