I Have Decided to Go Look for My Father

The next day, by the time Lin Xi had gotten up, Aunty Mei had already prepared breakfast for her and Gu Shao.

After dinner, Lin Xi stayed home as usual and Aunty Mei went out in the middle of the day.

When she returned that afternoon, Aunty Mei was carrying with her bags and bags of stuff. There were still two more delivery personnel behind her with two boxes of stuff.

Lin Xi had initially thought they were Aunty Mei’s luggage but she saw Aunty Mei pulled out a box and handed it over to her with a smile.

“Little Miss Xi, this is a new cellphone for you. Take a look and see if you like it.”

This new cellphone looked like one of the latest models. It was pink and there was a cute bow on its back. It looked to be custom made.

Before Lin Xi had recovered from the pink, she saw Aunty Mei pointed at the other boxes and said, “These, too, are for you, little Miss Xi.

“Over here are clothes and those are school supplies. Little Miss Xi is about to start school soon, right? These should be of use to you.”

Aunty Mei opened up the boxes and all Lin Xi could see was a sea of pink.

Pink clothes, pink shoes, pink hair ties, pink backpack, pink stationary pouch… pink pens…

With the exception of a few white ones, the rest were all pink. Dark pink, light pink, bright pink, dim pink… all sorts of pink.

“You take the stationaries with you. Grandma Mei will wash these clothes for you first before you wear them,” said Aunty Mei.

Lin Xi finally recollected herself.

“Thank you, Aunty Mei.” How could she possibly turn down such passion?

But…

“How much did they cost? Let me pay you back,” said Lin Xi.

As much as Grandma Mei seemed to be an acquaintance of Gu Shao, Lin Xi couldn’t just accept all these things from her.

Grandma Mei smiled and explained it to her. “Grandma Mei did not spend a penny. I was just there to bring then back here.”

These were all gifts from the few over at the Gu family. She merely went over to bring them back after she received their call.

The cellphone was from Old Mr. Gu.

Old Mr. Gu stared at Lin Xi’s photo for half the night and finally noticed that her cellphone screen was cracked. He made a call and had someone looked for a new cellphone for Lin Xi in the middle of the night and he asked for the prettiest one too.

***

Upon hearing that, Lin Xi assumed that Aunty Mei had bought them with Gu Shao’s money.

The only thing that she wasn’t sure about was whether the sea of pink was Gu Shao’s taste or that of Aunty Mei.

Looked back over at the sea of pink, Lin Xi couldn't help but rubbed her eyes.

***

That night, by the time Gu Shao was home, Lin Xi had already folded and put away all the pink clothes that Aunty Mei had washed and dried. And the pink backpack and school supplies as well, naturally.

Lin Xi was syncing her phone on the table.

It would take some time for her to sync her new phone with her old one.

Gu Shao noticed the very eye-catching color of the cellphone as soon as he walked into the living room. He looked over at Aunty Mei.

“It’s from Old Sir,” said Aunty Mei. She then paused before she added, “Then there are some clothes and school supplies.”

Gu Shao frowned a little but finally didn’t comment on it.

“Have you had dinner yet, Sir? Let me go make you a bowl of noodles,” asked maa.

“It’s fine. I ate already.” Gu Shao declined her offer.

At this time, the syncing of Lin Xi’s phone was 98% completed.

The voice memo that was being synced right now caught Gu Shao’s attention – evidence?

The school was very efficient and Gu Shao received the call from HSAU the next day.

The principal placed the call in person this time.

“HI, Professor Gu. I hope I am not interrupting.” The principal was very polite over the phone.

Gu Shao gestured the person reporting the development progress to him to pause for a second and said to the principal, “No, you are not.”

“Oh, good.” The principal paused for a little, then said, “We have the scores from Lin Xi’s entrance examinations from yesterday. She did very well.”

That was an understatement.

With Lin Xi’s scores in her hand, even the principal couldn't help but felt emotional.

-- Literature - 96, mathematics - 100, English - 98, physics – 100, chemistry – 100.

With this kind of scores, she would for sure bring up their school’s average scores in the future.

She learned that the point deductions in literature and English were because they skipped the essay section to the teacher grading them deducted some points accordingly.

Gu Shao raised his brows when the principal told him Lin Xi’s scores over the phone but he wasn’t particularly surprised.

The principal said again, “With her grades, she could total handle being assigned to our AP (advanced placement) class.”

Knowing that Lin Xi was a relative of Professor Gu, the principal had contemplated whether to assign her to a better class for his sake.

Little had he known that that would not be necessary at all. With Lin Xi’s grades, she could get into the top class with no problem.

“She can start next Monday.”

“Thank you, Principal,” said Gu Shao.

“You are very welcomed, Professor Gu.”

“I have another question.” The principal asked again, “Will she only be joining us temporarily or will she be transferred into our school permanently?”

“What is the difference?” Even though Gu Shao was a professor at A University, but he knew very little about the system.

“Mainly it is a matter of her enrollment. If she is only enrolled here as a temporary student, she will attend classes here but will need to return to her previous school for important examinations such as final examinations or any unified examinations.

“If she is to be here permanently, she will need to go through the official channel and be enrolled at our school instead of her previous one.”

With her potential, naturally Principal Zhao would love for Lin Xi to transfer into their school.

As such, Principal Zhao gave Gu Shao the spiel about HSAU over the phone once again.

“I get it. Thank you, Principal Zhao.” Having said that, Gu Shao ended the phone call.

He recalled Lin Xi telling him that she did not wish to return to her old school. As such, she probably wouldn’t mind much transferring to this new school.

Nevertheless, that would bring about a new problem: They need her household register in order to transfer officially into the new school.

-- Lin Xi’s household register still laid with the Lin family.