Night, river dam.
The moonlight outside the window and the warm lights inside the house complement each other.
Jiang Ning sat at the desk, holding the mouse and browsing the computer screen.
Behind him was a soft and comfortable sofa. Xue Yuantong was wearing pink and white bunny pajamas, with her wet black hair loose.
She curled up on the sofa, her fair skin tinged with a faint blush, fiddling with a pile of colorful building blocks, and was carefully putting the blocks together with her childish eyes.
Normally, the computer is usually occupied by her, but Xue Yuantong was particularly self-disciplined today. She claimed that looking at the screen frequently is bad for the eyes and can easily lead to myopia, so she generously gave the screen to Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning scanned the information for a while, leaned back in his chair, and calculated the layout of Huqi Mountain.
"According to the time, the first batch of magical rice planted seems to be ripe."
He judged so.
Spiritual rice is food in the world of immortal cultivators, usually used by immortal cultivators below the Golden Core stage. After being refined, the spiritual rice can help with spiritual practice.
Although it is not as valuable as spirit stones and elixirs, it tastes good and is an everyday meal, so its popularity in the world of immortal cultivation is no less than the previous two.
Jiang Ning planned to collect the magical rice and send some to his parents who were far away in Wencheng.
The magical rice he planted in Huqi Mountain could only be considered of the most ordinary quality, but if ordinary people ate it, it would certainly help to strengthen their bodies and prolong their lives.
While Jiang Ning was thinking, he held the mouse and unconsciously clicked into the game library, browsed around, and quietly exited.
Xue Yuantong huddled at the other end of the sofa and witnessed Jiang Ning's actions from beginning to end. She was puzzled:
"Jiang Ning, why do you only watch games and not play them?"
She is so curious. There are so many games in the game library. If she wasn’t worried about myopia, she would definitely play them to her heart’s content!
Jiang Ning: "Don't ask so many questions, kid. Just play with your building blocks."
Xue Yuantong pouted, looking very unconvinced.
She was holding the building blocks, and suddenly an idea came to her mind: "Jiang Ning, let me perform a magic trick for you."
She had long coveted Jiang Ning's magic and tried every way to pester him, but Jiang Ning was always unwilling to teach her.
Xue Yuantong decided to be self-reliant. She would prove that her magic was no worse than Jiang Ning's!
Jiang Ning sat there without moving. His chair automatically turned around and he faced Xue Yuantong:
"Change."
Xue Yuantong straightened her posture and sat cross-legged on the sofa, with the pile of colorful building blocks hidden behind her.
"Do you believe me? I can pick up any building block and guess its color?"
Jiang Ning: "I don't believe it."
Xue Yuantong: "Then let's make a bet. If I win, you will go with me to catch sheep."
Jiang Ning was speechless. Are you still thinking about your sheep
"You lost?" Jiang Ning asked.
"If I lose, I will buy you a small cake." Xue Yuantong said generously.
Jiang Ning agreed.
Seeing that the contract was reached, Xue Yuantong shouted: "You are finished!"
She had already begun to imagine the scene of eating honey-glazed lamb chops. Xue Yuantong giggled twice and almost choked on her saliva.
Jiang Ning said: "If you can guess the correct colors of all three blocks, you win."
"Well, that's easy!"
"I'm going to start." She closed her eyes, reached out her little hand to the pile of blocks behind her, and easily grabbed a block.
She said proudly, "Blue."
Then she opened her eyes, and sure enough, the blocks were blue.
“Look, it worked!”
She grabbed another piece: "Pink!"
Sure enough, it’s pink again.
Xue Yuantong had cunning eyes. The ignorant Jiang Ning had no idea that he had already used his memory to memorize the positions of each block in the pile.
As long as she wants, she can catch whatever she wants.
"This is the last one." Xue Yuantong was about to win the bet.
Tomorrow, she will lead her subordinate Jiang Ning to catch sheep together.
She was in charge of command, and Jiang Ning was responsible for conquering by force.
Xue Yuantong reached for a building block on the right. She remembered very clearly that the building block was white.
Just when she was about to touch it.
Jiang Ning moved his fingers and moved the white block and another purple block through the air, changing their directions.
Xue Yuantong thought she was holding a white building block. She closed her eyes and smiled:
"White, white, Jiang Ning, I won!"
She opened her eyes excitedly, and then was stunned.
Jiang Ning: "Stupid, you got the purple one, you lose."
Xue Yuantong gritted his teeth: "Why is it purple?"
“I clearly remember it was white.”
Jiang Ning: "Huh? You cheated?"
Xue Yuantong said quickly: "I didn't, don't talk nonsense!"
"Oh, remember to buy me a cake tomorrow." He emphasized again, "You watch me eat it."
Xue Yuantong: 'Suddenly life turned gray.'
