Chapter 108108
Because of the competition, Wuzhong became lively during the summer vacation. The high school in the town below directly chartered a minibus to send students to the gate of Wuzhong. The teachers led them to Wuzhong to take the exam.
It was the first time for them to enter this legendary best high school in Wucheng, their ideal high school. They were very curious about every display here, especially the three people with photos on the bulletin board.
The teachers in Wuzhong knew how to post photos. The first place was placed at the highest position, and the second and third were placed on the left and right below the first place. Not only were there names and classes, but also grades.
They saw Song Peifeng's name and knew that this was probably the best students in Wuzhong.
After watching for a while, I suddenly heard some commotion at the school gate. I turned around and saw that the gate of No. 1 Middle School across the street was opened. Two young male teachers led a group of students from No. 1 Middle School out.
The students of No. 1 Middle School, like the students of Wu Middle School, were watched by the students of the township high schools below, especially Jiang Xi, who they had seen at the Martyrs Cemetery during the Qingming Festival this year. They almost spotted the short-haired girl in the crowd at first sight and whispered to the people around them: "Look, it's Jiang Xi from No. 1 Middle School."
"That Zhang Wenxue is from our school."
Some of them took a look without interest, turned around and continued to look at the Wu Middle School's grade ranking report card, saying: "Don't look at it, this is a competition, No. 1 Middle School can't do it, The competition still depends on Wuzhong. "The person who said this said with a gloating smile: "We are out of the first round of the competition, and No. 1 Middle School is out of the second round of the competition. Ha~ They are not much better than us!"
This is a rare joke of No. 1 Middle School. Every school uses this point to mock No. 1 Middle School, and puts down No. 1 Middle School as not as good as Wuzhong. Who made No. 1 Middle School the focus of the focus, but its competition results are not much better than those of ordinary high schools like them?
Zhang Wenxue and his friends didn't know that these people were mocking No. 1 Middle School's competition results. In fact, since entering No. 1 Middle School, Zhang Wenxue and his friends have been walking in the campus of Wuzhong with a tense face and looking straight ahead.
When they saw those people looking at them, they looked straight over.
When they took the high school entrance exam, they were ranked in the top ten in the county, and were reserved by No. 1 Middle School in advance with scholarships. They did not think they were inferior to the students from Wu Middle School.
The commotion at the school gate continued because a school bus arrived and the students from No. 1 Middle School were crossing the road. Two young male teachers immediately stopped the students from crossing the road. When the bus stopped, the teachers let the students from No. 1 Middle School go in to take the exam first, and then they said to the driver of the minibus: "There are schools everywhere around here, and there are students coming and going. You should drive slower!"
The teacher on the minibus got off and apologized to Teacher Ji and the others. Teacher Ji's girlfriend, Teacher Xiao Zhou from Wu Middle School, heard the commotion and ran out to see what was going on: "Is everything okay? Are there any students injured?"
"No one was injured, but that's not how you drive. We're not in a hurry, so why are you in such a hurry?"
The teacher on the minibus asked the students to go to Wuzhong first, and he wiped the sweat off his forehead and came over to explain to Teacher Ji: "On the street we just came from, more than 100 or 200 people were fighting with machetes and steel pipes. It was so scary. When we passed by, the doors of the entire street were closed. We happened to walk on that street and were almost surrounded. The driver was anxious and drove a little faster after leaving that street."
Teacher Ji Jianwei said in surprise: "Fighting with machetes? Which street?"
"It's the new street next to the moat." The teacher leading the team said, "We know that there is a new street there, and the road is wide and good. We just walked there. We didn't know that these young people would dare to fight in public with machetes. They are so brave and fearless. The leaders only proposed the "severe crackdown" during the two sessions, but they still dare to be so rampant."
These old teachers have witnessed the severe crackdown from 1983 to 1985. During the crackdown, minor cases were sentenced as serious cases. How many people were shot? It has only been more than ten years, right? They have all forgotten it.
Especially in the rural areas under them, which are far from the city, those hooligans are targeting the students in the school all day long to extort money. Some time ago, there was a fight between young people, and one of the hooligans directly hit the student on the head with a steel pipe. The student was also very powerful. He hid a kitchen knife on his body and directly chopped the hooligans several times. The police took him away in a car.
The students in their school had to carry knives and steel pipes when they went to the cafeteria at the school gate to eat, otherwise they dared not leave the school. The social atmosphere is so bad that it is difficult for their teachers to manage the students.
