Chapter 32 [Two Updates in One]
Jiang Ning knew nothing about his "identity" outside. After finishing the mock exam at the beginning of the semester, the head teacher and teachers of various subjects had a basic understanding and judgment of the approximate grades of the students in the class, which were not much different from the ranking of the high school entrance examination results.
The only exception is Jiang Ning.
After all, this student did very well in Chinese in the high school entrance examination, his science scores were also okay, and his English scores were average. However, in the mock exams at the beginning of the school year, the situation was completely reversed. This was really something that the teachers of various subjects had not expected.
This change... Even if I strengthen my English learning during the summer vacation, I won't forget about all the other subjects, right?
After the mock exam, Jiang Ning continued to find opportunities to start his writing career.
After a week of military training and a few days of getting to know each other, the girls in Dormitory 610 have gotten to know each other. They no longer feel as strange and distant as when they first arrived. Now, when they see Jiang Ning writing furiously, they will curiously put down their books and come over to see what Jiang Ning is writing.
Jiang Ning quickly covered the manuscript and refused to let anyone see it.
She really didn't want anyone to know that she made money by submitting articles. She felt that if a secret was known by one person, the whole school would know about it, and her parents would also know about it.
She didn't want to cause any trouble.
Xu Xiuli's personality is really a bit like Lin Daiyu in Class 87's Dream of the Red Chamber. Seeing that she didn't let her read it, she pouted and snorted, and rolled her big eyes beautifully, "If you don't want to read it, then don't read it, hum." She sat back on the bed, and from time to time she raised her head from above the book with curiosity, "Jiang Ning, what book is that under your butt?"
Sitting on the footbath turned over felt a bit uncomfortable for Jiang Ning, so he put two copies of "Martial Arts" magazines, one he bought and one sent by the magazine company, under his butt.
Jiang Ning pulled out a "Martial Arts" magazine from under his buttocks and handed it to Xu Xiuli: "Do you want to read it?"
Xu Xiuli said in disdain: "Hey~ Who wants to read your book?"
Jiang Ning didn't care and stuffed it back under his butt and continued writing.
Now time is not as tight as during military training. She can probably maintain a pace of 5,000 words a day, writing until the lights go out, and then she goes to wash up and go to bed.
After she went to wash up, several roommates in the dormitory came over curiously to see what book she was using as a cushion.
The truth is that they have too little entertainment. Except for a very few students who have extra money to buy leisure books, the rest of the students basically have no money to buy extracurricular books. Even if they have money, they use it to buy tutorial books, exercise books, pens and the like. At most, they would spend money on buying a collection of college entrance examination essays.
They had already figured out that this was a magazine. They were embarrassed to lend it because it looked like a new book. But Jiang Ning actually used this brand new book as a cushion. What a waste of resources!
Although all the students in No. 1 Middle School are top students from various towns and villages, not all of them are bookworms. Many of them, like Jiang Ning, also like to read Jin Yong and Gu Long.
The girls in Dormitory 610 are naturally no exception. In fact, there are very few nerds who rely solely on studying.
After Jiang Ning came back from washing up, they asked her curiously, "Jiang Ning, have you finished reading the two martial arts books on your bed?"
"I haven't finished reading it yet, what's wrong?"
Hearing Jiang Ning say that she hadn't finished reading, the girl who wanted to borrow the book felt embarrassed, "Nothing, if you have finished reading, can you lend it to me?" She pulled out a copy of Reader from under her pillow, "We can exchange and read it, okay?"
Jiang Ning didn't take the reader she handed over, but directly took out all the magazines under his mattress, such as Reader, Youth Digest, Martial Arts, Yangtze River Literature and Art, Science Fiction World, etc., which he had bought before and planned to submit his works in the right style, and put them on the only desk in the dormitory, "Read it casually, don't throw it away."
After all, she may still need to submit her work.
Now I have signed a contract with the "Wuxia" magazine and am busy writing "The Song Dynasty". I have no time to write anything else. But when I finish this book, or when I want to write another short story in the middle, will I need it again?
