Chapter 218

The Spring Festival travel rush at the end of the year is the most difficult time to get train tickets. Fortunately, Peking University has a special point for students to buy train tickets and a special car pick-up service, so students can take the exam with peace of mind.

After taking the exam on the 31st, Zhang Min and her classmates did not go back immediately. They had to buy tickets more than half a month in advance. After buying the tickets, they had to go to the training institution to work.

Even so, as it was the first time for them to be away from home for such a long time, they were eager to return home. As soon as the exams were over, they had already started packing their things and discussing what local specialties from the capital they would bring back.

They all agreed that the cakes should be from Daoxiangcun.

They think Daoxiangcun’s pastries are delicious!

During the National Day holiday, because they lived far away, it took them several days to travel back and forth by train. Except for Cui Yujie and Shen Xinlan, who were still at Peking University at the time, the rest of the roommates were actively contacting seniors at school, hoping to find tutors. Tutoring jobs were not easy to find, so they first found a training institution and worked as teachers there on weekends.

Liu Yan was the first to find a teaching and training job, and she soon introduced Zhang Min and Yu Qianqian to the job as well.

This is also the reason why the relationship between the three of them is getting closer and closer, and Shen Xinlan cannot fit in with them.

Speaking of which, in dormitory 401, Jiang Ning and Xi Weilu are not the only lone rangers, Shen Xinlan is one too.

Because her home was in Beijing, she had to go home every weekend. At this time, only Liu Yan, Zhang Min and Yu Qianqian were left in the dormitory. The three of them worked in the same teaching and training company and had endless topics to talk about. Every time Shen Xinlan came back from home, she could not join in their conversation. Even if they threw the topic to her, she had no interest.

She had already decided to study abroad and was preparing for it in her daily life.

Zhang Min and the others complained about crowded buses, which students were naughty, which parents were difficult to deal with, how she disciplined the students, which snacks were delicious, and not having enough money. Shen Xinlan had never experienced any of these.

So Shen Xinlan always seemed a little aloof in the dormitory.

She herself was helpless. She was not aloof, she just really had no interest in their topics and could not join in.

The person who was most happy about Jiang Ning's return was Shen Xinlan. There was finally someone to talk to in the dormitory. What was rare was that Jiang Ning understood everything she said and could follow her up. Even when she talked about foreign universities, which university she wanted to apply for, the pros and cons of the city and major, she could analyze it with her.

This surprised Shen Xinlan, and she quickly teamed up with Jiang Ning. Every time Jiang Ning came back to the dormitory, she was the first person to smile at Jiang Ning, and happily added: "Are you back?"

Zhang Min, who slept with her feet facing each other, laughed at her: "Eh~ I get goose bumps every time I hear it, like a little wife waiting for her husband to come back."

Shen Xinlan just laughed.

Shen Xinlan has fair skin, a round face, a pointed chin, and a gentle and intellectual temperament. When she smiles, there are sweet dimples on both sides of her lips, making her look like a gentle sweet girl. In fact, she is 1.7 meters tall, plump and slightly fat, and is a very opinionated girl.

Speaking of their dormitory, there are actually three people over 1.7 meters tall, two from the north and one from the south. The remaining Yu Qianqian is less than 1.6 meters tall, and Xi Weilu is a little over 1.5 meters tall, thin and small.

Liu Yan, Yu Qianqian, and Zhang Min were packing their things and talking about what gifts to bring back. Seeing that Jiang Ning, Shen Xinlan, and Xi Weilu had no reaction, they couldn't help but ask Jiang Ning curiously: "Huh? Jiang Ning, aren't you going back?"

They knew that Jiang Ning was from the South.

Jiang Ning smiled and put down the book, looked up at them and said, "The work is not finished."

She didn't mention any specific job, but the girls in the dormitory all said "Oh~~~~" and said with some envy: "I also want to do your job, just writing every day, without having to face children and parents. Don't you know I have a student..."

