Chapter 261 We Can't Have a Lin Daiyu (a character from a popular Chinese novel)

The whole family can go play, except for Lu Xiangyang.

Forget about taking leave, he didn't even get any annual leave this year, so he couldn't go home for the Chinese New Year.

Because it was his turn to be on duty this year.

Jiang Jianni patted his face regretfully: "Then you should work hard, climb the ladder, and try to earn me an official's wife."

"Let's go play by ourselves."

"Don't worry, we'll remember to take photos and show them to you when we get back. We won't leave you out; we'll make sure you feel completely involved."

Lu Xiangyang: "..."

This isn't about participating; it's about bullying him!

The destination was none other than the capital city.

After all, she owns a house in the capital. Having not been there for a year, Jiang Jianni is worried about her house.

Lu's parents looked nostalgic.

"The last time we went to the capital was ten years ago."

"I haven't been there for ten years, so I don't know what the capital is like now, or how much it has changed compared to ten years ago."

Lu's father rose to the rank of division commander in the army, participated in military parades, and attended meetings in the capital.

However, he was not stationed in the capital during his service.

Lu's mother's workplace was located where Lu's father worked.

Moreover, due to the nature of her work, she went to the capital less often than her father.

The capital city is something they've been to, but they're not familiar with it and don't know much about it.

This time, the elderly couple is going to the capital for pure leisure, and their excitement is no less than when they went for the first time.

Jiang Jianni smiled and said, "Our country is developing at an incredibly rapid pace."

"Let alone the capital, even in our Pingyang City, it's possible that someone could be away for a year and not be able to find their way home."

"It's really hard to say what the capital will become."

China's reputation as an infrastructure powerhouse is well-deserved.

This isn't the first time that skyscrapers have been built from scratch.

Although it is now the 1990s.

However, the 1990s were also the period of greatest change.

Putting aside everything else, there are definitely more high-rise buildings now.

Jiang Jianni had several friends who were also online novelists in her past life, one of whom was born in the 1980s.

When that woman went to Beijing in 2000, she felt that Beijing was not much different from her city. But when she went back in 2005, Beijing already had many CBD business districts.

There are countless residential buildings with thirty or forty floors.

Ask any local, and they'll all say they get to know a new Beijing every day.

Yesterday's Beijing is not the same Beijing as today's Beijing, and no one can say for sure what Beijing will be like tomorrow.

This constant change continued until the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when things finally slowed down.

Even if the technology isn't as good now as it will be in 20 or 30 years, a year is enough time for earth-shattering changes to happen.

Jiang Jiani visited the capital last year and couldn't guarantee that the capital she saw this year would be the same as last year.

The Lu family was overjoyed at the prospect of going to the capital.

The Jiang family is the same.

Yang Yuemei felt a little sorry for the money she lost during the trip: "I earn sixty yuan a day. If I go on a trip for ten days, six hundred yuan will be gone."

Jiang Haibing was speechless: "Have you forgotten that you said you earn money just to have fun?"

"What? Now that you're making money, you don't want to go out and have fun anymore?"

"Then what's the point of saving all your money?"

Yang Yuemei: "...I did it all for you..."

Jiang Haibing politely declined, saying, "No, please. I don't need you to save money for me."

Jiang Haiyang quickly replied, "I don't need it either. I'll earn my own money in the future."

He has a natural talent for computers and is also willing to work hard.

In the second half of this year, I learned and practiced simultaneously, and successfully created a small game.

After the students tried the game and gave positive feedback, they sold it to the owner of a computer lab.

The boss was very generous and gave him 10,000 yuan in one go.

With his frugal lifestyle, he is now a wealthy man with a net worth of 12,000 yuan.

If he works a little harder and makes a few more small games, he'll save enough money to buy his own computer.

Jiang Yanni chimed in, "I don't need to either. My grades have already improved. My teacher said that it's hard to say if I can get a bachelor's degree, but I should be fine with a junior college diploma."

“I will be able to earn my own money in the future, I don’t need you to save money for me.”

Jiang's father: "I don't need to. I've taken on two more jobs, and my monthly salary is already over two thousand. I don't need you to save money for me."

Yang Yuemei: "..."

She couldn't help but laugh, rolled her eyes at the man and child, and said, "Who said I was saving money for you? I'm saving money for myself. You're dreaming."

Jiang Haibing put his arm around her shoulder and said, "You're not as good as my sister in this respect."

"Jiani once said that money is a bastard, and you can't have new money if you don't let the old go."

"Learning how to spend money will give you more motivation to earn money."

"Otherwise, if you're just holding onto your money and thinking about how to protect it, how can you possibly make money?"

"Your daughter is a college student, she wouldn't lie to you, would she?"

Yang Yuemei pushed him away: "Go away, go away! Don't you know how old you are? You still want to lean on me? If you lean on me any longer, your mother will be crushed by you."

She said, "I didn't say I wasn't going. I was just saying it casually. Look at you all, all so anxious and flustered. You young and old are all so unreliable."

Jiang Yanni immediately cheered, "We're going on a trip! We're going to the capital!"

The little girl is almost an adult, and she has never been outside of Pingyang City.

Before Jiang Jiani got married, the Jiang family couple went to the capital, and she was very envious of them.

But she was in her final year of junior high school then, and was about to take the high school entrance exam.

Let alone traveling to other places, even on Sundays, my older siblings supervise me as I review my lessons and do my homework.

When I entered high school, a series of things happened at home.

She still has the important task of taking the college entrance exam, so it's even more impossible for her to go out and have fun.

Unexpectedly, while she was secretly planning to travel with her college classmates after she got into university, her second sister was actually taking the whole family on a trip.

The whole family.

That includes her, a high school sophomore.

We're going to the capital.

Jiang Yanni was so happy she almost flew away.

She rushed into the bedroom to rummage through her clothes: "I need to find something nicer to wear."

"This is a trip to the capital, I can't let the people of Pingyang down."

The entire Jiang family: "..."

Jiang Haiyang raised his hand tremblingly: "Can I...can I not go?"

He wanted to stay home and read books, go to the Crystal Palace to play computer games, and didn't want to go for a walk.

Jiang Haibing frowned: "If you're not going, what are you going to do? There's no one at home to cook for you. Are you planning to starve to death at home?"

Jiang Haiyang's cooking skills are the same as his mother's, or even worse.

It's at the point where they can manage to cook things through, but the taste is... well, let's just say it's pretty much like pig slop.

Teaching is useless; in fact, it's better not to teach at all.

If you teach them, the result will be worse than pig feed.

Jiang Haiyang: "I... I can go outside and buy something to eat."

Jiang Haibing immediately rejected the idea: "No way."

"Your second sister said that studying should be done in moderation and that you should combine work and rest."

"You haven't even left the house in the three days since you came back. If you don't get some exercise, what if you die at home and no one even knows?"

"You better behave yourself, we can't have a Lin Daiyu in our family."

Jiang Haiyang: "..."