Chapter 87 [Second update]
He thought that his granddaughter had bought such a computer in the store, so she probably didn't have much money on her. He pulled up the curtain again, went back to the bag under the bed, rummaged around, took out his bag of money, walked over slowly, and put it on the desk that Jiang Ning had just replaced: "No money left? Spend it all!"
Grandpa Jiang was very happy, but at the same time he was worried: "Ningning, you have to save money this time. We have to pay the tuition. After paying the tuition, we still have to earn money for the next semester's tuition."
As he spoke, he looked at the bare street outside. There were still some people here in the second half of last year, but why is there no one in the store this year?
The old man is worried.
Jiang Ning saw his eyes fixed on the empty street outside, and she knew what he was worried about. She walked over with a smile, pulled out a large snakeskin bag from under the bed, opened the bag, folded the contents in a transparent plastic bag, and took out neatly arranged piles of spring, autumn and summer clothes.
Grandpa Jiang saw Jiang Ning taking out spring and summer clothes, and he was surprised and said: "Why are you taking out spring and autumn clothes now? It's so cold, who would buy them! Clothes that are only worn in spring and autumn?"
Grandpa Jiang had never done business before. In his opinion, he should sell winter clothes in winter, spring clothes in spring, and summer clothes in summer.
The snow outside hasn't melted yet, and the icicles on the eaves are still hanging on the roof, shining brightly. Who would buy autumn clothes in such a cold day?
But the reality is that in winter, many people have already started selling spring clothes or even summer clothes, and in summer, they have started selling autumn clothes or winter clothes.
Spring is coming soon. Unless there are some students who really want a new outfit for the New Year, who would buy winter clothes at this time of year?
But there were only a few winter clothes left in the store, and the store was empty. When Grandpa Jiang saw his granddaughter taking out spring and autumn clothes, he also hung them up one by one on the clothesline on the wall. Jiang Ning quietly ironed clothes on the ironing table.
Soon, spring and autumn clothes were hung on the clothesline.
The prices for spring and autumn bindings are cheaper, with jackets, skirts and pants all priced at 19 yuan, spring and autumn jackets at 29 yuan, and summer T-shirts, tops and shorts all priced at 12.9 yuan. Some dirty and defective ones are sold at 9.9 yuan.
Jiang Ning was not in a hurry to change the recording on the loudspeaker. Instead, he turned off the loudspeaker first and put it in the store to charge. He and Grandpa Jiang ironed all the clothes, cut off the threads, and put on the two mannequins with new spring clothes.
All of these spring clothes were copied from the styles worn by female stars in Hong Kong movies in Guangzhou last year. They were not sold out last year, so Uncle Wang Yong sent them here in a miscellaneous batch.
There is a pile of denim jackets in the issue, which are very popular now and were just worn by Joey Wong.
After Jiang Ning ironed all the clothes, he matched two sets for each model according to the color and style of the clothes, and placed them at the door of the store.
After all these were done, she began to re-record the words on the tape recorder, changing the price based on the original ones: "Jiangnan Garment Factory! Jiangnan Garment Factory! Closed down! Closed down!
New spring and summer clothes are all on sale for 9.9, 12.9, 19.9, and 29 yuan! ”
When Jiang Ning was recording, because he spoke clearly and rhythmically, the owner of the egg cake shop next door saw him and came over to ask with a smile: "Hey, are you selling spring clothes?"
Jiang Ning smiled and said, "We just put the new goods on the shelves. Let's iron them first."
The lady boss of the egg cake shop was mainly attracted by the sounds of 9.9 and 12.9 yuan from next door. What kind of clothes can be bought for 9.9 and 12.9 yuan? Any piece of clothing you see on the street will cost at least fifteen or twenty dollars at the worst.
She just wanted to come and see if there was any bargain to be had.
Jiang Ning and Grandpa Jiang had already ironed most of the clothes. At this moment, what the egg cake owner saw were beautiful clothes and skirts that were neatly ironed.