Besides, Jiang Ning is a person with a strong desire to express herself. Perhaps she told herself since she was a child not to become a nagging and thankless person like Jiang's mother. She doesn't talk much since she was a child. But not talking does not mean that she has no desire to express herself, but self-control. So how can she vent her desire to express herself?
writing.
She poured all her desire to express herself into her works.
Why does she still insist on writing after working? In fact, it was her desire to express herself that was at work, because her job required her to be silent and keep her mouth shut.
Some people say that writing is the embodiment of your desire to express yourself.
Jiang Ning deeply agreed with this, and she was a person with a strong desire to express herself.
Her strong desire to express herself also means that she has a strong desire to write and endless inspiration.
She may see a flower, a tree, the blue sky, the clear lake, or even read a poem, an article, a story in life, or a person, and all kinds of inspiration will come to her.
After revising her essays, she could submit them for publication, and they were very creative and brought her income.
I have to say, this is a talent.
The girls in the dormitory had never imagined that Jiang Ning had so many books in stock. Many of them got up from their beds and went to the desks to look through them under the dim light in the corridor.
"Jiang Ning, where did you get so many magazines?" They turned and looked at Jiang Ning in amazement.
They are not very interested in "Zhiyin", but they all like to read "Reader" and "Youth Digest".
What Jiang Ning didn't know was that after she left the village, they had sent her sample copies of Readers, Youth Digest, and Zhiyin, and they were now piled up at the brigade headquarters.
Although the people in the brigade didn't know who the letter was from, they would not open it casually. They just piled it in a cardboard box in the corner and no one paid any attention to it.
Maybe in half a year or a year or two, someone will open it and see what's inside.
At this moment, Jiang's mother, who had been depressed for more than half a month because Jiang Song was unwilling to repeat the year, finally remembered that Jiang Ning had been moving bricks at the kiln factory for almost a month and it was time to get her salary.
Naturally, she would not let Jiang Ning get the salary. She cheered herself up and hurried to her sister's house.
It's still very hot in September.
Seeing that her sister was not at home, she hurried to the kiln factory. She had originally wanted her sister to help her collect Jiang Ning's salary. Now she could just go and collect it directly, so that Jiang Ning, a little girl, would not have to waste her salary.
Summer is already hot, and the temperature in the kiln factory is three times hotter than other places. Even though she was wearing an apron and protective sleeves, Wang Ailan was still covered in dirt and brick chips and dust.
She is eight years younger than Jiang Ma. She was raised by Jiang Ma and respected her elder sister very much. When she heard that her elder sister was coming, she wiped the sweat off her face with a towel and said, "Sister, what do you want me for? Didn't you say that Ning Ning would come over to move bricks? Why didn't she come?"
"She didn't come?" Jiang Ma's voice suddenly rose.
"Well, he hasn't come yet. I was thinking of finding a rainy day to ask you about the situation. It hasn't rained these days, and I can't find anyone to bring a message." Wang Ailan and Wang Ailian look completely different. Wang Ailian looks like her mother. Although she is taller and stronger, her facial features are tough and resolute. Wang Ailan looks like her father with a gentle face. They are obviously sisters, but one has a nose as high as a mountain, and the other has a flat nose.
She smeared her face into a cat-like shape and took off her sleeves as she walked. "I'm not prepared for you to come. There's nothing to eat at home. Come on, I'll take you to eat on the street."
The street she was talking about was the street near the township government of their village. It was a four-way intersection with many fruit stalls, noodle stalls, breakfast stalls, etc. It was very lively.
Jiang's mother said disdainfully, "Stop it. I came here after having breakfast. I don't want to eat those things. They are not tasty and expensive." She thought of Jiang Ning's cooking skills and refused, "You go and do your thing. I just came here to see Ning Ning."
"Ningning didn't come!" Aunt Wang Ailan said, "I haven't seen her once until today."
Wang Ailian was so angry that she gritted her teeth and said, "I don't know where this little XX has gone. When I find her, I'll pull all her hair out!" XX is a word similar to the female reproductive organ, but it is not as explicit as a direct insult. It is a common term used by local people to scold their daughters.
Jiang Song's mother had no outlet for her anger at being disobedient and refusing to repeat her studies and running away to Shenzhen Stock Exchange, but now she found a place to vent her anger.
