Chapter 138
Jiang Ning arrived at Jiang Bai's school and learned from Jiang Bai's introduction that she had originally wanted Jiang Bai to apply to East China University of Science and Technology, but Jiang Bai himself applied to Shanghai University of Science and Technology, which was formerly formed by the merger of East China University of Technology and Shanghai Mechanical School.
There were very few people in the school at that time. The guard looked at Jiang Bai's student ID and name badge and knew that this was a student of their school who brought his sister and grandfather to visit the school, so he let the three of them in.
This is Grandpa Jiang’s first time to go to college.
School has always been sacred to him. When he was a child, there was no school, only a primary school. He went there for two years and learned some characters and could recite some three thousand and one hundred characters. Later, he forgot all of them due to the heavy work. What he probably still remembered was that human nature is inherently good.
I have never even been to the junior high school in town. I have only stood at the door and stared from afar.
The three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family are actually very independent people. Although Jiang Song was taken to school to register when he was a child by his father and mother, and later they expected Jiang Song to take his two younger siblings to familiarize themselves with the school, Jiang Song actually did not need that. He had an independent and fearless attitude since he was a child. Of course, if you want him to be like an older brother and take his younger brothers and sisters to school to register and visit the school, that is unthinkable. He does not have such a mindset. Among the three, Jiang Bai is more like a responsible older brother. When Jiang Song was outside like a wild dog that had broken free from its reins, rushing around in front, Jiang Bai was responsible for taking care of his younger sister and keeping an eye on everything without complaint.
It's not like he didn't have resentment. All his resentment was directed at Jiang Song, so he looked down on Jiang Song. When Jiang's father and mother ignored him and invested all their energy and money in Jiang Song, he complained to Jiang Ning: "With my eldest brother, I don't believe he can make it in the future. If you don't believe me, just wait and see. He has no sense of responsibility at all."
Everyone said that Jiang Bai was not as smart as Jiang Song, not as flexible as him, and not as clever as him, but Jiang Bai was determined: "Just wait and see, I won't live worse than him."
He was unconvinced, and he was always working towards his ideal life, keeping his feet on the ground, moving forward step by step, never wavering, never hesitating.
Someone once said on the Internet: There is no man who doesn’t cheat!
There is no man who doesn’t cheat!
There is no man without PC!
There is no such thing as a bad man!
At least, as far as Jiang Ning knew, Jiang Bai had none of them.
Moreover, he is a straight man.
Jiang Bai sneered at all these words.
He was like an ascetic monk practicing in this world, sticking to his own principles and persisting in his own persistence. When talking to Jiang Ning, the only thing that made him happy was how much his small treasury had grown and how much his savings had increased. Whenever he talked about these, he felt a secret sense of pride, just like his grandfather.
He could not share this pride with anyone other than her and Tong Jingang, because others would borrow money from him. Every time he earned money, he would tell his sister, as if he was saying implicitly: "Look, I have so much money. Those who say I am not as good as Jiang Song, who say Jiang Song will have a bright future, and those who say I..." In fact, not many people said much about him. He was hidden in the shadow of Jiang Song. Everyone just tacitly agreed that he would be mediocre and would not have a bright future.
How could he accept it?
At this moment, he brought his sister and grandfather to visit his university. His eyebrows were curved, and the corners of his lips were reservedly raised, just like the way he occasionally showed off his small treasury to Jiang Ning in his previous life. It can be said that it was exactly the same.
But now he is more sunny and his emotions are more open.
He introduced every building in the school to Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Ning, where he took his professional courses.
He studied mechanics, which is his favorite subject and what he is best at, and he feels like a duck in water here.
He is still not good at socializing, but he is no longer as cold and aloof as he was in high school, as if he kept everyone at a distance. He now has a good relationship with several people in the dormitory.
Jiang Bai is not a person who likes to talk about his own affairs, but he "goes home" every Friday and comes back on Sunday. Every week he comes, he brings a big bottle of delicious food, and the classmates who are familiar with each other in the dormitory will rush to grab it. He is not as stingy as before, and is willing to share with his roommates in the dormitory with a smile.
But he is also a very sensitive person. He has his own scale in his heart to judge who in the dormitory is really good to him and who is not.
