Chapter 83 83

It was the first time for Grandpa Jiang to experience the feeling of taking a bath in a bathhouse. Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang rubbed all the old dirt off his body. He felt as if he had lost ten pounds and felt relaxed.

Jiang Bai was the same. There was a bathhouse in Shuibu Town, but Jiang Bai had never been there. Tong Jingang often went to the bathhouse to take a bath. Seeing that Jiang Bai and Grandpa Jiang were not familiar with the bathhouse, they took the two of them. The two of them let Grandpa Jiang lie on the warm leather bed and rubbed Grandpa Jiang's whole body. Grandpa Jiang was thin, with no meat on his body, just skin. Tong Jingang was terrified when he rubbed Grandpa Jiang's back.

Then the two of them rubbed each other.

Jiang Bai's skin is whiter than his face. Tong Jingang is a city kid and Jiang Bai is a country kid, but Tong Jingang plays basketball and gets tanned and never gets white again. When Jiang Bai was a kid, he swam in the river outdoors. He got tanned for a summer and covered himself in a winter and got white again.

Jiang Bai is white, thin and tall, while Tong Jingang is black, thick and strong. The two of them lie on the black leather bed and rub each other, forming a sharp contrast.

Because of his white skin, Tong Jingang was very strong. The towel turned red after rubbing it. Tong Jingang was surprised to see it: "Oh my god, your skin is too tender, isn't it? I haven't even used any strength yet!"

Jiang Bai also shouted: "Can you be gentler? You are like removing the hair from a pig!"

Maybe it was because he had money that he had the confidence and could eat and dress warmly. Jiang Bai was obviously more lively than before, which made Grandpa Jiang laugh.

Jiang Xi also washed himself from head to toe. When his hair was dry, several people came out refreshed and relaxed.

It was still early and the school gate was not closed. He and Jiang Bai had been busy selling clothes to make money this year and had not had a good time. Tong Jingang suggested going to the skating rink to skate.

The skating rink and the dance hall are the favorite places for young people in the city now, but the dance hall is more for adults, and the skating rink is also a place that children like to go.

Jiang Bai has always been a law-abiding person, not doing anything out of line, and does not like to go to these messy places, and is even more reluctant to take his sister to such places, so Tong Jingang suggested going to the movies again.

"It's just right to come back for dinner after watching a movie. There is a roast duck restaurant next to the cinema. The roast duck is so delicious. It's just right to buy one and eat it with Grandpa Jiang!"

Tong Jingang thought that Jiang Bai, a buddy from the countryside, had never seen a movie, and wanted to take him to the cinema to see the world. In fact, Jiangjia Village has its own cinema. During the Chinese New Year, the cinema in Jiangjia Village played "Invincible East" and "Mom, Love Me Again".

Although Jiang Bo and Jiang Xiao had never been to the village cinema to watch movies because they had no money to buy tickets, they had watched many free movies outdoors. When they were young, they often went to the cinema to play because the owner of the cinema was their uncle from the third room.

The most popular movie in the cinema now is the recently released "Young and Dangerous", starring Ekin Zheng and Jordan Chan. After watching the movie, Tong Jingang was still immersed in the brotherhood between Chen Haonan and Shan Ji. He hooked Jiang Bo's neck with passion and felt that the brotherhood between him and Jiang Bo was the same as that between Chen Haonan and Shan Ji.

He was playful, and after watching the movie, he couldn't help wanting to go to the skating rink. He hooked his arm around Jiang Bo's neck and acted coquettishly: "Go, go, go, Baizi Baizi Baizi, just accompany your brother to play for a while~"

Jiang Xi couldn't stand the coquetry of a macho man like Tong Jingang, but Jiang Bo resisted his coquetry attack calmly, opened his hand and said: "If you want to go, go by yourself."

"Hey, what's the point of me going alone if you don't go?" Tong Jingang followed Jiang Bo closely.

Jiang Bo walked straight to the roast duck restaurant.

Tong Jingang bought it last time. Friends should give and take. In the past, he had no money, so he always took the food that Tong Jingang brought him. Now that he has money, he won't let Tong Jingang buy it.

It was probably the Chinese New Year, and everyone was willing to spend money on food. There was a queue at the door of the roast duck restaurant. There were many snack stalls around, from the square next to the cinema to both sides of the road, selling toys, balloons, goldfish and rabbits. It was a lively scene all the way.

