Chapter 6060 [Second update]

Ten dollars!

Ten dollars a day, that’s three hundred dollars a month!

So many!

Jiang Bai looked at Jiang Ning with his round, bright black eyes, wishing he could graduate immediately and come to work for his sister!

He asked her, "Can I come again next Sunday?" Fearing that next Sunday would not have such good business, he quickly said, "Don't charge ten dollars, just five dollars will do!"

Five dollars a day, that’s twenty dollars a month!

So happy! So happy!

Jiang Ning shrugged noncommittally: "As long as your academic performance doesn't drop, you can come. I'll still give you ten yuan a day!"

Jiang Bai's eyes became brighter!

Jiang Ning had never seen Jiang Bai's expression so vivid.

Jiang Bai has been more stable and sensible than his peers since he was young. His premature maturity makes him always have a cold expression of a little adult, as if he disdains everything around him.

Because Jiang Song was brought up by Jiang's father and mother since childhood, Jiang Ning actually grew up with Jiang Bai. Jiang Bai took care of Jiang Ning more when they were young. She was two years younger than Jiang Bai. At that time, she was Jiang Bai's little tail. Wherever he went, Jiang Ning followed him, and he took her to run all over the mountains and fields.

It was not until Jiang Bai was seven years old and was taken away by Jiang's father and mother that their relationship gradually cooled.

If she hadn't stayed in the third year of junior high school for an extra year due to some strange coincidence in her previous life, and if it was the same as in this life, Jiang Bai would still be in the third year of high school and she would still be in the first year of high school, she wouldn't have experienced the darkest thing of youth like school bullying in her previous life.

Because her brother protected her at school, she felt safe at school and was never afraid.

Among the three siblings, Jiang Bai was the one most influenced by Jiang Ma.

Because of Jiang Ma's beatings and scolding, Jiang Ning had a vague idea in her heart when she was very young, that she didn't want to become a person like Jiang Ma when she grew up, so she subconsciously grew up in a direction completely opposite to Jiang Ma. But Jiang Bai was different. He said that Jiang Dad and Jiang Mom were only Jiang Song's parents, not his and his sister's parents, but in his heart he longed for fatherly and motherly love, like a puppy full of expectations, and he would follow Jiang Ma when she waved.

Jiang Ma has a catchphrase: "Who comes to this world not to suffer?"

This made Jiang Bai have a pessimistic view of the world at a very young age, believing that people come to this world to suffer.

So from childhood to adulthood, he has been suffering and accepting suffering.

He cannot see the beauty of this world.

Perhaps, for him, the only good thing in the world is his grandfather.

Therefore, the sudden death of Grandpa Jiang also caused Jiang Bai's world to collapse. Although he seemed calm on the outside, he actually couldn't recover for many years.

He had no interest in this world.

The only friend is Tong Jingang.

It was Tong Jingang who took the initiative to break into his world and never left.

Jiang Ning used her natural optimism to fight against the pain and darkness brought to her by her childhood and adolescence, but Jiang Bai actively accepted the darkness of the world.

He doesn't know how to appreciate the flowers of spring, the lotus of summer, the fallen leaves of autumn, the snow of winter, the delicacies of the world, and the refreshing fragrance of flowers.

The whole world is meaningless to him, he just lives.

Just like every speck of dust in this world.

He heard Jiang Ning say that people come to this world to feel and experience joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, birth, old age, sickness and death, happy, painful, beautiful, sad, all kinds of emotions, and then to feel themselves and know themselves.

At that time, Jiang Bai was completely unable to understand the colorful world that Jiang Ning saw.

He just remained noncommittal.

But at this moment, the expression on his face was completely different from the dead look of twenty years later. He looked so lively and full of energy.

This made Jiang Ning feel sad, but she couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips.

Jiang Ning thought for a moment and said, "Second brother, I see that the coat you are wearing today has sold quite a lot."

Speaking of this, Jiang Bai's happy expression disappeared, and he frowned and said, "Today, those aunts almost took off my clothes. They were clearly hanging on the clothes rack, but they insisted on taking my clothes."

"This shows that you look good in it!" Jiang Ning looked him up and down, found two sets of matching clothes from the store, and handed them to Jiang Bai: "Let's do this, from today on, you wear these two sets of clothes that I matched for you in my store every day, and I'll give you an extra ten dollars a week, how about it?"

