Chapter 121121
They were really curious about Wucheng No. 1 Middle School.
It was not that people from Wucheng No. 1 Middle School had come to train with them before, but in previous years they were all unknown and went back after one round. This time, they directly surpassed all these old key high schools, even the Provincial Normal University Affiliated Middle School and Rongchang No. 2 Middle School.
And this time, there were two people from Wucheng, one from Wuzhong and one from Wucheng No. 1 Middle School.
Looking at the eyes of the crowd, Jiang Xi almost didn't smile and say "Hello, classmates". She had taught many classes for various "new class people" and "non-party people". This was how she taught at that time. When all the "students" in the class were present, she would come in and see this scene.
Xing Hongyu was also startled by the hot gazes of the crowd, and almost thought he had walked into the wrong class. When he saw the different school uniforms worn by the classmates, he knew that he had walked in the right direction, and walked in calmly.
The seats in the front were all full. Ruan Hong saw Jiang Xi, her eyes lit up, and she waved at her with a smile: "Jiang Xi, here!"
Hearing Ruan Hong's call, the classmates in the class knew that she was Jiang Xi.
In fact, they were not curious about Jiang Xi, but "Jiang Xi from Wucheng No. 1 Middle School". If Jiang Xi was from Rongchang No. 2 Middle School or Wu Middle School, they would not be so curious.
But soon, they were no longer curious. Due to the limited time, competition teachers came to teach them. All the teachers were "famous teachers" from various schools in the city. Not only did they have outstanding results in the competition, but they also had very good results in teaching students.
The city competition was equivalent to their basic test. The teachers no longer needed to give them another basic test. They just taught until 9:30 in the evening, making everyone feel refreshed.
Jiang Bai's registration day was three days earlier than Tong Jingang's. Tong's father and Tong Jingang sent Jiang Bai to register together.
In high school, Jiang Bai saw other classmates, whose fathers and mothers sent them to school, helped them run around, made their beds and hung mosquito nets, but Jiang Bai was alone.
Although Jiang Song was also in No. 1 Middle School, Jiang Song was playful. Jiang's mother taught him that these things were done by women since he was a child. She also said to Jiang Xi: "These housework should be done by you girls!"
Jiang Xi never washed the dishes at home again. He learned to pretend that he didn't know how to do this or that and didn't do housework.
He led Jiang Bai to his new dormitory. He didn't have the slightest intention of helping Jiang Bai. He quickly got acquainted with his new classmates in the dormitory and asked them to take care of him. Then he went to play ball with his friends, leaving Jiang Bai alone.
But this time was different. Tong's father and Tong Jingang were there.
Because the Tong family was too busy at Tong's mother's hospital, Tong Jingang was brought up by Tong's father since he was a child. Tong's father, who had a relatively free job, did most of the housework and cooking at home. So Tong's father and Tong Jingang carried Jiang Bai's big and small bags of things. After registering at the university, they sent Jiang Bai to his dormitory. After Jiang Bai chose the upper bunk as his bed, he naturally went up to make the bed for Jiang Bai.
In his heart, Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang were both rough men who were not good at such work. He never thought that Jiang Bai could even sew.
When he was in junior high school, all the socks in the family, whether they were adult socks or children's socks, were mixed together and everyone wore them randomly. Jiang Song never cared whose socks were whose, he only picked the good socks to wear.
When he was a child, not only his family, but everyone in the village had torn socks at the front and heels. He could not even remember how they got torn.
His eldest brother Jiang Song always had new socks. His younger sister was still young and did not know how to sew socks. He was very young when he could take a needle and thread, tear off scraps of cloth, and patch up the heels and fronts of socks little by little. He also learned how to patch double layers without any instruction, so that they would not tear easily.
When he was a child, he didn't have a scarf. Jiang's mother taught Jiang Xi how to make one. Jiang Xi was too young to learn it. He learned it by watching from the side. He washed and took apart Jiang Song's sweaters that were worn out and could no longer be worn. He connected the broken wool and knitted a scarf for himself. Later, he became addicted to knitting and knitted one for his sister and one for his grandfather.
He was also a perfectionist. There was a yellow duck on the scarf he knitted for his sister, but the wool was limited, so it was a little short.
He can not only knit scarves, but also gloves, socks, and woolen shoes.
Cooking, making beds, and folding quilts at home were all done by him and his sister when he was a child.
Tong Jingang also helped Jiang Bai organize things.
