Chapter 257
Chapter 257: Who Says Top Students Can’t Repeat a Year?
Xi Jing Yue’s shameless words really made Du De Sheng laugh from anger.
This kid was sure that he could not bear to give up the human shield who could help cover for his little granddaughter right now, so he was taking advantage of him!
So, while Du An Rao was keeping Qin Yan Qing company in the courtyard and enjoying the moon, she suddenly heard a roar from the house: “Get out! You brat, you better roll as far as you can, and don’t let me see you again. Otherwise, every time I see you, I’ll hit you once, until you don’t dare show your face in front of me again!”
The sudden shout scared Du An Rao so much that she shivered. After a while she turned to look at Qin Yan Qing and asked carefully: “Grandmother, does Granduncle have some kind of prejudice against Mr. Xi?”
Qin Yan Qing almost lost her composure. Half annoyed and half amused, she pinched Du An Rao’s round, baby-fat cheeks.
“You heartless girl, how did you decide that must be prejudice? He hasn’t even done anything to him yet, and your elbow is already turning outward. If your Granduncle knew, who knows how sad he would be.”
“I just think Mr. Xi is a really nice person. He handles things well and is very warm-hearted. He helped me bid for those two pieces of land, and he also helped me find someone to audit the auction house so I could successfully take over. These past few days he’s even been coming to pick me up and drop me off every day…”
“So you let him buy you off?”
“Grandmother!”
“Alright, alright, you stay out of their business. Parents with a little girl at home are like that. Every man they see looks like a punk.”
“???” Du An Rao stared.
A punk? Someone as successful, handsome, and rich as Mr. Xi, a tall rich and handsome guy, was just a punk in Granduncle’s eyes? Were Granduncle’s standards a bit too high?
No, wait. If Mr. Xi was the punk, then who was the little girl who got tricked by that punk?
Right then, Du De Sheng came storming out of the room. The two of them met eyes out of nowhere, and the atmosphere suddenly turned awkward.
After Xi Jing Yue left, Du An Rao, being cautious, still decided to call her third brother.
“Third Brother, what year of college are you in now?”
“Junior year. Why are you asking this all of a sudden?”
“It’s nothing. I just suddenly remembered that you and Fourth Sister are about three years apart. She’s already a freshman, but you’re only in your junior year.”
“…That’s because your Third Brother repeated a grade for some special reasons.”
“Repeat a year?” Du An Rao was shocked. “Third Brother, aren’t you a straight A top student? You actually got held back and had to repeat a year?”
Du Yi Han almost laughed from anger: “Who says top students can’t repeat a year? And who told you I was forced to repeat? I chose to repeat a year myself!”
“Is there a difference?”
“There’s a huge difference!”
Hearing that her third brother was on the edge of exploding, Du An Rao quickly backed off and asked again to be sure: “So, that means you’re still a college student right now, right?”
“Nonsense. I haven’t graduated yet, so of course I’m still a college student. Did you have a fever these days and burn your brain?”
“…” Du An Rao was speechless. [You’re the one whose brain is burned. Your whole family’s brain is burned. No, wait, your whole family includes me!]
Choked by Third Brother’s words, Du An Rao almost gave up and could not be bothered to care about this annoying Third Brother anymore.
But at the last moment, reason won. She tested the waters and asked: “Then, in the labs you work in, is there any PhD student with the last name Du?”
“A PhD named Du?” Du Yi Han narrowed his eyes. “No. Among the PhD students I know, none of them have the surname Du.”
Only then did Du An Rao pat her chest in relief: “That’s good.”
“You called me just to say this kind of nonsense?”
“Of course not. I wanted to remind you about Granduncle’s wedding time so you can set your schedule. Don’t let it end up that Dad, Mom, Second Brother, Fourth Sister, and the others all come, but you, who are already here in City B, don’t show up. Mom and Dad wouldn’t be able to explain that.”
“Got it, got it. You can be totally at ease. I’ll definitely be there on time.”
“Alright, it’s settled then. I’m hanging up.”
“Wait. I heard from our brother that you recently inherited an auction house so rich it’s dripping with oil. Little Sis, if you get rich, don’t forget me. Remember to pay me back double for that money I lent you last time.”
“…” Du An Rao was speechless again. [Forget everything else. Third Brother, you really are a dog. I am never calling you first again!]
After confirming that Dr. Du was not her third brother, Du An Rao let out a breath of relief, but at the same time she started worrying about where the real Dr. Du was hiding now.
She had no idea that right after she sent over 160 million, Du Yi Han received an express delivery.
“Dr. Du, Dr. Du.”
Hearing the voice, Du Yi Han quickly put away his phone, which was still on the transfer balance page.
“I’m here.”
“There’s a package for you.”
The package he received was the certificate and trophy for first place from a competition he had joined abroad. Back then, right after the contest ended, he suddenly had a new idea about an experiment he had been working on, so he took a flight back home overnight and did not pick up the certificate or trophy.
Those two things could only be left with his academic advisor, who had stayed abroad with the team at the time. When the whole group came back, he had already returned to City B.
He happened to need these two things recently, and he was not planning to go back abroad any time soon, so he asked his academic advisor to mail them to him.
“Thank you, Uncle Yang. Also, just call me by my name. I’m not a PhD yet. If people in the lab hear you call me that, they might misunderstand.”
“Hey, it’s only a matter of time, isn’t it? In Elder Qi’s laboratory, who doesn’t know you’re the one, Little Du?” The security guard Uncle Yang smiled and gave him a thumbs up. “You can handle all of Elder Qi’s demands, and you can even argue with him back and forth. Your paper from not long ago passed too, right?”
“And now this certificate and trophy. I heard that when you took part in competitions abroad before, you always got first place. That’s amazing. You were competing with people from all over the world, not just our own people. To still get first place like that, you must be a genius among geniuses.”
“Now you already meet all the important requirements, and the paperwork is almost done. It’s just that the New Year is coming, so there isn’t time to finish the review. After the holiday, when the person in charge comes back and the review goes through, you’ll be the youngest PhD in our university and in the lab. Whether I call you that a few days early or a few days late, what’s the difference? You need to get used to it.”
Du Yi Han smiled and did not continue to argue with Uncle Yang about this: “I still have some things to deal with in the lab, so I’ll head back first. Thank you for personally bringing this to me.”
“Go, go. If you need any help, just say the word. It’s no trouble.”
Holding the small box, Du Yi Han walked toward the lab. As he turned a corner in the hallway, he looked back, sensing something, but saw that no one was following him.
Thinking of the questions Du An Rao had just asked him, his brows drew together. He felt that he should take this chance at the wedding to get some information out of his youngest sister.