Chapter 196
The dormitory seemed to have been paused for a second. Yu Qianqian and Zhang Min stopped copying the class schedule. Cui Yujie, who was sulking on the upper bunk, Liu Yan, who was hanging out clothes after taking a shower, and Shen Xinlan, a fair-skinned girl with dimples, all looked up at Jiang Ning in surprise.
They quickly responded: "Were you recommended?"
Jiang Ning smiled and nodded: "Yes, I was admitted last year."
Everyone was silent for a while. Being admitted as a senior in high school was already impressive, and there was even one who was admitted as a sophomore in high school.
As mentioned before, in schools like Tsinghua University and Peking University, the top students at the top of the pyramid are not the top scorers in each province, but the recommended students like Jiang Ning.
What's more, they are not the provincial top students. A great man suddenly appeared in the dormitory. The proud girls in their respective schools, facing a great man hidden in the dormitory, suddenly became much more breathless. Even Cui Yujie, who had always been arrogant and superior in front of them, unconsciously put away her feeling of "I am the biggest and the most powerful" in the dormitory.
Their excellent grades in their respective schools seemed insignificant after they arrived at Kyoto University. All the students gathered here are gifted students, and there will always be someone better than you.
Jiang Ning won the gold medal in the IMO competition last year. Although she was a gold medalist with a perfect score and had three or four seconds more interview time than others, there were six of them in total, and the total time broadcast on the "News Broadcast" was only twenty seconds. At the end, there was also a two-second photo of the six people, so the six gold medal contestants only had three seconds. The rest of the interview time was spent in the local provinces. In provinces where no students were selected for the IMO, apart from the three seconds on the "News Broadcast", no one paid attention to the news. Everyone only paid attention to their own academic performance. In addition, among the several girls in the dormitory, only Zhang Min had participated in the competition, and she only made it to the municipal competition. After that, she focused all her energy on the college entrance examination. So they knew the results of last year's competition, but they really didn't remember the faces of the contestants.
Zhang Min had never expected that there was a hidden genius in their dormitory. She couldn't help but let out a dry exclamation: "Wow! Didn't you come to Peking University last year?"
Jiang Ning smiled and nodded: "Yes, I came to Beijing University a year earlier than you, so I have already finished all the courses for freshman year, and then started to study the courses for sophomore and junior years."
In fact, she had already finished all the advanced mathematics courses for four years of university during the competition period, but she could audit any courses at Peking University. Last year, Jiang Ning not only completed the courses in her department, but also audited many other non-major courses, such as aircraft design and engineering, weapons, intelligent control, psychology, etc. Because her next article was planned to be about interstellar, she focused on astronomy and aircraft design and engineering courses during this period.
All works are not based on pure imagination. If you want readers to believe that the world content of your work is real, there must be a certain reality as a foundation. For example, if she wants to write about mecha design and mecha combat, if she knows nothing about aircraft design and weapon design, then she has no foundation.
Fortunately, you can audit any of the courses at Peking University.
After hearing Jiang Ning's words, everyone in the dormitory fell silent again.
Yu Qianqian was a little confused and asked curiously, "You came to Beijing University last year, shouldn't you be a sophomore this year? Why are you still a freshman like us?"
The other girls in the dormitory were also a little confused and looked up at Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning smiled and said, "I am from the same class as you. I was only admitted in advance last year as an auditor. I only entered school with you this year. I am in the same class as you."
"Oh~~~" Several people nodded, and there was silence in the dormitory for a while.
I originally thought I was very awesome, but when I arrived at Peking University, I discovered that the real awesome people were living low-key around me.
Several people lowered their heads and silently copied the class schedule, but their attitudes in front of Jiang Ning were even more arrogant than before, with the arrogance they brought from their previous school. Now it seemed as if they had fallen back to the ground. Even Cui Yujie, who had some uncontrollable sense of superiority in front of others, unconsciously restrained herself in front of Jiang Ning, although she would occasionally reveal it unconsciously when talking and doing things in the dormitory.
But soon, this sense of superiority was hit by Jiang Ning in the dormitory. After the first professional class, they began to doubt their lives again.
The person who taught them was a graduate student in the same major. He did not teach according to the textbook. Instead, he had a very divergent mind and talked about whatever came to his mind. As they listened, circles appeared in their eyes and they began to take notes frantically.
Regardless of whether they understood it or not, they would take notes first, then ask the graduate student seniors and teachers, ask classmates, and look up information later. All the students around them did the same.
They wanted to ask the graduate student teacher who taught them. The teacher started and ended the get out of class on time. After class, he would occasionally stop them and answer a few questions. Most of the time, he would pedal away quickly on his bicycle, as if he was afraid of being surrounded by them and wasting his time.
It's not just this course, it's every course.
