Chapter 170: Chapter 172: Buying a House in the City

What is she going to do in the future if she hates me now?

By the time Tang Yuxin got back home, Tang Zhinian was already there.

“How did the test go?”

Tang Zhinian ruffled his daughter’s hair. To him, his own daughter was always the best. Even though she wasn’t at the top academically, she never gave him any worries. During her primary school years, she always ranked among the top three in her class.

He didn’t demand that his daughter rank in a particular place, as long as she wasn’t too far behind.

“It was alright,” Tang Yuxin said, taking out her report card from her bag.

“I ranked fourth in the class,” she didn’t mention who came in fifth.

“My Xinxin is so smart,” Tang Zhinian remarked, rubbing his rough hands together. He took the report card from her. Although he was an uneducated farmer and didn’t understand what was written on it, he could recognize the numbers?

Every subject was over ninety points, all very evenly distributed, without a single score in the eighties.

The teacher actually favored such well-rounded students instead of those who were extremely biased in their strengths. Because when they reached ninth grade, geography, politics, and history would be combined into one subject. Students who had balanced skills and didn’t favor any subject in particular were likely to score better. Those who were too biased and didn’t lay a good foundation at the beginning would find it hard to catch up later. There were no after-school tutoring classes available now, so it wouldn’t be easy to catch up with those subjects.

After the first round of baseline testing, Wei Jiani started to see Tang Yuxin, this dark-skinned girl, as her enemy, trying to surpass her no matter what.

She was a key figure in the school’s literary and artistic activities. If there was any event at the school, she would be involved. In contrast, Tang Yuxin was much more low-key.

She had darker skin and wasn’t as pretty as Wei Jiani. Frankly, she was plain, while Wei Jiani was more stylish. Still, Tang Yuxin focused all her efforts on her studies.

By the time the end-semester exams approached, no matter whether you could dance or play the piano, it all came down to academic performance. Wei Jiani had finally managed to improve to fourth place, but Tang Yuxin had directly ranked third, surpassing her again. The worst part was, there would be a parent-teacher meeting after the scores were released.

Aside from the grades, Wei Jiani had surpassed Tang Yuxin in all aspects.

Tang Yuxin packed up her test papers. Her goal was not to rank first or second, but to score higher than Wei Jiani, no matter what.

A country bumpkin.

Wei Jiani’s sarcastic voice reached Tang Yuxin, who turned her head and stared at Wei Jiani’s face, resisting the impulse to scratch it.

This face bore a striking resemblance to that of Sang Zhilan. It was impossible that a non-biological mother and daughter would look so much alike. However, it wasn’t until much later that Tang Yuxin realized the reason why Sang Zhilan was unkind to her was not that she preferred other people’s children, but that those other people’s children were actually her own biological daughter, while she herself was the child of another man.

Tang Yuxin pursed her lips and headed home with her bag after the exam. The Lunar New Year was approaching, and her family’s financial situation was gradually improving. Tang Yuxin knew that their future might be even brighter; they no longer needed to rely solely on farming.

They were no longer simply farming. The Tang brothers had set up a car repair stand at their front door and could earn a decent income every day. Coupled with the successful harvest from the fields in those years, the two brothers had some extra money at hand.

“I’m thinking of buying a house in the city,” Tang Zhinian said to his younger brother, “I’ve saved up some money. There’s no point in keeping it. Yuxin will be going to high school in the city in the future. Living in the dormitory isn’t ideal. It’s better to live in our own house.”

This was something he had been contemplating for a while. High-school students in the village now had to commute from home, which was difficult due to the distance from the school. Most students opted to live on campus. However, he didn’t feel comfortable with that arrangement but was even less comfortable with letting his daughter commute so far. As Yuxin was a girl, this made him worry even more.

After much consideration, he thought it would be best to buy a house in the city. Then, when living in the city, Yuxin would have a place to stay.

“I’ll buy one too, for my Sisi.”

Tang Zhinian was a devoted father, and so was Tang Zhijun. He always kept his daughter Sisi in mind. When he heard that his brother was thinking of buying a house in the city for Yuxin, he quickly calculated that with the money he had saved over the years, he could afford a place in the city for his daughter as well.

While eating dinner, Tang Yuxin listened to the adults’ conversation about buying a house. Her eyes lit up at the prospect. She had been pondering how to convince her father to buy a house in the city. Housing in the city was very cheap at that time. Twenty thousand could fetch you a big place, and if you managed to secure a good location, the return on investment could be hundreds to thousands of times.

Now that her father was already thinking about it without her having to bring it up, she felt relieved.

She had to admit that her father had a good eye for investment; it was just that in her previous life, he had been held back by an underachieving daughter and had never had a good life.

In the evening, Tang Zhinian discussed the matter with Tang Yuxin.

“What do you think, Xinxin? Do you want a house in the city? Your father only has you as a daughter, so what’s the use of having so much money? I will buy whatever you want. How about that?”