Jiang Bai looked at her suspiciously.

Jiang Ning urged him: "Go in and put on this outfit first, then come out and let me see the effect."

Jiang Bai thought she wanted to give him clothes in this way, but he didn't want them. "I have enough clothes to wear. You don't have to give them to me. You can sell them for money."

"You really think too much. Who said the clothes are for you?" Jiang Ning took the clothes and put them behind the curtain. He walked out of the curtain and said loudly, "But if you look good in them and can bring me more business, I can give you these two sets of clothes!"

Jiang Bai's appearance is extremely handsome, and his skin is fair and tender. In order to reduce this elegant aura, he shaved his hair very short, which in turn shows off his superior face.

When he heard his sister ask him to be a model to attract more people to buy clothes in the store, his first reaction was to refuse.

Since he was a child, he has been the center of attention because of this face that is more beautiful than that of girls. However, he himself does not like this kind of attention and it makes him very uncomfortable. Now his sister actually wants him to take the initiative to show himself and attract other people's attention, which makes him even more uncomfortable.

But this discomfort was quickly defeated by "money".

Thinking that this would bring more business to his sister's store, even though he didn't like being noticed, he still changed into the clothes his sister picked for him and walked out from behind the curtain.

Jiang Ning looked around him and said, "Hold your head high, chest out, back straight, and chin up!"

Because of his overly outstanding appearance, Jiang Bai always wants to hide himself and blend into the crowd. Even though he has an outstanding appearance, he does not have the radiance and aura of a handsome guy.

She said, "Second brother, you have to accept your appearance. Your outstanding appearance is God's preference for you. Genetically speaking, it is also a very high-quality gene. Don't always think about hiding it. Even if a pearl buries itself in the sand, it is still a pearl. Why can't you accept that you are a dazzling pearl? Why do you always want to turn yourself into gray dust?"

Jiang Bai had never heard anyone use the word "pearl" to describe him, and his face suddenly turned red.

In particular, he felt that pearls were used to describe girls, but he still trembled slightly, his fingertips were trembling, and his heart was trembling too.

He even wanted to cry.

He felt very uncomfortable and wanted to hide behind the curtain immediately and take off his clothes.

He grabbed his sleeves with his hands: "I...I can't do it. I'd better go in and change."

As soon as he turned around, Jiang Ning grabbed his arm and said, "Second brother, money."

Jiang Bai, who already had the signs of a rich scoundrel, stopped in his tracks, turned around unconfidently, and pulled down the corner of his clothes: "Is this really possible?"

Jiang Ning pulled him to the mirror, patted his back, and told him to hold his head high and chest out, "Come on, repeat after me, I am a super handsome guy!"

Jiang Bai was so embarrassed that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Go."

"Hey, second brother, don't be shy. Come on, say with me: I'm so handsome!" Jiang Bai, who always had a cold expression, was actually made to laugh.

He didn't laugh loudly, but rather shyly and restrainedly, with the corners of his lips slightly curved, and his pink cherry lips were moist.

With such beautiful and tender lip color on the face of an adolescent boy, it is no wonder that people always say that he looks like a girl.

He maintained a very good mood all the way to school. Whenever he thought of the ten dollars he earned today, he couldn't help but feel excited.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but remember what his sister had said, telling him to hold his head high and chest out so that more people would see the clothes he was wearing and go to his sister's store to buy clothes, so he puffed out his chest again.

He was not used to walking like this. His body was as stiff as a robot and he felt like he couldn't even walk.

Every time someone looked at him, he couldn't help but want to hide and avoid their gazes, but when he thought of the money his sister said she would give him, he forcibly suppressed the urge to avoid other people's gazes and still walked towards the classroom with his head held high.

Like a zombie.

He didn't go through the front door, but went through the back door as usual.

Tong Jingang was chatting with someone. When he saw Jiang Bai coming in, he was stunned for a moment. He didn't realize it was Jiang Bai. After seeing clearly that it was Jiang Bai, I shouted: "Baizi, it's great! At first glance, I thought it was the Little Tigers walking into our class!"

Following Tong Jingang's strange cry, the other people in the class turned around and looked at Jiang Bai, and then their eyes lit up.

Jiang Bai used to be like a pearl, but he hid himself in the dust, reading with his head down every day. He had no sense of existence and huddled quietly at the back of the class. If he wasn't so tall and good-looking, people would probably ignore the existence of such a person in the class.

