Chapter 124124 [Second update]
If she had a tail, you would definitely see it swaying towards Grandpa Jiang.
Grandpa Jiang was originally lying on a rocking chair when he was suddenly stuffed with two big red envelopes. After hearing that it was a scholarship, Grandpa Jiang held the two red envelopes with shaking hands, smiling, not knowing what to do. He just kept saying, "Good, good, good... My eldest granddaughter has made it."
He looked at his granddaughter who had grown very tall. Her face was as bright as the sun as she proudly showed off her achievements to him. It seemed as if time had passed in the blink of an eye. She had grown from a baby as small as a kitten to the little girl he is today.
He laughed happily. Taking the red envelope Jiang Ning stuffed into his hand, he did not say anything about returning it to Jiang Ning. Instead, he stood up, turned around and carefully put away the two big red envelopes.
The daily income from the store has let him know that his granddaughter is not short of money now. This is the scholarship given to him by his granddaughter, so he must keep it well.
He has no idea how to spend the money, he just wants to keep collecting it.
Grandpa Jiang was lying in the rocking chair, rocking happily. Today was another day when he missed his old friends in the village!
Rumors spread sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly.
For example, this matter fermented very quickly in Wuzhong, but very slowly in No. 1 Middle School, because people from the two schools were all locked up in their respective schools and had no contact at all.
If this rumor happened to someone else, people in Wuzhong might not pay any attention to it because they don't know Jiang Ning. Just like in the previous life, this rumor had a great impact in No. 1 Middle School, but in Wuzhong, the most they heard was that there was a girl in No. 1 Middle School who had been a prostitute, but they didn't know who it was. The most they would do was to meet someone they knew and casually ask if it was true.
Most of them don't pay attention to these things at all. Even if they hear such gossip, they just treat it as curiosity. After listening to other people's affairs, they continue to learn.
High school studies are so stressful and the school is so strict, who would care about your affairs in No. 1 Middle School?
But Jiang Ning is now too famous among the students of Wuzhong, especially since Jiang Ning's name is still hung high on the gatehouse of No. 1 Middle School. Such rumors spread quickly, and they were so detailed that even the police were called in to investigate.
If even the police were called in for this, it couldn't be fake, right?
Someone else came to ask Ruan Hong: "You trained with Jiang Ning from No. 1 Middle School in the same training team during the summer vacation. Are you familiar with her? What kind of person is she? Do you know about the kind of place she has been in?"
When Ruan Hong suddenly heard such a rumor, her first reaction was to severely rebuke the person who came to inquire about the news: "This is impossible! Can you please stop talking nonsense about such things?"
The person being reprimanded was shocked by her fierce reaction: "I also heard it from others. I don't really believe it."
Some people even came to ask a few boys who went to the city competition with Jiang Ning for training during the summer vacation. When these boys heard the rumor, their first reaction was the same as Ruan Hong's. They thought it was ridiculous and a little impatient: "Where did you hear this nonsense? Do you think it's possible?"
Although Jiang Ning always smiles to everyone she meets, their impression of her is not how good her grades are or how pretty she is, but that Jiang Ning inexplicably has the aura of a head teacher. When she is not smiling, she appears unusually serious and majestic.
Even when she is looking at you with a smile and listening to you talk, you feel that she is like your class teacher.
Yes, that's the feeling.
When they looked at Jiang Ning, they didn't think she was pretty, but they felt inexplicably nervous and scared. When they saw her, they just wanted to study hard.
Jiang Ning was considered pretty, and everyone was at an age full of vigor and vitality. Normally, everyone in the class treated each other a little differently. Even if they didn't show it, they could not help but be sentimental in their hearts. However, after spending a whole summer in the training team, not a single boy had any romantic thoughts about Jiang Ning.
Because several people in Wuzhong's key class who had spent a summer in the training team with Jiang Ning sternly refuted that this must be a rumor spread by someone and it was impossible, such rumors spread in Wuzhong's key class.
Song Peifeng was the last person in the class to know about this rumor.
Originally, no one dared to come and ask him about such things. He only heard it by accident when he heard someone else talking about it. His face turned cold at that moment.
