Shen Hongmei turned around and was not too surprised to see Ma Chao.

Ma Chao looked at her and said, "You are finally here. I have been waiting for you for a while."

Shen Hongmei was puzzled, "Why are you waiting for me?"

Ma Chao looked at the long line of people and said, "When you get your transcript, we'll talk outside."

Although Shen Hongmei was puzzled, she did not refuse.

Although the two of them cannot be lovers, they still have the friendship of fellow townsmen.

Shen Hongmei moved slowly forward with the team. Ma Chao stood beside her and chatted with her in a casual manner.

"I passed one more subject this time. Together with the previous one, I have passed three subjects in total. I need eight more subjects to get my bachelor's degree."

When talking about this achievement, Ma Chao could not hide his excitement.

"Congratulations."

Shen Hongmei congratulated sincerely, hoping that she could share in the good fortune and pass a test as well.

Seeing her envy, Ma Chao comforted her: "It's normal for you to fail the exam on your first try. Just think of it as gaining experience. You can take more attempts and you'll be fine."

Shen Hongmei nodded.

After talking about grades, Ma Chao started to care about her personal affairs. "I have a colleague who has a city hukou and is already a second-level teacher. He is just a little older than you, has been married once, and has a son. Do you want to meet him?"

"No."

Ma Chao was not discouraged. "Then what kind of person do you want to find? I'll keep an eye out for you."

"I don't want to find one. I just want to make good money and get a diploma."

"By the time you get your diploma, it will be a long time. Why waste your best years?"

Shen Hongmei replied: "Good food is never too late. Anyway, I'm not in a hurry."

Hearing her unhappiness, Ma Chao did not continue the topic and started talking about her work again.

The line soon reached Shen Hongmei's turn.

"It's normal that you didn't pass the exam. Your foundation is too poor. It's great that you have the courage to take the self-study exam."

Seeing Shen Hongmei coming out of the office in a daze, Ma Chao subconsciously comforted her.

"I passed."

Ma Chao was stunned. "You passed? Which subject?"

Shen Hongmei handed him the transcript and said, "I passed both subjects."

Ma Chao stared at the report card, which was half the size of an A4 paper, as if he wanted to stare a hole in it.

"I passed. I passed both subjects!"

Shen Hongmei came back to her senses and almost jumped up with excitement.

Ma Chao looked at her, his mood as complicated as the strange beans, "Could it be that the results are wrong? How could you pass two subjects in one go? It's incredible!"

Shen Hongmei didn't care about Ma Chao's doubts. After all, she herself didn't expect to achieve such good results.

"I have to get back to work, so I'm leaving now."

After taking the report card back and putting it in her bag, Shen Hongmei walked away briskly.

Ma Chao looked at her back, feeling indescribably lost and depressed.

It took him two years to pass three subjects, while Shen Hongmei, who only had a junior high school diploma, passed two subjects in one try.

Maybe it's because her major is easier to pass? Yes, that must be the case.

Thinking of this, Ma Chao felt a little better.

Then he remembered that he still had something to find Shen Hongmei, but Shen Hongmei had already left.

…

Knock knock.

Looking at Shen Hongmei who was peeking out of the office door, Shen Mingzhu sneered, "Come in."

"hey-hey."

Shen Hongmei walked up to her and handed her the report card with both hands, "Look."

Shen Mingzhu took it and said, "Yeah, not bad."

Shen Hongmei couldn't help but feel even happier after receiving her praise.

She closed the office door, turned around and knelt down in front of Shen Mingzhu.

Shen Mingzhu stood up in shock, "What are you doing?"

Shen Hongmei kowtowed to her three times respectfully before she stood up, tears welling up in her eyes because of excitement. "Boss Shen, I was able to pass two exams because of your teaching. As the saying goes, a teacher is a father for life. Not only did you give me food to eat, you also taught me principles and culture. From today on, you are my adopted parent, and you are the same generation as my parents."

Shen Mingzhu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but she also enjoyed it.

After all, no one wants the person they have brought up to be an ungrateful idiot.

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She didn't waste any words and quickly wrote a few words on the transcript.

Shen Hongmei took the report card and looked surprised. "Boss Shen, what does this mean?"

Shen Mingzhu smiled and patted her shoulder. "For every subject you pass, I will increase your salary by 20 yuan. This time you passed two subjects, so I will increase your salary by 40 yuan at once."

Shen Hongmei's eyes suddenly widened.

If she passed one exam, her salary would increase by 20 yuan. She studied human resources, which has 11 subjects in total. If she passed all of them, wouldn't her salary increase by 220 yuan? You know, her current base salary is only 100 yuan.

"Mr. Shen, thank you for your kindness, but I can't accept it. You have been very good to me, promoting me to be a manager, giving me a high salary, and taking me to study together. I can't take so much money from you."

Shen Mingzhu looked at her and said, "I'm giving it to you because you deserve it. An employee like you who is both capable and loyal is hard to come by. You just need to remember one thing: if you work with me, I will never treat you unfairly in terms of money."

Shen Hongmei nodded heavily.

Shen Mingzhu thought of something else, "Find some time to open a new savings account and deposit the salary increase you received into it. Don't tell your family about it. Do you understand what I mean?"

"clear."

She has earned a lot over the years, but basically gave it all to her family.

She is not young anymore, it's time for her to plan for herself.

…

After get off work, Pei Ke returned to the public housing, locked the door, closed the curtains, then found a hammer and a shovel and chiseled the cement floor under the stove bit by bit.

Soon, a wooden board the size of an A4 paper was revealed under the chiseled cement.

The wooden board was removed, revealing about twenty pieces of objects the size of mahjong tiles wrapped in oil paper.

Pick one up, open the oil paper, and there is golden gold inside.

It doesn't look big, but it is actually very heavy, one piece weighs one kilogram.

There are ten kilograms of gold in total. According to the current market price of about 60, it is worth 600,000 yuan, which is all the savings of Pei Ke in Hong Kong City over the years.

Pei Ke's apparent job is a security guard in a high-end office building, but secretly he has been working as a smuggler.

The smugglers’ income is illegal, so they dare not deposit it in the bank or spend it recklessly. They can only exchange it all for gold and hide it secretly at home.

Now, he was preparing to return to Fengcheng, and he had to exchange the gold for clean money first.

Peck put two pieces of gold in his pocket and left the rest untouched, sealing it under the stove with new cement.

The next day after get off work.

Pei Ke took the two pieces of gold to Kowloon Walled City and found Ma Ye, who specialized in extorting money. He exchanged the two pieces of gold for 45,000 chips from a casino in Macau.

The original market value of this gold was 60,000, but the other party took away 15,000 of his money in one transaction.

But there is no other way, this method is the simplest and fastest.

Once he goes to the casino and exchanges the chips, the 45,000 will become legal income and can be directly remitted back to China. (End of this chapter)