Chapter 378 Teacher Wang Asks for a Gift
Su Dahai had no hesitation about following Su Dingbang to Hong Kong.

There is an important reason for this, that is, he was suffering from so many illnesses that he really couldn't bear it anymore.

Before he changed his career, Su Dahai was also a strong-willed man from Shandong.

However, ever since the injury, every winter, Su Dahai would suffer from severe pain and sleepless nights.

It can be said that Su Dahai has not had a good year in more than ten years.

Now, his own second uncle came to him and said that he had no descendants and needed him to do the heavy work for him. Why should Su Dahai hesitate?

When it comes to moving the family, Su Dahai and his wife have no objection. Although they have lived in this courtyard for nearly twenty years, the area is only three or four hundred square meters, with two main rooms, one east room, and a firewood room (without a door).

There is really nothing to be nostalgic about.

Seeing that the adults had decided to relocate the family, Su Mingzhe suddenly raised his hand and expressed his opinion.

He wanted to wait until the college entrance examination was over and then directly enter the University of Hong Kong, rather than going to Hong Kong as a high school transfer student and then taking the college entrance examination.

His reasons are also very good.

He is now facing the college entrance examination. If he goes to Hong Kong, he will be unfamiliar with the place and have to learn Cantonese and traditional Chinese characters, which will affect his college entrance examination results.

After hearing what their son said, Su Dahai and his wife were a little hesitant, wondering whether they should stay with their son and wait until after he takes the college entrance examination.

After all, his son is his life.

In the end, it was Su Dingbang who made the final decision:
"Da Hai, you are injured and cannot be delayed. Let your niece-in-law accompany you to Xiangjiang for medical treatment. Mingzhe is already so old, so it should be fine if you hire a nanny to take care of his daily life."

Indeed, after the Spring Festival, Su Mingzhe was already 19 years old and could take care of himself.

Of course, in order to take good care of Su Mingzhe, 'Su Dingbang' still arranged for people to invest and build a factory in Xihong City and establish connections with local officials.

With Su Dingbang's arrangement, Su Dahai and his wife obediently followed him to Hong Kong.

Su Mingzhe stayed alone.

Of course, Su Mingzhe stayed for reasons that he definitely didn't mention.

Su Mingzhe is fluent in both Cantonese and traditional Chinese.

The main reason why he didn't go to Hong Kong was that he wanted to complete a mission to "recapture Qiu Ya".

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Su Mingzhe wants to complete the task of "regaining Qiuya". On the one hand, he has a good impression of the class beauty Qiuya in his previous memory.

On the other hand, he also thought that in the future, Qiuya would marry a short, dark and fat rich man according to the original trajectory, which would be a bit of a waste of talent.

Well, I just don't want to waste such a beauty like Qiuya, so I am ready to take action.

After the Spring Festival.

As the weather warmed up, the old Su family compound was demolished and rebuilt.

In addition, Su Mingzhe bought himself a new house opposite the school to live in.

The senior high school students started school very early and began evening self-study on the sixth night of the New Year.

As soon as the school started, those who were well-informed in the class knew that Su Mingzhe's family had become rich, and they couldn't help but gather around.

Classmate Zhang Yang had a mean look on his face. He was the first to come over and asked with a smile:
"Squad leader, I heard that your family has a very rich relative who came from Hong Kong to recognize him?"

Su Mingzhe was ranked first in the class in terms of academic performance and was elected as the class monitor by his classmates. He had a good relationship with his classmates on weekdays. When he saw everyone gathered around him, he didn't put on airs and just smiled and explained to everyone:

"Yes, he is my second grandfather, my grandfather's younger brother."

Zhang Yang asked again: "What did your second grandfather do in Hong Kong? Was he very rich?"

Su Mingzhe thought for a moment before answering:
"Well, my second grandfather had a lot of businesses. He talked to my dad about some of them, but I don't remember them all. It seems that the main businesses were auction houses, real estate, and supermarkets. But he also had some food factories and textile factories under his name."

"Wow, with so much business, how rich must you be?"

Zhang Yang and other classmates were shocked.

It was the end of the 20th century, and Xihong City was a coastal city located on the Liaodong Peninsula. Although its economy was developed, the living standards of urban residents had not yet reached a well-off level.

There are several levels of rich people.

The first type of entry-level rich people are those who run small businesses, such as opening a restaurant, a convenience store, etc.

The second type of middle-level wealthy people are those who own companies and factories and have dozens or even hundreds of employees under their names.

The third type of high-level wealthy people are those who are famous and powerful, and own a large number of industries. For example, Su Mingzhe introduced "Su Dingbang", who owns all kinds of companies.

This kind of person sounds like a very rich person.

He must be very rich.

The crowd gathered even tighter.

Suddenly, a sissy voice asked, "Class monitor, since your second grandfather is so rich, why didn't he take you to school in Hong Kong?"

Su Mingzhe shuddered and got goose bumps when he heard the sissy's voice. He quickly replied, "Isn't the college entrance examination coming up soon? People in Hong Kong speak Cantonese and write in traditional Chinese. If I go to Hong Kong, I will need to study Cantonese and traditional Chinese before the college entrance examination. It's a waste of time. In order not to affect the college entrance examination results, I discussed with my family and decided to take the college entrance examination in Xihong City and then go to Hong Kong to attend university."

"Monitor, with your learning ability, isn't it a piece of cake to learn Cantonese?"

Faced with a group of people flattering him, Su Mingzhe could only smile self-righteously.

These classmates are so cute.

