It was enrollment season once more, and the very best junior highschool in Peng County, the experimental junior excessive, had no scarcity of scholars. Mother and father whose youngsters hadn’t already been assigned to the college had been looking excessive and low for methods to get their baby admitted, hoping they’d get a greater training and transfer on to an excellent highschool sooner or later.

This yr was totally different from earlier years, as a result of Peng County Experimental Junior Excessive had a brand new coverage: the college was going to conduct a recruitment examination to fill the 2 experimental courses. The take a look at was open to all major faculty college students within the county who’d graduated within the earlier yr. Each scholar who scored within the high eighty on the take a look at may enter the experimental class, and it didn’t matter if that they had an city or rural family registration. After all, most individuals didn’t really know what an experimental class was, however they’d heard that every one the highest college students could be assigned there, and the academics would select solely the very best. As quickly because the information was launched, a crowd of fogeys rushed over to enroll.

On the day of the examination, about an hour earlier than the scheduled beginning time, a number of youngsters carrying textbooks had been already standing outdoors the examination room ready for the door to open. Most of those youngsters had been rural college students who had been afraid of being late, in order that they’d arrived further early.

Forty-five minutes earlier than the take a look at, chief examiner Li Lu opened the door of the second examination room and watched the room progressively fill. After exchanging a look with the deputy examiner, Mr. Luo, he turned to the blackboard and wrote down the principles of the examination room, the variety of take a look at pages, and the top time of the examination.

Ultimately the bell rang and it was time handy out the examination papers. The instructor glanced on the second seat within the first row. The examination was about to start, however one of many college students hadn’t arrived but. It have to be some pampered baby who’d given up on the examination. Li Lu wasn’t very shocked. He’d taught on the experimental junior excessive for years and had seen quite a lot of spoiled youngsters.

“I’m right here!”

Li Lu seemed on the door. A considerably skinny boy had simply arrived. The kid’s shirt and trousers had been previous and worn, however they had been very clear. At first look he seemed like an excellent child. 

“Are available in shortly. The examination’s about to start.”

The boy bowed to the instructor, walked shortly to the second seat within the first row, and sat down. Li Lu watched because the boy took out his provides in an orderly manner. He didn’t appear upset or troubled, so the instructor seemed away.

In spite of everything, if the instructor stored observing one of many examinees, it would make the kid nervous and have an effect on his rating. It wasn’t simple for a kid from a poor household to get an opportunity to enter a college like this. If the boy did nicely on the examination, he’d have a greater likelihood of doing nicely in life.

Actually, this scholar actually did go away early for the examination. He didn’t wish to be late like he was in his earlier life, when he virtually missed the take a look at fully. However because it turned out, on the way in which to high school, he encountered a toddler with a damaged arm. At first he didn’t wish to get entangled, however when he noticed the pitiful-looking ten-year-old child squatting within the sizzling solar along with his head bowed and his face flushed, he determined to take him to the clinic for bandaging. He additionally helped the injured baby name the police earlier than he rushed over to the experimental junior excessive. And that was why, on this life, he was almost late for the examination once more.

Shen Shao sat down in his seat and picked up the take a look at paper. The primary set of questions wasn’t particularly tough. When the bell rang to sign the beginning of the examination, he picked up his pen and commenced to fill within the solutions.

The admission take a look at for the experimental class consisted of two topics, Chinese language and arithmetic. After he completed the Chinese language take a look at within the morning, Shen Shao left the college on his personal, discovered a café, and acquired a bowl of rice noodles and a few vegetable buns. When he seemed on the crowded however dilapidated road outdoors, he sighed.

He’d opened his eyes two days in the past and located himself in the home he’d lived in as a toddler. On the time he thought he was dreaming, however now he was sure he’d returned to age eleven. That was the yr his father was figuring out of city and received blended up with one other lady, and his mom was so upset she drank half a bottle of dichlorvos pesticide. Earlier than she made it to the hospital, she was useless. All the village scolded his father, however he simply packed up his baggage and went off to search out his mistress. After that they by no means noticed him once more.

It was a pity Shen Shao had returned too late. There was already grass rising on his mom’s grave, and he had no thought what hidey-hole his father ran off to with that lady. Shen Shao was left alone to maintain watch over a small, one story home and slightly greater than ten thousand yuan in financial savings left by his mom.

The rice noodles didn’t style that good, and the vegetable stuffing within the steamed bun was slightly greasy, however Shen Shao ate each little bit of his meal, together with the broth. The mathematics examination wasn’t till three o’clock. He didn’t have an excellent place to spend the remainder of his lunch break, so he merely went to the close by Xinhua bookstore to waste time. It was too sizzling to attend round outdoors, however the Xinhua retailer had air con and free books to learn.

