Chapter 108
Because of the competition, Wuzhong became lively during the summer vacation. The high school in the town below directly chartered a minibus to send students to the gate of Wuzhong, where they were led by teachers to take the exam.
It was the first time for them to enter the best high school in Wucheng, which was once their ideal high school. They were curious about every exhibit here, especially the three people with photos on the bulletin board.
The teachers in Wuzhong know how to put up photos. The first place is placed at the highest position, and the second and third are placed on the left and right below the first place. Not only are there names and classes, but also grades.
When they saw Song Peifeng's name, they knew that he was probably one of the best students in Wuzhong.
After watching for a while, I suddenly heard some commotion at the school gate. I turned around and saw that the gate of No. 1 Middle School opposite was opened, and two young male teachers came out with a group of students from No. 1 Middle School.
The students of No. 1 Middle School, like the students of Wuzhong Middle School, were noticed by the students of the township high schools below, especially Jiang Ning, whom they had seen at the Martyrs Cemetery during the Tomb-Sweeping Day this year. They spotted the short-haired girl in the crowd almost immediately and whispered to the people around them, "Look, it's Jiang Ning from No. 1 Middle School."
"That Zhang Wenxue is from our school."
Some people took a look without interest, then turned around to look at Wuzhong's ranking report card and said, "Don't look at it. This is a competition. No. 1 Middle School is not good enough. We still have to look at Wuzhong in the competition." The person who spoke smiled gloatingly and said, "We are eliminated in the first round of the competition, and No. 1 Middle School is eliminated in the second round. Ha~ They are not much better than us!"
This is a rare joke about No. 1 Middle School. Every school uses this to mock No. 1 Middle School, saying that No. 1 Middle School is not as good as Wu Middle School. After all, No. 1 Middle School is the best among the best, but its competition results are not much better than those of ordinary high schools.
Zhang Wenxue and his friends didn't know that these people were laughing at No. 1 Middle School's competition results. In fact, since they entered No. 1 Middle School, they had been walking on the campus of Wuzhong with tense faces and without looking around.
Seeing those people looking at them, they looked straight over.
When they took the high school entrance exam, they were ranked among the top ten in the county and were booked in advance by No. 1 Middle School with scholarships. They did not think that they were worse than those in Wuzhong.
The commotion at the school gate was still going on. The reason was that a school minibus arrived and students from No. 1 Middle School were crossing the road. Two young male teachers immediately stopped the students from crossing the road. When the bus stopped, the teachers let the students from No. 1 Middle School go in to take the exam first. Then they said to the minibus driver: "There are schools all around here, and there are students coming and going. You should drive slower!"
The teacher on the minibus came down and apologized to Teacher Ji and the others. Teacher Ji's girlfriend, Teacher Xiao Zhou from Wuzhong, heard the noise and ran out to see what was going on: "Is everything okay? Are there any students injured?"
"No one was injured, but that's not how you drive. We're not in a hurry, so why are you driving in such a hurry?"
The teacher on the minibus asked the students to go to Wuzhong first, and he wiped the sweat off his forehead and came over to explain to Teacher Ji: "On the street we just passed, more than one or two hundred people were fighting with machetes and steel pipes. It was so scary. When we passed by, the doors of the entire street were closed. We happened to walk on that street and were almost surrounded. The driver was anxious and drove faster after leaving that street."
Teacher Ji Jianwei was surprised and asked, "Fighting with machetes? Which street?"
"It's the new street next to the moat." The teacher leading the team said, "We knew there was a new street there, and the road was wide and good, so we went there. Who knew these young people would dare to chop people with machetes and fight in public? They are so bold and fearless. The top leaders proposed a 'severe crackdown' during the two sessions, but they still dared to be so rampant."
These old teachers have all witnessed the severe crackdown from 1983 to 1985. During the crackdown, minor cases were sentenced as serious cases. How many people were shot? It has only been more than ten years, right? Just forget it all.
Especially in the towns and villages under them, which are far away from the city, those gangsters target school students for extortion all day long. Some time ago, there was a fight among young people, and one of the gangsters directly hit the student on the head with a steel pipe. The student was also very powerful. He hid a kitchen knife on his body and chopped the gangster several times. He was then taken away by the police.
As a result, students in their school have to carry knives and steel pipes when they go to the cafeteria at the school gate to eat, otherwise they dare not leave the school. The social atmosphere has become so bad that it is difficult for their teachers to manage the students.
