Chapter 621 620 [Family Affairs and State Affairs]

Mr. Zhou, who was praised to the sky outside, could only act cowardly when he returned home. His scandal was so loud this time that several women in his family were already upset. Even Meng Xiaodong kept showing off for several days, and Zhang Leyi even refused to sleep with him for a week.

The most terrifying thing is Vivien Leigh. It had been 43 days since she gave birth to her daughter, and Zhou Hexuan only came home to visit her.

Because she was far away from home and her husband was not around for a long time, Vivien Leigh showed some signs of postpartum depression. She would lose her temper for no reason anyway, and Zhou Hexuan could only coax her.

"Dad, Dad, look at my schoolbag!" Little Lingjun came jumping up and down.

Zhou Hexuan smiled and picked up his daughter, kissed her on the cheek, and said with a smile: "The little schoolbag is so beautiful, and Lingjun's school uniform is also very beautiful."

Xiao Lingjun said coquettishly: "Auntie Miao sewed the schoolbag for me. Look at the flower on it. I drew it."

"The painting is really good." Zhou Hexuan laughed.

Xiao Lingjun is already 5 and a half years old. According to Zhou Hexuan's wishes, he originally planned to send her to primary school next year. But Meng Xiaodong seemed very anxious and insisted on enrolling in school this year. She was quite inferior to her status as an actress and wanted to train her daughter to be a well-educated and sensible lady.

There were two best primary schools during the Republic of China, one was called "Chengzhi School" and the other was called "Nankai Primary School".

Chengzhi School, later known as the Tsinghua Elementary School, even had a kindergarten inside the school, where the children of Tsinghua faculty and staff studied. The school board members included famous figures such as Feng Youlan, Zhu Ziqing, Pan Guangdan, and Ye Qisun.

As for Nankai Primary School, its predecessor was called Yan's Family School. For example, the current Tsinghua principal Mei Yiqi and his wife were both graduates of Yan's Family School.

Although Chengzhi School and Nankai Primary School are small schools, their teaching content is even better than many middle schools in the Republic of China. They offer many courses such as Chinese studies, mathematics, physics, English, music, painting, and physical education. Moreover, the two schools attach great importance to moral education. Students are taught from an early age to "don't be arrogant, don't be violent, don't be lazy, be harmonious, be quiet, and be courteous." There are strict requirements for standing, sitting, walking, and dressing.

Judging from the general education standards of the Republic of China, as long as the primary school students who graduated from these two schools had a slightly normal IQ, they would definitely be classified as elites in the future.

It is really about the comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, body, beauty and labor, and even how to treat others is taught.

At this moment, Xiao Lingjun was wearing a brand new school uniform, with her hair braided into two braids, and a beautiful schoolbag slung across her body, standing there pretending to be a little adult.

Little Wei Lie looked at his sister with envy, then suddenly turned around and said, "Mom, I also want to study."

Zhang Leyi hugged her son and coaxed: "Be good, I will send you to school next year."

"I want to study now." Little Wei Lie didn't cry, but pouted and sulked.

Zhou Hexuan picked up his son and said to Zhang Leyi: "Nankai Primary School does not have a kindergarten. It is better to send Wei Lie to Chengzhi School and then go to Nankai Primary School when he is old."

Zhang Leyi was a little reluctant: "Chengzhi's school is in Peiping, so we definitely can't go home every day. Wei Lie is still so young..."

Little Wei Lie suddenly said: "I am already four and a half years old!"

Zhou Hexuan thought for a while and asked: "Wei Lie, how many numbers can you count?"

"Keep counting, there are tens of millions." Xiao Weilie said.

Zhou Hexuan asked again: "What about addition and subtraction?"

Zhang Leyi helped answer: "He knows addition and subtraction within a hundred, and he has also learned single-digit multiplication, but he hasn't learned division yet."

"What about literacy?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

"I should be able to read and write a few hundred words, maybe a thousand words," Zhang Leyi said with some pride. "Weilie learned to read and count faster than Lingjun."

Xiao Lingjun was not happy anymore and pouted, "I can sing, dance, and draw, but my brother can't do these things."

Zhou Hexuan was in a very happy mood. His eldest son and daughter were both little geniuses, but one was more interested in art and the other was more interested in liberal arts. He smiled and said: "Then let Wei Lie go to Nankai Primary School directly."

Zhang Leyi said worriedly: "He is not yet five years old."

"It's okay," Zhou Hexuan touched his daughter's head and warned, "Lingjun, you are the elder sister. When you get to school, you have to protect your younger brother and prevent him from being bullied. Do you understand?"

Xiao Lingjun puffed up his chest: "I know, I'm very powerful."

Zhou Hexuan said: "That's it, both of them are sent to Nankai Primary School to study."

"Okay... okay." Zhang Leyi sighed.

The two little guys, led by their mother, happily ran to school. Sun Yonghao has a new task since then, which is to drive Lingjun and Wei Lie every day.

As for Wanrong's son Zhou Shuoming and Liao Yaquan's son Zhou Yangquan, both children are only 1 and a half years old. Although they learned to walk and talk quickly, their performance was quite average and not as amazing as their older brothers and sisters.

Wanrong doesn't care. She just wants her son to grow up happily and live happily for the rest of her life. It doesn't matter whether she becomes a talent or not.

Liao Yaquan wanted to compete and taught her son to read every morning and count in the afternoon. If she didn't learn the same word after being taught it for several days, she would be so angry that she would beat her and scold her. As a result, little Yang'an was very afraid of her own mother and was tired of playing in Cui Huifu's arms all day long.

