Chapter 138

Jiang Xi arrived at the school where Jiang Bai was studying. After listening to Jiang Bai’s introduction, she learned that she wanted Jiang Bai to apply to East China University of Science and Technology, but Jiang Bai applied to Shanghai University of Science and Technology, which was originally formed by the merger of East China University of Technology and Shanghai Mechanical School.

At this time, there were very few people in the school. The guard saw Jiang Bai’s student ID and badge and knew that this was a student of their school. When he brought his sister and grandfather to visit the school, he let the three of them in.

This was the first time that Grandpa Jiang went to college.

School has always been sacred to him. When he was a child, there was no school, only a small classroom. He went there to study for two years, recognized some characters, and could recite 1.3,000. Later, he forgot everything in the heavy work. What he probably remembered was that human nature is good at the beginning.

He had never even entered the junior high school in the town, and had only stood at the door and stared into the distance.

The three Jiang brothers and sisters were actually very independent. Although Jiang Song was taken to school by his father and mother when he was young, and later they expected Jiang Song to take his two younger siblings to familiarize themselves with the school, Jiang Song actually didn't need that. He had an independent and fearless attitude since he was a child. Of course, if you expect him to be like an older brother and take his younger brothers and sisters to school to register and visit the school, that's unthinkable. He doesn't have that in his mind. Among the three, Jiang Bai is more like a responsible older brother. Jiang Song is like a wild dog that has broken free from its reins, rushing around in front, and Jiang Bai is responsible for taking good care of his younger sister and keeping an eye on everything.

It's not that he doesn't have resentment. All his resentment is directed at Jiang Song, so he doesn't think highly of Jiang Song. When Jiang's father and mother ignored him and invested all their energy and money in Jiang Song, he complained to Jiang Xi: "With my eldest brother like this, I don't believe he can make it in the future. I don't believe you can just wait and see. He has no sense of responsibility at all."

Everyone said that Jiang Bai was not as smart as Jiang Song, not as flexible as him, and not as smart as him, but Jiang Bai was determined: "Just wait and see, I won't live worse than him."

He was not convinced, and he was always running towards his ideal life, down-to-earth, step by step, moving forward with his head down, never wavering, never hesitating.

Someone once said on the Internet: There is no man who doesn't cheat! There

is no man who doesn't cheat!

There is no man who is not PC! There

is no man who is not good!

At least, from what Jiang Xi knew, Jiang Bai had none of these.

Moreover, he was a straight man.

Jiang Bai sneered at all these words.

He was like an ascetic monk practicing in this world, sticking to his own principles, sticking to his own principles. When talking to Jiang Xi, the only thing that made him happy was how much his own piggy bank had increased, and how much his own savings had increased. Whenever he talked about these, he felt like his grandfather, with a secret sense of pride.

He couldn't share this kind of pride with anyone other than her and Tong Jingang, because others would borrow money from him. Every time he earned how much, he would tell his sister, as if he was implicitly saying: "Look, I have so much money now. Those who say I am not as good as Jiang Song, that Jiang Song will definitely have a bright future, and that I..." In fact, not many people said anything about him. He was hidden in the shadow of Jiang Song. Everyone just tacitly accepted that he would be ordinary and would not have a bright future.

How could he accept it?

At this time, he took his sister and grandfather to visit his university. His eyebrows were curved, and the corners of his lips were raised in a reserved manner, just like in his previous life when he occasionally showed off his small treasury to Jiang Xi in a reserved and implicit manner. It can be said that it was exactly the same.

But now he is more sunny and his emotions are more exposed.

He introduced every building in the school to Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Xi, and the place where he took his professional courses.

He studied mechanical engineering, which was his favorite and best subject, and he felt at home here.

He still couldn't socialize, but he was no longer as cold as he was in high school, and he seemed to keep everyone at a distance. He now had a good relationship with several people in the dormitory.

Jiang Bai was not a person who would talk about his own affairs, but he went "home" every Friday and came back on Sunday. He would bring a big bottle of delicious food every week, and the familiar classmates in the dormitory would come to grab it. He was not as stingy as before, and was willing to share with his roommates with a smile.

But he was also a particularly sensitive person. He had a scale in his heart to judge who in the dormitory was really good to him and who was not.

