Chapter 197
The words "I'll hug you when we get home" were like a raging fire that ignited Song Peifeng's body, burning his entire brain into a dizziness and blankness. It seemed like a moment, and also like a century had passed. He came back to his senses from the dizziness, and used all his self-control to let her go. Holding her hand tightly, he trotted all the way back to the house he rented outside the school. As soon as he opened the door, she closed it and pushed him against it forcefully, holding the door with one hand and lifting his chin with the other, rubbing his lips twice with her thumb.
He had never felt such desire before. He was teased by her like a trapped animal with a leash on it, but she pushed him against the door and said slowly, "Don't move."
She pulled his head down and gently touched his lips. They separated immediately, and she curiously tiptoed to taste it. Before she could go deeper, he pressed his hand against the back of her head. The young man's breath aggressively swept over her whole body.
It was the first time that Jiang Ning realized that kissing was such a wonderful thing. She suddenly felt that she really missed out on 100 million in her previous life.
Although marriage is not necessary, love is still possible. Why should you build yourself up in a solid armor and make yourself look invulnerable? You will hide in armor, but it is because you are afraid of being hurt deep in your heart, so you simply cannot allow any possibility of others hurting you. But in fact, if your heart is really strong, you are actually fearless.
All the feelings and emotions in this world, good or bad, should be experienced personally.
In her previous life, she had experienced the best family love from her grandfather, the friendship of colleagues on the road, the recognition from leaders, a smooth career in the eyes of others, and many other things, but she had never tasted the sweetness of love.
Now that I have tasted it, leaving aside the illusory thing called love, the mere act of kissing him is indeed something I cannot stop doing.
The two of them went from being fierce and violent to being gentle and gentle afterwards, as if they were expressing all their longing for each other for the past month. In the end, he was still holding her, and she leaned lazily in his arms, lifting his chin with one hand and commenting with a smile: "Beyond expectations."
One sentence ignited him again.
Afterwards, the two of them lay on the sofa. She enjoyed his touch. She nestled in his arms, her neck resting on his arm, and her hands pinched him appreciatively. He grabbed her hand and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "Don't move." He made her unable to move.
Jiang Ning knew that she couldn't continue teasing her, so she smiled and lay down obediently, ready to rest.
In the early days of her marriage in her previous life, when she didn’t know that the other party was gay, the other party tried to have intimate contact with her, but for some reason, she felt a little disgusted, and the other party also felt a little disgusted. As soon as he approached, she wanted to avoid him. The other party noticed her avoidance and felt relieved. They both unconsciously avoided these intimate behaviors. Later, the other party simply stopped pretending and began to use work as an excuse to be away from home for most of the year, only occasionally coming back during the holidays. She was in the bedroom, and the other party was in the study or living room; she was in the living room, and he was in the study.
Perhaps it was because she had never seen many normal families since she was a child. Around her, there were many cases where the husband worked outside and the wife stayed at home to take care of the elderly and children. The husband only came back once a year during the Chinese New Year. This was such an abnormal marriage relationship, but such an abnormal marriage relationship was the normal family model in her eyes. So when the other party used work as an excuse and was away from home all year round, she didn't think there was anything wrong at the time, because this was "normal" in the marriage model she had seen since she was a child.
She devoted more energy to work, and her life was no different from when she was single, and there were even no people or voices around her urging her to get married.
Occasionally, when the other party came back at night, he would chat with gay men in the study until three or four o'clock. At that time, she had only seen about that group of people in books, but had never associated them with reality, let alone herself. She also thought that he only chatted with men and not women, and that it was okay as long as he was not cheating. Anyway, she didn't care about him, as long as he didn't bother her.
Even compared to those families who quarreled all day long and lived in a mess after marriage, she actually felt that such a peaceful and undisturbed life was not bad. It was not until many years later that she realized how wrong her idea was.
If a person does not want to get married and just wants to be single, then he can just be single. Why use a piece of paper to hand over his life, his right to sign on the hospital bed, and the distribution of half of his property to a stranger with no good character? That would be extremely irresponsible to your own life.
When she was young, she was such a person who expected happiness to be given by others and was irresponsible to herself.
