Chapter 103103
After filling out his application form, Jiang Bai received his admission ticket, left the address of Grandpa Jiang's shop, and asked his class teacher about renting a house nearby.
The head teacher said: "Your examination venue is at No. 10 Middle School. You'd better rent a house near No. 10 Middle School. If you want to go, it's best to go early, whether you stay in a guesthouse or rent a house. If you are late, there may be no rooms available." He knew that Jiang Bai was an out-of-town student and was not familiar with Shanghai, so he carefully told him the bus route from here to No. 10 Middle School.
Jiang Bai took out his admission ticket and other things, picked up Grandpa Jiang, and took the bus to No. 10 Middle School.
When they arrived near No. 10 Middle School, Jiang Bai went to inquire about renting a house, but Grandpa Jiang dragged him to stay in a guesthouse near No. 10 Middle School.
Most of the students who come here to take exams are local students and do not need to stay in the guesthouse, so there are still empty rooms in the guesthouse at this time.
When Grandpa Jiang and his friends came to Shanghai, Jiang Ning gave Grandpa Jiang a thousand yuan and told him that if it was difficult to rent a house, he could take Jiang Bo to stay in a guesthouse first: "This period of time can be said to be the most important days in my second brother's life. If he gets admitted to university, his life will be completely different from before. His exams are important, so he shouldn't save these few hundred yuan at this time."
Jiang Ning made a fortune from the spring and summer clothing this year. Grandpa Jiang knew how good the business was every day.
Others would sell a piece of clothing for twenty or thirty yuan, but she only sells it for 9.9 or 12.9 yuan, as if the clothes were free. People in Wucheng now know that the clothes in her store were from the Jiangnan Garment Factory that went bankrupt and couldn't be sold, so she's having a clearance sale.
You ask why the company went bankrupt last year but is still selling clothes this year? For those companies that went bankrupt at the end of last year, because they couldn’t sell their spring and summer clothes during the winter, didn’t they just accumulate until this spring?
So anyone in Wucheng who wanted to buy clothes would run to Jiang Ning's store.
Jiang Ning's shop has no name, but people call it: Jiangnan Garment Factory.
Whenever you ask where to buy clothes, people will reply: "I go to Jiangnan Garment Factory!"
Especially for the poor students who are reluctant to buy clothes. They used to wear shabby clothes, but when they heard that the clothes in Jiang Ning’s store were so cheap, they more or less bought one for themselves.
Uncle Wang Yong simply sent her all the spring clothes that were in stock at the factory.
However, this year's new models are a little more expensive than the old ones, so I can no longer sell them to her by weight as I did before. But they are still cheaper than the clothes in other stores in Wucheng.
Grandpa Jiang was always smiling from ear to ear while selling clothes every day, so he not only accepted the one thousand yuan that Jiang Ning gave him, but also brought the twelve thousand yuan salary that Jiang Ning gave him last year.
The reason why Jiang Ning gave it to Grandpa Jiang instead of Jiang Bai was because Jiang Bai was too stingy.
She was afraid that if the money was given to Jiang Bai, Jiang Bai would not be willing to stay in the guesthouse. On the contrary, for Grandpa Jiang, in his heart, of course, his grandson's college entrance examination was more important. Besides, he was not short of money now, so he was willing to spend it.
He took out his money and counted it carefully one by one before saying to the front desk clerk at the guesthouse, "Stay for one day first, and if you need more later, can you pay later?"
The front desk said: "Yes, you must tell us in advance before checking out, otherwise the room may be given to someone else."
Grandpa Jiang nodded tremblingly: "Okay."
Grandpa Jiang is only in his sixties now. Logically speaking, he is not very old, but he lost a lot of energy in his youth and young adulthood, which makes him look particularly old.
Jiang Bai wanted to go out and look for a house, but Grandpa Jiang said to him, "You go and review first, I'll go look for a house."
When they were not short of money, Grandpa Jiang was much more generous than Jiang Bai. When Jiang Ning was a child, Grandpa Jiang would buy her fried dough sticks as long as he had money.
At that time, no one was willing to spend money to buy fried dough sticks. Not to mention girls, even boys didn’t have fried dough sticks to eat.
Among all the little girls in the village, only she and Jiang Qinqin had eaten fried dough sticks when they were young.
My eldest granddaughter said that she wanted to find a house that is quieter and has a better environment.
But Jiang Bai was not at all comfortable with Grandpa Jiang going alone, and he didn't care about reading for a while.
Unfortunately, Jiang Bai and Grandpa Jiang really underestimated the language barrier. Almost all the people living near No. 10 Middle School are Shanghai natives and speak the Shanghai dialect. Grandpa Jiang couldn't understand what they said, and they couldn't understand Grandpa Jiang's country dialect. The two sides spoke in a completely different way and couldn't communicate at all.