It seemed as if in an instant, she lost all her strength and slumped lazily on the sofa.
I don’t even want to play with building blocks anymore.
After punishing her, Jiang Ning turned back to his chair and continued to think about his arrangements at Huqi Mountain.
Xue Yuantong was paralyzed for a while, and felt that he could not continue to degenerate like this.
She wants revenge!
Xue Yuantong used a lot of strength to overcome her weak body. She stood barefoot on the sofa.
He jumped to the west and nimbly jumped onto Jiang Ning's bed.
After dancing, she stood on tiptoe, took down a windbreaker that Jiang Ning had hung up, and took out his scarf.
Xue Yuantong wrapped the coat around her body, but the coat was bigger than her and completely covered her, making her look even smaller.
Xue Yuantong didn't care and put on the scarf again.
She stood on the bed, imitating Jiang Ning's pace, coughed, and then said:
"Hello everyone, my name is Jiang Ning. Don't underestimate me because I seem to be very serious. In fact, you don't know that I am a wicked person who does all kinds of evil. Today, I used despicable means to win Xue Yuantong's cake. I am guilty and I repent."
Jiang Ning: “…”
…
At 11:30 in the evening, Xue Yuantong left with satisfaction.
After she left, Jiang Ning stayed in the room for a while. When Xue Yuantong next door fell asleep, he opened the door, released the flying boat, and flew towards Huqi Mountain.
Compared to the pitch-black Huqi Mountain under the night sky in the past, many white iron houses have been built around the mountain now.
There are searchlights installed on the roof, illuminating the route into the mountain. There are also security guards patrolling in pairs, so it is undoubtedly difficult for ordinary people to enter the mountain.
And this is only the first level of protection. In the Tiger Forest, there is also a concealing formation set up by Jiang Ning.
He took a flying boat and flew into Huqi Mountain without attracting anyone's attention.
Just before entering the formation, Jiang Ning released a stream of spiritual power, and he fell from the flying boat into the forest below. With a casual move, he put the flying boat into his storage ring.
Jiang Ning stood in front of the lush spiritual field. As the spiritual spring flowed, wisps of mist emerged from the field.
He was quite satisfied.
Jiang Ning started collecting the magical rice.
…
The next morning, Jiang Ning deliberately waited for Xue Yuantong to prepare breakfast before getting up slowly.
During breakfast, Xue Yuantong was angry and said that from now on, he would only cook his own meals.
Jiang Ning slowly told her that he had obtained a particularly delicious ingredient.
Xue Yuantong stopped making a fuss immediately. She knew that anything Jiang Ning said was delicious must be extremely delicious.
Then, Jiang Ning had a wonderful morning.
A day's course passed uneventfully.
The only thing that surprised Jiang Ning was that Dan Kaiquan was particularly abnormal today and didn't talk to Bai Yuxia the whole day.
It's like he's a completely different person.
The last class of evening self-study.
Chen Siqing turned around and started chatting. Today's topic was quite special, it was about family.
Chen Siqing knew that Bai Yuxia's father was an associate professor and her mother was an associate chief physician, so she was also curious about the occupations of Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong's parents.
In fact, this topic is quite private.
Many students at No. 4 Middle School come from rural areas, and some of their parents are even migrant workers on construction sites.
Some high school students care about their reputation and are inevitably reluctant to mention their parents, always feeling inferior.
Jiang Ning said openly: "I work in Wencheng, at the Changqing Liquid Company."
As soon as these words were spoken, Chen Siqing and Bai Yuxia looked over in surprise.
Changqing Liquid Company has risen in Yuzhou. In recent times, it has become extremely popular in Yuzhou. Everyone knows that a particularly powerful enterprise has emerged in the local area.
Not only is the company large, but the treatment is also top-notch, with wages and benefits that are twice or even three times that of other companies.
Bai Yuxia: "Is it the Changqing Liquid Temperature City branch?"
"Yeah, that's right." Jiang Ning said.
"Very good work." Bai Yuxia praised, and then asked:
“Is it the management?”
"Yeah." They were indeed the management. With Jiang Ning's help, his parents had become the top managers of the Wencheng Changqing Liquid branch.
The business ability of Wencheng people is among the best in the country, and there are many wealthy people. Changqing Liquid is very popular in Wencheng.
When Bai Yuxia heard Jiang Ning's answer, all the doubts in her heart disappeared.
She had heard that Jiang Ning was from a rural town, but the things Jiang Ning used on a daily basis were no worse than hers. His cell phone was worth several thousand yuan, and his headphones also cost several thousand yuan.
Even a fountain pen can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Other students could not see these things, but Bai Yuxia could. Her father loved stationery very much, and she was influenced by him and had a general idea of the value of these things.
In the entire No. 4 Middle School, only Qi Tianheng's group can afford this kind of luxury item.
