Ding Xi came back from outside this time, his eyebrows raised, and the smile on his lips never disappeared.
She gently placed the ragdoll cat ornament she brought back on the bookshelf, sat down and stared at the ornament, stretched out her fingertips, and gently nodded the ragdoll cat's head, with a smile on her cheeks.
Xu Miaomiao asked her: "Did you go shopping with your aunt?"
After four years of college, Ding Xi would go to celebrate Ding's mother's birthday today. In the past, she would come back right after dinner, but today she stayed until evening.
It seemed that mother and daughter were getting along harmoniously, and she was quite pleased.
"No." Ding Xi withdrew his hand, his face unchanged and still smiling, "Ji Huai and I went there to eat and watch a movie. I bought this while shopping."
She said, holding her cute and cute ragdoll cat ornament in the palm of her hand and letting her look at it.
"It's pretty." Xu Miaomiao boasted, but she knew it in her heart.
Ding Xi bought gifts and ordered cakes, but she went shopping with Ji Huai. Ding's mother didn't even let her have dinner this year
Thinking of this, she frowned, this was too much. Even if ordinary friends come to visit and bring cakes and gifts, they still need to be asked to stay for a meal, right
Ding Xi put the ornaments back and asked casually, "Aren't you going to watch a movie with Li Chengyang tonight? Why aren't you ready?"
Li Chengyang is her new boyfriend, a somewhat handsome junior. It takes Xu Miaomiao an hour to put on makeup, and it's already nine o'clock.
"We're divided." Xu Miaomiao waved, huddled in her hanging chair, changed into a comfortable position, and opened the beauty blogger's video.
"Why?" Ding Xi was confused.
They were fine before, as gluey as paint, as if they had found true love.
"My sixth sense. The day after you left, I caught him chatting with a girl from the college next door. He was exposed too quickly. There are transfer records and chat records. What kind of face does he have?" Xu Miaomiao Shrugging, "I said I would catch it, and I never made a mistake. My sixth sense is very accurate."
Ding Xi: "Then... what are you going to do next?"
"What should I do? Just replace this one with another one. Is there still a shortage of men in the world?" Xu Miaomiao looked back at her, with the corners of her eyes and mouth raised, and her tone was casual, "The way to avoid getting hurt is not to put emotions and dependence on As long as a person is separated, he will live a carefree life."
"Time and energy are only for those who are interested."
Only selfish people can live happily. What is love? Very weak.
Ding Xi pursed her lips and said, "I can't do it."
She can't be as free and easy as Xu Miaomiao, let alone live like her.
The other party once said that people can like several people at the same time, but she only loves Ji Huai.
"Of course you can't do it, but it's good this way." Xu Miaomiao turned around, thought for a while, and then said to her, "I'm accurate about people, but I'm not sure about Ji Huai, so don't let me influence you."
She has been with each of her boyfriends for a short time, and they understand each of them 70-80%. As long as she detects a problem, the truth will be inseparable from her analysis. However, her judgment on Ji Huai was often wrong, so she stopped making unnecessary comments.
Ding Xi stopped what he was doing and smiled, "Is this your approval of him?"
For once, she was happy.
"I'm not sure, I just think you will be very happy. Haven't you noticed? Even if you come back from your aunt today, you are still very happy. He can take away your unhappiness." Xu Miaomiao denied, pointing to Ding Xi's eyes, "When you mention those two words, there will be light in your eyes."
This is rare, and it shows that Ji Huai's influence can heal Ding Xi's previous injuries.
Hearing this, Ding Xi was slightly stunned. She subconsciously looked at her phone. Ding's mother didn't send her a polite message as usual. She didn't wait in a nervous mood today and completely forgot about it.
She was very comfortable and happy with Ji Huai today, and was extremely reluctant to part with him.
Xu Miaomiao didn't speak anymore, turned around and continued to watch her beauty video, and the blogger's explanation voice came from time to time.
At half past eleven, as the lights in the dormitory were about to be turned off, Ding Xi's cell phone rang, and for the first time she thought it was Ji Huai.
When I looked at the notes, it was Mother Ding.
There was no such big stir in her heart as before. Then she heard, "Mom?"
The other party was still polite, "The necklace is very beautiful, and I also ate the cake. It tastes good. Mom is not free today. Next time you come over to play and have a meal together."
"Yeah." Ding Xi responded, and suddenly asked, "Are you coming back just now?"
Mother Ding: "Yeah, I'm busy today. I just got home."
