Chapter 115
When talking about others, this teacher may not know him, but when talking about Jiang Ning, this teacher really knows him, and he is the best in the county.
But he was still suspicious for a moment, and asked: "Your three children are studying in our No. 1 Middle School? You don't even know their classes?"
Father Jiang said helplessly: "When my eldest son went to high school, my family and I sent him to register. Later, when the second son went to high school, I thought that he would have his elder brother to take care of him, unlike the eldest son who was unfamiliar with the place before, so my family and I did not send him to school. When it came to my youngest daughter Jiang Ning, her elder brother also happened to be in No. 1 Middle School, so we didn't worry about anything with her elder brother taking care of him. The two children have been obedient and sensible since they were young, and their mother and I felt more at ease when we worked outside." Father Jiang said: "Besides, I am also a student of No. 1 Middle School, how can I not be at ease with my own alma mater?"
Jiang's father, a teacher at No. 1 Middle School, said that he was also from No. 1 Middle School, and all four of his family graduated from No. 1 Middle School. Jiang Ning was ranked first in the county, so he could not help but lower his guard against Jiang's father and said to him, "Leave me your phone number, and I will find the head teacher of Jiang Ning's class later." Jiang Song did not get into college, so he did not say anything. He did not know Jiang Bai, so he sighed and said, "Your daughter is really amazing, a seedling for the top scholar, you really need to train her well."
Jiang's father never expected that the teachers at No. 1 Middle School would speak so highly of Jiang Ning. He nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes, yes, I was in such a hurry to find them because I wanted to know how my second child did in the college entrance examination and whether he was admitted to a university. If he was admitted to a university, I would have to send the tuition to them. We have just settled down here for a short time. They don't know my phone number, and I don't know theirs. It took a long time to find No. 1 Middle School. I just wanted to ask them how the college entrance examination went. Regardless of whether it is a son or a daughter, the tuition fees must be sent to them!"
After listening to this, the teacher from No. 1 Middle School hung up the phone and went to find Mr. Wang, the head teacher of Class 3.
Teacher Wang's home was in the staff building at the back. Although he was also on vacation, he did not go far because there was another student named Jiang Ning in his class who was attending the school competition class. He stayed in Wucheng most of the time.
Hearing that the call was from Jiang Ning's father, Teacher Wang found Jiang Ning, told her about the matter, and gave her the phone number where she could contact Jiang's father. He said that her father wanted to transfer their tuition fees and asked her to call back when she had time.
Jiang Ning couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.
In her previous life, during the three years of high school, she never saw him send money for tuition. In this life, she didn’t need it anymore. He said he would send her tuition.
But she didn't say no, so why should she? If he helps you pay your tuition, you will have to provide for them in their old age. If he doesn't help you pay your tuition, you will still have to provide for them in their old age.
If you don't want the money, they won't feel guilty. All the saved money will be given to your eldest brother Jiang Song in the future. Instead of giving it to your eldest brother Jiang Song like a rich boy to spend on others in the future, it is better to use it to pay for her and your second brother's tuition. At least your second brother won't have to worry about the tuition fees while also worrying about the mortgage every day.
Jiang Bai stayed in the store every day. Sometimes when there was a market day, he and Tong Jingang would take the clothes in the store to the market in the town below to sell them. They had visited some famous small town markets near Wucheng, just to help her sell more clothes during the summer vacation. The more money he made, the more at ease he would feel about the nearly 500 yuan mortgage his sister paid for him every month.
His monthly mortgage was actually a little over four hundred, less than five hundred, but he always calculated it as an integer of five hundred and wrote it down secretly in a notebook. He couldn't bear to take so much money from his sister every month, and he thought that he would pay it back to his sister when he earned money.
Jiang Ning didn't want to talk to Jiang's parents. She gave the number to Jiang Bo and told him, "Don't use the phone in the store."
Jiang Bai was silent for a moment and nodded.
My sister’s attitude has become very clear: she has become estranged from her family.
He knew it, but he was powerless to change it.
