Chapter 131131After

Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng won the first prize in the provincial competition, they had to come to Grandpa Jiang's store to write for two hours every day for the training.

Now Grandpa Jiang's store business has basically stabilized. In the past, there were people whose business was stolen and wanted to come to Grandpa Jiang's store to make trouble, but when they saw Grandpa Jiang's old and frail appearance, they were very worried. They pushed Grandpa Jiang to death.

Grandpa Jiang was really too thin. He was afraid of the heat in summer, so he wore a torn vest and big trousers every day, sitting on a bamboo recliner, swaying.

The torn vest was washed by him and stretched out very long. The sleeve holes under the armpits allowed people who came to cause trouble to clearly see the ribs under Grandpa Jiang's vest and the two skinny and thin legs exposed.

This was the result of his being fed in the school cafeteria and the small restaurant opposite for a year in Jiangwu. He was thinner in the past.

In addition, Wu Cheng's severe beatings never stopped. Even more severe, there was a vicious incident of shooting and fighting with people from the underground casino, killing many people. Although they were shop owners and not gangsters, they did not dare to do anything to Grandpa Jiang, and only found some faults with him in terms of language.

Unfortunately, Grandpa Jiang just sat there like an old monk, lying on the recliner, swaying and looking at them quietly. Then, in his rustic Shuibu town dialect, he asked them if they came to buy clothes. He smiled and said to them, "If you want to buy clothes, choose them yourself. This part is 29.9 yuan, this part is 19.9 yuan, and 12.9 yuan."

People who came to pick trouble:...

They didn't understand what Grandpa Jiang said and tried to pick trouble aggressively. Grandpa Jiang didn't seem to understand either, because they were near the school and there was a police station on the street not far away. They didn't dare to make trouble in Grandpa Jiang's store. In the end, they saw that the clothes in Grandpa Jiang's store were indeed cheap, and two of them bought a piece of clothing each, and then they left after saying something harsh.

Grandpa Jiang took the money and continued to lie on the recliner, rocking happily, and did not tell Jiang Wu about this.

After the provincial competition, Jiang Wu was arranged to join the provincial training team. The location of this training was a private high school that had just opened in the provincial capital less than two years ago. The hardware conditions were very good in this era, and there was a brand new boarding dormitory building.

There were still a few people from Wuzhong who entered the provincial training team this time, but only Jiang Wu was left from No. 1 Middle School.

After that was the national competition, and then she and Song Peifeng entered the winter camp again.

This competition was the best result in history for both Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School.

Even Jiang Wu herself did not expect that she could make it to such a level.

She has always believed that she is not very talented in math, physics and chemistry. She thought she had a correct understanding of herself, but after rebirth, she refreshed her understanding of herself again and again.

However, she is very happy to accept such a change, accept this completely different path from her previous life, and enjoy it.

So in the eyes of others, she has to participate in competitions and write in addition to studying, and almost arranges all her time. She has no time for herself, as if she has no fun. However, she herself enjoys it, enjoying this simple environment, enjoying learning new knowledge every day, and enjoying experiencing a life and life that is completely different from the city.

She always felt that people come to this world to experience all the different things in this world, sadness, pain, happiness, family, friendship, love, and everything in this world. This feeling also made her completely accept her past. If there were no happy, sad, painful, dark emotions, perhaps the words she wrote would be more pale.

Because she is willing to accept all the good and bad things that the world has imposed on her, her eyes are always bright, and the aura around her is always upbeat and cheerful. Whenever you see her, she looks up and looks at you with a smile.

Song Peifeng, who was still a teenager, met such a person. He studied with her in the training team every day, and felt the positive energy brought by her magnetic field. It was hard not to be attracted by such a person. Every time he saw her, he would smile unconsciously and his mood would unconsciously improve.

You can't feel any negative energy in her.