Jiang Bai also couldn't understand the Shanghai dialect they spoke. He spoke Wucheng Mandarin. What is Wucheng Mandarin? It is a kind of Mandarin with strong local characteristics, which does not distinguish between flat and retroflex tongue sounds like ZCS, front nasal sounds like en/eng, and back nasal sounds like nl.
The two of them talked for a long time, but no one understood, so Grandpa Jiang had to persuade him to give up the idea of renting a house and go to the front desk of the guesthouse to pay the additional three days' room fee.
After entering the guesthouse room, Jiang Bai was still feeling lucky: "Fortunately, Ning Ning and I didn't transfer to Shanghai to study in high school."
He felt exhausted after just communicating with Shanghai locals for a short while. If he went to class every day and his teachers and classmates also spoke Shanghainese, he would really collapse.
Although the teachers at Shanghai High School spoke Mandarin, it was not standard Mandarin. Like Jiang Bai, they spoke Mandarin with a strong local flavor. Some language habits are not so easy to change. When they spoke, they would occasionally mix in a few dialect words, which Jiang Bai could not understand. The Shanghai teacher also had an awkward accent when listening to Jiang Bai. Sometimes, he was completely confused by a few words or characters, but Jiang Bai was unaware of it.
Jiang's parents thought that Jiang Bai would not take the college entrance examination until a month later. They had no idea that Jiang Bai had already entered the examination room in Shanghai.
After finishing the exam, Jiang Bai did not stay for even a minute and took Grandpa Jiang back to Wucheng that night.
Although they have finished the college entrance examination, they can still live in the senior dormitory and are not asked to move out immediately.
When Jiang Bai and his friends returned to Wucheng, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening. They just had a simple meal. Grandpa Jiang went back to the shop to sleep, and Jiang Bai returned to the dormitory.
When the people in the dormitory saw that he had returned, they curiously asked him, "Jiang Bai, didn't you go to Shanghai? Why are you back?"
They thought Jiang Bai would stay in Shanghai and never come back.
These students who have been locked up in school for years and have never even been to Shanghai don’t know that Shanghai now offers blue-stamp household registration for those who buy a house, so they don’t know how Jiang Bai transferred his student status to Shanghai and went to Shanghai to take the college entrance examination. They all thought that Jiang Bai would stay in Shanghai in the future and had a very subtle feeling towards Jiang Bai.
On the one hand, Jiang Bai was indeed their classmate for three years, but on the other hand, Jiang Bai was not their classmate in terms of academic status.
Jiang Bai said coldly: "I came back after the exam."
During his three years of high school, he always had this expression and was serious with everyone, even to Tong Jingang, so his roommates in the dormitory got used to it.
"Is the Shanghai test difficult?" They all asked Jiang Bai curiously, and then talked about filling out the application form.
Everyone else in the dormitory already knew which schools they had applied to, except Jiang Bai, who had applied to a high school in Shanghai. They didn't know that yet.
There is nothing to keep secret. Jiang Bai said: "My first choice is Shanghai University of Science and Technology."
Others also talked about the schools they applied to, and almost all of them, like Jiang Bai, applied for lower scores.
The next day, some people packed up and went back home, leaving half of the dormitory building empty.
The other half are reluctant to spend the money for two trips home. The questionnaire will be sent out one week later. Everyone can use the answers to evaluate how many points they have scored and whether they can be admitted to the university they applied for. If they fail, those who want to repeat their studies also need to prepare.
The next morning, Jiang Bai came to Grandpa Jiang's shop and worked diligently and responsibly.
As for the college entrance examination scores that others were worried about, he was very relaxed. If he passed the exam, he would go to school. If he failed, he would work in his sister's store.
Because he was busy with the college entrance examination, he hadn't come to the store for several days.
Grandpa Jiang was not a particular person. When customers came to buy clothes, he would sell them. When no one came to buy clothes, he would sit in a rocking chair by himself, watching TV or drinking tea with a purple clay teapot in his hands, squinting his eyes and rocking. If someone tried on clothes and messed them up, he would not care. It would not be too late to clean them up after he got up, but he would not clean them up carefully.
Jiang Bai is a person who can't stand any mess.
There was nothing he could do in the dormitory. He could only keep his own bed clean and tidy. He didn't care about other people's beds, shoes and socks as long as they were not thrown on his bed.
As soon as he arrived at the shop, he started to tidy up everything. Grandpa Jiang couldn't help but laugh and said, "You and Ningning have completely opposite personalities."