Grandpa Jiang followed his grandson like a pilgrim, listening to him talk about everything in college. Unfortunately, the boy was too poor in language skills. Jiang Xi really wished that this was her school, so she could squeeze him out and let her talk.

She was good at showing off all the honors she had won! She could always make Grandpa Jiang laugh.

Unlike Jiang Bai, he spoke in a dry voice, as if he was embarrassed to show off, and just smiled and looked very happy.

After visiting the school, Jiang Bai took them to visit other parts of the school. Jiang Xi noticed that this school was formed by the merger of two schools. At present, the school is still very new. The school has three gates in total. Not to mention the main gate, which faces the road and has a wide view. There are two side gates, one of which corresponds to the snack street. Although school has not started yet, the snack street storefronts are all closed. There is also a small gate. The back has not been completed. There is a wasteland and a newly built building. The storefront below has not been built yet.

Jiang Xi walked in here.

There was someone on duty at the construction site. When he heard that she was here to buy a house and a shop, he quickly called their manager and someone came over soon.

Jiang Bai was puzzled when she heard that she wanted to buy the shop here: "No one usually comes here."

The back is so messy, it's all construction sites, no one really comes here, and this small door is always locked, and sometimes the real 'small door' on the iron door is opened to let people in and out.

Jiang Xi knew this, of course. Although she had never been to this place before, she knew that in a few years, when this community was built, the value of this shop would go up, and it would be suitable to open a store here or rent it out.

Buying a house here also comes with a blue-stamp household registration, but Jiang Xi no longer needs a blue-stamp household registration, so he doesn’t care about it. He simply did not buy a house, but bought two shops, choosing the locations closest to the back door of the school.

Grandpa Jiang Bai, even though he already knew that his granddaughter was now wealthy and had seen the duplex apartment of more than 300 square meters that she had renovated and the mansion whose hard decoration had been completed but soft decoration was still to be added, he still watched his granddaughter buy two more shops without blinking an eye. Both of them were a little dazed, especially when the monthly mortgage payments for the two shops were close to 4,000 yuan. Grandpa Jiang felt like he was about to faint, especially when Jiang Xi finally told him the truth that the mortgage for the villa was also 2,000 yuan per month. Grandpa Jiang stroked his old heart and walked out in silence.

At this time, he was in no mood to visit any school. He packed up his things at home and went back to Wucheng: "How dare I take a break when you are so daring to spend money? If I take a break for one day, I will lose a lot of money!"

As far as he knew, Jiang Xi had to spend more than 6,500 yuan a month to pay off the mortgage. With Jiang Bai's, the mortgage was 7,000 yuan.

Wow, he knew that his granddaughter dared to spend money, but he really didn't expect that she would be so daring to spend money, a "high-interest loan" of more than 7,000 yuan.

Grandpa Jiang didn't understand the difference between private high-interest loans and bank loans. In his eyes, as long as it was a loan, it was a high-interest loan, and if it wasn't handled properly, it would ruin his family.

Grandpa Jiang felt bad. He counted on his fingers. The business in the store was the best in the second half of each year. On weekdays, he could make more than 100 to 200 pieces a day. At the end of the year, it was common to sell 100 pieces a day, and sometimes 200 pieces a day. Just this winter vacation, Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang could make 2,000 to 3,000 yuan a day by running around.

In the first semester of college, he saw that his sister made money too easily. After leaving his sister's store, he also went to the wholesale market to buy some things and occasionally sold them at the school gate. When he went to the wholesale market to buy clothes, he realized that some of the prices he bought were more expensive than the prices he sold.

He didn't dare to look at those with particularly good quality, and only bought goods from small commodity markets, because students had limited money and the goods he bought were too expensive and he couldn't sell them at all.

He knows how to dress himself now, and dresses himself as a model. In the evening, he hangs a clothes rack on a street behind their house, spreads a straw mat, and puts some clothes on the straw mat, and hangs some clothes on the clothes rack after ironing. He sells clothes very cheaply, making only one or two yuan per piece. He doesn't spend money on his sister at the end of the semester, and makes more money in one day at the end of the year.

