Chapter 121

They were really curious about Wucheng No. 1 Middle School.

It’s not that people from Wucheng No. 1 Middle School haven’t come to train with them before, but they were invisible in previous years and were eliminated in the first round. This time, they were directly surpassed by all these old key high schools, even the Provincial Normal University Affiliated Middle School and Rongchang No. 2 Middle School.

And this time there are two people from Wucheng, one from Wuzhong and one from Wucheng No. 1 Middle School.

Seeing everyone's eyes fixed on her, Jiang Ning almost couldn't help but say "Hello, classmates" with a smile. She had taught many classes to various "new class members" and "non-party members". This was how she came to class at that time. When all the "students" were present in the class, this would be the scene when she came in.

Xing Hongyu was also frightened by the people's hot gazes and almost thought he had walked into the wrong class. But when he saw the different school uniforms worn by the classmates, he knew he was on the right track and walked in calmly.

The seats in the front were all occupied. When Ruan Hong saw Jiang Ning, her eyes lit up and she waved at her with a smile: "Jiang Ning, here!"

When all the classmates heard Ruan Hong's shout, they all knew that she was Jiang Ning.

What they were actually curious about was not Jiang Ning, but 'Jiang Ning from Wucheng No. 1 Middle School'. If Jiang Ning was from Rongchang No. 2 Middle School or Wuzhong, they would not be so curious.

But soon, they were no longer curious. Due to limited time, competition teachers came to teach them soon. All the teachers who came to teach this time were "famous teachers" from various schools in the city. Not only did they have outstanding results in the competition that year, but they also achieved very good results in teaching students.

The city competition was equivalent to their baseline test. The teachers no longer needed to give them another baseline test. They could just have classes directly until 9:30 in the evening, making sure everyone was well fed.

Jiang Bai's reporting day was three days earlier than Tong Jingang's. Tong's father and Tong Jingang sent Jiang Bai to report together.

When he was in high school, Jiang Bai looked at other students who had their fathers and mothers sending them to school, helping them with running errands, making their beds and hanging mosquito nets, but Jiang Bai was all alone.

Although Jiang Song was also in No. 1 Middle School, he was playful. He was taught by his mother since he was a child that these things were done by women. He also said to Jiang Ning: "These housework should be done by you girls!"

After hearing these words, Jiang Ning never washed the dishes at home again. She learned to pretend that she didn't know how to do this or that and stopped doing housework.

He brought Jiang Bai to his new dormitory without any intention of helping Jiang Bai with anything. He quickly became familiar with his new roommates and asked them to take care of him. Then he went to play ball with his friends, leaving Jiang Bai alone.

But this time it’s different, Tong’s father and Tong Jingang are here.

Because Tong's mother was too busy with her work at the hospital, Tong Jingang was brought up by his father. All the housework and cooking at home were done by Tong's father, who had a relatively leisurely job. So after reporting to the university, Tong's father and Tong Jingang carried Jiang Bai's bags of things and sent Jiang Bai to his dormitory. After Jiang Bai chose the upper bunk as his bed, he naturally went up to make the bed for Jiang Bai.

In his mind, Jiang Bai was just like Tong Jingang, both rough guys who were not very good at doing this kind of work. He never thought that Jiang Bai could even do needlework.

When he was in junior high school, all the socks in his family, whether they were adults or children, were mixed together and everyone wore them randomly. Jiang Song never cared whose socks were whose, he only picked the good socks to wear.

When he was a child, not only his family, but everyone in the village had their socks always torn at the front and heels, and he couldn't even remember how they got torn.

The eldest brother Jiang Song always had new socks. His younger sister was still young and didn’t know how to sew socks, but he would take needle and thread at a very young age, tear scraps of cloth, and mend the heels and fronts of the socks little by little. He also learned to mend double layers without any instruction so that they would not tear easily.

When he was a child, he didn't have a scarf. Jiang's mother taught Jiang Ning how to make one, but Jiang Ning was too young to learn it. He just watched from the side and learned it. He washed and took apart Jiang Song's sweaters that were tattered and no longer wearable, and connected the broken wool to knit a scarf for himself. Later, he became addicted to knitting and knitted one for his sister and one for his grandfather.

He is also a perfectionist. There is a little yellow duck on the scarf he knitted for his sister, but because of limited wool, it was a little shorter.

He can not only knit scarves, but also gloves, socks and woolen shoes.

When he was a child, he and his sister did things like cooking, making beds, and folding quilts at home.