Then Zhang Min talked about how naughty one of her students was and how she tamed her to be obedient.

It can be seen that she really enjoys the process of competing with students in wits and courage. She was beaming with joy and lively while speaking, and her expression was full of smugness after she had made the students obedient.

Yu Qianqian sighed: "Oh, I can't do that. They are not afraid of me."

They are all 19 or 20 years old, and she is still a little girl. The students she teaches in the training institutions are also adolescent boys and girls who are 13 or 14 years old, or even 15 or 16 years old. She is less than 1.6 meters tall, and the students in her class grow fast. Those who develop early are taller than her. In addition, she has a soft personality, is easy to talk to, and is always weak. She has trouble controlling the students in the class, which makes her very distressed and her work is not going well.

She is now thinking about whether she can find a one-on-one tutor. Facing one student is always better than facing a dozen students. Teaching adolescent students is really tiring for her.

Zhang Min and Yu Qianqian exchanged some experiences on dealing with naughty students. Basically, Zhang Min and Liu Yan were teaching, and Yu Qianqian was listening.

Shen Xinlan listened to them talking and couldn't help but look up at Jiang Ning. Jiang Ning happened to look at her too, so she gave him a big smile.

Shen Xinlan asked Jiang Ning: "Are you still interning with the CCTV crew during the winter vacation?"

Shen Xinlan's voice is very nice, soft and crisp, like the tone of a cello.

They didn't know that Jiang Ning's copyright of "White Snake" was sold to CCTV, and they still thought that Jiang Ning was just taking an internship, not a formal screenwriter.

However, being able to intern in the crew of a CCTV self-produced drama during the freshman year is already very impressive.

Jiang Ning smiled and nodded without explaining.

When Yu Qianqian heard this, she said enviously, "Oh, I envy you for getting an internship at CCTV. I wish I could go there too. It's so annoying to face kids every day."

She originally wanted to test whether Jiang Ning could take her to CCTV to find a small internship. She really didn't like being a teacher, and she had no way to deal with those students. If she went to CCTV, even if she was just helping Jiang Ning, it was still CCTV. If she got in touch with them, it would be an opportunity.

Unfortunately, Jiang Ning didn't respond. She knew it was hopeless, so she didn't force it. She said, "Fortunately, I don't have to be a teacher after graduation. If I had listened to my parents and applied to the Normal University in our provincial capital, I would have been miserable in the future."

The Provincial Normal University in her hometown is also a double first-class university. Her parents think that life will be stable after graduating from the Provincial Normal University. But with her grades being able to get into Peking University, how could she be willing to go to the Provincial Normal University instead of Peking University? She is now extremely glad that she made the choice she did.

She is not cut out to be a teacher. She is more suited to studying quietly.

Everyone in the dormitory knew what Yu Qianqian was thinking just now. In fact, who among them didn’t envy Jiang Ning? They can go to CCTV for internship in their freshman year, but they haven’t decided yet which direction they will take in the future.

However, after Yu Qianqian's experience of dealing with students in past education and training institutions, she decided that she was not suitable for jobs involving dealing with people. She wanted to continue her studies, take postgraduate entrance exams, and concentrate on her studies.

Zhang Min immediately changed the subject and said loudly to Jiang Ning, "By the way, Jiang Bai is your brother. Can you help me get his autograph? Your brother is so handsome, isn't he?" She held her face and said, "Wow, do I look like your sister-in-law?"

This made several people in the dormitory laugh out loud.

Yu Qianqian also said to her with a smile: "Zhang Min, why are you so shameless?"

"Don't you think so? I think I look very much like her." She picked up the red round mirror beside her, looked left and right in the mirror, and boasted: "The person in the mirror is clearly a beautiful and youthful girl who is extremely cute."

She picked up the light orange-red lipstick next to her and applied it on her lips. Hmm, it looked even better!

