"Mom! I was just writing casually. If you are sleepy, just go to sleep. Don't worry about Mingqi and me." Zhang Qiurui said without raising his head.
"Just writing casually? It's a waste of paper and pen. Your family supports you to go to school, not to squander it like this and do nothing." Zhou Guihua frowned when she heard this, and her tone was filled with some blame and confusion.
Judging from the situation, if Zhang Qiurui doesn't give a reasonable explanation, he will not be able to have a peaceful night.
"Grandma, my aunt is practicing calligraphy. Are you worried about my aunt's grades? Instead of worrying about my aunt, you might as well worry about me. Do you know how many points my aunt got in the mid-term exam organized by the school some time ago?" Zhang Mingqi saw that her grandma was about to lose her temper. After she glanced at her aunt, she quickly stood up to comfort her grandma.
"How many points did you get?" Zhou Guihua asked subconsciously, her eyes moving from Zhang Qiurui to Zhang Mingqi's face.
"My aunt scored first in the class and grade this time! She scored 595 out of 100 in each of the six subjects.
"Aside from one point deducted from English and Chinese, and three points from history, I got full marks in everything else." Zhang Mingqi said this with pride, as if she had achieved the results herself, and a look of envy crossed her face.
Zhou Guihua's brows gradually relaxed upon hearing this, a hint of relief flashing in her eyes. "Really? Qiu Rui, you did so well on the test this time?"
"That's what's going on. If you don't believe me, the test paper is on that bookshelf. Just take it out and have a look yourself." Zhang Qiurui answered without raising his head, the pen in his hand still moving quickly across the paper.
When Zhou Guihua heard this, the corners of her mouth unconsciously rose, and the blame in her heart instantly disappeared.
She slowly stood up and walked towards the bookshelf, searching the neatly stacked test papers.
After finding Zhang Qiurui's test paper, she carefully pulled it out and began to look through it one by one. The light in her eyes brightened with each page she looked at.
Although Zhou Guihua didn't know many words, she could still understand the red numbers the teacher had written on the test paper.
When she saw those glaring "100"s and a few "99"s and "97"s, her heart was filled with indescribable joy and pride.
"Oh! Qiurui! You really make our family proud! But you are so smart just because you inherited it from me." Zhou Guihua's voice was filled with pride, complacency, and joy, and her tone revealed a cheerfulness.
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The next day, after Zhang Qiurui came home from school, Zhang Wenfu would glance at his younger sister from time to time while having dinner.
Thinking of the remittance slip his younger sister gave him yesterday, when he went to the post office to withdraw money, he was stunned when the post office staff took out more than 700 yuan and gave it to him.
He had never seen so much money in his life. There were dozens of Great Unity notes. He felt dizzy all the way back, and even now he still felt it was a little unreal.
He kept thinking, where did all this money come from? My little sister usually went to school and helped with the mushroom farming. How could she possibly make so much money?
Zhang Wenfu's doubts grew, and the dishes on the table seemed to become bland.
He hesitated several times and wanted to ask Zhang Qiurui directly where the money came from, but after thinking about what Qiurui said yesterday that the matter must be kept confidential, Zhang Wenfu forced himself not to ask.
"Second brother, why do you keep looking at Qiurui? Is it because Qiurui has flowers on her face or because she has money?" Zhou Guihua couldn't help but ask when she saw Zhang Wenfu's expression.
"Qiu Rui really looks rich. He is richer than anyone in our family." Zhang Wenfu couldn't help but mutter a few words.
However, Xie Lin, who was standing by, saw Wenfu like this and thought of what his sister-in-law had done yesterday when she asked Wenfu to take the remittance slip to withdraw the money. Xie Lin's heart moved and his face looked thoughtful.
After dinner, when everyone had finished, washed up, and returned to their rooms, Zhang Wenfu finally couldn't help himself. He found an excuse to pull Zhang Qiurui into their room and asked in a low voice, "Qiurui, I've withdrawn the money by giving me the remittance slip. I won't ask anything else. Where is the money from? It's so much money, I'm really uneasy."
"So much money?" Xie Lin, who was in the room, saw Zhang Wenfu opening a paper package, which contained stacks of neatly arranged big unity banknotes. She couldn't help but widen her eyes, her face full of astonishment.
“It’s clean money.
Second brother, this is your reward, remember to keep it confidential.
Basically, you're asked to withdraw money every two or three months. If this month is no exception, you'll need to run an errand." Zhang Qiurui took the bag of money from her second brother with a smile.
Then she took out a five-dollar bill and handed it to her second brother as payment for his errands.
"It's good as long as the money is earned cleanly. You have to run errands once this month? Once every two or three months? Five dollars a trip, and I want to do this job every day." Although Zhang Wenfu was surprised at the source of the money, seeing that Zhang Qiurui looked confident, he did not ask any more questions, carefully put the money away, and joked.
After Zhang Qiurui gave Zhang Wenfu a few instructions, he left.
After leaving their room, you can directly recharge the money into the trading supermarket. If you need money in real life in the future, you can directly withdraw it. It is very convenient.
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Ten days passed slowly.
Zhang Qiurui’s second novel "Hidden in the Dust" was finally completed and mailed out.
Sha County is not far from Xingcheng City. The next day, Zhang Qiurui's letter was sent to Xiaoxiang Magazine.
"Xiao Zhang, are there any new letters sent to our magazine today, especially those sent from Sha County?" That day, when Xie Yu was at work, she passed by the security room and asked the security guard as usual if there were any new letters sent today.
The reason why Xie Yu was so concerned about the magazine's emails was that she had been working with Xiaoxiang Qingkong on a manuscript for some time, and she was looking forward to Xiaoxiang Qingkong's manuscript being delivered as soon as possible so that she could review it and arrange for its publication.
In addition, Xiaoxiang Qingkong's previously serialized novel "The Fault in Our Stars" was divided into three issues and has now been published. After the last issue was published, many readers wrote in.
Not only are there readers who are looking forward to Xiaoxiang Qingkong's new work, but there are also readers who were heartbroken after reading the ending of "The Fault in Our Stars" and asked for a rewrite of the ending.
There are also letters from readers that express deep resonance with the fate of the characters in the story, and they are eager to see those heart-wrenching twists and turns have a different ending.
In short, this month, there has been a surge in letters from readers, most of which are heated discussions surrounding the novel "The Fault in Our Stars".
This was a phenomenon that had never occurred before since Xiaoxiang Magazine published a novel. Each letter carried the reader's passion and emotional investment in the story, and at this moment, Xie Yu deeply felt the magic of literary works.
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