"Then you go to bed early." Ding Xi did not raise the topic again, but wanted to end the call quickly.
Mother Ding also noticed something was wrong and said, "Take a shower and go to bed. I have classes tomorrow morning."
"Well, go quickly, it's getting late." After Ding Xi finished speaking, he also exited the page when he hung up the phone.
The cake is an ice cream cake. It has been a day and has already melted.
Mother Ding is pampered, so why would she eat a cake that has melted after being left out for a day? The only possibility is that the other party hasn't even opened the box and hasn't looked at it at all.
She thought she would cry, but strangely she didn't feel as uncomfortable as she thought.
Before she could get lost in her thoughts, Ji Huai's video call came again. After answering, she saw that the page on his computer was filled with stock market information.
"Are you still researching? What have you come up with?" Ding Xi held his chin and looked at him across the camera.
"The more you study, the more you will understand." Ji Huai fiddled with the mouse, "But you have to take your time, don't be in a hurry."
"When you figure it out, will you be able to make a lot of money?" She teased him with a smile.
She knew that he was cautious and valued money more than anything else, and she felt reassured about him and felt that he would not invest a lot of money in the stock market.
"Earn five million first?" Ji Huai raised his eyebrows.
"So much?" Ding Xi opened his mouth slightly, stretched out a finger, and boldly made a presupposition, "One million is a lot, right?"
She was an undergrad student and didn't have a very clear concept of money. During her internship, she was only given 500 yuan a month as meal subsidy. There was no charge for accommodation in the school and meals were very cheap.
"Is one million too much?" Ji Huai looked at the 1.23 million in his securities account.
No wonder stocks are so tempting. After working hard for several years, he saved 300,000 yuan and entered the stock market. It won't take long for him to double and double again.
This money is really easy to make.
"Is that much?" Ding Xi hesitated.
"More." Ji Huai looked serious. Based on his current annual salary, he would have to save for several years.
Ding Xi was afraid that he would take shortcuts due to pressure, "Actually, we don't need that much money. When I graduate, I will find a job, and..."
"When you graduate, shouldn't I work harder? Otherwise, how can I give you a family?" Ji Huai spoke softly and interrupted her with a smile.
She originally wanted to tell him that her grandma had left a house for her, but he interrupted her and she swallowed the words silently.
Yes, although she has no home, she can form a family with Ji Huai.
When she didn't speak, Ji Huai sent her several more recruitment standards from large companies, "I don't recommend that you start working so early. You need to improve your professional skills. Technical positions require you to have excellent professional skills. According to I know you are still lacking in this area, unless you are willing to accept the cabbage price, but that is not necessary, the long-term development in the future is more important than the immediate one."
Ding Xi is an art student and is good at painting. The best direction is to become a UI designer because he is good at hand-drawing and has aesthetic ability and creativity. As long as he improves his skills in a targeted manner, he can go to higher places without going to Small companies are struggling to be social animals, and their value is squeezed by the company.
The most common misunderstanding for fresh graduates is to want to make money early and thus ignore their own development, especially for people like him who are helpless and have climbed up from a small place.
"Don't you need to find a job first?" Ding Xi was also confused, and no one taught her what to do.
"Don't be anxious or nervous. You can go on a graduation trip with your classmates and have a lot of fun. I will sort out the information for you and see if there are any targeted training classes. You will have to take classes well then. Training classes are quite difficult. , the content is concentrated." Ji Huai vaccinated her in advance.
If there is no one to guide the newly graduated college students, many of them will run around like headless flies, anxious, confused, uneasy and uneasy.
He didn't want her to follow his old path, and he didn't want her to regret missing out.
Have fun and prepare well.
Ding Xi naturally trusted him. After hearing what he said, her heart settled down and she naturally agreed to study hard. If she went to play, she wanted him to accompany him.
Ji Huai: "I can't spare much time, four days at most. Where do you want to go?"
I took two days off, plus the weekend, so I made up to four days.
"It doesn't matter where we go, as long as I'm with you." She smiled with a crooked eyebrow and a sweet sparkle in her eyes.
When Ji Huai saw these aura-filled faces, he always found them attractive, and his tone of voice would unconsciously be gentle and soft, "I can go wherever you want, I'll accompany you."
In a blink of an eye, it’s the May Day holiday.
Ji Huai prepared his itinerary and booked his flight tickets early.
His home is in a small mountain village in the south. If the government had not vigorously built roads in the past few years, the roads out of the mountain might now be filled with loess and potholes.
