Chapter 315: [315] Who was hiding it from her at the beginning? Chapter 315: [315] Who was hiding it from her at the beginning? “Yingying, are you working at the hospital now?” Zhao Wenzong asked about his classmate’s recent situation.
“Interning at a hospital, there’s about two years left until I graduate,” Xie Wanying estimated.
“She’s at Guoxie, impressive, isn’t she?” Teacher Zhuang said with a beaming smile, feeling proud to have a Guoxie student as a bragging right.
“We all knew she was great when she was admitted,” Zhao Wenzong said honestly.
“After that, did her homeroom teacher deliver the science top scholar’s award money to her home?” Teacher Zhuang asked. She had inquired about this from the school, which replied that Liu Hui had taken care of it.
Celebrating the top science scholar was only proper. But at that time, once everyone received their admission notices, their hearts scattered, each preoccupied with their own concerns. Only a promotional poster remained hanging in the high school.
The prize money, consisting of the school’s and the city’s and the province’s contributions, totaled up to tens of thousands, which was a significant amount for Xie Wanying’s family.
Only after Teacher Zhuang mentioned it did Xie Wanying remember that the science top scholar was supposed to receive prize money. Before her rebirth, since she wasn’t the top science scholar, she only had a vague idea about the prize money and wasn’t clear on the specifics.
“Did you receive it?” Teacher Zhuang asked her. “I wanted to ask you this before, but even if Liu Hui doesn’t like you, she wouldn’t possibly take your prize money. Though the money from the province and the city was granted later, it was after you started university.”
After starting university, she spoke on the phone with her mother many times but never heard anything about the award money, only that the homeroom teacher had delivered a certificate to her home. Xie Wanying was puzzled.
Her mother would never have taken the money for herself, she would rather have given everything for her daughter’s education.
If Liu Hui had delivered the prize money to her home, who received it?
Narrowing her eyes, Xie Wanying recalled a small detail. A few years ago, her mother mentioned her second uncle buying a new house over the phone, saying to her, “Your father helped your uncle with some money for the house, and I said our family is too poor to afford it. Luckily, they stopped fussing about it afterward.”
Observing that her expression seemed off, Teacher Zhuang and Zhao Wenzong exchanged glances.
“Teacher.” Not wanting to bother her teacher with family matters, Xie Wanying asked about her German class.
“He’s the one who contacted the university professor for you,” Teacher Zhuang pointed to Zhao Wenzong.
“Xie Xie!” Xie Wanying quickly expressed her thanks.
“Thank me for what?” Zhao Wenzong laughed, adjusting his gold-rimmed glasses, “Helping a fellow Guoxie University medical student is an honor.”
Serving hadn’t seen each other for years, the high school classmate had evolved from a taciturn boy into someone who could joke around. Xie Wanying brightened up with laughter.
“There’s something I might need to discuss with you,” Zhao Wenzong thought it over and decided to give her a heads-up.
“What is it?” Xie Wanying asked.
“Zhang Wei went abroad, right? But only one person from her family went overseas. Her father, mother, grandfather, and grandmother are all here in China. Her grandmother fell ill and came here for treatment. Knowing I was here, Zhang Wei’s mother called me, asking if I could find a doctor from Guoxie, because she couldn’t get an appointment directly at the Guoxie clinic,” he explained.
In the registration hall of the Guoxie clinic, the situation was so dire that people had to sleep on the floors of the hospital at night to queue up for appointments in the morning. As for scalpers, there were loads of them. How could Zhang Wei’s mother possibly sleep on the hospital floor like others? Going to a scalper was too expensive; she likely wouldn’t want to do that.