"Boss, get two bottles of water."

"Three dollars."

"Isn't it one dollar a bottle?"

"The price has increased."

Xu Rong paid the money and truly felt the impact of the raging financial crisis.

Previously, he had seen various comments about the financial crisis on the Internet, but neither the bank failure nor the subprime mortgage crisis had a direct impact on his life.

While drinking water, he suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

There is still a huge sum of money in the stock market!

Compared with Zhang Jizhong blaming him for taking the blame, the financial crisis had a greater impact on him because he couldn't beat Zhang Jizhong to death with a stick, and conversely, Zhang Jizhong couldn't do anything to him.

Except it's a little disgusting.

And he still has a house in his hands.

In the past, even if he only had a few hundred thousand in cash and still owed the company 12 million, he would not panic at all, because the house prices were soaring like a rocket. If the house was resold, he would not only be able to pay off the debt

If you pay it back, you can still get a sum of cash in hand.

But now, he has no choice but to worry. His own mother doesn't dare to admit that housing prices abroad have dropped. If domestic prices follow the same trend, he will really have to bear huge debts.

But after reading some analysis on the financial crisis, he felt a little more at ease.

Because the money to buy the house is borrowed!

Looking back now, it was a very correct decision to borrow money from the company to buy a house. With the financial crisis sweeping through, the real estate industry, which is the engine of the economy, suddenly experienced a cold spell, but what was more inevitable was inflation.

As long as the depreciation rate of the house is lower than the inflation rate, he will not lose money.

In addition, it gave him some reassurance that the film and television industry seems to be less sensitive and is still in full swing.

While the two were waiting for the flight, classmate Xiao Zhang asked: "Teacher Xu, do you want to drink water?"

Xu Rong pointed to the water he bought earlier and asked, "Isn't this it?"

Classmate Xiao Zhang shook his head and said, "I'm talking about hot water."

"Then give me a drink too."

Xiao Zhang brought two glasses of water. Seeing Xu Rong staring at the news on his phone seriously, he put the water aside, tore open a pack of snacks, stuffed it into his mouth quietly, and asked: "Teacher Xu, this year

Have you really decided not to go to the Spring Festival Gala?"

"It's not that bad of exposure." Xu Rong shook his head and said.

Two days ago, the company received an invitation from the Spring Festival Gala director team, but he declined because he wanted to go home to spend the New Year with the elderly.

With his current popularity, the Spring Festival Gala can bring him little improvement, and there is no worry about his popularity declining in a short period of time. The next two years should be regarded as his high-yield period. Based on the quality of the book, no matter how bad it is, it will be bad.

Not going anywhere.

Furthermore, as an actor, even if his lip-syncing on the Spring Festival Gala stage cannot be seen as lip-syncing to anyone, it will have no meaning to his on-screen appeal.

An actor who always makes bad movies will never be bought by the audience just because he appeared in the Spring Festival Gala once. The quality of his works is always online, and the audience will not stop watching them just because he didn't attend the Spring Festival Gala.

Several rounds of rehearsals for the Spring Festival Gala, plus recording and practicing, are too time-consuming. With that time, he can prepare a play well.

Of course, the most important thing is that grandpa did not move to the capital. During the Chinese New Year, if the old man is left to eat New Year's Eve dinner alone at home, then the original purpose of making money will be lost.

After reading another analysis about the economic crisis, Xu Rong caught a glimpse of classmate Xiao Zhang holding a cup with both hands. He glanced over and asked, "What are you drinking?"

"Water, water." Xiao Zhang said in a slightly uneasy tone.

Xu Rong stretched out his hand and was about to take it to taste, but Xiao Zhang hid for a moment, raised his head and drank it all in one gulp, licked his lips and said: "It's really water, I also took it for you, don't you believe it"

Have a taste.”

He didn't believe it at all. As soon as he sat down, classmate Xiao Zhang hurriedly volunteered to get water. This was very unusual. Not to mention that she just bought water, she didn't like drinking water either.

He took classmate Xiao Zhang's cup. There were a few drops left in it. The color looked like water. He raised his head and poured the last few drops into his mouth. He clicked his lips, frowned and asked, "Tell me,

Whose water is sweet?"

