Chapter 6060 [Second update]
Ten yuan!
Ten yuan a day, that’s three hundred yuan a month!
It’s so much!
Jiang Bai looked at Jiang Xi with his round, black eyes, wishing he could graduate immediately and come to work for his sister!
He asked her, “Can I come again next Sunday?” Fearing that there wouldn’t be such good business next Sunday, he hurriedly said, “Don’t pay ten yuan, five yuan will do!”
Five yuan a day, that’s twenty yuan a month!
So happy! So happy!
Jiang Xi shrugged without comment: “As long as your academic performance doesn’t drop, you can come, and I’ll still give you ten yuan a day!”
Jiang Bai’s eyes lit up even brighter!
Jiang Xi had never seen Jiang Bai’s expression so vivid before.
Jiang Bo has been more stable and sensible than his peers since he was young. His premature maturity makes him always have a cold expression of a little adult, as if he disdains everything around him.
Because Jiang Song was brought up by Jiang's father and mother since he was young, Jiang Xi actually grew up with Jiang Bo. When they were young, Jiang Bo took care of Jiang Xi more. She was two years younger than Jiang Bo, and at that time she was Jiang Bo's little tail. Wherever he went, Jiang Xi followed him, and he took her to run all over the mountains and fields. It
was not until Jiang Bo was taken away by Jiang's father and mother when he was seven years old that their relationship gradually became cold.
If she hadn't been in the third year of junior high school by mistake in her previous life, and if Jiang Bai was still in the third year of high school and she was in the first year of high school, she wouldn't have experienced the darkest thing of youth such as campus bullying in her previous life.
Because her brother protected her at school, she felt safe and never afraid of school.
Among the three siblings, Jiang Bai was the one who was most influenced by Jiang's mother.
Because of Jiang Ma's beating and scolding, Jiang Xi had a vague idea in her heart when she was very young, that she didn't want to be like Jiang Ma when she grew up, so she subconsciously grew up in a completely opposite direction from Jiang Ma. But Jiang Bai was different. He said that Jiang Dad and Jiang Ma were only Jiang Song's parents, not his and his sister's parents, but he longed for the love of his father and mother in his heart, just like a puppy full of expectations, he would follow Jiang Ma when she waved.
Jiang Ma had a motto: "Who comes to this world not to suffer?"
This made Jiang Bai have a pessimistic cognition of the world when he was very young, thinking that people come to this world to suffer.
So he has been suffering and accepting pain since he was a child.
He can't see the beauty of this world.
Perhaps, for him, the only beauty in the world is Grandpa.
So the sudden death of Grandpa Jiang also caused Jiang Bai's world to collapse. Although he seemed calm on the outside, he actually couldn't calm down for many years.
He had no interest in this world.
His only friend was Tong Jingang.
It was Tong Jingang who took the initiative to break into his world and never left.
Jiang Xi used her natural optimism to fight against the pain and darkness brought to her by her childhood and adolescence, but Jiang Bai took the initiative to accept the grayness of the world.
He didn't know how to appreciate the flowers in spring, the lotus in summer, the fallen leaves in autumn, the snow in winter, the delicacies in the world, and the refreshing fragrance of flowers.
The whole world was meaningless to him, he just lived.
Just like every grain of dust in this world.
He heard Jiang Xi say that people come to this world to feel and experience all kinds of emotions, such as joys and sorrows, birth, aging, sickness and death, happiness, pain, beauty, sadness, and then feel and know themselves.
At that time, Jiang Bai was completely unable to understand the colorful world that Jiang Xi saw.
He just didn't comment.
But at this moment, the expression on his face was completely different from the dead silence of 20 years later. He was so lively and energetic.
This made Jiang Xi feel sad, but he couldn't help but smile.
Jiang Xi thought for a moment and said, "Second brother, I see that the coat you are wearing today has sold a lot of copies."
Speaking of this, Jiang Bai's joy disappeared, and he frowned and said, "My clothes were almost taken off by those aunties today. They were hanging on the clothes rack, but they insisted on taking my clothes."
"That shows that you wear them well!" Jiang Xi looked him up and down, found two sets of matched clothes from the store, and handed them to Jiang Bai: "Well, from today on, you will wear these two sets of clothes that I matched for you in my store every day, and I will give you an extra ten yuan a week. How about it?"