When it was windy, she enjoyed the wind, when it rained, she enjoyed the rain, when it was sunny, she enjoyed the sun, when it snowed, she looked up at the snow in the sky under the lights, and the smile in her eyes, when she heard a sound and turned to look at him, the orange-yellow light seemed to cover her body with a layer of warm color, making him unconsciously approach her and walk towards her.

At the end of the year, Shuibu Town was as prosperous and lively as ever. Many young and middle-aged people who worked outside returned to their hometowns, making Shuibu Town many times more lively than usual. When

Jiang's father and mother got off the minibus from the neighboring city to Shuibu Town, they heard the sound of a loud speaker not far away: "Everything is on sale for thirty-nine, forty-nine, and fifty-nine!"

As soon as he arrived in the neighboring city and heard the familiar hometown accent, Jiang's father was filled with the warmth of returning home, and he was filled with a joyful mood.

Jiang's mother was also very happy. The two of them got off the car and walked towards Aunt Jiang's shop. The further they walked, the clearer the sound of "Jiangnan Garment Factory, Jiangnan Garment Factory" became. After squeezing through the crowds on the street, they saw many people gathered in front of the shop in front of Aunt Jiang's house.

Last year, they heard that the "Jiangnan Garment Factory" had closed down. Knowing that the clothes here were cheap, they no longer went to the shops on the street to buy clothes, and came to Aunt Jiang's house one after another.

As for why the "Jiangnan Garment Factory" that closed down last year still had clothes to sell this year, who cares? As long as the clothes are good and the price is really cheap, it's fine.

However, this year's clothes are not the accumulated inventory from last year. Although they are also the leftovers from this year's order fair, if they are not sent to Jiang Xiao this year, they will be accumulated inventory next year. However, they are new models this year, and the price is slightly higher than last year, but it is not much more expensive per piece.

The clothes are all shipped by train. Although it takes a little longer, the freight is much cheaper than going to Guangzhou to select the goods and then passing them through the second-hand dealers in the wholesale market. Therefore, Jiang Bai and his friends still make some money.

Yes, Jiang Bai also had a holiday. After the holiday, he did not stay in Shanghai for a single day. He and Tong Jingang took advantage of the end of the year to go to the towns of various markets to sell clothes.

Now he has grown to 1.83 meters, almost catching up with Jiang's father's height. In this southern city, he is considered a rare tall man. He and Tong Jingang stood in the crowd. Even though they were surrounded by people buying clothes, Jiang's father still saw Jiang Bo in the crowd.

He and Jiang's mother walked to the yard of Jiang's aunt's house and put the things in the middle of the stairs of Jiang's aunt's house to prevent guests from outside from sneaking in and stealing things. When Jiang's aunt

saw Jiang's father and Jiang's mother, she shouted enthusiastically: "Second brother and second sister-in-law are back? When did you arrive? Are you tired? Come over quickly and have a drink of water!"

The end of the year is also the busiest time for Jiang's aunt.

Aunt Jiang has a gentle personality. During the years when the Jiang family was in debt and had no money even during the Chinese New Year, Aunt Jiang often gave money to Jiang's mother privately.

Therefore, Jiang's mother and Aunt Jiang have a good relationship. When she came back this time, she forgot to buy something for Aunt Jiang. Now that she saw Aunt Jiang, she remembered that she should buy Aunt Jiang a piece of clothing.

Jiang's mother has always been hardworking and simple. She stood up and stopped Aunt Jiang and said, "You do your work. We can just pour water ourselves. You've been so busy during the New Year, and you still want to entertain us. We don't need you to worry about us. Just do your work."

Aunt Jiang set up a small table under the corridor of the courtyard and put a small bowl of young ginger, coriander, and dried radish that she pickled herself. The coriander and dried radish were wrapped in red oil and black sesame seeds, which looked delicious.

She took two pairs of chopsticks for Jiang's father and mother, and asked them to drink tea and eat some dishes here. She went to the front to work again, and even took the time to shout, "Baizi, your parents are back!"