Grandpa Jiang and Jiang Bai are both racking their brains, wondering if their earnings are enough for his sister to pay off the mortgage.

His sister was in the training team in the second half of last year, and she had less time to play computer, let alone make money herself. She relies on Grandpa Jiang in the store and Jiang Bai who is on holiday at the end of the year.

Jiang Bo calculated his earnings at the end of the year, and Grandpa Jiang calculated his earnings this year, and they both had a strong sense of crisis.

In particular, they saw that their younger sister/granddaughter, who owed so much "high-interest loans", was still so stable and eager to try and continue to buy a house, and they were terrified.

Jiang Xi wanted to take Grandpa Jiang to stay in the villa for a few more days, but Jiang Bai and Grandpa Jiang were eager to return to Wucheng to continue selling clothes. Jiang Xi had no choice but to call Manager Qian and tell him that there were still some vegetables and meat in the refrigerator that had not been eaten. She asked him to go over when he had time and take them to the sales office to make a snack for everyone. By the way, he was asked to help ventilate the villa when he was free.

She also told Jiang Bai about this and asked him to go to her villa every week to take care of it after school started.

Jiang Bai was more concerned about this matter than she was. Her sister seemed to be a little careless, just like her elder brother Jiang Song, who only knew how to buy and buy. After buying, she was very careless. She didn't care about the high-interest loans she owed. Only he and Grandpa Jiang were anxious.

It must be said that Jiang Bai was the truth.

Jiang Xi looked a bit like Jiang Bai in appearance. They were both silent and steady, and did things meticulously. But her inner core was actually the same as Jiang Song. They were both born optimists. If there was anything similar between her and Jiang Bai, it was probably that they both had more empathy and sense of responsibility.

But in Jiang Bai's eyes, his sister was not like Jiang Song, who had been unbridled since childhood, but was now slowly unbridled. He carefully tightened the reins for his sister from behind.

In his eyes, his sister's behavior of taking out loans to buy houses, buying so many houses, and owing so much loan debt is really no different from Jiang Song, but he inexplicably believes in Jiang Xi, at least Jiang Xi really has the money to pay these down payments and repay these loans.

In particular, his sister's IQ and knowledge seem to be higher than his, so she should be... more reliable than her eldest brother, right?

There are two unbridled and uncontrolled wild horses at home, and Jiang Bo is under great pressure.

Because time is urgent, Jiang's father is anxious to go out and make money, and the homestead is completely settled on the second day of the Chinese New Year. On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Jiang's mother brought her braised chicken legs and returned to her parents' home.

This time she came back with 60-70 kilograms of bacon, all picked up by Jiang's father. He gave 5 kilograms to Jiang's aunt, 2-3 kilograms to Jiang's uncle's mother, and 30-odd kilograms to her family. The rest was divided into 5 kilograms for each of the six brothers and sisters from her mother's family. It was a big deal.

You know, one kilogram of fresh meat can only be pickled into 7 taels of bacon. Although these bacon were incomplete meat cut from chicken and duck legs by Jiang's mother bit by bit throughout the year, they were still real meat. In those days, they were good things.

Most of her brothers, sisters-in-law, and younger brothers and sisters returned gifts to her, except for two who were very stingy and only took in but never gave out. Her sister-in-law and youngest brother and sister returned the most. Her younger brothers and sisters also worked outside, and there were not many things at home, so they could only secretly give money to their sister.

Jiang's mother gave it back to him, and also gave 500 yuan to Jiang Xiaojiu, saying, "You have given me a lot of money over the years, and I don't count how much it is." Seeing that Jiang Xiaojiu didn't want it, Jiang's mother pulled him and said, "I know that you gave me money, and Hongling quarreled with you a lot. I had no choice but to pretend not to know even if I knew, so I accepted it." She lowered her voice and said to Jiang Xiaojiu privately, "This year, your brother-in-law and I were at the train station outside. Selling lunch boxes can earn a lot of money a day. Now I have paid off all my debts. Your brother-in-law is planning to build a house at home. Now we have money. Don't give me money anymore. Hongling will be unhappy if she knows this. You have children to raise. Take care of yourself. "

She looked at her younger brother who was as thin as a bamboo pole with a soft look. She patted his arm and said, "You should also take care of yourself. I will help you. She said, "You can make money by selling lunch boxes. Can't you cook? Let's find a construction site or a train station or bus station with Hongling and sell lunch boxes."

