Chapter 111

If this can be considered as liking Song Peifeng, then Jiang Ning from No. 1 Middle School likes Song Peifeng too much. She likes him so much that she doesn't want to stay with someone she likes for even one more second. She leaves without hesitation when the get out of class is over. As soon as the teacher leaves the classroom, she disappears. Every day, she is the first to leave and the last to come, coming and going like the wind.

They also curiously asked other students from No. 1 Middle School why she rushed out so quickly every day?

Unfortunately, among the twenty students who came to the training camp from No. 1 Middle School, the other nineteen were from the first and second key classes. Only Jiang Ning was from the parallel class. He was not familiar with them, and they didn't know either. They were also curious.

When Director Zhang saw Director Wang’s expression, he burst into laughter.

Not only Director Wang came to supervise these students in class, but Director Zhang also came to supervise.

Although he didn't say it, Director Zhang was worried about the spread of such rumors. It was true that the student named Song Peifeng from Wuzhong was too outstanding in appearance. These children were at the age of puberty, and it was normal for them to have some thoughts. He himself went through that age group.

Director Wang couldn't help but touch his round head with gray hair that looked like a boiled egg in embarrassment, and laughed too.

If Jiang Ning behaved like this once or twice, he might not have been so embarrassed, but he did not do this once or twice. He came to stare at the students every day to observe whether they had any signs of premature love, especially Jiang Ning from No. 1 Middle School. Even with all his years and having seen so many students, no matter how picky he was, he had to say that the girl was pretty.

He touched his round head and smiled, "It's good that they haven't figured it out yet. If everyone was like her, focusing only on studying, why would we need to do this, staring at students nervously in class every day, fearing that they would be affected by other things in their studies?" He sighed and said, "They really caught up with a good time, unlike us when we were young."

Speaking of this, Director Zhang sighed inwardly, thinking of the ten years he spent in the labor camp.

He was in poor health, and the root of his illness was contracted at that time.

Director Wang said: "Now that they have such conditions, if they don't study hard, they really don't know how lucky they are. Especially for girls, it is not easy to go to school. They really should seize this opportunity and not waste it."

It's okay for boys. As the director of the school, they have to visit the homes of students every year because the rural areas below don't allow girls to go to school. Not to mention the female students with poor grades, he has also seen many students with good grades whose families don't want them to go to school. So if they don't focus on studying when they have such an opportunity to study, but waste the opportunity doing other things, as the teachers of the school, they will also be very sad.

The three years of high school can be said to be an opportunity to change their life destiny, just like a fish leaping over the dragon gate. Once they jump over it, the sky will be high and the sea will be vast from then on. They can’t roam freely, but they will see a different scenery in life from then on.

Sometimes they are not just high school teachers, they are responsible for something that can sometimes change these students' lives.

They are still young and don’t understand, but they understand!

That is why so many students felt that Director Zhang was too strict when they were in school. But after graduation, when they heard that Director Zhang was sick, so many students went to see him. Some of them, who were not even Director Zhang’s students, also brought flowers and fruits to visit him in the hospital.

Director Zhang and Director Wang, although they have been competing for their respective schools and their respective school's achievements all their lives, they have the same heart for their students. At this moment, the two of them are walking side by side in the lush campus of Wuzhong. The shade and light cast by the tall sycamore trees on the campus fall on them. It is rare for the two people, one tall and one short, to walk and laugh together in such a quiet and harmonious way.

Song Peifeng couldn't help but laugh when he saw Jiang Ning disappearing as soon as the get out of class was over every day. He had originally thought about whether he should avoid suspicion, but now it seems that there is no need. Such outrageous speculation should not have reached her ears, which is why she is so calm every day, not noticing that Wu Zhong's classmates are observing her. She is busy every day and completely immersed in her own world.

Jiang Ning found it easy and joyful to write such a brainless article. Inspiration came to her all the time. She used to write at a speed of 6,000 km/h, but sometimes when she was excited, her speed could reach 7,000 km/h.