Jiang Bai looked at her suspiciously.
Jiang Xi urged him: "Go in and change into this outfit first, and come out so I can see the effect."
Jiang Bai thought she wanted to give him clothes in this way, but he didn't want it, "I have enough clothes to wear, no need to give them to me, you can sell them for money."
"You really think too much, who said the clothes are for you?" Jiang Xi took the clothes and put them behind the curtain for him, then walked out of the curtain and said loudly: "But if you look good in them and can bring me more business, I can give you these two sets of clothes!"
Jiang Bai's appearance is really handsome and his skin is white and tender. In order to reduce this elegant aura on him, he shaved his hair very short, which in turn showed his superior face.
When he heard his sister say that he would be a model to attract more people to buy clothes in the store, his first reaction was to refuse.
Since childhood, he has been the center of attention because of his face that is prettier than that of girls. However, he himself does not like this kind of attention, which makes him very uncomfortable. Now his sister actually wants him to take the initiative to show himself and attract other people's attention, which makes him even more uncomfortable.
But this discomfort was quickly defeated by "money".
Thinking that this would bring more business to his sister's store, even though he did not like being noticed, he still changed into the clothes his sister picked for him and walked out from behind the curtain.
Jiang Xi looked around him, "You raise your head and chest, straighten your back, and lift your chin!"
Because of Jiang Bai's overly outstanding appearance, he always wanted to hide himself and blend in with the crowd. Even though he has an outstanding appearance, he does not have the radiance and aura of a handsome guy.
She said, "Brother, you have to accept your appearance. Your outstanding appearance is God's preference for you. Genetically speaking, it is also a very high-quality gene. Don't always think about hiding it. Even if a pearl buries itself in the sand, it is still a pearl. Why can't you accept that you are a dazzling pearl? Why do you always want to turn yourself into gray dust?"
Jiang Bai had never heard anyone use the word "pearl" to describe him, and his face suddenly turned red.
Especially he felt that pearls were used to describe girls, but he still trembled slightly, his fingertips trembled, his heart trembled.
He even wanted to cry.
He was very uncomfortable and wanted to hide behind the curtain immediately and take off his clothes.
He grabbed his sleeves with his hands: "I... I can't do it, I'd better go in and change."
As soon as he turned around, Jiang Xi grabbed his arm: "Second brother, money."
Jiang Bai, who already had the signs of a money-grubber, stopped immediately, turned around unconfidently, and pulled down the corner of his clothes: "Is this really possible?"
Jiang Xi pulled him to the mirror, patted his back, and asked him to raise his head and chest, "Come on, repeat after me, I'm a super handsome guy!"
Jiang Bai was amused by her: "Go."
"Hey, second brother, don't be shy, come, repeat after me: I'm so handsome!" Jiang Bai, who always had a cold expression, was actually amused.
He didn't laugh wantonly, but slightly curled his lips shyly and restrainedly, and his pink cherry lips were moist.
With such beautiful and tender lips on the face of an adolescent boy, it is no wonder that people always say that he looks like a girl.
He was in a good mood all the way to school. He couldn't help but feel happy when he thought of the ten dollars he earned today.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but remember what his sister said, asking him to hold his head high and chest out, so that more people would see the clothes he was wearing and go to his sister's store to buy clothes. So he held his chest up again.
He was not used to walking like this. His body was stiff like a robot, and he felt like he couldn't even walk.
Every time someone looked at him, he couldn't help but want to hide and avoid their gaze, but when he thought of his sister saying that she would give him money, he forcibly suppressed the urge to avoid other people's gazes and still walked to the class with his head high and chest out.
Like a zombie.
He didn't go through the front door, but the back door as usual.
Tong Jingang was chatting with someone. When he saw Jiang Bai coming in, he was stunned for a moment. He didn't react to Jiang Bai. When he saw that it was Jiang Bai, I shouted: "Baizi, it's great. At first glance, I thought it was the Little Tigers walking into our class!" Following
Tong Jingang's strange shout, the other people in the class also turned around and looked back at Jiang Bai, and then their eyes lit up.
Jiang Bai was like a pearl, but he hid himself in the dust, lowered his head to read books every day, and had no sense of existence. He quietly huddled at the back of the class. If he wasn't too tall and looked too outstanding, I'm afraid people would ignore the existence of such a person in the class.