Their high school teachers had told them that life would be easy when they got to university. However, they did not feel it was easy at Peking University. Instead, everyone around them was the best in their original schools, and they had to spend more time just to barely keep up with their classmates. Few people who came to Peking University were willing to be mediocre, so they still put most of their energy into studying every day, just like they did in high school. Skipping classes, falling in love, and having secret meetings under the moonlight did not exist at all in dormitory 401.
In particular, there was a student in their dormitory who started taking sophomore and junior courses in his freshman year, and they became so good at studying without realizing it.
But learning is not just about passing the test. There is a joke on the Internet: Women may cheat on you, brothers may betray you, but not math - if you don’t know math, you don’t know it.
When they first entered university, they were tortured to death by the teachers of various courses. Even if they had taken a lot of notes seriously in class and wanted to slowly find the teachers and look up information to study on their own after class, but as the joke on the Internet said, can people do anything when they are pushed into a corner?
No, you can’t do math!
At first, no one thought of asking Jiang Ning, until Zhang Min was the first to come over with her notes and ask Jiang Ning for advice.
Originally it was just a question, but then things got out of control and Jiang Ning directly became the after-school tutor for Dormitory 401.
Except Cui Yujie.
It’s not that Jiang Ning didn’t explain the questions to Cui Yujie. In fact, every time she explained the questions to Zhang Min, Liu Yan, Yu Qianqian, and Shen Xinlan all gradually came over to listen together. Only Cui Yujie, as if she was mad at someone, sat alone on the upper bunk, looking at them with a sullen face. She probably wanted someone to give her a way out and ask her to come down to look together, or for Jiang Ning to take the initiative to ask her if there was anything she didn’t understand, and then she would come down along the way.
But she always has a sullen face, as if others owe her something. Who would be willing to indulge her? Even Liu Yan, who had the best temper and was the most tolerant in the dormitory, was unwilling to indulge her, and no one in the dormitory called her.
Jiang Ning only had about half an hour every evening to explain the questions to them. The rest of the time, she was either in class or on the way to various classes. If she didn't come back to sleep at night, they would hardly see Jiang Ning, so they had no time to care about Cui Yujie's little awkwardness.
Moreover, as time went by, the students in Dormitory 401 discovered that their roommate not only attended classes in her major, but also classes outside of her major, and she was almost like a student of another major. Even so, Jiang Ning could still spare half an hour every morning to go jogging, and no one knew where she went at noon, but she was definitely not in the dormitory.
Whenever she showed up in the dormitory, Zhang Min was always the one who showed up the fastest and had the most positive attitude. Every day, as soon as Jiang Ning stepped into the dormitory, Zhang Min would come over with books and notes to ask questions the next second. Others would also rush over. During this time, they would also leave some time for Jiang Ning to wash up.
During this process, the girls in Dormitory 401 quickly became familiar with each other.
Among the six people in the dormitory, only Jiang Ning and Liu Yan were truly from rural areas. But when Jiang Ning said that she was from a mountain village in the south, none of her roommates believed her.
The public security in Beijing was countless times better than that in Wucheng in 1996 and 1997, and no one would attack her because of how she dressed. She certainly didn't wear her cousins' worn-out coats from time to time like she did in Wucheng. She had her own clothing store, and every year the latest stock from Shenzhen was sent to her store. Whether it was the quality or the style of the clothes, her choices were not fancy, and she only matched the basic styles, and they looked good enough.
These days, everything from inside to outside is filled with brand new clothes and shoes. In the entire dormitory, besides Shen Xinlan, there is only Jiang Ning.
They only thought that Jiang Ning's hometown was in the countryside, but in fact she was a girl who grew up in a wealthy family in the city.
Yu Qianqian's family lives in the suburbs, but they make a living by farming and occasionally do some small business. Although their family background is ordinary, among the people in the dormitory, their family background is second only to Shen Xinlan and Cui Yujie.
Cui Yujie is a native of Beijing, but her family is very ordinary and she comes from a working-class family. After the wave of layoffs, her parents set up a small stall at the doorstep of their home, selling Beijing-style breakfast at the back door, and they earn a good income.
Zhang Min is a small-town girl who was able to enter the city competition in her original high school without any competitive foundation. She is quite talented in studying and works hard enough.
It's just that her personality is a little weird. She doesn't like to show that she's working hard. She always makes herself appear not to care much about studying. Studying is easy for her, as if she spends her spare time participating in school activities. But every day when Jiang Ning returns to the dormitory, she is always the first one to rush up and ask her all kinds of questions. She gets to the bottom of every question and makes sure Jiang Ning explains the questions she doesn't know. Only when she fully understands them will she be satisfied. Then she smiles with curved eyebrows and says to Jiang Ning with a satisfied look on her face, like a well-fed glutton: "I'll treat you to dinner later!"