Grandpa Jiang followed his grandson like he was on a pilgrimage, listening to him talk about everything in college. Unfortunately, the boy was too poor in language skills. Jiang Ning really wished this was her school, so she could push him aside and let her talk.
She'll show off all the honors she's won! Every time he could make Grandpa Jiang smile.
Unlike Jiang Bai, who spoke in a dry voice and looked as if he was embarrassed to show off. He just had a smile on his face and looked very happy.
After visiting the school, Jiang Bai took them to visit other parts of the school. Jiang Ning noticed that this school was formed by the merger of two schools. It was still very new and had three gates in total. Not to mention the main gate, which faced the road with a wide view. There were two side doors, one corresponding to the snack street. Although school had not started yet, the shops on the snack street were all closed. There was also a small door, and the construction at the back had not been completed. There was a piece of wasteland and a newly built building, and the shop fronts below had not been built yet.
Jiang Ning walked towards here.
There was someone on duty at the construction site. When he heard that she was there to buy a house and a shop, he quickly called their manager and someone came over soon.
When Jiang Bai heard her say that she wanted to buy the shop here, he was a little puzzled: "No one usually comes here."
It's so messy back there, it's all construction sites, and no one will come here. Moreover, this small door is always locked. Only occasionally will the real 'small door' on the iron gate be opened to allow people to enter and exit.
Jiang Ning naturally knew this. Although she had never been to this place before, she knew that in a few years, when this community was built, the value of this shop would go up. At that time, it would be suitable to open a store here or rent it out.
Buying a house here also comes with a blue-stamp household registration, but Jiang Ning no longer needs a blue-stamp household registration, so he doesn't care about it. He simply did not buy a house, but bought two shops, and chose the locations that are closest to the back door of the school.
Grandpa Jiang Bai, even though he already knew that his granddaughter was now wealthy and had seen the duplex apartment of more than 300 square meters that she had already renovated and the mansion where the hard decoration was complete but the soft decoration was still to be added, he still watched his granddaughter buy two more shops without blinking an eye. Both of them were a little dazed, especially when the monthly mortgage for the two shops was close to 4,000 yuan. Grandpa Jiang felt like he was about to faint, especially when Jiang Ning finally told him the truth that the mortgage for the villa was also 2,000 yuan per month. Grandpa Jiang stroked his old heart and walked out in silence.
At this moment, he was in no mood to visit any schools. He packed up his things at home and was about to return to Wucheng: "How can I take a break when you are so willing to spend money? If I take a break for one day, I will lose a lot of money!"
As far as he knew now, Jiang Ning had to spend more than 6,500 yuan a month on mortgage repayments, plus Jiang Bai's, the total mortgage payment was 7,000 yuan.
Wow, he knew his granddaughter dared to spend money, but he never expected that she would be so bold to spend money, on a "loan shark" of more than 7,000 yuan.
Grandpa Jiang doesn't understand the difference between private loan sharking and bank loans. In his eyes, as long as it is a loan, it is usury, and if not handled properly it can lead to the ruin of one's family.
Grandpa Jiang felt bad all over. He counted on his fingers and found that the store business was the best in the second half of every year. On weekdays, he could sell more than ten or twenty pieces a day and earn more than one hundred to two hundred yuan. At the end of the year, it was common to sell one hundred pieces a day, and there were sometimes two hundred pieces a day. This winter vacation alone, Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang could earn two to three thousand yuan a day by running around everywhere.
During his first semester in college, he saw that his sister was making money too easily, so after leaving his sister's store, he also went to the wholesale market to buy some things and occasionally sold them at the school gate. When he went to the wholesale market to buy clothes, he realized that some of the goods he bought were more expensive than what he sold.
He didn't dare to look at those with particularly good quality, and only bought goods from small commodity markets. Because students had limited money, the goods they bought were too expensive and they could not be sold at all.
He now knows how to dress himself up and dresses himself up as a model. In the evening, he would hang a clothes rack and spread a straw mat on the street behind their door. Some clothes would be placed on the mat, and some would be hung and ironed and placed on the clothes rack. He sold clothes very cheaply, making only one or two yuan from each piece. After a semester, he did not earn as much as he did in a single day at his sister's place at the end of the year.
Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Bo were both brainstorming about whether what they earned was enough for their sister to pay off her mortgage.
