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At the end of 1972, after arriving in Los Angeles, Duqi's father Du Rulin used money to buy a small apartment in Los Angeles and opened a Chinese restaurant. His mother followed his father to run the restaurant and sent Duqi to a private school in Los Angeles to attend school.

With his outstanding grades, Duchi was admitted to the famous private high school, Loyola private high school, and was also given a free tuition fee.

Loyola is one of the most famous private high schools in Los Angeles, and is incomparable to world-class schools such as Eton University in the UK. However, in the United States, its ranking has remained in the top 50 for a long time, and many parents are rushing to send their children here to study.

Duqi has seen many students here wearing famous brand clothes and their watches are Patek Philippe. Many parents often use supercars like Aston Martin to send their children to school. The campus is beautiful, the teachers are friendly, and the wall of honor is full of celebrity alumni. This school is for the rich.

If Duche had not received full marks in the SSAT exam, Loyola Private High School would not have enrolled students from families like Duche.

In the past few years in high school, Duqi has been ranking in the school's sports competitions and has been able to receive a full scholarship, exempting tuition fees of up to more than 40,000 US dollars a year. However, other school uniforms, lunch and other expenses are not at all.

A school uniform here costs 500 US dollars, and the monthly meal expenses are also worth thousands of US dollars. Every year, the school organizes students' travel and camping, and pays thousands of US dollars.

Together, the amount of money costs an additional $20,000 a year, which is equivalent to two years of spending in an ordinary public middle school.

Due to the economic crisis in recent years, the Chinese restaurants that Du Rulin and Li Yan have opened together are ordinary. In addition to cost and expenses, the net profit they can get is only 30,000 US dollars each year. The middle-class community has good conditions and the expenses are greater than that of Chinatown in slums. If you include the annual property tax, community service fees, water, electricity, gas and other daily expenses for the family, plus the insurance costs of several people in the family, you can save at most one or two thousand dollars in a year.

So since I came to Los Angeles, my family's savings have been decreasing. I only spent about 170,000 US dollars to settle down in Los Angeles, buying a house, buying a car, and opening a restaurant. However, after five years, my family's savings have been decreasing, and now there is only 300,000 US dollars left. According to Du Rulin and Li Yan's ideas, this money was planned to be used for Du Qi to go to college.

You should know that it is not cheap to go to college in the United States. Like these private high schools, some famous universities usually have tuition fees of more than 40,000 US dollars per year, and accommodation fees are as high as 10,000 US dollars per year. In addition to the tuition and miscellaneous fees, it is basically a sky-high price.

From this we can see that the burden of American college students is that unless they have the ability to get full scholarships, or if their families are indeed rich and their parents can bear all the college expenses, ordinary college students need to apply for student loans. After four years of college, they have a debt of more than 100,000 US dollars. This is normal.

This may also be one of the reasons why American college students, especially those students from famous universities, study hard. If you don’t study hard and find a good job in the future, you will not have the money to pay so much student loan!

Loyola's private high school is very famous in Los Angeles. Duches was recommended by his previous private middle school teachers with his nearly full score and was admitted to the school without tuition, but his campus life is not free and easy.

In this school, Duqi belongs to the category of rejection, not only because he is a Chinese, but also because in this school, many students’ watches are worth more than 50,000 US dollars. This is a school full of rich children. Duqi is considered an alternative. In the United States, a country where money is the largest measure, poverty is the biggest reason why these students reject Duqi.

If you are an ordinary child who stays in such an environment for a long time, you may be on the extreme path. Fortunately, Duqi has a mature outlook on life and worldview, and doesn't care much about the rejection of these teenage boys. Even with decades of experience in the previous life, and the current teenager's ideas are somewhat simple, Duqi has made several friends.

Duqi is already eighteen years old this year. He has been in the eleventh grade this year because he has been delayed by a year. However, in fact, he has learned almost all the knowledge of the twelfth grade. Although "Star Map" did not make Duqi invulnerable and easily learn magic or something, it also brought Duqi a healthy body and a smart mind.

The current system of high schools in the United States, like China in the previous life, has morning self-study and evening self-study, especially for students in private high schools. Everyone has heavy lessons.

Of course, schools also attach great importance to some activities outside the textbook, such as American football, basketball, baseball, etc. Before Duqi's rebirth, many schools in China paid more attention to this.

After all, this is a well-known private high school in the United States, especially since anti-intellectual publicity and education have not been conducted yet. There is no slogan that makes children happy to learn, which is specifically used to confuse the poor and solidify the class, or the existence of red bears, has forced the United States to cheer up and try to cultivate as many talents as possible, and has no time to fool the civilians in their own country.

Of course, Duqi had faced the campus bullying incident at the beginning. Even in this well-known private high school in the United States, the campus bullying incident could not be completely avoided.

In the eyes of many high school students, it is very despised to call their parents when bullied. Du Qi also knows that with his father Du Rulin's cautiousness, as long as the other party is not too much, even if he says it himself, he will only be careful to avoid the other party.

The living environment of Chinese people in the United States is not good. They often experience uninvited by the police and break into the door. Even on the street, they are most likely to be targeted and caught to check the documents. If there is any mistake, they will be taken back to the police station and then suffer some hardships.

Now that the Du family lives in the middle-class community, the situation is much better, but compared to white people, they still cannot be treated normally. The cautiousness that has been developed since childhood makes Du Rulin not want to cause more trouble.

However, Duqi has a different view. Sometimes he can't escape it, especially in a cultural environment like the United States. If you avoid it, you will only make the other party look down on you and become more severe. So when someone came to make trouble for the first time, he chose to resist in the most direct way.

It was only half a month since he entered school. Duqi knocked the captain of the American football team who came to find fault in front of many classmates. This fight made him famous in school. He used this senior who was one year older than him as a role model. Duqi successfully avoided being bullied and looked down upon by his classmates later.
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