Chapter 4747 [1st update]

Because the shop was not far away, Jiang Qi still had time before evening self-study, so he went to the shop with Wang Yong.

The landlord of the shop was nearby. After they shouted a few times at the door, a neighbor who sold egg cakes next door heard them and asked, "Are you here to rent the shop?" He turned around and shouted loudly to the community at the back, "Dagui, Dagui, someone is here to check on the shop! Qiaoxin, call Dagui!"

The girl who was called Qiaoxin also shouted upstairs, "Uncle Gui! Someone is here to check on your shop!"

"Here they come! "

Soon a man in his forties ran out of the house at the back. Because he was close, he didn't even have time to throw an umbrella.

He ran over and said, "The shop is good. It's all cleaned up. Look. "

He opened the door of the shop and came out. What he saw was clean white walls and white floor. There were a few wet footprints on the floor where the landlord had just stepped.

The previous tenant of the shop rented it to run a milk tea business. He originally thought that the business should be good because there were two schools next door to each other and there were many students. However, the two schools were exactly the same. They kept the students in the school and did not let them out. The few students who were allowed to go out still came to study at 6 o'clock in the morning and went to evening self-study at 9:30 in the evening. When they got up and opened the shop, there was no one at the door. Only occasionally when the students came to buy a cup of milk tea after evening self-study, they could not make money that way. Every month it was not enough for her to pay the rent.

As the end of the year approached and the students would have their winter vacation in two months, the school would be even more deserted. The original tenant could no longer make business and simply gave up the lease and returned home.

Her family was also from Wucheng, not far away. At that time, the milk tea shop was not decorated like the franchise stores of later generations. Her store was very simply furnished with a wooden bar, a few tables and chairs. The owner called a tricycle and it took away the things, preparing to find a new store.

The store was quickly emptied out .

The landlord had a headache. After he cleared out his shop, no one wanted to rent it. The same was true for the shops next door. He couldn't rent out his shop, so he opened a small shop to sell egg cakes. Fortunately, his egg cakes were quite delicious. Even students from the next street would occasionally come here to buy some to take home. There were also old neighbors who came to buy. Whatever he could sell was pure profit. There

was also a stall selling homemade sweet potato rice candy, biscuits and other snacks next door. If he couldn't sell them, he would set up a stall at the gate of No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School. Students would come here at noon and in the evening after school. , they would come over through the school's big iron gate to buy from them, and that's how some business started.

Because they've been neighbors for many years, they only come to sell in the morning after reading and in the afternoon and evening after school. The rest of the time they go back to the store, and the security guards won't chase them away.

These things that can be sold have basically been sold by nearby stores. The landlord's wife originally wanted to open a boutique here, selling some girls' hair flowers, hairpins, etc., but she couldn't sell anything, so later she bought some sundries like the neighbors around her. There were still no buyers for food like snacks, so he simply rented out the shop. It was hassle-free and labor-free, and he could collect rent every month.

But he didn’t expect that every year after renting out the shop, the owner would stop renting it within half a year.

Now there was someone who came to see the shop, and the landlord came over and said nice things: "You can see that there are schools next to the shop, two high schools, and a large flow of people..."

Jiang Xi smiled and pointed to the street that was a little popular because of the weekends when students went back to school and said: "You call it a large flow of people?"

The landlord said embarrassedly: "Isn't this the students' holiday? When the students from No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School come back, it will naturally be popular! "

Jiang Xi also smiled and said, "I'm just a middle school student. I pass by your door every weekend. This is my brother. He looks for a store nearby every day. He knows everything about your store."

The landlord, who was called Uncle Gui, immediately touched the back of his head in embarrassment, and boasted, "But my store is big. Look at the area, the walls, and the floor are all covered with tiles. "

This shop is indeed not small. The storefront is the size of a normal storefront, but it is deep, and there is a small door at the back that leads to the residential area behind. The landlord just came in through this small door at the back.

The total area of ​​the shop is about 30 square meters, close to 40 square meters.

