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But now Jiang Ning just smiled and watched indifferently, as if she was watching a play.
She looked at Jiang's father and took out her childhood books to show the reporter. The cameraman also focused the camera on these old books and her childhood exercise books.
Principal Sun and Directors Wang and Wang were also moved by the Jiang family's emphasis on learning and their style of study.
With such a pair of parents who attach great importance to their children's study and education, it is no wonder that they can raise two college students.
Afterwards, in front of the camera and everyone, Principal Sun awarded Jiang Ning the scholarship.
At this time, almost everyone in the village came to the Jiang family to watch the fun. The platform in front of the Jiang family’s door had been cleared because Principal Sun was going to present the scholarship to Jiang Ning on the platform in front of the Jiang family’s dilapidated house.
The surrounding high platforms, the upper floors of the neighbors, the second and third floors were all crowded with people. The streets below were crowded with people. Many girls who had returned to their mothers' homes were holding their children and watching this scene. Some girls who had already become mothers whispered to their children: "Aqiang, did you see that? You must study hard in the future and get admitted to Peking University like your aunt Ning. Then your mother's life will be worth it."
There were also many fathers who looked with envy at Jiang Ning, Grandpa Jiang, and Dad Jiang who were receiving scholarships awarded by Principal Sun on the high platform in front of the Jiang family's dilapidated house.
Originally, Jiang Ma was invited to come up and witness the event, but for some reason Jiang Ma got stubborn and refused to go on stage as if she was having a tantrum.
Everyone tried to persuade her again and again but to no avail. But later on, she was really not called to go on stage. She felt very uncomfortable and wronged.
"Big guy, this is really worth it. There are two college students in the family at once."
"His family has paid off all their debts, and now they are earning money to build a house. I heard that he has already selected a site for the house, and is just waiting to build it."
"When his two children graduate from college, everything will be fine."
"My son got into Shanghai University, and my daughter got into Beijing University. They will both be great in the future. The universities they got into are better than those of their two uncles. Especially the younger one, whose university is Beijing University!"
Now no one says that it is useless for girls to study. Girls study for the sake of others.
If they had a daughter like this, they would be willing to support her studies. After she graduated, she could get a job in the government in the future. Then they would have a daughter working in the government, and they would be able to find her for help when they have any problems in the future. How convenient!
Especially when they found out that the scholarship was worth 5,000 yuan, their eyes turned red with envy.
Five thousand yuan! That is the total annual income of many families nowadays. If you don’t go out to work and just farm at home, you can’t even earn five thousand yuan relying on those ten acres of land. The daughter of the big guy’s family can get a scholarship of five thousand yuan if she goes to university!
The five thousand yuan was divided into two thousand yuan as a reward for her admission to Peking University, two thousand yuan as a reward for her winning the gold medal in the National Olympiad, and one thousand yuan as a reward for her entering the winter camp on behalf of Wucheng No. 1 Middle School.
The place where the scholarships were awarded was very simple, but the sense of ceremony was full.
After interviewing the Jiang family and collecting enough material, the reporter, cameraman, and Principal Sun finally left Jiangjia Village and Linhe Brigade, and began to work overtime overnight to edit the film.
This interview video was very easy to edit, because Jiang Ning’s story alone is very telling, with twists and turns.
This incident was broadcast on the morning news the next day. It mainly talked about how one student from each of the two schools, Wucheng Wuzhong and Wucheng No. 1 Middle School, was admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University respectively. A brief interview of a few seconds between the two at the school gate and photos of each of them with their respective schools were also shown.
This made Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School very famous.
Principal Sun and Director Zhang were waiting in front of the TV early in the morning, waiting to watch today's morning news on the city radio station. Unfortunately, they waited for a long time and nothing came, so they had to wait for the evening news.
Wucheng County TV Station is a small, shabby local station. It has no dramas or programs of its own and no money to produce programs. There is only one evening news at around 7:00 p.m. every day. There is an interview program after the news, but it generally has no ratings and no one watches it. At 9:00 p.m., there is a time slot that broadcasts old TV series from a few years ago. All the dramas broadcast are those that have been played to death by other stations. At 11:30 p.m., the TV station stops broadcasting.
After completing yesterday's interview, they returned to Wucheng. It was too late to report on that day's news, so they could only include it in today's evening news. After the evening news, there was also a special interview program.
However, what surprised everyone was that the incident was broadcast on both the city radio station’s midday news and evening news.
The people in Jiangjia Village waited in front of the TV early in the morning, wanting to see if they would be on TV. Especially those who were to be interviewed, were all waiting to see themselves on TV.
Unfortunately, when they watch TV now, they still have to use the "big dish antenna" to receive signals, and there are very few TV stations that can be broadcast. Apart from the Central Television, there are their local provincial TV stations and municipal TV stations. Because the Wucheng County TV station is really nothing to watch, they mainly watch the municipal TV station.
