Chapter 197 197

The words "I'll hug you when I get home" were like a raging fire that ignited Song Peifeng's body, burning his entire brain into a blank. It seemed like a moment, and it seemed like a century had passed. He came back to his senses from the dizziness, and with all his self-control, he let her go. Holding her hand tightly, he trotted all the way back to the house he rented outside the school. As soon as he opened the door, she closed it, pushed him against it forcefully, propped up the door with one hand, lifted his chin with the other, and rubbed his lips twice with her thumb.

He had never had such a desire before. He was teased by her like a trapped beast with a bridle. However, she pushed him against the door and said slowly, "Don't move."

She lowered his head and gently touched his lips. They separated immediately. She curiously stepped on his lips and tasted them. Before she could go deeper, he held her head with his hand. The young man's breath aggressively swept her whole body.

Jiang Xi knew for the first time that kissing was such a wonderful thing. She suddenly felt that she really missed 100 million in her previous life.

Although marriage is not necessary, love can still be discussed. Why should I build myself in a solid armor and make myself look invulnerable? You will hide in the armor, but it is because you are afraid of being hurt deep in your heart, so you simply cannot allow others to hurt you. But in fact, if your heart is really strong, you are actually fearless.

Many feelings and emotions in this world, good or bad, should be experienced personally.

In her previous life, she experienced the best family love given by her grandfather, the friendship on the road of the same path, the appreciation from the leaders, the smooth career in the eyes of others, and many other things, but she has never tasted the sweetness of love.

Now after tasting it, let alone the illusory thing of love, just kissing him is indeed a bit irresistible.

The two of them went from being fierce and violent to gently rolling, as if they were pouring out all their thoughts for the past month. In the end, he still held her in his arms. She leaned lazily in his arms, lifted his chin with one hand and smiled and commented: "Beyond expectations."

This sentence ignited him again.

Afterwards, the two of them lay on the sofa. She enjoyed his touch. She nestled in his arms, her neck resting on his arm, her hands pinching him appreciatively, and he grabbed her, his voice a little hoarse: "Don't move." He made her unable to move.

Jiang Xi knew that he couldn't continue to tease her, so he smiled and lay down obediently, resting at ease.

In the early days of her marriage in her previous life, when she didn’t know that the other party was gay, the other party tried to have intimate contact with her, but for some reason, she felt a little disgusted, and the other party also felt a little disgusted. As soon as he approached, she wanted to avoid him. When the other party noticed her avoidance, he was also relieved. They both avoided these intimate behaviors unconsciously. Later, the other party simply stopped pretending and began to use work as an excuse to be away from home for most of the year, only occasionally coming back during the holidays. She was in the bedroom, and the other party was in the study or living room. She was in the living room, and he was in the study.

Maybe she had never seen many normal families since she was a child. She was surrounded by many cases where the husband worked outside and the wife stayed at home to take care of the elderly and children. The husband only came back once a year during the Chinese New Year. This was a deformed marriage relationship, but it was the normal family model in her eyes. So when the other party used work as an excuse to be away from home all year round, she didn't think there was anything wrong at the time, because this was "normal" in the marriage model she had seen since she was a child.

She put more energy into work, and her life was no different from when she was single, and there were no people and voices around her urging her to get married.

Sometimes when he came back at night, he would chat with gay men in the study until 3 or 4 o'clock. At that time, she had only seen the group in books about breaking up peaches and breaking sleeves, but she had never associated it with reality, let alone herself. She also thought that he only chatted with men, not women, and that it was okay as long as he didn't cheat. Anyway, she didn't care about him, as long as he didn't bother her.

Even compared with those families who quarreled all day after marriage and lived a mess, she actually thought that such a peaceful and non-interfering life was not bad. It was not until many years later that she realized how wrong her thoughts were.

If a person does not want to get married and only wants to be single, then he can be single. Why use a piece of paper to hand over his life, his right to sign on the hospital bed, and the distribution of half of his property to a stranger with no good character? That is extremely irresponsible to his own life.

When she was young, she was such a person who expected happiness to be given by others and was irresponsible to herself.

