Chapter 4 I want to take the foreign language department + college entrance examination

  With more than a month to go before the college entrance exam, Su Qing sold all her stocks and prepared to focus on reviewing for the exam. Su's mother went to the bank to check the account and found that there was an extra million yuan in it, thinking she had made a mistake. Although her daughter had told her beforehand that the money wasn't small, she hadn't expected the amount to be so huge.

  To celebrate Su Qing's first successful stock investment, the family of four prepared to have a good celebration in the evening. Su Qing accompanied her mother on a trip to the supermarket, where they bought chicken, duck, fish, meat, vegetables, and seafood. After returning home, the mother-daughter duo busied themselves in the kitchen for a while, and soon a table full of home-cooked dishes was ready. The Longjing shrimp, scallion oil fish, Kung Pao chicken, sugar vinegar ribs, earth three fresh, and mushroom egg soup were all delicious, and everyone ate with great relish.

  After dinner, the whole family sat together drinking tea and chatting. Her parents reminded Su Qing to review well and asked her what major she wanted to study.

  "Fine, for a family like ours to continue and develop, the children usually choose to develop in the military or political circles. Your brother said he wants to do something practical for the people and chose to enter politics. Although our family doesn't have much of a foundation in politics, having your second uncle take care of things will also increase our family's chips in politics. As a girl, the military isn't very suitable for you, but entering politics is possible. Your brother has chosen sociology, now he wants to know your thoughts, whether or not you want to enter politics." Father took a sip of tea and waited seriously for Su Qing's response, while Mother and Brother were also thinking deeply on the side.

  Su Qing knew that starting from family development, everyone hoped she would enter politics, and maybe in ten or twenty years, she would have some achievements. But in Su Qing's view, the time was too long; also, Su Qing didn't want to limit her development space only domestically. Su Qing wanted to do business, on this big stage of the world, fully display her talents, use her own way to make those family members and herself interact. She also had an idea to travel around every corner of the world, appreciate the beauty of the world, at the same time, those diamonds and jade were very attractive, must go to the mining area to get some. The idea was good but couldn't go anywhere with a translator, so decided to take the foreign language college exam.

  "I've decided to take the foreign language college entrance exam." Su Qing said firmly and turned back

  "It's okay to study a foreign language for future work in the embassy or Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but it won't get you to a high position." Su's father was somewhat puzzled by his daughter's decision and wondered why she chose to major in a foreign language.

  "I plan to go into business and travel around the world, but I'm worried that language barriers will cause a lot of trouble. I never thought about going into politics." Su Qing knew her father had misunderstood and quickly explained.

  "Why don't you study business administration or economics if you want to do business?" Su's mother was puzzled by her daughter's idea.

  "For business leaders, grasping the overall direction of enterprise development and learning to identify talent is enough, there's no need to be personally involved in everything." This is what Su Qing thinks.

  "After a moment of silence, Father spoke up: 'Since you've already made your decision, we as parents will support you. Although this path may be difficult to walk and the family can't offer much help, I believe in you.'"

  Regarding Su Qing's career, a final decision has been made. Su Chen sighed that his sister had her own ideas and dared to make decisions about her political career and development direction, which was more courageous than himself. However, he didn't know that their father was worried about how Grandfather in the military compound would react to this result, whether he would smash his cup.

  The discussion has ended. Su Chen thought that his sister would not just learn one or two languages, so he playfully chased after her and asked which major in the foreign language department she wanted to attend.

  A few days later, when Old Master Su found out, he was furious and scolded Su Qing, saying that she didn't know what's good for her, never participated in family gatherings or kept in touch with relatives, unlike her cousin who is a board member. Now the path paved by the family is not taken, instead wanting to do business on her own. The old master angrily said that from now on, he wouldn't care about Su Qing's matters anymore, and when she falls down and cries later, don't come looking for him. Su Qing was scolded by his father, taking the blame as a child being foolish, but deep down firmly believing that Su Qing would succeed, thinking that this daughter of his is not ordinary from long ago.

