Chapter 4747 [Update 1]
Because the shop was not far away, Jiang Ning saw that there was still time before evening self-study, so she went to the shop with Wang Yong.
The landlord of the shop was nearby. After they shouted a few times at the door, a neighbor who sold egg cakes next door heard them and asked, "Are you here to rent the shop?" He turned around and shouted loudly to the community behind, "Dagui, Dagui, someone is here to see the shop! Qiaoxin, call Dagui!"
The girl who was called Qiao Xin also shouted upstairs: "Uncle Gui! Someone is here to see your store!"
“Here it comes!
Soon a man in his forties ran out from the house at the back. Because he was so close, he didn't even open an umbrella.
As he ran over, he said, "The shop is good, it's all cleaned up, look."
He opened the shop door from the inside and came out. What he saw was clean white walls and white floors, with a few wet footprints on the ground left by the landlord.
The previous tenant of the shop rented it to run a milk tea business. She originally thought that since there were two schools next door to each other and there were many students, the business should be good. However, the two schools had exactly the same practices. The students were both detained in the school and not allowed to come out. The few day students who were left came for morning reading at 6 am and had evening self-study at 9:30 pm. When they got up and opened the shop, there was no one at the door. Only occasionally when the students finished their evening self-study, they would come to buy a cup of milk tea. However, the money she earned was not enough to pay the rent every month.
As the end of the year was approaching and students would be on winter vacation in two months, the school would be even more deserted. The original tenants could no longer do business and simply gave up the lease and returned home.
Her family was also from Wucheng, not far away. The milk tea shop at that time was not decorated like the franchise stores in later generations. The furnishings in her store were very simple, with a wooden bar, a few tables and chairs. The owner called for a pedal tricycle to take the things away, and prepared to find a new store.
The store emptied out quickly.
The landlord had a terrible headache. After he cleared out his shop, no one wanted to rent it. The same was true for the shops next door. Since he couldn't rent out their shops, he opened a small shop selling egg cakes. Fortunately, his egg cakes were quite fragrant. Even students from the next street would occasionally come here to buy some to take home. There were also old neighbors who came to buy. Whatever he could sell was pure profit.
There are also people selling homemade sweet potato rice candy, biscuits and other food nearby. If they can't sell them, they will set up a stall at the gate of No. 1 Middle School Wuzhong. Students will come to buy from them through the big iron gate at noon and evening after school. That's how they do some business.
Because they have been neighbors for many years, they only come to sell in the morning after morning reading and in the afternoon and evening after school. They go back to the store at other times and the security guard will not chase them away.
These salable items have basically been sold by nearby shops. The landlord's wife originally wanted to open a boutique here to sell girls' hair ornaments, hairpins and the like, but she just couldn't sell them. Later, like the surrounding neighbors, she brought in some snacks and other food, but still no one bought them. Later, she simply rented out the shop. Not only does it save time and effort, but she also gets to collect rent every month.
But I didn’t expect that every year the shop would be rented out, but the owner would not rent it out within half a year.
There was someone coming to see the shop, and the landlord hurried over and said something nice: "You can see that there are schools next to the shop, two high schools, and a lot of traffic..."
Jiang Ning smiled, pointed to the street which was a little more popular because of the weekend when students returned to school, and said, "Is this called a large flow of people?"
The landlord said embarrassedly: "It's the students' holiday, wait until the students from No. 1 Middle School and Wuzhong come back, and the popularity will naturally increase!"
Jiang Ning also smiled and said, "I'm just a middle school student. I pass by your door every weekend. This is my brother. He looks for stores nearby every day. He knows everything about your store."
The landlord, who was called Uncle Gui, touched the back of his head awkwardly and praised someone else: "But my store is big. Look at the area. The walls and floors are all covered with floor tiles."
This shop is indeed not small. The storefront is the size of a normal storefront, but it is deep, and there is a small door at the back that leads to the residential area behind. The landlord just came in through this small door.
The total area of the store is about 30 square meters, close to 40 square meters.
