Chapter 504

Chapter 504: Chapter 471

After about half a month of fun at sea, they returned.

Yun Chendong and Yun Chenxi had saved up their vacation time until now. Once the half-month was over, they left with their girlfriends.

Yun Jiao, on the other hand, began to check her scores.

The whole family waited nervously until the moment the scores were released.

748

She only lost two points in Language Arts; everything else was a perfect score.

“AHHHH!!!”

“748! A score of 748!”

Just two points shy of a perfect score.

At that moment, everyone in the Yun family was exceptionally thrilled.

“Jiaojiao, your score is even higher than your third brother’s! 748 points!”

When Yun Jiao was very young, she had uneven grades. She didn’t particularly like math, feeling it was too much of a mental strain.

But as she got older, she paradoxically grew more determined to conquer subjects like math and physics.

Because subjects like English and Language Arts were too easy for her, the competitive and somewhat perfectionistic Yun Jiao later focused mainly on tackling math, physics, and chemistry.

Coupled with her natural intelligence, it wasn’t that difficult for her once she started studying seriously.

Now, her persistence and hard work had paid off.

Her whole family was proud of her.

It wasn’t just the Yun family; even the county’s schools were excited about this result.

Although Yun Jiao had barely attended classes at their school, her official student registration was filed there.

So, their school naturally shared in the glory.

She was, without a doubt, the province’s top scorer in the science track.

Teachers from the school immediately came over to congratulate her and even gave her a cash prize.

Now, the entire village knew that Yun Jiao had achieved an excellent score of 748, making her the provincial top scorer in science.

For a while, Yun Jiao’s home became bustling with activity again.

Even tourists who heard the news brought their own children over to offer congratulations.

This was the top science scorer, after all. They brought their kids to soak up some of the good fortune, not expecting them to become top scorers themselves, but just hoping their academic performance would improve in the future.

Shen Yunlian happily thanked all the well-wishers, handing out candy, sunflower seeds, and other treats.

Everyone was shocked when they saw Yun Jiao.

One reason was her beauty, so captivating you couldn’t look away, and the other was her age.

‘She’s so young!’ After hearing she was only 16, their eyes widened even more.

“Your child finished her senior year of high school at just 16?”

Shen Yunlian said proudly, “My Jiaojiao skipped a few grades. Her academic performance kept up, so we weren’t worried.”

Yun Jiao already spent little time attending school, and since she herself didn’t like to waste time on school-based socializing, the adults didn’t interfere.

They let her do whatever was most comfortable for her.

A few friends were enough.

The friends Yun Jiao had from school were basically all from her elementary school days.

Other than them, she was friends with a few children from the village.

Hearing this, the parents with children all cast envious glances at Shen Yunlian and the other adults of the family.

Someone asked if the parents had any special study methods.

Shen Yunlian replied, “What methods could we have? Jiaojiao studies all on her own. We’re not highly educated, so we can’t help her much. But she has a brother who got into Qingbei University in the Capital. Jiaojiao uses a lot of her third brother’s study materials. If there’s something she really doesn’t understand, she asks her third brother, or her teachers, and so on.”

The other parents: …

‘She even has a brother who got into Qingbei!’

In the end, quite a few parents wanted to ask for a copy of their study materials.

They wanted Yun Jiao’s, and they wanted her brother’s too.

Of course, they weren’t asking for free; they said they were willing to pay.

Shen Yunlian didn’t mind, but it mainly depended on whether her Jiaojiao and Lao San were willing.

Yun Chen Nan pushed the glasses up the bridge of his nose. “I’ll organize them and let people make their own copies. There’s no need for payment, they just have to pay for the copying themselves.”

He couldn’t use them anymore anyway. The original materials and notebooks could be kept as mementos, and people could make as many copies as they wanted.

Yun Jiao also nodded, indicating she thought the same as her third brother.

Admissions officers from several prestigious universities also arrived at their home soon after.