Fortunately, their home is not too remote. There is a small town a few kilometers away from the village. If you go further in, you may be isolated from the world.
He was not in a hurry to take Ding Xi back. The two had been playing in the city for three days. After confirming with her again, he called back and told Ji's family that he was taking his girlfriend back.
At the same time, the Ji family.
As soon as Ji Huai said he wanted to bring his girlfriend back, the Ji family exploded.
"Where are they from?" Ji's mother leaned over and asked with wide eyes.
"He is from the capital." Ji's father is only as tall as Ji's mother, thin and dark. He was almost sixty years old and his eyes were dim. He raised his hand and looked at his mobile phone, "I'll be back tomorrow, so hurry up and tidy up the house."
"Are you from the capital? What do your parents do?" Ji's mother was happy when she heard this and slapped her thigh, "I said that Xiaohuai has a lot of potential and has already arrived in the capital, so why not find someone from the capital? Is she an only daughter? ?”
In her opinion, none of the girls here are worthy of her son, and they cannot marry into their family. They must be rich from big cities.
"How did I know this?" Ji's father put the phone away, put a cigarette in his mouth, lowered his head, covered the lighter with his hand and lit it, took two puffs after lighting it, and urged, "The house has to be tidied up. People came to see it, do you have any ideas? I will buy more food tomorrow."
He is now doing odd jobs, taking it one day at a time. He can go when he wants to go, but not when he doesn't want to go. Generally, I go when I have no money, and stay at home when I have money to spend.
"It's time to clean up. I don't know if it's easy to take care of a girl in a big city." Ji's mother nodded and took the broom to sweep the floor.
"Do you still have to serve? If you are marrying, are you marrying an ancestor?" Sister Ji walked out of the kitchen with half a cucumber in her hand. "Our family's conditions are not bad. We have two floors." ?"
There are still many people living in loess houses in the village.
"Okay, okay, shut your mouth." Ji's father was not willing to listen to her and said in an impatient tone, "I am from the capital after all. When the time comes, control your mouth and stop talking nonsense!"
After all, he often goes out to do odd jobs, and he still has some idea in his heart. He is not as clear as Ji's mother and sister Ji. People in big cities are smart. He is not married yet, so he has to give people a good impression.
Ji Huai might have to rely on others in the future.
Sister Ji pursed her lips, gnawed cucumbers and walked to Ji Huai's place. She said in a strange tone, "We haven't even entered the door yet. Look at Dad, your heart has gone astray. What's wrong with the people in the capital? The people in the capital also like Ji Huai. He must not be that good looking, judging by Ji Huai's face and education."
Ji Huai is the only one in their family who is good-looking. She and the second sister Ji are stronger and have darker skin.
Ji's mother's focus was not on this. Instead, she became proud, "Isn't Ji Huai good-looking? No matter how good he is in studying, no one in the whole town can compare with him."
That is because she was born well and raised well.
"Okay, okay, what if I bring an ugly one back?" Sister Ji said again.
"That won't work. I won't agree to bring an ugly one back and make the whole village laugh!" Ji's mother said solemnly, with a straight face, "You can't bring an ugly one back, let alone marry an ugly one. It would be embarrassing!"
Face is more important than anything else.
"Maybe I'll bring back an ugly one. Let me see what you do." Sister Ji said this deliberately.
"The whole village is watching, and I'm going to lose all my face. I can't find someone ugly, and I can't find someone older than him. It's not enough to be from the capital, but he has to be rich." Ji's mother said matter-of-factly.
"Ji Huai has been studying for so many years. If he doesn't understand this principle, then reading will ruin his brain." Sister Ji also agreed with what she said, "Reading is all in vain."
"You should observe more when you bring her back." Ji's mother looked at Sister Ji and warned her several times.
"I know, of course you have to ask clearly what you need to ask." Sister Ji knew very well.
Although she and Ji Huai are not close friends, each other's excellence is something she uses to show off. Who doesn't know that she has a younger brother who is studying at Capital University and making a lot of money in a big city
The better Ji Huai's wife is and the better his job is, the better she will be. When the time comes, she will have to be more discerning in finding a partner.
Early the next morning.
Ding Xi and Ji Huai set off home.
They had arrived in the city last night. It would take another three hours of driving to reach the town, but they had to stop halfway because there were no cars from the town to the village.
Ding Xi sat in the car, looking out the window with curiosity and shock.
