Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 83
The driver spoke Mandarin, which Grandpa Jiang could understand, and excitedly showed off, “Yes, my eldest granddaughter won the first prize for her writing, and it is even published in a magazine.”
He spoke the dialect of Shuibu Town. Let alone Shanghai city, even people from the neighboring city might not be able to understand him.
Jiang Ning translated for her grandpa and said it again in Mandarin. The driver understood it and immediately praised Grandpa Jiang with a smile, “Your granddaughter is promising.”
Grandpa Jiang was so happy that he couldn’t stop smiling along the way and kept praising Jiang Ning in dialect.
Even though the driver couldn’t understand what he was saying, he kept echoing his words. The two of them talked like ducks in a row and had a great time chatting.
Grandpa Jiang was really too excited, even more excited than he was when taking the train. He was so excited that he couldn’t control his happy mood at all, so he kept talking.
His granddaughter won the first prize for her writing, got into the magazine, and she even took him to the big city. The houses in the big city were so tall, the lights were colorful, and they were so beautiful.
That was a completely different existence from their small mountain village. It was as good as the educated youth said. When getting out of the taxi, the taxi driver tore off the receipt and gave it to Jiang Ning.
Grandpa Jiang smiled and nodded in thanks, then said to his granddaughter,”Yes, yes, you have to keep it safe, don’t throw it away.”
After reaching the guest house, Jiang Ning went to book a room at the front desk, while her grandpa sat waiting, looking around. Everything was so new to him.
The guest house was a bit old, probably an old guest house built in the past, but in Grandpa Jiang’s eyes, it was the best place to live.
Jiang Ning only booked a standard room with two beds.
Grandpa Jiang was a little afraid to sit on the soft bed and the snow-white sheets on the bed.
“What if we make the bed dirty?”
“It’s okay, don’t you have clean clothes? Grandpa, go take a shower first and change into clean clothes.”
With November, the weather was no longer so hot. They may even feel a bit cold in the morning and evening, so they needed to wear a thin coat.
Jiang Ning went into the bathroom, adjusted the water temperature, and told Grandpa Jiang what to do. There were also bath products for shampooing and bathing.
“These can be used, and they are all free. If you are afraid of staining other people’s white sheets, just clean yourself off with this.”
Because Grandpa Jiang was old, it was inconvenient to get water in the mountains. He used a linen bath towel, got a basin of water, and scrubbed his body. When it got hotter, he went to the mountain stream and scrubbed with a bath towel.
But he was happy to use these new things that he had never seen before. These were all bragging rights for him to go back and tell his old friends.
His old friends sat under the locust tree at the entrance of the village all day long, bragging about the delicious food their sons took them to eat at the state-owned restaurant and how good the chefs were. The food was so delicious, it felt like eating a royal meal at a state banquet.
Or they would brag that their daughter had taken them to some shopping mall and how expensive the clothes in the shopping mall were, and the girl wanted to buy it for them, but they refused.
His granddaughter won the first prize and brought him to Shanghai.
Grandpa Jiang was alone in the bathroom. The more he thought about it, the more beautiful it became. He wished he could go back to Jiangjia Village immediately, go to the old locust tree at the entrance of the village, and brag to his old friends.
After Jiang Ning helped him adjust the water temperature, he also tried to adjust the temperature himself. It turned out that there was hot water on the left, cold water on the right, and warm water in the middle.
The small tiles on the wall were still colorful.
The floor was also made of ceramic tiles, there was no dust at all, and it was spotlessly clean.
There was also a toilet. Once the water was flushed, everything got clean.
Later, Grandpa Jiang went back and described to his old friends, “The floors in big cities are so clean that you can lick it with your tongue. The toilets are even cleaner.”
“It’s white and clean.” He proudly asked his old friends, “Do you know what a toilet is?”
After taking a bath and changing into clean clothes, Grandpa Jiang hunched over and clasped his hands behind his back, walked out happily. Jiang Ning settled down with him and went to take a bath herself. She washed the clothes the two of them had changed and hung them to dry outside.
Both Jiang Ning’s and Grandpa Jiang’s clothes were very shabby, especially Grandpa Jiang’s. She didn’t know how to sew herself, and neither did Grandmother Jiang. When the clothes got torn, she could only sew them awkwardly with a sewing needle. She didn’t care whether the sewing was good or not, as long as it could be worn.
Therefore, most of his clothes were crooked. When Jiang Ning was a child, he dressed her like that. He wore clothes backward, front to back and back to front. Anyway, there was only one main goal, as long as they didn’t freeze.
Jiang Ning’s clothes were big, just like a child wearing adult clothes. The small ones were very small. She had worn them for many years and continued to wear them even when they got too small.
Such clothes were usually one of the few good clothes that Jiang Ning could get away with without any patches. Even if they were too small, Jiang Ning still couldn’t bear to put them away and kept them.
The bed in the guest house was too soft. Grandpa Jiang slept uncomfortably. He tossed and turned and didn’t fall asleep until two or three in the morning. When he woke up in the morning, he had a sore back and was very uncomfortable.
But he didn’t say anything. He still clasped his hands behind his back, like an old turtle carrying a turtle shell, and slowly followed Jiang Ning.
Seeing Jiang Ning taking him to the hospital instead of accepting the award, Grandpa Jiang asked, “Didn’t you say you would receive the award this morning?”
Jiang Ning said, “I called the organizer in the morning. The organizer heard that I only have two days left and will have to return to Wucheng tomorrow, so they told me to come directly to the hospital for a physical examination. They will transfer the bonus directly to my bank. They told me to keep the receipt for the physical examination at the hospital and send it to them when the time comes. They will just transfer the money directly.”
Grandpa Jiang worriedly thought that his granddaughter might have been deceived, but he did not dare to say it for fear of damaging her self-confidence.
He hesitated for a long time, but still didn’t say anything. He just took his eldest granddaughter’s wrist and said, “I’d better not do any physical examination.”
Jiang Ning took out a wad of money from her bag and quietly put it into Grandpa Jiang’s hand, asking him to quickly hide it in his pocket so that the thief wouldn’t see it and steal it.
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