Also, because there have been more and more vicious crime cases in recent years and criminals have become more and more rampant, during this year's two sessions, the then top leader has proposed a "severe crackdown". These little hooligans who don't watch the news and don't pay attention to national policies have no idea the seriousness of the matter. At this time, they dare to come out and hack people so arrogantly. Those teachers who pay attention to national policies must be feeling that they are asking for death.
The crackdown started in the capital and gradually spread to major cities. The crackdown also began in Wucheng, but the crackdown was not directed at fighting.
The focus of the crackdown in each place is different. For example, Beijing is cracking down on serious criminal cases, Shenzhen and Guangzhou are cracking down on drugs and criminal gangs, some places are cracking down on violent gangs, and some places are cracking down on roving criminals.
Wucheng is cracking down on underground casinos, fallen women and human trafficking, especially the case of a female student being snatched on the street in front of the town junior high school some time ago. It was too outrageous, and the female student has not been found yet. The police in Wucheng now patrol and investigate the towns and villages every day on motorcycles, bicycles and police cars. Every day, police close down various underground casinos in Wucheng, and even the villages below are being investigated. Gambling is not allowed in the villages, so many people make appointments to go to the mountains to continue gambling.
As they were investigating, they found out who reported it and found Jiang Yueqin's home and her parents: "We received a report saying that your daughter Jiang Yueqin kidnapped villagers to sell sex. Is that true?"
When Jiang Yueqin's parents saw the police, they were so scared that their legs were shaking. They shouted tremblingly: "Oh my God, why don't you send down thunder to kill that damned girl? What she did has nothing to do with us. We don't know. She hasn't been back for a year. We don't know what damned thing she did outside!"
Jiang Yueqin's father also said: "We really don't know. She didn't come back for a year and didn't send money home. We all thought she was lost outside. We really don't know what she did outside. Police comrades, if you find her, tell her to remember to send the money back. Her two brothers need money for their weddings. It's fine if she didn't come back, but why didn't she send the money? This girl has no conscience!"
She completely absolved herself of all responsibility and said that everything was done by her daughter alone.
The police were unmoved and asked them: "Where is your daughter? Where is her current address? Does she have a phone number?"
Jiang Yueqin's family's events attracted many people to watch. Jiang Hehua and Jiang Qinqin, who originally had no idea what was going on, also went to watch the excitement out of curiosity. Jiang Qinqin cracked melon seeds while curiously asking people around her: "What's going on? Why are the police here?"
Many people who still remembered what happened last year saw the police coming to Jiang Yueqin's house. Seeing that Jiang Qinqin still knew nothing, they hurriedly gossiped to her, saying, "Oh, you don't know yet, do you? Jiang Yueqin is not a good girl. She works as a prostitute outside. You know what being a prostitute means, right? She also comes back to the village to cause trouble for people. Last year, the girl from the big guy's family was almost raped by her. She even caused trouble for her grandmother's family. I heard that several girls were almost raped by her. If it weren't for the smart girl from the big guy's family who exposed her scandal last year, how could these girls be raped by her and sent to other places? "
Jiang Qinqin was shocked when she heard this gossip. "What? Yueqin is working as a prostitute outside?"
Her scream was heard by her mother who was harvesting rice in the field and carrying two baskets of rice ears to the rice field. She was so angry that she put down the basket, picked up the carrying pole and came over to beat her: "You old man, how dare you tell my Qinqin all those dirty and smelly things? I'll tear your mouth apart!"
Jiang Qinqin has always been carefully protected by her whole family. She was never allowed to know or tell about the bad things happening outside. When she heard that the old women in the village were telling her old baby these dirty and smelly things, she was immediately furious.
The old woman was beaten by Jiang Qinliang's mother and ran away, shouting: "I'm not talking about your piano! I'm talking about Yueqin. Why are you hitting me? You are so unreasonable!"
"I won't reason with you!" Jiang Qinqin's mother hit the woman a few times, venting her anger. Then she came over and grabbed her daughter's wrist: "Are you not scared by them? Don't listen to their nonsense here. Let's not read these things and don't hang out with these old women. Let's go home and read books."
"Yeah, yeah." Jiang Qinqi nodded obediently, then looked back curiously, and saw Jiang Hehua still watching the fun, so she called out to her, "Hehua, are you going to leave? I'm going back with my mom first."
Jiang Hehua turned around and said, "You go back first, I'll go back later!"