Su Mingzhe chatted with everyone for an entire evening study session, but he still couldn't satisfy their curiosity.

The next day, early in the morning, Su Mingzhe came to school again for a morning run.

Only then did the classmates realize that Su Mingzhe's family was truly wealthy.

Originally, the Su family lived in poverty, and the shoes Su Mingzhe wore were old canvas shoes or cheap big-toed shoes.

But today, Su Mingzhe was wearing a pair of Jordan shoes. The style was very stylish and you definitely couldn't buy them for less than a thousand.

After running morning exercises, Su Mingzhe ate in the school cafeteria.

When a group of classmates were getting their meals together, they discovered that the meals Su Mingzhe was eating were no longer the pickled vegetables sandwich with boiled water as before, but a variety of delicious meat dishes with rice.

That's really generous.

Su Mingzhe was thinking about how to complete the task of "recapturing Qiuya".

That afternoon, our homeroom teacher, Mr. Wang, directly announced in his class that the new year had begun and that the desks needed to be rearranged.

Many students in the class started to howl like ghosts and wolves.

In the past, desks in the classroom were arranged not only based on academic performance, but also on the gifts given by students to the teachers, and were arranged directly by the teachers.

Poor students like Zhang Yang and Meng Te were placed in the middle of the second row only because their parents gave expensive gifts to Teacher Wang.

Su Mingzhe's family was poor and he had never given any gifts to his homeroom teacher, Mr. Wang.

So, even though he always ranked first in the class in academic performance, his desk was always in the corner.

During the Spring Festival this year, although the Su family had become wealthy, Su Mingzhe did not think about giving Teacher Wang a gift for the time being.

Teacher Wang couldn't help but come to Su Mingzhe to give him some advice:
"Squad leader, I heard you have a second master who came from Hong Kong?"

"Teacher, you are really well-informed."

Su Mingzhe smiled slightly and looked at Teacher Wang's greedy face. For a moment he didn't know how to deal with him.

In the movie "Charlotte's Troubles", Teacher Wang is really greedy and has no professional ethics. The fact that there are so many weirdos in the class is largely due to his role as the class teacher.

In the real world, Teacher Wang was reported and fired.

And in Charlotte's dream, this teacher Wang unexpectedly showed some shining points. He defeated several gangsters with "Wing Chun" and rescued Charlotte and Ma Dongmei.

Unfortunately, that was just Charlotte's dream.

In reality, this teacher Wang is a scum who asks students for gifts.

Su Mingzhe saw this clearly.

Teacher Wang laughed and looked down at Su Mingzhe again. He saw that he was wearing a valuable cashmere sweater under his open school uniform, a diamond watch on his left wrist, and a pair of Jordan sneakers on his feet.

Mr. Wang, who had a keen eye, did a quick calculation in his mind and concluded that the total price of these three items was at least over ten thousand.

The Su family is indeed rich.

Teacher Wang laughed even louder: "Class monitor, you said you were under the teacher for three years. How was the teacher treating you? I know your family didn't have money before, so you didn't visit the teacher at home during holidays. The teacher never blamed you, right?"

"Thank you for your understanding, teacher."

Su Mingzhe was speechless for a moment when faced with Teacher Wang's almost explicit request for a gift.

Originally, he wanted to confront him and vent his dissatisfaction, but he suddenly saw that the class beauty Qiuya was also looking at him, and he couldn't help but have some thoughts.

"Teacher Wang, respecting teachers has always been a traditional virtue in our country. In fact, I have always wanted to visit you."

"is it?"

Teacher Wang listened to Su Mingzhe's words, as if he was going to give him a valuable gift in the next second, and he couldn't help but be delighted.

Su Mingzhe changed the subject, with an indecisive look on his face:

"But, I thought about it again, and I think I can't come to see you."

"why?"

When Teacher Wang heard that the duck that he had caught was about to fly away, he immediately became anxious.

Su Mingzhe smiled slightly and said, "Teacher Wang, think about it, I have been under your guidance for three years, and my academic performance has always been among the best in the class, right?"

Teacher Wang was puzzled. What did Su Mingzhe's refusal to give him a gift have to do with this? He could only respond dryly:
"correct."

Su Mingzhe then asked a heart-wrenching question:
"Teacher Wang, do you remember that I was the top student, but why was I always seated in the corner by you?"

Teacher Wang's face suddenly turned ugly.

Of course he remembered why he didn't arrange Su Mingzhe to the middle position.

Isn’t it because Su Mingzhe’s family was poor before and never gave him any gifts?

However, this answer cannot be given out loud.

If we really give this answer, then everyone will lose face.

Su Mingzhe did not expect Mr. Wang to answer him, so he asked himself, and then answered his own questions, explaining for him:
"I still remember when I was in the first year of high school, I got the first place in the class. When we re-arranged the seats, you told me that I was the first in the class. If I was put in the middle seat again, other students and parents would gossip about me, questioning whether I had cheated on my test scores or whether you gave me special treatment. It would have a bad influence on my classmates, right?"

Well, it does.

Teacher Wang thought about it and seemed to know that Su Mingzhe's family had no money and would not give him a gift, so he simply used this sentence to perfunctorily answer him.

Su Mingzhe saw a trace of regret in Teacher Wang's eyes, and he curved his lips and continued:

"I have always believed that what you said, Mr. Wang, is absolutely right. In order to avoid being questioned by others about your character and to avoid affecting the harmonious relationship among the class, I should have kept my distance from you and not visited you at home. Otherwise, it would affect the relationship between classmates, which would be a serious sin."

(End of this chapter)