"If you rent my shop, you can put up a curtain at the back and put a bed inside. People can sleep inside and sell things outside, saving the rent at night." The landlord led them to the back door and opened the small door at the back door. There was a porch above the small door. "If you cook for yourself, you can also buy a briquette stove and put it here. It's not difficult to cook something. But the walls of my shop are painted white, so don't put the briquette stove inside. "

He had already seen that Wang Yong was from another place and thought that Wang Yong wanted to rent a shop.

If it weren't for the fact that the two schools here prohibited students from going out, resulting in a deserted street, his shop would really be a good shop. A shop as big as his in the next street rents for two or three hundred yuan a month.

Jiang Xi nodded. It was indeed possible to put a bed in the back, and asked the landlord: "I may need to install some shelves on the wall. Is that okay?" When

the landlord heard that she really wanted to rent it, he nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, do you want my help?"

Jiang Xi smiled and said, "That couldn't be better. "

The landlord happened to be free and was afraid that Jiang Gui would damage the wall of his shop, so he said that when she needed to install some shelves, he would come to help. He also said, "You can come to me if you want to buy anything. I have a relative who owns a shop in the small commodity market. If you need anything, just tell me and I'll ask him to get it for you. "

Wucheng is an ancient town. Most people living in this town know each other, especially those in the small commodity market. If you ask the neighbors, you will find that many of them are relatives. If I don't have something, I can go to your house to get it. If you don't have something, you can come to my house to buy it. We all make money.

Jiang Gui was originally troubled by the fact that she couldn't get out of school. What should she do with all these things? Now that the landlord is willing to help, it is great. She said that she wanted to sell clothes and shoes, and wanted to install some clothes rods on the wall and buy two shoe racks to store shoes.

"This is easy. I'll just connect two poles from this end to that end for you. "The landlord gestured to the walls on both sides, so that there would be no need to drill many holes in the walls and damage the walls. "I can install it for you, but you have to pay for the poles yourself."

There are also clothes hangers and shoe racks. Thinking that Grandpa Jiang likes to sit on a reclining chair, he ordered a reclining chair for him.

These are not expensive. Since the shop owner has business, he said enthusiastically: "I will ask them to deliver them directly to your store."

Wang Yong said: "Then I will call my uncle and ask him to send the goods over."

Jiang Xi said: "Any clothes and shoes suitable for young people will be fine. The style must be this year's winter style. Tell me the price and I will transfer it to him tomorrow. "

Uncle Wang Yong has called Wang Yong several times to ask if he still wants it. His factory just has a batch of down jackets for young people. It's almost the end of the year and the factory has already started making spring models. If this batch of down jackets can't be sold, they will have to be kept until next year.

"Okay, I'll call my uncle later."

After everything was arranged here, Jiang Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief, signed the contract, paid three months' rent first, and told the landlord that he hoped the things could be delivered quickly and finished quickly.

The landlord was not vague. After Jiang Xi left, he hurriedly rode his bicycle to the small commodity market and told his brother-in-law what he wanted.

Because it was raining, his brother-in-law said he would deliver it to him tomorrow morning.

The landlord also hoped that Jiang Xi's business would be better, so that he could rent his shop for a longer time. Otherwise, it would take a long time to rent the next tenant after a change, and he would be tired.

Jiang Xi's clothes and shoes were a little wet, so she went back to the dormitory to change clothes. There was no one in the dormitory. Jiang Xi picked up her kettle and the hot water was ready.

She had two coats on, one was too big and the other was too small.

During this period, because of the improvement in diet, she was able to eat meat every day. Her body had reached a growth spurt. She had obviously grown a lot taller and had a little more flesh on her body. She had worn a small coat before, but now it was even tighter on her body, so she could only wear school uniform.

The school uniform was a spring and autumn sportswear. It was already late autumn, and it would be a bit cold to wear school uniform in a few days.

