Chapter 103

After filling out the application form, Jiang Bai received his admission ticket, left the address of Grandpa Jiang's store, and asked the class teacher about renting a house nearby.

The class teacher said: "Your examination room is at No. 10 Middle School. You'd better go to rent a house near No. 10 Middle School. If you want to go, you'd better go early. Whether you stay in a guesthouse or rent a house, there may be no houses left if you are late." He knew that Jiang Bai was a student from another place and was not familiar with Shanghai. He also carefully told him the bus route from here to No. 10 Middle School.

Jiang Bai took his admission ticket and other things out, met Grandpa Jiang, and took the bus to No. 10 Middle School.

When he arrived near No. 10 Middle School, Jiang Bai asked about renting a house again, and was dragged by Grandpa Jiang to live in a guesthouse near No. 10 Middle School.

Most of the people who come here to take the exam are local students who don't need to stay in the guesthouse, so there are still vacancies in the guesthouse at this time.

When Grandpa Jiang and his friends came to Shanghai, Jiang Xi stuffed a thousand yuan into Grandpa Jiang's pocket and told him that if it was difficult to rent a house, he would take Jiang Bo to stay in the guesthouse first: "This period of time can be said to be the most important days in my second brother's life. If he is admitted to university, his life will be completely different from before. His exam is urgent, so he shouldn't save a few hundred yuan at this time."

Jiang Xi made a lot of money from his spring and summer clothes this year. Grandpa Jiang knew how good his business was every day.

Others would sell a piece of clothing for 20 or 30 yuan, but she sells it for 9.9 or 12.9 yuan, as if the clothes are free. Now people in Wucheng know that the clothes in her store are from the Jiangnan Garment Factory, which went bankrupt and couldn't sell them, so they are having a clearance sale.

You ask why it went bankrupt last year, but still has clothes to sell this year? Then the spring and summer clothes that went bankrupt at the end of last year couldn't be sold in the winter, so they were accumulated until this spring, right?

So all Wucheng people who want to buy clothes go to Jianghuai's store.

Jianghuai's store doesn't have a name, but people call her store: Jiangnan Garment Factory.

Whenever she was asked where to buy clothes, people would reply, "I'll go to Jiangnan Garment Factory!"

Especially the poor students who were reluctant to buy clothes. They used to wear shabby clothes. When they heard that the clothes in Jiangxi store were so cheap, they would buy themselves one piece at a time.

Uncle Wang Yong simply sent all the spring clothes that were piled up in the factory to her.

However, this year's new models are a little more expensive than the old ones, so they can no longer sell them to her by weight as inventory as before. However, they are cheaper than the clothes in other stores in Wucheng.

Grandpa Jiang, who was selling clothes, was grinning every day, so he not only accepted the 1,000 yuan that Jiangxi gave him, but also brought the 1,200 yuan salary that Jiangxi gave him last year.

The reason why Jiang Xi gave the money to Grandpa Jiang instead of Jiang Bai was because Jiang Bai was too stingy.

She was afraid that if she gave the money to Jiang Bai, Jiang Bai would not be willing to live in a guest house. On the contrary, in Grandpa Jiang's heart, of course, his grandson's college entrance examination was more important, and now that he was not short of money, he was willing to spend it.

He took out his money and counted it carefully one by one before he said to the front desk clerk at the guesthouse: "Can you stay for one day first and then pay more later if you need it?"

The receptionist said: "Of course, but you have to tell us before you check out, otherwise the room may be given to someone else."

Grandpa Jiang nodded tremblingly: "Okay."

Grandpa Jiang is only in his sixties now. Logically speaking, he is not very old, but he suffered too much loss in his youth and young adulthood, which made him look particularly old.

Jiang Bai still wanted to go out and look for a house, but Grandpa Jiang said to Jiang Bai, "You go and study first, I'll go and look for a house."

When they were not short of money, Grandpa Jiang was much more generous than Jiang Bai. When Jiang Xiao was a child, Grandpa Jiang would buy her fried dough sticks whenever he had money.

At that time, no one was willing to spend money on fried dough sticks, not to mention girls, even boys didn't have fried dough sticks to eat.

Among all the little girls in the village, only she and Jiang Gangqin had eaten fried dough sticks when they were young.

The eldest granddaughter said that she wanted to find a quieter house with a better environment.

But Jiang Bai was not at all at ease with Grandpa Jiang going alone, and he didn't care about studying for such a short time.

Unfortunately, Jiang Bai and Jiang Yeye underestimated the language barrier. Those who lived near No. 10 Middle School were basically all locals from Shanghai and spoke the local dialect of Shanghai. Jiang Yeye could not understand what they said, and they could not understand Jiang Yeye's country dialect. The two sides spoke completely different words and could not understand each other at all.

