Chapter 171
When Jiang's father and mother came in, Jiang Miao was still staring at the TV and watching "The Return of the Condor Heroes".
This is a drama that was filmed last year. It was not released in mainland China until the winter vacation this year. Once it was released, the ratings soared.
Last night everyone went to watch the Spring Festival Gala and didn't watch The Return of the Condor Heroes. This morning, she tuned into the Z Province TV station to watch The Return of the Condor Heroes.
The TV in the old store at the entrance of the village is a rare 25-inch color TV in the village. It can receive more channels than other houses. The old men, women and children in the village love to come to the high platform of the old store at the entrance of the village to brag and chat, and also because the old store at the entrance of the village has a color TV that can show many TV stations.
As soon as Jiang's father and mother entered the door, Jiang Miao turned around and greeted them. In fact, she was not familiar with the people in her hometown at all. Except for her brother, she didn't know anyone.
When she was still young and could not remember, her father took the whole family except her grandparents to move to the town to work hard. Later, they went to the city, and their family has always settled in the city. Even if they came back for two days during the Chinese New Year, it was only two days and then they would go back.
His parents wanted to bring his grandparents to live in the city, but the old couple were unwilling to do so, saying that they were used to living in their hometown and couldn't get used to living in the city. Anyway, in the village, the neighbors on both sides could take care of them.
When her father comes back this time, he also wants to install a telephone in his hometown, so that if his grandparents have any problems in the future, they can call conveniently without having to run to the brigade headquarters.
After saying hello, she went back to watching TV.
Although Jiang Ma disliked Jiang Ning from head to toe, she was reflexively warm and flattering to Jiang Miao. She smiled kindly and asked her softly, "Where are your parents?"
Jiang Miao took the time to answer Jiang Ma: "My parents are in the kitchen."
Jiang Guotai's house was built early, probably the earliest one in the village. The style of the house is also very old, with three rooms downstairs and two rooms upstairs. The main room is used as a convenience store, with a glass and wooden cabinet to separate a place for selling things and collecting money. Inside is a tall shelf full of goods. To the left of the glass table is a cement table with many transparent glass jars filled with all kinds of candies, some at one cent, some at two at one cent, and all kinds of snacks that children like.
Further inside, near the coffee table, there was a black and gray square table with a color TV on it. Jiang Miao was sitting in the fire barrel. There was a small door behind the TV. Through the small door, he went to the back yard and found the kitchen.
Both Jiang's father and mother went to the kitchen.
When Jiang's father saw that it was Jiang Guotai who was cooking, he was very surprised and asked, "Why are you cooking?"
Jiang Guotai and Jiang's father grew up together and knew each other very well. He skillfully cooked and said with a smile, "I'm not worse than you in cooking, am I? It's just that I've been too busy these years and don't have time to cook. Today, you and Fourth Brother are here, so I'll show you my cooking skills!"
The dishes Jiang Guotai cooks now are very different from those when he was a child. Like his father, he stopped studying after graduating from high school without being admitted to university. He grew up in the village before high school. Even though he could cook, he could not escape the limits of his vision. The dishes he cooked were all ordinary home cooking. Now he has seen the world in the city and has eaten countless restaurants and dishes of all kinds. The dishes he cooks now are just like the dishes he had eaten in the city, with good color, aroma and taste, and very presentable.
Jiang Ma also held it in her hands and said to Shen Hongyun, "Guotai cooks this dish better than either of us!"
Shen Hongyun has a high emotional intelligence. She always praises Jiang Guotai in front of outsiders and gives him enough face. She said, "Isn't it true? Guotai has always cooked better than me, but I have been too busy in recent years and have no time to cook. Today, I am also blessed by you."
While serving the dishes, Jiang Guotai said to Jiang Ma: "Forget it, I'm not as good as Guoping, but your cooking skills..."
Jiang Guotai clicked his tongue and shook his head, and everyone in the kitchen burst into laughter.
Jiang Guotai saw that the couple came to the kitchen to help, and he didn't say no to them. He asked them, "Where are Ningning and Baizi?"
Father Jiang was helping to process the loaches and said with a smile, "I saw her grandfather. I think she was talking to him."
After hearing this, Jiang Guotai was even more impressed that Jiang's father had given birth to a good daughter who was not only smart but also filial.
