Chapter 123123 [Update 1]
Such banners were only the privilege of Wuzhong in the past, but this time it is finally the turn of No. 1 Middle School. Principal Sun wishes he could surround the entire No. 1 Middle School with such banners so that all passers-by and people in Wucheng can see such banners, and let everyone in the city know that No. 1 Middle School has achieved such good results in the provincial competition.
If possible, he would like to ride a tricycle, take an electric loudspeaker, and shout around Wucheng.
The banner was pulled by the director of the Political and Educational Department, the director of the Academic Affairs Department, and the security guard, who were holding the escalator. When they were pulling the banner, people from Wuzhong on the opposite side also came out to pull a banner.
Seeing Director Wang across the street, the director of the Political Education Department smiled and greeted Director Wang across the street: "Director Wang is here to hold a banner? Congratulations, you won the first prize in the provincial competition this time."
There are ten first prize winners, one each from Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School.
Director Wang snorted inwardly, but came over with a smile on his face to say hello: "Congratulations, your No. 1 Middle School also won the first prize."
In fact, there was no joy in his words.
Originally, our school won the first prize in the province, which was a very happy thing. But unexpectedly, No. 1 Middle School also won the first prize. This time, we were completely tied with them in the competition.
But a tie with No. 1 Middle School means a loss for Wuzhong.
Teacher Wang, who has been promoted to deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office, also said with a smile: "It's still a provincial competition now. It would be great if we can win a prize in the national competition next."
Not only Teacher Wang, but even the teachers and directors of Wuzhong across the street had never dared to think about this idea.
They originally thought that winning a prize in the provincial competition would be the best, and as for winning first, second or third prize, just winning a prize would be fine.
Unexpectedly, they won the first prize that they had been looking forward to the most.
Before they could be happy, they heard that the No. 1 Middle School across the street also won the first prize. Director Wang was very depressed. Even the fact that his own school won the first prize did not make him so happy.
However, fortunately, Wuzhong also won the first prize, otherwise, wouldn’t they be overshadowed by No. 1 Middle School? That's even more incredible.
The students didn't know about this at first. After the morning reading class was over, the students went to the cafeteria to eat. Some of them went through the iron gate to buy breakfast at the school gate. When they saw the banner on the gate of Wuzhong across the street, they knew that Wuzhong had won the first prize again. This was very common in Wuzhong. No one from No. 1 Middle School talked about it. But after seeing the banner at the gate of No. 1 Middle School, the people from Wuzhong went back to school and told the school: "Did you see it? No. 1 Middle School won the first prize in the provincial competition this time."
"Who is it? So powerful?"
"It must be Jiang Ning."
Although they guessed this way, they were not sure whether it was Jiang Ning. However, Ruan Hong soon told them that their guess was correct: "If someone from No. 1 Middle School won the first prize in the provincial competition, it must be Jiang Ning."
When they were in the training team, they also had exams. Jiang Ning took every exam with Song Peifeng, ranking first or second. If anyone got first prize, it could only be her.
Jiang Hehua didn't know Jiang Ning won the provincial first prize, but after hearing Ruan Hong's words, she saw the gatehouse of No. 1 Middle School opposite the school from the school gate when she was leaving school, and heard everyone talking about the fact that No. 1 Middle School's competition results had also improved. Somehow, she suddenly said, "When I saw Jiang Ning winning the award, I suddenly thought of something that happened in our village during the summer vacation."
People in Wuzhong were not familiar with Jiang Ning, but because she had defeated Song Peifeng in the joint entrance examination before, and this time, like Song Peifeng, she won the first prize in the provincial competition, which made her very famous. Everyone was very curious about her and asked her what was going on.
Jiang Hehua hesitated for a moment and said, "A few policemen came to our village during the summer vacation, looking for a girl..." She bit her lip, as if she didn't know what to say, "This girl works in that kind of place." She winked at them with a conflicted expression: "That place... you know what I mean, right? It's for..."
She muted the word "chicken" and said it with her lips instead.
Several girls didn't expect to hear such explosive gossip, but they were also confused: "What does this have to do with Jiang Ning? Jiang Ning is training with our school team during the summer vacation!" She speculated in disbelief: "Oh my God, that girl who did... that outside, couldn't she be Jiang Ning's sister?"
Jiang Hehua shook her head and said, "No." When she wasn't smiling, her face looked a little serious. "The police would suddenly come to her house because someone reported that she was trafficking people~~that." She said, "It was only when the police came to our village that I found out that the first person she trafficked was..." She pointed with her eyes at the name on the gate of No. 1 Middle School opposite the school.
