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A person's temperament can be seen from the attitude of the people around him.

For example, Aunt Jiang, whether it is Grandma Jiang, Father Jiang, Mother Jiang, or Jiang Liu, when they have something to do, they go home to find Aunt Jiang, which also shows that this sister-in-law is really kind, because they all know that it is useless to find Uncle Jiang. First of all, Uncle Jiang is at home except during the double-snatch period and when it rains and snows and cannot work. He is not at home at other times. Even if he is at home, he doesn't take care of things. At most, he takes care of things in the fields. All things at home are done by Aunt Jiang.

For example, if you ask Uncle Jiang whether Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Liu have returned, you will definitely not get anything, you can only ask Aunt Jiang.

Aunt Jiang held her granddaughter in her arms, with a gentle smile on her face. She looked at Father Jiang and Mother Jiang and said, "Are you tired after coming back? I'll cook you a bowl of noodles first, and then we can talk."

She gently put her granddaughter back on the bed, and let her eldest daughter-in-law watch her, and went to the kitchen in the back to cook noodles.

Uncle Jiang's upstairs and kitchen are separated. The eldest son's family lives on the left, and the second son's family lives on the right. In the back is an identical kitchen, an identical laundry and vegetable washing sink, and in the middle is a large yard with some vegetables planted. The two families share a well.

They currently live on the right with their second son and youngest son who are not married yet. When the house for the youngest son is built, they will build another bungalow for themselves, and the old couple will live with Grandma Jiang.

This is the plan of Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang for the future.

It must be said that Uncle Jiang is a worthy bricklayer. He built the house very well. Even the kitchen was built with cement and bricks to store firewood. In this way, the broken firewood will not be scattered all over the kitchen, making it difficult to clean. There are also several holes on the earthen stove to dry shoes in winter.

Aunt Jiang has never been a person who watches others work and does not help.

She is very hardworking.

She followed Aunt Jiang into the kitchen, put the bacon in the bag on the stove, took out a large bowl from the cupboard, poured the bacon into the bowl, and said, "This is the bacon I marinated outside. It smells delicious when steamed. I don't have anything for you when I came back, so I got you a bowl. Try it."

Aunt Jiang was a daughter with a slow temper. She had a gentle smile on her face most of the time and was very stable in mood. She rarely lost her temper a few times a year, so her three sons, like Uncle Jiang who was taken care of by her, were also relatively stable in mood.

Even if Uncle Jiang was a little extreme and said something that Aunt Jiang didn't agree with, he would still listen to Aunt Jiang even though he grumbled.

Aunt Jiang laid two eggs for Dad and Mom Jiang, and said to Mom Jiang who took the initiative to light a fire under the stove: "Put your insoles in the stove and roast them, and roast your feet too."

Mom Jiang heard a sizzling sound, and then the aroma of eggs and rapeseed oil came out, and she hurriedly said: "You don't have to fry the eggs, we'll just eat something to fill our stomachs."

Aunt Jiang laughed and said: "You can't stay at home for more than two days a year, and you're still refusing two eggs? "

Mother Jiang said nothing.

Aunt Jiang then talked about Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Wu: "Dad came back once during the Qingming Festival. Baizi was admitted to university, and Dad and Baizi also came back to worship their ancestors. Together with Daguo, they repaired the graves of the two old ladies and removed the weeds. They went back the next day and have not come back since then. Maybe they are waiting to come back on New Year's Eve?"

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve.

It's not that Grandpa Jiang is unwilling to come back, but since Grandpa Jiang knew that Jiang Wu had not one house, but two houses in Shanghai, plus Jiang Bai's mortgage, the two of them had to pay back nearly 1,500 yuan in mortgage payments a month. Even though he knew that Jiang Wu's store could earn about 150 yuan a day, which was enough for Jiang Wu to pay back the loan after deducting rent and living expenses, the old man did not dare to relax.

Especially at the end of the year, when the students are busy , they will have to pay off their mortgage payments. The reputation

of the first year's gg and Wuzhong No. 1 Middle School spread by word of mouth, and people around Wucheng heard that there was a clothing store across from Wuzhong, where clothes were sold cheaply. So those who bought expensive clothes in their respective towns last year gave the money to their children and asked them to buy clothes from Grandpa Jiang's store as New Year clothes. If they came to Wucheng by themselves, they would come to Grandpa Jiang's store in person. In the store.

This winter's business is much better than last year.

Until the day before New Year's Eve, the store's business was still very good, and Grandpa Jiang was reluctant to close the store.