He looked at Jiang's father in amazement and said, "Your daughter may have a bright future. Has she decided what she will do in the future?"
Jiang Guotai hopes that Jiang Ning will take the civil service exam. In their generation, in the entire Jiangjia Village, the only person who can be considered outstanding is Town Mayor Jiang. He is over 40 years old and still a town mayor. It is not known whether he can be promoted to the county. Even if he goes to the county, he is too old. How many years can he still work?
He is the only one who is engaged in business and making money.
Back then, there was Jiang Dad who was making progress at the same pace as him, but unfortunately a chicken plague caused Jiang Dad to fall into devastation.
He had just started his career at that time and did not have any extra money to support Jiang's father. It was only after he contracted the construction of the expressway that he really began to develop in the neighboring city. It would still take him more than ten years to become the richest man in the neighboring city.
He now wants to train the next generation of successors, whether it is his own Daxin, Jinbao, or Jiang Shengzhi, Jiang Ning, and Jiang Bai.
But after looking around, he found that Jiang Shengzhi's father, who is now the brigade secretary, is not the same kind of person as him. In terms of closeness and trust, he is more familiar with and trusts Jiang Guoping and Mayor Jiang. Originally, he thought that if Jiang Song was trained well, he would be a good person, but he didn't expect that he ran away and never came back without even being admitted to university. Yanyan from Mayor Jiang's family is also not very good. He heard from his fourth brother that he wanted Jiang Yanyan to enter a normal school and become a teacher.
There are also Jiang Shengzhi and Jiang Hehua from the brigade secretary's family. In fact, Jiang Guotai had been optimistic about these two before and they might be the best of this generation. But when Jiang Hehua's incident happened, Jiang Guotai directly excluded Jiang Hehua. This person's future ceiling is not high.
A person who harms her cousin sister who grew up with her without any grudge against her, and uses such despicable means. Even if she really gets into college and becomes a college student, it will probably only give her a chance to get married. Her mentality and character are destined to make her life like that.
The other children in the village are still young. Except for the little girl from the second house who is two or three years younger than Jiang Ning and the two sons of the electrician from the first house, who seem to be doing well, the others who only know how to gamble and waste their days or work as assembly line workers in factories, none of them have anything impressive to show for themselves.
They thought that only Daxin and his daughter-in-law were left in this generation, but they didn't expect that a pair of children from Jiang Guoping's family would suddenly appear and surprise these old guys.
Especially his youngest daughter Jiang Ning. What she said last night about local governance, boosting the local economy, and local construction was something a teenage girl could not think of. Moreover, she has thought about the difficulties and solutions in every link. These are not empty words without any basis, but are actually feasible.
Not to mention, she also mentioned river sand.
It's really not his fault that he was so blind to the truth. He didn't expect there would be such a big market for river sand. Their ancestors had grown up here for generations. When every household needed sand, they would pick it up by themselves, and it was always free. Their established thinking and vision limited them, and they had this treasure mountain but didn't know it was a treasure mountain. They never thought about taking advantage of this huge profit.
But she is just a little girl, but she can talk about wealth like a ton of money.
How could a normal child who has never seen the world understand these things?
If he hadn't been working outside for these years and hadn't taken on projects related to this, how would he have known that there was such a large unowned treasure hidden in their place?
This was also the case when Jiang Ning only mentioned the word "river sand", and he immediately understood what she wanted to express. He interrupted her and said that he wanted to discuss this with her in private today. At that time, they were not the only ones surrounding them, but also some cadres from the brigade headquarters.
They were just cadres of the brigade, who had been in the Linhe Brigade all year round and had only been to the town at most. Their experience was always limited. Even though Jiang Ning's words at that time were considered a famous brand in Jiang Guotai's ears and were clearly stated, those people still didn't understand and didn't know what Jiang Ning meant.
Jiang Guotai did not go out immediately to talk with Jiang Ning in detail. He was still waiting for his son Jiang Xin to come back, if he could come back at noon.
The leaders of this generation should be Jiang Xin, Jiang Ning, and Jiang Bai. Jiang Guotai naturally wanted his son to come and listen, so that he could get to know Jiang Ning and his siblings and get closer to them.