Because there have been more and more vicious crimes in recent years, and criminals have become more and more rampant, during this year's two sessions, the then top leader has already proposed a "severe crackdown". These hooligans who don't watch the news and don't pay attention to national policies don't know the seriousness of the matter at all. At this time, they dare to come out so arrogantly to chop people. These teachers who pay attention to national policies must be lamenting that they are looking for death.
This crackdown started in Beijing and gradually radiated to big cities. Wucheng's crackdown has also begun, but the direction of the crackdown is not on fighting.
The focus of the crackdown in each place is different. For example, Beijing is cracking down on vicious criminal cases, Shenzhen and Guangzhou are cracking down on drugs and gangs, some places are violent gangs, and some places are cracking down on roving criminals.
The city of Wucheng is cracking down on underground casinos, fallen women, and human trafficking, especially the case of a female student being kidnapped in the street at the gate of a junior high school some time ago. It was too abominable, and the female student has not been found yet. Police officers from all over Wucheng are now riding motorcycles, bicycles, and police cars to patrol and investigate the towns and villages below every day. Police officers are closing down various underground casinos in various parts of Wucheng every day, and even the rural areas below are being investigated. Since gambling is not allowed in the villages, many people have made appointments to go to the mountains to continue gambling.
As they were investigating, they found out who had reported it and found Jiang Yueqin's home and her parents: "We received a report that your daughter Jiang Yueqin kidnapped a villager to sell sex. Is that true?"
Jiang Yueqin's parents were so scared when they saw the police that their legs were shaking. They shouted tremblingly: "Oh my God, why don't you send down a thunderbolt to kill that damned girl? What she did has nothing to do with us. We don't know. She hasn't been back for a year, and we don't know what she is doing outside again." "What a curse!"
Jiang Yueqin's father also said: "We really don't know. She didn't come back for a year and didn't send money home. We all thought she was lost outside. We really didn't know what she did outside. Police comrades, if you find her, tell her to remember to send the money back. Her two brothers need money for their weddings. It's okay if she doesn't come back, but why doesn't she send the money? This girl is really conscienceless!"
She absolved herself of all blame. Everything was done by her daughter alone.
The police were unmoved and asked them, "Where is your daughter? Where is her current address? Do you have a phone
number?" Jiang Yueqin's family attracted many people to watch. Jiang Hehua and Jiang Gangqin, who didn't know what was going on, also went to see the excitement. Jiang Gangqin cracked melon seeds while curiously asking people around, "What's going on? What's going on? Why are the police here?"
Many people who still remembered what happened last year saw the police coming to Jiang Yueqin's house. Seeing that Jiang Gangqin still knew nothing, they immediately gossiped to her, "Hey, you don't know yet, do you? Jiang Yueqin is not a good girl. She works as a prostitute outside. You know what being a prostitute means, right? She also comes back to the village to cause trouble for people. Last year, the daughter of the big guy's family was almost raped by her. She even caused trouble for her grandmother's family. I heard that several girls were almost raped by her. If it weren't for the smartness of the daughter of the big guy's family last year, she exposed her scandal. How could these girls be raped by her and go to other places? "
Jiang Gangqin was shocked when she heard this big gossip, "What? Yueqin is a prostitute outside?"
Her scream was heard by her mother who was harvesting rice in the field and was carrying two baskets of rice ears to the rice field. Jiang Gangqin's mother was so angry that she put down the basket, picked up a shoulder pole and came over to beat her: "You old bastard, how can you tell my Gangqin all these dirty and smelly things? I'll tear your mouth apart!"
Jiang Gangqin has always been carefully protected by her whole family. She was never allowed to know or tell her about these bad things outside. When she heard that the old women in the village actually told her old baby these dirty and smelly things, she was immediately furious.
The old woman was beaten by Jiang Gangqin's mother and she ran away in fear, shouting: "I'm not talking about your piano! I'm talking about Yueqin. Why are you hitting me? You are simply unreasonable!"
"I'm not going to reason with you!" Jiang Gangqin's mother hit the woman a few times and vented her anger. Then she came over and grabbed her daughter's wrist: "Are you not scared by them? Don't listen to their nonsense here. Let's not read these things and don't hang out with these old women. Let's go home and read."
"Yeah, yeah." Jiang Gangqin nodded obediently, then looked back curiously and saw Jiang Hehua still watching the excitement. She called her: "Hehua, do you want to leave? I'm going back with my mother first."
Jiang Hehua turned around and said: "You go back first, I'll go back by myself later!"
