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Fortunate Eighties: The Bewitching Female Rival Who Tamed Her Husband with Skill

Chapter 204: 204 Certificate of Award

Author: Meow meow
updatedAt: 2025-07-12

Chapter 204: Chapter 204 Certificate of Award

Not only were the parents present envious, but even the class teacher couldn’t help but feel the same.

Just thinking about their own mischievous kids, who caused headaches just by mentioning studying, writing with much ado and still not finishing an article in half a day.

Then you look at someone else’s kid, and your envy can’t be helped.

Right now, the kids playing happily at home have no idea that their days of suffering are about to arrive.

Their dad and mom have already started planning how many hours to study each day, learning from the top-ranking little comrade.

Susu and the other parents from the older class couldn’t keep up their smiling facade anymore. Seizing the moment when no one came to chat, she quickly slipped out.

“Phew~”

Wiping sweat from her forehead, she spent a few seconds in silent sympathy for the classmates of her eldest son before decisively driving home.

“Dad, Mom is back.”

The car was driven into the yard, and stylishly dressed Susu smiled and gingerly carried a stack of papers inside.

She looked for a suitable spot to hang up the certificate, mainly because the wall that used to hold certificates was already full.

“Mom, what are you holding?”

“Guess?”

The triplets crowded around, all giddy and curious. Upon seeing the orange-yellow certificates, their little faces froze immediately as if they had been petrified.

“Here, it’s your brother’s mid-term examination certificate.”

“Hehehe…”

Lu Xiaoting laughed and patted his son and daughter’s heads, then hung up the certificate under his wife’s direction.

“Now, a bit higher overall, a bit more to the left, too high, back down a little on the left…”

Mission accomplished, Susu put her hands on her hips, exuding a sense of modesty in her great achievement.

“Ahem, congratulations to my eldest for earning first place in the entire school, the city’s top student, the school’s top student… a string of honors, blah blah.”

“Clap clap clap clap…”

The whole family immediately burst into warm applause.

Amid the vigorous applause, Xiao Yu’s ears turned gradually red, and he felt a bit embarrassed, quietly putting down his book and using drinking water as an excuse to hide his discomfort.

“Considering our eldest’s outstanding performance in school, his unity, and love for his classmates, his helping and supporting each other, listening to the elders at home, guiding his brother and sisters properly, and having a clear plan for his own studies…

Mom and Dad have decided to reward our precious eldest with a cassette Walkman. Tomorrow morning, Mom will go to the Department Store to buy it for our treasure.”

Tianyu’s eyes brightened, “Thank you, Dad and Mom, can you buy me a few more English tapes?”

“Of course, we can.”

“Thank you, Dad and Mom.”

The triplets, bubbling with envy to the point of nearly drooling, were very self-aware—having just made a mess earlier, they knew better than to act out.

Hehe, when big brother’s Walkman arrives, they could also… hehe…

The couple glanced at the wall full of certificates and then at their eldest, who was back to reading, then at the murmuring triplets and couldn’t help but press their foreheads.

They weren’t careful after dinner, and the three little ones were about to raise hell again.

The old mother looked at the triplets covered in dirt and with their clothes torn, got a headache, and gave each of them a slap on their buttocks.

“Did your grandma owe you something? Just put on clean clothes this morning, and you’ve made them what now? Go and change your clothes and wash them yourselves.”

“Ah~ Mom—”

“What ‘ah’? You think it’s easy for your grandpa and grandma to wash your clothes, shoes, and smelly socks every day?”

The old couple sneaked peeks at their daughter-in-law scolding her grandchildren, not daring to chime in.

Their son and daughter-in-law said when disciplining the kids, no one should show pity and contradict the parents.

That way, the kids wouldn’t become scared and would hide behind their grandparents when mom and dad were reprimanding them.

The old couple looked at the sky, the ground, the dirt on their hands, and did not make eye contact with the triplets, who were sending out SOS signals.

“I got it~”

The triplets hung their heads dejectedly, each holding their own clothes as they squatted under the eaves, scrubbing, washing, and hanging clothes in one continuous process.

Think of it as training the little ones’ manual skills.

The weather was getting hotter and Susu had to tend to the shop today, leaving her no time to pick up the kids from school.

So, Father Lu rode the family’s battered tricycle to fetch the triplets.

Father Lu waited at the entrance and saw his three coming out, dragging another child along, with the four of them chattering about something at the door.

Father Lu couldn’t help but smile. That child was the very one who had been pulling Lele’s braid and got beat up by the triplets.

Who would have thought that the kids would become good friends by now? It just goes to show the truth in the saying, “You can’t make friends without fighting.”

“Little comrade, where do you live? Grandpa will take you home too.”

“No—” Wang Tao’s embarrassed refusal was cut off before he could finish, by the crisp voice of the little girl.

“Grandpa, I know where it is, it’s not far from our home. We’ll show you the way.”

Without another word, the three siblings hurriedly pulled Wang Tao onto the tricycle.

“Thank you, Grandpa Lu.” The little boy, whose clothes were washed to a faded white, whispered his thanks.

“Hehe, no need, all set? Here we go~”»

In no time, the children’s laughter and shrieking filled the air.

“Lu Tianze, Lu Tianluo, Lu Tianlan, see you tomorrow.”

“Ha ha ha… bye Wang Tao, see you tomorrow.”

As the tricycle’s silhouette gradually turned away, disappearing at the end of the street, Wang Tao pursed his lips and stepped into his own home.

“Brother~ You’re back.”

A little girl with yellow and messy hair ran out and cozily hugged her brother.

“Qingqing, be good. Is he back?”

“No, just Grandpa and Grandma are home.”

The little girl immediately shook her head, ‘he’ referring to their drunken father.

On Sunday, when school was out, the triplets, after asking their elders, invited Wang Tao and his sister over to play.

“Hello Grandpa Lu, Grandma Lu.”

“Hello Uncle, Auntie, and Big Brother.”

“Ah, yes, yes, yes, just go and play inside~” Mrs. Lu looked at the thin, small siblings with yellow, messy hair and felt a pang of sympathy.

“What kind of times are we living in, it’s not like the times of famine years ago when people went hungry. How can there still be kids who…”

Susu felt like she was seeing the timid, scared little girl with yellow hair from years ago—Su Sanya.

The family more or less knew about the plight of the two children; their mother had run away, and their father was a drunkard who beat people when he got drunk. Their old grandparents were barely scraping by, collecting scrap to support their grandchildren.

With the house often empty and the kids hungry one meal, full the next, it was no wonder they were malnourished.

Mrs. Lu simply went out and bought a dozen steamed buns, since the family hadn’t had breakfast yet and there was also milk tea.

“All of you, including Taotao and Qingqing, eat the buns while they’re warm, don’t waste them.”

The little girl stared at the white, big, fragrant meat buns, her fingers in her mouth, swallowing saliva.

The triplets immediately stuffed a big bun into each sibling’s hands, “Eat quickly, or they’ll get cold, and if we can’t finish, we’ll have to feed it to the dogs.”

Wang Tao looked at his sister, who was gazing hungrily at the bun in her hands, and sighed, “You eat, sister.”

With her brother’s permission, the little girl then wolfed down the bun.

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