Chapter 765 Luo's Modern Extra: A Genius Orphan's Life in Luo Country
01
I am an orphan.
I have lived in an orphanage for as long as I can remember.
But the director told me that I was sent here when I was three years old. My grandmother, who depended on me for everything, passed away. I was wandering around in a daze and was discovered by the government.
It is said that even the city lord was so frightened that day that he broke out in a cold sweat.
According to imperial law, he would be held responsible for a serious fault.
The city I live in is not very big, so the finances are naturally not very rich.
But it doesn’t matter, the orphanage is not funded by local funds, but is run by a special fund.
When I was five years old, a group of neatly dressed people arrived at the orphanage in a car with a Phoenix logo.
They met all the kids and I was in the middle.
I remember when I walked in, there were three people inside, two men and one woman, I can't remember their appearance clearly.
The gentle woman soothed my emotions and then asked me many questions.
For example, have I ever been beaten, has anyone often scolded me, or have adults done anything strange to me.
Finally the woman left the room, I took off all my clothes, and they wrote something down in a notebook.
Later I found out that they were recording whether I had any scars, needle marks or other signs of abuse on my body.
These people come every year as far as I can remember.
In fact, they had been here before I was five years old, but I don’t remember it.
The director of the orphanage I live in is a very nice person and I live very happily here.
These memories came to an abrupt end when I was seven years old because I was adopted.
I remember the day when the director told me that a couple wanted to come and see me, and I knew what they wanted to do. I was not the only adopted child in this orphanage.
I am good-looking, quiet, and always clean. Some infertile parents once came to adopt a child, and I was the most popular one.
But I refused. I was very happy in the orphanage and didn't want to change my environment. The rescue organization and the government would take care of me until I became an adult, and I didn't have any pressure to survive.
"Little boy, would you like to go home with us?"
I was going to refuse, but when I saw the girl holding the doll hiding behind them, I agreed to their request.
That girl was my friend, my only friend outside the orphanage.
02
My adoptive father is a businessman and my adoptive mother is a doctor, so our family is relatively wealthy.
If you don't have such a family, it would be difficult to adopt a child.
The conditions in Luoguo's orphanages are not bad, so families who want to adopt children have higher requirements.
The most important thing is that the dean, the officials, and the adoptive parents need to be present at the same time, and I have to agree before the adoption can be confirmed.
The reason I was adopted was simple. I saved their only daughter, my current sister, by chance.
I felt like I was just helping my friend, but the adults felt like it was a huge favor, like it saved their family.
After learning about my situation, they thought I was a kind and good child and quickly decided to adopt me.
So from that year on, the people who came to visit me every year to see how I was doing became government clerks.
I love this new home. It is bigger and more spacious than the orphanage, but most importantly, there are more delicious foods here. I am a child and this is my nature.
I have never told anyone that I love the atmosphere in this home, it's like blowing colorful bubbles in the clear sky.
Mom and Dad are very good to me. They love my sister very much and are grateful to me. I am very obedient and well-behaved and never make mistakes. A child like me would be liked even if you saw me on the street.
The most important thing is that my sister is very well behaved, which is why she could be my friend and I like her very much.
When I was seven years old, I went to primary school with my younger sister. Children are the kindest and cutest creatures in the world, but also the most vicious and terrible creatures.
I was a sudden transfer student, and my sister was a very popular little princess, which caused me a lot of trouble.
The government and the school are trying to prevent me from being affected by my orphan status, but this kind of thing is unavoidable.
My younger sister and those childish elementary school students shouted, "You don't have a father or a mother. Your brother's father and mother are my father and mother."
The final result of this matter was that my sister and I transferred to a school where no one knew us and everyone thought we were siblings.
The original school held three student lectures, and the officials of the department gave educational lectures to all teachers and students in the school.
The trouble-making students receive eighteen hours of psychological education, each of which is accompanied by an inspection report.
Adhere to the moral concept that if a child is not taught well, it is the father's fault.
The student's parents, as guardians, were sentenced to 48 hours of compulsory labor and were also recorded as failing to provide adequate guardianship.
This is a very serious accusation. If the score is too low, the guardianship will be revoked and the child will be sent to an institution designated by the government.
There are no exams when giving birth, but there will really be exams after the baby is born.
There are only 600 million people in a country with a territory of 30 million square kilometers. The country will protect every kind child.
03
I had an uneventful primary school period. From the beginning of school, I showed great talent. I was able to learn many other skills while studying, such as calligraphy, music theory, etc. I was much better than my sister in almost every aspect. I could even act as her tutor.
My parents kept praising me. I became their pride. Every teacher liked me. The principal asked me to skip a grade, but I didn’t want to because my sister always opened her big, bright eyes, clapped happily, and smiled sweetly: "Brother is so great. I love him the most."
