On Monday morning, Jiang Xiaoli and Xiao Muyu set off from home early on their bicycles.
On the way, Jiang Xiaoli muttered to herself, "It seems the second downside of moving is that it's a bit far from home."
Xiao Muyu nodded, "Yes, it used to take me about fifteen minutes to ride my bike to school, but now it might take twenty-five minutes."
The two rode their bikes to school. Jiang Xiaoli wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "I think I should pack some food in my backpack from now on. I feel like I wasted my breakfast riding to school this morning."
Xiao Muyu smiled and pulled a bag of small bread rolls out of her schoolbag. "Please, I'll give you some."
Jiang Xiaoli raised her hand to greet the people behind her, "Teacher Chen, you're here so early today!"
Xiao Muyu turned her head to greet Teacher Chen, but in that instant, a small thief snatched the bread from her hand.
"Ahhh! Jiang Xiaoli! Give me back my little bread!" Seeing the empty bike shed behind her, she immediately realized what was happening and chased after them.
When Xiao Muyu caught up with Jiang Xiaoli in the classroom, she saw Jiang Xiaoli smugly stuffing the last piece of bread into her mouth.
She stepped forward, grabbed Jiang Xiaoli by the neck, and shook her violently, yelling, "You shameless scoundrel!!!"
Jiang Xiaoli smiled and promised her, "I'll go to the convenience store after class and buy you two!"
Today's first class was supposed to be history, but Chen specifically switched classes with the history teacher.
He walked onto the podium with a smile, "The results of last week's midterm exams are out. Are you all looking forward to them?"
There were all sorts of answers in the classroom, but Chen ignored them. "I'm quite satisfied with our class's results. Compared to the placement test before the start of the semester, everyone has made great progress. Congratulations to everyone for successfully staying in Class 1!"
Upon hearing his words, a girl in the back row burst into tears. Her placement test score was very low in the class, and this weekend of rest at home after the midterm exams felt like a suspended sentence to her.
Chen allowed the students to discuss freely for two minutes, then said, "Now, I'll call on the students by name, come up and get your papers."
"First place, Qiao Fei."
"Second place, Zhang Yuanyuan."
"Third place, Xiao Muyu."
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"Twelfth place, Chen Jing."
"Thirteenth place, Xie Yitao."
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After Chen finished reading out the rankings, he said, "Alright, everyone, keep up the good work. Now, take out your math papers and let's go over the questions."
After class, Xie Yitao excitedly patted his test paper, "Classmate, you're amazing! So many of the key points you summarized for us were on the test, and I actually got into the top 20! I'm so happy!"
Jiang Xiaoli frowned at his frenzied behavior. "Calm down, calm down. You're getting this excited about 13th place. What will you do if you make it into the top ten next time?"
"Hahaha!" Xie Yitao's face turned bright red. "What's wrong with me dancing on the spot if I make it into the top ten!"
His excessive excitement was truly unbearable to watch.
Chen Jing's face also turned red. "Jiang Xiaoli, I only ranked 32nd in the class placement exam at the beginning of the semester. This time I improved by 20 places. Thank you so much!"
Jiang Xiaoli waved her hand dismissively, "We're all classmates, it's normal to help each other out. As long as you've made progress, that's good."
Hou Rui chimed in, "Jiang Xiaoli, you really have no idea how amazing you are! I heard that our class not only has the highest overall score in the entire grade, but our average score is also 4.2 points higher than the second place! Do you know what that means? In the placement exam at the beginning of the semester, our class was only 1.1 points higher than the second place!"
Xie Yitao chimed in, "Yes, yes, yes! I've heard about it too!"
Jiang Xiaoli clicked her tongue in amazement, a smile playing on her lips. "Looks like even though I didn't take the exam, I'm still living up to my own legend!"
"Hahaha!" "Hahaha!" Laughter erupted all around. "Jiang Shen is truly amazing!"
Even someone as thick-skinned as Jiang Xiaoli felt a little embarrassed by the compliments, saying, "Everyone is really too kind."
When Teacher Liu arrived at the classroom early for class, he saw this scene. He jokingly said with a smile, "Jiang Xiaoli, it seems that we teachers will have to hire you to lead everyone in reviewing before exams in the future."
Jiang Xiaoli chuckled, "Teacher Liu, how can I compare to you? I was just lucky, just lucky."
Just kidding. If any other teacher said this, she would think the teacher was teasing her, but Mr. Liu... he was absolutely serious!
Teacher Liu gave her a chuckled look. "You little rascal!"
At noon, after school, Li Guizhi brought lunch boxes to her daughter and Xiao Muyu.
“From now on, you don’t need to go home for lunch. It’s not worth wasting time on the road. I’ll bring you lunch.”
Jiang Xiaoli was worried that her mother would be too tired, so she said, "Mom, we can eat out."
Xiao Muyu nodded, "Yes, it's so hard for you to bring us food every day."
Li Guizhi waved her hand with a smile, "What's so hard about it? I get bored staying at home all day."
Jiang Xiaoli still didn't think it was a good idea. "How about this? From now on, we'll bring our lunchboxes in the morning, and we'll just find a place to heat up the food at noon. Is that okay?"
Li Guizhi thought for a moment, "Is this convenient?"
"Convenient, convenient!" Jiang Xiaoli nodded repeatedly. "Don't worry!"
Li Guizhi stopped insisting and said, "Alright, let's try it starting tomorrow. If it doesn't work, Xiaoyu's mother and I will take turns bringing you meals."
After school in the afternoon, Jiang Xiaoli and Xiao Muyu pushed their bicycles out of the school gate and saw Zong Jiayu standing not far away with a gloomy expression.
Jiang Xiaoli went over and asked, "Is it someone from Xinlai Foods again? Did they make any unreasonable demands?"
Zong Jiayu shook his head. "It's not a factory matter, it's a steamed bun shop matter. Come with me."
Jiang Xiaoli turned to look at Xiao Muyu, "Xiaoyu, you go home first. Tell my mom I went to the steamed bun shop. I'll go home with Zong Jiayu tonight."
Seeing that they had important business to attend to, Xiao Muyu nodded in agreement and rode away on her bicycle.
On the way to the steamed bun shop, Zong Jiayu briefly explained the situation to her.
It turns out that Pumpkin was unhappy with Jiang Xiaoli's decision to fire him from managing the steamed bun shop, so he and Su Xiaoxiao reopened a steamed bun shop, but the signboard still read "Guizhi Steamed Bun Shop".
Today, a regular customer came to the store to buy steamed buns and complained to the manager, "Have you opened a new store? Why does it taste different from your previous stores?"
Upon hearing the store manager's report, Zhong Yuan immediately went to see the so-called "new store".
When he arrived, Su Xiaoxiao was greeting customers. "We're opening a new store, thank you all for coming! Our prices are cheaper than other 'Guizhi Baozi Shops,' so please come often!"
Zhong Yuan was so angry that he wanted to tear down her signboard!
He went to Pumpkin's house to demand an explanation, but Pumpkin said that he had a share in the steamed bun shop and that he could use the shop's name as he pleased.
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