Jiang Bai arrived relatively early. There were already two people in the dormitory. When he saw Tong's father and Tong Jingang, especially Tong Jingang, who was as tall as Jiang Bai, he thought they were brothers and Tong's father was his father.
As they were not familiar with each other, they did not ask and just greeted each other. Tong Jingang also spoke to the two people in the dormitory in a familiar manner: "We are in the same dormitory. I'll ask you to take care of my brother in the future."
The other two roommates were stunned for a moment when they saw Jiang Bai's handsome face. They smiled politely and said, "Take care of each other, take care of each other."
Jiang Bai is no longer the timid Jiang Bai a year ago. Now he has an upright posture and a tall and strong figure. I don't know if it is because of the big mansion his sister bought in Shanghai that he has lost the inferiority complex from a small city or a rural area. He has a calm expression and a composed manner. There is no trace of the cold and indifferent attitude that kept people at a distance in the past. Instead, he greeted the two new roommates with a shy smile.
After Tong's father, Tong Jingang and Jiang Bai hung up the mosquito net, replaced the bed sheets with new ones issued by the school, and laid a straw mat on the bed sheets, he also stuffed the large password box Jiang Xi gave him under the bed.
At that time, very few people used this kind of trolley password box, which was still a very fashionable suitcase. The two roommates saw Jiang Bai's clothes, temperament, and password box, and thought that Jiang Bai's family conditions were good. As the saying goes, respect the clothes first and then respect the person, and this is true everywhere. They thought Jiang Bai's family conditions were good, so they would naturally be a little polite to him.
The military training had not yet started. The two roommates saw that Jiang Bai did not live in the dormitory at night, but wanted to "go home", and thought that Jiang Bai was a local.
Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang returned to Jiang Xi's house. Now he had paid his tuition and had three hundred yuan in his meal card. He had also deposited all the money from the brigade, Uncle Jiang, and his uncle's relatives, and the "salary" Jiang Xi gave him into his passbook. Now he only had ten yuan left in cash.
In addition to Jiang Bai's registration time, the new students of No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School had also registered this year.
In order not to delay students' study time, No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School had always registered a week in advance, on the same day as Jiang Bai. After registration, they had a week-long military training.
On the 27th, after Tong's father sent Tong Jingang to school to register, he did not delay any longer. After sending him back to Wucheng by himself.
He had already taken several days off.
Dad Jiang waited for several days, and finally got another call from Jiang Bo. He knew that Jiang Bo had successfully registered and would soon have military training. Dad Jiang smiled so hard that he couldn't stop, as if he was happy to hear that he would have military training in college.
That day, he was in a particularly good mood and cut all the dried tofu into pieces of orchid dried tofu. He took a piece of orchid dried tofu from the big brine pot next to him and gave it to every customer who came to buy a lunch box, sharing with them the good news that his son would register for college today and would soon have military training.
Not to mention the customers, even the people in the nearby shops who were already familiar with Dad Jiang knew that Dad Jiang had a son who was studying in college.
College students these days are still rare, and they all congratulated Dad Jiang.
Father Jiang was also very happy because his family had a college student. He felt that his social status had improved. His back, which had been unable to stand up due to debts in the past few years, was finally straightened up.
Father Jiang cooked delicious dishes, and Mother Jiang washed vegetables cleanly and hygienically. They ate their own boxed lunches. The newsstands, staff, and people from some small shops nearby also liked to buy boxed lunches from Father Jiang. Mother
Jiang didn't like Father Jiang's behavior of giving away things for free when he was happy. Fortunately, this time it was only dried tofu, not duck feet. She glared at Father Jiang for a few times, but she didn't say anything about him in front of others. She just looked unhappy.
The crackdown this year finally reached their city of Shenzhen. Now Shenzhen is cracking down on drugs and gangs. There are still many thieves near the train station, but the number of people snatching bags on the street on motorcycles has decreased. At least, they dare not do it in the city now.
He Xiaofang and her friends also returned to school one after another.
After a summer vacation, He Xiaofang, who was originally dark, became even darker. On the basis of her original skin, she seemed to be eight shades darker. Because of sweating, her face looked a little shiny, and she looked very tired.
Her brother was the only male child in her family. He was still young, so during the period of the Great Depression, all the heavy work was done by her, her sister, her father and her mother. Her mother was old and had too many children, so she could not do heavy work. She was mainly responsible for washing clothes, cooking and cleaning at home, and only went to the fields to harvest rice and plant rice seedlings in the morning and evening.
