Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 56
There were more martial arts novels on the market. With the martial arts novels by Gu Long, Jin Yong, Wen Ruian, and others selling well in the mainland, there was a growing interest in martial arts. The market impact was huge.
Catcher of Song Dynasty could be said to be unique in that it had completely opened up a theme different from traditional martial arts, while also taking into account the current popularity of criminal investigation and reasoning.
Even if someone imitated Ning Meng later, they might not be as popular as Justice Bao. Even if they could catch up with the popularity of Catcher of Song Dynasty, there wouldn’t be many who could make every case interlocking in criminal detective cases extremely exciting, and at the same time control the rhythm as well as Ning Meng.
They just wished Ningmeng was not a high school student.
Jiang Ning didn’t know that someone had been looking for her for several days.
While Wang Yong was on the phone with Director Li, Father Jiang also used a cart to pull 400 kilograms of grain to the gate of No. 1 High School. He didn’t know which class Jiang Ning was in, so he only said to the guard, “I’m here for high school student Jiang Bai from Class 8. I brought him food, please call Jiang Bai.”
At that time, the students were in class. Naturally, the guard would not call Jiang Bai out at the critical moment of his studies. Instead, he checked the rice on Father Jiang’s cart. After making sure there was no problem, he asked Father Jiang to note down his details. The guard room was locked, and Father Jiang was led to the canteen. After the master chef in the canteen weighed the food, he gave Father Jiang four hundred catties of food stamps.
The guard thought Father Jiang had prepared a whole year’s rations for Jiang Bai, so he didn’t ask any more questions. He looked at the time and said, “They have almost finished class at this time. Wait here for five minutes, and I will call him for you.”
The senior high school students were concentrated on the fifth and sixth floors. The guard came out of the cafeteria, went up to the fifth floor, and walked to the door of Class 8. After less than two minutes, the bell rang. The teacher inside delayed the class for five minutes. After coming out of the classroom, the guard stood at the door and shouted, “Jiang Bai, who is Jiang Bai?”
Jiang Bai stood up and raised his hand, “Here.”
“Come out for a moment.”
When Jiang Bai came out, he was told about Father Jiang coming to deliver food to him. “Your father is waiting for you at the door of the cafeteria.” He pointed to the man standing not far away.
The tall man at the door of the cafeteria said, “Look, is that your dad?”
After getting Jiang Bai’s answer, the guard didn’t waste any time and hurried back to his guard room.
The guard room was locked.
Jiang Bai quickly ran to the door of the cafeteria. Father Jiang discovered that after half a year of absence, his second son had grown a lot taller and was almost catching up with him.
He unfolded the four hundred kilograms of food stamps and handed them to Jiang Bai and said, “I heard from your grandfather that Ning Ning came to school to register. You and Ning Ning each share half of the food stamps. Do you know what class she is in? How is she doing now?” He wanted to ask about tuition fees.
Jiang Bai didn’t know what aspect he was asking about, so he nodded and said, “She is doing pretty good.”
“As long as it’s good.” After saying that, he took out another two hundred yuan and gave it to Jiang Bai, which was his private money he had saved some time ago by selling crayfish. “Your mother didn’t give Ning Ning tuition fee, so she made some money by selling crayfish by herself. She also went to the brick factory to move bricks some time ago and got three yuan a day. I don’t know if it is enough for tuition. This is the money I saved during this period. Give it to her, and don’t tell your mother about it when you go back.”
Jiang Bai didn’t expect that Mother Jiang didn’t pay his sister’s tuition, but thinking about it, it didn’t seem strange. His mother always only cared about his eldest brother.
He nodded silently and said, “Well, I will pass it on to her.”
Father Jiang had nothing to worry about, and handed him the two cans of salted fish in his snakeskin bag, “Water from the hydropower station was pumped some time ago. I fished on the river beach, and sold live fish. I pickled the remaining dead fish and small fish. You and Ning Ning finish these two bottles. Later, I’ll ask someone to bring more over to you.”
It wasn’t worth making the trip to Wucheng for two bottles of pickled fish, so he could only ask relatives and friends who would go to Wucheng for business.
“Thank you.”
Father Jiang looked at his second son, who was no longer much shorter than him, and patted his shoulder, “Your brother didn’t come back to repeat his studies. He went to Shenzhen City. No one knows where he is now. Now there are only you and your sister at home. Study hard, get into a good university, and don’t be like your brother.”
His tone was weak. Speaking of which, Jiang Song’s grades were really not bad, otherwise Father Jiang and Mother would not have had such high hopes.
However, the college entrance examination system at that time was different from that of later generations. You fill in your application form first, then take the exam, and then they evaluate your scores.
Jiang Song was praised by his parents since he was a child. He applied to several universities, all of which were very good, but he failed to get into any of them. His self-esteem was crushed.
In her previous life, Jiang Ning happened to be in the first batch after the reform of the college entrance examination, which adopted the policy of evaluating scores first and then filling out the application form.
He paused for a while. The father and son had nothing to say, so the father continued to say, “Then study hard. I’m leaving. If you are short of money or food stamps, ask someone to come back and inform me. I will come to give it to you.”
He was pulling a cart. His back was bleak, and he was always full of energy in previous years.
The energy full of hope and enthusiasm seemed to be exhausted all of a sudden, and the person also looked a bit old for no reason.
Jiang Bai held the money and food stamps in his hands and looked at his leaving back, just silent.
After a while, he hurriedly went to Jiang Ning before class started.
Jiang Ning took the money and food stamps from Jiang Bai. When she heard that it was from Father Jiang, she didn’t say anything. She just said, “I know, you can take the salted fish.”
Jiang Bai didn’t force it. Anyway, they could eat together later. “I heard from Dad that Mom didn’t give you tuition.” He took out something from his pocket.
He took out ten yuan and gave it to her, “I don’t have much money on me, so you can take these ten yuan first.”
Mother Jiang gave him a total of eight hundred yuan. With tuition, books, and accommodation fees, not much was left.
It was just that he had food stamps. So he didn’t go out of school every day and didn’t have much to spend money on.
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