I seem to be born different from many people. I don’t have an obsession with getting full marks in the exam. I don’t care about winning or losing. If I lose the first place, it doesn’t matter. I just want to grow up quietly and live in peace and stability forever.
During the six years of elementary school, the officials came every year in the first two years, and then as I grew older, they came once every two years. I was very happy in my new family, and my adoptive parents were marked as excellent on the evaluation sheet, so the officials appeared less and less frequently.
When I graduated from elementary school, I took the entrance exam for a six-year aristocratic high school. My sister naturally failed the entrance exam, so my father paid a large amount of tuition for her.
With the expectation of my whole family, I passed the test easily.
My sister cheered loudly for me. She was wearing a fluffy foreign princess dress, but she put the crown from the birthday cake on my head.
Mom and Dad laughed heartily. My tuition was completely waived, so they used all the money they saved from tuition to buy me a fund run by the Rockefeller family, which I could withdraw in full after I turned eighteen.
I received every scholarship for young talents from the school. My father told me to save all the scholarship money because he would support me until I got married and started a family. This is a father's wish.
My father and I looked at each other, and my mother looked at me tenderly. I smiled and nodded. This is my family. I am no longer an orphan. I have a father and a mother.
After I entered middle school, the government only came once when I received a scholarship for young talents. They disappeared from my life, and instead it was the academic department that started to contact me.
The Ministry of Education is a very special department in the empire. It was split from the Ministry of Rites and is in charge of education and various personnel related to education, such as students like me with special family circumstances and excellent academic performance.
The department has been paying attention to me since I was young. If I remain so outstanding after entering a higher education institution, I will be included in the department's talent pool, which has innumerable benefits.
The Ministry of Education is also in charge of financial transactions related to education, such as the numerous scholarships in the empire. In the next ten years of my career, the Ministry of Education is probably the government office I have dealt with the most.
04
As she progressed into puberty, my sister became more and more beautiful, like a sprouting spring branch. In elementary school, she was the center of attention, with skin as white as snow, eyes that seemed to be able to speak, and she was the shining star at the school party.
I don't know how many people like her, but I can often find love letters in her drawer.
The innocent love of adolescence has been put on the screen countless times. Schools and parents have never prohibited this. I just asked calmly: "Do we need to throw these away?"
She is not a child anymore and has the right to decide her own things.
She always smiled, dangling her small feet in delicate embroidered shoes, and said, "My brother threw them away, I don't want to fall in love.
Brother, where is your love letter?
I pointed to the trash can behind me and said calmly, "It's all there. Falling in love will only affect my studies."
Well, she is still a child and doesn't understand what love is. These things should not pollute her.
I understand love very well. It is an illusion that occurs when dopamine is secreted. Humans call it love. I disdain this kind of thing.
The three years in junior high school were uneventful. I was still among the top students in this best high school in the province. I had gotten used to it.
In the third year, the school organized a vacation trip for us. It was a wonderful trip. We chartered a plane to the East Japan Province. Due to the geographical reasons, there are many traditional wooden houses here. Then we took a boat through various provinces and prefectures, and finally arrived at the three major provinces in Southeast Asia.
A grand banquet was being held here, and I saw a woman with a holy mark engraved on her forehead. She was so beautiful, the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life.
My sister exclaimed and asked me to look, "Brother, she is so beautiful, even more beautiful than mom."
Seeing us students looking at her, she waved and smiled at us. There was another round of exclamations. I rubbed my sister's little head and whispered, "Mom is the most beautiful woman in the world."
Later I learned that the girl from the Luo family was a genuine princess and the Governor-General of Nanyang. During the years when the royal family was in seclusion, only a few of their descendants would appear in public.
Legend has it that they were secretly watching the every move of the imperial officials.
05
After entering high school, I thought that the government would send people to visit me just like when I was in junior high school.
But no, it seems that I have completely left the attention of the government.
After entering high school, the biggest difference was probably that I received three scholarships, including the Imperial Talent Award, the Royal Qingyun Award, and a scholarship from the local government.
As a private school, why are there no internal scholarships? Are all these official scholarships?
In other countries around the world, there are scholarships offered by schools.
This brings us to an imperial decree, the "Law Prohibiting Personal Charity."
Yes, in this day and age, individual acts of charity are prohibited.
Doing charity will naturally not be punished, but it will be stopped. If you continue to do charity after being stopped, you will be fined.
The reason for this regulation is due to a major case a hundred years ago, which caused a huge ideological storm.
Can the recipient maintain his or her personal independence when facing the donor?
Gratitude is as heavy as a mountain and as deep as the sea. We should repay gratitude with kindness. This is an idea passed down since ancient times.
When one person is the benefactor of another person, how to maintain equal status, especially for those donors who are already far superior to the recipients in social status.
It is really inappropriate to be suppressed for the rest of your life just because of a temporary difficulty.