Just like Mayor Jiang subconsciously brought his daughter back to be close to Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai during the Chinese New Year this year, it is hard to say what Jiang Bai's future will be. Jiang Ning is a graduate of a Beijing university, and no matter which industry she chooses to develop in, her future bottom line is doomed, and she will not be bad.
Jiang Guotai brags about Jiang's father's two children, and Jiang's father also brags about Jiang Guotai's two children, especially Jiang Xin. In fact, he is not very familiar with Jiang Xin. Jiang Xin went to school in the village when he was young, and later went to school in the town. All the information he knows about him came from his grandfather Lao Zhonghua, saying how good his grandson's grades are, what first place he got in the exam, what awards he won, what competitions he participated in, and so on.
Since childhood, he has given people the impression that he is very outstanding and different from other children of the same age in the village.
They chatted for a while, and then Mayor Jiang came over with his wife and Jiang Yanyan.
Mayor Jiang saw that Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai were not in the house, but were sitting next to Grandpa Jiang, chatting with Grandpa Jiang and the elderly people in the village. So he asked Jiang Yanyan to go over and chat with them, and they ran to the kitchen to find Jiang Guotai and Jiang Guoping.
There was no room for so many people to stay in the kitchen, so Jiang Guotai simply asked Jiang Ma and Shen Hongyun to go out, and the three grown men cooked.
They all ignored the brigade secretary and did not invite him and his two children.
Jiang Ma was used to doing the housework, so she was not used to not doing it and going out to rest. Shen Hongyun was very calm, pulling Jiang Ma and said with a smile: "Isn't it good to have someone to do the work? Let's go out and watch TV and chat. We haven't been back much in recent years, and we have fewer opportunities to meet each other. It's been many years since we had a good chat together!"
Ever since the chicken farm went bankrupt, Jiang Ma has always been inferior to Shen Hongyun, feeling guilty and short of breath as if she couldn't even lift her back up. At this moment, being pulled by Shen Hongyun, she was also very passive. Shen Hongyun just smiled at her politely, and she felt flattered as if she was being respected. When getting along with Shen Hongyun, she always put herself in a subordinate position.
The two of them did not come to the main room, but went to the bedroom on the left with Mayor Jiang's wife. There was a sofa and a fire basket in the bedroom, so the three sisters could chat while roasting fire and eating melon seeds.
It was basically Shen Hongyun and Mayor Jiang's wife who were chatting, and Jiang's mother had basically no chance to join in the conversation. It wasn't that they didn't want to bring Jiang's mother along, but Jiang's mother was illiterate. Over the years, she either worked on construction sites or sold lunch boxes at the train station, earning her money in the most difficult way possible. And Shen Hongyun followed Jiang Guotai, and the people she met and interacted with were all the wives of wealthy people from neighboring cities, or the wives of officials, and the same was true for Mayor Jiang's wife.
Mayor Jiang's wife opened a tailor shop in the town closest to the county seat, making custom clothes for people. Although various factories are now offering ready-made goods to the market, many elderly people in their area and people of Jiang's mother's generation do not like to buy ready-made clothes. Instead, they buy cloth and have others make them. The price is higher than ready-made clothes, but they just feel that the clothes made from the cloth they buy are of better quality and made of the most solid materials.
Jiang Ma listened to them talking about socializing with the family of this official and the gossip about that family, but she couldn't get a word in. Every time Shen Hongyun threw the topic to Jiang Ma, Jiang Ma couldn't pick up the topic and didn't know what to say. She just listened in silence.
Shen Hongyun and the mayor's wife praised Jiang Ma for giving birth to a pair of promising children. Even at this point, Jiang Ma still didn't know what to talk about. Instead, she said with real emotion: "Their eldest brother has better grades, but he didn't choose the right major. He chose a high-end one, and they didn't want him to come back to repeat the year, alas."
Shen Hongyun: ...
Mayor’s Wife: …
Shen Hongyun said, "You have three children, two of whom are college students. Who is as lucky as you?"
The mayor's wife also said, "That's right, if my Yanyan's grades could be half as good as Ningning's, I would wake up laughing in my dreams!"
This is truly what they really think.