It was only when she grew up that she realized that happiness is the ability to give yourself and the ability to give to those around you, not to ask for it from others.

It was a little chilly in the capital in early October. Jiang Xi felt that she had not been with Song Peifeng for a long time. It was so long that she adapted to life without him again and arranged her time every day.

Song Peifeng, on the other hand, had already gotten used to being hugged by her every day. He had been thinking about her uncontrollably for the past month, and it was only when he held her in his arms that he felt a sense of peace of mind, as if a space that had been empty had finally been filled.

Ever since they broke their vows of marriage, they had become addicted to this calorie-burning behavior, and most of the time, it was Jiang Wu who took the initiative, because the young man looked too good to be true, and then Song Peifeng took the initiative to end it.

Neither of them was in a hurry to do anything. Jiang Wu's ID card was changed to three years older, but her actual age was only eighteen, and Song Peifeng was only nineteen, and their physical development was not yet complete. They were just enjoying the present moment bit by bit.

On the eve of the National Day holiday, the counselor brought the registration form for the autumn college sports meet and asked the boys and girls in the class to take the initiative to sign up for the sports meet events. The sports meet events were three plus one, and each person could sign up for up to three events, plus a relay, including 100-meter relay, 200-meter relay and 400-meter relay.

The counselor handed this matter over to the class monitor, deputy class monitor and sports committee member. The class monitor and sports committee member mainly determined the registration items for the boys, while Cui Yujie was responsible for the registration of the girls.

What the counselor meant was that, regardless of gender, everyone must sign up for at least one event, and those with strong athletic abilities can sign up for more than one event: "We will just compete within our own school first, and after the results within the school are announced, we will go to participate in the National University Games!" The

reason why the school attaches so much importance to the Autumn University Games is that the previous World University Games were all held abroad, and the country now attaches great importance to the World University Games. The country is now applying to the International University Sports Federation to hold it in Beijing, China. Once the application is successful, it will not only be a good opportunity to promote our country to the world, but Beijing, as the host, and college students from various universities in Beijing will also have to prepare in advance. They must not embarrass the country or themselves in front of college students from all over the world who come to Beijing to participate in the competition.

This is the autumn university student sports meeting, which is actually a preliminary selection for the upcoming national university student sports meeting and a preliminary preparation for the later world university student sports meeting.

The university students of this generation still have a strong sense of honor and are very eager to sign up.

Registration for the sports meet was voluntary, and all the classmates were there, except for one non-staff member, Jiang Xi.

Jiang Xi did not attend classes with them, so the class rarely saw her. Usually, if there was anything going on in the class, they would ask their roommates Liu Yan and Cui Yujie to convey it. Cui Yujie was in charge of the girls' registration for the sports meet, so Liu Yan tacitly agreed that Cui Yujie should ask Jiang Xi about it.

During the time Cui Yujie was in Dormitory 401, she was completely ignored by her roommates. Many of the things she said were not well cooperated by the people in the dormitory. For example, when she arranged for people to clean the dormitory and take out the trash, she relied on her position as the deputy monitor to order this and that, excluding herself. It was strange that she could get anyone to do it with just her mouth. Every time, only Yu Qianqian was embarrassed to get up and wanted to do it, but when she saw that the other people in the dormitory were as still as a mountain, she also followed the people in the dormitory. Cui Yujie was very angry.

She couldn't make Shen Xinlan angry, and she wanted to make friends with her; Jiang Xi was a genius student, and didn't take her words seriously at all, so she couldn't order her either, not to mention Zhang Min, who was rebellious.

Jiang Wu was not around. Cui Yujie thought of Jiang Wu going out for a run every morning. Although she didn't know how she ran, since she was running, it would be okay for her to sign her up for a long-distance race, right?

She didn't ask Jiang Wu's opinion, and directly wrote Jiang Wu's name at the bottom of the form: 3,000 meters, 800 meters, 100 meters hurdles, and in the final relay race, she signed her up for the 400-meter relay.

All of them were events that no one wanted to sign up for, so she had signed up for all four of Jiang Wu's sports and submitted them.