I didn’t expect to see the interview at noon.
Unfortunately, the incident was only shown in the news for a few tens of seconds. Even so, it was given a lot of attention. Many people who don't pay much attention to the CCTV News Broadcast like to watch the "60 Minutes News" on the city and provincial TV stations in the evening, because it talks about all the small things and trivial matters related to their lives.
The evening "News 60 Minutes" will be broadcast one hour earlier to avoid CCTV's prime-time "News Network", starting at 6:00 p.m. and ending at 7:00 p.m. every day.
The broadcast time this time was a bit longer. It not only broadcast the interviews with Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng at the gate of Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School, but also the award ceremony in the village.
Now, everyone in the city knew that Wu Cheng had one student admitted to Tsinghua University and one to Peking University. Especially people in the education field were all shocked by Wu Cheng's good results this year and they also had great admiration for the Wucheng Education Bureau.
Some people also sighed at Secretary Song's good luck. He has only been the top leader in Wucheng for less than two years, and he has produced two top students from the country's top universities. This can be regarded as his political achievement. Isn't this too good luck?
Because there was no publicity, except for people in Wucheng, people from other places still don’t know that one of the two students from Peking University and Tsinghua University is Secretary Song’s biological son.
The people in Jiangjia Village also saw this news on the city TV station’s “News 60 Minutes”. Even though it was the second time they saw it, they were still very excited. Unfortunately, they were not found on TV.
After the TV station people left yesterday, the villagers greeted them by asking, "The TV station people came to interview the big guy's family. Did you see them?"
Then, one by one, they told people who hadn’t seen the grand event about it, “They even interviewed me!”
"Her two uncles and her second brother were both admitted to university, but they were not as sensational as hers. The school gave her so many scholarships!"
Those who have studied said, "No wonder some people say that books contain golden houses. How can there not be golden houses?"
The most direct impact this incident brought to Jiangjia Village and the entire Linhe Brigade was that many families who were unwilling to send their daughters to junior high school and high school in the past and only let them go to elementary school were now willing to send their daughters to school and urged and told them to study hard.
"What if, like the big guy's family, a college student comes out?"
"We all have the same ancestor, so it doesn't make sense that the literary energy would be concentrated in the big guy's family. Is there no literary energy in our family?"
He also said about his own children: "Jiang Ning is just two eyes, a nose and a mouth, but she was able to get into Beijing University, but you can't? Aren't you much smarter than her?"
After all, Jiang Ning has been a well-known "stupid" person in the village since she was a child. If you pass by Jiang's house one day, don't you hear her parents say that she is "as stupid as a pig" or "as stupid as a goose"?
This little girl didn't seem to be very smart except for being a little sweet-mouthed since she was a child. Yet she was able to get into Peking University. Her second brother has never been known for being smart since he was a child. Both the brother and sister had average grades, but they were able to get into university. How could their son, who is so smart, not be able to get in?
"His three children are human beings, and you are human beings too. If they can pass the exam, I don't believe that my children can't pass it!"
Many of them believed that the reason two of the three children of the Jiang family were able to pass the exam was not because they were smart, but simply because Jiang's father sent them to school. Otherwise, they would not have heard of how good Jiang Bai and Jiang Ning's grades were in all those years.
They thought that was the end of it, but after the evening news broadcast ended, the county TV station suddenly spent 30 minutes broadcasting the news that Song Peifeng from Wucheng Wuzhong and Jiang Ning from Wucheng No. 1 Middle School were admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University respectively.
At this time, the people in Linhe Brigade were all watching the third season of "Justice Bao" on the Z Province TV station.
Aunt Jiang's mother-in-law suddenly poked her head out from the balcony next door and shouted excitedly: "Xiaofeng! Xiaofeng! Come and see, your brother's niece is on TV!"
Aunt Jiang and her parents-in-law have no time to watch TV during the day because they have to run the store and buy things. They can only watch for a while at night when they close the store.
The TV in Aunt Jiang's room is basically occupied by her two children during this period of time, so it is impossible to watch the news.
But her parents-in-law wanted to watch the news and weather forecast, so they immediately saw the "60 Minutes News" on the city TV station. When they switched channels, they saw the Wucheng County TV station's exclusive interview with Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng.
Although it is said to be an interview between two people, it is actually more like an interview with Jiang Ning alone, because the interview with Song Peifeng was very brief. He only talked about some comments from his school teachers and classmates, and some interesting things that happened during the competition. Even his parents did not appear in the interview.
But Jiang Ning is different. First of all, Jiang Ning’s own experience is more story-like and legendary.