My sister was in training for the second half of last year, and she had less time to use the computer, let alone make money on her own. She relied on Grandpa Jiang in the store and Jiang Bai who was on holiday at the end of the year to sell things.
Jiang Bai calculated how much he had earned at the end of the year, and Grandpa Jiang calculated how much he had earned this year, and they both felt a strong sense of crisis.
In particular, when the two of them saw that their sister/granddaughter owed so much "high-interest loans" but was still so calm and eager to continue planning to buy a house, they became terrified.
Jiang Ning wanted to bring Grandpa Jiang to live in the villa for a few more days, but Jiang Bai and Grandpa Jiang were eager to go back to Wucheng to continue setting up a stall to sell clothes. Jiang Ning had no choice but to call Manager Qian and tell him that there were still some vegetables, meat and other things in the refrigerator that had not been eaten. She asked him to go over when he had time, take them to the sales office and give everyone a snack. By the way, when he was free, she asked him to continue ventilating the villa and asked him to help look after it.
She also told Jiang Bai about this and asked him to go to her villa every week to take care of her after school starts.
Jiang Bai cared more about this matter than she did. It seemed that his sister was a little careless, just like his elder brother Jiang Song, who only knew how to buy things. After buying them, he would be very careless. He owed a lot of high-interest loans, but he didn't take it to heart. The only ones who were worried were him and Grandpa Jiang.
I have to say, Jiang Bai is telling the truth.
Jiang Ning looks somewhat similar to Jiang Bai in character, both are silent, steady and meticulous in their work, but her inner self is actually the same as Jiang Song, both are born optimists. If there is anything in common between her and Jiang Bai, it is probably that both of them have more empathy and a greater sense of responsibility.
But in Jiang Bai's eyes, his sister was not like Jiang Song, who had been running wild since she was a child, but now she was slowly running wild. He carefully tightened the reins for his sister from behind.
In his eyes, his sister's behavior of taking out loans to buy houses, buying so many houses and owing so much debt was really no different from Jiang Song's. But he inexplicably believed in Jiang Ning. At least Jiang Ning really had the money to pay the down payment and the money to repay the loans.
Especially, the younger sister seems to have higher IQ and knowledge than him, so she should be... more reliable than the older brother, right?
Jiang Bai is under a lot of pressure because he has two wild horses at home that are out of control.
Because time was urgent, Jiang's father was eager to go out and earn money, and he completely secured the homestead on the second day of the Chinese New Year. On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Jiang's mother returned to her parents' home with her cured chicken legs.
This time when she came back, she brought back sixty to seventy kilograms of cured chicken legs, all of which were carried back by Jiang's father. He gave five kilograms to Aunt Jiang's family, two or three kilograms to Uncle Jiang's family, and the remaining thirty-odd kilograms were kept for her own consumption. The rest was given five kilograms to each of her six brothers and sisters from her mother's family. It was really a generous gift.
You know, one pound of fresh meat can only produce seven ounces of bacon. Although these bacon chicken legs are incomplete meat that Jiang Ma cuts from chicken legs and duck legs bit by bit throughout the year, they are real meat, which is a good thing in that era.
Except for two who were very stingy and only took money but never spent it, most of her brothers, sisters-in-law, and younger brothers and sisters gave her gifts in return. Especially her sister-in-law and youngest brother and sister gave her the most. Her younger brothers and sisters also worked outside, and there were not many things at home, so they could only secretly give money to their sister.
Jiang Ma stuffed it back to him, and also stuffed another 500 yuan to Jiang Xiaojiu, saying, "You have given me a lot of money over the years, and I don't count it." Seeing that Jiang Xiaojiu didn't want it, Jiang Ma pulled him and said, "I know you gave me money. Hongling has quarreled with you a lot. I had no choice over the years. I pretended not to know even if I knew, so I accepted it." She lowered her voice and said to Jiang Xiaojiu privately, "This year, your brother-in-law and I sold lunch boxes at the train station. We can make a lot of money every day. Now we have paid off all the debts. Your brother-in-law is planning to build a house at home. Now we have money. Don't give me money anymore in the future. Hongling will be unhappy if she knows. You have children to raise, so take care of yourself."
She looked at her younger brother, who was as thin as a bamboo pole, with a tender gaze. She patted his arm lovingly and said, "You should take care of yourself. I tell you, selling lunch boxes can make a lot of money. Don't you know how to cook? You and Hongling can find a construction site, or a train station or bus station and sell lunch boxes."
