Genius Club.

Chapter 172 Mother
"More than 300 points?"

Lin Xian remembered very clearly that in the year of their college entrance examination, with more than 300 points, they couldn't even get into a junior college, and it was still far from the passing score...not to mention being admitted to Hu Nan University.

"Yes." The head teacher looked a little sad:

"You all had already filled out the online application that year. His score was not even high enough to pass the junior college admission line, so he was not even eligible to fill out the application... So how could he be admitted to Hu Nan University? Not to mention Hu Nan University, no university could have admitted him."

Lin Xian understood.

He rummaged through the file box, which contained photos of admission letters printed out by the class teacher. Many acquaintances had seen them, and Lin Xian also saw his own, as well as Gao Yang's college admission letter.

Turn to the bottom and there is a single printed paper folded in half.

Lin Xian opened it and saw...

really.

It is Zhou Duanyun’s admission letter.

Hunan University, major in Computer Science.

Just from looking at this printed photo, Lin Xian couldn't tell whether it was real or fake. It had all the necessary elements, including the principal's signature and the school's red seal.

But on the Internet today, it is not difficult to create a fake admission letter. It is just a matter of photoshopping it and taking some time to print it in color.

The main thing is that it is useless to forge this thing...

Reporting to school with the admission letter is just a formality.

The key is that the school has your admission information. In fact, even if the admission letter is lost, it will not affect your reporting to the university.

and so.

Lin Xian also roughly figured out the whole story of Zhou Duanyun's incident -

It is very likely that he forged a fake admission letter out of vanity or for some other reason.

Because Zhou Duanyun had few friends and little communication in the class, no one cared about him.

When the head teacher asked everyone for photos of their admission letters, Zhou Duanyun was definitely unwilling to send it to the head teacher.

But when his mother found out, she came all the way and showed the class teacher the admission letter of her proudest son.

The head teacher naturally knew that Zhou Duanyun's admission letter was fake. He knew better than anyone how many points Zhou Duanyun had scored.

only……

Faced with this happy and excited poor mother, he couldn't tell the truth and just kept it hidden.

"Later, I also asked some classmates to learn about Zhou Duanyun."

The head teacher turned around and continued:
"After all, his admission letter was fake, so he definitely couldn't report to the university. I was definitely worried that this kid would take a detour or get into trouble, so I asked someone to find out more about him."

"But no one knew much about him. They all thought he went to college, and some people said he won the lottery after the college entrance examination and bought a lot of brand-name clothes, an Apple phone, a high-end computer, and a belt."

"But actually... the lottery winning thing is also fake."

Lin Xian narrowed his eyes:

“Is it fake too?”

Is there anything real about Zhou Duanyun? Why is everything fake?

"The reason why I know this is fake is that I talked a lot with his mother when she came to deliver the admission letter. Her mother worked hard all her life but didn't save much money. But when Zhou Duanyun's father died, there was some subsidy, and she had kept it for Zhou Duanyun to go to college. After knowing that her child was admitted to a prestigious university, she gave it all to Zhou Duanyun so that he could go to school well."

"The brand-name clothes, shoes, mobile phones, computers, etc. that Zhou Duanyun bought were all bought with this money. As for why everyone thinks he won the lottery, I don't know, and I don't know if it was Zhou Duanyun who said it himself."

"Since then, you all have gone far away, and Zhou Duanyun has also left his hometown. Sometimes when your classmates come to see me, I just ask casually. Most of them don't know what Zhou Duanyun is doing. Some of those who know are just gossiping, saying that he is doing pyramid selling, that he dropped out of school, that he has become rich... In short, there are all kinds of rumors, and I don't know how he is doing now."

……

Lin Xian didn't say anything.

Hearing what the head teacher said, Zhou Duanyun's life was far from being as glorious as he described, and even a little embarrassing. But even if the admission letter and lottery ticket were fake, the Rolls-Royce Phantom couldn't be fake, right? Even if it was rented, it would cost several thousand yuan a day. Those who could afford it were definitely not ordinary people. Moreover, Zhou Duanyun drove the car every day, so it was obviously his own.