She grew up in the most prosperous city in the country and rarely left the capital. She thought that all the cities in the country had the same well-developed transportation systems as the capital. When Xu Miaomiao and her described remote areas, she had no feeling at all.
Can't understand it.
When I got on the dilapidated and rickety traffic car, I saw low-rise buildings built halfway up the mountain outside the window. The traffic car wound along the road and passed over mountains one after another.
At the foot of the mountain, there are villagers who are constantly farming.
She had a feeling that if she was sold into it, she might not be able to escape, right
The car would also stop in the middle of the road, with some people getting on and some getting off. If she met someone who didn't look so kind, she would hide away from Ji Huai.
Ji Huai looked at her cautious expression and couldn't help but laugh. He turned his head and hugged her over, lowering his head to cover her ear, "So scared? Are you afraid that I will betray you?"
She turned around, knowing that he was teasing her, and her eyes narrowed slightly, "This is a society ruled by law, do you dare?"
"I dare you." Ji Huai lowered his voice again and leaned closer, his warm breath spraying in her ears, "Sold me as my daughter-in-law, only allowed to eat three meals a day, locked in the house. It's enough for you to go out and cause harm to others, and it's enough to cause harm to me. You may also have to force me to have a child, are you afraid?"
Ding Xi looked at him who was close to Chi Chi, and his cheeks slowly turned red.
She's not afraid!
The two got out of the car, and with good luck, they met a villager in the village, who was driving a tricycle with several bags of fertilizer in the back.
The other party recognized Ji Huai, so the two got on the tricycle.
The tricycle bumped and bumped, and Ding Xi looked curiously at the cows and horses in the field.
The villager who was driving was chatting in Jihuai. The other person glanced at Ding Xi several times and asked, "Did you bring your girlfriend back?"
Ji Huai: "Yes, come back and take a look during the holiday."
"You're a girl from a big city, right? You're a promising kid. Back then, you and my eldest son were playing in the mud together and fishing for fish in the river. Now the gap is huge," the man added.
"Everywhere you go is just making a living, how can you have any future." Ji Huai has already faced himself seriously. Apart from being able to read some books, how can he be any better than others
"That's wrong. Sitting in an office and getting a salary is the same as digging soil in the field. My two sons are putting fertilizer in the field right now. I will have to deliver the fertilizer later."
"We also have to work overtime until early in the morning and pay thousands of yuan in rent. How can it be so easy?" Ji Huai said and laughed again, "Uncle Zhang, I can't compare with Zhang Dan and the others. I only come back a few days a year. They By your side every day, Zhang Shan is very quick and diligent. I heard that the price of corn was good last year and this year, and you made far more money than me."
Every household in their village has dozens of acres of land and grows various crops every year. Nowadays, mechanical farming is used, but most of the farming here still relies on human labor, so every family is trying their best to have sons. Having sons will provide labor force.
In the past, he didn't bother to compare with them, thinking that these people had no future in his hometown and were low-class people. But thinking about it, he didn't live a good life. He was squeezed by the capitalists every day and had to leave his hometown. He didn't know how long he would have to work hard before he could take root.
Uncle Zhang felt comfortable hearing these words. The boy from the Ji family didn't have any arrogance now. He grinned and said, "The harvest is good and life is getting better. I plan to buy a car by the end of the year."
Although his son has no future, he stays by their side and can be seen every day. It would be terrible if he was like Ji Huai.
Don’t you just want to keep your children by your side to take care of them in old age
Ji Huai was surprised: "Have you bought a car? Zhang Dan must be happier than you."
"Isn't that right? That kid keeps clamoring to buy a car every day." Uncle Zhang said cheerfully, turning the car and driving to Ji's house, "It's not far away, I'll take you up there."
"Thank you, Uncle Zhang." Ji Huai thanked him.
Uncle Zhang: "What a big deal, you are lucky and your girlfriend is very beautiful."
After sending them to the door of Ji's house, Uncle Zhang turned around and left in his car.
As expected, after a while, many people in the village knew that Ji Huai had brought back a very good-looking girlfriend.
Sister Ji and Mother Ji are most curious about what Ding Xi looks like and are the fastest to get out.
Ji's mother's eyes widened with a smile when she saw Ding Xi for the first time.
She is good-looking. She has never seen such a good-looking girl. She has smooth skin and a good figure. She looks good and gives her a good look.
Ding Xi wore a light blue knee-length dress with a white collar and a waist-cinching design that accentuated her tallness and fair skin. She wore a pair of flat shoes on her feet and looked at the more obedient girl.