Tong Jingang had money in his pocket now, so he couldn't hold back and bought three skewers of authentic Xinjiang lamb. The lamb skewers were very large, strung on iron skewers and hung in a fire barrel to roast, sprinkled with cumin and chili powder, and were very fragrant.

You can buy five skewers of lamb on bamboo skewers for one yuan, but such a large skewers of lamb on iron skewers costs one yuan per skewer, which makes Jiang Bai, who went to buy roast duck, feel distressed. The braised pork in the cafeteria is only eight taels of meal tickets, but such a skewer of lamb costs one yuan?

But the lamb is real lamb, and it is really delicious. After Tong Jingang finished the lamb skewers, he wanted to eat stinky tofu. Jiang Bai numbly watched Tong Jingang eat this and that, and in the end, the three of them each held a piece of candied haws and gnawed it.

It was probably Chinese New Year, and the things sold in these snack stalls were twice as expensive as usual. Jiang Bai took the candied haws handed to him by Tong Jingang and said while eating, "Don't buy me next time. We have plenty of this in the mountains, and I'm tired of eating it since I was a child."

A wild hawthorn tree can produce many hawthorn berries, and they can't pick them all. However, wild hawthorn berries are small and mostly sour. Not only people like to eat hawthorn berries, but insects also like to eat them. Therefore, wild hawthorn berries are very prone to infestation. Often, when you take a bite, you will find them full of insects.

However, it would not be a big deal if such fruit worms were eaten into the stomach, it was just disgusting. Jiang Bai, who was a bit of a mysophobia, had never liked eating this thing since he was a child. He handed it to Jiang Xiu and asked if he wanted to eat it. Jiang Xiu already had a bunch in his hand.

Tong Jingang opened his mouth and bit the candied haws in Jiang Bo's hand, biting off a piece: "Hey, this is just for the New Year atmosphere, who eats this stuff normally?" Tong Jingang patted Jiang Bo's bored shoulder, waving the candied haws in his hand: "Just feel the New Year atmosphere."

Tong Jingang made friends at this age, and he still looked at whether he was compatible with each other. He didn't have the thoughts about life and friends after he was 30 or 40 years old. At this time, he only vaguely felt that Jiang Bo was too self-disciplined and too self-hardened. He wanted to take him to eat something different and play something different to make him happier. 1996

was destined to be a lively year.

First, the release of "Young and Dangerous" at the beginning of the year made this movie popular all over the country, and the box office continued to rise.

The release of "Legend of Xiang Shuai" at the end of last year also made the ratings of this TV series soar. Everyone knows Chu Liuxiang, Hu Tiehua, and the king of thieves Sikong Zhaixing.

The ratings brought by the hit of "Justice Bao" last year on the Z Provincial TV station were all snatched away by the TV stations that bought the mainland broadcasting rights of this TV series. Director Li was so anxious that his mouth was covered with blisters, especially when the neighboring provincial TV station also organized an entertainment variety show like "Home Alone", inviting some children to the show every week. They don't know where they invited those little adults from. Every week, the audience was amused by the children's childish words, and the ratings kept rising.

On the contrary, it was their TV station, whose original high ratings were almost falling.

While Director Li urged the TV station staff to come up with programs to increase the ratings of the station, he also urged the crew of "Justice Bao" to hurry up and shoot their own dramas while the popularity of the first part of "Justice Bao" had not completely passed. If they were late, the popularity of "Justice Bao" would have been replaced by new TV series. Who would still remember "Bao"?

The crew of "Justice Bao" only took two days off on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and then hurriedly resumed the shooting and production of the TV series under the urging of Director Li. After

shooting every day, the film would be handed over to the post-production editor for editing and dubbing.

Previously, Justice Bao was broadcasted two episodes a day. The filming of a TV series was fast, but the editing and dubbing in the later stage all took time. If they wanted to film and broadcast at the same time, they had to leave at least 20 episodes in the front to ensure that there would be no gaps in the subsequent broadcasts. Moreover, their scripts were adapted from the plot of The Great Song Dynasty. They could not shoot the scenes in a disorderly manner like some crews with mature scripts. For example, in The Legend of Zhen Huan, the scenes of the emperor and all the concubines sleeping together were filmed on the same day.