"Yeah, right?" Xiao Zhang blinked. She originally wanted to drink Coke, but she was afraid of being seen out, so she didn't dare to drink it. Instead, she drank Sprite, which looked almost like water.

"Maybe it's the fragrance of the air?!"

Xu Rong rolled his eyes at her and said, "I guess all your brain is used up on eating."

Classmate Xiao Zhang muttered in a low voice: "That's not necessarily the case, I don't use my brain when I eat you..."

"Um?"

"hey-hey."

Arriving at Xiao Zhang's house, Xu Rong suddenly found that Aunt Wang was much more enthusiastic than the previous two times. It was like going back to the time when he first came to tutor Xiao Zhang.

It's still a bit restrictive. Xiao Zhang's father has to go to work during the day and is not at home most of the time, but her mother has already taken a leave of absence, so there is nothing wrong at all.

Wandering around in front of his eyes all day long, he and his classmate Xiao Zhang couldn't find any opportunity to communicate in depth.

Because on the night of his first arrival, after dinner, Aunt Wang had already made clear arrangements for him.

"Xiao Xu, you should sleep in the room next to the door. The bedding has been freshly dried, and the pajamas and bath towels are in the cabinet next to the bed. Just throw the clothes you need to change into the washing machine."

"Xinxin, sleep with mom tonight."

Xu Rong and Xiao Zhang looked at each other, and their eyes contained great encouragement to each other, which suddenly made the other party more courageous to propose living in the same room.

The two just stared at each other for a long time, and in the end, they both couldn't help but say "ok".

Xu Rongting wanted to take the opportunity to cause something to happen, such as a quarrel or some conflict with classmate Xiao Zhang, so as to observe her parents' reactions.

But after trying several times, his expectations were not ideal, because he found that he really couldn't quarrel with classmate Xiao Zhang.

The rigor of her logic and the fluency of her language during the quarrel were simply astonishing. She also quoted from other sources and was well-founded. Even if she deduced it many times in advance and reviewed it afterward, Xiao Zhang could always catch her in language or logic.

The loophole was finally closed and he had nothing to say.

And every time at this time, Aunt Wang would always stand up and give her daughter a slap in the face.

But when Xu Rong accidentally saw classmate Xiao Zhang taking notes, which was his excuse for a quarrel, he didn't dare to find fault easily.

October 26, 2008

Teacher Xu secretly drank up all my milk tea and didn’t even leave a morsel for me!

October 29, 2008

I ignored him for an hour.

November 3, 2008

Didn't say good night to him.

November 4, 2008

I dreamed that I yelled at him.

Xu Rong looked at the neat fonts on his brand-new notebook and always felt that what he did was a bit stupid. The first reason seemed to be the same, but the last three reasons seemed to be getting more and more abnormal the more he looked at them.

He didn't dare to say anything, pretending that he had never seen these records.

At night, after saying good night to classmate Xiao Zhang, Xu Rong put down her phone and closed her eyes thinking about everything that happened today.

So far, the plan is quite satisfactory. After living with it for more than a month, I at least know what the real relationship between parents and children should be like.

It is of great significance not only to his next film, but to his entire career. These are the most common experiences for ordinary people, but he has never experienced them.

After lying down for a while, I felt a little need to urinate, so I got up and walked out of the room without turning on the light and walked to the toilet.

As he approached the bathroom door, he suddenly stopped.

It was almost twelve o'clock, and the room was dark. When he passed the living room just now, he seemed to catch a glimpse of a figure sitting on the sofa.

He slowly turned his head, squinted his eyes, looked back, and saw nothing from behind the sofa.

It must be that I am dazzled.

With this thought in mind, he entered the bathroom, and after a flushing sound, he glanced at the living room through the light of the bathroom, and there was indeed nothing there.

After turning off the light, his eyes suddenly became darker and darker. Following his memory, he walked towards the room at the door again.

As he passed the living room, he subconsciously glanced at the sofa again.

A figure sat there calmly.

"Hallucination, hallucination."

He raised his feet and walked towards the room. He was wearing slippers at this time, mainly because he didn't have the opportunity to take advantage of him.

"tread."

"tread."

After taking two steps, his feet suddenly stopped in mid-air when they were still a few centimeters from the ground.

"tread."
To be continued...