Chapter 3939 [1st update]
Jiang Xi’s first reaction when she saw the GG brand was: “Oh my god, there is such a good thing? Buy it!”
In her previous life, because she worked within the system, her salary and bonus were fixed. Even if there was a salary increase, the increase was limited. She had no other skills, so she relied on being honest and loyal to her leader to become his confidant. The leader trusted her, and she did not dare to make the slightest mistake. She was always honest, and all the extra income came from writing.
She couldn't afford to buy a house in the first few years of her work. When she had a certain amount of surplus to buy a house, her salary could not keep up with the soaring house price. Although she bought a house later, she had a provident fund and no pressure. But when she saw the 6.2-meter-high floor and zero down payment, Jiang Xi was still very tempted.
It is estimated that it is difficult for girls born in the city to have her desire to have a house that belongs to her completely and settle down.
Because she was born in the countryside, her natal family is not her home, and her husband's family is not her home. When she quarrels with her husband's family and her husband's family tells her to get out, she doesn't know where to get out of the world.
Although Jiang Xi has not experienced such a thing as being told to "get out" by her husband's family, she has seen a lot of it since she was a child.
Especially after her grandfather passed away, she felt like she had nowhere to call home, feeling as if she had been abandoned by the whole world.
She wanted to have a house that belonged to her alone, a place where she could always go, a place that belonged to her completely and exclusively, where no one could invade or hurt her. It was a huge, safe, and solid shell where she could rest in peace.
It was not the place where she would tremble whenever she mentioned it, afraid of being beaten at any time.
In her heart, that place had never been her home. She had countless nightmares of being imprisoned in that dark and scary little house.
She quickly took out a pen and paper and wrote down the address on the GG card.
Jiang Xi found the staff at the train station and asked them which hospital in Shanghai was the most famous and the best, saying that he wanted to take his grandpa to the hospital for a physical examination.
"That's a lot better. The Sixth Hospital, the Seventh Hospital, and the Ninth Hospital. If you want to take your grandpa to the hospital for a physical examination, then go to Huadong Hospital." The staff at the train station knew a lot: "Huadong Hospital was just rated as a Class III Class A hospital this year, so it is very good in the whole Shanghai."
There are many good hospitals in Shanghai, but each hospital has different focuses. For example, Zhongshan Hospital is good at cardiology and liver disease, Huashan Hospital is good at dermatology and neurology, the Sixth Hospital is awesome at orthopedics, and Huadong Hospital is also very famous in Shanghai for geriatric medicine.
When the staff at the train station heard Jiang Xi say that he was taking his grandfather to get a physical examination, they recommended Huadong.
Jiang Xi immediately decided to go to Huadong.
Jiang Xi and his grandfather were wearing shabby clothes, and it was obvious that they were from the countryside.
The staff at the train station was afraid that they didn't know how to take the bus, so they taught them, "There are no buses now, so you can only take a taxi. Do you see the roof light on the top of the car? The ones with the roof light on are empty, and the ones without the roof light on are carrying passengers. Just take the ones with the roof light on!"
They also told them, "We have just introduced IC card meters in Shanghai this year, so you don't have to worry about taxi drivers overcharging you because you are from other places. The management is strict now!" "
Afraid that they didn't understand, he went over to stop a car for Jiang Xi and told the driver, "Take them to the guesthouse near the East China Hospital." In order to prevent the driver from taking a detour, he specifically told the driver in front of him how much it would cost to get to the vicinity of the East China Hospital: "Don't pay more than this price."
The driver also smiled and said, "Don't worry, I guarantee to take you there safely, and I won't charge you a penny more!"
The train station staff then closed the door and went back to work with a blank expression.
He was also very tired from working the night shift.
Grandpa Jiang was brought to the big city by Jiang Xi, and his eyes were not enough to see the tall buildings, colorful neon lights, clean roads, and speeding cars.
Hearing that they also wanted to take a car, Grandpa Jiang was worried that he didn't have enough money, and he didn't dare to get in. Jiang Xi pushed him in and said, "Grandpa, don't worry, sit down. The organizer said that as long as you have the invoice, everything can be reimbursed." She then said to the driver, "Master, remember to give me the invoice when we get to the guesthouse."
When the driver heard her say that it could be reimbursed, he asked curiously, "Are you in Shanghai for business?" The
driver spoke Mandarin, which Grandpa Jiang could understand, and he boasted excitedly, "Yes, my eldest granddaughter's composition won first prize and was published in a magazine."
He spoke their Shuibu Town dialect. Not to mention in Shanghai, even people from neighboring cities might not understand him if he spoke too fast.
Jiang Qiang translated for Grandpa and repeated it in Mandarin. The driver understood and immediately smiled and praised Grandpa Jiang: "Your granddaughter has a promising future!"
Grandpa Jiang was so happy that he couldn't help but smile all the way and kept praising Jiang Qiang in dialect.