Thinking about the winter clothes and shoes that Wang Yong's uncle would send over soon, she could just keep two sets of them, and also prepare two sets for Jiang Bai.

Jiang Bai's shoes were always broken because he liked to play basketball, so he learned the skill of shoe repair. He bought tire glue and repaired his shoes by himself.

And Grandpa Jiang has been wearing a cotton jacket for many years.

When Jiang Xi arrived at the classroom, He Xiaofang was the first to notice her. She waved and greeted her with a bright smile.

Jiang Xi whispered to her, "Did you get me some hot water?"

He Xiaofang smiled, and Jiang Xi whispered, "Thank you, Xiaofang, thank you so much."

It was raining today, and the people in the hot water room left early. Jiang Xi went back to take a look, and the doors were all closed, and the cafeteria was also closed. Jiang

Xi didn't have dinner, so she was a little hungry, so she planned to go to the cafeteria to have a midnight snack when there was one.

The midnight snack was just simple wontons, noodles, and dumplings, and was provided until about 9:50 p.m. High school students are growing up, and they get hungry quickly at night, so there is a midnight snack, but it's not available until after 7:30 p.m.

The midterm exam is over, and the class atmosphere is not as tense as before the midterm exam. Now that everyone has finished the exam, they have relaxed. The head teacher has not come yet, so they gather together and talk quietly. Most of them are talking about the midterm exam rankings. They are worried that they did not do well in the exam, and they are also looking forward to whether they can be on the list.

Excluding the 120 students in the key classes, there are 80 people who can be on the list. If the scores are evenly divided, there are almost 10 places for each class in the eight parallel classes.

If a class does not have 10 people on the list, or even fewer, it will inevitably leave the impression of the worst class in the grade to the students in other classes, and such an impression is not good for the teacher's professional title.

Therefore, both teachers and students attach great importance to this midterm exam performance ranking list.

Therefore, everyone was a little absent-minded at this time, and had no intention of reading. Their eyes kept glancing at the two bulletin boards in front of the teaching building outside the window from time to time. The bulletin boards were now posted with the final grades of the first semester of the second and third year of high school.

Xu Xiuli was concentrating on reading, and occasionally looked back out the window. Seeing that Jiang Wu had finally arrived, she smiled at her and said, "Why did you come just now? The food I brought for you was almost eaten up by them." Jiang

Wu also thought of the snail meat sauce he had placed in the cellar. He brought a bottle when school started, and he never went back again. He didn't know if the snail meat sauce in the cellar was still edible.

Jiang Xi smiled and touched his stomach: "I haven't had dinner yet, I'm so hungry."

"What have you been busy with? How come you haven't eaten yet?" Xu Xiuli was a little surprised.

She likes to eat chicken, and this time she brought chicken stewed with soybeans, "I brought chicken stewed with soybeans, I put it in the drawer of the cafeteria table, I'll get it for you."

Jiang Xi held her back, "Don't go, the head teacher will be here soon, wait until the first evening self-study class is over, I'll go eat wontons."

Thinking of the head teacher, Mr. Wang, who always had a fake smile on his face, Xu Xiuli hesitated and sat back.

Sure enough, within five minutes, our homeroom teacher, Mr. Wang, walked into the classroom with his signature model steps, looking very high-spirited, and raised his signature lips: "Are you all waiting for the results?" He looked around: "Don't worry, the results are out, and someone will post them soon."

When the classmates saw this reaction from their homeroom teacher, they knew that Class 3 would not do too badly in the exam, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

When the head teacher saw this, his face became serious, and even the corners of his lips that were habitually raised were retracted. He said: "Some students should not relax too early. Not only will the grades be posted on the bulletin board, but the grade sheet will also be posted in the class."

Such a look and tone made some students in the class who felt that they did not do well in the exam feel terrified, especially He Xiaofang. She was so scared that she did not dare to raise her head, for fear that she would be the last in the class. She was in a bad mood until the end of the first evening self-study class. She didn't even notice that Jiang Xi went to the cafeteria for dinner. When she raised her head to look for Jiang Xi, Jiang Xi and Xu Xiuli were gone.