It is only as I grow older that I realize that happiness is the ability to give to oneself and to those around you, rather than asking for it from others.
It was already a little chilly in the capital in early October. Jiang Ning felt like she hadn't been with Song Peifeng for a long time. It was so long that she had to get used to life without him again and filled her time every day.
Song Peifeng, on the contrary, had become accustomed to being hugged by her every day. It was only in this month that he could not help thinking about her. Until now, when he held her in his arms, he felt a sense of relief, as if the empty space was finally filled.
Ever since they broke their vows and kissed, they have become addicted to this calorie-burning behavior. Most of the time, it was Jiang Ning who took the initiative, because the young man looked too good to be true. Then Song Peifeng would turn the passive situation around and end it with the active one.
Neither of them was in a hurry to do anything. Jiang Ning's ID card was changed to three years older, but her actual age was only eighteen, and Song Peifeng was only nineteen. Their bodies were not fully developed. They just enjoyed the present moment bit by bit.
On the eve of the National Day holiday, the counselor brought the registration form for the Autumn College Students Games and asked the boys and girls in the class to take the initiative to sign up for the sports events. The sports events were three plus one, and each person could sign up for up to three events, plus a relay, including a 100-meter relay, a 200-meter relay, and a 400-meter relay.
The counselor assigned this matter to the class monitor, deputy class monitor and sports committee member. The class monitor and sports committee member were mainly responsible for determining the registration items for the boys, while Cui Yujie was responsible for the registration for the girls.
The counselor meant that regardless of gender, everyone had to sign up for at least one event, and those with strong athletic abilities could sign up for more than one event: "We will first compete within our own school, and once the results within the school are selected, we will then participate in the National College Students Games!"
The reason why the school attaches so much importance to the Autumn University Games is that the previous World University Games were all held abroad. China now attaches great importance to the World University Games. China is also applying to the International University Sports Federation to hold it in Beijing, my country. Once the application is successful, it will not only be a good opportunity to promote our country to the world, but also Beijing, as the host, college students from various universities in Beijing will also have to prepare in advance. They must not embarrass the country and themselves in front of college students from all over the world who come to Beijing to participate in the competition.
This is the Autumn University Games, which is actually also a preliminary selection for the upcoming National University Games and preliminary preparations for the upcoming World University Games.
College students of this generation still have a very strong sense of honor and are very enthusiastic about signing up.
Registration for the sports meet is voluntary. All the classmates were there, except for one non-staff member, Jiang Ning.
Because Jiang Ning did not attend classes with them, her classmates rarely saw her. Usually, if there was any matter in the class, her roommates Liu Yan and Cui Yujie would convey it on their behalf. Cui Yujie was in charge of the registration of girls for the sports meet, so Liu Yan tacitly agreed that Cui Yujie should ask Jiang Ning about this matter.
During the time Cui Yujie was in Dormitory 401, she was completely ignored by her roommates. No one in the dormitory cooperated with many of her requests. For example, when she arranged for people to clean the dormitory and take out the trash, she relied on her position as the deputy monitor to order this and that to do something, and excluded herself. She only moved her mouth, but it was strange that she could get anyone to do it. Every time, only Yu Qianqian would embarrassedly stand up and do it, but seeing that the other people in the dormitory were as still as a mountain, she smartly followed the people in the dormitory. Cui Yujie was so angry.
She couldn't make Shen Xinlan angry, and she just wanted to make friends with her; Jiang Ning was a genius student, and didn't take her words seriously at all, so she couldn't command her, let alone Zhang Min, who was a rebellious person.
Jiang Ning was not around. Cui Yujie thought of Jiang Ning going out for a run every morning. Although she didn't know how she ran, since she was running, there was nothing wrong with her signing her up for a long-distance run, right?
She didn't even ask Jiang Ning's opinion, and simply wrote Jiang Ning's name at the bottom of the form: 3,000 meters, 800 meters, 100-meter hurdles, and in the final relay race, she signed her up for the 400-meter relay.
They were all events that no one wanted to sign up for, so Jiang Ning had registered for all four sports and submitted them.