Jiang Bai was busy selling clothes and collecting money. He only turned his head to look and replied, "Oh." Then he continued to work.

Jiang's father and mother ate a few bites of food, drank a sip of tea, and then returned to the shop in front. From the back, they could not see Jiang Bai's appearance in front, but they could see from the back that Jiang Bai was wearing brand new clothes and shoes, a woolen hat on his head, a scarf around his neck, dark blue jeans on his legs, and a thick long down jacket on his body. He stood straight, and calmly and leisurely did business with the people surrounding him.

He looked at it awkwardly for a while, and asked Aunt Jiang, "What's going on? Baizi is helping you sell clothes?"

Aunt Jiang took a break from her busy schedule to answer Jiang's father, "How can they help me sell? They are helping themselves! These two kids got a batch of clothes from somewhere, and they had nowhere to go, so they came to my door to sell them." She smiled and said, "It also brought up the business of my store."

The location of her store is a little lower at the intersection of the four roads, so the business is usually not very good. Everyone prefers to go to the street leading to the riverside pier, and there are fewer people coming here.

Now because Jiang Bai is selling clothes here, it has attracted a large wave of traffic.

Father Jiang looked at the crowds of people coming and going and said in surprise, "Business is so good?"

He sold lunch boxes himself and knew that his net profit for a lunch box was only 30 cents, 30 cents for 100 lunch boxes. He even raised the price to 1.5 yuan per box at the end of the year, but added a large piece of greasy pork sliced ​​with preserved mustard greens that was neither too thin nor too thick. He and Mother Jiang sold the lunch boxes separately, and they could sell more than 2,000 lunch boxes at the train station every day. They still had business at 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening. Although it was a bit tiring, the two of them made a net profit of 80 to 900 yuan a day. During the Spring Festival travel rush at the end of the year alone, he and Mother Jiang made nearly 20,000 yuan.

He saw Jiang Bai's clothing business, even if he sold fifty pieces of clothing a day, it was still a lot.

She smiled helplessly and said, "How can these two kids know how to do business? They only make fifty cents or one dollar for a piece of clothing, with a clear price tag, and they won't pay back unless they split the money. Look at which store on the street doesn't charge one or two hundred yuan at the end of the year, and doesn't rip people off? Only they are honest, otherwise how can their business be so good? With them, fewer people go to that part of the street to buy clothes."

Who doesn't buy clothes during the New Year? Especially the people in the villages below, after one person spread the word, and after arriving in the town, they no longer buy clothes on that street, but directly cross the street to her store.

Her store is also easy to recognize, opposite the boarding point to Wucheng, many people coming back from Wucheng, after getting off the bus and hearing the loud speaker shouting, go straight to her store.

Jiang's father and mother calculated that the clothes sold by Jiang Bai were only a few yuan more expensive than those they bought in the wholesale market in Shenzhen. The purchase price here was estimated to be much higher than that in Shenzhen, and they only made 50 cents or 1 yuan for each piece of clothing.

Jiang's father thought that if he also brought a bag of clothes back from Shenzhen to sell during the Chinese New Year, plus the shipping fee, his clothes would probably cost 20 yuan more than Jiang Bai's clothes to make a profit.

It's not that he didn't want to bring clothes back to sell, but the biggest thing he had to do this time was to build a building, and he didn't have time to do anything else.

Moreover, he and Jiang's mother made nearly 100,000 yuan in Shenzhen this year. In this era, nearly 100,000 yuan is not only the only one in the village, but also a pretty good existence.

For example, in Uncle Jiang's family, four strong laborers worked hard to build houses for others in their hometown, working in the wind and rain. They could save 20,000 yuan a year, which was considered a lot.

He made so much money this year, and he thought that when he came back, he would be greeted by the admiring eyes of his children and the joy when he got new clothes. As a result, the youngest son was busy selling clothes to make money and didn't even look at them. This feeling of being ignored made Jiang's father feel a wave of loss.

