Mo Jinxi lowered his head, and tears fell from his eyes. His two little feet moved restlessly on the ground. "I … I miss the old dean and my brother and sister. I've been home for a few months, but Grandma won't let me see them. Grandpa promised me that if I did well in my studies, even if Grandma didn't bring me back, Grandpa and Uncle would bring me back to see them. "
"I've completed my homework very well. The books in Jixia Academy are different from the previous schools, and the curriculum is different as well. However, I've managed to keep up with them. Even for those courses that I've never learned before, I've tried my best to catch up to everyone else. I have completed all the homework very well. No matter how hard it was, I gritted my teeth and endured it. "Mo Jinxi said with a little grievance.
Actually, Lin Chu also knew that Jixia Academy was different from ordinary schools. Nowadays, the education system was shouting the slogan of all-round development, but in fact, it was all empty talk. The school still focused on academic results. The first and second years were still fine, and the schoolwork wasn't that heavy. But when it came to the third year and above, the cultural studies became heavier and heavier. Especially when it came to the sixth year of middle school, those non-written courses almost didn't exist. Even if it was written on the timetable, it would be occupied by the teachers of the main subjects and used to make up for the students' lessons. Everything depended on the academic results.
However, Jixia Academy was different. It truly developed the students in an all-round way. From cultural studies to physical fitness, to mental cultivation, everything was taken into account. Other than the cultural studies in ordinary schools, there were also courses for physical fitness such as horse-riding, archery, karate, taekwondo, and boxing. These were elective courses. Mo Jinxi chose archery and taekwondo from the list of elective courses.
Other than that, there was camping in the wild. Clothing, food, housing, and transportation had to be taken care of by themselves. They were given some necessities, and the rest, whether it was starting a fire or cooking, had to be figured out by themselves. From time to time, there would be disaster survival drills, including fire alarms, earthquakes, and other survival drills in natural or man-made disasters.
And the cultural studies textbooks were different from ordinary schools, so the learning speed was naturally different. But the strange thing was that when the students took the college entrance examination in their third year of high school, they had no problems answering the questions. They were no different from the students who worked from dawn to dusk and devoted themselves to cultural studies. It was like running on different roads, but still meeting up at the fork in the road on time, and moving forward together on that single road.
For Mo Jinxi, who had changed to a new environment, it was something that he had to adapt to with great effort. Getting along with his classmates was the least of his worries.
Yan Ningbai was in the same class as him, so he wouldn't be isolated. His status as the eldest grandson of the Mo family also made his classmates treat him as an equal. No one ostracized him or said bad things about him like his classmates did in school.
Mo Jinxi had just transferred to another school, so the biggest pressure on him was his schoolwork. He didn't have to worry about his cultural studies. Although the textbooks were different and the progress was different, Mo Jinxi was always motivated and had studied a lot on his own, so he was able to keep up. What he couldn't keep up with were the elective courses. It was his first time participating in a camping trip, and he made quite a fool of himself.
But Mo Jinxi had always remembered the promise Chief Mo had made to him. As long as he completed all his studies well, Chief Mo would bring him back to the orphanage to take a look when he was on break and didn't take up his study time. But he didn't mention anything about going back to the orphanage. He just wanted to keep up with the others.
He didn't mention going back to the orphanage. He just wanted to keep up with the others. When he finally caught up, he told Liang Xiulin that he wanted to go back to the orphanage during the weekends, but she wouldn't let him.
"But … but …" Mo Jinxi clenched his fists and wiped the tears off his face. "I worked so hard to keep up with all the courses in Jixia Academy. I did well, but Grandma didn't allow me to go back to the orphanage. Grandpa and Uncle are busy with work every day and rarely rest during the weekends. Uncle lives next to the police station and hasn't been home for a few weekends. Grandpa comes home late every day, and Grandma makes me sleep early. Every time I go to bed, Grandpa doesn't come home. When I wake up in the morning, Grandpa is gone. I don't have a chance to talk to him. "
Mo Jinxi felt more aggrieved as he spoke. He couldn't hold back his tears, so he covered his eyes with his arms and started crying.
"But I miss the old director, Stone, and Tian Tian. I told Grandma that I would show her my results, but she didn't allow me to go to the orphanage. She didn't allow me to hang out with Stone and Tian Tian. Sob sob sob sob sob! Grandma said … "Mo Jinxi cried so hard that he hiccupped." Grandma said that I'm a child with a family now, and I can't think about the orphanage anymore. She told me to hang out with the people in the orphanage less. She said that they … they don't have a good upbringing. Their status is different from mine, and we'll only drift apart in the future. She said that we're people from two different worlds. Even if we're good now, when we grow up and become sensible, our relationship will change. She said that Stone and Tian Tian will make use of my identity and our relationship to ask me for things that don't belong to them. "
Mo Jinxi was a smart person. He could read books and answer questions in one go. He had a good memory. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to keep up with Jixia Academy's progress so quickly. Therefore, he remembered every single word that Liang Xiulin said to him.
