Chapter 9 Crying Price
◎You, with all your tears and snot, are worth more than hers?◎
The doctor was probably the only one in the audience who could laugh.
Ji Nan leaned against the table with his hands covering his face, not saying a word. Whether it was because of physical discomfort or the shame spreading in his heart, he didn't want to pay any attention to this rebellious son at all at this moment.
The doctor held Dongdong's armpits and lifted it in the air. The cat's long tail swayed back and forth as if to show weakness and curry favor, and it looked like a dog again.
Zhong Jiajing looked at the fat cat with her eyes filled with tears, but in the end she couldn't resist the other's pretending to be good and burst into laughter.
She reached out to take the cat and said seriously, "Dongdong, you really scared me to death! To punish you, the higher-ups have decided to strictly confiscate the cat strips I just brought you!"
The cat didn't understand what was being said and just curled up and rubbed against the person's chest. It looked so coquettish that it made it impossible for anyone to be angry.
Zhong Jiajing's heart was melted by the cuteness, and she hugged the cat and kissed and rubbed it.
Ji Nan saw the harmonious cat-man through his fingers and felt a little helpless. "Zhong Jiajing, out of my duty as a guardian, I apologize to you on behalf of Dongdong."
The small nasal sound mixed with helplessness made Ji Nan feel a little aggrieved, especially when he called his name.
Zhong Jiajing's ears turned red, and she said softly, "No need for that. It was me who forced love on her in the first place. And it's my fault for calling you here without knowing the truth, for making you come all this way even though you were sick."
Ji Nan grabbed a handful of his hair, which made the messy black hair a little neater. He said in a hoarse voice, "It's my fault. I need to apologize and compensate."
He didn't give her a chance to refuse, but turned to the doctor and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Please pay the bill."
The doctor laughed and joked, "Your boy is quite good at acting. I'll recommend him to a production crew tomorrow to get a role."
"Then I guess I'll have to lose everything." Ji Nan joked.
After scanning the code and paying, Ji Nan suddenly had an idea and opened the chat box with Zhong Jiajing.
It turns out that the garbled sentence is like this.
【dx，yuhkj8r74r30】
It turned out that she only wanted the answer she wanted. Ji Nan felt helpless as he looked at the three people laughing happily on the sofa.
"Let's go." Ji Nan put the empty cat bag on the table on his shoulder and said to the smiling girl.
Zhong Jiajing stood up holding the cat, freeing one hand to point at his mask and asked, "Is it uncomfortable?"
"It's okay. I just ran here and sweated a little, but I feel my nasal cavity is much more open." His words were a mixture of truth and lies.
Zhong Jiajing stared at him intently for a long time but couldn't tell whether he was true or not, so she had to change the subject.
"This is my fault. I have to pay for the medical expenses." She looked extremely serious.
Ji Nan didn't refuse, but just reported the number quickly.
Even if the film was not taken, the examination fee would only be a few dozen yuan. Ji Nan knew very well that this money could at least buy her peace of mind, so he just let her go.
He raised his hand and took the cat that was pretending to be well behaved from Zhong Jiajing's arms. "You hold Duoduo. Dongdong is too fat. It's hard to hold him for a long time."
Dongdong has already protested against walking with practical actions, and the next journey is destined to be difficult.
Zhong Jiajing didn't understand what he said at first, because the car was just outside and it would only take two minutes to hold her, so how could she have time to get tired?
But Ji Nan was obviously walking not towards the car, but towards the nearby business district.
Zhong Jiajing didn't ask, but just followed him obediently like a follower until they stopped outside a luxury store on the street outside the shopping mall.
Zhong Jiajing looked at the large English letters above her head and felt a little daunted. "Are you going to buy your baby another hairband?"
She remembered that when she took graduation photos last time, Duoduo wore a hairband worth four figures from this store.
"Baby? Have you changed your mind and want to be my child again?" He asked inexplicably.
Zhong Jiajing didn't react and looked at him in confusion against the sunlight.
Ji Nan didn't say anything, but handed the dog leash in her hand and the cat leash in his own hand to the SA who was welcoming him warmly at the door.
Since small animals weren't allowed in the store, Zhong Jiajing timidly whispered, "How about I watch them for you outside?"
"No need," Ji Nan beckoned her to go inside, "You have to choose this thing, otherwise what's the point of calling you here?"
Zhong Jiajing thought he wanted her to be a reference, so she started choosing very enthusiastically.
She has always been a social expert, and after some discussion with the SA, they decided on a hairpin.
It’s pink, with the brand’s name clearly displayed on it in sparkling crystals.
"What do you think of this?" she asked Ji Nan tentatively.
A hairpin is worth three thousand two hundred yuan. Even if she didn't pay for it, her heart would bleed.
"That's good. It's mainly your opinion. What do you think?" he asked.
"It looks great. Duoduo will look super cute wearing it..."
Before she could finish her compliments, Ji Nan interrupted her and asked, "Why would you consider how Duoduo wears it when I bought it for you?"
Even though he had walked from the scorching heat outside to the coolness of the room, his body still hadn't cooled down. A thin layer of sweat was visible at the base of Ji Nan's nose. He raised his hand and pulled at his mask, pressing it against his nose before approaching her.
"I already said I would compensate you."
Zhong Jiajing was suddenly at a loss. She tiptoed close to his ear and whispered, "Well, if you really want to buy it, why don't we consider the ten-yuan store next to my house?"
Ji Nan leaned down to look at her level, "Not considering it."
"They are all my children. Whatever conditions I can give to Dongdong and Duoduo, I can certainly give to you as well."
Zhong Jiajing no longer cared about whether she was taking advantage of someone or not. She only cared about one thing: "Can you really make so much money by opening a coffee shop in Shanghai?"