If Cui Yujie always promised to treat the roommates to a meal but never fulfilled her promise, then Zhang Min meant it and never kept her promise overnight. Even if she didn't fulfill it on the same day, she would fulfill it the next day. Even though her financial resources were limited, she would sometimes just give Jiang Ning a bag of spicy strips, a tea egg, or a steamed bun, which she would bring.
This made Zhang Min quickly become one of the most popular people in the dormitory, and even in the entire class, after Liu Yan.
As for Shen Xinlan, she said that she was a native of Beijing, her father was in the system, her mother quit her job to start a business, and all her clothes and shoes were bought for her by her mother. She didn't say much else.
It's not that other people in the department don't like Shen Xinlan and Jiang Ning and don't want to interact with them, but Jiang Ning is just like the non-staff members of their class. They take freshman classes normally, while she takes sophomore and junior classes. Not only do they not attend classes together, but she is also rarely seen at other times. Shen Xinlan looks sweet and lovely, smiling at everyone, but she is actually a little difficult to approach. She can't be friends with everyone who approaches her and shows her kindness.
On the contrary, it was Jiang Ning who had filled up all his time and rarely got close to her. Whenever she saw her, she always wanted to be with her.
Originally in the dormitory, Liu Yan, Zhang Min, and Yu Qianqian were in a small group, Zhang Xinlan and Cui Yujie were in a small group, and Jiang Ning was alone. After half a month, it became that Shen Xinlan and Jiang Ning were in a group, and occasionally Liu Yan would join their group. Zhang Min, Yu Qianqian, and Liu Yan were in a group, and occasionally Liu Yan saw Cui Yujie alone and formed a group with Cui Yujie.
Cui Yujie has gradually realized that she is not welcome in the dormitory, and only Liu Yan, the warm-hearted girl, is willing to accept her. So she gradually follows Liu Yan and calls Liu Yan to go with her wherever she goes.
Soon the school's welcome party arrived, and the counselor called the students in the class to go to the Qiulin Auditorium to watch the welcome performance.
Song Peifeng was still in military training, which lasted for a month, so they hadn't seen each other for half a month.
Song Peifeng had never felt so eager to go home as he did now, just because the military training would end soon so that he could go back to see Jiang Ning. Even though he knew that she would take good care of herself, he just knew that she didn't like being alone. She liked to be with him, even if it was just reading back to back, or sitting next to him, leaning on his legs or arms, reading quietly without talking, she was comfortable.
When she was alone, she was always surrounded by a layer of loneliness and coldness, just like the cold white moonlight that occasionally appeared in winter. The soft light was filled with icy chill, which made him unconsciously want to hug her and dispel the coldness around her body.
This was also the first time that Song Peifeng experienced a phrase: every day seemed like a year. He counted the time day by day just to make the military training end quickly.
Their military training at Tsinghua University lasts for one month, while Peking University starts with the sophomore year. Even though the military training locations of Tsinghua University and Peking University are in the same place, he and Jiang Ning's training times are not at the same time, so naturally they cannot see each other.
Jiang Ning is a little insensitive. When Song Peifeng just left and she just moved into the dormitory, she didn't feel any changes. She still exercised, studied, and went back to the dormitory to sleep every day.
When running, he always felt like there was someone missing by his side. Sometimes when he thought of something and wanted to share it with someone around him, he turned his head and saw that there was no one around him. The feeling of emptiness at that moment suddenly swept over him, making Jiang Ning a little alert.
She was wary of the feeling of liking and even relying on having such a person by her side. If one day she separated from this person and returned to her original life of being alone, would she be able to accept it?
But think about it, the future is unpredictable. Why don’t we enjoy the present feelings and joy of the moment, but instead take out loans to finance future events that haven’t happened yet and refuse the happiness of the present?
Thinking of this, she calmly indulged herself in enjoying her current relationship with the opposite sex.
She just felt a little regretful that she couldn't watch the welcome party with him, but had to sit alone in the audience. Even though there were new roommates around her, she still felt that she was alone. Even the performances of the youthful and lively senior students and counselors on the stage seemed a little boring to her. She left the lecture hall early and returned to the dormitory.
The other roommates in the dormitory were watching the party downstairs, and the dormitory was quiet and deserted.
Jiang Ning wanted to sleep but couldn't, so he ran ten laps. After sweating a lot and washing up, he finally fell asleep with a slightly tired body.
Jiang Ning herself did not like the feeling of being psychologically dependent on others. In addition to insisting on calling Grandpa Jiang every day, she also signed up for some clubs outside of various extracurricular activities. The first one she considered was the Beijing University Wushu Association. However, you can't just apply to join a martial arts association. There is still a certain threshold. So she also applied to join the Weiming Tai Chi Club.
