Chapter 152
Jiang Ning's apartment is a pre-sale apartment in the second phase, which will be delivered this year. After the delivery, it was renovated by Manager Qian. It was not renovated into the previous luxurious duplex, but into a two-story hotel-style apartment for rent.
As this apartment was bought before the common area policy came into effect, its actual floor area is 300 square meters, divided into two floors. Excluding corridors and stairs, the actual floor area is close to 570 square meters, not including two 25 square meter balconies and two 15 square meter terraces.
The room is divided into two rooms of different sizes facing south and north by a long corridor. The south-facing room has an indoor area of about 35 square meters and comes with a toilet and bathroom with separate dry and wet areas.
The north-facing room is approximately 25 square meters and also has a separate toilet and small bathroom, as well as a storage cabinet covering an entire wall.
The balcony is divided into two rooms. One room is about ten square meters and has a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. It can be used as a study or as a place to dry clothes. In order to have good lighting, the wall facing the sun is made of soundproof glass.
As a rental property, this room is impeccable. The only downside is that the apartment does not have natural gas, so there is no kitchen to cook.
Because this area will serve as the future commercial center, it will basically be occupied by white-collar workers in the future.
After making money and renovating Jiang Ning's apartment, Manager Qian decisively took out a loan and bought an apartment of similar layout. He planned to renovate it into a hotel-style apartment similar to Jiang Ning's and rent it out in the future.
The Shanghai stock market is developing at a rapid pace. Even though only two years have passed, the eastern part of Hudong is now completely different from the desolate scene two years ago when no chickens laid eggs and no birds shit.
There was no TV in the house that Jiang's father and his family rented, so they didn't see the rebroadcast the next day. However, they saw Jiang Ning's photo and a report about her in the newspaper.
Even though the newspaper photos of that era were blurry and the photo of six people was of low resolution, he still recognized that it was his daughter Jiang Ning.
Dad Jiang bought a lot of newspapers, then rolled them into rolls, carefully wrapped them with other old newspapers, and hid them in his box like a treasure.
Seeing Jiang's mother looking at him in confusion, Jiang's father said angrily, "What do you know? These are all honors for our family. It's not convenient for me to stay here now. When I go back to my hometown during the Chinese New Year, I will ask a carpenter to make a picture frame for me. I will go to the town to cut a piece of glass, frame it, and hang it on the wall of the main hall. In the future, everyone who comes to my house will be able to see that my daughter won the gold medal in the IMO competition."
Whenever he thought of others coming to his house, standing in front of the picture frame, and looking at the photo of his daughter holding the gold medal and the newspaper reports, he felt happy and relaxed.
Jiang Ma rolled her eyes at him and sneered, "What a bad character!"
This is what Jiang's father sometimes regrets. Jiang's mother is good in everything: hardworking, capable, simple, fit and good-looking. The only thing is that she is illiterate. Jiang's mother cannot understand or resonate with many of his spiritual things, and she even discourages him because of her incomprehension.
Dad Jiang can only be lonely and happy holding these things by himself.
At times like this, he felt that he could only show off to his fourth brother who was the mayor of the town, or talk to his childhood friend who now contracted the construction of a highway in the neighboring city about his little daughter.
I believe that he, his fourth brother and childhood friends must have deeply resonated with this.
Thinking of this, he called Jiang Bai again, but the phone rang for a long time and no one answered.
Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang are currently working as summer interns in the crew of the big director. Because Jiang Bai is the younger brother of the original author of "White Snake Cultivation", although the big director did not invite Ning Meng to audition for the female lead, he still took good care of Jiang Bai.
It was really that Jiang Bai's appearance was too outstanding. Not only was he outstanding in appearance, but this young man also possessed various good qualities such as humility and politeness. Originally, he had very few roles, but the director and screenwriter couldn't help but want to give him more scenes. After he finished filming "White Snake", he was recommended to play the young Yongzheng in a Qing palace drama starring another friend of his.
The young Yongzheng only appeared in a few episodes, and the rest were all scenes of the adult Yongzheng. Jiang Bai finished filming in just a few days. Tong Jingang played a pioneer with only one line, and after that he had nothing to do but play supporting roles in various crews.
There were people who wanted to sign him, but for Jiang Bo, coming here to film was just a summer job. He had no interest in filming, he was only interested in making money. If it weren't for the big director saying that there was money to be made by coming to film his movies, the students would go home during the summer vacation and the shops in front of the school would have no business. Later, since he came here, he would just join the crews, earn money, and go back after the summer vacation.
Tong Jingang, on the other hand, was quite interested in filming. He was a performative personality with strong communication skills, so he quickly became familiar with the people here and played the roles of soldiers, generals, fleshy cannon fodder villains, thugs, etc. in the crowd, and he acted very enthusiastically.
