Chapter 2929 [Update 1]
"You just said that Wucheng No. 1 Middle School is under closed management?" Director Li asked Wang Yong, "Students can't go out at all?"
"That's not the case." Wang Yong reported his investigation in recent days to Director Li: "The school also has day students. They go to morning study at 6 am every day and finish evening self-study at 9:30 pm. Day students also go to and from school at these times. Boarding students stay in the school all day and can't go out."
"What about weekends?"
"I don't know about the weekends yet. They were in military training last weekend and went directly to class the next day."
"Are there any Internet cafes nearby? What time do the Internet cafes open at night?"
"There are no Internet cafes nearby."
In order to investigate and inquire about Qing Meng's affairs in the past few days, Wang Yong has run all over the nearby area.
There are four high schools nearby, facing Wucheng Senior High School and Wucheng No. 1 High School, and not far away there are No. 2 High School and No. 4 High School.
"Okay, I got it." Director Li rubbed his forehead and had a rough idea in his mind, "You can find Jiang Xi."
He already knew roughly that Xi Meng was probably the less than fourteen-year-old Jiang Xi. If it was really like what the police speculated, she was someone in the public security system, it would be impossible for her not to reply to the email until now.
Unless he went undercover.
This little girl is so familiar with the public security criminal investigation methods, probably one of her relatives works in the public security system.
He walked to Editor-in-Chief Bao's office and said to him, "Pay attention to the submission box these days to see if there is any letter from Jiang Gui. She lives far away from us and it takes time for her to write and to send the letter to us. Don't give up until the last minute. If it really doesn't work, don't you have two chapters reserved? Those two chapters will be published in the fifth issue."
Yes, with the end of Jiang Gui's military training, the fourth issue of "Wuxia" was also published, but it is still being distributed in Guangzhou and has not yet been distributed to Nanshi and Shanghai. In this issue, Director Li finally achieved the first print run of one million copies, just like they did when the magazine was first founded.
He knew that too many articles had been published, and the fifth issue might face a window, but he couldn't let go of such popularity, especially at the critical moment when his Guangzhou branch was about to be cancelled.
The hot sales of the magazine in recent issues also brought huge profits to the "Martial Arts" magazine, and even GG approached them.
The higher-ups finally stopped talking about the cancellation of the Guangzhou branch for the time being, but no one dared to guarantee how long such popularity could last.
If such popularity could not be maintained, it would be a matter of time before the magazine withdrew from the market.
"We still need to ask Wang Yong to urge us to submit manuscripts." If she is really a high school student, it will be troublesome. She will definitely have fewer manuscripts, especially in the second and third years of high school. The more intense her studies are, the less time she will have to write. She can't just rely on Wang Meng's manuscripts.
"We still need to solicit more manuscripts."
But who doesn't know to solicit manuscripts? When has their magazine never stopped soliciting manuscripts? But now there are more and more martial arts novels on the market. With the martial arts novels of Gu Long, Jin Yong, Wen Ruian and others, they are hot in the mainland, which has a great impact on the mainland martial arts market.
Like "The Great Song", it completely opens up a theme different from traditional martial arts, and at the same time takes into account the current popularity of criminal investigation and mystery, which can be said to be unique.
Even if someone imitates Xi Meng, it may not be as popular as "Justice Bao". Even if it can catch up with the popularity of "The Song Dynasty", how many people can make each case in the criminal investigation as interlocking and exciting as Xi Meng, and at the same time control the rhythm as experienced as Xi Meng?
I just hope Xi Meng is not a high school student.
Jiang Xi didn't know that someone had been looking for her for several days.
While Wang Yong was talking on the phone with Director Li, Jiang's father also used a cart to pull 400 kilograms of food to the gate of No. 1 Middle School. He didn't know which class Jiang Xi was in, so he just said to the guard, "I'm here to deliver food to Jiang Bai from Class 8 of Senior Grade 3. Please call Jiang Bai."
The students were in class at that time, so he naturally wouldn't call Jiang Bai out at the critical moment of his studies. Instead, he checked the rice on Jiang's father's cart, and after making sure there was no problem, he asked Jiang's father to register, then locked the guard room and led Jiang's father to the cafeteria. After the chef in the cafeteria weighed the food, he gave Jiang's father 400 kilograms of food coupons.
He thought that Jiang's father had prepared a whole year's worth of food for Jiang Bai, so he didn't ask much. He looked at the time and said, "It's almost time for them to finish class. Wait here for five minutes and I'll go get someone for you."
The senior students were concentrated on the fifth and sixth floors. The security guard came out of the cafeteria, climbed up to the fifth floor, and walked to the door of Class 8. Less than two minutes later, the bell rang. The teacher inside delayed the class for five minutes and came out of the classroom. The security guard stood at the door and shouted, "Jiang Bai, who is Jiang Bai?"
Jiang Bai stood up and raised his hand, "It's me."
"Come out for a moment."
After Jiang Bai came out, he told him about Jiang's father coming to bring him food: "Your father is waiting for you at the canteen door." He pointed to the tall man standing at the canteen door not far away: "Look, is that your father?"
After getting Jiang Bai's definite answer, the security guard did not delay and ran to his security room.
The security room was still locked!
Jiang Bai ran to the canteen door in small steps. Jiang's father found that after six months of not seeing him, his second son had grown a lot taller and was now almost as tall as him.
He unfolded 400 kilograms of food coupons and handed them to Jiang Bai, saying, "I heard from your grandfather that Xiaoxiao has come to school to register. You and Xiaoxiao will share the food coupons in half. Do you know which class she is in? How is she now?" He mainly wanted to ask about the tuition.
Jiang Bai didn't know what he was asking about, so he nodded and said, "Fine."
