Chapter 155.2

Su Xiaoxiao was bombarded with questions from everyone, feeling overwhelmed, “Everyone, please calm down. I know you all want to know how you did, but I think no matter what the answers are, the results are already set. It’s useless to think too much about it. It’s better to go home and wait for the results calmly. You won’t remember all the questions, and I won’t remember all the answers, and we won’t know how the subjective questions will be graded.

Those who don’t feel good about themselves might as well use this time to go home and study hard, preparing for next year. Don’t waste time, it’s already late today. Let’s all go home first. We also need to have dinner, so we won’t keep you any longer.”

Although everyone really wants to know the answer, Su Xiaoxiao has already spoken for this reason, and they are too embarrassed to stay any longer.

“By the way, thank you all for liking our Xiao Roubao, but please don’t give Xiao Roubao any more snacks in the future. He’s still young and doesn’t know how to control himself. He might overeat accidentally. Keep the snacks for yourselves, really, don’t give them to him anymore.”

Upon hearing his mother’s words, Xiao Roubao lowered his head and opened his little chick backpack with a painful expression on his face. “Brother and sister, uncles and aunties, please take it back. I don’t want it anymore,” he said.

Actually, it was just one candy and one cake per person, but it seemed like a lot because so many people gave him gifts, filling up his backpack.

Everyone saw the child looking disappointed, shaking their heads, and saying, “Comrade Su, you’re making too much of it. It’s just a piece of candy and a biscuit for the kids. Xiao Roubao, don’t be upset. We gave it to you because we like you. Don’t eat it all at once. Save some for later, just don’t eat too much, okay?”

“Yeah, Xiao Roubao, you enjoy eating. Big sister is happier seeing you eat than eating herself. But your Mom is right too, you shouldn’t eat too much at once.”

“Comrade Su, don’t blame Xiao Roubao. We gave it voluntarily. Xiao Roubao, don’t be upset.”

“Oh dear, Xiao Roubao isn’t smiling anymore. Comrade Su, please don’t blame Xiao Roubao anymore.”

Su Xiaoxiao: “…” 

Whose child is Xiao Roubao exactly? Why do they all look at her as if she’s a bad mother?

In this era, most people are kind and simple. It’s true that they want to use candies to “bribe” Xiao Roubao, but it’s also true that they genuinely liked Xiao Roubao too.

After everyone outside had left, Su Xiaoxiao took Xiao Roubao’s hand and went inside.

After school, Xiao Yu’er still hasn’t come back from being tutored by Xiao Zhuzi, leaving Xiao Doubao alone with his sister. Several people surrounded Fantuan, bombarding him with questions. They couldn’t put together a complete question, so they just asked for Fantuan’s answers, leaving Fantuan speechless.

Su Xiaoxiao repeated what she had just said, and finally promised everyone to take time to give extra classes to comrades who did not pass the exam after the results were released, so they reluctantly left.

Two men went to the kitchen to heat up the food.

Yali smiled and shook her head, “Actually, I can understand them very well. The first time I came out, I wanted to ask you about the answers.”

Su Xiaoxiao said, “I understand too. The future and fate depend on these exam papers. It’s normal to be nervous, but being nervous now won’t help. It’s better to spend this time at home studying a few more pages.”

Yali said, “I understand your logic, but it’s really hard to achieve your level of calmness, that’s why I admire you a lot.”

Su Xiaoxiao bent down and picked up Xiao Roubao, “As for me, I admire our Xiao Roubao the most.” Su Xiaoxiao ruffled the child’s hair, “Didn’t Mom tell you not to ask for other people’s things? Why didn’t you listen to me?”

Xiao Roubao drooped his head, “But they’re not just anyone. They’re guests who came to our house. I didn’t ask them; they gave it to me voluntarily.”

Xiao Roubao is actually a good child, with a lively and cute personality and a sweet mouth.  It’s hard not to like him, but he loved to eat too much. However, the cub was still young and needed to be taught slowly.

Su Xiaoxiao held his hand and walked aside, randomly taking out candy from his chicken bag. “Who gave this to Xiao Roubao?”

Xiao Roubao had a good memory and remembered everyone who gave him something, “Uncle Wu gave it to me.”

Su Xiaoxiao thought for a moment and nodded. “Mom remembers that Uncle Wu is a nurse at Dad’s hospital. He works alone here, with an eighty-year-old grandmother at home and parents who work hard like Grandma. It seems like his baby is just over a year old. Anyway, the whole family relies on his salary.”

Su Xiaoxiao held the candy in her hand and turned it around. “I wonder how he managed to save this candy, and I wonder if his eighty-year-old grandmother has ever eaten such candy. Maybe he planned to bring it back to his hometown for his baby to eat during the Chinese New Year. He actually gave it to you. I don’t know when his baby will be able to eat candy?”

Xiao Roubao was stunned, looking at his mother in disbelief, “Mom, is it so difficult for Uncle Wu’s family to buy candy?”

Su Xiaoxiao nodded, “Baby, Dad and I could only support the four of you with our combined salaries. Uncle Wu’s salary is much less than Dad’s, and he still has to support such a big family. It’s hard for him to afford candy. He probably hasn’t even eaten any himself. Most of the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunts who gave you things are in the same situation. They are reluctant to eat it themselves, they want to save it, but they still give it to Xiao Roubao. Now, you had too many candies than them. 

But our Xiao Roubao can eat well every meal, and we also have snacks to eat at home, right? Xiao Roubao will know as he grows up that food is precious, and there are a number of things to share with everyone. Your brothers at home only gave you what they liked because they loved you. So next time, when they give you something, Xiao Roubao should politely say thank you and then let them keep it for themselves or for their families, okay? If Xiao Roubao really wants something, just tell Mom. Mom will make it for Xiao Roubao or buy it for Xiao Roubao, okay? “

Xiao Roubao, although not born with a golden spoon, had never experienced material hardship. She and Han Cheng’s income was not low, so they were fairly comfortable living in this era. The families of Zhou Yuhua and Yali, who were close to them, were even better off. With decent incomes and only one child each, their quality of life was even higher. Zhuzi and Xiao Yu never lacked anything, and they treated Xiao Roubao and Xiao Tangyuan like their own children, so they always shared good things with them.

This led Xiao Roubao to think that every family was like this, not realizing how precious a piece of candy or a biscuit was. In his mind, these were readily available things, just a matter of eating a little more or a little less. He had never even considered that there might be an eighty-year-old grandmother who had never eaten candy.

Feeling ashamed, he took off his chicken bag and handed it to Su Xiaoxiao. “Mom, please return these for me. I don’t want them anymore.”

Su Xiaoxiao suddenly felt that she might have been too harsh. She ruffled the child’s head. “Forget about these, but you can’t ask for them anymore, okay?”

Xiao Roubao nodded. “I understand, Mom. I won’t ask for other people’s things anymore. I’ll let them keep them for their grandmother and baby at home.”

Su Xiaoxiao hugged him and said, “As a reward for Xiao Roubao, Mom will make your favorite roasted chicken tomorrow, okay?”

Xiao Roubao then squinted and said, “Okay! Thank you, Mom!”