Chapter 4949 [Update

1] It felt like a "Hungry?" suddenly walked into the middle of a group of Meituan deliverymen, because they were all from the key classes.

Of course, they were curious about this parallel class student who ranked among the top ten in the grade in the midterm exam.

In previous years, there were students in parallel classes with good grades, but most of them were ranked within the top 100 or even within the top 50 in the grade. However, it was very rare for a parallel class student to directly surpass the vast majority of key class students and enter the top ten in the grade.

Even if there were, they would be promoted to the key classes very quickly, and very few would stay in the parallel classes, unless they were very unsuitable for the rhythm of the key classes.

Anyway, this has not happened in the last three terms.

Jiang Xi found a seat under their inquiring gazes and sat down calmly.

Seeing that someone was looking at her, she smiled at them calmly and nodded to greet them.

In this era, the number of female students is originally less than that of male students. The ratio of male to female students in the school dormitory is obvious. Girls only live on the fifth and sixth floors, while boys live on the four floors below. There is also a dormitory for senior boys. The ratio of

male to female students also makes the competition class show the same situation of more boys than girls.

At this time, including Jiang Xi, there are only five girls in the competition class of more than 20 people.

Soon, they no longer pay attention to her because the teacher of the competition class has arrived.

The competition class teacher was a very young teacher who looked not much older than any of them. With a smiling baby face, tall and thin figure, and a loose, maroon sweater, at first glance one might have thought he was a high school student.

As soon as the teacher of the competition class arrived at the competition class, he smiled before he spoke, and his smile was sunny and bright: "There is a new student in the class."

He looked around and said with a smile: "There is a new student in the class. You don't know me yet, so I will briefly introduce myself. My surname is Ji, and my name is Ji Jianwei. You can just call me Teacher Ji. I have won the provincial first prize in the Mathematical Olympiad and the provincial third prize in chemistry. So I am the teacher of your mathematics and chemistry competition class."

With this resume, he is already a very good teacher in a key high school in a small county town in Wucheng. He was specially recruited by the principal of No. 1 Middle School to teach the competition class.

After a pause, Teacher Ji smiled and said, "Do you all think I look young? I also think I look young, but in fact I am much older than you." Teacher Ji did not say how much older, but judging from his appearance, he was definitely no more than 30 years old.

After a brief self-introduction, Teacher Ji went straight into the class, and the content of the class was more profound than what Jiang Qi and her friends usually learned.

The other students in the competition class were selected into the competition class not long after the start of the first year of high school according to their science scores. They started to be trained from the first year of high school and could directly compete in the second year of high school. Therefore, the other students in the class had taken classes with the competition teacher for a period of time. Only Jiang Wu was sent to the competition class after she completely entered the eyes of the competition class teachers during the midterm exam.

In order to take care of Jiang Wu, a newcomer, Teacher Ji had to explain things in a simpler and more detailed way during class, and then looked in Jiang Wu's direction from time to time and asked her, "Do you understand?"

When Jiang Wu nodded, he continued to teach.

However, as he taught, his pace could not help but speed up. After all, he used to teach key classes and they were all top students in key classes. In addition, he was very active in thinking and used to the fast pace. The key class students were also used to the rhythm of the teachers' lectures and received very well.

Of course, receiving well does not mean that they completely understood.

But every time when Teacher Ji was talking and looked back at the students, he accidentally saw Jiang Xi, a newcomer in the class, and he could not help but stop and ask her: "Do you understand?"

Jiang Xi nodded.

This made Teacher Ji unable to tell whether Jiang Xi really understood or pretended to understand. He was afraid that she was pretending to understand.

He had to stop teaching and said, "It's okay if some students don't understand. Tell me what you don't understand and I'll continue teaching."

He looked at Jiang Xi, who blinked and looked at the teacher.

Jiang Xi really understood. After all, she had completed high school mathematics and advanced mathematics. Even though she had graduated for many years and had forgotten the knowledge she had learned, she had learned it. After reviewing it during this period of time, a lot of the knowledge she had learned had been remembered. Now in the competition class, even if it was more profound, listening to Teacher Ji's lectures, the more and deeper knowledge she had learned before also made it easier for Jiang Xi to understand the content of Teacher Ji's courses.

