On the morning of July 28, the courier rode a tricycle through the streets, the back of which was filled with all kinds of packages.

The U.S. Postal Service is one of the few official "state-owned enterprises", employees have high benefits while not worrying about unemployment, as long as layoffs will be supported by labor unions, resulting in employees are lazy, and delivery speed is surprisingly slow.

If it weren't for this, other companies wouldn't have grown smoothly, and the old-fashioned SSAT organizing committee members are still using the U.S. Postal Service to send their transcripts, presumably to save money.

Today's report card was finally delivered to the house, and Lisa, who received the report card, called Link down before saying, "Take it apart and see how it goes, even if you do poorly, it doesn't matter." ”

Link took the envelope and tore open the paper bag on the outside, revealing only a thin page of the report card, folded up in the middle.

Link looked down at the content printed on it and said, "The total score is 2389, and the proportion of all subjects is more than ninety-nine, this kind of performance is almost stable, and it is not a problem to get a scholarship place in Lola High School." ”

The total SSAT score is not just based on the score, but also on the SSAT percentage.

The SSAT percentage is used to indicate a student's performance in the past three years compared to all candidates of the same grade and gender, ranging from 1 percent to 99 percent, the higher the student, the better the student, and American school admissions officers pay special attention to this.

The total SSAT score is only 2,400 points, and he only loses 11 points, which is a score that even the top private high schools in the United States will rush to ask for him.

I had estimated that the score should be good, but Link didn't expect it to be so high, after all, there are topics like essays, and he is not as good at this as science.

And Lisa couldn't help but be excited after hearing this: "Thank God, it's really a good child, I'm proud of you!" ”

After getting the good news, Lisa immediately called Robert, who was still at work, and then waited until dinner came back, and after discussion, the family decided to hold a barbecue party to celebrate.

Statistics show that the average American eats 25 pounds of beef a year, and Texans are obviously more passionate about beef, so it only takes a few months for them to be able to eat that much, especially barbecue and beer.

It can even be said that the three things that Texans are most interested in are God, football, and barbecue, in no particular order.

Of course, Robert didn't invite too many people, but just invited a few neighbors and his friends to clean up the position in his backyard, prepare the oven and beef, and then these guests would also bring some of their own dishes, and Peggy's parents, Barry and Linda, also came to the barbecue party.

Barry is a tall and skinny dentist with a very good income.

There is a very strange phenomenon in this part of the United States, that is, fat people are generally poor, while people in the white-collar class and even the rich class rarely appear fat, and they will maintain a very good figure.

In fact, the reason and reason for this are also very simple, rich people can spend money on fitness to keep in shape, and poor people certainly don't have the money to go to fitness to stay in shape.

In addition, the rich can buy expensive organic food to eat, while the poor can only eat cheap inorganic food or junk food, of course, they cannot be compared with the rich or even the white-collar class.

Barry said casually to Link: "Then Link, before I knew your results, I heard that you were also very smart, and I didn't believe it much before......"

"I do have some talent, but I'm really not smart compared to Peggy." Link said, "You know, Peggy is the kind of real genius, and I can't help but envy it. ”

"Either way, to be able to achieve such results shows that you are a genius." Link behaved maturely and decently, which kept Barry in a crush on him.

"Link is right, even if he is smarter than the average person, but in my opinion it doesn't make much difference." At this time, Peggy next to her interjected, and her mother Linda immediately said, "Peggy! ”

Seeing this, Peggy could only glare at Link, and Linda said to Link: "No matter what, Link, we all see you as Peggy's brother, you know, Peggy is very special, and few people want to be friends with her, but since I met you, she is obviously much happier." ”

"You're welcome, in fact, I also enjoy spending time with Peggy, after all, my ambition in the future is to become a scientist, and it would be nice to have someone to talk to, and I learned a lot from her."

Peggy's mother was a little more enthusiastic about Link, after all, Peggy had almost no friends of the same age because of her high IQ.

After all, when you are with someone and you feel that you are worthless, it is difficult for you to have a good impression of someone, and even Peggy's sister has a very average relationship with Peggy.

Linda also spent a lot of energy so that Peggy didn't become the kind of child with poor emotional intelligence.

But even so, the crushing brought by high IQ also makes Peggy somewhat stupid and self-centered when facing other people, but Peggy is not as exaggerated as Sheldon, and her emotional intelligence is getting higher and higher, Peggy has begun to learn to cover up these.

After a few conversations with the Peggy family, Link went over to Robert, who was wearing big beach shorts and a black T-shirt, the standard casual attire for most men in American families.

Most people in the United States dress casually, even those rich people will go out like this.

That's why Americans are always laughed at by Europeans, saying that Americans dress up like hillbillies.

The Americans did not take this to heart, they did as they were comfortable, and they did not care at all about other people's opinions and statements.

Of course, this only means that when they are free, when they go to work or attend important dinners and gatherings, Americans still dress very formally.

"Oh, our genius is here!" When Robert saw Link coming, he pulled Link to chat with a few colleagues and said:

"William King's son was triumphant when he got into the University of the California Arts. So what, it's just an art school in California.

Those artists are just graffiti, or addicted to drugs, and my Elizabeth is ready to go to biology at the University of Chicago, and she will become a doctor, and Link will be a scientist in the future......"

When it comes to chatting and bragging, and comparing their own children, there are actually some similarities between the two sides of the Pacific.

The rest was simple, everyone ate barbecue and drank beer, and parents and children, husbands and wives gathered in their own small circles.

Robert's group of middle-aged men held beers and indulged themselves while eating roast week, while the wives got together to gossip, such as whose wife was out of the wall and whose husband had a mistress outside.

In short, these housewives who are busy with housework on weekdays basically talk about these gossip and scandals, which is a bit boring, but they are not tired of it.

The children were playing around and playing with each other, and Link noticed that Peggy had been chatting with a couple of eleven or twelve-year-old girls for a while, and seemed to be getting used to it, and it was generally a fun evening.