Volume 1 Beginning of Summer Chapter 24 Plum Rain
We went to Jumei Plaza to eat a grilled fish, bought popcorn and Coke and watched a movie. When Jiang You returned to Wenhua Street, it was almost ten o'clock.
A couple jogging at night passed by him.
He watched the couple disappear from his sight, touched his stomach, and started running. After running unsteadily for dozens of meters, he arrived at the insect house.
"Start running every night tomorrow." He walked into the yard.
The sound of wind blowing through leaves, the sound of water in the pond, and the music coming from a bar in the distance mixed together.
A black spider was crawling on the flower stand near the door.
"We've cut all the sunflowers, what do you think about growing some mint? We can make tea with the leaves?"
He opened the door, walked in, closed and locked it, and went upstairs.
After washing up, he took a bottle of Coke and went back to the bedroom. He lay down on the bed and took out his phone, and received a lot of likes.
The group chat of Sweet and Salty Wars Ultraman showed hundreds of chat records. Jiang You clicked on it and saw that it was Zhao Shiqi who was persuading Yuan Shu to leave Tangjiang and find a job in Zhuzhou.
Zhuzhou has a strong Internet atmosphere, relatively supportive policies, and many opportunities. Tangjiang focuses more on finance and services, with clear and rigid regulations.
Under Zhao Shiqi's persuasion, Yuan Shu was a little shaken and hesitant. The atmosphere gradually became awkward.
Jiang You thought for a moment, then sent a few photos of the pomegranate saplings to the group.
Jiang You: When the pomegranates are ripe, we will drink and chat under the tree.
Zhou Tao: Down with the landlords!
Yuan Shu: Down with capitalism!
Zhao Shiqi: Divide the land! Divide the pomegranates!
Jiang You: I passed by the vegetable market today and the June chrysanthemums are already on the market. I will get a few pots of chrysanthemums. When you come next month, how about we enjoy the chrysanthemums and eat crabs?
Yuan Shu: Appreciate Boss Jiang’s chrysanthemums and eat Boss Jiang’s crabs.
Zhou Tao: Very happy.
Zhao Shiqi: Very happy.
Jiang You: That’s settled then, the third weekend of next month.
Yuan Shu and the other two agreed, and the topic was changed.
Jiang You opened the Coke and took a sip, then found a novel about cultivation on his mobile phone reader and started reading.
I had only read less than one-fifth of a novel of several million words until four in the morning.
The phone is out of battery.
He yawned, took off his glasses and put them on the bedside table, then fell into a deep sleep.
He was woken up by the urge to urinate.
It was dark and raining.
He subconsciously looked at his mobile phone and found that it had turned off automatically due to lack of power. He pulled the charging cable from the ground, connected it, and then went to the toilet to flush the phone.
The bathroom window was not closed tightly, and the rain came in, making the floor wet.
Jiang You closed the window, mopped the water on the floor, brushed his teeth and washed his face, then returned to the bedroom and got into bed again.
The phone has been charged a little and can be turned on.
There was a missed call from Chen Nan. He called back.
"Sister Nan, do you have something to talk to me about?"
"When I passed by your place at noon, I saw a sapling fell down. I called you but couldn't get through, so I knew you were still sleeping."
Jiang You took out his phone and looked at the time. It was 3:20 pm.
"I ran out of battery while reading a novel yesterday."
"Just woke up?"
"Well, I'll go down and take a look now. Thank you, Sister Nan."
"What are you thanking me for? There aren't many people in the store. Would you like to come over and have a cup of tea?"
"I'll go downstairs first. Please make me a latte. I have a headache."
"Okay, or a packet of syrup?"
"Yes."
After hanging up the phone, Jiang You walked downstairs and stood by the door looking into the yard. The pomegranate sapling on the outermost side had fallen, with its roots exposed from the soil. He sighed and walked into the rain.
He used his hands to straighten the sapling and piled up the soil with his feet, but when he let go of his hands, the sapling still fell outward.
The mud was softened by the water.
He thought about it, walked to the flower stand by the door, took out the cut sunflowers one by one, pulled out the sunflowers in his hand, and then poured the soil on the roots of the pomegranate seedlings.
