Chapter 122 The teacher comes to visit
"You've been following the luxury property business for so long, so of course you're in charge. And the new colleagues haven't been to see luxury properties abroad." Lin Ruoyan explained it more thoroughly to Lu Gan. "Unless you have a better place to go, then don't be shy about telling me. I won't deduct wages or bonuses. If you find another job, any clients you bring in who buy a property will get your commission."
Lu Gan was so grateful that he burst into tears and swore that he would never leave the company and was willing to transfer to any position unless he performed poorly and was fired by the company.
Jiang Fang didn't rush into the offer. She still had a lot of finishing work to do on the Meijiang project. She was a very responsible person, always completing everything she did, and making sure the next person could get up to speed quickly. Her current company was a sales agency, and the director who had brought her in was from Tianjin and had no desire to move to Beijing, so they didn't stop her from going there.
Since her old boss was willing to let her go, she naturally had to be morally upright and wait until the project was truly sold out, all troubles were resolved, and no hidden dangers were left before leaving.
When Lin Ruoyan heard that Jiang Fang would not start working until after October, she was not in a hurry to urge her because the things she planned to have Jiang Fang sell had not been developed yet.
There's no need to worry about spending money in September. The luxury home construction fee alone will cover the cost. With the other smaller contracts, it's very likely that the 100 million will be spent. At that point, we'll have to rely on Li Jia from the cost department to monitor the progress of various contracts. We can't underpay, nor overpay, and we'll have to make sure her spending is more in line with her wishes.
September 1st is the official start day of school. Before that, at the end of August, the school will arrange for the class teacher to visit the students’ homes and discuss the arrangements for the new semester in person.
For white-collar workers, home visits are usually arranged during non-working hours. But when it came to Lin Ruoyan, she said anytime was fine, as it didn't matter whether she was at home or at work.
When I think about the thirty-two students in the gifted class, and I heard ten of them live out of town, it's incredibly tiring for the homeroom teacher to visit every one of them. Lin Ruoyan even thoughtfully asked the homeroom teacher if she wanted a car to pick them up. Not only does she offer home visits, but she can also provide rides to other homes. Her family has plenty of cars and drivers...
Teacher Deng had previously interviewed parents of gifted students and immediately recalled Lin Ruoyan. Lin Ruoyan's son, Lin Mengxi, was a genius, needless to say, and his family was incredibly wealthy. The note clearly spoke of their wealth. Hearing about the abundance of cars and drivers, assigning a dedicated car to the head teacher was no small feat.
Teacher Deng was almost shaken and gave in. After finally calming down, he politely declined, saying that the Lin family lived not far from the school and he could just ride his bicycle to visit their home.
Arriving at the Lin family's main gate, I finally realized their grandeur. Two main roads separated the front and back entrances of the Lin family compound. The grounds stretched as far as the eye could see; this was a quadrangle courtyard with at least four entrances. It wasn't uncommon for students to live in quadrangle courtyards before, but it was rare for a family to occupy an entire courtyard; most were large, slum-style courtyards. And the Lin family, from the gate itself, was clearly no ordinary family. A hundred years ago, this would have been the size of a royal palace.
Unfortunately, Lin Mengxi only had two people listed in the family column; there was no space for the child's mother, uncle, or biological father. The generation above them wasn't mentioned either; they were said to be deceased. The family was so small, could this huge house usually only have three owners?
The security guard Chen Jun had known that Teacher Deng would come for a home visit today, so he politely helped Teacher Deng park her bicycle in the porch of the main entrance. This would provide shade and prevent theft, and would not hinder the passage of vehicles on the other side of the alley.
Teacher Deng saw the young man being so polite and thought he was a relative of Lin Mengxi. Upon asking, she found out that he was just the Lin family's doorman, not a driver. The Lin family had several dedicated drivers.
When Lin Ruoyan received the notification from Chen Jun's internal line, she immediately rushed to the door with her son. It took several minutes to walk from the second courtyard to the main entrance. The teacher arrived more than ten minutes early, otherwise she should have been there to greet him earlier with her son.
Teacher Deng, a Chinese language teacher with a Master's degree in literature, had finally experienced the same state of mind as Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden in "Dream of the Red Chamber." The courtyard was awash in opulence. The exterior of the house exuded an antique charm, while the furniture inside was a complete set dating back a century. The huanghuali wood exuded a subtle fragrance, and the meticulous craftsmanship evoked an ancient charm. It felt like the inside of an ancient museum or a historic building—one wouldn't dare touch anything.
Because she was her son's class teacher, the home visit process included looking at the child's living and learning space, so Lin Ruoyan took the teacher to take a quick look at the first courtyard and then went directly to the second courtyard.
The second courtyard, where the Lin family lived, was even larger, with pavilions, towers, waterside terraces, and fish ponds. It felt like entering a royal garden, transporting one to a century ago. Teacher Deng almost composed a poem on the spot, marveling at the prospect of such a retro and sophisticated courtyard.
Lin Mengxi lived in the east wing of the second courtyard, which included a small dining room and tea room with separate entrance and exit, and a suite with a study outside and a bedroom with a private bathroom inside.
This size would be enough for a family of several people to live in another family, but now it was just the "bedroom" of Lin Mengxi, an elementary school student. Besides the exquisite furniture, the room also had an entire wall of bookcases filled with at least a thousand books.
Teacher Deng took a quick look and realized that these books weren't the pretentious Four Books and Five Classics or martial arts novels and comics that other people sold, but rather a variety of Chinese and foreign scientific and technical books and periodicals, some of which were even the latest foreign scientific and technical journals. Given the volume and quality of this kind of reading, it was truly beyond the reach of ordinary people.
The room also had a display case containing Lin Mengxi's recently earned amateur Go 5th dan certificate. A while ago, in addition to taking Lin Mengxi on a trip west, Lin Ruoyan also participated in a city Go tournament. However, those tournaments took all day, with Lin Ruoyan dropping her off in the morning and picking her up in the evening. After seven days of competition, Lin Ruoyan was notified that Lin Mengxi could obtain the amateur Go 5th dan certificate.
As a child prodigy who obtained an amateur Go 5th dan certificate at the age of less than seven in the past decade, several coaches of the city Go team took turns trying to persuade Lin Ruoyan to let Lin Mengxi participate in professional Go training, the kind that requires all academic subjects to give way to Go training.
After consulting her son, Lin Ruoyan politely declined.
She explained that her son aspired to be a scientist and had been selected for the gifted program at a key city elementary school. Go was just a hobby, and he might continue to take academic courses. The city Go team had given up hope and left. Fortunately, Lu Xueli's Go academy had produced several promising players this year. Some would eventually choose to become professional Go players, so the city team didn't return empty-handed.
Teacher Deng looked at the certificate and sighed. "Amateur Go 5th dan, a title normally earned by prodigies at 11 or 12 years old, was a remarkable achievement for Lin Mengxi, who had already earned it before turning seven, before even starting elementary school. Now that this child had chosen to become a scientist, abandoning the path of a professional Go player, he, as their teacher, couldn't let her down."
After seeing Lin Mengxi's living and learning environment, Teacher Deng wanted to know about Lin Ruoyan's situation and politely asked, "Mengxi's achievements are evident from her parents' effective teaching. Mr. Lin, how do you usually teach your children? Do you have any secrets? We'd also like to learn more about them so we can share them with parents of students in regular classes for reference."
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