Chapter 216
Jiang Ning obviously didn't say anything and didn't do anything, but after Grandpa Jiang finished speaking, he still felt a little embarrassed. The wrinkles on his face stretched to both sides, and a smile appeared on the corners of his lips. He sat on the recliner, covered with a thick recliner quilt, and rocked happily.
An old child, an old child, he is old but seems to be spoiled like a child. He did not receive any attention and love in his youth. All of them are like candies in his childhood. Someone brought a handful of colorful and sweet candies, traveled through time and space, and gave them to the little boy who was forgotten in the corner of his memory that seemed like it was from his previous life.
After Jiang Ning marked Grandpa Jiang's birthday on the calendar, he called Xu Xiuli and He Xiaofang.
He Xiaofang was stunned when the dormitory manager suddenly called her and told her that there was a call for her.
She wondered who could be calling her? Her family would definitely not call her. It costs only 60 cents a minute to make a call, which is too expensive, unless something happens at home.
But what could happen at home? My younger brother is just in primary school and my older sister is taking care of him at home.
Could it be my second sister? Is it because my second sister is getting married and won’t be able to pay for my tuition in the future? She had already prepared herself mentally for this and had submitted an application for a scholarship for poor students to the school. During the summer vacation and weekends, she had been working hard to earn money to prepare for the next semester's tuition and living expenses.
Lu Xuehua and Liu Ping are also studying at university in the provincial capital. They occasionally make appointments to work together on weekends!
Liu Ping always finds various jobs first, and then the three of them come out happily to distribute flyers, dress up as puppets and perform in the square, etc. However, these two people will not contact her until Friday night.
Is it Xu Xiuli? No, Xiu Li never called her. In private, she and Xiu Li couldn't talk to each other. They were basically in a state of silence. The only common topic between them was Jiang Ning.
During their senior year, the two occasionally talked about Jiang Ning, and Xu Xiuli always complained about Jiang Ning: "She flew away and never came back to see us."
He Xiaofang: "Oh, Beijing is so far away!" I miss her!
"I'm not calling her!"
He Xiaofang: "I want to call, but I have no money. Will calling disturb Ningning?" I miss her!
"I think she just made new friends and forgot about us!"
He Xiaofang: "...It would be great if I could also get into Beijing!" I still miss her!
She quickly ran downstairs and asked the aunt in the store: "Who called me?"
Without waiting for the aunt to answer, she picked up the phone: "Hello?"
"Xiaofang, it's me." A familiar voice came from the phone.
He Xiaofang was so excited that she stomped her feet and twisted her body, saying coquettishly, "Why did you call me just now? I thought you didn't receive my letter!"
When they parted during the summer vacation, Jiang Ning left them his phone number and the address of his rental house. Not long after school started, He Xiaofang wrote a letter to Jiang Ning, but the letter was sent to the rental house. Jiang Ning was not at the rental house, so the letter was delivered to the mailbox downstairs.
Jiang Ning didn't have the habit of checking the mailbox. It was only after a long time that she occasionally walked to the mailbox and saw that the mailbox in her room was stuffed with books, half inside and half outside. She took one out and saw that it was a sample issue of "Wuxia" magazine.
Ever since He Xiaofang and her classmates graduated from high school, sample issues of "Wuxia" magazine were no longer sent to Wucheng No. 1 Middle School. Instead, they were sent to her rental house in Beijing. Every time they were put into her mailbox, the mailbox was full and could not hold any more. The courier poked hard inside, so that half of the mail was inside and half was outside, which was what Jiang Ning saw by chance.
After she took out the "Martial Arts" magazine, she reached in and rummaged around. Wow, it was packed full. There were two letters, one from He Xiaofang and the other from Xu Xiuli.
Xu Xiuli not only sent a letter, but also attached two photos. One was a photo of her during military training. She was tanned and had curved eyebrows when she smiled. The other was an artistic photo. She had thin curved eyebrows, bright red lipstick, her hair tied back, and two thin black hairpins on her ears. She wore a white dress. It was a half-body photo. She was very beautiful and very typical of that era.
The letter talked about her life as a university student in Shanghai. Because she had been in the crew of "The King's Guards", she had come into contact with Jiang Bai, Tong Jingang and others. Although she was a girl and Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang were boys, because she was Jiang Ning's good friend and was in the same university as Jiang Bai, she would occasionally go shopping in Jiang Bai's store with her new roommate.
