my stealth fighter

Chapter 28 Old Clothes at the Bottom of the Box

After Jiang Chanji went to the bathhouse, the landlady cleaned up the dishes and sat down to rest.

She checked the calendar. Today, there are no tenants whose leases are due, and there are no tenants who need to pay the rent. For those who are really poor and have no money, it is futile to urge them.

When a person calms down, his thoughts fly wild like a wild horse running wild.

Red Leaf Academy...

The fact that Jiang Chanji was admitted to Hongye Academy, even today, she still can't fully accept, that kid... no, it's that girl, she doesn't look very smart, how could she be admitted to Hongye Academy?
She is very clear about the difficulty of Hongye Academy's exams. Jiang Chanji goes out to work and look for jobs every day, so it is impossible for him to have time to study. No matter how smart a person does not study, he cannot be admitted to Hongye Academy.

Could it be that girl...is the so-called transcendent?Awakened abilities after entering puberty?
I am afraid that is the only way.

Compared with those daughters who were born with huge wealth and power, ability is relatively fair, regardless of high or low, it may be awakened by girls who are rich in the world, or they may be awakened by girls who are penniless.

What ability did that girl awaken?
Anyway, it can't be money ability, otherwise the rent owed would have been paid off long ago.

There are various types of abilities, including abilities that have no practical effect.

She thinks that Jiang Chanji probably awakened the useless abilities. Hongye Academy doesn't care about the types and strengths of abilities. As long as they are extraordinary, they can accept them. Anyway, they don't need money, otherwise they may be recruited by others.

It doesn't matter, no matter how weak the ability is, as long as they can enter Hongye Academy, it is already the lifelong dream of many girls.

After a while, she stood up, walked back to the bedroom, and found a photo album from a long time ago from the bottom of the bookcase.

The cover of the photo album has oxidized and turned yellow, and the pages are also a little glued.

She stared at the photo album silently, and when she turned the first page, the memories from many years ago came back to life.

Is this... me?
The girl in the photo is a young girl standing at the forefront of fashion, with a slender figure, decent clothes, and light makeup. Although she can't be called an all-powerful girl, her youthful atmosphere can be felt through the photo.

She remembered that this was the photo her father took of her the day before she applied for Hongye College. At that time, she just got a new dress, and after trying it on, she was so happy that she didn't want to take it off.

Fingers rubbing on the photo for a long time, she recalled the scene at that time, everything was vivid in her mind, she was so happy at that time, her family was rich, her parents loved her, she had many friends, even the sky seemed to be pink.

She prides herself on her excellent academic performance, and like every girl of her age, her greatest wish is to be admitted to Hongye College.

The teacher is very optimistic about her, and her parents also try their best to support her and believe in her.

In order to motivate her, her parents also spent a lot of money to buy her a new set of clothes. Although her family is still relatively rich, the price of the clothes is still far beyond her family's usual consumption level.

She and her parents were looking forward to the day when she wore this new dress to attend the opening ceremony.

Unfortunately, the imagined day did not come true.

Looking back, the failure of Hongye Academy's entrance examination was actually unexpected and reasonable. Sitting in the examination room and seeing those ghost-like questions, she was like a toad jumping out of a well. For the first time, she knew how vast the world is. The vastness made her shiver, and there were so many real geniuses in the world, which completely destroyed her blind self-confidence.

She forgot how she left the examination room and how she got home.

That was probably the turning point in her life. The failure of the exam severely hit her confidence, and even the atmosphere at home was no longer harmonious. The parents complained to each other at first, and then developed into a cold war, and finally broke down and divorced.

She couldn't stand the atmosphere and ran away from home before her parents divorced.

At that time, she might still have some kind of fantasy, thinking that after entering the vast world, she might also become as powerful as those geniuses.

It was a turbulent era. The existence of superhumans had just been officially made public by various countries. The ordinary people in the society were confused and uneasy.