But now, this pearl is like it suddenly emerged from the soil, revealing its full luster and adorning itself with gorgeous ribbons.
Jiang Bai wanted to shrink back to his seat under the gazes of his classmates, but when he touched the money in his trouser pocket, his chest, which had been slightly lowered, straightened up again. Then, he sat back in his seat with his hands and feet, pretending to be calm, and took out the book.
Before he started reading, Tong Jingang jumped over, like a gorilla, like a hungry tiger pouncing on food, and jumped onto Jiang Bai's back, almost throwing Jiang Bai directly onto the table, and Jiang Bai's pretentious stiffness was suddenly overwhelmed.
"Baizi! Where did you buy this outfit? I want one too!" Tong Jingang hugged Jiang Bai's neck excitedly: "You are so mean. You secretly become handsome without taking me with you!"
Classmates couldn't help but tease him: "It's not a matter of taking it with you. If Jiang Bai takes it with you, you can't look handsome!"
"You actually said I'm not handsome?" Tong Jingang turned his head in disbelief, then took out a stainless steel spoon from his drawer, used the back of the spoon as a mirror, and pushed his hair back, pushing it to the left and then to the right. While pushing his hair back, he admired his handsome appearance and looked to Jiang Bai for his approval: "Baizi, tell me something fair, am I handsome?"
Jiang Bai was just pushed by him, and he couldn't keep up his handsome appearance anymore. He said unhappily: "What the hell is handsome!"
"Good, you dare to say I'm not handsome!" Tong Jingang held a spoon in one hand, and with the other hand, he held Jiang Bai's neck with his arm, and used his hands to mess up his hair: "Is he handsome? Is he handsome? Is he handsome?"
The girls in the class watched Tong Jingang mess up Jiang Dashuai's hair in a second, and messed up his new clothes. They wanted to shout: "Tong Jingang, you rude gorilla, let go of Jiang Bai and let me do it!"
Seeing them making such a fuss, they couldn't help but laugh.
In the next few days, Jiang Bai wore the clothes that Jiang Xi matched for him every day, straightened his chest, took stiff steps, and raised his head and chest like a robot at all times to show off his clothes.
The clothes he wore did not have too many patterns. He wore a black coat, a light blue sweater and blue jeans, black lace-up leather shoes, and a dark blue scarf tied around his neck that was much darker than the sweater.
The winter this year was about two degrees lower than in previous years, making it very cold.
Jiang Bai would only take off his knitted scarf when he was in the cafeteria, and pull down the zipper of his down jacket to a little below his neck, revealing the light blue turtleneck sweater inside.
After dinner, he would pull the zipper of his down jacket directly to his head, all the way to the boy's white chin, and then wrap the dark blue knitted scarf around, one circle after another.
Unlike people at that time who liked to imitate Xu Wenqiang's way of tying, he wrapped it around one circle after another, and it looked like a random knot.
But for some reason, it just looked good.
This made him the focus of the crowd wherever he went.
Even their class teacher couldn't help but look at him many times.
Because of the cold, Jiang Bai put his hands in his pockets. Except for his face, his clothes didn't even have any patterns or bright colors.
But for some reason, when he stood in the exercise team, he looked tall and handsome, indescribably upright.
Seeing many people looking back at Jiang Bai, and some even asking where Jiang Bai bought his clothes, the head teacher said in front of the class in a bad mood after returning to the class: "What are you looking at? Don't look at them! Jiang Bai looks good in clothes because he is handsome. If he is not handsome, he will look the same in anything!"
He turned around and thought, I should buy myself a set of clothes like this. I don't wear them in school, but I can wear them during the New Year to visit relatives and friends. It seems that it's okay for him to wear a black down jacket this year. He can also wear blue jeans.
Even the director of the political education department, who is very strict in discipline, couldn't help frowning when he saw Jiang Bai. He looked back at him several times, from his hair, to his clothes, to his coat, to his pants, and then to his shoes. In the end, he couldn't find any problems, so he walked over and said, "Take a school uniform and wear it outside!"
It's already very cold now, and New Year's Day is coming soon. The school uniforms of No. 1 Middle School are only spring, autumn and summer, but not winter. Now there are few people wearing school uniforms on campus. Only students with very few clothes, very torn and unwarmed cotton jackets will wear spring and autumn sports school uniform jackets over their cotton jackets.