Jiang Xi didn't ask, so Teacher Ji had no choice but to continue teaching.

As a young teacher, he was very careful about the distance between him and the students, especially the female students.

He was too close to them and lacked authority, so after class, he basically didn't communicate too much with the students, let alone ask a female student privately whether she understood.

Anyway, whether she understood or not, he would hand out a test paper and take a test to know.

Others also noticed that Teacher Ji always asked Jiang Xi whether she understood or not. Every time Teacher Ji looked at Jiang Xi, they turned around to look at Jiang Xi, and they saw that Jiang Xi nodded calmly every time.

Maybe Jiang Xi's expression was too calm. After class, some students from the key class gathered together and whispered, "Do you think she understood?"

"She should understand, right?"

Those who were selected into the competition class were all top 20 students in their grade, but not all top students could learn Olympiad mathematics well.

The competition class made them doubt their IQ.

The student who was questioned had circles in his eyes: "I don't know whether she understood or not, but I didn't understand anyway." Judging from himself, he thought Jiang Xi probably didn't understand either.

They mainly observed whether Jiang Xi was studying during the break as their teacher said.

After Jiang Xi returned to the dormitory, He Xiaofang and the others asked Jiang Xi if the classes in the competition class were difficult.

Jiang Xi had adjusted her mentality and nodded calmly: "It's difficult!"

Xu Xiuli complained on the side: "But your expression tells me that the competition class is not difficult for you at all."

"I'm already in the competition class. Even if it's difficult, I can only overcome it. Otherwise, it's useless to act very depressed."

But in the eyes of other people in the class, her performance is undoubtedly a real academic master.

The next day was still cloudy and rainy. As soon as Jiang Xi finished her morning reading class, she told the guard that she took her grandfather to Shanghai to see a doctor, and now her grandfather was alone in the guesthouse.

Seeing that she really had something to do, the guard told her: "Then you have to come back quickly!"

Otherwise, if something really happened to the students when they were not supposed to leave the school, he would be held responsible.

Generally, he would not let them go without any special reason.

The guesthouse was not far away. When Jiang Xi arrived at the guesthouse, Grandpa Jiang had already packed his things and was ready to go back.

Seeing Jiang Xi coming over, he couldn't help but smile: "You are not in school at this time, why are you out?"

Because he had two grandsons studying in No. 1 Middle School, he knew that students were not allowed to leave the school under normal circumstances.

"I said you were in the guesthouse, and the gatekeeper let me out. Grandpa, it's raining outside, why don't you stay in Wucheng for two more days? No one will go to the mountains to cut trees or hunt on rainy days, and there is no need to go back to patrol the mountains."

But Grandpa Jiang couldn't stay: "I want to go back. I can't stay back. I've been out for several days. What if someone takes advantage of my absence to cut down trees?"

Trees on the mountain cannot be cut down at will. Even if there are too many trees, the leaders can't count them one by one, but cutting down trees will leave tree stumps. Every year on New Year's Eve and Qingming Festival, all the people working outside and leaders will go to the mountains to pay their respects, and the leaders will also patrol the mountains at this time.

Even if they don't patrol the mountains, if others find that trees have been cut down, they will report it to the leaders.

Jiang Xi thought about it for a while, and finally took Grandpa Jiang to the store she rented.

The clothes hangers on the wall inside the store had been installed, and there was a second-hand 1.2-meter wooden bed at the back of the store. The wooden bed was still empty, with a curtain in the middle.

A large cardboard box of hangers was placed in a mess at the corner of the wall, and there were two mannequin racks next to it.

Grandpa Jiang didn't understand why Jiang Xi brought him to this place. Jiang Xi supported his arm, sat on the wooden bed, and said to Grandpa Jiang: "Grandpa, I rented this store with the prize money of one thousand yuan from my essay competition. I have already paid the rent. I also ordered clothes and shoes from the factory in Guangzhou. Now the clothes and shoes have been sent and are on the way. They will arrive in two days."

Grandpa Jiang was stunned by the bomb that Jiang Xi suddenly threw.

"You... aren't you studying in school? Why did you rent this store?" Then he realized that his granddaughter had spent her prize money of one thousand yuan!

