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This teacher may not know about others, but when it comes to Jiang Xi, this teacher really knows, because he is the best in the county.

However, he was still suspicious for a moment and asked: "Your three children are studying in our No. 1 Middle School? You don't even know the classes of your three children?"

Jiang's father said helplessly: "When my eldest son was in high school, my family and I sent him to register. Later, when the second child went to high school, I thought that he would have his eldest brother to take care of him, unlike the eldest child who was unfamiliar with the place before, so my family and I did not send the second child to school. When it came to my youngest daughter Jiang Xi, her second brother happened to be in No. 1 Middle School. With her second brother taking care of her, we didn't worry about anything. The two children have been obedient and sensible since they were young, and their mother and I felt more at ease when we worked outside." Jiang's father said: "Plus I am also a student of No. 1 Middle School, How can I not feel at ease about my own alma mater?"

Jiang Dad, a teacher at No. 1 Middle School, said that he was also from No. 1 Middle School, and all four of his family members graduated from No. 1 Middle School. Jiang Xi was ranked first in the county, so he could not help but lower his guard against Jiang Dad and said to him, "Leave me your phone number, and I will find the head teacher of Jiang Xi's class later." Jiang Song did not get into college, so he did not say anything. He did not know Jiang Bai, so he sighed and said, "Your daughter is really amazing, a seedling of the top scholar, you really need to train her well."

Jiang Dad never thought that the teachers at No. 1 Middle School would have such a high evaluation of Jiang Xi. He nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes, yes, I was in such a hurry to find them because I wanted to know how my second son's college entrance examination results were and whether he was admitted to a university. If he was admitted to a university, I would have to send the tuition fees to them. We have just settled down here for a short time. They don't know my phone number, and I don't know his phone number. It took a long time to find No. 1 Middle School. I just wanted to ask them how the college entrance examination was. No matter how the sons and daughters are, they have to pay the tuition fees!"

After listening to the call, the teacher of No. 1 Middle School hung up the phone and went to find Mr. Wang, the head teacher of Class 3.

Mr. Wang's home was in the family building at the back. Although he was also on vacation, he didn't go far because there was another student in his class, Jiang Xi, who was taking classes in the school competition class. He stayed in Wucheng most of the time.

After hearing that it was Jiang Xi's father who called, Teacher Wang found Jiang Xi and told her about it. He gave her the phone number where she could contact Jiang's father, saying that her father said he would pay their tuition fees and asked her to call back when she had time.

Jiang Xi couldn't help but laugh when she heard it.

In her previous life, she had never received any tuition fee calls from him during her three years of high school. In this life, she didn't need it anymore. He said he would pay her tuition fees.

But she didn't say no either. Why not? If he helps you pay your tuition fees, you will have to support them in your old age. If he doesn't help you pay your tuition fees, you will still have to support them in their old age.

If you don't want the money, they won't feel guilty. All the money they save will be given to their eldest brother Jiang Song. Instead of giving it to their eldest brother Jiang Song, who will spend it all on others like a scatterbrain, it's better to pay for her and their second brother's tuition. At least their second brother won't have to worry about the mortgage and tuition every day.

Jiang Bai stayed in the store every day. Sometimes when there was a market, he and Tong Jingang would take the clothes in the store to the market in the town below to sell. They went to all the famous markets in the towns near Wucheng, just to help her sell more clothes during the summer vacation. The more money they made, the more at ease he would feel about the nearly 500 yuan mortgage that his sister paid for him every month.

His monthly mortgage was actually a little over 400, less than 500, but he always calculated it in round numbers and wrote it down in a notebook. He couldn't take so much money from his sister every month, and he thought that he would have to pay it back to his sister when he made money.

Jiang Xi didn't want to talk to Jiang's father and mother. She gave her number to Jiang Bai and told him, "Don't call from the store."

Jiang Bai was silent for a while and nodded.

His sister's attitude was very clear. She had a gap with her family.

He knew it, but he was powerless to change it.