Several universities were all vying for Yun Jiao as a student.

Yun Jiao already had a target in mind.

Qingbei.

Mainly because several of her brothers were in the Capital, and she had even bought a house there. Wasn’t that convenient?

So she could only politely decline the teachers from the other universities.

Now, she just had to wait for the school year to begin and go to university.

Before the semester started, Yun Jiao went to the island to check on the pearls she was cultivating.

The first batch she had started raising was already from three years ago.

That batch of pearls had been fed Yun Jiao’s blood. Back then, she had just wanted to try it as an experiment, but she never expected the pearl mother shells to actually mutate.

They were three times the size of ordinary pearl mother shells, and the pearls inside were large and perfectly round.

Three of them exclusively produced pink pearls, several exclusively produced golden pearls, and there were also blue, purple, and black pearls.

These pearls were larger than ordinary sea pearls, each one exceeding 20mm.

The largest was 28mm, perfectly round and lustrous, glowing with a soft light under the sun.

And this wasn’t a one-time thing. Yun Jiao could remove the pearl from the pearl mother shell, and the shell would remain alive, able to gestate another pearl.

After discovering these benefits, Yun Jiao drew some of her own blood. Of course, she did it herself, and no one else found out.

She fed all that blood to the pearl mother shells she was raising.

Taking the pearls she had cultivated, Yun Jiao made a trip to the Devil’s Sea Area to meet the Water Weavers.

The Water Weavers were very happy to see her.

“Clan Leader, Clan Leader, Yun Jiao is here.”

Yun Jiao had also brought a boat loaded with books—both nonfiction and novels.

There were also various spices, and seeds for vegetables and staple crops…

As the items were unloaded, she introduced them one by one. The people on the island hadn’t been to the outside world in several hundred years, so many things from the outside were exceptionally novel to them.

The Clan Leader was more concerned with the seeds. Many of the ones Yun Jiao brought were improved varieties that balanced advantages like yield and flavor.

The Water Weaving Woman Clan was so named because their society was matriarchal.

They made their living from cloth, and only the women could weave Jue Sha.

The men were responsible for tasks like farming on the island and fishing.

Although they hadn’t been able to sell their Jue Sha since going into seclusion, they still had uses for it themselves.

Jue Sha allowed them to dive deeper into the sea and resist some of the water pressure.

That’s why, even now, their society remains female-dominated.

The clan leaders here have always been women.

The Clan Leader and Yun Jiao had a pleasant conversation, and Yun Jiao even showed her cultivated pearls to the Clan Leader, Yu Qing.

Yu Qing’s eyes widened.

“These pearls of yours… they’re even better than the ones we cultivate!”

Yun Jiao asked, “How many pearls are needed for a bolt of Jue Sha?”

Yu Qing replied, “For one bolt of Jue Sha, you need fifty pearls of the same color.”

“If they are all this size, then forty will do.”

Yun Jiao nodded. “When I have more pearls, I’ll give them to you, and you can use my pearls to make a bolt of Jue Sha for me.”

Yu Qing smiled. “Of course.”

She pointed to the tea. “I quite like this tea, and the people of the Water Weaving Woman Clan like it too. You can bring more of this next time.”

“No problem.”

After striking the deal, Yun Jiao brought up the crisis facing the Water Weaving Woman Clan.

Yu Qing sighed. “I know. But our clan has faced near-extinction crises many times. We really don’t dare to take the risk.”

“Please allow me some time to consider it further.”

In the Water Weaving Woman Clan, both men and women were beautiful. Some even had unusually colored hair like Yun Jiao.

However, it wasn’t as obvious as hers. Their hair colors were close to black, and you could only spot the slight difference upon close inspection.

‘If they were to go out into the world, they definitely wouldn’t have to worry about finding partners.’

It all depended on whether their Clan Leader, Yu Qing, had any intention of doing so.