Top Student at Their Peak
Chapter 81 - 69 This Can’t Be Taught! (Vote for Monthly Tickets!)

Chapter 81: Chapter 69 This Can’t Be Taught! (Vote for Monthly Tickets!)

Although that classmate Yu Yongjun acted familiar with both of them, it seemed he was still not used to staying in the same room with a teacher for too long.

After chatting with Qiao Yu for about seven or eight minutes, he suggested that Qiao Yu go with him to the third floor to find people to play with.

After ascertaining that Yu Wei hadn’t shown up on the third floor yesterday, Qiao Yu declined politely.

Considering the potential financial benefits, he didn’t mind observing his competitors.

As for playing...

What’s so fun about hanging out with a bunch of little kids your own age? Especially when they’re all the same gender.

After all, he came to Xiao Zhou for the competition, not to make friends. With that time, it’d be better to stay in the room and read books to conserve energy.

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"Why don’t you go down with Yu Yongjun to get acquainted with everyone?"

After Little Fatty left, Lan Jie couldn’t help but ask.

As teachers, we interact most with students, and ninety-nine percent of students prefer to be with peers rather than alone with teachers.

He was really surprised that Qiao Yu didn’t accept the invitation.

Qiao Yu gave Lan Jie a peculiar look: "What’s there to get familiar with? The competition ends tomorrow, and we’ll all go home the day after. With fourteen billion people in Huaxia, whether we meet again is unknown. Besides, that arrogant guy doesn’t even play with him, so there’s no chance to understand a direct competitor."

Lan Jie was momentarily stunned, but recalling what the principal said to him the other day, it seemed reasonable.

This guy truly has a cold nature to the core.

"So, you’re working so hard mainly for Little Alibaba’s prize money, right? Qiao Yu, there’s a question I really want to know, which is, when do you think you’ll stop putting money at the very top of your priorities?"

Lan Jie suddenly asked.

While there’s nothing wrong with wanting to make money, Lan Jie felt he still needed to help Qiao Yu establish a correct view of money. To see money more objectively.

He didn’t want Qiao Yu, due to excessive greed for money, to miss out on some opportunities in the future.

Qiao Yu gave Lan Jie a peculiar look, thought for a moment, and said: "Teacher Lan, when you were a kid, no one was urging your family every day to apply for assistance, right?"

Lan Jie wanted to say something, but in the end, he didn’t open his mouth, just instinctively shook his head.

Qiao Yu laughed and said: "That’s the point; we’ve had different upbringings. You might never have lacked money and had just enough. But it’s different for me; money is the foundation for me and my mom."

"I’m not saying money isn’t important..." Lan Jie tried to explain.

But Qiao Yu interrupted directly: "I understand, Teacher Lan. But without money, maybe some kind people downstairs might give us two buns each meal, but no one would tolerate, or there’s no one who would give us two bowls of fresh abalone at every meal, right?"

Qiao Yu said this in a mocking tone, which shocked Lan Jie.

A fifteen-year-old child having a talent in mathematics was something, but to casually say a sentence that pointed directly at some of the purest, most essential aspects of society was astonishing.

How is such a child brought up?

He’s in his thirties this year and can’t think up such things.

So the room fell into silence.

Lan Jie tilted his head, and the image of Qiao Xi’s face involuntarily surfaced in his mind. Could she have taught him all this?

It’s really not appropriate for such a young child to know these things!

So how is one supposed to nurture young people?

The duty-bound good teacher fell into deep thought.

Qiao Yu continued wearing earplugs, watching a video on his own.

At this time, it was no use to go over exercises again, better to learn some things to broaden his knowledge.

After watching a professor explain a knowledge point, Qiao Yu turned to look at the bed beside him and found that the good guy was still there, daydreaming foolishly, looking somewhat depressed, seemed a bit odd...

"Ahem, um, Teacher Lan..."

"Huh?" Lan Jie snapped out of it and looked at Qiao Yu.

"You don’t need to worry, I’m not really that greedy for money! At least I have principles, and I’d definitely never break the law. To be honest, I even went to the library to read the latest criminal code, including the contents of the latest amendments. Especially the parts about economic crimes, I have a general understanding. I wouldn’t cross those limits!"

Qiao Yu was trying to reassure the good guy to put his heart at ease, but hearing this, Lan Jie felt even more startled.

He always had the feeling that someone like Qiao Yu studying a certain legal code might often promote progress in related legislation. If it merely prompted changes to the code, that’d be easy to talk about, but law is something that, in terms of interpretation and meaning, those working with it have a certain amount of discretionary authority...

So he quickly said: "There’s nothing wrong with earning money, but don’t let law be your only base. You could aim higher, have morality as your base."

"Then there’s even less problem; you know I scored 57 in Morality and Law, haha..." Qiao Yu took the chance to emphasize once again, laughing happily.

But seeing the good guy’s serious expression, Qiao Yu eventually stopped laughing and his expression became more earnest.

"Okay, I know sometimes some of my ways are excessive, but there’s no choice, Teacher Lan. Actually, I’m not greedy for money, but one needs a sense of security, right? My mom gets distracted easily and can hardly work and earn money. We really can’t just rely on social assistance, can we?

So if you’re asking when I’d stop putting making money as the number one priority, it’d probably be when our savings can give my mom and me enough sense of security." Qiao Yu answered very seriously.