Jiang Xi and Xu Xiuli didn't come back until the evening study session of the second class. Xu Xiuli held Jiang Xi's arm. The two of them were talking and smiling at each other.

He Xiaofang watched the two of them go in and out together, neither of them calling her. She felt so sad that she wanted to cry.

Someone said, "Is the midterm score list posted?"

Everyone looked out the window.

It was dark at night, and no one could see clearly. They only vaguely saw that a teacher opened the glass door of the bulletin board and posted something inside. They all moved closer to the window according to the image they saw, and some people even ran to the corridor to see.

The Chinese teacher, who happened to be occupying their second evening study time, saw it and scolded them, "What are you looking at? What are you looking at? Didn't you hear the study bell rang? If you really want to see it, why don't you get better grades? Then you will be on the list!"

The Chinese teacher looked unhappy, with a serious face and the test paper under his arm. After entering the classroom, he threw the test paper on the table, and then asked the Chinese class representative to distribute the test papers. Then he turned around to look at the blackboard and found that the class's grade ranking list had not been posted next to the blackboard.

Because he was not the head teacher of Class 3, but only a subject teacher, he did not pay attention to the grades of other subjects, but only cared about the grades of the subject he taught. He said somewhat dissatisfiedly: "I know that your head teacher is an English teacher, and you pay more attention to English, but Chinese is also a main subject, and the college entrance examination also has 150 points. Shouldn't you also spend more energy on Chinese?"

This time, the English scores of Class 3 were among the top three in the grade, and the individual scores were also impressive. However, the scores of the Chinese class he taught were not among the top five, and the individual scores were not as outstanding as in the previous monthly exams. This made him very dissatisfied: "It's okay that they can't pass Class 1 and Class 2 in Chinese, but why can't they pass the other parallel classes?" He scanned the crowd and finally stopped his gaze on Jiang Xi for a second: "I don't think you are not working hard, you are just You didn't take my Chinese seriously!"

When he finished speaking, everyone got their Chinese test papers. Jiang Xi looked at her Chinese score: 116.

Midterm exams are different from weekly and monthly exams. Weekly and monthly exams only test your mastery of the knowledge in the book this week or this month. Midterm exams and final exams are like comprehensive exams. Not only are the difficulty of the questions increased, but the scope of the exam is also wider, more like a real exam.

Jiang Xi thought that liberal arts were simple and she didn't need to learn them, so she put all her energy on mathematics, physics, and chemistry, which were more difficult for her, and didn't pay much attention to Chinese, politics, and history.

The main reason was that she thought it was not difficult. Once she had mastered math, physics, and chemistry, her liberal arts grades would improve with just a little effort, so she did not rush to review these courses.

In the end, she had been away from school for too many years, and she had to review.

Jiang Xi felt that she probably had no hope of being in the top ten of her grade this time.

After the evening self-study class, many people could not help but run to the bulletin board outside to check. Even Sisi and Xiaoyu could not resist their enthusiasm to see the grade rankings.

He Xiaofang, Xu Xiuli, and Jiang Xi did not go.

Jiang Xi did not care much about the grades this time or twice.

Jiang Xi's grades in his previous life were not outstanding, except for the three most important exams in his life. He barely passed the junior high school entrance exam and was admitted to No. 1 Middle School. He was a dark horse in the college entrance exam and was admitted to a well-known 985 high school. He also ranked first in the city in the civil service exam.

It is one thing to not care about one or two grades, but it is another thing to promise the class teacher to work hard to get into the top ten but fail to do it.

While he was thinking, the classmates who were outside to see the grade rankings came back in the drizzle.

"How is it?"

Although many classmates in the class did not look at the list and looked calm, they were actually very concerned about the midterm exam results.

The classmates who looked at the grades patted their shoulders and the raindrops on their heads and shook their hair, "It's too dark to see clearly. I just looked at the top ten in the grade."