Jiang Xia stayed up all night reading a retro-themed novel. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself as the male protagonist’s doomed ex-wife in that very story.
Her storyline began ...
Zhou Chengsen doesn't have to go to work in the afternoon, but Ruan Tang does.
He went to the mall and bought some clothes for Ruan Tang, as well as some wedding candies and cakes. He then packed the candies, cakes and red envelopes at home.
Tomorrow when we invite Ruan Tang's colleagues to dinner, we have to give each of them a piece of wedding candy.
It was almost five o'clock when he finished packing all the wedding candies and cakes, and he started cooking again.
When Ruan Tang came back, he was still busy in the kitchen.
Ruan Tang changed her shoes and saw the coffee table filled with the wedding candies and clothes that he had packed.
She walked into the kitchen, hugged him from behind, and looked at the golden thread fish he was frying in the pan.
The color is golden and looks very appetizing.
It is one of her favorite fish.
“It’s much better than what I fry.”
"I've been eating fish since I was a child, and practice makes perfect. Be careful of oil splashing on your face, and wash your hands before eating." Zhou Chengsen was still frying fish, but he didn't have the hands to return her hug.
"Okay." Ruan Tang let him go, washed her hands in the sink next to her, washed the dishes, and then helped move the food to the living room.
Zhou Chengsen prepared three dishes and one soup.
One was the boiled duck he made which Ruan Tang loved, one was fried fish, one was vegetables, and the other was duck meat and yam soup.
While eating, Ruan Tang asked, "What time will my parents get off the plane tomorrow?"
Zhou Chengsen glanced at her and said, "11 o'clock in the afternoon."
Without him having to say anything, she changed her tune.
And it’s parents, not your dad or your mom.
Ruan Tang: "Then I'll go with you to pick them up. We were supposed to bring them home for dinner, but this house is too small."
"There's no rush. It's the same if we wait until we get back to the village. The houses in the village are bigger." Zhou Chengsen picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks and put it in her bowl.
"Yeah." Ruan Tang put the duck meat she had just picked up into his bowl.
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Zhou Chengsen added: "I bought you some clothes, try them on later."
Ruan Tang: "Again? Didn't you buy several sets when you were shopping in Beijing before?"
"Pack some clothes and put them back at home in the village, so you don't have to bring clothes back every time."
"Okay." Ruan Tang agreed with a smile.
Zhou Chengsen also brought a lot of clothes, and now the clothes of the two are placed next to each other in the closet.
After dinner, Ruan Tang cleared the dishes and Zhou Chengsen said, "I'll do it. You go and try the clothes to see if they fit. I've made an agreement with the salesperson that if they don't fit, you can exchange them for a different size."
"You can even exchange it? I've never been treated this way when I go shopping for clothes! You can't return or exchange it once you buy it, and the service attitude is terrible! Was the saleswoman a pretty young girl? Did you get along well?"
Ruan Tang joked as she went into the room to try on clothes.
Zhou Chengsen smiled and said, "It was an auntie. I said I bought it for my wife and was afraid she would scold me if it didn't fit. She smiled and said if it didn't fit, she would change it for me."
“…”
Ruan Tang turned around and glared at him: I'll settle the score with him later! Zhou Chengsen smiled and took the dishes into the kitchen to wash.
*The next day, Zhou Chengsen and Ruan Tang went to the photo studio to get photos before going to pick up the people.
The photo was so well taken and so beautiful that the boss asked if they could enlarge one and display it in the photo studio for promotional purposes.
If they agree, the photos will be free of charge, and they will be given a 16-inch photo and a 40*50 canvas oil portrait.
"16 inches is the largest size that can be developed by photo studios across the country. It is the upper limit of technology. Any larger size depends on hard work. Before, only those top-notch stores in the municipalities could make it. Now, only our store can do it in the whole city! A 16-inch photo costs more than 25 yuan! And it is much larger than the 12-inch size you enlarged. Since the photos are so beautiful, of course they need to be enlarged."
Zhou Chengsen asked him: "Can't we just pay the money and then you can help us develop a 16-inch piece and paint an oil painting?"