Jiang Miao saw Jiang Bai's girlfriend on TV again. She wanted to call someone to come and see. On the left, she saw the door was closed. On the right, she saw three grown men cooking and chatting in the kitchen, talking intently and forgetting themselves. Then she looked outside on the high platform and saw old ladies gathered together playing mahjong and basking in the sun, and old men gathered together bragging and gossiping. Her brother was not there, so she couldn't find anyone to share her feelings with.
She wanted to call Jiang Ning and the others, but she was not familiar with Jiang Ning and was a little embarrassed. Her eyes fell on Jiang Yanyan, who was leaning against her grandmother, watching her grandmother and several old ladies in the village playing mahjong with foot warmers under their feet.
Jiang Miao, who had no friends when he returned to the village, thought for a while and continued to watch "The Return of the Condor Heroes" on the Z Province TV station.
Around 11 o'clock in the morning, Jiang Xin finally brought his girlfriend back to the village. He chartered a car from Shijian Township. Because of the thick snow, the road was a little slippery but not as bumpy as usual.
The first house her girlfriend saw when she got off the car was a large house covered with small red wall tiles. It looked absolutely luxurious in the countryside at that time. She thought it was her boyfriend's house, but Jiang Xin said, "No, this is my cousin's house. He and my dad were childhood friends. The older brother got into Shanghai Polytechnic and the younger sister got into Beijing University."
His partner immediately let out a "Wow!" ' exclaimed.
Even in the neighboring cities, people have heard of Jiang Ning's name. The Education Bureau of Wujiang City has promoted it, although it cannot reach the neighboring cities. But who can blame the proximity of the two places? Wucheng and the neighboring city are adjacent to each other in many areas, and Shuibu Town is very close to the neighboring city. Many people go to school and settle down in the neighboring city, so they have all heard of it.
This is also the reason why her father is willing to let her come to Jiang Xin's hometown to visit even though she and Jiang Xin are just dating and not engaged yet. He also thinks that Jiang Guotai's village, even though they are all rural people, still has potential.
She and Jiang Xin held hands and walked towards the platform of the old shop at the entrance of the village.
Before he even walked up, he heard Jiang Xin raise his bright smile and start to greet the elderly people on the platform one by one. When everyone saw that Jiang Xin actually came back holding a girl's hand, they all stopped chatting and went to see Lao Zhonghua's granddaughter-in-law.
Although Jiang Xin's girlfriend looked a little shy, she still followed Jiang Xin confidently and called him Grandpa: "Hello, Grandpa!"
With Jiang Xin's introduction, she called every elderly person "Hello, Grandpa", "Hello, Second Grandpa", and "Hello, Young Uncle" in succession, with a sweet and obedient smile, which made everyone have a very favorable impression of Lao Zhonghua's granddaughter-in-law.
It's just that this girl looks so sweet. Not the kind of cute and mindless sweetness, but the kind of sweetness that makes people feel very comfortable and you can tell at a glance that this girl is very generous and comfortable.
She has an apple face and short shoulder-length hair. Perhaps because her hair is too black and thick, there are many flying stubbles on the top of her head. Her eyebrows are black and thick. Although her eyelashes are not long, they are black and thick, as if they have their own eyeliner. The first thing you see is her eyes. Her eyes are black with many pupils, with clear black and white. The corners of her eyes are slightly hooked inward. She has a high nose bridge, a small mouth, and shallow dimples when she smiles.
After seeing such a well-behaved, sensible and graceful granddaughter-in-law, the old people on the platform all looked at Lao Zhonghua with envy. Now it was Lao Zhonghua's turn to be proud.
Lao Zhonghua stood up and wanted to greet his granddaughter-in-law, but she quickly stopped him and said, "Grandpa, please sit down. I'll just sit here and listen to you guys. I often chat with my grandparents at home. I feel so close to you guys!"
Jiang Xin was very considerate and brought a long bench for his partner.
Old Zhonghua also smiled until his eyes narrowed. He said to his grandson Jiang Xin, "Daxin, it's cold outside. You young people should go inside and chat. There is a fire bucket inside. Go in and warm up." He also said to Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai, "Don't chat with us old men. What is there to chat about with us old men? You young people should go play together." He also shouted into the house, "Jinbao! Your sister-in-law is here!"
Jiang Miao, who was watching The Condor Heroes, immediately stood up, came out of the fire barrel, ran to the door, and enthusiastically took his future sister-in-law's arm, "Sister Xixi is here, hurry up, come to the fire barrel!"
