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July 22nd, the He family.

“Qian Min, can Mom come in?”

He Qianmin didn’t take his eyes off the draft paper, and responded casually: “Come in.”

Yang Yun pushed the door open while holding a fruit plate, and saw her younger son who was doing a math question at the desk and her daughter who was lying on her younger son’s bed reading a book. This had been the case for a while recently and it was no longer surprising after becoming used to it. She went to put the fruit plate on the small table in the leisure area, and said with a smile: “Qian Yang just called and said that he will arrive in a little over an hour, so remember to go down to see him in later.”

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He Qianmin didn’t even raise his head: “Brother Qian Yang is as familiar with our house as his own, so what’s the point.”

Yang Yun said gently: “Today is Qian Yang’s birthday, wouldn’t it be better for you to say happy birthday to him as soon as possible?”

“It’s all the same when you say happy birthday.” He Qianmin finished writing an answer, turned to the next page and said, “It’s not like if you say it earlier, you won’t be a year older.”

He Qianyu raised her head, swinging her legs and smiling into a crescent moon: “Second Brother is right.”

“Okay, you two.” Yang Yun tapped He Qianyu’s nose: “I haven’t seen you two put on such a united front before, but now you are practically singing together.”

He Qianmin gave a legitimate reason: “I have to study.”

He Qianyu followed closely and said: “Brother Qian Yang rubs my hair every time he sees me, so I don’t want to go down and let him rub it!”

“That’s because your brother likes you.” Yang Yun said: “Your eldest brother has already set off to pick up his friend, and if you two don’t go down, won’t it be very rude?”

“Who did Eldest Brother go to pick up?” He Qianyu was curious.

“Han Qiya.” Yang Yun said with a smile: “It’s sister Ya Ya who often teased you when you were young, do you remember?”

He Qianyu shook her head: “I don’t remember.”

“You might remember when you see her later.”

He Qianyu pouted, but did not speak.

Seeing her little expression, Yang Yun paused and asked, “Xiao Bao, can Mom ask you a question?”

“Sure.” He Qianyu flipped through the book and said casually.

“Did you have any conflicts with your eldest brother recently?” Yang Yun said carefully, “I noticed that you seldom go to play with him these days.”

He Qianyu’s swinging legs stopped, and the movement of turning the pages of the book also stopped.

He Qianmin put down his pen and turned the chair to face the bed, “She thinks that He Qianjian will be in his third year of high school soon, and she is afraid of disturbing his study, so she comes to bother me every day.”

Yang Yun laughed: “So that’s it.”

He Qianyu nodded quickly: “That’s right, didn’t Eldest Brother not do so well on the recent two exams? He never studied before but since he came second in the last midterm exam, he always locked himself in the room to study. This time he only took third place in the final exam, so I think he would definitely study harder, so I can’t bother him even more.”

Yang Yun nodded, a little worried: “Your brother has always been first place before, and his test scores are not satisfactory these two times, so he should be very upset. It’s just that he is too proud. When he doesn’t do well on the exams, he shuts himself away to study and never says anything to us.”

He Qianyu looked up at Yang Yun: “Mom, are you worried about Eldest Brother?”

“That’s right.” Yang Yun patted He Qianyu’s head: “Your eldest brother looks more mature and stable than others since he was a child, but he is still a child at heart, and he is a kid who cares more about face than others. Mom is worried that he won’t be able to cross this hurdle.”

“No.” He Qianyu comforted in a low voice: “Eldest Brother can do everything well, isn’t there many people saying that he is a second Brother Shi? It’s not so easy for someone as smart as Eldest Brother to be knocked down.”

“That’s right.” Yang Yun didn’t want to mention her worries about her eldest son too much in front of her other two children, so she shifted her gaze to He Qianmin: “Qian Min, Mom remembers that you don’t seem to have homework during summer vacation, What are you writing these days?”

“Competition questions.” He Qianmin said: “If I do some more practice questions, those questions that I don’t understand, I can ask my brother about it all together at that time.”

Thinking of the young man she saw last time, the smile in Yang Yun’s eyes unconsciously gentled: “Xiao Chen is coming here to attend your cousin’s birthday party, not to tutor you.”

“My brother will definitely check my question book.” He Qianmin quickly calculated the math on the draft paper. The huge number distracted him, and he couldn’t help feeling yearning and worshiping: “If I had even half the mental arithmetic ability as my brother then that would be great.”

Yang Yun thought about Jiang Chen’s grades which she had heard about before, and said with a smile: “Xiao Chen has really good grades. From childhood to adulthood, he is the only one who could pass your elder brother’s exam score.”

He Qianmin paused, and snorted: “How could He Qianjian compare with my brother? He Qianjian only got 100 points in a test because he could only get 100 points, but my brother only got 100 points in a test because there are only 100 points.”

Yang Yun laughed and couldn’t help but cast a chiding glance at him: “You won’t be happy unless you speak ill of your brother all day long, is that it?”

He Qianmin put down his pen, stood up and said, “I never speak ill of my brother, I only praise him.”

Yang Yun was taken aback for a moment, and it took a few seconds for her to react. Seeing He Qianmin walking outside, she said, “Qian Min, where are you going?”

“To pick up my brother.”

He Qianyu threw the book away, jumped off the bed, and ran after him before she could even put on her shoes: “I’m going to pick up Brother Jiang Chen too!”

The sound of the two briskly going downstairs came, and Yang Yun shook her head with a smile before also leaving He Qianmin’s room.

Before Jiang Chen went out, he answered a phone call and received a text message. The text message was from Li Nanfeng, the content was that he asked Shi Fengyue to pick him up on time, and the call was from He Qianmin, telling Jiang Chen that he was already on his way to pick him up. Without much hesitation, he replied a text message to Li Nanfeng, telling him that Shi Fengyue didn’t have to come to pick him up.

But who would have thought that when he went downstairs, two cars stopped at the entrance of his house, one in front and the other in the back. The man was leaning beside the off-road vehicle in front, and the boy in the car behind had a dark face.

Jiang Chen paused, and the man and the boy turned their heads at the same time.

“You’re here.”

“Big Brother.”

A small head stuck out from the front row of the car, waving excitedly: “Brother Jiang Chen!”

Under the watching eyes of the three, Jiang Chen raised his leg and walked towards the parking lot.

Shi Fengyue rested his elbows on the top of the car door. Don’t know if it was because of the cigarette between his fingers or the hazy eyes behind the smoke. But the clean style of white shirt and trousers actually appeared rather sexy and indolent on him instead.

Jiang Chen’s gaze paused, and he stopped in front of Shi Fengyue: “Dr. Shi.”

The corner of Shi Fengyue’s lips hooked upwards slightly: “Get in the car.”

When Jiang Chen approached nearer, he realized that his lips were redder than usual, and the corners of his eyes were also slightly red, and he couldn’t help but change his words: “Dr. Shi is not feeling well?”

“No.” Shi Fengyue rubbed the center of his brows, his voice low and husky: “Last night, there were two operations in a row, and I just got off work.”

Jiang Chen was taken aback for a moment, he remembered that Shi Fengyue performing operations was all based on his mood, so how could there be times when two operations were performed in a row.

“Car accident.” Shi Fengyue seemed to see his question, and said calmly: “The emergency room was too busy, so I went over as I was still at the hospital.”

Jiang Chen frowned, “Then why did you promise Li Nanfeng to pick me up?”

Shi Fengyue took out his mobile phone, clicked on the call log, and the number of missed calls was displayed as 89.

“From my second surgery last night to the end of it.” Shi Fengyue put his phone back in his pocket and said lazily, “Not only that, but he also sent more than 130 text messages.”

Jiang Chen was silent for a moment, and suddenly felt that he was also partly responsible. After all, Li Nanfeng was pestering Shi Fengyue because of him. After thinking about it, he said, “Why don’t Dr. Shi ride with us in the same car? It’s not safe for you to drive when you’re so tired. “

He Qianmin got out of the car just now, and when he heard Jiang Chen say this, although he was a little reluctant, he just curled his lips and did not refuse.

However, Shi Fengyue glanced over lazily, and said lightly, “It’s too crowded.”

He Qianmin snorted: “You sit in the co-passenger seat, and the three of us sit in the back row, so we won’t squeeze you.”

“Come get your car after you’ve rested.” Jiang Chen said, “You can catch up on a nap in the car.”

Shi Fengyue’s eyes fell on Jiang Chen’s face, he paused for a moment, then nodded slightly: “Let’s go.”

After Shi Fengyue got into the car, Jiang Chen, He Qianyu and He Qianmin sat in the back row one by one. It was probably the first time for He Qianyu to sit in this position, and she kept turning left and right, with a small face full of excitement.

When the novelty was over, she shifted her attention to the things in Jiang Chen’s hands, and asked curiously, “Brother Jiang Chen, is this a gift for Brother Qian Yang?”

“Yes.” Jiang Chen smiled.

“What is it?”

“A little robot.”

“Robot? Can it move by itself?”

“It can carry out simple instructions.” Jiang Chen smiled, “It can help you bring over things within its reach.”

“Really! That’s amazing!”

He Qianyu opened her eyes wide, and He Qianmin also looked over.

Shi Fengyue’s voice came from the front row, unhurried but certain: “You made it yourself.”

“Yes.” Jiang Chen was a little surprised that Shi Fengyue could guess it, but he didn’t think too much about it: “I couldn’t think of any suitable gift, so I brought this.”

He Qianmin tilted his body to this side, staring at the box on Jiang Chen’s lap as if he wanted to punch a hole, and see what’s inside right away: “Big Brother, you made it yourself?”

“I made it a long time ago.” Jiang Chen smiled: “The outer shell is a bit crude, not as exquisite as my father’s craftsmanship.”

“Brother Jiang Chen’s father knows how to make robots?”

“No.” Jiang Chen’s gaze became nostalgic: “But he could make all the toys I want.”

“Brother Jiang Chen’s father is so capable.” He Qianyu looked adoring: “Brother Jiang Chen is also so capable!”

Shi Fengyue turned his head and asked, “Can I have a look?”

Jiang Chen didn’t seal the box, it was easy to open and close, so he handed it to Shi Fengyue.

He Qianmin and He Qianyu followed the box closely, and when Shi Fengyue opened the gift box, they squeezed over together and looked with their heads craned.

“Cool.”

“Wow~”

The two exclaimed and moved their heads closer together.

Shi Fengyue took out the robot which was less than thirty centimeters high from the box, looked at it carefully, and found the start button.

“Hi, I’m R01, what is my ownerr’s order?”

As soon as the robot spoke, He Qianmin and He Qianyu scooted forward some more.

Shi Fengyue raised his eyebrows and said, “It only accepts orders from designated people, or all orders?”

“It can be set.” Jiang Chen said: “Currently it is all instructions.”

“Is the voice system the one on your phone?”

“The big data and model is similar.” Jiang Chen said, “But the functions of the two are different, so there are some differences.”

“What is your positioning for it?”

“Household.”

Shi Fengyue put the robot upright in the cardboard box, and said softly, “R01, what can you do?”

“I can serve tea and water for my owner, and I can also read the news and tell jokes to my owner. If my owner is bored, I can also play games with my owner online.”

Shi Fengyue’s eyes narrowed slightly: “En? How do you play games?”

“As long as my owner downloads the game to the mobile hard disk, and then copies it to R01, then R01 can play the game after learning it.”

Shi Fengyue raised his eyes and turned to look at Jiang Chen: “You should know what it means for a robot that can learn autonomously to appear in the world.”

