Chapter 18 Seeing Through the World
Jiang Peishan didn't understand why roommates were interested in other people's boyfriends' shoes.
But in the face of the three roommates all staring at her, with a posture that she knew how to do it, she had to solve her doubts, Jiang Peishan pursed her lips, thinking that she didn't say a few words in total, this is to provoke anyone.
sighed, climbed on the stool as if resigned, rummaged around the pillow, pulled out a copy of a bunch of fashion magazines, turned around and handed it to Wu Guoer: "Huh." ”
"What?"
"It's not about shoes."
Wu Guoer was stunned: "Those shoes are in the magazine?" Don't be so exaggerated. ”
"Twelve pages."
Then the 418 dormitory sounded, Wu Guo'er sometimes slapped his thigh, and sometimes interjected a few words of his own post-reading testimonials while watching.
"People magazine said that the brand is called Onitsuka Tiger, what from the Olympics in the past six years, what marathon, anyway, many athletes wear this brand."
"People magazine said that not only athletes, but also some celebrities wear it, and martial arts star Bruce Lee often wears it."
Xiang Mengmeng bit her lower lip: "Can it be more famous than Nike Adi?" How can I not believe it. ”
Wu Guoer watched it with relish, didn't notice Xiang Mengmeng's emotions at all, patted her thigh, and didn't raise her head and said: "You're really right, it's really famous, people said in magazines, Nike has to call this brand a senior, and ASICS has to call it a father." ”
Suddenly, Wu Guoer looked at everyone with a shake of the magazine and said, "How much do you guess?" I couldn't wait to be asked, so I hurriedly told:
"The difference of ten yuan is my living expenses for half a year, a pair of shoes, Mom, this is to go to heaven. If it were me, would I dare to walk down the aisle? As far as I wear shoes, basically a pair in the first half of the year, let's count it according to one hundred and eighty-four days in the second half of the year, wear it once a day on average, I calculate, more than sixteen yuan a day, sixteen yuan a day, I don't have any food money. ”
Sun Yan sat on the bunk, looking at her roommates who were nervous when they came back from outside, and she was also calculating in her heart: Sixteen yuan a day's food money, oh, then Wu Guoer's monthly living expenses are about five hundred, and it seems that the money she brings is about the same as everyone's.
Xiang Mengmeng and Wang Ying knew Wu Guoer's living expenses, the big mouth, they shouted during military training, they calculated in their hearts that half a year's living expenses are equal to a pair of shoes, and the difference of ten yuan is 2990.
Xiang Mengmeng snatched the magazine, read it himself, and finally confirmed the price.
Jiang Peishan had an unbearable expression, frowned and said: "This account is not calculated like this, one, who can wear it every day, generally such people will have many pairs, and even buy many brands of shoes." Second, the above is the recommended price, not the final price of the counter. ”
Xiang Mengmeng hurriedly asked, "You mean it will be discounted, and it won't be sold so expensive, right?" ”
"No, if you ask Jiang's boyfriend about the pair on his feet, it's not, his is a handmade limited edition, not an assembly line, you don't understand the limited edition?"
Xiang Meng Meng was at a loss.
Jiang Peishan explained carefully this time, and gave you an example, for example, only 200 pairs of a certain style are released in the world, some shoe sizes have ten pairs in a country, and some countries do not, and they can't buy a pair.
"You mean more than 2990?"
"Yes, it depends on what the buyer thinks, he is happy to buy it if he has money. And for some people, shoes are also collectible, just like pens and watches. ”
Wu Guo'er admired: "Pei Shan, you know a lot, I haven't heard of it before. ”
"Because my brother is like that."
In these conversations, I heard two messages in Sun Yan's ears, one is that these people came back to discuss the price of shoes, it turned out to be to discuss Jiang's boyfriend's shoes, and the other is that Qian Peishan's family is also very rich.
Why are there so many rich people, she thought indignantly.
