Chapter 152152

Jiang Xi's apartment is a pre-sale apartment in the second phase. It will be delivered this year. After the delivery, it was renovated by Manager Qian. It was not renovated into a luxurious duplex before, but into a two-story hotel-style apartment for rent.

Since this apartment was bought before the public stall policy appeared, the actual floor area is 300 square meters, divided into two floors. Excluding the corridor and stairs, the actual area is close to 570 square meters, not including the two 25-square-meter balconies and two 15-square-meter terraces.

The room is divided into two rooms of different sizes facing south and north by a long corridor. The indoor area of ​​the south-facing room is about 35 square meters, with a dry and wet separated toilet and bathroom.

The north-facing room is about 25 square meters, and also has a small independent bathroom and a whole wall of storage cabinets.

The balcony is divided into two rooms. One room is about 10 square meters, with a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf, which can be used as a study or a place to dry clothes. For good lighting, the wall facing the sun is all made of soundproof glass.

As a rental house, such a room can be said to be impeccable. The only bad thing is that the apartment has no natural gas, so there is no kitchen to cook.

Because this area is used as a future business center, it will basically be occupied by white-collar workers in the future.

After the money manager finished decorating Jiang Wu's apartment, he decisively took out a loan to buy a similar apartment, and planned to renovate it like Jiang Wu's apartment and rent it out in the future.

Shanghai is developing at a rapid pace. Even though it has only been two years, the eastern part of Shanghai is completely different from the desolate scene two years ago.

There was no TV in the house rented by Jiang's father. He didn't see the replay the next day, but he saw Jiang Wu's photo and her report in the newspaper.

Even though the newspaper photos of that era were blurry and the photo of six people had a low resolution, he still recognized that it was his daughter Jiang Wu.

Father Jiang bought a lot of newspapers, rolled them into rolls, carefully wrapped them with other old newspapers, and hid them in his box like a treasure.

In the puzzled look of Jiang's mother, who looked at him as if he were a fool, Father Jiang said angrily: "What do you know? These are all honors for our ancestors. It's not convenient for me to stay here now. When I go back to my hometown during the Chinese New Year, I will ask a carpenter to make a picture frame for me. I will go to the town to cut a piece of glass, frame it, and hang it on the wall of the main room. In the future, everyone who comes to my house will be able to see that my daughter won the gold medal in the IMO competition."

As long as he thought about others coming to his house, standing in front of the picture frame, and seeing the photo of his daughter holding the gold medal and the newspaper report, he would be happy and relaxed.

Jiang's mother rolled her eyes at him and sneered, "What a character!"

This is what Jiang's father sometimes regrets. Jiang's mother is good in everything. She is hardworking, capable, simple, fit, and good-looking. The only thing is that she can't read. Jiang's mother can't understand or resonate with many of his spiritual things. She even doesn't understand and discourages him.

Jiang's father can only be lonely and happy.

At this time, he thinks that he can only show off to his fourth brother who is the mayor of the town, or talk to his childhood friend who is now contracted to build a highway in the neighboring city about his little daughter.

I believe that he and his fourth brother and childhood friend must have a deep resonance.

Thinking of this, he called Jiang Bai again, but the phone rang for a while, but no one answered.

Jiang Bo and Tong Jingang are currently working as summer interns in the crew of the big director. Because he is the younger brother of the original author of "White Snake Cultivation", the big director did not invite Jing Meng to audition for the female lead, but he still took great care of Jiang Bo.

It was really because Jiang Bo's appearance was too outstanding. It would be fine if he was outstanding in appearance, but this young man also had various good qualities such as humility and courtesy. Originally, he had very few roles, but the director and screenwriter could not help but want to give him more roles. After he finished the play "White Snake", he recommended him to another friend's Qing palace drama, and he played the young Emperor Yongzheng.

The young Yongzheng only appeared in a few episodes, and the rest of the film was all about the adult Yongzheng. Jiang Bo finished filming in a few days. Tong Jingang played a pioneer with only one line in the film, and then he had nothing to do, so he just played minor roles in various crews.

Some people wanted to sign him, but for Jiang Bo, coming here to film was just a summer job. He had no interest in filming, he was only interested in making money. If it weren't for the big director saying that there was money to be made in filming his movies, the students went home during the summer vacation, and the shops at the school gate had no business. Later, he came, and he just treated each crew as a routine, made money, and went back after the summer vacation.

Tong Jingang, on the other hand, was quite interested in filming. He was a performative personality with strong social skills. He quickly got to know people here and played soldiers, generals, cannon fodder villains with a lot of flesh, thugs, etc. in the crowd. He acted very enthusiastically.