In order to save money, many crews filmed the same scenes together, which could also save a lot of money on renting venues.

They had not yet written the scripts for the later episodes, so they could only shoot in the order of the cases.

At that time, the famous Hengdian Film City had not been built yet, so they filmed in an ancient town not far from the provincial capital.

There are many ancient towns in Province Z, and many of them are still inhabited by local aborigines. In order to shoot the second part of "Justice Bao", Director Li also contacted the local government, because during the filming, a lot of crowd actors were needed, and the local government and residents were required to cooperate in the performance.

In addition to the fixed government office scenes and Kaifeng street scenes, when the next case comes, they will also move to the next ancient town and go to different ancient towns to shoot the scenes for the next case.

It just so happened that they had over 40 episodes of films after Justice Bao was released. If they broadcast two episodes a day, it would last for more than 20 days. Then they would rerun Justice Bao to bring back some popularity, and the second part of Justice Bao they shot could be released.

Qin Shumin was a regular employee of the TV station, and she was one of them. Director Li was thinking that if he could make Qin famous, she would become a popular host after the TV series was released, and drive up the ratings of other programs on the station.

Qin Shumin has not had her own show yet, so she cherishes this opportunity very much. She has to be the female lead, playing the role she likes in the book, and also be the screenwriter, writing the emotional scenes that she wants. She is very happy to act, but she is too busy. Others can go back to rest after the show, but she has to discuss with the editor-in-chief how to combine the emotional scenes with the detective scenes. After all, she lacks experience as a screenwriter. She just does whatever the station needs her to do. So she took her two interns and wrote the script every day.

She didn't even go home on New Year's Eve, and wrote the script in the room they rented in the town.

Fortunately, her co-star was really handsome in real life, so handsome that he didn't need to wear makeup at all. With his bare face and costumes, he was a real Zhan Zhao, which made her happy and painful.

The happy thing was that it was really fun to shoot emotional scenes with handsome actors, but the painful thing was that she had to be responsible for thinking about the plot and lines of emotional scenes.

Director Li was afraid that there would be too few cases in the later period, so he also called the publisher to ask when the third volume of "Da Song" would be on the market. It was too slow to just collect the content serialized in "Wu Xia". He also had to find someone to write the script for the later part in advance. Anyway, he had the original book, so he just had to write according to the case of "Da Song" and add dialogues.

The first and second volumes of "The Song Dynasty" sold very well, and the publisher wanted to publish the third volume quickly, so they called "Martial Arts" magazine and asked them to increase the number of words in the serialized "The Song Dynasty" every week, for example, to publish 25,000 words a week, so that they could publish 100,000 words a month, and in one and a half months, they would have enough words to publish a book.

If they were fast, they could plan to publish the third volume in two months.

But Wang Yong was also having a headache.

He clearly felt the change in social atmosphere after the release of Young and Dangerous, especially since Guangzhou itself was under construction. The changes in the entire city could be said to be changing with each passing day. The bigger the scale, the more profits, and naturally the more disputes. There were especially many thieves and pickpockets at the station, and there were also motorcycle gangs on the road, who specialized in riding motorcycles to snatch bags from lone people and then ran away.

Two days ago, they also heard about a gang fight involving hundreds of people at a construction site not far from him. It seemed that they were fighting over the transportation of waste materials from a construction site.

The waste materials and transportation generated by those large projects were enough to support a transportation team. If there was cake and profit, naturally someone would come to grab it.

Wang Yong was not worried about Guangzhou. He was worried about Jiang Xi who was far away in Wucheng.

He was a man walking in that deep and dim alley during the day, and he was a little scared, not to mention Jiang Xi, a little girl.

He was afraid that Jiang Xi would be dragged into an alley. The more he thought about it, the more worried he became. After staying in Guangzhou for two months and getting a job, he wanted to go to Wucheng again.

He was really worried if he didn't go to accompany Jiang Xi. He

also sent an email to Jiang Xi, asking her not to go to the Internet cafe to write: "We have enough manuscripts here now, so you don't have to worry about it. You can also write your manuscripts by hand and send them over."

The mailbox of No. 1 Middle School is right in front of the main gate of No. 1 Middle School. After writing, put the envelope in it and stuff it into the green mailbox at the gate of No. 1 Middle School.