His sister was beaten more often than he was since she was a child, but he had a stubborn personality since he was a child. It was not his fault. When he was beaten, he would cry to the person who beat him and would not be at peace for the whole day. The feeling of a weak person who could not resist but had to retaliate made him cry and cry when he was young. He would continue to cry when he thought about it the next day. He would stand beside the person who beat him and cry. Wherever they went, he would cry. He cried for several days in a row, saying, "Unless you beat me to death," and he cried so much that none of Jiang's father, Jiang's mother, Jiang's grandmother, and his cousins ​​dared to provoke him again.

When Jiang Bai grew up, the elders in the family mentioned Jiang Bai, and their deepest impression of him was: "He cried a lot when he

was a child. I have never seen anyone cry as much as Jiang Bai in all these years. He couldn't stop crying. The veins on my head were swollen and hurt by his crying!" But his sister was born to yearn for mother's love, just like a little beast that was abandoned at birth. No matter how the mother beast bit her, she always lingered by the mother beast, unwilling to leave.

He didn't know when his sister started to change. Maybe from the first time he saw his sister at the gate of No. 1 Middle School, his sister had changed. She

became strong, confident, and no longer needed anyone.

He seemed to see the little lion who licked his wounds alone when he was young, as weak as a kitten, and now has grown step by step into a strong lioness who can hunt alone on the grassland.

She is strong, strong, and gorgeous!

She has a neat figure and sharp eyes!

There is no moment like this that makes Jiang Bai realize more clearly that his sister has grown up.

After receiving Jiang Bai's call, Jiang's father finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked him about his college entrance examination.

Jiang Bai answered him honestly, "I scored 576 points in the college entrance examination and applied to Shanghai Institute of Technology. The admission score of Shanghai Institute of Technology last year was 489, so I should be able to get in."

When Jiang's father heard that he had scored so high, he was happy at first, but then he felt a little regretful when he heard that he had applied to Shanghai Institute of Technology. With this score, he could have applied to better schools, but when he thought that his own family would also have a college student, Jiang's father's regret of not being admitted to college and not having attended college finally seemed to find an outlet in his younger son.

He said tenderly, "You should study hard in college and don't worry about the tuition. Your mother and I earn some money by selling lunch boxes outside. Now that the family debt has been paid off, the money we earn is definitely enough for your college expenses. After you receive the admission letter, call me and tell me how much the tuition is. I will transfer it to your savings account along with your living expenses. By the way, have you opened a savings account? If not, go and open one as soon as possible. Call me at this number in the future. Your mother and I sell lunch boxes at noon and in the evening. You call me this afternoon and ask the lunch box seller to answer the phone. Someone will come to call me. If you have a fixed number when you arrive in Shanghai, give me the number so that I can contact you if anything happens."

Father Jiang has never been a stingy person. Jiang Song's lavish spending can be said to be inherited from Father Jiang. As long as he has money on him, he is happy to spend money on his children, parents, and wife. That gives him a sense of accomplishment as the head of the family, leading his family to live a good life.

During the years when he was in debt, all the family savings were kept by Jiang's mother, and he did not have a penny. This feeling of powerlessness to protect his family from wind and rain, and even to bring storms to his family, almost drained his backbone and energy. It was only in the past two years, when the debts were gradually paid off, and all of them were paid off last year, that his energy returned, and he began to think about all kinds of things again, thinking about doing big things on his own.

Now that he is middle-aged, it seems that he can no longer do big things, but the money he earns from selling lunch boxes has made him stronger.

He knows that given his and Jiang's mother's current situation, if he wants to open a factory and make a lot of money, Jiang's mother will definitely not be willing to take risks with him. Fortunately, he still has good cooking skills. Now he sells lunch boxes first, and when he makes money and builds a house at home, he will find a way to open a small restaurant.

He said, "We didn't have money before, and we didn't pay your sister's tuition. Your grandfather paid for your sister's tuition. Now we have made money here. You can ask Xiaoxiao to open a savings account, and I will transfer your sister's tuition and living expenses to her."