In fact, she also wanted to sign Jiang Wu up for a 1,500-meter long-distance race, but she stopped writing with some regret when she thought about the 1,500-meter race that she had already signed up for Yu Qianqian.

Yu Qianqian herself did not want to sign up for the 1,500-meter race, but the slightly simpler events such as the lead ball, javelin, high jump, and long jump were quickly filled up. She was a step slower than others and had a soft skin, so Cui Yujie directly said, "The others are all full, and there is no one signing up for the 1,500-meter and 3,000-meter races. Choose one between the 1,500-meter and 3,000-meter races!"

Yu Qianqian quickly chose the 1,500-meter race.

Cui Yujie smiled and sent the registration form to the counselor's office and handed it in.

When the counselor saw this, he thought Cui Yujie and Jiang Xi lived in the same dormitory, and must have consulted Jiang Xi's opinion and sought her consent before signing up for so many events.

However, when the counselor saw the 3,000-meter mark, he still asked Cui Yujie, "Is Jiang Wu a good runner?"

Cui Yujie said nonchalantly, "She goes running the first thing every morning. What do you think?"

Their counselor, who was also a senior graduate student, was very young. Hearing this, he recalled Jiang Wu's height and her long legs, nodded and said, "She looks like a good runner." He thought that she had signed up herself, and although signing up for all four events was a bit too much, since Jiang Wu wanted to run, she must be able to run, so he submitted the registration form.

The school's autumn sports meet is hosted by the Jingcheng University Sports Committee, and the Sports Teaching and Research Group, the school party committee, and the school administrative leaders carry out specific work. Once the list is submitted, the number of places in the sports meet is determined.

After the roster for the autumn sports meet was confirmed, it was the National Day holiday. The counselor specifically told the students in the class about the sports meet after the holiday and asked everyone to go back and practice more.

Everyone in the dormitory was anxious to go home.

Unlike Jiang Wei, except for Shen Xinlan and Cui Yujie, they were all leaving their hometowns for the first time and came to live alone in a strange big city. They were all eager to go home. They were all busy packing their luggage, rushing to buy train tickets to go home overnight, and using their own frugal money to buy Daoxiangcun cakes to bring home for their families to taste.

For a while, no one in the dormitory discussed the autumn sports meet.

Jiang Xi didn't know that he had been signed up for four sports in the autumn sports meeting, so he naturally didn't do any practice. When the holiday came, he went to the airport with Song Peifeng and flew back to Shanghai.

Song Peifeng returned to Wucheng during the holiday. Jiang Xi finished his work and came to the gate of Shanghai University of Science and Technology.

A row of shops behind Shanghai University of Science and Technology has been renovated, and the community is basically completed. Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai's two shops will also be gradually renovated and opened.

At present, the flow of people is still on the street next to it. There is still no one in this back street. I guess until this place is completely renovated, all the storefronts will be bought or rented out, and the shops will be opened. It will not be lively at the back for a while.

Jiang Bai still had the same idea. He simply painted the shop with white lime and opened the bicycle repair shop first. After making money, he would buy some bicycles and sell them in the shop.

When Jiang Xi came, Jiang Bai was in the shop at the back. The shop in the front was closed because it was a holiday and there was no one at school. Yesterday, Grandpa Jiang went back to the villa and was not in the shop.

Jiang Xi came over and took a look around, and then went to the house she bought here.

The house has been delivered and the real estate certificate has been issued. All that is left is the decoration. Jiang Xi plans to ventilate the house for half a year after the decoration is completed, and Grandpa can come here to live, so that he doesn’t have to stay in the shop at night. Winter is coming soon and it is too cold.

Although the villa is equipped with floor heating, it is far from the school. Grandpa Jiang doesn't like running around every day, and he prefers to stay in the shop.

Moreover, the villa is too big, and he is not used to living alone when Jiang Bai is not around. If something happens, such as falling or something, it would be unsafe for Grandpa Jiang to be alone when Jiang Bai is living in the school.

As for the house decoration, Jiang Xi still did not bother to do it, and directly handed it over to the decoration company of Manager Qian.