But now, this pearl seemed to have suddenly emerged from the soil, revealing all its luster and decorating itself with gorgeous ribbons.

Jiang Bai wanted to shrink back to his seat because of the looks from his classmates, but when he felt the money in his trouser pocket, his chest, which had been slightly lowered, straightened up again. Then, with his hands and feet together, he sat back in his seat stiffly, pretending to be calm, and took out a book.

Before he even started watching, Tong Jingang jumped over, like a gorilla, and jumped onto Jiang Bai's back like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey. He almost knocked Jiang Bai down on the table, and all the stiffness that Jiang Bai had just pretended to have disappeared in an instant.

"Baizi! Where did you buy this outfit? I want one too!" Tong Jingang excitedly hugged Jiang Bai's neck: "You are so mean, you secretly became handsome without taking me with you!"

The classmates in the class couldn't help but tease: "It's not a matter of bringing it or not. If Jiang Bai brings it, you won't be handsome!"

"You actually said I'm not handsome?" Tong Jingang turned his head in disbelief, then took out a stainless steel spoon from his drawer, used the back of the spoon as a mirror, and pushed his hair back, once on the left, once on the right, admiring his handsome appearance while pushing his hair back, and looking for Jiang Bai's approval: "Baizi, tell me something fair, am I handsome?"

Jiang Bai was just pounced on by him, and he couldn't keep up his handsome appearance. He said unhappily, "What a handsome guy!"

"Well, you dare to say I'm not handsome!" Tong Jingang held a spoon in one hand and put his arm around Jiang Bai's neck with the other hand, ruffling his hair with his hand: "Is he handsome? Is he handsome? Is he handsome?"

The girls in the class watched Tong Jingang ruffle Jiang's hair in just one second, and ruffled his new clothes. They wanted to shout, "Tong Jingang, you rude gorilla, let go of Jiang Bai and let me take over!"

I couldn't help laughing when I saw them making such a fuss.

In the next few days, Jiang Bai wore the clothes that Jiang Ning matched for him every day. He straightened his chest, took stiff steps, and kept his head and chest up like a robot, showing off his clothes.

The clothes he wore didn't have too many patterns. He wore a black coat, a light blue sweater, blue jeans, black lace-up leather shoes, and a dark blue scarf around his neck that was much darker than the sweater.

This year's winter was about two degrees lower than in previous years, making it an extremely cold winter.

Jiang Bai would only take off his knitted scarf when he was in the cafeteria, and pull down the zipper of his down jacket to a little below his neck, revealing the light blue turtleneck sweater underneath.

After dinner, he would zip up his down jacket all the way to the boy's fair chin, and then wrap a dark blue knitted scarf around it, circle after circle.

Unlike people at that time who liked to imitate Xu Wenqiang's way of tying the knot, he tied it in circles, wrapping it all around, making it look like a random knot.

But I don’t know why, it just looks good.

This made him the focus of the crowd wherever he went.

Even their class teacher couldn't help but look at him many times.

Because it was cold, Jiang Bai kept his hands in his pockets. Except for his face exposed, his clothes didn't even have a pattern or any bright colors.

But for some reason, when he stood in the group doing exercises, he looked tall and graceful, indescribably upright and handsome.

Seeing many people looking back at Jiang Bai, and some even asking where Jiang Bai bought his clothes, the head teacher said in front of the class angrily after returning to the class: "What are you looking at? Stop looking! Jiang Bai looks good in clothes because he is handsome. If he is not handsome, it doesn't matter what he wears!"

Looking back, I thought about buying myself a set of these. I don't have to wear them at school, but I can wear them when visiting relatives and friends during the New Year. It doesn't seem like a big deal that he wears a black down jacket this year. He can also wear blue jeans.

Even the director of the Political Education Department, who was very strict about discipline, couldn't help but frown when he saw Jiang Bai. He looked back at him several times, from his hair, to his clothes, to his coat, to his pants, to his shoes. In the end, he couldn't find any problems, so he walked over and said, "Take a school uniform and wear it outside!"

The weather is already very cold and New Year's Day is coming soon. The school uniforms of No. 1 Middle School are only available in spring, autumn and summer, but not in winter. Nowadays, there are few students wearing school uniforms on campus. Only those students who have very few clothes, whose cotton-padded jackets are very torn and not warm enough will wear spring and autumn sports school uniform jackets over their cotton-padded jackets.