She lowered her voice and said, "Even if you earn 20 or 30 cents for a box lunch, 100 boxes a day will make 20 or 30 yuan. For lunch and dinner, how much would 500 boxes cost? Don't go to work there."
During the years when she was in debt the most, it was her younger brothers and sisters who helped her the most, and she naturally loved them the most. Although her other brothers and sisters also felt sorry for her as an elder sister and would help her, they all had families at home, and even if they helped her, they had to consider the thoughts of their wives and husbands. The most they could do was to give her more food, and it was not easy to help her financially. At that time, everyone's money was hard-earned money, and who would dare to lend it to others casually, not to mention that her younger brother did not lend it to her, but secretly gave it to her in private.
She added, "If you don't know how to cook, come and learn from your brother-in-law for two days. Your brother-in-law knows how to cook."
This is also the reason why the Wang family's uncles did not come to beat Jiang's father or persuade Jiang's mother to divorce even though Jiang's mother had a hard life for so many years. In addition to the fact that Jiang's mother had three children, although her life was hard, they reluctantly let Jiang's father go just because he was willing to cook at home and coax and give in to her after working hard.
They also knew that it was Dad Jiang who made Mom Jiang's life so hard over the years, so none of the uncles and aunts in the Wang family liked Dad Jiang.
She carried the load again, which was full of return gifts from her brothers and sisters. She continued to deliver the gifts to her two younger sisters' homes. One of her younger sisters married far away, so she left the gifts directly at her sister-in-law's home. When her younger sister came back, she asked her sister-in-law to help pass them on. She then carried the load to her younger sister Wang Ailan's home, which didn't live far away.
Although it was not far, it actually took more than an hour to walk there. When she arrived in the village, she left the burden at the home of a little sister from her childhood, and bought some things and sent them to her younger sister's home.
Because Wang Ailan has been doing physical labor in the kiln factory for a long time, she is actually ten years younger than Jiang Ma, but looks about the same age as Jiang Ma.
Especially this year, although Jiang's mother needed to wash and cut vegetables and sell lunch boxes, these were not considered heavy physical work, and she did not have to work on the construction site in the wind and sun like before. It was only because Jiang's father was a high school student after all, so he took on some of the light work on the construction site, such as bookkeeping, supervision, surveying, and water and electricity, that they were not crushed by the burden of life.
Although Wang Ailan and Wang Ailian are sisters, they look completely different. Jiang Ma only picked out the good features of her parents, she is tall, long-legged, strong and plump, while the younger sister Wang Ailan only picked out the bad features, she has small eyes, a flat nose and is not as tall as Wang Ailian, but she has a very kind personality. She was sitting at the door entertaining her sister-in-law. When she saw Jiang Ma from a distance, she hurried over and took the big bag from her sister's hand, complaining: "Why do you bring so many things every time you come to my house? It's so difficult to live at home yourself, you don't have to bring me anything, I haven't even brought you anything yet!"
Jiang Ma was sweating after walking for a while, and her uncle-in-law came over politely to make tea for her: "Big sister is here, come in and have some tea and snacks."
Mother Jiang went over to drink some tea and eat something, and then the two sisters went back to their room to talk in private.
Of her two younger sisters, one married far away and they had little contact over the years, so it was difficult for her to help Jiang Ma. But the younger sister lived closer to her. During the years when she was working away from home, every New Year's Day, she would either send vegetables, rice, flour, rice cakes, or rice candy and pork. Jiang Ma always kept them in mind, and this time when she came back, she not only brought five kilograms of cured chicken legs to her younger sister's family, but also a red sweater.
Aunt Jiang said, "Why did you bring this to me? I'm already old, and I'm still wearing this red color. People will laugh at me if I go out. Take it back and give it to Ningning."
Seeing that her elder sister didn't care, Aunt Jiang sometimes really didn't understand what her elder sister was thinking, so she advised: "Ningning is so old now, she's already a grown-up girl, if you treat her well, won't she be filial to you when you're old?"
Jiang's mother was very stubborn: "I appreciate her filial piety! I'm lucky if she doesn't get mad at me to death!"