In fact, she wanted to sign Jiang Ning up for the 1,500-meter long-distance race, but when she remembered that she had already signed up Yu Qianqian for the 1,500-meter race, she stopped writing with some regret.
Yu Qianqian herself didn't want to sign up for the 1,500-meter race, but the easier events such as shot put, javelin, high jump, long jump, etc. were quickly filled up. She was a step slower than others and had a shy face, so Cui Yujie said directly, "The others are all full, and there are still no people signing up for the 1,500-meter and 3,000-meter events. Choose one between the 1,500-meter and 3,000-meter events!"
Yu Qianqian quickly chose the 1,500 meters.
Cui Yujie curled her lips into a smile, took the registration form to the counselor's office and handed it in.
When the counselor saw this, he thought Cui Yujie and Jiang Ning lived in the same dormitory, and that she must have asked Jiang Ning for her opinion and sought her consent before signing up for so many places.
However, when the instructor saw the 3,000-meter race, he still asked Cui Yujie, "Is Jiang Ning a good runner?"
Cui Yujie said nonchalantly, "The first thing she does every morning is go running. What do you think?"
Their counselor was also a senior graduate student, very young. Upon hearing what she said, she recalled Jiang Ning's height and her long legs, nodded and said, "She really looks like a good runner." She thought that she had signed up on her own, and although signing up for all four events was a bit too much, since Jiang Ning wanted to run, she must be able to run, so she submitted the registration form.
The school's autumn sports meeting is sponsored by the Sports Committee of Beijing University, and the specific work is carried out by the Sports Teaching and Research Group, the school party committee and the school administrative leaders. Once the list is submitted, the number of places for the sports meeting is determined.
After the places for the autumn sports meet were confirmed, it was the National Day holiday. The counselor specifically told the students in the class about the sports meet after the holiday and asked everyone to go back and practice more.
Everyone in the dormitory was anxious to go home.
They were different from Jiang Ning. Except for Shen Xinlan and Cui Yujie, they all left their hometown for the first time and came to live in a strange big city alone. They were all eager to go home. They were busy packing their luggage, rushing to get train tickets home overnight, and using their own saved money to buy Daoxiangcun cakes to bring home for their families to taste.
For a while, no one in the dormitory discussed the autumn sports meeting.
Jiang Ning didn't know that she had been signed up for four sports in the autumn sports meet, so naturally she didn't do any practice. When the holiday came, she went to the airport with Song Peifeng and flew back to Shanghai.
Song Peifeng returned to Wucheng during the holiday. After Jiang Ning finished her work, she came to the gate of Shanghai University of Science and Technology.
A row of shops behind Shanghai University of Technology is already being renovated, and the residential area is basically completed. The two shops of Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai will also be gradually renovated and opened.
At present, the flow of people is still on the street next to it, and there is still no one in this back street. I guess until this place is completely renovated and all the storefronts are bought out or rented out and shops are opened, this back street will not be lively for a while.
Jiang Bai still had the same idea as before, which was to simply paint the shop white lime and open a bicycle repair shop first. After he made some money, he would buy some bicycles and sell them in the shop.
When Jiang Ning arrived, Jiang Bai was in the shop at the back. The shop in the front was closed because it was a holiday and there was no one at school. Grandpa Jiang went back to his villa yesterday and was not in the shop.
Jiang Ning came over and took a look around, then went to the house she bought here.
The house has been delivered and the real estate certificate has been obtained. All that is left is the decoration. Jiang Ning plans to ventilate the house for half a year after the decoration is completed. Then grandpa can come and live here, so that he doesn't have to stay in the shop at night. Winter is coming soon and it will be too cold.
Although the villa is equipped with floor heating, it is a bit far from the school. Grandpa Jiang doesn't like running around every day, so he prefers to stay in the shop.
Besides, the villa is too big, and he is not used to living alone when Jiang Bai is not around. If something happens, such as if he falls or something, it would be unsafe for Grandpa Jiang to have no one around since Jiang Bai lives on campus.
As for the house decoration, Jiang Ning did not bother two people and directly handed it over to Manager Qian's decoration company.
Manager Qian's decoration company had been doing very bad business due to the stock market crash last year and the floods this year. After receiving Jiang Ning's job, he immediately rushed over without stopping to design and decorate the house for Jiang Ning, ensuring that it was completed as quickly as possible.