After Jiang Qi rented a house, she also took the time to write the sequel to "The Song Dynasty".

She still chose the time period from 6 to 8 in the morning, which is relatively safer and there are fewer people in the Internet cafes.

I don't know if it's because of the popularity of "Young and Dangerous", but Wucheng originally had a large number of young people without jobs. These young people usually have nothing to do, wandering on the streets, talking about love, or stealing bicycles to sell. The atmosphere was not very good. The appearance of "Young and Dangerous" made them envy the atmosphere of the movie "Young and Dangerous" with swords wielding and killing, and the high-spirited brotherhood. So they also learned from "Young and Dangerous" and formed gangs, gathering together to fight and slashing people with knives.

Students in closed-door schools like No. 1 Wuzhong are not so lucky. They are locked in the school every day and cannot go out. They don’t feel the change in Wucheng’s atmosphere very clearly. For people like Jiang Xi who have not yet entered the school and still go to the Internet cafe to write every day, the feeling is particularly obvious.

In addition to places like dance halls, underground casinos, and ice rinks, the most impetuous and conflict-prone places in Wucheng are Internet cafes.

Fortunately, the people who opened Internet cafes are also young people with a little influence in Wucheng. Because they took the lead in opening Internet cafes, they made the first pot of gold in this hot industry of Internet cafes. They also gathered some young gangsters around them. With power, ordinary people dare not go to the Internet cafes they opened to cause trouble. The Internet cafes are relatively stable inside.

But every time he entered and exited the alley where the Internet cafe was located, Jiang Xi could visibly notice that there were more people wandering in the alley, some smoking, some watching you take out something and pee against the wall, and some young men and women kissing.

Every time she saw these people, she tried her best not to look at them, but Jiang Xi still noticed the way they looked at her.

Jiang Xi saw with her own eyes that a young man who was surfing the Internet in the same Internet cafe had a steel pipe hidden in his clothes. The steel pipe was hidden in the pocket of the inner lining of his shirt, and a hole was poked in the pocket, which went straight from the pocket to the hem of his clothes. When he came over to surf the Internet, the hem of his clothes hit the edge of the table, making a crisp sound of "duang". Jiang Xi, who was immersed in her writing, couldn't help but look at him.

The other person was a very young boy with yellow hair, probably about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a circle of black fluff just growing above his lips. When he saw her looking at him, he smiled at her rather embarrassedly, fiddled with the steel pipe hidden in his clothes and said, "There have been too many people fighting recently. I dare not go out to play without a steel pipe." He also smiled and comforted Jiang Qi, "But it doesn't matter to you girls, they don't beat girls."

Jiang Qi: ...

Thank you, but I didn't feel comforted.

He glanced at the computer page in front of Jiang Wu. This was not the first time he saw her typing here. At first, he was just stunned by her typing speed. Later, he often saw her in the Internet cafe, mostly in the morning. At that time, he was basically still sleeping on the table after staying up all night in the Internet cafe, and then he was awakened by a familiar sound of "pa pa pa". After one or two times, he remembered this girl with extremely fast typing speed. After

encountering her many times, he has found a pattern. She comes here every Saturday and Sunday morning to play computer for two hours. Now it is probably winter vacation, and he has seen her for two consecutive days.

After eating braised pork, green peppers and dried tofu for half a year, Jiang Xi's height has obviously increased this year. At least now she no longer looks like a skinny child who has not grown up at all. Instead, she has grown taller and has gained some flesh on her face, looking like a girl.

Jiang Xi knows that she has a good appearance. In order not to cause trouble for herself, she deliberately cuts her growing hair into a thick bun, like a thick watermelon rind covering her head, and thick bangs covering her eyebrows. Every time she enters and exits this long and deep alley, she wraps half of her face in a gray scarf and wears shabby clothes.

She didn't stop wearing the 'new clothes' Jiang's mother gave her for the Chinese New Year just because she now had good clothes. Such 'new clothes' could save her a lot of trouble.

In their family, not only are the Jiang family members tall and tall, but her uncle's family is also tall, otherwise they would not be able to give birth to a person as tall as Jiang's mother who is 167 centimeters tall. Therefore, the eldest cousin and the second cousin are both tall when they become adults. The clothes they have worn look very fat on her now.

