Chapter 249 Why not just let her get married?
Zhou Tengfei quickly entered the room with his computer.
"Grandma, Tengfei has come to see you!"
A series of footsteps sounded, and Zhou Tengfei had just entered the door when he was hugged by a plump old lady dressed in luxury goods: "My dear grandson is here! I've been missing you! Come in quickly, we just had a box of seafood flown in from overseas today! Let's eat together, just the two of us!"
Zhou Tengfei couldn't wait to share what he had just seen with her. He pulled her to sit on the sofa and said with a smile, "I'll show you something funny!"
The old lady nodded indulgently: "What's so funny? Let me see!"
Zhou Tengfei pulled out the documents he had investigated and placed them in front of the old lady: "Take a look!"
The old lady started smiling, but her expression grew colder as she read on, and it wasn't until the very end that her expression returned to normal.
"This girl will graduate next year." The old lady pointed at Gu Yin's face with her finger.
Zhou Tengfei nodded: "That's right! But judging from the grades in their small, run-down town, she probably won't get into high school. Even if she does, her family doesn't plan to let her study. I heard they want her to go to another province to work and earn money for her cousin's education!"
The old lady touched her newly done nails and chuckled, "What's the use of a little girl reading so many books? Getting married early is the only way out."
Zhou Tengfei nodded: "If it weren't for the nine-year compulsory education, I don't think her family would have let her go to junior high school."
The old lady sighed, "You still have a lot to learn!"
Zhou Tengfei asked in confusion, "What?"
The old lady stood up and laughed, "It's good to favor sons over daughters, it's good to love money! Find someone, say you've taken a liking to this girl, give them a sum of money, and then it's none of their business where the girl ends up. Or an old man from the mountains could come out and say he'll find him a wife, and tell him to take a sum of money to the Gu family. If he doesn't want a thousand, then ten thousand; if he doesn't want ten thousand, then twenty thousand. Those country folk, they've probably never seen ten thousand dollars before! If this girl ends up in the mountains, she can forget about ever getting out for the rest of her life."
Zhou Tengfei's eyes lit up, and he immediately walked over to the old lady, saying admiringly, "Auntie is so clever! I'll make the arrangements!"
Gu Yin was unaware that the people in Beijing had obtained the information and were planning to arrange her future. Right now, she was studying in her dormitory. The monthly exam was next week, and she had to maintain her top grades so that her physics, chemistry, and biology teachers could apply for her to participate in the competition.
It's the first week of November, and today is the day the monthly exam results are released. Gu Yin is in the classroom for the first time in over half a month.
When everyone saw her coming, they all gathered around her.
"Gu Yin, what brings you to the classroom? Will you be here from now on?"
Gu Yin shook her head: "I just came to get my monthly exam results. I'll only come back when the exams are around."
"I heard you participated in two competitions. Don't you feel tired? We feel like we can barely breathe just from studying!"
Before Gu Yin could speak, Zhou Meng interjected, "Who isn't tired? Gu Yin isn't made of iron, of course she's tired, but besides sleeping, she's always reading, even while eating. She spends a quarter of her day resting, and the rest of the time reading and doing exercises! She's even memorizing while sleeping! If you were in her shoes, wouldn't you be tired?"
Those nearby gasped in amazement after hearing this: "I couldn't do that! I'm so impressed! It's something only an ordinary person could do!"
Gu Yin smiled but didn't say anything. She dared not say anything carelessly. Her body had been modified and she had taken some pills to boost her energy, which was why she was like this. If other people followed her example and had health problems, it would be bad if all the blame were directed at her!
Wang Xiaoli arrived quickly.
"The monthly exam results and rankings are out, and I'm quite satisfied—no one's grades have dropped! But I'm still a little unhappy. Some people haven't dropped, but they haven't improved either! What's wrong with them? Did they study for two months and then just learn nothing? I wouldn't say anything if they improved even a single point! And there are quite a few people like that!"
After Wang Xiaoli finished speaking, the people below let out a wail.
"Teacher! You have to understand that this is Class 1 of the Qingyi Group! The monthly exam is just like the college entrance exam! The higher your ranking, the harder it is to improve! It's difficult to get even one more point! It's already quite good if you can maintain your current grades!"
"That's right!"
Wang Xiaoli understood, but they were only in their first year of high school. If they didn't put pressure on them, they would relax and fall behind, making it difficult to catch up later! For the next three years, they had to stay on high alert and absolutely could not relax!
"I don't care what your reasons are, I just want to tell you that the average scores of the students in the regular classes are not much different from yours in this monthly exam. If you don't work hard, the seats you are sitting in now will be taken by them."
Your students quieted down. Yes, all schools are like this. Getting into the top class at the beginning of the semester doesn't mean you'll stay there forever. School is a place that looks at scores. If you fall, you get out; if you rise, you get in. It's that simple and fair. Everyone has a chance!