Jiang Bai did not understand his passion for acting. If it was not for making money, he would have gone back long ago.

Now it was summer, and many costumes were not washed at all. After being pickled with all kinds of sweat, the smell made Jiang Bai want to vomit. After filming, he just wanted to take off his clothes immediately and go back to the house they rented to take a shower. Sometimes he had to wear winter costumes in summer and sweat all over. Because the costumes were too dirty, Jiang Bai also had allergy symptoms on his neck.

Fortunately, Jiang Bai is a very hard-working person. For the sake of money, he endured it all. Now he just wants to make the money as soon as possible and return to his quiet classroom where he only has to deal with various machines.

There is a teacher in their department, who is an old engineer who retired from a large factory. He has many apprentices with very high levels and was specially hired by their school to be a teacher. This old engineer likes Jiang Bai very much and thinks that he can calm down, work steadily, and is very focused. In addition, Jiang Bai's college entrance examination scores are high, and he was admitted with scores that are almost among the top few in their school. Others with such scores have gone to several other double-first-class universities in Shanghai, but because of the current volunteer system, he fell into their school and was treated as a closed disciple by this old engineer.

Jiang Bai has already planned his future work. He is a person who wants to do one thing and sticks to it without looking back, hesitation, or change. How could he sign with a company as an artist to film a movie just because of a summer job?

He was unwilling, but Tong Jingang was willing.

Tong Jingang had never known what he would do in the future. Although he liked playing basketball and had been admitted to a sports school, his actual height was only about 1.8 meters. It was okay for amateur basketball, but his height was not enough for a professional team. Moreover, his talent in basketball was not even as good as Jiang Bai's. Although Jiang Bai's physical fitness was not good for confrontation, he had strong endurance. Not only could he play the whole court, but he could also shoot three-pointers accurately. When he was in No. 1 Middle School, he was the best shooter of their basketball team and the key defensive target of other school teams. Otherwise, as long as Jiang Bai got the ball, he would score a three-pointer because he was tall and decisive.

As for other things, Tong Jingang is just average, but not top-notch in terms of talent. He has always thought that after graduating from college, he would become a physical education teacher.

In fact, he is a happy-go-lucky person. He thinks being a physical education teacher is not bad. He has a fixed salary and a long vacation. He can play ball and drink with his friends every day. His life is so comfortable.

But this summer, because of Jiang Bai's fate, he got a cannon fodder role in a big director's movie and got in touch with acting.

Although it is only a small role, compared with Jiang Bai's role, it is still a completely villain role. Tong Jingang played it very enjoyably. He took Fahai's will as his own will and didn't think about what was right or wrong. Whatever the master said was right, the wild and muscular little monk played it to the core.

The roles he and Jiang Bo played were brothers who grew up together. When Jiang Bo's character blocked the fatal blow for the White Snake, Tong Jingang was at a loss for a moment. It was not like acting. It was passed in one take.

If they had not acted so well, the big director would not have recommended them to his friend's crew after their roles were finished.

After the summer vacation, Jiang Bo took the little money he earned during the summer vacation and returned to Shanghai happily, ending his summer job journey.

Tong Jingang felt a little regretful and could only wait until the winter vacation.

After a summer vacation, he asked for the phone numbers of many people, some of whom were directors, screenwriters, stage managers, extras, extras leaders, etc.

It was not until the school was about to start and Jiang Bo returned to school that Jiang's father called him again, and the call was connected.

Jiang's father was anxious: "Please call me and tell me where you are going, and leave me your number. I call you every day, but no one answers here. Why is no one answering this call?"

Jiang Bai's expression was still indifferent, and he said, "This is the phone number of the canteen downstairs in the dormitory. There is no one in the dormitory during the summer vacation, and no one in the canteen either."

Jiang's father actually knew this. He was worried because he couldn't contact any of his three sons and daughters.

He asked Jiang Bai: "Do you know how to contact your sister now? I called the brigade headquarters to ask, but your sister didn't go back home, and she didn't call me. I couldn't find her even when I wanted to."

Jiang Bai asked a question that made Jiang's father speechless: "What do you want to talk to her about?"

Their current situation is actually very similar to the situation they had as siblings in their previous lives, that is, they each live their own lives, and basically don't contact each other unless there is something going on. They can only make a few phone calls throughout the year.

Regardless of the previous life or this life, Jiang's father has always been the one who acts as the glue between the brothers and sisters. He has always been the one who takes the initiative to contact his children and maintain the family affection in this relationship.

Jiang Bai is not mocking Jiang's father, he is really confused.

