Chapter 17: Things That Have Changed and Have Not Changed
Every evening, Lin Wanzhou would stay at Xu Cheng's house and do homework with him in the bedroom for a while until the adults of both families came back from get off work.
Now she comes to Xu Cheng's house as naturally as going back to her own home. He Ying and Xu Jianghe like this lovely girl very much, not to mention that she also helps supervise their son's studies. They are very welcoming.
Lin Wanzhou also likes the atmosphere in Xu Cheng's home very much, and even deep in her heart, she hides a trace of envy for the relationship between Xu Cheng's parents.
"Did your parents have another fight yesterday?"
Xu Cheng took a sip of orange juice and looked at Lin Wanzhou standing beside him.
During this period, Gao Manman and Lin Wanzhou's father often quarreled, and the noise was so loud that the entire family compound knew about it, and there were rumors that the two were planning to divorce.
Lin Wanzhou stared at his exercise book in silence, writing and calculating on the paper, and finally pointed the question to Xu Cheng, "Xu Cheng, take a look at this question, do you have any ideas?"
Xu Cheng moved closer to her, their faces almost touching. They could feel each other's breath, but the two were already used to it. They just regarded it as intimacy between friends and did not develop any special feelings.
He took a quick look and said, "Chickens and rabbits are in the same cage. Rabbits have four legs, but chickens only have two legs. If you can't do the math mentally, you can write an equation..."
He wrote and drew on a piece of calculation paper, and roughly listed the equation, "If there are X chickens in total, then the number of chicken feet sticking out from below is 2X...Is that clear now?"
"So that's how it is." Lin Wanzhou nodded in sudden enlightenment, "Actually, Xu Cheng, you're very smart. You can think of all these difficult questions. You always get low marks in exams. It must be because you're not careful enough..."
"Okay, okay, I'll be more careful next time." Xu Cheng casually brushed off the topic and suggested, "We've been studying for so long, why don't we watch some cartoons?"
Lin Wanzhou glanced at Xu Cheng hesitantly, "What are you looking at?"
"Detective Conan, I just asked my dad to rent a set of Conan discs." Within just a few years, almost all of Longguo's once-powerful video halls went bankrupt. Instead, the model of renting discs became popular. Xu Jianghe installed a home theater at home and played the rented discs at home, which was very enjoyable .
By the way, this business model of renting movies was learned from the United States. There is a company there that specializes in renting videotapes called Blockbuster, which is a giant American company. Once a small company wanted to sell itself to it but was driven away. Later, Blockbuster went bankrupt, and the small company called Netflix became a legend.
"Conan? No, I don't want to watch that." Lin Wanzhou frowned and shook his head. "Every time I see that door click shut, I feel like my breathing is going to stop. I often have nightmares when I think about it at night."
"Is that so?" Xu Cheng thought for a moment, "Since you're afraid..."
"Then you have to look at it even more!"
Happy times are always short. After Lin Wanzhou returned home, Xu Cheng sat up from the sofa, stretched, and started his official work!
After studying computers for a period of time, Xu Cheng had already developed his own navigation website, which has been in operation for two and a half years.
Xu Cheng named it "16 Website Navigation".
The technical content of URL navigation is not high, which is related to its function. After all, the purpose of URL navigation is to facilitate the mode of finding the website by entering the URL. Therefore, all 16 needs to do is to group popular websites together and establish links with them. In this way, when users go online, they don’t need to remember the URL at all, just click it lightly.
Currently, 16 has become well-known in Longguo, and many Internet cafes are using this navigation website. Xu Cheng does things "very low-key", and no one knows that he is the webmaster of 16. His daily job is to check and update links, and then delete some illegal and virus links in time.
After finishing his work, Xu Cheng decided to reward himself.
"Since my parents haven't come back yet, I can take a look at that secretly..."
He tiptoed to lock the door, then lifted up his mattress and pulled out a book with yellowed pages from underneath.
He had obtained this book with great difficulty, and he hid it very carefully, like a treasure. He absolutely could not let his parents see it, otherwise he would have trouble explaining it.
"Gudong."
Xu Cheng swallowed nervously, opened the title page with a smile on his face, and turned to the place he had last seen.
"The solubility of a solid indicates that at a certain temperature, a solid substance..."
"Chemistry for Junior High School Grade 9, Volume 2"
Xu Cheng is very strict with himself. In order to strive to make himself better in this life, he lives a very disciplined life and works and studies simultaneously.
Especially in studying, he was particularly attentive, just because his academic performance in his previous life was average. In this life, he followed the principle of the early bird catches the worm. Even if he was not as talented as others, I could always make up for it by starting to study a few years earlier.
The goal he has set for himself now is -
Read for four hours every day and your cultural level will be synchronized with that of junior high school students!
At dinner time, the family of three ate happily, and "The World's Granary" was playing on TV.
Four years have passed, and both parents do not seem to have aged much. Instead, there is a sense of vitality and thriving, which is completely different from the original trajectory in the previous life.
This is of course inseparable from the butterfly effect brought about by Xu Cheng, the reborn person. Just by gently flapping his wings, a slight ripple changed the fate of his family.
He Ying is currently doing very well as the regional manager and recently there was news that he had been promoted to deputy director of the marketing department.
On Xu Jianghe's side, Jing'an Communications had just recovered from the trough of the communications industry. He holds a fingernail-sized share of the company and is currently in a middle-level position in the company, also serving as deputy manager in the marketing department.
Both parents are doing well at work and the family is living in harmony. The Xu family has already entered the fast lane on the road to a well-off life and is living a very comfortable life.
These are the things that Xu Cheng has indeed changed.
However, perhaps it was the world's self-repair mechanism that worked, or perhaps Xu Cheng's dust particle in the era was too small, and in the past four short years, the main course of the world was not affected by Xu Cheng.
Those bad things still happened: the Nasdaq Internet bubble burst, the emerging Internet entered its darkest hour, the communications industry was affected and ushered in an industry winter; the international situation was grim; housing prices soared; Milk Tea Lun was criticized for running out of ideas...
Good things also went smoothly: joining the WTO, the return of Hong Kong and the Olympic Games, the Chinese national football team entered the World Cup, the Internet winter was broken, and the American Nai 11 incident...
A few days later.
In class, the head teacher Zhu Ziqian pushed open the door of the classroom, followed by a little girl who looked very rustic.
"Let me introduce you to a new student in our class, who transferred from Yingcai Primary School."
"Yu Yu..."
