Chapter 88 88 [Update 1]

It is not easy to ask for leave in the third year of high school. Fortunately, the school has not officially started yet. Jiang Xi explained the reason again. After a moment of silence, the head teacher agreed to Jiang Bai's leave.

If he can take the college entrance examination in Shanghai, the competition will naturally be less than that in Wucheng. This is a good thing for students. As a head teacher, what reason does he have to hold back?

He once watched Jiang Bai go from being a good student in the top three of the class to competing with the physics teacher, and his overall scores plummeted. He thought he would compete with the physics teacher until the end of the college entrance examination, but he didn't expect that he would find a way out.

"But you have to promise me that your grades won't drop. You have to do these papers every day. After you finish your work, you have to come back quickly. Don't linger outside."

The head teacher gave Jiang Bai a few papers, and then went to the teachers of other subjects to get papers for Jiang Bai.

Jiang Bai took them.

He was much taller than Jiang Xi, but now standing behind his sister, his sister's small body seemed like an adult, helping him to ask for leave seriously, explaining the reasons for him, and talking to the teacher with a smile.

After coming out of the head teacher's office, Jiang Bai was still a little confused, and followed Jiang Xi closely: "Do I really have to go to Shanghai to take the exam?"

"I've asked for leave for you, what do you think?" Jiang Xi walked beside Jiang Bai and tilted his head to look at him.

"Are you going to Shanghai?" Jiang Bai didn't want to leave Wucheng, his hometown, but when he thought about his sister and grandfather going to Shanghai, he was the only one left in Wucheng, and he didn't want to be left behind.

When he was a child, he and his sister were the ones left behind.

It would take at least seven days for Jiang Bai to get his taxi application in Shanghai. Jiang Bai was not going to leave Wucheng for Shanghai right away. He had to go back to Class 8 of Senior 3 first.

Tong Jingang obviously noticed his absent-mindedness and asked him in confusion: "Baizi, what's wrong with you?"

Jiang Bai's eyes slowly focused on his face and said: "My sister asked me to go to Shanghai to take the college entrance examination."

Tong Jingang widened his eyes: "Really? My sister is so awesome!" Seeing the hesitation on Jiang Bai's face: "Oh my god, what's there to hesitate about, let's go!" He put his arm around Jiang Bai's shoulders: "I will apply to Shanghai Sports University. Then we will be in the same city and can play basketball every day!"

Tong Jingang thought most about playing basketball. What's the point of studying every day: "I haven't decided which sports school to apply to before. Since you are going to Shanghai, then I will apply to Shanghai. Then we brothers will still be together!"

He smiled, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

Seeing Tong Jingang said that he also wanted to apply for a university in Shanghai, Jiang Bai couldn't help but laugh: "Then you have to work harder, if you..." He smiled and glanced at him.

"Isn't I working hard? You haven't played basketball with me for a long time. I've been reading books and doing exercises every day recently."

Jiang Bai has been overdoing the test recently. He is afraid that his grades will drop, so his sister won't let him go to her store. Every time he takes a test, he has to work hard to get better grades than the last time. When he is not selling clothes, all his mind is on studying.

He is now full and well-nourished, and the growing pains are relieved. He doesn't have to be woken up by pain in the middle of the night. He is more focused in class and his learning efficiency is also higher. This time, he directly ranked third in the class for the entrance exam.

He has been away from the third place for a long time.

When he was in junior high school, he would go home every morning and evening, running and memorizing his lessons on the way home. At that time, except for lunch, he ate breakfast and dinner at home. There was nothing else at home, but the food was sufficient. Sometimes Grandpa Jiang would catch injured rabbits, pheasants, rat snakes, etc. in the traps he set in the mountains, and he would bring them down to add to their meals.

He himself caught rabbits and rat snakes on the way home.

At that time, he looked forward to going home after school every day. He would run through the fields and the woods, looking around. Rabbits were rare, but snakes were the most common animals. If he saw a snake, he would be very happy, especially in spring, which is the season for snakes to mate. Jiang Song and Jiang Xi encountered more than 50 snakes mating on the road at most. After being startled, the snakes did not attack people, but ran away quickly. Their tails were still connected. When one snake ran, its tail dragged the tail of another snake.

Jiang Xi did not understand what they were doing. When he saw a snake, he shouted excitedly: "Second brother, snake! Snake, snake, snake! Catch it!"

Jiang Song and Jiang Bo were both good at catching snakes. When they were young, they caught snakes for their own consumption.

He avoided poisonous snakes, but when he saw rat snakes, their eyes were green and they chased the snakes without letting go.

Maybe because he had enough to eat, he had good grades in middle school and was easily admitted to No. 1 Middle School.

