Treasure
After getting the library card, Jiang Zhizhi spent the whole day in the library, but she did not rush to read books. Instead, she walked around the entire library first and got a comprehensive understanding of the systematic pricing of each type of book.
She found that books on mathematics, physics, biology, cosmology, astronomy, etc. had the highest value, and their reading value was generally at the S level. The next highest value was history and biography, and finally sociology, poetry, novels, etc. Of course, this does not mean that the reading value of novels must be low. For example, "The Gadfly" and "Robinson Crusoe" that she had read before were also at the S level.
"Why do you say that? If I aspire to be a chef in the future, then recipes should be the most valuable thing for me to read. What's the use of mathematics and physics?" She murmured to the system.
The gentle voice, as if waking from a deep sleep, sounded slightly lazy. "The essence of the world lies in supreme laws. These laws have a crucial impact on everyone. Even if humans learn to break through even the smallest of them, the changes it brings to you, and even to society as a whole, will be enormous. The system determines the value it brings to you from a more macro perspective."
"Maybe these are things that I will never be able to touch in my lifetime." Jiang Zhizhi placed her hand on a book called "History of Physics".
The system voice sounded.
"Beep—The system detects that the book the host is touching is 'History of Physics'. Its reading value is S-level. If you read this book for the first time, you will receive a bonus of 500 yuan."
After a long silence, that gentle voice rang in Jiang Zhizhi's ears again, "Don't you really want to get in touch with it? Understand the nature of the world, understand the vastness of the universe, and live a different life again. Don't you really want to?"
Jiang Zhizhi was stunned for a moment. It seemed that this voice was not from the system, but from her heart.
After curing her mother's illness, she no longer had any worries.
With the system in place, she doesn't have to worry about money. So, why not?
Live a different life. After all, she has earned it by being reborn.
*
The next day, Jiang Zhizhi met Xu Jiaojiao as she walked out of the village with her schoolbag on her back.
"Zhizhi!" Xu Jiaojiao ran over and carelessly put her arm around her shoulders. "I finally caught you. Have you been avoiding me these days?"
"No, I'm just busy." Xu Jiaojiao's closeness made Jiang Zhizhi uncomfortable. She turned to the left and avoided Xu Jiaojiao's arm.
Xu Jiaojiao noticed Jiang Zhizhi's actions and looked a little unhappy, but she didn't get angry. She asked in a cold tone, "The scores for yesterday's mock exam are out. Guess how much you got?"
"I don't know, but it should be okay."
She felt quite smooth when doing the questions, especially the math questions. The elementary school math questions were still too simple for her, who had only attended junior high school.
"Haha." Xu Jiaojiao laughed a little strangely, and her tone was a bit sharp. "You got first place in the class! Even Xu Qingbo couldn't beat you."
Jiang Zhizhi was stunned for a moment, then her expression returned to normal.
Xu Jiaojiao came over again, "Zhizhi, tell me honestly, did you cheat? Even if you studied really hard these days, you couldn't possibly have outperformed Xu Qingbo and Lin Qingyu. How did you do it?"
"I didn't cheat." Jiang Zhizhi said.
Xu Jiaojiao deliberately turned cold, "Okay, you even hid it from me, you really don't treat me as your own, it's a waste of our good relationship."
Jiang Zhizhi stopped and looked at the girl in front of her with cold eyes. "Since we have such a good relationship, why do you doubt me? Don't you know who I am?"
Jiang Zhizhi's direct and cold questioning made Xu Jiaojiao even more embarrassed. She angrily said, "Isn't it just cheating to get first place in the class? Why are you so arrogant in front of me? You're sick!"
She spat at Jiang Zhizhi, picked up her backpack and walked away quickly.
Jiang Zhizhi didn't care about Xu Jiaojiao's falling out. She already knew what kind of person Xu Jiaojiao was. Even if they didn't fall out today, they would eventually fall out in the future.
However, Jiang Zhizhi was indeed surprised to get the first place in the class.
But think about it, for someone who only attended the second grade of junior high school, it is not too much for her to be the first in the class in the sixth grade.
In her previous life, she was admitted to No. 1 Middle School at the bottom of the class, but ended up in an ordinary class. In this life, she wants to be admitted to a key class.
Although Wednesday was just a small simulation, Jiang Zhizhi wanted to know what her current level was, so she did not hide her shortcomings.