Although the reporters' interview started from the school, the edited footage did not show this. Instead, after the reporters learned that Jiang Ning from No. 1 Middle School won the gold medal in the National Olympic Competition, they first went to the school for an interview but did not meet Jiang Ning in person. So, the reporters finally waited until the fourth day of the New Year before Jiang Ning returned from the winter camp. Coincidentally, the school leaders offered Jiang Ning a scholarship, so the group drove a van to Jiangjia Village, Linhe Brigade, where Jiang Ning was.
The background sound behind the TV program was the voice of a reporter, saying, "We drove for more than three hours and were finally about to reach Linhe Brigade, but in Shanjian Township, we encountered a mountain stream that blocked the road. There was no bridge, and Jiang Ning said we could only wade across."
Next is a scene where reporter Wu interviews Jiang Ning: "The water is so cold, isn't it cold to wade through it like this?"
In the video, Jiang Ning smiled and replied calmly, "I'm used to it." She took off her shoes and rolled up her trouser legs while explaining to the reporters, "When I was in junior high school, I sometimes didn't have money to cross the river, so I had to take a detour from this side. I wasn't the only one who waded through the stream like this. In this area, almost everyone who lived on this side of the stream and was about my age had waded through the water."
After she took off her shoes, Grandpa Jiang also wanted to take off his shoes, but Jiang Ning stopped him and told reporters: "My grandfather has been a forest ranger for decades. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter, he has to patrol the mountains every day to prevent poaching, tree theft, and indiscriminate logging, as well as forest fires. In autumn and winter, the dew is heavy. When Grandpa was young, his life was hard. He didn't have two sets of clothes. His pants got wet by the dew in the forest and he had no change. He got cold legs and couldn't touch ice water."
She squatted down in front of Grandpa Jiang, who was unwilling to let her carry him, and picked up the skinny Grandpa Jiang, carrying him across the clear and icy mountain stream.
The screen shows Jiang Ning's back as she wade through the water carrying her grandfather on her back.
No one who saw this scene in front of the TV could remain unmoved.
When a child has good grades, people also hope that she has good and noble character, which is difficult to reflect in daily life, but filial piety is the best way to show it.
Then there is the scene where they are struggling to find a way to cross the mountain stream.
This section fully demonstrates the remoteness and difficulty of traveling in the village where Jiang Ning lives.
Then the scene changed, and they arrived at the Linhe Brigade. They got out of the car, and the next scene was Jiang Ning, wearing a big red silk flower, supporting Grandpa Jiang, with two teachers behind them, holding a long banner, walking forward step by step. On the way, they saw nearby villagers who came out to watch the excitement, and then the group arrived at the Linhe Brigade.
"It's out, it's my turn, it's my turn!" The girl from Jiangjia Village who had been interviewed before grabbed her mother's arm in surprise and pointed at the TV and shouted.
But the first person to be interviewed was the brigade secretary of Linhe Brigade.
The brigade secretary was also watching this scene on TV. He saw his gray hair and face that seemed to have aged ten years, as well as his stiff expression at first and then his increasingly natural smile.
He didn't expect that his first appearance on TV would not be because of his own children, but because of someone else's daughter who sent his daughter to prison.
The award ceremony in Jiangjia Village did not end the clip. The camera then turned to Jiang Ning's junior high school, interviewed Jiang Ning's class teacher, and learned about Jiang Ning's grades in junior high school.
"The reporter learned that although Jiang Ning's grades were among the best in the class in junior high school, he was not in the key class, but in an ordinary class."
"Each key class has around 60 to 70 students. Excluding the two key classes, Jiang Ning's grades ranked outside the top 140 in the entire school when he was in junior high school."
Shuibuzhen Mandarin, a junior high school teacher, appeared on TV as an ordinary middle-aged male teacher: "We all thought that with her grades, she could only go to our town's high school, but she was admitted to the first middle school. We didn't expect this at the time and were very surprised."
The reporter said: "We also learned from the teachers at No. 1 Middle School that when Jiang Ning first entered high school, she barely passed the score line. Her first monthly test score after entering high school was also very ordinary. But such a girl with ordinary grades was admitted to Beijing University in less than two years. So, how did she do it?"
Next came the reporters' interviews with Jiang Ning at school, as well as her class teacher, principal, and classmates. From her classmates and teachers, they learned about her image as a test-taking superlative who was not only filial to the elderly, respectful to teachers, friendly to classmates, but also hardworking.
The reporter asked Jiang Ning: "Do you think you are a genius?"
Jiang Ning in front of the camera shook his head without hesitation, very modestly: "Of course I'm not a genius. Have you ever seen a genius as ordinary as me? I just work hard and persevere. I have only one belief in my heart, which is what my grandfather told me since I was a child: Only by studying can you change your destiny!"