Seeing that they were no longer agitated, Wang Xiaoli smiled, but quickly suppressed it.
"Alright, now read out the rankings."
"We're the top student in our grade, no doubt about it. Top student in the grade, top student in the class, with scores in Chinese, Math, English, Physics, Chemistry, Politics, Geography, Biology, and History, totaling 1050 points! Gu Yin! Full marks! Applause!"
Everyone exclaimed "Wow!" There were quite a few people who scored over 1000 points, but no one actually got a perfect score!
Gu Yin smiled modestly, as expected, since she had memorized all the textbooks for the first year of high school perfectly!
This was a monthly exam, and it was a ranking within the school. I only got one point, which is really a pity.
"Should we add the points to the attributes?" 001 flew out.
Gu Yin shook her head: "Keep it as a backup, don't distribute it yet."
She had a feeling that the points would come in handy!
The colder the weather, the busier Gu Yin became. Because she was going abroad next year, Chu Yan was also actively preparing for various exams, and Gu Yin hadn't seen him for a while.
Today is the Winter Solstice. There is no custom of celebrating the festival in Jiang City, but because Grandpa Gu and Grandma Gu came from the north, the Gu family has always maintained the custom of celebrating the Winter Solstice.
But because the children were all in school, on the winter solstice, the Gu family members went to their house in the county for a reunion dinner.
Gu Yin, Gu Shu, and Gu Hua also invited students to attend evening self-study sessions.
Gu Yin was originally called Chu Yan, but the Yao family had also sent Chu Yan there, so she didn't come over.
This was the first time Gu Yin had seen the house in the county. It was currently registered under Gu Shu's name and was decorated in a sturdy style with all the furniture in silver-gray, somewhat resembling a hotel from later times. Gu Shu was quite satisfied with it.
The old lady took out the dishes and said with a smile, "It's cold, so we're having hot pot today! Your mother and I prepared the side dishes all day! Eat as much as you want! After you finish eating, the three of you have to go back to school!"
Gu Yin looked around and saw that there was a lot of meat and vegetables prepared, all of which were their favorites. Just smelling them made her mouth water!
After everyone sat down, they all started eating, stopped talking, and began to cook their favorite foods in the pot.
"By the way, when you weren't home the other day, Ayin's great-aunt came to visit."
Everyone was taken aback. Li Mengxin paused, her chopsticks still, and asked in surprise, "She went to the village?"
The old lady nodded: "Yes, she said she couldn't get in touch with you, so she came to our house. I asked her for a long time before I found out she came to borrow money."
Even Gu Yin was stunned, let alone Li Mengxin. Borrow money? Judging from the Jiang family's situation, they shouldn't be short of money.
"When I asked her what she needed the money for, she wouldn't say. She just said she needed 100,000 yuan. I said I didn't have the money, but she wouldn't leave. She said she had to wait for Mengxin to come back. I thought since you guys weren't coming back that night anyway, I figured if she wanted to wait, she could wait. But she actually waited until after 4 p.m. before leaving! Do you think her family really needs the money urgently? Otherwise, how could she, with her arrogant attitude, have the nerve to come and borrow money?"
After the old lady finished speaking, she looked at everyone.
Gu Qinglang said in a deep voice, "I'll look into it later. Whether or not we lend them the money isn't a big problem, but I'm afraid they'll try to swindle us behind our backs."
Li Mengxin also agreed.
The old man nodded: "Alright, go and take a look later."
Halfway through dinner, Gu Yin's phone vibrated. When she picked it up, she saw that it was a message from Chu Yan.
"Where are you?"
Gu Yin asked in confusion, "We're eating in the county. What's wrong?"
"address."
Gu Yin sent the address: "What's wrong?"
Chu Yan looked at the address, asked someone for directions, and after finding out the location, he hailed a motorcycle taxi and asked the driver to take him to the address Gu Yin had given him.
"I'm hungry, there's nothing to eat, can you give me some food?"
Gu Yin was surprised. Wasn't Chu Yan going to his maternal grandfather's house for dinner tonight? How come he didn't have any food? But she didn't ask any further questions.
"Okay, come over here, I'll wait for you downstairs!" After replying to the message, she looked at everyone.
"Chu Yan is coming over for dinner. I'll go pick him up. Grandma, could you prepare some new dishes?"
Although they had only eaten half of the food, many dishes had already been served, and there were still many dishes in the kitchen that hadn't been brought over.
Everyone was stunned. The old lady stood up and said, "Alright, I'll go get it. You and Ashu go down to greet them. Put on your coats, it's cold outside! The kids are running around here in this freezing weather, I don't know what Grandpa Yao is doing!"
Gu Yin didn't understand what was going on over there either. She and Gu Shu put on their coats, hats, and scarves and went downstairs to pick up the person.
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