"If you rent my shop, you can put a curtain at the back and put a bed inside so that people can sleep inside and sell things outside, saving the rent at night." The landlord led them to the back door and opened the small door at the back door. There was a porch above the small door. "If you cook for yourself, you can also buy a coal stove and put it here. It's not difficult to cook something. But my shop has white walls, so don't put the coal stove inside."
He had already seen that Wang Yong was from another place and thought that Wang Yong wanted to rent a shop.
If it weren't for the fact that both schools here prohibit students from going out, resulting in there being so few people on their street, his shop would really be a good one. A shop as big as his on the next street would cost two or three hundred yuan a month to rent.
Jiang Ning nodded. It was indeed possible to put a bed in the back. He then asked the landlord, "I might want to install some shelves on the wall. Is that ok?"
When the landlord heard that she really wanted to rent the house, he nodded repeatedly: "Sure, sure, do you want me to help?"
Jiang Ning smiled and said, "That couldn't be better."
The landlord happened to be free and was afraid that Jiang Ning would damage the wall of his shop, so he said that if she needed to install any shelves, he would come to help. He also said, "You can also come to me if you want to buy anything. I have a relative who owns a shop in the small commodity market. Tell me what you need and I will ask him to bring it to you."
Wucheng is an ancient town. Most people living in this town know each other, especially in the small commodity market. If you ask your neighbors, you will find that many of them are relatives. If I don’t have something, I can go to your house to get it. If you don’t have something, you can come to my house to buy it. Everyone can make money.
Jiang Ning was originally worried about being unable to leave school, so what should she do with these things? Now that the landlord was willing to help, it couldn't be better. She said she wanted to sell clothes and shoes, install some clothes rods on the wall, and buy two shoe racks to store her shoes.
"That's easy. I'll just connect two poles from this end to that end." The landlord gestured to the walls on both sides. This way, there would be no need to drill many holes in the wall and damage the wall. "I can install it for you, but you have to pay for the poles yourself."
There are also clothes hangers and shoe racks. Thinking that Grandpa Jiang likes to sit on a recliner, I ordered another recliner for him.
These are not expensive. Since the shop owner has a lot of business, he enthusiastically said, "I'll have them deliver them directly to your store when the time comes."
Wang Yong said, "Then I'll call my uncle and ask him to send the goods over."
Jiang Ning said, "Any clothes or shoes suitable for young people will do, and the styles must be this year's winter styles. Tell me how much they cost, and I'll transfer it to him tomorrow."
Uncle Wang Yong has called Wang Yong several times to ask him if he still wants it. His factory just happens to have a batch of down jackets for young people to wear, and it is almost the end of the year, and the factory has already started producing spring models. If this batch of down jackets cannot be sold, they will have to be kept until next year.
"Okay, I'll call my uncle in a minute."
After everything was arranged here, Jiang Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief. He signed the contract, paid three months' rent first, and told the landlord that he hoped the things could be delivered and completed quickly.
The landlord was not vague either. After Jiang Ning left, he quickly rode his bicycle to the small commodity market and told his brother-in-law what he wanted.
Because it was raining, his brother-in-law said he would bring it to him tomorrow morning.
The landlord also hopes that Jiang Ning's business will be better so that he can rent his shop for a longer period of time. Otherwise, he will be tired if he keeps changing tenants and it will take a long time to rent the next one.
Jiang Ning's clothes and shoes were a little wet, so she went back to the dormitory to change clothes. There was no one in the dormitory. Jiang Ning picked up her kettle and filled it with hot water.
She was wearing two coats, one was too big and the other was too small.
During this period, because of the improvement in food and she can eat meat every day, her body has reached a period of growth spurt. She has obviously grown a lot taller and has gained a little weight. She used to wear small jackets, but now they are even tighter on her, so she can only wear school uniforms.
The school uniform is a spring and autumn sportswear. It is already late autumn, and it will be a bit cold to wear the school uniform in a few days.
Thinking about the winter clothes and shoes that Wang Yong's uncle would soon send over, I could just keep two sets at that time, and I also have to prepare two sets for Jiang Bai.