After looking in the mirror, he looked at Jiang Ning's beautiful face again, and said with starry eyes, "I didn't think you and your brother looked alike at first, but now the more I look at you, the more you look alike! I really want to see your brother's face up close, he must be so handsome, right?"

The exam week is over and now is the time for them to relax the most. Zhang Min threw all her books aside and started to let herself go.

She looked at Jiang Ning's fair and tender smiling face with admiration, making teasing sounds from her mouth.

Jiang Ning smiled and thanked him calmly: "Thank you, you are very beautiful too!"

They are all young girls, each one is like a flower bud, who is not beautiful?

Zhang Min has the same name as Zhang Min, a big star in Hong Kong, but their appearances are completely different. Zhang Min in Hong Kong is like a thorny fiery rose, radiant and bright as the morning sun.

Zhang Min in front of us is about 1.68 meters tall, with a perfectly developed body and a slightly plump body. She does not have a cute appearance, but when she smiles, she has a pair of crescent eyes, which always gives people a very friendly, harmless and cute feeling.

In fact, she has a very strong personality and is very lazy, but her laziness is not annoying.

Liu Yan and Yu Qianqian both have ordinary yet decent looks, especially Liu Yan, who makes people feel that she is calm and reliable.

Maybe it was because they had reached puberty and their youth was stirring. During this time, they looked for tutoring jobs outside and met many senior students. One of them was already pursuing Zhang Min, and Yu Qianqian seemed to have love in her as well. Both of them began to pay attention to their appearance.

In the past, Yu Qianqian only studied and didn't know how to dress up. The climate in the north is dry and cold in winter, and her lips will crack if she doesn't wear lipstick. So she bought herself the first colored lipstick in her life. It's called lipstick, but it's actually lip gloss. It looks shiny when applied on her lips, and it's an extreme deathly Barbie pink.

It was only after she went to college and met Cui Yujie and Shen Xinlan that she started to learn how to dress like them. However, she did not learn it correctly and painted her mouth pink every day with her death Barbie powder. She had dark skin to begin with, and after applying the death Barbie powder, her skin looked dark and yellow.

Zhang Min smiled at her a few times, but she didn't mind. She even took out her lipstick and let Zhang Min try it. How could Zhang Min, a teenage girl who loved beauty, resist the temptation of pink lipstick? So the two little girls would fiddle with their lips in front of the mirror when they had nothing to do. One painted their lips Barbie pink, and then two of them painted their lips pink all day long, and asked each other if they looked good.

Yu Qianqian, who has a problem with her aesthetic sense, always praises it by saying, "It looks good, so good! Very beautiful!"

Fortunately, Zhang Min's aesthetic taste is still on point. After borrowing Yu Qianqian's lipstick several times, she bought herself a light orange lipstick, which is very suitable for her. After applying it, she looks cute, youthful and beautiful. She also suggested that Yu Qianqian change the color of her lipstick.

But it's not easy for them to make money. This is Yu Qianqian's first lipstick in her life, and she bought it with her own money. How could she bear to throw away so many of them that were not used up? And she really likes this pink color. When she applies it on her lips, she looks like a delicate rose. Every day when she looks in the mirror, she feels that she has become much more beautiful.

As for Zhang Min saying that her skin is dark and yellow?

Is it because of the lipstick that her skin is yellow and dark? Isn't it because her skin is naturally dark and yellow?

Thinking of this, Yu Qianqian also picked up the same red round mirror as Zhang Min, and looked at her own pink little mouth in the mirror. She looked left and right, and it looked beautiful no matter how she looked at it.

Zhang Min saw Jiang Ning and Shen Xinlan laughing on the bed, and said, "I ask her to change her lipstick every day, but she won't. Come and see if that color looks good on her."

Yu Qianqian was also looking forward to Jiang Ning and Shen Xinlan’s comments. She first showed it to Shen Xinlan on the opposite bed, then got out of bed and raised her face to show Jiang Ning on the upper bunk.