Because they were raised without any concern, they are used to solving everything by themselves, making decisions by themselves, and being alone. Now that Jiang's father always calls them, he feels confused and uncomfortable. Jiang's father

said, "I have to transfer the tuition fee to you and your sister in the new semester, right?"

Jiang Bo, who earned more than 4,000 yuan in a summer vacation, completely forgot about the tuition fee and said, "Don't you have a bank account? Why not just transfer it to her directly?"

Jiang's father felt that it was really difficult for him to communicate with his youngest son, and asked, "Did your sister call you during the summer vacation?"

Jiang Bo, who was obsessed with making money and had never thought about his sister, said, "No."

"Have you called your sister?"

Jiang Bai blinked: "No."

Being a minor actor in a film in the summer is a very tiring job. The first thing he does after filming every day is to quickly take off his clothes, go back to take a shower, change clothes and eat. After dinner, he has to read and sleep. Except for calling Grandpa Jiang when he is free to check on his situation, he has never thought of calling his sister, and Jiang Xi has never thought of calling Jiang Bai. Both brother and sister called Grandpa Jiang unilaterally.

Neither of them realized there was anything wrong with this.

In their cognition, this mode of getting along is normal.

Jiang's father was speechless after hearing his words, which were taken for granted. He asked him for Jiang Xi's phone number, but Jiang Bai didn't know. His sister hadn't settled down in Beijing yet, so where did she get a fixed phone number? Only when his sister settled down and called him did he know that he could contact her fixed phone number.

Jiang's father had no choice but to hang up the phone in disappointment, and then went to transfer money to Jiang Xi's bank card.

In addition to boxed lunches this year, his halogen dishes have also increased. Duck heads, duck intestines, and duck gizzards require more work to wash. Jiang's mother is a clean and honest person. Many restaurants and halogen shops just rinse these ingredients with water, but Jiang's mother plucks them one by one, even every duck feather.

With more work, there is no time to cut meat from chicken legs and duck legs. Fortunately, this year's money is more than last year.

In order to take care of each other, Jiang Xi and Song Peifeng rented a house with two floors, one on the second floor and the other on the third floor. Both of them needed computers, so they went to Zhongguancun to buy computers. The houses all had telephone lines, so there was no need to pull additional telephone lines. They only needed to open an Internet cable and then plug the telephone line into the computer for direct use, which cost about two yuan per hour.

It took them two days to clean up their respective rented houses.

Jiang Xi's daily routine is still very regular. He gets up at five in the morning to brush his teeth and wash his face. He goes for a run at half past five. After running ten kilometers, he goes to have breakfast, then returns to the room to code. After coding for two hours, he goes out to buy vegetables and make lunch.

When Song Peifeng was on duty, he wanted to eat at her place. Jiang Xi didn't have a dishwasher. Maybe it was because of Jiang Song's words "Girls should wash dishes and do housework" when she was a child, Jiang Xi really didn't like washing dishes and doing housework. She didn't do anything that could be done by machines at home. Except for her study, she hired a part-time worker to clean once a week.

Now that Song Peifeng came to eat and work with her, all the subsequent kitchen cleanup work was handed over to Song Peifeng.

Song Peifeng is a person who does things very meticulously and regularly, which is also reflected in the follow-up work he does for the kitchen. He doesn't mind these trivial things at all. Even when he is dealing with these follow-up tasks, sometimes he casts the dim light through the kitchen and sees the back of the person sitting in front of the computer working attentively. He actually has an indescribable feeling of the peacefulness of time.

In the same space, she can do her work, and he can quietly read his books and learn from him. Occasionally, when they encounter problems that can be discussed with each other, he asks and she will answer. If she has doubts, he will also answer patiently. If he can't answer them at the moment, he will go back to the library to look up information.

She seemed to have no temper. She was always patient and smiling no matter who or what she faced. Her clear eyes always looked at you with a smile and sincerity. She spoke at a moderate speed, giving people a comfortable feeling.

Sometimes, he felt that she seemed to isolate herself from this world, creating a world of her own, gentle and distant.

Of course he would not stay here to read. After he finished all this, he said hello to her and said, "I'm going downstairs. If you have anything to say, stand on the balcony and shout. I'll hear you." When she turned around and smiled at him and nodded, he gently closed the door and walked downstairs with brisk steps to read and study on her balcony downstairs.

Jiang Xi found a Sanda class for herself nearby, picked up the Sanda and boxing she had practiced for many years in her previous life, and did strength training.

The coach thought she was a novice, but she got the hang of it very quickly.

