On the way home, Xue Yuantong stuck to the back seat of the mountain bike and asked about Chu Chu.
She and Chu Chu have a very good relationship. They grew up in the same village. They often wandered together in the mountains and fields, played with glass balls, caught butterflies, picked up rags and sold them to buy snacks. They went to and from school together, forming a deep friendship.
It was only later that Xue Yuantong went to Yuzhou City with his mother and entered junior high school that they had to separate.
But the friendship with Xue Chuchu has not deteriorated much due to distance.
Now Xue Chuchu comes to the city to study in high school, and in the huge Yuzhou City, Xue Yuantong only has her one real friend.
Although she is stupid, she is not an idiot. She is worried that Jiang Ning will dislike Chu Chu. In that case, she doesn't know what to do.
Jiang Ning heard this and wondered why she asked such a question.
Xue Chuchu looks cold on the outside, but in fact she has a gentle temperament and is well-educated. I believe that few people would hate this kind of girl.
"How could it be? If you want her to come over, just call her. It's just to get an extra pair of bowls." His tone was normal.
"Hmm." Xue Yuantong felt relieved after hearing this.
Jiang Ning rarely lied to her, and saying this now showed that he didn't hate Chu Chu.
Thinking like this, she curled her lips and took advantage of the cool summer night wind to speak:
"Jiang Ning, you know, last time I chatted with Chu Chu, I realized that the only girls in our village who are still in high school are me and Chu Chu."
"Where are the others?" Jiang Ning slowly stepped on the pedal to make the wheel roll slower.
Xue Yuantong sighed: "They all dropped out of school. I heard from Chu Chu and my mother that they went out to work in factories."
Farming in rural areas is not cost-effective now. Even if your family has a few acres of land, you can only earn a few thousand yuan a year. If you want to improve your living conditions, you can only go out to work.
In their village, working is the general trend.
Jiang Ning thought for a while and said: "Our village is similar. There are only two or three boys of the same age."
The educational conditions in rural areas are much worse than those in cities. Many people go to school just to hang out, play arcades, surf the Internet, and compete with teachers every day.
At this time, I saw people around me working, especially working peers who came back every year, dressed fashionably, spoke well, and had spare money to spend on new mobile phones. After seeing this, many students naturally came up with the idea of working.
There are very few students who can complete the entire high school.
Girls are more serious. Although Jiang Ning is only a freshman in high school, Murakami girls are already married and have children.
He remembered that by the time he was in his senior year of high school, some of them were already married for the second time.
"Well, Jiang Ning, do you think it's better to go to school or work?" Xue Yuantong asked him.
Jiang Ning thought for a while: "Okay, go to school."
Although the final result of going to school may not be better than going out to work at the beginning, the process is undoubtedly much happier.
"Yeah, I think so too." Xue Yuantong pressed him again, it was not too hot in the summer.
Jiang Ning turned the handlebar and turned from the river dam into the fields below. The mountain bike suddenly accelerated due to the force of gravity. With this force, the mountain bike rushed forward a lot.
He pedaled twice more and reached home.
"Mom! Mom! I'm on vacation!" Xue Yuantong shouted in a crisp voice. Before Jiang Ning's car stopped, she jumped excitedly and jumped out of the back seat.
Aunt Gu was enjoying the cool weather at the door. When she saw her daughter's appearance, she laughed first and then told her, "Be careful, don't fall."
Xue Yuantong immediately said proudly: "How is it possible? Such a short bicycle can't trouble me at all."
She blew a few words and then said: "Mom, I will take you to ride a horse in the future and let you watch me fly off the horse."
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was interested. Aunt Gu thought that there seemed to be a small horse farm over the river dam. In the past, her family had no money and riding horses was very expensive, so she was reluctant to take her daughter to play.
Now that I have a good job, my salary is several thousand a month, and now that I have recovered, it’s time to let my daughter have some fun.
Aunt Gu was interested in it, but she didn't say it out loud. She planned to ask her daughter again, and then asked her daughter and Jiang Ning to go play.
"Mom, what are you eating for dinner?" Xue Yuantong asked.
"I came back after eating at the company." Aunt Gu is one of the chefs at Changqingye Company. She usually eats three meals a day, almost all of which she eats at the company.
The kitchen at home is almost occupied by my daughter.
"I have eaten too. Jiang Ning and I ate cold skin and meat buns, and also drank watermelon juice." Xue Yuantong explained.
Aunt Gu was concerned: "Are you full?"
Xue Yuantong touched his belly: "I'm full, I'm full."
"Are you really full, or are you pretending to be full?" Aunt Gu confirmed again.
"Mom, I'm so full!" Xue Yuantong felt that her mother was questioning her.
It's not surprising that Aunt Gu was questioning, in fact her daughter was more capable. She remembered that Chu Chu's parents invited her to a restaurant before.
Whenever she told Chuchu's mother, don't add more food, Tongtong is full, then her daughter would always slap her in the face with her strength.
"Boss Shao came to the kitchen today and asked us to bring some food. I brought a box of fried snails. You and Jiang Ning will eat them in the evening." Aunt Gu said.
