Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 116
After the first period of evening self-study, Jiang Bai went to the administration building opposite. After finding the first-year competition class, he looked through the window and saw Jiang Ning.
The teacher wasn’t there, so he walked directly to the door and knocked, calling out, “Jiang Ning.”Â
Everyone looked up at him and then at Jiang Ning, curious about the relationship between the two.
The management at No. 1 High School was very strict. Boys and girls were separated into different groups, and even the toilets were on opposite sides of the teaching building. They couldn’t walk together, let alone have a male student openly looking for a female classmate. Naturally, they were curious.
Jiang Ning was also surprised. Why had her second brother come to her classroom? What was wrong?
Jiang Bai held up the items in his hands and said, “What’s going on? Where did you get these clothes and shoes?”
Seeing Jiang Bai’s worried face and furrowed brow, Jiang Ning couldn’t help but smile, “I’ll give you whatever I want.”
She pushed back the bag he handed over and said, “I bought it for you.”
“Where did you get the money? You return it, I don’t want it.”
No. 1 High School had strict rules, and students couldn’t leave the school at all. He wasn’t worried about Jiang Ning doing anything bad, but he didn’t understand the source of her money. She suddenly brought him so many things, and he wouldn’t feel at ease until he knew the truth.
Since the layoff boom, there have been a lot of idle gangsters in Wucheng. The No. 4 Middle school next door wasn’t as strict with their senior students, so gangsters would approach girls there.
Jiang Bai was afraid that his younger sister might have met some of those gangsters on weekends and been coaxed by their sweet words.
Jiang Ning said, “I can tell you, but you have to keep it a secret. Don’t tell our parents when you get home.”
Jiang Bai, already bracing for the worst, took a deep breath and nodded.
“I submitted a few manuscripts to magazines, and they were accepted. They paid me the manuscript fee.”
Jiang Bai found it unbelievable. Submitting manuscripts to magazines always seemed so far removed from their lives. His sister actually said that she had done it.
“Which magazine?”
“Reader, Youth Digest.”
Jiang Bai was relieved.
He knew about these two magazines. Someone in their dormitory had bought old issues of these two magazines and read them in the dormitory. He also read them. The quality of the works in them was very high. How old was his sister? Her works had been published in these two magazines.
But his tone finally became more relaxed, and he was no longer so worried, but he still asked in detail, “Which manuscript was written by you? Can you show it to me?”
Jiang Ning saw that it was almost time, and the second period of evening self-study was about to begin, so she said to Jiang Bai, “I’ll tell you tomorrow at noon. Class is about to begin, don’t worry, wear the clothes and shoes.”
“I’ll wait for you in the cafeteria at noon tomorrow.” Seeing that class was indeed about to start, Jiang Bai hurried to the teaching building. Jiang Ning looked at Jiang Bai’s shoes.
In the conversation with Jiang Bai a few years before her rebirth, Jiang Bai had also told her about his shoes.
The soles of his shoes were worn out, and he couldn’t wear them, so he bought two pairs of insoles to cushion the frostbite.
He went home on New Year’s Day and told Father Jiang and Mother Jiang that the soles of his shoes were worn out and he had no shoes to wear. Mother Jiang dug out a pair of unwanted, stinky shoes worn by Jiang Song out of nowhere.
When he talked about that, he could even laugh out loud, “Do you know how long I washed those shoes?”Â
He and Jiang Ning were actually different. When talking about these things, he didn’t complain about Mother Jiang because he was stingy and… Mother Jiang was the same. He could understand her way of saving money. He just disliked Jiang Song’s foot odor and did not like Jiang Song. “I’ve been brushing them for a long time, but the shoes still smelled bad. I didn’t even know what he did. Why did his shoes get so dirty, but he still didn’t wash them? He probably knows that I know how to wash them, so he never washes them.”
When Tong Jingang saw Jiang Bai coming back with these clothes and shoes, he hurriedly asked, “What are you thinking?”
Jiang Bai put the bag at his feet, and the teacher came.
Tong Jingang quickly returned to his seat and sat upright.
At noon the next day, Jiang Bai was waiting at the entrance of the cafeteria early. He saw Jiang Ning coming over and took her rice bowl. Tong Jingang, who was already queuing over there, waved vigorously. “Jiang Bai, Jiang Bai, it’s my turn. Please give me your rice bowl.”
Tong Jingang was already tall and as strong as a gorilla, so he stood out in the cafeteria. With that shout, everyone’s eyes were attracted to him.
Originally seeing Jiang Bai and Jiang Ning standing at the door of the cafeteria, the discipline committee member with red armbands was about to go over to ask about the situation, but when he heard that shout, he stopped.
Jiang Ning also reacted very quickly. When she saw more people pouring in, she took long strides. She quickly sprinted to the end of the line and queued up at the window.
Jiang Bai also quickly ran to the rice window and handed the rice bowl to Tong Jingang.
Xu Xiuli and He Xiaofang also came, but they did not help the two to get meals. There were several disciplinary committee members on duty in the cafeteria every day. Any boy or girl who talked too much would be noted down.
They all knew Tong Jingang and Jiang Bai, who were in their senior year of high school, and knew that they were not biological brothers. When they saw Tong Jingang taking Jiang Ning’s rice bowl, they wanted to come over and ask, but Jiang Ning was already waving, “Second Brother, bring the rice bowls, it’s my turn.”
When Jiang Bai hurriedly carried the three big rice bowls over, Jiang Ning pushed the three rice bowls to the person serving and said, “Big sister.”
The sister who served food was an aunt in her forties or fifties.
But in Jiang Ning’s eyes, the younger one was the little sister, and the older one was the eldest sister. They were all sisters.
The aunt who was serving food was so happy when the little girl called her “big sister” that she filled up the three rice bowls and finally added a spoonful of soup.Â
Jiang Ning thanked her sweetly.
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