"Okay then."
Jiang Gangqin's mother was very happy that her daughter liked to play with Jiang Xi and Jiang Hehua. She believed that good people are good examples, while bad people are bad examples. Among the girls of Jiang Gangqin's age, only Jiang Xi and Jiang Hehua were still studying. Every time she came back, she would tell her to play with Jiang Xi or Jiang Hehua.
Jiang Hehua was the daughter of the brigade secretary and had good grades, so it was a good idea to play with her.
But Jiang Hehua didn't like to play with Jiang Gangqin. She only liked to read and study. Since she didn't like to read and study, she would often play with Jiang Xi.
When Jiang Xi followed Grandpa Jiang in the mountains, Gangqin's mother sent her to Tanshan to play with her two married sisters.
Her two elder sisters graduated from high school. One is a teacher at Tanshan Elementary School, and the other is a teacher at Pangcheng Elementary School.
Her two elder sisters are much older than her, and they treat her like a daughter. Jiang Gangqin grew up in her two elder sisters' homes, playing with her nephews and nieces.
Jiang Gangqin's mother held her daughter in one hand, while carrying rice ears and pulling her daughter home.
Jiang Gangqin was the daughter she gave birth to when she was in her forties. Now Jiang Gangqin is nineteen years old, and her mother is in her sixties, with gray hair.
When Jiang Liu was a child, when she played with Jiang Gangqin, she always mistook her mother for Jiang Gangqin’s grandmother. Every time Gangqin’s mother stood at the front door of her house and called Jiang Gangqin to come home for dinner, Jiang Liu would always come and call Jiang Gangqin: “Gangqin, your grandmother is calling you to come home for dinner.”
Jiang Gangqin would correct her: “That’s my mother!”
At that time, Jiang Liu spent most of her time in the mountains with Grandpa Jiang. Children have short memories, and after a while, they went down the mountain and forgot about it. When she saw that Jiang Gangqin’s mother had the same old face as Grandma Jiang, she would call Jiang Gangqin again: “Gangqin, your grandmother is calling you!
” Gangqin ran home skipping and turning back to correct her: "That's my mother!"
Jiang Gangqin's mother held Jiang Gangqin's hand, and when they arrived at the bridge connecting the river ditch and the brigade headquarters, she asked Jiang Gangqin to wait for a while: "I'll take the rice ears to the rice field."
Jiang Gangqin's father was several years younger than Jiang Gangqin's mother. Maybe it was because men don't need to have children, but he looked a dozen years younger than Gangqin's mother, with his hair still black. He was leading an ox and pulling a stone roller to thresh the rice in the rice field. Next to them, his eldest son was driving a tractor, thrashing the rice ears.
Jiang Gangqin's mother dumped the two baskets of rice ears she had picked on the rice field and said to Jiang Gangqin's father angrily, "Just now I heard those gossipers in the first wife's house talking nonsense to Jiang Gangqin. I was so angry that I hit her with a stick. I will take Jiang Gangqin home first and bring her back to you when the meal is ready."
Jiang Gangqin's father walked along, leading the cow, and said, "Why did you fight with her? Don't hurt your back. If there is any problem, call me and my sons."
Jiang Gangqin's mother has always been the head of the family. Hearing this, Jiang Gangqin's father was furious . She said fiercely: "The weather has cooled down by the time you guys came. If she dares to fight back after I hit her twice, I will smash her house!"
She went home and taught Jiang Gangqin: "Don't go with those people to join in the fun, okay? They are all bad people, saying bad things, which are not for you little girls to listen to. If you are bored at home, go to your sister's house and play with Zhigang and Zhihao."
Zhigang and Zhihao are her grandsons, only one or two years younger than Jiang Gangqin, and they are also at home during the summer vacation.
Jiang Gangqin was actually very curious about what happened there, what happened to Jiang Yueqin. Last year, Jiang Yueqin told her how much money she made as a waitress outside, and all her clothes were new, including bracelets.
Jiang Gangqin was not jealous. She had a white bracelet, and she had a silver necklace as thick as her little finger. The clothes she wore were not as good as hers. They acted as if they didn't know her and told her that it was good to be a waitress. They were lying.
When she was a child, only boys in the village had silver necklaces,
but she had one too! Jiang Hehua listened to the aunties for a long time before she realized that Jiang Yu had such an experience last year and was almost sold to that place by Jiang Yueqin. Why didn't she go? She asked curiously.
