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Chapter 19: Jiang Xiao speaks Liujiang dialect

After the people had gone, Xia WanWan told Jiang Xiao about her worries. She suspected her mother-in-law had invited someone to play a trick on her.

"... Not exactly." Jiang Xiao thought her idea was a little extreme. He was afraid she was overthinking things and would cause herself unnecessary worry. He tried to reassure her. "It was just a weird person. If you see him outside the gate again, don't open the door. Just get rid of him."

Xia WanWan: "Okay."

Then Jiang Xiao went to the kitchen to cook, and Xia WanWan cleared the dining table. After they finished lunch they didn't think about it again.

Jiang Xiao didn't see Lin ChengYu in school again that afternoon. When Teacher Li, the teaching director, met with him, he said the guests had already left, and Vice Principal Chen didn't mention it again. Maybe it had all blown over.

Wasn't that a good thing?

However, the school was only so big and it was impossible to keep a secret. Jiang Xiao endured Ye YingYing's gossip for a round, but he didn't expect that Lin HeYuan was also in the mood to gossip, although his focus was different.

"Who was that? Are you in trouble?"

Jiang Xiao thought about it and said, "It was a pain in the neck, but it's okay. He's gone. It's not a big deal, so don't worry about it. What we should worry about is my math scores. How come I always make mistakes with this type of problem?"

It was still important to study.

Lin HeYuan immediately ducked his head to help him look at the question. His attention was diverted and he stopped asking about it.

In the monthly exam, Jiang Xiao wasn't affected by the incident at all. It was like Lin ChengYu had never been there. Thanks to the help of Lin HeYuan, his grades improved by leaps and bounds, and he finally got into the top 200. In the end he lived up to the expectations of the teaching director as well as the goal he set for himself.

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He and Ye Bing made an appointment to go to Liujiang again that weekend. The merchandise on his shelf was almost sold out. Several girls had approached him and requested certain items, including watches, crystal jewelry, and a good-looking school bag.

"The school bags here are too plain." The girl described it: "I'm looking for a specific kind of bag. My cousin has one that's really cute. It's light pink and it has a zipper like plush ears. If you pull up the zipper it looks like a stuffed rabbit. I want the same kind, but not identical, so it doesn't clash. Mine has to look better than hers!"

She even paid the deposit in advance, and it was a lot of money. Jiang Xiao took time to carefully understand her preferences and said he would seriously search for it.

He was acting more and more like a professional purchasing agent.

Ye Bing told him before that someone from the freight company had come to ask about the Jiang family. After that, Lin ChengYu had found him, and it was most likely through that method. Jiang Xiao said he understood. He was still going to do exactly what he needed to do. He wasn't going to let Lin ChengYu stop him from going to Liujiang and earning money.

He'd previously planned to do another run over the New Year's holiday. By then he should have the funds to buy something with a higher unit cost, like MP3 players. But he had to do a couple more runs before then. He needed more money to be able to afford it.

Lin ChengYu soon found out about his departure for Liujiang, but he didn't understand yet what Jiang Xiao was doing there.

Most people weren't very clear about Jiang Xiao's business. Even if a lot of people bought things from him, they didn't think it was an operation run by a junior high school student on his own. They assumed it was a small business run by adults at home, and Jiang Xiao was just helping out. If Lin HeYuan hadn't seen Jiang Xiao check the ledger with his own hand, skillfully take inventory, and settle the accounts, he wouldn't have thought Jiang Xiao was the one responsible.