She lowered her voice and said, "Even if you make two or three cents for a lunch box, 100 boxes a day will make 20 to 30 yuan. How much does it cost to sell 500 boxes for two meals at noon and night? But don't go to work."

During the years when she owed the most debts, her younger brothers and sisters helped her the most, so she naturally loved them the most. Sister, although her other brothers and sisters felt sorry for her and would help her, they were all married and had their own families. Even if they helped her, they had to consider the thoughts of their wives and husbands. At most, they could give her more food. It was not easy to help her financially. At that time, everyone's money was hard-earned money. Who would dare to lend it to others casually, not to mention that her younger brother didn't lend it to her, but gave it to her secretly.

She also said, "If you don't know how to cook, come and learn from your brother-in-law for two days. Your brother-in-law can cook."

This is also the reason why Jiang's mother has had a hard life for so many years, but the uncles of the Wang family have not come to beat Jiang's father or persuade Jiang's mother to divorce. In addition to having three children, Jiang's mother has a hard life, but they reluctantly let Jiang's father go just because Jiang's father is willing to cook at home and coax and give in to Jiang's mother after working hard.

They also know that it is Jiang's father who made Jiang's mother live so hard these years, so none of the uncles and aunts of the Wang family like Jiang's father.

She carried a basket full of gifts from her brothers and sisters. She continued to deliver gifts to her two younger sisters. One of her sisters married far away, so she left the gifts at her sister-in-law's house. When her sister came back, she asked her sister-in-law to pass them on. Then she carried the basket to her sister Wang Ailan's house, which was not far away.

Although it was not far, it actually took at least an hour to walk there. When she arrived in the countryside, she left the basket at the home of a little sister from her childhood, and bought some more things to send to her younger sister's home.

Because Wang Ailan had been doing manual labor in the kiln factory for a long time, she was actually ten years younger than Jiang Ma, but she looked about the same age as Jiang Ma.

Especially this year, although Jiang's mother needs to wash and cut vegetables and sell lunch boxes, it is not considered heavy physical work. She does not have to work on the construction site in the wind and sun like before. Even so, because Jiang's father is a high school student after all, he also takes on some light work on the construction site such as bookkeeping, supervision, surveying, and water and electricity. That's why they are not crushed by the burden of life.

Although Wang Ailan and Wang Ailian are sisters, they look completely different. Jiang's mother has only the good points of her parents, she is tall, long-legged, strong and plump. The younger sister Wang Ailan has only the bad points, she has small eyes, a flat nose and is not as tall as Wang Ailian. But she has a very kind personality. She was sitting at the door entertaining her sister-in-law. When she saw Jiang's mother from a distance, she ran over and took the big bag of things from her sister. Jiang Ma was sweating all over, and her uncle came over to make tea for her: "Sister, come in and have some snacks." Jiang Ma drank tea

and ate something, and then the two sisters went

to the room to talk in private.

One of her two sisters married far away, and they had little contact in recent years, so it was difficult for her to help Jiang Ma. But her younger sister lived closer. During the years when she went out to work, she would send vegetables, rice, flour, rice cakes, rice candy, and pork every New Year. Jiang Ma always remembered it in her heart. This time, she not only brought five catties of roasted chicken legs to her younger sister's house, but also a red sweater.

Aunt Jiang said, "Why did you bring this to me? I'm already old, and I'm still wearing such a red color. I'll make people laugh if I go out. Take it back and give it to Xiaoxiao."

Seeing that her elder sister didn't care, Aunt Jiang sometimes really didn't understand what her elder sister was thinking, and advised, "Xingxiao is so old now, she's a grown-up girl. You should treat her well. When you are old, won't she be filial to you?"

Mother Jiang said stubbornly, "I hope she is filial! I'm lucky if she doesn't get mad at me!"

Thinking that none of her three children came back this year, Mother Jiang, who was originally full of thorns, couldn't help but soften in front of her younger sister. But it was New Year's Day and she couldn't cry.