In the afternoon, she usually went to the library of Tsinghua University or Peking University with Song Peifeng to read. After reading, she went directly to the Sanda class to practice Sanda or boxing. After sweating, she casually tied her hair up into a small ball or a short ponytail, returned to the rental house, took a shower, and then cooked dinner.

In late August, Beijing was as hot as an oven. The old house they rented had no air conditioning, only a fan. At cooking time, the kitchen was very hot. At this time, Song Peifeng would not leave. Jiang Wu was cooking there. He was either processing the ingredients or helping her fan.

Jiang Wu sometimes felt hot and didn't like to cook much. She only made simple dishes, such as two bowls of cold noodles, cold shredded chicken, or sushi. She could always make very simple ingredients delicious.

Sometimes when she saw flowers on the roadside, she would occasionally buy a bunch of flowers and put them in a vase, or put them on the small round table in the dim living room, or on the TV cabinet in the bright bedroom.

Song Peifeng saw that sometimes Jiang Xi didn't need to buy them, he would bring a bunch of flowers when he saw them, usually sunflowers or lilies, not specially given to her, but just used for vase.

For such a clear-minded boy who was willing to take the initiative to walk into her life, she was like a cheetah hiding in the dark, carefully, observing him from all directions, watching him approach little by little, slowly disguising himself as a harmless little cat, and restraining his side as a hunter.

In her previous life, she lived alone for too long. Whether it was work or emotions, there were many things she couldn't tell others. She had to digest all kinds of emotions by herself. She was used to digesting all these by herself, work, marriage, family, happy or sad.

In the first ten years, whether it was because she was young or she didn't like to talk, she didn't notice her psychological changes at all. It wasn't until a long time later that she found that she couldn't digest all kinds of good and bad emotions by herself.

She found that she needed someone to communicate with in order to discharge all kinds of positive and negative emotions accumulated in her heart.

The specific manifestation is that a person who is used to being silent and not talkative in life suddenly wants to talk to others. She

wants to talk to someone, but doesn't know who to talk to.

She is used to being decent, not disturbing others, and digesting things silently.

The person who can speak cannot be your colleague or leader, nor her parents or brothers, and she cannot even say too much to her friends.

So she can only continue to control her emotions, keep them stable, keep her mouth shut, and control herself.

Almost all of her emotions are vented through words, and even in words, she is restrained.

Now, such a person suddenly appears in your life, and he takes the initiative to walk into your world.

She was no longer the person who couldn't tell others about many things in her previous life, so she was eager to share her food with Song Peifeng and boasted to him proudly: "There are only two of us, and we can't finish the food. In fact, I can cook a lot of big dishes."

Because she loves cooking, she wrote a novel about food in her previous life and sold the copyright to make a TV series.

This kind of thing written completely out of interest makes her feel very happy spiritually.

When she said this, she seemed to have walked out of a perfect painting, with a face full of vivid pride in her natural talent in food, which was completely in line with her current age.

Song Peifeng sat opposite her, eating the cold noodles she had just made, adding some cucumber shreds to himself, and looked at her with a smile: "When do you want to make it? I'll go prepare the ingredients."

When he said this, Jiang Liu would be very happy. That kind of happiness was different from her usual polite smile. It was a joy from the heart. Only occasionally, her eyes would reveal a little predator's aggression, but it was well hidden.

Like Grandpa Jiang, she was a person who liked noise and excitement and was afraid of loneliness.

In Jiang Wu's ideal, the best life is to have a bunch of friends gather at home, eat, drink and have fun. After eating, they sit together on the sofa or on the carpet. Everyone sits casually, eats some fruit, drinks some wine, chats, talks about gossip, or talks about their daily lives. In short, the scene must be lively.

Even if she just watches everyone having fun and does not participate, she will feel very happy.

But many times, she is lonely and enjoys loneliness.

When she entered into marriage in her previous life, she had a fantasy of such a life, but the reality is that her lonely life was covered with a layer of cold snow.

Song Peifeng didn't know if he noticed that she didn't reject his approach, and even agreed happily. Sometimes in the afternoon, after the two of them came out of the library, he asked her to go for a walk on the campus playground, and she would agree happily.

The two of them always had endless topics to talk about. No matter what he talked about, she knew it and had her own opinions, which were beyond her age.

If he just admired and liked her at the beginning, the more he understood her, in addition to admiration and liking, there was also a kind of sincere admiration.

It felt like, people are like rainbows, you only know they exist when you meet them. Only

when he really met them did he know that they really existed in this world.

Only Jiang Xi herself knew that she was despicable.

She was like a calm and sharp cheetah in the dark, who had already prepared a cage and net, waiting for the prey to approach little by little.

With the posture of a prey.