Chapter 386 - Chapter 386: 149 Brother Jiang gives a present, the principal of Beicheng personally invites (second update)_2

Chapter 386: 149 Brother Jiang gives a present, the principal of Beicheng personally invites (second update)_2

He fiddled with a silver lighter in his hand.

His well-defined fingers pressed the metal switch, and a pale blue flame rose and vanished.

“You down here?” Sensing Bai Lian’s approach, he turned his head and handed her the lighter, “For the fireworks.”

The buildings in Xin’an Community were widely spaced, so Jiang Fulai set up the fireworks in the middle of the road.

Bai Lian took the lighter, crouched down to light the fireworks, and asked, “Where’s Jiang He?”

“He’s asleep.” Jiang Fulai had deliberately waited for him to fall asleep before leaving the house.

Bai Lian gave him a skeptical look, then retreated to Jiang Fulai’s side and looked up at the fireworks.

The fireworks were silent for a second.

The next moment they shot up into the sky like silver flowers, bursting open in multicolored parachutes that slowly drifted down. Before they completely faded, three streaks shot up into the sky, bursting into red, orange, and yellow colors like three blossoming roses.

“Holy shit, look—”

A bunch of people opened their windows.

Some held up their phones to start recording.

Bai Lian quietly watched the fireworks. The whole show lasted about five minutes; in the end, four fireworks burst in the sky and slowly formed four characters—

[Happy New Year]

As Bai Lian looked at these words, something cool was placed in her right palm, “Happy… New Year.”

She heard a very soft voice by her ear.

When she looked down, it was a Red Tourmaline, the translucent red gemstone sitting beautifully in the snowy palm of her hand.

“This,” Jiang Fulai looked down, and elegantly tapped the Red Tourmaline in her palm with his fingertip, fireworks filling the sky behind him, “can be worn on your ribbon.”

Bai Lian looked at the Red Tourmaline, finding it vaguely familiar.

She had a photographic memory, and it seemed like the jewel the Ren Family wanted to auction off at her first visit to the auction house.

“Wait a minute,” Bai Lian clasped the Red Tourmaline, squinting at Jiang Fulai, “how much did you pay for tonight’s fireworks?”

Jiang Fulai: “…”

This wasn’t unfolding the way he had planned.

Would Bai Lian ignore him for three days if he said he had spent a million?

“I don’t know,” Jiang Fulai spoke indifferently, “it was sent by Jiang Xijue.”

Far away in Jiangjing, where Jiang Xijue was on time for paying respects at his family shrine at midnight, he sneezed violently. He quickly knelt down, wondering if the ancestors were displeased with the incense he had carefully selected?

**

The first day of the year.

Bai Lian returned to Purest Street with Ji Heng.

Whenever they encountered an acquaintance, they would stop; Bai Lian collected quite a bounty of candy and snacks in her pockets along the way.

“Happy New Year…” Ji Heng looked up to see the neighbor on the left.

The neighbor turned and walked away upon seeing him.

Ji Heng, holding his smoking pipe, was taken aback: “…?”

The neighbor muttered under his breath, “No way I’m playing chess with you during the New Year.”

Bai Lian still didn’t know what Ji Heng had done to a group of neighbors before they set off.

Hearing the words “playing chess,” Ji Heng also entered the yard somewhat sheepishly and dared not speak any further.

On the third day of the New Year.

Bai Lian was in the yard explaining the meanings of words to Ji Heng, when she received a call from the principal of Xiangcheng High School.

“It’s about Beicheng…” The principal of Xiangcheng glanced at the two people in his office, speaking in a hushed tone, “People from Beicheng are here at our school, currently in the office. Do you have time to come over?”

“Beicheng High School?” Bai Lian made a pause gesture, hadn’t Lu Lingxi mentioned this to them?

Ji Heng immediately got up with his smoking pipe and moved the embroidery frame out without delay.

After Bai Lian finished her call with the principal, she turned to see Ji Heng embroidering seriously: “…”

“Grandpa, I’m going to the school for a bit.” She methodically put on her Bluetooth earpiece and bade Ji Heng farewell.

Ji Heng lowered his head slightly, “Mhm.”