It’s not that he has anything against Jiang Ning, but no matter who it is, whoever spreads this rumor should be punished.
He didn't know who spread such a vicious rumor. It seemed like the rumor came out suddenly and spread to all three grades in Wuzhong.
Especially the freshmen.
Although no one in the key class believed the rumor, they could not stop others from spreading it. After Song Peifeng found out about it, he went straight to find Director Wang Suoping. Director Wang was furious after learning about it, especially since the person who told him about it was the son of the county secretary. If this got out, the school spirit of their school would be ruined.
Before his morning run, he held a loud speaker and angrily scolded the students in front of the whole school. He did not directly mention the rumors, but scolded them for not focusing on their studies in high school and even making up some despicable stories.
He said directly: "If I know that some people don't study hard and make up some nonsense, I will record a serious demerit directly. If they can't get a serious demerit, they will be expelled! We are here to study, not to make up some nonsense. We can't afford such students in Wuzhong!"
As soon as they heard the word "made up", those who heard the rumor knew what Director Wang was talking about.
All of a sudden, all the students in Wuzhong were frightened into silence, and even Jiang Hehua was scared to death.
She already regretted it now. She didn't know what was going on in her mind when she said those words at the school gate. She was scared to death now, afraid that Director Wang would know that she had said those words, and she was always uneasy in her heart.
Director Wang was really angry.
Fortunately, Lao Zhang didn't know about this. Lao Zhang is retired now. If Lao Zhang knew that his school actually dared to spread such rumors about their students, Lao Zhang would come and eat him up.
Director Wang heaved a sigh of relief when he thought that the current director of the Academic Affairs Office of No. 1 Middle School is Director Xiao Wang, who has a relatively gentle personality.
After Wu Zhongming stopped spreading rumors, Jiang Hehua, who was scared half to death by Director Wang, breathed a sigh of relief, and inexplicably hated herself for being like this in her heart.
She knew from a young age that her mother disliked Jiang Ma. Every time her mother mentioned Jiang Ma, she would secretly roll her eyes, and when she mentioned that Jiang Ma was not having a good life, she would gloat over it.
She has seen these things since she was a child.
Although she didn't know the reason, influenced by her mother, she had disliked Jiang Ma and the three siblings of the Jiang family since she was a child.
Even though she never said it or showed it.
But from childhood to adulthood, she and Jiang Ning were classmates, and their homes were not far from each other. In fact, she and Jiang Ning were from the same room, and Jiang Qinqin was from the second room. In fact, their relationship was one level more distant than hers and Jiang Ning's. But she never took the initiative to go to Jiang's house to play with Jiang Ning. Jiang Ning was occasionally brought to her house by Jiang Qinqin to ask her to go out and play, but she refused to go.
If they played with her at her house, she would be very cold and say that she had not finished her homework and needed to do it.
Others thought that she just loved studying and stayed at home all day to study, but in fact, it was not the case. She just didn't like Jiang Ning's family.
Jiang Ning may have noticed that she was cold towards her, so she rarely came to play with her and even rarely spoke to her.
As time went by, they seldom came to play with her, and Jiang Qinqin preferred to play with Jiang Ning rather than with her.
It was just because among the girls of their generation, they were the only three still in school, and sometimes they had to go to and from school together, so to outsiders it looked as if the three of them were still playing together.
But only they themselves know that it is not the case.
She could still talk to Jiang Qinqin, but she and Jiang Ning hadn't even exchanged a few words.
It was fine when she was a child. She was always the one praised and compared by others. But she didn't know when the roles of her and Jiang Ning were completely reversed. Mingming had good grades since she was a child and she was always the center of attention. No matter where she went, she seemed to be surrounded by a halo. Everyone praised her for her good grades and fair skin, and praised her for being white and plump like a flour dumpling. Everyone liked her.
But as they grew older, all they could say when they saw her was, "Is Lotus back?"
"Lotus was white and plump when she was little, and she is still the same now that she has grown up."
"He's not very tall, but rather short and stocky, just like the brigade secretary."
"Her mother is not bad looking, but the brother and sister both take after the brigade secretary. Look at Hehua's face, it looks exactly like the secretary."
