Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 81
Jiang Ning lowered her head and said sadly, “If my father knows that I have won a thousand yuan, he will definitely tell my mother. I would have no money by then. My mother would definitely not pay my tuition. I want to save it to pay tuition next semester.”
“I was anxious about the tuition fees for the next semester. Therefore, when the school announced the competition, I hurriedly participated.”
Grandpa Jiang immediately felt guilty. Before Jiang Ning started school, he went to the brigade headquarters and asked several times if they could give him the first half of the year’s salary in advance so that he could use it to pay tuition for his granddaughter, but the people at the brigade headquarters refused. The payment was all settled at the end of the year.
“Okay, okay, I will go with you.”
Jiang Ning suddenly laughed happily, “Thank you, Grandpa. I know you’re the best to me. I will pack your things now.”
When she immediately started packing his clothes, he sat upright in the recliner in surprise, “Why are we leaving now?”
“I only have three days off in total. It’s been more than half a day. Let’s set off now and take the afternoon bus to Wucheng to go to Shanghai. We will arrive in Shanghai around eight or nine o’clock in the evening. We will leave tomorrow morning. We will go to receive the award, and get the free physical examination the Shanghai Municipal Government has arranged for us.”
Jiang Ning pouted her lips slightly aggrievedly. “I am always half full. I haven’t grown tall yet, and my legs often hurt during this period. The teacher said that many students are malnourished, so the Shanghai Municipal Government arranged this physical examination as one of the rewards. They said it was to check what nutrients they were lacking. It could tell what nutrients are missing and what to supplement.”
Jiang Ning pretended not to care and said, “Actually, I don’t need a physical examination. If I eat well, there will be nothing wrong with me.”
Grandpa Jiang immediately disagreed and said, “Why don’t you need a physical examination? How can you have pain in your legs when there’s nothing wrong? Let’s go get you tested.” Grandpa Jiang hurried back to the hut, packed two more clothes. He held a can cup, filled it with boiled water and a bag of rice crackers to eat on the road, locked the door and said, “Let’s go down the mountain. I’ll ask your dad to come up and look after the mountain for two days.”
Jiang Ning reminded Grandpa Jiang, “Grandpa, don’t tell my mother. She didn’t let me go to school before, so I ran away secretly. I am afraid that if she knew I was back, she wouldn’t let me go to school.”
Grandpa Jiang’s heart ached when he heard so, and he nodded solemnly, “Don’t worry. You go to the ferry first and wait for me. I’ll ask your uncle to come up and help me patrol the mountains for two days.”
Although he was assigned to his eldest son’s family and was taken care of by them, he could still ask his second son to do such things. There was more than one road out of the village to the ferry. They could also pass his second son’s house which led directly to the hydropower station and to the ferry.
At that time, there were no boats going to the town. After Jiang Ning waited at the ferry for a while, Grandpa Jiang arrived. The two went on a boat to Tanshan and took a tricycle from Tanshan to Shuibu Town.
Because Tanshan was rich in coal resources, there were many vehicles coming and going every day.
At that time, there were no buses from Shuibu Town to Wucheng. If they wanted to go to Wucheng, they could only take the bus the next morning, but they still could take a bus from the neighboring city.
Jiang Ning had no choice but to give up and take the train to a neighboring city. By the time she arrived at the neighboring city, it was already four o’clock in the afternoon.
Jiang Ning directly called a tricycle and traveled from the train station in the neighboring city to the bus station in Ximen. Because it was the National Day holiday, there were many more people at the station than usual. Jiang Ning was originally worried that there would be no trains going to Shanghai. She didn’t expect that there would be another one going to Shanghai at 5:10 p.m., so she quickly bought a ticket.
Since Grandpa Jiang had never traveled far, he held on to Jiang Ning’s wrist all the way and kept telling her, “Keep close to me. Don’t let go. Don’t let go. There are a lot of bad people out there.”
Jiang Ning nodded repeatedly, “Yeah, yeah, I know. I will hold on to you and I will follow you.”
In fact, Grandpa Jiang didn’t know what he was feeling. He was so nervous that he couldn’t even buy a ticket.
He didn’t know where to buy the ticket. It was all done by Jiang Ning, but he still had to pretend to be very calm. He looked around like a mountain patrol, observing the people, the surrounding environment, and the big train station that the educated youth had talked about.
Seeing that she still had time, Jiang Ning took Grandpa Jiang to eat. Grandpa Jiang was still unwilling and wanted to eat rice crackers soaked in boiled water, but Jiang Ning said, “Our travel expenses, food, and accommodation will be reimbursed by the organizer. I have the tickets.” She shook the train tickets in her hand, but there was a limit on food, which could not exceed one yuan a day.
Two deep-fried dough sticks were only a dime, a large meat bun was also a dime, and a bowl of shredded pork noodles was only fifty cents. One yuan was enough to buy two bowls of shredded pork noodles.
Jiang Ning ordered shredded pork noodles with green vegetables.
Grandpa Jiang breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Just order a bowl. You eat the noodles and I will eat the rice crackers.” He said, “I don’t like noodles. What’s so delicious about the soft rice noodles? The rice crackers are better. I’ll be full. One bowl of crispy rice is worth two bowls of rice.”
In fact, with Grandpa Jiang’s teeth, he couldn’t bite the dry and hard rice crackers at all. All the rice crackers he baked were for Jiang Ning to take to school.
Jiang Ning ordered a bowl of noodles and asked the boss for another bowl. She divided the full bowl of noodles into two portions and gave half of the shredded vegetables and pork to Grandpa Jiang. But when he didn’t want it and tried to put it back, she put the bowl down angrily and picked up the shredded pork as if to throw it into the trash can. “If you don’t want to eat it, I won’t eat it either. I’ll just throw it away.”
Grandpa Jiang felt distressed and said quickly, “I’ll eat, I’ll eat. Hey, you girl, why are you so angry now?”
When the noodle store owner saw it, she smiled and said, “Uncle, your granddaughter is filial to you.”
What Grandpa Jiang liked to hear most was when others praised his eldest granddaughter. Hearing it, he beamed with joy, “Yes, yes, my eldest granddaughter has been filial since she was a child.”
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