"Qingsheng has already transferred her file to Kyoto. I'm planning to take some time to visit Principal Wang of Kyoto No. 1 High School. I'll ask him to make arrangements so that Ya Ya can directly enter the second year of high school and take the college entrance examination next year."
Su Ya was somewhat surprised. He knew that Su Qingsheng had transferred his school registration so that she could study in Kyoto, but he did not expect that Su's father had found the best high school in Kyoto.
Su Ya had heard of Kyoto No. 1 High School before, but Mo Mo kept talking about it to her every day, mentioning that so-and-so from Kyoto No. 1 High School had won some national-level award, that so-and-so had won some cup championship, and that Kyoto No. 1 High School had produced several top scorers in the college entrance examination this year.
Momo often whispered these things in Su Ya's ear, trying to motivate her to study harder and stop trying to control her exam scores. But Su Ya wouldn't listen and continued to do things her own way, stubbornly holding onto the last place in the school for several years in a row, and no one could shake her determination.
"Kyoto No.1 High School, that's good, it's the best high school in Kyoto. If my granddaughter is going to go to school, she should go to the best one."
Grandpa Su was very happy. The school his son had chosen was exactly what he wanted.
"If you need my help, just ask. I'm an old acquaintance of Principal Wang's father from Kyoto No. 1 High School. He can't possibly refuse to give me face."
"Dad, you don't need to do this. I can handle it myself."
Su's father spoke with great confidence, unaware of Su Ya's grades at the time. He had assumed that Su Ya's two older brothers were both excellent students, consistently ranking at the top of their class, and that Su Ya, having inherited the family's good genes, should still be doing well, even if her grades weren't outstanding.
Hearing this, Su Ya thought to herself, "If only I had just studied hard and not tried so hard to control my score." But hindsight is always 20/20.
I wonder if Su's father will be furious when he finds out about her grades, because Su Ya's grades are really terrible; she was last in her class from elementary school to high school.
Fortunately, China has compulsory education requirements, otherwise the school would have expelled Suya long ago.
The school's dean of students did try to persuade Grandma Yan to let Su Ya drop out of school voluntarily, so that the school wouldn't have to take responsibility.
But Grandma Yan was determined to protect Su Ya and asked them in return, "Besides her poor grades, does our Ya Ya have any other bad habits at school? Has she bullied any classmates? Has she violated any school rules?"
Three questions stumped the headmaster. He thought about it carefully and realized that apart from her poor academic performance and her aloof and unsociable personality, Su Ya had never violated school rules or bullied any classmates.
The matter was dropped.
After Grandma Yan and the others left, she said to Su Ya earnestly, "It's okay if your grades aren't good, but you must be a good person. Grandma doesn't expect you to be very successful in the future. As long as you are happy and safe in this life, that's enough!"
Thinking of this, Su Ya began to miss her grandmother again, wondering if she was doing well and if she was used to being away from her.
"Alright, this matter has been settled, so you don't need to worry. Aren't you worried about Qinghai? It's so late, Ya Ya must be hungry. Let's talk after we finish eating."
After saying that, Grandma Su instructed the servants to prepare the dishes.
Then I saw the servants bringing dishes to the table one after another. In no time, the table was full.
"Ya Ya, Grandma doesn't know what you like to eat. So she asked the kitchen to make all their signature dishes. You can see which one you like."
Su Ya glanced at the table and saw a full fifty dishes: clear broth stewed bird's nest, braised abalone with bok choy and monkey head mushrooms, braised abalone, shark fin soup, mushroom stewed chicken, braised pork knuckle, fish maw stewed with ham, egg drop soup, lion's head meatballs, prawns with phoenix tails, steamed sea bass, sweet and sour pork ribs, ginseng chicken soup, char siu pork, braised pig's trotters, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, boneless pork knuckle, braised beef, fried lotus root, jade tofu, eight-treasure duck, Dongpo pork, chicken oil rolls, etc. It was a Manchu Han Imperial Feast.
Su Ya shook her head in disapproval, "Grandma, so much food is such a waste."
