Xu Zhao Yu’s expression instantly froze. "...Jianghuai High School?"
"Because I never wanted her to go to Jianghuai High School in the first place," Old Madam Xu said irritably. "If she goes out and does something bad under the Xu family’s name, I’d still have to clean up her mess!"
Xu Zhao Yu’s smile looked a bit forced. She pursed her lips. "So Fourth Brother had already found a way out for Changying. It turns out my efforts were superfluous. Why didn’t Fourth Brother say so earlier...?"
"Indeed, Fourth Brother didn’t handle this well," Xu Yunfan couldn’t help but frown. "If he had said it earlier, Dad wouldn’t have had to suffer those eye-rolls at Sway International."
"Perhaps Fourth Brother didn’t expect it at first either." Xu Zhao Yu paused and said, "Jianghuai High School is a gathering place for geniuses. It couldn’t be better that Changying can enroll there."
"Yes, a gathering place for geniuses," Old Madam Xu sneered. "Once that piece of junk goes in, whatever little shine she has will be completely worn away!"
Xu Zhao Yu smiled and didn’t say anything.
She looked down at her phone. The screen was still on the chat page.
[Principal An]: Miss Zhao Yu, thank you so much for the heads-up. Otherwise, Sway International’s reputation would have suffered.
[Xu Zhao Yu]: You’re welcome. It was nothing.
Xu Zhao Yu quietly deleted the chat log, looked up, and continued chatting with the old madam.
At this moment, on the way to Jianghuai High School.
"Although Old Ning said you can enroll, you’ll definitely still have to take the placement test," Ming Chengli comforted her. "Dad knows your real grades, so don’t be afraid of losing face."
Shi Changying crossed her arms. "Nothing is more important than my dignity."
"Then you have to study hard," Ming Chengli said. "Your dad’s face depends on you to earn it. If you get into a good university, you can get a good job and earn more money."
Shi Changying raised an eyebrow. "Besides robbing a bank, I have another way to get money."
"What way?" Having learned his lesson the first time, Ming Chengli asked cautiously.
Shi Changying said, "The burial objects in tombs are all priceless, especially the Emperor’s tomb."
Ming Chengli was speechless.
Who didn’t know that?
Afraid that she would actually do it the next second, Ming Chengli quickly called a stop. "Changying, tomb raiding is also illegal."
Shi Changying snapped her fingers. "You can rest assured about this. The party involved won’t report it and has already agreed, so it’s not illegal."
Ming Chengli was speechless again.
Wasn’t that nonsense? The party involved was lying in the ground; how could they object?
Ming Chengli suddenly regretted not making her finish reading the Criminal Law yesterday. Reading half of it was scarier than not reading it at all. She was a living, breathing outlaw!
Ming Chengli spoke with righteous sternness, "In short, you can’t do anything illegal."
"Tsk, how troublesome." Shi Changying looked listless. "I don’t like this world."
The treasures in her tomb were hers. Taking her own things to exchange for money to spend was illegal?
What kind of world was this?
Ming Chengli said, "Alright, daughter, just focus on school and don’t think about money. You have Dad here. Did you eat enough this morning? Do you want to eat anything else?"
Shi Changying recalled the sweet water she had drunk that night. "I want to drink something called milk tea, which was also known as steeped tea."
"Drink, drink as much as you want! Dad will go buy it for you right now!" Ming Chengli felt a deep ache in his heart. After taking two steps, he suddenly felt a surge of joy. "Changying, you even know about steeped tea! As expected of my daughter. There was milk tea back in the Xuan Dynasty, but it was called steeped tea. At that time, the toppings for milk tea were walnuts, pine nuts, melon seeds, and so on. The ancients actually really knew how to enjoy life."
Shi Changying got her wish and drank her milk tea. Today it was white peach oolong flavor, with coconut jelly and taro paste toppings.
She decided she still liked this world.
Thirty minutes later, guided by the principal’s assistant, the father and daughter entered the principal’s office.
"Chengli, long time no see." Principal Ning stood up and shook hands with Ming Chengli. "This must be your daughter, right? She is truly bright and full of vitality."
"Old Ning, my girl finally knows she needs to study." Ming Chengli was in high spirits. "But as you know, her foundation is weak, and she really will drag the school down."
"Chengli, since I promised you, I will absolutely not go back on my word." Principal Ning pushed his glasses up his nose. "But some rules still can’t be broken. She needs to take the placement test and answer some questions."
"No problem," Ming Chengli readily agreed.
Principal Ning asked his assistant to fetch a copy of the latest monthly exam papers.
"Answer questions?" Shi Changying crossed her arms. "I don’t know how."
She only knew how to preside over the palace examinations.
"Changying, relax. The questions at Jianghuai High School have always been difficult. It’s fine if you don’t know how to do them," Ming Chengli comforted her. "There are still eight months until the college entrance examination. As long as you work hard, you can definitely bring your grades up."
With the exam papers in hand, Shi Changying began to answer the questions.
Her long-dormant brain finally started working, but not by much.
She couldn’t understand it.
What was this?
She didn’t know, next.
It wasn’t until she opened the foreign language paper that a dense cluster of letters filled her vision, looking like crawling ants.
It was as if she had returned to the time when the envoys from the Southern Region came to Jiuzhou for an audience, kneeling before her and spouting a bunch of gibberish that made her head throb.
Shi Changying forced herself to calm down. After closing her eyes for three seconds, she said, "There should only be one Jiuzhou in the whole world."
"Of course." Principal Ning didn’t understand why Shi Changying suddenly spouted such a sentence, but he said gratifyingly, "The unification of Huaxia is the eternal great cause of us descendants of Yan and Huang."
Shi Changying raised her eyes indifferently. "Wrong. ’Only one Jiuzhou’ means the entire world belongs to Jiuzhou’s territory."
Wherever the sun and moon shone, it was all Jiuzhou.
Wherever the rivers flowed, it was all Huaxia.
PFFT! COUGH! COUGH! COUGH! Principal Ning spat out a mouthful of tea, almost choking. He immediately moved his cup further away.
Ming Chengli was about to faint. He tugged at Shi Changying’s sleeve and whispered, "Changying, speak and act cautiously!"
The Chinese language was indeed broad and profound, but it wasn’t used like this!
Shi Changying completely ignored his warning. "Did I say something wrong?"
It was all the fault of the Heavenly Thunder that the heavens had suddenly sent down, causing her to perish halfway on the road to completing this great cause.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have to do a foreign language paper at all right now.
"Actually, she’s not wrong," Ming Chengli said. "Back then, Empress Taichu fought her way to the central part of the Southern Region and almost conquered the entire Southern Region."
Principal Ning couldn’t help but speak up, "Chengli, this hasn’t been conclusively determined yet. Let’s not fall into historical nihilism."
Ming Chengli paused. "I will find the evidence."
Principal Ning shook his head.
An hour later, Shi Changying discovered that apart from Classical Chinese, she didn’t know anything else.
Expressionless, she put down her pen and handed in the papers.
Principal Ning took a sip of tea to calm his nerves, then put on his glasses and began to look at the papers.
He originally wanted to praise Shi Changying a bit, but the more he looked, the more silent he became.
Ming Chengli’s daughter was not only a genuine academic underachiever, but her ideology was also highly problematic.
Principal Ning shook his head and turned over the language answer sheet.
The composition section was completely empty, save for eight large words:
By the grace of Heaven, the Emperor decrees.