The girls who came out with her never expected that they would hear such shocking gossip just when they came to the school gate to look at the banner of No. 1 Middle School opposite.
She simply couldn't believe that such a thing was true, and asked Jiang Hehua again for confirmation: "Isn't it possible? You can't just say something like that. When did it happen?"
"It happened last summer vacation. If the police hadn't come to our village to investigate the matter this year, I wouldn't have known about it." Jiang Hehua said with a serious face.
Her face was too serious and her tone was too firm, so firm that no one took what she said as a joke.
In particular, this conversation took place at the school gate. There were more than just the two of them at the gate, and many curious people were listening with their ears pricked up.
Soon, a rumor spread privately on the Wuzhong campus.
Jiang Ning found out about the school hanging a banner at the school gate at noon. The first thing she did when she found out about it was to run to the store and pull Grandpa Jiang to see it: "Grandpa, go and see it!"
Grandpa Jiang was pulled up from the rocking chair by Jiang Ning without knowing what was going on. "What are you looking at?"
"You'll know if you follow me. I'll give you a surprise!"
Grandpa Jiang was smiling, not knowing what surprise his granddaughter would give him. To his own mind, he had already received enough surprises, including shocks, from his granddaughter, and he didn't know what other surprises there might be.
Jiang Ning took Grandpa Jiang to the gate of No. 1 Middle School and pointed at the banner on the gate tower. She read to Grandpa Jiang word by word: "Congratulations to our student Jiang Ning for winning the first prize in the provincial mathematics competition!" She said to Grandpa Jiang with great pride: "Grandpa, did you see that? That's me. I won the first prize in the provincial competition. Are you surprised?"
Grandpa Jiang had attended a literacy class. Although he didn't know all the characters and his handwriting was patchy and only he could understand it, he knew some common characters.
When he heard his granddaughter reading, he was stunned at first, then he looked at the banner and read it again and again following what Jiang Ning had just read. He looked at the banner hanging on the school gate building with a smile, and he felt relaxed all over as if he had drunk nectar.
Jiang Ning still felt it was not enough and said, "Grandpa, wait here for me. I'll go borrow a camera and take a picture of you and the main gate of our No. 1 Middle School, okay?"
Grandpa Jiang said, "Why take pictures? Taking pictures is so expensive!"
But he stood at the school gate with an honest body and even straightened his crooked collar.
The military training has just ended, and just like last year, there was a peak period for taking photos after the training. Countless students and instructors took photos together. In the photo shop next to the school gate, there was a thick stack of photos waiting for students to pick up.
The people taking photos inside thought Jiang Ning came to get the photos, so they pointed at a pile of photos at the door and said, "The photos are all there, find them yourself."
"I'm not here to get photos. My grandfather and I want to take some photos, and I want you to help me take a photo."
The person taking the photo was a tall bald man in his forties. He quickly went in and took out a black camera and asked her, "Where are you taking the photo?"
“Right at the school gate!”
Jiang Ning quickly came over with the photographer, pointed at the banner on the school gate and said, "Take a photo of my grandfather with the banner."
The photographer understood immediately after seeing the banner and said with a smile, "Jiang Ning, that's you, right? You're a good girl, you've brought honor to our No. 1 Middle School."
Jiang Ning smiled, not feeling embarrassed at all.
The photographer first took a solo photo of Grandpa Jiang, then Jiang Ning went over and took Grandpa Jiang's arm, leaned her head on Grandpa Jiang's arm, and took a group photo. Jiang Ning also took a solo photo of herself with the banner.
After taking three photos, Grandpa Jiang felt sorry for the money and said, "Okay, okay, let's stop taking photos. You should go back to school." As he said that, he put his hands behind his back and walked towards the store happily. Just by looking at his back, you could tell how happy this old man was.
Jiang Ning looked at Grandpa Jiang's back. In her previous life, she had countless glories that she wanted to share with others, but at that time, the people she wanted to share with were no longer there.
Today, grandpa is still alive.
Grandpa Jiang walked slowly to the door of the shop and saw the proprietress of the egg cake shop next door setting up a stall at the door. He greeted her for the rare occasion: "Are you weighing the egg cakes?"
The lady boss of the egg cake shop saw Grandpa Jiang, who always stayed in the shop, walking back from No. 1 Middle School and asked him with a smile, "Where are you from, old man?"
Grandpa Jiang couldn't help but smile and said, "My eldest granddaughter participated in a provincial competition and won first prize. She put up a banner at the school gate and asked me to go and see it!"
