Chef at the University Canteen

Chapter 550 - 293: Now It’s Settled, Just as You Wished!

In the past, Yao Pinghua felt that having meals at home was an enjoyment, especially when his mom cooked his favorite dishes. No matter how heavy his schoolwork was, he didn’t feel it was hard.

But after tasting the food at the Seventh Dining Hall, he suddenly realized he hadn’t had many good foods before. At most, the meals his mom cooked could only be considered food to fill the stomach.

However, even though his mom’s cooking couldn’t compare in taste to the Seventh Dining Hall, Yao Pinghua still accompanied his parents to finish dinner.

He was still in the age of seventeen or eighteen, needing to grow. Missing a meal would make him feel very hungry. Besides, these were dishes his mom had thoughtfully prepared.

As the dinner was about to end, Lao Yao seemed to suddenly remember something, turned his head, looked at Yao Pinghua, and asked:

"Xiaohua, it’s time to fill out the university applications in the next couple of days, right? Have you decided which school to apply to?"

In many other families with students taking the college entrance exam, this question actually doesn’t need to be asked.

Even though the enrollment plan for domestic universities increases yearly, and the proportion of university students in society is getting higher, getting into a good university is still a significant leap in life for an ordinary family.

So, once there’s a kid in the house taking the college entrance exam, families with poor grades may be indifferent.

But families with good grades might start considering which universities their child could get into based on their usual scores even before the exams start.

Once the exam is concluded, and the scores and provincial ranking come out, filling out applications according to the schools the parents have thought of is foolproof!

However, the situation in Yao Pinghua’s family was somewhat different from other families.

Lao Yao and his wife were high-achievers in university themselves, having received higher education early on. Their thoughts about university were different from ordinary people’s.

For others, university might be a chance to change their life.

But for Lao Yao and his wife, university was just a place to receive higher education, nothing particularly noteworthy.

They just wanted their son to do what he needed to do at his age. Like now, at eighteen, he could go to university.

Oh well, then go to university.

As for which university their son should attend, they didn’t really care.

What they cared about was what their son could learn from his university experience.

After all, the father had already accumulated a fortune of billions and a publicly listed company waiting for him.

If the kid has the ability to make it on his own, the father will support him...

If he’s successful, that would be best. If he’s not successful...

Then the kid doesn’t lose out, since he can still come back and inherit his dad’s billions and the listed company, right?

Yes, that’s exactly what Lao Yao thought.

So, he never paid attention to his son’s university applications, nor did he give him any advice.

What’s the difference? He wouldn’t get into top universities like Shuimu or Jing University anyway, so any other university doesn’t matter.

His son can choose wherever he wants to go.

When his father brought this up, his mom’s attention was immediately captured. She looked at her son with a face full of concern.

Even though her general idea wasn’t much different from Lao Yao’s, she was, after all, the mom, so she had thoughts similar to moms of students all over the country.

Their son had never really left their side since he was young.

If he suddenly went to a faraway place for university, she would always be worried about whether he was hungry, thirsty, or bullied.

So, she needed to ask what university her son was planning to choose. If it was too far, she could still persuade him.

Not hoping for a university right at our doorstep, that’s unrealistic, but son, the farthest you can go is a neighboring province!

It’s hard for mom to visit you if you’re too far away!

Yao Pinghua was already full and was about to go back to his room when his father suddenly asked. His mom stared at him intently, even though he usually wasn’t afraid of his parents, he couldn’t help but feel a bit nervous.

He hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly said:

"Jiangzhou University."

After a pause, he added, "Biological Sciences major."

"Hmm, not bad."

Lao Yao nodded with a smile. He was about to continue speaking when his smile suddenly froze. His face showed a look of surprise as if he just realized something, and he exclaimed:

"You, what did you just say? Jiangzhou University?

The one in the university town on the eastern outskirts of Jiangzhou City?"

He looked at his son sitting in front of him with surprise.

He had known his son never wanted to stay at home, always wanting to take the chance of going to university to be a bit farther from home and enjoy freedom.

At university, he could do whatever he wanted without the nagging of his mom, admonishing him on what he could and couldn’t do...

Even though his son did poorly in this entrance exam, scoring at least twenty or thirty points less than usual mock exams, he still had the grades to consider some decent universities outside the province.