Rebirth of My Way to Riches

Chapter 2 The First Pitch

Qian Gang was fooled.

In addition to Mr. Qin's words in the big cake to make him very heartfelt, Mr. Qin personally called him to guarantee that his daughter has a future this thing itself makes Qian Gang feel very dignified, while listening to the phone, while glancing at the village clerk's envious eyes, his heart ironed out - the village clerk's family has a business, has a van, so what? So what? The two children are finished with their studies!

Mr. Qin took advantage of the iron to finalize Qian Lili's volunteer, but also asked: “Why don't I call Qian Lili over, and you two can discuss it again?”

Qian Gang waved his hand, thinking that Mr. Qin could not see, he raised his voice: “No, no, Mr. Qin, you can make the decision, change it for her, you just pay more attention, let her study well and take the exams on the line.”

This is not at all respect the child's own opinion ah, Mr. Qin shook his head, but his mouth agreed: “OK, then I told her, you are busy at home, right? Let's talk about it later, goodbye, old Qian.”

Hanging up the phone, turning back to see Qian Lili's bright eyes, Teacher Qin sighed, letting her sit down to re-fill in the answer card, “There's not much time left, so study hard, check for gaps, and try to get a high score, and you won't have to worry about your father's side.”

Qian Lili finished filling it out, put the answer card back with both hands, and seriously bowed to Mr. Qin, “Thank you, Mr. Qin.”

“Hey, what's this for, I'm not old!” Teacher Qin grabbed the answer card and checked it, waved his hand, “Go back quickly, morning reading is almost over, eat breakfast well, follow the steps, just prepare for the exam.”

Qian Lili was in a leaping mood, her feet gave birth to the wind, and she walked towards the classroom joyfully. As she walked, her eyes became wet.

Whether or not she could do well in the exam was still hard to say, but at least, she had bought herself a chance to change her fate!

She looked down to wipe her tears and ran headlong into someone else.

“Ah sorry ......”

“What's wrong with you?”

She and Chen Xu spoke at the same time.

“What have you been doing? Yo, why are you still crying?” Chen Xu took a step back and stared at her seriously, “Ho, your expression is quite twisted ah, crying and laughing, acting?”

Qian Lili didn't answer, wiped her eyes and asked, “How come you didn't read in the morning?”

“Hey, are you sleepwalking? Can't you hear the noise? Morning reading is over, eating breakfast.” Chen Xu is taller than Qian Lili by a head, condescending to look at her, “Are you really all right?”

“It's fine, it's fine, you eat quickly.” Qian Lili wiped away her tears and her emotions calmed down, only the tip of her nose is still a little red.

Chen Xu “Oh” a sound, also no longer ask, turned around and walked in the direction of the cafeteria.

The town high school's work and rest time is very strict, morning and evening self-study can be said to be early in the morning and late at night, and the village to the town are very far away, in addition to Wang Hui and their families in the town of a few students, most of them live in the school. Chen Xu seems to be from the county, put the county's middle school do not read, in here insert class, it is said that one because the town high school promotion results are higher, the second is the family deliberately exercise him, but after all, the family is well off, he has always spent money in the cafeteria to fight meals to eat.

Qian Lili washed her hands at the tap outside the classroom, returned to the classroom, felt out the small bag in the desk drawer, yanked out a dry, hard pancake, and ate it with the shredded pickles that her mom had cut. Most of the students from the countryside are like this, eating home pancakes and pickles to save money.

Wang Hui also sat in the classroom to eat, but she ate the buns that her family had freshly distilled for her in the morning, which was quite a bit better than Qian Lili.

When she heard that Qian Lili had really changed her choice, Wang Hui immediately smiled, “That's great! I just want to be with you in the future!”

Qian Lili also smiled, “Well, let's study hard and go to college together in the future!” For the first time in her life, dreaming and bragging felt great.

She didn't dare to think about Qingbei, as long as she studied in a serious university, she would be satisfied. Time has passed for too long, she is not sure how capable she is now, she can only grasp the time to read and recall, fortunately she learned quite solidly in the beginning, there are also some things that she still used later, it is not difficult. She studied hard for a few weeks, finally picked up the forgotten knowledge, and re-entered the state.

When everyone was buried in the brush, only Mr. Xiao, who teaches language, had some leisure time - after all, if you want to get good grades in language, it is not enough to just brush up, there is always some extracurricular reading to be done.

Recently, he has been talking to his students about a magazine called Green River Literature, saying that the articles are well-written and of high literary value, and when they found articles signed by him in the magazine he gave them, he didn't have the shame of bringing in his personal belongings, but rather proudly said, “You can all contribute to the magazine, and I'm now a featured writer for the magazine, and you can write me in the guidance or recommendation columns. You can write my name in the guidance or recommendation column, you can prioritize the publication oh!”

In response to him, everyone lowered their heads and snickered.

