Chapter 23: Rising Step by Step
Jiang Nian laughed out loud when he heard that and stuffed a schoolbag into her arms.
"Okay, help me carry my schoolbag."
As he said this, he stuffed the empty schoolbag containing 20,000 yuan into her arms. He then took off her schoolbag, weighed it in his hand, and sighed.
"Are you bringing bricks back? Are you not going to sleep tonight?"
Xu Qianqian was speechless, but did not refute him. She just went downstairs holding Jiang Nian's schoolbag in front of her chest. But as she walked, she felt something was wrong, so she asked curiously.
"What did you put in your bag? Just a vocabulary book?"
“Money.”
"You're sick." Xu Qianqian walked forward with her schoolbag in her arms. She smelled the sweat emanating from the schoolbag and her face turned pale. "Jiang Nian, how long has it been since you washed your schoolbag?"
"I just washed it last week, so it just has some of my sweat smell on it." He took the initiative to move closer and pulled at his white short-sleeved shirt, "Hey, if you don't believe me, smell it."
"Virtue!" The girl shook her head and distanced herself from him.
On the way home, there were few people around, but Xu Qianqian couldn't help but strike up a conversation.
"Hey, I heard the list of promoted classes is out."
"hold head high."
"Where did you divide it?"
"Oh, don't mention it. I'm in Class 3 of the Olympiad, Room 403."
Hearing his regretful tone, the girl couldn't help but raise her lips. It was as if she was saying, "Do you really want to be in the same class with me?" But then she changed her mind and couldn't be happy.
We are indeed not in the same class, and I feel a little lost.
"It's a good thing you didn't come. I'm actually quite happy."
When they got home and went upstairs, they had already changed their backpacks.
When Jiang Nian entered the room, he saw his parents were still awake. They were calculating something in the living room. Old Jiang put on his glasses and muttered quietly.
Li Hongmei said directly without even looking at Jiang Nian.
"Take a shower and go to bed early."
Jiang Nian didn't say anything, but walked to the center of the living room and stood in front of his parents. The couple turned around and looked at their son with confusion.
Li Hongmei frowned immediately, "Go take a shower, your body is smelly."
"It's not that I don't want to wash, it's just that the time has not come yet." Jiang Nian said the most awesome words, not afraid of the most brutal beating, "Ahem, Comrade Li Hongmei, Comrade Lao Jiang, I have something to announce."
Lao Jiang was puzzled, Li Hongmei sneered, and wanted to get up to grab the feather duster.
Suddenly, I saw my son take out a booklet from his school bag. It wasn't a booklet, it looked like money? It was neatly stacked together, two fingers thick.
Li Hongmei's face turned pale and she stood up quickly.
"You robbed a bank! Give it back!"
Old Jiang was relatively calm, recalling Jiang Nian's reaction this morning, and seemed to have thought of something. He looked at the money on the table, and then at his eldest son.
"You earned it?"
"Well, this is all I've earned so far." Jiang Nian spread his hands, "I don't know what will happen in the future, it's hard to say, anyway, you can spend as much as you want, don't save."
When Li Hongmei heard the words "no need to save", a hint of emotion flashed in her eyes. But she still complained and asked Jiang Nian to deposit the money back, nagging.
"Will there be no place to spend money in the future? You will be full today and not hungry tomorrow, right? Your father and I will take care of the household affairs. Why should a child like you worry about them?"
Jiang Nian laughed and said that he couldn't deposit it because the number of withdrawals was limited today. Without waiting for Li Hongmei to get angry, he threw down the money on the table and ran into the room.
Click, the door is locked.
The parents were left in the living room at a loss whether to laugh or cry. Who does this child look like? Why is he like a piece of meat being chopped off a knife?
The next day, Thursday.
"National Day is coming soon. How many days do you think the school will be closed for?" Jiang Nian was walking on the road, eating breakfast as he walked. "If you are stingy, you will be well behaved after three days."
"I don't know, maybe National Day the day after tomorrow." Xu Qianqian pursed her pink lips very tightly, biting the soy milk straw, her eyes slightly narrowed, making people want to kiss her.
Jiang Nian's throat rolled, and he scolded himself in his heart for this outrageous idea.
Damn, even rabbits don’t eat grass near their burrows!
I don't know what happened recently, maybe I've been single for too long, Xu Qianqian always looks pretty. Sometimes I dream about her, punching her and making her into puffs.
It's outrageous. It's really outrageous.
Jiang Nian roughly defined it as youth syndrome, shook his head, and continued walking forward.
When they said goodbye at the stairs, Xu Qianqian let out a sigh.
"What?" Jiang Nian thought she was going to mention milk tea. "I'll treat you to some at noon. Why are you drinking milk tea so early in the morning? Are you a natural water bucket?"
"Who cares!" Xu Qianqian spat and stuffed something into his hand.
Jiang Nian looked down and saw a box of Bubugaosheng pen refills, the red packaging looked festive. He looked up and saw that the girl had walked away and looked back at the classroom door.
The two looked at each other, Jiang Nian tilted his head to express his confusion, and Xu Qianqian gave him the middle finger (humph).
During the morning break, the head teacher suddenly came in.
"Jiang Nian, move the table."
Hearing this, Jiang Nian became a little embarrassed, "Teacher, don't tell me, I'm really reluctant to let you go."
The head teacher looked at his sullen face and was a little speechless. "Then stay? I'll report it to you and I'll handle it as a special matter."
"Ha, I'm just kidding." Jiang Nian laughed awkwardly.
The class suddenly erupted in laughter, and a happy atmosphere filled the space during the break.
"Go away, go away, study hard and don't bring shame to our class." The head teacher waved his hand, "Go upstairs to 403, move the desks, chairs and books over there now."
Jiang Nian asked two people he had a good relationship with for help, but he didn't expect Le Zhi to come as well.
"Uh, thank you."
"It's okay, just helping out." Le Zhi has been silent these days. He has been staying by himself since he finished his exams and started reading for the first time.
They came early, and the others went to run exercises, so Le Zhi just skipped the class. He didn't seem to have any intention of leaving, and stood in the corridor outside the door of Class 403, chatting with Jiang Nian.
"I had a falling out with them the other day."
"Uh, why?" Jiang Nian was also a little embarrassed.
Le Zhi leaned against the corridor, with the sunlight scattered, and recounted what happened that day after the exam.
"I think that group of people will become idiots sooner or later if they hang out together. I think what the head teacher said is right. After enduring high school for so long, you should eventually go to a good university."
After chatting for a while, Lezhi left.
Jiang Nian was not upset. He was promoted to a higher class because he did not want to get involved with Zhou Yuting and her gang. Whether they really broke up or not was none of his business.
Because of the morning exercises, there were basically no people in the teaching building. Suddenly, I heard the sound of moving tables and chairs at the stairs.
Jiang Nian turned around and saw a familiar face.
Zhang Ningzhi?
Hmm? She seemed to be coming in her direction. There was only one girl helping her move the tables and chairs. She looked a little tired, and Zhang Ningzhi's face turned red.
After a few seconds of silence, Jiang Nian walked over to help.
"We meet again. What are you doing?"
"Oh, it's you." Zhang Ningzhi blinked, a little embarrassed, and called his name in a low voice, "Jiang Nian. I'm promoted to the new class, 403."
(End of this chapter)
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