Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 54
Coincidentally, there was actually a brigade captain named Jiang in the Wucheng Public Security Bureau.
One of the policemen slapped his thigh, “Maybe he didn’t dare to use his own name, so he probably used the name of one of his relatives.”
After all, being public servants of the people, making extra money through writing was still a bit sensitive. They could completely understand why Captain Jiang did not use his own name but the name of his relative.
They said to Wang Yong, “This Jiang Ning is definitely a relative of our comrade. Why don’t you go to Wucheng and ask? If that doesn’t work, you can just ask Jiang Ning directly. Since her name is used in writing, she must know who it is.”
They themselves were extremely curious, especially since the third issue ended at the most exciting part. If they could determine who the author was, they could ask for the manuscript.
Wang Yong originally wanted to go to the small village of Linhe Brigade to ask, but since he had confirmed Jiang Ning’s information, he stopped and took a tricycle directly to Wucheng.
Fortunately, there was more than one bus trip to Wucheng from Shuibu Town every day. Otherwise, he would have to rest in Shuibu for one night.
After several days of hard searching, Father Jiang and Mother Jiang could not find their eldest son.
Their eldest son could get through on the phone, but he wouldn’t come back. When they called again, he said he was going to Shenzhen City with his classmates. Father Jiang’s hair turned gray with anxiety, but there was nothing he could do about his disobedient son.
Even when they discovered that their youngest daughter was not at home, they were in no mood to inquire. If she was not at home, then she would be at the old man’s place or resting at her aunt’s house.
Father Jiang took a day off and got a little more excited when he thought about his second son who was still studying in Wucheng No. 1 High School.
Although his second son was not as smart as his eldest son, he was down-to-earth and hardworking.
He would be a senior in high school in the second half of the year. Since school had started, he may have used up all his meal tickets, so they had to send him food.
In order to reduce travel expenses, Father Jiang would send him two hundred kilograms of food at once, enough to feed him for a semester.
But he hadn’t seen Jiang Ning at home in the past two days. For some reason, he thought of what his daughter said about how she would go to school by earning her own tuition.
During that period, the money she earned from selling crayfish and going to the brick factory was with her. He didn’t know exactly how much money she had, and he couldn’t go to her aunt’s house to ask if she was there. So he went to ask Grandpa Jiang on the mountain.
Grandpa Jiang told him that she went to school in the county.
Father Jiang was stunned for a moment. After his eldest son dropped out of school and refused to study, he was very happy for his younger daughter to continue in high school. He did not agree with his child dropping out of school.
Upon hearing the news from Grandpa Jiang, he did not use a pole to carry rice to the ferry. Instead, he went to Uncle Jiang’s house to borrow a cart, loaded 400 kilograms of rice onto the cart, and filled two cans. He took the dead fish pickled last time to the ferry, chartered a boat to Shuibu Town, and then took the cart to the center of the town.
It wasn’t allowed to put carts on mini buses. High school had just started for a week. So there were fewer people going to the county. There was no one on the bus, so the driver agreed to let Father Jiang load the 400 kilograms of rice cart tied to the roof of the mini bus.
The roof of the minibus was usually used for guest luggage.
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As the saying went, there were different pronunciations after every ten miles. The dialect of Shuibu Town was completely different from the accent of neighboring cities. It was also very different from the accent of Wucheng. Wang Yong couldn’t understand it at all and could only listen to the surroundings in confusion.
After arriving in Wucheng, Wang Yong followed the local customs and took a tricycle. He went to the gatekeeper of Wucheng No. 1 High School and asked the gatekeeper to help him call a student named Jiang Ning.
The guard looked at him with squinted eyes and asked in a strong local accent, “Wasn’t Jiang Ning a teacher?”
Wang Yong handed over Catcher in Song Dynasty in the martial arts magazine with a wry smile and said, “This novel is well written. Who would have thought that it was written by a student under the age of fourteen? The editor and I both thought it was a teacher from No. 1 High School, so we came here to find her but she is no teacher.”
“Here you go, Uncle, please call her for me. In fact, I have been looking for her for a week. If she doesn’t submit the manuscript, our magazine will be empty.”
Wang Yong’s posture was really low-key. Even so, the uncle still said righteously, “A student’s bounden duty is to study first. Our high school students are all good students. If your manuscript affects the learning of our school students, that’s definitely not good.”
But the uncle was still willing to help him call her. Before calling someone, he asked him, “What class is Jiang Ning in?”
Wang Yong was about to cry. He showed the envelope to the uncle and said that Teacher Jiang Ning didn’t write down what class she was in.
Uncle, “Why do you still call Jiang Ning Teacher Jiang?”
Wang Yong burst into tears. In their line of work, they usually called authors as teachers when urging manuscripts. They were used to it. Although they knew that Jiang Ning may be a student under the age of fourteen, wasn’t it because he hadn’t seen Jiang Ning in person and didn’t have a sense of familiarity? With powerful handwriting and a sophisticated writing style, flowing like water judging from the writing, he really couldn’t regard the author of the Catcher of Song Dynasty as a girl under fourteen years old.
He could hardly look at the fourteen-year-old.
He recalled what he was doing when he was fourteen years old, playing with his friends on the way home from school.
Given her age, Jiang Ning could only be a new student.
The guard suddenly remembered something and took it from the table. Because it contained a sample magazine, the envelope was very large.
He took out an envelope that was larger than an ordinary envelope and handed it to Wang Yong. “Look, see if the Ning Meng you were looking for before is this Ning Meng.”
Wang Yong finally knew why they sent the reply letter and sample magazine to Ning Meng but no one replied yet. It was because it was intercepted by this uncle.
Seeing that he looked like he was about to cry, the uncle quickly took out a small blackboard from under the window at the back. The small blackboard was filled with blurred names. In the corner of the small blackboard, there were still faint words, you could read two vague words “Ning Meng”.
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