Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 118
People at that time cherished books very much. Even if it was just a small magazine, it was a very cherished possession for these girls.
They all looked for the missing magazines. Wang Xia helped search everywhere, and then went to the next-door dormitory to ask if anyone had accidentally taken them.
But even if someone had taken them by mistake, they wouldn’t have taken all thirty or so magazines.
Jiang Ning’s Wuxia series comprised ten volumes, while Readers, Youth Digest, and Zhiyin each had four or five issues. In other words, these three magazines alone accounted for fourteen or fifteen books. Before the school year began, Jiang Ning had already purchased seven or eight magazines.
Jiang Ning hadn’t had time to read these magazines because she was too busy before, and she didn’t hide them just because they were hers. Everyone could read them if they wanted.
But everyone said they hadn’t taken them.
The girls in the next-door dormitory heard that all the magazines Jiang Ning had bought were missing, and they also went back to their dormitories to look for them. Only one girl who hadn’t finished reading the latest Wuxia book returned it.
Everyone was very surprised. After reading the magazines, who would take them? Besides, even if they finished reading, they could borrow them again at any time to reread them.
Their dormitory building was a relatively new building in No. 1 High School. It was built later, with six floors in total, and each floor had sixteen dormitories.
There were a total of thirty-two dormitories on the fifth and sixth floors, all occupied by girls.
Dormitories 616, 615, 614, 613, and 612 were all occupied by girls from Classes 1 and 2.
During the lunch break, because there was a lot of movement in their two dormitories, the girls in dormitories 609 and 612 on the left and right were alerted, and they all came out curiously to see what was going on.
When they heard that Jiang Ning had lost her books, they thought it was a textbook that was lost at first and were worried about her. Later, when they heard that it was a magazine she had bought, like Readers Youth Digest, they weren’t worried anymore. They were just curious as to why more than thirty magazines were lost.
A girl in dormitory 609 suddenly thought of something and said, “Speaking of magazines, I remembered something. When I went home last Saturday, a fellow student of mine from Class 7 was reading Readers and Wuxia magazines on the bus. He said he rented it from students in other classes. The two cost only a dime, and you can read them for two days.”
The words of the girl from dormitory 609 shocked everyone who had come out to watch the excitement.
None of them suspected Jiang Ning, as it was obvious that if she had been the one renting out the magazines, she wouldn’t have been so surprised to find them missing.
It had to be someone else.
Their eyes couldn’t help but fall on the girls in dormitory 610, trying to figure out who was clever enough to come up with such a scheme to make money. It was a smart plan, but the magazines weren’t theirs to begin with. Using someone else’s property for personal gain was not right, especially considering that more than thirty books had gone missing, some of which Jiang Ning hadn’t even had the chance to unpack.
Several people in the dormitory couldn’t help but glance at He Xiaofang. She was stunned and quickly asked, “Why are you all looking at me? You think I did it?”Â
She hurriedly turned to Jiang Ning, saying, “Ning Ning, I didn’t, it’s not me.”
Xu Xiuli immediately reassured her, “No one said it was you.”
Jiang Ning also comforted her, holding her hand and saying, “I know it’s not you.”
Their trust made He Xiaofang sigh in relief, but her eyes were still red with emotion. Lu Xuehua, who was on the bed opposite Xu Xiuli, wasn’t entirely convinced and muttered that if it wasn’t He Xiaofang, then who could it be? After all, He Xiaofang was the poorest among them and seemingly the most in need of money, so it was natural for others to suspect her.
Jiang Ning stood firm, saying, “I believe Xiaofang didn’t do it. We stay together every day, and she doesn’t have the time to pull this off.”
Xu Xiuli added, “She doesn’t have the brains either.” Though it sounded like an insult, He Xiaofang, with teary eyes, nodded in agreement.
“If she had the brains to make money like that, she’d probably be good at math,” Xu Xiuli continued.
Lu Xuehua and the others were somewhat swayed by Xu Xiuli’s reasoning. But Lu Xuehua, still skeptical, defended herself when she noticed others looking at her. “You don’t think it was me, right? I don’t need a few cents that badly. It’s insulting to even suggest that.”
Wang Xia also chimed in, waving her hands defensively, “It’s not me either.”
When all eyes then turned to Liu Ping, she exclaimed, “Don’t look at me. It wasn’t me.”
Jiang Ning observed them and then smiled, saying, “Actually, it’s easy to find out who did it. We just need to go down and ask.”
Liu Ping bit her lip nervously, while Lu Xuehua frowned, saying, “Even if we ask, how can we prove those magazines are Jiang Ning’s? She never reads them right away after buying them, and there’s no name written in them. What if we confront the person and they refuse to admit it, claiming they bought them themselves?”
Since the magazines weren’t theirs, the girls had been very careful while reading them, making sure not to write, draw, or leave any marks on them. This made it even more challenging to prove ownership.
That was indeed a problem.
Jiang Ning, on the other hand, didn’t care at all and confidently said, “Actually, there’s something I’ve never told you. Aren’t you curious why I, someone who doesn’t read magazines much, buy the latest ones every week?”
Everyone looked over curiously.
Jiang Ning continued, “Actually, these magazines were sent to me by my relative who works in the magazine industry. They’re all sample issues, not official ones.”
These girls, who had never bought many magazines themselves, had no idea what a sample magazine was or how it differed from a regular issue. But just from the difference between the two terms, they knew that Jiang Ning’s magazines were probably somewhat different from the ones bought outside.
Sure enough, they heard Jiang Ning say, “The sample issue is printed earlier than the main issue. The magazine publishes it in advance for trial and error purposes for the review team. In other words, the time between the sample issue and the main issue print is different.”
How could these little girls know that the magazine still had the same manuscripts in it? They all nodded curiously and asked her, “Is there anything else?”
Jiang Ning’s eyes swept through the crowd. She already knew who it was. The girl didn’t even dare to look her in the eyes. When she glanced over, the girl’s eyes immediately averted.
“As I said just now, after the sample issue is printed, they first check the effect and then undergo repeated revisions. The main issue is directly accepted by the reviewers and won’t be modified. Therefore, there will be some differences in content between the main issue and the sample issue.”Â
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