Chapter 170

Jiang Bai touched his head and reflexively looked at Jiang Wu.

Everyone followed Jiang Bai's gaze and looked at Jiang Wu.

Jiang Gangqin didn't understand why Jiang Bai went to see Jiang Wu.

Jiang Wu didn't want her writing to be exposed, and Jiang Bai also knew her thoughts, so he looked at Jiang Wu. He was not good at lying.

Jiang Xi lied fluently and said with a smile: "The director of "White Snake" probably watched my interview video and felt that my image and temperament were suitable for a role in the movie, so he contacted me. At that time, I was busy with the IMO competition in the training team and had no time. My second brother happened to be there, and the director saw that my second brother was handsome, so he asked him to work as a summer intern."

Jiang Xi looked particularly sincere and frank even when she was telling lies in a serious manner. She turned her head to look at Jiang Bai: "Second brother, right?"

Jiang Bai was not only not good at lying, but also not good at talking. When Jiang Xi brought the topic back, he just nodded: "Yeah."

Jiang Gangqin widened her eyes: "How lucky are you? The director of "White Snake" actually came to you in person?"

She looked at Jiang Xi's face under the bright light.

After Jiang Xi's hair grew long, she cut it short again. However, the short hair not only did not affect her beauty, but made her face more striking, even a little bit stern, the kind of visual beauty brought by the pure superior features without any modification.

In the past, Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai were both transparent people who liked to keep their heads down and hide themselves. They grew up together, and she was spoiled by her family and was confident. In the past, no one really paid attention to Jiang Xi's appearance.

But since Jiang Xi entered high school, in a place that she could not see, she had completed a gorgeous transformation, like a dusty gemstone, after wiping off the dust, it radiated her original brilliant light.

She suddenly realized, "The director of White Snake is not asking you to play the role of White Snake, is he?"

As she spoke, everyone looked at Jiang Xi.

This winter was particularly cold. Jiang Xi was not only wearing autumn clothes, woolen sweaters, and thick sweaters, but also a very thick and warm long down jacket. She had a brown scarf wrapped around her neck, and half of her face was tucked into the scarf.

Jiang Xi smiled and said, "I didn't go to the audition, so how do I know what the director wants me to play?"

Jiang Gangqin eagerly held Jiang Xi's hand, wanting to give her a chance to play a small role and satisfy her acting addiction. But after thinking about it, she felt that she couldn't say such words.

The others also looked at Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai with envy. They felt that Jiang Bai was lucky, but they could not feel jealous at all. After all, it was his sister who was amazing. The director saw Jiang Xi's interview video and took the initiative to find Jiang Xi. He saw Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai.

They cast their eyes on Jiang Bai's face. No wonder the director did not invite Jiang Xi and dragged Jiang Bai away. Jiang Bai's face was so delicate that except for a few faint freckles on both sides of the bridge of his nose, his whole face could be said to be flawless. They, who were surrounded by the two siblings, were made to look like a crooked melon or a cracked date. They could not even be considered to have a complete face.

At this time, Jiang Guoan also came with his wife and son, and everyone turned their eyes to Jiang Guoan's face.

Jiang Guoan was able to get the help of his father-in-law's family like a live-in son-in-law, and was transferred from the town to Wucheng. Naturally, he looked good. Unfortunately, he had the appearance of a refined scholar in his early years, but he has begun to gain weight in the past two years. His originally handsome face began to grow sideways.

They all turned their eyes back to Jiang Bai and Jiang Xi.

In life, most people still look like ordinary people. In addition, in this era, the protection of teeth is not as high as it will be in 20 or 30 years. Many people have more or less problems with their teeth. Those with uneven teeth, buck teeth, and those who breathed with their mouths open when they were young will affect their appearance.

Jiang Gangqin has beautiful eyes and a high nose bridge, but she can only be regarded as a pretty girl. One of the main reasons is that her lower face has buck teeth, which affects the beauty of her whole face. In fact, if she fixes her teeth, her face value may be greatly improved, but people at that time did not have this awareness.

