Chapter 113

"Hi." Jiang Ning waved and greeted Song Peifeng naturally when she saw him, and then did some stretching to warm herself up.

Song Peifeng also just came down.

At this time of summer, the sky was gradually getting brighter, and everyone else was still asleep. They were the only two people in the hotel yard.

Song Peifeng didn't expect to run into Jiang Ning when he went downstairs for a run. Seeing her greet him so naturally, he couldn't help but smile: "Good morning."

The two of them first stretched in the yard. The yard was too small, so Jiang Ning wanted to go out for a run. However, she thought about the chaotic social atmosphere nowadays. Although it was still early, nothing would happen. However, there were many news reports of accidents caused by morning jogging in the past. After stretching, she stepped on the spot and invited Song Peifeng: "Want to join us?"

Seeing that she was not embarrassed and looked calm, Song Peifeng, who was not the kind of person who would be shy, smiled and nodded, and the two of them ran out of the hotel yard.

It was still early and the breakfast shop had just opened. There were very few pedestrians on the road and almost no vehicles.

When the bus drove over yesterday, Jiang Ning had already observed the nearby terrain and said to Song Peifeng, "Shall we go around the Provincial Normal University Affiliated High School?"

The area around the Provincial Normal University Affiliated High School is a school, with shaded trees, quiet and pleasant, making it suitable for running.

Song Peifeng had no objection, and the two of them ran one in front of the other, or side by side.

Song Peifeng was originally thinking about whether he should chat about something, but he noticed that the girl in front of him was running attentively and muttering something under her breath. Through the familiar fragments occasionally brought by the morning breeze, he realized that she had recited from Chinese to politics, from politics to history, from history to geography, and so on, reciting them in a circle until she knew them by heart.

He couldn't help but laugh.

No wonder she has such good grades, she has achieved it through such hard work.

Others may think that he learns very easily, but the effort he puts in behind the scenes is no less than anyone else in Wuzhong. In fact, because he is also taking into account competitions in three subjects at the same time, he spends much more time on study every day than people think. At the same time, he is also reading other books.

Isn't it ridiculous for such a hard-working girl, who is better than him in competitions and joint examinations, to say that her mind is on liking someone or on romantic affairs?

He also laughed at himself. When he first heard the news, he even thought about avoiding suspicion. He was too self-righteous. And the groundless speculations made by those people before were too insulting to her.

Song Peifeng couldn't help but reflect on the stereotypes people have about girls, which has led to girls of their age just smiling and saying hello to others, and even before that, they haven't even said a word to each other, and this can lead to such groundless speculation. Song Peifeng is also secretly warning himself in his heart at this time, not to have stereotypes about others before he knows them and the whole story.

He originally thought that Jiang Ning just had the habit of running in the morning, and maybe ran one or two laps around the school playground, and then he followed her and ran one lap, two laps, three laps around the Provincial Normal University Affiliated High School...

The playground of their school is 400 meters in circumference, but the entire campus of the Provincial Normal University Affiliated High School is much larger than the playground.

After running the fifth lap, Song Peifeng, who had been running for many years, couldn't help but ask Jiang Ning: "Are you going to keep running?"

It wasn't that hot in the early morning, but after running five laps, Jiang Ning estimated that he had run ten kilometers and his head was sweating a lot.

She has short hair, and her current hairstyle is somewhat similar to that of Aaron Kwok and others. Her hair is thick and dense, covering her head, which is a bit hot.

Without a towel, she shook her short hair and wiped the sweat off her face.

Then Song Peifeng saw that she very naturally smoothed the hair on her forehead and the top of her head, and then used the rubber band on her wrist to tie a small pigtail in the center of her head, which was the pigtail that children wore when they were young.

Her sky-high braid is slightly different from the ones that children wear. Children's sky-high braids have longer hair, while her hair is short. Even when it is tied upwards, the braid really looks like a small bun.

Song Peifeng inexplicably thought of a monster in "Journey to the West" with the hairstyle of the Sphinx, and he couldn't help but smiled.

He was sure that she had absolutely no extra thoughts about him.

Jiang Ning didn't care about his gaze at all, or rather, she didn't care about anyone's gaze. She just stretched her neck, wrists and ankles while holding such a small knot, and stretched her arms: "Almost, do you want to go back?"