His sister was beaten much more than he was since she was a child, but he had a stubborn personality since he was a child. It was not his fault. When he was beaten, he would cry to the person who beat him and he would not be at peace for the whole day. The mentality of a weak person who could not resist but had to retaliate made him cry and cry when he was young. He would continue to cry when he thought about it the next day. He would stand beside the people who beat him and cry. Wherever they went, he would cry. He cried for several days in a row, and they would say, "Unless you beat me to death," until he cried so much that none of Jiang's father, Jiang's mother, Jiang's grandmother, and his cousins dared to provoke him again.
When Jiang Bai grew up, the elders in the family mentioned Jiang Bai, and their deepest impression of him was: "He cried a lot when he was a child. I have never seen anyone cry as much as Jiang Bai in all these years. He couldn't stop crying. The veins in my head were swollen and painful from his crying!"
But my sister was born to yearn for maternal love, just like a little animal that was abandoned at birth. No matter how the mother animal bites her all over, she always lingers around the mother animal and is unwilling to leave.
He didn't know when his sister started to change. Perhaps she had changed from the first time he saw her at the gate of No. 1 Middle School.
Become strong, confident, and no longer need anyone.
He seemed to see the little lion who was licking his wounds alone when he was young, as weak as a kitten, now growing step by step into a powerful lioness who can hunt alone on the grassland.
She is strong, athletic and gorgeous!
She has an agile figure and sharp eyes!
There was no moment that made Jiang Bai realize more clearly than this one that his sister had grown up.
After receiving Jiang Bo's call, Jiang's father finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked him about his college entrance examination results.
Jiang Bai answered him honestly: "I got 576 points in the college entrance examination and applied to Shanghai Institute of Technology. The admission score of Shanghai Institute of Technology last year was 489, so I should be able to get in."
When Jiang's father heard that his son had scored so high, he was delighted at first. But then, when he heard that he had applied to Shanghai Institute of Technology, he felt a little regretful. With this score, he could have applied to better schools. But when he thought that his own family would also have a college student, Jiang's father's regret for not having been admitted to college for so many years and not having attended college finally seemed to find an outlet in his youngest son.
He said tenderly, "You should study hard at your university. Don't worry about the tuition. Your mother and I sell lunch boxes outside and earn some money. Now that our family debts have been paid off, the money we earn will definitely be enough for your university expenses. After you receive the admission letter, call me and tell me how much the tuition is. I will transfer it to your savings account along with your living expenses. By the way, do you have a savings account? If not, go and get one. Call me at this number next time you need me. Your mother and I sell lunch boxes at noon and in the evening. If you call me in the afternoon, tell the lunch box seller to answer the phone, and someone will come to call me. When you arrive in Shanghai, if you have a landline number, give it to me so that I can contact you if anything happens."
Dad Jiang has never been a stingy person. Jiang Song's lavish spending can be said to be inherited from Dad Jiang. As long as he has money on him, he is happy to spend money on his children, parents, and wife. That makes him feel a sense of accomplishment as the head of the family, leading his family to live a good life.
During the years when he was in debt, all the family savings were kept by Jiang Ma, and he didn't have a penny on him. This feeling of powerlessness to protect his family from wind and rain, and even to bring storms to his family, almost drained his backbone and energy. It was only in the past two years that the debts were gradually paid off, and all of them were paid off last year. Only then did he feel more energetic again, and he began to think about all kinds of things again, thinking about doing big things on his own.
Now that he is middle-aged, it seems that he can no longer pursue big business, but the money he earns from selling boxed lunches allows him to get by again.
He knew that given his and Jiang Ma's current situation, if he wanted to open a factory and make a lot of money, Jiang Ma would definitely not be willing to take risks with him. Fortunately, he had good cooking skills, so he would sell boxed lunches first. When he made money and built the house, he would find a way to open a small restaurant.
He said, "We didn't have money before, and we didn't pay your sister's tuition. Your sister's tuition was paid by your grandfather. Now we have made money here. You can ask Ningning to open a savings account, and I will transfer your sister's tuition and living expenses to her."