Jiang Bai didn't understand his passion for acting. If it wasn't for making money, he would have gone back long ago.
It is summer now, and many costumes are not washed at all. After being marinated with various sweat smells, the smell makes Jiang Bai want to vomit. After filming, he just wants to take off his clothes immediately and go back to the house they rented to take a shower. Sometimes he still needs to wear winter costumes in the summer, and he is covered in sweat. Because the costumes are too dirty, Jiang Bai also has allergic symptoms on his neck.
Fortunately, Jiang Bai is a very hard-working person. He endured it all for the sake of money. Now he just wants to earn money quickly and return to his quiet classroom where he only needs to deal with various machines.
There is a teacher in their department, who is an old engineer who retired from a large factory. He has many apprentices and is of a very high level. He was specially hired by their school to be a teacher. The old engineer likes Jiang Bai very much and thinks that he can calm down, do things steadily, and is very focused. In addition, Jiang Bai had high scores in the college entrance examination and was almost among the top few in their school. Others with such scores went to other double-first-class universities in Shanghai, but because of the current volunteer system, he came to their school and was treated as a closed disciple by this old engineer.
Jiang Bo has already made plans for his future work. If he wants to do something, he will stick to it without looking back, hesitation or change. So how could he sign with a company to be an artist and film a movie just because of a summer job?
He was unwilling, but Tong Jingang was very willing.
Tong Jingang never knew what he would do in the future. Although he liked playing basketball and had been admitted to a sports school, he was only about 1.8 meters tall. He was okay for amateur basketball, but his height was not enough for a professional team. Moreover, his talent for basketball was not even as good as Jiang Bai's. Although Jiang Bai's physical fitness was not good in confrontation, he had strong endurance. Not only could he play the whole court, but he was also accurate in three-pointers. When he was in No. 1 Middle School, he was the best shooter of their basketball team and the key defensive target of other school teams. Otherwise, as long as Jiang Bai got the ball, he would make a three-pointer because he was tall and shot decisively.
When it comes to other things, Tong Jingang is better than others, but not top-notch in terms of talent. He has always thought that he would become a physical education teacher after graduating from university.
In fact, he is a very easy-going person. He thinks that being a physical education teacher is not bad. It has a fixed salary and long vacations. He can play ball and drink with his friends every day and live a very comfortable life.
But this summer, because he followed Jiang Bai, he got a cannon fodder role in a big director's movie and got in touch with acting.
Although he only appears in a short role and is a complete villain compared to Jiang Bai's role, Tong Jingang plays the role very enjoyably. He plays the role of the wild and muscular little monk who follows Fahai's will and does not think about what is right or wrong. He always believes that what the master says is right.
The characters he and Jiang Bai play are brothers who grew up together. In the end, when Jiang Bai's character blocked a fatal blow for the White Snake, there was a moment of confusion on Tong Jingang's face. It didn't seem like acting at all and it was done in one take.
If they hadn't acted so well, the big director wouldn't have recommended them to a friend's crew after they finished filming their scenes.
After the summer vacation, Jiang Bai took the little money he earned and happily returned to Shanghai, ending his summer job journey.
Tong Jingang felt a little regretful and could only wait until the winter vacation to come back.
During one summer vacation, he asked for many people's phone numbers, including directors, screenwriters, stage managers, extras, extras leaders, and so on.
It wasn't until school was about to start and Jiang Bai returned to school that Jiang's father called again and the call went through.
Jiang's father was anxious: "Call me and tell me where you are going. Leave me your number, please? I call you every day, but no one answers here. Why is no one answering this call?"
Jiang Bai's expression was still indifferent. He said, "This is the number for the canteen downstairs in the dormitory. There's no one in the dormitory during the summer vacation, and there's no one in the canteen either."
Dad Jiang actually knew this, but he was anxious because he couldn't contact any of his three children.
He asked Jiang Bai: "Do you know your sister's current contact information? I called the brigade headquarters to ask, but your sister didn't return home, and she didn't call me. I couldn't find her even when I tried to find her."
Jiang Bai asked something that made Jiang's father speechless: "What do you want to see her for?"
Their current situation is actually very similar to the situation they had as brother and sister in their previous life, that is, they live their own lives, basically don't contact each other unless necessary, and can only make a few phone calls throughout the year.
Regardless of past life or this life, Jiang's father has always been the glue that binds the brothers and sisters together. He has always been the one who takes the initiative to contact his children and maintain the family affection in this relationship.
Jiang Bai was not mocking Jiang's father, he was genuinely confused.
Because they have been brought up in such a laissez-faire manner since childhood, they have become accustomed to solving everything on their own, making all decisions on their own, and being alone. Now that Dad Jiang always calls them, he feels confused and uncomfortable.