Tong Jingang and Jiang Bai both took good care of her.
The letter also talked about the house she bought. She learned from Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang that Jiang Ning's house was in a community behind Shanghai University of Technology. She even went in to take a look. Then she agreed with her parents to buy a house here as well, which was very close to Jiang Ning's house. They would be neighbors in the future. Because she thought Jiang Ning's house was well decorated, she wanted to decorate it according to hers and also install floor heating so that she wouldn't feel cold when reading in the study in winter.
At the end of the letter, he asked Jiang Ning to reply and also send her a few photos, hoping for a reply.
Jiang Ning looked at the time on the back of the letter, it was all from more than a month ago.
He Xiaofang's was earlier.
Jiang Ning smiled and explained: "The letter was posted in the mailbox. I just found out about my letter these two days, and I haven't replied yet."
He Xiaofang said coquettishly: "It's not your fault that you didn't receive it. Didn't you call me~"
The aunt in the convenience store widened her eyes, looking at the 5.70-foot-tall, dark-skinned, strong girl who was acting coquettishly. If she hadn't answered the phone just now and knew that there was a girl on the other end of the line, people would have thought she was talking to her boyfriend on the phone. She could not help but knit while watching the big black girl acting coquettishly on the phone.
Jiang Ning asked about her birthday. He Xiaofang became shy again and asked timidly, "Why...why are you asking me about my birthday?"
Jiang Ning smiled and said, "It's okay, just ask."
He Xiaofang told her birthday somewhat embarrassedly.
Her birthday is not her real birthday, but the birthday on her ID card. Her mother gave birth to five daughters in a row, and she can barely remember the birthday of the eldest daughter. He Xiaofang is the third daughter in the middle, neither older nor younger, and her mother really doesn't remember her birthday. She has two younger sisters who were given away when they were born.
Her mother only remembered the specific month when she was born, and when she registered her household registration, she just reported a random date, which became her birthday.
She never told anyone about this and just regarded this random date as her birthday. In fact, she always minded that she didn't know her real birthday, and no one would ever tell her about it because no one would remember it.
Jiang Ning circled He Xiaofang's birthday on the calendar, and then wrote in red pen: He Xiaofang's birthday.
Many times, as long as she wants, as long as she is willing, she can make everyone around her feel happy and like her. This is the provision of emotional value.
In her previous life, she had a smooth career and was liked by both her colleagues and leaders. But why did she, who was initially suppressed and didn't like to talk, want to talk more and more later on, and her desire to vent became stronger and stronger?
She is a person who provides positive emotional value to people around her for a long time, but she herself cannot get positive emotional value in return from others, and her formal marriage is also consuming her internally.
At the beginning, her strong inner strength allowed her to resist external and internal friction. However, over time, her emotional value could not be replenished, and she was actually exhausted from constantly outputting energy.
This is why she went crazy when she was just reborn. After staying away from the people who drained her, she stopped her internal consumption and received positive emotional replenishment from her grandfather, Jiang Bai, He Xiaofang, He Xiuli, Song Peifeng and others.
It's like a battery that has been continuously outputting electricity and finally receives replenishment from the outside world.
Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Bai gave her the power of family affection, He Xiaofang and Xu Xiuli gave her the power of friendship, and Song Peifeng perhaps gave her the power of love. Even if it was not love, having such a young and handsome boy by her side, even if it was just looking at her every day, kissing and hugging her, was a way to release bad emotions and replenish positive emotions.
No wonder there are so many fresh and lovely young men around Emperor Wu after he ascended the throne. If she were Emperor Wu, she would like them too.
She asked about He Xiaofang's life and studies, and was relieved to know that she was doing well and often went to work with Lu Xuehua and Liu Ping on weekends. Before hanging up the phone, He Xiaofang hurriedly asked her, "Ningning, when is your birthday?"
Jiang Ning smiled and talked about her birthday. When He Xiaofang heard that Jiang Ning's birthday had already passed, she stamped her feet in annoyance.
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Ning called Xu Xiuli again.
Xu Xiuli was waiting for Jiang Ning's call impatiently. She was expectant at first, then angry, and then suspected that the letter was lost. She called Jiang Ning's rental house several times at different times, but no one answered. She puffed up her cheeks in anger.
There is a telephone in their school dormitory. It is an IC phone. It is free to receive calls, but you need to dial an IC card to make calls.