Xiang Mengmeng took advantage of everyone's inattention to go out of the dormitory, found the IC card phone booth on the side of the road, when she heard her mother's voice "It's a baby", she suddenly clutched the phone and cried, while wiping tears with the back of her hand and said:
"Mom, wait until that day, don't force me to find a boyfriend with good conditions, I can't find it, I can't talk to anyone. I made a lot of jokes, I was very embarrassed, I was ashamed to say it, I didn't know it, I disliked myself who didn't know it," said this wow, a complete cry, a big thing, inexplicably poured infinite sadness in her heart.
Xiang's mother was very anxious on the other end of the phone.
Wang Ying stood outside the phone booth, looking at the girl who wiped her nose and tears, crying and laughing.
But when she faced Xiang Mengmeng, who kept sobbing, she couldn't hold back her crying and laughing, and said with a straight face: "Do you know that after this phone call, your mother will be more sad than you at home?" ”
"Huh?"
"She'll blame herself for not giving you better conditions for you to gain knowledge."
"But that's not what I meant," Xiang Mengmeng's teary eyes were full of anxiety.
"Well, then the next time you call, you will tell her, Mom, when I get to college, I will study hard, although I just came a little ignorant, but I am young, I will try my best to make myself better than anyone else one day, and I will definitely let you come with me, eat or not, see what you have never seen, go to those places that you have not been, and then return to my hometown to show off to those who are even more uninformed, I am happy to think about it, is it?"
Xiang Mengmeng cried again:
"I don't know what's wrong, Sister Jiang doesn't know that I have this stubble at all, let people know, can't they think I'm sick?
It doesn't matter to me whether her boyfriend has money or not, but I have been watching poor people one after another, and I always make the mistake of using pearls as fish eyes, I just feel too shameless in front of you.
Thank you Wang Ying, you are right, I will say this to my mother next time, no, you wait for me, I will say it. ”
This time, Wang Ying stood in the phone booth, saw Xiang Mengmeng holding the phone and laughed, and said loudly to the other end of the phone: "Mom, I don't look for a rich boyfriend, I don't have low self-esteem, I want to become a rich man myself, and then buy you a bunch of famous brands that I don't know now", she suddenly wanted to cry.
Because of what she taught Mengmeng just now, she really wanted to say this to her mother, but she was not qualified, just because of the birthmark on her face, she was thrown by her parents to her grandmother in the countryside since she was a child, and they only have her son in their eyes now, don't look at her being admitted to a prestigious university, and she has not received attention.
Wang Ying gritted her teeth and held back her tears, when she had a good job and money, the first thing she would bring to her grandmother, and the second thing would be surgery to get rid of the birthmark, she didn't believe it, this mark can be carried for a lifetime.
And although Wu Guo'er was in the bedroom, she didn't think less than those two people at the moment, and she rarely pondered quietly:
It's no wonder that my father, who has been struggling in education for many years, always scolded her when she was in high school, saying that you still have a chance to go to a prestigious university now, and now it is two thousand years, although the concept of consumption has risen, the income is not much, so it is okay for the time being.
If you look back in a few years, it will be more and more difficult to have poor students like the seventies and eighties, 10,000 poor families can't produce a famous college student, and 10,000 families with good conditions can show an admission rate of more than 10 percent or even dozens of percent.
What does this mean? The class is becoming more and more solidified, and education must be piled up with money.
Obviously, there is not much difference in the IQ of the students, the difference is the money to ask the teacher to choose the school, you can take care of the students in my teacher's family, hurry up and take advantage of the fact that the make-up fee has not risen to a sky-high price, give me the entrance examination to Peking University, hurry up and take advantage of the batch of study abroad that is not gilded, your graduation certificate is still worth a lot of money, go to a good job, and you will not die of hunger in the future.
Listen, she was only admitted to a good university, and Daddy was worried that she would starve to death in a few years.
Money, money, Wu Guoer locked her eyebrows: Do you want to do something, take the first step to earn some money, it is best to earn Jiang's boyfriend's shoes every month.
Above, everything that happened in the bedroom, Jiang Nan didn't know anything, she was stunned, and she didn't even know how to start kissing.