Thinking that none of her three children had returned this year, Jiang's mother, who was originally full of prickles, couldn't help but soften in front of her sister. But it was New Year's Day and she couldn't cry.
Aunt Jiang sighed: "You just have a very stubborn temper."
When she was a child, she was most afraid of her elder sister. The eldest sister was like an elder sister and a mother to them. Their biological mother was a woman with bound feet and gave birth to seven children in total. Perhaps it was because of too many children or her bound feet, her health was always poor and she had to work, so she was simply unable to take care of so many children. Therefore, all the children under Jiang Ma were raised by her.
She said, "You just think too much. What does the closure of your chicken farm have to do with Ningning? How old was she at that time?"
But she just believed what outsiders said. People said Jiang Ning was a jinx. The chicken farm was doing well before, but two years after Jiang Ning was born, there was a flood. Two years later, there was a chicken plague, which caused the chicken farm to close down. The Jiang family was heavily in debt. It must be her bad luck that brought her bad luck.
Others were just gossiping, but Jiang's mother actually believed it and attributed all the disasters in the family to Jiang Ning being a jinx.
Upon hearing this, Jiang's mother glared at her sister and said in a righteous tone, "Don't say anything good for her. Her elder brother and second brother were born fine, and there was nothing wrong with their family. But when she was born, there was either a flood or chicken plague. What else could she be but a jinx?" Jiang's mother rolled her eyes, "She was born to bring bad luck to me!"
She stood up and said, "Okay, I won't say much. There are still many things to do at home. Your brother-in-law has applied for a homestead from the brigade and is working on building a house. I have to go back to help, so I won't sit any longer."
Aunt Jiang quickly pulled her aside: "Why are you in such a hurry? You just got here and you want to leave? Just a moment later? Sit down, I'll make you a bowl of noodles!"
There was an old hen stewed at home, and she quickly brought a big bowl of chicken wing noodles to Jiang Ma. There were two chicken legs at home, and her two children each got one in the morning.
While Jiang Ma was eating noodles, Jiang Xiaoyi packed a big bag of homemade rice noodles, a bucket of homemade rice cakes, and an old hen for Jiang Ma to take back.
After Jiang Ma left, my uncle came in and said to Jiang Xiaoyi with a little dissatisfaction: "You are very generous. Every year you give rice, flour and rice cakes, and this year you even caught an old hen for your sister."
Aunt Jiang and uncle-in-law are about ten years apart in age. Aunt Jiang is his second wife and has given birth to a pair of children for him. Usually, although uncle-in-law has a stronger personality, the couple complement each other. Uncle-in-law usually gives in to Aunt Jiang, otherwise his wife would not have given her gifts every year. This time she also gave an old hen. He always waits until Aunt Jiang's mother passes away before coming to talk to Aunt Jiang.
Aunt Jiang took the pile of things that Jiang Ma sent over and said to the red sweater, "Don't say that I only give things to my sister. My sister also gave me a lot of things during those years when her life was better."
When my uncle saw the brand new red sweater in Aunt Jiang's hand, he smiled and flipped through the things that Jiang's mother brought. When he saw the cured chicken thigh meat, he picked it up and shook it in his hand, saying in amazement: "Wow, your elder sister is really generous this year and gave us so much meat!"
Even though the meat was cut a little smaller for some reason, it is still meat.
When Mother Jiang returned to her parents' home, Father Jiang secretly gave Grandma Jiang two hundred yuan.
Grandma Jiang hadn't received any money from Dad Jiang for a long time, so she happily accepted the money.
Grandma Jiang and Grandpa Jiang have completely different personalities. Grandpa Jiang is a giving person. If he has a little money, he would like to give it all to his children and grandchildren. His old age depends entirely on the conscience of his children and grandchildren. From the perspective of a beneficiary, Jiang Ning naturally feels sorry for Grandpa Jiang and loves him very much, but from the perspective of an observer, Jiang Ning appreciates Grandma Jiang's character more.
When the sons of Uncle Jiang were young, Grandma Jiang would give a few cents of New Year's money to her three eldest grandsons. She would hide the delicious food and share some with her grandsons. However, no matter whether it was her sons or daughters, she would keep all the money given to her as her own private money. She did not feel anxious because she had money in her hands.
If her children bought clothes for her, she would wear them happily. But if her daughter didn't buy her clothes that year, she would get angry and show a bad face.
