It's all money

Class 2, Grade 6, was located at the end of the corridor. The corridor had just been mopped and was filled with a damp and wet smell.

The class bell had not rung yet, and the students in the class were gathered in groups of three or five, talking about a TV star, anecdotes at school, or where to go after class.

Jiang Zhizhi glanced at the classmates in the classroom. She vaguely remembered some of the faces, but she had long forgotten who some of them were.

Fortunately, there was a newly arranged seating chart posted next to the blackboard. She glanced at her seat and quietly went over to sit down.

"Hand in your homework."

As soon as she sat down, the boy in front of her turned around and patted her desk.

It’s the math class representative, Xu Qingbo.

There were dozens of exercise books piled on his desk, all of which were homework assignments that had just been collected.

Jiang Zhizhi was not panicked. She remembered that the first thing she did when she got home every day was to finish her homework. She had never delayed it. She took out the homework books of various subjects from her schoolbag and opened the math homework book. Sure enough, there were two pages of new homework that had not been approved.

She handed it in, checked the other exercise books, handed in those with new homework, returned to her seat, and hurriedly opened "The Gadfly" and began to read.

The book was very obscure and her cultural level was not high, so it was a bit difficult to read, but Jiang Zhizhi still gritted her teeth and insisted on reading.

Suddenly, a hand reached out to her desk and snatched the yellowed and worn book from her while she was not paying attention.

"Look, Jiang Zhizhi is secretly reading a novel."

Jiang Zhizhi looked at the man who had snatched her book. He was a boy of about eleven or twelve years old. He was wearing a loose red sweater. He had a perfect figure, neither fat nor thin, and his hair was slightly longer than a crew cut. He looked sunny and energetic.

Although she couldn't remember the boy's name, she remembered him very clearly.

He had a pair of very beautiful and charming eyes. Once, Jiang Zhizhi sat in front of him in the seating arrangement. When the class was cleaning, she stood up to clean up and looked up to meet those eyes.

Under the thick black eyelashes, the pair of obsidian eyes are charming and deep.

The sun was unusually bright that day, as if casting a layer of light on his face.

Dust was stirring in the air as he chatted and laughed with a boy next to him. His healthy wheat-colored skin was slightly flushed.

Jiang Zhizhi didn't know why, but she remembered that scene for nearly twenty years.

Now I think that maybe that was just a little throbbing in the girl’s heart.

But now Jiang Zhizhi's soul is already that of a 30-year-old adult. She just gave the boy a cold look and said, "Give it back to me."

The aura of an adult who had experienced many vicissitudes of life overwhelmed him in an instant. He was frightened and stunned, looking at Jiang Zhizhi, blinking his beautiful eyes, innocent and confused.

In fact, he is not innocent.

Jiang Zhizhi didn't like him. In her previous life, she had studied hard and finally got into No. 1 Middle School. But this boy in front of her, who was the worst student in the class, got into No. 1 Middle School easily by relying on his family's wealth and status.

He was a complete playboy. He didn't study hard in middle school. Every day, he would take a few male classmates to eat, drink and have fun together, and bully his classmates in school.

Jiang Zhizhi was the one he liked to bully the most in his previous life. He ranked the ugly girls in the class, and Jiang Zhizhi was ranked first. He said she had a duck mouth and was skinny.

All her classmates thought she was ugly, excluded her and laughed at her.

Jiang Zhizhi once had a very low self-esteem, but it was not until she dropped out of school and entered society that she realized that she was not ugly at all, and could even be quite pretty after dressing up.

Many male colleagues in the factory wanted to sleep with her. If Jiang Zhizhi had not been vigilant, they would have almost succeeded several times.

Seeing the boy in front of her standing there in a daze, Jiang Zhizhi stood up and snatched "The Gadfly" from his hand.

"You think you're right after reading a novel? This bull... bull... bull man is obviously not a serious book. I'm going to tell the teacher."

"It's Niu Meng, a work by Irish female writer Ethel Lillian Voynich." Xu Qingbo in front looked at the boy with disdain and corrected him.

