Chapter 19.2

Chu Xiaoyi suddenly realized that his mother felt that there were only SR-level kids in the kindergarten.

She wanted to send Chu Xiaoxiao to a school with only SSR-level kids!

Chu Xiaoyi was originally a little anxious, but when he heard that his parents had already made arrangements, his mood calmed down.

When he left kindergarten a while ago, he felt a little down. He was afraid that his sister would lose at the starting line, so he frantically researched overseas summer camp projects, and even thought that he could take her abroad.

Chu Xiaoyi’s pressure was suddenly removed by half. He couldn’t help muttering, “Actually, it’s not that exaggerated. Didn’t I just read casually when I was in school, why didn’t you bother with it so much?”

Chu Xiaoyi felt that education plans in kindergarten should not be that critical. It mainly depended on their plans after primary school; there should be no hurry to change places like this. His kindergarten experience  was simple and laidback, he just gradually focused starting at middle school, as it was directly related to his fate at the college entrance examination.

Chu Jiadong had been silent all along. Hearing this, he was disapproving, and suddenly spoke, “How could we not bother?”

Chu Xiaoyi shrugged lazily, “I haven’t mixed up like this since I was a child, and I haven’t carefully studied at school like this. At most, I took some extracurricular classes, or my mother ordered for me to attend it. But it did not matter to you.”

Chu Xiaoyi felt that his childhood was extremely simple. He completed kindergarten, primary school, and junior high school in the old city, and then privately signed up for some interest classes, and there were no other arrangements.

Of course, he was not a child prodigy when he was a child, and it was not right to compare himself with his sister. It’s only normal for SSRs to have preferential treatment.

Chu Xiaoyi now planned to give his sister a full set of equipment, not to mention Chu Jiadong and Xiao Bi, and he did not mean to be harsh.

When the two parents heard this, they quieted down. Xiao Bi’s lips moved, as if determined to say something, “Xiaoyi…”

Chu Jiadong seemed to have guessed what she was going to say. He hurriedly waved his hand and stopped it loudly, “Hey…”

Ignoring her husband’s reaction, Xiao Bi insisted, “Xiaoyi, it’s not like that. Your internet class was not signed up by me, but a decision made after discussion with your father.”

Chu Xiaoyi showed a stunned look, and then questioned, “But my father was not at home at that time…”

Xiao Bi told him, “We didn’t want to tell you before, for fear that you would feel uncomfortable and stressed. At that time, it cost you 60,000 yuan a year to sign up for classes, and I earned at most 10,000 yuan a month in school…I couldn’t get this money alone.”

“Your father was busy for three or four months…when he took home fifty-four thousand, I added another six thousand yuan to register you to those classes.”

When Chu Xiaoyi heard this, his body stiffened. It was like a thunderbolt suddenly struck on a sunny day, and a terrifying wave filled up his heart.

These numbers didn’t sound like much today, not even as expensive as the equipment at Chu Xiaoyi’s apartment, but they were astronomical at that time.

When Chu Xiaoyi was young, the house price in the capital was only 10,000 yuan per flat. Now, the same flat would amount to an additional zero at the end of that 10,000 yuan.

“You were still young at that time, you didn’t know the situation at home. We were afraid to tell you the truth, as it would make you more troubled.”

“In fact, your tuition should be more expensive than Xiaoxiao. After all, at that time, our family wasn’t able to earn too much money, and the proportion of our expenditure was different back then.’”

Xiao Bi settled the accounts one by one. She couldn’t tell her son the truth in the past, but now it’s different. Chu Xiaoyi grew up and became an adult. He already has his independent finances, and these were things of the past.

Chu Xiaoyi thought about it carefully and found that his mother’s words were not wrong.

Their family used to live in an old building in an old city, and his childhood life was not filled with rich experiences. But later his father went out to plan and open a company. The conditions became better and better, and they even bought a new house in Yurongtai Community* in one full payment.

*T/N: Name of the subdivision where they currently reside

It’s just that time flies fast, and Chu Xiaoyi’s memory has been blurred by the years, leaving only some beautiful moments, no longer able to remember most of the details. He had not felt poor since he was a child, but his childhood was indeed not as rich as he is now, and his father did not stay at home often.

Chu Jiadong rubbed his hands uneasily and he touched his nose awkwardly. He stood up abruptly, and said in a muffled voice, “Okay, okay, what’s the point of mentioning the past… things will just get better and better…”

“It’s not like this at home!”

Chu Jiadong seemed to be afraid of the atmosphere in the house. He turned around and fled out of the bedroom, “I’ll go see Xiaoxiao!”

Chu Jiadong was not a man who expressed his feelings directly. He subconsciously felt uneasy, so he didn’t dare to stay any longer.

Chu Xiaoyi saw him flee in a hurry, and said in a trembling voice, “Then why do you still have to sign me up? What if it didn’t work out as well as you hoped…”

“Since the conditions at home were not so good, why did you have to sign me up for a class?”

He was not even a child prodigy.

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