Because she is happy to write, her whole person appears to be energetic and high spirited every day, walking with a breeze, her eyes are bright, and there is a smile in her eyes and face every day.

Seeing the confusion in the eyes of students like Zhang Wenxue who were tortured to death by the competition teachers, he asked Jiang Ning seriously: "Jiang Ning, don't you feel tired every day?"

In response to him, there was confusion in Jiang Ning's eyes.

But soon, she realized what he meant, and the smile on her face deepened, "Yes, it won't be tiring." How can you feel tired when you do something you love? Even if I am tired, it is a happy tiredness.

But when you graduate, you will know why school is called the ivory tower.

Studying is the easiest thing before you enter society.

Even Director Wang, who saw her smiling face every day, privately expressed his feelings to the teachers of Wuzhong: "Jiang Ning of No. 1 Middle School is really in good spirits. Other students look miserable and pale when studying, but she is the only one who smiles whenever you see her."

He sincerely sighed: "This student really loves learning from the bottom of her heart! No wonder she has such good grades."

Not only Jiang Ning was in a good mood, Director Li Ang's mood was also getting better and better.

Originally, he thought that as long as he could maintain the first print run of "Wuxia" at 700,000 or 800,000, it would be a stable successor to "Wuxia" after the completion of "The Song Dynasty". However, in the past few days, major bookstores and newsstands across the country have called to ask for more copies, saying that "Wuxia" was not selling well.

If people first read "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" because of the author Ning Meng, then people who are following "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" now do so entirely because of the article.

It is now August of 1996. In this year, computers have developed rapidly, and more people have been hanging out on online forums. There have also been more discussions about "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality", especially the latest installment of the serial. Because the fighting in the demon world is cruel, demon beasts and demon cultivators are always fighting for territory and devouring each other, using the blood and energy in meat to strengthen themselves, and fighting each other until they are bleeding. The snake demons in the Snake Valley have also encountered such a crisis. The big demons outside want to devour these small snake demons.

This issue ends here, which makes readers who buy "Wuxia" every week very anxious, because it is obvious that their protagonist will appear later and will show off and get slapped in the face.

The characters in the book didn't know that the little white snake had swallowed the Emperor's Juice all night. They knew, they knew that the little white snake had been practicing to strengthen itself. Then it was the protagonist's turn to appear and stun everyone, but how come when it reached the climax, it suddenly stopped... Ah bah, it's over!

This made the readers anxious. They called the magazine to urge them to submit their manuscripts, and went to online forums to complain to their peers.

"Why is Ning Meng's train of thought so different from others? The protagonists of other martial arts novels, after learning martial arts, all of them go down the mountain and kill everyone. Only this little white snake is different. While everyone else is fighting to the death, it's the only one who's hiding!"

"The hero of other stories travels the world with a sword, but the hero I'm chasing lives on a cliff!"

Most male readers, after knowing that the little white snake will grow up to be the White Snake in the future, are reluctant to read stories with a female protagonist from their perspective. However, this little white snake is relatively weak, and always uses the tactics of a shady old man to fight. He is a typical example of playing the pig and eating the tiger, quietly getting benefits, and never showing off at all.

This kind of pleasure of making a fortune in silence, working hard to cultivate oneself without causing trouble, improving one's own cultivation bit by bit, and then pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger silently, is like a goose feather, scratching at the tip of their hearts. The more it is scratched, the more itchy it becomes, and the more itchy it becomes, the more they want to see it.

Especially now on the market, almost all the male protagonists of martial arts novels are like walking flat-headed brothers and violent huskies, who will fight if they disagree with something.

It just so happens that the supporting characters in this article by Ning Meng are written just like the protagonists in many current martial arts novels, while the little white snake is like the villain in the novels on the market. They are both fun and funny to read.

Some people may think that such a plot is a bit clichéd, but readers are honest and upright. They go to school, study, and work every day, and they are exhausted. They don’t want to read any abstruse and brain-consuming world masterpieces. They like to read this kind of funny and refreshing writing that can bring them a sense of relaxation and happiness after their heavy work and study.

