After coming out of KFC, Cheng Ran took Jiang Hongshao for a meal and satisfied a little evil idea. He was in a good mood. Seeing Jiang Hongshao's unreasonable expression, he was even happier.
I thought to myself, no matter what, you, Old Jiang, still used it to trick me.
On the bus back to school, seeing Cheng Ran still smiling, Jiang Hongshao finally couldn't help but said, "You probably didn't notice that the left side of your jacket is not level with the right side, right? Where is your wallet? So you don't have no money at all."
Cheng Ran was stunned.
Jiang Hongshao's eyes brightened again and she said, "You just want to try what it feels like to be a gigolo?"
Cheng Ran, "…"
"Boring." After saying that quickly, Lao Jiang quickly turned his head to look out the window, avoiding his sight.
How does it feel to be exposed? Anyway, Cheng Ran is not embarrassed at all, but rather feels an inexplicable strangeness.
So Lao Jiang understood the meaning and connotation of the term "eating soft rice" which originated from the southern dialect. So now she realized her slip of the tongue and turned her head away on purpose... She would never look at him
On the way back to No. 10 Middle School after getting off the bus, we passed by a night market nearby. The urban construction at that time was not as good as in later times. Generally, stalls set up around the main road were ignored. There were many trendy things hanging here and there, electronic pets from Japan, pendants, clocks, gift ornaments, clothing, shoes... These goods were not attractive to Cheng Ran. The vendors swore that they bought the goods from Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and coastal cities, but in fact, in the small commodity distribution market such as Hehuachi a few blocks away, people used linen bags to carry goods in large and small bags.
Jiang Hongshao took an electronic watch from a vendor, and fiddled with it in her hand, looking very interested.
"When I was a kid, I first saw a black and white LCD screen that could display numbers. I thought it was very interesting and familiar." Jiang Hongshao thought for a while and smiled, "I think my love for numbers was inspired by that time."
"The God of Learning is really different... He can unlock his talent just by looking at an LCD screen. In novels, others have to jump off a cliff to comprehend a unique martial art, but you can gain enlightenment just by walking on the road."
"I'm going to hit you." Jiang Hongshao glanced at him and fiddled with the LCD watch. "That's why I liked electronic watches very much when I was a child. I always thought they were very interesting... Stretch out your hand and try..."
"You have a fetish..." Before Cheng Ran could finish his words, she grabbed his arm, which had a relatively darker skin, and put the watch strap around his wrist and put it on him.
The touch of Jiang Hongshao's fingertips on his arm reminded him of the scene on the bus in Shanhai that year when she pinched his fingers and wrote down the phone number on his palm with a pen. Now, he could still smell the fragrance of her hair, which seemed to have changed the shampoo, but was just as fragrant.
Jiang Hongshao chose one for Cheng Ran, one for herself, and asked the vendor about the price. The vendor said nicely, "Oh, sister, you are so pretty and have a good taste. I bought this watch from Guangzhou, and I didn't make much money from you. So, the price is 99. If you buy two, I'll give you a discount, 70 for each. Look, the two of you look really good together..."
This small boss sets up a stall near the school. He has seen this kind of situation many times. Girls who buy things for their boyfriends basically don't look at the price. And judging from the girl's dress, she can afford it, so he starts by flattering her with nice words to stimulate the girl's vanity and then raise the price a little.
As expected, Jiang Hongshao was about to take money out of her pocket. Cheng Ran saw that this girl was not willing to bargain, so he quickly stopped her, "It's not that expensive, I'll give you 20 yuan, 40 yuan for two. If you don't want to sell it, we'll leave."
"How can it be so cheap? Student, you are such a fool. How can you bargain like that? Look, the girl next to you hasn't said anything yet!" The boss immediately used Jiang Hongshao as a shield.
Jiang Hongshao rarely bargained with others. She always felt that bargaining with others in public was embarrassing, even slightly shameful. Her friend Su Hongdou and other children from the big courtyards knew her personality to some extent, so they rarely behaved like this when they went out with her.
Especially the vendors around you are very smart and often respond to your bargaining with a lot of voice and expression. With just a few words and actions, they can create psychological pressure that you are not knowledgeable, have made a mistake, or have no money so you bargain so much. This is actually stressful for an old man who has little social experience.
Lao Jiang's strength lies in her intelligence and her understanding and grasp of things. However, when it comes to getting along with society, she is actually the same as most of her peers.
When the boss was a little confused about the next breakthrough, Jiang Hongshao pointed at Cheng Ran and said, "He has the final say."
Cheng Ran has already started to take off the watch on his wrist. "Boss, I've also seen the lotus pond next to your watch. The wholesale price is only ten yuan a piece, but you're selling it for ninety-nine just a few blocks away? It's easy to make money from students? I'll give it back to you."
"Well, twenty-five, twenty-five each. Come back, come back... If you said twenty, then twenty is it."
The boss must be very upset with Cheng Ran, especially since Jiang Hongshao paid the money after the agreement was reached. The boss was still a little annoyed, "It's only because you two look good wearing it... that's why I gave you a much lower price. Otherwise, I wouldn't sell it to anyone else at this price..."
After the two paid and walked away, the boss was still a little resentful and said to the vendor next to him, "There was such a good girl next to him, but the guy was so stingy, and in the end it was the girl who gave him the money! So I told your daughter that if she meets a guy like this in the future, she must be careful, because he will definitely not amount to anything, and she will suffer the consequences!"
"That's right! That guy looks very handsome, but it's probably because of this that this girl got cheated by him! This kind of thing happens a lot. Girls with good looks and rich families are sometimes not very cunning, and they often get cheated by these pretty boys..."
"Ah... so-called for love..."
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Just as the veteran vendors passing by were talking about this yet another social stain and human tragedy, Cheng Ran, the person involved, sneezed several times.
"The weather has suddenly turned cold." Cheng Ran smiled at Jiang Hongshao again without realizing it. He looked at the watches that each of them wore, stretched out his hand wearing the watch and shook it, "Why did you suddenly think of buying one for me?"
Jiang Hongshao smiled and said, "You don't really like it..." She stopped talking halfway.
"Living a life of luxury."
Cheng Ran nodded seriously and added, his body already unconsciously preparing to avoid the radius of her wave.
"Next time you answer a question quickly, I'll drag you out and shoot you." Old Jiang glanced at him, put her index and middle fingers together, and raised her thumb to make a pistol gesture. "Drag you out and shoot you" is a popular phrase in No. 10 Middle School recently. She considered her words carefully to avoid being caught by Cheng Ran, and said with a smile, "Don't you like to pretend to be poor and shameless so that girls can pay for you... I'll give you the whole package."
Seeing Cheng Ran's strange expression, Jiang Hongshao became a little nervous, "What did I say wrong?"
"I don't know how to explain it to you... and I'm afraid I'll die explaining it..."
"In some unknown forum and world..."
Cheng Ran said in distress, "The full set has more than one meaning."
Jiang Hongshao's puzzled eyes gradually froze in Cheng Ran's expression, and then her black pupils suddenly flashed with a cold light as if she had been enlightened, and her long legs flew up in the night when the bright lights of the distant teaching building were shining.
The fragrant breeze and frowning brows are the smell of the coming Christmas and the millennium at the end of the century.