This time, the pomegranate sapling stood up strangely.
Then he poured the remaining soil evenly under the other four pomegranate saplings.
He looked around.
"Come on, give it a try."
The sunflowers in his hands softened and turned into green powder, which fell from between his fingers, got wet by the rain, and mixed into the soil.
“I need to save some fertilizer.”
After putting away the flower pots, he went to the rest area to take a look at the succulents in the shed. They were well protected from rain and the ground was not damp.
After returning to the house, he washed his hands, changed his wet clothes, and wiped his hair with a towel.
After heating a cup of milk and placing it on the coffee table, he took an umbrella and went downstairs.
Chen Nan’s bookstore is called Guanghe Bookstore.
Push the door and walk into the bookstore.
The sound of wind chimes rang out.
Chen Nan walked out from behind the bar in the reading area.
Jiang You looked around, "Where's Xiao Liu?"
"I'm going back to collect the clothes. I see there aren't many people here today, so I told her not to come over again."
Jiang You sat down at the window seat. Chen Nan brought out a plate of fried noodles with pork intestines and a cup of iced latte and placed them in front of Jiang You. "I guessed you didn't eat anything today, so I went to the next door and ordered some fried noodles."
Jiang You took out chopsticks, stirred the noodles, and started eating.
Chen Nan took a glass of water and sat down opposite him. "My ex-husband came to see me at noon and said he wanted to remarry."
"Remarry? Is he willing to do that?"
Without hearing Chen Nan's reply, Jiang You raised his head and saw her hesitant expression, "Are you soft-hearted?"
"How could that be?" Chen Nan took a sip of water and sighed, "Yunyun will be in junior high school in two years. My ex-husband lives in a better school district."
“This place isn’t bad, right?”
"No. 4 Middle School is still not as good as Tangwai Affiliated Middle School."
"Do you think raising a child is like playing a game?" Jiang You put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth with paper, and took a sip of ice latte. "What kind of middle school did Yunyun go to? How many more attribute points did she get?"
“I am hesitating too.”
"Have you forgotten how your ex-in-laws treated you? Do you think that after a few years of divorce, all these problems will be automatically solved and no longer exist? Even if you remarry, you still have to face them?"
"I can bear it."
"Do you think Yunyun is stupid? Can't she see that you are enduring? Do you know that mother and daughter are connected? How much pressure is she under if she knows that you are doing this for her? Will she be in a good mood? If she is in a bad mood, how can she concentrate on reading?"
"I didn't think about these." Chen Nan said embarrassedly.
"So what are you thinking about? Her current classmates are all going to the same junior high school as her, right?"
"That's about it, what's wrong?"
"She was originally in junior high school, and her old friends were all in the same school. She would also make new friends and would not feel like she was in a completely unfamiliar place. But if she changed school districts, everyone else would be in small groups, and she would be all alone. How much social pressure would that be? Even adults might not be able to handle it."
"What you said does make sense."
"That's my reasoning. It's just you. If someone else asked me, I wouldn't bother to tell them." Jiang You glanced at Chen Nan. "The family atmosphere is not good. You can't fit in at school. How sensitive are adolescents? If No. 4 Middle School is a rubbish middle school, then we have to think about it. No. 4 Middle School is not much worse. What's there to think about?"
"Okay, okay, okay, aren't you just afraid that I'll remarry?" Chen Nan glanced at Jiang You, "Okay, okay, I know what to do. Next time he comes, I won't open the door for him, okay?"
"By the way, lend me those pots of geraniums. I'll ask someone to come to the yard to take pictures tomorrow."
"Okay, where are your sunflowers?"
"Why take pictures when the flowers have already been cut? I cleared out the pots and am going to plant chrysanthemums."
"Are you ready to do business?"
"I've been doing pretty well," Jiang You thought for a moment, "How do you get the gym membership card you often go to?"
"I got an annual membership, buy one year get one year free, it's 8,000 yuan, and I also bought private lessons. My coach is pretty good. I'll ask you to come with me next time?"
"Okay."