As soon as she entered the classroom, Jiang Zhizhi felt that everyone's eyes were looking at her. There was suspicion, sneer, and disgust in their eyes, but almost no one believed her.
But Jiang Zhizhi didn't care. A person with a clear conscience has nothing to fear. Time will prove everything.
She returned to her seat and found three test papers on the table.
She looked through all three test papers, took out a notebook of wrong answers from her schoolbag, and copied down the wrong questions.
"Jiang Zhizhi, the head teacher wants you to come over."
She raised her head and saw that it was the class monitor Lin Qingyu.
"Okay." Jiang Zhizhi put down her pen and went to the head teacher's office.
The head teacher, Xu Haiyan, is a Chinese teacher. She is a middle-aged woman in her forties, a little fat, and she always has a stern and serious face.
But today, she was very friendly to Jiang Zhizhi, "Zhizhi, come here."
Jiang Zhizhi knew that this was a case of using courtesy before force, and that was what adults were used to.
She walked over and said, "Teacher."
Xu Haiyan handed Jiang Zhizhi a test paper and said, "You don't have to attend the two classes this morning. Just do this math paper."
Xu Haiyan did not question Jiang Zhizhi whether she cheated in the exam, but directly tested her with a math test paper.
Mathematics is the most difficult subject to be evasive; wrong is wrong, and right is right.
If Jiang Zhizhi could really get more than 90 points on this math test, the teachers would naturally believe that she did not cheat in this mock exam.
Jiang Zhizhi took the test paper, and when she heard that "the practice is worth 100 yuan", her heart was filled with joy.
I made a hundred dollars for nothing.
"Okay, teacher." She took the test paper and went to do the questions very quickly.
Xu Haiyan also thoughtfully prepared a pen and draft paper for her.
Jiang Zhizhi handed in the paper in just one class period. Xu Haiyan asked her to go back to the classroom and turned around to give the paper to the math teacher Wang Hao.
English teacher Liao Juan was also here. After a while, Wang Hao finished grading the papers and got 98 points.
The three teachers looked at each other for a while, and Xu Haiyan said, "It seems that Jiang Zhizhi really passed the exam based on her own ability."
Wang Hao said, "She has been very serious in math class recently, and the workbooks she hands in are usually all correct."
Liao Juan nodded. "Jiang Zhizhi has hardly missed any dictation classes in English lately, and she listens very attentively in class."
Hearing the two of them say this, Xu Haiyan felt a little uncomfortable. Why didn't Jiang Zhizhi listen carefully in her class?
But even though she didn't listen carefully in class, she was still among the top three in Chinese in the class.
Especially this composition, it was so beautifully written that she even thought it was written by Lin Qingyu.
*
During the third Chinese class, as soon as Xu Haiyan entered the classroom, a boy in the back row took advantage of the chaos and started shouting, "Teacher, Jiang Zhizhi cheated."
This sentence seemed to ignite gunpowder, and the classroom suddenly became chaotic.
Xu Haiyan glanced at Jiang Zhizhi. She was sitting quietly, taking notes. She looked calm and composed, as if all this had nothing to do with her.
Xu Haiyan felt suspicious. Why hadn't she noticed before that Jiang Zhizhi was so calm?
If she didn't believe in science, she would have really wondered if Jiang Zhizhi had been possessed by another spirit.
"Silence." She slapped the blackboard brush and said solemnly, "The teachers have confirmed that Jiang Zhizhi did not cheat. She has been studying hard recently, which is why she has made such great progress. Everyone should learn from Jiang Zhizhi."
The class suddenly became as quiet as a chicken.
They all couldn't believe that Jiang Zhizhi could make such great progress in such a short period of time. It was simply impossible.
But there is no need for the teacher to favor Jiang Zhizhi.
Xu Haiyan started the class without further explanation. Many students in the audience still had doubts about Jiang Zhizhi, but they just grumbled in their hearts and no one said it out loud.
At noon, Jiang Zhizhi took two pancakes from her schoolbag and ate them while reading a book.
A little before one o'clock, Xu Qingbo arrived at the classroom early, took out three books from his bag and placed them on Jiang Zhizhi's desk.
"If you don't have enough extracurricular books in the future, come to me. I have a lot of books at home." Xu Qingbo didn't score better than Jiang Zhizhi, and a hint of resignation appeared on his face. He gritted his teeth and said, "Let's compete again during the midterm exam next week!"