Father Jiang said, "Shouldn't I transfer the tuition fees to you and your sister for the new semester?"
Jiang Bai, who earned more than 4,000 yuan in one summer vacation, completely forgot about the tuition fee and said, "Don't you have Ningning's bank account? Why don't you just transfer the money to her?"
Father Jiang felt that it was really difficult for him to communicate with his youngest son, and asked, "Did your sister call you during the summer vacation?"
Jiang Bai, who was obsessed with making money and never thought about his sister, said: "No."
"Have you called your sister?"
Jiang Bai blinked: "No."
It is very tiring to be a supporting actor in a movie in the summer. The first thing he does after filming every day is to take off his clothes quickly, take a shower, change clothes and eat. After eating, he has to read a book and sleep. Except for calling Grandpa Jiang when he is free to check on his grandfather's condition, he has never thought of calling his sister, and Jiang Ning has never thought of calling Jiang Bai. The brother and sister both call Grandpa Jiang unilaterally.
Neither the brother nor the sister realized there was anything wrong with this.
In their perception, this way of getting along is normal.
Father Jiang was speechless after hearing his matter-of-fact words, and asked him for Jiang Ning's phone number. Jiang Bai didn't know either. His sister hadn't settled down in Beijing yet, so where did she get a fixed phone number? Only after my sister settled down and called me did I know how to contact her landline.
Dad Jiang had no choice but to hang up the phone disappointedly, and then went to transfer money to Jiang Ning’s bank card.
In addition to boxed lunches this year, he has also added more braised dishes, including duck heads, duck intestines, and duck gizzards, which require more washing. Jiang Ma is a clean and particular person. Many restaurants and braised food shops just rinse these ingredients with water, but Jiang Ma cleans them one by one, even every duck feather.
With more work to do, I have less time to cut meat from chicken and duck legs. Fortunately, I earn more money this year than last year.
In order to take care of each other, Jiang Ning and Song Peifeng rented an upstairs house, one on the second floor and the other on the third floor. Both of them needed computers, so they went to Zhongguancun to buy computers. The houses all had telephone lines, so there was no need to pull additional telephone lines. They only needed to activate an Internet cable and then plug the telephone line directly into the computer for use, which cost about two yuan per hour.
It took them two days to pack up the houses they rented.
Jiang Ning's daily routine is still very regular. He gets up at five in the morning, brushes his teeth and washes his face. He goes for a run at half past five. After running ten kilometers, he goes to have breakfast, then returns to his room to type. After coding for two hours, he goes out to buy groceries and make lunch.
When he was on duty, Song Peifeng wanted to eat at her place. It happened that Jiang Ning didn't have a dishwasher. Maybe it was because of Jiang Song's words "Shouldn't girls wash dishes and do housework" when she was a child, Jiang Ning really didn't like washing dishes and doing housework from the bottom of her heart. She wouldn't do anything manually that could be done by machines at home. Except for her study, she would hire a part-time cleaner once a week.
Now that Song Peifeng has come to eat and share the meal, all the subsequent kitchen work has been handed over to Song Peifeng.
Song Peifeng is a person who does things very meticulously and regularly, and this is also reflected in the follow-up work he does for the kitchen. He does not mind these trivialities at all. Even when he is dealing with these aftermath tasks, sometimes through the dim light of the kitchen, he sees the backs of people sitting in front of the computer working attentively, and he actually has an indescribable feeling of peace and tranquility.
In the same space, she can do her things, and he can quietly read his books and study his lessons. Occasionally, when they encounter problems that they can discuss with each other, he will answer them. If she has questions, he will also answer them patiently. If he cannot answer them at the moment, he will go back to the library to look up information.
She seems to have no temper. She is always patient and smiling when facing anyone or anything. Her pair of clear eyes always look at you with a smile and sincerity. She speaks at a moderate speed, giving people a comfortable feeling.
Sometimes, he felt as if she had isolated herself from the world, creating a world of her own, gentle yet distant.
Of course he would not stay here to read. After he finished all this, he greeted her and said, "I'm going downstairs. If you have anything, just stand on the balcony and shout. I'll hear you." After she turned around and smiled at him and nodded, he gently closed the door, walked briskly downstairs, and read and studied on her balcony downstairs.
Jiang Ning found a Sanda class nearby, picked up the Sanda and boxing that she had practiced for many years in her previous life, and did strength training.
The coach thought she was a novice, but he didn't expect her to get the hang of it so quickly.
In the afternoon, she would usually go to the library of Tsinghua University or Peking University with Song Peifeng to read. After reading, she would go directly to the Sanda class to practice Sanda or boxing. After sweating a lot, she would casually tie her hair up into a small bun or a short ponytail, return to the rental house, take a shower, and then cook dinner.
