Chapter 114
After three city games, Jiang Ning felt a little tired.
She knew that Director Zhang retired this summer. Although she didn't know what the situation was like this time, he often returned to school to visit students. Occasionally, she met him outside the Academic Affairs Office when he came to visit the school. Knowing that his life was not in danger, Jiang Ning was not too worried.
The more things she experienced and the more of the world she saw, the less she liked to waste time on other people's affairs. For her, all things in the world were nothing more than trying her best. If she didn't succeed after trying her best, then that was it.
There might be some regrets, but she would not waste herself too much on it, just like when she found out that Director Zhang was ill.
Since No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School are located in the same area, the two schools contracted the same bus. There were a total of 40 people, including students and teachers, and the bus could seat 45 people. Some students who were prone to motion sickness tried to sit in the front, leaving the row of seats at the back empty.
Jiang Ning sat in the last row.
She leaned her head against the back of the bus, staring out the window with empty eyes, and closed her eyes unconsciously.
"Jiang Ning, Jiang Ning, we're here."
When Song Peifeng got off the bus, he saw Jiang Ning, who was sitting next to him in the last row on the left, still sleeping, so he went over and pushed her.
Jiang Ning was half asleep when she was suddenly woken up. She opened her eyes and saw Song Peifeng. She was still a little dazed. She blinked a few times before she came to her senses and said, "Okay, thank you."
She sat there staring at him in a daze, her hair still a little messy with her ponytail on top of her head, and she looked a little strange and confused, as if she was separated from the world.
He got off the car and saw that she was still in a daze. He turned back and called her, "Jiang Ning, we're here. Get off the car."
Jiang Ning then got out of the car carrying her bag.
It was still afternoon when we set out and it was dusk when we arrived in Wucheng. The sunlight was no longer so scorching but a warm golden color.
She looked around blankly and realized that she was at the gate of Wuzhong. Opposite to her was No. 1 Middle School. She immediately put on her schoolbag and ran to her shop like a lost puppy eager to go home.
It wasn't until she saw her grandfather that she suddenly felt relieved.
"Grandpa!" she said in a clear voice.
Grandpa Jiang was lying on a recliner, rocking slowly, with his beloved radio still playing on the stool beside him.
Even though there is a TV in the store now, his favorite is still the radio. The old man knows very well that the TV belongs to Tong Jingang, and the radio is his.
He was listening to the weather forecast on the radio, trying to determine if there would be floods this year. When he heard his granddaughter's call, he smiled and looked at her, straightening up slightly: "Are you back?"
"Yeah!" She put down her schoolbag and turned on the computer: "Where's my second brother?"
"He went to play basketball with King Kong."
Jiang Ning finished the exam at 3:30 in the afternoon. Their bus left at 4 o'clock and returned to Wucheng in an hour and a half.
Because Jiang Ning said that the gate would close at five o'clock every day, Jiang Bai would go to the playground of No. 1 Middle School to play ball every evening when it was not so hot. The guard knew the two of them and knew that they were graduates of No. 1 Middle School and went in to play ball. It would not affect the classes of the new senior students who were still taking extra classes at school in the evening, so he would let them in.
Now Jiang Bai still eats and gets water in the cafeteria of No. 1 Middle School.
Knowing that Jiang Bo played basketball at No. 1 Middle School, Jiang Ning knew that she didn't need to go to get dinner, so she concentrated on typing on the computer.
I went to the city to take an exam yesterday, and I haven't written yesterday's and today's manuscripts yet. Because the training team has a tight schedule during the summer vacation, there are currently no manuscripts in stock at the "Wuxia" magazine, so Jiang Ning has to write and publish them every day.
After writing for less than an hour, Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang came back with food and two kettles of hot water.
Jiang Bai's face still had the excitement from playing ball, and his face was slightly red from the summer sunset. When he saw Jiang Ning, he smiled: "Ning Ning is back?"
Tong Jingang put down the kettle in his hand, pulled a small stool over, sat down around the table, and ate with Jiang Bai and the others.
Tong Jingang is the only son in the family and has no brothers or sisters. The person he gets along best with is Jiang Bai. He treats Jiang Bai like his own brother. The first thing he does after getting up and eating every day is to run to Jiang Bai.
Because there are computers in Jiang Bo’s store!
Even though both his parents are working, his mom works in a hospital and his dad works in a water and electricity bureau, their salaries and benefits are not low, and at most they have better food, not enough to buy a computer, but our sister actually bought a computer!
Usually Jiang Ning was in the training team and attending classes. When she was not in the store, Tong Jingang would come to Jiang Ning's store to use the computer.