Now that she heard that his parents were from the Evergreen Liquid Company, she no longer had any doubts.
Her father once said at the dinner table that Changqing Liquid has great potential for future development and if nothing unexpected happens, it will become the most powerful company in the entire province.
The treatment of employees there is extremely good, and some management can earn annual salaries of over one million.
If Jiang Ning's parents are managers, it is not surprising that he can afford luxury goods.
Chen Siqing said: "The Evergreen Liquid is very expensive."
Bai Yuxia said: "It is expensive. The cheapest bottle costs three thousand yuan."
Chen Siqing asked again: "Xue Yuantong, what do your parents do?"
After hearing this, Xue Yuantong was stunned.
My thoughts seemed to drift back to a few years ago.
At that time, Xue Yuantong was still in the first grade of junior high school.
In her junior high school, class competition is very serious.
Many boys like to show off their shoes, Nike, Adidas, and often compare with each other in class to see who has the best shoes and who has more face.
In order to see whose shoes were better, the boys rubbed the soles of their shoes hard on the concrete floor.
If someone's shoes can make a loud sound, then their shoes are really good shoes...
Not only do boys compete with each other, but it is equally serious among girls.
Once, we talked about our parents’ situation.
I have a classmate whose parents run a company.
The parents of the other girl worked in the company of this girl's parents, and since then they have been inferior to others.
Xue Yuantong was also asked about her family situation before. She told about her mother's job, and was laughed at by the girls. It turned out that her mother was a cleaner...
From then on, when others asked her, Xue Yuantong never talked about her mother's job again.
Today I faced Chen Siqing’s problem.
Xue Yuantong subconsciously wanted to hide it, but then she realized that there was nothing to hide.
Chen Siqing and Bai Yuxia are not those girls in junior high school. They will not laugh at each other because of their family background.
Besides, Xue Yuantong is different now. She is top of the grade and can bring honor to her mother.
The most important thing is that Jiang Ning is here.
Xue Yuantong thought for a while, then she straightened her chest and raised her head and said:
"My mother works at Changqing Liquid Company. If she gets laid off, hundreds of people in the company will be left without food."
Chen Siqing opened her mouth. Xue Yuantong's mother is a leader
Bai Yuxia said: "A hundred employees have no food to eat, he is indeed a very powerful leader."
“Generally speaking, in smaller companies, there are only these people.”
Chen Siqing said: "The company where my father works has only more than 80 people in total."
They didn't expect that Xue Yuantong's family background was so good. No wonder he was so close to Jiang Ning. It turned out that they were from the same company.
After receiving the surprised look, Xue Yuantong felt very satisfied.
…
Pang Jiao and Wang Yanyan said: "Yanyan, I decided to lose weight."
She took a sip of her milk tea.
Wang Yanyan said: "You are not fat, and aren't you taking sugar-control tablets?"
Pang Jiao recalled the day when she fainted in the classroom and several sisters carried her.
She actually heard them shouting '1, 2, 3!'
Pang Jiao knew everything.
So she decided to lose weight, at least to the point where her sisters could lift her up.
The other side.
When Yang Sheng was filling out the registration items for the sports meet, she selected the women's 1500 meters.
Yu Wen, Jiang Yanan, and Shen Qing'e discuss the values of marriage.
Yu Wen expressed her opinion: "If I get married in the future, I will definitely find a handsome man. He doesn't have to be too well-off financially, and we can work hard together."
Shen Qing'e said calmly: "Handsome and financial conditions, I want them all."
She lived in her sister's house and saw the life of her brother-in-law's family. Basically, they traveled around the country during the holidays.
Once you experience this kind of life, it's hard to go back.
Everything Shen Qing'e is learning now is in the hope that she will be worthy of that kind of life in the future. She wants to be admitted to a key university and settle down in a big city.
Yu Wen looked at Shen Qing'e and didn't think that Qing'e's request was excessive. Shen Qing'e was beautiful, had good grades, and was among the top fifteen in the class.
Their Class Eight is an ordinary class, but it is much better than the average ordinary class.
Take Dong Qingfeng, who ranked fifth, for example. His grades would be enough to compete for first place in most parallel classes, but in Class Eight, he could only rank fifth.
After the two women finished speaking, it was Jiang Yanan's turn.
Jiang Yanan said: "For me, handsomeness and financial conditions are secondary. I hope his parents are both dead, because I heard that the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is difficult to get along with."
"Especially for boys whose mothers have passed away, that really gives them extra points in my opinion, which is more important than being handsome or having good financial conditions."
Yu Wen and Shen Qing'e found it difficult to understand this answer for a moment, as they had never thought about this aspect.
Yang Sheng, who was nearby, felt it was ridiculous.
She looked at Jiang Yanan and suddenly asked, "Would you be willing to give your son extra points in the future?"