"Grandma said that our identities are different, and the paths we'll take in the future will be different. Since our experiences are different, there's nothing more I can say. When I grow up, I'll be like Grandpa and Uncle, while Stone and Tian Tian will only be ordinary people. " Mo Jinxi cried harder and harder, especially when he said what Liang Xiulin said. He was really upset that Grandma had said such things about his friends.
Although he was young, he could understand what she said.
"Grandma said … Grandma said that if I feel bad about the orphanage, my family can just give me more money, but I can't hang out with them anymore. Grandma told me to hang out with Ning Bai and my classmates in school more. They're people who have the same status as me. When I grow up, the circle I interact with will be them. I won't be able to interact with ordinary people like Stone and Tian Tian. But … But Ning Bai is my good friend, and so are Stone and Tian Tian. I don't understand what's so different about it. They're all my good friends, and that's their status. Don't tell me … don't tell me that we have to differentiate between friends? In the past, I was also a child without a family. I was always in the orphanage, but Ning Bai never despised me. Ning Bai's family didn't stop him from hanging out with me, and he always went to the orphanage to look for me. "
Mo Jinxi cried and hiccupped. His mouth was full of tears, saliva, and snot. When he spoke, he couldn't speak clearly, but Lin Chu could still understand him.
"If Ning Bai's family was like Grandma and despised my family background and didn't let Ning Bai hang out with me, I would have lost Ning Bai a long time ago. Now, I don't have a playmate in Jixia Academy." Mo Jinxi sobbed and sobbed. "That's what I told Grandma, but she didn't allow me to hang out with them. I finally understand. After Grandma took me home, she didn't plan to let me contact the old director and the others again. She didn't plan to let me go back to the orphanage. "
"But it can't be like this! It was the orphanage that raised me. If it wasn't for the old director, how could Grandma have found me? " Mo Jinxi said, "That's what I told Grandma, but she said she didn't allow it."
In fact, Liang Xiulin was also annoyed by Mo Jinxi's questions. She really didn't want Mo Jinxi to have any contact with people from the orphanage, not even the slightest bit.
Chief Mo and Mo Jingcheng were busy with work and didn't have much time to care about home. It was difficult for Mo Jinxi to see them. So, Chief Mo couldn't fulfill his promise. He could only ask Liang Xiulin about Mo Jinxi's situation.
Mo Jinxi didn't know when he could go back to the orphanage, so he took the initiative to mention it to Liang Xiulin.
At first, Liang Xiulin could find some excuses, such as she was busy today, who she was going to tomorrow, who she was going to take him to, what she was going to do with him that day.
Anyway, her schedule was full and she really didn't have time to go to the orphanage.
Mo Jinxi was obedient and sensible. He felt that he was really busy and couldn't force her, so he waited for Liang Xiulin to take him back when she was free.
In the middle of it, he really missed the orphanage, so he used the phone that Chief Mo gave him to call the orphanage.
Liang Xiulin didn't like Mo Jinxi contacting the orphanage, and she knew that Mo Jinxi secretly called her. But because the phone was a gift from Chief Mo, Liang Xiulin couldn't take it. Besides, he should really keep in touch with a phone at school. It wasn't rare for all the students of Jixia Academy to have a phone. Even high school students would use their phones to follow the stock market. If he didn't even have a phone, he would be an anomaly.
Mo Jinxi came here halfway, and it wasn't a secret that he used to live in the orphanage. Liang Xiulin was afraid that Mo Jinxi would be looked down upon by his classmates, so she paid extra attention to Mo Jinxi's daily necessities. So, she wouldn't take the phone away.
So, whenever Mo Jinxi called the orphanage, Liang Xiulin would always appear and urge him to do something else. She would either ask him to eat some fruits, take a shower, or go to bed and stop calling.
Liang Xiulin deliberately raised her voice so that the orphanage could hear her. She didn't want to delay Mo Jinxi's business, so she urged him to hang up.
If it had happened once or twice, Mo Jinxi wouldn't have thought too much about it. But after a few times, it happened every time he called. Mo Jinxi could tell that Liang Xiulin was doing it on purpose.
So, Mo Jinxi changed to calling her secretly.
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