The most direct manifestation of this urging and fondness is the increase in sales.

The latest two issues of "Wuxia" are sold out.

Li Ang and his friends had not expected that after several issues of White Snake were serialized, sales would gradually increase, and that more and more readers would follow the book.

He did not dare to increase the amount too much, and only increased the first print run to one million, then increased it by 200,000, and finally increased it to one and a half million. Only then did he realize how large a proportion of students accounted for in Lemonmeng's readership.

Almost all of these new readers are students on summer vacation.

The students have nothing to do at home during the holidays. Their parents don't let them read novels, so they have to buy a magazine and read it slowly. They used to be readers of "The Great Song". When "White Snake" was first serialized, it was still the end of the semester for them and all their energy was on studying. Now that they are on vacation, they read the ending of "The Great Song" and the follow-up article "White Snake" in the last two issues of "The Great Song".

Ever since the publication of Ning Meng's first time-travel martial arts detective novel, there have been more and more time-travel novels of the same type. However, everyone still thinks that Ning Meng's "The Great Song Dynasty", the originator of time-travel, is the best. Now that I'm at home on summer vacation, I'm following Ning Meng's new work "White Snake".

At the beginning, everyone regarded this novel as a prequel to The Legend of the New White Snake, but as they read on, they couldn't help but think, how could this be The Legend of the White Snake? The White Snake on TV is ethereal, while the Little White Snake in the book is a creepy little snake.

After reading this article, they will never be able to look directly at the White Snake on TV again. Moreover, they feel that with the Little White Snake's caution, intelligence, and clarity, they really cannot imagine that the Little White Snake, who will achieve success in spiritual practice in the future, will marry Xu Xian for the so-called repayment of a favor and then be suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda.

The little white snake in "White Snake Cultivation" that they saw would probably just sneak to Leifeng Pagoda and plot to kill Fahai, right?

Thinking of this, they were all looking forward to Fahai's appearance, but he was secretly ambushed by the little white snake.

But the foreshadowing before seems to indicate that this little white snake might really repay the favor in the future.

So how will it repay the favor?

"Just give me money, right?"

"Doesn't he want to open a clinic? Isn't it enough to open a clinic for him?"

"What if he wants to marry the little white snake?"

"I think with the little white snake's temper, it might smack him to death with its tail!"

Not only the plot of "White Snake" has been discussed a lot, but the discussion about the author Ning Meng herself has also increased.

The first thing to discuss, of course, is Ningmeng’s gender issue.

Some people say that he must be a man and must be a senior criminal policeman, while others say that he must be a woman. Otherwise, why are both works written from a female perspective?

"Yes, from the moment her first work came out, I knew it was written by the old policeman!"

"Then why does he always write from the female protagonist's perspective?"

"'The Great Song' was probably written from his daughter's perspective, and 'White Snake' was probably inspired by 'White Snake', right? So she is the heroine, but not the heroine's perspective. Can the little white snake still be the White Snake when she grows up?"

Whether they are the male party or the female party, they all have evidence and are arguing fiercely on the Internet.

Then a netizen said: "I don't believe a female author could write White Snake so vulgarly! Ning Meng must be a man. If Ning Meng is not a man, I will stand on my head and eat shit!"

This netizen was so cruel that a group of netizens called the "Wuxia" magazine and asked whether Ning Meng was a man or a woman.

The magazine had already agreed on a unified answer, and whenever anyone asked, they would say, "He's a man, a police officer!"

The female members who received the reply all didn't believe it. The netizen who said he ate shit while standing upside down also laughed and said, "I said it was a man, right?"

That cheeky look made many netizens hope that Ning Meng was a girl.

He Qiaosheng was also surfing the Internet. When he saw this message on the forum, he quietly replied to this netizen, saying that Ning Meng was a girl.

As a result, none of the netizens believed it, and they all came forward to say: "I called the magazine to ask, and the people there told me personally that it was a man!"