At first glance, he was easy to manipulate and bully. Ji's mother smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed to slits, and her attitude was warm, "Xiao Xi, right? Are you tired from the road? Come in quickly."
Ding Xi called someone after Ji Huai's introduction. Faced with Ji's mother's enthusiasm, she felt a little uncomfortable and looked at Ji Huai with a confused look in her eyes.
Ji's mother was about to step forward and pull her, but Ji Huai refused to let her go and took her hand and walked inside, "Mom, what are you doing? You're not afraid of scaring people?"
If Ji Huai doesn't let him go, Ji's mother will naturally not pull him away and will only follow him.
Sister Ji looked at Ding Xi's exposed hand, which turned white into a ray of light. Then she looked at her and turned black into a piece of carbon. It turned out that someone was really that white, and she wanted to compare secretly in her heart.
"As expected of a girl from a big city, look at it." Ji's mother clicked her tongue several times.
"She's so thin, can she have a baby?" Sister Ji whispered again, "Look at how flat her butt is, can she have a son?"
Ji's mother also looked at Ding Xi.
"You are a tender-skinned girl, are you willing to do housework? Can you do housework? Why don't we serve her? You have to be her nanny." Sister Ji concluded.
"That won't work." Ji's mother shook her head. Her daughter-in-law must be obedient and work more.
"You haven't heard that people in the capital look down on others, and they must look down on us." Sister Ji thinks Ding Xi is so good-looking, and she looks down on them even more.
When Ji's mother heard this, the excitement in her heart slowed down a lot, and her face dropped.
"What are you mumbling about?" Ji's father gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth, winking at them repeatedly.
Ji Huai first took Ding Xi to the room, put down her luggage, and then took her downstairs.
The Ji family built two floors, but the two floors were not as Ding Xi imagined. The outside was covered with ceramic tiles and the two floors were finely decorated. The outer wall of Ji's building is only coated with a layer of cement, covering the red bricks. The floor inside is also coated with a layer of cement. The wall should have been coated with a layer of white ash before, but now it has turned yellow.
There is a place on the second floor still covered with iron boron, which is a utility room.
Ding Xi had never seen such a house before. It felt... a bit like a rough house. She was still stunned for a while.
It was not too early for them to come back, and it was just time for dinner, so they started to eat.
"I went to buy vegetables early this morning and bought some fish. Your mother got up early to kill the chickens. She has already finished it and is waiting for you to come back." Ji's father said to Ji Huai, but actually he also told Ding Xi. .
A large table of dishes, although they don’t look very good, are still big fish and meat.
Ding Xi naturally wanted to say something nice. She was organizing her words, but Ji Huai had already spoken first, "The road was a bit blocked, so I was delayed for a while, and I carried a lot of things. These are all gifts Xiaoxi bought for you. I'll wait for a while." I’ll give it to you after dinner.”
"We have everything at home, so what do we spend the money on?" Although Ji's father said this, he was thinking about what he would receive.
Ji Huai's girlfriend is quite sensible and she is from the capital, so he is still very satisfied.
While eating, Sister Ji spoke to Ding Xi, "I heard that you just graduated this year. What did you study?"
Ding Xi replied calmly: "Visual communication."
"It's not easy to find a job in that major." Sister Ji smacked her lips while eating chicken, "You should study art. It's hard for people who study art to learn well. Most of them are half-baked and have no future."
Ding Xi stopped and didn't know what to say. Ji Huai replied in a deep voice: "Why can't I stop you from eating? It's hard to find a job after graduating from college. It's easy for you to find a job after you graduate from junior high school? Don't you have the same problem? Found it?"
Sister Ji was speechless and held her breath: "That's because I don't want to look for it. If I want to look for it, why can't I find it?"
"What other job do you want to do? You can't do anything for more than three months. Either you quarrel with the boss or the customers. What kind of job are you looking for every time? Are you embarrassed to tell others?" Ji Huailiang went up to make up for it. .
"You care about me?!" Sister Ji took a big mouthful of rice and became angry with embarrassment.
Ji Huai gave Ding Xi her favorite beans and replied, neither salty nor bland, "I'm too lazy to care about you."
"Why are you arguing at the dinner table when you are eating?" Ji's father calmed down the atmosphere and glared at Sister Ji.
Sister Ji was very thick-skinned. She paused for a while and then asked Ding Xi, "What do your parents do?"
As soon as these words came out, Ji's father and Ji's mother not only didn't stop them, but their ears perked up.