Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 117
Tong Jingang took the rice bowl handed over by Jiang Bai and cried out in surprise, “Why is there so much meat?”
The three of them were all extremely eye-catching beings. Not to mention Tong Jingang’s gorilla-like build, Jiang Bai’s outstanding appearance alone could captivate people. Except for the freshmen in the first grade of high school, there were not many people in the second and third grades who didn’t know Jiang Bai.
No matter how strict the management was, how could they not take a few glances at a handsome guy?
Now, with the addition of Jiang Ning, who was fashionably dressed and looked like she stepped out of a TV show, the three of them naturally attracted everyone’s attention. Tong Jingang consciously walked to the table in the boys’ group.
The disciplinary committee member stopped Jiang Bai and Jiang Ning, who were carrying their rice bowls and wanted to go out. The two of them picked up their name tags and showed them to the disciplinary committee member, “We are brother and sister, born to the same parents. We have something to talk about.”
The discipline committee member knew Jiang Bai and had also heard from the class teachers about a first-year high school student named Jiang Ning, who only slept three hours a day. He just glanced at their similar names, said nothing, and continued on duty.
There were no separate tables in the cafeteria, so Jiang Bai and Jiang Ning each took their chopsticks and went to the basketball court outside the cafeteria. It wasn’t raining, so the two of them sat on the parallel bars next to the basketball court.
“Can you tell me what’s going on?” Jiang Bai asked as he sat on the parallel bars.
“Just like I said last night, I wrote some manuscripts and sent them to Readers, Youth Digest, and other magazines to earn some pocket money.” Jiang Bai was choked by Jiang Ning’s idea of “pocket money”. Clothes and shoes worth more than 100 yuan were just a small amount of pocket money. But at the same time, he felt a mix of emotions—sourness, astringency, and a surge of warmth. His sister had earned some royalties and bought him clothes and shoes. Thinking about it, she was also wearing new clothes and new shoes.
“Is writing a manuscript very profitable?” He also wanted to write a manuscript.
“Writing requires talent, do you have it?” She turned her face and asked him lightly.
One sentence made him give up the idea of making pocket money through writing.
There were three siblings: Jiang Song was average in arts and science, and Jiang Bai had a pure science brain, without any talent for writing.
He was completely incapable of writing a novel and had no interest in liberal arts. He was only interested in mathematics, physics, and chemistry, especially physics. However, the physics teacher who taught him had made him lose interest in learning.
Jiang Ning did not disclose to Jiang Bai how much money she made from her submissions, and he didn’t ask. He only needed to know the source of his sister’s money and said, “Don’t buy it for me next time, buy it for yourself.”
He and Jiang Song were about the same age and height. He could wear whatever clothes Jiang Song wore, but his sister’s clothes were really rags. As he saw her finally wearing a new outfit, he had to admit, it looked really good.
But his stingy nature kicked in, and he looked at her clothes and said, “Aren’t your clothes a little too small? You’re growing taller now, and they won’t fit anymore in two months. You should buy two sizes larger.”Â
He pointed to the school uniform on his body, and his expression finally showed the pride of a young man. “Our elder brother is so tall, so I knew that I would also grow taller. I ordered the largest size at that time. Now that I’m in my senior year of high school, it still fits. Even if you’re short now, you’ll definitely grow up very quickly in the future. That’s how I am. You’d better tell the seller to exchange it for the largest size for you.”
The seller was Jiang Ning herself.
Jiang Ning just smiled and didn’t say much.
When her shop opens and Grandpa Jiang comes to Wucheng, Jiang Bai would naturally find out about it. She hesitated to share too much. When the three siblings lived in different cities, they had grown accustomed to making decisions independently, without consulting anyone or seeking anyone’s approval.
Jiang Bai asked her about which issue her work was published in, planning to go to the bookshop to look for it. If he couldn’t buy a brand new one, he could just buy a second-hand one for his collection.
His sister’s work had been published in a magazine.
Jiang Ning thought he wanted to confirm whether she had really published her work, and didn’t mind. She said, “Don’t go to the bookshop to look for it. Every time my work is published, the magazine sends me a sample issue. I have it in my dormitory. I’ll get it for you.”
After returning to the dormitory after dinner, Jiang Ning looked for the magazines in her dormitory but couldn’t find them. She turned around and asked the people in the dormitory, “Where are my magazines? Have any of you seen them?”
The issue Jiang Ning received for each publication was placed on the table. Anyone who wanted to read it could.
They just had to put it back for her when they were finished. Sometimes the girls in the next dormitory would come and borrow it.
Seeing that everyone in the dormitory denied taking it, she went to the next-door dormitory, but they didn’t have it either.Â
“We put it back after reading it.”
“It’s strange, why is there no magazine there?”
Everyone found it strange and helped her look for it. “I put it back every time I finished reading it.”
They recalled who had been reading it last Friday.Â
“Liu Ping, yes, it was Liu Ping. Liu Ping, did you take the magazine home last Friday and forget to bring it back?”Â
Liu Ping, who was on the upper bunk, denied it, “I didn’t take it home. I put it back after reading it.”
Xu Xiuli suddenly said, “Where are Ning Ning’s old magazines? I haven’t seen Ning Ning’s old magazines for a long time.”Â
After being reminded by Xu Xiuli, the others in the dormitory realized, “Oh, where did those magazines that I read before go?”Â
At first, they thought Jiang Ning had put the magazines away after they finished reading them, but it turned out that she didn’t do that at all.
The people from the dormitory next door would come to borrow magazines before, so even if there weren’t many left in the dormitory, they didn’t notice that all the magazines were gone.
Wang Xia, the dormitory director, said, “I remember that Liu Min and the others borrowed them and returned them.”
“Yes, I also remember that I was in the dormitory when they returned the magazines. Every time Jiang Ning bought a new one, they would return it after reading it.”
“Where have all the magazines gone?”
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