Manager Qian's decoration company had a bad business due to the stock market crash last year and the flood this year. After receiving Jiang Xi's job, they immediately rushed over to design and decorate for Jiang Xi, and guaranteed to install it as quickly as possible.

They definitely won't be able to live there this winter, but they will try to get them there next spring.

Jiang Xi's holiday is not free. In addition to the manuscripts for "The Imperial Guard" and "My Years Driving a Mech in the Stars", which he has to submit, the Popular Film Festival will be held at the end of November. The crew of the movie "White Snake" has applied for this year's Popular Film Festival. The crew has applied for the Best Actress for the female lead and the Best Supporting Actor for Jiang Bo, as well as the Audience's Favorite Actor Award.

It is not known whether they will be nominated or even win the award, but with the box office of "White Snake" this year, the probability of the "White Snake" crew winning the award is very high, so the entire "White Snake" crew attaches great importance to this matter.

They can only work on nominations and awards in private, but the audience's favorite actor award can be promoted now, and various votes have already begun.

Mobile phones have just become popular this year, and some people in the city who have spare money have begun to abandon pagers and mobile phones and put small and exquisite mobile phones on their belts.

This time, the public's favorite actor and actress awards will be presented in three ways: one is letter voting, one is national audience text message voting, and one is phone voting. The final result is the sum of the three voting methods to see who gets the most votes.

Originally, this matter had nothing to do with Jiang Bo. Who knew that after the TV series "The King's Guard" was released on October 1, Jiang Bo, who had not been very popular due to the withdrawal of "White Snake", actually gained a lot of popularity because of the role of the second male lead in the TV series "The King's Guard". Seeing the voting address in the newspaper, they wrote to the organizers of the Popular Film Festival to vote, and some voted by text message, which immediately raised Jiang Bo's votes and gave him a chance to compete for the Most Popular Actor Award.

Originally, the "White Snake" crew did not prepare this award, and Jiang Bo's votes were completely unexpected.

They thought that if they could get more votes, the White Snake crew might be able to win another award, so they immediately asked Jiang Xi to come, hoping that Jiang Xi could use her popularity to get votes for Jiang Bo, after all, Jiang Bo is her brother.

Although Jiang Xi is already a recognized girl in the circle and many people have seen her, she has never appeared in public. The White Snake crew wanted Jiang Xi to do promotions with them, but Jiang Xi refused. The crew then hoped that she could get votes for the White Snake crew and Jiang Bo on Wuxia.

In this matter, Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai are not active, only the "White Snake" crew is the most active. They have no choice but to be active. Although they have earned more than 42 million yuan in box office, and won the first place in all the box office so far this year, their crew still has a strong competitor, that is, the "Party A and Party B" crew from the Beijing/circle.

Although the "Party A and Party B" crew is not the highest-grossing movie this year, it has also earned more than 30 million yuan in box office. There are people with power behind them. Many nominations of the two movies have collided. Obviously, this year's Wanhua Awards is basically a showdown between these two movies.

Seeing that Jiang Xi and Jiang Bo, the brother and sister, looked nonchalant, the crew of "White Snake" gritted their teeth and gave Jiang Xi a promotional bonus of 100,000 yuan.

When the movie was released and earned more than 40 million yuan at the box office, the crew had already given Jiang Xi a bonus of 50,000 yuan. Now there was another bonus... Jiang Xi couldn't refuse the kindness and said that he would promote "White Snake".

When "Wu Xia" magazine heard that Jiang Bo was selected as the most popular actor, it also promoted it. Even the publishing house used its influence to promote "White Snake" and Jiang Bo, and at the same time took advantage of the popularity and continued to sell their published books, which made the publishing house and Jiang Xi a small profit.

This money was invested by Jiang Xi to buy the shares of the electrical company in early June.

In August, the dikes blocked the flood, but the flood did not really start to recede until October.

The flood in Jiangjia Village finally began to recede little by little. First, the stone steps of each waterproof platform were exposed one by one

, and then the road surface under the steps was gradually exposed from waist-high to ankle-deep, and then the pond under the platform was also exposed.