It is definitely too late to move in this winter, but they will try their best to let them move in next spring.
Jiang Ning's holiday was quite busy. In addition to the manuscripts for "The King's Guards" and "The Years I Driving a Mecha in the StarCraft" that she had to submit on a daily basis, the Popular Film Wanhua Film Festival was coming up at the end of November. The crew of the movie "White Snake" applied for this year's Popular Film Wanhua Award. The crew nominated the female lead for the Best Actress, and Jiang Bai for the Best Supporting Actor, as well as the Audience's Favorite Actor Award.
It is still unknown whether they can be nominated or even win the award, but based on the box office of "White Snake" this year, the probability of the "White Snake" crew winning the award is very high, so the entire "White Snake" crew attaches great importance to this matter.
Regarding nominations and awards, they can only work on them privately, but they can already promote the Audience Favorite Actor Award now, and various votes have already begun.
Mobile phones have just started to become popular this year. People in cities who have some spare money have started to abandon their pagers and mobile phones and put small and exquisite mobile phones on their belts.
This time, the awards for the most popular actor and actress among the general film audience will be presented in three ways: one is letter voting, one is text message voting by the national audience, and one is phone voting. The final result is the sum of the three voting methods to see who gets the most votes.
Originally, this matter had nothing to do with Jiang Ning. Who would have thought that after the TV series "The King's Guards" was released on National Day, Jiang Bai, who had not been very popular due to the withdrawal of "White Snake", actually gained a lot of popularity because of his role as the second male lead in the TV series "The King's Guards". After seeing the voting address in the newspaper, many people wrote to the organizers of the Popular Film Wanhua Film Festival to vote, and some voted by text message, which immediately raised Jiang Bai's votes and gave him a chance to compete for the Most Popular Actor Award.
Originally, the "White Snake" crew had not prepared this award, and Jiang Bai's number of votes was a complete accident.
They thought that if they could canvass more votes and give it a try, the "White Snake" crew might be able to win another award, so they immediately asked Jiang Ning to come, hoping that Jiang Ning could use her popularity to canvass votes for Jiang Bai, after all, Jiang Bai is her brother.
Although Jiang Ning is already a recognized girl in the circle and many people have seen her, she has not appeared in public after all. The "White Snake" crew wanted Jiang Ning to follow their crew to promote the show, but Jiang Ning refused. The crew also hoped that she could canvass votes for the "White Snake" crew and Jiang Baila on "Wuxia".
Regarding this matter, Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai were not active either. Only the crew of "White Snake" was the most active. They had no choice but to be active. Although they had earned more than 42 million at the box office, ranking first in all the box office so far this year, their crew still had a strong competitor, the crew of "Party A and Party B" from the Beijing circle.
Although "Party A and Party B" was not the film with the highest box office this year, it also earned more than 30 million yuan at the box office. There are people and power behind it, and many nominations of the two films collided. It is obvious that this year's Wanhua Awards is basically a showdown between these two films.
Seeing that Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai, the brother and sister, looked indifferent, the "White Snake" crew gritted their teeth and gave Jiang Ning a promotional red envelope of 100,000 yuan.
When the movie was taken off the screen and grossed over 40 million at the box office, the crew had already given Jiang Ning a red envelope of 50,000 yuan. Now here came another red envelope... Jiang Ning couldn't refuse the kindness and said that he would promote "White Snake".
When "Wuxia" magazine heard that Jiang Bai was selected as the most popular actor, they of course started a wave of publicity. Even the publishing house used its influence to promote "White Snake" and Jiang Bai, and at the same time took advantage of the popularity to continue selling their published books, which resulted in the publishing house and Jiang Ning making a small profit.
Jiang Ning used this money to buy stocks of that electrical appliance company in early June.
The levees held back the raging floodwaters in August, but the waters did not really begin to recede until October.
The floodwaters in Jiangjia Village finally began to recede bit by bit, first the stone steps of each waterproof platform were exposed one by one.
Then the road surface under the stairs gradually changed from waist-high to ankle-deep, and then the pond under the platform was exposed.