But Jiang Bai is tall, and his school uniform was issued by the school when he just started his first year of high school. Even though he had chosen the largest size at that time, he is now 1.8 meters tall. The school uniform fits him perfectly, but he can't wear it over a down jacket. After
Jiang Bai said this to the director of the political and educational department, the director of the political and educational department couldn't say anything.
If it were other students, he would have asked them to cut their slightly longer hair, but Jiang Bai always kept a buzz cut to show his masculinity. He couldn't even cut his hair because he had already cut it very short.
In the end, the director of the Political Education Department was speechless. He could only think that Jiang Bai had grown up and his face had opened up. He used to look ordinary, but now that he was taller, he naturally looked good in clothes.
Because Jiang Xi repeatedly told him to walk with his head held high and his chest out, only by walking with his head held high and his chest out could he show off his clothes to the greatest extent. At first, Jiang Bai was a little stiff and pretended to be so. He always reminded himself to hold his chest up and not lower his head. But after a week, his body went from being stiff at the beginning to slowly relaxing and getting used to it.
This made him look like a layer of gray mist had been wiped off, finally revealing his original radiant luster.
Jiang Bai had two days off for New Year's Day. Originally, he would go home to bring food to replenish his meal tickets every New Year's Day, but he didn't go back this time. Although the three of them had an extra Grandpa Jiang to eat with, when Grandpa Jiang came to Wucheng, he brought rice with him. Now Jiang Bai took the rice to the school cafeteria and exchanged it for food tickets, which was enough for the time being.
He spent two days in Jiang Xi's store.
On the first day, the second and third year students did not have a holiday, and the first year students all went home. Many people came to buy clothes, but they were still mainly women's clothing.
The next day, maybe it was because of the mannequin dressed by Jiang Bai that the men's clothing that was originally sold as a pair suddenly became as popular as the women's clothing.
On the third day, which was New Year's Day, people who returned to school also came back. That afternoon, there was a sudden explosion.
The clothes that Jiang Bai wore in school were not sold out, but they were sold a lot, especially the black down jacket that Jiang Bai wore in the store that day.
This down jacket has the most backlog in Uncle Wang Yong's warehouse because it has no dazzling patterns. In this era, young people pursue gorgeousness and coolness. In order to get rid of the gray and plain colors unique to this era, they would like to use gold embroidery on the back of cotton padded jackets and down jackets to show a golden eagle to sell them well.
Whether it is parents buying for their children or young people buying for themselves, they all like to buy bright and cool ones.
In fact, Uncle Wang Yong didn't make much money from this batch of down jackets for Jiang Gui. He just wanted to avoid overstocking and sell them all quickly, because overstocking means overstocking money.
As a result, this down jacket was sold out during the three days of New Year's Day, and even the leather shoes he was wearing were sold out.
After this pair of leather shoes were sold out, he changed to another pair.
Anyway, they were all the same to him, all black.
Then, they were sold out again.
There were not many shoes to begin with.
It was Uncle Wang Yong who helped him get the goods from the shoe factory next door. He sent the goods to her. Of course, he sent the inventory from his own factory, so there were not many shoes. He thought of it as a bonus, and as he sold more, the shoes were sold out.
Jiang Xi had no choice but to call Uncle Wang Yong and ask them to send more shoes.
Uncle Wang Yong did not expect that clothes and shoes would be so popular in a small town like Jiang Xi. He knew that the warehouse of the factory next door also had inventory, so he asked her if she wanted some.
The inventory is definitely cheaper than the new models this winter. Uncle Wang Yong meant that the inventory is also good, and she can sell it at a low profit by sending it to him.
Jiang Xi thought that she had nothing to do during the winter vacation, so she could ask Jiang Bo to take this batch of shoes to the market in Shuibu Town to sell them. She immediately nodded and said, "Yes, yes, Uncle Wang, please help me check the quality. Thank you!"
Uncle Wang Yong was still considerate of her because of Wang Yong's relationship and because Jiang Xi helped him sell a lot of inventory. He smiled and said, "If you still want down jackets, I will send you another batch."
The winter of 1995 was a cold winter for Jiang Xi and his place, but a warm winter for Guangzhou.
Some down jackets were overstocked and could not be sold.