Thinking of the lychees, longans, dragon fruits and other fruits in Shenzhen, he is now looking forward to his children coming here during the summer vacation. He bought lychees and longans for his children, but they have never eaten them.

Especially lychees, lychees have a very different status in Jiang's father's heart. They are precious fruits that the emperors and concubines in ancient times wanted to eat, but they might not be able to eat. He really wants his children to eat them and broaden their horizons.

Jiang Bai listened to Jiang's father talking excitedly on the phone about asking them to come to Shenzhen during the holidays, and he remained silent.

He had always been invisible in his parents' eyes, but when he said he scored more than 570 points and was admitted to a university in Shanghai, he seemed to have entered their eyes all of a sudden, at least in the eyes of Jiang's father, and his voice was high and excited. After

hanging up the phone, Jiang's father told everyone he met that his son had been admitted to a university, a Shanghai Polytechnic University.

Not only did he cook a big pot of meat soup today, he also went to the wholesale market and bought a big bag of duck feet.

Duck feet don't need to be washed, just put them in a large basin to melt, and rinse them twice with water.

Jiang's mother was quite surprised, "Why did you buy so many duck feet?"

Jiang's father couldn't hide his joy on his face, and shared the good news with Jiang's mother: "Baizi scored 576 points in the college entrance examination. He applied for Shanghai University of Technology. Last year, the admission score was less than 500 points. With this score, he basically got into the university. My family finally has a college student, so shouldn't we celebrate?"

He was beaming with joy.

His two cousins, although both were college students, actually applied for local universities, which were not as good as Shanghai University of Technology. Even so, they were guaranteed jobs after graduation. One is now a junior high school teacher in Wucheng, and the other is assigned to a suburb near the provincial capital. They are both iron rice bowls with guaranteed income.

But even though they were cousins, they had all separated. Jiang Bo was his biological son, and the only one who was a college student in his family in the true sense. Wasn't Jiang's father excited?

Jiang's mother was silent while helping to wash the duck's feet, and said, "Songzi is stubborn and afraid of the burden on the family, so he didn't want to come back to repeat his studies. Otherwise, if he was like Jiang Bo, he would have applied to a slightly lower school instead of such a good one, and he would be a college student now!"

Wucheng was in chaos, and Shenzhen was ten times more chaotic than Wucheng. They were at the train station every day, and there were no telling how many thieves there were. They just watched people lose money and wallets every day, and there were also motorcycle gangs who robbed directly.

They knew their eldest son's character, and they were afraid that he would be like these people, fighting outside every day. If they couldn't find their son, they would be uneasy and trembling every day.

Jiang's father was a particular person. When he had extra money, he wanted to dress better, wearing a white shirt and black pants to sell things. Jiang's mother directly let him wear a torn vest with several holes in it and old trousers. Her clothes were also patched up. She didn't dare to leave a penny with Jiang's father, for fear that he would be stolen by someone if he was not careful. It was also because of

Jiang's mother's prudence and keeping a close eye on money, and she would immediately deposit money into her passbook as soon as she had it, that their money had never been stolen so far.

In recent years, Jiang's mother has been used to managing the family finances. Besides, in Wucheng, men work outside and women manage the finances. Jiang's mother always regrets when she thinks of the first few years after her marriage, when she was young and naive, and the family money was managed by Jiang's father, who spent it outside every day.

Except for the money for purchasing goods every day, Jiang's father is not allowed to manage any money.

Because of her trust in Jiang's father, she doesn't know that Jiang's father hides five yuan today and ten yuan tomorrow, and now he has secretly hidden a lot of private money.

Jiang's mother originally thought that Jiang's father blanched duck feet in a large steel basin for sale, but it turned out that he gave a duck foot to every person who came to buy a lunch box, and then told them the good news that his son had been admitted to university, and everyone congratulated Jiang's father.