As soon as the classes ended every afternoon, I went straight to the basketball hall of the First Gymnasium on the east bank of Weiming Lake to learn Ba Duan Jin and Chen Style Tai Chi with senior students from the Tai Chi Club.
However, what surprised Jiang Ning the most was the drama club.
Jiang Ning had always refused auditions from Director Yu and Director Zhang, but she had a clear plan for her future career. But the school's drama club was different. It was an opportunity for her to be unrestrained and relaxed like never before, and she could completely let herself go in the performance.
When she first entered, she was a little uncomfortable, and her expression and body movements were still a little restrained, but she was soon influenced by the seniors in the drama club and began to release her natural performance and experience a completely different character life in the drama.
It was also in the drama club that Jiang Ning realized that she could let herself go and be so happy.
Afterwards, she applied to join the dance club and started learning dancing.
This was an area she had never tried before and was unfamiliar with, so she started from scratch.
This was more interesting than joining the Jingcheng University Wushu Association. She gradually forgot that she had applied for the Wushu Association and devoted a large part of her energy to the activities of the Drama Club, Weiming Tai Chi Club, and Dance Club.
The first people to notice the changes in Jiang Ning were not Jiang Ning's new roommates, but the teachers whose classes Jiang Ning often attended.
The student who used to be a serious student who never missed a class but was not in their major, suddenly became the last one to enter the classroom and the first one to run out of the classroom. She also did not do her homework as seriously as before. The professor saw that she was always running faster than a rabbit, so he could not help asking her questions during class. After asking the questions, he asked her: "I see that you are not doing your homework as seriously as before recently. Why do you run so fast after class? Is it because a new course attracted you?"
There was a burst of laughter in the classroom, and then the sophomores and juniors all looked at this junior girl who was not studying their major but was more serious in class than they were and never skipped classes.
Jiang Ning was not well-known among the freshmen, but among the sophomores and juniors, many people knew about this junior who audited classes everywhere.
Facing the professor's question, Jiang Ning had a bold smile on her face that she had never had in the past year. She stood up and answered the teacher with a calm smile: "I signed up for several clubs in the new semester and I'm eager to participate in club activities."
Last year's course schedule was really too full, and I had to squeeze out time from these courses to participate in club activities.
Wednesdays and Fridays are for Tai Chi Club, Mondays and Thursdays are for Dance Club, Tuesdays and Saturdays are for Drama Club, leaving Sunday for herself to rest. The activity times of each club are different, but they are basically during the break time after school in the morning and afternoon, usually from five to six, or from twelve to one. She also has to find time to eat, and if she doesn't seize the time, she will miss it.
The professor smiled and forgave her, saying, "That's good. You didn't miss my class because of the club activities."
Jiang Ning also smiled and replied to the teacher: "You still have to see it through to the end." If she only went halfway through the class and then stopped going, then wouldn't her entire year of study last year have been in vain?
When Song Peifeng came back from a month-long military training, he saw Jiang Ning, who was radiant and enjoying the new semester and new club.
Jiang Ning, whose height has exceeded 1.7 meters, has gradually lost the baby fat on her face. She has persisted in exercising for three years, and now has a straight back, a slender and strong figure. Her appearance has gradually taken on the shadow of "Director Jiang" in her previous life, but she has a more unrestrained and free-spirited look that she did not have in her previous life. Her temperament seems to have changed a lot compared to her previous life. She is no longer as serious as before, and it seems that she has returned to her lively self.
In the environment of Kyoto University, she gradually became the appearance of a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old. It was as if she had never experienced puberty in her previous life, but in this life she finally returned to her puberty. She stood in the autumn sun, walking towards him with her arms open. It seemed as if her whole body was covered with a layer of light golden halo, which made him run over impatiently and hugged her tightly in his arms, pressing her against his hot chest.
The originally gentle, handsome, fair-skinned young man was tanned into a short-haired, wheat-colored wolfdog. Every breath he took expressed his longing for her.
Jiang Ning really enjoyed the feeling of being hugged. It seemed that except for when she was carried on her grandfather's shoulders as a child, she had never been hugged like this in her entire life.
She relaxed in his hot embrace, feeling his strong heartbeat, and rubbed his back up and down. She asked him with a lazy smile, "Miss me?"
He was a reserved man, but his ears couldn't help but feel hot. "Yeah."
Jiang Ning felt that the touch under his palm was somewhat pleasant, and couldn't help but touch it up and down again, feeling the texture of his muscles under his T-shirt. When she found that his arms were getting tighter and tighter, and her breath in her ears was hot, she poked him on the waist and said in a doting and indulgent voice: "Someone is watching, let's go home and hug again, okay?"
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