It was not Xu Xiuli who answered the phone, but her roommate. She felt a little strange when she heard that the call was for her. She and her family called each other every night at a fixed time. Logically, it shouldn't be her parents calling. She suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but smile, but she was also very proud. She walked over to answer the phone and deliberately dragged out her voice: "Hello?"
When Jiang Ning heard her voice, he seemed to have seen her expression and couldn't help but chuckle.
Her voice was a little low, coming from the phone, and Xu Xiuli, who felt that she was a little childish, blushed all of a sudden. She puffed her cheeks and snorted softly: "I've been waiting for your call. Do you know how many times I called you? No one answered, and you didn't call me either."
As he said this, he became a little angry.
Jiang Ning smiled and coaxed, "Isn't this a phone call to you? When you called me, I was probably in the school dormitory. I just moved out recently."
"I'm not angry." Xu Xiuli opened her beautiful big eyes and asked her: "Have you seen the photos I sent you? Don't just send them to you, you should also send a few photos later. It's a pity that we are not in the same school, otherwise we can take a photo together."
She also wanted to take artistic photos with Jiang Ning.
"There's a chance." He then asked about Xu Xiuli's birthday.
Xu Xiuli talked about her birthday and then asked about Jiang Ning's birthday. After knowing that her birthday had passed, she felt a little upset, just like He Xiaofang.
When Jiang Ning was talking on the phone with Xu Xiuli and He Xiaofang, Song Peifeng was beside them, listening to her coaxing her two good friends like a sea king, feeling amused but also a little jealous. He sat aside and played with her hands, then gently bit her fingers to draw her attention back to himself. Then he raised his eyebrows and looked over with a smile, seeming to be very satisfied with the effect he had achieved. Jiang Ning pulled her hand back and rubbed his head soothingly, and continued to listen to his friend acting coquettishly to her.
A few days later, Xu Xiuli sent something to Jiang Ning, which turned out to be the Hongyan mandarin orange, which is known as the Hermes of oranges.
A few days later, Jiang Ning received another package, which turned out to be a hand-knitted wool scarf and gloves.
The wool yarn was just ordinary coarse wool yarn, but the towel and gloves were woven very finely and delicately. Different from the long scarves that people liked later, the scarf woven by He Xiaofang was of appropriate length, and the gloves were a full set, wrapping the whole hand. Jiang Ning tried them on and found that although it was not convenient to hold a pen, it was very warm.
She tied on a light brown scarf, stood in front of Song Peifeng, turned around and smiled at him: "Does it look good?"
After entering December, the second draft of the script for the TV series "White Snake" was completely revised. Producer Li and others came to Peking University again and called Jiang Ning to hold a script study session. This time they did not go to the Literature Society. The directors of the liberal arts departments were embarrassed to ask the people from the Literature Society to receive them, so the head of the School of Mathematics directly arranged a classroom for them, and several people read the script in this classroom.
Compared with the first draft, the second draft is obviously much more perfect. If there are no problems, we can find actors according to this script and start filming.
The main actors have almost been found, and some minor actors need to be found temporarily after the final script is completely finalized.
Screenwriter Yuan Feng is indeed good at writing romance dramas. After being created and polished by two main screenwriters from CCTV, the script of "White Snake" is basically complete. The only thing left is the last step, where the two of them will work together to completely merge the final script into one.
After the second script reading session was over, knowing that Jiang Ning and the others were about to enter the final exam week, he invited Jiang Ning, "You guys will be on winter vacation by then, would you like to come and play a guest role in the play?"
Jiang Ning refused with a smile, and Producer Li didn't care and invited Jiang Ning to join the crew during the winter vacation.
Exam week starts on December 12th, but since December began, the already rich learning atmosphere at both Peking University and Tsinghua University has become tense and heated again.
The department head also knew that their second script study session was over. In view of the school's rule that freshmen must live on campus, the department head also allowed Jiang Ning to return to the dormitory.
Originally there were six people in their dormitory, but after Cui Yujie left, there were only five people left. Unexpectedly, when Jiang Ning returned to the dormitory, the empty bed was already occupied. When he saw Jiang Ning coming in, he just looked up at her indifferently, then lowered his head to read his book, with a very cold expression.
She was wearing an ill-fitting black dress with sleeves that were a little too short. Her hair was cut into a chin-length hairstyle with heavy bangs and was a little longer. When she lowered her head to read a book, her hair covered most of her face, making her look like she had blended into a dark corner.
