Strange Life of a Cat
Chapter 402 - Chapter 402 Chapter 388 Return to Beijing

Chapter 402: Chapter 388: Return to Beijing Chapter 402: Chapter 388: Return to Beijing No matter how much those journalists hated the person who wrote that article, it definitely sparked a period of heated debate. Some mainstream media also made statements due to public influence. In a short time, entertainment news wouldn’t decrease by too much, but at least it would be kept within certain bounds. Some TV stations even aired some interviews full of positive energy in response to the calls from above.

Privately, people would definitely investigate the person who wrote the article. Unfortunately for them, the phone Zheng Tan used was given by Liu Ba, equipped with automatic protective measures for internet posting, so those people couldn’t track it down, which saved Zheng Tan a lot of trouble.

During the time when Zheng Tan’s impulsive posting caused heated debates in society, Zheng Tan didn’t pay much attention to the direction of the discussion. The Jiao Family’s attention was all on Jiao Yuan’s exam. It wasn’t the college entrance exam, but the qualification exam for recommended admission to Jing University. After the written test, Mr. Jiao took him to Beijing. While there for the interview, they also visited two professors at Jing University, one an old professor Mr. Jiao had known for a long time, and the other a young teacher Mr. Jiao met while abroad.

Because there were acquaintances there, news came early. Before the teachers from the attached middle school could call, the Jiao Family had already received the news that Jiao Yuan had successfully obtained the recommended admission slot.

Apart from Jiao Yuan, Su An was recommended for admission to Ning University, where his father’s former supervisor, a very prominent professor, worked, and this had been Su An’s family’s plan for a long time. As for Lan Tianzhu, he was recommended for Nanhua University.

Having obtained the recommended admission slot, Jiao Yuan didn’t plan to go to school and generate resentment. Many other students were busy preparing for exams, and it was not good for someone with a guaranteed place like Jiao Yuan to flaunt it in front of them, as it could demoralize the others. So after talking to the teachers of the attached high school, Mr. Jiao let Jiao Yuan mix with the graduate students in his lab instead.

The Jiao Family wasn’t worried about Little Youzi’s exam. According to her performance on the last semester’s exams in junior high and the competition awards she had received, there was no problem getting into the attached high school, and there was no need for her parents to intervene.

Both Xiong Xiong and Fu Lei had to go through the college entrance exam, so in the time before the exam, Jiao Yuan, Lan Tianzhu, and Su An pulled Xiong Xiong and Fu Lei together for tutoring. When they finally made it through the exams, Xiong Xiong was so excited he nearly ran out to go streaking.

After the college entrance exam was over, the four buddies from the courtyard as well as Fu Lei went out and celebrated wildly. Zheng Tan was dragged along by them. Why? Because Jiao Yuan and the others had long wanted to visit “Triumph,” and Zheng Tan was an excellent “pass.” Thus, Zheng Tan took the five guys, each now with their own identity cards, into his private room at “Triumph.”

Although not all five were eighteen yet, the situation was special at that moment, and the person in charge of “Triumph,” in consideration of Zheng Tan’s special “door card,” did not fuss over these young men who had just completed their college entrance exams and were in a state of excitement.

While the five were discussing why Zheng Tan’s unique “Cat room” treatment seemed better than for humans, Zheng Tan was thinking whether he should give them something for their upcoming schooling.

Thinking back, those guys used to be little school students with backpacks, knocking on the door and raiding the fridge, while Yi Xin was just a “nanny” in his first year of graduate school. Now these former school students had grown up and were embarking on a new phase of life at this turning point, and Yi Xin had already returned from abroad to be a teacher at the Chuhua University School of Life Sciences, working alongside Mr. Jiao.

Mr. Jiao now had more graduate students under his wing, but among these people, whether it be Zheng Tan or other members of the Jiao Family, Yi Xin was still the most endearing. As Mr. Jiao’s first student, who had both assisted and served as a “nanny” back in the day, the Jiao Family had the deepest affection for him. Now in the Life Science Institute, both Su Qu and Zeng Jing had long since graduated and joined the workforce, and the students currently with Mr. Jiao, most of them still accustomed to affectionately calling Yi Xin “Senior Brother Yi” instead of Professor Yi, as it felt closer.

Zheng Tan was reminiscing and feeling how time flew by so quickly; that same Yi Xin who used to break his bicycle chain was now a teacher, and the once wild youngsters had grown up.

Watching the five of them drinking from beer bottles, Zheng Tan pondered, still deciding to give some gifts for their schooling. After all, these lads were ones he had watched grow up.

It wasn’t until those five had partied and howled all night, sleeping until the next afternoon before leaving “Triumph,” that Zheng Tan still couldn’t decide what gifts to give. As he couldn’t think of a good idea, Zheng Tan decided to simply give money instead.

After returning home, Zheng Tan took out five red envelopes from the drawer. These were extras he had squirreled away from Old Sir Jiao during the New Year, just in case, and now they could come in handy.

He counted the cash in the drawer and averaged it out–five people, five hundred each.

Once the scores were released and the admission notices gradually arrived, followed by successive graduation banquets, the five friends would go their separate ways.

Fu Lei applied to another college in Chuhua City. Although it was not as prominent as Chuhua University, it was still considered a good school within the province. Fu Lei’s parents were very satisfied. Compared to the young hooligan who used to love fighting, Fu Lei had already exceeded his parents’ expectations.

Xiong Xiong was the only one who stayed at Chuhua University, though his score was a bit short. His mother pulled some strings to forcefully get him in; not expecting him to make a name in academics later, just for the prestige.