Jiang Bai could not understand their Shanghai dialect either. He spoke Wucheng Mandarin. What is Wucheng Mandarin? It is Mandarin with strong local characteristics, which does not distinguish between flat and recurved tongue like ZCS, front and back nasal sounds like en/eng, and nl. After

the two talked for a long time and could not understand each other, Jiang Yeye had to persuade him to give up the idea of ​​renting a house and go to the front desk of the guesthouse to make up for the room fee for three more days.

After entering the guesthouse room, Jiang Bai was still feeling thankful: "Fortunately, Xiaoxiao and I didn't transfer to Shanghai to attend high school."

He felt exhausted after only communicating with the locals of Shanghai for a short while. If the teachers and classmates around him spoke Shanghai dialect in class every day, he would really collapse.

Although the teachers from Shanghai High School spoke Mandarin before, it was not standard Mandarin. It was Mandarin with strong local characteristics, just like Jiang Bai. Some language habits are not so easy to change. When they spoke, they would occasionally mix in a few words in the dialect, which Jiang Bai could not understand. The Shanghai teachers also had an awkward accent when listening to Jiang Bai. Sometimes, a few words or a few characters completely confused him, but Jiang Bai was unaware of it.

Jiang's father and mother thought that Jiang Bai would take the college entrance examination in a month, and had no idea that Jiang Bai had already walked into the examination room in Shanghai.

After the exam, Jiang Bai did not stay for a minute longer, and took Grandpa Jiang back to Wucheng that night.

Although the college entrance examination was over, they could still live in the senior dormitory, and they were not asked to move out immediately.

When Jiang Bai and his friends returned to Wucheng, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening. They just had a simple meal. Grandpa Jiang went back to the shop to sleep, and Jiang Bai returned to the dormitory.

When the people in the dormitory saw that he was back, they asked him curiously: "Jiang Bai, didn't you go to Shanghai? Why are you back?"

They thought Jiang Bai would stay in Shanghai and never come back.

These students who had been locked up in school for many years and had never even been to Shanghai did not know that Shanghai now gave blue-stamped household registration when buying a house, so they did not know how Jiang Bai transferred his student status to Shanghai and went to Shanghai to take the college entrance examination. They all thought that Jiang Bai would stay in Shanghai in the future, and their feelings towards Jiang Bai were very subtle.

On the one hand, Jiang Bai said that he was indeed their classmate for three years, but on the other hand, Jiang Bai was not their classmate in terms of academic records.

Jiang Bai said coldly: "I came back after the exam."

During the three years of high school, he always had this expression, never smiling to anyone, even to Tong Jingang, so his roommates got used to it.

"Is the Shanghai exam difficult?" They all asked Jiang Bai curiously, and then talked about filling in their applications.

The other people in the dormitory already knew which schools they had applied to, but Jiang Bai had applied to Shanghai High School, which they didn't know.

There was nothing to keep secret, Jiang Bai said: "My first application was Shanghai University of Science and Technology."

The others also told the schools they applied to, and almost all of them were the same as Jiang Bai, reporting lower scores.

The next day, someone in the dormitory packed up and went back, and the entire dormitory building was half empty.

The other half were reluctant to spend the money for two trips home. The questionnaires should be distributed in a week. Everyone can use the answers to evaluate how many points they have taken the exam and whether they can be admitted to the university they applied for. If they don't pass the exam, they want to continue to study, so they should also prepare.

Jiang Bai came to Grandpa Jiang's shop early the next morning and worked diligently.

As for the college entrance examination scores that others were worried about, he was very relaxed. If he passed the exam, he would study, and if he didn't pass, he would work in his sister's shop.

Because he was busy with the college entrance examination, he hadn't come to the shop for several days.

Grandpa Jiang was not a person who was particular about clothes. If there were customers who wanted to buy clothes, he would sell them. If there were no customers, he would sit on a rocking chair, watching TV or drinking tea while squinting his eyes and rocking with a purple clay teapot. If someone messed up their clothes while trying them on, he would not care. He would wait until he got up to clean them up, but he would not clean them up carefully.

Jiang Bai could not stand any mess. There

was nothing he could do in the dormitory. He could only clean up his own bed. He did not care about other people's beds, shoes, and socks as long as they were not thrown on his bed.

As soon as he arrived at the shop, he started to clean up. Seeing this, Grandpa Jiang couldn't help but laugh and said, "You and Liu Liu have completely opposite personalities."