There are actually very few people in rural areas like the three brothers and sisters of the Jiang family, whose bones, teeth, and skin are normal during their growth and development, and who do not have open mouth breathing, crooked teeth, buck teeth, or irregular teeth.

They are all relatively lucky people.

As soon as Jiang Guoan's wife came in and saw Jiang Bai and Jiang Xing, she went to the table, pushed aside a person from her original seat, and said with a smile: "Guoan said that Baizi went to make a movie, is that true?" She reached out to touch Jiang Xing's soft hair: "Oh, doesn't our Xing look too decent? This little face is so white..." She reached out and touched Jiang Xing's face with her thumb, "...like it was powdered."

Jiang Guoan's wife married down, and was spoiled by her family since she was a child. Jiang Guoan held her in the palm of his hand over the years, and her temperament was still the same as when she was young, without changing at all. She always spoke directly to the Jiang family, without caring about the Jiang family's face at all. But at this moment, how could she still look down on the Jiang family as she did in the past? The smile on her face was extremely friendly.

It was the first time that Jiang Xi met someone who touched her head and face before they even said anything. Unfortunately, she was trapped between the table and the coffee table, unable to move or avoid it.

She stood up without changing her expression, and said to Jiang Guoan's wife with a polite smile: "Auntie's skin is really white."

Guoan's wife, who still considered herself a little girl, almost couldn't keep the smile on her face when she heard Jiang Xi call her "Auntie", and her face almost turned completely black.

But according to the generational level, Jiang Xi called her "Auntie", "Hall Auntie", and "Auntie".

Jiang Xi gave his seat to the Hall Auntie, invited Jiang Guoan and his son to sit down and eat, and walked out of this cramped position, then he breathed a sigh of relief.

After listening to their talk, Jiang's father realized that his children had such opportunities when he didn't know about it.

He knew that his daughter had been interviewed by reporters during his time in Shenzhen. Although he had seen her interview on the "News Network" before, and could foresee that the TV station and the Education Bureau in Wucheng would vigorously promote her, he didn't see it and didn't feel it deeply. After listening to them

, he realized that his daughter was already famous at that time, and even the director of the movie personally found her and asked her to act in the movie.

He walked out and said, "It's right that you didn't go to make a movie. You are still young and should focus on studying. Studying is the most important thing." Even though people nowadays envy big stars and think that being on TV is extremely glamorous, in Jiang's father's heart, actors are always inferior to intellectuals who study. He said to Jiang Bo, "You too, forget about working during the summer vacation, but you still have to study hard in school. College is only a few years. After graduating from college, you can do whatever you want, but the opportunity to study in school will be gone if you miss these years."

His biggest regret in life is that he didn't get into college and didn't go to college. College is simply a temple of worship in his heart, it is sacred.

He naturally didn't want his children to experience his regrets. They had already been admitted to university, but they didn't study hard, and they would regret it in the future.

It was the first time that Jiang Gangqin and the others saw Jiang's father educating his children in this way. For others, it was such a glorious thing for their children to appear on TV and make movies, but Jiang's father told Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai that it was more important to study hard in college.

Jiang's mother had heard the noise outside a long time ago, and she even turned down the volume of the TV. She listened to the noise in the main room and heard them talking about a movie. She couldn't hear the details, but she just thought they watched a movie and asked Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai to go to the movie tomorrow.

Although Jiang's father said so, he got up early the next day, set off firecrackers, made breakfast, and handed the cleanup work to Jiang's mother, and then he couldn't wait to run to the cinema to watch a movie.

Not only him, but the children in the village heard yesterday that Jiang Bai had made a movie, and they all ran to the theater early this morning to watch the excitement.

Last night was New Year's Eve, and the movie tickets were free, but now they have to pay during the day. Movie tickets in the city are 15 yuan, and in the town they are 10 yuan. In the village, they only cost 6 yuan, but 6 yuan is a lot for people nowadays. 5 yuan is enough for the old men in the village to play mahjong for a long time.