Tong Jingang also helped Jiang Bai pack up his things.

Jiang Bai arrived relatively early. There were already two people in the dormitory. When he saw Tong's father and Tong Jingang, especially Tong Jingang who was as tall as Jiang Bai, he thought they were brothers and Tong's father was his father.

Since they were not familiar with each other, they did not ask any questions. They just greeted each other. Tong Jingang also said to the two people in the dormitory in a familiar way: "We are all in the same dormitory. I ask you to take care of my brother in the future."

The other two roommates looked at Jiang Bai's handsome face and were also stunned for a moment. They smiled politely and said, "Take care of each other, take care of each other."

Jiang Bai is no longer the timid Jiang Bai of a year ago. He is now tall and straight with a strong body. Perhaps it is because of the big mansion his sister bought in Shanghai that he has gotten rid of the inferiority complex of being from a small rural town. He looks indifferent and behaves calmly. He does not have the cold and indifferent attitude of the past. Instead, he greets his two new roommates with an embarrassed smile.

After Tong's father, Tong Jingang, and Jiang Bai hung up the mosquito net, they replaced the bed sheets and quilts with new ones issued by the school, spread a straw mat on the sheets, and stuffed the large password box that Jiang Ning gave him under the bed.

At that time, very few people used this type of trolley password box, and it was also a very fashionable suitcase. The two roommates looked at Jiang Bai's clothes, temperament, and password box and thought that Jiang Bai's family was well-off. As the saying goes, respect the clothes first and then the person, and this is true everywhere. They thought that Jiang Bai's family was well-off, so they would naturally be polite to him.

The military training hadn't started yet, and the two roommates saw that Jiang Bai didn't stay in the dormitory at night and wanted to "go home", and they thought Jiang Bai was a local.

Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang returned to Jiang Ning's house. He had already paid his tuition and put three hundred yuan into his meal card. The money from the brigade, Uncle Jiang, his uncle's relatives, and the "salary" Jiang Ning gave him were all deposited into his passbook. Now he only had ten yuan in cash.

In addition to Jiang Bai, the registration time has also come for all the new students of No. 1 Middle School Wuzhong this year.

In order not to delay students' study time, No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School have always started registration one week in advance, on the same day as Jiang Bai. After registration, there will be a week-long military training.

On the 27th, after Tong's father sent Tong Jingang to school to register, he did not delay any longer and returned to Wucheng by himself.

He has taken several days off.

Dad Jiang waited for several days and finally got a call from Jiang Bai. He learned that he had successfully registered and would be starting military training soon. Dad Jiang smiled from ear to ear, as if he was as happy as if he had heard that he would have military training in college.

On that day, he was in a particularly good mood and cut all the dried tofu into pieces of orchid tofu. He took a piece of orchid tofu from the big stewed food pot next to him and gave it to every customer who came to buy a box lunch. He also shared with the guests the good news that his son would report to university today and would soon have military training.

Not to mention the customers, even people in nearby shops who were already familiar with Jiang's father knew that Jiang's father had a son who was in college.

College students are quite rare these days, and everyone congratulated Jiang's father.

Jiang's father was also particularly happy because his family had a college student. He felt that his social status had improved as a result. His back, which had been weighed down by debt in the past few years, was finally straightened up.

Because Dad Jiang cooks delicious dishes and Mom Jiang washes vegetables cleanly and keeps good hygiene, they eat the boxed lunches themselves. People from nearby newsstands, staff, and some small shops also like to buy boxed lunches from Dad Jiang.

Mother Jiang really doesn't like Father Jiang's behavior of giving this and that to others for free whenever he's happy. Fortunately, this time it was just dried tofu, not duck feet. Apart from glaring at Father Jiang a few times, she didn't say anything about him in front of others. She just looked unhappy.

This year's severe crackdown has finally reached their Shenzhen City. Now Shenzhen City is cracking down on drugs and criminal gangs. There are still many thieves near the railway station, but the number of thieves snatching bags on the street on motorcycles has decreased. At least no one dares to do it in the city for now.

He Xiaofang and her classmates also returned to school one after another.

After a summer vacation, He Xiaofang, who was already dark, became even darker. She seemed to be eight degrees darker than before. Her face looked a little oily due to sweating, and she looked very tired.

Her younger brother is the only male in her family. He is still young, so all the heavy work during the double-harvest period is done by her, her sister, her parents. Her mother is old and has too many children, so she cannot do heavy work. She is mainly responsible for washing clothes, cooking and cleaning at home, and only goes to the fields to harvest rice and plant rice seedlings in the morning and evening every day.