It was only after Bai Lian left that he murmured to himself, “Quantu, Quantum entanglement…”

“Q, U, A…” What was A, again?

Ji Heng expressionlessly put down the needle in his hand.

**

Xiangcheng High School.

The meeting room.

The principal respectfully poured tea for the two esteemed guests; the principal of Xiangcheng High School wasn’t on the same level as that of Beicheng High School.

The Beicheng High School principal sat upright and proper; he held his teacup, but didn’t drink, only watching the Xiangcheng principal, “Where’s that student?”

Schools compete with each other too. Last year, when Bai Shaoke got into Jiangjing as the top scorer from Beicheng, Jiangjing directly allotted ten APP spots to Beicheng High School.

This year during the college entrance examination, Xiangcheng High School produced a student who seemed capable of competing with Song Min.

No matter who ended up being the top scorer, Beicheng High School couldn’t let him go to another school.

Of course, they didn’t believe Xiangcheng High could replace Beicheng.

“Principal Li, don’t hurry; she’ll be here soon.” The Xiangcheng principal refilled Principal Li’s cup and he lowered his head to check the time, estimating that Bai Lian should be arriving soon, “I’ll go downstairs to receive her.”

Bai Lian had never been to the meeting room before, and he wanted to take the opportunity on the way to persuade Bai Lian to thoroughly consider it.

As soon as he left,

Principal Li and the teacher of Beicheng International Class discussed in whispers, “We must get him to our school, no matter what.”

The two had assumed the top student was a boy.

It was mainly a preconceived notion, as apart from Bai Shaoqi, they had not seen any female students among the top ten in the science subjects.

“100,000 yuan in scholarship money and if she gets the top score, 800,000 yuan in a grant for education, plus extracurricular coaching from a teacher from Jiangjing,” the teacher of the International Class knocked on the table while looking at the surrounding campus environment, “He will definitely not refuse.”

Beicheng had also brought their school’s sincerity this time.

The principal and the teacher of the International Class came to personally invite, just to persuade him.

Who in Xiangcheng wouldn’t want to climb out of this place, with only its shabby train station? Today, many roads were still under construction, causing both visitors much inconvenience.

Principal Li also felt that there was no way the other party would refuse, and even after all this time, he still wanted to exclaim, “A full score of 150 in mathematics, who on earth can achieve such a feat?”

Such a prodigy had never been seen before, even in the IMO competition.

“It’s like a comet streaking across the sky.” The International Class teacher squinted, eyes glued to the meeting room door, this student had even more potential than Song Min, and only lagged slightly in the sciences. With a little better mental state during the exam, she might be able to compete with Song Min for the top spot once more in Beicheng.

Now, they dared to only dream that this person could compete with Song Min for the Beicheng top score.

It was less than five minutes before there were voices of conversation outside the door.

Both visitors subconsciously straightened their clothes.

The door was pushed open with a “creak.”

The Xiangcheng principal led in a girl wearing a blue coat; in her right hand, she carelessly twirled a stack of A4 papers.

The Xiangcheng principal introduced her with a proud tone, “Principal Li, this is our school’s top student, Bai Lian.”

Bai Lian’s grades had grown under the watchful eyes of the whole grade’s teachers.

From the first score of 450 to now 692.

Principal Li had only gotten to know Bai Shaoke in the past two years of school.

In the following year, he only remembered Song Min and Bai Shaoqi, as for “Bai Lian,” he might have heard of her, but why would he particularly remember such a student?

At this moment, was he just surprised that the student who had scored one point higher than Song Min was actually a female student?

Next to Principal Li, the International Class teacher stared blankly when he saw Bai Lian’s face; Bai Lian had been in the International Class before, and the very first time he saw the name “Bai Lian,” he was very displeased.

At first sight of Bai Lian, he immediately remembered her.

The teacup in his hand was knocked over in shock, “You… Bai Lian? The Bai Lian with 150 in mathematics and a total score of 692?”

He was somewhat bewildered; was this the Bai Lian that he had driven out of the International Class to the liberal arts class?

He still didn’t know, the most frightening thing about Bai Lian wasn’t her mathematics, but rather the physics that had even touched the heart of Principal Ma.