Rebirth of the Millennial: Getting Rich After Parents Get Laid Off

Chapter 47 Entering the finals
The task of sending Shen Yangyang to kindergarten was assigned to Shen Rongzhou and her grandfather Zhang Mingfang.

Shen Rongzhou has a monthly holiday on Mondays and Tuesdays, so he has time to pick up and drop off people. After the monthly holiday, Zhang Mingfang will take over the pick-up and drop-off.

Li Xunli called Shen Rongzhou and her father separately to inform them about this matter.

Then he remembered what Wu Jingyuan said yesterday. After thinking about it, he called Li Xunjin to get Wu Jingyuan's phone number.

After getting the phone number, Li Xunli dialed it.

Wu Jingyuan quickly picked up the phone: "Hello, hello, who is this?"

"Brother Jingyuan, it's me. My friend and I are going to look at a batch of raw materials tomorrow, and I wanted to ask if you would like to go with us and take a look at the materials you want so that you can make a decision when the time comes." Li Xunli explained the matter in a few words.

Wu Jingyuan seemed to be busy with something, and after a while he replied, "That's fine. I can't make progress that quickly at the moment. What time tomorrow? How many days will you be gone?"

"I'm leaving at seven tomorrow morning and going to the station to buy a ticket. I'll probably be gone for four or five days." Li Xunli told the truth.

"Okay, then see you tomorrow morning. Is it okay for us to meet at your house?" Wu Jingyuan was straightforward and didn't drag his feet.

After all, clothes are really seasonal. The prices of new clothes of the season and those of out-of-season clothes, even if they are new, are very different.

"Sure, see you tomorrow, Brother Jingyuan." After Li Xunli made the appointment, she called Zhang Hengyun and told her that a friend of hers was going with her and he would cover the travel expenses.

Zhang Hengyun didn't disagree, and the two of them confirmed the time again before hanging up the phone.

When Shen Rongzhou came back in the evening, Li Xunli was still busy at the porcelain kiln. When Shen Qing came out of the shower, her father was playing with Shen Yangyang in the living room.

"Qingqing, your mother is going on a business trip, so Dad will go shopping this morning. Do you want anything to eat?"

Shen Rongzhou is from the neighboring province, so his taste is spicy and salty, and the cooking methods of some dishes are also similar to those in his hometown.

But Shen Qingqing was born and raised in Chaocheng and had a very light taste. When her father cooked for her family, Shen Qingqing would always complain that the food was too salty and she had to drink two more glasses of water after each meal.

Shen Qingqing thought about her father's recipe, which was not much different from her own. She shook her head and said, "I don't have anything special I want to eat, but don't make it too salty."

Shen Rongzhou agreed with a smile.

However, on the first day of Li Xunli's business trip, there was a lot of leftover food at lunch because her father misjudged the amount of food that an adult and two children should eat. The leftovers had to be heated up for dinner.

Originally, Shen Rongzhou bought ingredients for one day's cooking and saved some for one meal the next day.

Her father had two days off and misjudged her appetite for two days.

On Wednesday afternoon, Shen Qingqing came home early from school. Looking at the three plates of leftovers frozen in the freezer, she was silent for a long time, but still had to take them out to thaw and heat them up.

It was at this moment that Shen Qingqing clearly realized how great her mother's behavior was of always paying for the last meal.

In November, the weather was a little cool in the morning and evening, but still hot at noon. Shen Qingqing put a coat in her schoolbag and put it on when she went to school in the morning.

The results of the first round of semi-finals have also come out. She, Wu Ziqi, and Chen Qingyu have all successfully entered the first round finals.

In other words, as long as they pass the finals and get into the top five, they will get tickets to participate in the city-level competition!
Shen Qingqing still made it to the finals with a perfect score, while Wu Ziqi and Chen Qingyu barely made it. Chen Qingyu's gaze towards Shen Qingqing was no longer one of scrutiny, but of admiration and sympathy.

After all, he had been forced to read those classics since he was a child, and he was still reading them when he was eleven years old.

But Shen Qingqing was only seven years old, yet she was able to reach the finals like him, and she got full marks in the first two rounds.

How strict is this family?!
Shen Qingqing didn't know what Chen Qingyu was thinking, but when she saw the sympathetic look in Chen Qingyu's eyes, she was very puzzled.

However, I have finally reached the finals. As long as I get into the top five, I can win a prize of 50 yuan and make a challenge for the 150 yuan prize of the city competition!

No matter how small the amount of money is, it is still money. What's more, for an elementary school student, the total amount is quite a lot!

She actually wanted to buy Teng's stocks. The price of Teng's stocks was still relatively low right now. Unfortunately, her uncle didn't have a Hong Kong stock account, so she had to ask her uncle to find a way to get one and buy Teng's stocks.

Only those with money can withstand the impact of the economic fluctuations in 2008.

When Shen Qingqing came back from her trance, the Chinese teacher had just finished praising and encouraging the three of them and got to the point.

"The finals are very tight. They're happening this weekend. I heard from the competition committee that the finals will be closer to the difficulty of the city-level preliminary rounds, so in terms of difficulty, it will definitely be much more difficult than the preliminary and semi-finals."

"But you've all passed the preliminary and semi-finals, and your results are already quite good. Especially Qingqing, who passed both rounds with full marks. Even if you can't get a spot in the finals, you still have a chance next year!"

Shen Qingqing nodded obediently. It doesn't matter whether it's next year or not. I will get all the bonus I can get this year anyway.

However, she remembered that when she participated in this competition in the fourth grade in her previous life, her homeroom teacher seemed to tell her that if she won the first prize in the provincial competition, she would not be able to participate in the competition again in the next two years.

Shen Qingqing silently set a goal for herself, that is, she would work hard to win the second prize this year!

The first prize comes and goes, but the second prize is permanent. This might be a gimmick that people will remember!
I once again got the review materials for the finals from my Chinese teacher. This time, there was also a test paper, but the style was different from the previous two competitions.

It is becoming difficult to directly see the answers from the questions, and confusing options are beginning to appear in the answers.

Shen Qingqing was flipping through the test paper as she walked down the stairs.

I thought to myself, no wonder each primary school has to hold a round of auditions first. If they just pick five people to participate in the city-level competition, it will be a big problem if they don’t even understand the questions.

Shen Qingqing just focused on reviewing. Every day after school, she would go back to her room after cooking. Based on the style of the test paper, she would expand on the answers to many similar questions and do reverse deductions.

She told Shen Rongzhou that she was going to participate in the finals, and asked Shen Rongzhou to send Shen Yangyang to her grandmother's house when he went to work on Saturday.

Shen Rongzhou was originally going to drive his car by himself starting in November, but because Li Xunli had not returned yet, he had to apply for a one-week postponement to leave time to take care of the two children at home.

At the same time and the same place, when Shen Qingqing followed her Chinese teacher to Yanqi Primary School again, there were only three examination rooms left for the finals. Those who came to participate in the competition could all stand in the open space in front of the teaching building, and there was no need to divide the waiting area.

The waiting time before entering the examination room was even quieter than during the rematch.

When the announcement sounded, notifying the contestants to enter the examination room in turn, the Chinese teacher reached out and patted the three of them on the shoulders, "Relax, if you can write, then write. If you can't, just treat it as expanding your extracurricular knowledge. You can make up for it when you fail!"

　The next chapter should be around eleven o'clock~
　　I'll try to be early~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)