The boss got smart this time: "No. All the photos cost more than 100 yuan, almost 200 yuan. I only put one photo of you and saved you 200 yuan. How great! Do you still think the money is hot?!"
Zhou Chengsen was not used to his photos being admired by the public. He looked at Ruan Tang and asked, "Do you want 16-inch photos and paintings?"
It is quite appropriate to hang the oil painting in the study.
Ruan Tang felt that the oil painters in this photo studio painted very lifelike.
She had two photos that she wanted to turn into oil paintings, so she asked her boss, “Can you help us make two oil paintings?”
Boss: "Okay, but you have to pay for the other one. The painter also charges fifty dollars for a painting."
Ruan Tang: "Forget it!"
Ruan Tang took Zhou Chengsen and left.
boss:"……"
Is there any moral ethics here? That comrade obviously wanted to buy it.
"Forget it, forget it, I'll give you one more!"
He drew it himself anyway.
Ruan Tang smiled: "Thank you, boss!"
"It will take a month before the 16-inch photos and paintings are available."
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"Okay." Ruan Tang told the boss which two photos to turn into oil paintings.
After taking a lot of photos, the two happily left with an album and several photo frames and headed to the airport to pick someone up.
At 11:20, Jiangxia and his group walked out of the airport exit.
The triplets sat on the shoulders of their father, uncle and grandfather respectively.
Ever since Zhou Chenglei let his sister sit on his shoulders and ride a horse when they last went to watch the flag-raising ceremony, the little girl now climbs onto adults' shoulders and rides a horse whenever she goes out to play.
When Zhou Ying saw Zhou Chengsen and Ruan Tang, she immediately pulled Zhou Zhou over and threw herself into Zhou Chengsen's arms: "Dad, Sister Ruan."
Zhou Chengsen rubbed his daughter's head and asked, "Is Beijing fun?"
Ruan Tang also hugged Zhou Zhou, "Did Zhou Zhou have fun?"
The two nodded excitedly and talked about fun places in Beijing. In the past two days, they went to the zoo, the Summer Palace, the Fragrant Hills Park, and took a boat ride... It was fun anyway!
The two sisters were talking excitedly to each other.
When the younger sister saw her two elder sisters rushing towards Zhou Chengsen and Ruan Tang, she also cried out and was about to rush forward.
She was still sitting on Zhou Chenglei's shoulders!
Fortunately, Zhou Chenglei reacted quickly and held on firmly.
Zhou Chengsen walked forward and held his little niece in his arms.
The family walked outside together.
Since there was not enough space in one car, Mr. Mai arranged for a driver to pick people up.
Zhou Chengsen also mentioned that he was inviting Ruan Tang’s colleagues to dinner in the evening.
Zhou's mother smiled and said, "It's time to invite you."
Jiang Xia saw the photo album as soon as he got in the car, "Are these the photos you took?"
Ruan Tang sat next to Jiang Xia and nodded: "Yes, I think the photos taken by this photo studio are very beautiful, take a look."
Jiang Xia took it, looked at it, and asked her if it was the place where she and Zhou Chenglei had gone to develop photos before.
"No, it's newly opened. It's been open for about a month. It's near my house."
Jiang Xia: "Yes, the photo is very good. Are the clothes from the photo studio? The clothes are also very beautiful."
"Yes, they are from the photo studio. I think they are beautiful too! We even enlarged several photos, and the photos can be turned into oil paintings."
Ruan Tang told her boss that he wanted to hang their photos in the photo studio for publicity.
Zhou Chenglei held his daughter and sat next to Jiang Xia. He looked at the photos in the album. Most of the photos were of couples in various poses! He thought of the many albums he and Jiang Xia also had. There was an album of photos of Jiang Xia when she was pregnant, but none of them were about the two of them! He also wanted to take a wedding photo album with Jiang Xia!
There were only photos of the two of them as a couple! Also, Zhou Chenglei suddenly realized that he was not as good at dealing with things as his second brother! He had to think carefully about how to create romance in the future.
You can't just follow your second brother and learn how to do things. (End of this chapter)