The driver didn't understand what he said but kept agreeing with him. The two of them were talking at cross purposes and were having a great time.
Grandpa Jiang was really too excited, even more excited than when he was riding a train. He was so excited that he couldn't control his happy mood and kept talking.
This was a car, and he had ridden in a car before. He had already thought about how to brag to his old friends when he got back.
His eldest granddaughter's composition won the first prize and was published in a book. She also brought him to the big city. The houses in the big city are so tall, and the lights are colorful and beautiful.
This is completely different from their small mountain village. It is really as good as the educated youth said.
When getting off the car, the taxi driver tore off the receipt and gave it to Jiang Xi, "Take it~"
Grandpa Jiang smiled and nodded and thanked him: "Yes, yes, you must take it, and don't lose it."
Then he went to visit the guesthouse that Jiang Xi brought him to. When Jiang Xi checked in at the front desk, he sat there and looked around.
Every place here is so fresh to him.
The guesthouse is a bit old, probably an old guesthouse built in the past, but in the eyes of Grandpa Jiang, this is the best place to live.
Jiang Xiao only booked a standard room with two beds.
Grandpa Jiang touched the soft mattress and the snow-white sheets on the mattress, and was a little afraid to sit on it.
"What if you dirty the bed?"
"It's okay, don't we have clean clothes? Grandpa, go in and take a shower and change into clean clothes." With
the arrival of the National Day, the weather is not that hot anymore. It is even a little cool in the morning and evening, and you need to wear a thin coat.
Jiang Xi went into the bathroom, adjusted the water temperature, and told Grandpa Jiang what to do. There were also bath products for washing hair and bathing inside: "You can use all of these, they are all free. If you are afraid of dirtying other people's white sheets, just use these to wash them clean."
Grandpa Jiang was old and it was inconvenient to carry water in the mountains. Every day when he took a bath, he used a linen towel to get a basin of water and scrubbed his body. When it was hotter, he would go to the mountain stream and scrub with a towel.
But he was very happy to use these new things he had never seen before. These were all the capital for him to brag to his old friends when he went back.
His old friends would sit under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village all day long and brag about things. One of them would say that his son took him to a state-owned hotel to eat something delicious, and how good the chef's cooking skills were, and how delicious the dishes were, as if they were eating a state banquet.
Or they would brag about how their daughter took them to a shopping mall, and how good and expensive the clothes in the mall were, and how she wanted to buy them for them, but they refused.
Tsk~
his eldest granddaughter won the first prize for her composition, and brought him to Shanghai!
Grandpa Jiang was alone in the bathroom, and the more he thought about it, the better it became. He wished he could go back to Jiangjia Village immediately, go under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village, and brag to his old friends.
After Jiang Xi helped him adjust the water temperature, he tried to adjust it himself. It turned out that the left side was hot water, the right side was cold water, and the middle was warm water.
The small tiles on the wall were colorful.
The floor was also made of tiles, without a speck of dust, spotless.
And the toilet, once flushed, everything was clean.
Later, Grandpa Jiang went back and described it to his old partners: "The ground in big cities is clean, cleaner than you can lick it with your tongue, and the toilets are snow-white and clean!" He proudly asked his old partners: "Do you know what a toilet is?"
After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, Grandpa Jiang walked out happily with a hunched back and his hands behind his back. After Jiang Xi settled Grandpa down, he went to take a shower himself, and washed the clothes that the two had changed out of and hung them outside to dry.
The clothes of Jiang Wu and Grandpa Jiang are both very shabby, especially Grandpa Jiang's. He doesn't know how to mend clothes, and neither does Grandma Jiang. When clothes are torn, they can only poke them clumsily with a sewing needle. He doesn't care whether the sewing is good or not, as long as they can be worn.
So most of his clothes are crooked. When Jiang Wu was a child, he dressed Jiang Wu in the same way, from the front to the back, and from the back to the front. Anyway, the main thing is that it doesn't freeze when worn. Jiang Wu
's clothes are the biggest ones, just like children wearing adult clothes, very small, they have been worn for many years, and they are still worn even when they are too small.
Such clothes are generally the few good clothes that Jiang Wu can take out and have no patches. Even if they are too small, Jiang Wu is still reluctant to put them away and keep them to wear.
The bed in the guesthouse was too soft, and Grandpa Jiang slept very uncomfortably. He tossed and turned until two or three in the morning before he fell asleep. He woke up in the morning with backaches and felt very uncomfortable.
But he said nothing, still with his hands behind his back, like an old turtle carrying a tortoise shell, and followed Jiang Xi slowly.
Seeing that Jiang Xi took him to the hospital instead of receiving the award, Grandpa Jiang asked, "Didn't you say you would receive the award this morning?"