“You guys write well, once published, not only is it very honorable, you can also give money yo!” Mr. Xiao continued to incite.

Qian Lili understood that this young literary youth was using this method to help everyone de-stress, while what he said, however, was also the truth in every sentence.

As far as she knew, Mr. Xiao had later quit his contracted job at the school and went to this magazine, and then it seemed that he had started writing books on the internet, made a few names for himself, and his family had moved to the provincial city.

But now, the students in the classroom didn't believe it and just thought it was the teacher playing tricks with them.

“Mr. Xiao, we're busy with exams, how can we have that time to write articles?” A classmate raised his hand.

“Right, besides, we've only read the books issued by the school, other big city kids read a lot of books, how can we write better than them!” Another classmate also poured cold water.

Qian Lili didn't say anything.

She was seriously considering Ms. Xiao's proposal.

She was only fourteen years old now, living in the countryside, with little access to money. Soon she would have to take the midterm exams, and then she would have to go to high school and college, and at home she had a younger brother who was three years younger, so she had to spend money everywhere. Home parents year-round hard labor, but only a few thousand dollars in income, the lack of money in the days to come.

Not to mention, Dad will soon agree to give a good buddy in the neighboring village as a guarantee, a loan of 20,000 yuan.

If only she could save up some money on her own. Manuscript fees at this time of year were not high, but even ten dollars would be enough for her to spend for several days when she went to live in the county high school later. This money couldn't be unearned.

She raised her head and carefully copied down the submission mailbox that Ms. Xiao wrote on the blackboard.

After class, Mr. Xiao called Qian Lili to the office and took out her article from the last mock exam and gave it to her: ''Want to submit an article? This essay is at about the same level, try revising it again.”

This is an essay written twenty years ago, Qian Lili has no memory of it, took over and looked at it, felt that the grammar is still rigorous, but the content is actually very childish, even the style of writing carries the unique t of adolescence of literature and pretentiousness - although not very serious.

Although she wanted to earn money, Qian Lili was very clear about her priorities, and she had to cherish the opportunity to take the midterm exam so easily, so she could only use her meal time to change her essay. The good thing is that she has been a teacher for so many years, writing these 800 words is not too laborious. It took her three or four deletions and rewrites before she was able to transcribe it.

Mr. Xiao received the new essay and noticed the difference with just one glance. He looked up at Qian Lili with some surprise: “Your writing has improved again, why are you secretly practicing your writing?”

Qian Lili did not know how to explain her “progress”, so she said, “Yes, I just practice when I really don't want to study.”

Mr. Xiao had already started reading the content. As he read it, he said, “Well, practicing your handwriting is a good thing. Recently, I've been focusing on your standardized test questions, so I really haven't paid much attention to it. But you this word is very good, the next still have to focus mainly on review, soon the mock exams ...... Huh? You've changed it so much, the intention is much deeper and the language is much more mature, it's great! Let's vote like this! No, wait for me for a few minutes, I'll write you a recommendation.”

This was an unexpected delight.

Qian Lili looks calm, in fact, the heart is both joyful and sour, she also once had a very good teacher, is a good student in the eyes of these good teachers, but her life is getting narrower and narrower, until there is no way out. Fortunately, she had a chance to start over.

Resident students less than four weeks once a day off can not leave the school, Qian Lili then asked Wang Hui on the way to walk to help her buy envelopes and stamps, cast the first manuscript.

On the first midterm mock exam, Qian Lili got third in her grade, and she was slightly relieved.

Teacher Qin called her to the office, but did not mention the examination, but handed her a remittance slip amounting to eighteen dollars: “I look at this address, is your teacher Xiao encouragement, right? Contribute to earn money in the end is not something you should consider now, when you go to college, how much money can not earn? You still have to concentrate on your studies.”

Qian Lili is full of the joy of earning money, listening to Mr. Qin's words there is no resistance, smilingly took the list: “Yes yes yes, I know Mr. Qin.”

“Go back and review.” Teacher Qin waved his hand.

Surprised that there really wasn't anything else, Qian Lili easily left.

Walking down the corridor she bumped into the sad-faced Chen Xu.

“You got a lecture too?” Chen Xu's eyes lit up when he saw her.

“What 'too'? Old Qin didn't lecture me, he brought me a letter.” Qian Lili casually shook the remittance slip in her hand, “Why are you going?”

“To get a lecture.” Chen Xu's eyes lost their light again, “This is not a good test, the results came out he drooped to find my fault, and also called my father to complain, and called me to say that there is something for me to learn.”

Just earned the first bowl of gold and got the support of the classroom teacher Qian Lili disguised as a repeater: “You didn't do well? He picks a fight? And complained? And let you learn things?”

“Ugh no, why are you so happy?” Chen Xu looked at her, “In vain, I saw that you were not normal these two days and was worried about you.”