Competition

"Yo, the busy man Xiao Jiang is back?" Teacher Qian teased.

Now that he had won a Big Black Carp, he looked down on everyone in the row houses and naturally thought little of Jiang Ning.

Xue Yuantong happily ran up to Jiang Ning, then seemed to realize she was being too eager, so her steps slowed to a crawl.

Jiang Ning reached over and took a large cardboard box off the front hook of his Electric Bike.

Xue Yuantong raised her little face curiously. "What is it? Can you eat it?"

Jiang Ning glanced at her and scolded, "Eat, eat, all you do is eat. It's something fun—a remote control car."

Xue Yuantong did not mind his tone. Excited, she hugged the box. "I like this."

A remote control car—what kid would not like one?

And this was a remote control car Jiang Ning had given her.

Although Xue Yuantong had played with model aircraft before, she had never played with a remote control car. For rural children, back when productivity had not been so developed, remote control cars were not cheap.

The last time she had touched one was at the village elementary school shop. Buying snacks gave you a chance to draw a prize, and the grand prize had been a wired remote control car—actually wired, because the car and controller had been connected by a cable...

As a result, Xue Yuantong had leaped straight from the wired-control era into the model aircraft era, skipping everything in between.

"Come on, let's find Chuchu. She hasn't seen it yet!" Hugging the huge box, Xue Yuantong headed for Chuchu's house first.

Seeing this, Teacher Qian struck up a conversation. "Xiao Jiang, you're living pretty well these days!"

Jiang Ning chuckled. "Not bad."

After that, he followed Xue Yuantong through