Married to a Disabled Man in the 70s - Chapter 115
Su Jiaojiao was pregnant. Song Qinghan decided to retire to take care of her temporarily.
They had earned a lot of money during this half-year. As they weren’t afraid of being broke, he could stay at home and guard Su Jiaojiao until she gave birth.
Since both of them were basically idle during this time, she had an idea. “Why don’t we review something?”
Song Qinghan was making a cake for her as she suddenly wanted to eat it. As she was pregnant, Song Qinghan naturally became the cook of the house.
Song Qinghan couldn’t react in time, and replied, “Review what? Sit-ups?”
Since Su Jiaojiao became pregnant, her usual fitness routine has been cancelled and changed to other exercises that do not affect the stomach.
Although they have parenting books purchased from the matchmaker system, they were both novices, so they were extremely cautious.
But Su Jiaojiao didn’t mean exercise. She stretched out her hand and twisted Song Qinghan’s ears, saying loudly, “I’m talking about you reviewing something!”
“Oh, okay.” Song Qinghan glanced at her calmly and nodded in agreement.
Su Jiaojiao was surprised, “You didn’t bargain?”
Song Qinghan laughed, “I’m not a kid.”
Su Jiaojiao smiled and let go of his ear, thinking about what to teach him.
The pomeranian in her hands issued a task with a smile: [Ding, task 33 triggered. Song Qinghan has to memorize 20 English nouns within 4 hours and take a test at 5 p.m. Reward: A complete set of simple English books.] [1]
She was surprised, “This task is so simple!”
Song Qinghan couldn’t hear the matchmaker speaking, so he asked, “What’s simple?”
Su Jiaojiao blinked, “It said that as long as you memorize 20 English nouns in four hours, it’ll give us a junior high school English book.”
It was just 20 English words. It couldn’t be any easier.
Song Qinghan was silent for a while, and said, “But…I don’t know English at all.”
He glanced at her carefully, for fear that she would be angry.
Su Jiaojiao forgot only a small amount of people know English in China during the 70s. For a person who has never been in contact with English, it is really difficult to learn 20 unfamiliar words.
Cold sweat dripped on Su Jiaojiao’s forehead. As she looked at the cake which was about to take shape, she quickly said, “Don’t do it, let’s learn first. It is more important to complete the task.”
“Okay.” Song Qinghan nodded unhurriedly, but kept working on the cake.
Most of the words Su Jiaojiao chose were very simple and composed of two to three letters.
Song Qinghan was smart. After Su Jiaojiao has taught him several times, he can accurately pronounce the words and memorize them without stopping.
Su Jiaojiao had never been a teacher and didn’t know how to teach, so she could only try to repeating the words over and over again.
Song Qinghan was very serious about this, except when Su Jiaojiao looked at him intently.
The teaching time passed very quickly, but Song Qinghan had finished learning some English words by its end.
Su Jiaojiao looked at the time on the translucent panel-there was one hour left.
She smiled confidently, “Let’s just start.”
[Sure.] The matchmaker system nodded its head and jumped onto the table. Its clean little paws stretched out and a palm-sized piece of paper appeared. Its paws swayed in the air, and it said in Su Jiaojiao’s mind: [Next, I will display words randomly, and your husband has to say the correct pronunciation of the word within two seconds. Taking over two seconds will count as a failure.]
“Two seconds?!” Su Jiaojiao said.
Wasn’t it supposed to be a dictation?
Song Qinghan looked at her.
Su Jiaojiao said the examination method with a bitter face.
As a person who had just been exposed to English, it would be too hard for him to recognize the English words and write them down immediately.
Song Qinghan squeezed her little hand comfortingly, “It’s okay. I’ll try my best, and it doesn’t matter if I lose.”
The matchmaker system clapped its paws.
The two focused on it, and the matchmaker system stretched out its paws and began to pat the tabletop. Every time it patted, the word on the paper changed.
Song Qinghan could understand what it meant, and pronounced the word on the paper.
“Cat.” [1]
“Dog.”
“Man.”
“…”
Su Jiaojiao held her breath and watched him from the side. She was even more nervous than during her own college entrance examination. [2]
Although the prize wasn’t big, she was still very nervous.
Seeing Song Qinghan become more and more fluent, she relaxed and looked at Song Qinghan stupidly with a smile. Her heart was full of pride. Even if the test was incredibly easy, she was still proud.
He deserves to be her husband!
Then the soft voice of the matchmaker’s system in her mind said apologetically: [I’m sorry, but Song Qinghan failed the test.]
Su Jiaojiao’s smile froze.
Song Qinghan wiped the sweat from his forehead, frowned slightly, and looked at her with a bit of distress.
Su Jiaojiao kept looking at him.
It made him unable to concentrate…
Armos D. Platypus: English chappie.
[1] The italics in the chappie, and only this chappie, denotes English.
[2] Then you were incredibly calm for your college entrance examination, I guess.