Volume 4: Beginning of Spring Chapter 3 Friction
After chatting with Chen Nan for a while, Jiang You returned to the insect house holding the Little Red Pig doll. He went straight upstairs and walked into the side bedroom.
Jiang Mo was lying on a hammock with his iPad stuck to the ceiling. On the screen, a skinny-looking girl had a bowl in front of her that was five times the size of her face. In the bowl was noodles with a dozen cut soft-boiled eggs on top.
The girl ate the noodles methodically, bite by bite.
Jiang walked over to Jiang Mo, looked up at him for a while and said, "Your interests are becoming more and more diverse. This screen is too small. How about getting you a projector?"
Jiang Mo turned his head and looked at Jiang You.
Jiang You pushed the piglet in his hand against his face and said, "How about it? Doesn't this piglet look exactly like you ?"
Jiang Mo sat up suddenly. Jiang You took a step back with the pig in his hand. He said, "Let's make a New Year's resolution. I will try to sell one postcard a month next year and get eight-pack abs. What about you?"
Jiang Mo's eyes fell on the piglet.
Zhaocai walked past the door .
"How about this, say one sentence every day, and each sentence should be no less than ten words?" Jiang You stuffed the piglet into Jiang Mo's arms and yawned. "It's been too shaky sleeping in a hammock these days. I'm going to catch up on some sleep. Tomorrow we'll get up early and go to the park. You bring your skateboard..."
Jiang You said this as he walked out.
Walk back to his room.
The quilt is neatly folded.
Take off your clothes, jump on the bed, and pull up the quilt.
I seemed to smell a faint fragrance.
When he woke up the next day, he looked out the window and saw that the sun was already setting in the west. He scratched his hair and took out his cell phone, but it was out of battery.
Take out the data cable, plug it in, wait for a few dozen seconds and then restart the computer.
It's three o'clock.
"Don't you usually love to wake me up?" Jiang You half-sat on the bed and opened WeChat. Both Yuan Shu and Chen Nan sent him messages.
He replied to Yuan Shu first.
Jiang You: My phone is out of battery, but I saw the address and I will be there on time.
Then he called Chen Nan.
"I just woke up," he said.
"I guessed it," Chen Nan sat down in front of the dressing table, put her phone on the table, adjusted it to speaker mode, and asked while combing her hair, "Would you like to come over and eat something to fill your stomach?"
"Okay, eat a little, I'll change my clothes and come over."
"OK."
After hanging up the phone, Jiang You stared at the blank wall in front of the window for a while, then got out of bed with difficulty and walked out of the room. A children's skateboard fell in front of him.
"Tomorrow, tomorrow I promise to wake up early."
Zhao Cai, who was curled up on the workbench, looked up at Jiang You , then jumped to the ground, wagging his tail and walked down the stairs.
After quickly washing up, Jiang You put on his bag and went out.
As he walked out of the yard, he glanced into the store.
A ginger cat sprawled out on a skateboard, sliding across the long table with it...
The two storage boxes were knocked to the ground, and then the skateboard flipped over as it fell...
"Meow!!"
A shrill cat cry.
Jiang You closed the door of the yard and walked towards Qingshui Bay.
Twenty minutes later, he knocked on Chen Nan's door.
Chen Nan dressed up.
She was wearing a light apricot cashmere knitted dress with a small V-neck and a very thin gold clavicle chain around her neck.
"I thought I knocked on the wrong door. I almost didn't recognize you. You look so beautiful today." Jiang You said.
"You have such a big mouth."
Chen Nan walked towards the kitchen, Jiang You changed his shoes, walked to the dining table and sat down.
Soon, Chen Nan brought out a small bowl.
She placed the bowl in front of Jiang You and said, "Try this pumpkin porridge. It also contains millet, coix seed and red beans. If you think it's not sweet enough, add some sugar yourself."
Jiang You took a spoon and tasted it. He said, "It's just right. If you add more sugar, it will be too sweet."
Chen Nan sat down opposite him and asked, "Did you stay up late again last night?"
"I went back home and fell asleep yesterday. Maybe it was because it was almost Chinese New Year and there were few people on the street, so I slept very soundly."
Jiang You drank the whole bowl of porridge in just a few gulps.
Chen Nan asked: "Do you want more?"
Jiang You thought about it and said, "No, I can't eat any more dinner."
After Jiang You and Chen Nan chatted for a while, they went out and took a taxi to the restaurant location that Yuan Shu had sent them.
It is a chain of Sichuan restaurants, and this one seems to be the head office in Tangjiang City.
Yuan Shu and his girlfriend have arrived.
After Jiang You told the waiter the table number, he was led to his table.
"How long have you been here?" Jiang You asked.
"I just arrived too. I ordered a few dishes for you to see."
After Jiang You sat down, his eyes fell on the woman next to Yuan Shu.
She looked to be in her mid-twenties, wearing a red cashmere sweater, had brown curly hair, and bright features.
Chen Nan took off his coat, folded it and placed it on the back of the chair.
"Weiwei, this is Jiang You, my college classmate," Yuan Shu introduced Jiang You to Shen Wei. He glanced at Chen Nan, and then Jiang You took over the conversation and said, "This is my sister Nan. She cooked all the dishes when you ate at my restaurant last time."
"Hello, Brother Jiang, hello, Sister Nan." Shen Wei smiled, and two dimples appeared on her cheeks.
After exchanging pleasantries, Jiang You asked, "Are you going back together for the New Year this year?"
After Yuan Shu placed her order, she said, "Yes, I will spend New Year's Eve at my house, and I will go to her house on the third day of the New Year."
Jiang You looked at Shen Wei and said, "Yuan Shu, he likes to keep good things to himself. You know, the steamed buns his mother makes are especially delicious."
He glanced at Yuan Shu, who took the teapot and poured tea for them.
He continued, "One year when school started, he brought a bag of steamed buns and hid them. Shiqi's bed was next to his, so we found him eating alone in the dormitory during evening self-study."
"Then what?" Shen Wei asked.
"Then we ate the buns," Jiang You looked at Yuan Shu, "When he found out, his face and eyes were all red. We had no choice but to treat him to a week's worth of canteen stir-fried food to make amends."
Yuan Shu put down the teapot, and he smiled and shook his hands, "No, no, Weiwei, don't listen to his nonsense. At that time, my family didn't have much money after paying for my tuition..."
"Are the steamed buns delicious?" Chen Nan asked Jiang You.
"It's delicious. The best steamed buns I've ever eaten." Jiang You looked at Yuan Shu, "When are you going to have the wedding? When I go there, remember to ask Auntie to steam buns for me."
"Okay, okay, now that you're here, I'll give you steamed buns as much as you want." Yuan Shu said and laughed again.
"Were you in the same dormitory before?" Shen Wei asked.
"Yes, he is the most promising one in our dormitory. He was admitted to graduate school and has a good job." Jiang You glanced at Shen Wei, "How did you two know each other?"
"I met him at work," said Yuan Shu.
The waiter brought the first course.
Mouth-watering chicken.
White|tender chicken soaked in red oil, sprinkled with coriander and sesame seeds.
Jiang You picked up a piece of chicken and ate while listening to Shen Wei say, "I'm in charge of booth planning. We're basically in charge of Xiaozha Company's business."
Jiang You nodded, "That's fate."
"Yes," Yuan Shu picked up a peanut and asked, "Do you still remember Liang Hao?"
"How could you not remember? You forgot that he was my tenant."
"This project is almost reaching fruition now," Yuan Shu said, picking up a peanut. "Last month, Brother Zhu took our team to Xinlong to visit his parents and brought some New Year's gifts."
