Chapter 113 113
"Hi." Jiang Xi waved and greeted Song Peifeng naturally when he saw him, and then stretched himself to warm up.
Song Peifeng had just come down.
At this time in summer, the sky was gradually getting brighter, and everyone else hadn't gotten up yet. There were only the two of them in the hotel yard.
Song Peifeng had not expected that he would meet Jiang Xi when he went downstairs for a run. Seeing her greet him so naturally, he could not help but smile: "Good morning."
The two of them first stretched in the yard. The yard was too small, so Jiang Xi wanted to go out for a run. However, she thought that the social atmosphere today was too chaotic. Although it was still early, nothing would happen. However, there were many news reports of accidents caused by running in the morning in the past. After stretching, she stepped on the spot and invited Song Peifeng: "Together?"
Seeing that she was not embarrassed and looked calm, Song Peifeng was not a shy person. He smiled and nodded, and the two ran out of the hotel yard.
It was still early, and the breakfast shop had just opened. There were very few pedestrians on the road, and there were almost no cars.
When the bus came yesterday, Jiang Xi had already observed the nearby terrain and said to Song Peifeng, "Let's run around the Provincial Normal University Affiliated High School?"
The Provincial Normal University Affiliated High School is a school, with trees forming shades, quiet and pleasant, suitable for running.
Song Peifeng had no objection, and the two ran one after the other, or side by side.
Song Peifeng was originally thinking about whether to chat about something, but he saw that the girl in front of him was running attentively, muttering something in her mouth. Through the familiar fragments occasionally brought by the morning breeze, he realized that she actually recited from Chinese to politics, from politics to history, from history to geography, and recited them in a circle, and recited them thoroughly.
He couldn't help but laugh.
No wonder her grades are so good, and they are also so hardworking.
Others saw that he seemed to study very easily, but his efforts behind the scenes were no less than those of other people in Wuzhong. In fact, because he also took care of three subjects at the same time, he spent much more time studying every day than everyone thought. At the same time, he also read other books.
Isn't it ridiculous to say that such a hardworking girl who was able to surpass him in competitions and joint entrance examinations and was one step ahead of him is thinking about liking someone or having romantic affairs?
He also laughed at himself. When he first learned the news, he even thought about avoiding suspicion. It was too self-righteous. And the groundless speculations of those people about her before were too insulting to her.
Song Peifeng couldn't help but reflect on the stereotypes people have about girls, which led to such groundless speculations when a girl just smiled and said hello to someone at their age, even before they had not even spoken a word. Song Peifeng was also secretly reminding himself not to have stereotypes about others before knowing them and the whole story. He originally thought that
Jiang Xi just had the habit of running in the morning, and might run one or two laps in the school playground, and then he followed her and ran one lap, two laps, three laps around the Provincial Normal University Affiliated High School...
The playground of their school is 400 meters per lap, but the entire campus of the Provincial Normal University Affiliated High School is much larger than the playground.
After running the fifth lap, Song Peifeng, who has the habit of running all year round, couldn't help but ask Jiang Xi: "Are you going to continue running?"
It wasn't that hot in the morning, but after running five laps, Jiang Xi estimated that she had run ten kilometers and had a lot of sweat on her head.
She had short hair, and her current hairstyle was a bit like Aaron Kwok's. She had thick and dense hair, which covered her head thickly, and she felt a little hot.
Without a towel, she shook her short hair and the sweat on her face.
Then Song Peifeng saw that she very naturally combed the hair in front of her forehead and the hair on the top of her head, and then used the rubber band on her wrist to tie a small high braid in the center of her head, which was the high braid that children tied on their heads when they were young.
Her hair was a little different from the ones that children wear. Children's hair was longer, but her hair was short. Even if it was tied up, it was just a small hair.
Song Peifeng thought of a monster in Journey to the West, the Sprite's hairstyle, and couldn't help but smiled.
He was sure that she had no extra thoughts about him.
Jiang Xi, however, didn't care about his gaze at all, or rather, she didn't care about anyone's gaze. She just moved her neck, wrists and ankles with such a small tuft on her head, and stretched her arms: "It's almost done, do you want to go back?"
Song Peifeng didn't calculate how far they had run in total. He just gave an approximate number based on his usual running distance and his physical fatigue: "We have probably run about ten kilometers. Let's go back. The teachers should be getting up soon."