The main labor force in the family is still her, her sister and her father.

Her family was in financial difficulty and her mother was reluctant to buy meat. Even if she bought some meat, it was mainly for her father and brother. She and her sister didn't get to eat any meat at all. After she finished the double harvest, she was almost exhausted. After she finally finished the double harvest and went to school, she and her sister carried a load of rice to school. In order to save money, she and her sister did not take the bus, but carried over 100 kilograms of rice and walked all the way to school.

The moment she saw her school, she actually wanted to cry.

She thought she would be able to see Jiang Ning as soon as she entered the school, but Jiang Ning was not at school. After asking, she found out that Jiang Ning had gone to the city for training because she was going to participate in the provincial competition in September.

Xu Xiuli did not return to school either. According to Xu Xiuli's homesick personality, she would not come back until tomorrow afternoon.

Lu Xuehua and Wang Xia were in the dormitory. When Lu Xuehua saw He Xiaofang, she was shocked and shouted, "He Xiaofang! How come you are so dark!"

He Xiaofang smiled, revealing her big white teeth, and said shyly, "I got it sunburned during the summer vacation."

"You won't get so tanned, will you?" Lu Xuehua had normal skin color, not very white, even a little yellow, but when she stretched her arm towards He Xiaofang's arm, she found that she was very white~

She immediately exclaimed: "I've never realized I was so white!"

Wang Xia also stretched out her arms. She had a pink and tender complexion to begin with, and now her arms looked really white and glowing.

Although Wang Xia is also from the countryside, she usually does housework at home. She has several older brothers, as well as a godfather and a godbrother, so it is not her turn to do farm work at home.

In the dormitory, everyone was discussing the issue of choosing liberal arts or science when registering, and everyone asked each other whether to choose liberal arts or science.

Although the division of classes into arts and sciences at No. 1 Middle School was not officially implemented until the beginning of the second year of high school, in fact, many students in the class had already had their focus since the second semester of high school.

For example, He Xiaofang basically gave up studying physics and chemistry in the second semester of her senior year, and focused all her energy on improving her grades in mathematics and English. Her physics and chemistry teachers didn't say anything. Many students in the class made the same choice as He Xiaofang in the second semester of their senior year. Only a few students like Jiang Ning and Xu Xiuli, who were good at both arts and sciences and had balanced grades, still insisted on taking all seven courses.

Wang Xia and her classmates did the same. They had already decided whether to study liberal arts or science last semester.

Wang Xia said: "I will definitely study liberal arts."

He Xiaofang also complained, "Finally, we can choose between arts and science. I wanted to study arts last semester, but physics and chemistry are exhausting. Math alone almost killed me, not to mention physics and chemistry."

Both Lu Xuehua and Liu Ping studied science.

In the dormitory, Jiang Ning and Xu Xiuli were not there yet. Several people speculated whether the two of them were studying liberal arts or science. After all, they were not biased towards any subject and had good grades in all subjects.

He Xiaofang said: "Ningning should study liberal arts. She said before that she would apply for liberal arts."

Lu Xuehua was surprised and said, "That's impossible? Didn't Jiang Ning participate in some math, physics and chemistry competition? She has such good grades in science, why did she choose to study liberal arts?"

There is a saying now, "Learn math, physics and chemistry well, and you will not be afraid of traveling around the world", so as long as you are good at science, basically you will choose to study science.

"But didn't you notice that Ningning is better at liberal arts?" He Xiaofang said.

Lu Xuehua asked her in surprise: "Which subject did she do poorly in?"

The two argued about whether Jiang Ning was better at liberal arts or science. In the end, He Xiaofang was no match for Lu Xuehua in eloquence, and she said angrily, "I won't talk to you anymore." She turned around and went back to bed to sulk.

She actually wanted Jiang Ning to study liberal arts, so that maybe they could be in the same class. She felt depressed when she thought that they were no longer in the same class.

Lu Xuehua saw through her thoughts at a glance, sneered and said, "I know you have a good relationship with Jiang Ning, but don't even think about being in the same class with her. She has such good grades, even if she chooses liberal arts, she will be in a key class. What does it have to do with our parallel class? By then, we may have to change the people in our dormitory!"

When He Xiaofang thought about the change of dormitory occupants and the separation of her and Jiang Ning, she felt even worse. She turned around and faced the wall, sullen and silent.