She has less work to do now. On weekdays, she plays mahjong with a few old sisters in the village. On weekends, she goes to the church in Tanshan with the old sisters to sing, recognize the words in the music scores distributed, and often gets together with these religious old sisters to sing.
People like this, who cannot be called selfish but have some self-esteem, actually live more comfortably and happily than ordinary old people.
Sometimes, selfishly speaking, Jiang Ning hopes that Grandpa Jiang is such an old man, she hopes he is happy.
But on the other hand, if Grandpa Jiang was really such a person, then her great-grandmother, great-aunt, uncle, and even her would have probably died long ago.
Who knows, Grandma Jiang might have married and raised my younger brother during the three-year famine.
When Jiang's mother came back, Aunt Jiang had already left. Jiang's father had already found out from Aunt Jiang that Jiang Bai went back to Wucheng after selling clothes every day, and it seemed that the clothes were taken down and sold in Wucheng.
Father Jiang asked Aunt Jiang again if Grandpa Jiang was sick. Aunt Jiang said doubtfully, "I haven't heard from Baizi."
Father Jiang asked again if anyone had seen Jiang Ning, and Aunt Jiang said, "I seemed to have heard Baizi say that Ning Ning seemed to have gone to some winter camp."
Although Jiang's father was a high school student, his era was during the Cultural Revolution. How could high school teachers dare to teach knowledge from textbooks? They taught themselves everything in high school and he didn’t even know what winter camp was.
But after hearing what Aunt Jiang said, I thought Jiang Ning was still in some winter camp and hadn't come back yet.
Aunt Jiang came and went in a hurry again this year. After she left, Dad Jiang and Uncle Jiang discussed together how big the new house should be and how many floors it should have. The roof should not be a bungalow, but should be made of red bricks and large tiles. The tiles on the outside should not be the white wall tiles that are commonly popular now, but the small red tiles that are popular in Shenzhen. The floor should not be paved with large tiles instead of the most commonly used cement floor. All the floors should be paved with tiles.
Uncle Jiang was shocked: "How much more money will this cost?"
Even the houses he built for people in Xinjie were not so luxurious. Even the main room had to be paved with tiles.
Like Uncle Jiang's house, from upstairs to downstairs, it's all cement floor smoothed with fine cement. This is already a very good floor. In the summer, the room can be mopped clean. Everyone takes off their shoes outside the door before entering the house, and the room needs to be cleaned less often.
It was only last year that the new street was built. The first floor of the new street is all paved with cement, and from the stairs all the way to the second and third floors, they are all paved with floor tiles.
So, Dad Jiang told him that Uncle Jiang knew about laying floor tiles and had done it before, so there was no problem at all. The only problem was that it was too luxurious and too expensive.
Not only that, Dad Jiang also wanted to cover a 1.2-meter area of the wall with white tiles and then apply white lime on top.
As for the rooftop, Jiang's father is no exception. He likes colorful lights and crystal chandeliers.
This is the popular trend of this era. Even if it is finally proven that this thing is not only useless, but also difficult to maintain, easily accumulates dust, and is easy to break, it is still popular in this era.
Uncle Jiang looked at Father Jiang and said, "You have the money to build such a big house at home. Why don't you go to the new street in Shuibu Town and buy two shops? Then Songzi and Baizi can each have one. They can be used for living and opening shops at the same time. I don't know how good it is."
Father Jiang was stunned for a moment.
He really had never thought about buying a house in Shuibu Town or the neighboring city.
Because of the huge debt caused by him over the years, and because the family's house was the shortest and most dilapidated of the three rooms, even though others told him not to let his three children go to college, and let them go out to work and earn money to help pay off the debt, Jiang's father disagreed and insisted on letting them study. In addition to his own obsession, he also wanted a college student in the family to relieve him of the humiliation he had suffered all these years and to bring honor to the family.
Over the years, he said that he didn't care, saying that it didn't matter if the house was short, as long as he had a college student at home, it was all worth it. In fact, he had always kept these grievances and other people's gossip deep in his heart.
After earning so much money this year, the only thought in his mind was to go home and build a big house, the best house, to surpass all the houses of the villagers and let the villagers see whether he, Jiang Guoping, is a promising man!