But it's the New Year, and everyone has been making money for a year. Now their pockets are the fattest. If they grit their teeth, they can afford 6 yuan.

They all regretted not coming to watch a movie last night. What

's the point of watching the Spring Festival Gala at home? The Spring Festival Gala will be replayed today. If they watch the movie during the day, they will have to spend an extra six yuan. It's a waste of money. The Jiangjia Village Cinema is usually closed. The young people in the village have gone out to work. The elderly are reluctant to spend money to watch movies. Except for the free outdoor movies after the busy farming season or on holidays, the cinema is not profitable. My uncle also has to go out to work. The cinema is only open at the end of the year and around half a month before and after the New Year. After all, Shuibu Town is too far away, whether for people on the river bank or for people in the neighboring Shijian Township.

Therefore, people from Henan would come to Jiangjia Village, which is located in the middle, to watch movies. Jiangjia Village would be very lively at this time. The business of the old shop at the entrance of the village was also the best time of the year. This is why Jiang's father built his living room so big. He wanted to open a small shop when he was old.

With so many people gathering in Jiangjia Village at the end of the year, it would be strange if the business was not good.

After all, the people who choose to pay to watch movies are only a minority. Someone has done statistics. In 1998, the number of people who paid to watch movies nationwide was only more than two million. This is a small number in front of the huge population base of the country. It can also be seen that people of this era are really not rich.

In previous years, the cinema in Jiangjia Village had a maximum of three shows a day, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. The most people watched in the afternoon, followed by the evening, and the least in the morning.

The uncle who originally opened the cinema thought that few people would watch the movie in the morning, but he didn't expect that all the tickets for the morning movie were sold out, even the half-price standing tickets without seats were sold out.

Jiang's father, Jiang Guotai and his daughter Jiang Miao, Jiang Zhenzhang and his daughter Jiang Yanyan, Jiang Hongjun and his wife, Jiang Hongbing, and young and middle-aged people who were not very interested in movies originally all went to the cinema to watch movies.

After washing the dishes in the morning, Jiang's mother went to Jiang's uncle's mother's house. Before she stepped onto the platform, the woman next to Jiang's uncle's mother, who was not very old but whom Jiang Qing called "grandma", shouted at her in a loud voice: "Ailian, I heard that your Jiang Bai is filming a movie, right? What movie is he filming? Your Jiang Bai is really successful. He has become a big star on TV. If Da Bing and Er Bing hadn't told us about it yesterday, we wouldn't have known anything. You two are really something. You didn't even tell us that your child was on TV."

Jiang's mother walked up the stairs to the platform, wondering: "What movie?"

"I heard your Jiang Bo was on TV. Look, the movie that was shown in the cinema last night was played by your Jiang Bo." The grandmother, who was about the same age as Jiang's mother, smiled so much that her eyes wrinkled. "Ah, your Jiang Bo and Xiao Xiao have made it big. Both of them were on TV. Don't you know that during that period of time in the middle of the year, the city, county, and provincial TV stations were all yours. "When we go out and talk about your family, you straighten your back and feel proud!"

When Jiang's mother was washing dishes in the kitchen, Jiang's father called Jiang's mother to go to the movies. Jiang's mother thought he was wasting money and scolded him: "You are really living a good life. You have a TV at home, why don't you watch a movie?"

Before she finished speaking, Jiang's father ran away.

When he was in debt before, he could still listen to Jiang's mother's preaching. Now that he has made money and there is extra money at home, Jiang's father's habit of spending money has not returned, but it is hard to change his nature. He dares to spend money again.

Besides, he spent money to watch the movie not for anything else, but for the movie that everyone said Jiang Bai was playing.

At the door of the theater, Jiang's father also met Jiang Guotai and Mayor Jiang. There were many people around them, all of whom were praising Jiang Yanyan, the daughter of Mayor Jiang, and Jiang Guotai's daughter.