She has always known that the people in the dormitory gradually stopped targeting her because of Jiang Ning and her friendship, and she gradually integrated into the dormitory. She didn't know that if Jiang Ning left, or Lu Xuehua, Liu Ping and the others also left, and new classmates came to the dormitory, would they all reject her, ignore her, and talk behind her back, just like they did in the first few months of the first semester of high school.

The other girls in the dormitory also felt unhappy, because if Jiang Ning separated from them, they probably wouldn't be able to rent out Jiang Ning's books anymore.

Because of Jiang Ning, the girls in their dormitory have better relationships than those in other dormitories. I heard that there were quarrels and fights in other dormitories, but except for the time when Liu Ping rented out Jiang Ning's book privately, which caused a conflict in their dormitory and targeted He Xiaofang in the first few months of school, the relationship in their dormitory has been very harmonious since then. When Jiang Ning was free, she would come to the dormitory at noon to give them special lessons, which helped improve their grades a lot.

The harmony in the dormitory also allows them to focus more on their studies without having to deal with complicated dormitory relationships that make them feel internally drained.

All this is inseparable from Jiang Ning's plan of renting books in exchange for braised pork. They are also afraid that new classmates with personalities that don't match theirs will come in, which will lead to quarrels and fights, especially Lu Xuehua and Liu Ping in the dormitory, who are both impatient and have bad tempers.

Xu Xiuli arrived at school the next afternoon. When she went to register, she was divided into liberal arts and science majors. On the advice of her parents, she chose science.

Teacher Wang will still be the teacher of the science class, but for the liberal arts class, the class teacher will have to be changed.

Xu Xiuli thought of what Jiang Ning said last semester, that she wanted to study liberal arts. She hesitated for a moment and asked Teacher Wang, "Can we not change the dormitory?"

"It depends on your wishes. If you want to change, just make an application. If you don't want to change, you can stay in the original dormitory." Teacher Wang said.

Hearing this, Xu Xiuli felt relieved and went back to the dormitory to tell the good news.

Everyone else in the dormitory had already arrived. After hearing the good news from Xu Xiuli, Liu Ping was the first to cheer: "We can continue to rent books and eat braised pork again!"

There are more and more books in the dormitory now. In addition to every issue of martial arts, there are five published volumes of "Da Song". There are fewer "Readers" and "Youth Digest", but there are two books that Xu Xiuli occasionally buys, which are also put in the dormitory and rented out.

However, by the second year of high school, there were probably fewer people renting books. Liu Ping decided to develop new customers and rent books to the freshmen after the new students entered school.

At the beginning of the new school year, the boys who originally lived downstairs and are now in their third year of high school will move to the old dormitory building. All the dormitories downstairs will be vacated for new students. They are currently in their second year of high school and do not need to move.

As new students entered school, Jiang Qinqin, who had participated in a singing competition in the provincial capital during the summer, returned to Wucheng and spent all the New Year's money she had saved over the years.

She didn't get any prize, but she was still very happy to be on TV.

However, He Qiaosheng, with the title of original singer, made it to the finals. As the competition was broadcast on the provincial TV station, several of his original songs were noticed by music companies and signed. He Qiaosheng also became a little famous because of this competition.

During the competition, he always thought that Ning Meng might watch his competition, so he had to perform well. He played every game seriously, not only in singing, but also in his appearance and dressing, trying his best to make Ning Meng never see any trace of his past with dyed yellow hair.

So what the audience saw in front of the TV was a clean and refreshing boy in a white shirt, white T-shirt and jeans, and the TV station gave him a lot of shots for this.

Because of his fame and his creative skills, he was invited to form a band.

He himself wanted to follow them and wander around, but his parents didn't allow it.

His grandfather also advised him: "We are not forbidding you to play music, but you have to at least go to college. Do you think your current level is enough to support you to play professional music? I suggest you go to a music college to study for a few years first."

He Qiaosheng had only learned guitar for a few months and his level was shit. The few songs he wrote were all polished and revised by his grandfather. So after spending a summer outside, He Qiaosheng returned to Wucheng.

When he returned to Wucheng, he couldn't help but think that his summer competition was so popular, and he didn't know if Ning Meng had seen him or heard the songs he wrote.

She didn't know if she could hear it, but all the songs he wrote were for her.

Thinking that she had also watched his competition and heard the songs he wrote, He Qiaosheng couldn't help but blush and smile.

He didn't know why he was laughing, but he was very happy.