Song Peifeng didn't calculate how far they had run in total. He just gave an approximate number based on his usual running distance and his physical fatigue level, saying, "We've probably run about ten kilometers. Let's go back. The teachers should be up soon."

Jiang Ning also felt that they had run enough, "Let's go then."

The two of them walked back together.

On the way back, the two walked side by side. There were a few more pedestrians on the road at this time. He looked at her fair profile in the morning light. Seeing that she had run ten kilometers, her breathing was still even and she was not panting. He asked curiously, "Do you usually have the habit of running marathons?"

Jiang Ning thought about her four years in junior high school, when she had to run more than ten miles to and from school every morning and evening. Isn’t that a marathon? He couldn't help but smile and nodded, saying, "Yes, I run more than ten miles every morning and evening. I'm used to it." She turned to him and asked, "What about you?"

He smiled and nodded: "I'm used to running too."

When he was a child, he ran with his father. After he entered junior high school, he started running on his own. His father ran a marathon every year and pulled him to run with him.

After coming to Wucheng as the secretary, he also brought his habit of running marathons to Wucheng. Last year, he wanted to hold a national marathon in Wucheng, but because the public security in Wucheng was too chaotic, he did not have time to hold the marathon. He first had to sort out the power relations in Wucheng, win over a group and suppress a group, rectify Wucheng's public security atmosphere, rectify underground casinos and usury, and rectify the current rampant human trafficking. Currently, he and the county magistrate are responsible for Wucheng's politics and economy, respectively.

Politics has always been like this; once you are parachuted into a position, it is not that you can immediately unleash your domineering aura, intimidate everyone, make everyone in the original leadership team listen to you, and start to make drastic reforms and develop the economy.

No, there are struggles everywhere, for power and interests. Of course, there are also people with powerful backgrounds and strong personalities. After they are parachuted in, they directly establish their own one-man show, making their subordinates dare not speak out.

It was the first time that Jiang Ning observed Song Peifeng's youth at such a close distance. It must be said that Secretary Song, who later looked gentle and elegant but had tough methods and was known as the one-man show in a certain city, was really young at this time, full of youthfulness, and was truly as gentle as jade.

The two of them walked into the hotel yard. Director Zhang and Director Wang had a few drinks yesterday and had not gotten up yet. Only Teacher Ji was washing up in the yard. Seeing the two of them walking back side by side, he couldn't help but blink and asked them curiously, "Where did you go?"

Teacher Ji is a teacher at No. 1 Middle School, so Jiang Ning smiled and replied, "I met him during my morning run."

Teacher Ji knew that Jiang Ning had the habit of jogging in the morning. The two young competition class teachers in No. 1 Middle School both liked to play basketball, and sometimes they would make appointments to go out for a run together in the morning. Every time they went out, except when it was raining or snowing, Jiang Ning could be seen running on the playground.

Teacher Ji was not surprised that Song Peifeng had the habit of running. Wuzhong already had the habit of morning jogging. The first thing students did after getting up was to run two laps, reading aloud while running, and then do morning exercises. After finishing the morning exercises, it was time for morning reading.

His girlfriend is a young teacher at Wuzhong. She has to get up early every day to lead these students. She has complained to him more than once about Wuzhong's morning jogging.

He didn't think much about it and said with a smile: "Go upstairs and wash up quickly, then come down to eat."

The city competition starts at 8 o'clock, with two sessions in the morning and one in the afternoon. This way, after the exams, they will have time to take the students back and they don't have to stay here another night. With so many students, it would cost a lot of money to stay here for one more night.

The rooms of Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School are on the same floor. At this time, students have already gotten up one after another. Those who are used to reading early in the morning are holding books and reading aloud in the corridor.

When I saw two people coming back together, I didn't think much of it. I just thought they went downstairs to wash or have breakfast and came up together.

There is only one staircase, so it is very normal for classmates to bump into each other.

The two returned to their respective dormitories.

Jiang Ning walked in quietly, not wanting to disturb the two people who were still sleeping. However, her biological clock woke up both Cheng Yufeng and Yao Wenjuan. One of them was in the bathroom, while the other was quietly folding the quilt.

Jiang Ning opened the door and drew aside the curtains, and bright light shone into the originally dim room. Yao Wenjuan saw the little bun on Jiang Ning's head and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Jiang Ning was folding the quilt. Seeing her looking at the small tuft of hair on her head and laughing, she also smiled and said, "Your hair is too short. The weather is too hot."