There weren’t many individuals within the bookstore at midday. Shen Shao discovered a e-book within the classics part and squatted within the nook to learn. A clerk got here by a number of instances to kind books, and when he noticed the half-grown baby studying an grownup translation of a well-known work, he did a double take. The clerk observed him sitting in an uncomfortable place, and he discovered Shen Shao some previous newspapers to sit down on.

At two o’clock, Shen Shao put the e-book again, returned the newspapers, and thanked the clerk earlier than leaving the bookstore. The second he left the shop, a wave of warmth swept over his face. He touched his brow, blinked on the dazzling daylight outdoors, and walked again to the experimental junior highschool immediately.

In his earlier life, he wasn’t capable of go to varsity, and he refused to undergo this life with the identical regrets. If he didn’t treasure his new life, what was the purpose of a second likelihood? Was it simply to extend the nation’s GDP, or to exhale carbon dioxide for crops to photosynthesize?

For Shen Shao the maths examination was slightly simpler than the Chinese language examination. When he answered examination questions within the morning, there was a query a few poem he needed to go away clean. It was solely price one level, however when he thought-about that as a thirty-year-old he couldn’t even reply a query meant for major faculty college students, he felt inept.

After ending the examination questions, he nonetheless had quite a lot of time left earlier than he wanted handy within the take a look at paper. He checked his reply sheet many times to substantiate he hadn’t stuffed in something incorrect or omitted his ID quantity. Then he handed within the take a look at early. In spite of everything, it took greater than an hour to journey from the county again to his house. If he stayed too late he may find yourself strolling at midnight.

When he left the college it was virtually 5 o’clock within the afternoon. The solar was nonetheless dazzling, however what was much more dazzling was the black Mercedes-Benz idling close to the college gate. The black car was so clear and dust-free it mirrored a glare of sunshine into individuals’s eyes.

Anybody who may drive such a giant Benz nowadays could be considered rich by abnormal individuals. With that sort of automobile stopped on the gate, pedestrians checked out it and questioned which scholar’s mother and father had been wealthy sufficient to drive round in such a automobile.

After Shen Shao took a number of steps, a middle-aged man in a swimsuit received out of the Mercedes-Benz and walked straight to him.

“Excuse me, are you Pupil Shen Shao?” The center-aged man was very well mannered. When speaking to Shen Shao, he intentionally bent down to talk to him at eye degree.

Shen Shao backed up a step, in the direction of the college gate. “Do you want one thing?”

The center-aged man gave him a well mannered smile, took out an envelope from his coat pocket, and handed it to Shen Shao. “Thanks on your assist this morning. This can be a small token of appreciation from our grasp.”

After serious about it for a second, Shen Shao guessed this man is likely to be related to the injured baby he met this morning. How did they discover him? He seemed on the envelope however didn’t attain for it. “Uncle, there’s no must thank me. It isn’t a giant deal. Our academics all the time say we must always study from the instance of Uncle Lei Feng, so I can’t settle for your thanks present.”

The center-aged man checked out this skinny boy, who talked so solemnly about studying from Uncle Lei Feng, and thought he was an sincere and well-behaved baby. The person glanced on the black Mercedes-Benz behind him, then tucked the envelope into Shen Shao’s pocket with none additional ado. “Academics additionally inform us that good youngsters needs to be rewarded. Goodbye, baby.” The person turned and received into the automobile. It shortly drove away, as if afraid Shen Shao would attempt to return the envelope.

Shen Shao glanced on the individuals who had been coming and going round him. With out wanting contained in the envelope, he put it into the college bag he was carrying with him, then walked away shortly with the bag below his arm.

After he returned to the village, some villagers who had been working within the fields noticed him and went over to ask with concern how he did within the examination. A few of them thought it wasn’t simple for a kid to stay alone. They made him settle for some homegrown vegatables and fruits.

This stuff weren’t price a lot cash, however Shen Shao very a lot appreciated the pleasant gesture.

Again in his small, ramshackle bungalow, Shen Shao cleaned up the home first, then picked by the cabbage the villagers gave him. Earlier than he completed washing it, he heard his aunt calling on the door.

“Xiao Shao, are you again?” Liu ShuLian was holding an enamel bowl of stewed hen soup. When she noticed Shen Shao sporting an outsized shirt and washing a head of cabbage by himself, she felt sorry for him. She put the enamel bowl on the chopping board, pushed Shen Shao away from the counter, and helped him end cleansing. “I cooked a hen this afternoon. Have some soup to revive your well being.”

The kid had been learning arduous the previous few days, and there weren’t any adults at house to maintain him. She needed him to maneuver in together with her household, however her home was full of youngsters and previous individuals. It wasn’t an excellent atmosphere for somebody who was making an attempt to review. It was higher this manner—she and her husband steadily got here by to maintain Xiao Shao, and so they didn’t have to fret about her youngsters quarreling with him.

