When the mother and son got into the car, they realized Michelle was sulking at the back seat, so Lili started the car and drove to Lowbige Junior High.
As the best public high school in New York, Lowbige Junior High had a long history. It occupied a vast area and had an extraordinarily strong teaching staff.
Due to its existence, the price of Lowbige Community Real Estate was one of the highest in the entire Brooklyn area of New York, attracting countless wealthy middle-class people to buy it.
8.30 am was the peak time for Lowbige Junior High's students to go to school. Thousands of students from grades 7 to 12 would rush to school at this time.
Although that was the case, Lowbige Junior High did not seem crowded at all because the school had no walls.
Zhang Lisheng stepped on the hard concrete floor after getting off the car. He mumbled under the morning sun as he looked at the school that was filled with lawns, "So the schools in America really don't have walls. That's great."
Lili did not hear what her son said clearly. She said to Michelle, "Go to class, remember to come home early after school." She then brought Zhang Lisheng to the school's management building.
The organization in America's public high schools was roughly the same. However, due to the size, duration, and even the quality of the students enrolled, the management form and division of authority were very different.
For example, some public high schools would not have an education consultant like Lili. However, she was an important person with a long history in Lowbige Junior High. She was responsible for the communication between the school, the parents' meeting and the senior meeting. She had a rather extensive influence.
Almost all of the teachers would take the initiative to greet Lili when they saw her along the way. It made the short journey rather long.
Lili brought Zhang Lisheng to an office on the west side that was labeled 'Principal Student Advisor Rachel Nile' when they finally entered the low management building. She barged in without even knocking on the door.
In the United States, where personal privacy was highly valued, this could be considered as an incredibly reckless move.
"Hey, banana lady, when will you learn that you need to knock before entering my office?" A beautiful tanned lady with a curvy body sat behind a wide desk in the room. She stood up and said with a smile.
"I'll wait until your caramel beauty melts," Lili hugged the lady while smiling. They kissed each other's cheeks.
After the friendly greeting, the brown-skinned woman shifted her gaze to Zhang Lisheng. "This is your child with 'that person'?"
"Yes, Rachel, he is," Lily replied softly, her mood becoming gloomy.
"It's all in the past, isn't it?" Rachel the Caramel Beauty leaned on her desk and stroked Lili's arm to comfort her.
"Yes, everything has passed.
Alright, Caramel Beauty, give my baby a test paper. Let's see which grade is suitable for him. "
"Don't worry, Lili. He's a Chinese kid. As long as his English is good enough, he can even go straight to university." She took out a few test papers that she had prepared earlier and passed them to Zhang Lisheng along with a pen. "Kid, go to my desk and write. If you use the computer to peek at the answers, I'll spank your butt."
"Rachel, can you not speak to my baby in such a harsh manner?" Lili said unhappily.
"Lili, did I do anything to him?" Rachel Jin asked in surprise.
"I'm sorry. Maybe I'm being too sensitive, but I hope that you can talk to this kid gently in the future.
You know, he's been living with 'that person' for the past 16 years. He's never felt anyone's love before. I hope that I can make it up to him and give him more warmth. " Lili looked at Zhang Lisheng who was sitting behind the desk and answering the questions gently and lovingly. She then whispered into Rachel's ear.
"Although that's the case, Lili, as an educator, don't you think there's something wrong with the way you treat this kid?"
"I'm fine. It's just that I've never felt such motherly love in my heart before. I don't know why I didn't feel this way when I was raising Gill and Harry.
Don't tell Sullo about this, "Lili said softly with her head down.
"I don't need anyone to tell me. Humans aren't puppets. Anyone can feel that you're treating this kid differently.
Listen, my dear. Perhaps you feel guilty about this kid, but that doesn't become the reason why you treat him with more love and care than the other kids in the family … "
"I know, Rachel. I'm an educator, I understand …"
"No, you don't understand. The more I think about it, the more I feel that there's something wrong with you. Maybe we should talk about it some time.
How about now? While your baby is doing the papers …
Oh yeah, you've been calling him 'baby'. He's already a 16-year-old young man, he can legally hold a gun. Of course, he doesn't look like one, but … "
"Don't be picky, Rachel. I'm his mother. Even if he's 60 years old, I can still call him 'baby' as long as I'm still alive."
"Indeed you can, but only occasionally. We both know that we can only call a grown-up child 'baby' occasionally."