Aunt Jiang sighed: "You just have too stubborn a temper."

When she was little, she was most afraid of her elder sister. The eldest sister was like both an elder sister and a mother to them. Their biological mother was a woman with bound feet. She gave birth to seven children in total. Perhaps it was because of giving birth to too many children or because of her bound feet, her health was always poor and she had to work, so she was unable to take care of so many children. Therefore, all of Mother Jiang's children were raised by her.

She said, "You just think too much. The closure of your chicken farm, what does it have to do with Liu Liu? How old was she at that time?"

She just listened to what outsiders said. Outsiders said that Jiang Liu was a jinx. The chicken farm was fine before, but within two years after Jiang Liu was born, there was a flood. Within two years, there was a chicken plague, which led to the closure of the chicken farm. The Jiang family was heavily in debt. It must be her bad luck.

Others were just gossiping, but Jiang's mother really believed it and attributed all the disasters in the family to Jiang Liu being a jinx.

Mother Jiang glared at her sister and said righteously, "Don't say anything good for her. Her elder brother and second brother were born fine. There was nothing wrong at home. But when she was born, there was either a flood or a chicken plague. What else could she be but a bad luck?" Mother Jiang rolled her eyes and said, "She was born to bring bad luck to me!"

She stood up and said, "Okay, I won't say much. There are still many things going on at home. Your brother-in-law is... I have applied for a homestead from the brigade and am working on building a house. I have to go back to help, so I won’t sit for long.

Aunt Jiang quickly pulled her and said, “Why are you in such a hurry? You just arrived and you want to leave. It’s only a short while away. Sit down and I’ll make you a bowl of noodles!”

The family had stewed an old hen, so she quickly brought a big bowl of chicken wing noodles to Jiang’s mother. There were two chicken legs at home, and her two children each got one in the morning.

While Jiang’s mother was eating noodles, Aunt Jiang packed a big bag of homemade rice noodles, a bucket of homemade rice cakes, and an old hen for Jiang’s mother to take back.

After Aunt Jiang left, my uncle came in and said to Aunt Jiang with a little dissatisfaction: "You are very generous. Every year you send rice, flour and rice cakes, and this year you even caught an old hen for your sister."

Aunt Jiang and my uncle are more than ten years older than each other. My uncle is his second wife and she gave birth to a pair of children for him. Usually, the couple is a good couple. Although my uncle has a stronger personality, they complement each other. My uncle also gives in to Aunt Jiang most of the time, otherwise his wife would not send gifts every year. This time he also sent an old hen. He always waited until Aunt Jiang left before coming to talk to Aunt Jiang.

Aunt Jiang took a bunch of things that Jiang Ma sent over and said to the red sweater: "Don't say that I only give things to my sister. My sister also gave me a lot of things during the years when she had a good life."

Uncle Jiang saw the brand new red sweater in Aunt Jiang's hand, and then he smiled. He flipped through the things that Jiang Ma brought over, and when he saw the braised chicken leg meat, he picked it up and shook it in his hand, saying in amazement: "Wow, your elder sister is really generous this year and gave us so much meat!"

Although I don't know why the meat was cut a little smaller, it is still meat.

When Jiang Ma went back to her parents' home, Jiang Dad privately gave Jiang Grandma 200 yuan.

Jiang Grandma hadn't received money from Jiang Dad for a long time, so she happily accepted the money.

Grandma Jiang and Grandpa Jiang have completely different personalities. Grandpa Jiang is a giving person. If he has a little money, he wants to give it all to his children and grandchildren. His old age depends on the conscience of his children and grandchildren. From the perspective of a beneficiary, Jiang Qing naturally feels sorry for Grandpa Jiang and loves him very much. However, from the perspective of an observer, Jiang Qing appreciates Grandma Jiang's personality even more.

When the sons of Uncle Jiang were young, Grandma Jiang would give a few cents to her three older grandchildren as a year-end allowance. If she had delicious food, she would hide it and share some with her grandchildren. Regardless of whether it was her sons or daughters, she would keep all the money given to her as her own private money. She was not worried because she had money in her hands.

When her children bought her clothes, she would wear them happily. But if her daughter didn't buy her clothes, she would get angry and look unhappy.