"Fine, that's good." Then he took out another two hundred yuan and gave it to Jiang Bai. It was the pocket money he had secretly saved from selling crayfish some time ago: "Your mother didn't give Xiaoxiao tuition, so Xiaoxiao made some money by selling crayfish. Some time ago, she went to a brick factory to move bricks, making three yuan a day. I don't know if it's enough. This is the money I secretly saved during this time. Give it to her, and don't tell your mother when you go back."
Jiang Bai didn't expect that Jiang's mother didn't give her sister tuition, but when he thought about it, it didn't seem to be a strange thing. His mother always only cared about his eldest brother.
He nodded silently and said, "Well, I'll give it to her."
Father Jiang had no worries about his son, and handed him two cans of salted fish in a snakeskin bag: "I caught these on the river beach when I was drawing water from the hydropower station some time ago. I sold all the live fish, and I pickled the remaining dead fish and small fish feces. You and Xiaoxiao each have one bottle. When you finish eating, I'll ask someone to bring it back to you."
It was not worth going to Wucheng just for two bottles of fish, so he could only ask relatives and friends who came to Wucheng for business.
"Yes."
Father Jiang looked at his second son, who was not much shorter than him, and patted his shoulder: "Your elder brother did not come back to repeat his studies, and went to Shenzhen. No one knows where he is now. Now you and your sister are the only ones in school. Study hard and get into a good university. Don't be like your brother."
He said with a depressed tone.
Speaking of which, Jiang Song's grades were really good, otherwise Father and Mother Jiang would not have placed such high hopes on him.
But the college entrance examination system at that time was different from that in later generations. You had to fill in your application first, then take the exam, and then estimate your score.
Jiang Song was praised by his parents since he was a child for having a high opinion of himself. He applied to several very good universities, but he didn't get into any of them.
In his previous life, Jiang Song happened to be in the first batch after the college entrance examination system was reformed, and the policy of estimating scores first and then filling in applications was adopted.
He paused for a while, and the father and son had nothing to say: "Then you should study hard. I will go back if you are fine. If you need money or food coupons, tell someone to come back and tell me, and I will send them to you."
He pulled the cart, his back was sluggish, and the energy that was always full of hope and vigor in previous years seemed to have suddenly drained away, and he also looked a little old for no reason.
Jiang Bai held the money and food coupons in his hands, looked at his back as he left, and just remained silent.
After a while, he hurried to deliver them to Jiang Xi before class.
Jiang Xi took the money and food coupons from Jiang Bai. After hearing that it was Jiang's father who sent them, he didn't say anything. He just said, "I know. You can eat the salted fish. I brought it."
Jiang Bai didn't force it. Anyway, they could eat together later: "I heard from my father that mom didn't give you tuition." He took out ten yuan from his pocket and gave it to her: "I don't have much money on me. Take this ten yuan first."
Jiang's mother gave him a total of 800 yuan. Apart from tuition, books, and accommodation fees, the remaining money was pitifully small.
But he had food coupons, and he didn't leave the school on a daily basis, so he didn't have much to spend money on.
Anyway, it was okay as long as he wasn't hungry.
Jiang Xi didn't take it, shaking her head: "No, didn't Dad tell me? I made some money selling crayfish during the summer vacation, and now I have the two hundred yuan Dad sent me, so I'm not short of money for the time being, you can take it yourself."
Jiang Bai looked at her shaved head, and didn't ask her why she shaved her hair like that, but just said: "I'm on the fifth floor, Class 8, tell me if anyone bullies you."
Jiang Xi chuckled, laughing at the misunderstandings in her previous life, and said: "Well, don't worry, no one can bully me."
No one can bully her anymore.
Jiang Bai finally couldn't help it, touched her head, and turned around and ran back to the classroom before the bell rang.
At this time, all the teachers of the freshmen classes and subjects were working overtime to mark the test papers for the first semester, and they were trying to finish marking all the papers by the next day.
The first one to be marked was of course the English paper of Mr. Wang, the head teacher of Class 3, who took the first exam yesterday.
Knowing that Mr. Wang had finished marking the English papers, the English teachers of other classes who were still marking the papers couldn't help but look up and asked Mr. Wang with a smile: "How is it? How did your class take the exam?"
This office is full of people from the English group, including English teachers from the experimental class and the knife class.
They all know that Mr. Wang had announced in the class on the first day of school that he would get the first place in English in the grade!
When they asked him at this time, their smiles were inevitably teasing.
Teacher Wang looked at the teasing expressions on their faces and couldn't help but laugh. He calmly took out a test paper and put it on the top, tapping the paper, "Full marks."
This time, the teachers consciously wanted to give the freshmen who had a relaxing summer vacation a warning. A lot of knowledge that was only learned in the first year of high school was included in the test paper. It was not easy to get full marks. It was possible for the top students in the experimental class and the knife class, but it was not easy for the students in the parallel classes below to get full marks.
"Old Wang, you can't let them off just because they are students from your class, right?" The other teachers in the English group deliberately made fun of Teacher Wang. They couldn't stand Teacher Wang's cocky look.
Teacher Wang made a "tsk" sound, "Go and see for yourselves!"
The teacher opposite him was a female comrade. Hearing this, she smiled and took the test paper he had placed on the table. Teacher Wang stretched out his hand and pushed the paper forward.
The female teacher took the test paper, looked at both sides, especially the composition, and said in surprise: "It's really full marks." Even the composition is well written, and no one can find any points to deduct.
Teacher Wang couldn't help but be more proud when he heard it, picked up the teacup on the table, and took a sip very comfortably.
The other teachers also came over to take a look after hearing it. After reading it, they looked at the name on the left side of the test paper again - Jiang Xi.