pjbooks Chapter 288
Chapter 288
Ji Zhiyuan had just transferred five hundred million.Old Madam Xie then took her leave, hurrying off the cruise ship with her assistant.
Old Master Ji could not help but sigh. "I never expected the Xie family to fall into such ruin. When she was young, she was a fiercely competitive and ambitious person. She racked her brains to marry into a superior family and got her wish to become an official's wife. Unfortunately, her husband died early, and her son failed to live up to expectations. People's destinies are truly unpredictable."
Rong Yu said gently, "Fortunes rise and fall. Therefore, one should not be arrogant in times of success, nor should one despair in times of low ebb. Who can really say for sure what life will bring? Don't dwell on these things anymore. With your mother here, you can just enjoy your retirement in peace."
The mother and son walked out.
Old Master Ji walked onto the stage and addressed all the guests: "Thank you all for taking time out of your busy schedules to attend my birthday banquet..."
The cruise ship dinner banquet concluded smoothly.
That evening after the event, Ji Yanting came to chat with Rong Yu. "Great-grandmother, I've recently been involved in the production of a patriotic movie. The movie's theme song praises all the builders who have silently dedicated themselves to the motherland over the past seventy years. The melody is grand, and the lyrics are already written, but we haven't been able to decide on a singer. I wonder if you might be interested, Great-grandmother?"
He handed over the lyric sheet.
Rong Yu took it and glanced at it.
She was not particularly skilled with words, so she deeply admired those who could write. In just a few lines, the lyrics sketched out the turbulent years of the early days of the nation's founding. Between the lines, one could almost hear the roar of artillery fire and see the red flags fluttering in the west wind.
With a shift in tone, the modern spectacle of satellites launching into space and high-speed railways crisscrossing the land rushed to the fore.
The most shocking part was the last two lines, which compared generations of builders to fallen flowers turning to mud, yet silently nourishing this land.
She looked up and said, "I'll sing it."
Ji Yanting was overjoyed. "Wait a couple of days until the college entrance examination scores come out, and then we'll go to Beijing to record it."
It was a tradition at Haicheng No. 1 High School that every year when the college entrance examination scores were released, the students of each class would sit in their classrooms and check their scores together.
Although Rong Yu did not take the college entrance examination, she still came along with Ji Jingchuan and Ji Zhouye.
Pei Yaru's fingers hovered over the keyboard. The breathing of the fifty students in the class was suppressed to the extreme. They watched the loading icon on the computer screen spin three times before it finally changed.
"They're out, the scores are out!"
The whole class boiled over. No one used their mobile phones to check; instead, they waited for Pei Yaru at the podium to enter their ID numbers one by one to check.
The first was Ji Jingchuan.
The second the score appeared, the whole class exploded.
"Holy crap! Shielded! Ji Jingchuan's score is shielded!"
"Only the top fifty scores get shielded. He's guaranteed for Tsinghua or Peking University. Ji Jingchuan is too strong!"
"Our Class 20 actually produced a Tsinghua or Peking University student!"
Sitting next to the podium, Ji Jingchuan looked calm and smiled. "Everyone, go back to your seats and sit down. Teacher Pei is going to check the class monitor's score now."
Pei Yaru's hands were shaking a little.
She had been teaching for so many years, and this was her first time checking a shielded score. The shock in her heart had not yet subsided when, the next moment, the score on the computer screen was shielded once again.
"Oh my god, the class monitor's score is also shielded!"
"Damn, damn, damn, the study commissary is also shielded!"
"Quick, look at the Youth League Secretary's. Ahhh, 701 points! Youth League Secretary, you actually got a 701! Your highest mock exam score before was 680. You totally overperformed on the actual exam!"
Pei Yaru covered her mouth with her hand.
Only the top fifty in Haicheng City would have their scores shielded. Her class of underachievers actually accounted for three of them. It was unbelievable!
Her hands were trembling so much that she could barely press the keys on the keyboard accurately.
Rong Yu, the person who hadn't taken the exam, was quite calm. She walked up to the podium. "Teacher Pei, let me help you check the rest."
Pei Yaru's head was spinning, and she immediately gave up her seat.
Rong Yu directly opened multiple windows and queried a batch all at once.
