Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 400: Three hundred and ninety-nine boasting_1

Chapter 400: Three hundred and ninety-nine boasting_1

Three buses swayed and bumped, heading towards the outskirts of the city.

Gu Chen and his daughter, Tangtang, were also sitting on one of them at this time.

Compared to the slight crowding on the other seats, Gu Chen and his daughter’s area could be considered the most relaxed.

After all, he was the only man on the entire bus.

The rest of the crowd, who had brought their children out for a trip, were all young mothers from various families.

The entire bus was filled with their lively chatter, and they seemed very warm towards each other.

Only Gu Chen’s spot was the quietest, as if isolated from the world, with nobody coming over.

After all, no one really knew each other.

Moreover, after several days of word-of-mouth fermentation, and under the wild imagination of a host of parents,

Gu Chen had gone from being a junior-level "kept man" living off his wife,

to having many new settings extended from that, with bizarre family entanglements from story meetings piling in one after another.

About how he clung to a wealthy woman, how he lived off her,

and even different versions of stories that included how many steel wool pads he used at night,

The one commonality was that, without a doubt, Gu Chen played the fool in all these stories.

The first male lead who was meant to be despised and spit upon by everyone.

Gu Chen had heard a bit about this, but he didn’t really bother to get involved.

After all, even if others slandered him behind his back, he couldn’t hear them.

And there was no way to rush over and shut their mouths.

He also knew that these people, who did nothing but perm their hair and shop all day,

probably did so out of sheer boredom, and besides, there was a pitiful lack of information on the internet these days.

Good-quality games and movies mostly depended on imports.

These women, who had no shortage of money at home, had nothing to do every day but gather to gossip.

They could only amuse themselves by concocting gossip while getting spa treatments and beauty care.

The children were always energetic and active, and with dozens of women’s idle talk,

The bus was nearly as noisy as a vegetable market.

Teacher Zhang, who sat in the co-driver’s seat of the bus and came along with them, was also starting to feel a bit restless.

Of course, the main reason was that she sat too far away to directly join in the parents’ chatter.

And since the trip was quite long, this made her feel slightly annoyed while also finding the noise from their conversation too loud.

Then she stood up, once again putting on a professional smile.

First, she clapped her hands to attract everyone’s attention.

Then she addressed all the children on the bus,

"Kids, we still have half an hour to reach our destination.

How about Teacher Zhang tells you a story in the meantime, does that sound good?"

Upon hearing this, the many children on the bus seemed to be transported back to the classroom.

They immediately sat attentively in their seats and said in unison,

"Great~"

Teacher Zhang told the story of the Little Horse Crossing the River, and the kindergarten junior-level kids listened with great interest.

Many mothers, however, who had been interrupted in their conversation and now couldn’t speak at all,

were just about turning green with frustration at that point.

After all, they had been in the middle of an exciting gossip session before the interruption.

Now, suddenly cut off, they found themselves in an awkward position.

Moreover, it was the kindergarten junior-level children who were sitting on this bus.

The stories the teacher told held absolutely no appeal for these grown-up parents.

But they couldn’t voice their boredom, lest they become the culprits who disrupted their children’s class.

This made them feel somewhat out of sorts all of a sudden.

Sitting to the side, Gu Chen watched the gloomy faces of the surrounding mothers.

He couldn’t help but shake his head with a smile, and enjoyed the quietness that had settled in the car.

He thought to himself that this was indeed a case of tit for tat; they had just been gossiping about others.

Little did they know that they would be put in their place so soon.

Although it was just a small story and Teacher Zhang deliberately slowed down her delivery,

she finished it quite quickly and then turned the car into a classroom on the spot.

She began questioning the children about the story she had just told.

Finally seeing a chance to shine,

the parents, who had been somewhat dozy, suddenly became excited.

They started urging their children to raise their hands and answer.

This was an opportunity to stand out in front of the whole class. If the children didn’t grasp it, their mothers felt they must give a nudge.

Of course, whether or not the children actually understood the questions asked by the teacher was not important.

After all, their own children were so clever that it was absolutely impossible for them not to understand or learn.

If there really was an issue, then it was definitely because the teacher’s teaching was subpar.

Soon, in response to her question, nearly all the children in the car raised their hands in unison.

Teacher Zhang was left speechless; she knew all too well what these children had actually learned.

She then prepared to routinely call on a few of the smarter children to answer, as a way to save face for the parents. However, at that moment,

she suddenly noticed that Tangtang, sitting beside Gu Chen, was completely indifferent, not concerned at all with what was happening.

This instantly piqued her interest, as Tangtang had often been like this during her few days in kindergarten.

Before, she had assumed it was because Tangtang had just transferred and was not yet accustomed,

which was why she hadn’t raised her hand, but now, seeing her expression, it seemed it wasn’t the case.

"Tangtang, did you understand the story Teacher just told?"

Teacher Zhang crouched down and asked gently and patiently.

At this, Tangtang simply nodded her head vigorously and sweetly said,

"Teacher Zhang, my mom has already told me the stories you shared before.

I understood all of them."

"Hmm?"

Teacher Zhang felt somewhat surprised and couldn’t help but glance at Gu Chen sitting next to her.

She suddenly thought that the family education he provided was quite good.

To have already learned so much in advance was praiseworthy, but she tended not to trust what parents taught on their own.

So she continued to ask,

"Then Tangtang, besides the story of the little horse crossing the river that your mom told you, what else has she taught you?"

Upon hearing this, Tangtang tilted her little head and pondered for a while.

Then smiling, she said to the teacher in front of her,

"Well! I can recite Tang poetry, English vocabulary, draw, do math, and even dance. When mom wasn’t busy, she always praised me for being smart. And Teacher Chen from the interest class also said that Tangtang might become a big star in the future!"

The daughter sitting next to Gu Chen spoke with sugary confidence in her sweet voice.

Teacher Zhang grew somewhat uneasy upon hearing this. She didn’t believe that such a young child could know so many things; clearly, this was just boasting.

As a teacher, she felt it was her duty to correct such bad habits.