Zhang Min smiled as soon as she saw Jiang Ning, as if she had seen a relative. She stood up and teased Jiang Ning, "Hey, our great writer is back. Come and tell us about the love-hate relationship between you and the vice president of your literature club. I heard that you and him had a fight. What happened and why did you fight?"
Those eyes were so bright, as if they were about to eat some shocking melon up close.
Liu Yan, Yu Qianqian, Shen Xinlan and others, who were originally reading quietly, all looked up at Jiang Ning walking in.
Yu Qianqian probably had a cold, and her voice was a little hoarse as she said, "That's right, what kind of person is he? Why does he hit a girl? He has no manners. I despise him." Then she looked at Jiang Ning with concern, also with a look of excitement: "Come and tell us, what's going on?"
During this period, Jiang Ning was not in the dormitory, but her legend was everywhere in the dormitory and school after her identity as "Ning Meng" was exposed.
Not to mention the recent gossip on the Internet about her being a member of a team, which gave a lot of alumni a lot of gossip. The fact that the big shot in the Department of Humanities, the strong contender for the next president of the Literature Society, and the vice-president of the Literature Society were given a serious warning and had to apologize in their real name in the Beijing Daily and on the Internet for half a month was enough to make the students on the Peking University campus eat enough gossip and watch the drama every day.
Especially the Faculty of Humanities.
As the first of the four insane asylums, the School of Mathematics has a strong academic atmosphere. Everyone is focusing on mathematical learning and research. If Jiang Ning didn't happen to be from their School of Mathematics, they might not know about this.
But the Department of Humanities was in an uproar.
First, the true identity of Ningmeng was completely exposed. Secondly, there was the rumor on the Internet that "Ningmeng is a team". Then there was the apology and downfall of the vice-president of the literature club. This series of gossips was heard by not only Peking University, but also Tsinghua University next door and nearby universities. Because Ningmeng has a large readership, students from several schools all joined the online battle, causing a sensation.
But the person involved, Ning Meng, seemed to have disappeared. There was no news about her and she could not be found anywhere in school except during class time.
Seeing Ning Meng return to the dormitory, Zhang Min's gossipy spirit burned fiercely. She pulled Jiang Ning to sit on her bed and said, "Jiang Ning, tell us quickly, what happened during this period? I heard that the vice president of the literature club loves you so much and hates your talent. He is afraid that you will compete with him for the position of president of the literature club, so he exposed your identity in order to frame you, right?"
Liu Yan, Yu Qianqian, Shen Xinlan and others all looked over curiously, but the new roommate who originally occupied Cui Yujie's bed did not react at all and continued to read without even raising his head.
"Where did you hear all that nonsense? I only met that vice president once, and we haven't even spoken to each other for a few words. How can there be any love or hatred?" Jiang Ning shared the Hongyan honey oranges in his hand with everyone, grabbing two each: "Come and eat oranges. The Hongyan honey oranges are at their best at this time of year."
Xu Xiuli sent so many oranges that she and Song Peifeng couldn't finish them all, so they brought a small half box to the dormitory to share with everyone.
She herself likes eating oranges very much, especially Hongyan tangerines.
In the past, in order to please her, some people would bring boxes of Hongyan tangerines to her when they were on the market. Director Jiang never accepted other gifts, but she would still eat Hongyan tangerines most of the time. This happened by chance when someone discovered that Director Jiang had eaten six tangerines in a short time during a dinner party. Only then did they realize that Director Jiang actually liked to eat tangerines.
Unlike other people who would get irritated after eating two oranges, she did not get irritated no matter how much she ate. So she left the other half box of tangerines in the rental house, and asked Song Peifeng to take part of it back to the dormitory to share with his roommates.
The picking month of Hongyan mandarin oranges is very particular. When oranges are generally on the market, it is not the best picking period for Hongyan mandarin oranges. It is more than a month later than the oranges on the market. You must wait until the mandarin oranges are frosted, as they will taste the sweetest and most refreshing.
When Shen Xinlan saw the words 'Hongyan Honey Tangerine' written on the outside of the orange packaging, she couldn't help but get up with interest and took two and said, "It's actually Hongyan Honey Tangerine?"
She quickly opened one and tasted it, her eyes lit up, and praised: "It's the authentic Hongyan honey tangerine produced in Hongyan. It's hard for ordinary people to buy it. Where did you buy it?"