Jiang Chen said: “R01 is not self-learning, it just has faster computing power, and its computing power can only allow him to store the gameplay of a few small-memory games, and he can’t learn games that are too complicated.”

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Shi Fengyue looked at Jiang Chen quietly, and after a few seconds, he chuckled lightly and put the robot back into the box, saying with a lazy smile in his tone, “It seems that Li Nanfeng will be busy.”

The corners of Jiang Chen’s lip curled upwards, noncommittal.

When he decided to give the robot to He Qianyang, it was naturally impossible that he really didn’t know what to give, but he didn’t expect Shi Fengyue to be so keen that he could see through his purpose in just a few words.

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Jiang Chen raised his head and looked at Shi Fengyue quietly.

He said lightly: “It’s also not wrong to say that, I do have some curiosity about you.”

Shi Fengyue leaned forward slightly, resting his chin on one hand, his thick eyelashes reflected on his pupils, and only one person reflected in his eyes: “It seems that we all need to get to know each other better.”

Jiang Chen looked directly at the scrutiny hidden under the banter, and slightly curled his lips upwards: “Curiosity is curiosity, but there is no need to deepen the understanding.”

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Shi Fengyue: “Why?”

Jiang Chen: “Does Dr. Shi like to get to the bottom of everything?”

Shi Fengyue: “Only things that interest me.”

Jiang Chen’s eyes curved: “Even if your interest will affect other people?”

Shi Fengyue said without hesitation, “Yes.”

Jiang Chen leaned back, the smile in his eyes had faded, and his tone was calm: “This is the reason.”

Shi Fengyue put away his smile, but Jiang Chen’s face remained unchanged. When the four eyes met, the air in the coffee shop seemed to be torn into two worlds: stagnant and noisy.

Mo Xi looked at Li Nanfeng who was wiping his clothes after coughing latte from his nostrils on the left, and on the right he looked at He Qianmin who had a dark face and He Qianyu who was blinking innocently. He then scooted back cautiously, trying to minimize his sense of existence.

The waiter carried the plate over and placed the drinks that Mo Xi and the others had just ordered one by one.

“Second Brother.” He Qianyu pulled He Qianmin’s sleeve and said, “I want to eat your cake.”

He Qianmin pushed the matcha mousse in front of him to He Qianyu, glanced at Shi Fengyue’s face, picked up the question book on one side, opened it and said to Jiang Chen, “Big Brother, can you explain this question again to me.”

Jiang Chen withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyes to look at the question, and soon started discussing seriously with He Qianmin.

A single coffee table seemed to be divided into two worlds, one side was the three children who were studying hard, and the other was the three grown-ups who kept silent.

Li Nanfeng finally wiped his clothes clean, and as if he couldn’t sense the atmosphere in front of him, he said with a smile: “Jiang Chen, your grades should be very good.”

He Qianmin glanced at him coldly: “What do you mean very good? My Big Brother has always been number one on exams.”

“That good?” Li Nanfeng seemed to be interested, and asked: “I heard from Mo Xi that you plan to study computer science in the future? What direction?”

“AI.” Seeing that someone eased the atmosphere, Mox Xi quickly answered for Jiang Chen: “Currently there is no such direction for undergraduates in China. It is mostly chosen after graduate school. Jiang Chen can choose computer science or mathematics in college.”

“AI?” Li Nanfeng smiled and said, “Our company has been researching and developing this recently. When you graduate, you can work in our company.”

Jiang Chen raised his eyes: “I wonder what the current research direction of Mr. Li’s company is?”

“Currently the voice system on the mobile terminal is the most invested.” Li Nanfeng said: “We are also planning to develop a face recognition system. Several small technology companies have produced finished products, but I am not satisfied with the effect, so it is hard to say. We are very likely to independently develop a face recognition system, but it is hard to find researchers, and booking one in advance now can be considered as a reserve of talents for the future, Jiang Chen, are you interested?”

The pen was twirling rapidly between Jiang Chen’s fingers, he closed his eyes and pondered, then asked after a few seconds: “Mr. Li wants a mature face recognition system, are you planning to buy it out?”

“Of course not.” Li Nanfeng folded his hands on the table and said with a smile: “The AI market is not mature now, and even the mature scientific research results need to be improved with the development of the times. What I want is not a single result, but the people who are responsible for the R&D results, or the team, and only when there are talents can our company always stand at the top of the industry.”

Jiang Chen: “Excuse me, may I ask the name of Mr. Li’s company?”

“Li De Group.”

After turning the pen, Jiang Chen raised his eyes: “Li De?”

Li Nanfeng curled his lips upward: “I am the general manager and head of the R&D department of Li De.”

Li Nanfeng, Li De…..

For the first time, Jiang Chen took a serious look at the seemingly foppish young man in front of him. Unexpectedly, the only old enemy in the book who could compete with He Qianjian and also the only one who made He Qianjian suffer countless falls but could only swallow it all down was sitting opposite him.

That novel was not so much a novel as it was more like a biography written from the perspective of a bystander. There were very few ups and downs and inner character descriptions in the book, and it was more about recording the things the protagonist He Qianjian had done.

Jiang Chen knew all the things He Qianjian had done, but he couldn’t know the details of how he did one thing, because most of the time in the book it only described the reason why He Qianjian did one thing and the result, while the intermediate process and the mental journey between him and others were very little.

He Qianjian’s mental journey would be described in detail only when he encountered matters related to two people, one of whom was Jiang Chen himself, and the other was Li Nanfeng.

Therefore, Jiang Chen was deeply impressed by Li Nanfeng, who made He Qianjian extremely jealous, and the Li De Group, which brought great pressure to He Qianjian. He had thought that he might meet the enemy’s enemy if he had the opportunity in the future, but he didn’t expect this meeting to come so early.

“What?” Li Nanfeng asked, “Surprised?”

Jiang Chen nodded, and chuckled lightly, “I’m really surprised.”

Shi Fengyue raised his eyes, and his gaze lightly swept over Li Nanfeng.

Li Nanfeng coughed and said, “After you graduate, you can come to our company. When the time comes, you can come to me without the need to do an interview.”

Jiang Chen tapped his fingers on the table, thoughtful.

“I have a business proposal I want to discuss with Mr. Li. When is Mr. Li free?”

Li Nanfeng: “What business?”

“Speech system and face recognition.”

Li Nanfeng was stunned for a rare moment, then leaned back, looked Jiang Chen up and down, and teased: “You don’t mean to say that you have mature research results in your hands, do you?”

Jiang Chen nodded, and looked at him quietly.

The young man’s calmness made the smile on Li Nanfeng’s face gradually fade away. He sat up straight and said with a smile, “Using a normal person’s way of thinking, your age is really not convincing, but there is someone who holds three patents by the age of fifteen next to me, so——I am willing to give you a chance to make an appointment to talk about this cooperation, but I have to state in advance that friendship belongs to friendship, and the result will only depend on what you have in your hands.”

Jiang Chen stretched out his hand, and the corner of his mouth slightly hooked up: “You can see it now.”

Li Nanfeng’s eyes fell on Jiang Chen’s mobile phone laying on his palm.

“This phone?”

Jiang Chen put the phone in the middle of the coffee table, long pressed on the phone, and a few seconds later, a mechanical male voice sounded:

——”Dylan, do you need help?”

Li Nanfeng’s eyes widened suddenly, and the gazes of the others quickly focused on the center of the coffee table.

Li Nanfeng looked at Jiang Chen, his voice becoming a little excited: “What is this?”

Jiang Chen put a finger to his lips, and said, “Please help me open the photo album.”

Within seconds, the phone screen changed from the home page to the photo album.

The voice on the phone asked, “Do you need help retrieving the photos?”

From the corner of his eyes, Jiang Chen saw He Qianmin who looked surprised and excited, and said with a smile, “Please help me find Qian Min’s photo.”

“During the search, there was one photo of He Qianmin. Do you want to open it?”

“Open.”

A photo of He Qianmin pursing his lips sullenly and showing an aggrieved look at the hot pot restaurant showed up on the screen, and in the steaming mist on the side, there was Jiang Chen looking at the camera with a smile on his face.

He Qianmin’s ears turned red instantly, and he reached out to pick up his phone, “Big Brother! Who took this picture? It’s so ugly!”

“It was taken by Shen Xu.” Jiang Chen betrayed Shen Xu without hesitation.

“I just knew it was him!” He Qianmin quickly found the delete button, but agter hesitating for a long time with a dark face, he didn’t press it. This seemed to be the first photo of him and his brother. He hesitated for a moment, and sent the photo to his phone instead.

Li Nanfeng tried his best to suppress the excitement surging all over his body, but his eager voice inevitably leaked a bit: “Is the system or chip in your mobile phone developed by yourself?”

Jiang Chen rolled his eyes: “Voice system and face recognition system, the model of this phone can’t carry my latest system yet, this is only the initial version.”

“Just the initial version…..” Li Nanfeng stood up straight, put his hands on his head and walked back and forth in the aisle several times. Suddenly, he turned and walked back to the coffee table, and asked with his hands on the table: “How do you plan to cooperate?”

“You have seen some of the results now.” Jiang Chen glanced at Yang Yun who was coming from the opposite road, and said, “Let’s make an appointment to discuss the details later.”

Li Nanfeng could no longer hide his impatience: “I have time now, let’s talk today!”

Jiang Chen smiled: “Today is not suitable.”

“Why?” Li Nanfeng said without hesitation, “What is it? I’ll help you solve it.”

Jiang Chen tilted his head, motioning him to look behind him.

Yang Yun pushed the door open and entered, walking towards this side with a smile.

Li Nanfeng paused, and belatedly realized that now was indeed not the time to talk about cooperation. However, he would fly abroad tomorrow, and this trip would take at least five days before he could return home. If they didn’t discuss this matter immediately, and settle it with a contract, he couldn’t travel with peace of mind.

Because, he understood better than anyone else that once the technology in Jiang Chen’s hands was known, what a storm it would cause. He was afraid that when he came back, he wouldn’t even be able to eat the dredges, let alone the soup.

Jiang Chen knew Li Nanfeng’s worries. This was the reason why he hadn’t revealed what he had before and didn’t find someone to cooperate with. After two lifetimes, he knew very well how unpredictable the influence would be if the research and development results fell into the hands of untrustworthy people.

Even now, when he chose to cooperate with Li Nanfeng, he still didn’t think Li Nanfeng was a trustworthy person. However, as far as the present time was concerned, Li Nanfeng was the best choice compared to others.

“You can rest assured.” Jiang Chen said, “I have no plans to disclose the results to the public for the time being.”

Jiang Chen’s certainty made Li Nanfeng calm down. He wanted to ask something, but when he thought about the situation now, he swallowed his words back: “I’ll be on a plane early this morning, and go on a business trip abroad for a few days. Next Wednesday at the earliest, I’ll come back, and that day happens to be He Qianyang’s birthday. I have to attend, so how about we meet at the He family’s party then?”

Jiang Chen: “I can wait——”

“Xiao Chen is also going to Qian Yang’s party?” Yang Yun happened to hear Li Nanfeng’s last words, and said delightedly: “How wonderful, Auntie will ask the driver to pick you up at your home.”

Getting in touch with He Qianmin and his family in advance had disrupted Jiang Chen’s plan. Before he really came of age, he wanted to avoid contact with more of the He family as much as possible, but in this case, it would be inappropriate to repeatedly refuse.

“Thank you, Aunt Yang, but there’s no need.” Jiang Chen swallowed the refusal: “I can go by myself when the time comes.”