The main labor force in the family was still her, her sister and her father.
Her family was in financial difficulty, and her mother was reluctant to buy meat. Even if she bought some meat, it was mainly for her father and brother. She and her sister could not get a single drop of meat. She rushed down the two teams and was almost exhausted. After finally finishing the two teams, school started. She and her sister carried a load of rice to school. In order to save money, she and her sister did not take a bus, but carried more than 100 kilograms of rice and walked all the way to school.
The moment
she saw her school, she actually wanted to cry. She thought she would see Jiang Xi as soon as she entered the school, but Jiang Xi was not in the school. After asking, she found out that Jiang Xi went to the city for training because he was going to participate in the provincial competition in September. Xu
Xiuli did not return to school either. According to Xu Xiuli's homesick personality, she would not return until tomorrow afternoon.
Lu Xuehua and Wang Xia had arrived in the dormitory. When Lu Xuehua saw He Xiaofang, she was stunned and shouted, "He Xiaofang! How come you are so dark!"
He Xiaofang smiled, revealing her big white teeth. She said shyly, "I got sunburned during the summer vacation."
"Then you shouldn't be so dark, right?" Lu Xuehua has normal skin color, not very white, even a little yellow, but she stretched her arm towards He Xiaofang's arm and found that she was so white~
She immediately exclaimed, "I never realized I was so white!"
Wang Xia also stretched out her arm. She had a pink and tender complexion to begin with, and now her arms looked really white and glowing.
Although Wang Xia is also from the countryside, she usually does housework at home. She has several older brothers, as well as a stepfather and stepbrother, so it is not her turn to do farm work at home.
In the dormitory, everyone was discussing whether to choose liberal arts or science when registering, and everyone asked each other whether to choose liberal arts or science.
Although the liberal arts and science classes in No. 1 Middle School were officially divided at the beginning of the second year of high school, in fact, many students in the class had already had a focus since the second semester of high school.
For example, He Xiaofang basically gave up studying physics and chemistry in the second semester of her senior year, and put all her energy into improving her grades in math and English. The physics and chemistry teachers never said anything. Many students in the class made the same choice as He Xiaofang in the second semester of her senior year, as they could not take care of both arts and science. Only a few students like Jiang Xi and Xu Xiuli, who were good at both arts and science and had balanced grades, insisted on taking all seven courses.
Wang Xia and her classmates were the same. They had already decided whether to study arts or science in the last semester.
Wang Xia said, "I will definitely study arts."
He Xiaofang also complained, "Finally, we can choose between arts and science. I wanted to study arts last semester. Physics and chemistry made me exhausted. Mathematics alone almost killed me, not to mention physics and chemistry."
Lu Xuehua and Liu Ping both studied science.
In the dormitory, Jiang Xi and Xu Xiuli were not there yet, and several people speculated whether the two were studying arts or science. After all, they were not biased towards any subject and had good grades in all subjects.
He Xiaofang said, "Xingxing should be studying liberal arts. She said before that she would apply for liberal arts."
Lu Xuehua was surprised, "That's impossible, right? Didn't Jiangxing participate in some math, physics and chemistry competition? She is so good at science, why would she choose liberal arts?"
There is a saying now, "Learn math, physics and chemistry well, and you won't be afraid to travel the world." Therefore, as long as you are good at science, you will basically choose to study science.
"But didn't you find that Xingxing's liberal arts grades are better?" He Xiaofang said.
Lu Xuehua asked her in surprise, "Which subject is her poor in?"
The two argued about whether Jiang Xi was good at liberal arts or science. In the end, He Xiaofang was out-spoken by Lu Xuehua and said angrily, "I won't talk to you anymore." She turned around and went back to bed to sulk.
She actually wanted Jiang Xi to study liberal arts, so that maybe they could still be in the same class. She felt depressed when she thought that they were no longer in the same class.
Lu Xuehua saw through her thoughts at a glance. She sneered and said, "I know you have a good relationship with Jiang Xi, but don't even think about being in the same class with her. Her grades are so good. Even if she chooses liberal arts,
she will be in a key class. What does it have to do with our parallel class? We might even have to change our dormitory by then!" When He Xiaofang thought about changing dormitories and separating from Jiang Xi, she felt even worse. She turned around to face the wall, sullen and silent.