Jiang Guotai's son had a girlfriend in college. She was the daughter of a big leader in the neighboring city. It was Jiang Guotai who took the initiative to introduce her to his son. This girl was not only beautiful and sweet, but also had a very high emotional intelligence. Jiang Guotai was naturally a million satisfied with this daughter-in-law he personally chose. He had already planned with the girl's father in advance that as soon as the two graduated from college, they would be sent to study abroad.

Of course, Jiang Guotai paid for the expenses.

The leader was very satisfied with Jiang Guotai's knowledge and interests. In addition, Jiang Guotai had high emotional intelligence, and he was very comfortable when he flattered people. He was originally his man, and his son was also a handsome man. He did not stop Jiang Xin from pursuing his daughter. It mainly depends on the young people themselves.

His son left early in the morning to pick up his girlfriend in the neighboring city. At this time, the one next to Jiang Guotai was his daughter.

As soon as Jiang Guotai saw his father, he said, "Don't cook at home at noon. Come to my house with your fourth brother, Ailian, and Liuliu Baizi. I have asked Yunyun to prepare it at home."

Although Jiang Guotai said that he seldom comes back, the house in his hometown was still built into a two-story building. Usually, only his father and his wife live there. Sometimes, children who are close to them in the village will stay there and take care of the old couple.

Father Jiang hurriedly asked, "Why are we eating at your house? Yunyun finally comes back to relax, and you're still asking her to be busy? Why don't you come to my house and eat? I'll cook for you. I promise it's no worse than the chefs in those small restaurants!"

Jiang Guotai said, "We agreed yesterday afternoon that I'll treat you. Of course, I'm not treating you. I'm mainly treating Liuli and Baizi."

Mayor Jiang and Father Jiang both laughed, and asked Father Jiang, "Yanyan came back from watching a movie last night and said she saw your youngest son in the movie. Why did your youngest son go to film a movie? You didn't even tell us, otherwise we wouldn't have been in trouble last night. Are you here to watch a movie?"

Jiang Guotai also said: "It was Daxin who told me that I just knew about your son Baizi's movie." He patted Jiang's father on the shoulder: "You have finally made it through, and you have such promising children."

Jiang's father quickly praised back: "Daxin and Jinbao are the real promising ones. I heard that Daxin will go abroad to study after graduating from university?"

These days, studying abroad is very popular. Families with a little bit of financial resources want to send their children abroad to study for a few years. If they get a foreign green card, it is really glorious!

Jiang Guotai's eldest son is Jiang Xin, and his youngest daughter is Jiang Miao. They are two years apart in age. He is a businessman and is particularly superstitious. He originally wanted to name his son and daughter Zhaocai and Jinbao, so he asked an old blind fortune teller who was particularly accurate in fortune telling to do the fortune telling. The old blind man calculated that his son's five elements lacked gold, and his daughter's five elements lacked water, so he changed their full names, and Zhaocai and Jinbao became their nicknames.

Now that Jiang Xin is older, it is not appropriate to call him Zhaocai anymore, so he calls him Daxin. His family still calls his daughter Jinbao, Jinbao, and outsiders call her Miaomiao.

Jiang Miao was also very generous in front of her elders and called them people.

Jiang's father smiled and said, "When Miaomiao was little, he played with my son Xiaoxiao."

Jiang Miao and Jiang Xiao had no memory of this, but the adults of the two families told many details about the two playing together when they were little, which was probably true.

This time, their village had a top student from Peking University, and last night they heard that another college student, Jiang Bo, had also made a movie. Jiang Guotai felt that the village really gave him too much face, so they asked him to go to the neighboring city to pick up his girlfriend early in the morning, so that his girlfriend could see that their village was full of talents and brought honor to their family.

Of course, he also told his son that if his girlfriend didn't want to come over, he should stay at his future father-in-law's house in the neighboring city, spend more time with his girlfriend and father-in-law, be more discerning, do whatever work he can, be sweeter to his girlfriend and mother-in-law, and it would be best if he could take his father-in-law and his wife and his girlfriend to the cinema to watch a movie and talk about how our village had produced a top student from Peking University.