Jiang Liu is the same as Grandpa Jiang. They both don't move if they can. But he and Jiang Liu can resist not to clean up, but Jiang Bai can't. He must clean the shop thoroughly and put the clothes in order, so that it is comfortable to look at.

He is a person who can't be idle for a quarter of an hour.

Tong Jingang came to Jiang Xi's shop with a basketball. He thought the shop was empty, but it was actually open. Jiang Bai was in the shop. He let out a strange cry of joy, clapping the basketball racket, and shouted, "Baizi, let's go play basketball!"

"No." Jiang Bai was only interested in making money now, so why would he want to play basketball?

But Tong Jingang was a spoiled child.

He came up to Jiang Bai and kept pulling him and acting coquettishly: "Let's go, let's go. We haven't played ball for a long time. We've been reviewing papers every day. The college entrance examination is finally over. You can go with me~"

Seeing this, Grandpa Jiang couldn't help but say: "Baizi, the exam is over, let's go play~"

Jiang Bai hesitated for a moment, and Tong Jingang picked up his shoulders and pushed him out: "Come on, let's go play ball~!"

The security guard recognized the two of them and knew that he was a senior student from No. 1 Middle School who had just finished the college entrance examination. Seeing After they finished the college entrance examination, they went back to the school. No one stopped them and asked with a smile: "How did you do? Do you have the confidence to get into the ideal school?"

Tong Jingang smiled with a big white tooth on his dark face. The basketball hit the ground with a bang and he said confidently: "Of course I can!"

He did not dare to apply for the sports majors of several famous universities in Shanghai, including Shanghai Sports University. He filled in the sports major of Shanghai University of Applied Technology as his first choice.

Last year, the sports major of this school scored more than 400 points. He estimated that his score should be enough to get into this school.

The guard let them go after they registered: "Go ahead, the college entrance exam is over, you guys should relax."

Because it was morning, the morning reading class for the first and second graders had just ended, and many students went to the cafeteria to eat. There were already people playing basketball on the court. They were all third graders who were waiting to check their answers after the college entrance exam. There were also several teachers from the third grade graduating class playing here.

Tong Jingang and Jiang Bai quickly blended in

. The college entrance exam was over, and the first and second graders were about to take their final exams. In addition to the final exams, the IMO competition in July was about to begin. The second graders of No. 1 Middle School participated in the Mathematical Olympiad this year, but they were still completely defeated and performed mediocrely in the competition. The second graders still focused their main energy on studying.

Because the results were not released, the school did not do any publicity about it. It was quiet. However, Wuzhong, after the results of the provincial competition came out, immediately sent the admissions office to do publicity, trying to pull down No. 1 Middle School and try to push No. 1 Middle School down to compete for better students.

It must be said that the publicity strategy of Principal Sun and Director Zhang has produced results.

This year, when faced with the choice of students, teachers from the following schools promoted that No. 1 High School’s joint entrance examination scores surpassed those of Wuzhong High School. Six of the top ten high schools in the county were from No. 1 High School. Wuzhong’s promotional strategy was to promote what kind of results it achieved in the competition this year. As a result, when teachers introduced the two old key high schools in Wucheng, they introduced them like this: “I don’t need to say much about Wuzhong. It’s the most important of the key high schools. This year’s competition results are quite impressive. If you want to go the competitive route, choose Wuzhong.”

"The college entrance examination results of No. 1 Middle School have been getting better and better in the past two years, and there is even a trend of surpassing Wuzhong. These two schools are the best two key schools in Wucheng. Being admitted to either one of them means you have already stepped half a foot into the university. It depends on your choice."

Therefore, the top students of small town middle schools who have no idea what competition is, thought about it, and many of them chose No. 1 Middle School as their first choice.

Of course, Wuzhong's reputation as the best also makes some top students habitually choose Wuzhong. It can be said that this year, the two schools are evenly matched in terms of student sources.

Principal Sun and Director Zhang of No. 1 Middle School are already very satisfied with such results, but they still need to recruit students. In addition to the top students who have already registered for their school, the top ten students in the county must also be attracted with scholarships. The more top students they can recruit, the better.

In addition, registration for this year's competition has also begun. In No. 1 Middle School, in addition to Zhang Wenxue and Cheng Yufeng, Jiang Yu's name has also been registered by Teacher Ji.

There is nothing to compare with in the school. The students in the competition class are already the top 20 students with the best grades in their school. The rest are compared with other schools in the county. Although they are called other schools, in fact, the only one that can compete is Wuzhong.

They selected the 20 best students from all the students who participated in the competition in Wucheng County and then went to the city to compete