"Well, the daughter of the big guy's family is a simple person with simple luck! You don't know how bad Yueqin is, but such a bad girl told the big guy's girl the name of that place. She didn't understand, so she had to ask the big guy. The big guy is at least a high school student. He once opened a chicken farm in the village. If he hadn't been unlucky and encountered chicken plague, he might be the richest man in our area now. He also went out to see He is a man who has been through a lot of things. If his daughter had told him, wouldn’t he have known it?” The women in the village said, “If the big guy hadn’t exposed it, Ailian would have come and beaten Yueqin. She wouldn’t have known how many people she would have harmed! Now the police are here to arrest her, right? She deserves it!”
The first to be harmed would be their eldest wife, so their eldest wife doesn’t like Jiang Yueqin’s family very much now, and spits when they see their family.
Jiang Hehua went back with a lot of gossip, and mentioned it to her mother at the dinner table in the evening.
Hehua’s mother played small leaf cards all day long, and was the most informed of all kinds of news in the village. What didn’t she know? However, like Piano Mom, she didn't want her daughter to know about these messy things. So when she got home, she never talked about them in front of her children, and only talked about them privately with the brigade secretary.
Hearing her daughter's curious question, Lotus' mother, who had prepared the meal, interrupted her and said, "Why are you asking these questions? Don't ask about the dirty things. Those are the eldest wife's business. Don't get involved. You are not the same kind of people. You should study hard and get into a good university. In the future, you and your brother will be like your father and have a stable job. Go to work in the town government or township government. Then you will live a happy life."
She spoke slowly and softly, "Those people are like rotten mud. Don't mix with them."
She comes into contact with different people, is in a different environment, and her cognition is also different for each person.
Before marrying the brigade secretary, Lotus' mother was just an ordinary country girl with somewhat pretty looks. But after marrying the brigade secretary, every day she would hear him talk about the affairs of the brigade headquarters and the policies of the town. Even the minor officials she came into contact with were people in the government. While the villagers all planned for their children's future to work in factories when they grew up, her plans for her children were to study hard and go to college, and when they graduated, she would ask her father to use some connections to get a job in the government.
She thought of Jiang's mother again, and of her eldest son who had been placed with high hopes but did not get into college. A smile appeared on her lips, and she placed her chopsticks neatly and shouted upstairs, "Guoqiang, it's time to eat!"
The severe beating in Wucheng had nothing to do with the students taking the exam in Wuzhong, but because it almost affected the exams of students in Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School, the principals and directors of the two schools reported it to the county magistrate and the county party secretary.
The head of the county committee is Song Peifeng's father. This year's "severe crackdown" action was personally coordinated by party and government leaders at all levels. Because of the limited number of police officers, the original focus of the crackdown was on underground casinos, private usury and human trafficking. Now, fighting has become a serious crime incident that Wucheng is cracking down on. Many police officers were dispatched at once, and most of these gangsters who gathered to fight were arrested. For a time, Wucheng's atmosphere became clear, and there were fewer gangsters wandering the streets, fearing that they would be caught and locked up by the police.
The time of the math, physics and chemistry competitions is different, but in order to facilitate unified training, all the preliminaries were held on one day.
Most of them actually only participated in one of the competitions, or at most two. If they participated in more, it would affect their usual academic performance. Few students were willing to do so, such as Zhang Wenxue and Cheng Yufeng, one in mathematics and physics, and the other in physics and chemistry.
Jiang Xi, like Xu Xiuli, was signed up by teachers of all three subjects because of her balanced grades. She had to take three exams a day.
So those who participated in the mathematics competition saw Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng in the examination room of the mathematics competition.
Those who participated in the chemistry competition saw Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng in the examination room of the chemistry competition.
Those who participated in the physics competition also saw Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng in the examination room of the physics competition.
For a while, wherever they went, everyone looked at them, as if they saw two schools competing against each other.
They were regarded as two people on the stage, but they didn't realize it. When Jiang Xi saw him, he nodded and smiled at him, making people feel like spring breeze. When he saw Jiang Xi, he also smiled and nodded politely, like the breeze and bright moon.
Everyone looked at Jiang Xi and then at Song Peifeng. It was obviously a very harmonious picture, but the people around them had to imagine a scene of gunpowder everywhere.
Even the teachers who led the team from other high schools who sent these students here were joking privately: "Guess, which school will be the first in this competition?"
They knew that it was most likely someone from Wuzhong, but in their hearts they were all clapping their hands and shouting: Fight! Fight!