Soon the movie started, and almost everyone in the cinema came in to watch Jiang Bai. Who knew that Jiang Bai hadn't come out until almost half of the movie.

When Jiang Bai came out, many people hadn't reacted yet. The young people who had already watched the movie last night exclaimed: "He's out, he's out, Jiang Bai is out!"

Jiang's father also stretched his head and tried desperately to find where Jiang Bai was. The next second, he saw Jiang Bai.

It was really his son Jiang Bai!

Jiang Bai in the movie is not the same Jiang Bai he knows in daily life.

When Jiang Guotai and Jiang Zhen grew up, they couldn't help but stare at Jiang's father.

Jiang's father is in his early forties, tall, strong and straight, without a little belly, and his face is more mature than when he was a teenager, but he is still a middle-aged handsome man.

What's rare is that Jiang's father is not greasy. Even after years of beatings due to huge debts, his eyes still flash with the same clear and stupid light as before.

They just met Jiang Bai yesterday. Jiang Bai is handsome and very conspicuous standing in the crowd, but whether it is Jiang Guotai or Jiang Zhenchang, their eyes are all attracted by Jiang Xi. Everyone's eyes are on Jiang Xi, and they have never paid close attention to Jiang Bai's appearance.

But Jiang Bai on the big screen is really no worse than those popular Hong Kong stars now.

They finished watching the movie, it was already half past ten, and they had agreed to go to Jiang Guotai's house for dinner.

Jiang Guotai called Jiang's father: "We agreed to come to my house for dinner, call Ailian, Baizi, and Liuli together!"

Jiang Guotai is a bit of a male chauvinist. He never cooks at home and has a nanny at home.

What's rare is that his wife Shen Hongyun is also calm and composed. She takes care of his children and sits at the back, allowing him to go out without any worries.

As soon as Jiang Guotai got home, he rolled up his sleeves and said to his wife Shen Hongyun, "Is there anything else you haven't cooked? I'll cook it!"

Shen Hongyun, with her hair permed and wearing an apron, smiled and teased, "Hey, what's wrong with you today? You haven't cooked for years, and you want to cook yourself?"

Jiang Guotai said proudly, "What's wrong with not cooking for years? Even if I haven't cooked for years, my food is still better than yours."

Shen Hongyun didn't argue with Jiang Guotai, and said with a smile, "Yes, yes, how can I compare with your cooking skills, Chef Jiang? I'll just cook two home-cooked dishes for my family to eat."

As she spoke, she took off her apron and put it on Jiang Guotai.

There was no outsider in the kitchen at that time, so Jiang Guotai washed the vegetables and cooked while sighing to his wife, "I never thought that Guoping actually gave birth to such an outstanding pair of sons and daughters."

Shen Hongyun, who had heard him sigh last night, raised her eyebrows when she heard him say, "Why?"

Jiang Guotai said, "I thought Ling Ling was already amazing, but I didn't expect that his youngest son is no worse than his youngest daughter."

Seeing his wife looking at him curiously, Jiang Guotai continued, "Last night, Daxin and Jinbao came back and said that Guoping's youngest son was in a movie. I thought it was just a big deal. Today I went to the cinema to see it, and I found out that if this kid stays in the film industry and makes movies in the future, he will have a great future!"

That face was simply born for movies.

Just as he finished speaking, he heard his daughter, who was watching TV outside, shouting, "Dad, Dad, come and see, is that the little brother from my second uncle's family on TV?"

Jiang Guotai was cooking. When he heard his daughter shouting, he quickly poured boiling water into the pot, covered the wooden pot lid, put down the spatula and went to the main room.

At this time, the TV in the main room was already playing another show, and the fifteen seconds of the show had already passed.

Jiang Guotai wiped his hands and asked Jiang Miao, "What are you shouting for?"

Jiang Miao pointed to the provincial TV station and said, "I just saw the little brother on TV, it's Jiang Bai!"

At this time, Jiang's father also returned home and called Jiang's mother, Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai.