Ji Nan said with a forced smile, "I'm sorry, I won't tell you about this, as it's an industry secret."
There was no point in worrying about it any further, so Ji Nan simply asked the staff to help him pay and pack.
Zhong Jiajing opened her mouth to persuade him again, but Ji Nan said, "I remember when my high school classmate's sister got married, she hired a wedding clerk for eight hundred a day."
He looked at her and said, "Aren't you more valuable than her with all your tears and snot?"
"But it can't be that expensive, right?" Zhong Jiajing was skeptical.
Ji Nan hung the packed bag on her hand and said, "It's easy. At worst, you can cry a few more times later. When you feel it's worth it, you can stop."
Zhong Jiajing: “…”
Tiantian released the entire set of photos a week after taking his graduation photos, even including the photo of the "family of three".
When she was taking the photo, she tentatively wanted to sell it to Zhong Jiajing for twenty yuan, but was cruelly rejected.
So she lowered the price to ten yuan, but still to no avail.
The result was the same even though it was a free gift. The other party didn’t even care and refused to even look at it. Tiantian’s dream of photography was deeply hurt.
But God rewards those who work hard. At ten o'clock one morning, Tiantian walked into a coffee shop and met the male protagonist.
Seeing the handsome and focused man, Tiantian ran up to him and greeted him without saying a word.
"Handsome guy, do you still remember me?"
Ji Nan has a good memory and basically has an impression of everyone he has met.
He nodded and said, "I remember the graduation photos you took for Zhong Jiajing and the others."
"What's up?"
Tiantian smiled and opened the photo album on his phone and placed it in front of him. "This is a photo I took of your family of three a while ago. I'll sell it to you for ten yuan."
The shop assistants next to them stretched their heads to peek over here, but the small screen prevented them from sharing the big news.
Ji Nan glanced up and saw that the photo was indeed very well taken. The soft filter made him, a social guy who had graduated for six years, look like a college student. Even when put together with a sunny girl like Zhong Jiajing who had just entered the society, there was no sense of incongruity. It must be said that his technique was very good.
But why did he need to take such an inexplicable photo?
Ji Nan refused: "It's a good shot, but it's not necessary."
To Tiantian, this kind of praise was no different from the award for the most diligent worker in kindergarten. It was clearly forced.
The artist's arrogance made Tiantian unable to lower her head. She angrily said that the artist didn't know the goods and ran out of the store.
People from the same family tend to live in the same house!
But people are always reluctant to give up, so Tiantian ran back after a few minutes.
She walked around Yu Qiuya who was queuing next to her, quickly threw a stack of photos on the table in front of Ji Nan, and said, "You have to take them even if you don't want them. One for each of the three of you in your family." After she said that, she ran away again.
Ji Nan was a little puzzled. He picked up one at random and found that it was a printed version of the photo he had just taken, and it was even made of more expensive materials.
The seven-inch photo was placed clearly on the table, and it was hard for Yu Qiuya to avoid seeing it.
Two handsome men and women standing together, with the man's family members accompanying them, how could one not think too much?
Moreover, she had seen the girl in the photo before and told it to the new college graduates who had arrived last month.
Her face looked a little grim as she asked, "A family of three? Ji Nan, do you have a girlfriend?"
Before Ji Nan could say anything, Xiao Bai Bing Bing Cha beside him spoke first, "That's not the case. They are just in the ambiguous stage at most."
Ever since the last face-to-face confrontation with the boss, Xiaobai Bingbingcha felt as if his Ren and Du meridians had been opened. Facing the indifferent boss, he did not hide his feelings and kept talking.
Ji Nan sneered, "You've done dozens of logical reasoning exercises and your performance is still at this level. I suggest you don't take the provincial exam this year. It's better to save this hundred yuan and go out for a good meal."
Xiaobai Bingbingcha fell silent for a moment. There were ten logical reasoning questions in the civil service exam last night, and she got two of them right.
Although Ji Nan did not give a definite answer, what he saw and heard still disturbed Yu Qiuya's heart.
She no longer had any interest in looking at the handsome man, and her stomach was weak from drinking coffee. She just casually pointed at a piece of mango mousse and asked the waiter to pack it up before leaving.
At noon, Yu Qiuya finally found Zhong Jiajing after much hesitation.
"Hello, Jiajing, would you like to go to the cafeteria for lunch together?"
When Zhong Jiajing first arrived, her team leader took her around the entire company, but there were so many people that she actually didn't remember the beautiful woman in front of her.
But since you shouldn't hit someone who smiles at you, she nodded and said okay.
Yu Qiuya took her to a table by the window. Halfway through the meal, Yu Qiuya pointed to the coffee shop ten floors down and asked casually, "Do you go to that coffee shop often?"
Zhong Jiajing took a look and replied, "I've been there a few times, but not often."
She usually drinks the drinks provided free of charge by the company. Although the taste is indeed not as good as that outside, there is nothing much to complain about since it doesn't cost money.
"Do you know him, boss?" Yu Qiuya looked away and met her gaze. "I heard from the clerk downstairs that you are in love with Ji Nan."
Zhong Jiajing obviously had no idea how this came to be. "Huh? Sister Qiuya, are you sure you didn't hear it wrong? I do know Ji Nan, but I can only be considered a part-time worker."
"Part-time job? Part-time as a girlfriend?" Yu Qiuya was puzzled.
"No, I'm a part-time dog walker." Zhong Jiajing seriously defended herself.
The author has something to say:
Happy Qixi Festival everyone!
I'd like to mention that this article does not involve any female competition. Yu Qiuya is just a simple beauty lover. Everyone should stick to each other and be friendly first.
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