The elders of both families are very familiar with each other and have tacitly acknowledged the relationship between the two families. If nothing unexpected happens, Wang Xiyue is Jiang Miao's sister-in-law for sure. The relationship between the two is also very good and they often go out shopping and playing together. Their whole family pampers Wang Xiyue, not only because Wang Xiyue's family is well-off, but also because their whole family likes Wang Xiyue very much and really wants Wang Xiyue to be their daughter-in-law and sister-in-law.
If Jiang Guotai had not acted quickly and found ways to create opportunities for his son and decisively let him get into the same university as his daughter-in-law, such a good girl would have been snatched up by many people after she entered the university.
Jiang Xin and Wang Xiyue are destined to be together. Wang Xiyue really accepted Jiang Xin's pursuit, and their relationship is still very good not only now, but also twenty or thirty years later.
Jiang Guotai and Jiang Xin, two real-life bosses, are just ordinary men in front of their wives.
Jiang Ning stood up and waved to Jiang Yanyan. Jiang Yanyan quickly stood up and took Jiang Ning's arm. Together with Jiang Ning, they smiled and greeted Wang Xiyue and introduced themselves. Wang Xiyue also looked at the legendary college student from Jiangjia Village in surprise and introduced herself in a very friendly manner: "My name is Wang Xiyue, Xi means morning light, Yue means joy."
Jiang Ning walked between her and Jiang Yanyan and said with a smile: "I guess you were born in the morning."
Wang Xiyue's eyes lit up, "Really?"
Jiang Ning smiled and nodded: "What a coincidence, I was also born at dawn."
Jiang Yanyan also smiled and said, "Ningning and I were born on the same day of the same month of the same year, with only a few hours difference. I was born in the evening and she was born in the morning."
Several people were interested in making friends, and soon they started chatting happily.
With his sister-in-law and brother around, Jiang Miao was finally no longer embarrassed. He cut fruits, took snacks, put them in a fruit plate and placed it on the square table.
Jiang Bai admired his sister's communication skills very much. She always easily got along with the people she wanted to meet, as if she had endless topics to talk about. No matter what others said, she could always catch up, and usually she would lead others in speaking while she listened with a smile.
He didn't want to get together with them at all. It was better to stay close to Grandpa Jiang and listen to the old men bragging than to chat with them.
Wang Xiyue was quite curious about Jiang Bai. She just glanced at Jiang Bai and then controlled her gaze, trying not to glance directly at his face, but to use her peripheral vision.
On the way, she heard Jiang Xin talk about the brother and sister. The sister was a gold medalist in the IMO International Olympiad and a top student at Peking University. The brother was not only a college student in Shanghai, but also made movies. He played the role in the currently popular "White Snake".
She has not seen this movie since it was released, and she is waiting for Jiang Xin to come over so she can go see it with him.
Unexpectedly, just as she sat down, an episode of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" had just finished being broadcast on TV. After watching two ggs, a shampoo gg came out.
Jiang Miao, who had been holding back for the whole morning, finally had a chance to speak to everyone. He pointed at the TV and asked them to watch: "Look, look quickly, is this guy on TV a young man?"
Several girls were watching on TV. When washing their hair, they tilted their heads back and shook their hair. The perfect arc of the water line wet the boy's white shirt on TV, revealing his pectoral muscles and eight-pack abs under his shirt. Jiang Yanyan almost screamed like a groundhog. She couldn't control her voice at all and shouted, "Is this Jiang Bai?"
The dishes in the kitchen were almost cooked. Mayor Jiang took a plate of dishes and walked from the backyard to the back door. He just happened to hear his daughter's exclamation and asked with a smile, "What Jiang Bai?"
Jiang Yanyan was so excited that she pointed at the end of GG on TV and shouted, "Dad, look at Jiang Bai on TV! He's so handsome!"
Mayor Jiang leaned over to look at the TV. Jiang Guotai and Jiang Guoping just happened to come out after hearing the shouting from the main room. They heard Jiang Bai, who was wearing a white shirt with a slightly wet front, holding a bottle of shampoo in his hand and saying, "For shampoo, choose Xie Fuqiu horse oil shampoo. It will make your hair smooth and silky, and the fragrance will last long and be elegant!"
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