I became a poor little sophora japonica in the courtyard

The pawnbroking industry in Hong Kong is firmly controlled by local big families, and outsiders cannot get involved at all.

The newly arrived Wei family could not continue their old business. After much thought, they decided to take a step back and open a big restaurant in downtown Hong Kong.

The address is Wellington Street in Central, close to the famous Lan Kwai Fong. It is a three-story restaurant with a good environment and location.

Since Tan Yali is the inheritor of Tan family cuisine, Mrs. Wei came to ask Tan Yali to help her restaurant and be responsible for controlling the quality of the dishes in the kitchen.

Tan Yali married Lou Zhenhua at the age of 18, and she is only 45 years old this year. It was boring to stay at home all day, and their two families were old friends, so after consulting her husband Lou Zhenhua, she agreed to Mrs. Wei's request.

She also brought her daughter Lou Xiao'e along. How could a young girl like her stay at home all day? Lou Xiao'e had no choice but to agree to help out at Wei's Restaurant.

Lou Xiao'e was in charge of the front desk of the restaurant and formed a working partner with the son of the Wei family. The two had known each other since childhood and were both divorced, so they had more common topics to talk about.

Now more and more people from the mainland come to Hong Kong. From their mouths, I can understand that the situation over there is very serious. In the past few years, there is no need to think about going back. Lou Xiaoe has completely lost faith.

Wei Shixian was ten years older than Lou Xiaoe. Before the divorce, he had a son and a daughter, but now they had both cut off ties with him, and his wife even betrayed him. This was a heavy blow to him mentally!

He had also suffered physical damage in Beijing, and his health had not been very good since he came to Hong Kong. He would turn pale if he did a little bit of exercise. For this reason, Lou Xiao'e had been taking care of him in the restaurant.

The parents of the two families also wanted to bring them together. The parents of the Wei family were older than Lou Zhenhua, and they were eager for their son to come out of his pain and build a new family again.

A year passed, and the agreement between Lou Xiao'e and Sha Zhu expired. New feelings gradually developed between her and Wei Shixian.

But she also began to hesitate! Her first marriage ended in failure after six years, and she was afraid that she would not be able to have children. The Wei family was a single-line family.

Knowing that she was worried about her health, the wives of both families accompanied Lou Xiao'e to the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital for a check-up, and the results were completely normal.

Huaihua was six years old this year, and she couldn't stay in Lou Mansion all day and waste her time, so she told her grandfather Lou Zhenhua that she wanted to go to primary school.

Now everyone in the family is out working, leaving only Xiao Huaihua at home. She always sneaks out when the housemaids aren't paying attention. She won't come home unless she hangs out for a few hours.

Lou Zhenhua thought it would be better to let her go to school so that he wouldn't have to worry about her all day. But Xiao Huaihua was only six years old, and he couldn't guarantee that the school would accept her.

Lou Zhenhua took some time off and took Huaihua to the Diocesan Girls' School at 1 Jordan Road, Kowloon. This school is currently the best private church school for girls in Hong Kong.

The school's education director received them. But when she heard that Lou Jingyi was only six years old, she immediately declined. She was afraid that the child was too young to understand the knowledge and would not be able to keep up with the learning progress. She persuaded Lou Zhenhua to wait until the child was eight years old before sending her here.

"I have already learned the knowledge of the second grade at home. If you don't believe me, please test me!"

When Huaihua heard that she had to waste two years at home, she immediately raised her hand to show that she could do it.

"Okay, I'll go get the second grade test papers. As long as Jingyi can get a score of 90 or above, our academy will make an exception and accept you."

The director of education brought two second-grade exam papers and asked Huaihua to sit down and take the exam. As long as she could get good grades, it would mean that this six-year-old girl was very smart and she had the right to be admitted as an exception.

Huaihua scored 100 points on the math test, but not on the Chinese test! Because Diocesan Girls' School is a bilingual school, she couldn't remember a few English words, and she had to give up as the test was approaching.

The director of education graded the two papers and found out the weakness of this child. Everything else was in line with the academy's concept of excellence, except for English, which was a little bit lacking. But it was not a problem for him to enter the first grade!

"Little Jingyi is really smart! I hope you can excel in our Diocesan Girls' School and move towards a brilliant life."

