Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 115
Tong Jingang was about the same height as Jiang Bai, but his body was much stronger than Jiang Bai’s. He had been strong since he was a child, and his family called him Jingang (Vajrapani, Buddha’s warrior attendant, King Kong). When he reached school age, his parents didn’t want to change his nickname, so they called him Tong Jingang.
His elementary school teacher even laughed at him and said, “This Jingang of yours is not real. It is made of copper, so it is like a child Jingang.”
He didn’t understand what the teacher meant, so he just smiled happily.
He took out the last cotton-padded coat and shook it off, saying, “Your sister gave you food and clothes.”
Suddenly, he thought of Jiang Bai’s difficult financial situation and felt something was off. “No, where did your sister get the money? Your parents wouldn’t just give money to your sister and not to you.” He shouted in surprise, “What? Are your parents really that biased?”
“Love the eldest, love the youngest, but the second child in the middle is just like a piece of grass.”
Jiang Bai quickly folded up his clothes and carried them to Jiang Ning’s class to look for her.
He remembered that she was in Class 3.
The teacher of Class 3 hadn’t arrived yet. He looked at the door and couldn’t find Jiang Ning, so he knocked on the window and asked a girl, “Is Jiang Ning in your class?”
The girl saw Jiang Bai wearing the uniform of No. 1 High School, guessed he was a senior, and nodded, “Yeah, what’s the matter?”
“Can you call her for me?”
The girl replied, “Jiang Ning is not in our class for evening self-study. She was chosen to join the competition class.”
“Competition class?” Jiang Bai was surprised.
He really didn’t know about that. Among the three siblings, apart from him being closer to Jiang Ning, they actually didn’t talk much about themselves.
It was like three parallel lines, each taking care of their own business and living their own life.
But during that period, after Jiang Ning started school and entered the same school as him, she always brought him meals in the evening, which were either braised pork or vegetables.
Perhaps because he had eaten more meat, and sometimes shared food Tong Jingang brought him, he finally had a good sleep during this period. At least he wasn’t woken up by hunger at night.
His legs still hurt, but not as frequently as they did some time ago.
Then she gave him clothes and shoes.
Two pieces of clothing and a pair of shoes!
They didn’t look cheap. If one piece of clothing cost fifty yuan, then two pieces of cotton-padded clothes would cost one hundred yuan. The shoes must have cost at least one hundred and fifty yuan.
He didn’t know where she got the money.
He couldn’t quite identify the feeling in his heart. There was worry, but also a strange feeling like a piece of candy he had eaten as a child or like sunshine shining in during the cold winter months.
The teacher was arriving soon. Instead of going to the competition class to find her, he returned to his classroom.
Tong Jingang saw that Jiang Bai had just taken the clothes, run out, and then returned with a frown. He asked in confusion, “What’s going on? Why did you leave with the clothes?”Â
He paused and then asked, “Are your parents worried about you spending money indiscriminately, and left all the money with your sister?”
“No,” Jiang Bai replied lightly.
How could his sister have money? His parents wouldn’t give her money unless it was his grandfather. But he knew very well that his mother had taken away his grandfather’s salary over the years before he even received it. His clothes were actually much better than Jiang Ning’s.
In their rural area, new clothes were usually bought for the eldest son, then passed down to the middle son, and finally the rags were passed on to the youngest. Fortunately, Jiang Bai was the second eldest. Except for the occasional new clothes he got during the Chinese New Year, he had always worn Jiang Song’s old clothes.
Jiang Song was two years older and taller than him, so his clothes would quickly become too short, meaning Jiang Bai was never short of clothes as a child.
However, Jiang Song had always been lively and active. He would go up mountains, cross rivers, chase rabbits, and catch fish—there was nothing he couldn’t do. He had been the king of the children since he was young, so his clothes and shoes wore out very quickly.
When Jiang Bai was a child, his clothes always had patches on the knees and buttocks. After growing up, Jiang Song finally calmed down, but he still loved to play.
Football, basketball, table tennis, even billiards—running, long jump, high jump, even walking. If Jiang Song saw a leaf hanging down from a tree, he would jump up to touch it. Whatever he saw, he wanted to aim at it and kick it.
He seemed to always have endless energy, and his clothes kept falling apart every day. Jiang Bai was never able to receive a complete piece of clothing left by Jiang Song.
Jiang Ning had it even worse. They had two cousins, and the eldest cousin’s clothes were passed down to the second cousin, and after the second cousin used them, they were given to Jiang Ning.
Both cousins had dropped out of school early to work, cutting grass in the mountains and working in the fields. They were hard workers, so it was easy to imagine what kind of condition the clothes were in by the time Jiang Ning got them.
Whether it was from the Jiang family or their uncle’s family, the third child always got the tattered leftovers. Jiang Bai couldn’t figure out where Jiang Ning got the money or what it meant for her to give him two pieces of clothing and a pair of shoes.
Tong Jingang took off the down jacket and let Jiang Bai wear it. Jiang Bai folded the clothes and put them back into the transparent bags, stopping Tong Jingang from trying to stuff his feet into the new shoes.
Tong Jingang’s face was full of irritation, “I never complained about your smelly feet!”
Jiang Bai only had one pair of shoes, which was fine in the summer, but in winter, his feet would really stink, making the whole boys’ dormitory room smelly.
Jiang Bai had been living in that environment for three years and was used to the smell, but he still insisted on washing his shoes every week on non-rainy days. Otherwise, the shoes would get damaged, so he was very careful when washing them.
But no matter how carefully he brushed, the soles of his shoes were almost worn out.
Tong Jingang saw him putting away the shoes and asked doubtfully, “Why aren’t you wearing them?”
Jiang Bai glanced at him, saying, “I haven’t figured out what’s going on yet.”Â
Jiang Ning had given him the things and ran off without a word. She ran so fast, she was probably late for class.
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