Chapter 75 Chapter 75

After returning home, Jia Yourui could vaguely feel that the environment was cleaner than before. The dust and dirt in the corners and crevices had been wiped clean by Jia Guoye last night.

She entered her room and looked at the small rear window of the bamboo forest that originally belonged to her. Now it was nailed shut with wooden boards. Although the three wooden boards were nailed neatly, compared with the original, there was no beauty at all. The room was also much darker. Jia Yourui felt depressed.

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Suddenly, Jia Guoye put a straw hat on her head.

Jia Yourui looked at him in a daze, with a little confusion in her eyes.

"Let's go." Jia Guoye was very excited, usually he was calm. He said to Jia Yourui, "Let's go out."

"Where to?" Jia Yourui asked.

Jia Guoye said, "In the county, to find the admissions teacher of the repeat school."

Jia Yourui was immediately attracted to it. Her eyes were sparkling, with infinite longing for the future.

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Jia Guoye looked at Xiaorui's expectant look, with a hint of smile at the end of his eyes. He encouraged her, "You will be a student in the future."

Jia Yourui was a little shy. She said uncertainly, "Can I really go to school?"

Thinking that she would step into the campus again, Jia Yourui couldn't believe it and felt like she was dreaming.

Jia Guoye was her anchor. With a warm smile in his eyes, Jia Yourui looked at him and was no longer so nervous.

"Really."

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But only Jia Guoye knew that he was not confident that he would win. He just wanted Xiaorui to feel at ease. He was pretending.

Therefore, when they arrived at the county, he did not let Xiaorui go to the admissions teacher's office with him.

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Jia Yourui sat in the snack bar, sipping the iced orange juice that Jia Guoye bought for her, and listened to Jia Guoye obediently, waiting for him to come back.

Jia Guoye said that he was going to find an acquaintance who was setting up a stall. He had borrowed a few dollars from him before, and he would come to her after paying the money back.

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She didn't know that Jia Guoye had already gone to the repeat school alone with a net bag of fruit.

Jia Guoye had a feeling that the review would not go smoothly. If there was any embarrassment, he did not want Xiaorui to suffer and lose face.

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Sure enough, in the admissions office, the teacher on duty looked up at Jia Guoye who was groveling, then lowered his head and continued to write and calculate, with an extremely cold attitude.

He asked perfunctorily: "Girl or boy, are you taking the high school entrance examination this year?"

"No." Jia Guoye said respectfully: "Girl, my sister, graduated not two years ago."

"Two years?" The admissions teacher frowned: "Have you thrown away your books in the past two years? Or have you reviewed in other schools?"

Don't tell him that you stayed at home for two years, how can you save it?

Jia Guoye said, "The book is not lost. My sister has been studying at home."

"Why did you come to review only this year?"

Jia Guoye put the fruit on the teacher's desk and said embarrassedly, "My family was poor a few years ago, so I was delayed. I felt bad. Now that I have some savings, I still want my sister to take the exam again."

"How is your sister's foundation?"

Jia Guoye said without blinking, "Very good."

He didn't want the admissions teacher to ask too many questions, so he took the initiative to raise the topic: "Teacher, I heard from Sister Xihua in our village that your junior high school review class requires an exam to enter. Can my sister take the exam once?"

The admissions teacher raised his head from the documents, looked at Jia Guoye, and said, "But our school's review class already has 46 people, and there is no plan to recruit people at the moment."

Jia Guoye wanted to hand the admissions teacher a cigarette, a good cigarette he had specially put in his pocket today, but the teacher waved his hand and said impatiently, "I don't smoke." Jia Guoye put it away immediately, saying repeatedly, "Sorry, sorry."

"Teacher," Jia Guoye said earnestly, "Can you give me a chance? Let my sister take the exam once? Just let her try once..."

He was so humble for the first time in his life.