"Compare?" Jiang Zhizhi didn't understand for a moment.
Xu Qingbo said: "Next time I will definitely test you better!"
Jiang Zhizhi smiled suddenly and said, "Let's work hard together."
She knew in her heart that she was not as smart as Xu Qingbo. The reason she was able to get first place in the exam was only because she had studied junior high school courses and had a more thorough understanding of elementary school questions.
When she reaches junior high school, she will have to rely on her own hard work, so she must take this opportunity to lay a solid foundation.
*
Jiang Zhizhi walked home along the railway line next to Lujiang Village, calculating the one million yuan she needed to buy medicine for Cheng Yuping.
As they were walking, Xu Jiaojiao suddenly ran over from the opposite direction, panting and shouting, "Jiang Zhizhi, something happened at your house! Your dad is beating your mom, and he even brought people to move your things."
Although the two had just had a falling out this morning, when Xu Jiaojiao saw the commotion at Jiang Zhizhi's house, she hesitated for a moment and decided to run over to tell her.
When Jiang Zhizhi heard this, she hurried home.
The wind chilled her whole body, and she knew this day would come...
Jiang Guozhong and Feng Mei have never been easy to deal with.
At dusk, the sky was blood red.
Jiang Zhizhi ran to the landlord's door and saw a large group of people crowded in the yard. Jiang Guozhong, who had been recuperating for more than a week, was now beating Cheng Yuping by the hair in the yard.
"Okay, okay, stop fighting."
"Why can't the couple talk it out peacefully? Why are they fighting?"
"Look at this commotion, no one is at peace."
“…”
Some people tried to reconcile, some tried to separate the two, and some just watched from the side.
Jiang Zhizhi saw Feng Mei in the crowd. Feng Mei was standing on an iron rack watching the show, her expression full of pride and sarcasm.
Looking at the woman's expression, Jiang Zhizhi couldn't understand how a woman could feel pleasure because a man beat another woman?
Moreover, this man will be her husband in the future. Wouldn’t she feel scared?
Jiang Zhizhi didn't understand this woman and even hated her.
Jiang Guozhong was about to attack Cheng Yuping again, but Jiang Zhizhi took advantage of the chaos and pushed down the iron frame, which was not stable to begin with.
"Ouch!"
Feng Mei fell down with the iron frame. A sharp stone scratched her face and she screamed immediately.
The sound of the iron frame crashing down and Feng Mei's screams interrupted Jiang Guozhong's violent bullying of Cheng Yuping.
Before the people around could figure out what was going on, Jiang Zhizhi had already hidden in the crowd.
"Guozhong, Guozhong, come and save me..." Feng Mei was pressed under the iron frame, unable to move due to the pain. Several wounds were burning with pain, and she couldn't help but scream.
Everyone looked at Feng Mei, but Feng Mei was not popular in the village, so no one came forward to help her.
Jiang Guozhong had no choice but to go over, lift the iron rack, and let Feng Mei get up from under it.
Just as everyone was looking at Jiang Guozhong and Feng Mei, Jiang Zhizhi had already walked through the crowd and came to Cheng Yuping's side.
She deliberately raised her voice so that everyone present could hear, "Dad, my mom has already agreed to divorce you and let you be with Aunt Feng. My mom and I won't be a burden to you, so why are you still hitting my mom? I gave you all my mom's money. We can't even come up with next month's rent, and you still come here to move our things. Can't you leave us a way out?"
As Jiang Zhizhi spoke, her voice choked with sobs and tears fell from her eyes.
As soon as these words were spoken, there was an uproar all around.
They looked at Jiang Guozhong and Feng Mei in shock. These two people were actually together?
Feng Mei was indeed quite pretty, but everyone in the village knew what kind of person she was and kept their distance from her.
Jiang Guozhong has a wife and a daughter, yet he is with her.
No one suspected that Jiang Zhizhi was lying. After all, Cheng Yuping had indeed mentioned to the landlord in the past few days that she would not renew the lease here. Everyone in the neighborhood knew about it.
Now we know the reason. It turns out that all the money in the family was taken away by Jiang Guozhong, and the mother and daughter didn't even have money to rent a house.
Looking at Jiang Zhizhi's thin figure crying bitterly, the people around her couldn't bear it anymore.
