Chapter 132: Chapter 132: The Closest to the Truth
Zhou Huaiyu glanced in the direction of Shen Zhaozhao, “Good thing this girl knows the drill, didn’t choose the seat next to Brother Yi.”
“What do you think, if she really did sit down, would Brother Yi have made her stand up again?”
“It’s also Brother Yi’s fault for not letting us sit next to him this year. Isn’t that just enticing those girls, giving them hope and then disappointing them!”
“I actually think this girl is pretty smart,” Gu Chengzhou said as he glanced in Sheng Chuyi’s direction.
Some seats may look good, but they aren’t that great to sit in.
Suddenly, Zhou Huaiyu came up with a possibility, “Do you think Brother Yi knew a pretty girl was coming and intentionally kept the seat next to him empty?” Not waiting for Gu Chengzhou to respond, he dismissed his own guess, “Probably not, with Brother Yi’s personality, girls probably aren’t as appealing to him as problems are.”
This might be the closest you’ve ever been to the truth.
“Alright, better mind your own business and think about how you’re going to explain yourself at home if you don’t do well on the tests!”
Zhou Huaiyu’s face fell in an instant, his good mood completely vanished, “Tch, Sister Caiyun is too harsh. A test on the first day of school, do they even want us to live?”
Complain as he might, the test still had to be taken.
The first and second periods were for Chinese, the third and fourth for foreign languages, and math in the afternoon.
The first day as a transfer student was spent in exams.
No evening self-study on the first day of school, so after school in the afternoon, you could go home to prepare for the next day’s tests.
At Jiu Middle School, the first week of every semester was nothing but exams.
This seemed to have become a tradition at Jiu Middle School, one that everyone accepted calmly, and surprisingly, nobody thought there was anything wrong with it.
Except for Shen Zhaozhao.
“Is your school always this intense?” As soon as she got back to the villa, Shen Zhaozhao lay on the couch like a dead dog, feeling utterly drained.
Had she known, she wouldn’t have transferred schools.
Sheng Chuyi glanced at her and said, “Jiu Middle School is a private high school, and the university acceptance rate affects next year’s admissions. The teachers here are graduates from prestigious universities and, besides strong teaching faculty and management capabilities, they also focus on teaching according to students’ aptitudes. Each teacher adjusts the teaching plan based on weekly test scores in order to timely address any deficiencies in their teaching and the students’ learning.” Therefore, exams at Jiu Middle School are an essential part of the process, held at least once a week, allowing both teachers and students to identify and address any shortcomings.
“So the tuition fees here must be very high, right?”
Sheng Chuyi didn’t respond.
“Just tell me, how much did my parents spend to get me in here?” Shen Zhaozhao hadn’t asked this question before, but she was mentally prepared, knowing private schools aren’t cheap.
Sheng Chuyi said, “The tuition fee for the high school section here is about 150,000 a year. Since you transferred mid-term, there’s also an additional 200,000 in sponsorship fees.”
“How much?” Shen Zhaozhao sat up excitedly from the couch, her voice breaking.
A hundred and fifty thousand a year plus two hundred thousand in sponsorship, doesn’t that come to half a million? That would be enough for a down payment on a house back where they lived, right?
Even though she was prepared, she was still profoundly shocked.
“Did you add an extra zero by any chance?” Shen Zhaozhao figured, given her parents’ penchant for not even buying an extra high-speed train ticket, could they really afford to spend so much on her education?
The expression on Sheng Chuyi’s face clearly told her that she hadn’t heard wrong.
“Have Ms. Shu and Old Shen gone mad?” She wouldn’t make that much money sweeping streets her entire life, would she?