"Don't waste food, Ya Ya. Look and see which dish you like, and ask them to make it next time."
Grandma Su didn't expect the chefs in the kitchen to prepare so many dishes today; usually, the elderly couple would only have three dishes and a soup.
However, the kitchen always offers a variety of dishes, with no two meals being the same for a whole month.
Suya did not touch her chopsticks.
"Grandma, how about this: have them set aside a little bit of each dish. The rest can be divided among the servants."
Because she almost starved to death when she was three years old, Su Ya never wasted a single piece of food. However, she had already eaten a full meal at noon, and her grandmother insisted that she couldn't persuade her otherwise. So she came up with a compromise.
I don't know if my grandparents will agree.
Actually, the elderly couple were also worried about having so much food. When Grandpa Su was a child, his family was very poor, and they often didn't have enough to eat or wear. Therefore, Grandpa Su and Grandma Su didn't like to waste food.
Suya's suggestion was exactly what they wanted to hear.
So he instructed his servants to divide the food, leaving only a little of each item on the table, and giving the rest to the people in the house as a snack.
"Master, Madam, this won't do. We can just eat the leftovers," the woman who had been following Grandma Su said hurriedly.
"How could we possibly eat our leftovers? That's so unhealthy."
"Hurry up, or the food will get cold, and what will happen to my dear granddaughter who's going hungry?"
The woman had no choice but to make the arrangements.
Soon, someone took the dishes off the table and quickly divided them into small plates and brought them back up. Even though they were on small plates, the food on the table still looked terrifying.
Suya wasn't a picky eater and tried a little bit of everything.
Grandpa Su nodded in approval at Su Ya's decision, thinking to himself, "She truly is the Su family's granddaughter. She always thinks of others."
Unbeknownst to Su Ya, her actions had won her favor from everyone in the Su family, who praised her for her kindness and compassion. They had never seen a young lady as considerate of her servants as their young lady.
If Su Ya knew what others were thinking, she would definitely explain that she simply didn't want to waste food. Because she had experienced the feeling of hunger before.
We've eaten.
Then Su's father was about to take Su Ya home, and only then did Su Ya take out the gifts she had prepared for her grandparents. The gifts were wrapped with a ribbon.
It didn't look expensive, but they didn't care about the value of the gift at all, especially Grandpa Su. He didn't expect his granddaughter to give him a gift on their first meeting. He would have been happy even if she had given him a blade of grass.
Even though we're family, the feeling of receiving a gift from your own granddaughter is just too wonderful.
Grandma Su was also delighted and was about to open the gift on the spot. When she opened the pink outer box, there was an ordinary wooden box inside.
When Grandma Su opened it, a string of Buddhist prayer beads lay quietly inside.
"This was blessed by a high-ranking monk at the temple before I came. It's not worth much." Su Ya didn't tell Grandma Su that the Buddhist beads were quite expensive.
When Su Qinghai saw the Buddhist beads in the box, he for some reason thought of the Buddhist beads that someone had bought at an auction a while ago. The beads were said to be made of relics of a high monk who had passed away, and that obtaining them could prolong life. The beads in that auction looked very similar to the ones in this box.
Su Qinghai was also after the Buddhist prayer beads, intending to give them to his mother as a gift for her 70th birthday. However, several prominent families were vying for them at the time.
After fierce bidding among several prominent families, the price of the Buddhist prayer beads was driven up to 5 million. 5 million for a single string of prayer beads is indeed quite expensive.
So Su Qinghai had no choice but to give up. He thought to himself, why not choose something else as a birthday gift for his mother?
Before the other prominent families could raise the price further, it was sold to someone in a private room for three times the price, 15 million, and no other families followed suit.
However, Su Qinghai shook his head again. It shouldn't be that. Su Ya is just a student. How could she afford such expensive Buddhist beads? Even the Su family would have difficulty coming up with 15 million yuan now, let alone Su Ya.
Grandpa Su didn't open his gift; he wanted to look at it quietly by himself later.
After giving the gifts, Suya and her friends said goodbye to their grandparents.
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