Her calm voice slowly rang out.
"Above 700 points: Ji Jingchuan, the class monitor, the study commissary, and the Youth League Secretary, a total of four."
"Above 650 points: two people."
"Above 600 points: a total of nine people."
"Above 550 points..."
The students in the classroom all went crazy.
Because the final results were better than everyone's expectations.
Those who previously thought they couldn't get into a university had scores high enough for a relatively good junior college.
Those who previously only planned to attend a traditional third-tier university reached the cutoff for second-tier universities.
Those who previously thought they could only get into a second-tier university could actually touch the edge of the first-tier cutoff...
Ji Zhouye jumped directly onto his desk, waving his school uniform jacket like a flag. "Hahaha, I got 562 points! I can go to college! Hahahaha, I'm so awesome!"
Chen Nian also climbed onto a desk and shouted, "I got 596 points! Thank you, teachers, thank you, classmates, and especially thank you, Rong Yu..."
The students of Class 20 suddenly began to chant Rong Yu's name in perfect unison.
"Rong Yu!"
"Rong Yu!"
The shouts shook the heavens.
Even the elite class a corridor away heard the cheers.
Teacher Yang's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.
The elite class she led actually only had four people with shielded scores. Although there were only five last year... one must know that the students who entered this class were all among the top fifty in the school, while Class 20 was full of underachievers.
Now, the slacker class and the elite class were actually on par.
This was like a loud slap in the face.
She gritted her teeth and said, "Are you proud of being overtaken by a bunch of slackers?"
Zhang Haoyu said softly, "Who asked their class to have Rong Yu."
Rumor had it that three days before the exam, Rong Yu had predicted the exam questions for the whole class. Whether she guessed right or not was unknown, but Class 20's rapid progress, as if they had been completely reborn, definitely had something to do with Rong Yu.
Song Huai looked out the window.
The whole of Class 20 was over there taking graduation photos.
Even though there were so many people there, he could only see Rong Yu. She was surrounded in the middle, with Ji Zhouye on her left and Ji Jingchuan on her right. The three of them had their arms around each other's shoulders, looking very intimate, completely exceeding the boundaries of normal classmates.
He pursed his lips and withdrew his gaze.
After the people of Class 20 took group photos with their teachers and classmates, they started to plan their teacher appreciation banquet.
With fifty people in the class, one day per person wouldn't be enough to split the bill.
Ji Zhouye said loudly, "There's no time like the present. Let's do it today. The whole class will host the teacher appreciation banquet together. Let's go, we'll go to Ji's Grand Hotel."
Rong Yu smiled and said, "It will be hard to gather everyone so completely in the future. For today's meal, not a single person is allowed to be missing."
The grand banquet hall of Ji's Grand Hotel was booked out.
"Teacher Pei! A toast to you!"
The class monitor led all the students to stand up, raising their wine glasses as they rushed forward in a chaotic swarm. Pei Yaru was surrounded in the middle, laughing so hard that tears fell from her eyes. "Three years... you little brats, you finally didn't make me worry in vain!"
The study commissary started to lead a song.
"I once found it hard to pull myself away from the vastness of the world."
"And indulged in its dreamlike words."
"Unable to tell truth from falsehood, not struggling, not fearing being a joke."
"I once turned my youth into her."
"And played the midsummer at my fingertips..."
The whole class sang in chorus, ridiculously out of tune.
Fortunately, Rong Yu was quite good at singing. Relying on her own strength, she pulled the tune back on track. After the whole class finished singing, they cried their eyes out.
The class monitor downed a mouthful of his drink, his face flushed as he yelled, "I'm going to apply to Huaqing University too, so I can still be classmates with Rong Yu!"
The study representative laughed out loud, "I knew you had a crush on Rong Yu."
The class monitor's face grew even redder. "Nonsense, stop talking nonsense! I just purely want to keep being classmates with her, that's all."
Chen Nian's nose stung with sudden emotion. "My scores are too low to be classmates with Sister Yu anymore. Sob, it's going to be so hard to see each other from now on, so hard..."
Rong Yu's eyes also grew a little red.
Perhaps the cruelest yet gentlest part of youth was this grand, irreversible farewell.