  Su Qing finally waited for the day of the college entrance examination, and in the morning, her mother made a rich nutritious breakfast; her father repeatedly reminded her to carefully review the questions and answer them according to the rules; her brother, who was an excellent student, taught her exam skills; even her grandparents called to wish her success. The whole family cheered her on and sent her off with their blessings as she entered the examination hall. But the examination process was frustrating and laughable.

  Su Qing was stopped by someone who thought she was a junior high school student walking into the wrong place when she entered the examination room, and only after showing her admission certificate to the invigilator did she enter the examination room under everyone's astonished gaze.

  Su Qing was fully focused on the exam paper, and as a result, she finished answering it very quickly. She sat in the examination room checking her answers over and over again, wanting to wait until the end of the exam time to hand in her paper with the other students, not wanting to stand out too much. However, her behavior was not perceived that way by the invigilating teacher.

  The tall and thin male teacher wearing glasses looked at Su Qing with a scowl on his face, as if he had seen something disgusting, and stared at her without blinking. Feeling uncomfortable under the gaze of the teacher, Su Qing looked up and smiled at him, not understanding why she was making him unhappy. If she knew what the teacher was thinking, she would probably be depressed to the point of vomiting.

  The teacher thought: "This little girl looks quite cute, but coming to take the college entrance exam at such a young age must think it's fun. Looking at how quickly she finished answering the questions and now just flipping through the paper back and forth, what's the use? The answers won't come out on their own. I'll keep a close eye on her and not let her have any chance to cheat." Su Qing felt very uncomfortable under the teacher's constant stare and eventually handed in her paper early and left the examination room.

  In the following exams, Su Qing simply finished answering the papers and checked them once before handing them in. Especially for math, she handed it in within half an hour, and the invigilating teacher looked at Su Qing with a surprised gaze as he held the neatly written papers.

  Su Chen had no classes this afternoon and finished the club activities early, went home to ask about his sister's exam situation. On the way home, he heard a lot of discussions from students who just finished their exams.

  "This year there was a young examinee who looked like he was only thirteen or fourteen years old."

  "I really want to know how she learned it, what a genius!"

  "This year's exam questions are really a lot, I almost didn't finish."

  "It's fine as long as it's done, I heard many people complaining about not finishing when we were leaving the exam hall. But I heard that a little girl finished and left within an hour, and her paper was filled with answers."

  "This time's math problems are really difficult, I had no idea about two of them and left them blank when submitting the paper."

  "You can't keep up, right? That girl finished and handed in her paper in half an hour, the proctor's eyes were wide with amazement."

  All the way, Su Chen listened to the candidates discussing that clever and unbelievable candidate, he smiled, his intuition told him that person was his own sister, Su Qing.

  When Su Chen returned home, she saw that her sister had already prepared two snacks. While eating tea and snacks, she was teasing the two pets, not worried about the exam results at all.

  "Qing Qing is back so early and even handed in her paper ahead of time." Su Qing's tone was clearly affirmative.

  "Yes, there's nothing to do in the examination room but wait for the exam time to end, it's really painful. This time the number of questions is a bit more, I ended up writing for over 40 minutes, my wrist hurts." Su Qing said seriously.

  Su Chen rolled her eyes and wondered what expressions the other examinees would have on their faces after hearing her sister's words.

  "Sister, now that you've finished your exam, is there anything you'd like to do? Brother will accompany you."

  "So, tomorrow you'll accompany me to Liulichang and we'll take a good stroll around. Who knows, maybe we can find some treasures." Su Qing really wanted to go to Liulichang and take a good walk around, although most of the goods there were fake, but if she was lucky, she might occasionally come across real goods or even snag a great bargain.

  Su Chen saw his sister was very enthusiastic, so he happily agreed.