In Wen Jianning's dormitory, Zhang Tonghui is the poorest one in the family.

Feng Xin and Zhong Hui have family support, Wen Jianning can make a living by selling literature, Ruan Wenyun Although he had cut off contact with his family before, he still brought some valuable items with him when he escaped from the occupied area, and recently it is said that he also contacted a distant uncle.

Zhang Tonghui was the only one in the dormitory, and she had to run around all day long to make a living, first asking someone to work as a teacher in a middle school in Kunming, and then helping to run a meal group and doing odd jobs, but no matter how hard she worked, she still couldn't compare with the speed of rising prices in Kunming.

That's right, since the beginning of the year, prices in Kunming have been rising.

This is really not a good phenomenon for poor students.

What's worse is that, according to newspaper analysis, this price rise may continue for a long time.

However, Zhang Tonghui is taking a break from school this time, not because she is busy doing part-time work, which leads to too much homework or skipping school, but because she plans to take a year off from school and go south to do business with others. Speaking of which, I blame Zhong Hui for coming back home from spring break, some of them brought back some fashionable gadgets from the south, and when they arrived, they became a sought-after commodity, and they could be sold for a lot of money when they got their hands on.

Zhang Tonghui has always been quite business-minded, and he was quickly moved after noticing this.

In fact, just as she observed, after the fall of Guangzhou, the transportation of international strategic materials could only be continuously transported to China from the Yunnan-Burma Highway. In the blink of an eye, the highway became the modern Silk Road, and many merchants took the opportunity to transport in-demand goods from Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and even Europe to China, and then resell them.

With the little money that Zhang Tonghui worked so hard to save, of course, she couldn't do it to such an extent, but she estimated that even reselling some small commodities back and forth between the two places would be enough to earn her living expenses for a year, and finally made up her mind.

After persuading her several times, they saw that she had made up her mind, so they had to let her go. After all, Zhang Tonghui promised that he was only taking a year off from school, and when he earned enough tuition and miscellaneous fees in the future, he would study hard when he came back.

Everyone held an internal meeting in private to discuss, Wen Jianning and Ruan Wenyun did the best job of taking notes, and when Zhang Tonghui came back, they could help her make up for the lessons; Feng Xin and Zhong Hui had plenty of money on hand and could lend her some money for travel expenses; Chen Hanxiang had relatives at home who were also there, and they could help ask if they could bring Zhang Tonghui with them when they went back.

However, it is too early to discuss this.

Zhang Tonghui plans to wait for the end of the semester in the first half of the year, and take advantage of the summer vacation to go to the south to inquire about the market before taking action. It's only May now, and there is still more than a month before the big exam, and everyone's focus is still on school.

In addition to attending classes and teaching the family hall as usual, Wen Jianning often took Ruan Wenyun, who was in the same dormitory, to the teahouse in his spare time.

At the beginning, when he was in Mengzi, Ruan Wenyun was only the best friend with Zhang Tonghui, and his relationship with the rest of the dormitory was always lukewarm. Zhong Hui and Feng Xin were busy participating in club activities, and the remaining two gradually became acquainted and often met to go to the teahouse together.

Teahouse is one of the most popular activities of UNJUT students, and it is much more comfortable to read books in the teahouse than in the library, where you have to get up early every day to queue up to get a seat. There are many teahouses on the streets of Kunming, and they can buy a pot of tea and occupy a table with a little money, and both of them are the type who can especially withstand sitting on cold benches, often sitting all day. When the teahouse was about to turn off the lights and close at night, the two of them walked back together with their books.

As time passed, the relationship between the two became better and better.

Wen Jianning read the book for a long time as usual, his shoulders and neck were sore, and he was about to get up and move for a while, but suddenly found that Ruan Wenyun, who was originally sitting opposite, was gone.

At first, she didn't care, but after a while, Ruan Wenyun never came back. She had no choice but to put the book on the table, asked a male classmate next to her to help take care of it, and went all the way out.

It wasn't until she found the corner that she saw Ruan Wenyun talking to a male classmate.

The male classmate had his back to her, he was tall, wearing a jacket, and he looked like a very new-fashioned person.

Wen Jianning thought that the two were in love, and they didn't want bad people and good things, so they wanted to leave quietly, but Ruan Wenyun saw her at a glance, and hurriedly pushed away the male classmate and ran towards her. She stood behind Wen Jianning before shouting at the man: "Don't come to me again, next time you come again, I'll tell the teacher in the school's discipline office." ”

The male classmate turned around, and it was a face that made Wen Jianning look a little familiar.

There was a distressed look on his face, as if he wanted to explain something to her. But the moment he saw Wen Jianning, the steps he had taken were fixed in place again, and he still remembered Wen Jianning when he looked at his eyes.

Wen Jianning finally remembered that this person was Zhou Yinghuang who he had seen in the He Mansion a few days ago.

Ruan Wenyun put down this sentence, and pulled Wen Jianning to walk in the direction of the teahouse without looking back. After the two returned to the teahouse, they sat down to read quietly. It wasn't until lunch that Wen Jianning couldn't help but whisper, "What's the matter with you?"