"All right then."
Jiang Qinqin's mother was very happy that her daughter liked to play with Jiang Ning and Jiang Hehua. She believed that one should learn good things from good people and bad things from bad people. Among the girls of the same age as Jiang Qinqin, only Jiang Ning and Jiang Hehua were still studying. Every time she came back, she would tell her to play with Jiang Ning or Jiang Hehua.
Jiang Hehua is the daughter of the brigade secretary and has good grades, so it’s definitely a good idea to play with her.
It’s just that Jiang Hehua doesn’t like playing with Jiang Qinqi, she only likes reading and studying. Since she doesn’t like reading and studying, she often looks for Jiang Ning to play with.
When Jiang Ning was with Grandpa Jiang in the mountains, Piano Mom sent her to Tanshan to play with her two married sisters.
Both of her sisters graduated from high school. One is a teacher at Tanshan Primary School, and the other is a teacher at Pangcheng Primary School.
Her two sisters are much older than her and treat her like a daughter. Jiang Qinqin grew up in her two sisters' homes, playing with her nephews and nieces.
Jiang Qinqin's mother held her daughter's hand in one hand and carried rice ears in the other, pulling her daughter home.
Jiang Qinqin is her daughter who was born when she was in her forties. Now Jiang Qinqin is nineteen years old, and her mother is in her sixties with gray hair.
When Jiang Ning and Jiang Qinliang were playing together as children, she always mistook her mother for Jiang Qinliang's grandmother. Whenever Qinliang's mother stood at the door of her house and called Jiang Qinliang, who was playing at Jiang's house, to come home for dinner, Jiang Ning would always come and call Jiang Qinliang: "Qiong, your grandmother is calling you to come home for dinner."
Jiang Qinqin corrected her: "That's my mother!"
At that time, Jiang Ning spent most of his time in the mountains with Grandpa Jiang. Children have short memories, and after a while, he went down the mountain and forgot about this matter. Seeing the faces of Jiang Qinqin's mother and Grandma Jiang, he called Jiang Qinqin again: "Qiong, your grandma is calling you!"
Jiang Qinqin ran home in a bounding manner and turned back to correct her: "That's my mother!"
Jiang Qinqin's mother held her hand and walked to the bridge connecting the river and the brigade headquarters. She asked her to wait for a while: "I will take the rice ears to the rice field."
Jiang Qinliang's father is several years younger than Jiang Qinliang's mother. I don't know if it's because men don't need to have children, but he looks a dozen years younger than Jiang Qinliang's mother. His hair is still black. He is leading a cow and pulling a stone roller to thresh rice in the rice field. Next to him, his eldest son is driving a tractor, thrashing the rice ears with a rumbling sound.
Piano's mother dumped the two baskets of rice ears she had picked up on the rice field and said to Piano's father in a huff, "Just now I heard those gossipers in the first room talking nonsense to Piano. I was so angry that I hit her with a carrying pole. I'll take Piano home first and bring it to you when the meal is ready."
Jiang Qinqin's father walked with the cow and said, "Why are you fighting with her? Don't hurt your back. Call me and my sons if there's anything."
Pianist Jiang has always been ruled by his mother. Hearing this, she said fiercely: "The flowers will be cold by the time you come. If she dares to fight back after I hit her twice, I will smash her house!"
When she got home, she taught Jiang Qinqin: "Don't go and join those people, okay? They are all bad people, saying bad things that are not for you little girls to listen to. If you are bored at home, go to your sister's house and play with Zhigang and Zhihao."
Zhigang and Zhihao are both her grandsons, only one or two years younger than Jiang Qinqin. They are also at home during the summer vacation.
Jiang Qinqin was actually very curious about what happened over there and what happened to Jiang Yueqin. Last year, Jiang Yueqin told her how much money she made as a waitress outside, and that all her clothes were new, including a bracelet.
Jiang Qinqin was not envious at all. She had a white bracelet and she even had a silver necklace as thick as her little finger. The clothes she wore were not as good as hers. He acted as if he didn't know her and told her that it was good to be a waitress outside. What a lie.
When she was a kid, only boys in the village had silver collars, and she had one too!
Jiang Hehua listened to the aunts for a long time before she found out that Jiang Ning had a similar experience last year and was almost sold to that place by Jiang Yueqin. Then why didn't she go? She asked curiously.