At the beginning, neither of them knew how to type, so Jiang Ning wrote down the root formulas of Wubi characters using two fingers and posted them on the wall, asking the two to memorize the root formulas first and then practice typing.
Tong Jingang is addicted to the Internet and cannot get off once he gets online. Jiang Bai is not like that. It is hot in the summer, and not many people go out shopping or buy clothes during the hottest time of the day. Jiang Bai listens to Jiang Ning and practices typing seriously according to the root formula. From the stiff two-finger typing at the beginning, he can now slowly type out some words. It’s just that he can’t do it like Jiang Ning, which is blind typing without looking at the keyboard at all.
When there are customers in the store, that's when Tong Jingang monopolizes the computer.
He is addicted to games such as "Minesweeper", "FreeCell" and "Spider Solitaire". He can play "FreeCell" for an entire afternoon.
After dinner, Jiang Ning was usually still in class at the Wuzhong training team. Tong Jingang would use the computer at night, but unfortunately Jiang Ning had to stay in the store to type today. Tong Jingang stayed there until after eight o'clock and didn't even touch the computer. He left reluctantly.
His parents have returned and asked him if he had received his admission letter.
He put the smelly shoes on the shoe rack: "No, I'm still waiting. It should be in the next two days."
His mother sometimes has to work the night shift and is very busy. Tong Jingang has been very independent since he was a child and can take care of his own affairs. She has nothing to worry about, especially when she knows that his good brother has been admitted to the same Shanghai University as him. When the time comes, the two of them will be able to take care of each other. She is even more relieved and said, "If you have time, ask Xiao Jiang to come home for dinner."
She casually took out twenty yuan and gave it to Tong Jingang. She herself didn't have time to cook for them, as Tong's father cooked more at home.
Tong Jingang took the money and said happily: "Okay, Mom, I know, you don't have to worry about me anymore!"
In Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Dad Jiang had no news about Jiang Bai day by day. Only then did he feel that he had paid too little attention to Jiang Bai and didn't even know the phone number of his class teacher. Now he couldn't get in touch with Jiang Bai. He originally wanted to contact him through his little daughter, right? As a result, there was no phone number for my younger daughter’s class teacher.
Moreover, the students in the second year of high school will be divided into arts and science classes soon, and Jiang Ning's homeroom teacher may have to be changed. He still doesn't even know which class Jiang Ning is in, let alone how to find her. He remembered that the daughter of the brigade secretary seemed to be studying in Wuzhong, so he called the brigade headquarters and asked the brigade secretary if his daughter Jiang Hehua had the phone number of Jiang Ning's school. If not, a contact number in Wuzhong would also be fine.
The brigade secretary went home and asked Jiang Hehua. When Jiang Hehua heard that it was Jiang's father who asked about Jiang Ning's phone number, she replied without thinking, "No."
The brigade secretary thought his daughter didn't have the phone number of No. 1 Middle School, so he didn't take it seriously. He complained to Lotus's mother, "Look at this big guy. His three children are studying at No. 1 Middle School, but he doesn't even know the teacher's number at No. 1 Middle School. Why does he call me and ask me?"
Lotus's mother chuckled and said, "You know Guoping's wife, right? You don't know how much she loves her eldest son. Last year, her eldest son took the college entrance examination, and she went to accompany him to study for half a year. But she doesn't even have the phone number of No. 1 Middle School?" She ate the food and shook her head, "I don't believe it."
Thinking of Jiang Ma when she was young and Jiang Ma now who has become much older due to the hardships of life, the brigade secretary also shook his head.
When he was young, he went to Jiang Ma's house to propose marriage, but it was actually introduced by a matchmaker.
When Jiang Ma was young, she was not as thin as she is now. She was a little plump when she was young, and plump girls are much more popular than skinny girls. Her father was the captain of Tanshan Team, and she herself was a well-known capable man in the area. Who wouldn't want to marry Jiang Ma at that time?
But no one could have predicted what would happen in life. Who would be the capable woman that so many people in the surrounding area wanted to marry, but now she is heard roaring and quarreling at home every other day? Who could have thought that Jiang Guoping, who was once the most ambitious person in the village, would one day be burdened with huge debts and would have to pay them off for so many years?
The next time Jiang's father called, the brigade secretary told Jiang's father that there was no phone number for No. 1 Middle School: "But I have the phone number of Teacher Wu Zhong. You can call Wu Zhong and see." He reminded Jiang's father: "It may not work."
It is summer vacation now, and the teachers of the first and third year of high school are on vacation. Only the students who are going from the second to the third year of high school are taking extra classes in school. Moreover, No. 1 Middle School and Wuzhong have been in conflict for so many years, and the teachers of Wuzhong may not help him find teachers from No. 1 Middle School.