Yang Yun smiled softly and said, “Then Auntie will be waiting for you at home.”

“Then it’s a deal.” Li Nanfeng heaved a sigh of relief.

Jiang Chen nodded: “See you then.”

Seeing that they have a good relationship, Yang Yun politely invited Li Nanfeng and the others: “It’s time for dinner, let’s have dinner together.”

“No need.” Thinking of the cooperation that he wasn’t sure would be possible or not in a few days, Li Nanfeng now wanted nothing more than to fly back to the office to prepare everything, and stretch every minute to an hour. He hurriedly got up and said, “Thank you, Aunt Yang, but I still have something to do at work and I need to go back immediately.”

Seeing that he was really in a hurry, Yang Yun said empathetically, “Then go ahead, and come over for dinner when you have a chance in the future.”

Li Nanfeng confirmed the appointed time with Jiang Chen again, then with Shi Fengyue and Mo Xi, who had a dazed expression since Jiang Chen’s cell phone made a sound, they strode away.

Watching Li Nanfeng and the others leave, Jiang Chen also stood up: “Aunt Yang, I…..” As soon as he began, the phone rang. When he saw the caller ID, Jiang Chen instantly burst into a smile. He apologized softly, stepped aside and answered the phone.

Yang Yun’s gaze followed Jiang Chen involuntarily, and what she saw was his side face with lowered eyes and a slight smile, and his gentle and clear voice flowed over to her ears.

“Mom.”

——It was his mother who called.

“What special day is today, you actually made braised meatballs.”

——Jiang Chen liked to eat braised meatballs.

“What cake? The shop across the park?”

“Okay, I’ll pay attention to safety, but it’s not appropriate for me to go back so early on the anniversary of you and Dad?”

——With such an intimate and casual tone, he should have a good relationship with his parents.

“I see, I’ll be back soon, bye.”

Jiang Chen hung up the phone, turned around and met Yang Yun’s gaze. He paused, ignoring the strange feeling in his heart, and smiled lightly.

“Aunt Yang, I’m sorry, my mother has already prepared my dinner, and I can’t have dinner with you.”

Yang Yun had already guessed it, but when she heard Jiang Chen say this, she still felt a little disappointed in her heart: “Since your mother has already prepared dinner, let’s have dinner together next time, do you want Auntie to send you back? “

“No need.” Jiang Chen declined politely, “This place is very close to my house, and I also need to help my mother buy some things, so I’ll just walk back.”

Yang Yun could only nod: “Then be careful on the road.”

Jiang Chen smiled, and after saying goodbye to He siblings in a warm voice, he turned and left the coffee shop.

The Jiang’s was indeed not far from here. If one walked, one only needed to pass through a park and walk seven to eight hundred meters along the street to reach the community where the Jiang family’s house was located.

Holding a cake in one hand, Jiang Chen walked around the bamboo forest in the center of the park, and occasionally stopped to watch the night view, taking it easy and leisurely. Although walking through the bamboo forest would be closer, but today was the 20th anniversary of his parents’ marriage, and he wanted to give them more time for just the two of them.

At the end of the bamboo forest was a lake shrouded in moonlight. The melodious sound of the violin came, accompanying the ripples and flowing water quietly. Jiang Chen stopped and looked in the direction of the sound. After a while, he followed the softer and softer sound. Walking through a short path, an open space suddenly appeared, and in the middle stood a young man playing the violin.

The young man didn’t notice an outsider’s arrival, and skillfully changed the position of his fingers on the string. His eyes were gentle and clear, and the sound of the violin was full of longing.

Jiang Chen stood where he was, unable to help but stop and listen.

At the end of the piece, the boy lowered his head and stroked the violin in his hand, his profile under the moonlight was quiet and lonely.

Jiang Chen didn’t want to disturb him, so he left on light footsteps. Before he walked out of the path, he suddenly heard a suppressed sob. His steps paused, and he could hear faint sobbing mixed with some incomprehensible words. Jiang Chen stood for several seconds and then turned and went back.

A clean handkerchief appeared in his vision.

The boy squatting on the ground raised his head in a daze, and it took a few seconds for him to react. He hurriedly wiped away his tears, stood up and said, “Thank you, but no need.”

Jiang Chen took back the handkerchief: “I heard you playing the violin when I passed by just now, and I couldn’t help listening to it for a while longer. I’m sorry if I disturbed you.”

After apologizing, Jiang Chen nodded slightly, turned and left.

“Wait.” The boy called to stop him.

Jiang Chen turned his head, looking puzzled.

You Jiuyu tightened his grip on the violin, his ears turned red, and his voice was dry with tension: “Can you listen to me playing another piece?” Pausing a bit, he seemed to have gathered his courage and looked straight into Jiang Chen’s eyes, saying word by word: “I want to try, how it will feel to have an audience.”

Jiang Chen walked to the bench beside the open space and sat down, saying with a slight smile, “I look forward to it.”

The young man’s eyes followed him, accidentally meeting his smiling eyes. He turned his eyes away, took a deep breath, rested his left cheek lightly on the chin rest, closed his eyes and started playing.

At the end of the piece, the boy opened his eyes, his anticipation clearly visible.

Jiang Chen truthfully told his feelings: “It’s very nice. Although I don’t know much about music, I can hear longing from it.”

“Longing…..?” The young man thought of something, and he lowered his eyes and fell silent. After a while, he looked up at the night sky and said softly: “If you are not in a hurry, can you listen to three more? Every time before, the person I miss would listen to me play five pieces.”

“Of course.”

The boy turned his head and smiled, lowering his eyes and began playing.

Three pieces of violin music with completely different styles flowed from his fingertips. When it was over, Jiang Chen was a little regretful.

The young man smiled shyly, sat down beside Jiang Chen, and carefully put the violin into the case.

“Thank you, for the first time in ten years, someone listened to me playing the violin.”

Jiang Chen smiled slightly: “It’s my honor.”

The young man looked up at the sky, and said softly, “It’s actually my honor for you to listen to me playing the violin. In fact…..for a moment just now, I thought you were the person my mother sent to comfort me.”

Jiang Chen also raised his head and said with a smile, “She must be using her way to comfort and support you where you can’t see.”

The boy’s eyelashes trembled, and he turned to look at Jiang Chen. For some reason, facing a stranger, he suddenly had the desire to confide in him: “My mother was a violinist…..”

The boy’s mother was a very famous violinist when she was alive. She played all over the world all year round, but unfortunately passed away in a car accident on the way back from a performance. His father, who loved his mother deeply, did not want to be hurt by memories, and since then he had not allowed anything related to the violin in the house, including the sound. Since then, he had never practiced the violin at home, and only brought his violin to this park to practice every time he missed his mother, day after day, and it had been ten years now.

Jiang Chen’s voice was calm and gentle: “Have you never thought about talking to your father?”

The boy smiled wryly and shook his head: “Father thinks that I don’t have the talent to play the violin. In his eyes, no one in this world can match the music played by my mother. Of course, I also feel the same…..”

“Does your mother feel the same way?”

The young man was startled, turned to look at him, and after a long time, said: “My mother once said that I was the most talented violinist she had ever seen, but that’s just a mother’s opinion of her child…..” His voice gradually lowered, his eyes dimming.

“Your mother is not only a mother, but also an excellent violin player. You should trust her fairness and professionalism in her evaluation, and most importantly…..” Jiang Chen turned his head and smiled: “Tonight, these few violin pieces were the most beautiful and touching music I have ever heard.”

“Really?”

Jiang Chen pursed his lips and smiled slightly: “Of course.”

The young man stared at him in a daze, until Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows in puzzlement, then he quickly looked away: “Thank you, thank you, and your comfort….”

“What I’m saying is the truth, not just consolation.” Jiang Chen glanced at his watch, and placed the second one of the buy-one-get-one cake next to the young man: “A reward for touching people’s hearts, I believe you will have more viewers in the future. I should go now, see you in the future if there’s a chance.”

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The young man’s eyes fell on the cake box. From the corner of his eye, he saw that Jiang Chen had already walked out of the open space. He hurriedly stood up, chased after him, and called out: “May I know your name?”

Jiang Chen looked back and smiled slightly: “Jiang Chen.”

“My name is You Jiuyu.” You Jiuyu walked up to Jiang Chen, looked him in the eyes, stretched out his hand and said, “Nice to meet you, Jiang Chen.”

Jiang Chen shook his hand, and said with a slight smile, “I am also very happy to meet you, You Jiuyu.”

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Jiang Chen was a little surprised when he received He Qianmin’s invitation.

“Visit your home?”

“Yeah.” He Qianmin’s voice was a little excited: “I told them that my ranking in this final exam was improved because of your tutoring, so they all really want to meet you and thank you in person.”

Jiang Chen said with a slight smile, “No need, it’s between you and me that I help you with tutoring. Don’t involve Uncle and Aunt He. Express my apologies to them for me, and just say that I have something else going on.”

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He Qianmin was silent for a few seconds before letting out a light “en”.

Jiang Chen asked, “How many pages have you reached in the test booklet I gave you earlier?”

“One-fifth.” He Qianmin’s tone visibly dropped: “There are a few questions that I don’t quite understand.”

Jiang Chen: “Which questions?”

He Qianmin pursed his lips, got up and walked to the desk. He opened to the marked pages of the question booklet, and read the questions out loud.

After listening, Jiang Chen said, “The solutions to these questions all require the use of formulas and algorithms that are not yet taught in high school. If you are interested, you can find me some time and I’ll  teach you.”

He Qianmin’s voice jumped a little more in an instant: “Big Brother, you have time?”

Hearing his happy voice, Jiang Chen also curved his lips upwards: “Some things happened during this period, but now I’m free, if you want to find me, you can find me anytime.”

“I’ll go find you now!” He Qianmin said as he turned around and walked towards the door. Halfway there, he returned to the desk to get the test book and pen, and said as he walked, “Let’s go to the hot pot restaurant we often go to, it just happens that I want to eat hot pot.”

Jiang Chen thought for a while and said, “Find a coffee shop first, if you’re hungry tonight, I’ll take you to eat hot pot.”

“It’s a deal!”

Yang Yun was talking to the housekeeper auntie at home, when she saw He Qianmin running downstairs like the wind. She went to the door, stopped him and said, “Qianmin, where are you going in such a hurry?”

“I’m going out for a while, and I won’t be home for dinner tonight.” He Qianmin hurriedly left without looking back.

He had already run away before the door was even fully closed. Yang Yun said helplessly, “This kid.” She raised her eyes and saw He Qianyu coming out of the piano room, and a smile appeared on her face: “How was your piano practice?”

He Qianyu only saw He Qianmin’s passing figure. She craned her head to look at the direction he left, and asked curiously, “Mom, where did Second Brother go?”

“Bringing a book with him, don’t know where he went off to.” Yang Yun touched her daughter’s little head: “Do you want to take a break, the water Mom prepared for you——”

Thinking of something, He Qianyu’s eyes lit up suddenly, and she interrupted Yang Yun: “I want to go out too! Mom, please drop me off!”

“Where are you going?”

“Follow Second Brother!” He Qianyu took Yang Yun’s hand and walked out the door: “He must have gone to look for Brother Jiang Chen. Mom, why don’t you take me there? I want to go.”

“Okay, okay.” Yang Yun had no choice but to leave a word to the auntie before saying, “Mom will drop you off.”

…….

