Two hundred and five

When she arrived at school, Jiang Zhizhi paid the tuition and miscellaneous fees first.

Today is Thursday. There are two Chinese classes, one Morality and Life class, and one Physical Education class in the afternoon. Except for Chinese, all other courses are unimportant to Jiang Zhizhi.

She did some preview and found that there was no substantial content in the Chinese class today. She didn't listen to any of the two Chinese classes and the one on morality and life. She put the Chinese textbook on top of "The Gadfly" to cover it up. After three classes, she only had the last twenty pages left.

"I've been watching you all afternoon, why are you still reading this book? Let's go play shuttlecock in the next physical education class."

A tall and slim girl with a long ponytail walked over to Jiang Zhizhi. She was holding a shuttlecock in her hand and wanted to pull Jiang Zhizhi along.

Jiang Zhizhi looked up at her.

It’s Xu Jiaojiao.

In her previous life, she was her best friend in elementary and junior high school. Xu Jiaojiao's family was also poor, and like her, they lived in a nearby urban village.

She is very beautiful and eye-catching, with a pair of peach blossom eyes and tall stature. She is a beauty that amazes people at first sight.

But Xu Jiaojiao's grades are not good, and she doesn't like studying. Now she is on good terms with some little hooligans in the urban village and they are on good terms with each other.

Later, she failed to be admitted to No. 1 Middle School and went to No. 4 Middle School, the worst school in Nanshi. It was very chaotic there, but Xu Jiaojiao was doing very well.

She dropped out of junior high school after only one year. Later, she wandered around in society, met many "adult brothers", and fell into prostitution.

After Jiang Zhizhi dropped out of school and went to work in the factory, she also had a good relationship with Xu Jiaojiao, but Xu Jiaojiao introduced her to an uneducated gangster who almost raped her.

From then on, Jiang Zhizhi cut off contact with her.

The last time I knew about her was when I heard that she had contracted that disease.

"You go first, I'll finish reading it soon." Jiang Zhizhi smiled at her without much reaction.

Xu Jiaojiao has a bad fate, but she does not discriminate against her.

But in this life, she didn't want to have too much contact with her.

"Okay then." Xu Jiaojiao didn't force it and just walked away.

She has always been cool.

Jiang Zhizhi was reading a book when Xu Qingbo entered the classroom and went to the back to get a basketball. She looked at him and suddenly thought, "Xu Qingbo."

Xu Qingbo turned around and looked at her blankly with the basketball in his hand. "What are you doing?"

Normally, he was too lazy to talk to people like Jiang Zhizhi who were average in academics. He thought that people who were not good at studying were stupid and lazy. Facing them, Xu Qingbo had the arrogance of a natural top student.

But today, because of the book "The Gadfly", he has a new respect for Jiang Zhizhi. He didn't expect that Jiang Zhizhi had such cultural literacy.

Jiang Zhizhi looked at the fair-skinned boy in the sunlight and smiled broadly and sweetly, with a hint of flattery in her voice. "Do you have a lot of books at home? Can you lend them to me?"

Xu Qingbo was stunned for a moment. He had never taken Jiang Zhizhi seriously, but he didn't expect that she was actually quite cute when she smiled today.

"Oh, sure." He avoided her gaze for a moment and subconsciously agreed, but suddenly felt something was wrong. He took the basketball and walked up to Jiang Zhizhi again, acting like a grown-up. "But, we're going to be in junior high school soon. Studying seriously is important. You should read less extracurricular books."

"Yes, I won't delay my studies." Jiang Zhizhi nodded quickly to assure me, and said sweetly, "Thank you."

She had never spoken much to Xu Qingbo before, and felt that they were worlds apart and incomparable.

It’s different now. After living for more than ten years, especially those years in sales, her face has become as thick as a solid wall.

After Xu Qingbo left, Jiang Zhizhi continued reading until the bell rang, then she went to physical education class.

Physical education teacher Zhou Guangtao asked them to run three laps around the playground first, and then started free activities.

Jiang Zhizhi returned to the classroom and continued reading until she finished the last page.

"Ding—Congratulations to the host for finishing reading The Gadfly and receiving a 500 yuan bonus."

Jiang Zhizhi's face flushed with excitement, but she deposited the 500 yuan into the system account and did not withdraw it.

When the physical education class was over and the classmates came back from outside one after another, Jiang Zhizhi took the copy of "The Gadfly" to find Lin Qingyu and said, "Class monitor, I will donate this book to the class's book corner."

"Oh, okay." Lin Qingyu had just come back. She was jumping rope with other classmates. At this moment, her pretty little face was covered with sweat, like a beautiful and lovely daisy that had just been drenched in rain.

She wiped the sweat off her face with a tissue, then sat down and took out a pink notebook from the drawer.

I remember that the notebook contained donation records and borrowing records from the class book corner.

She has a petite figure and her handwriting is elegant and beautiful.

Jiang Zhizhi liked her very much in her previous life. She thought she was beautiful and smart, and her academic performance was always among the top three in the class.

After Lin Qingyu collected the books, he asked Jiang Zhizhi to put them in the reading corner. Jiang Zhizhi went over to take a look and touched all the books there.

There are not many books in the book corner, but there are dozens of them, most of which are fairy tales.

The book with the highest reading value is "Robinson Crusoe", which is S-level and has a prize of 500 yuan.

The others are Class A with a bonus of 200 yuan and Class B with a bonus of 100 yuan.