Because Jiang Bo likes playing basketball, his shoes are always broken, so he learned the skill of shoe repair. He bought tire repair glue and repaired his own shoes.
And Grandpa Jiang has been wearing the same cotton-padded jacket for many years.
When Jiang Ning arrived at the classroom, He Xiaofang was still the first to notice her. She waved and greeted her with a bright smile.
Jiang Ning whispered to her: "Did you fetch the water for me?"
He Xiaofang smiled, and Jiang Ning whispered, "Thank you, Xiaofang, it's all thanks to you."
It was raining today, and the people in the water room left early. Jiang Ning went back to take a look, and found that all the doors were closed, including the cafeteria.
Jiang Ning didn't have dinner and was a little hungry. She planned to go to the cafeteria for a midnight snack when there was one.
The midnight snack consists of simple wontons, noodles and dumplings, which are provided until about 9:50 p.m. High school students are in the period of growth and get hungry quickly at night, so midnight snacks are provided, but they have to wait until after 7:30 p.m.
The midterm exam is over, and the atmosphere in the class is not as tense as before the midterm exam. Now that everyone has finished the exam, they have relaxed. The head teacher hasn't arrived yet, so they gathered together and talked in low voices, mostly talking about the midterm exam rankings. They are worried that they didn't do well in the exam, and are also looking forward to whether they can be on the list.
Excluding the 120 students in the key classes, there are 80 students left who can make the list. If they are divided equally, there will be almost ten places in each of the eight parallel classes.
If a class has less than ten students on the list, or even fewer, it will inevitably leave the impression among students in other classes that it is the worst class in the grade, and such an impression will also be detrimental to the teacher's professional title evaluation.
Therefore, both teachers and students attach great importance to this midterm exam score ranking list.
As a result, everyone was a little absent-minded at this time and had no intention of reading. Their eyes kept glancing at the two bulletin boards in front of the teaching building outside the window from time to time. Posted on the bulletin boards were the final grades of the first semester of the second and third years of high school.
Xu Xiuli was concentrating on reading a book, and occasionally she would look back out the window. Seeing Jiang Ning finally coming, she raised her head and smiled at her: "Why did you come so late? The food I brought for you was almost eaten up by them."
Jiang Ning also thought of the snail meat sauce she had stored in the cellar. She had taken a bottle with her when school started, and had never gone back since. She didn't know if the snail meat sauce in the cellar was still edible.
Jiang Ning smiled and touched his stomach: "I haven't had dinner yet, I'm so hungry."
"What are you busy with? Why haven't you had your meal yet?" Xu Xiuli was a little surprised.
She likes to eat chicken, and this time she brought braised chicken with soybeans. "I brought braised chicken with soybeans. I put it in the drawer of the cafeteria table. I'll get it for you."
Jiang Ning held her back, "Don't go. The homeroom teacher will be here soon. I'll go eat wontons after the first evening self-study get out of class."
Thinking of her homeroom teacher, Mr. Wang, who always had a fake smile on her face, Xu Xiuli hesitated for a moment and sat back.
Sure enough, within five minutes, our homeroom teacher, Mr. Wang, walked into the classroom with his signature model steps, looking very excited, and raised his signature lips: "Are you all waiting for the results?" He looked around and said: "Don't worry, the results are out, and someone will post the list soon."
When the classmates saw the head teacher’s reaction, they knew that Class 3 would not do too badly in the exam and they all breathed a sigh of relief.
When the head teacher saw this, his face turned serious, and he even retracted his habitual raised lips. He said, "Some students should not relax too early. Not only will the grades be posted on the bulletin board, but the grade sheet will also be posted in the class."
Such a look and tone made some students in the class who felt they did not perform well in the exam feel terrified, especially He Xiaofang. She was so scared that she did not dare to raise her head, fearing that she would be the last in the class. She was in a bad mood until the end of the first evening self-study get out of class. She didn't even notice Jiang Ning going to the cafeteria for dinner. When she raised her head to look for Jiang Ning, Jiang Ning and Xu Xiuli were gone.