After arriving at No. 1 Middle School, it was okay in the first year of high school. He had two days off a week and could go home to carry food to school. In the second year of high school, especially in the second semester of the second year of high school, he only had one day off a week. He had to stay in school for classes during the winter and summer vacations. He couldn't go home and couldn't bring food. Jiang's father and mother worked outside. They stopped working last year and farmed at home for a year. Because the fare to go to the city was expensive, Jiang's father didn't send him food. He was often hungry and dizzy, and had to save food.

Now that he can eat enough, his academic performance is the same as in junior high school, and he has become more comfortable.

He studies so hard every day, and Tong Jingang, as his good buddy, naturally has to work hard too.

Tong Jingang is a thick-skinned person. When he encounters a question that he doesn't understand, he asks Jiang Bai. Jiang Bai will explain it to him in detail every time, which also deepens his understanding of the question.

Tong Jingang has made great progress in the past few exams.

Last year, the country proposed the concept of 211 for major universities. Tong Jingang knew that with his grades, he couldn't think about key universities and 211, but if he worked hard, he might be able to compete for Shanghai Sports University.

He asked Jiang Bai again: "Which school will you apply for?"

At this time, they all fill out the application form first, and then take the college entrance examination. After their examinations are over, their class teacher will probably give them volunteer suggestions.

Jiang Bai is confused again. Which school should he apply for?

Unlike Jiang Song, who was full of confidence and felt that he would definitely be admitted to a top university, he had always been an unconfident and even self-deprecating person. Applying for a school would only make him underestimate himself.

In the past, he had never thought about applying for a school. Seeing that there were more and more motorcycles on the streets, he thought that as people made more and more money in the future, there would definitely be more and more motorcycles. At

this time, he did not dare to think that in the future, the streets would be full of cars. He thought that he was quite smart in learning these machines. After graduation, he would work as an apprentice in a repair shop for a few years, learn a skill, and repair motorcycles.

If he wanted to apply for a school, he should also apply for this direction, right?

He now thought that the problem was very simple, and he should still "learn a skill."

My grandfather said that as long as a person has a skill, he will have food to eat and will not starve to death.

Just like his uncle and several cousins ​​in his uncle's family, because they learned the skills of a bricklayer, his uncle has already built two buildings.

In rural areas, many fields and houses are inherited by the eldest son. The family is in such a difficult situation now. Even if they build houses, they probably can't build so many. The first house built must be Jiang Song's. By then, he will have his own skills and won't starve to death.

After making up his mind, he came to his senses and answered Tong Jingang: "Mechanical and electrical school."

Tong Jingang was surprised: "You applied for mechanical and electrical? Don't you hate..." He squeezed his eyes at him, and Jiang Bai immediately understood who he wanted to talk about, and smiled and said: "I hate people, not this course."

In fact, his best grade in junior high school was physics.

Math, physics and chemistry are inseparable. He is good at both, but still a little behind his physics.

With a direction, Jiang Bai is no longer confused. Knowing that his sister, grandfather and friends will come to Shanghai in the future, he is no longer afraid. He studies hard and prepares for the entrance exam to a mechanical and electrical school.

He still has a clear understanding of himself, thinking that his grades are very poor and he will definitely not be able to get into a good school.

He feels that he is unworthy from the bottom of his heart!

A few days later, Jiang Xi called Shanghai and learned that Jiang Bo and Grandpa Jiang's blue-stamp household registration application quota had been issued. Then she took Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Bo to transfer their household registration and register.

Grandpa Jiang was confused the whole time, "Why did you buy a house in Shanghai?"

"Why did you transfer your household registration here?"

It was not until Jiang Xi brought Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Bo to her undecorated villa that Grandpa Jiang looked at such a big house and looked at Jiang Xi in shock: "Is this house yours?"

"Such a big house is yours?" Both Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Bo looked like they were dreaming.

Even though the house has not been renovated yet, the surroundings are still under construction, desolate and messy, but... this house is bigger than the largest building in their village!

Jiang Bai simply couldn't believe it. Her sister said that she bought a house in Shanghai, and it was such a large first-floor house.

Because Jiang Xi had limited funds, the villa she bought was not too big, with an area of ​​600 square meters. The yard and the large terrace on the top floor were all free. She paid a down payment of nearly 400,000 yuan, and she had to pay more than 2,000 yuan for the mortgage every month. This was under the premise that the surroundings were desolate and the house price was not high.

But the yard and terrace area was indeed not small. If Grandpa Jiang wanted to grow vegetables, he could grow some vegetables in the yard.

This was the life she dreamed of in her previous life.