After thanking the brigade secretary, Jiang's father called Wuzhong again and asked if the teacher in Wuzhong had the phone number of a teacher at No. 1 Middle School. He said that he had a child taking the college entrance examination, but because he was working outside, it was not convenient for him to call. He wanted to ask if the teacher in Wuzhong had the phone number of the teacher's office at No. 1 Middle School. If not, could he help him ask, and he would call back at this time tomorrow.
There are too many people working outside now, and telephones are not yet popular. Many villages only have one telephone. After listening to what Jiang's father said, the teachers understood and said, "Here is the number of No. 1 Middle School, please write it down." After reporting the number, they said, "I'll give you the number, but it's summer vacation now, I don't know if there is anyone in their office!"
In this way, Jiang's father finally got through to No. 1 Middle School and asked Jiang Bai. When the teacher of No. 1 Middle School heard it, he said, "Is it from the graduating class? They are graduating from the senior year, and the teachers are all on vacation. None of them is in school." The senior year teachers have been busy for three years, especially in the second and third years of high school. They have been teaching during the winter and summer vacations, and the pressure is very high. Now they have finally graduated a class of students. They must have a good rest this summer vacation, right?
Let’s not talk about where to travel, at least you can go fishing or play chess in the old house in the countryside, so it’s really not easy to find these graduating class teachers.
"Which class is your son in?"
As a result, Jiang's father didn't know.
The teacher who answered the phone was speechless: "Even if you are busy with work, you are too careless about your children, right? After three years of high school, they have already graduated, and you don't even know what class your children are in?"
Jiang's father and mother really don't know.
When Jiang Song was in high school, Jiang's parents carried loads of food on their shoulders, carrying one bag after another, fearing that their son would be hungry or cold at school. One of them was busy registering his son and getting close to the teachers, saying that she was also a former student of No. 1 Middle School; the other was busy getting a new quilt and a new kettle for his son, making his bed and hanging a mosquito net. The couple also asked other people in the dormitory to take better care of Jiang Song.
By the time Jiang Bai went to high school, there was no need for them to go there because Jiang Song was already there at No. 1 Middle School. It was enough for Jiang Song to lead Jiang Bai to register and do everything. It was the same when Jiang Ning was in high school. In this life, she was still led by Jiang Bai. In her previous life, Jiang Ning was a member of the class of 1996. When she entered high school, Jiang Bai had already graduated. Grandpa Jiang had to guard the mountain and was unable to take her to register. She was alone, coming to a strange place, entering a strange school, facing strange classmates and teachers, and carrying rice, quilts, packages and other things on her back.
Why can’t she eat enough even though there is rice at home? Because no one brought her rice or food, and at that time she could not carry so much rice and food at one time, and she had no money to afford the round-trip fare which started at at least five yuan.
It costs five yuan to take a bus to Shuibu Town, but you have to take a boat home from Shuibu Town. Even if she walks to Shuibu Town, she still has to go to the ferry and pay the ferry fee.
In the early days, the ferry fare was 10 cents per trip, then it increased to 20 cents. By the time she went to college, it had increased to 50 cents.
She couldn't even go home.
Anyway, these two children have been well-behaved, dutiful and honest since childhood, and never made them worry or anxious. So naturally they stopped worrying and thought they could handle it all.
So Jiang's father and mother didn't know Jiang Bai's class, nor did they know Jiang Ning's class.
Father Jiang stammered, "His name is Jiang Bai. He has an older brother from the previous class named Jiang Song."
Speaking of Jiang Song, this teacher really knows him, because Jiang Song is good at making friends, and his friends are not limited to classmates or people of the same age. He makes friends with everyone from 80-year-old old men and women to two or three-year-old children. In school, not only his classmates treat him as a brother, but he also has a good relationship with the teachers.
Although this teacher was not familiar with Jiang Song, he still knew Jiang Song, who graduated from the previous class, because of Jiang Song's ability to make friends and his overly active personality.
He said helplessly: "You told me that Jiang Song was useless? Jiang Song has graduated for more than a year, and I can't find him to help you find out which class your youngest son is in." The teacher who answered the phone complained: "What a guy, as a parent, you have two sons studying in No. 1 Middle School, and after several years, you still don't know which class your children are in."
He thought that Jiang's father didn't even know what class Jiang Song was in.
Dad Jiang thought of his daughter Jiang Ning who was also studying at No. 1 Middle School.
But Jiang Bai has been in No. 1 Middle School for three years, and this teacher doesn’t even know which class he is in. How could Jiang Ning, who has only been there for a year, know?
But he still said without hope: "By the way, he has a younger sister who is in the first year of high school. Her name is Jiang Ning."
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