I am the Odd One Out Chapter 21

Leo Lin did not send Lin Baijia to school. At that time, there were no schools for girls within a hundred miles, so Leo Lin taught his daughter at home.

In this two-row double-storey house, Lin Baijia and Chen Yaowu and Chen Yaowen grew up together. They ran up and down and stepped on the floorboards. The dust hanging from the cracks in the floor often fell into Li Meilian's cooking pot. Li Meilian, who was cooking, shouted to the children upstairs not to run up there. When the three children heard Li Meilian's screams, they jumped up and let more dust fall down. And they started playing pranks. They went to the carpentry club downstairs to grab a few sawdust and stuffed them into the cracks in the floor. They stepped and danced there. The louder Li Meilian, who was cooking downstairs, screamed, the happier they danced upstairs. Helpless, Li Meilian called two workers from the carpentry club to cover the gaps in the floor with paper to cover the gaps in the floor, thus preventing the sawdust from spilling.

Leo Lin watched his three children running around all day and thought that the sound of reading loudly should replace the thumping of footsteps. He and Charlie Chen cleaned up a room downstairs that was full of debris and hung a small blackboard on the wall. Emperor Yongzheng's "Holy Edict" was posted next to the blackboard, and three small desks and three small stools were moved in. Leo Lin called the three children in front of him and told them:

"Now it's time to read and write. From now on, sit upright and walk upright."

Professor Leo Lin named Lin Baijia, Chen Yaowu and Chen Yaowen. Ten days later, Leo Lin moved in two more small desks and two small stools. Gu Yimin sent his two daughters, Gu Tongsi and Gu Tongnian, to Leo Lin.