He Qianmin was riding a bicycle, humming a tune in a good mood, and when he was about to reach the cafe, he saw Jiang Chen waiting at the door. He immediately stepped on the brake, stood up and waved to him with a bright smile: “Big Brother!”

Jiang Chen turned his head, and couldn’t help but also laugh and wave his hand.

In an off-road vehicle by the side of the road, a young man in the back seat was leaning against the window. He made a noise: “Eh? Isn’t that Jiang Chen and the second child of the He family! They know each other?”

“Jiang Chen?” Li Nanfeng had a deep impression of this name, and quickly recalled the information related to the name from his mind. Turning his eyes, he looked at Shi Fengyue in the front driver’s seat, and joked, “You stopped the car again for your patient’s son?”

“What patient?” Mo Xi turned his head, “My nephew’s patient?”

Li Nanfeng pointed at himself and raised his eyebrows: “Otherwise you think it’s my patient?”

Mo Xi kept asking: “Who? What’s his name? Where?”

Li Nanfeng raised his chin and gestured to the coffee shop outside the window: “There, the one who just entered, Jiang Chen.”

Mo Xi suddenly realized: No wonder Feng Yue said that he knew Jiang Chen earlier than me, so that’s the case.”

Li Nanfeng: “You know him very well?”

“I’m not very familiar with him.” Mo Xi said, “I’ve only met once. I was called by my alma mater to help mobilize for the high school senior college entrance examination. My former math teacher, old Fu, asked me to chat with him.”

Li Nanfeng looked back and forth between Jiang Chen and He Qianmin who walked into the coffee shop, and said thoughtfully, “This Jiang Chen is not simple.”

“What’s not simple?”

Li Nanfeng: “The second son of He Yanfeng is notoriously bad-tempered, and he has a bad relationship with his brother He Qianjian, even our generation has heard of it, and I haven’t even heard him call He Qianyang brother a few times. Jiang Chen could have him call him brother so willingly, do you think he is simple?”

“Also…..”

“Also what?”

The corner of Li Nanfeng’s mouth curled slightly upwards, gesturing out: “It’s also not an easy feat for our Dr. Shi to pay so much attention to someone.”

Hearing this, a lightbulb flashed in Mo Xi’s mind, and he turned to look at Shi Fengyue in the front seat.

Shi Fengyue had one hand on the steering wheel, while propping his chin with the other and looking out of the window thoughtfully. Noticing the gaze of the two behind him, he half raised his eyes, his long and thick eyelashes catching the light slightly, and said in a mild tone: “Yes?”

Mo Xi shrank his neck, pressed his back against the seat, and shook his head: “It’s nothing.”

Li Nanfeng put his hand on the back of Shi Fengyue’s seat, leaned forward and said with a smile: “Every time you see that child, you have to take a few more glances, why don’t you just go say hello. Anyway, we didn’t have lunch, how about going to that cafe?”

Shi Fengyue glanced at him: “Aren’t you in a rush for a meeting?”

“No hurry.” Li Nanfeng said: “The things made by those small technology companies are not as good as the ones you made for me before. It’s all the same if I ask my assistant to attend the meeting on my behalf. I also just happened to be hungry and it would be nice to go for a meal. I’m super curious about how the second child of the He family got along with Jiang Chen, and why he calls him brother.”

Mo Xi: “You’re so gossipy.”

Li Nanfeng was not ashamed at all: “What’s wrong with gossip? Gossip is human nature, you don’t gossip? You don’t want to know why your nephew pays so much attention to a——”

Shi Fengyue opened the door: “Shut up, get out of the car.”

……

Jiang Chen took a sip of coffee, and continued: “This question uses Pascal’s theorem, to prove the collinearity of three intersections among six points on a circle…..”

Seeing Jiang Chen write down the last step on the draft paper, He Qianmin raised his eyebrows and said, “I understand.”

Jiang Chen dug out a few similar question types, marked it for him, and said, “If you can do these few questions, basically there will be no problems with this part.”

He Qianmin nodded: “Big Brother, I found that you seem to understand everything.”

Jiang Chen turned his head and saw the closeness and admiration in his eyes. He couldn’t help chuckling, rubbed his head and said, “There are many things I don’t understand, and you will find out slowly in the future.”

The bright floor-to-ceiling windows let in all the light, and as the two teenagers looked at each other and smiled, the lively rays of sunlight jumped on the ends of their hair. The similar profiles, one still childish and the other gentle, seemed to be a testament to the growth of a child to a young man.

Yang Yun’s footsteps stopped, her heart seemed to be gently rubbed by something, it was neither painful nor itchy, but there were many inexplicable emotions, which seemed at the same time full and empty, and she couldn’t help but clutch her chest.

Seeing Jiang Chen and He Qianmin, He Qianyu broke away from Yang Yun’s hand and ran over impatiently.

“Big Brother!”

The sudden sound startled He Qianmin who was concentrating on answering the questions. He jumped back and looked at the newcomer while sticking next to Jiang Chen. After seeing that it was He Qianyu, he flicked her forehead to vent his anger: “Why are you here?”

“I’m here to find you!” He Qianyu glanced at Jiang Chen after speaking, and asked a little shyly, “Brother Jiang Chen, do you still remember me?”

Jiang Chen smiled, and said gently, “I remember, your name is He Qianyu.” Although he was a little surprised at He Qianyu’s sudden appearance, it was hard to be irritated even if startled when faced with such a delicate and soft girl.

He Qianyu raised her head suddenly, her eyes lighting up: “You still remember me!”

“Is it strange to remember you?” He Qianmin clicked his tongue, waved his hand like shooing a chicken: “Go, go, I am studying, don’t disturb me here.”

He Qianyu glared at him, then turned to make an oath: “Brother Jiang Chen, can I stay here with you? I’m very good, I promise I won’t disturb you.”

“No.” He Qianmin said: “We are studying here, what are you doing here for? And don’t you have to practice the piano in the afternoon? Go back to practicing the piano quickly.”

He Qianyu: “I’m done practicing.”

“Then go back and practice dancing.” He Qianmin looked disgusted: “Anyway, don’t disturb my study here.”

He Qianyu puffed up her face: “I won’t talk, so I won’t bother you.”

He Qianmin crossed his arms and said, “You’ve been blaring like a small trumpet all day long, how can I believe that you won’t disturb my study, and you ran out alone, does Mom know, why are you——”

He Qianyu stepped on He Qianmin’s foot, interrupted his words, and made him hiss in pain:

“He Qianyu, you’re looking for a beating!”

“Meanie!”

Seeing that the two of them were about to quarrel in the coffee shop, Jiang Chen felt a little headache and a little bit at a loss. He had no younger siblings when he was growing up, and he rarely had disputes with others, so he lacked experience in dealing with such situations.

However, at this time, if he didn’t try to stop the fight, no one would be able to stop it.

Jiang Chen called out, “Qian Min…..”

He Qianmin turned his head and interrupted his unfinished sentence: “Big Brother, don’t worry, I will drive her away immediately.”

“I’ll make a phone call and ask Uncle Wang to pick you up. You can sit here for a while…..”

Seeing Jiang Chen who was sitting on the side with a helpless expression, He Qianyu inhaled, and her eyes suddenly turned red. She squatted down on the ground, buried her face in her arms and choked up.

He Qianmin’s voice stopped abruptly, and he froze in place.

Jiang Chen patted He Qianmin’s head: “Look at what you did.”

“I…..” He Qianmin stood up and walked to He Qianyu’s side, at a loss: “Okay, I won’t drive you away, so stop crying.”

Jiang Chen also came over, squatted beside He Qianyu, and said in a gentle voice, “Qian Yu, I’m sorry, Qian Min didn’t mean it, can I apologize to you for him?”

Unexpectedly, upon hearing Jiang Chen’s words, He Qianyu’s sob turned from choking to full out crying.

Jiang Chen’s outstretched hand froze, and he and He Qianmin looked at each other in blank dismay.

The coffee shop was very quiet, and the movement here quickly attracted the attention of other people. Seeing two boys surrounding a little girl at a loss, they all looked over curiously.

“Don’t cry.” He Qianmin grabbed He Qianyu’s arm, helpless and at a loss: “What do you want, can’t we just listen to you? As long as you don’t cry, I will do whatever you say.”

He Qianyu shook off his hand, buried her head and continued to sob.

He Qianmin asked Jiang Chen for help: “Big Brother, what should we do…”

Jiang Chen also had no idea, “I don’t know either.”

“She ignores me.” He Qianmin whispered into Jiang Chen’s ear, “Big Brother, why don’t you coax her.”

Jiang Chen hesitated. He and He Qianyu had only met once before, and he had never coaxed little girls before. Speaking at this time might only add fuel to the flames.

“I…..”

As soon as he started talking, the little girl threw herself into his arms. The little girl hugged his neck with soft arms, buried her head in his chest and sobbed quietly. Jiang Chen froze, and opened his arms, trying his best not to touch the little girl. But he couldn’t help but become softhearted when he heard her crying.

Jiang Chen’s hand hanging in the air slightly bent, and he patted the little girl’s back lightly, whispering: “Don’t cry.”

He Qianyu buried her head even closer, cries mixing with the occasional hiccups, appearing very pitiful indeed.

“We’re not trying to drive you away.” Jiang Chen tried his best to use the softest voice: “Qian Min was just worried that it’s not safe for you to come out alone. He didn’t mean to get angry with you. Forgive him, okay?”

He Qianyu raised her head, her red nose making her look pitiful and cute. She first looked at He Qianmin who was looking guilty, then blinked her wet eyes and said: “I didn’t come out alone, I…..”

“That’s right, the younger sister needs to be coaxed when she cries.” An uncle at the next table smiled and interjected: “You two are her brothers, right? At first glance, you look like three siblings. As expected, the eldest brother knows how to take care of the younger sister. You kiddo have to learn from your big brother.”

The lady next to him handed over a tissue: “Use this to wipe your younger sister’s tears.”

Jiang Chen thanked her and took it. But before he gave the tissue to He Qianyu, he heard the sound of high heels tapping on the wooden floor:

“Qian Yu!”

The three squatting youngsters raised their heads at the same time, looking up at Yang Yun who had already walked up to them.

Just before Yang Yun was about to come in, she received a call from home. Seeing that her daughter had found her son, she was reassured and went out. She didn’t expect to see her little daughter crying when she came back.

Yang Yun asked He Qianmin: “What’s wrong?”

He Qianmin looked away, and said lowly, “She cried after we had a quarrel.”

Jiang Chen wiped He Qianyu’s tears, and said softly, “Let’s get up.”

He Qianyu rubbed her eyes in embarrassment, let go of Jiang Chen and stood up. She pouted and said, “Second Brother bullied me just now, but I have already forgiven him.”

“Oh, you.” Yang Yun breathed a sigh of relief, tapped the tip of He Qianyu’s nose and said, “Aren’t you ashamed to still cry outside at such an age?”

He Qianyu threw herself into Yang Yun’s arms: “Mom…..”

Yang Yun was reassured, and then properly looked at the young man in front of her. Seeing his bright appearance and clear eyes, she couldn’t help but feel joy and fondness in her heart, and she smiled gently: “Qian Yu has a little temper, I hope she didn’t bother you guys.”

Jiang Chen was also scrutinizing the woman in front of him who was most likely to be his biological mother. His eyes flicked over her gentle smiling eyes and the two deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. He lowered his eyes and smiled, “She’s a good girl. We didn’t take good care of her just now.”

The smile in Yang Yun’s eyes deepened: “Are you here to study? Would you like Auntie to take Qian Yu to sit on the other side? After you are finished, Auntie will take you to dinner together.”