Xue Yuantong said in surprise: "Mom, your boss is so nice. Those delicious pastries you brought home last time were also given to you by your boss!"
Aunt Gu smiled and said: "Of course, your mother is an old employee."
She was recruited into Changqingye before it became big. Fortunately, she didn't suspect that she was a liar, otherwise she wouldn't have been treated as well as she is now.
Since she joined the company relatively early, Boss Shao is relatively familiar with her, which makes people in the kitchen department think that she and the boss are relatives, so Aunt Gu is now very comfortable in the company.
Although Aunt Gu repeatedly stressed, no one in the company believed her, so she stopped explaining.
Xue Yuantong had a conversation with her mother and went to Jiang Ning's house to play with him.
Aunt Gu looked at her daughter's running back. Her weather-beaten face had become younger, revealing a gentle smile.
Aunt Gu sat back at the door, got up and headed east. After a few steps, she arrived in front of a bungalow, and the lights were on.
Aunt Gu called out: "Aunt Pan."
Soon, a fat middle-aged woman who looked older than Aunt Gu came out of the room, and she brought a little boy of four or five years old with her.
Aunt Pan moved a bench for her and started talking in front of the door.
After chatting for a while, Aunt Gu explained the purpose of her visit: "Aunt Pan, I heard from Uncle Tang that your family plans to sell the house?"
Aunt Pan: "Yes, my eldest daughter has gone to college, and my family has opened a shop outside. We don't see her very often throughout the year. That's not the solution. I'm thinking of selling the house and taking the children to buy a house elsewhere."
Aunt Gu listened to her quietly and asked, "Have you found a good person to sell the house now?"
We all live next to each other, so Aunt Pan told the truth: "It's not easy to sell because it's too far from the city."
"How much do you plan to sell it for?" Aunt Gu asked.
At this point, Aunt Pan came to her senses and looked at Aunt Gu: "Xiao Gu, are your family also planning to sell their house?"
Aunt Gu didn't hide anything. She got straight to the point: "Well, there is a man in our village who plans to settle down in Yuzhou. I'm going to sell his house and see if I can buy it."
"Why are you buying my house? Don't you have a vacant house? Why don't you rent it out now? It would be more convenient to sell it directly to people in your village!" Aunt Pan said, it would save trouble.
Aunt Gu smiled: "It's for Jiang Ning."
Aunt Pan was right after thinking about it: "Your family and Jiang Ning have become a couple."
She was envious in words. Jiang Ning was tall and thin, friendly and amiable, and his grades were pretty good. He would definitely do well in the future. He would definitely be good enough to be paired with Tongtong.
"Aunt Pan, if you really plan to sell it, I'll call the people from my village over in a few days and you guys can talk about the price." Aunt Gu said.
Aunt Pan was happy: "That's a good relationship!"
Her house is on the outskirts of the city. It used to be a rural area. It has been around for some years. Nowadays, when people buy houses, they all buy them in the city.
As for demolition, who will demolish this place in the wilderness? No one in this row thinks of demolition.
After Aunt Gu settled the matter, they chatted some more and then returned home.
She planned to tell Chuchu's mother about this.
If the Chu Chu family buys this house, even if Tongtong and Chu Chu go to college in other places in the future, she and Chu Chu's mother will live together, and they can be a companion, so they will not be alone.
…
While Jiang Ning was playing the game, he turned his head and glanced, and he immediately frowned:
"What are you doing?"
I saw Xue Yuantong 'walking' in the house. To be precise, she was walking sideways.
Xue Yuantong pursed his lips and hummed: "I am a crab now."
After she finished speaking, she spread her legs, raised her hands, and acted recklessly.
Jiang Ning was speechless and continued to play the game, too lazy to talk to her.
After a while, he used his spiritual sense to observe Xue Yuantong. She was still playing, and her movements had improved greatly compared to before, and she was more recognizable as a crab.
"Even if you eat crabs tomorrow, you won't be like this, right?"
Xue Yuantong: "You don't understand me."
Jiang Ning really didn't understand her inner world.
After playing a game, Xue Yuantong touched him: "Jiang Ning, it's so cool outside and there's still wind. Let's go out to enjoy the cool air. My mother brought snails."
After Jiang Ning heard this, she put the computer on standby.
During this period, Xue Yuantong went out sideways and moved quite fast.
She was very courageous and could withstand Aunt Gu's stern gaze.
She took the snails and two bottles of iced Coke from the refrigerator and moved them outside.
Just before he sat down and opened the Coke, Xue Yuantong said: "Jiang Ning, when you were a child, did you ever sleep outside at night in the summer?"
"Yes, I have two old wooden beds at home. In the summer, we move them outside and put up mosquito nets to sleep. We don't need to blow fans anymore." Jiang Ning recalled her childhood days.
Xue Yuantong agreed: "It's the same as my family. I used to like being outside the most."
Jiang Ning nodded: "Later I heard that there were people who stole children, and my family didn't want to do it."