Her hair was too thick and dense. Covering her head with it in the summer felt as stuffy as a wig. She even wanted to shave her head.

Before, I stayed on campus every day and didn’t think much of it. In the morning, I didn’t have a towel to wipe the sweat off. But after I tied my hair up, I found that it was so comfortable, so I kept it tied like this. As for whether others laughed at me or not, so what? She doesn't care.

Yao Wenjuan smiled and nodded, saying, "Very cute."

Sometimes she felt that Jiang Ning seemed kind and gentle, but was actually distant and hard to approach. That was why they had been in the same car on the first day of school, and later in the competition class together, but they still had little contact. But at this moment, with Jiang Ning like this, she felt that the distance between them was suddenly shortened. She was really adorable.

"Really?" Jiang Ning touched the small tuft on his head and tilted his head with a smile: "I think so too."

She is now admiring herself all the time.

My young self, my middle-aged self, and in the future, my old self.

With every wrinkle and every gray hair, she felt that she was so beautiful.

Jiang Ning's unreserved beauty blossomed at that moment, so many years later, that when Yao Wenjuan recalled Jiang Ning, the thing that impressed her most was not their first meeting, but that moment when the beauty first blossomed on the girl's face.

At this time, Cheng Yufeng came out. Jiang Ning smiled at Yao Wenjuan again, went into the bathroom to quickly take a shower, and went downstairs to wash up.

The hotel at that time was simple, with only a toilet and a bathtub in the room. You could go to the toilet and take a bath, but you had to go to the yard below to brush your teeth. There were two long rows of washbasins in the yard with more than 20 faucets placed side by side. After brushing your teeth and washing your face, you would go back to the room and go downstairs to eat.

There were more people coming and going on the stairwell.

The three girls from No. 1 Middle School finished washing up and went downstairs to have breakfast together.

Breakfast was still served in the same dining room as last night, and the choices were very simple: white rice porridge, corn, sweet potatoes, fried dough sticks, eggs, glutinous rice cakes, and leek fried dumplings.

Jiang Ning hadn't eaten leek fried dumplings for many years. Later, she had eaten various spring rolls and dumplings with leek and egg flavors, but she still missed the delicious leek fried dumplings she had when she was a teenager. Unexpectedly, she encountered it here. After serving a bowl of white rice porridge, she put corn, sweet potatoes, fried dough sticks, eggs, and fried dumplings on her plate.

Seeing that she had taken so much, Yao Wenjuan asked her in surprise, "Can you finish it?"

Jiang Ning looked back in even greater surprise: "How can we not finish it? We are still growing!"

What Jiang Ning cares about most is her health. She is too thin now. Maybe the food is much better than in her previous life. She has grown faster in this life than in her previous life. In her previous life, despite malnutrition, she grew to 168 cm tall. She is expected to grow to over 170 cm in this life.

Unfortunately, she only grew taller but not fatter. She would rather be stronger.

Being too thin always reminded her of how weak and powerless she was in the hands of Jiang Ma, like a little chicken, beaten by her and unable to fight back or hide.

She will start practicing Sanda and boxing later.

The hotel they stayed in was just opposite the Affiliated High School of the Provincial Normal University, not far away. After breakfast, Director Zhang and his team took them to the Affiliated High School of the Provincial Normal University to take the exam.

At this time, many buses and minibuses had been parked in front of the gate of the Provincial Normal University Affiliated High School. Students got off the buses one after another and walked towards the Provincial Normal University Affiliated High School.

It was their first time to visit the Provincial Normal University Affiliated High School, which should be the most famous high school in their city.

When teachers meet, they greet each other and ask each other about the current class of students in their school, whether there are any particularly outstanding students, and they also boast about what good students have emerged in their school.

Director Zhang drank too much yesterday and felt a little unwell today. After sending his students to the Provincial Normal University Affiliated High School for the exam, he said hello to Director Xiao Wang and Teacher Ji and went back to the hotel to rest.

On this day, Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng still took three exams in a row. As for the others, some took two exams, and some took one exam. After finishing the exams, they could go back to the hotel and wait for other students to finish their exams and go back together.

Jiang Ning hadn't seen Director Zhang until the others finished the exam and returned. After asking Teacher Ji, she learned that Director Zhang was not feeling well and had gone to the city hospital in the morning.