Chapter 20 Baby, I’m not angry, I’m moving up a class.

“Ah?” Xu Qianqian looked at him suspiciously, “Is that true or false?”

“Of course it’s true, but I refused.” Jiang Nian lied without batting an eye, “I have no plans to date in my senior year; I only want to study.”

These were Zhou Yuting’s original words, shamelessly plagiarized by Jiang Nian.

“Hmm, you’re right to think that way.” Xu Qianqian walked ahead, stating earnestly, “When you go to college, you’ll have more choices; there’s no need to limit yourself to a small county.”

“Oh, it sounds like you know a lot?” Jiang Nian clicked his tongue.

Xu Qianqian’s face gradually reddened, “My cousin told me.”

“Oh, did your cousin find a boyfriend?”

“No.” Xu Qianqian’s voice grew softer and softer, explaining with a lack of confidence, “My cousin is different; her goal is graduate school.”

Then came difficult-to-understand words, like “modern independent woman” and “upward choice,” and the path home from evening self-study was suddenly filled with cheerful air.

6, I am from Dunhuang, true at a glance, cheese snow leopard, this is a mural.

Jiang Nian burst out laughing, then said mysteriously.

“Hey, do you know? The old grandmother at our village entrance is eighty and still single, guess what. When she was about to breathe her last, the ground suddenly split open, and an Immortal Lord walked out.”

“The Immortal Lord fed the old grandmother an Immortal Pill, and she instantly returned to eighteen. Finally, the two walked hand in hand back home, becoming an immortal couple.”

“That scene, purple Qi coming from the east, red flags fluttering, a sea of people. Everyone in our ten-mile radius envied that couple. So tell your cousin to hold on; she will definitely find her beloved.”

“Don’t talk about my cousin like that.” Xu Qianqian was extremely embarrassed.

Jiang Nian casually said, “Xu Qianqian, your cousin is also a der; you should interact with her less.”

“Oh.”

After returning home, Jiang Nian again heard the sound of his parents sighing coming from their room.

However, as it was late, he couldn’t knock on the door, so he directly made a phone call. His mother’s voice roared through the door, full of vigor.

“Jiang Nian, are you looking for a beating?! It’s late at night, why aren’t you sleeping, why are you calling?!”

“Uh, I was just curious; you two have been sighing for two nights now.” Jiang Nian said, “Oh, Mom, I forgot to tell you, I scored this time—”

“Don’t cause trouble, go to sleep!”

“Oh, oh.” Jiang Nian was sweating profusely.

It seemed there really was something going on, otherwise, they would usually interrogate him thoroughly after exam results came out. Now they were too busy to remember, so it was probably something tricky.

However, Jiang Nian didn’t take it to heart. He wouldn’t worry needlessly about his parents’ affairs. If they were short on money, he could help out, but otherwise, he couldn’t do much.

As Comrade Li Hongmei said, getting good grades was considered filial piety.

Jiang Nian thought to himself, he would tell them after the class assignments were finalized in the next couple of days. But he should ask Old Jiang about this tomorrow; he’d know then.

The next morning.

Click, the sound of a key in the old lock of the Jiang Family home. Creak, a ray of morning light shot into the dim living room. Jiang Nian had just returned from buying breakfast.

He happened to see his father, Comrade Old Jiang, getting up early to use the restroom, so he stopped him to ask.

“You’re just a child, why are you asking so many questions?” Old Jiang looked puzzled, his face stern, intending to reassert his fatherly authority, “Don’t pry into adult matters.”

“Comrade Old Jiang, I’m already an adult.”

“You’re still a child.”

“As a member of the Family, I can also earn money.” Jiang Nian lifted the steamed buns in his hand and shook them, “I’m responsible for one of the Family’s three meals; isn’t it reasonable to have some right to know?”

Those who eat your food are soft-mouthed, and those who take your things are short-handed, even if it’s your own son. Old Jiang was immediately speechless. He frowned for a moment but still told him the truth.

“It’s nothing, the old Family’s ancestral hall needs money for renovations.”

“Pooling money?”

“Something like that, it’s not finalized yet.” Old Jiang took charge, waving his hand, “Alright, now you know, go to school.”

“Oh.” Jiang Nian suddenly felt a bit awkward. Even though he guessed the outcome, he still tentatively asked, “Is the budget tight? Or, should I contribute a little?”

Old Jiang was too lazy to reply, waved his hand, and went into the restroom.

Alas, the Father’s Sorrow Alliance.

Jiang Nian left the house and immediately put the morning’s events out of his mind. Anyway, his words carried little weight. As long as money was involved, they definitely wouldn’t let him interfere, so it didn’t matter.

Food and daily necessities, at worst, he’d subsidize the household from other sources in the future.

He didn’t know if he hadn’t checked the almanac before leaving, but right after parting ways with Xu Qianqian, he turned a corner at the classroom door and ran straight into Zhou Yuting.

“Jiang Nian.” Zhou Yuting’s eyes were still a bit red, and for the first time, she greeted him proactively.

“Hmm, actually, my left eye is highly myopic.” Jiang Nian moved a bit to the right, “My left ear is 80% deaf. Classmate, who are you?”

Zhou Yuting: “…I know you’re still angry with me.”

The evening’s intention was so strong that Jiang Nian couldn’t tell if she was being serious or just ironically fishing for a reaction.

Looking at her red eyes, he suddenly felt a little soft-hearted. Were his words last night too harsh? After all, she was a girl.

Alas, girls, not even animals.

Seeing that no one in the classroom was staring their way, Jiang Nian quickly moved closer to Zhou Yuting, and with a soft, breathy voice, he said gently.

“Baby, I’m not angry, I’m getting promoted.”

Zhou Yuting was stunned, blood rushed to her head, and she almost fainted.

“You!”

In the first class of the afternoon, the preliminary list for class promotion came out. Unsurprisingly, only Jiang Nian’s name was on the list for their class, appearing on the sixteenth line.

The assigned class was Science Olympiad Class 3, also known as A403. Xu Qianqian’s class was on the third floor, Science Olympiad Class 4, A304. It was regrettable that they weren’t in the same class.

During evening self-study, he again asked the homeroom teacher for leave.

“Jiang Nian, I remember you just took leave the day before yesterday, right? Why again?”

“It’s like this, the illness relapsed.”

“Relapsed?”

“Yes.”

The homeroom teacher looked at the leave slip, then at his unfilial Disciple who was about to be promoted, and the BGM of “Actor” was already playing on a loop in his mind.

You’re faking illness too obviously, like an untalented actor. By god, you’re not even pretending anymore, are you?!

His eyelids twitched repeatedly, but he finally nodded.

“Alright, be careful.”

Under the cover of night, Jiang Nian happily left the school gate, pulled out his phone by the roadside, and made a call.

“Sister Zhao, yes, it’s me.”

“Mm-hmm, I’m by the road at the county middle school. Is it convenient to pick me up? Yes, for class.”

Throwing out four thousand wasn’t entirely a waste; at least it included a pick-up and drop-off service. Jiang Nian stood by the roadside with his arms crossed, planning to complete the task today.

When he had no money, he didn’t feel the lack of it, but after having money, there were holes everywhere.

There weren’t many cars in the small county town, and the dim streetlights illuminated the entire road, like a blanket of clear yellow had been spread out.

Fifteen minutes later, a woman’s motorcycle stopped by the roadside. Zhao Qiuxue took off her helmet, smiled at Jiang Nian by the road, and tilted her head.

“Little handsome Jiang, get on.”

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