Jiang Xi also felt that they had run enough, "Let's go."
The two of them walked back together.
On the way back, the two walked side by side. There were a few more pedestrians on the road at this time. He looked at her fair profile in the morning light. He saw that she was still breathing evenly after running ten kilometers. He asked curiously, "Do you usually have the habit of running a marathon?"
Jiang Xi thought of her four years in junior high school. She had to run more than ten miles every morning and evening to go to and from school. Isn't that a marathon? He smiled and nodded and said, "Yes, more than ten miles every morning and evening. I'm used to running." She turned to him and asked, "What about you?"
He smiled and nodded, "I'm used to running too."
When he was a child, he ran with his father. After entering junior high school, he ran by himself. His father ran a marathon every year and pulled him to follow.
After coming to Wucheng as the secretary, he brought his marathon running habit to Wucheng. Last year, he wanted to hold a national marathon in Wucheng, but because the public security in Wucheng was too chaotic, he did not have time to hold the marathon. He first had to sort out the power relations in Wucheng, pull some people in and suppress some people, rectify Wucheng's public security atmosphere, rectify underground casinos and usury, and rectify the current rampant human trafficking. Currently, he and the county magistrate are responsible for Wucheng's politics and economy respectively.
Politics has always been like this. It is not that once you are parachuted into a position, you can immediately show your domineering spirit, immediately calm everyone down, make the original leadership team all listen to you, and start to carry out reforms and economic development in a big way.
No, there are struggles everywhere, for power and interests. Of course, there are also people with strong backgrounds and very tough personalities and tactics. After being parachuted in, they directly set up their own one-man show, making their subordinates dare not speak out.
It was the first time that Jiang Xi observed Song Peifeng's youth at such a close distance. It must be said that the Secretary Song, who later looked gentle and elegant but had tough methods and was known as the one-man show in a certain city, was really young at this time, full of youthfulness, and was really as gentle as jade.
The two of them strolled into the courtyard of the hotel. Director Zhang and Director Wang had drunk some wine yesterday and had not yet gotten up. Only Teacher Ji was washing up in the courtyard. When he saw the two of them walking back side by side, he couldn't help but blink his eyes and asked them curiously, "Where did you go?"
Teacher Ji was a teacher at No. 1 Middle School, so Jiang Xi smiled and replied, "We met on the morning run."
Teacher Ji knew that Jiang Xi had the habit of morning jogging. The two young teachers of the competition class at No. 1 Middle School both liked to play basketball, and sometimes they would make an appointment to go out for a run together in the morning. Every time they went out, except when it rained or snowed, Jiang Xi could be seen running on the playground.
Teacher Ji was not surprised that Song Peifeng had the habit of running. Wuzhong had always had the habit of morning running. The first thing students did after getting up was to run two laps, reading aloud and reciting while running, and then do morning exercises. After morning exercises, it was time for morning reading.
His girlfriend, as a young teacher at Wuzhong, had to get up early every day to lead these students, and she complained to him more than once about her resentment towards the morning running at Wuzhong.
He did not think much about it, and smiled and said, "Go upstairs and wash up, and come down to eat after washing."
The city competition starts at 8 o'clock, with two games in the morning and one in the afternoon. This way, after the exam, they have time to take the students home, and they don't have to stay here for another night. With so many students, staying one more night would cost a lot of money.
The rooms of Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School are on the same floor. At this time, students have been getting up one after another. Some of them are used to reading early in the morning, holding books and reading quietly in the corridor.
Seeing two people coming back together, I didn't think much of it. I just thought they went downstairs to wash or have breakfast and bumped into each other.
There is only one staircase, so it is very normal for classmates to bump into each other.
The two returned to their respective dormitories.
Jiang Xi walked in lightly, not wanting to disturb the two people who were still sleeping. Unexpectedly, the biological clock woke up Cheng Yufeng and Yao Wenjuan. One of them was in the bathroom, and the other was quietly folding the quilt.
Jiang Xi then opened the door and drew the curtains. Bright light shone into the originally dim room. Yao Wenjuan saw the small tufts of hair on Jiang Xi's head and couldn't help but burst out laughing. Jiang
Xi was folding the quilt. Seeing her looking at the small tufts of hair on her head and laughing, she also smiled and said, "Your hair is too short and it's too hot."