Jiang Zhizhi took three books, one was "Robinson Crusoe", one was "Alice in Wonderland", and one was "Gulliver's Travels".

A total of 900 yuan.

Jiang Zhizhi's mouth was crooked from smiling.

She went to find Lin Qingyu to register, then returned to her seat to pack her things, putting the three books into her schoolbag like treasures.

Xu Qingbo in front was packing his schoolbag. Seeing Jiang Zhizhi took three extracurricular books, his face looked a little unhappy.

"Didn't you say you wanted to study hard? Why do you have so many extracurricular books?" Xu Qingbo questioned her.

In the past, Xu Qingbo would not have cared, but now that Jiang Zhizhi asked him to borrow extracurricular books, he agreed.

He felt that he had an obligation to remind Jiang Zhizhi again.

Jiang Zhizhi said hurriedly: "I don't think these will affect my studies."

Xu Qingbo snorted, "I've never seen anyone reading extracurricular books without affecting their studies."

"Isn't that you? You said this morning that you read a lot of books, but you are still so good at studying." Jiang Zhizhi also praised him cleverly.

Xu Qingbo was choked.

He really wanted to say, can Jiang Zhizhi compare with him?

But his good upbringing made him hold back.

"Jiang Zhizhi, the mock exam is coming up soon. If you can get a total score of 250, I'll lend you some extracurricular books." Xu Qingbo had just finished speaking when he realized that 250 sounded a bit like an insult, so he added, "250 points."

"Okay, then it's a deal." Jiang Zhizhi agreed immediately.

In her previous life, she had reached the second year of junior high school. The primary school courses were not difficult for her. As long as she studied hard, there should be no big problems.

Two hundred and fifty points, that is, for the three subjects of Chinese, mathematics and English, an average score of 84 points in each subject is enough.

Xu Qingbo knew Jiang Zhizhi's level. Her total score was only about 240 points. The mock exam was next week. She definitely couldn't get a score that was too high. 250 was at least an improvement.

As long as she doesn’t let extracurricular books affect her studies, it’ll be fine.

Jiang Zhizhi was in a very good mood after having expanded her new channel for reading.

Although she now has money to buy books in the bookstore, it is not convenient to take the books home. If Jiang Guozhong sees them, he will definitely scold her for spending money indiscriminately. Donating them to the class's book corner is one solution, but if she does it too often, it will be too conspicuous.

It’s still better to get it for free.

Everyone in the class had left. Lu Xiye tiptoed slowly to the book corner, took out the book "The Gadfly" that Jiang Zhizhi had put there, and opened it with curiosity to take a look.

The densely packed small characters and the difficult to understand sentences suddenly shocked him, making him, who had never read a book before, feel dizzy.

"What? How can you be so engrossed in reading this kind of book?"

He couldn't read a single word.

Lu Xiye curled his lips, stuffed the book back into the reading corner, and walked away angrily with his schoolbag on his back.

As soon as Jiang Zhizhi got out of school, she ran to the big stadium in Dongxin District with her schoolbag on her back.

There are several primary schools near the stadium. After picking up their children from school, parents like to exercise and play for a while here.

This is the place with the most people in Dongxin District every evening. The street next to it is full of stalls, some selling boiled corn, some selling ice jelly, and more selling children's toys.

The items Cheng Yuping sells at her stall are not fixed, but they are usually fruits. Every morning, she picks one or two of the most cost-effective ones from the morning market of the wholesale market and brings them to the street to sell.

Today she bought peaches and filled the shelves on the tricycle.

As soon as Jiang Zhizhi arrived, Cheng Yuping gave her a big, plump peach to eat.

Jiang Zhizhi was eating a peach, thinking about how to delay time. Suddenly, she saw a group of people setting up a tall rack in the stadium. She went to ask about it out of curiosity. Soon, she ran back with her face flushed with joy.

"Mom, there's an open-air movie at the gymnasium today. I want to watch the movie before going back. I've never been to a movie before." Jiang Zhizhi pulled Cheng Yuping's clothes and begged pitifully with her big watery eyes.

Cheng Yuping doted on Jiang Zhizhi's face and said, "Go and see for yourself. Mom is waiting for you here."

She glanced at the screen being set up over there, but there was a tricycle here and she couldn't leave.

Jiang Zhizhi noticed her mother's expression and felt a little uncomfortable.

My mother has never been to a cinema or watched a movie in her life.

Jiang Zhizhi remembered that it was Jiang Guozhong who took her to the movies for the first time, but he only treated her as a little follower who carried her stepmother's bag.

She followed them carrying large and small bags, watching them talking and laughing. Although she was obviously in her thirties or forties, the woman still put her arm around Jiang Guozhong like a young person on the street, making Jiang Guozhong very happy.

Cheng Yuping is an honest person who grew up in the village. She is hardworking and diligent, has never had any ulterior motives, does not know how to please men, and does not say flattering words.

Jiang Guozhong was fed up with her.

"Mom, when I make money in the future, I will take you to the cinema to watch a movie." She not only said this, but also made up her mind in her heart.

When Cheng Yuping heard what Jiang Zhizhi said, she smiled happily, "Study hard, Mom is looking forward to your success."

Jiang Zhizhi's nose suddenly felt sore.

"Mom, you can definitely wait."

Thinking that Cheng Yuping would leave her within two years, she almost burst into tears.

No, in this life, she will never let her mother die. She wants to live well with her mother!

Live happily!