Chen Mengshu was just about to go to the toilet to look for someone.
A familiar figure appeared at the door.
"Qingqing!"
Chen Mengshu's eyes lit up. She dropped the book and rushed over.
"Where have you been?"
"I didn't see you during the three classes this afternoon! I thought you'd fallen into the toilet pit and was about to go and fish you out."
Hua Qingqing was always speechless at Chen Mengshu's train of thought: "If I really had fallen into the toilet pit and you only came to fish me out in the third class, what's standing in front of you now would be a corpse."
"Oh... Let's not talk about that. Where on earth did you go just now?"
Chen Mengshu's concern was genuine, and the eagerness on her face was obvious.
Hua Qingqing didn't say a word and just handed her the test paper in her hand.
"What's this?"
Chen Mengshu took it and had a look. When she saw the words "Final Exam Paper for Senior Grade Two" on it, she was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes started to look at the questions below.
No, she was looking at the score!
What the hell?
Such a high score?
"Whose paper is this? Some senior's?"
Chen Mengshu flipped the paper over, and three characters came into view.
At this moment, she still didn't realize what was going on. She murmured these three characters: "Hua, Qing, Qing."
"What a coincidence, Qingqing! This senior has the same name as you!"
Hua Qingqing: "..." Silence is tonight's Cambridge.
She sighed.
"Didn't you ever think that I was the one who answered this paper?"
Chen Mengshu honestly shook her head.
"Never thought of it... Wait, no! What do you mean?"
"You're saying you did this paper? Why on earth did you do it?"
Because of the extreme shock, Chen Mengshu's lips trembled. She thought of a possibility, and her lips trembled even more.
"You're not planning to skip a grade, are you?"
"Yup, congratulations, you guessed right."
Hua Qingqing clapped her hands, then took back the test paper and walked back to her seat.
Yup, yup. This guy even said "yup"!
She stormed up to Hua Qingqing: "You, you, you! How could you make such an important decision without telling me!"
Hua Qingqing looked strange: "I did tell you."
"Nonsense. When did you tell me? I haven't heard you mention this at all today! I was still worried about you just now!"
"On your birthday before, when I went to your home, I mentioned this to you. I said I was going to skip a grade."
Chen Mengshu's angry face suddenly froze. She remembered that Hua Qingqing did mention this that day. However, hadn't they already agreed not to skip a grade?
She complained: "You said you wouldn't skip a grade. You lied to me. If you go to senior grade two, you'll become my senior. How can we go to the toilet together and discuss questions together in the future?"
Hua Qingqing held up a finger and shook it.
"No, no, no. I never promised you that. Skipping a grade is something I've wanted to do from the very beginning. I can't easily change my mind."
"Besides, I'm just skipping a grade. I'm not going to college all of a sudden. Most importantly, if I go to senior grade two and become the top student there, you'll be the top student in junior grade one. Don't you want to be the top student?"
Chen Mengshu blinked her eyes.
She did! She really did!
She used to be the top student, but since she met Hua Qingqing, she'd always been the second.
Hua Qingqing wasn't really a teenager. She'd never had family affection since childhood and wasn't used to the friendship between little girls. However, she knew it was precious, so she was willing to talk to Chen Mengshu nicely.
It had to be said that her words hit the nail on the head with the little girl.
Chen Mengshu was easy to coax and was soon appeased with just a few words.
She even volunteered to help Hua Qingqing pack her things and take them to the senior grade two class.
Looking at the enthusiastic Chen Mengshu, Hua Qingqing rarely felt a bit guilty. When she skipped another grade to senior grade three later, the other girl would probably cry.
Well, she'd buy some small gifts to coax her later.
After successfully skipping a grade, Hua Qingqing became even more famous in No. 1 Middle School. Her test paper was widely circulated among the top students in senior grade two.
After all, who could have imagined?
A junior grade one student scored five points higher than the top student in senior grade two.
"Alas, how is her brain structured?"
"I heard she started studying at 18. She went straight to junior grade three, took the high school entrance exam directly, and it's only been two months since she got into our school, and now she's in senior grade two."
"How is her brain structured?"
After hearing this, the student who started the conversation let out another long sigh.
"Who knows? Maybe she's just naturally smart. We can't compare. Hey, but Gao Yingjie is going to be in a hurry this time. With such a competitor in the class, his position as the top student might be taken away."
"I think it's quite likely."
At this moment, Hua Qingqing, the one being talked about, didn't feel like the center of the topic at all because she was busy. She was busy writing a letter to her father in the capital, asking for money.
She'd ranked first in the final exam and passed the grade - skipping exam with a high score.
If she didn't take this money, who would?
Wouldn't it be a waste of Hua Jia's deep love for his daughter?
Presumably, the other party would be generous enough to pay some textbook fees for his future college - bound daughter... Well, she'd also send a letter to Hong Kong later.
Thinking of this, she wrote even faster.
...
Shanghai, a bustling big city where the soft Wu dialect could be heard everywhere on the streets.
Although it wasn't as magnificent as in the later generations, the high - rise buildings were still enough to amaze Yang Wang and his companions who came from Nan County.
They'd been in Shanghai for several days.
Yang Wang, who came with a mission, didn't act immediately. Instead, he investigated and interviewed, gathering all the information from various aspects. Then he changed into a suit and went to the zipper factory for project negotiations.
During this trip, Hua Qingqing had repeatedly emphasized the importance of dressing well. Uncle Zhou gave them three of the store's best suits. Sure enough, as soon as they put on the suits, they looked like big bosses and rich people.
Anyway, the people in the zipper factory were fooled by them.
The factory director sent the workshop director to talk to them.
When Yang Wang saw this, he felt even calmer. Who wasn't a workshop director? He was the workshop director personally promoted by the boss!
After a simple exchange, Yang Wang got straight to the point.
The workshop director of the zipper factory with sparse hair on his head looked at the three well - dressed and imposing men in front of him. He murmured in his heart. These three men were dressed just like the foreigners who came to do business before. They must be rich.
This might be a big order!
Before Director Li could say a word, he saw the man's subordinate take out a yellow - covered file bag from his bag and hand it to the man. Unexpectedly, the man just raised his finger and made a gesture, and the subordinate immediately put the file on the table.
Yang Wang made a gesture of invitation.
"This is the project proposal we wrote for this cooperation. Director Li, please take a look first."
What was this operation? What was a project proposal?
Director Li was stunned. Obviously, he was bluffed.
His attitude became even more respectful. He carefully picked up the file and started to read it. After reading it, he felt a bit dizzy.
He'd never seen such a way of doing business before.
It clearly stated all the advantages of Dongxing Factory. Although he didn't know if they were true or not, it seemed very professional.
Director Li read it again and again: "So you mean you want a small batch of zippers first, and a large batch the second time?"
Yang Wang nodded with a smile.
"That's okay. However, we usually deal with big orders. This kind of situation is rare. I have to ask the factory director."