Jiang Xi said, "I called the organizer this morning. When they heard that I only had two days off and had to go back to Wucheng tomorrow, they told me to come to the hospital for a physical examination and transfer the prize money directly to my bank account. I should keep the physical examination form at the hospital and send it to them when the time comes. They can just transfer the money directly."
Grandpa Jiang thought with some worry, could his granddaughter have been deceived?
But he didn't dare to say it out loud, for fear of undermining his granddaughter's self-confidence.
He hesitated for a long time, but still said nothing. He just pulled his eldest granddaughter's wrist and said, "I'd better not do any physical examination. Just check yourself."
Jiang Xi took out a stack of money from his bag and quietly put it into Grandpa Jiang's hand, asking Grandpa Jiang to hide it in his pocket quickly to prevent thieves from seeing it and stealing it.
She whispered to Grandpa Jiang, "Grandpa, if the school hadn't asked us to participate in this competition and my composition hadn't been published, I would still be afraid of encountering scammers. How could the prize for a composition be so high? One thousand yuan? I'm afraid to come alone, afraid that it's fake and I'll encounter scammers. I don't dare to come to claim the prize, but I can't bear to part with the one thousand yuan. That's why I want Grandpa to come with me. With Grandpa around, I'm not afraid."
She said, "I didn't expect that when I called the organizer this morning to tell him that I only had two days off and would be going back tomorrow, the organizer took into consideration that I'm an out-of-towner and it's not easy for me to come to Shanghai. , so I don’t have to travel far to claim the award, I can just go to the hospital for a physical examination, the award certificate will be mailed to my school, and the prize money was directly transferred to my passbook. I went to the bank this morning and saw that there was really money!"
Jiang Qing pretended to be moved to tears and wiped away the non-existent tears from the corners of his eyes, "The leaders of the Shanghai government are so good, they don’t engage in any fancy formalism at all, and they really consider the most practical needs of us students."
Grandpa Jiang: ...
Grandpa Jiang originally doubted whether his eldest granddaughter was deceived, but the money was real.
What kind of liar would transfer money directly without even showing his face?
Grandpa Jiang believed it and said with emotion: "Otherwise, how can he be the leader of a big city?" He looked at this prosperous metropolis and sighed in his heart. No wonder they could develop Shanghai so well. The leaders of big cities do things differently. Everything starts from the needs of the grassroots people.
Grandpa Jiang was moved to tears.
After that, I took Grandpa Jiang to have a physical examination. Everything went very smoothly. There were not so many people doing physical examinations these days, and there was no need to queue. They didn't eat breakfast in the morning, so the physical examination was fast.
Grandpa Jiang had no doubt that these could be reimbursed. He just held the receipts tightly all the way, for fear of losing one.
These are all money.
With this 1,000 yuan bonus and his salary at the end of the year, it is enough to pay for his granddaughter's tuition for the next semester, the next semester, and the next semester.
Thinking of this, the heavy weight on his head suddenly became lighter, and even his pace seemed to be much lighter.
The physical examination report did not come out so quickly. Jiang Wu's vacation was limited, and he had to leave tomorrow. They had to go to evening self-study in the evening. Taking the train was definitely not an option. They could only take a bus directly to Wucheng.
Taking a bus is much faster than taking a train. If they leave at noon, they can find a place for Grandpa to stay.
After the physical examination, Jiang Qing took Grandpa Jiang to lunch, sent Grandpa Jiang back to the guesthouse, and told him that she had to go to the city government. She said that this competition was jointly organized by the Shanghai Municipal Government and the organizers, and she had to go to the city government to sign to indicate that she had received the prize money.
"These prizes are all issued by the government. If I don't sign, people will think that they have been embezzled."
Grandpa Jiang had no doubts about Jiang Xi's winning the prize. He was even less worried when Jiang Xi said he was going to the municipal government. Where would there be bad people in the government? Wouldn't it be as safe as the Public Security Bureau?
"Go, go, don't worry about me. I'm so old, how can I get lost?" Grandpa Jiang wanted to take a good look at this prosperous metropolis at the door of the guesthouse.
He felt that Shanghai was better than what the educated youth from Shanghai who came to the countryside from their brigade said, and the leaders of Shanghai were also good.
Jiang Xi took a taxi with his schoolbag on his back and went to the address written on the sign at the train station.
Uh...it really is a place where chickens don't lay eggs and birds don't shit.
It was a completely undeveloped land, with only a few buildings standing there alone. There were construction teams working around and still building houses.
Jiang Xi went straight to the sales office. Before he got inside, a salesperson came to greet him. When he saw that it was a young girl in shabby clothes, his excitement suddenly dimmed, and he asked her listlessly: "Are you here to look for someone?" He pointed to the construction team and said, "If you are looking for someone, go there."
He thought she had a family member moving bricks on the construction site.
Jiang Xi was looking at the houses that had been built, and smiled at the salesperson: "I'm here to buy a house."