He wanted to talk to his son, but he was too busy to talk to him. He finally squeezed in and wanted to say something, but his son looked at him coldly and said, "I'm busy with business. Can't we talk about it at home?"

His cold eyes and words were like a basin of cold water splashed on Jiang's head.

At this time, he and Jiang's mother missed Jiang Song even more.

Unlike Jiang Bai, who was quiet and unsociable since childhood, Jiang Song always gave them the most enthusiastic response. If it were Jiang Song, he would come over and hug them enthusiastically at this time, and then comfort them with a smile while hugging them, saying: "Dad! Mom! You go home and rest for a while. When I'm done with my work here, I'll go back and cook a big meal for you and buy you new clothes and shoes!"

There must be a bold, confident and enthusiastic smile on his face.

Although he has never cooked a big meal for them, and never bought them new clothes and shoes, they believe that as long as Jiang Song makes money, he will buy them for them.

Jiang's mother didn't care about Jiang Bai's indifference. She just thought that since Jiang Bai knew that she made money this year, could they pay less for next year's tuition? He can make money now, so do they not need to give him living expenses?

She didn't feel the emptiness in Jiang's father's heart at all. When she saw that the time was almost up, she went upstairs to the middle staircase and took out a bag of 4-5 kg ​​of bacon and duck legs in a plastic bag and gave it to Aunt Jiang.

Aunt Jiang thought it was something else, but when she opened it, it turned out to be several kg of bacon. She looked at Jiang's mother in surprise: "Where did you get so much bacon?"

The bacon was steamed or fried, so that Aunt Jiang's family could have several meals.

The bacon was marinated by Jiang's mother in the early stage, but Jiang's father didn't like her marinating and did it himself. When Jiang's aunt opened it, a salty and fragrant smell came to her face.

Jiang's aunt was also very happy. Although her family lived in the town, her parents-in-law brought in chickens, ducks, geese and fish every day to sell, so her family didn't lack meat.

Because they couldn't bear to throw away sick chickens, ducks and geese, and ate them at home. Jiang's aunt was really scared of eating this meat, but she was good to her brother's family, and her sister-in-law appreciated it and was willing to give her some things in return. Of course, she was also happy.

Mother Jiang told Aunt Jiang how she cut a piece of meat from the chicken and duck legs every day, little by little, to make these pieces of salted and fried meat.

Aunt Jiang had known for a long time that her sister-in-law was a thrifty person, but she had never heard of such a thrifty person. She did not think there was anything wrong with Jiang's mother being like this. Her brother was a lavish spender, and it happened that his sister-in-law was in charge of him. Only someone who knew how to live like his sister-in-law could have survived the most difficult and hard times in her brother's family.

Aunt Jiang sighed, "It was not easy for you. My brother worked hard because of you, so this family did not break up."

If it were another woman, she would have run away long ago when her husband owed so much debt. How could she be willing to accompany Jiang's father through so many years of hard times?

She said to Jiang's mother with emotion, "It's better now. I've survived it all." She also asked how she was doing outside this year.

Jiang's father and mother were in debt and looked down upon by others in recent years, and they were both very depressed. They might not tell others about the money they made, but they all trusted Aunt Jiang very much, and they whispered to Aunt Jiang about their income this year.

Jiang's father wanted to say directly that he made nearly 100,000 yuan, but Jiang's mother was still cautious and did not say the specific number, saying that business was good at the end of the year and they made tens of thousands of yuan.

20,000 yuan is also tens of thousands, and 30,000 yuan is also tens of thousands. Aunt Jiang only thought that the couple made 20,000 or 30,000 this year, which is not a small amount of income. Uncle Jiang and Uncle Jiang built houses for others outside, and they only made 5,000 or 6,000 yuan a year. This income was only earned from the construction of the new street this year. In previous years, it was considered good to have 2,000 or 3,000 yuan.