"Occasionally? How do you define occasionally? Once or twice? Eight to ten times …"
Zhang Lisheng wrote the papers quietly as the two ladies argued louder.
The questions in the papers were arranged from difficult to easy. However, the most difficult ones were just questions that were similar to demonstrating trigonometric functions. He only needed to describe the grammar in a straightforward manner. He finished three papers in less than an hour and a half.
Watching Zhang Lisheng writing the last letter one stroke at a time, Rachel, who had already shut up by the side, picked up the paper and walked to Lili's ear. She teased softly, "One hour and 25 minutes. Lili, your 'baby' is considered as a gifted student among the high school students in America. However, he's obviously not very outstanding compared to his compatriots of the same age."
"Rachel, I love him no matter if he's outstanding or not."
"Alright then, who wouldn't love their own child? It's fine as long as everyone is treated equally," Rachel sighed and rolled her eyes. She read through the answers quickly and said with a raised voice, "Young man, your results are very good. You're totally qualified to enter the tenth grade.
You can go to class in the afternoon if you go through the procedures right away.
"As the chief student advisor of Lowbige Junior High and your mom's good friend, I've taken the liberty to draw up a curriculum form for you and prepared a couple of books for you. You can go to class according to the form directly and take some elective credits. You can graduate as long as you take a certain amount of credits.
"If you feel that you need to make any changes in the future, you can look for me anytime or use any computer in the school to log into the intranet to make changes to the curriculum.
Do you understand what I'm saying? "
"I understand. I've heard from the foreign backpackers who came to the mountain village that American high schools are very free. Even the division of grades is very vague. As long as you have credits …"
"Wait, the division of grades is very vague! I really hope that all of the new students in Lowbige Junior High can hear your inspiring speech.
Listen, young man, the backpackers that you met are Martians pretending to be Americans. Remember, as long as it's a school, there'll be grades, new students and old students.
Although you have a mom who's in charge of the school, you must behave yourself as a new student. Don't talk nonsense, especially those naive words that you said just now. "
"Don't scare him, Rachel. This is Lowbige Junior High. Most of the students are friendly," Lili said by the side, "Do you want class to start in the afternoon, baby?"
"Sure, mom." Zhang Lisheng hesitated for a moment and said softly after picking up the backpack with the wizard worm under his feet.
In reality, even if Zhang Lisheng's admission procedures were complete, it was impossible for him to get into a famous school like Lowbige Junior High so quickly. However, everything was different since his mother was working in the school.
In less than ten minutes, he became an official student of Lowbige Junior High after filling up a couple of forms that Rachel had prepared earlier.
Lili brought Zhang Lisheng and Rachel to the school's staff cafeteria at noon. They ordered three hamburger sets.
After lunch, under Rachel's supervision, she finally made up her mind to push the dangerous fledgling, Zhang Lisheng, into high school life alone.
Around 1 pm in the afternoon, lunch time had just passed. Lowbige Junior High's open-style campus was filled with well-behaved students with books in their arms.
There were a handful of cool and handsome people in the school who were dressed in sexy clothes.
There were also a small number of teenagers who looked like yes-men and were dejected as if they had no hope in the future.
Zhang Lisheng who blended into the school was undoubtedly the third type of person.
Nobody knew if it was intentional or not, a Caucasian young man who did not look tall among the crowd suddenly ran and crashed into Zhang Lisheng hard as they passed each other.
Zhang Lisheng felt a sharp pain on his shoulder and fell onto the ground clumsily.
"Brat, bring your eyes when you come to school." The Caucasian young man in a blue sweatshirt turned around and pointed at Zhang Lisheng while shaking his buttocks. It made the students who passed by chuckled softly.
"It's better that I don't bring my eyes than my brain," Zhang Lisheng got up and said while staring directly at the Caucasian young man without showing any weakness.
Contrary to the antisocial and introverted personality that he showed, the word 'patience' never existed in his dictionary when it came to people who offended him intentionally, especially after he became a wizard.
"What are you talking about, brat?" The Caucasian young man was stunned for a moment and clenched his fists. He ran to Zhang Lisheng and said softly, "If we're not in public …"
"There's always a secluded place in this school. We can go there to solve the problem, if you have the guts," Zhang Lisheng whispered expressionlessly, "Or are you a coward who only dares to bark in a crowded place?"
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