It is a fact that Zhou Duanyun has become rich now.

But how it developed specifically remains a mystery, and an unusual mystery at that. It must contain secrets that you want to know.

"Zhou Duanyun is doing well now." Lin Xian said truthfully:
"He's very rich, probably a big boss, driving a Rolls-Royce Phantom and having a dedicated driver."

"Really!"

When the head teacher heard the news, he laughed happily:

"Really? If it's true, I'll be relieved!"

"It's true." Lin Xian nodded:

"We met at a class reunion. Zhou Duanyun is considered the most successful student in our class."

"That's good... That's good..." The head teacher's expression was completely relaxed, and he lit a cigarette with a smile:

"Hey, no matter what, you students are just like my own children to me, and I hope you all have a good life. No matter what happened in the past... as long as you have a good life now! Zhou Duanyun was also a poor child, and I can understand his behavior back then."

Lin Xian asked the class teacher from whom he heard the rumors about Zhou Duanyun winning the lottery and being involved in pyramid schemes.

He intuitively...

Perhaps these shameful things are Zhou Duanyun’s real life.

Nine out of ten things in life are not satisfactory; failure occurs all the time, and unhappiness is the norm; how can there be so much glory and legends?

Even the autobiographies of celebrities tend to be hindsight, not to mention the life of an ordinary person?

The head teacher told Lin Xian that he heard all this from Zhou Le.

Zhou Le and Zhou Duanyun grew up in the same village, attended a local college in Hangzhou, and worked in their hometown county after graduation, so they had more contact with their class teacher.

After saying goodbye to his head teacher, Lin Xian contacted Zhou Le.

Zhou Le did not attend the class reunion because he had something to do during the Chinese New Year, so Lin Xian used the excuse that he happened to be passing by and called his old classmates to have dinner together.

Lin Xian was very popular in high school, and Zhou Le was also very happy, so they found a place to have a drink at noon.

When classmates meet, they always have endless things to talk about.

Zhou Le asked a lot of questions about the class reunion, so the topic naturally turned to Zhou Duanyun... because he was the most eye-catching person in the entire class reunion and he couldn't avoid it.

"I heard that you two are from the same village?" Lin Xian asked.

"Yes, although they all have the surname Zhou, they are not actually from the same clan." Zhou Le drank a glass of wine, smacked his lips and said:

"Zhou Duanyun's father died of illness when he was a child... The family lived a very hard life. And you know in the countryside, families without a pillar of support are always bullied."

"I only found out about these things after I grew up. Zhou Duanyun's family's fields were basically occupied by the surrounding neighbors. It was no different from forcible occupation. Every time they plowed the land, they moved a little bit to that side, and in the end, only a little bit was left for Zhou Duanyun's family."

"The same is true for the homestead. Zhou Duanyun's family has no money to build a house, and the surrounding neighbors are unreasonable when they build houses, occupying all kinds of land. But what can Zhou Duanyun and his mother do? The mother and son depend on each other for survival, and without anyone to support them, they have been bullied all the time."

"Where do they get their income from?" Lin Xian asked.

After listening to Zhou Le's story, Lin Xian finally understood why Zhou Duanyun was so poor back then. No wonder he didn't even have decent clothes.

It was common for people to build houses and grab land in rural areas, and many conflicts arose from this. But Zhou Duanyun had no father, so he had no way to deal with such overbearing neighbors.

"Mother Zhou Duanyun is also a very strong person..." Zhou Le sighed:

"She reclaimed some unwanted wasteland and planted peanuts."

"After a long time, after she had cultivated the land, others would take it back, and she would have to cultivate other wasteland again... It was really not easy for Zhou Duanyun's mother..."

"I raised Zhou Duanyun with peanuts one by one."

(End of this chapter)