Seeing that such a big basin of duck feet had been given away by him, Jiang's mother rolled her eyes and was very angry. She went back and sat on the bed and cried: "Life has just improved a little bit, and you are so arrogant, right? If you sell so many duck feet, it will be at least tens of dollars. We only make a few dollars a day, and you spend money lavishly again."

"Songzi Songzi has not been found, Jiang Bai needs a lot of money to go to college, and the broken house at home is still there, so how can we not spend money? You spend it so recklessly again!" Jiang's mother cried and choked.

Jiang's father originally thought that Jiang's mother was crying on such a happy day, which was very sad and stingy. Now, after hearing what Jiang's mother said, Jiang's father, who was excited for a while, felt like a basin of cold water was poured over him.

He came over and coaxed her, "I was also admitted to university by Baizi. I was so happy. I won't do that again in the future." He came over and pulled Jiang Ma's arm, "We now have two meals a day, noon and evening, and we can sell about a thousand box lunches a day. Even if we make three cents per box lunch, a hundred boxes will make thirty yuan. Let's take the low number of 800 boxes a day. After deducting the cost, labor, and rent, we can make two hundred and forty yuan a day. Two hundred and forty a day, two thousand and four in ten days, and seven thousand and two a month. We can make a lot of money here for a year." , and we can build a house when we go home by the end of the year."

As he spoke, his eyes lit up with smiles, and he said with a smile: "Then we will build two buildings like my brother's family, build the Songzi and Baizi buildings together, and build a separate one for the two of us to live in."

Jiang's mother could not read, and although she could do math and calculations, she could only do some simple calculations. The lunch boxes sold more today and less tomorrow, and ups and downs were common, so she didn't know if the money was ten yuan more or five yuan less every day.

She put the money she earned into the bank passbook every day, watching the money in the passbook increase day by day, but she didn't calculate how much they earned specifically, and only wanted to keep the money for Jiang Song to build a house for him and marry him off.

At this time, listening to Jiang's father calculating with her, she realized that they could make so much money selling lunch boxes. If you calculate it, you can save 70,000 or 80,000 yuan a year!

"You can't spend money recklessly!" Jiang's mother stopped crying, turned around and glared at Jiang's father fiercely, saying: "It costs money to build a house for the two sons, to marry a wife,

and to study. Jiang Bai is only two years younger than Songzi. After Songzi marries a wife, it will soon be Jiang Bai's turn. Which one doesn't cost money?" But Jiang's father just calculated their annual income and the money they could make if they continued to sell lunch boxes here in the future. Jiang's mother was relieved and smiled more. She washed vegetables, cleaned the house, and sold lunch boxes every day, working harder.

Didn't everyone laugh at her house being short? This year she will build a house higher than any other!

In late August, Tong Jingang received the admission letter from the university first, and soon Jiang Bai also received the admission letter from Shanghai University of Science and Technology.

The moment Jiang Bai received the admission letter, his eyes inexplicably turned red.

He didn't want to cry, but he couldn't help it.

He quickly buried his face in his arms.

Grandpa Jiang did the same. He took Jiang Bai's admission letter, looked at it again and again, wanted to touch it but didn't dare to, for fear that he would damage his grandson's college admission letter. He handed it back to Jiang Bai, wiped his tears and said, "Okay, okay! We will go home tomorrow and tell your grandpa and grandma the good news."

Thinking of his father and mother's generation and the suffering they had endured, Grandpa Jiang couldn't stop crying with joy. He walked behind the curtain, turned his back to the shop, faced the wall, and cried for a long time.

Guoan Guoliang from my younger brother's family is a college student, and now his grandson is also a college student. In the future, his grandchildren will also be able to hold iron rice bowls and eat the food of the state, and no longer have to suffer as they did back then.

Their generation has really suffered all the hardships they could.

Thinking of returning home in glory and telling all the old guys in the village that his grandson was admitted to the university, he smiled happily again, and packed up his things excitedly, wishing he could go back to the village immediately to announce the good news to everyone.

His grandson who made a fortune has also been admitted to the university! (^o^)/~