But in the past, this desire was deeply suppressed in his heart, and he himself might not have even noticed it.
But after seeing the rapid changes in Shenzhen, with tall buildings rising from the ground and exquisite houses that were completely different from his hometown, all he could see in his heart and eyes were houses like those in Shenzhen. He never thought of building a cookie-cutter house like the one in his hometown.
He despises houses like that.
Therefore, even though the brigade secretary made things difficult for him by allocating him an inappropriate location for building a house and asking him to build an extra floor as a waterproof platform, Jiang's father accepted it because the location was indeed suitable. It was right next to the embankment road, and anyone who walked along this road from miles around could see his house.
He couldn't wait to see the house that was different from all the other houses in the village built, becoming the biggest and best house in the village, so that everyone could see that his house was not the shortest, but the tallest and most luxurious!
But Uncle Jiang's words suddenly made him face his own heart. Even though he knew that Uncle Jiang was right, what he should do now was to go to Xinjie to buy two houses. The residential land was here, it was his own field. He could go out to earn money this year and come back to build next year.
But he was so depressed and pent up that he couldn't wait until next year. Instead, he smiled and said, "I'll buy a house in Xinjie next year when I have money. I'll just build my house this year."
Uncle Jiang said unhappily, "Next year, there will be a house waiting for you in Xinjie next year?"
How many apartments are there in a new street? Who among the families with some money in the surrounding area wouldn’t want to buy a house in Xinjie?
Anyway, he has said what he should say, and there is nothing he can do if Jiang's father doesn't listen. If he wants to build it at home, then just build it at home. I don't know how much money he has earned this year, but he dares to be so arrogant and build such a big house in this place.
Dad Jiang had to go out to earn money and couldn't stay at home to help build the house, so he entrusted everything to Uncle Jiang.
Uncle Jiang said, "You entrusted me with the task, so I will make good arrangements for you. It doesn't matter who you build the house for, but we brothers should be clear about the payment."
"Need I say more?" Dad Jiang trusted Uncle Jiang. Although Uncle Jiang was somewhat dissatisfied over the years because the old man's salary had been used to subsidize Dad Jiang, and he often mocked and ridiculed Dad Jiang, but when something really happened, Uncle Jiang never cheated him and would still help when necessary.
Jiang Dad is Uncle Jiang's brother, so Uncle Jiang would naturally not cheat Jiang Dad. However, after returning, he still couldn't help shaking his head and said, "He's still a high school student." He said complacently, "I think his success is not as good as mine."
He knew that Jiang's father was thinking of buying a house in town for the third child, but he didn't buy the house first, but built one first. Just from this point, Jiang's father was not very smart.
On the third day of the New Year, Jiang's father rode his bicycle to Tanshan, temporarily left the bicycle at Jiang Qinqin's eldest sister's house, took a tricycle to Shuibu Town, and then took a bus to Wucheng to find Jiang Bai and Grandpa Jiang.
In fact, he was at a loss as to whether he could find Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Bai.
He planned to go to No. 1 Middle School to inquire first. If he couldn't find the answer there, he would then go to the county hospital to inquire.
All along, he had never worried about Grandpa Jiang, Jiang Bai, and Jiang Ning, believing that they could take care of their own lives and they did not need to worry about them, because this had always been the case with them.
Grandpa Jiang has been the pillar of the family since he was a teenager. Later, he started to get a salary and was always alone. This has created a psychological illusion in them that Grandpa Jiang can take care of himself. Jiang Bai is already 19 years old, how can he not take care of himself? Jiang Ning studies at No. 1 Middle School, where he eats and lives. There is ready-made food in the granary at home. What is there to worry about? Would you starve to death?
Sometimes, he would think about Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai in the context of his own era. Therefore, when he was working outside, apart from worrying about Jiang Song getting into fights and getting into trouble, he never worried about Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai.
In his subconscious, they were not someone he needed to worry about.
The reason I came to see them this time was because I was worried that something might have happened to the old man.
He took a tricycle and got off at the gate of No. 1 Middle School.
The gate of No. 1 Middle School was closed, and the guard room was also closed, but when he got off the car, he saw a bright red banner hanging on the big iron gate of No. 1 Middle School: [Congratulations to our student Jiang Ning for winning the gold medal in the CMO national competition and being admitted to Peking University in advance]
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