Chapter 49: Alma Mater

  Arrived in the city, Chu Jiaqiang found a motorcycle taxi and asked for the location of Jiancai City, then took his motorcycle directly over.

  Jiancai City was built just two years ago, which is not surprising for Chu Jiaqiang. In fact, it's not far from Education City, which is a landmark building in Gaohsin City, covering an area of over 1,000 mu, containing kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools, making it the educational base of Gaohsin City.

  At first, the governor and the provincial party secretary came to inspect and were amazed by the grand scale of the education city. They praised Gaoxin City for doing a great thing for its people, saying that it was not easy to build such a magnificent education city in a relatively underdeveloped city like this one.

  In fact, Gaoxin City cannot afford to spend so much money, and it is unlikely that the country will allocate funds for this purpose. However, Gaoxin City is a city where many overseas Chinese gather, and upon hearing the news, they donated money one after another. The construction of an education city cost over 10 billion yuan, with nearly 90% of the funding coming from donations by overseas Chinese.

  This has also led to a widespread phenomenon: almost every building, artificial lake and even ornamental stone in the Education City is named after someone.

  Due to the completion of Education City, it will soon drive the development of surrounding areas, and Building Materials City is built with the east wind of Education City.

  After getting off the bus, Chu Jiaqiang did not immediately enter the building materials city, but instead walked into the high school department of the Education City where he used to study. This is a beautiful school, so much so that many universities are also quite ashamed in comparison.

  Actually, Chu Jiaqiang not only wanted to see his alma mater after several years but also his former teacher. Although it's currently a holiday, the school's Olympic class and experimental class as well as the graduating class are still in session. Chu Jiawen is also studying here, but she isn't a student of those special classes, so she doesn't have to work that hard.

  Chu Jiaqiang looked at his empty hands and immediately picked some fresh peaches from the Shanhe diagram, packed them in small paper boxes, tied up a dozen large river crabs, and caught a few big yellow eels. Seeing that it was almost enough, he headed to Teacher Gu's dormitory. Today, he would visit one of his teachers who had the greatest influence on him during high school.

  Actually, at every stage, there are teachers who have a profound impact on themselves, not necessarily the best at teaching books, but those who can make themselves suddenly enlightened.

  At this time, it was just noon when school was dismissed, and a group of students rushed to the cafeteria. However, most people had already returned, and if it were usual, it would be spectacular, densely packed like ants moving house. The entire high school department has more than 8,000 people, which is quite terrifying.

  Arriving at the teacher's apartment downstairs, Chu Jiaqiang tidied himself up and found no problem before going upstairs.

  Yan Ruyu is a third-year high school graduate. Today, her class teacher, Mr. Gu, asked her to come over as the study committee member to discuss some matters related to the class. Originally, these matters should have been discussed in the office, but Mr. Gu was busy and had to attend a meeting within the school in the afternoon, and tomorrow he would be out of town for three days to observe classes, so he couldn't help but ask her to come over at noon.

  Yan Ruyu was very delicate, not tall but also very charming, with a slender figure and a melon-seed-shaped face that wore a student's shyness. The school uniform made her look even more pure. She was not only the class beauty, but also one of the top in the school beauty rankings.

  She followed behind Chu Jiaqiang and saw him tidying up his clothes. She thought the man, who was holding a box in one hand and two bags in the other, looked quite strange. He didn't look very old, just like her own older brother, and there was something about him that made him stand out despite not being particularly handsome. In her heart, she wondered: when did the school get such a young teacher?

  It's no wonder Yan Ruyu thought that way, Chu Jia's strong and elegant temperament is just like a teacher, plus he walked into the teachers' dormitory, so it's 80% likely that he's a teacher!

  Two people came up to the second floor together and saw Chu Jiaqiang also stopping, Yan Ruyu was even more surprised.

  "Are you here to visit Mr. Gu, sir?" asked Yan Ruyu.

  Chu Jiaqiang had long noticed this schoolgirl, who looked very pretty. Compared to Ye Caiping, she was a bit less fashionable but more innocent and pure. Anyway, they were both beauties. Hearing the question, he couldn't help but say awkwardly: "Hehe! I'm not a teacher, indeed I came to visit Mr. Gu, my former high school teacher who taught me for three years from freshman to senior year, our class advisor, a very responsible teacher."

  Yan's face turned red as she realized her own misunderstanding.

  Chu Jiaqiang knocked on the door, and an old woman opened it immediately. Seeing a young man and a female student, she was taken aback for a moment: "Come in quickly! Are you looking for Old Gu?"

  "Master's wife, don't you remember me? It's Jiaqiang, the one who used to come over for meals all the time." Chu Jiaqiang was delighted to see this old woman, who had been very kind to him in the past. After learning of his parents' passing, she would often invite him over for dinner, allowing Chu Jiaqiang to find a sense of warmth in this desolate city.

  Yan Yuruo was extremely surprised. Judging from the appearance, this senior is very familiar with Mr. Gu. Being able to come over frequently to freeload meals, it can be imagined that he's not simple at all.

  The old lady looked at Chu Jiaqiang again and the memories of five or six years ago came out.

  "Oh dear! It's been a long time! Five or six years, I think! You didn't come to see us, and you'd really forgotten about us! As people get older, they can't remember anything. Come in quickly! Why are you still holding so many things? Let me take some of them!" Old Lady Gu was overjoyed to recognize Chu Jiaqiang, her wrinkled face breaking into a warm smile.

  "I'll take it in! Mother-in-law, you can go slowly." Chu Jiaqiang walked in, and Yan Ruyu followed behind him.

  "Old Gu, you old fellow, aren't you coming out yet? Your proud student has come to visit you." Old Lady Gu shouted loudly towards the inside.

  "Hello, Brother Gu and Sister-in-law! Oh! How old is the little guy?" Chu Jiaqiang greeted them one by one. The middle-aged man wearing glasses in front of him was Gu Hai, the son of Teacher Gu, who was busy cooking. Both were teachers at Education City, with Brother Gu teaching high school and his wife teaching junior high. What he didn't expect was a little boy, probably three or four years old, looking quite mischievous.

  Yan Ruyu behind also greeted him, but it wasn't as natural as Chu Jiaqiang.

  "Haha! I was wondering which little guy it was. You've been gone for over five years without a word." Gu Da Ge patted Chu Jiaqiang's shoulder.

  Gu Da Sao took over the things from Chu Jiaqiang, and upon inspection, found that the bag contained yellow croaker and crab, which looked quite ferocious and larger than those sold outside. These two items were not cheap, with prices ranging from several dozen yuan per kilogram. She then opened the box, revealing a batch of fresh peaches as big as bowls, their sweet aroma wafting up to her face. Peaches of this quality were also not inexpensive; as someone who frequently bought vegetables and fruits, she was well aware that they would cost at least six or seven yuan per kilogram.

  "What's the point of being so extravagant?" said Mrs. Gu with some reproach, while Old Lady Gu also scolded them with a stern face.

  Chu's family head scratched his head and said with embarrassment: "These are all raised by ourselves, planted by ourselves, no expense at all!"