Chapter 26 Mid-Autumn Festival
In the next few days, Jiang Ningyue and Gu Meng started installing the furniture and placing it in positions. After a few days of hard work, everything was finally done.
The two of them lay on the sofa, looking at their newly renovated home, feeling a special sense of accomplishment.
"We're still short of a robot vacuum, an air purifier, and a dishwasher."
“I can understand robot vacuums and air purifiers.”
Jiang Ningyue asked in confusion, "What are you buying a dishwasher for?"
"Washing dishes? Are you going to wash them?" Gu Meng was also surprised.
"Are you cooking?" Jiang Ningyue tilted her head. "Haven't we been eating takeout these past few days?"
"Too."
Gu Meng was convinced, "Then let's buy a robot vacuum and an air purifier first."
"Don't spend any more money." Jiang Ningyue touched Gu Meng's hand. "You've been spending all the money these past few days. You've spent tens of thousands, right? I'll buy it when I get my salary."
"How much money can you earn from your salary?"
"How much money can you make from filming a movie?" Jiang Ningyue was also puzzled.
"I still have more than 700,000 yuan in my card."
Gu Meng laughed and said, "Can you earn that much in a year?"
"Excuse me."
Jiang Ningyue was suddenly speechless.
Now is the time when film pay is sky-high. In order to grab the exclusive broadcasting rights, video websites pay tens of millions or even hundreds of millions for a single drama.
Even though Gu Meng played a minor supporting role, it was still easy for her to earn 500,000 or 600,000 yuan per film. She had filmed two films so far, and after deducting taxes and miscellaneous expenses, it was normal for her to have more than 700,000 yuan left.
Moreover, Gu Meng’s drama has not been aired yet. If it receives good response after it is aired, her pay will definitely increase again.
"Mengmeng, I remember you can sing?"
"Yeah. I've learned singing and dancing, so what's wrong?" Gu Meng looked at Jiang Ningyue in confusion.
Jiang Ningyue thought for a moment, "Nowadays, anyone singing a few seemingly ambiguous lines on Douyin can become popular. If you post a few singing videos, you will also become popular."
"Hmm." Gu Meng nodded, "But I can't write songs, can you?"
"I can."
Jiang Ningyue decided to be a plagiarist for the sake of her good friend.
[System, exchange for 'Music Theory Basic Experience Pack' and 'Arrangement and Production Basic Experience Pack'.]
The basic experience pack can be purchased with points, and Jiang Ningyue already has the lyrics and music in mind, so she just needs to fill it out.
"Mengmeng, buy me a computer and I'll give you a song."
"What?"
Gu Meng laughed, "If you want to buy a computer, just tell me directly. You also want to give me a song. When will you learn to write songs?"
Jiang Ningyue was a child from the mountains. The most common musical instruments she had heard since she was a child were probably the suona played at funerals. Gu Meng didn't believe Jiang Ningyue could write songs.
After all, music is different from art, and musical instruments are very expensive.
"While you were filming, I taught myself how to compose music."
"You sound like it's true." Gu Meng smiled and took out his phone. "You choose, I'll pay."
"Love you."
Jiang Ningyue extended her right hand and made a heart shape, then took the phone and began to select accessories. Yes, compared to buying a branded phone, Jiang Ningyue preferred to buy the parts and assemble it herself.
Looking at the array of items in the shopping cart, Gu Meng was stunned. "Why don't you buy a brand name machine?"
"The price premium on branded machines is disgusting. The CPU is quite high, but the 2060 graphics card and 8GB of memory are over 8,000 yuan. This is simply robbery."
"I don't understand." Gu Meng really didn't understand. She shook her head blankly, "Why don't you buy two sets? We can play a game together or something."
"Okay." Jiang Ningyue nodded, "What game do you want to play?"
"Flying chess."
"pretty."
Jiang Ningyue raised her thumbs up.
August 24th was the Mid-Autumn Festival, August 15th in the lunar calendar. They spent the morning cleaning the house. The parts arrived at noon, and they spent another afternoon installing the computer. After assembling it, they tested it again. Only after Ning Hui urged them several times did they return home.
Back at Gu Meng's home, Gu Meng's father, Gu Yan, was already waiting there. Seeing Jiang Ningyue, Gu Yan was also very enthusiastic.
“Did you guys film a TikTok a few days ago?”
Gu Yan looked at the two of them with a smile. "Today, a kid from our unit came up to me and said, 'Director Gu, your daughter is famous.' I searched for a long time and thought your TV series was airing."
"Xiao Yue is a capable person." Ning Hui nodded with a smile.
"Uncle and aunt are so polite. Even without me, Mengmeng, they can still be popular."
The few of them finished their dinner in a harmonious atmosphere. Just as Jiang Ningyue was helping to clean up the dishes, her phone rang.
Walking into Gu Meng's room, Jiang Ningyue answered the phone, "Sister, what's wrong?"
"Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, and you didn't even call home."
"Oh." Jiang Ningyue suddenly realized that she had almost forgotten that she had parents.
"Are you home?"
"I'm not here. I'm with my parents-in-law." My sister said helplessly, "You'd better call. I just called and Mom said Dad is not happy about it."
"knew"
After Jiang Ningyue hung up the phone, she opened her address book and called her mother.
In the mountainous area of Taozhou in a northwestern province, a dark-skinned, wrinkled woman was standing in an open space with a mobile phone in her hand, raising the phone from time to time, as if waiting for something.
At this time, the man came out of the mud-brick house and scolded, "What are you doing? Turn off the lights and go to bed! You're wasting electricity."
"I was waiting for my daughter's call, but there was no signal when I went into the house," the woman responded.
"That ungrateful little bastard of hers won't let us fight."
"If you scold her as soon as she calls, she will definitely not call."
The woman complained in a low voice, but a miracle happened and the phone really rang.
"Xiaoyue! Ah, we're done eating."
When the man heard this, he stopped talking and immediately came over. Without saying a word, he just listened with his ear tilted to the side.
Jiang Ningyue didn't know how to communicate, so she just said a few polite words.
The woman asked, "Are you guys having a holiday for National Day? Are you coming back?"
"I'm not coming back."
Jiang Ningyue refused without a second thought, "We have to be on duty during National Day, and it's very troublesome for us to leave the province. We need to find a senior leader to sign the registration form."
Of course, Jiang Ningyue's words were just an excuse. Although signatures were required to leave the province, generally everyone in a department who wanted to leave the province signed a form together, and then someone would find a leader to sign it.
"Okay, okay."
The woman felt a little disappointed after hearing this, but she didn't say much. "Your situation is pretty good, right?"
"It's pretty good. My leaders and colleagues are all very nice to me."
"That's good, that's good."
The woman didn't know what to say anymore, so she turned to look at the man. The man left without even looking back, so the woman said, "Then hang up. The phone bill is pretty expensive."
"Um."
Jiang Ningyue was silent for a few seconds. "Take care of yourselves. I...I'll go back to see you during the New Year."
"Okay." The woman agreed with a smile.
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