Jiang Ning and Xu Xiuli didn't come back until the second period of evening self-study began. Xu Xiuli held Jiang Ning's arm, and the two of them were talking about something and smiling at each other.
He Xiaofang watched the two people coming in and out together without calling her. She felt excluded by the two of them, which made her sad and wanted to cry.
At this time, someone said, "Is it time to post the midterm results list?"
Hearing the sound, everyone looked out the window.
It was dark at night and no one could see clearly. They only vaguely saw a teacher open the glass door of the bulletin board and post something inside. Everyone could not help but move a little closer to the window based on what they saw, and some people even ran to the corridor to see.
The Chinese teacher, who happened to be occupying their second evening self-study class, saw it and scolded them, "What are you looking at? What are you looking at? Didn't you hear the self-study bell? If you really want to see it, why don't you get better grades? Then you will be on the list!"
The Chinese teacher looked unhappy and had a serious face, holding the test papers under his arm. After entering the classroom, he casually threw the test papers on the table, and then asked the Chinese class representative to distribute the test papers. Then he looked back at the blackboard and found that the class's grade ranking list had not been posted next to the blackboard.
Because he was not the head teacher of Class 3, but only a subject teacher, he did not pay attention to the grades of other subjects, but only cared about the grades of the subject he taught. He said with some dissatisfaction: "I know your head teacher is an English teacher, and you pay more attention to English, but Chinese is also a main subject, and the college entrance examination also has 150 points. Shouldn't you also spend more energy on Chinese?"
This time, the English scores of Class 3 were in the top three in the grade, and the individual scores were also very impressive. However, the Chinese scores of his teacher were not in the top five, and the individual scores were not as outstanding as in the previous monthly exams. This made him very dissatisfied: "It's okay that they can't pass the Chinese exams of Class 1 and Class 2, but why can't they pass the exams of other parallel classes?" He glanced at everyone, and finally his eyes fell on Jiang Ning and paused for a second: "I think it's not that you don't work hard, you just don't take my Chinese seriously!"
After he finished speaking, everyone received their Chinese test papers. Jiang Ning looked at his Chinese score: 116.
Midterm exams are different from weekly and monthly exams. Weekly and monthly exams only test your mastery of the knowledge in the textbooks this week or this month. Midterm exams and final exams are like comprehensive exams. Not only is the difficulty of the questions increased, the scope of the exam is also wider, making it more like a real exam.
Jiang Ning thought that liberal arts were easy and didn't need to be studied, so she focused all her energy on mathematics, physics, and chemistry, which were more difficult for her, and was not so interested in Chinese, politics, and history.
The main reason was that I felt that it was not difficult at all. Once she picked up math, physics, and chemistry, her liberal arts grades would improve simply by studying them. So I was not in a hurry to review these subjects.
As a result, I have been away from school for too many years and I still can't do without review.
Jiang Ning felt that she probably had no hope of making it into the top ten in her grade this time.
After the evening self-study get out of class, many people could not help but run to the bulletin board outside to take a look. Even the drizzle could not resist their enthusiasm for seeing the grade rankings.
He Xiaofang, Xu Xiuli and Jiang Ning did not go.
Jiang Ning didn't care much about the results this time or twice.
Jiang Ning's grades in her previous life were not outstanding, except for the three most important exams in her life. She barely passed the junior high school entrance exam and was admitted to No. 1 Middle School. She was a dark horse in the college entrance exam and was admitted to a well-known 985 high school. She also ranked first in the city in the civil service examination.
It is one thing to not care about the results once or twice, but it is another thing to promise the class teacher that you will work hard to get into the top ten but fail to do it.
While I was thinking, the students who were outside checking their grade rankings came back in the drizzle.
"How's it going?"
Although many students in the class did not look at the list and seemed calm, they were actually very concerned about the midterm exam results.
The student who was checking the results patted his shoulders and the raindrops on his head, and shook his hair, "It's too dark, I can't see clearly, I just looked at the top ten in the grade."
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