But Jiang Bai is tall, and his school uniform was distributed by the school at the beginning of his freshman year. Even though he had chosen the largest size at that time, he is now 1.8 meters tall, and the school uniform fits him perfectly. But if he wants to put it over his down jacket, it really can't fit.

After Jiang Bai said this to the director of the political and educational department, the director of the political and educational department had nothing to say.

If it were other students, he would ask them to cut their slightly long hair, but Jiang Bai always kept a buzz cut in order to show his masculinity. Even if he was asked to cut his hair, it would be impossible as it had already been cut very short.

In the end, the director of the political and educational department was speechless. He could only think that Jiang Bai had grown up and his face had opened up. He used to look just average in appearance, but now that he was taller, the clothes he wore naturally looked good.

Because Jiang Ning repeatedly told him to walk with his head held high and his chest out. Only by walking with his head held high and his chest out could he show off his clothes to the greatest extent. At the beginning, Jiang Bai was still a little stiff and pretending to be so. He reminded himself to keep his chest up and not lower his head at all times. But after a week, his body gradually relaxed from the initial stiffness to getting used to it.

This made his entire body look as if a layer of gray mist had been wiped off, finally revealing his original bright luster.

Jiang Bai had two days off for New Year's Day. Originally, he would go home to bring food to replenish his meal tickets every New Year's Day, but he didn't go back this time. Although the three of them had Grandpa Jiang to eat with, when Grandpa Jiang came to Wucheng, he brought rice with him. Now Jiang Bai took the rice to the school cafeteria and exchanged it for food tickets, which was enough for them to eat for now.

He spent two days in Jiang Ning's shop.

On the first day, the second and third year high school students did not have a holiday, and the first year students all went home. Many people came to buy clothes, but mainly women's clothing.

The next day, perhaps it was because of him, the living model dressed up by Jiang Ning, who was standing there, that the men's clothing that was originally just sold together suddenly became equally popular with the women's clothing.

On the third day, which was New Year's Day, everyone returned to school, and that afternoon, there was a sudden explosion.

The several sets of clothes that Jiang Bai wore in school were not sold out, but they were sold a lot, especially the black down jacket that Jiang Bai wore in the store that day.

This down jacket has the largest backlog in Uncle Wang Yong’s warehouse because it does not have dazzling patterns. In this era, young people pursue gorgeousness and coolness. In order to get rid of the dull plain colors unique to this era, they would like to use gold embroidery thread on the back of cotton-padded jackets and down jackets to show a giant golden eagle so that they can sell them well.

Whether parents buy it for their children or young people buy it for themselves, they all like to buy bright and cool things.

Actually, Uncle Wang Yong didn't make much money from Jiang Ning by giving her this batch of down jackets. He just wanted to avoid having too much inventory and sell them all out quickly, because having too much inventory would mean having to save money.

As a result, this down jacket was sold out during the three days of New Year's Day, and even the leather shoes he was wearing were sold out.

This pair of leather shoes was sold out, so he changed into another pair.

It's all the same to him, all black.

Then, it sold out again.

There are not enough shoes.

It was Uncle Wang Yong who helped to get the goods from the shoe factory next door. He sent her the goods, which of course were the inventory from his own factory. There were not many shoes, so he gave them as a bonus and sold them as he added. In the end, all the shoes were sold out.

Jiang Ning had no choice but to call Uncle Wang Yong and ask him to send some more shoes over.

Uncle Wang Yong didn't expect that in Jiang Ning, a small town, clothes and shoes would sell so well. He knew that the warehouse of the factory next door also had stock, so he asked her if she wanted some.

The inventory is definitely cheaper than this winter's new models. What Uncle Wang Yong meant was that the inventory is also good merchandise, and she could make a small profit but quick turnover by sending it to him.

Jiang Ning thought that she had nothing to do during the winter vacation, so she could ask Jiang Bai to take these shoes to the market in Shuibu Town to sell them. She immediately nodded and said, "Yes, yes, Uncle Wang, please help me check the quality. Thank you!"

Uncle Wang Yong was still considerate of her because of Wang Yong's relationship and because Jiang Ning helped him sell a lot of inventory. He smiled and said, "If you still need down jackets, I'll send you another batch."

The winter of 1995 was a cold winter for Jiang Ning and his people, but a warm winter for Guangzhou.

Some down jackets are in stock but cannot be sold.