These clothes would be last year's backlog of inventory in Guangzhou, but in their remote Wucheng, they are fresh and fashionable clothes, especially after being skillfully matched by Jiang Ning. Although the clothes do not look particularly eye-catching when viewed individually, after she matched them like this, the clothes suddenly look good.
Far away in Guangzhou, Uncle Wang Yong’s clothing factory has already started its summer clothing signing event.
Batches of clothing sellers come to their factories and place orders for as many pieces as they like.
He called Wang Yong and asked his author if he still wanted the spring clothes that had been shelved.
"They are all new models this year. We are starting to sell summer clothes now. The spring clothes that haven't been pre-ordered will be put on hold until next year. If she wants them, I'll give her a discount. It would be best if she could take them all for me."
Wucheng has four distinct seasons. Unlike Hangzhou and Nanshi, the summer is not so long that it makes people anxious, and the spring and autumn are like a joke. As soon as you take off your winter clothes, it is summer immediately.
The summer in Wucheng is two or three degrees cooler than that in big cities. The spring and autumn seasons are also distinct, especially in autumn. When it is November, you have to put on a thin coat, otherwise it will be cold.
For Uncle Wang Yong, the hardest products to sell are the spring and autumn models, because the summer in Guangzhou is long and the coldest winter is only nine to ten degrees Celsius, so some people say that there are only two seasons in Guangzhou, spring and summer.
He hadn't ordered all the spring clothes yet, and all that was left was summer clothes, so Wang Yong had no choice but to say that he would call Jiang Ning to ask.
Ever since Jiang Ning said she was going to Shanghai to buy a computer, she hasn't been online or called him. He didn't know about Jiang Ning's situation, so if he wanted to contact her, he could only call her class teacher's office.
But at this time, high school classes should not have started yet, right?
It is really inconvenient to not have a telephone.
He didn't know at this time that Jiang Ning was going to pull the telephone line, so it was not easy to contact her without going through the phone in her head teacher's office.
While Jiang Ning was waiting for the post office to open the telephone line, he also went to the Wucheng police station to handle the household registration transfer.
The current policy in Shanghai of giving blue-stamp household registration to those who buy houses is also subject to restrictions. For example, for investment, the investment amount by foreign investors and overseas Chinese must be more than 200,000 US dollars, and the domestic investment must be more than 1 million yuan, in order to be eligible for the free blue-stamp household registration.
To buy a house in the west of Shanghai, the down payment must be more than 300,000 yuan. If it is in the east of Shanghai, where Jiang Ning bought the house, the down payment must be more than 320,000 yuan.
The down payment for her villa was close to 400,000 yuan, and she used up all the royalties from the first and second volumes of "The Great Song Dynasty" just to get the four blue-stamped household registrations that came with the villa.
She, the homeowner, has to register first, and then bring her spouse or immediate family members, and relatives within three generations, to apply for settlement.
This application usually takes seven days to be processed.
Jiang Bai and Grandpa Jiang happen to be her direct relatives and relatives within three generations.
In other words, she had to move her household registration there first and then apply.
Grandpa Jiang watched as his granddaughter became busy again. She first took the household registration transfer certificate to the Wucheng Police Station to handle the household registration transfer, and then took a bus to Shanghai to implement this matter.
The villa she bought has been completed but has not been renovated yet, and the surrounding environment is also under construction. Except for her, almost all the people who bought the villa here are overseas Chinese from Hong Kong, Macao and other places, as well as some investors from Shenzhen and Guangzhou. There is no need for local people to spend such a high down payment to pursue a blue-stamp household registration.
With so much money, wouldn't it be better for them to invest it?
The entire 1990s was an era of rapid development. With such a large amount of money, what could they not invest in? Buy houses?
Because she was the owner of the house, her residence was settled very quickly. The next step was to apply to have Jiang Bai's household registration moved to the house as well.
When applying for Jiang Bai's residence, she also noticed one thing, that is, Jiang Bai's household registration must be completed before the joint examination, and then he can come to Shanghai to take the joint examination before he can come to Shanghai to take the college entrance examination.
