Chapter 61 [Update 1]
Jiang's father and mother have been waiting for Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai to come back.
Especially Jiang Xi.
Jiang Bai is in his third year of high school and has few holidays, but Jiang Xi normally has two days off on weekends and three days off on New Year's Day.
Jiang's mother is very angry that Jiang Xi never comes back on weekends. In the village, she always complains to everyone she sees: "Even if she is studying, she should at least come back to help with some work on weekends, right? But she is so good that she doesn't even come back on Sundays because she is studying! She doesn't even consider the family at all."
Jiang's mother thinks Jiang Xi is really selfish and doesn't care about the family or her brothers at all.
Especially in the village, there are Jiang Hehua and Jiang Gangqin as a comparison.
Jiang Hehua had good grades since she was young, and she did well in the high school entrance exam, so she was directly admitted to Wuzhong.
Jiang's piano grades were not so good, so she didn't get into high school. She listened to her mother and got into a five-year college to study for a teacher, and planned to come back to be a teacher in the future.
Jiang Hehua, as the daughter of the brigade secretary, was a little better. She usually liked to read and study at home, and she didn't go out much. Jiang's mother didn't see her very often.
But Jiang Gangqin is different. She is the daughter of the old. Her mother treats her as if she holds her in her mouth for fear that she will melt, and holds her in her palm for fear that she will fall. Her brothers and sisters are all much older than her. She says at home that she is her mother's daughter, but in fact, her brothers and sisters-in-law also treat her as their own daughter. Every week when she goes home, her brothers and sisters bring her all the delicious food they have. The thing she looks forward to most every week is going home.
Because of the pampering at home, Jiang Gangqin is lively and cheerful. Now she has gone directly to college. Her studies are not as stressful as those of high school students. Every time she goes back to the village, she wants to find someone to play with. The only girls of her age in the village are Jiang Xi and Jiang Hehua. She has no choice but to go to visit Jiang Hehua and Jiang Xi to play.
But Jiang Hehua, like her brother, stayed at home all day long, reading and studying, and never went out. She stayed at Jiang Hehua's place for less than ten minutes before she could no longer sit still, and went to play with Jiang Xiao. She
was actually a little afraid of Jiang's mother. When she arrived at the door of Jiang's house, she did not go in, but shouted outside the door: "Is Xiao Xiao at home?"
Jiang's mother would beat or scold Jiang Xiao, but she was very polite to other people's daughters. She smiled and said: "Gang Qin is back? Your mother is so lucky to have you. You know to go home to see your mother every week. The one I gave birth to, I didn't know to come back when I went out."
Jiang Gang Qin smiled awkwardly. She didn't want to hear what Jiang's mother said at all. When she knew that Jiang Xiao was not at home, she ran away.
After that, every time she went back to look for Jiang Xiao, Jiang Xiao was not at home.
Jiang's mother was gloomy, "How can our daughter Xiaoxiao be as homesick as you? She follows your mother around every day." When
Jiang Xiao didn't come back, she complained to Jiang's father, "Look, what's the point of you sending her to school? She's only in high school now, and she doesn't come back. When she goes to college, do you still expect her to come back? I think you've spent money on her education for so many years, but it's just throwing the money into the water."
Jiang's father was also very puzzled. Why didn't any of his sons and daughters come back?
Although Jiang Bai usually only had one day off on Sunday, he had two days off on New Year's Day.
They waited and waited at home, but no one came back.
When Jiang Wu was at home going to school, they didn't think much of it. But now that Jiang Wu was also at school and they were the only ones left at home, they were shocked to find the house empty.
Jiang's mother was also feeling exhausted.
But she was more worried about her eldest son, angry with Jiang Wu, and had an indescribable feeling of emptiness.
She had no way of analyzing the source of her emotions, and she just habitually said in a very hard tone: "If she doesn't come back, then she won't come back. I don't think she will come back during the Chinese New Year, unless she dies outside!"
Jiang's father was a little worried about Grandpa Jiang. There was no news for such a long time. He said he went to No. 1 Middle School to find Jiang Wu, and then there was no news, and he didn't ask anyone to bring back a message.
He wanted to go to Wucheng to check the situation, but Jiang's mother said angrily, "Don't go! They have legs and don't know how to come back, and you still want to find them? Don't think I don't know you are going to deliver food! They don't even know they are hungry, why do you worry about it? Two trips are free, right?"
If it weren't for the two trips, Jiang's mother would have rushed to No. 1 Middle School and pulled Jiang Xi out... As for what to do after pulling him out? If she was not satisfied, she would just beat him up.