She has less work to do now. On weekdays, she plays cards with a few old sisters in the village. On weekends, she goes to the church in Tanshan with the old sisters to sing songs, learn the words from the music scores, and often get together with these religious old sisters to sing.

People who are not selfish but have some self-centeredness actually live more comfortably and happily than ordinary old people.

Sometimes, selfishly, Jiang Xi hopes that Grandpa Jiang is such an old man. She hopes he is happy.

But on the other hand, if Grandpa Jiang is really such a person, then the great-grandmother, the great-aunt, the uncle, and even her may all be gone long ago.

It is possible that Grandma Jiang also married and raised my younger brother during the three-year famine.

When Jiang's mother came back, Aunt Jiang had already passed away. Jiang's father had already learned from Aunt Jiang that Jiang Bai returned to Wucheng every day after selling clothes. It seemed that the clothes were taken down and sold in Wucheng.

Jiang's father asked Aunt Jiang if Grandpa Jiang was sick. Aunt Jiang said puzzledly: "I didn't hear from Baizi."

Jiang's father asked if he had seen Jiang Xiao. Aunt Jiang said: "I seem to have heard from Baizi that Xiao Xiao seemed to have gone to some winter camp."

Although Jiang's father was a high school student, his time was the Cultural Revolution. How could high school teachers dare to teach knowledge from books? They studied on their own for high school, and he didn't even know what a winter camp was.

But after hearing what Aunt Jiang said, I thought Jiang Xi was still in some winter camp.

Aunt Jiang was still in a hurry this year. After she left, Jiang's father and Uncle Jiang discussed how big the new house should be, how many floors it should have, and whether the roof should be a bungalow, but with big red tiles. The tiles on the outside should not be the popular white wall tiles, but the small red tiles currently popular in Shenzhen. The ground should not be the most commonly used cement floor, but large tiles. All the floors should be paved with tiles.

Uncle Jiang was shocked: "How much more money will this cost?"

Even the houses he built for people in Xinjie were not so extravagant, and even the main room had to be paved with tiles.

For example, Uncle Jiang’s house, from upstairs to downstairs, is all cement flooring that is smoothed with fine cement. This is already a very good floor. In the summer, the room can be mopped clean. Everyone takes off their shoes outside the door and enters the room, so the room needs to be cleaned less often.

It was only last year when the new street was built that the first floor of the new street was all cement flooring. From the stairs to the second and third floors, all floor tiles were laid.

So, Jiang’s father told him that Jiang’s father knew about laying floor tiles and had done it before. There was no problem at all. The only problem was that it was too extravagant and too expensive.

Not only that, Jiang’s father also wanted to paste white ceramic tiles on the 1.2-meter position of the wall, and then apply white lime on it.

As for the roof, Jiang's father is no exception. He likes colored lights and crystal chandeliers.

This is the popular trend of this era. Even if it turns out that these things are useless, difficult to maintain, easy to accumulate dust, and easy to break, they are still popular in this era.

Uncle Jiang looked at Jiang's father and said, "You have this money. Instead of building such a big house at home, why not buy two storefronts on the new street in Shuibu Town? In the future, Songzi and Baizi will each have one. They can live and open a store. I don't know how good it is."

Jiang's father was stunned.

He really had never thought about buying a house in Shuibu Town or the neighboring city.

Over the years, he had incurred a huge debt, because the house was the shortest and most dilapidated among the three rooms. Even when others told him not to let the three children go to college and to let them work and earn money to help pay off the debt, Jiang's father disagreed and insisted on letting them go to school. In addition to his own obsession, he had always wanted a college student in the family to help him get rid of the humiliation he had been under for all these years and bring honor to the family.

Over the years, he said that he didn't care, saying that the short house was nothing, and having a college student at home was worth everything. In fact, he had always kept these frustrations and other people's gossip in his heart.

After making so much money this year, the only thought in his mind was to go home and build a big house, the best house, to outshine all the houses in the village, to let the villagers see if he, Jiang Guoping, was a promising man!

But in the past, this desire was deeply suppressed in his heart, and he himself might not have noticed it.

