Chapter 98
The dean adjusted his glasses and asked the reception teacher to go and rest.
Jiang Zhinian was also a little surprised. She thought Teacher Qian's husband was like her, thinking carefully and deciding to adopt a child before coming here. Unexpectedly...
She looked at the dean apologetically, but the dean waved his hand nonchalantly.
"It has nothing to do with you. I've seen many husbands like this. Are the men infertile?"
Jiang Zhinian didn't want to expose other people's privacy, but the dean could see through her embarrassed expression.
"Usually, those who come to adopt are men who are infertile. If the woman was infertile, they would have divorced long ago and the man would have remarried. Only a woman would be so foolish as to be willing to accompany him to adopt a child even though she knows she can have children and the man can't."
The dean sighed, "Of course, this isn't absolute. There are also loving couples who, even if the woman can't have children, choose to adopt rather than divorce. But they are rare. In all these years, I've only met one couple who wanted to adopt..."
She stopped talking here. She was sorry for what happened in the past. She originally thought that Jiang Zhinian was pretty and cute, and there would be next time if she missed this time. No one expected that she would not wait for the second suitable family in those few years, and Jiang Zhinian wasted her time in vain.
Jiang Zhinian knew what the dean's mother was going to say, and she was afraid of arousing her guilt, so she quickly changed the subject.
"By the way, Xiaoyu is about to take the high school entrance exam. Have you decided which high school to apply to?"
"Just like you did back then, I plan to apply for a private school."
In order to attract outstanding students and improve college entrance examination scores, private high schools often give a large scholarship to students with good scores in the junior high school entrance examination. She was attracted by the scholarship and gave up the opportunity to enter No. 1 Middle School.
Jiang Zhinian looked up at Shi Ye. If she had not chosen a private high school, with her high school entrance examination scores, she should have been able to go to the same high school as Shi Ye.
"Why don't I go and persuade Xiaoyu? Whether it's the quality of education or the school atmosphere, public high schools are clearly superior to private ones."
When she was in high school, there were many students who did not meet the high school score line and had to pay money to buy scores to enter. In the end, many of them did not choose to take the college entrance examination, but to go abroad.
The dean waved his hands. "It's no use. There's no way to persuade him. This kid is just as stubborn as you were back then. He gave up even when No. 1 Middle School told him to."
When the two were chatting, Shi Ye followed them the whole time without saying a word. He only glanced at Jiang Zhinian when he heard this sentence.
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After coming out of the welfare home, Jiang Zhinian seemed to be in a good mood.
"When I came here last time, there were a few younger children there. I didn't expect that they had already been adopted this time."
There are only a few children with severe disabilities or who are older left in the welfare home.
"That girl named Xiaoyu, what's wrong with her?"
At first he thought Xiaoyu was a little girl, but when he saw her, he found out that she was actually a boy who was almost 1.8 meters tall.
Logically speaking, if a boy is healthy, he will rarely be abandoned, or he will rarely be sent to an orphanage but not adopted.
This means that he has some health problems, and they are not minor.
"Wardenburg syndrome."
A rare genetic disease that causes varying degrees of deafness and some special facial features, such as blue pupils and white hair on the forehead.
Shi Ye recalled the appearance of the young man. At least in appearance, he looked no different from a normal person.
"But he's wearing... colored contact lenses?"
"Well, one of Xiaoyu's eyes is blue." Jiang Zhinian nodded at his left eye. "He's very strong-willed and doesn't want others to discover his differences."
Xiaoyu is relatively lucky. She only has a slight hearing impairment and is currently wearing a hearing aid.
"We've applied to a charity fund for a cochlear implant for Xiaoyu, but he wants to wait until after the college entrance exam to have the surgery."
After all, cochlear implant surgery has certain risks. Anyway, I have been doing this for so many years, so it would be safer to wait until I get into university.
Shi Ye held Jiang Zhinian's hand and said lightly, "You care about him a lot."
Although he had left the orphanage, he still knew everything about the child and cared deeply about him.
Speaking of this, Jiang Zhinian was also a little proud: "I was the first one to find Xiaoyu when he was abandoned. When I took him back to the orphanage, he was only the size of a cat."
I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, he was taller than me and became the big brother that everyone in the welfare home liked.
Shi Ye paused and said coldly, "Then you two are quite destined to be together."
Jiang Zhinian wanted to say more, but her intuition made her taste a different flavor in the word "fate".
She thought about it carefully and then, with a hint of mischief in her heart, she said tentatively, "I think we are destined to be together..."
Shi Ye glanced at her, not wanting to continue the topic of fate: "I went to No. 1 High School."
Jiang Zhinian almost didn't react to the sudden change in topic.
"Oh, I know. It's written on your graduation photo."
"Did you give up No. 1 Middle School because of money?"
Jiang Zhinian's high school entrance exam results were good, so going to No. 1 Middle School was not a problem. However, that private high school not only provided free food and accommodation, but also awarded her a scholarship every year based on her grade ranking, and promised to give her an additional bonus if she was admitted to one of the 10 designated schools.
The temptation was too great for her. Although the welfare home would cover their tuition, she always felt that the money should be used for more useful purposes rather than studying.
For example, she saved money for Xiaoyu's surgery to replace the cochlear implant. At that time, the charity foundation had not yet funded their welfare home. The doctor said that the sooner the cochlear implant was replaced, the better the language system would recover, so she always wanted to save more money.
But later, Xiaoyu grew up slowly, but he still had not saved enough money. However, he overcame all difficulties and, without a cochlear implant, he trained his language system to be almost as good as that of a normal person with only hearing aids.
Everyone was relieved and felt that they had not delayed him.
"Yes, and I don't regret it."
Everything in life is the best arrangement. Although she missed Shi Ye in high school, no one can guarantee that if they had met earlier, their lives would be happier than they are now.
What if some little butterfly flaps its wings and blows away their current life?
"What if I had the chance to let you do it again?"
"With the memory?"
"certainly."
"Then I'll still go to a private high school, but I can go to your school after school on weekends and catch you there. Then I'll shamelessly pester you and tell you that you will be the father of my child in the future."
Shi Ye smiled and said, "Then I will put you on my blacklist."
"So cold." Jiang Zhinian deliberately acted coquettishly, "Then when you see a beautiful girl like me, can you bear it?"
Shi Ye looked down at her and chuckled, "Actually, I'm face-blind."
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