A female classmate next to Xu Qingbo immediately showed admiration in her eyes, "Xu Qingbo, you are so knowledgeable, you even know this."

"Of course, I have read a lot of books." Xu Qingbo pretended that this was just a trivial matter, but his tone could not help but reveal the pride and arrogance of his wide reading.

The little dandy in the red sweater was standing there feeling extremely embarrassed. He felt that everyone in the class was looking at him, so he had no choice but to go back to his seat in disappointment.

Jiang Zhizhi glanced at him again, but still couldn't remember his name.

Forget it, it doesn’t matter.

After her rebirth, she only wanted to study hard and take good care of herself and her mother. She didn't care about anything else.

I am now in the sixth grade and will be entering junior high school soon.

After working in society for so many years, she had long forgotten everything she learned in school. Math was okay, she could still do some questions, but she needed to memorize Chinese and English again.

Fortunately, there are no physics, chemistry, biology, politics, history and geography courses in elementary school, otherwise she might not be able to catch up in such a short time.

There are two math classes and two English classes in the morning.

As soon as the class started, the math teacher Wang Hao came into the classroom with a stack of test papers and asked Xu Qingbo to hand them out.

"Today we are learning Unit 3, cylinders and cones. These two special papers are today's homework and are due tomorrow morning." After Wang Hao finished speaking, he began to draw the cylinders and cones needed for class on the blackboard while Xu Qingbo was handing out the papers.

The special examination paper was passed to Jiang Zhizhi's desk.

"Ding—the system has detected a test paper on cylinders. The exercise value is A. Complete this test paper and you will receive a bonus of 50 yuan."

"Ding—the system has detected a test paper on cones. The exercise value is A. Complete this test and you will receive a bonus of 50 yuan."

Jiang Zhizhi was stunned.

Is there money for taking exams?

Seeing Jiang Zhizhi in a daze, the classmate behind her poked her with a ballpoint pen and said, "Test paper."

Jiang Zhizhi hurriedly handed the test paper to the classmate behind her, turned around to look at the test paper in her hand, her eyes shining.

Jiang Zhizhi has been poor since childhood, and she is an inevitable money lover.

In her eyes at this moment, this is not just a test paper, it is pure money!

Do it badly!

"Okay, everyone open your textbooks." Wang Hao, who was sitting on the podium, saw that the test papers had almost been distributed and the pictures on the blackboard had been finished, so he said to the students.

Jiang Zhizhi hurriedly took out her math textbook.

In an instant, the system's voice rang in my mind again.

"Ding—the system detected a book called 'Mathematics - Sixth Grade, Volume 2'. Its reading value is SS level. If you complete this book, you will receive a bonus of 2,000 yuan."

!!!

2,000 yuan!

Jiang Zhizhi widened her eyes, but after thinking carefully, she realized that it would take a whole semester to finish a textbook, so 2,000 yuan was not a lot.

But thinking of the huge sum of 2,000 yuan, how could she possibly delay it for a whole semester?

Learn it now, learn it hard, and learn it thoroughly!

In one morning, Jiang Zhizhi touched each of her books and found that there was a huge sum of nearly 6,000 yuan waiting for her in her small schoolbag.

At noon, when school was over, class monitor Lin Qingyu walked up to the podium and reminded everyone, "Today is the last day. Those who haven't paid their tuition and fees must bring them in this afternoon. Don't forget."

Jiang Zhizhi finished two math papers in the morning and earned 100 yuan, which she temporarily deposited into the system account.

But the tuition and miscellaneous fees required 200 yuan, and she was still 100 yuan short, so she could only read "The Gadfly" desperately during breaks.

At this moment, other students had packed their bags and prepared to go home, but Jiang Zhizhi did not move, her eyes fixed on the yellowed book.

The little dandy in the red sweater had been staring at Jiang Zhizhi for the whole morning because of what happened in the morning. He was shocked to see her immediately take out a book to read during the break. She looked so anxious, like a drug addict about to take drugs.

I have never seen anyone who loves reading so much, he is crazy about it.