Thinking of the lychees, longans, dragon fruits and other fruits in Shenzhen, he is now looking forward to his children coming over during the summer vacation. He buys lychees and longans for his children, whom he has never eaten before.
Especially lychees, which have a very special status in Jiang's father's heart. They are precious fruits that emperors and concubines in ancient times wanted to eat but might not be able to eat. He really wants his children to eat them too to broaden their horizons.
Jiang Bai remained silent as he listened to Jiang's father excitedly talking on the phone about asking them to take a holiday and come to Shenzhen.
He had always been an invisible person in his parents' eyes, but after he said that he had scored more than 570 points and was admitted to a university in Shanghai, he seemed to have suddenly entered their eyes, at least in the eyes of Jiang's father, and his voice was high and excited when he spoke.
After hanging up the phone, Jiang's father told everyone he met that his son had been admitted to a university, the Shanghai Polytechnic University.
Not only did he cook a big pot of broth today, he also went to the wholesale market and bought a big bag of duck feet.
There is no need to wash the duck feet. Just put them in a large basin to melt and rinse them twice with water.
Jiang's mother was quite puzzled. "Why did you buy so many duck feet?"
Father Jiang couldn't hide his joy on his face, and shared the good news with Mother Jiang: "Baizi scored 576 points in the college entrance examination. He applied to Shanghai University of Science and Technology. Last year, the admission score was less than 500. With this score, he is basically guaranteed to go to university. It's not easy for my family to have a college student. Shouldn't we celebrate?"
He was totally beaming with joy.
Although his two cousins are both college students, they actually got into local universities, which are not as good as Shanghai Institute of Technology. Even so, they were both guaranteed jobs after graduation. One is now a junior high school teacher in Wucheng, and the other is a teacher in the suburbs near the provincial capital. Both of them have iron rice bowls that are guaranteed to pay off.
But even though they are cousins, they have separated from their families. Jiang Bai is his biological son and the only real college student in his family. Shouldn't Jiang's father be excited?
While helping to wash the duck feet, Jiang's mother fell silent and said, "Songzi is stubborn and is afraid of the burden on his family, so he doesn't want to come back to repeat his studies. Otherwise, if he was like Jiang Bai, he would have applied to a lower-level school instead of such a good one, and he would be a college student now!"
Wucheng is in chaos, and Shenzhen is ten times more chaotic than Wucheng. They are at the train station every day, and there is no telling how many thieves there are. They just watch people losing money and wallets every day. There are also motorcycle gangs who rob people openly.
They knew their eldest son's personality, and they were afraid that he would be like these people, fighting outside every day. If they couldn't find their son, they would feel uneasy and frightened every day.
Jiang's father is a very particular person. When he has extra money, he wants to dress better and wear a white shirt and black pants to sell things. Jiang's mother simply makes him wear a tattered vest with several holes in it and old shorts. Her own clothes are also patched up. She dares not leave a penny of her money with Jiang's father, for fear that he, a careless person, will steal it if he is not careful.
It is also because of Jiang Ma's prudence, her close attention to money, and her willingness to deposit any money into her passbook as soon as she has it, that their money has never been stolen.
Over the years, Jiang's mother has been accustomed to being in charge of the family's finances. Moreover, in their Wucheng, men have always been the ones working outside while women are in charge of the finances. Whenever Jiang's mother thinks of the first few years of her marriage, when she had just married and was young and naive, while Jiang's father was in charge of the family's money and it was spent outside every day, she regrets it very much.
Apart from the money for purchasing goods every day, he is not allowed to control any money at all.
Because she trusted Jiang's father, she didn't know that Jiang's father hid five dollars today and ten dollars tomorrow, and now he has secretly hidden a lot of private money.
Jiang's mother originally thought that Jiang's father braised duck feet in this big steel basin for sale. As a result, he gave a duck foot to every person who came to buy a lunch box, and then told them the good news that his son had been admitted to university. Everyone congratulated Jiang's father.
