Chapter 517: Don’t Lick Like a Puppy
Yan Nuo held an umbrella and stood beside Ji Yinbing.
He looked down at the little girl answering the questions. When she answered a question, her handwriting was neat and her logic was clear. Yan Nuo was a little surprised. When he was Ji Yinbing’s age, he could not be as outstanding as her.
Yan Nuo thought to himself that this girl might really succeed one day.
Under the scorching sun, Ji Yinbing answered the questions alone in the field for two hours. Yan Nuo, on the other hand, held an umbrella for her for half an hour.
Ji Yinbing finished writing the last word, put down the pen, and carefully checked her script.
A moment later, she put down her pen and looked up at Yan Nuo. “Master, I’ve done it.” She stood up and folded the papers. She walked to the teacher and handed them to him. In order to prove that Ji Yinbing did not cheat, the teacher had to review the questions in front of the teachers and students.
After ten minutes, the teacher said, “All correct.”
Everyone gasped.
Ji Yinbing still looked cold and calm.
She carried her school bag and left the school. Yan Nuo walked in front of her. There was a small shop outside the school. Yan Nuo walked straight over and ordered two iced drinks. He handed one to Ji Yinbing. Ji Yinbing took off her shoes and walked to Yan Nuo’s side to drink with him.
Yan Nuo noticed that she was taking off her shoes and didn’t say anything.
This was how this country was. When lowly people went to buy things or eat at a small shop owned by the higher-ups, they had to take off their shoes. Even if they pa.s.sed by the entrance of their houses, they had to be barefoot.
They were lowly commoners, untouchable people. They were not qualified to enjoy the same benefits as the upper cla.s.s people.
This was Ji Yinbing’s first time drinking an iced drink, and it was surprisingly sweet.
She finished the entire cup. Afraid of wasting it, she even licked the inside of the cup.
Yan Nuo watched her and frowned slightly. “Don’t lick it. You’ll look like a puppy.”
Ji Yinbing immediately stopped.
On the way back, Yan Nuo did not take the car. He walked in front while Ji Yinbing walked behind.
After walking for a distance, Yan Nuo suddenly turned around and asked Ji Yinbing, “Where is your house?”
Ji Yinbing was stunned for a moment before realizing that he was referring to her house in the slum.
Ji Yinbing’s eyes flickered, but she still told him the truth.
“In the Dharavi district.”
The Dharavi slum was the largest slum in Mumbai, the largest in Asia, and ranked second in the world. It was easy to imagine how poor, dirty, messy, and dangerous it was.
Yan Nuo knew about the Dharavi slum. He even found it dirty to step on the land there.
Yan Nuo looked at Ji Yinbing deeply and said inexplicably, “I can’t tell.”
“Master, what do you mean?”
Yan Nuo explained, “I didn’t expect that there would be such an ambitious child like you in that filthy place.” The people beside Yan Nuo were all high-cla.s.s people. They had been taught from a young age not to interact with those lowly people as they would be corrupted.
Although Yan Nuo understood that the lowlifes would not pollute him, he still could not stand their habits.
She heard that the men and women there would urinate wherever they wanted. They would drain the feces into the river and everyone would bathe and cook in the river…
He felt disgusted just thinking about it.
“Forget it, let’s go back.” Yan Nuo did not even have the mood to look at the Dharavi slum.
Ji Yinbing heaved a sigh of relief.
She also felt that it was too dirty for her owner.
When she got home, the news that Ji Yinbing had gotten first place in the school spread throughout the Yan family’s manor. The servants came to congratulate her, and Na Ya secretly asked her, “Can… Can you teach me how to read?”
Ji Yinbing was quite surprised.
“You want to learn?”
Na Ya said, “It’s not just me. There are many other girls who want to learn.”
They were all lowly commoners. Some of them were born in the countrysid that valued men over women. It was already lucky that the girls were not killed when they were born. How could they study!
Ji Yinbing thought about it before saying, “I have to ask my master.”
“Okay.”
On the afternoon of the next day, when Yan Nuo was done with his training and was cleaning him, Ji Yinbing softly mentioned this matter.
“They want you to teach them how to read?” Yan Nuo was surprised.
Ji Yinbing nodded.
Yan Nuo thought for a while before saying, “You decide.”
“Thank you, Master.”
This summer vacation, from ten to eleven o’clock every night after the masters rested, Ji Yinbing had an hour to teach the servants how to read. She mainly taught them how to read and the simplest arithmetic. If it was too difficult, they would not understand even if she taught them.
In the year of the fifth grade, Ji Yinbing remained in first place. Later on, she rose to middle school with outstanding results.
This year, Yan Nuo was 17 years old.
He received an acceptance letter from the American West Point Military College.
Ji Yinbing was very happy for Yan Nuo. These few days, he started to receive congratulatory gifts from his friends one after another.
Ji Yinbing also wanted to give him a present, but she really didn’t have a present she could give.
The servants of the Yan family were all paid, but Ji Yinbing was different. She was a slave raised by Yan Nuo, and she did not have a salary. Of course, she would not ask for a salary since her school and living expenses were paid for. Paying a meal for her in her school was already Yan Nuo’s greatest gift to her.
Every year during the Lantern Festival in November, the Yan siblings would reward the servants with a sum of money. Although it was not a lot, it was enough to make the servants grateful.
Ji Yinbing also received it a few times.
In the past two years, every time she took the final exam and won first place in the school, Ji Yinbing would receive a cash reward. The reward was not much, but Ji Yinbing did not spend a single cent. She saved everything.
Ji Yinbing’s eyes flashed when she saw the gifts Yan Nuo’s friends had given him.
She ran back to her room, closed the door, opened the pillow, and shook it.
Coins fell from the pillow.
Ji Yinbing squatted by the bed and counted. There were more than 13,000 rupees in total.
She folded all the rupees and packed them in a small bag, hiding them in her clothes. The next day, after Yan Nuo ate breakfast and went out to ride a horse, she carried more than ten thousand rupees and went to Mumbai. The city was very big, and the number of times Ji Yinbing went there could be counted on one hand.
She was still wearing the dress that La Pu had gotten someone to make for her when she first entered the Yan family two years ago.
After two years, she had grown taller. Wearing this dress would reveal a section of her calf. However, it was fine as long as she could wear it. She had worn clothes that were even more inappropriate than this and was already used to it.
This country and this city were all strange to her.
On the way, she could see people with skinny, malnourished, and dark skin. You could also see people with luxurious clothes and snow-white skin. Ji Yinbing was a little fairer than before. Her Chinese looks were especially eye-catching in this group of exotic facial features..