It was half past six and the bar had just opened, but the seats inside were already almost full.
When Jiang Ji pushed the door open and walked in, he was stunned when he saw so many people.
When they saw him come in, everyone in the bar looked over at once, then started to cheer, and some even screamed in excitement.
The waiter standing at the door turned his head towards Jiang Ji, put his palm to his mouth, and said in a low voice: "You should ask the boss lady to give you a raise. Many people come here just to listen to you sing."
Jiang Ji started singing at 8 o'clock every night. It was still early now. He glanced at the crowd, without any reaction. As usual, he walked straight to the stairs on the inside.
As he walked a short distance to the stairs, someone called his name with a cell phone. He didn't look back and went upstairs with his guitar on his back.
Jiang Bei was sitting on the sofa, with his head down, concentrating on playing games. He didn't even look up when he heard the footsteps.
"Where did the phone come from?" Jiang Ji walked over, took down his guitar and stood it against the wall, and took a look at the phone in her hand - it was not the elderly phone he had bought for Jiang Bei before, but a fairly new smart phone.
Jiang Bei quickly pressed the screen: "I exchanged it with someone using an old man's phone."
"Which fool has been cheated again?" Jiang Ji sat on the sofa.
"Who cheated? It was Xiaopang who volunteered to exchange it with me," Jiang Bei said while playing games. "I used that old man's phone to show him how to crack walnuts with a mobile phone. He was so amazed that he insisted on exchanging it with me."
Jiang Ji frowned as he looked at Jiang Bei who could make up a bunch of lies without even thinking: "If his parents come to beat you up, you should find a way to deal with it yourself and don't cause trouble for me."
"You know nothing," Jiang Bei said calmly, "This phone has already been lost in the eyes of his parents."
It seems that they really found a fool. Jiang Ji could roughly guess where the phone came from.
Forget it, as long as it wasn't stolen, he wasn't in the mood to care about it now.
Jiang Bei finished the game she was playing and the takeaway food arrived. She put her phone in her pocket and ran downstairs to retrieve the takeaway food.
Jiang Ji took the takeaway from her and opened the two boxes.
Jiang Bei sat down and broke open the disposable chopsticks with force: "I heard you want to be a star."
Jiang Ji placed the opened lunch box in front of her without saying anything.
"They showed me your video this afternoon," Jiang Bei took a bite of fried rice noodles and said vaguely, "The number of views was quite high. It didn't embarrass me."
Section 39
Seeing that Jiang Ji ignored her, she continued to talk to herself: "It's good to be a star, you can make a lot of money. Look at the man who took us to the hospital last time, he spent money without blinking an eye. By the way, if you become a star, you must first make up for the meal you owed me last time, and..."
—"Our Jiang Ji will be more dazzling than those stars on TV in the future." Suddenly, the voice and image of Jiang Keyuan flashed through Jiang Ji's mind. Jiang Ji was stunned for a moment, and then interrupted Jiang Bei irritably, "Shut up and eat your meal."
His tone was unkind, Jiang Bei glared at him: "Tsk, forget it!"
The fried rice noodles were shiny and oily, and tasted good, but Jiang Ji had no appetite. He hadn't had a proper meal since Jiang Keyuan's death.