"Those little eyes are as small as sesame seeds."
"If we talk about the president, it's still the three children of the big guy's family."
"The big guy was pretty when he was young. Wasn't Ailian pretty when she was young? Each of their children is prettier than the other. I really don't know how they got what they deserve. They only pick on their parents' good looks."
"When his little daughter was young, her grandfather shaved her head bald, so she looked like a boy. Now she is growing up to be more and more decent!"
"Her parents are good-looking, how can their children be bad? They must be good-looking too!"
She sat on the edge of the boat, listening to them talk about the three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family, as if she was invisible. When someone occasionally mentioned them, they would simply ask, "Are you tired of studying?"
Originally, she didn't have such a deep feeling, especially after seeing Jiang Ning becoming more and more dazzling, with better grades and more beautiful appearance, she sometimes looked in the mirror and saw herself becoming more and more ordinary as she grew older. She couldn't help but think, if only she could grow up to be like Jiang Ning, if only she could grow up to be like Jiang Ning...
Why is it that she becomes more ordinary as she grows older, while the three Jiang siblings become more beautiful as they grow older?
Why can't she be as tall as Jiang Ning?
"Jiang Hehua!"
Jiang Hehua was startled and looked up at the teacher on the podium in confusion.
She sat in the first row. The teacher had noticed that she was in a daze a long time ago. He tapped a question on the blackboard and reminded her: "Write this question on the blackboard."
The pace of classes in Wuzhong's key classes is extremely fast. They have to complete all the courses for three years of high school in their second year of high school. The entire third year of high school is devoted to comprehensive review. Students are given various college entrance examination papers from previous years and practice all possible types of exam questions.
Jiang Hehua was just in a daze for the whole class. She was confused by the new knowledge point the teacher introduced.
The teacher saw Jiang Hehua standing there with her face flushed and her head down, and sighed, "You are a sophomore in high school, and you still dare to be in a daze in class! If you don't get enough rest, take a short nap in the dormitory at noon, and don't read too late at night." The teacher sighed, "Sit down."
A week passed and everything in Wuzhong was calm. No teacher came to see her. She finally breathed a sigh of relief, put aside her anxiety, and continued to focus on her studies.
But I don’t know if it was because her mind was in a tense and nervous state that made it difficult for her to concentrate this week, but before she knew it, she had trouble studying. She seemed to have listened to a lot of the content before, but also seemed not to have listened. She hurried to review the previous content and catch up on what she had not understood or learned well before.
Both schools were closed on Friday. There were many people from the same township in the two schools. Many of them were classmates in the township middle school. Because the two schools were next to each other, when the minibus came to pick them up, many people from Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School took the same minibus.
They didn't dare to talk about it when they were in school, but during the holidays, when they met their old classmates from No. 1 Middle School, they couldn't help but be curious and asked their old classmates whether this was true and whether they knew about it.
The people in No. 1 Middle School now adore Jiang Ning to death. Jiang Ning is the pride of their middle school. How can they tolerate slandering the pride of their middle school like this? I couldn't help but retort: "I think you are just jealous because our No. 1 Middle School also won the first prize in the competition, right?"
But not everyone can protect Jiang Ning like this, especially the freshmen in the first year of high school.
So after school started on Monday, such rumors quietly spread in No. 1 Middle School.
This rumor first spread among the first year of high school.
Then during the break, someone pointed at Jiang Ning and whispered, "She is Jiang Ning, right? She is really hot!"
Jiang Ning raised her eyelids sharply and looked at these people. Looking at these familiar faces that had brought her a huge psychological trauma in her past life, she did not dodge and walked over directly, grabbing the wrist of the boy who was pointing at her and talking with a smile: "What are you talking about? Say it again?"
The boy didn't expect Jiang Ning to be so reckless that he actually walked over and grabbed him. He was shocked.
But he relied on the fact that he was taller and stronger than Jiang Ning, and started yelling loudly: "Just say it. I was a prostitute, and I can't tell you? Even people in Wuzhong know about it. It's really a disgrace to our No. 1 Middle School..."
Before he could finish his words, Jiang Ning punched him hard in the stomach.
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