The willow trees, roses and other plants beside the pond were all drowned and needed to be replanted. The willow trees were fine. As long as willow branches were planted around the pond, it would not take three years for the jasper to become a tree-high tree with thousands of green silk threads hanging down.

The only regret is that all the lotus roots in the pond were drowned. Not only the lotus roots in the pond, but also the wild lotus roots that were endless on the river beach in previous years are all gone this year. If no one is dedicated to planting them, the people of the entire Linhe Brigade will not be able to eat free lotus root balls during the New Year in the next three years.

The water level receded until the road of the river ditch next to Jiang Xi's new house was completely exposed, and Jiangjia Village finally had electricity.

The electrician from the big house came to the hydropower station overnight and opened the gate to turn on the electricity.

It wasn’t that we didn’t want to have electricity before, but we couldn’t. Too many electric poles were flooded, and many children in and outside the village had to wade through the water to go to school. Children were naughty, and those electric wires were only half a person’s height above the water. If a child accidentally touched those wires, the water would conduct electricity, and it might cause a series of electric shocks. It was too dangerous. After discussion with the brigade, they simply pulled the power gates before the water level receded, and temporarily stopped the power supply.

Now there is finally electricity, and the phone at the old store at the entrance of the village finally rang. Jiang’s father called to ask about the flood situation at home.

He was far away in Shenzhen, and all flood conditions were tracked through the daily "News Broadcast". The only news in Shenzhen could be broadcast on the provincial health television station. Small city stations like Wujiang City and small county stations like Wucheng could not be found in Shenzhen, and calls were unresolved. He was extremely anxious all day long, and every other week Jiang's father would call his hometown. It was not until October that the call was finally connected.

The first thing Jiang's father said when the phone call was connected was: "Grandpa, is my house okay? Is it flooded?"

Grandpa Lao Zhonghua is Jiang Guotai's father. He is old and has never left the flood platform since the flood. Hearing this, he said: "I really don't know. I haven't been there, but your house should be flooded, right? Everyone is flooded on the flood platform. It's almost flooded to my house!" Even in the flood more than

ten years ago, the flood only reached the fourth step of the flood platform. This time, it's almost flooded to the tenth step.

When Jiang's father heard that his house was flooded, he took a breath of cool air and was so anxious that he didn't know what the situation was at home now.

Even though he had anticipated this year's severe flood, he still didn't expect the flood in his hometown to be more severe than he expected. His family built a new house last year, and if it was flooded, all the work of the previous year would be in vain.

Lao Zhonghua said, "Wait five minutes and call me again. I'll go get your eldest brother."

The three brothers of Uncle Jiang's family went to build a house for someone else, leaving Uncle Jiang at home. With the flood this year, it was necessary to leave a man at home.

As soon as Uncle Jiang answered the phone, Dad Jiang asked, "Brother, how is my house? Has it been flooded?"

"No, no, it's almost flooded." Uncle Jiang said, "Fortunately, I built your house high. When I laid the foundation, I deliberately raised it by several dozen centimeters. I also added half a meter to the first floor, so it didn't flood to the second floor. But your basement is hopeless. It's full of water, and the water can't get out. The firewood inside is no longer usable!"

When it was built, it was considered that the house would definitely get flooded during the annual water pumping season of the hydropower station, so a drain was left. However, the internal environment of the basement was simple and uneven, and some water accumulated to a certain extent. In addition to water, there was also silt and water snakes.

Now I don't know if there are rats in it.

When Dad Jiang heard that the second floor of the house was not flooded, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I was so worried in Shenzhen! I looked forward to calling you every day, but the phone at the brigade headquarters was not connected. I called Guotai, but Guotai said that the power was out at home and he couldn't contact you. I wrote you several letters, but no one replied!"

Uncle Jiang said speechlessly, "The road is flooded, who will send you a letter?"

The two brothers were silent for a while, and Uncle Jiang suddenly asked, "Did you know that Qing Qing came back to help with the disaster relief?"

Dad Jiang was still worried about his house, and suddenly heard about the disaster relief. Dad Jiang asked nonchalantly, "Disaster relief? What disaster relief? Qing Qing came back during the summer vacation?"