Father Jiang also looked in the direction of Wucheng and said, "I don't know how Dad is doing in Wucheng, and he didn't even bring back a message. It's worrying."
"Why should you worry?" Mother Jiang rolled her eyes at Father Jiang: "The old man has this year's patrol salary in his hand, and he has money in his hand. Are you afraid that they will starve to death? Even if you starve to death, they won't starve to death!"
Mother Jiang was also very dissatisfied with Grandpa Jiang taking the salary himself and not giving it to them. In her opinion, Grandpa Jiang gave their family a share of his salary for their old age, and Grandpa Jiang's salary should be handed over to their family, and she should be in charge of allocating how to spend it.
How can an old man be so selfish and not hand over the money to his family, but take it for himself?
If he doesn't give them his salary, then when he gets old and can't move, she won't care about him and will let his son take care of him. Let's see if his granddaughter will take care of him.
By then, Xing Xing will have married someone else and become someone else's family. Will she still come back to take care of him? It's more like a dream!
The sales revenue achieved by Jiang Xing and his friends during the three days of New Year's Day directly stunned Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Bo.
"We made nearly a thousand yuan in three days!" The grandfather and grandson gathered around the bed with the same happy expression on their faces.
You know, this was 1995, and two or three hundred a month was considered a high salary. They made a thousand in three days!
On the first day of New Year's Day, Jiang Xi and Grandpa Jiang were the ones who sold the goods. Jiang Xi directly gave Grandpa Jiang a salary of 100 yuan and said, "Grandpa, this is yours."
He also took out 50 yuan and gave it to Jiang Bai: "This is your salary for the past two days. The other 30 yuan is a reward for the commission from the men's clothing business you brought in by playing games at school these days."
Jiang Bai looked at the 50 yuan in front of him, 50! Not counting the 20 yuan for the past two days, he made 50 this week!
He only needed to wear the clothes that his sister had matched for him and walk around the school with his chest held high, and that was a huge sum of 30 yuan!
It was a lot!
He looked at his sister, then at the money, then at his sister, and then at the money.
Finally, he reluctantly returned the thirty yuan to Jiang Xi. After thinking for a while, he took out another ten yuan and gave twenty yuan to Jiang Xi: "Forget it, you said at that time that you would let me wear the clothes you matched, and you would give me ten yuan a week more. You take these back!"
This was all money. He turned his eyes away and told himself not to look at it. If he looked at it, he would be reluctant to give it up.
Jiang Xi smiled and stuffed it back into his hand: "I've already told you, this twenty is your commission." She said: "Don't think that we sold a lot in the past three days. I estimate that the market in Wucheng is already saturated. It's the end of the year, and every household wants to buy some new clothes for their family members. Business has been so good in the past few days. Now everyone who should buy has bought it. Business should be stable in the future. Leaving Grandpa alone in the store will be able to handle it."
Jiang Bai thought that his sister didn't want him to come to the store to sell clothes on weekends, and he immediately became anxious.
That's ten yuan a day, and he has never made so much money.
Seeing that he was anxious, Jiang Xi said, "Don't worry, I said before, as long as you can keep your grades stable, I will definitely ask you to sell clothes. If your grades drop, it will definitely not work. First, improve your grades. It doesn't matter whether you make money or not, as long as it is enough." Thinking of the fact that Jiang Bai regretted not repeating a year to go to college 20 years later, Jiang Xi said, "It's not that the monthly exam has just passed. You will know the results on Tuesday."
Originally, Jiang Bai didn't hate studying, but he didn't like it very much. He just spent money to come to school, so he had to be worthy of the money he spent and learn everything he should learn.
In fact, he didn't have much motivation and pursuit for studying itself.
But recently, maybe it’s because he has meat to eat and eats a lot, plus his sister comes to bring him midnight snacks from time to time, he no longer feels dizzy and inattentive when he is hungry, and his legs no longer cramp when he sleeps at night, and he no longer wakes up from growing pains. He
sleeps well at night, eats a lot during the day, and with the motivation of making money in Jianghui’s store, he has become much more motivated to study.
In the past, he was always quiet and silent in the back, but now he always stares at the teacher in class, his head is too high, his back is straight, and he is full of energy.
Many classmates in the class think that Jiang Bai has become handsome again.
Even the teachers in the class were all a little more alert when they saw Jiang Bo's bright dark eyes.
When he heard his sister talking about his monthly exam results, he, who never cared about his results in the past, became nervous for a rare time, fearing that his exam results would not be as good as last time, and also worried about what would happen if his sister's store business was not as good as before. He secretly thought in his heart that he must be more upright, hold his head high and wear the clothes in his sister's store better, so that people in the school would want to buy clothes when they see him.