This year's New Year's Eve is on January 31st, and it is already the beginning of February. This means that Jiang Bai's household registration must be settled before the college entrance examination in March.
Because of time constraints, she traveled back and forth between Wucheng and Shanghai, and had no time to ask Jiang Bai which school he wanted to apply to. Only after she had finished everything did she remember to find Jiang Bai and ask him which school he planned to apply to.
Jiang Bai had already planned for this: "I will apply to the university in the city where you apply." He touched his nose a little embarrassedly, "I just want to run your store and work for you."
In the past, he thought about graduating quickly and going out to work after graduation. He would be satisfied if he could earn 150 yuan a month. But this year, he only sold in his sister's store on weekends and earned 50 or 60 yuan a day. 50 or 60 yuan a day!
During the three days of the New Year, Jiang Ning gave him and Tong Jingang a big red envelope of 300 yuan each!
Three days! Three hundred dollars!
His sister is so cruel to him!
Instead of holding on to such a strong partner, is he going to work for someone else?
He works for his sister, and the money he earns for her belongs to her, to his family. Why doesn't he earn money for his sister, but goes out to earn money for others?
So Jiang Bai had a good plan, he would go wherever his sister went.
Jiang Ning couldn't help but smile and looked up at Jiang Bai.
The Jiang Bai of today is completely different from the Jiang Bai she saw in her previous life, who was tired of this world and had no interest in life.
Perhaps because he was still in the growth stage, he was still extremely thin, but there was already some flesh on his face, and his round eyes were filled with a smile, warm and bright.
In the past, he always subconsciously wanted to shrink himself, and wished he could carve the four big words "Can't see me" on his face. But he didn't know when, he straightened his back, held his head high, and put on the fitting clothes that Jiang Ning matched for him. He was no longer stiff and unnatural as he was at the beginning. His whole body seemed to be glowing, with his brows relaxed and a smile on his face.
Jiang Ning also smiled at his second brother and said, "I bought a house in Shanghai."
Jiang Bai smiled at first, then looked confused, and finally suddenly realized: "What did you buy in Shanghai?"
"house."
Jiang Bai carefully recalled the money he had earned for Jiang Ning during this period. Was it enough for Jiang Ning to buy a house in Shanghai? How much does a house in Wucheng cost now? The housing prices in Shanghai must be higher than those in Wucheng, right?
Why did my sister suddenly say she bought a house in Shanghai?
"The profit of our clothes is not one yuan, but eight to twelve yuan per piece, which means we make an average of ten yuan per piece."
An expression pack visibly appeared on Jiang Bai's head, as if he was frightened: "Ten...ten yuan?"
He thought about the money he earned for Jiang Ning during the New Year period, and the money he earned for his sister in the second half of last year. If he multiplied it by ten... Wow! many!
Jiang Bai's eyes suddenly lit up like little light bulbs.
Then he became confused and didn't understand why his sister told him this?
Jiang Ning smiled and said, "What do I want in life? I want to be rich and free. I may live in Shanghai in the future. I like the tolerance and freedom of big cities. I have bought a house in Shanghai. One house can give you four blue-stamped household registrations. I plan to move my own household registration, your household registration, and your grandfather's household registration into the house."
Jiang Bai didn’t even know what a blue-print household registration was, nor did he know what it was used for. He also had no idea why his sister wanted to drag him into her house. In his mind, what belonged to his sister was what belonged to him. What did it have to do with him?
Jiang Ning said that if you have a Shanghai blue-stamp household registration, you can take the exam in Shanghai.
"In Wucheng, the probability of getting into a key university is only about 1%, or even a few tenths of a percent. But in Shanghai, the probability of getting into a key university is 5% to 6%. If you go to a slightly worse school, the probability will be even higher. If possible, I hope you can take the college entrance examination in Shanghai, where the probability of getting into a university will be even higher."