The director of education immediately decided to accept Lou Jingyi. Lou Zhenhua spent half a day helping her complete the admission procedures.

The Diocesan Girls' School has both boarding and day-study options. Huaihua chose the boarding system. Lou Zhenhua thinks that's fine! The school is located on Jordan Road in Yau Tsim Mong District. If you are a day student, you have to take a cross-sea ferry every day. This is very inconvenient!

If she is boarding, all you have to do is pick her up every Saturday afternoon and send her back to the college on Monday morning.

The dormitories at Diocesan Girls' College were for four people in one room, with a bathroom inside. Huaihua went to her own dorm and saw two bunk beds, four desks and a wardrobe.

She chose an upper bunk in the corner. Later she would install a curtain on the upper bunk and draw it to create a private space.

She made the mattress distributed by the academy, put the school uniform and other personal belongings in the cabinet, and took Lou Zhenhua's car back to Lou Mansion. She would start her study career when school started the day after tomorrow.

This Diocesan Girls' College is a one-stop shop. Five years of elementary school, two years of junior high school, two years of high school, plus two years of preparatory courses. A total of eleven grades, all studied in one college. This saves a lot of trouble!

On the first day of school, Lou Xiao'e carried her luggage and sent her to the dormitory. Her other three first-year roommates were already there.

Those who can attend this kind of church-run private school usually come from wealthy families. The three eight-year-old girls are all from wealthy families, judging by their attire and appearance.

The dormitories for the lower grade students in the academy are all taken care of by life teachers. When you start the third grade of elementary school, you have to take care of all the trivial matters of life by yourself.

After changing into the school uniform, we went to our own classroom. After looking at the course schedule in the classroom, Huaihua realized that this academy not only taught cultural courses, but also allowed students to take a skills course.

There are all kinds of arts, including music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and you can even sign up to learn embroidery. The courses in Hong Kong are really different from those over there.

Of course, Lou Jingyi signed up for piano lessons. This way, she could find a reason to play the piano well.

She didn't need to learn the first-grade cultural courses at all. She focused all her energy on English and piano lessons.

The British teacher who taught her piano was very surprised! He had taught piano lessons to countless children, but had never met a piano genius like Lou Jingyi.

Jingyi could only lie and say that her family hired a piano teacher for her when she was four years old. But even if she had studied systematically for two years, she shouldn't have reached this level? The piano teacher said that Jingyi was a piano prodigy.

Jingyi curled her lips secretly and said that she had only used 50% of her skills, but the piano teacher was so shocked. If she could perform at the peak level of her previous life, would the piano teacher give up her position to her?

Her current piano skills can reach 70% of her previous life's skills. The main reason is that she is still too young, and her arms and fingers are still short. She feels a little flustered when playing those show-off music scores.

But as long as she continues to develop in this way, in a few years her piano skills will definitely surpass her previous self and reach a new height.

This British piano teacher named James has focused his main attention on Lou Jingyi since he had a piano prodigy like Lou Jingyi.

Jingyi also intends to release her piano skills little by little. Seeing her proud student making rapid progress every day, Teacher James teaches even harder.

Of course, she also had to make up for her shortcomings in English. At night, she would lie on the upper bunk in the dormitory with the curtain closed, and wait until her roommates turned off the lights and went to sleep, then she would enter the station space.

I bought tapes and books of Oxford English from a shopping platform, and increased the speed of my time by ten to one. Then I practiced piano and English in turn, and lay down to sleep when I felt sleepy.

When she came out after staying in the space for eighty or ninety hours, the sky outside was just beginning to brighten.

With such an intensity of study, six-year-old Lou Jingyi stood out among many children in the first grade. In the second half of the first grade, she went to the director of education to submit an application for skipping the second grade and going directly to the third grade when school starts next year. She even completed the fourth grade courses by self-study.

The director of education refused to believe it! He immediately gave her a fourth-grade test paper. If she wanted to skip to the third grade, she would need to score above 90 points.

Lou Jingyi gave her a perfect score! Even though she had a weakness in English before, she made up for it this time.

Want to skip a grade? The director of education can't make the decision this time. You can only take the test paper to the principal! In fact, Lou Jingyi's name has long been heard by the principal.

After listening to the director of education's story, the principal took the fourth-grade test paper and looked at it. She signed her name on Lou Jingyi's application for skipping a grade.