“Thanks, Eldest Aunt. Did you’ve gotten some soup already?” Shen Shao seemed on the bowl of hen soup on the chopping board. It emitted a wealthy perfume, and there was a hen leg inside.

“Don’t fear. It was a giant, fats hen. 5 or 6 kilograms. Our household can’t end it on our personal, and we will’t retailer the leftovers in the summertime warmth. It’s best to assist us eat slightly to keep away from losing it.” Liu ShuLian felt a pang to see that Shen Shao was so wise at such a younger age. When she thought of how her second brother-in-law ran away with one other lady and not using a care on the planet, she thought he was actually the worst. However she’d married into the Shen household, and it wasn’t her place to say it. “Was the examination arduous? It’s been so sizzling these days. It’s best to have an excellent relaxation at house. Don’t exit and get warmth stroke.”

“Okay.” Shen Shao nodded with a smile. “Don’t fear, Eldest Aunt. I’ll undoubtedly move the examination.” In his earlier life, he was in unhealthy form and struggled to get fiftieth place on the take a look at. However now he had a further twenty years of expertise. He needed to make them depend.

Liu ShuLian gave a number of extra phrases of recommendation, then noticed that it was getting late. She needed to rush house to feed the pigs, so she left in a rush.

After seeing off his eldest aunt, Shen Shao completed his meal. Then he went to his faculty bag and took out the envelope the middle-aged man had compelled on him. Inside, he discovered a stack of blue-green hundred yuan payments. There have to be at the very least twenty or thirty of them.

Proper now you might purchase a home for as little as three or 4 hundred yuan per sq. meter, but this particular person’s model of a small thanks was two or three thousand yuan. Positively an area tyrant.

When Shen Shao pulled the payments from the envelope, a slip of paper fell out. On it had been written two phrases: ‘Thanks’. The handwriting was cautious and neat, prefer it belonged to a toddler.

Shen Shao counted the cash. A full 2,600 yuan. When he was carried out counting, he turned and seemed on the calendar on the wall.

August 22, 1996

He’d transmigrated almost twenty years into the previous and returned as soon as once more to this empty home. At first he couldn’t assist however marvel why he hadn’t returned six months earlier—and stopped his mom’s suicide—however there was no manner he was going to waste this sort of alternative.

He was going to make his dream a actuality, as a substitute of letting it stay a dream.

TL Notes:

Welcome! ٩(◕‿◕)۶ This can be a nice rebirth BL story with a pushed MC who’s very centered on getting cash, and a genius ML who’s candy and considerably autistic and really fascinated by MC ♥  

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junior highschool – 中学 – A college that features grades 7, 8, and 9. In my nation, “center faculty” means grades 6-8, so I went with “junior excessive”

experimental junior highschool – 实验中学 – I interpret “experimental” to imply a college that pulls higher-quality college students by utilizing newer or extra rigorous educating strategies

dichlorvos – 敌敌畏 – Also called DDVP. An insecticide used on crops, animals, and to manage family pests (Wikipedia)

yuan – 元 – The unit of foreign money in China. 1 yuan is split into 100 fen

Xinhua Bookstore – 新华书店 – China’s largest bookstore chain

uncle – 叔叔 – shūshu – Father’s youthful brother. A typical type of tackle for a male who’s one era senior to you

Lei Feng – 雷锋 – A soldier within the Individuals’s Liberation Military who was the thing of a number of main propaganda campaigns in China. Essentially the most well-known of those campaigns in 1963 promoted the slogan, “Comply with the instance of Comrade Lei Feng.” Lei was portrayed as a mannequin citizen, and the lots had been inspired to emulate his selflessness, modesty, and devotion to Mao (Wikipedia)

xiao – 小 – Little, small, younger. Generally utilized in nicknames

Eldest Aunt – 大伯母 – dà bómǔ – Spouse of father’s oldest brother. The spouse of the second brother could be known as “Second Aunt”, and so forth.

native tyrant – 土豪 – A typical time period for a wealthy and highly effective landlord or native bullying gentry in previous society villages (Baidu)

Transliterated names, locations, and titles—new on this chapter:

Shen Shao – 沈邵 – Shěn shào – Our MC

Peng County – 蓬县

Li Lu – 李禄

Mr. Luo – 罗老师 – Luō lǎoshī. Alternatively: Trainer Luo

Benz – 奔驰

Pupil Shen Shao – 沈邵同学 – Shěn Shào tóngxué. Alternatively: Classmate Shen Shao

Uncle Lei Feng – 雷锋叔叔 – Léi Fēng shūshu

Xiao Shao – 小邵 – A nickname for MC

Liu ShuLian – 刘淑莲 – MC’s aunt, married to MC’s eldest paternal uncle. Be aware: The title given for this character in Chapter 1 is “Zhang ShuLian” (张淑莲), however each chapter after that her title is “Liu ShuLian”. I modified it right here to be constant