Aunt Jiang advised Father Jiang: "Hurry up and build the house after you make the money. The two children are grown up. Songzi will get married in the next two years, right? If you have a house at home, it will be more attractive for girls to come and see."

Father Jiang said: "Why do you need to tell us that? We came back this time to build the house before we leave." He asked Aunt Jiang again: "Has Songzi come back this year?"

"I didn't know that yet. Songzi didn't come to me." Aunt Jiang looked at Jiang's father and mother in surprise: "Has Songzi not been found yet?"

Jiang's father and mother, who were happy about making money this year, now had a look of sorrow on their faces and sighed: "Alas, I don't know where this child has gone. He didn't go home and didn't even have a phone. I don't know if he doesn't know the phone number of the brigade."

Jiang's father didn't know at this time that Jiang Hehua was arrested by the police for making rumors about Jiang Xi and because Jiang Xi was verbally humiliated by a classmate from No. 1 Middle School, and was severely beaten and sentenced to three years.

He thought this matter had been resolved long ago.

Seeing that Jiang Bai was busy and not close to him and Jiang's mother, Jiang's father and Jiang's mother took the boat home again.

They were all secretly hoping that Jiang Song had returned home. They had been looking for him for a year, and now it was the New Year. He didn't go home for the New Year last year, so he couldn't not come back this year

, right? Because he had made money, he felt confident. When he met people from the same team on the boat, Jiang's father had regained some of his youthful vigor and vitality, with a genuine and hearty smile on his face. Everyone could tell at a glance that the big guy must have made money this year.

Jiang's mother was afraid that Jiang's father would show off and tell others how much money he had made, and then someone would inevitably come to borrow money.

Fortunately, Jiang's father was not stupid. When others asked how much money he made, he laughed and said, "How can I earn money? I just work hard to make a living. It's just that I had debts in previous years. Now, whatever money I make is mine."

Everyone thought it made sense and stopped asking.

The boat finally arrived at Xujia Village. Jiang's father got off the boat and hurried home with a load of things on his shoulder. Jiang's mother also carried a big box.

When they finally got home, they were dumbfounded when they looked at their own house.

The waterproof platform at the entrance of their house was covered with wormwood and weeds that were more than a person tall. It was so dense that it looked like a wasteland. The door ring was rusty. Probably because they had not been back for the whole year, they found the key and pushed open the door. There was a thick layer of dust inside. Because no one lived there, the broken tiles on the roof were cracked and no one repaired them. The ground was dripping with water from the leaking rain, making a small puddle.

They thought that even if Jiang Song had not returned, at least Jiang Yeye and Jiang Xi would be there? Jiang Bai would also come back during the winter vacation, right? No matter how good the house was, it was clean and tidy, with food and hot water. How could they know that when they returned home, what greeted them was not the surprise and enthusiasm of their children as they imagined, but such a cold and dilapidated scene.

After they put down their things, Jiang's mother took two pounds of bacon leg meat and went to Uncle Jiang's house.

Uncle Jiang's family had three sons and a daughter-in-law. This year, they also had a granddaughter. Aunt Jiang, who had always wanted a daughter, was very happy. She held the little granddaughter tightly and wouldn't let go. The whole family was teasing the little granddaughter and talking to her.

She was gentle and kind, and she didn't tease her daughter-in-law. Although the eldest son and daughter-in-law had separated, the two houses were connected, and even the stairs in the middle were shared. The family was lively and noisy, and the house was full of smoke and fire, which formed a sharp contrast with the coldness of Jiang's father's house.

When they saw Father and Mother Jiang, they shouted in surprise, "Guoping and Ailian are back?"

Father Jiang looked at his eldest brother's house full of children and grandchildren, and he should have smiled during the New Year, but he couldn't. He asked Aunt Jiang, "Sister-in-law, where are Dad and the others? There's no one at home. Didn't Dad and Xiaoxiao come back?"