Jiang Ning looked at her expectant little face and was silent for a moment: "As long as you... like it." She smiled and said: "Money can't buy my love~!"

Yu Qianqian snorted, then turned around to show Shen Xinlan, pouting her pink little mouth.

Shen Xinlan couldn't bear to look at it and turned away.

She looked aloof but was actually a very easy-going, wealthy, and beautiful woman. She took out a lipstick from her makeup bag and handed it to Yu Qianqian: "Try this color."

The lipstick that Yu Qianqian bought herself cost less than ten yuan each. Shen Xinlan’s things looked very expensive, so she was a little hesitant to accept it: “Isn’t this bad?”

Shen Xinlan smiled and said, “Just one lipstick, I have many more.”

"Then...then I really tried it?" Yu Qianqian carefully took the lipstick handed over by Shen Xinlan, and studied how to twist the delicate lipstick tube. She easily twisted out a whole tube of lipstick paste, and then wiped off the death Barbie pink on her lips reluctantly, and lightly applied Shen Xinlan's lipstick on her lips.

After applying it, she felt completely different.

The skin, which had originally looked dark and yellow, actually looked better.

But…but Shen Xinlan’s lipstick looked so expensive, she couldn’t afford it, she just silently memorized this color in her heart, knowing that she was originally suitable for this color, and when her lipstick was finished, she would buy this color in the future.

Shen Xinlan saw that she looked more healthy after applying the makeup, and nodded, "It looks good."

Yu Qianqian carefully wiped off the part she had painted with a tissue, and Shen Xinlan said nonchalantly, "Don't wipe it off. I'll give it to you if it looks good on you. I have something else."

"No, no, no, that's not possible." Yu Qianqian was flattered.

Zhang Min over there saw it and looked at Shen Xinlan expectantly: “I want to try it too!”

Shen Xinlan smiled: "You try~"

Sitting in the corner of the upper bunk, Xi Weilu closed the mosquito net and silently watched the lively scene in the dormitory, as if she was looking at the dormitory in another world.

At some point, Jiang Ning and Liu Yan also put down their books. Liu Yan, who was always calm and reserved, looked at them playing and said curiously, "Can I try it? I have never put on lipstick before."

Shen Xinlan smiled and said, "Try them all. If you want to buy lipstick in the future, you should go to the counter and try it out. Only after trying it out can you know what color suits you." She looked up at Jiang Ning, "Jiang Ning, do you want to try it? I have a few more colors here. You have fair skin, so they will definitely look good on you."

Jiang Ning smiled and shook his head: "Thank you, I have one too."

The two of them smiled in tacit understanding.

She and Shen Xinlan were both born with lips that were red without any makeup. Even without lipstick, Shen Xinlan's lips were moist and bright red, and her blood and energy were abundant, which was somewhat similar to Jiang Song.

Jiang Bai's lips are also moist and rosy, like the color of cherries. Jiang Ning's lips are lighter than those of his two brothers, a light reddish pink. Although her blood and energy are not as full, she is also healthy and beautiful.

Their beautiful lip colors made Liu Yan and Yu Qianqian, who had darker lip colors, envious.

While waiting in line to apply lipstick, Liu Yan looked at Jiang and Chen and said, "Your lips are so beautiful that you don't even need to apply them. Unlike me, my lips are very dark, they are all from harvesting rice and drying them in the sun!"

She has honey-colored skin, purple lips, angular lips and clear lip lines.

Generally, lighter lipsticks cannot cover the color of her lips, so they have to be applied thickly.

The first time she put it on, she applied the lipstick very well, without any of it going outside her lip line. She applied it very thickly, and with her bright hairstyle and round, regular face, she looked very charismatic.

She turned around and asked them, "How is it? Does it look good?"

"It looks good! It looks so good! You should buy this color next time!" Zhang Min clapped her hands in support.

Yu Qianqian trotted over to Liu Yan and said, "Let me see. It's too red. Do you want to try mine?" She enthusiastically took out her own deathly Barbie pink.