Therefore, the law completely cut off this kind of donation from person to person.
In the empire, there is a tax on certain people and organizations called "charity tax". The tax funds are specifically used to receive donations from various people or organizations that need donations due to unexpected events.
The orphanage is one of them.
If the people must thank someone, then they should thank the abstract existence of the country.
My high school years were still as dull and uneventful as the past decade or so.
I still learn those amazing arts and sports, but I seldom show it. The only thing I care about is my academic performance. I don’t want to be like the protagonists in novels who control their grades.
So I always rank among the top few on that list.
My life is very ordinary.
My younger sister is very unusual. Her academic performance is neither the worst nor excellent. It is just average. However, compared with her popularity in school, this result is somewhat mismatched.
She was still popular among the boys, but what surprised me was that she was equally popular among the girls.
Something seemed a little wrong with her since her second year of high school. She was always acting mysterious and whispering with her good friends. When her mother asked her what happened, she always made excuses and kept silent.
This made my parents very worried, as they thought my sister's rebellious teenage period had finally arrived.
So one afternoon, they found me, and my father said worriedly, "Son, your sister has always listened to you since she was a child, but now she won't tell us anything. Do you know what's wrong with her recently?"
I put down the book in my hand, recalled my sister's movements, and said softly: "Mom and Dad, I don't think you need to worry too much now. Ling'er will be home before 8 o'clock every night. The time she is out of my sight is only two hours between 6 and 8 pm.
From what I understand, she basically stayed at her best friend's house for the past two hours and didn't go to any place she shouldn't have gone to.
If there is anything wrong, I will tell you. Ling'er is a very sensible child, you don't have to worry too much."
I decided to talk to her bestie.
It’s easy to get the innocent girls in high school to ask questions, and I’ve always been very cold, which makes me difficult to approach in the eyes of many people. My sister’s best friend might be afraid of me, so after I scared her a little, she told me everything she could and couldn’t say, just like spilling the beans.
The result of the conversation was somewhat beyond my expectations. My sister found someone she liked.
It turned out that she was in love. I nodded slightly. I was already a 17-year-old girl and would reach the legal age for marriage in another year. It was not a big deal.
The only thing that surprised me was that I didn't notice who she liked. As far as I could remember, she had never been particularly close to any boy, which made me a little curious.
I told my parents about this after I got home. They breathed a sigh of relief and said to me with a smile, "You still have a way. Now we are relieved. We have some idea about the person Ling'er likes. He should be a very reliable person."
I didn't care much about this matter, so I just asked casually, "So it seems like you're a good person? As long as your parents think you're good, that's fine. I'm going to practice the piano first."
In a corner unknown to me, my sister was criticizing her best friend with a look of social despair, until her best friend shouted, "I didn't say everything!"
My sister finally looked relieved.
06
Before I even finished high school, I was directly admitted to Luoyang University, one of the best universities in Luoyang, because I had received so many scholarships.
From the time when King Su was born to the present day, with a history of more than 3,000 years, Luoyang has been the capital for more than 2,000 years, and is truly the number one capital in the world.
As for the one at the end, it is Chang'an, the capital of two prosperous unified dynasties. The capitals of other small separatist regimes are ranked further back.
My sister’s academic performance is not enough to get her into Luoyang University. Admission to these top universities depends entirely on academic performance. Other aspects such as sports and hobbies are useless.
We have been classmates since primary school, but now it seems we have to separate.
My sister was happy for me, but secretly she was crying and said, "Brother, you must be careful when you go to Luoyang University. I heard there are a lot of bad women there. You have never been in love before, so don't be fooled. If you have any questions, come and ask me. I am experienced and can definitely guide you to find true love."
I was always calm and composed, but I was broken by her words. I couldn't help laughing and said, "My parents said they know who you like, but I haven't met your boyfriend. Is this where you get your rich experience from?"
The younger sister was stunned and said in disbelief: "When did I ever fall in love? How come I didn't know it?"
I frowned, feeling that I seemed to have misunderstood something, but I didn't pay much attention to it. I asked again, "Since you haven't talked about it yourself, how can you help me?"
The younger sister wrinkled her nose and snorted, "I have a lot of experience in identifying green tea. Anyway, brother, if there are girls around you who approach you with ulterior motives, you have to tell me, okay?"
I touched her head and whispered, "Actually, I don't care about Luoyang University. I don't have any big ambitions in my life. I just want my parents and you to be safe and happy.
If you want, I can enroll in your school."
The younger sister was very touched when she heard this, but she shook her head like a drum and said, "I can't hold you back. If you really go to the same university as me, mom will definitely spank me."
Mom and Dad were listening to my brother and I talking. Mom looked at my sister helplessly, as she still looked like she hadn't grown up.