"What's a Hongyan honey tangerine?" Zhang Min didn't understand. She quickly peeled one and put it in her mouth. She could smell a sweet tangerine fragrance flowing down her throat into her stomach. She was so delicious that her eyes lit up and she said, "This tangerine is delicious! Where did you buy it? I'll buy some too!"
Jiang Ning smiled and said, "A friend gave it to me."
"Oh~~~~" Zhang Min winked gossipingly: "A friend gave it to you? Your boyfriend, right?"
Jiang Ning rarely understood Grandpa Jiang's desire to show off, and said with a smile: "Girlfriend."
Oranges were very common in this season. One could buy a bag full of them for only one or two dollars outside, so they didn't bother to be polite with Jiang Ning and each of them took two oranges and peeled them.
Shen Xinlan smiled and said, "The authentic Hongyan honey tangerines are not easy to buy. Usually, they are already reserved before they are put on the market. There are very few Hongyan honey tangerines on the market. Many of them are fake, produced nearby and pretending to be produced in Hongyan." She ate a petal and said, "In the past, this was a tribute only available in the palace!"
When Liu Yan and Yu Qianqian heard this, they paused while peeling the tangerines with all their might, and looked at the tangerines in their hands carefully: "This is it... or is it a tribute?"
"An orange? And that's a tribute?"
Assigned to the new roommate, after listening to Shen Xinlan's words, the new roommate grabbed the bed sheet with his fingers, did not move, shook his head and said: “Thank you, I don’t want to eat.”
Jiang Ning was not a mean person. She took out two tangerines and placed them next to her new roommate's bed. She smiled and introduced herself to her, "My name is Jiang Ning, and I'm from the Department of Financial Mathematics at the Academy of Mathematical Sciences."
When she got closer, Jiang Ning saw the little face of her new roommate hidden under her hair. She was a pretty girl but a little thin, and she didn't look very well.
The new roommate seemed a little withdrawn and didn't like to smile. She looked at Jiang Ning's outstretched hand and stared at her fair and slender hand for a long time before she placed her fingertips lightly on Jiang Ning's warm fingertips. She only held a little bit and said immediately, "Xi Weilu, Chemical College."
What surprised the new roommate was that Jiang Ning's pair of fair and slender hands were actually not delicate and soft, and even the fingertips had rough and thin calluses.
Jiang Ning was a little surprised that she didn't talk much, and she was also a little surprised that the students from the School of Chemistry were assigned to the dormitory of their School of Mathematics, but she didn't ask.
Instead, he turned to ask the dormitory head Liu Yan: "I haven't been in the dormitory for a while, is it my turn to clean the room?"
The dormitory, which was originally bustling because of Jiang Ning's return, suddenly became quiet for a second after the new roommate spoke, and then quickly pretended nothing had happened and talked about the dormitory's duty arrangements.
The new roommate didn't touch the two oranges until she saw everyone in the dormitory eating them. At night, she lay in her bed and quietly put a slice into her mouth. It was really sweet, with just the right amount of sourness and just the right amount of sweetness and fragrance, which immediately captured her slightly bitter taste buds.
It was very late before she fell asleep. As if she had just closed her eyes, she heard the sound of Jiang Ning getting out of bed. She woke up suddenly, but dared not move.
Soon, she heard the sound of a door closing quietly.
At night, when Xi Weilu was not in the dormitory, Zhang Min, who had always been a gossiper and a big mouth, pulled Jiang Ning and whispered gossipingly, "I'm telling you, don't tell anyone!"
Jiang Ning was stunned by her sudden whisper, thinking that she had some secret to tell her. Unexpectedly, Zhang Min quickly winked at Xi Weilu's bed and then quickly retracted her eyes and said, "Don't offend her. She is from the Chemical Institute. You know the poisoning case next door, right? It was closed a few days ago. They said it exceeded the legal period and there was no result."
"The conflicts in the School of Chemistry are really terrible. When people quarrel, they are deadly." Zhang Min hugged her arms in fear. "I heard that she had some conflicts with her former roommates. The former roommates were afraid of her and didn't want to share a dormitory with her. It just so happened that we were short of one person, so she was moved to our dormitory."
She lowered her voice and said, "It is said that he was found out after poisoning his roommate..."
Jiang Ning couldn't help but rolled her eyes at her speechlessly and poked her forehead: "Can you use your smart little head to think about it? If you really poisoned someone, can you still transfer to our dormitory?"
I really can’t stand listening to this anymore!
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