Jiang Chen declined with a smile: “No need, today Qian Min just wants to ask me a few questions, and the lesson is almost finished.”

“Mom, Brother Jiang Chen just said that he would let me play with them.”

Seeing her daughter’s eager little look, Yang Yun couldn’t help laughing: “Okay, Mom won’t bother you anymore, Mom will sit over there, and I’ll take you to dinner together after you’re done.”

Jiang Chen’s eyelashes flickered, and was about to speak when he was interrupted.

“Jiang Chen!”

Standing two meters away, Mo Xi waved his hand and said with a smile, “I didn’t expect to meet you here, what a coincidence.”

Jiang Chen glanced over the two people behind him, and nodded slightly: “Senior Mo.”

“You should be on summer vacation too.” Mo Xi walked this way and said, “It’s rare to meet, let’s sit together.” When he got closer, he seemed to see He Qianmin beside Jiang Chen, and said in surprise: “He Qianmin? you are here too?”

He Qianmin called out expressionlessly: “Brother Mo, Brother Shi, Brother Feng.”

Mo Xi nodded, looked at Yang Yun and He Qianyu, “Hello, Aunt Yang.”

Although Yang Yun didn’t have much of an impression of Mo Xi, she knew Shi Fengyue and Li Nanfeng. It was just because her three children were not in the same age group as them, and they rarely played together, so they didn’t see each other much and were not familiar with each other.

She nodded with a slight smile: “Hello.”

Shi Fengyue nodded lightly: “Hello.”

Li Nanfeng smiled widely: “It’s been a long time, Aunt Yang. The last time I saw you was three years ago. I didn’t expect that after three years, you are still as young as ever.”

“You kiddo, you have such a sweet mouth.” Yang Yun smiled, turned to Jiang Chen and said, “Auntie won’t bother you, I will pick you up for dinner later.”

Li Nanfeng was very surprised, he glanced at Jiang Chen, then turned to Yang Yun: “Aunt Yang, who is this?”

Yang Yun smiled and said, “This is Qian Min’s friend, Jiang Chen.”

“Oh.” Li Nanfeng’s eyes swept over the faces of the four people in front of him, and said with a smile: “Since it is Qian Min’s friend and also Mo Xi’s junior, then it is also my friend. There are exactly six seats here. Shall we sit together?”

He Qianmin half-smiled and said: “It’s not convenient, I’m here to make up lessons, you might disturb us if you’re here.”

Li Nanfeng: “How could I disturb you? The three of us are top academics. You can ask any question you want. I promise to teach you faster than Jiang Chen alone. How about it?”

He Qianmin was unmoved: “No thanks, I just want my brother to teach me, you can leave if you have nothing to do.”

Yang Yun patted He Qianmin, and He Qianmin curled his lips. He reached out to take the question book on the side, raised his chin and said: “This question, 30 seconds, you can sit down when you solve it.”

Li Nanfeng took a look at it, and immediately threw it to Shi Fengyue.

Shi Fengyue glanced over and gave the answer almost without thinking.

He Qianmin’s expression changed slightly, and Jiang Chen also raised his eyes in surprise.

“We can sit down, right?” Li Nanfeng said and sat down on the sofa on the other side.

He Qianmin pursed his lips in displeasure. Jiang Chen gently elbowed him, and he could only sit down reluctantly.

In an instant, the two sofas were full of people.

Seeing Yang Yun help He Qianyu straighten her clothes and was about to leave, Li Nanfeng asked, “Aunt Yang, won’t you sit with us?”

“No.” Yang Yun said with a smile: “You children play together, I won’t bother you.”

Li Nanfeng waved his hand: “Aunt Yang, walk slowly, see you next time.”

After Yang Yun left, He Qianmin immediately said: “You are not welcome here, hurry up and leave.”

Li Nanfeng raised his eyebrows: “He Xiao Er, I’m also your cousin’s friend after all, don’t be so unfriendly.”

He Qianmin’s face tensed. Jiang Chen pushed the hot chocolate in front of him, looked at Shi Fengyue at the same time and said, “Dr. Shi, what’s the name of the gentleman next to you, I didn’t have time to exchange names last time we met.”

Li Nanfeng smiled and said: “Hello, my name is Li Nanfeng, you can call me Brother Feng just like He Xiao Er.”

Jiang Chen pursed his lips and smiled slightly: “Mr. Li, hello, nice to meet you.”

Li Nanfeng smiled, turned his gaze to Shi Fengyue, and said meaningfully: “It’s a pleasure to meet you too.”

Shi Fengyue said lightly, “How is your father recovering?”

Jiang Chen smiled and said, “He’s recovering very well, but his legs hurt a little yesterday probably because he walked too fast and had emotional ups and downs. He’s planning to go to the hospital tomorrow.”

“No need, this situation is normal during the recovery period, just take more rest.”

“I see, thank you Dr. Shi.”

After hearing the conversation between the two, He Qianmin leaned close to Jiang Chen and asked in a low voice, “Big Brother, how do you know Shi Fengyue?”

“Dr. Shi is my dad’s chief surgeon.”

He Qianmin didn’t know the situation of the Jiang family, so he could only nod blankly when he heard the words, but the hostility in his eyes towards Shi Fengyue and the others lessened a lot.

“That’s right.” Li Nanfeng said: “He Qianyang’s birthday will be in a few days, I heard that the party will be held at your house?”

He Qianmin no longer opposed Shi Fengyue, but he didn’t have any good attitude towards Li Nanfeng. He said without expression: “My uncle is out for a meeting, and my aunt is not at home. He complains that there is no one at home to help with the preparations, so he came to my house.”

Li Nanfeng rubbed his chin: “Isn’t it more fun to have no elders at home? Besides, preparing for this kind of thing, you can just find a studio that specializes in party planning.”

“Who knows.” He Qianmin said: “You will attend too?”

“Yup.” Li Nanfeng turned his gaze to Jiang Chen’s face and said, “You are attending too, right?”

Jiang Chen: “I haven’t met He Qianyang, so it’s not appropriate to go to his birthday party.”

“What’s not appropriate?” Li Nanfeng said: “You and Qian Min are good friends, Qian Yu and Aunt Yang also know you, and we know you too, so we’re all friends with each other. Besides, that kid He Qianyang likes things to be lively, the more the merrier.”

He Qianmin actually wanted to introduce Jiang Chen to He Qianyang, but he also cared about Jiang Chen’s feelings: “My big brother doesn’t like too much noise.”

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“I remember that He Qianyang’s major is psychology.” Shi Fengyue raised his eyes and looked at Jiang Chen: “Aren’t you interested in hypnosis? There should be many of his classmates at his birthday, you can go and see.”

Jiang Chen flatly refused: “No need, I’m interested in the matter itself, not hypnosis.”

“So you mean——” Shi Fengyue looked at him sideways, and said unhurriedly: “It is me you are interested in?”

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“Everyone please speak a word for me, my daughter…..”

As soon as old Mrs. Yang began to speak, she was splashed with oil all over her head and face. She subconsciously smacked her lips, and when she realized what was thrown on her, her eyebrows immediately narrowed. However, before she could speak, she heard what Yang Si said as well as saw the lighter in Yang Si’s hand.

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She took a half step back, clutched her chest, slapped her thigh and wailed, “My God! Listen to what she said! What evil did I do! Not only does my daughter want to kill my son, she also wants to kill us old couple!”

Yang Si was expressionless: “You’re right, I just want Yang Tianci’s life, don’t even mention going to jail, I want nothing more than for him to be shot immediately.”

Old Mr. Yang wiped his face, and the oil from his beard slipped into his mouth. He couldn’t help coughing twice at the taste, pointed at Yang Si and scolded in a deep voice: “Look at what you are saying and what you did! Even an beast would not do something like that!”

Yang Si gritted her teeth and said: “A beast can’t do what Yang Tianci did. He kidnapped his nephew and blackmailed his sister, and even instigated his parents to come to his sister’s house to make trouble. He is not a beast, he is even worse than a beast!”

Seeing her cold expression, old Mrs. Yang flopped down on the ground, pounding the ground and crying: “What crime did I do! Why is my life so miserable! Each daughter is more cruel than the other, and finally when I have a filial son, he is about to be killed by you, Tian Ci is my lifeline, if you want him to go to jail, then you want your mother to die!”

Yang Si squeezed the lighter in her hand, her eyes red with anger: “Yang Tianci kidnapping Chen Chen is also the same as wanting me to die! He is male, so he is more valuable than me in your eyes. But he shouldn’t have touched my son! Whoever dares to touch a hair on my son’s head, I will dare to fight him with my life!”

Jiang Zhuo walked up to Yang Si, hugged her trembling shoulders and patted her gently. He said coldly to the two elders: “Father-in-law, mother-in-law, it’s useless for you to come to us for this matter, Yang Tianci broke the law, and the police arrested him. How he is sentenced will be decided by the court, not by us. Even if you cry here for three days and three nights, the sentence will still be the same.”

Old Mr. Yang said in a deep voice: “Tian Ci is Yang Si’s younger brother, your brother-in-law, Jiang Chen’s biological uncle. As the uncle he just wants to take his nephew for an outing, how can it be considered kidnapping? As long as you still recognize me as father-in-law and father, you must tell the police immediately that everything is a misunderstanding and have them release your brother.”

Old Mrs. Yang also stood up and said, “Yes, go to the police station and release your brother.”

Yang Si sneered: “Have you forgotten that I have not been your daughter for a long time. There is no need to discuss this matter. Yang Tianci has never regarded me as a sister nor Chen Chen as his nephew, otherwise he would not have done such a thing that even a beast would not do. You can make trouble at my door, it doesn’t matter, when the time comes to go to court, I will ask the judge to deal with the case severely, and I will never forgive him. The more you make trouble, the longer your son will spend in prison.”

The noise here had already attracted the neighbors upstairs and downstairs. Some people were standing in the corridor, craning their heads out and whispering.

The whisperings reached his ears, and old Mr. Yang’s face became very dark, his facial muscles trembling with anger: “What a wolf-hearted ungrateful thing, an unfilial white-eyed wolf! I raised you with your mother for so many years, yet you can actually say such a thing!”

“You want me to die, don’t you!” Old Mrs. Yang turned around and rushed up the corridor, pushing aside the crowd and climbing towards the window, saying as she climbed, “If you don’t promise me to let your brother go, I will die on your doorstep!”

Yang Si turned on the lighter with a “click”, went up the stairs step by step, stood beside old Mrs. Yang and said, “Okay, I will die with you, your son wants my son’s life, I can’t give it to you, but you gave birth to me, if you want my life, I will pay it back to you.”

Old Mrs. Yang shrank back and as she looked at the lighter that was getting closer and closer she felt as if her whole body was about to burn up in flames. Thinking of what Yang Si said just now and how much she valued Jiang Chen, she felt that it was very possible that she would really burn her to death. Old Mrs. Yang quickly let go of the window and leaned back again and again, with her stooped back pressed against the wall, trying her hardest to bend her neck back and stay away from the fire source. She was so frightened that she couldn’t speak a word.

Old Mr. Yang just felt extremely embarrassed. While standing on shaking legs, he raised his cane and wanted to hit Jiang Zhuo at the door: “Put a stop to your wife already! You are all rebellious and unfilial! You want to anger us to death!”