In late August, the capital city was as hot as an oven. The old house they rented had no air conditioning, only fans. During cooking time, the kitchen was very hot. At this time, Song Peifeng would not leave. Jiang Ning was cooking there, and he would either be processing the ingredients or helping her fan the kitchen.
Sometimes Jiang Ning dislikes the heat and doesn’t like to cook much, so she just makes something simple, like two bowls of cold noodles, cold shredded chicken, or sushi. She can always make very simple ingredients delicious.
Sometimes when she came across flowers on the roadside, she would buy a bouquet of flowers and put them in a vase, or place them on the small round table in the dim living room, or on the TV cabinet in the bright bedroom.
Song Peifeng saw that sometimes Jiang Ning didn't need to buy any flowers. When he saw one, he would bring a bouquet of flowers, usually sunflowers or lilies. They were not given to her specifically, but just to be used as a vase.
For such a bright and clear-minded boy who was willing to take the initiative to walk into her life, she was like a cheetah hiding in the dark, observing him carefully and from all angles, watching him approach little by little, slowly disguising himself as a harmless kitten, and restraining her side as a hunter.
She lived alone for too long in her previous life. There were many things she couldn't tell others, whether it was about work or emotions. She had to digest all kinds of emotions by herself, whether it was about work, marriage, family, happy or sad. She was used to digesting all of these by herself.
In the first ten years, perhaps because she was young or because she was not talkative, she was completely unaware of her psychological changes. Until as time went on, she found that she could no longer digest all the good and bad emotions by herself.
She found that she needed someone to communicate with in order to release all the positive and negative emotions accumulated in her heart.
The specific manifestation is that a person who is used to being silent and not talkative in life suddenly wants to talk to others.
I want to tell someone, but I don’t know who to tell.
She has become accustomed to being decent, accustomed to not being disturbed, and accustomed to digesting things silently by herself.
The person who can speak cannot be your colleague or leader, nor can it be her parents or brothers, and even her friends, she cannot speak too much.
So she could only continue to control her emotions, keep them stable, keep her mouth shut and control herself.
Almost all of her emotions were expressed through words, and even in words, she was restrained.
Nowadays, such a person suddenly appears in your life and takes the initiative to walk into your world.
She was no longer the person who couldn't tell others about many things in her previous life, so she was eager to share the food she cooked with Song Peifeng, and proudly boasted to him: "There are only two of us, and we can't finish the food. In fact, I can cook a lot of big dishes."
Because she loves cooking, she wrote a novel about food in her previous life and sold the copyright to have it filmed into a TV series.
This kind of writing, which is done purely out of interest, makes her feel very happy mentally.
As she said this, she looked like she had walked out of a perfect painting. Her face was full of pride in her talent in food, which was completely in line with the liveliness of her current age.
Song Peifeng sat opposite her, eating the cold noodles she had just made, adding some cucumber shreds to himself, and looked at her with a smile: "Then when do you want to make it? I'll go prepare the ingredients."
When he said that, Jiang Ning would be very happy. That kind of happiness was different from her usual polite smile. It was a joy that came from the heart. Only occasionally, when her eyes moved, she vaguely revealed a bit of the aggression of a predator, but it was hidden very well.
Like Grandpa Jiang, she is a person who likes noise and excitement and is afraid of loneliness and solitude.
In Jiang Ning's ideal, the best life is to have a bunch of friends gathered at home, eating, drinking and having fun. After eating, they sit together on the sofa or on the carpet in any posture, eating some fruit, drinking some wine, chatting, talking about gossip or their daily lives. In short, the scene must be lively.
Even if she just watched everyone having fun and didn't participate, she would feel very good.
But most of the time, she lives with loneliness and enjoys loneliness.
When she entered into marriage in her previous life, she had imagined such a life, but the reality was that her originally lonely life was covered with a layer of cold snow.
Song Peifeng didn't know whether he noticed that she was not opposed to his approach, and even readily agreed. Sometimes in the afternoon after the two of them came out of the library, he would ask her to go for a walk on the campus playground together, and she would readily agree.
The two of them always have endless topics to talk about. No matter what he talks about, she knows it and has her own opinions, which are beyond her age.
If at the beginning he just admired and liked it, the more he understood it, in addition to admiration and liking, he also felt a kind of sincere admiration.
It feels like, this person is like a rainbow, you only know he exists when you meet him.
Only when he really met her did he realize that she really existed in this world.
Only Jiang Ning herself knew that she was despicable.
She was like a calm and sharp cheetah in the dark, who had already prepared the cage and was waiting for her prey to approach, little by little.
With the posture of prey.
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