The lady boss of the egg cake shop also smiled and widened her eyes when she heard this. She pointed at the banner on the opposite Wuzhong gate and said with a smile: "Is that it? Your granddaughter is really good. She won the first prize. She is amazing!"
The lady boss said as she used a pair of tongs to pick up a few egg cakes and handed them to Grandpa Jiang: "They are fresh out of the oven. Have some, old man."
Grandpa Jiang waved his hand and said, "No, no."
The lady boss got up and walked him to Grandpa Jiang's shop, then came out and said with a smile, "You are so polite, old man!"
Jiang Ning made an appointment with the photographer to develop and laminate the photos, paid the money, and went back to school.
When she came out in the evening, everyone on the street knew that she had won first prize in the provincial competition. Every vendor on the street would smile and say hello to her, "What a great girl!"
"You won the provincial first prize, right? Your grandfather must be very happy!"
"Congratulations, little girl!"
Someone even gave her some fruit biscuits, but Jiang Ning refused with a smile. Then she carried the food she had ordered back to Grandpa Jiang's shop.
With Grandpa Jiang's secret boasting, the whole street, including every customer who came to the store to buy clothes, knew that Jiang Ning won the first prize in the provincial competition!
During the time when Jiang Ning went to the city for training, she was unable to deliver meals to Grandpa Jiang, so she ordered meals from a small restaurant opposite the school and had them deliver meals to Grandpa Jiang at a fixed time and place every day.
There isn't much else near the school, but there are a lot of food stalls.
Grandpa Jiang cooked for himself because he thought it was too much trouble, and he always finished all the food sent by the neighbors.
He couldn't bear to waste food.
Jiang Ning knew Grandpa Jiang very well. She knew what made Grandpa happiest, which was the glory they achieved time and time again.
For example, in her previous life, every time she went home, she would use her scholarship to buy Grandpa Jiang all kinds of elderly milk powder and soy milk that she believed were good for the body. Even though Grandpa Jiang didn't like to drink them, it was bought with his eldest granddaughter's scholarship. He couldn't get used to the taste of soy milk, but he still drank it happily every day.
Teacher Wang was also very happy about winning the first prize in the provincial competition. Teacher Ji had told him before that Jiang Ning was a promising candidate in competition and asked her to concentrate on the competition route. At that time, he was not happy about it and felt that it was unreliable. Although he did not say it explicitly, he urged Jiang Ning to focus on studying the textbooks. Unexpectedly, Jiang Ning was really a promising candidate in competition as Teacher Ji said and achieved such good results in the competition.
Previously, when she was giving out scholarships at the freshman opening ceremony after the training and military training, Jiang Ning and Xing Hongyu were not there, so the scholarships given out were second-class scholarships, third-class scholarships and excellent scholarships.
Jiang Ningrong won such a great honor for No. 1 Middle School this time. Principal Sun decided to hold a scholarship ceremony for Jiang Ning and Xing Hongyu separately during the break.
The weekly flag-raising ceremony at No. 1 Middle School is on Mondays. The only exception is National Day.
But for Jiang Ning, Principal Sun specially held a flag-raising ceremony on a non-Monday day. After the flag-raising ceremony, Director Xiao Wang came forward with a microphone and said to all the students in No. 1 Middle School: "I believe everyone knows that Jiang Ning from our school won the first prize in the provincial competition of the Olympic competition this year. Here, let us congratulate Jiang Ning with warm applause!"
There was thunderous applause from below.
The sophomores and juniors were no strangers to Jiang Ning, but the freshmen who had just entered the first grade still didn't know this top student from the previous class. There were also local students from Wucheng who had seen Jiang Ning during the previous Qingming Festival, but most of them were from junior high schools in the towns below and didn't know this person. They all curiously looked towards the sophomores.
Director Wang continued with a smile and said, "The new students may not know it yet, but the old students should all know that Jiang Ning not only won the first prize in the provincial competition for our No. 1 Middle School, she is also the winner of the first-class scholarship of the 95th class of the No. 1 Middle School. Jiang Ning not only ranked first in the county in the joint examination of Wucheng last year, but also won the first place in the grade in the two mid-term and final exams. In addition to her, there is another student Xing Hongyu who won the third-class scholarship of our school. Because they were participating in training in the city, they missed the scholarship awarding ceremony at our opening ceremony. Now let us invite Jiang Ning and Xing Hongyu to the stage with applause to receive their scholarships. Please invite Principal Sun to the stage to present the scholarships to the two!"
At this time, the backstage responsible for playing the radio gymnastics music every day also played magnificent music that was particularly appropriate for the occasion.