Old Zhao, the neighbor and tenant who had been trying to mediate, stood up and said, "Guozhong, this is your fault. Yuping hasn't done anything to offend you over the years, has she? Every day she cleans the house tidy and prepares hot meals for you to eat when you come back? Even if you are determined not to want them anymore, you can't leave them with no money at all, right? I thought you came here to move your things to your new rental today, but I didn't expect you to take them away yourself!"
"She's bullshit!" Jiang Guozhong was furious. "I never took their money! That little bastard stabbed me the other day and threw feces all over me. How can you believe what she says?"
Jiang Zhizhi cried and said, "I didn't mean to do that. He was trying to chop my mom with a knife, and I just wanted to stop him..."
"Damn it, you bitch, you're full of lies!" Jiang Guozhong was so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick. He ran over and was about to kick Jiang Zhizhi.
But before he could touch Jiang Zhizhi, he was pulled back by the people around him.
"Alright, alright, take Feng Mei to the hospital. She looks like she fell pretty badly."
Feng Mei was in so much pain that she couldn't even stand up. She kept groaning, especially on her face, where there was a deep cut and blood kept flowing out. It looked very scary.
Jiang Guozhong also saw that Feng Mei had fallen badly and she was screaming miserably, making everyone uneasy and both sides were in chaos.
A group of people pulled and tugged, and finally pushed Jiang Guozhong and Feng Mei out.
Several women helped Cheng Yuping up and comforted her in a low voice.
But Cheng Yuping couldn't listen. She stared at her daughter blankly, feeling a little strange in a trance.
Everyone believed Jiang Zhizhi, but she knew she was lying.
He was clearly lying, but his words sounded so sincere that even Cheng Yuping began to doubt whether her memory was wrong.
"Mom, are you okay?" Jiang Zhizhi walked to Cheng Yuping. Cheng Yuping's lips were broken and the corners of her lips were red. When she was beaten and fell on the flower bed, her palm was also scratched.
Jiang Zhizhi held Cheng Yuping's hand in her arms, tears still wet on her face. She choked and said, "Mom, when will this life end?"
When the people around heard Jiang Zhizhi's words, they couldn't help but feel sorry for the mother and daughter and sighed secretly.
But after all, this is someone else's family affair, and they can't interfere.
"Yuping, let's go back to the house first." An aunt next door helped Cheng Yuping upstairs.
Jiang Zhizhi also followed him back into the house.
Everyone comforted them, and a few men helped move the half-moved furniture back, and then everyone went their separate ways.
Only the mother and daughter were left.
"Zhizhi, come here." Cheng Yuping asked Jiang Zhizhi to sit next to her.
Jiang Zhizhi walked over and admitted her mistake very straightforwardly, "Mom, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have lied just now."
"It's wrong for you to lie. Don't do that again."
"Yeah." Jiang Zhizhi nodded honestly.
Cheng Yuping took Jiang Zhizhi's hand and asked her to sit down beside her. "Zhizhi, Mom wants to ask you something..."
"Ask."
"Did...did something happen to you?" Cheng Yuping asked uncertainly.
Jiang Zhizhi met her eyes and asked, "Mom, why are you asking?"
"You've been acting strangely lately. I can't tell whether this is good or bad, but I'm just worried about you." Cheng Yuping felt uneasy.
Jiang Zhizhi pondered for a moment, then gently held Cheng Yuping's hand. "Mom, whether you believe it or not, I actually had a dream about the future."
"What did you dream about?"
Jiang Zhizhi bit her lip slightly and said after a while, "I dreamed that you died, killed by Jiang Guozhong. Feng Mei became my stepmother, beating and pinching me every day. They didn't let me go to school and made me work in a factory to earn tuition for their two children. In the end, for money, they made me marry a disabled man in his forties..."
Before she could finish her words, Cheng Yuping hugged her.
"Stop talking, Zhizhi, stop talking. Mom will definitely divorce him. Mom won't let you live this kind of life..." Her voice was choked with sobs, and tears couldn't help rolling down.
What Jiang Zhizhi said was so real. If she hadn't really dreamed about it, it would be impossible for an eleven or twelve-year-old child to say such a thing.
She couldn't stand it just by hearing what Jiang Zhizhi said.
Her daughter is the apple of her eye, and she would never let Zhizhi face such a fate!
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