Her hair was too thick and dense. In the summer, it was really hot and stuffy when she covered her head with it, just like wearing a wig. She even wanted to shave her head.
Before, she didn't feel anything when she stayed on campus every day. In the morning, there was no towel and she couldn't wipe the sweat. After tying her hair up, she found that it was really comfortable, so she kept it like this. As for whether others laughed or not, so what? She didn't care.
Yao Wenjuan smiled and nodded, saying, "Very cute."
She sometimes felt that Jiang Xi seemed kind and gentle, but was actually distant and difficult to approach. This was why they had been in the same car on the first day of school, and later in the competition class together, but they still had no contact. But now that Jiang Xi was like this, she felt that the distance between them was shortened. He was really cute.
"Really?" Jiang Xi touched the small tuft on her head and tilted her head with a smile: "I think so too."
Now, she is admiring herself all the time.
Her youth, her middle-aged self, and in the future, her old self.
She thinks she is so beautiful in every wrinkle and every white hair.
Jiang Xi's unreserved beauty at that moment made Yao Wenjuan recall Jiang Xi many years later. The most profound impression was not their first meeting, but the moment when the girl's face was blooming.
At this time, Cheng Yufeng came out, and Jiang Xi smiled at Yao Wenjuan again, went into the bathroom to take a quick shower, and went downstairs to wash up.
The hotel at that time was simple, with only a toilet and a bathtub in the room. You could go to the toilet to take a shower, but you had to go to the yard below to brush your teeth. There were two long rows of washbasins in the yard, with more than 20 faucets lined up side by side. After brushing your teeth and washing your face, you would return to the room and go downstairs to eat.
There were more people coming and going on the stairwell.
After the three girls from No. 1 Middle School finished washing up, they went downstairs to have breakfast together.
Breakfast was still the same as last night's restaurant, and the choice was very simple, white rice porridge, corn, sweet potato, fried dough sticks, eggs, glutinous rice cake, and leek fried dumplings.
Jiang Wei hadn't eaten leek fried dumplings for many years, and later she had eaten all kinds of spring rolls and dumplings with leek and egg flavors, but she still missed the delicious leek fried dumplings she had when she was a teenager. Unexpectedly, she encountered it here. After a bowl of white rice porridge, she put corn, sweet potato, fried dough sticks, eggs, and fried dumplings on her plate.
Seeing that she took so much, Yao Wenjuan asked her in surprise: "Can you finish it?"
Jiang Xi looked back in even more surprise: "How can we not finish it? We are still growing!"
Jiang Xi cares most about health. She is too thin now. Maybe her diet is much better than in her previous life. She has grown faster in this life than in her previous life. In her previous life, she was malnourished and grew to 168 cm. In this life, she is estimated to be over 170 cm.
It's a pity that she only grew taller but not meat. She still likes herself to be stronger. Being
too thin always reminds her of how weak she was under Jiang Ma's hands, like a little chicken, and how weak and powerless she was when she was beaten by her mother and had nowhere to hide.
She will practice Sanda and boxing later.
The hotel they stayed in was just opposite the Affiliated High School of the Provincial Normal University, not far away. After breakfast, Director Zhang and his team took them to the Affiliated High School of the Provincial Normal University for the exam.
At this time, many buses and minibuses had already stopped at the gate of the Affiliated High School of the Provincial Normal University. Students got off the buses one after another and walked towards the Affiliated High School of the Provincial Normal University.
They were all visiting the Affiliated High School of the Provincial Normal University for the first time, which should be considered the most famous high school in their city.
When the teachers met, they would greet each other, asking each other about the situation of the students in their school this year, whether there were any particularly outstanding talents, and also boasting about what good talents had come out of their school.
Director Zhang drank too much yesterday and felt a little uncomfortable today. After sending the students to the Affiliated High School of the Provincial Normal University for the exam, he said hello to Director Xiao Wang and Teacher Ji and went back to the hotel to rest.
On this day, Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng took three exams in a row. Some of the others took two, and some took one. After the exams, they could go back to the hotel and wait for other students to finish their exams and go back together.
Jiang Xi did not see Director Zhang until he finished his exams and went back. He asked Teacher Ji and found out that Director Zhang was not feeling well and went to the city hospital in the morning.