Heroes come out of troubled times. Many people think that taking advantage of the opportunity of social transformation can achieve a career. She thought so too. She even locked herself in the room all day long, staring at the metal spoon for a long time, hoping to Can bend spoons with my own thoughts...

Later, the spoon was bent—not really bent, but because she stared at it for too long, her eye muscles and spirit were both tired, and she had hallucinations.

It was really a dark history that is unbearable to look back on, but there are not a few people who do this. After everyone learns of the existence of extraordinary beings, who would not want to have magical abilities overnight?

In fact, the country will publicly recognize the existence of superhumans because everything under the water has been settled, and major interest groups have reached a consensus and agreement, including the superhuman groups. The meat has been divided, and only some The broth is left for common folk to scramble.

More information gradually spread to the ears of ordinary people. For example, only young women who have entered puberty have the opportunity to awaken their abilities, and the bald man no longer has to fantasize...

The major interest groups have already grasped these inside stories long before the countries disclosed their secrets, and ordinary people can only realize it later, and they can't keep up with the hot ones.

There were indeed some troubles at that time, and she participated in them enthusiastically, but the country and major interest groups had already taken countermeasures.

The social turmoil lasted for two or three years. Everyone found that the number of superhumans was small, and they were very low-key in their daily lives. They neither wanted to rule the world nor destroy the world. After all, they were young girls, so everyone gradually accepted the supernatural beings. exist.

More than ten years later, when she came back here again after failing to achieve anything outside, her father had passed away in loneliness, and what was left to her was this apartment building that he had worked hard all his life to buy.

If there is no rent for this apartment building to maintain her life, how destitute would she be without any skills?
She wiped the corners of her eyes, opened the closet, and turned out all the clothes until she reached the bottom two.

It was the skirt and blouse suit she was wearing in the photo, which she only tried on the day she got it, and which has since been kept in the bottom of the suitcase, forgotten—perhaps on purpose, because every time she sees it, It will hook the sting in her and her parents' hearts.

Now, the scar in her heart has healed, and seeing this dress will no longer make her want to die.

She walked up to the full-length mirror with her shirt and skirt in her hand, tried to make gestures, and couldn't help laughing.

Now the width of her body is equivalent to twice the shoulder width of the shirt. As for the hips... the skirt might not be able to fit in unless the zipper is pulled.

She couldn't imagine how she got into this suit at that time.

Time is really a butcher's knife.

Tonight, let's make a piece of fried rice with lard residue.

She put the clothes she found back into the closet, except for this suit.

She can no longer use this suit, and she will never use it again, but it can replace her to attend the opening ceremony of Hongye Academy. As long as it is worn by the right person, it will be worth the high price it spent in the beginning.

She laid the shirt flat on the ironing board, carefully ironing out the tiny creases.

After so many years, it still looks like a new one. The classic style will never go out of style.

After finishing all this, she took a dust bag of clothes and a large bunch of keys and left the administrator's room.

Most of the few tenants in the building went to work or look for jobs, and there were a few dead houses that stayed at home, and there was silence.

She went to the third floor, Jiang Chanji's rented room, and opened the door with a spare key - as a landlord, it was inappropriate for her to do so in theory, but Jiang Chanji hadn't paid the rent since the first day of moving in, even if she Now it is justifiable to sweep him out and reclaim the room.

The room was empty, without even a single digital product, not even a mobile phone charger - these days, there are still people without mobile phones, which shows how poor this girl is.

In fact, Jiang Chanji used to have a mobile phone, but there were always creditors who found his location by positioning the base station, so he threw away the mobile phone card. Once he was so hungry that he sold the mobile phone for money to buy food. Since then, he has no mobile phone again. .

She spread the two clothes together with the dust bag on his single bed, and then left a note: Try to see if you can wear it, and don't wear your rags to school tomorrow, lest I follow you to my apartment shame.

Then she locked the door and left the room.

(End of this chapter)