The willow trees, roses and other plants by the pond were all drowned and needed to be replanted. As for the willow trees, it was not a big deal. As long as willow branches were planted around the pond, in less than three years, it would become a tall jade tree with thousands of green ribbons hanging down.
The only regret is that all the lotus roots in the pond were drowned. Not only the lotus roots in the pond, but also the endless wild lotus roots on the river beach in previous years are all gone this year. If no one specifically plants them, then in the next three years, the people of the entire Linhe Brigade will not be able to eat free lotus root balls during the Chinese New Year.
The water level receded until the road in the ditch next to Jiang Ning's new house was completely exposed, and Jiangjia Village finally had electricity.
The electrician from Dafang came to the hydropower station overnight and turned on the power.
It wasn't that we didn't want to turn on the electricity, but we couldn't. Too many electric poles were flooded, and many children from both inside and outside the village had to wade through the water to go to school. Children were naughty, and the electric wires were only half a person's height above the water surface. Once a child accidentally touched the wires, water was conductive and could cause an electric shock. It was too dangerous. After discussion with the brigade, we simply turned off the power until the water level receded.
Now that there is finally electricity, the phone at the old store at the entrance of the village finally rang. Father Jiang called to ask about the flood situation at home.
He was far away in Shenzhen, and all flood situations were tracked through the daily "News Broadcast". The news in Shenzhen could only be broadcast on the provincial satellite TV station. Stations in small cities like Wujiang City and small counties like Wucheng could not be found in Shenzhen, and calls were unresolved. He was extremely anxious all day long, and every other week Jiang's father would call his hometown. It was not until October that the call was finally connected.
The first thing Jiang's father asked when the call was connected was: "Grandpa, is my house okay? Is it flooded?"
Grandfather Lao Zhonghua is Jiang Guotai's father. He is old and has never left the floodproof platform since the flood came. Hearing this, he said, "I really don't know. I haven't been there, but your house should have been flooded, right? Everyone was flooded on my platform. It was so close to flooding my house!"
Even the flood more than ten years ago only reached the fourth step of the waterproof platform. This time, it is almost reaching the tenth step.
When he heard that his house was flooded, Jiang's father took a deep breath and was so anxious that he didn't know what the situation at home was like.
Even though he had anticipated this year's severe floods, he did not expect the floods in his hometown to be beyond his expectations. His new house, which was built last year, would be flooded if it was damaged by the water. All the work of the past year would have been in vain.
Lao Zhonghua said, "Wait five minutes and call back. I'll go get your eldest brother."
The three brothers of Uncle Jiang's family went to build a house for someone else, leaving Uncle Jiang at home. There was a flood this year, and it would be necessary to leave a man at home.
As soon as Uncle Jiang answered the phone, Father Jiang asked, "Brother, how is my house? Has it been flooded?"
"It didn't flood, just a little bit." Uncle Jiang said, "Fortunately, I built your house high. When I was laying the foundation, I deliberately raised it by several dozen centimeters. I also added half a meter to the first floor for you, so it didn't flood to the second floor. But your basement is hopeless. It's full of water and the water can't get out. The firewood inside is no longer usable!"
When it was first being built, it was taken into consideration that the house would definitely get flooded during the pumping season of the hydroelectric power station every year, so a drain outlet was left. However, the internal environment of the basement was not only simple but also uneven, and some water had accumulated there to a certain extent. In addition to water, there was also silt and water snakes.
I don't know if there are any mice in there.
When Jiang's father heard that the second floor of the house was not flooded, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I was so worried in Shenzhen! I was looking forward to calling you every day, but I couldn't get through to the brigade headquarters. I called Guotai, but Guotai said that there was a power outage in his hometown. He wanted to contact you but couldn't. I wrote you several letters, but no one replied!"
Uncle Jiang said speechlessly: "The road is flooded, who will deliver the letter to you?"
The two brothers were silent for a while, and Uncle Jiang suddenly asked, "Did you know that Ningning came back to help with the disaster relief?"
Father Jiang was still worried about his house when he suddenly heard about disaster relief. Father Jiang asked nonchalantly, "Disaster relief? What disaster relief? Ningning is back for summer vacation?"
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