Generally speaking, when you go to someone's house for a meal, you rarely bring your family along, at most just a couple, but Jiang Guotai specifically asked them to go with their whole family.

In fact, Jiang's mother secretly compared herself with Shen Hongyun in her heart, but unfortunately, Shen Hongyun compared her to the dust over the years, and she lost the spirit of her youth. Now Jiang Guotai actually invited her family to dinner, and Jiang's mother felt a little proud in her heart, as if the feeling of her youth had returned.

She found her best clothes and shoes. She had already brushed her leather shoes until they were shiny. She also ironed her clothes. She came out wearing the clothes and asked Jiang Xi who was downstairs: "Xixi, come over and help me see if this outfit is OK for me to wear?"

She pulled at the hem and sleeves of her clothes and said, "Do I need to wash my hair?"

Jiang's father was a little impatient, "Oh, didn't you just wash it yesterday? No need to wash it, it looks good! You don't know how good it looks! Come on, come on, hurry up, don't keep people waiting." Jiang

Xi nodded without any expression to show his affirmation: "Yeah, it looks good." Jiang

Bai also came downstairs, his steps were relaxed and free, and he rarely showed a smile on his face, but he still put his hands in his coat pockets: "It looks good."

Jiang's mother was affirmed by Jiang's father and his children, so she touched her hair and said, "Then I'll comb my hair."

When she was young, she had long, thick black hair, which she braided into a thick, black braid that reached below her waist. Later, when she followed Jiang's father to work, it was inconvenient to keep her hair that long, so the long braid was cut to a position below the shoulders like now, and now it is permed into wavy curls.

She actually looks older than Jiang's father. Jiang's father is 40 years old, but his face is still tight and handsome as he was back then, but Jiang's mother has fine wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, and her nasolabial folds are deeper than Jiang's father's. She looks like she is several years older than Jiang's father, but in fact she is two years younger than Jiang's father.

When Jiang's mother was combing her hair, Jiang's father urged her outside: "Hurry up, everyone is waiting for us. When you get there, help Hongyun cook."

Jiang's mother turned around and glared at Jiang's father: "Do I need you to teach me?"

Then the family of four walked to the high platform of the old store at the entrance of the village.

The high platform of the old store at the entrance of the village is always the most lively place in the village. A group of old men sit on the high platform and brag about their children and grandchildren. Last night, Grandpa Jiang went to bed early. After breakfast in the early morning, he slowly ran to the high platform and boasted with these old people.

He is a man of few words, but always strikes with precision, showing off his grandchildren from all angles. When someone asks him a question, he sighs: "My granddaughter took me to see the Oriental Pearl Tower."

"My granddaughter said she would take me to see the Tian'anmen and climb the Great Wall, but how can I climb? I can't climb, I can't climb~"

"What do you think of her? She's wasting money. She ordered milk for me. Someone delivers milk to my door every day. My little grandson is more serious. He watches me drink it every day before leaving. I'm so old, but I still drink milk every day. It has no taste and is not sweet." Grandpa Jiang said in annoyance.

The group of old men on the platform wanted to beat him up.

When Jiang's father and mother took Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai to the platform, they entered the house. Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai saw Grandpa Jiang and went to his side.

The people who were sitting with Grandpa Jiang stood up and offered their seats to them, saying, "Sit here, sit here!"

Jiang Xi said embarrassedly, "No, no, you sit here."

Seeing that they insisted on giving up their seats, he quickly brought them new chairs, and then he and Jiang Bai sat on the left and right sides of Grandpa Jiang.

Jiang Xi held Grandpa Jiang's arm, and leaned his head slightly on Grandpa Jiang's thin arm with full of admiration. A group of old men looked at Grandpa Jiang's two college-aged grandchildren sitting on both sides, and they were envious, their eyes were red.

Jiang Guotai's father couldn't help but envy and said with emotion: "You old boy, how could you have thought that you would have such a blessing now!"

Grandpa Jiang's eyes wrinkled more and deeper when he laughed, and his laughter became louder and more comfortable.