Jiang Bai, who never considered going to college as a life goal: …
He was stunned for a moment.
He has a lot of ideas about the future. In the past, he wanted to graduate quickly so that he could work and have enough food to eat.
Now that he has enough food to eat, he wants to graduate quickly and work for his sister after graduation.
In his life planning, he never thought about what would happen if he was admitted to university.
Now his sister suddenly started to make him think about it.
"I...I don't know either." He scratched his head.
In his heart, he was secretly averse to going to a strange city. He was afraid of going to a strange city, to a strange place, alone.
Just like when he was a child, he was taken to the city by Jiang's father and mother.
He thought that returning to his parents would mean being like Jiang Song, where his parents would always keep him by their side, protect him, and love him. They would call his name in caring and warm voices.
In fact, Jiang Bai didn't have a name for a long time, and everyone called him "Second Girl."
Second girl, second girl, when he was little, he didn’t understand and thought he was the “second girl”. His sister followed him around all day long, calling him “second sister, second sister”, and Jiang Song also called him “sister, sister” every day.
Later, when he went to school, he suddenly changed from a "second girl" to a "second boy" in his parents' eyes. In that strange city, strange place, everyone was a stranger. Jiang's father and mother were busy working every day. Jiang Song already had his own familiar friends there. He ran around like crazy every day and disappeared. He was thrown into a strange school by his parents. The name of the school he attended was Jiang Xiaoer.
This didn't seem to be a very different name. Among the girls he had played with since childhood, there was a girl named Jiang Xiaosan, and there was another girl in the eldest room named Jiang Xiaosi. He also knew girls named Xiaowu, Xiaoliu, and Xiaoqi. He easily accepted his new name - Jiang Xiaoer.
Later, he returned to his hometown to attend elementary school. His school record was not in another city, so it was very convenient for him to return to his hometown.
When registering, the teacher asked him his name and he said it was Jiang Xiaoer.
Grandpa Jiang, who took him to register, said to the teacher with a smile: "Why is he called Xiaoer? If you don't know, you might think he's a waiter. His brother is Jiang Song, and he's called Jiang Bai!"
Grandpa Jiang patrols the mountains all year round, and the things he comes into contact with the most are trees and grasses. The most common trees on their mountain are pine trees and cypress trees, so he has his own name - Jiang Bai.
I don’t know if it’s this childhood memory that makes him always feel strange, fearful and rejected about the outside city deep in his heart. He just wants to go back to his hometown, just want to be in his hometown, just want to go back to the mountains that he was familiar with in his childhood.
Only there did he feel at ease and safe, without any hesitation or helplessness.
He looked at his sister. Her eyes were full of determination in facing future choices. Reflected in her eyes was his own confused and helpless self.
He lowered his eyelids, and his long, crow-feather-like eyelashes covered the anxiety and helplessness in his eyes.
He said, "Forget it. I'll take the exam in Wucheng."
He thought his sister would say that she opened a shop in Wucheng, and he wanted to come to his sister's shop after graduation and work for her.
Jiang Ning was so disappointed that he lifted his chin forcefully: "What do you mean by forget it? I don't know where my eldest brother has gone, and my parents have gone to look for him. By then, my grandfather and I will go to Shanghai, leaving you alone in Wucheng?"
A huge panic feeling of being abandoned instantly overwhelmed him. He was like a helpless child abandoned in the desert. It seemed that he was the only one left in the vast universe. The sky was getting bigger and bigger, but he was getting smaller and smaller, as small as a tiny speck of dust, swallowed up by the endless darkness.
"Jiang Bai!" A clear voice pierced through the endless darkness, pulling him out of the desperate suffocation: "What are you thinking about? Come with me to Shanghai to transfer your household registration, do you hear me?"
He was completely dazed as she pulled him by the wrist and led him to the teacher's office. He was going to ask for leave from his homeroom teacher.
He looked at his sister's small hand holding his wrist. Compared with his hand, his sister's hand was really small, with white and slender fingers, thin calluses on the palm, strong and warm.
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