Ruan Wenyun bit her lower lip and hesitated for a while before telling her what happened.

It turned out that Zhou Yinghuang was actually her nominal fiancé.

Wen Jianning was so shocked that he was speechless for a while.

She couldn't help but be surprised and continued to listen to it, only to know that this matter had to start with Ruan Wenyun contacting the distant uncle. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the other party moved to Chongqing with the family, and suddenly received a letter from Ruan Wenyun, a cheap niece, although she didn't want to deal with her, but she still helped inquire about the news of her parents, and it happened to run into the Zhou family.

The Zhou family and the Ruan family are old acquaintances, and in the early years, when the two parents were talking and laughing, they had set a doll family, and then the Zhou family had an accident and moved away, and the two parents only exchanged letters for more than ten years.

After the fall of Jinling, Ruan Wenyun was separated from his family, and the connection between the two families was naturally severed.

On the other hand, after the elders of the Zhou family settled down in Chongqing, they also had the heart to find out the whereabouts of their old friends, and after hearing about Ruan Wenyun, they hurriedly told Zhou Yinghuang, who was training at Kunming Aviation School, to let him take care of her.

In fact, the Zhou family just took care of their friend's orphans out of kindness, and they may not take the jokes of the year seriously, but Ruan Wenyun's uncle's family didn't think so. The Zhou family has been a high-ranking official in Chongqing, if Ruan Wenyun can seize the marriage contract of the year, not only will someone take care of it in the future, but maybe it will also benefit their family, so he wrote letters three or four times to urge.

Wen Jianning understood when she heard this, her uncle and those in the Wen family were exactly the same way.

may have seen a gloomy look on her face, Ruan Wenyun hurriedly grabbed her sleeve and begged: "Jianning, don't, don't care, he's not a bad person." In fact, he just saw that I was too pitiful to be alone in Kunming, and wanted to help me more. He came to give me money, but I wouldn't accept it. ”

She remembered that when she first met Ruan Wenyun, everyone knew that she had cut off contact with her family and was short of money, so she was cautious when talking to her on weekdays, for fear that the pity she accidentally showed would stab her fragile self-esteem.

Since Ruan Wenyun pleaded like this, what else could Wen Jianning say.

However, since she knew about this, she paid a lot more attention when she walked with Ruan Wenyun next, and occasionally when she met Zhou Yinghuang and his classmates coming to her, she glared at them coldly and did not let them approach. That Zhou Yinghuang also seemed to be a little afraid of her, every time he came to Ruan Wenyun, he saw her from a distance and ran away.

Later, Wen Jianning hadn't seen him much.

Although Zhou Yinghuang was finally driven away, Wen Jianning always remembered that Ruan Wenyun was not rich in money.

Ruan Wenyun is not quite the same as Zhang Tonghui, her personality is a little introverted and sensitive, and she is obsessed with reading, and she is not keen on finding part-time errands, although she helps people sort out materials in the library, but the salary is meager. In the past, she was able to support herself with loans and scholarships issued by the Ministry of Education, but the prices in Kunming are getting higher and higher, and it is no longer possible.

Wen Jianning picked a suitable time and offered to lend her some money, but Ruan Wenyun said that he had recently found a part-time job, his salary was very full, and he had a lot more money. At first, she thought that Ruan Wenyun had too much self-esteem and refused to accept her kindness. But seeing that the smile on her face gradually increased in the next few days, and she no longer cut back on food and clothing, she was relieved.

......

At the end of June, it was another big test.

The results of this year's big exam are destined to make many people fall through the glasses, and Wen Jianning, who has always been at the top of the list, can only rank in the upper middle this time. The classmates who knew her well were all strange, but taking into account her mood, they asked Zhong Hui privately about the situation, and some gave ideas, asking them to go to the teacher to look at the paper and ask what was going on.

Wen Jianning's talent is well-known in the Faculty of Letters, and the teachers of the United Nations University are also the most talented, and it is impossible to give a low score just because a certain reading report is not written to their liking. Literature is also not like some science and engineering disciplines, where talent and knowledge are firmly there, and there is almost no serious abnormal performance.

Zhong Hui knew best what was going on, but she couldn't tell the truth to others.

The grants provided by the school to the students are all linked to the grades, and when the two of them took a walk after the last big exam, Jianning had already made a decision, and she persuaded her at the time, but unfortunately it didn't play a role.

Wen Jianning also breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the results, which was not much different from what she expected.

After the exam was over, the two began to prepare to pack their bags. Because she and Zhong Hui have made an appointment to participate in a summer camp jointly organized by the school and the student government association this summer. It is said to be a summer camp, but it is actually an excursion jointly organized by various colleges of the United Nations University to investigate the local customs and customs of Yunnan. Teachers and students from the Department of Social Sciences plan to take the opportunity to investigate folklore, teachers and students from the Department of History have to collect local historical materials, and students from the Department of Biology and the Department of Geology also have their own tasks.

Wen Jianning also wanted to take advantage of the holiday to broaden her horizons, Zhong Hui was just pulled by her as a companion.

Just before they set off, she received another letter from Jianwan.

(End of chapter)