Xue Yuantong was frightened: "Is it true?"
Aunt Gu next to her nodded: "That's true."
At that time, it was quite chaotic, with countless people stealing things and stealing dogs. Unlike now, it was very safe.
Xue Yuantong: "Mom, aren't you afraid that I will be taken away?"
Only now did she realize that sleeping outside was so dangerous.
Aunt Gu: "As long as Mom is here, it won't be a problem."
…
Xue Yuantong sat at the door for a while and suddenly suggested that he would like to eat on the roof of the bungalow in the shade.
Jiang Ning thought this was a good idea, so he took out the ladder, took Coke and snails, a small bench and a wooden table, and climbed to the roof first.
Xue Yuantong walked sideways to the foot of the ladder. Jiang Ning looked down and said:
"If you can, come up sideways?"
Xue Yuantong was very angry, Tian Tianjing liked to laugh at her!
If Bing Cola and Snails hadn't been brought along by him, Xue Yuantong would never have tolerated him.
No way!
She had no choice but to admit that she was incompetent, adjusted her posture, climbed up tremblingly, and asked Jiang Ning to give her a lift.
After climbing to the roof, the view becomes even wider and the surrounding environment is unobstructed. The open fields in the distance seem to be asleep.
The bright moon is shining brightly, and the stars are dotted, seeming to give summer a silvery glow.
The evening breeze blows gently, making people feel relaxed and happy.
She sat on a small bench with a small table in the middle.
Xue Yuantong first took a sip of ice coke to feel refreshed, and then picked up a spicy snail. This kind of snail is much longer than ordinary snails.
Xue Yuantong had never eaten it before, so he stupidly used a wooden skewer to poke through the meat in the snail shell, but it couldn't come out at all.
Jiang Ning took one, pointed at the snail and said to her: "This snail is best sucked."
He demonstrated it to Xue Yuantong.
Xue Yuantong has a very high talent for eating. He mastered the technique after only watching it once.
The kitchen of Changqingye Company has extremely high hygiene standards. The snails are treated very cleanly and they taste delicious after being stir-fried.
Xue Yuantong was very happy, and the sound of her sucking could be heard in Jiang Ning's ears.
On a summer night, drinking iced Coke and eating snails is quite enjoyable.
The only drawback is probably that there are more mosquitoes?
However, Jiang Ning activated the body-training technique to spread out the tiny electric current. Any mosquito that came around would be easily electrocuted to death by the electric current.
From an angle that Xue Yuantong didn't notice, mosquitoes fell from the sky one after another in the dark night sky.
…
After eating the snails, Xue Yuantong went downstairs to take a shower, put on a loose and soft cartoon T-shirt and shorts, and ran to Jiang Ning's room to play games.
She always felt that Jiang Ning's room was very comfortable, fresh and cool. She crossed her legs on the chair and held the mouse.
Friday night is often Xue Yuantong's happiest time. She doesn't have to go to class all day tomorrow, so she can play games happily.
While playing games, I still have time to chat with Xue Chuchu on QQ.
Jiang Ning was leaning on the sofa playing with her mobile phone, and the class group was busy chatting.
Dong Qingfeng showed off his test paper: "Sorry, I've finished Gao He Shuaifa's test paper, who else is there?"
Lu Qiqi: "Dong Qingfeng, can you learn from others?"
Dong Qingfeng didn't reply immediately. Lu Qiqi had a partner, and his priority needed to be lowered by one level.
It wasn't until Jiang Yanan spoke up that Dong Qingfeng said: "Since so many people want to see it, I'll send it to you privately."
When Cui Yu saw that the woman he loved actually copied another boy's test paper, he became very angry:
"Amazing, really amazing!"
Not long after Duan Shiggang joined the group, he pretended to be surprised: "What? You still have to do homework after the weekend?"
Wang Longlong said: "Other teachers don't have to do it, but we can't afford to offend Gao Heshuai!"
Duan Shigang: "Le, am I afraid of him?"
Shan Kaiquan: "Brother Gang, you are my warrior."
Cui Yu: "Brother Gang, you are my eternal faith."
Wang Longlong: "Even if I die and be nailed in the coffin, I will still be in this tomb shouting "Gang Ge is awesome" in a decaying voice."
Duan Shigang was blown away by a bunch of people, which made him more determined not to do his homework.
The night got darker and it was eleven o'clock.
Aunt Gu went to Jiang Ning's house to look for her daughter, and saw her daughter occupying someone else's chair.
Aunt Gu looked at the snacks on the table: "Tongtong, have you brushed your teeth?"
Ever since she caught her daughter not brushing her teeth that night, she began to tell her daughter to brush her teeth.
"Brushed." Xue Yuantong didn't even look back.
"Nonsense, the toothpaste I squeezed for you is still there!" Aunt Gu frowned and lectured.
When Xue Yuantong heard this, he said dullly:
"Okay, okay, I'm going to brush my teeth now."
She stepped on her slippers and walked to her bathroom, only to find that her mother didn't squeeze out toothpaste for her at all.
