No. 9 and No. 10, Shifan Road, are the two small stores that Lu Ming bought and connected. The first floor is now a small shop, or a grocery store, selling everything from daily necessities to student supplies, comic books, and so on.
After entering the store, there are glass counters on the left, right and front. There are various goods in the counters, and there are also messy goods on the shelves behind the counters.
The two female shop assistants, Qing'e, twenty-one and twenty-two, wearing blue jackets, black pants and cloth shoes, are two big and strong female macho types.
Lu Ming was walking around the store with a beautiful young woman who was wearing a blue and white floral dress.
The beautiful young woman's surname is Ni. She is the head teacher of Lu Ming's class. She has just started working. She is the secretary of the school's financial aid committee and also serves as a counselor for several freshman classes. Her main task is to guide the freshmen to adapt to school life.
This morning, when Lu Ming went to class for the first time, he was caught by Secretary Ni, who talked to Lu Ming for a long time.
The school attaches great importance to Lu Ming, a student from Donghai. Although he reported on the first day of school, there was no news for nearly two months. He even called in sick on the first day of school, and we could not find him using the contact information he filled in when he reported for admission. The school held several meetings and urged Secretary Ni to find this student. Now that she has finally caught him, she will not let him go. She must find out what happened and ask Lu Ming if he has encountered any difficulties or is dissatisfied with the school and wants to drop out and apply to another school next year.
Because let alone Zhenjiang Normal School, even for universities in various places, except for the top few, few Donghai students are willing to apply to other places.
The northern states and provinces can forget about getting students from the East China Sea.
Now a student from Donghai has enrolled in Zhenjiang Normal School, and naturally he has become a treasured child.
One can imagine how much importance the school attaches to this.
Lu Ming said that he was in poor health and probably could not go to class every day, but he would definitely go when he could and would not miss the final exams.
Seeing that Lu Ming didn't seem to want to drop out of school, Secretary Ni breathed a sigh of relief, but she still insisted on following him to take a look at Lu Ming's living environment, saying that she could help solve any problems.
Lu Ming was originally worried that he might be on the verge of being fired, but he felt relieved after seeing this.
But Secretary Ni was too enthusiastic and could not be refused, so he had to bring her to the residence at No. 9 Normal Road.
"You bought this, and you own the store?"
Seeing Lu Ming nod, the expression on Ms. Ni's face clearly showed that people from Donghai are indeed rich.
The prices of retail buildings on Normal Road are still very high, with each two-story shop costing roughly 7,000 to 8,000 yuan. Since classmate Lu came to Zhenjiang to study, his family bought two shops.
"It's so close, so if you can go, you should try to attend the class. I'm afraid you won't be able to keep up if you study on your own."
Secretary Ni breathed a sigh of relief as he spoke. Since he had already bought a shop here, it seemed that he had no intention of dropping out of school.
"Okay, thank you Teacher Ni." Lu Ming nodded quickly.
"Don't call me teacher. I am not qualified to be your teacher, life counselor, or your big sister." Secretary Ni smiled and said, "It's noon. I'll treat you to a meal." He sighed and said, "My father mentioned you and asked me to take good care of you. Weren't you introduced by his friend? Do you want to learn oracle bone script from him?"
Lu Ming already had some guesses in his mind, because the surname Ni was not very common, and the scholar who studied oracle bone inscriptions also had the surname Ni.
"So you are Professor Ni's daughter. I should have paid a visit to Professor Ni as soon as possible. Otherwise, will Professor Ni be home tonight?"
Secretary Ni sighed softly, "Maybe after a while. He is in the hospital and is very ill. He was admitted a month ago. Before he went into the hospital, he told me about you."
Lu Ming was stunned. Seriously ill
Secretary Ni shook his head. "Okay, let's not talk about this. Let's go. I'll treat you to a meal. Turn a corner. There are a few good snack bars at the east gate of the school. They are very popular among students and serve local specialties."
"Okay!" Lu Ming said again: "I'll go upstairs and change my clothes."
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Secretary Ni brought Lu Ming to a snack bar called "Liu Ji Lamb Soup".
This place is opposite the east gate of the school. The shops are a row of tin houses, which are completely incomparable to the two-story stores on Normal Road at the main entrance of the school.
But there are a lot of students, and most of the tin houses are snack bars, some selling small accessories and the like, and there are 2 branches.
The five or six tables in Liuji Lamb Soup were filled with students, but then a young man stood up and greeted Secretary Ni.
Secretary Ni smiled and said, "What a coincidence, Lu Ming, your class monitor is here!"
Pulling Lu Ming over and squeezing in to sit down, the students were a little restrained at first, but when they saw that Teacher Ni was not arrogant, had similar thinking to theirs, and loved to joke, the atmosphere soon became lively.
Lu Ming didn't say much. He ordered mutton soup and savored it slowly.
People in Zhenjiang love to drink mutton offal soup, which has a sour and spicy taste.
However, Lu Ming didn't like offal, intestines, lungs, etc., so he ordered pure mutton soup with pepper, chili oil and vinegar, which tasted similar to his previous life.
In Donghai, you really can’t drink mutton soup, but nowadays, it feels a little bit familiar.
"Xiao Shuai, why don't you want mutton offal? Mutton offal is more nutritious than mutton!"
A little fat guy said it three times in a row, and it was not until someone touched Lu Ming's arm that Lu Ming realized that he was talking to him.
"Yes, I'm calling you!" The little fat man laughed, "You're the most handsome one here, so what should I call you if not Xiao Shuai? Before you came, the most handsome one was the squad leader, and he was called Da Shuai!"
"No, no, Xiaoshuai doesn't sound good. You should call me Shaoshuai. The way you dress looks similar to those Shaoshuai in the northern newspapers!"
Apparently, the fat guy likes to give people nicknames.
And it was true that Lu Ming's dressing style was obviously different from theirs. Most of them wore cloth shirts and cloth pants, and some even had cuffs and patches on them, but Lu Ming's clothes were made of very different materials. It looked like an ordinary jacket, but the fabric was silky smooth, and the collar and other places that should be straight were straight, making his whole temperament different from that of his deskmate.
In fact, some of them are just first-year students in technical secondary school and have just graduated from primary school. Most of their classmates are still ignorant and have no concept of social class, especially those from ordinary families. On the contrary, poor students are more sensible and have access to society earlier.
Lu Ming looked at the little fat boy and smiled without saying anything.
In fact, I was still thinking about Professor Ni’s serious illness.
Of course, the reason he went upstairs just now was not just to change clothes, but to ask Liuli to send someone to check on Professor Ni's condition.
Among Liuli's Qing'e, there are people with various skills, including a master of poison, who also has some research on pathology.
Lu Ming vaguely felt that there was something strange about Professor Ni's sudden serious illness.
"Lu Ming, why haven't you come to school?" The person asking the question was the class monitor, a very handsome young man, dressed very fashionably in a three-piece suit and vest. He did not look like a student, and the way he spoke, he sounded very organized and was already a leader among his classmates.
However, Lu Ming could tell at a glance that this set of fashionable clothes was cheap merchandise. He usually wore good stuff, so the cheap fabrics stood out.
"I'm not feeling well." Lu Ming smiled at the young man.
Putting down the soup spoon, he said, "Okay, you guys eat, I'm going back to take my medicine!" He said to Secretary Ni, "Teacher, I'm back!"
Secretary Ni had no choice but to nod.