Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 1178

Chapter 1178: Chapter 1051: Before the College Entrance Exam

After circling around inside and outside the city, Ping’an spent an entire morning contacting all parties, and only just before lunchtime did he finally reach the front door of the house.

Everything that needed to be done was now done.

With that, Ping’an figured he no longer needed to concern himself too much.

Just as his dad had said: money, money, money—it’s not like the Zhou Family was really short of this bit of drizzle.

Mm, although calling a potentially considerable future asset "drizzle" was a bit much, if he really let himself get bewitched by these external possessions and mess up his priorities...

Ha! Then he really would have let down all the painstaking teachings his elders had given him since he was a child.

In any case, the focus for the three brothers really should be on their studies. After all, no matter what path they chose in the future, anything involving their prospects couldn’t be taken lightly.

Over the next few days, Ping’an buried himself completely in the study.

And the subjects he was tackling were no longer just reviewing high school material; he’d also started going back over the university textbooks and notes his parents had left behind, refreshing and deepening what he knew.

To be honest, when it came to this college entrance exam that had been suspended for ten years, he was confident he would get in, but he wasn’t sure he’d achieve any particularly stellar result.

—Who the hell knew what kind of abstruse questions those professors would come up with!

Still, for his mom to feel at ease, given her personality of insisting on going all out in everything, as her son he could only grit his teeth and charge forward without looking back.

Ping’an certainly showed his determination, and it ended up giving Aunt Chen quite a scare.

All these years, she’d watched the three children grow up—how smart they were, how could she not know?

It seemed this so-called college entrance exam really was extremely difficult this time. No wonder every household with a candidate was racking their brains to procure nutritional supplements.

There was a small cellar connected to the bottom of the Zhou Family’s warehouse, and one of the keys to it was in Aunt Chen’s hand.

The things inside were all rare and precious, like tiger bone wine, deer blood wine, and some bird’s nest, Ah Jiao, white fungus, and red dates.

Previously, when sleeping in the room next door, Aunt Chen would still joke that her room, sitting atop the provisions and checkpoint, would have been the most important strategic position if this were ancient times.

Now, this didn’t delay her actions one bit.

The original one late-night snack in the Zhou Family’s routine had, for Ping’an, been turned into three—one at dusk, one at night, and another right before the three brothers went to bed.

She wasn’t stingy at all with the food either, and even resumed those days of trekking out to an old sister’s home in the suburbs to trade for what she called fresh eggs.

When she heard Zhou Jiao mention that walnuts were good for the brain, Aunt Chen would, whenever she had a spare moment, keep cracking walnuts nonstop with a pair of pliers. You’d see her busy all day long.

The family had originally taken a relaxed attitude toward Ping’an sitting this exam, but after all her fussing, even Zhou Jiao could no longer sit still.

The more Zhou Jiao thought, the more it weighed on her...

Even though she knew history like the back of her hand, she still couldn’t help worrying about her eldest son like any ordinary mother.

Because in those earlier years, out of pure good will, she had repeatedly, openly and quietly, stepped in to help those old professors and senior experts.

That had led to some elders who, by rights, should already have passed away, being rehabilitated and returning to Beijing.

With her meddling like this, how big was the butterfly effect?

They say even the most inconspicuous little action can set off a chain of huge reactions. All the more so when it’s a matter of human lives—especially these outstanding seniors in their respective fields.

Standing where she did as a mother, Zhou Jiao’s state of mind could no longer remain as calm as usual; the severity of it far exceeded what she’d felt during her own college entrance exam back then.

During this period, especially as she watched the children’s attitude toward their revision, she found herself worrying on one hand that her son might not get into the university he had his heart set on, and on the other fretting over whether she might have disrupted many people’s fates.

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