"Mom, where are the red envelopes Uncle gave me? Where are they?"
"Hey, hey, look for your red envelopes, but stop rummaging through my purse-you know, your uncle was complaining about you. He hadn't seen you in a year, and you didn't even come over for a meal. Last time you went to Jianzhang, you didn't visit him either."
"I'm going to Jianzhang next month! I'll definitely visit him this time!"
"Huh? Next month? What are you going to Jianzhang for again-"
"Our school has an Exchange Student Program with Jianzhang No. 1 High School. I'll be taking classes there!"
"They picked you? Who else? Is Shi'an going? His grades are so good, surely he's going too."
"Aunt Lan, I'm going too. For now, it's the class monitor and me from the science track, and Little Cicada and Liang Shuwei from Liberal Arts," Chen Shi'an chimed in.
"Oh!"
Li Yilan nodded. Of course she knew Lin Meng Qiu. That girl was quiet and ladylike, so very likable.
She knew Liang Shuwei too. He was in Zhizhi's class and consistently came second in the exams, so his grades were certainly very good. But she didn't know much about him, and his name brought little to mind.
"Liang Shuwei definitely won't go. Ha, I'll talk to Teacher Wu when the time comes. If Liang Shuwei doesn't go, I'll have Xiao Yan come with me!"
"It's such a good opportunity. How do you know he won't go?"
"A hundred percent! Normally, I wouldn't really want to go either."
An Exchange Student program like this was, after all, neither a trip to some prestigious top school nor a trip abroad. With the usual academic pressure, moving to an unfamiliar learning environment and having to handle unfamiliar relationships made most top students reluctant to participate.