Wang Ailan was puzzled as to why her elder sister was so angry and said, "If Ningning doesn't want to come, then don't come. Why are you so angry? I would rather she not come. How old is she? How can she do the work in the kiln factory? She has studied for so many years. It would be better for her to find a clerical job in the brigade."
Wang Ailan gave birth to a son and a daughter. The son is eight years old and the daughter is five years old. She treats the two children the same. If you say there is no difference, there must be, but she is not too harsh. She is busy moving bricks every day and has no time to take care of the children, so the brother takes care of the younger sister.
Jiang Ma said angrily: "This girl is too bold. I have to beat her. I asked her to work for you, but she didn't come for a single day. She hasn't been at home these days. I don't know where she went to fool around. If she runs away with someone..."
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and the more panicked she became.
The girl has grown up and is about to earn money and get married. If she runs away now, then all the time I have raised her will be wasted, right?
Wang Ailan brushed the dust off her body with her sleeves: "Didn't Ningning say she was admitted to No. 1 Middle School? Did she go to school?"
Mother Jiang was stunned. This was really possible.
She said goodbye to Wang Ailan and hurried home to ask Jiang's father. After getting the definite answer from Jiang's father, she was furious: "She didn't take my words to heart at all and completely turned them into wind around her ears? I asked her to go to work, but she dared to go to school?" As she said that, she wanted to rush to her school to beat her.
Father Jiang said impatiently: "Okay, her tuition has been paid, what's the point of you looking for her now?"
"What's the use? I want her to go back and move bricks! Give me back all the money!" She went to Jiang's father with anger: "Jiang Guoping! Did you use the money to pay her tuition?"
"Where did I get the money? Didn't I give all the money I earned to you?" Father Jiang looked innocent.
"Where did she get the money?"
"I made the money from selling crayfish."
"The tuition fee plus books and miscellaneous fees is more than 700 yuan. She can only earn more than 700 yuan by selling crayfish for ten days at most. You are almost fooling me! If the money is so easy to make, you would sell lobsters every day. Why didn't you bring me more than 700 yuan? Tell me honestly, where did she get the money?" Jiang's mother grabbed Jiang's father by his clothes.
Father Jiang lifted up Mother Jiang's arm and said, "You know the tuition fee is over 300 yuan. She can just use her brothers' books. As for other tuition fees, can't she save some money? At most, she can just give up the school uniform."
The school uniforms issued by the school are extremely cost-effective. There are two sets of sportswear sets for spring and summer. They are wear-resistant and durable, and are rare good clothes for many students born in poor families. They wish they could wear them all year round. And even if they wear them all year round, they will not be worn out after three years until graduation.
Therefore, as long as the family is not extremely poor, they will be willing to buy a set of school uniforms for their children. The uniforms will be passed on from the older sister to the younger brother, and then from the younger brother to the younger sister, and can be passed on as heirlooms.
When Jiang Ning received her school uniform, she specially picked a size 165. When she wore it, it looked like she was wearing a sack. Her roommates laughed at her and asked her why she chose such a large size. Jiang Ning smiled and said, "Don't look at me because I'm short now, but I have a lot of stamina and I will grow fast!"
The girls in the dormitory laughed out loud.
Little did they know that Jiang Ning was telling the truth.
Jiang's mother was so angry that she wanted to go to Jiang Ning School to get the money back, but she was afraid that she would not get the money back and would have to waste two trips.
The round-trip fare from Shuibu Town to Wucheng is at least five yuan!
This does not include the journey from the bus station to No. 1 Middle School. Although it is not too far, it is still a long distance if you have to walk.
Mother Jiang was reluctant to part with the five dollars, and she secretly made up her mind to wait for her mother to come back to see if she would be punished.
Can she stay at school for a day or two and not come back? Or even a month or two? Unless she wants to starve to death!
This was how she controlled Jiang Ning’s food rations in her previous life.
At that time, she didn't know that in order to save travel expenses, Jiang's father took away all her food for an entire semester at once.
