She turned over and lay on the bed, murmuring lazily, "My back aches, massage it harder."
"Yes, ma'am. I guarantee my wife will feel completely satisfied."
With a large hand gently massaging his lower back, Chen Jing suddenly laughed and said, "I also received a letter from Wang Yuan today. Do you know what he said?"
"What did you say? Those thugs are still waiting for you?"
"Of course, our goods are cheap and of good quality, and they are much more popular than those shipped from Shanghai. How could they not want us?"
Since Chen Jing and Ji Xia returned to the South, they occasionally received remittances from Wang Yuan, Chen Xing, and others, asking him to send goods.
I've heard that some people take the train all the way to Guangzhou every now and then, and then painstakingly carry back several bags of goods.
If you're unlucky, someone might steal half of it on the way.
As for Lin's Wholesale, I heard that those are all brands from Shanghai, which have always only supplied department stores or supply and marketing cooperatives in big cities.
Lin's Wholesale Department doesn't care about marketing qualifications or whether people know how to sell, allowing them to set up stalls on the street at will.
Furthermore, due to the various bad habits of those petty thugs, the brand image has been severely damaged, and many brands have already canceled their supply.
Even if the supply wasn't cancelled, most of the goods they shipped were old models that had been piling up in the warehouse for years and weren't popular in the capital.
Therefore, several of his underlings wrote to Chen Jing, pouring out their grievances and desperately hoping that Ji Xia and Chen Jing would come to the capital.
After teasing his underlings for a while, Chen Jing suddenly said, "I've been getting people to make preparations these past few days. Once your notification comes out, we'll head to the capital as soon as possible to get ready."
Ji Xia raised an eyebrow and turned back with a half-smile: "You trust me so much, aren't you worried I'll fail the exam?"
"Who is my woman? She'll ace the college entrance exam with ease, how could she possibly fail?"
Chen Jing was incredibly confident about this, and Ji Xia couldn't help but smile.
The day before the college entrance examination, Chen Jing escorted Ji Xia to the county town to take the exam.
Her exam venue was the No. 2 Middle School in the county.
Chen Jing booked a room for her at the guesthouse two days in advance so that she could focus on her exam.
In the morning, Chen Jing escorted Ji Xia to the Second Middle School and was stunned by the grand scene outside the school gate.
Outside the school gate, crowds surged, with parents and friends everywhere sending their children off to the exam, and whispered words of advice and concern could be heard everywhere.
Looking at the group of candidates, most of them looked nervous and pale, checking their admission tickets and paper and pens.
Seeing that there were too many people, Chen Jing pulled Ji Xia to stand in a corner a little further away: "The school gates haven't opened yet, let's stay here so we don't get bumped into."
Seeing so many people, Ji Xia's expression became more serious.
"Relax, don't be too nervous, I believe you can do it."
Chen Jing patted her shoulder: "Are you hungry? You didn't eat much earlier, why don't you eat something else?"
He pulled out a paper bag containing two beef shortbreads: "Want another one?"
"No need, overeating affects your thinking."
Ji Xia tidied up the contents of the bag, shook her head, stared at the door over there, and suddenly exclaimed with delight: "The door is open, I'm going in."
The gates of the Second Middle School opened, and a group of students rushed over, while parents pushed and shoved from behind, making it extremely crowded.
"Don't rush, wait until they go in before you go, don't push and shove with them."
It was indeed too crowded. They weren't standing far away, but they saw people being pushed and swayed, and others screaming, "Don't push me! Ah, my foot! My foot!"
Fortunately, someone from the school quickly came out to maintain order, and a group of parents slowly stepped back, allowing the students to line up and enter quickly.
Ji Xia waited a few minutes until the students in line had almost all gone in, then waved to her family behind her and quickly entered the school.
Following the instructions on her admission ticket, she found the examination room.
In a simple classroom, thirty double desks were neatly arranged, and most of the students were sitting inside.
However, due to strict measures to prevent cheating during the college entrance examination, each student occupies a double desk, and there are only thirty candidates in a classroom.
Ji Xia found her seat and heard someone calling her name in the examination room. When she turned around, she saw her classmate Gao Yuanlong.
Gao Yuanlong, who was three or four tables away from her, waved excitedly at her: "Ji Xia, you're in this exam room too, what a coincidence!"
Ji Xia smiled faintly and nodded, then turned around and touched her desk and chair. She looked at the thin layer of dust on her hands and shook her head inwardly.
She took a handkerchief from her pocket and gently wiped the chair and table. She sat down and placed the prepared paper and pen on the table.
Looking at the others, thirty candidates arrived one after another. Perhaps because of nervousness, most of them remained silent, sitting in their seats fiddling with their paper and pen.
Soon, a bespectacled, well-mannered middle-aged man entered the examination room carrying the exam papers, and the candidates fell completely silent.
The proctor briefly introduced himself and then gave everyone some warnings, such as not forgetting to write their names on the test papers, not being allowed to leave the examination room during the exam, not being allowed to cheat, and that there were patrolling teachers outside the examination room.
Four or five minutes later, the school bell rang, and the proctor came down with the exam papers and handed them out to the students one by one.
The first exam was Chinese. Ji Xia took the exam paper, glanced at it briefly, and then wrote her name, place of origin, and exam number on the side outside the dotted line with a pen.
She placed the test paper on the scratch paper and began working on the questions seriously.
The first few questions were relatively simple, including fill-in-the-blank, rewriting grammatically incorrect sentences, and translating classical Chinese texts.
Ji Xia looked it over and felt reassured; she knew how to do most of these things.
She spent twenty minutes completing the first few questions, and when it came to the reading comprehension section, she carefully read it twice more.
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