Last year's New Year's Eve was on January 30th, but this year it was on February 18th. Jiang Xi's winter camp was from November 20th to February 15th.

When Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng had been in the winter camp for more than a month, major universities came to the winter camp to sign up people. Kyoto University and National Tsing Hua University have signed over 100 students directly from the winter camp, including Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng. In other words, Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng have been admitted by these two universities in advance. After the IMO International Olympiad in July next year, they can go directly to the university as auditors and enter the university to study in advance. Of

course, you can also continue to stay in your high school and continue to study the high school course content in depth.

After returning to Wucheng No. 1 Middle School, Principal Sun ordered a banner overnight. Wuzhong also responded quickly. They had long been fooled by Principal Sun and Director Zhang's manipulation, so they ordered a banner at the first opportunity and hung it high on the gate of their school to celebrate in advance that Song Peifeng, a sophomore student of their school, was recommended to enter Tsinghua University in advance.

The freshmen of both schools were on vacation, leaving only the sophomores and juniors who stayed in school for winter vacation to make up for the missed lessons. On the day when the banner was hung, Director Zhang paid out of his own pocket to set off a large string of firecrackers at the gate of No. 1 Middle School.

He chose a very clever time, after the morning reading class of the two schools, when the students went to eat breakfast.

During the winter vacation, the teachers of No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School were not as strict in managing the students as usual. After the severe beating, the atmosphere in Wucheng was now cleared. The students of the two schools ate breakfast in the morning. During the three time periods, you can go out of school and eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the breakfast shop and small restaurant at the school gate. There are

fewer wealthy students in No. 1 Middle School. Only occasionally do students come to the school gate to buy food such as meat buns and egg pancakes for one yuan for four. However, there are many students at the gate of Wuzhong. The continuous sound of firecrackers at the gate of No. 1 Middle School does not attract many people. The students of No. 1 Middle School attracted the attention of many students of Wu Middle School. Soon, the students of Wu Middle School knew that Jiang Xi from No. 1 Middle School was recommended to Beijing University in his second year of high school.

The leaders of Wu Middle School, who had hung banners on the school gate at the same time as No. 1 Middle School during the morning reading class, thought that they were finally not one step behind No. 1 Middle School. When they heard the sound of firecrackers outside, they were so angry that they slapped their thighs and said, "This must be done by Lao Zhang! No one else can do this except him!"

The two directors of the Political and Educational Department and the two directors of the Academic Affairs Department of No. 1 Middle School are all very serious or elegant. Only Lao Zhang can be so outgoing, because most people would only think of hanging a banner, but only he would do something like surrounding the entire school with banners. For example, Wu Middle School usually tries to be quiet so as not to disturb the second and third year students. Only Lao Zhang would do something like setting off firecrackers at breakfast time to celebrate this event.

This also shows that the school leaders of No. 1 Middle School and former Director Zhang were really crazy with joy.

Director Wang, who was already one step behind, was very disappointed, but they couldn't buy firecrackers now, because by the time they bought the firecrackers, the students' breakfast time might have ended and they would have gone back to class. Besides, it was always No. 1 Middle School that was catching up with Wu Middle School. Why did Wu Middle School always learn from No. 1 Middle School?

However, because of the loud sound of firecrackers from No. 1 Middle School, all the students of Wu Middle School knew that Jiang Xi from No. 1 Middle School across the street had been admitted to Peking University in advance.

That was Peking University!

Even for Wu Middle School, the highest goal was only to enter a few 211 key first-class universities in the province, and they didn't dare to dream of the two highest universities in Beijing, for fear that their scores would not be high enough, and they would not only fail to enter those two schools, but also miss out on the first-class universities in the province.

At that time, the policy of filling in college applications had not changed. They were still used to applying for lower grades. Unless they were particularly confident like Jiang Song, they did not dare to apply for the top universities in their minds according to their usual test scores. For the sake of stability, they all silently lowered their grades in their hearts.

Even Song Peifeng, whose grades were the best in Wuzhong, did not dream of the two highest universities in Beijing. The most ideal state was to be below these two universities and always think that they were the top university in the province ranked third in the country.

Who knew that their school actually produced a Tsinghua University student!

Soon, the students of Wuzhong, reminded by the security guard, also discovered a new banner hanging high above the gate of their school: [Congratulations to our high school sophomore Song Peifeng for being recommended to Tsinghua University in advance]

"Look, Song Peifeng has also been recommended to Tsinghua University!"

"Oh my goodness! Tsinghua University!"

"He was recommended in his second year of high school!"

"He and Jiang Xi from No. 1 Middle School were recommended together, one to Tsinghua University and the other to Peking University!"