At this time, a little old man lying in a rocking chair, basking in the sun, and rocking back and forth appeared in the camera.
The old man's hair and beard were all gray, and he was wearing ordinary clothes that were a little crooked. He looked as ordinary as could be.
But this inconspicuous old man on the roadside told his granddaughter: "Only by studying can you change your destiny." Such shocking words.
The reporter went to interview Teacher Xia Yunzhi, whom Jiang Ning had thanked in front of the camera. Teacher Xia was very surprised: "I only know that she is a very talented student in this class and has earned many honors for the school."
"Do you remember helping her?"
Teacher Xia shook her head. She really had no recollection of it, but she still smiled gently: "I really don't remember when I helped her."
The reporter also laughed and said, "This also shows that, as Jiang Ning said, Teacher Xia has helped so many students that she can't even remember the one person she helped casually, but she changed the fate of a student's life."
At night, sitting in front of the TV, watching the TV interview program, Teacher Xia's lover also asked Teacher Xia curiously: "You really don't remember?"
Teacher Xia was helpless: "I really don't remember when I helped her or what. Logically speaking, for such an outstanding child, I shouldn't have no impression of her."
But Jiang Ning specifically used so many words to thank her alone, it didn't seem like he had recognized the wrong person. It could only be said that it might have been a small thing that Teacher Xia helped with, but it was an unbearable burden in this girl's life at that time.
Because of Jiang Ning's interview, Teacher Xia became a well-known good teacher in the whole Wucheng. In the same year, she was successfully awarded the title of "senior teacher", which was earlier than her husband.
You know, because of her personality, she is too gentle and can only be a subject teacher, and cannot be a head teacher who can shock the whole class. Her husband's professional ability is actually much higher than hers, but she unexpectedly became a famous teacher envied by many teachers in Wuzhong No. 1 Middle School through this method.
After this wave of publicity, No. 1 Middle School can be said to have won the game.
Wu Zhong, who was also admitted to Tsinghua University, was completely reduced to a supporting role in this publicity.
What surprised Wucheng TV was that the ratings of Wucheng, which had been maintained at around 0.00 percent, suddenly soared to 13 percent in this interview program. The replay on the second day still had a rating of 7 or 8 percent. It can be said that this set the highest ratings in the history of Wucheng County TV Station.
This has to be said, but it is inseparable from the dramatic and refreshing nature of the story itself, and it is also inseparable from the high looks of Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng.
Even with the low-definition cameras of this era, these two students can be photographed so beautifully. It is conceivable how good-looking these two students are.
Whether it is the middle-aged or elderly audience or the young audience group who stays at home during the New Year, who doesn’t like to watch young and beautiful boys and girls? What's more, these two people have such good grades that they are enough to become role models for all Wucheng people, and even the entire Wujiang city.
Before this, those who said that boys become motivated when they reach high school, while girls become useless when they reach high school, can no longer say anything.
Whenever someone says something like this, someone will retort: "Who says girls can't do well in high school? Jiang Ning from Wucheng No. 1 High School didn't do well in elementary and middle school, but she started to improve in high school. In her second year of high school, she surpassed the seniors and was admitted to a university in advance, and it was Beijing University! You say girls can't do well in high school?"
There are also many girls who have been brainwashed like this since childhood. When they saw that Jiang Ning not only had good grades after entering high school, but also made great progress and was admitted to Peking University, it was as if a shackle in their hearts was quietly opened. Looking at Jiang Ning, they seemed to have seen the direction of their own efforts.
I also remember what Jiang Ning said: Only by studying can you change your destiny.
In the past, they had always been in a daze. No one had ever told them what their family members taught them and what they learned. Everywhere they looked, they saw girls who had the same growth trajectory as them. This was the case for their generations, and the people in the village and their parents also told them that all girls were like this.
But now a girl stood up and said, no, girls are no worse than boys.
Look at Jiang Ning, she has two older brothers. The eldest brother did not get into college, and the second brother did, but neither is as good as her.
Jiang's mother also saw Jiang Ning on TV.
She didn't want to watch it, but Jiang's father, who usually gave in to her, was very firm this time and insisted on watching the county TV station. He sat in front of the TV and refused to change the channel.
She could only sit in front of the TV with a sullen face, knitting with her head down.
The TV in her family was the first 14-inch black-and-white TV bought in their village in the 1980s. It caused a sensation in the entire Jiangjia Village at that time. Everyone who wanted to watch TV came to Jiang's house, found a stool to sit down quietly, and watch TV in Jiang's house.
But when the show was on TV, she couldn't help but look up.
On TV, she saw Grandpa Jiang, Dad Jiang, and the much-anticipated Jiang Ning.
Only she seemed transparent on TV.
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