"Well, the daughter of the big guy is a simple person with simple luck! You don't know how bad Yueqin is, but such a bad girl told the girl of the big guy the name of that place. She didn't know, so she had to ask the big guy. The big guy is at least a high school student and he used to run a chicken farm in the village. If he hadn't been unlucky and encountered chicken plague, he might be the richest man in our area now. He is also a person who has seen the world. If his daughter told him, he would know it, right?" The women in the village said, "If the big guy hadn't exposed it, Ailian would have come and beaten Yueqin. She didn't know how many people she would have harmed! Now the police are here to arrest her, right? She deserves it!"
The first one to be harmed would be their eldest wife, so now they dislike Jiang Yueqin's family very much and spit at them whenever they see them.
Jiang Hehua went back home with a lot of gossip in her mind, and even mentioned it to her mother at the dinner table that night.
Mother Lotus plays Little Leaf cards all day long. She is the most well-informed about all kinds of news in the village. What doesn’t she know? However, like Piano's mother, she did not want her daughter to know about these messy things. Therefore, when she got home, she never talked about them in front of her children, but only talked about them in private with the brigade secretary.
Hearing her daughter's curious questions, Lotus's mother, who had prepared the meal, interrupted her and said, "Why are you asking these questions? Don't ask about the dirty things. Those are the affairs of the eldest wife. Don't get involved. We are not the same kind of people. You should study hard and get into a good university. In the future, you and your brother will be like your father, with a stable job and work in the town government or township government. That's how you can live a happy life."
She spoke slowly and softly: "Those people are like mud, don't get involved with them."
Each person comes into contact with different people, is in a different environment, and has different cognitions.
Before marrying the brigade secretary, Lotus' mother was just an ordinary country girl with somewhat pretty looks. But after marrying him, every day she would listen to him talk about the brigade office and the town's policies. Even the minor officials she came into contact with were people from the government. While the villagers all planned for their children's future to work in factories when they grew up, her plans for her children were all to study hard and go to college, and after graduation, she would ask her father to find some connections so that they could work in the government.
She thought of Jiang's mother again, and her eldest son who had high hopes for her but failed to get into college. She couldn't help but smile, and she placed her chopsticks neatly and called upstairs, "Guoqiang, it's time to eat!"
The severe crackdown in Wucheng had nothing to do with the students taking exams in Wuzhong, but because it almost affected the exams of students in Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School, the principals and directors of the two schools reported it to the county magistrate and the county party secretary.
The top leader of the county party committee was Song Peifeng's father. This year's "crackdown" operation was personally led and coordinated by party and government leaders at all levels. Due to the limited number of police officers, the original focus of the crackdown was on underground casinos, private usury and human trafficking. Now, fighting has become a crime that Wucheng is cracking down on. A large number of police officers were dispatched at once, and most of these gangsters who gathered to fight were arrested. For a time, the atmosphere in Wucheng was cleared up, and there were fewer gangsters wandering around the streets, for fear of being caught and locked up by the police.
The times of the mathematics, physics and chemistry competitions are different, but in order to facilitate unified training, all the preliminaries are held on one day.
In fact, most of them only participate in one of the competitions, or at most two. If they participate in more than that, it will affect their usual academic performance, which is not worth the loss. Few students are willing to do so. For example, Zhang Wenxue and Cheng Yufeng, one participates in mathematics and physics, and the other participates in physics and chemistry.
Jiang Ning, like Xu Xiuli, had balanced grades and was signed up by teachers of all three subjects. She had to take three exams a day.
So those who participated in the mathematics competition saw Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng in the examination room.
Those who participated in the chemistry competition saw Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng in the examination room.
Those who participated in the physics competition also met Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng in the physics competition examination room.
For a while, wherever they went, everyone looked at them, as if they were seeing two schools competing against each other.
They were treated as two people on the stage by everyone, but they were unaware of it. When Jiang Ning saw him, she nodded and smiled at him, making people feel like spring breeze. When he saw Jiang Ning, he also smiled and nodded politely, like the gentle breeze and bright moon.
Everyone looked at Jiang Ning, then at Song Peifeng. It was clearly a very harmonious scene, but the people around them imagined a scene of smoke and gunpowder.
Even the teachers from other high schools who sent these students were joking privately, "Guess which school will win first place in this competition?"
They knew that it was most likely that the people from Wu Zhong did not escape, but deep down they were all just watching the fun and clapping their hands and shouting: Fight! Fight!
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