Fortunately, he still has a salary, and his salary will be paid soon, so he can still afford the tuition for the next semester.

Jiang Xi cried, "Grandpa, you are old and living alone in the mountains. I am worried. I have nightmares every day. I dream that you fell in the mountains and there was no one around you. I am woken up by nightmares every night. I am so scared." She cried and held Grandpa Jiang's hand, "Grandpa, can you please stop patrolling the mountains? Can you come to Wucheng to accompany me? When you are not with me, I can't eat or sleep well, and my grades are getting worse. I'm afraid that if my grades drop further, mom will really not let me go to school next semester."

Grandpa Jiang was originally dazed by Jiang Xi's thunder, and now he was upset by Jiang Xi's crying.

He saw his granddaughter crying, and he wanted to cry too. He wiped his tears and said, "But I don't know how to do business. I have been patrolling the mountains for half my life. Now I am no longer a forest ranger..."

He felt very frustrated. He was very resistant to losing his job as a forest ranger. He was also afraid of the unknown future and felt uncertain.

But his granddaughter had already rented the store and bought a lot of clothes and shoes. If he didn't come to help her, who would?

The face of his eldest daughter-in-law flashed through his mind, and he said, "Why don't you ask your eldest aunt to come over?"

Jiang Xi cried and wiped her tears, saying, "But I'm worried about Grandpa. It's raining and the water is so slippery now, and Grandpa still has to patrol the mountain. If he falls, we won't be with you..."

Jiang Xi's words were not groundless worries. Grandpa Jiang himself fell while patrolling the mountain, rolled from the mountainside into the mountain ditch, and lay there for a long time before he recovered.

There were no people in the mountains, only wolves and wild beasts. Grandpa Jiang was alone in the mountains, and he was not without worries that he would encounter wolves and feed them.

Or one day, he might die in the mountains without anyone knowing.

But what could he do?

A few years ago, his youngest son's family was in debt. Now, although the debt has been paid off, there are still two children in school.

He was also worried that he would have a hard time at home without income and wages.

Thinking of his youngest daughter-in-law's temper, Grandpa Jiang really preferred to be alone in the mountains in peace and quiet, and did not want to listen to their quarrels.

Jiang Xi held Grandpa Jiang's hand and cried, "Grandpa, can you just stay in Wucheng? I promise I will support you and take care of you in your old age." Jiang Xi took out the magazines such as "Zhiyin" and "Duzhe" that she had brought with her and said, "Since my composition was published in the magazines, I found out that not only are there prizes for composition competitions, but there are also royalties for compositions that are selected for magazines. I submitted two more articles and both were published."

She took out two hundred yuan, "Grandpa, look, this is the royalties the magazine sent me. I write well, and every one of them has been published in the magazines."

Grandpa Jiang went back with an extremely complicated mood.

The mountain road is slippery, but the road up the mountain is very muddy. Walking on this road on a rainy day, the yellow mud can splash all over your legs.

He walked up the mountain step by step.

He has walked this road for many years. When he was young, he had a job patrolling the mountains. Everyone envied him. He also relied on the salary of patrolling the mountains to support his family and his two sons to go to school.

But as his body aged, he did start to feel a little powerless in the work of patrolling the mountains. Some people had already been eyeing his work, waiting for him to suddenly die or retire one day, so that they could take over his job.

The leaders of the brigade had talked to him about this, but because he was an old ranger who had patrolled the mountains for many years, if he didn't want to, the brigade could not force others to take his place, so he had been doing it for so many years.

In these years, he has been conscientious and has never slacked off.

During the years he has been guarding the forest, no forest fire has ever occurred.

As he walked, he looked at the scenery on both sides of the mountain road, which was so familiar that it couldn't be more familiar.

The scenery that he once thought was too ordinary and he was tired of seeing now occupied all his memories of these years.

The mountains were full of scenes of him running all over the mountains with his grandchildren in those years. He still seemed to hear the laughter of his grandchildren when they were picking barberry and wild hawthorn in the mountains.

He pushed open the small house where he had lived for many years. There were still many rags of his grandchildren's clothes when they were children in the house. Some of them were so torn that they could not be worn at all and were used as rags. He planned to keep these for his grandchildren's children when they got married and had children in the future.