Dad patted me on the shoulder and said, "Don't talk nonsense. How can a man have no ambition? When you finish your studies, Dad will hand over the company to you.
Although you are not my biological son, you will have half of the family property in the future."
Having such parents in this world is already perfect enough.
My sister eventually entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, which is right next to Luoyang University and is one of the highest art halls in Luoyang.
07
Luoyang University is very unusual. It is said that its predecessor was the Imperial College established in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but several other top universities also say the same.
In today's world, Luoyang University has the world's first-class laboratories, and all disciplines are world-class. For the first time in my life, I saw endless geniuses, and I finally met the close relatives of the Luo royal family.
In my eyes, people from the Luo family are quite low-key. They hardly make any comments and just do things silently. The teacher once said that the person with the loudest voice will grab all the attention. These people do this on purpose.
I have a good friend of mine who is a member of the Luo family. He answered this question for me. People with louder voices will gain more resources, as well as fame, prestige and halo.
But the Luo family has reached the pinnacle of everything. In this world, the Luo family will be fairer than anyone else. There is no need to speak out. As long as they work hard, those things will naturally fall on them.
I understood all this and asked my friend why he told me these things, and he said it was because I didn't care about these things.
Yes.
I don't care.
I am a well-known weirdo among students and teachers at Luoyang University. I don’t indulge in material things and even maintain a mid-range performance in my major. Even among a group of geniuses, I am not the worst one. But I don’t strive forward and be proactive like others. They think I am free and easy and don’t ask for anything.
My younger sister often came to my school. When she saw that I was always alone, she teased me and said, "Brother, I think you will end up alone for the rest of your life."
I gently poked her head with the book and said unhappily, "You are so disrespectful."
I miss the well-behaved and obedient sister I had when I was a child. Now she is really too naughty. She is getting more and more naughty as she grows up. This is something I didn't expect.
My sister said I was a piece of wood, my friend said I was a piece of wood, I said angrily: "A piece of wood can't solve a problem, you pick up a problem from the book, there is nothing I can't solve."
08
I'm really a piece of wood.
It turns out that I'm really not good at everything. I looked at my parents who were laughing heartily and my sister who was hugging my arms, and then looked up at the sky.
Am I the only one who didn't know?
I am a top student at Luoyang University. I live in a small city. From the moment I entered university, I entered the city’s Qingyun Pool. After graduation, I can directly choose any government department with a position to gain experience.
But I did not choose to join the local government department, and my father did not let me take over his company because he knew that I was not interested in that.
My friend from the Luo family introduced me to the Society for the Relief of Widows, Widowers and Orphans, and I became the head of a large fund. In a sense, I was working for the Luo family.
One of the most meaningful things in my life is probably that after my income increased significantly, I was finally eligible to pay charitable taxes. For the first time in my life, I felt that there was something I must do.
That is to allow more children like me to enter society with healthy bodies and minds. They may not meet parents like me, but a more perfect system will definitely allow most children to live a better life.
09
My sister is not as stupid as I thought. At least when it comes to her work at the relief organization, she is meticulous, conscientious, empathetic, always able to notice subtle problems, and has given me a lot of help.
My friend from the Luo family has a powerful backer. Even within the Luo family, he is a very powerful one. They prostrate themselves in front of the head of the Luo family, but outside the Luo family, each of them is extremely powerful.
Because I had this level of connections, every achievement I made could be transformed into help, and soon I rose through the ranks in the relief organization, with more and more foundations under my management.
These foundations are widely distributed, with the farthest one even in Australia. I became very busy and was unable to return home immediately after my sister gave birth.
My sister has returned to being the obedient girl she was in her childhood, or perhaps she has never changed. She is the most beautiful woman in the world besides my mother.
I like this peaceful life now. I am not always at the headquarters looking at those investigative reports.
I also took my sister to the orphanage to see the children, to check on their mental conditions and to see if anything bad had happened to them.
I went back to the orphanage where I had lived for several years and met the director. She was very old, but she still recognized me when she saw me and she happily held my hand.
I responded with a smile. While we were talking, several cars with Phoenix logo appeared outside the door. Several people got out of the cars. Leading the group was a young woman who looked familiar. When she saw me, her eyes lit up and she hurried over to greet me.
I told her that I came from this orphanage. Of course she knew about it because her mother was the one who came to inquire about me when I was five years old.
That's an excellent psychologist.
I met her mother quite a few times when we were young and adolescent, and now that her mother has retired, she has also embarked on this path.
Also in this city, she saw me, but I was no longer the little boy that her mother saw that year.
In the eyes of many people, I am now a powerful person.
This is her chance. Her future achievements may be greater than her mother's, as long as she always keeps the passionate heart she has now.
10
The sun shines down, a cycle, a big dream.
A big dream, reporting progress, the main text has been written for more than 3,000 words.
(End of this chapter)
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