So the boy looked more energetic.
Tong Jingang called him "Saucer" and asked him: "You are not acting right recently, are you in love?"
Jiang Bai's face turned red: "Who is in love? I am with you every day, how can I be in love with a ghost?" He looked around nervously, afraid that the director of the political education department would hear him.
"Then why do you dress yourself up so beautifully recently?"
Thinking of this, Jiang Bai couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled, "You don't know this, right?" He whispered: "These clothes are all from my sister's store, and my sister matched them for me. My sister asked me to wear more sets in school and show them to others. Others will see that I look good and buy them too."
It was the first time for him to brag about himself like this, and even if he said it in Jiang Qing's words, he still felt embarrassed.
Tong Jingang had heard about the gossip a long time ago and put his arms around Jiang Bai's neck: "Fuck, that Jiangnan Garment Factory store was originally opened by your sister? Tell me what's going on. After such a long time, has the factory director He who ran away with his sister-in-law been caught? Fuck, the 35 million he embezzled could have bought a lot of planes and cannons for our country, right?"
Tong Jingang not only loves playing basketball, but is also a military enthusiast.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier? I would have bought two pieces to take care of our sister's business." He put his arm around Jiang Bai's neck and approached him slyly: "Brother is going to buy clothes, is there any discount?"
Jiang Bai hesitated for a long time before stretching out five fingers, "I'll give you a discount of fifty cents at most."
Tong Jingang nodded simply: "Okay!"
During the evening self-study class, teachers of various subjects came to the class to distribute test papers. When the results were announced, Jiang Bai was still a little nervous. Unexpectedly, Jiang Bai's results improved significantly this time, and he moved up several places. This was something the teachers had not expected.
The teacher of Class 8 directly used Jiang Bai as an example and said, "Look, Jiang Bai's grades have improved so much this time. What does this mean? It means that you can always work hard!"
"Jiang Bai is the best example!"
"His grades in the first and second year of high school were just mediocre. If he can continue to improve at this rate, I'm not talking about Tsinghua or Peking University, right? We are from a provincial university, so if we work hard, we can still get into it, right?"
Jiang Bai's physics grades improved very quickly this time.
He usually sleeps in the back during physics class, and the physics teacher doesn't care about him.
He deliberately handed in a blank physics paper, and was scolded by the physics teacher every time, but Jiang Bai didn't care.
He learned physics purely by himself.
But he has a natural talent and understanding for physics. He studies physics just like Jiang Xi studies Chinese, politics and history. As long as he is willing to learn, it is easy to understand. So this time, he didn't do very well in the physics test, but he made great progress.
This time, the physics teacher didn't say he plagiarized.
He didn't like Jiang Bai for a long time, especially because Jiang Bai had deliberately gone against him in the past two years, not paying attention in class and handing in blank papers on the exams. No one would like such a student.
But after all, he is a senior high school student. He is willing to learn now, and he is willing to teach, but he still doesn't have a good face for Jiang Bai.
Jiang Bai treats him the same way.
Jiang Bai studies purely to work in his sister's store.
Monthly exams are not included in the school rankings. The ranking list on the school bulletin board is still the last midterm exam.
This monthly exam is over, and the next big exam will be the final exam.
The teachers of Class 3 also handed out the results in class. Because Jiang Wu did not study in class, but went to the competition class, the teachers kept Jiang Wu's paper.
Everyone was also very curious about how Jiang Wu did in the exam this time.
"I don't know if she made it into the top ten in the grade this time."
"That must be wrong, right? Last time she barely ranked tenth. Now she's in the competition class, which will definitely affect her original grades."
Jiang Wu entered the competition class and divided some of her energy to the competition class, so the grades of this class will definitely decline.
This is a very normal thing. Not every student, but most of the students who are selected into the competition class will have their grades affected to some extent after putting some of their energy into the competition class. They are people who take exams all year round, and they can see any fluctuations in the rankings. Naturally, they also know that entering the competition class will affect their grades.
However, the impact will not be too great. Generally speaking, the competition class teacher will first select the top 30 students in the grade, and enter the competition class to study first, and then pass each exam to be screened. Only those who can always keep their grades in the top 20 will stay here to take classes. When they are in the second year of high school, they will be taken by the competition teacher to participate in the competition. The rest will still take classes as usual.
It’s a pity that they can’t see the overall ranking of the grade in this monthly exam, otherwise they will know how Jiang Wu did in this exam.
The teachers of Class 3 also expected that Jiang Wu’s academic performance would decline.
What the teachers didn’t expect was that Jiang Wu’s grades not only did not decline, but even improved slightly compared to the last monthly exam.