He sat on the recliner at the door, and the recliner began to sway again. Outside was the quiet and peaceful forest on a rainy day.

Jiang Xi was not in a good mood either.

She knew very well that her behavior was a form of kidnapping to Grandpa Jiang.

She was using her grandfather's feelings for her to kidnap him, ignoring his desire to not lose his job, and forcing him to give up his lifelong job and come to her.

This was a very selfish act.

She saw her grandfather's reluctance and resistance.

Sometimes when we force others to do something under the pretext of doing good for them, they themselves don't think it's for their own good.

Jiang Qi knew all this.

But she still did it.

She couldn't bear the consequences of losing her grandfather.

For countless days and nights, whenever she thought about how she had not had time to be filial to her grandfather, how she had not seen him for the last time, and how he had left her alone when he finally passed away, she felt a pang of pain in her heart, so painful that she could not think about it.

This kind of pain and regret is still incurable.

She returned to school and attended classes as usual.

By the weekend, the clothes and shoes sent by Uncle Wang Yong finally arrived.

Wang Yong helped to receive the packages, which he brought back to the store directly from the post office.

They were two very large packages, one in a large snakeskin bag with several layers of cloth, and the other in a large cardboard box.

Because all three evening self-study classes were given to the competition class, Jiang Xi had to spend more time on studying, and had less time to write. Jiang Xi temporarily stopped contributing to several short story magazines such as "Reader" and "Youth Digest", and instead spent all her thoughts and energy on "Da Song".

She had no time to write on weekdays, so she could only go to the Internet cafe on weekends, spend a morning typing 16,000 words, and write another 16,000 words on the weekend.

With her hand speed, it is not impossible to write more, but this output is already her daily limit. If she forces herself to write more, she will really be exhausted.

Thirty-two thousand words a week is already considered very productive among the many authors who have cooperated with "Wu Xia".

Wang Yong saw that she was so busy with her study, but she was willing to spend so much time writing on weekends. She was in school on weekdays, so he couldn't take care of her. It happened that he had nothing to do in Wucheng except urging her to submit her manuscripts, so he went to Jiang Xi's store every day to install clothes rails and hangers with the landlord.

Because his uncle owned a clothing factory, he had been to his uncle's clothing factory and knew how the clothing stores in Guangzhou were arranged. He also instructed the landlord according to the stores he had seen in Guangzhou.

The landlord thought that this young man opened his own store, so of course he did whatever the young man said.

Jiang Xi was unpacking the package with Wang Yong at this time.

The package was really big. Uncle Wang Yong's factory was already producing spring products, so he sent a lot of the stock in the factory.

In fact, he wanted to send all of them at once, but that was not realistic. That was the author under his nephew, and the work of his nephew's editing still fell on this author. Of course, he couldn't cheat Jiang Xiao like this, so he still carefully selected the products for her. Although they were all backlogged goods, the quality and style were fine.

Another package was the shoes that Jiang Xiao wanted, all kinds of men's and women's shoes, all of which were the backlog of inventory from the neighboring factory last year. The goods were fine, but the styles were not as fashionable as the new ones in Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

Because it was the backlog of inventory in the warehouse, the price given to Jiang Xiao was very favorable.

Jiang Qi roughly estimated the price of each piece of clothing. It was indeed not expensive, and could even be said to be very cheap. In her opinion, there was nothing wrong with the style. It was just that they had been piled up in the warehouse for too long and needed to be ironed.

She didn't have time to do these things. She took advantage of the two-day weekend to go to the small commodity market and bought a speaker, a stove and other daily necessities. When she passed by Xinhua Bookstore, she also bought a tape recorder.

Nowadays it is very popular to buy a tape recorder to learn English. Wang Yong thought she bought a tape recorder for practicing English. Then, when he returned to the store, he saw that his best-selling author pressed the record button of the tape recorder and shouted rhythmically in her clear and powerful voice:

"Jiangnan Garment Factory, Jiangnan Garment Factory, it's closed down! It's closed down! The bastard He factory director, the bastard He factory director, ran away with his sister-in-law!

We have no choice but to use the clothes to pay our wages. The original price of more than one hundred, two hundred, or three hundred, cotton-padded clothes, down clothes, are now all sold for 29 or 39!" Note ②