Back home, Fu Ying put away her diploma and transfer documents, then got ready to head over to her sister's place. First, she took out the money and counted it carefully: 2,100 from the school reward, 300 from Dark-faced Qiu, and the homeroom teacher's envelope contained a whopping 500. Fu Ying was stunned—how could there be so much? She even considered taking it back to return it.
After thinking about it, though, she decided to let Dad Fu handle this matter. She would make a phone call to thank them first, and then check online to see if she could buy some fruit or something and have it shipped directly to the school address. In fact, Fu Ying had toyed with the idea of simply having a ceremonial banner made and sent to the school, but Dad Fu was not the type to do something so flashy, and if Fu Ying did it herself, it wouldn't carry as much weight. A verbal thank-you paired with some fruit was the only real option.
The huge sum of 2,900 was beyond anything she had imagined. On her way, Fu Ying made her plans: she definitely had to tell Dad Fu and Mom Fu about the money and hand it over to them. But she couldn't give them all of it; she needed to stash some away in a secret fund of her own, keeping a little cash on hand for emergencies so she wouldn't always have to wait on Mom Fu.
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