In her previous life, she wanted to have a house with a yard like this where she worked, no matter if it was a villa or a bungalow, the important thing was to have a yard with a grandpa lying on a rocking chair in the sun. She knew that grandpa was a person who could not sit still, so she had to have a yard to grow watermelons and vegetables for him. If the yard was bigger, he could raise chickens if he wanted. Every day when she got home from work, with grandpa around, she could cook delicious food for him in different ways.

Grandpa liked to eat fish, so she would buy all the fish he had never eaten, as long as it was available in the market, and cook it for him. She would take him out to eat all kinds of delicious food and see the scenery and world he had never seen.

Unfortunately, such a dream could never be realized in the previous life.

She was like a little girl who wanted to show off her favorite toy to the elders at home. She excitedly took Grandpa Jiang to stand in the yard: "Grandpa, look, we can grow vegetables

in this yard!" "We can also put a fence here to raise chickens!"

"In the future, we can grow corn, watermelons, and tomatoes!"

She looked at Grandpa Jiang hopefully, with a super excited smile on her face, as if she was waiting for Grandpa Jiang to praise her.

Grandpa Jiang smiled happily, looked around and nodded and said, "Okay, okay!"

The old boy in the old store at the entrance of the next village boasted every day that his son bought a house in the neighboring city, and now his eldest granddaughter has also moved into the city! Into the biggest city! Into the city of Shanghai!

I still remember the educated youth from Shanghai who came to the countryside with their brigade back then. I wonder how they are doing now. If they knew that Lao Facai also followed his eldest granddaughter to the big city of Shanghai that they talked about back then, they would definitely be shocked, right?

Grandpa Jiang wiped away his tears of joy, nodded excitedly, and kept saying, "Okay, okay, my granddaughter is promising, my granddaughter is really promising." After the excitement was over, the old man remembered and asked her, "This house is not cheap, right? Where did you get so much money?"

Jiang Xi took out the magazines she had prepared long ago: "I made it by writing essays." She blinked, "And the clothes you usually help me sell." She looked at Jiang Bai: "The source of juice. From the deduction group, the dirty 2275 bar will sort out more, the source of juice can come. Consult the second brother to know that the actual profit will have to be multiplied tenfold, added up of money to buy this house!"

Grandpa Jiang had an expression on his face as if you were kidding me: "To build a house in our hometown, we have to spend thousands of dollars now, let alone a house as big as yours. Tell me honestly, how much does this house cost?"

Jiang Xing blinked his eyes, with an innocent expression on his face, pointing to the barren land around him: "Grandpa, look around, what's the difference between it and our countryside? Can the houses here be expensive?"

Grandpa Jiang was originally sure, but now he was uncertain after being fooled by Jiang Xing. After thinking about it, he felt that the surroundings were indeed a bit desolate.

"It's so desolate here, why did you buy a house here?" Grandpa Jiang looked around.

There is not only one house around, but many more. However, besides the construction site, there are only wastelands around. It is barren and messy.

"Isn't this because I am optimistic about the future of this place? Besides, this is Shanghai! Buying a house will give you four blue-stamped household registrations. In the future, my second brother and I can come to Shanghai to take the college entrance examination, and the chances of passing the exam will be much higher than before." Jiang Qing bit her lip: "And..."

This made Grandpa Jiang anxious: "And what? Hurry up and tell me."

"And, I bought this house with a loan. The monthly repayment is 500 yuan, and it will take 30 years to pay it back." She raised three fingers and said nonsense.

But Jiang Bai and Jiang Ye believed it and took a deep breath: "Five hundred yuan? Thirty years?"

Jiang Xi nodded pitifully: "Yes."

If Jiang Ye and Jiang Bai knew that they had to pay more than two thousand yuan a month for this house, they would probably have a heart attack. That is to say, it would be a little more every month, but they dared not tell them. They could only fool them like this for now, and wait until prices rise and people's salaries rise in the future, and then slowly tell them the truth.

But even so, Jiang Ye and Jiang Bai were almost scared to death by her. It was like a huge mountain was pressing on them, and the pressure was increasing wildly!

The rent was seventy-five yuan a month, plus the mortgage, that was five hundred and seventy-five yuan!

Five hundred and seventy-five yuan!

Grandpa Jiang's hands were shaking as he calculated how many clothes he had to sell in a day to pay off such a high mortgage.

Grandpa Jiang's reflex was to calculate based on one yuan for each piece of clothing. Suddenly, he felt something was wrong. If one piece of clothing could earn ten yuan, then selling five pieces of clothing a day would be fifty yuan, and ten days would be five hundred yuan. Fifteen thousand yuan a month...

What? Fifteen thousand yuan?

A month...

How much can they earn in a month?