The little dandy, carrying a light bag filled with only a few books, passed by Jiang Zhizhi's desk and couldn't help but lean over to take a look. "Is it really that pretty?"

But Jiang Zhizhi didn't react at all, as if she didn't hear him at all, and was completely immersed in a world of ecstasy.

The little dandy couldn't help but look at Jiang Zhizhi from the yellowed pages of the book. The girl stared with her big eyes. The sunlight came through the window, and her eyelashes curled like cicada wings cast a beautiful shadow in her dark pupils.

Her mouth was slightly open, the color of her lips was like cherry blossoms blooming in summer, and her small ears were thin and pink, very cute.

"Hey, Lu Xiye, what are you doing? Everyone is waiting for you." A little boy outside shouted.

"Oh, here she comes." A hint of panic flashed across the little dandy's pretty eyes. He quickly withdrew his gaze from Jiang Zhizhi and slipped away as if escaping.

Jiang Zhizhi stayed in the classroom for more than forty minutes and read one-third of "The Gadfly". Seeing that it was almost one o'clock, she hurriedly packed up her things, put on her schoolbag and ran home.

Her family rented a house in an urban village near No. 1 Middle School. The rent was very cheap, only three hundred yuan a month. It took about twenty minutes to walk from home to school. Jiang Zhizhi ran all the way and it only took her more than ten minutes.

Cheng Yuping had already prepared the meal and had been waiting for Jiang Zhizhi for a while. Seeing her rushing back, she asked, "Why are you back so late?"

"I did a little more homework at school." Jiang Zhizhi gave her mother a big sweet smile. Although the girl was thin, she still had a little baby fat on her cheeks, and her smile was very cute.

Cheng Yuping's heart softened as she looked at her precious daughter. She gently helped her take down her schoolbag and said, "Come and eat. I made your favorite noodle soup today."

Jiang Zhizhi responded and hurried to serve the rice.

Looking at the boiling noodle soup in the iron pot and smelling the familiar aroma, Jiang Zhizhi's eyes became sore and she almost cried.

In the more than ten years since her mother passed away, she has eaten countless bowls of noodle soup.

But no bowl of it tastes like mom's anymore.

She filled a large bowl, picked up her chopsticks and ate it in big mouthfuls. The slightly salty noodle soup stimulated her taste buds as soon as it entered her mouth. The thick soup was so delicious that she almost swallowed her tongue.

As she ate, Jiang Zhizhi couldn't hold back her tears.

"Zhizhi, why are you crying? Did someone bully you at school?" Cheng Yuping asked worriedly when she saw Jiang Zhizhi suddenly burst into tears.

"No, no one bullies me. I just think the food my mother cooks is so delicious." Jiang Zhizhi smiled at her mother with tears in her eyes.

Cheng Yuping didn't know why, but she also felt sad. "You silly child."

After dinner, Cheng Yuping secretly gave Jiang Zhizhi 200 yuan to pay her tuition and miscellaneous fees.

Jiang Zhizhi thought of her previous life. Because of the 200 yuan, Jiang Guozhong beat Cheng Yuping and robbed her of the money she had saved for half a month. The money was used for her to purchase goods at the morning market every day. After Jiang Guozhong robbed the money, Cheng Yuping could no longer go to purchase goods. She worked in a wood factory for a long time before she earned some money and came back to set up a stall again.

Jiang Zhizhi had been to the wood factory once. As soon as she entered, she was greeted by the pungent smell of paint and rust, as well as sawdust and dust floating all over the factory. The air was extremely bad.

From then on, Cheng Yuping's health gradually deteriorated.

"Mom, where are you going to set up your stall today?" Jiang Zhizhi asked.

"What's going on at the stadium?"

"Close your stall later, and I'll come find you after school."

When Cheng Yuping came back from closing her stall that day, she ran into the angry Jiang Guozhong. Jiang Zhizhi didn't want her to be beaten, so she wanted to take her mother away from him tonight.

"Okay, then mom will wait for you."

Before going to school in the afternoon, Jiang Zhizhi stole the money that Cheng Yuping had hidden in the jar in the closet.

She didn't want to leave a penny for Jiang Guozhong.