Jiang Zhuo grabbed old Mr. Yang’s cane and said in a deep voice, “If Yang Si doesn’t recognize you, I won’t call you father-in-law. I have seen how you two have treated Yang Si for so many years. She is filial and can bear with it all, and still give her heart and soul to you every time, but I can’t. I cherish my wife, as soon as she feels upset, I will feel upset, but for her, I can at least be polite when I see you.”

Old Mr. Yang tried hard to pull back the cane, but Jiang Zhuo let go at this time, and he stumbled a few steps back while clutching the cane, almost falling over.

Due to emotional distress and using too much force, Jiang Zhuo’s legs began to hurt again. He propped himself up against the wall with one hand and said, “But from today onwards, every time I see Yang Tianci, I will hit him once. You’d better pray that he stays in prison and doesn’t come out, otherwise I won’t let him feel any peace. And you two, suppressing others with your age relies on if the other gives you face, but you don’t have any face here with me. So before I use force, I advise you to leave, don’t make things too ugly.”

Old Mr. Yang was so angry that his beard trembled for a long time and he couldn’t say a word.

As soon as it quieted down, the whispers of the neighbors became amplified. Some people who were going up the stairs saw that the corridor was blocked and asked in a low voice, “What’s going on?”

The downstairs neighbor shook his head: “Xiao Yang’s parents are making trouble again!”

The person who was going up the stairs was also an old neighbor. He knew a thing or two about the Jiang family. The most famous incident was about ten years ago when Yang Tianci asked Yang Si to give up Jiang Chen’s school quota to his son. The five people blocked the door of the Jiang’s, begging, yelling and scolding, so loud that the whole building couldn’t sleep. Some people couldn’t watch anymore and said a few words for the Jiang’s, only to be cursed out by old Mrs. Yang.

So upon hearing this, the person going up the stairs immediately expressed sympathy: “What’s going on this time, Xiao Yang’s family is too unreliable, making trouble all day long, aren’t they even ashamed at all.”

“I heard…..” The neighbor downstairs came up to him and whispered something in his ear.

The man stared wide-eyed in disbelief: “Seriously?”

The downstairs neighbor curled his lips and motioned him to look up, and he saw Jiang Chen appearing at the door.

“Mom.” Jiang Chen walked up the stairs in two to three steps, took Yang Si’s white-knuckled hand holding the lighter, and said in a gentle voice, “Put down the lighter, it’s too dangerous.”

Yang Si’s stiff and tense arm softened, and the lighter fell to the ground. She turned her head at a loss and said, “Chen Chen, why did you come out?”

Jiang Chen picked up the lighter on the ground, a little helpless: “Aren’t you going to the police station? There was a call from there just now.”

Only then did Yang Si realize that she had forgotten something important. Just as she was about to speak, old Mrs. Yang grabbed Jiang Chen and said, “I am your grandma, Jiang Chen, and Tian Ci is also your own uncle, you must not cause your uncle to go to jail! Otherwise, you will suffer retribution and be struck by lightning!”

Yang Si’s expression changed, and she pulled away old Mrs. Yang’s hand, standing in front of Jiang Chen like a hen guarding her chicks, “What do you mean causing Yang Tianci to go to jail? When Yang Tianci kidnapped Jiang Chen, he should have thought of today. This is all his retribution! He is also the one who will be struck by lightning!”

The lighter in Yang Si’s hand was gone, so old Mrs. Yang gained back her confidence. She looked at Jiang Chen and said, “I see that nothing has happened to you. Since you are not injured, why should your uncle go to jail? He already knows he is wrong. Grandma knows that you have always been a good boy, so you will definitely forgive your uncle, right?”

“Chen Chen, you go back first, this matter is between us adults, you…..”

“Mom.”

Jiang Chen interrupted Yang Si, smiled at her to signal her peace of mind, and walked out from behind her.

“Old Mrs. Yang, I remember that in March this year, when my father was in a car accident, my mother begged you to return part of the money we lent to your family to use for emergency at home. Because the conversation broke down, you insulted me and my father, so my mother severed ties with you at that time.” Jiang Chen glanced at old Mr. Yang downstairs, and said calmly, “You do remember this incident, do you?”

“What severing relationship!” Old Mrs. Yang raised her eyebrows: “I never said anything like that! Yang Si is my daughter, how could we sever ties with her!”

“You are old, you may not remember, but fortunately there is a recording.”

Jiang Chen smiled lightly, took out his phone from his pocket, and clicked on play.

The recording sounded, and the corridor was instantly quiet. Everyone listened with ears pricked. After hearing the content of the recording, most people’s expressions were indescribable, and the expressions they had when looking at the old couple of the Yang family were even more strange.

Old Mr. Yang’s expression also became more and more ugly as the recording was played. When the recording ended, the grooves on his face seemed to become deeper, and his whole body was trembling slightly.

“You! You! You!” Old Mr. Yang raised his hand and pointed at Jiang Chen, his chest heaving with anger, unable to say a word.

Jiang Chen glanced over at him, and continued: “A few days ago, Yang Tianci sent someone to tie me up and bring me to a place where abandoned containers were piled up in the suburbs of Xing City. The people who tied me up kept my eyes covered, but later let me see their appearances. Before the police came, they were going to kill me because the location was exposed, because they didn’t intend to let me go home in the first place, so if the police didn’t come in time, you wouldn’t see me standing here.”

Yang Si was taken aback, and immediately gasped. She hadn’t heard Jiang Chen say this at all, and she didn’t know that there were such dangerous twists and turns in the middle.

Everyone was also terrified when they heard this, they didn’t expect that the kidnapping scene that they thought only appeared on TV or among rich people would actually happen to someone they knew. Moreover, Yang Tianci was Jiang Chen’s uncle, and he actually planned to kill him. Yang Si was right at the beginning, this kind of person was worse than a beast!

“You’re talking nonsense!” Old Mrs. Yang pointed at Jiang Chen’s nose and said, “He tied you up just to ask your mother for money, how could he really kill you! He’s not stupid!”

Jiang Chen’s eyes flickered slightly, and he said calmly: “That’s what I heard and saw, and I also told the police truthfully when I made my statement, but I didn’t expect that you seemed to have long been aware of him kidnapping me, it seems that this matter…..”

“Full of nonsense!” Old Mr. Yang interrupted Jiang Chen with an angry growl. He slammed his cane on the ground and said loudly, “If you don’t promise to let Tian Ci off, we have nothing to say! Old woman! Let’s go!”

Old Mrs. Yang also realized that she had slipped her tongue, so she hurried downstairs, supporting old Mr. Yang out of the crowd, and walked quickly away in a pathetic manner.

Yang Si grabbed Jiang Chen’s hand tightly: “Chen Chen…..”

Jiang Chen held her hand back, smiled and said, “I’m fine, don’t worry, the police are still waiting, let’s go to the police station first.”

He family.

Yang Yun brought the white fungus and lotus seed soup that had been boiled all night to the dining table.

He Qianyu waited at the table, eagerly took a taste of the porridge, blinked and said, “It’s delicious!”

“Little greedy cat.” Yang Yun touched her hair and said with a smile: “Your two lazy brothers are still not awake, you go up and call them down, and tell them to have breakfast.”

He Qianyu paused while holding the spoon, and muttered, “Eldest Brother is not a bedbug. If he doesn’t come down, he must be busy. Second Brother is the one who procrastinates in bed. I’ll call him!”

Saying this, she ran upstairs. Yang Yun smiled, then frowned suddenly, and asked He Yanfeng who was reading the newspaper: “Old He, do you feel that our daughter is a bit strange these days. “

“What’s so strange?” He Yanfeng said while turning the page of the newspaper.

“Qian Jian and Qian Yu’s relationship.” Yang Yun said thoughtfully: “Before, Xiao Bao liked to play with Da Bao more than Er Bao, but now she seems to prefer to play with Er Bao.”

“Girls are like this, changing back and forth over and over again.” He Yanfeng read the newspaper intently: “Both of them are her brothers, she likes this one at one time and that one at another time. Maybe it’s just a matter of a piece of candy or a piece of cake, nothing surprising.”

Yang Yun thought about it, and felt that she might be thinking too much. She shook her head, looked up and saw He Qianmin being dragged downstairs by He Qianyu with a face of reluctance, and she couldn’t help but smile, “Are you still asleep?”

“She’s so noisy.” He Qianmin frowned and said, “Voice like a trumpet, and even jumping on my bed.”

He Qianyu turned around and made a face at him: “Who told you to procrastinate in bed!”

“Do you know how much you weigh?” He Qianmin grabbed her arm and pulled her back to pinch her face: “Your teacher should have you run more when you’re so fat!”

He Qianyu snorted, jumped onto He Qianmin, hugged his neck tightly and said, “I’m not heavy! You meanie!”

Seeing this, He Yanfeng raised his eyebrows. Usually at this time, He Qianyu would immediately come to complain, but today she was acting like a baby with He Qianmin, which was indeed different from before.

Yang Yun waved: “Da Bao, come down quickly, Mom has prepared your favorite sandwich for you.”

He Qianyu’s arms hugging He Qianmin stiffened, and He Qianmin patted her with his hand: “I’m going to put you on the chair so be still.”

He Qianmin took big steps, and He Qianyu hugged him even tighter in fright, but couldn’t help giggling.

After everyone was seated, the He family’s breakfast officially started.

He Yanfeng put down the newspaper, took a sip of porridge, thought of something, and suddenly said, “Why do you suddenly want to go to No. 1 High School to study?”

“I just want to.” He Qianmin took a bite of the fritters, expressionless.

“Your mother and I fully respect your wishes.” He Yanfeng said: “However, No. 1 High School is farther away from home. Are you going to ride a bicycle in the future, or Dad can arrange someone to send you off.”

He Qianmin paused, raised his head and said, “I want to move to live near No. 1 High School, or live directly on campus.”

The dining table fell quiet, Yang Yun and He Yanfeng looked at each other, and He Yanfeng said, “What’s your reason?”

He Qianmin: “No. 1 High School is too far away from home, and it is inconvenient for me to go back and forth. I can study better with the time saved on the road.”

He Yanfeng: “Is there anything else?”

He Qianmin said lightly: “Also, I haven’t experienced the life of living in a dorm, so I want to try it.”

Yang Yun couldn’t help interjecting: “Although No. 1 High School is far away, Mom and Dad can arrange someone to drive you to school every day. Also, if you want to experience the life of living in a dorm, you can also experience it in university. High school is hard work, so it will be more comfortable at home, and it is also good for you to study better isn’t it?”

He Qianmin opened his mouth, saw the sadness in his mother’s eyes, and swallowed the words again. He pursed his lips, lowered his eyes and said: “No. 1 High School is a public school, and I didn’t like to go to and from school by car when I was in Chenghua only to be like this when I go to No. 1 High School. This will affect my relationship with my classmates.”

Yang Yun pulled the corner of her mouth in a smile: “I see, if this is the case…..”

Suddenly, a cell phone ringing interrupted her.

He Qianjian glanced at the incoming call, his eyes flickered, put down the knife and fork in his hand and said with a smile: “Mom and Dad, my classmates are looking for me, I’m going to answer the phone.”

“Go ahead.” Yang Yun nodded and said with a smile: “After answering the call, come back early to eat, you haven’t had Mom’s boiled lotus seed soup yet.”

He Qianjian left the table, and the dining table became silent again.

After a while, He Yanfeng said lightly: “I accept all the reasons you said, but I still want to know if there are other reasons.”

He Qianmin nodded, and said directly: “There are more.”

“What reason?”

“I want to move near my brother’s house.” He Qianmin said: “In this way, he can tutor me in my studies. I scored second place at the end of this semester because of his tutoring some time ago.”

