Chapter 70: Waiting for Results

Just need to wait for a while, until the paternity test results come out.

Lin Bingwei, the higher you are held up now, the harder you will fall later.

She is incredibly looking forward to Lin Bingwei’s expression when the results are revealed.

Hahaha, she really thinks she’s the young lady of the Ye family; it’s just too funny.

……

After dinner, Ye Junsheng asked Ye Bingyu, “Xiaoyu, are you going back to the hotel directly, or are you going to stroll around nearby?”

Ye Bingyu was taken aback; she didn’t even ask if she wanted to see Mom and her brother.

Forget it, they probably already believe that Lin Bingwei is their biological daughter, right?

The results haven’t come out yet, and they’ve started to ostracize her; it’s really interesting.

Fine, let them enjoy themselves; after they’re done being happy, they can cry louder later.

“I’ll just walk around nearby before going back. Dad, if you and Weiwei are in a hurry, you can go first.”

Ye Junsheng didn’t think much of it, nodded, and said, “That’s fine; Weiwei has things to take care of, so I’ll take her to do that first.”

“Okay, drive carefully, Dad.”

Hearing her caring words, Ye Junsheng felt a bit dazed.

After raising her for so many years, there were feelings involved.

But once he thought about how her understanding and obedience were all just acts, he felt a chill.

She really acted well.

Lin Bingwei had arranged with her elementary school teacher to register for this year’s high school entrance exam today, and when she arrived, it was almost noon.

“Why did you come so late? I thought you weren’t coming.” Teacher Zhao complained as soon as she saw her, then handed her a form.

Lin Bingwei said, “I had something urgent to take care of this morning, thank you, Teacher Zhao.”

As she set down her backpack, she took out the required documents.

Teacher Zhao said, “You can fill it out; you don’t need the documents anymore.”

Lin Bingwei was taken aback, “Not needed anymore?”

“Yeah, your file is still with me. After all these years, I thought I’d lost it, but I found it last night. You were in third grade when your family said you weren’t going to school anymore. I thought it was just a temporary thing, that your parents were angry because you weren’t doing your homework, so they didn’t officially withdraw you from school.”

Lin Bingwei was shocked. So all these years, she actually hadn’t been withdrawn from school?

At that time, many systems weren’t perfect, and being held back was quite normal.

After so many years, no one had noticed that she hadn’t graduated.

This actually saved her a lot of trouble.

Lin Bingwei repeatedly said, “Thank you, Teacher Zhao.”

Teacher Zhao pushed up her glasses and smiled, “Do well on the exam, aim to get into middle school, and graduate early; that will be thanks enough for me.”

After filling out the form, Lin Bingwei handed it to Teacher Zhao.

Then she heard him say, “I also asked about the high school entrance exam for you. Without a middle school graduation certificate, you won’t be able to take the exam; you’ll have to wait another year.”

“Ah?”

“That’s okay; if your middle school grades are good, you can skip three grades in one year and go straight to high school the next year. If you think you can go to university, you can also directly register for the college entrance exam.”

“Can you go to university without going to high school?”

“The policies are unstable and keep changing, so I can’t be sure if it will be possible next year; you should ask about it earlier.”

“Okay, sorry for the trouble.”

Teacher Zhao told her the exam schedule and also asked if she needed to attend classes.

Lin Bingwei thought it was a bit hard to accept that she was going to class with a bunch of elementary school students at her age.

She declined and said, “Teacher Zhao, let me pay a fee; can you get me a set of textbooks?”

Teacher Zhao nodded, “No problem. I’ll keep a copy of the test papers for you and let the kids from your village bring them to you.”

The tuition wasn’t expensive, and since she was a student, she should pay and receive a set of textbooks.

In the 1980s, there was a severe shortage of textbooks. The semester had already started for over a month, but the textbooks hadn’t fully arrived, often resulting in two students sharing one book.

Those with older siblings had to make do with the books their siblings used.

Tuition fees were even more heartbreaking; in rural schools, there wasn’t a single class that could collect all the fees right at the start of the semester.

Teachers just hoped that by the end of the semester, they could collect it, and they would be grateful for that.

As Lin Bingwei came out of the school, Ye Junsheng hurried over.

“Did you get it done?”

Lin Bingwei nodded, “Teacher Zhao said my student status has always been active; I’ll go directly to the sixth grade and take the entrance exam for middle school this year.”

“That’s great! Let’s go back first.”

Zhang Yuanxiu was also at home, with Ye Kang and Zhang Jianguo.

Gu Siyun had taken off her high heels and cheongsam, changed into blue cloth clothes, and handmade cotton shoes, and was learning to do some work.

When she saw them come back, she put down her work and followed them over.

“Is everything taken care of?”

Ye Junsheng nodded and said, “It should be fine; we’re just waiting for the results.”

“That’s wonderful, but… it might take at least a month for all the results to come out. Should we wait here, or go back to Haishi first?”

Ye Junsheng thought about Lin Bingwei needing to take the exam, “Let’s stay here; Weiwei still wants to study. She has to take the middle school entrance exam in June this year. If she doesn’t go to school and studies by herself, it might be dangerous. I want to stay here to teach her.”

Gu Siyun nodded, “That’s fine.”

Their matters weren’t urgent at this moment. Looking at it now, nothing was more important than figuring out who their biological daughter was.

Watching Lin Bingwei playing with Zhang Jianguo, Gu Siyun whispered, “What if the child isn’t mistaken? I’m just saying, what if.”

Ye Junsheng also looked at Lin Bingwei and then whispered, “If there’s no mistake, then as Lin Wangsheng said, we’ve mistreated their biological daughter to take care of our daughter. So… even if there’s truly no mistake, we should still help this child.”

Gu Siyun nodded.

Lin Bingwei was sorting pig feed with Li Yurong and turned to ask Zhang Yuanxiu, “Dad, now that the weather is warming up, won’t business slow down?”

“Yeah, I can only take one or two orders a month.”

Li Yurong took over the conversation, “That’s good; at least we’ll have someone to help with the rice planting at home.”

Zhang Yuanxiu smiled and said, “Don’t worry, I can handle the little bit of land we have by myself; you two don’t need to get involved.”

“Still saying that! That kid Tingyuan said we’re getting old, and if we can avoid working, we should, and just spend some money to hire someone.”

“Don’t listen to that brat. You don’t know how expensive it is to run a household. He’s always complaining about wanting this and that. Last time he said to buy a TV, he went to get an industrial invoice; why hasn’t he brought it back? I see his mouth is just an empty check.”

Lin Bingwei remembered this, “Dad, he did get the industrial invoice; it’s on the way.”

“Huh? He really got it?”

“Yeah, he called me yesterday to talk about it. I had a lot going on yesterday, so I forgot to mention it to you.”

Then Zhang Yuanxiu started complaining again.

“That kid just knows how to buy, buy, buy. A TV costs several hundred; it’s not as easy as buying two pounds of meat.”

Li Yurong teased him, “You’re really hard to please. You go to the village head’s house to freeload; you think I don’t know you’ve wanted to buy it for a long time?”