Jiang Ning is the same as Grandpa Jiang. Both of them would rather not move than not do anything. However, he and Jiang Ning can resist not cleaning up, but Jiang Bai can't. He must clean the store thoroughly and put the clothes in order so that it will be pleasing to the eye.
He is a person who cannot rest for even a quarter of an hour.
Tong Jingang took a basketball to Jiang Ning's shop. He thought the shop would be empty, but he found it open. Jiang Bai was in the shop. He shouted with joy, patted the basketball and shouted, "Baizi, let's go play basketball!"
"No." Jiang Bai is only interested in making money now. Why would he be willing to play basketball?
But Tong Jingang is a spoiled kid.
He came close to Jiang Bai and kept pulling him to act coquettishly: "Let's go, let's go~ We haven't played ball for a long time. We've been reviewing papers every day. The college entrance examination is finally over. Can you accompany me~"
Grandpa Jiang couldn't help but say, "Baizi, the exam is over, go play~"
Jiang Bai hesitated for a moment, and Tong Jingang grabbed his shoulders and pushed him out: "Come on, let's go play ball~!"
The security guard knew them both and knew that he was a senior student from No. 1 Middle School who had just finished the college entrance examination. Seeing that they had finished the college entrance examination and were still heading back to the school, he did not stop them and asked with a smile, "How did you do in the exam? Do you have the confidence to get into your ideal school?"
Tong Jingang smiled with his sunburned face showing his big white teeth. The basketball hit the ground with a thumping sound. He said confidently, "Of course there is one!"
He did not dare to apply for any of the sports majors at several famous universities in Shanghai, including Shanghai Sport University, and instead filled in the sports major at Shanghai University of Applied Technology as his first choice.
Last year, the admission score for this school's sports major was over 400 points, so he estimated that with his score, he should have no problem getting into this school.
The guard let them go after they registered: "Go ahead, the college entrance examination is over, you can relax a little."
Because it was morning, the morning reading classes for the first and second year students had just ended and many students went to the cafeteria to eat. There were already people playing basketball on the court. They were all senior students who were waiting to check their answers after the college entrance examination. There were also several teachers from the senior year graduating class playing here.
Tong Jingang and Jiang Bai quickly integrated into the group.
The college entrance examination is over, and the final exams are approaching for the first and second year high school students. In addition to the final exams, the IMO competition in July is about to begin. The second year high school students of No. 1 Middle School participated in the Mathematical Olympiad this year, but they were still completely defeated and performed mediocrely in the competition. The second year high school students still focus their main energy on studying.
Because the results had not been released, the school did not do any publicity about the matter and it remained quiet. However, Wuzhong, after the provincial competition results came out, immediately sent people from the admissions office to do publicity, trying their best to pull down No. 1 Middle School and try to surpass it in order to compete for better students.
It has to be said that the previous publicity strategy of Principal Sun and Director Zhang has produced results.
This year, when faced with the choice of students, teachers from the schools below promoted the fact that No. 1 High School’s joint entrance examination results surpassed Wuzhong’s. Six of the top ten high schools in the county were from No. 1 High School. Wuzhong’s publicity strategy was to see what kind of results it had achieved in the competition this year. As a result, when teachers introduced the two old key high schools in Wucheng, they introduced them like this: “I don’t need to say much about Wuzhong. It’s the most important of the key schools. Its competition results this year are quite impressive. If you want to take the competition route, choose Wuzhong.”
"The college entrance examination results of No. 1 Middle School have been getting better and better in the past two years, and there is even a trend of surpassing Wuzhong. These two schools are the two best key schools in Wucheng. Being admitted to either one will put you half a step into the threshold of university. It depends on your choice."
So, the top students from the small town middle school, who had no idea what the competition was, thought about it and many of them chose No. 1 Middle School as their first choice.
Of course, Wuzhong's reputation as the best school has also led some top students to habitually choose Wuzhong. It can be said that this year the two schools are evenly matched in terms of student sources.
Principal Sun and Director Zhang of No. 1 Middle School are already very satisfied with such an effect, but they still have to recruit the students who should be recruited. In addition to the top students who have already enrolled in their school, they also have to use scholarships to attract the top ten students in the county. Anyway, the more top students they can recruit, the better.
In addition, registration for this year's competition has also begun. At No. 1 Middle School, in addition to Zhang Wenxue, Cheng Yufeng and others, Jiang Ning's name was also registered by Teacher Ji.
There is nothing to compare within the school. The students in the competition class are already the top 20 best students in their school. The rest is to compare with other schools in the county. Although they are called other schools, in fact, the only one that can compete is Wuzhong.
They selected the 20 best students from all the students participating in the competition in Wucheng County and then went to the city to compete.
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