Chapter 290 Expensive Tuition Fees

"Our college's annual tuition fee is 5 million silver coins."

It sounds like a lot, but in the monthly assessment, students will receive a certain reward as long as they meet the standards. If they achieve an excellent score in the assessment, the reward will be equivalent to the tuition fee.

Some students even achieved top marks in the assessments, which not only meant tuition waivers but also earned them a large sum of pocket money. "Teacher Jing Ling said, her eyes crinkling as she looked at A-Chen.

Although the child concealed his aura, Teacher Jing Ling awakened a special ability—the ability to observe auras.

Her ability to observe auras is rather useless in combat, but it is extremely accurate in assessing a person's aptitude.

She can use her special ability to see the gold and silver auras surrounding a person's body. The gold aura represents special abilities, and the silver aura represents intelligence.

The more brilliant and dazzling these two colors are, the better their quality.

In her eyes, Ah Chen was a dazzling silver and a blinding gold, the best student in terms of both superpowers and intelligence among all the new students she had received over the years.

However, she would not easily reveal her own ability to observe auras to anyone. She would only give a proper reminder to the parents or principal when she encountered a child with exceptional talent.

Of course, her reminder was also very subtle.

For example, right now, by taking advantage of her outstanding performance in the assessment, she can get her tuition waived and even earn some money, subtly reminding Zuo Shan, the tutor, that her child has exceptional talent.

Unfortunately, Zuo Shan didn't get her true intentions. She was just thinking that she should find an opportunity to repay the old man for the expensive tuition fees he had paid.

She couldn't help but exclaim: "Truly a prestigious school! The tuition is incredibly expensive!"

**

Xiangyun Academy admits students once a year, during the transitional month.

Achen started school on August 26th, which was almost the end of the transitional month.

This year's first-year students in the junior class totaled only 25, which, according to teacher Jing Ling, is still a relatively large number of students admitted.

The average number of students enrolled in previous years was around 20, and one year only 14 students were enrolled. This was because the tuition was expensive and there were very few school-age children in the central area.

In other words, wealthy and powerful families cannot produce that many children.

The college officially starts on September 1st. New student registration will begin a few days earlier. During these days, you can choose to have free time or preview classes.

The so-called pre-class preparation and listening to lectures means that the college sends teachers to give lectures, but whether or not to listen is the student's choice.

Given the annual tuition fee of 5 million, Zuo Shan had been constantly nagging A Chen about it since the day he enrolled:

"With ten months in a year, that averages out to 500,000 a month. There are 30 days in a month, and you work four days and rest one day, which means you only have 6 days off. In reality, you only have 24 days of classes."

"Do the math, that's an average of 20,000 yuan a day! If you don't cherish your class time, you're just wasting our family's money."

Even though Zuo Shan was already quite wealthy over the years, she had lived in a poor family for more than twenty years and endured a long period of hardship after transmigrating. Therefore, she still found it difficult to accept the high cost of education.

Feeling a bit overwhelmed by her nagging, Ah Chen confidently declared, "Don't worry, Mommy, I'm sure I'll get top marks in the exam. I'll not only earn back my tuition, but I'll also earn you a lot of pocket money!"

"Good son, you are really Mommy's good son, you are so great!" Zuo Shan nodded with satisfaction, praising him generously.

Regardless of whether her son can actually do it, at least he has the will, which brings some comfort to the old mother who is suffering because of the expensive tuition fees.

So, early the next morning, Zuo Shan woke her son up, and the two of them went to the school playground for morning exercise.

Today, Ah Chen refused to go for a morning run with her and instead chose to practice the martial arts he had recently learned from his great-grandfather.

In fact, Ah Chen had long since given up on running with his mother. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't outrun someone with a speed-type ability, okay? Unless he awakened a teleportation ability like his father.

Zuo Shan saw right through her son's little scheme, but she was too lazy to expose him. If he didn't want to run, he didn't have to. Practicing martial arts was the same; as long as he achieved the effect of morning exercise, that was fine.

Zuo Shan has always insisted that the whole family exercise in the morning, all he wants is for his family's health. After all, in the wasteland, medical expenses are too expensive, and not getting sick is like making a fortune.

The mother and son were doing their morning exercise when they saw two people, one big and one small, approaching from a distance.

The older one, panting, chased after him, shouting as he ran, "Young Master, wait for me! You haven't finished your breakfast yet!"

"I won't eat, I won't eat, then I won't eat! If you're so capable, then catch up with me!" The younger one ran away while turning back to provoke her.

Zuo Shan couldn't help but frown. Whose child is this? He's already in school, how come he's still so willful?

Just as I was thinking this, I saw the child running closer.

The same gray tracksuit looks great on my own son, but why does it look so good on this kid...? Hey? This chubby baby looks so familiar.