The commotion at Wuzhong also caused the few people who bought breakfast at the school gate of No. 1 Middle School to discover the banner on their school gate. Students from both schools were shocked for a while.

You know, not every big shot who comes from a national competition and enters the winter camp can be recommended in advance.

A small town like Wucheng unexpectedly produced two of them at once.

Not only were all the schools in Wucheng shocked, but even the other nine high schools in the city were stunned.

Rongchang No. 2 Middle School and the Provincial Normal University Affiliated Middle School were extremely jealous, but the leaders of the Municipal Education Bureau and Wucheng Education Bureau were very happy and even called the city and county TV stations to go to Wucheng for an interview.

On the contrary, the county TV station in Wucheng learned about this matter a step late. When they arrived at the gate of No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School and wanted to interview the school leaders of the two schools and the two students who were admitted to the top universities in the country, they found that the city TV station had already arrived. After interviewing the school leaders, they wanted to interview the two students, only to find out that the two admitted students were still in the winter camp preparing for the upcoming IMO and had not returned yet. They were just signed in advance by the two schools and told the good news in advance. The two schools that signed Jiang Qi and Song Peifeng also called No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School.

Principal Sun also struck while the iron was hot and applied to the Education Bureau to have Wucheng No. 1 High School also listed as a key high school in the city. From then on, it would be on par with Wuzhong in Wucheng, and there would no longer be a distinction between who was the boss and No. 1 High School would always be the second.

It was really because No. 1 High School's performance this year was too impressive.

Director Zhang slapped his thigh with joy and said, "I never thought that in my last year of retirement, I would still see a talent from our school being admitted to Peking University or Tsinghua University. It would be worth it even if I die now!"

His family members spat at him harshly, "Why don't you say something auspicious on New Year's Day? Bah, bah, bah! Children should talk without restraint!"

Director Zhang, who was over 60 years old and was still told by his wife that "children should talk without restraint", could not help laughing. He had that feeling of being spoiled until he was in his early 60s, and he still maintained the same naughty character as when he was young. He went over and held his wife's hand, "Come on, let's go to my grandson's house to drink..." The word "wine" almost came out of his mouth, and he quickly changed the tone, "...tea!"

The emergency caused by his greed for wine in the middle of the year almost scared his wife to death, and now they dare not let him drink a drop of alcohol.

Grandpa Jiang heard the sound of firecrackers at the gate of No. 1 Middle School. He stood at the door of his shop, looking into the distance, not knowing what had happened. Many shop owners and their wives walked out of their houses into the freezing cold wind, curiously looking around and asking what had happened.

Because Jiang Xi was still in the winter camp, Grandpa Jiang did not think that anything good had happened at No. 1 Middle School and that it had anything to do with his granddaughter. When people from nearby shops walked over curiously and saw the new banner on the gate of No. 1 Middle School, they knew that Jiang Xi was Grandpa Jiang's granddaughter, and they hurried over to tell Grandpa Jiang the good news: "Daddy! Daddy! Your granddaughter Jiang Xi was admitted to Peking University!"

Grandpa Jiang Still not believing, "What Peking University? She's only in the second year of high school, and she won't take the college entrance exam until next year, how could she get into Peking University? You must have seen it wrong, are you trying to fool me?"

Although this news is very tempting, after all, he has two grandsons who have passed the college entrance examination, and the younger grandson is now a college student. He has been at the gates of two high schools for so long, and he has been influenced by them, so Grandpa Jiang still has this common sense.

"It's true!" The person who brought the good news slapped his thigh anxiously, "If you don't believe it, you can go with me to see it, and you will know. The banner is hanging high up there, and your granddaughter's name is on it!"

With the work of Director Zhang and Principal Sun, who surrounded the wall of No. 1 Middle School with Jiang Qing's performance in the three subjects of mathematics, physics and chemistry, who in the whole Wucheng doesn't know the name of Jiang Qing from No. 1 Middle School? Even those who have never seen her have heard of her name.

Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng are now well-known in Wucheng.

Grandpa Jiang smiled and looked towards No. 1 Middle School with a puzzled look on his face. With the arrival of winter, his old cold legs began to hurt again, which made him walk a little slowly.

He hunched over and slowly looked towards No. 1 Middle School. The thick, warm down jacket on his body made him look like an old turtle carrying a turtle shell on its back. As he got closer, he looked up at the top banner, on which Jiang Gui's name was clearly written. He read the words on the banner very carefully and slowly, word by word, over and over again. Only then did a big smile appear on his old, skinny face, and then his eyes became moist.