Since she had the 200 kilograms of food coupons sent by Jiang's father, Jiang Ning no longer ate salted fish and salted beans every day. She would go out to get vegetables to eat. She knew very well that it was not enough to eat only carbohydrates and salted fish and pickled vegetables. She was in a critical period of growth and development. Inadequate nutrition would not only affect brain development, but also physical development.
Well, Jiang Ning was the beautiful Princess Taiping in her previous life, running so fast.
With money and meal tickets, she was not stingy with food. Sometimes she would order two taels of cauliflower that was shredded but tasted good, sometimes she would order three taels of stir-fried green peppers with dried tofu, sometimes she would order eight taels of braised pork with snow vegetables, and sometimes she would order both the braised pork and cauliflower, and eat the equivalent of one pound of food tickets in one meal.
The braised pork with snow vegetables cooked in the cafeteria is very delicious, without any meat smell. The sour fragrance of the snow vegetables blends into the braised pork, and the soup is mixed with the rice... Jiang Ning can eat a large porcelain bowl of it with rice every time.
Jiang Ning had never eaten such delicious braised pork in her previous life.
As if to make up for the regrets of her previous life, Jiang Ning would go to get braised pork every now and then. She was like two different people compared to the salted beans and salted fish she ate every day when she just started school.
But no one found it strange. In such a hot day, if the food brought from home was not eaten quickly, it would become moldy. Everyone who brought food from home would eat the food they brought first and then eat the food in the cafeteria.
Everyone is very frugal. The most common dish is cauliflower, weighing two taels per spoonful. Those from better-off families eat green pepper and dried tofu. Braised pork is mostly eaten by boys, and there are a few girls who eat braised pork, but they are the most favored ones at home.
No one is like Jiang Ning, who eats braised pork and cauliflower in one meal.
Sometimes when she met Jiang Bai, seeing how shabby he was and only ate salted fish, Jiang Ning would be kind enough to give Jiang Bai two pieces of braised pork, two pieces, just two pieces, no more.
Jiang Bai was very worried. If she continued to eat like this, she wouldn't be able to make it to the end of the semester, and her food coupons would be all gone. He would be even more reluctant to buy food. By then, he could give some to Jiang Ning, so that she wouldn't starve to death.
Jiang Ning's food improved, and he had changed visibly.
First, there was more flesh on her cheeks. Secondly, her breasts, which were originally only slightly protruding, slowly swelled up into small steamed buns. The more obvious feature was that Jiang Ning had her period.
Jiang Ning still remembers the first time she had her period in her previous life. It was also at school. No one taught her about it. She thought she had a terminal illness and was going to die. She was scared and sad. It was her desk mate, the girl who had laughed at her and was three years older than her, who told her what was going on and took her to buy sanitary products.
Jiang Ning didn't even have money to buy sanitary products, so she had to borrow money from her deskmate. She didn't borrow money, but directly lent her sanitary products and told her to put them under her panties.
It was her first time using sanitary products. She didn't know that the tape on the sanitary products should be torn off and stuck on panties. She didn't know when the sanitary products disappeared from her pants. When she went to the bathroom to change them, her pants were empty. She didn't know where they went.
Maybe it fell out of her loose trouser leg, she didn't know.
After all, the pants she wore were those her cousin didn't want. Her cousin was eight years older than her, and she was reluctant to give her the good clothes. She only wore the ones she couldn't wear anymore. If they were too big, she wore the bigger ones, and if they were too small, she wore the smaller ones. The pants were so big and baggy that they fell off without her noticing... Well, that's not normal.
Anyway, it remains a mystery to this day.
Later, when she had no money, she followed her grandfather's example and went out to pick up scraps and sell them on weekends. Although she didn't earn much, she accumulated it bit by bit, and with the money her grandfather gave her, she was finally able to afford sanitary products.
Now experiencing it again, Jiang Ning was very calm. She took the school uniform and tied it around her waist, then went to the canteen to buy sanitary products and panties.
She wasn't even shy. She took the sanitary products and prepared to go upstairs to the dormitory. It was the auntie from the canteen who quickly handed her a black plastic bag. Jiang Ning then realized that the black plastic bag was used to hold sanitary products.
Every little girl who comes to buy sanitary products will do it secretly, wrap them in black plastic bags and hide them in her arms, and rush upstairs shyly, for fear of being seen.