She has always known that the people in the dormitory stopped targeting her gradually because Jiang Xi was close to her, and she gradually integrated into the dormitory. She didn't know, if Jiang Xi left, or Lu Xuehua and Liu Ping also left, and new classmates came to the dormitory, would they all reject her, ignore her, and gossip about her behind her like they did in the first few months of the first semester of high school?
The other girls in the dormitory were also unhappy, because if Jiang Xi separated from them, they probably wouldn't be able to rent out Jiang Xi's books anymore.
Because of Jiang Xi, the girls in their dormitory had better relationships than those in other dormitories. I heard that there were even quarrels and fights in other dormitories, but except for the time when Liu Ping rented out Jiang Xi's books privately, which caused a conflict in the dormitory, which was directed at He Xiaofang in the first few months of school, their dormitory relationship has been very harmonious since then. When Jiang Xi was free, he would come to the dormitory at noon to turn on the stove for them, which helped them improve their grades a lot.
The harmony in the dormitory also allowed them to focus more on their studies, without having to deal with the complicated dormitory relationships that made them feel internally consumed.
All of this is inseparable from Jiang Xi's plan to rent books in exchange for braised pork. They were also afraid that new classmates with personalities that didn't match theirs would move in, which would lead to quarrels and fights, especially Lu Xuehua and Liu Ping in the dormitory, both of whom were quick-tempered and had bad tempers.
Xu Xiuli arrived at school the next afternoon. When she went to register, she was divided into arts and science. On the advice of her parents, she chose science.
Teacher Wang would still be in charge of the science class, but for arts, the class teacher would have to be changed.
Xu Xiuli thought of what Jiang Xi had said last semester, that if she wanted to study arts, she hesitated for a moment and asked Teacher Wang: "Can we not change dormitories?"
"It depends on your wishes. If you want to change, just apply. If you don't want to change, you can stay in the original dormitory." Teacher Wang said.
Hearing this, Xu Xiuli felt relieved and went back to the dormitory to tell the good news.
Everyone else in the dormitory had already arrived. After hearing the good news from Xu Xiuli, Liu Ping was the first to shout out: "We can continue to rent books and eat braised pork!"
Now there are more and more books in the dormitory. In addition to the martial arts every issue, there are also five volumes of "Da Song" published books. "Reader" and "Youth Digest" are less, but there are two copies that Xu Xiuli occasionally buys, which are also put in the dormitory to rent out.
However, in the second year of high school, there are probably fewer people renting books. Liu Ping decided to develop new customers after the new students entered school and rent books to the freshmen in the first year of high school. At
the beginning of the new school year, the boys who were originally living downstairs and are now in their third year of high school will move to the old dormitory building. All the dormitories downstairs will be vacated for the new students, who are still in their second year of high school and do not need to move.
With the new students entering school, Jiang Gangqin, who participated in a singing competition in the provincial capital during the summer, also returned to Wucheng and spent all the money she had saved over the years.
She did not get any place, but she was still very happy to be on TV.
However, He Qiaosheng, with the title of original singer, has always made it to the finals. With the broadcast of the competition on the provincial TV station, several of his original songs have now been noticed by music companies and signed. He Qiaosheng has also become a little famous because of this competition.
During the competition, he always thought that Ximeng might watch his competition, so he had to perform well. He took every competition seriously, not only in singing, but also in his appearance, trying to make Ximeng no longer see the trace of his past yellow hair.
So the audience saw him in front of the TV, wearing a white shirt, white T-shirt, jeans, and a clean and refreshing school boy. For this reason, the TV station gave him a lot of shots.
Because of his fame and his creative skills, he was also invited to form a band.
He wanted to follow them to wander, but his parents didn't allow it.
His grandfather also advised him: "We are not forbidding you to play music, but you have to study at least in college. Do you think your current level is enough to support you to play professional music? I suggest you go to a music college to study for a few years first."
He Qiaosheng had only learned guitar for a few months and his level was shit. The songs he wrote were all polished and revised by his grandfather. So He Qiaosheng, who had been wandering around outside for a summer vacation, returned to Wucheng.
When he returned to Wucheng, he couldn't help thinking that he was so popular in the competition during the summer vacation, and he didn't know if Xi Meng saw him and heard the songs he wrote.
She didn't know if she could hear that all the songs he wrote were because of her.
Thinking that she had also watched his competition and heard the songs he wrote, He Qiaosheng couldn't help but blush and smile.
He didn't know why he smiled, but he was very happy.