“Your brother?”

He Yanfeng and Yang Yun looked at each other, and they were both curious about the brother He Qianmin was talking about.

“It’s Brother Jiang Chen!” He Qianyu raised her hand and said, “I know, Brother Jiang Chen is super smart, has super good grades and is super gentle!”

Yang Yun was startled, and the young man who she caught only a brief glance at instantly appeared in her mind: “Jiang Chen?”

He Yanfeng also thought of the boy who looked very similar to He Qianyang, he laughed and said: “Speaking of which, our family has a good affinity with him, not only you, I, your mother and your sister have all met him. Indeed he’s a good boy. I invited him to play at our home before, but your sister interrupted me. I thought she didn’t like him, but it turns out that isn’t the case.”

He Qianyu blushed when she was teased, she pouted and said, “I didn’t mean to interrupt you, I just thought you talked too much! The same goes for Mom, last time you just saw Jiang Chen’s brother’s profile, and you asked sister Liu Yi so many questions. I have never seen you treat others like this, how embarrassing it is for brother Jiang Chen to be asked around like this!”

He Yanfeng smiled: “Yo, it seems that my little princess likes Jiang Chen quite a bit. She has never been so protective of her two older brothers before.”

When Yang Yun heard He Qianyu’s words, she was dazed for a moment. She didn’t know why, but she was inexplicably concerned about that boy. When he wasn’t brought up before, she could ignore this feeling, but when he was mentioned again, and now hearing her daughter say she had never treated others like this, she realized that her feelings for that child were really different. She couldn’t tell what was different, but she had a strange and inexplicable feeling for him, different from everyone else.

“Mom!”

Yang Yun came back to herself, looked at He Qianyu, and said, “What’s wrong?”

“What were you thinking just now?” He Qianyu was curious: “We called you several times, but you didn’t answer.”

Yang Yun smiled, shook her head and said, “What were you talking about just now?”

“We were talking about inviting Brother Jiang Chen to come to play at home!” He Qianyu immediately smiled: “Father told us to pick a time, I think Brother Qian Yang’s birthday is very good, and it happens that Brother Qian Yang will host it at our house, what do you think about inviting him over in the name of inviting him to the party?”

“Not much.” He Qianmin curled his lips: “My brother doesn’t know Brother Qian Yang, what would he do here, and Brother Qian Yang’s friends are boring and just like to scream like ghosts, my brother likes the quiet, he definitely won’t like it. “

“Then you pick a time!”

He Qianmin crossed his arms: “At any time, as long as He Qianjian is not around. My brother was first in the final exam. I’m afraid that He Qianjian will be too jealous when he sees him, and he won’t be able to control his emotions.”

Yang Yun said helplessly, “You!”

He Yanfeng thought for a while, and said: “Qian Yang’s birthday is indeed not appropriate, and they don’t know each other, so I’ll let you choose a time.”

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He Qianmin pursed his lips, stood up and said, “I’m going to make an appointment with my brother right now.”

He Yanfeng looked at his brisk back and said with a smile: “I really want to know more about this Jiang Chen. It’s rare to see this kid so fond of someone.”

Yang Yun smiled and nodded, saying softly, “Qian Min likes him so much, he must be a good boy.”

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Mo Xi shrank his neck and retracted his gaze. While disdaining himself in his heart, he typed with a force that seemed to be able to penetrate the keyboard:

[196: Yes, my little nephew, what’s the matter?]

Jiang Chen’s eyes fell on the words “little nephew”. Before, 196 inadvertently revealed that he was about 20 years old. According to 196’s age, his nephew should not be more than ten years old. If it was a small probability, 196 wouldn’t say “little” nephew, so, maybe S was 196’s little nephew who might not be more than ten years old?

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A picture of a childish little boy sitting in front of the computer with a serious expression appeared in his mind, and he couldn’t help smiling, and typed the keyboard to reply 196:

[D: Nothing.]

Jiang Chen thought for a while, and opened the dialog with C:

[D: The person next to 196 is his nephew.]

[C: Nephew? How old is he?]

[D: 196 is in college.]

[C: Then his nephew is still a child?]

[C: That kid is definitely not S. I took a job with A and him before. I won’t go into the details. But anyway, that kid has a black belly, I accidentally offended him a little bit and he almost got me caught and put in prison abroad.]

Before Jiang Chen could ask, C sent a paragraph:

[C: He was ranked low at the time, right, and so I questioned him a bit, and then competed with him, who knew that he pulled a dirty trick and changed the intrusion address. I was in Russia at the time, and the address he changed was Russia’s weapon arsenal network system. After I entered, I was so scared that I wanted to leave immediately. The kid is so bad, he actually blocked my way back and made me wander around the arsenal for three minutes. If I hadn’t slipped away fast enough, I almost would have had to smuggle back home.]

Jiang Chen imagined that scene, and couldn’t hold back a low laugh. Speaking of which, he was also a little curious about S. During the ranking battle, S was the only one who chose to DoS attack. That fight gave him a lot of inspiration, but it’s a pity. Halfway through the match, S suddenly disappeared, Wingnet defaulted to Jiang Chen’s victory, and when he reappeared, Jiang Chen had already won the D position, and S regained the S position again on the same day as he returned online.

In the top twenty-six rankings, Jiang Chen had played against all but the top three. S’s skills could definitely be ranked in the top seven. If possible, he very much hoped to finish that match. If it was a complete match, he should be able to get more inspiration from S’s attack methods.

…..

Seeing Jiang Chen’s reply, Mo Xi heaved a sigh of relief, turned his chair, and looked at the man on the sofa. Although he knew that he might not care at all, he couldn’t help explaining: “It’s okay, it’s just God C checking my IP and accidentally tracked you down as well, so he asked God D to ask me, he probably hasn’t tracked your real IP.”

Hearing the last sentence, Shi Fengyue raised his eyes: “D?”

“That’s right.” Speaking of this, Mo Xi became proud, and without waiting for Shi Fengyue to ask, he completely narrated the ins and outs of his acquaintance with D, highlighting his admiration for D and his importance in D’s money making road, “So, God D and I have a very good relationship. It is estimated that he and I are the closest in the entire Wingnet.”

Seeing Shi Fengyue raising his eyebrows, he sat up straight and said, “You better believe it, I asked God Z, and God D usually doesn’t talk much in their chat group, and he doesn’t have much contact with the other 25 great gods. You’re in the group so you should know it too. Also when I chatted with him, I found out that although God D is easy to talk to, he is a bit slow to warm up. Think about how long it has been since he went on Wingnet. I am the first person he knew so naturally I am the person who has the best relationship with him, there’s nothing wrong with that logic right?”

Mo Xi raised his chin triumphantly. He turned his head only to realize that Shi Fengyue didn’t even lift his eyes, and was concentrating on looking at the laptop in front of him. He suddenly became bold, and slid the chair to Shi Fengyue’s side, stretched his head over and said: “Nephew, what are you looking at?”

“Face recognition comparison?” Mo Xi approached curiously: “The analysis report is so detailed, where did you find the data? What model did you use? It is clearer than the face recognition system that our senior brother in the research institute has been working on for several years. If Professor Liu sees it, he will lament again that you didn’t choose computer science major back then. But, speaking of, this similarity is so high, who and who?”

Seeing that Shi Fengyue didn’t stop him, Mo Xi took the mouse on one side and scrolled it up. After seeing the two pictures side by side together, he froze for a moment: “Isn’t this the second son of the He family and…..Jiang Chen from Yan No. 1 High School ? What are you doing comparing their faces?”

Shi Fengyue leaned back and said lightly, “I discovered something interesting.”

Mo Xi was curious: “What interesting thing?”

But Shi Fengyue didn’t answer. Mo Xi stretched his head, looked at the pictures carefully again, frowned and said thoughtfully: “You don’t say, I didn’t feel it when I saw Jiang Chen at the time, but after this comparison, it really gives me the feeling that he does look like the He family, but…..I think he looks more like He Qianyang than the second son of the He family.”

Shi Fengyue raised his eyebrows lightly, “He Qianyang?”

“That’s right.” Mo Xi said, “You went abroad before He Qianyang entered junior high school. So you probably don’t remember what he looked like. If there were photos of him at that time…..”

Shi Fengyue tapped on the keyboard for a while, and a photo of a boy holding a basketball and smiling brightly appeared on the screen. He tapped his finger, compared the two photos, and the similarity analysis report immediately slid up.

“Damn.” Mo Xi glanced at the report, then scrolled up to look at the photos, and after a few comparisons, he said with disbelief: “Except for that dimple, He Qianyang during high school looked too much like Jiang Chen. He frowned and said, “I’ve never heard that He Qianyang had a younger brother, but it would be strange if there is no blood relationship, but if Jiang Chen and He Qianyang are brothers, then doesn’t it mean that He Yanjun——”

Mo Xi paused, then turned to look at Shi Fengyue: “Nephew, you don’t mean to…..”

Shi Fengyue turned to look at him with a calm expression.

Mo Xi changed his words on the spot, and he nudged Shi Fengyue with his elbow, saying earnestly: “Feng Yue, why don’t you investigate this matter, although your uncle has some conflicts with Minister He back then, but if this involved Lieutenant General He, it won’t end well in general, and it’s a family affair, if you mess with it, the He family and the Shi family will really end up as enemies.”

Shi Fengyue said lazily, “That’s their business.”

“It’s not because of Minister Shi?” Mo Xi’s eyes fell on the photo, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind: “That’s right, I haven’t asked yet, when did you know Jiang Chen? He is a high school student, and he should have nothing to do with you, right?”

Shi Fengyue said lightly: “I knew him earlier than you.”

“Before me?” Mo Xi thought for a while: “I really haven’t known him for a long time, and I only met him once, but…..when I was having dinner with my high school teachers, I heard someone talking about him and his family. I remember someone said that his father was in a car accident, and he is quite sensible and has good grades, and also that his mother taught him very well. If both his parents are still here, he should have nothing to do with the He family. If he is really He…..’s son, his surname should not be Jiang.”

Shi Fengyue was noncommittal, looking thoughtfully at the two photos on the screen.

A few seconds later, he suddenly said, “He Qianyang’s birthday is next week?”

“Yeh, July 22——” Mo Xi turned to look at him in the middle of speaking, and raised his voice: “What do you want to do?”

Shi Fengyue tapped the table with his index finger, closed the laptop, got up and said calmly: “I’ll catch up on sleep, and you remember to supervise Shi Ao’s homework later.”

Before Mo Xi had time to refuse, he could only see Shi Fengyue’s back as he closed the door, his hand hanging stiffly in mid-air, and murmured: “Poor me…..”

When Jiang Chen got up, the phone in the living room rang at the same time. He was just about to answer it, but Yang Si was already one step ahead of him.

“Hello?”

“Yes, I am Jiang Chen’s mother.”

“You caught him?”

“Who?”

“Who?!”

“I’ll come over now!”

Yang Si hung up the phone in a hurry, and quickly went back to the room to pack up and change clothes. Jiang Zhuo came out of the room and asked Jiang Chen silently: “What’s wrong with your mother?”

Jiang Chen’s eyes flickered slightly, and he shook his head.

Jiang Zhuo quietly gestured to Jiang Chen, turned around and entered the room. He looked at his wife’s red eyes which were red from anger or something else, and said cautiously, “Honey, what’s the matter? Who called? Where are you going?”

Yang Si paused in changing clothes, and suddenly squatted beside the closet covering her face.