Mother Jiang saw that he had given away such a large bowl of duck feet. She rolled her eyes and was very angry. She went back and sat on the bed and cried: "Life has just started to get better, and you are so proud of yourself, right? If you sell so many duck feet, you will get at least dozens of yuan. We only make a few dollars a day, and you spend money lavishly again."
"Songzi and Songzi are not found, Jiang Bai needs a lot of money to go to college, and the broken house at home is still there, so how can we not spend money? And you spend it recklessly again!" Jiang's mother choked with tears.
Originally, Jiang's father thought that Jiang's mother was crying on such a happy day, which was very depressing and petty. But after hearing what Jiang's mother said, Jiang's father, who was excited and happy for a moment, felt like a bucket of cold water was poured on him.
He came over and coaxed her, "I was also admitted to university because of Baizi. I'm so happy. I won't do that again." He came over and pulled Jiang Ma's arm, "We now have two meals a day, noon and evening, and we can sell about a thousand box lunches a day. Even if we make 0.3 yuan per box lunch, 100 boxes will make 30 yuan. Let's take the low number of 800 boxes a day. After deducting the cost, labor, and rent, we can make 240 yuan a day. 240 a day, 2,400 for 10 days, and 7,200 a month. We can work here for a year and build a house when we go home at the end of the year."
As he spoke, his eyes lit up with smiles, and he said with fantasy: "Then we will build two buildings like my brother's family, one for pine and one for cypress, and another for the two of us to live in."
Jiang's mother is illiterate. Although she can do math, she can only do some simple calculations. Every day, the lunch boxes may sell more today and less tomorrow. Ups and downs are common. So she doesn't know if there is ten yuan more or five yuan less every day.
She put the money she earned every day into the bank passbook and watched the money in the passbook increase day by day, but she never calculated how much they had earned specifically. She only wanted to save the money for Jiang Song, to build a house for him and to help him get married.
Listening to Jiang's father calculating with her, she realized that they made so much money selling boxed lunches. If calculated, they could save 70,000 to 80,000 yuan a year!
"You can't spend money recklessly!" Jiang's mother stopped crying and turned around to glare at Jiang's father fiercely and said, "It costs money to build a house for my two sons, to marry a wife, and to study. Jiang Bai is only two years younger than Songzi. After Songzi marries a wife, it will soon be Jiang Bai's turn. Which one doesn't cost money?"
But Dad Jiang had just calculated their annual income and the money they could make if they continued to sell lunch boxes here in the future. This made Mom Jiang feel a lot more relieved and she smiled more often. She worked harder every day washing vegetables, cleaning, and selling lunch boxes.
Aren’t people all laughing at her for having such a short house? When she returns this year, she plans to build a house taller than any other!
In late August, Tong Jingang was the first to receive an admission letter from the university, and soon after, Jiang Bai also received an admission letter from Shanghai University of Science and Technology.
The moment Jiang Bai received the notice, his eyes inexplicably turned red.
He didn't want to cry, but he couldn't help crying.
He quickly buried his face in his arms.
Grandpa Jiang did the same. He took Jiang Bai's admission letter, looked at it again and again, wanted to touch it but didn't dare to, for fear of damaging his grandson's college admission letter. He handed it back to Jiang Bai, wiped his tears and said, "Okay, okay! We will go home tomorrow and tell your great-grandparents the good news."
Thinking of the suffering that his father and mother's generation had endured throughout their lives, Grandpa Jiang couldn't stop crying for joy. He walked behind the curtain, turned his back to the shop, faced the wall, and cried for a long time, wiping his tears.
Guoan Guoliang from my younger brother’s family is a college student, and now his grandson is also a college student. In the future, his grandchildren will also be able to have a stable job and eat the government’s food, and they will no longer have to suffer like they did in their time.
People of their generation have really endured all the hardships they could endure.
Thinking of returning home to bring honor to their family and telling all the old friends in the village that his grandson had been admitted to university, he smiled happily again and packed his things excitedly, wishing he could go back to the village immediately to announce the good news to everyone.
His wealthy grandson also got into college! (^o^)/~
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