He Qiaosheng, who was the only one who knew this secret, felt that life was as lonely as snow. He told the truth, but people didn't believe him. What could he do?

He wanted to tell netizens that Ning Meng is not only a girl, but also a very beautiful and lovely high school girl.

But he still suppressed the thought and was happy that no one else knew who she was, but he knew the secret.

At this time, he felt that it was not so painful that Ning Meng did not want to be friends with him. He originally liked her works. For a moment, he was full of inspiration. He took a pen and wrote down his current blessing to Ning Meng.

So far, he has written five songs, all of which were inspired by Ning Meng. He is actually very grateful to Ning Meng in his heart.

When he participated in the singing competition, he also brought a guitar and played and sang original songs he wrote.

When Jiang Ning was training in Wuzhong, Tong Jingang and Jiang Bai were also anxiously waiting for the college admission letters, especially when the admission score lines of the schools they applied to were released. Although Tong Jingang just passed the line, they could not rest easy as long as they did not receive the admission letter.

What made him regretful was that Jiang Baikao's score was more than 100 points higher than the admission score of the school he applied for: "You should have listened to our sister and applied to East China University of Science and Technology."

He was not worried about Jiang Bai. With Jiang Bai's score, he could definitely get into Shanghai University of Science and Technology.

Before they received the admission letter, the Wu Zhong teachers, who had already finished the first round of training, had already taken Jiang Ning and the others to the city on a bus.

Their city is a prefecture-level city with a relatively dense population and a relatively developed economy in the future. The city has eight counties and districts under its jurisdiction, with a total of ten key high schools. In addition to the six districts of the city, there is also a municipal key high school in the remaining two counties, including Wucheng where they are located.

Yes, although Wucheng's Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School fight so fiercely within Wucheng, the admission rates of the two schools are obviously not much different, but Wuzhong can firmly suppress No. 1 Middle School. It is the undisputed number one in Wucheng in everyone's mind and the first choice school for all top students. In addition to the fact that Wuzhong has always been the best in Wucheng in competitions, there is another point, that is, Wucheng Senior High School is not only a key school in Wucheng County, but also one of the top key schools in the city within the jurisdiction of their entire city.

Therefore, every year in the city competition, No. 1 Middle School basically goes to the city, runs for one round and then returns. Only students from Wuzhong can compete in the city and then represent the city to participate in the provincial competition.

Just like in Wucheng, where students from Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School participated in the competition, the other seven counties and districts also had not only students from the city's key schools participating. There were a total of fifteen or sixteen high school students, with about ten people from each school, so it was a lot for more than a dozen schools combined.

For schools that are far away, they have to stay in the city that night and come back in the evening after the competition the next day.

The venue for their competition exam was the Affiliated High School of the Provincial Normal University. The teachers from Wuzhong and No. 1 High School booked rooms in a hotel near the Affiliated High School of the Provincial Normal University.

There were five girls in the competition class of No. 1 Middle School. Two of them were eliminated, leaving three girls, who happened to live in one room. As for the boys, the teacher arranged for four people to live in one room.

When they arrived, students from another county happened to have arrived as well. They all followed their leading teachers and went through the check-in procedures at the hotel's front desk.

The teachers leading the teams from these schools are all old acquaintances. After all, they bring their students to the competition every year, and they greet each other when they see each other.

They mainly greeted the teacher leading the team from Wuzhong: "Hey, you two schools are still in Wucheng this year!" He walked up to them with a smile, handed them cigarettes, and teased the two teachers leading the team from No. 1 Middle School: "Why do you come here to run with us every year? Can't you just follow your college entrance examination route? You are beaten by Wuzhong every year, and you run with us every year. It's a pity that your principal Sun is unwilling to give up."

He also handed a cigarette to teacher Ji Jianwei and said with a smile: "Xiao Ji, why don't you come to our school? You also won the first prize in the province back then. Isn't it a waste of talent for you to stay in Wucheng No. 1 Middle School?" He smiled and asked the leader of Wuzhong: "Xiao Zhou, don't you think so?"