Jiang Zhuo walked over, squatted beside her and said anxiously: “What’s wrong, honey? What happened? Don’t cry.”

Yang Si raised her head with red rimmed eyes, but there were no tears in her eyes. She gritted her teeth and said, “The person who kidnapped Chen Chen has been caught, it’s Yang Tianci.”

Jiang Zhuo was startled for a few seconds before he came back to his senses, “Why did he kidnap Chen Chen?”

Yang Si said expressionlessly: “The people in the police station said that it was because he owed debts and I wouldn’t lend him money, so he wanted to kidnap Chen Chen and get me to pay off the debts.”

Jiang Zhuo slammed his fist on the wardrobe: “That beast!”

The room was silent for nearly half a minute, before Jiang Zhuo asked, “What are your plans for this matter?”

Yang Si enunciated word by word: “I will have him sit in prison!”

Jiang Zhuo: “Then if your parents…..”

“They are not my parents anymore.” Yang Si stood up, finished changing her clothes, took a deep breath and said, “They don’t treat me as a daughter, and I don’t need to offer myself to be their nanny. For this kind of thing, if they come to plead for mercy, they will really lose any last bit of familial affection.”

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a banging on the door, followed by a wail that could be heard even through the door:

“My poor son! You unfilial daughter, hurry up and open the door for me! Open the door!”

Yang Si threw aside the changed clothes, turned around and stormed out of the room.

Jiang Zhuo raised the hand that wanted to pull Yang Si, but paused, and followed quickly out of the room. When he passed Jiang Chen, he took his arm and pushed him into his room, saying: “Stay inside and don’t come out. “

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As soon as the door of Jiang Chen’s room was closed, Jiang Zhuo saw Yang Si coming out of the kitchen aggressively while carrying a bucket. He didn’t even have the time to think on what she planned to do when he saw her pulling the door open and splashing it out, then took out a lighter and said:

“Yell! Keep yelling!”

“Yang Tianci daring to hurt my son is the same as wanting my life. Since you all want my life, then we can all just die together!”

AN: DoS attack: A hacker attack method, the purpose is to make the computer or network unable to provide normal services. Common DoS attacks include computer network bandwidth attacks and connectivity attacks.

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At 10:59 in the evening, in an unassuming small white building a hundred miles away from Yan City.

The four walls of the third underground floor were completely occupied by computer screens. A few people in green uniforms were standing in front of the screens, staring at the changing codes, or the map with alternating bright or faint lights. If one looked carefully, one would find that the two walls with the most light spots were Japan and South Korea.

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Holding a thermos cup, the middle-aged man took a sip of wolfberry tea and said slowly: “I don’t think this matter will be over without at least two to three days.”

The long-haired woman raised her chin and glanced at him, then looked away and said, “The trade conference will start soon, and it must be over even if it doesn’t end.”

The young man sitting on the steps with his legs bent said carelessly: “Your words are somewhat ambiguous.”

The others couldn’t help laughing when they heard this. Suddenly, the intern who had been staring at the screen shouted loudly: “Another group of people have joined!”

The man took a few steps forward, leaning against the intern’s desk, holding his cup of tea and as calm as ever: “All showing up at the same point in time, at first glance, these are a group of people, but I wonder which group it is.”

The intern looked up while typing quickly and asked, “Can’t we track their IP?”

The young man jumped down the steps, sat next to him, rested an arm on his shoulder, and said in a tone of someone who had experience: “We are the National Cyber Security Agency, not the Justice League or the neighborhood committee aunt. They have their fun, and we just watch a good show, we can’t control each other.”

“But…..these people are very powerful hackers. If they want to attack our country’s security network, we will be at a loss if we don’t know anything about them. If we know their IP in advance, we can be prepared.”

The young man shook his index finger: “Then you underestimate our National Cyber Security Agency.”

The intern was stunned for a moment, and thinking of something, his eyes suddenly lit up: “I have always heard that there is a real master in our Security Agency, is it true? Who is it?”

“It’s true.” The young man pointed to his nose and smiled, “It’s me.”

The intern was silent for a few seconds, then turned to look at the middle-aged man: “Vice Chief Li, do we really not need to track their IP? I just caught a tail, it seems to be from our country.”

The middle-aged man shook his head and said with a smile: “The IPs of these hackers are like Russia’s nesting dolls which they use as magic trick props. You think it’s just a simple toy and that the one in the very inside is the last one, in fact, the nesting doll is just a cover-up to distract you. Besides, if they could be caught by you then they don’t have the ability to make trouble in other countries’ safety nets, so don’t waste your time and energy.”

“But what if their IP can be traced? Why not try it?”

Middle-aged man: “It’s pointless to try ineffectively, especially in the online world…..you’ll know when you are here for a longer time.”

The intern insisted on expressing his thoughts: “But these are top hackers. If there are people from our own country among them, we can recruit them. Isn’t this a good thing for the National Cyber Security Agency?”

“These people, if only they can be recruited so easily…..”

“Yes.” The woman who had her arms crossed said with no expression: “Achieving the ultimate in anything is the top part of the pyramid. This kind of people can live freely in any country and place. Why would they be willing to be suppressed by the government? There are also some very powerful hackers in our country, such as the famous hacker forum Wingnet, the twenty-six hackers on the Alphabet list are all elites, and anyone of them could at least get the position of a security consultant if they join the Security Agency.”

Someone continued where she left off: “Not only that, if they rank in the top ten, it is not impossible to give the position of Director, and the country will definitely focus on their care and training. But even so, there is only one who is willing to be used by us, and he also only accepts the usual national security maintenance tasks. Except for contacting us when we issue tasks, he will not contact us at ordinary times, and his work is not under our control. It is estimated that he has also joined in today’s melee.”

The intern excitedly said: “Really? Who is that great god! Have I seen them?”

The middle-aged man smiled: “When a certain time comes, you will see them.”

The dots on the central screen flashed faster and faster. When all the dots were dimmed, new dots were soon added, and the code on the left screen was also showing up at a dizzying pace. Apart from this, the screen on the right side which had been still the whole time suddenly lit up, and two Asian faces appeared, speaking Japanese and Korean respectively, reporting news.

The young man sneered: “Japan asked America for help, saying it is a political conspiracy, because certain countries tried to sabotage the many strategic cooperations that Japan and America are about to sign this time.”

The intern hurriedly said: “The government of South Korea also declares that they are an innocent victim, calling on hackers across the country to rise up and resist to protect national security.”

The middle-aged man took a sip of tea: “It seems that the International Trade Conference in three days will be quite lively.”

The woman nodded, and as if having suddenly thought of something, she turned her head and asked, “Who will attend this conference?”

Middle-aged man: “Shi Zeyang from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and He Yuanzheng from the Ministry of Commerce.”

The woman frowned and pondered. The young man sitting on the side suddenly laughed out loud: “There will be a good show.”

The intern was curious: “Why is Minister Shi and Minister He attending together going to be a good show?”

“Now that story can be traced back to more than ten years ago…..”

The young man stroked his chin, and the intern craned his neck curiously.

Suddenly, the middle-aged man slapped the intern on the back of the head and said, “Why are you so gossipy? Work.”

The young man shrugged at the intern, who had no choice but to let it go for now.

At exactly one o’clock in the morning, after finishing up sweeping his trail, Jiang Chen removed his fingers from the keyboard.

The dialog box of the hacker group popped up again. The group was extremely lively. Most of the people showed up. They were all discussing the network that was paralyzed in Japan and South Korea just now. After turning off the computer, a private chat box popped up:

[C: D God, your patch was really fast just now, it was like you could read the other party’s mind, they just made a single move and you had already patched it up.]

Jiang Chen thought for a while, and typed two words:

[D: Thank you.]

[C: Hahahaha. Actually, I haven’t talked to you before, so I want to chat with you. I have been waiting for you to challenge me before, but I didn’t expect you to stop when you reached D. Later, someone spread that you like the letter D. So you really don’t plan to battle anymore?]

[D: My name is Dylan.]

[C: Because of this? But isn’t Dylan a foreign name? Wingnet requires an IP from China to log in. Which country are you from?]

[D: China.]

[C: Oh oh oh, I see, your English name, right, makes sense.]

[C: So uh, actually, I messaged you today because I wanted to discuss something with you.]

[D: What is it?]

[C: Are you…..patriotic?]

Jiang Chen: …..

[C: Ai, no, I just want to say, I heard that the National Cyber Security Agency set up an assessment, it’ll be this Saturday, as long as you pass the political review, anyone can sign up. I’m a little afraid of strangers…..it’s okay when we’re separated through the computer screen, but if I really sit with others or go for an interview, I will get a panic attack, so I want to find someone to go with me.]

Jiang Chen looked at the screen and didn’t know what to reply for a long time. After about a minute, he responded:

[D: You want me to go with you?]

[C: Yeah!]

[D: Why?]

[C: Aren’t you in Yan City? Apart from you and me who are in Yan City, God A and God S are the only ones. God A has been hidden for a long time, and no one can find him. That guy S is just like his letter, S. I fear him even across the screen, so I can only ask you.]

Jiang Chen stroked the keyboard, his eyes flickering slightly:

[D: You can track everyone’s IP.]

[C: Yeah, but don’t worry, I  will never track your specific IP, I only target cities, count it as a hobby. I do have a principled bottom line.]

Jiang Chen hung his fingers on the keyboard for a long time before typing:

[D: I want to ask you a favor.]

[C: What is it? Check people’s IP?]

[D: More or less.]

C replied after a while:

[C: You should also be able to do this kind of thing yourself. Although I’m good at it, with your ability, you should be able to hack into even the National Cyber Security Agency.]

[C: I don’t mean anything else, it’s just that I watched the ranking match between you and G before. His intrusion skills can be regarded as the top in the world. At that time, what you were competing with him on was also intrusion. Since you can win against him…..why do you want me to track it for you?]

Jiang Chen’s fingers paused, and he pondered for a moment before typing:

[D: There is specialization in each industry, and it is not an ordinary IP, I can’t track it.]

[C: How unusual is it?]

[D: Maybe in this world, no one has been able to track it yet.]

[C: Interesting, I will do this favor, when?]

[D: Within a year.]

[C: …]

[C: I’m really curious, what’s behind the IP that makes you so cautious, okay, within a year, come find me anytime.]

[C: Then about what I said?]

[D: Wait a moment.]

Jiang Chen opened the dialog box to chat with 196 and sent a message, and received a reply soon after.

[D: I can’t accompany you, but if you are just afraid and want to find someone to accompany you, I can help you find someone.]

[C: Who? Wingnet? Do I know them?]

[D: 196.]

[C: He seems to be online, let me check.]

After a few minutes.

[C: Who…..is he, why am I feeling so uneasy.]

[D: ?]

[C: I just checked his IP, and found that S and him are in the same place, and they are very close, D, don’t trick me, I’m really scared of S, don’t tell me you two know each other in real life, and are joining forces to mess with me.]

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Jiang Chen was silent for a moment, and he didn’t know what to reply for a long time. After thinking about it, he sent a message to 196:

[D: Just now C checked your IP and found that there is another IP near you. Was there someone else next to you?]

Mo Xi, who just lost the game and was feeling dejected, came back to himself instantly when he saw this message. He glanced at the man who was currently looking at his laptop attentively, and his Adam’s apple moved, saying cautiously: “Little neph…..Xiao Yue, your IP seems to have been followed.”

Shi Fengyue didn’t even raise his eyes, and said flatly, “I know.”

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