Zhou Hexuan couldn't stand it anymore, so he would stand up and dissuade him - for a child who is only 1 and a half years old, is this the case?

But Liao Yaquan didn't listen at all. He calmed down for a few days and soon returned to his old ways. He would spank his son every now and then. Although the spanking was not severe and was just for show, it frightened his son quite a lot.

No, seeing that Zhang Leyi and Meng Xiaodong's children could go to school, Liao Yaquan forced her son to study again.

Xiao Shuoming was running around happily, chasing a ball and giggling. Xiao Yangqian sat on the bench honestly, counting fearfully: "1, 2, 3... 3..."

"What's after 3?" Liao Yaquan urged.

"3...3...Wow...oooooooooooo!" Xiao Yangyao suddenly cried loudly, opened his arms and asked his father for help, "Daddy, hug, daddy, hug."

Zhou Hexuan reluctantly picked up his son and said to Liao Yaquan: "The child is still young, and he is already very smart if he can count to 3."

Liao Yaquan said: "Not too young. When Wei Lie was this old, he could already count to 10."

"Everyone's intellectual development is different." Zhou Hexuan said.

Liao Yaquan said unwillingly: "Why is my son not as smart as others?"

Zhou Hexuan said speechlessly: "It's not that he is not smart, this involves the scientific issue of brain development. The brain development of children under five years old is not complete, and it is normal to have differences. You are encouraging the child's development and making the child's spirit highly nervous and even fearful. It will affect brain development. Maybe a child who was originally very smart will become a fool because of you."

"Really?" Liao Yaquan finally took it seriously.

Zhou Hexuan said casually: "Of course it's true. I discussed this issue with Freud when I was in Europe."

Liao Yaquan still believed in science and hesitated: "Okay, I promise not to beat him or scold him in the future, but I must persist in studying every day."

Zhou Hexuan actually wanted to say, you are a Japanese spy, why do you care so much about cultivating future generations?

Zhou Hexuan kept these words in his stomach and asked, "Has anyone over there been urging you to do something recently?"

Regarding Liao Yaquan's identity, the two of them had already tacitly understood each other. Liao Yaquan shook his head and said: "It's been more than half a year since I've been assigned a task. They asked me to lurk for a long time."

Zhou Hexuan asked again: "I promoted anti-Japanese resistance in magazines, but they didn't respond at all?"

"No, you are not the only one who promotes anti-Japanese propaganda." Liao Yaquan said.

Zhou Hexuan was right when he thought about it. There was really no civil figure who promoted anti-Japanese aggression who was targeted by Japanese spies for trouble before 1937 - as long as they did not have actual activities in Japanese-occupied areas, the Japanese spies simply ignored them.

On the contrary, China's powerful officials are more dangerous than He Yingqin.

In order to provoke conflicts in North China and create opportunities to further invade and occupy North China, the Kwantung Army targeted He Yingqin. Doihara Kenji personally planned and sent two assassins to carry out the operation. As a result, the two assassins were caught halfway by the Japanese Seventh Regiment and executed to extract confessions due to their suspicious behavior.

The two assassins were also unlucky. They did not dare to reveal their identities after being caught by their own people. It was not until they were about to be ordered to be shot that they quickly shouted in Japanese: "I want to see Major General Nakamura Kaoru!"

He Yingqin was even more aggrieved. He narrowly escaped assassination attempts by assassins twice, and he really hated the Japanese. However, he had to follow the instructions and signed the traitorous "Ho-Mei Agreement" three months after his assassination. He was also scolded by the people as a "Japan-loving faction".

In fact, before being assassinated, He Yingqin really belonged to the pro-Japanese faction, at least that's how it appeared. He never dreamed that he would become the target of assassination by the Japanese.

Therefore, who the Japanese spies want to assassinate does not depend on whether you are pro-Japanese or anti-Japanese, but on whether there are practical benefits to killing you.

For now, the things Zhou Hexuan did in the country seemed to pose no threat to the Kwantung Army. And killing Zhou Hexuan would not be of any benefit to the Japanese invasion of China. It was a very useless target anyway.

Of course, when a full-scale war breaks out between China and Japan, the Japanese will definitely want to kill Zhou Hexuan, an influential civilian patriot.

Zhou Hexuan took out a top-secret document and said with a smile: "I accidentally leaked this."

"Understood." Liao Yaquan also smiled.

Zhou Hexuan had already walked out of the room, and suddenly turned back and said: "We will leave Tianjin when the two countries start a war."

"That's best," Liao Yaquan breathed a sigh of relief, then asked, "What if China is occupied by Japan?"

Zhou Hexuan didn't argue, he just smiled and said: "Then go to the United States."

Liao Yaquan nodded, thinking: If he goes to the United States, the Japanese secret service will definitely not dare to mess around, and then he will be able to live a stable life.

Liao Yaquan has always been troubled. She likes her current life. She has no worries about food and clothing, is leisurely and comfortable, and she also has a lovely son. She doesn't want to fight and kill, nor does she want to be a spy. As for the war between Japan and China, she doesn't care who wins or loses.

Now that Zhou Hexuan has made a promise, saying that he will leave Tianjin if the two countries go to war, and go to the United States if China loses the war, Liao Yaquan has no worries.

Liao Yaquan opened the top-secret document Zhou Hexuan had just given, but it was about China's currency reform. Documents show that China will abolish the silver standard and issue banknotes instead, and is seeking reserves from the United States. If the United States is unwilling to help, Japan is also one of the candidates.

Once Liao Yaquan handed over this document, the Japanese government immediately took action and tried to take control of China's finances by providing reserves.