"I can't do it! I have dark skin, and this color makes me look even darker. Your color is okay on Jiang Ning, she is white and can cover it up! I can only wear dark colors like this!" Liu Yan is very self-aware and sternly rejects Yu Qianqian's enthusiasm.

The color that Shen Xinlan tried on them was a classic red color from a certain big brand. It showed complexion when applied thinly, and aura when applied thickly. Obviously, this was a very versatile color.

Seeing how enthusiastically they were trying, Shen Xinlan turned to look at Xi Weilu, who was on the upper bunk, and asked her with a smile, "Xi Weilu, do you want to come down and try it too?"

Xi Weilu, who had been staring at them laughing and making noises, was suddenly called by her name. She was startled for a moment and stammered in confusion, "No... no no... I don't need it anymore."

Her voice became lower and lower, until finally, her voice became lowered, her head drooped, and she curled up like a little hedgehog, shrinking into a small ball in the corner.

Shen Xinlan’s voice was still her unique gentle and crisp voice, with some soft nasal sounds: “It’s okay, you are still young, you can apply it in a few years.”

Zhang Min also reacted at this time: "Oh, right, you look so young, you should not be 18 years old yet?"

She was applying lipstick in front of the mirror. She had just seen Liu Yan apply a thick layer of bright red lipstick on her. She had only applied a light layer of lipstick before, so she wanted to apply a thick layer of lipstick on her too. She didn't look back at Xi Weilu who was lying on the upper bunk behind her. While applying lipstick on herself, she said, "Hey, when I first saw you, I thought you were a junior high school student. I was taller than you when I was in junior high school."

She is 1.68 meters tall, a little plump, and looks particularly big.

Especially compared with the skinny and petite Xi Weilu.

She was a carefree person to begin with, and was influenced by Jiang Ning. She would see Jiang Ning coming back with her every night, with Jiang Ning walking in front and her following behind Jiang Ning, as quiet as a shadow. Especially with Jiang Ning's 2.80-meter aura and 1.72-meter tall stature, every time she saw him, it was like Jiang Ning bringing back a child. The scene was particularly funny, and the people in the dormitory gradually accepted her.

"Yes, I'm 1.59 meters tall, and you look younger than me, haha." After staying with Zhang Min for a long time, Yu Qianqian's personality has gradually become more cheerful, and she even starts to joke in front of her familiar roommates.

Jiang Ning also lay on the edge of the bed and joined their conversation: "Who is the oldest in our dormitory?"

Liu Yan raised her hand: "Then I must be the oldest, I'm twenty-one!"

Jiang Ning smiled and said, "That's not necessarily true. My ID card also says 21!"

Yu Qianqian said: "I'm twenty."

"I'm nineteen, hehe, I'm the youngest. Hello, sisters, please take good care of me!" Zhang Min smiled coquettishly with her little white teeth bared and her eyebrows curved.

Shen Xinlan also smiled and said, “I am also nineteen.”

The noise outside the mosquito net and the silence inside the mosquito net are like two separate worlds.

Xi Weilu listened to the voice coming from outside the mosquito net, which seemed very close yet very far away, and asked: "Xi Weilu, what about you? How old are you?"

"Hey, we are chatting in the dormitory, why do you close the mosquito net so tightly? Are there still mosquitoes in this winter?" Zhang Min has always been quite direct. She came over and lifted up Xi Weilu's mosquito net, throwing it left and right, and the two curtains of the mosquito net were lifted up.

The bright light in the dormitory suddenly passed through the heavy curtains and shone onto Xi Weilu's slightly panicked little face. Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on her, she pulled the quilt uneasily, slowly pulling it up until the quilt almost covered her entire body. Then she revealed a pair of frightened eyes and observed them carefully.

Seeing that everyone was still curiously waiting for her answer, she said after a while: "I... I'm fourteen..."