She happens to be wearing a down jacket underneath, a fat old cotton-padded jacket like this outside, and a dark gray scarf, so she won't attract anyone's attention when she goes in and out of the Internet cafe.

But her eyes were bright and deep, her eyelashes were as thick and long as crow feathers, her nose was high and her skin was white. No matter how she covered it with a scarf, her dark and bright eyes could not be hidden.

The boy next to her was still talking: "Are you going home soon? Can I take you there?"

Jiang Xi glanced at him and said coldly: "No need."

The boy immediately explained: "I don't mean anything else, it's just that it's very chaotic outside now, I'll take you out of the alley and then come back, I'm from No. 4 Middle School." He scratched his head embarrassedly: "You are also a student from a nearby school, right? Girls from No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School basically don't come to Internet cafes, I guess you should It's the No. 2 Middle School across from us. "

The No. 4 Middle School mainly has art and sports students, and does not take study very seriously. Most of the students are local students from Wucheng, and the worst are from the towns below. The richest people in Wucheng are not actually in Wucheng, but concentrated in the three towns below. Because there is a "dam" behind these three towns, they are collectively called the "Three Dams" by the locals. Later, they were called the "Three Bullies" somehow.

The weekend curfew at No. 4 Middle School is not strict, so he can often come to the Internet cafe to play games and surf the Internet all night on Fridays and Saturdays. Although No. 2 Middle School also takes study very seriously, its management is looser than No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School, so he thought Jiang Qi was from No. 2 Middle School.

He saw that although this little girl came to the Internet cafe to surf the Internet, she also had the temperament of a good student. She couldn't be from Wuzhong or No. 1 Middle School. Then it could only be No. 2 Middle School across from them.

Anyway, she couldn't be from No. 4 Middle School. Whether it was studying music, art, or sports, it was very expensive. Although the grades of the students in No. 4 Middle School were not as good as those in No. 1 Middle School and Wuzhong, their family conditions were not bad. Girls wouldn't wear such shabby clothes.

Jiang Xi looked at him and just smiled and nodded, affirming him: "You guessed right."

He immediately scratched his hair and smiled, showing his big white teeth: "Hehe, I knew it."

When Jiang Xi finished writing, closed all the pages and went to log out, he also quickly turned off the computer, got up and followed him out: "Hey, wait for me, I'll take you!" He followed Jiang Xi, "My name is He Qiaosheng, what's your name?" He said very familiarly: "My father's surname is He, my mother's surname is Qiao, and I was born to my parents, so I'm called He Qiaosheng. Do you think my parents were perfunctory in naming me? By the way, you haven't told me your name yet!"

Jiang Qi didn't want to have much contact with people from Wucheng. She might not return to Wucheng in the future, so she pulled her scarf higher to cover her nose, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed, and said lightly: "Ma Dongmei."

"Ma Dongmei, that's a nice name." He Qiaosheng followed her and walked into this long, narrow, dim and damp alley together. When the people in the alley saw someone coming in, they looked in their direction, especially at He Qiaosheng's flamboyant yellow hair.

He Qiaosheng was also a little nervous. He put his hands in the inner pocket of his shirt, tightly grasping the steel pipe inside. He followed Jiang Liu and whispered, "Let's go quickly." He added, "You'd better not come to the Internet cafe alone next time. If you really want to come, just come to No. 4 Middle School to find me. You can just come to our school and find me in the music class."

He whispered, "You look like a high school student. Our security guards will definitely not recognize which school you are from. Just say you are from the art class, or If you are from the music class, come to the music class of the second grade to find me. If you are not in the class, I will practice the piano in the piano room of the art building. I see that you come to surf the Internet every Saturday and Sunday morning. It happens that I also go there on Saturdays and Sundays. I will go with you then. "

It was not until he walked out of the alley and arrived at the street opposite the No. 2 Middle School and the No. 4 Middle School that he felt a little relieved. His hands were no longer on the steel pipe in his pocket, but in his trouser pockets, pretending to be very cool.

No. 2 Middle School has always compared itself to No. 1 Middle School and Wu Middle School, and the third graders have returned to school for classes.

He sent Jiang Xi to the gate of No. 2 Middle School and said to her, "Come in. Next time you go to the Internet cafe, you must go to our school and call me to join you!"