Originally, Xing Hongyu felt that he and Jiang Ning were destined to be together. Before, he and Jiang Ning were the only two people from No. 1 Middle School in the city training team. Now, he and Jiang Ning were the only ones going on stage to receive scholarships. He couldn't help but secretly glance at Jiang Ning and trotted up to the stage with a red face.
The so-called podium is actually a flag-raising platform. On the rectangular platform, there is a circular concrete platform with three steps.
In order to motivate the students and encourage them to achieve good results in the competition, Director Wang continued to introduce: "In fact, not only do we have scholarships for good grades in school, but we also have scholarships for good results in competitions. Regardless of whether you get a good score or not, as long as you enter the city competition, you will get a reward. Entering the provincial competition, it goes without saying that there will definitely be rewards. Please invite Principal Sun to present the awards to Xing Hongyu and Jiang Ning."
Then Director Wang revealed that Xing Hongyu received a scholarship of 650 yuan and Jiang Ning received a scholarship of 2,150 yuan.
As soon as the amount of the scholarship was revealed, the students in the audience exclaimed in surprise.
At the beginning of the school year, when the first-class scholarship for students entering the third year of high school was one thousand yuan, they already thought it was a lot. They did not expect that Jiang Ning would get a scholarship of more than two thousand yuan at once.
Two thousand yuan at this time is a lot!
At this time, many of the freshmen in the first year of high school also want to sign up for the competition class. Didn’t you hear what Director Wang said? Regardless of whether you get the results or not, as long as you enter the city competition, you will get a scholarship!
In her previous life, Jiang Ning only received a scholarship of 150 yuan for excellence in a parallel class once when she was in her senior year of high school. Apart from this time, she never received any scholarships during her other high school years. However, she often received scholarships in college.
Even though her current royalties are enough to support her buying a villa, she is still very happy to receive so many scholarships.
He Xiaofang and Xu Xiuli were also very happy.
As soon as the break was over, He Xiaofang ran to Class 3 and spun around with Jiang Ning in her arms: "Ning Ning, you're so awesome!"
Liu Ping clapped her hands and cheered, "Treat! Treat! Treat!"
Jiang Ning was not stingy. At noon, he treated everyone in the class to a serving of braised pork, which made the students in Class 3 very happy.
After the division of arts and sciences, the current Class 3 is a reorganized Class 3. Many students in the original class were assigned to the arts class. Jiang Ning had just returned from the provincial competition, and she didn't know half of the students in the class. She originally thought that Jiang Ning's treat was only for the original students in Class 3, but she didn't expect Jiang Ning to be so generous as to treat them all.
A serving of braised pork cost eight taels of food coupons. There were sixty students in the class, plus He Xiaofang, Wang Xia and other roommates who were now assigned to the liberal arts class. Jiang Ning spent more than fifty kilograms of food coupons on a single dinner.
Fifty kilograms of food coupons are enough for them to eat in the canteen for a month.
The students in the class who were not familiar with Jiang Ning did not expect that Jiang Ning would treat them to braised pork when he came back, which made them feel close to this unfamiliar classmate all of a sudden.
After Jiang Ning received the scholarship, he treated everyone to braised pork, then carried his rice bowl and ran straight to Grandpa Jiang's store. He proudly stuffed two red envelopes into Grandpa Jiang's hands, like a proud little peacock, and said with his chin raised: "Grandpa, this is the scholarship the school gave me this year, all of it is for you!"
She exaggeratedly described today's flag-raising ceremony to Grandpa Jiang: "We only have a flag-raising ceremony on Mondays every week. The school specially held a flag-raising ceremony today for me! I was awarded the award in front of many people. It was Principal Sun who personally awarded me the award! Here, this is the certificate."
The award certificate from No. 1 Middle School is no longer a golden one like the ones from middle schools, but a certificate with a red seal on the outside. This is the award certificate she received for being named a city-level three-good student, and it was given to her today.
She opened the certificate of the city's three good students and showed it to Grandpa Jiang happily. She pointed to the two red envelopes on Grandpa Jiang's legs and said proudly, "This is the first-class scholarship I got for getting the first place in the grade in the school exam, 1,000 yuan. This is the 1,000 yuan I got for winning the first prize in the provincial competition representing No. 1 Middle School. This is an extra 150 yuan for entering the city and provincial competitions. All of them are my scholarships. Isn't it amazing?"
She was like a little child who was eager to get praise from her parents, sharing the glory she had achieved in school with Grandpa Jiang just like her.
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