Eldest Daughter was Reborn

Chapter 21: A Living Father

In addition to the reception room for the guests on the first floor of the Zhangs’ house, there was also a small living room for the family to rest and gather from time to time.

Heling brought the scissors and tape, and followed Yansheng downstairs with a confused look. They went all the way to this small living room.

Yansheng looked around and chose a wall. There were exactly two entrances and exits at both ends of that wall, leading to the interior of the house and the courtyard, with such a narrow wall in the middle. There was now a side table with a small sculpture on it. There was a painting hanging on the wall as well.

She looked around, then walked over to take off the painting and put it aside.

“Cut four short pieces of scotch tape and give them to me,” she instructed.

The little girl obediently followed the instructions. She cut a short piece of scotch tape and handed it to Yansheng first. She lowered her head and cut the second one. She looked up and wanted to hand it to Yansheng, but she was stunned all of a sudden.

She saw her sister pressed her ‘Learning Star’ certificate on the wall and one of the corners was fixed there with a scotch tape.

Upon seeing that Heling was stunned, Yansheng took the piece of tape from the little girl’s finger and exclaimed, “What are you waiting for?! Keep cutting!”

Yansheng also fixed the other corner of the certificate with the second piece of tape. Now, her own hands were freed. She noticed that Heling was now useless, she simply took over the scissors and tape, and did the cutting herself.

Heling asked hesitantly, “Is this… okay?”

“Why not?” Yansheng asked rhetorically. “Isn’t something like award certificates must to be shown to others? What’s the point of hiding them in a box sneakily?”

“No…” Heling replied weakly. “I mean, it’s not good to post it here… right? Will Dad and Mom be upset?”

Yansheng cut the scotch tape and told her calmly, “This is where the award certificates were originally posted, don’t you remember?”

“Huh?” Heling was a little dazed.

“Forget it, you were still young at that time. It’s amazing that you remember me pushing you,” Yansheng said while sticking the tape. “This wall was used for me to post my award certificates. At that time, I had many awards and some competition certificates. When you first came home, this wall was almost full of them. That painting was just hung here later.”

Then later, why didn’t you post anything? Heling thought.

Yingying had always disliked Heling for being ‘stupid’, but Heling just wouldn’t please Huan as much as Yingying had expected. It was definitely impossible for a young child who could take the first place in the class to be a fool.

Heling faintly felt that if she asked her sister ‘what happened later’, the answer might not be what she wanted to hear. She also felt that this was probably related to their arrival in this house—stepmother and half-siblings.

The little girl bit her lip and was too timid to ask.

Yansheng posted the ‘Learning Star’ certificate, stepped back, looked at it with her crossed arms, and asked, “Is it all right? It’s not crooked, right?”

Heling also looked at it and exclaimed, “It’s all right!”

Yansheng nodded, rolled out the tape, picked up the scissors, and began to stick the second one.