But after seeing the rapid changes in Shenzhen, with tall buildings rising from the ground and exquisite houses, which were completely different from his hometown, he only had houses like the ones in Shenzhen in his heart and eyes, and never thought about building a stereotyped house like the one in his hometown.

He looked down on such houses.

Therefore, even though the brigade secretary made it difficult for him and assigned him such an inappropriate location to build a house and asked him to build an extra floor as a waterproof platform, Jiang's father accepted it because this location was indeed very suitable. It was right next to the dike road. Anyone who walked along this road from all over the country could see his house.

He couldn't wait to see the house that was different from everyone else's in the village built, becoming the largest and best house in the village, so that everyone could see that his house was not the shortest, but the tallest and most luxurious!

But Uncle Jiang's words suddenly made him face his heart. Even though he knew that Uncle Jiang was right, what he should do at this time was to go to Xinjie to buy two houses. This homestead was here, and it was his own field. He could go out to make money this year and come back to build next year.

But he was too much pressured, too much suppressed, he couldn't wait until next year, instead he smiled and said: "Next year I will buy a house in Xinjie when I have money, just build the house at home this year."

Uncle Jiang said unhappily: "Next year, there will be a house waiting for you in Xinjie next year?"

How many houses are there in Xinjie? Who doesn't want to buy a house in Xinjie if they have a little family in the surrounding area?

Anyway, he had said what he should say, and there was nothing Jiang's father could do if he didn't listen. If he wanted to build it at home, he could build it at home. Who knows how much money he made this year, he dared to be so arrogant again, actually building such a big house in this place.

Jiang's father had to go out to make money, so he couldn't stay at home to help build the house, so he entrusted everything to Uncle Jiang.

Uncle Jiang said, "You have entrusted it to me, so I will make good arrangements for you. It doesn't matter who we build the house for, but we should be clear about the wages as brothers."

"Need I say more?" Dad Jiang trusted Uncle Jiang. Although Uncle Jiang was somewhat dissatisfied because his grandfather's salary had subsidized Dad Jiang in recent years and he often mocked and ridiculed Dad Jiang, but when something really happened, Uncle Jiang never cheated him and would still help when necessary.

Jiang Dad is the brother of Jiang Dabo, so Jiang Dabo will not cheat Jiang Dad. However, after returning, he still couldn't help shaking his head and saying, "He is still a high school student." He said complacently, "I think his success is not as good as mine."

He knew that Jiang Dad wanted to buy a house for the third child in the town, but Jiang Dad didn't buy a house first, but built a house first. Just this point, Jiang Dad is not very smart. On the

third day of the New Year, Jiang Dad rode his bicycle to Tanshan, temporarily left the bicycle at Jiang Gangqin's eldest sister's house, took a tricycle to Shuibu Town, and then took a bus to Wucheng to find Jiang Bai and Jiang Yeye.

He was actually at a loss as to whether he could find Jiang Yeye and Jiang Bai.

He planned to go to No. 1 Middle School to inquire first. If he couldn't find anything at No. 1 Middle School, he would go to the county hospital to inquire.

All along, he had never worried about Grandpa Jiang, Jiang Bo, and Jiang Xi, believing that they could take care of their own lives and they didn't need to worry about them, because they had always been like this.

Grandpa Jiang has been the mainstay of the family since he was a teenager. Later, he started to get a salary. He was always alone, which had created a psychological illusion for them. Grandpa Jiang could take care of himself. Jiang Bai was already 19 years old. How could he not take care of himself? Jiang Xi was studying in No. 1 Middle School. He ate and lived in No. 1 Middle School. There was ready-made food in the family granary. What was there to worry about? Would he starve to death?

Sometimes, he would even think about Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai in his own time. Therefore, when he worked outside, he never worried about Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai, except for worrying about Jiang Song fighting outside.

In his subconscious, they did not need him to worry about them.

This time he came to see them, but also because he was afraid that something might happen to his grandfather.

He took a small tricycle and got off at the gate of No. 1 Middle School.

The gate of No. 1 Middle School was closed, and the guardhouse was also closed, but when he got off the car, he saw a bright red banner on the big iron gate of No. 1 Middle School: [Congratulations to our school student Jiang Xi for winning the gold medal in the CMO national competition and being admitted to Peking University in advance]