Only Jiang Ning was carrying the bag, looking as calm and generous as if she had bought a notebook.
On Friday, the students who had been locked up for two weeks were finally able to leave school. During the two-day holiday, most of the students chose to go home, either because they had no money, no food, no vegetables, or because they had too many dirty clothes accumulated and had to take them home to have their mothers or sisters wash them.
Xu Xiuli packed her things at noon, and as soon as the bell rang, she immediately ran back to the dormitory. She was as happy as a little deer and couldn't wait to go home.
The other girls in the dormitory also left one after another. Jiang Ning thought they had all left. She was about to continue writing when a dark-skinned girl lying on the upper bunk by the window asked her, "Jiang Ning, aren't you going home?"
Jiang Ning was startled.
Jiang Ning thought everyone in the dormitory had left, "Why didn't you go back?"
The dark-skinned girl turned over and looked at the low ceiling: "Why go back? There's no place for me to stay, I might as well stay in the dormitory."
The girl's name is He Xiaofang, the same Xiaofang as in the song sung during this year's Spring Festival: "There is a girl named Xiaofang in the village. She is pretty and kind..."
Miss Xiaofang lives up to the name of the song. She has thick black hair tied with a rubber band. She was originally dark-skinned, and after a week of military training, she became even darker. Only the white of her eyeballs and teeth are white. Even her thick lips are red with a hint of black.
Xiaofang has a thick lower lip, but it is full in shape, and her facial features are well-proportioned, giving her a kind of honest and healthy beauty.
She turned over on her side, propped herself up with her elbows and asked Jiang Ning, "You haven't told me yet? Why haven't you gone back yet?"
Jiang Ning didn't answer. She looked from the balcony to the pond in the distance on the campus.
She wanted to go back. She wanted to go back to see her grandfather and take him with her.
Thinking of this, she couldn't sit still anymore, so she put on her shoes, got up and walked out.
At that time, Wucheng had not yet been built. Except for the county center commercial street and several stations, the rest of the surrounding areas that would be very prosperous in the future and where housing prices were very high were now deserted. Later, high-speed rail stations were built, and various high-end residential areas were densely populated. At this time, chickens did not lay eggs, birds did not shit, and even mice were too lazy to go there.
After the millennium, her best friend's father heard from somewhere that Wucheng would be upgraded from a county to a city, so he bought 20 acres of land in the suburbs of Wucheng. However, there was no progress in the upgrade from county to city, and her father had run out of money. So he had to find a way to make money and built a house on this land.
He first built a row of bungalows as a restaurant and sold food to workers on surrounding construction sites. Later, when he made money, he built a row of two-story buildings as a hotel. Probably because it was far from Wucheng, the improper relationships in Wucheng made it difficult to rent a room in Wucheng, so they came to his suburbs. Some people booked a room for a month. As he made money, he continued to build rooms and upgraded from a small inn to a hotel.
Later, he built more and more houses and earned more and more money. Originally, he built the houses to wait for demolition, but when Wucheng was really promoted to a city, the land he bought took off directly because it was close to the high-speed rail station and the hotel business was very booming.
Jiang Ning didn't go to the suburbs. She first went to the small commodity market to buy some small vests and underwear, and then walked slowly out along the moat.
Willow trees hang down on both sides of the moat, and the mottled city walls on the side are ancient and weathered, full of traces left by time.
Along the moat and the old city wall, the banks of the river, which are the key tourist economic development zone, are overgrown with reeds and look desolate.
I want to buy a house but there is nowhere to buy one.
The payment for this issue of "Zhiyin" has arrived, four hundred yuan. Now, not counting the change she has on her, she has a total of fifteen hundred yuan in her passbook.
By the 29th of the month, she would have two payments from "Wuxia", one for 40 per thousand words before she signed the contract with "Wuxia", and the other for 55,000 words after she signed the contract, at 120 per thousand words.
Just by calculating these two sums of money, Jiang Ning felt that she was going to get rich!
Stay calm! Stay calm! Pick up grandpa! Pick up grandpa!
I took advantage of the National Day holiday to take my grandfather to a big hospital in Shanghai for a physical check-up.
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