Chapter 1417: Looking at You One More Time in the Crowd

His father and mother talked about the goodness of the Sheng Family every day; if he brought back a bonus, he might really get a good beating.

"Everyone has one; if you don't want it, you lack a sense of collective honor."

Once this big label was slapped on, the average person couldn't handle it, so that student didn't dare say they didn't want it anymore.

The bonus was divided into two parts.

The first part was for every student in the class, ten thousand yuan each.

So much money?

The students were in an uproar once again.

The second part was for the class officers.

For the class officers this year, some of it really wasn't just a title; their contributions were plain for all to see.

Those who were good at studying helped those who were poor at it, one-on-one, helping each other.

Without everyone being closely united and progressing together, even the most useful workbooks and study plans wouldn't work.

Each class officer received a bonus of five thousand yuan; before distributing the bonuses, Shi Ran detailed the contributions the class officers had made to the class over the year!

This was to prevent the worry of inequality rather than the worry of scarcity.

Fortunately, the students had a peaceful mindset, did not compare themselves to others, and offered their blessings to the class officers; everyone had a share, and Zichen and Litian also received their own shares just like all the other students.

After Lu Feifei received her bonus, she subconsciously looked in Zichen's direction; their eyes met again, and Zichen immediately looked away.

He didn't do it on purpose; Lu Feifei was on the podium, and he was in his seat—it wasn't strange to habitually look at the podium.

But Lu Feifei's heart was pounding like a deer, and she blushed with excitement; she had misunderstood!

She mistakenly thought Zichen wanted to look at her, but felt too guilty to do so.

At this moment, she thought of quite a lot.

She thought Zichen must like her, and the bonus must have been set up for her; after all, the Class Monitor knew her situation.

The reason for giving bonuses to the whole class was to cover up the truth, and even more so to protect her fragile and sensitive self-esteem; he couldn't make things too obvious...

Lu Feifei had a very rich imagination, thought very beautifully, and was in a very good mood.

She returned to her seat with a blushing face, clutching her bonus, feeling wonderful inside, and couldn't help but look at Zichen a few more times.

Zichen noticed, but pretended not to see.

Litian also noticed, and felt a bit bitter inside, but he finally recognized a reality: the person Lu Feifei liked was indeed not him, and from beginning to end, it never was!

Finally, the annual start of the school season arrived again.

The day before Zichen and Litian were packed and ready to go to school, they were notified by their mother: "I will take you two tomorrow."

"No way, right? We're already so big; if we let Mom take us to school, we'll be mocked for being mama's boys." Zichen said with a bitter face, unwilling.

Litian was also unwilling, but he didn't object; instead, he agreed: "Okay."

Shi Youxuan said happily: "The minority obeys the majority; it's settled."

Zichen objected: "Where is the minority obeying the majority? I object and he agrees, that's fifty-fifty."

Shi Youxuan: "Add me in, you are the minority obeying the majority; stop talking nonsense, see you tomorrow morning, good night."

After saying this, she returned to her room, and Zichen gave Litian a "beating."

"Traitor, how could you agree? Are we still brothers? You actually didn't stand on my side..."

If Litian had fought back, Zichen would have been no match for him at all.

But he didn't fight back, standing honestly where he was, letting his older brother "bully" him.

If it had been anyone else, Litian would definitely have stood with Zichen, but his older brother and his mother had different positions, so he could only apologize to his older brother.

Zichen hit him twice, and seeing he didn't fight back, reminded him: "Why aren't you fighting back?"

"I'm afraid you'll get hurt."

Zichen:...

Fine, know when to stop; the brothers put their arms around each other's shoulders and returned to their room.

The next day.

Before dawn in the morning.

The brothers' bedroom door was knocked on with a "thump-thump" sound.

Zichen shouted with dissatisfaction: "Let us sleep a little longer, there's enough time."

Yueyue said from outside: "Brother, Brother, get up."

He immediately sat up, energized!

Why did Yueyue get up so early today?

It would be one thing if someone else knocked on the door, but he couldn't not open it for his little sister.

He opened the door barefoot and saw his mother standing in front of the door triumphantly, shaking the phone in her hand!

She had actually played a recording.

"You... are really something!"

Zichen gave his mother a thumbs up, admitting defeat.

Since he was already up and energized, he went to wash up, and his mother went to knock on the next door.

"Knock, knock..."

Before the third knock could land, Litian had already opened the door, dressed neatly, and appeared at the doorway pushing his suitcase.

The room was also tidied up.

"Great!"

Shi Youxuan gave her second son a thumbs up.

After breakfast, before the sky had even brightened, the mother and her two sons set off; registration started at eight in the morning, and the drive was only a little over an hour, so there was no need to leave this early at all.

Zichen muttered with dissatisfaction: "There was absolutely no need to leave this early. I don't know what you're thinking; are you really that unwilling to see us? Sending us away so early..."

Shi Youxuan didn't respond, letting him say whatever he wanted.

Upon arriving at Jiangzhou University, because it was still early, the mother and her two sons walked around the campus to familiarize themselves with the environment.

The Physical Education University where Litian was enrolled was right next to Jiang University, so they would drop the older brother off at his dormitory first before he went to register.

As the three of them walked through the university campus, the person most curious was Shi Youxuan!

She looked around everywhere, finding everything curious and everything interesting.

Because Zichen and Litian had been here once before, they were more familiar with Jiang University than their mother, so the two of them acted as temporary guides, explaining to their mother that this was the First Teaching Building, and over there was the Second Teaching Building...

The Experimental Building, the Study Building, the Library, and the Cafeteria!

Shi Youxuan was like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden, looking only at things and not at people.

Zichen and Litian acted as left and right guardians, each pulling a suitcase with one hand and holding their mother with the other to protect her and prevent her from bumping into people!

"Mom, are you here to drop us off at school, or are you here to tour the campus?" Zichen finally realized.

Shi Youxuan said: "Of course I'm here to see what a university looks like, and to drop you two off while I'm at it."

Zichen:...

Litian:...

The two asked in unison: "You never went to university?"

From the time they were small until now, they had never asked what their mother's educational background was, but they both felt that her education must be very high because she knew everything.

"I never went. Not only did I not go to university, I didn't even go to high school or middle school," she said truthfully.

"That's not right. When I was in elementary school, you were the school Chairman. If you never went to middle school..."

Alright, he stopped halfway through; going to middle school and being a school Chairman did not conflict with each other.

But it was still too shocking; he had never heard of it... no, he had never thought of it.

"Why didn't you go to..."

"Bang!"

"Ouch!"

Oh no, Zichen was too busy being shocked and forgot to watch for people, colliding head-on with someone.

The other person was a woman, not very old, wearing a dark blue Cafeteria uniform and white oversleeves, holding a bag of fresh green vegetables; after being bumped into, the vegetables fell to the ground and the bag tore.