CH 120

Jiang Chen didn’t know that Yu Yi and Zhang Lei had such a conversation after he left, and he didn’t know what Yu Yi was thinking. If he knew, he would probably give a wry smile, then shake his head and tell her that choosing among all the people in the world for scientific researchers was absolutely impossible, at least not in the next five years.

When he recruited Yu Yi to join the team, he only revealed the general direction of Changjiang’s research and development and an extremely simple model of the Changjiang system. It was not because he was too cautious or did not trust Yu Yi, but because the programming language of Changjiang was not of any of the existing programming languages, but the general-purpose programming language of the interstellar era——Star.T.

Star.T was named after the initials of the new galaxy ST1101 and the planet T, the planet that humans first arrived on, combined with the word star and symbolized beginnings. It had become a programming language jointly developed by humans after entering the new galaxy and regaining technological civilization. Before that, almost all programming languages had limitations, and were not suitable for the interstellar era after reconstruction, but Star.T was different. It basically combined the advantages of all programming languages and was applicable to all terminals and servers. Known as the most beautiful language of the interstellar era.

Even if Jiang Chen directly asked Yu Yi to read the core code of Changjiang, Yu Yi would not understand anything, so he could only convert the code into the commonly used programming code now, and established a system model to attract Yu Yi to enter his research team.

It might be that the construction of the system model was too simple. Yu Yi showed great interest in this project, but she didn’t really realize the real power of Changjiang, so she would think in such a way.

The strength of Changjiang did not lie in the fact that one aspect of it had reached the top level of the world today, but in the fact that after all its abilities were added together, one plus one was greater than two. It could be said that owning Changjiang was equivalent to having the most powerful army, the strongest shield, and the most secretive and pervasive intelligence organization for the entire country at the same time…..

After the experiment, once the country truly understood the power of Changjiang, it would protect and hide this project team in an airtight manner. There was absolutely no possibility of putting it on an international platform for researchers from all over the world to study together.

Jiang Chen knew this very well, but it was a pity that Yu Yi didn’t know it, and even the people in the conference room only had vague understanding.

When he arrived at the He family’s old family house, it happened to be five o’clock in the afternoon. Jiang Chen walked through the courtyard and saw old Mr. He sitting by the pond fishing.

He turned around and walked to old Mr. He’s side, “Grandpa.”

“You’re back?” Old Mr. He glanced at him, pointed to the little stool on the side, “Sit.”

Jiang Chen nodded politely to the old gentlemen who were fishing together, sat down beside old Mr. He, and watched them fishing quietly.

The pond was rippling, and a fishing line moved up and down. The owner of the fishing rod immediately reeled in the line, and caught a black fish that was as long as an adult man’s arm. Then he said triumphantly: “I didn’t expect that today’s first fish would be caught by me.”

Old Mr. He glanced at him lightly, and another old gentleman snorted, and said sourly: “It’s worth being happy to be able to catch one out of ten times.”

The old gentleman who caught the fish was not angry either, he picked up the bucket and put it beside Jiang Chen, and said with a smile, “Come, this is a gift from grandpa.”

Jiang Chen was startled. His gaze was still on the fish when he heard someone say, “Old Zhang, you just give a fish as a meeting gift?”

Following the sound, Jiang Chen saw old Mr. Xiang wearing a wide-brimmed fisherman’s hat. He couldn’t help being pleasantly surprised: “Grandpa Xiang.”

Professor Xiang took off his hat, walked to Jiang Chen’s side, bent over with his hands behind his back to look at the fish in the bucket, straightened up and said, “Stingy.”

“It’s fine if the recipient doesn’t think I’m stingy.” Old Mr. Zhang looked at Jiang Chen: “Xiao Chen, are you satisfied with this grandpa’s gift?”

Before Jiang Chen could speak, old Mr. He said, “The gift you gave my grandson is a fish from my fish pond. You tell me if he is satisfied or not?”

Not long after sitting down, Jiang Chen received a fish. Facing the hale and hearty old man in front of him, Jiang Chen was still a little confused about the situation, but since it was said to be a meeting gift, a fish was also good.

If it’s too expensive, he wouldn’t know how to refuse it.

“I like it very much.” Jiang Chen said with a slight smile, “Thank you.”

Old Mr. Zhang had been observing Jiang Chen, and he clearly saw the whole process of him from being dazed for a moment, to thanking him calmly after quickly regaining himself. This young man’s disposition was very good. Thinking of this, old Mr. Zhang let out a few laughs, randomly took out a piece of jade pendant from his pants pocket, and handed it to Jiang Chen, “Two fish, eat one and keep the other.”

After Jiang Chen saw the jade pendant in the old gentleman’s hand, he hesitated slightly. This jade pendant carved with a fish jumping over the dragon’s gate had a beautiful luster and was exquisitely carved. He could tell it was worth a lot at first glance, and it was a bit expensive just as a meeting gift.

That’s more like it.” Professor Xiang patted Jiang Chen’s arm and said with satisfaction, “Take it.”

Jiang Chen paused, took the jade pendant and thanked him again. He had figured it out. Old Mr. He probably specially gathered these old people here today. He would take the college entrance examination soon and after the college entrance examination, his identity wouldn’t be concealed anymore. Now that old Mr. He gathered these old friends together, his intentions should be to have them meet him in advance, which could be regarded as letting him recognize people in advance.

Just as he thought this, old Mr. He soon introduced another old gentleman to him: “This is Grandpa Han, this is Grandpa Zhang, and there is another one you already know, Grandpa Xiang, they are my and your grandma’s friends of many years. Today they are here to give you their meeting gifts.”

After old Mr. He finished speaking, old Mr. Han handed a key to Jiang Chen with a satisfied expression on his face: “Grandpa has nothing to give you. This is a house on the side of Fengshan Mountain. The location is not bad. When you go to university in the future you can live there, and you can also use it when you get married.”

Having already accepted old Mr. Zhang’s gift, Jiang Chen naturally wouldn’t mince about things. After accepting old Mr. Han’s key, he calmly thanked him.

Professor Xiang approached Jiang Chen and said in a low voice, “You will know what my gift will be in a few days.”

Seeing the mysterious expression on Professor Xiang’s face, Jiang Chen paused. Something flashed through his mind, and he felt that it was impossible. He laughed secretly that he was thinking too much, and said calmly, “Okay.”

The old gentlemen stayed at the old He family house all afternoon, met Jiang Chen and chatted for a while, and then they were all picked up by people from their respective families. Today was the He family’s family dinner, and they all knew it well, so they didn’t stay and be a bother.

There was also a small episode during this period, the person who came to pick up old Mr. Han and Professor Xiang was the same person. Jiang Chen saw the two old gentlemen walking together and thought they were going the same way. It was not until Han Qiya called old Mr. Han “grandfather” did he learn that Han Qiya’s grandfather was old Mr. Han.

Under such circumstances, Han Qiya naturally knew Jiang Chen’s identity. Before the two old gentlemen got into the car, she stopped Jiang Chen and chatted for a while, and they talked about things that strangers who were not familiar with each other usually would talk about. Neither cold nor offensive, although Jiang Chen was surprised why she stopped him on purpose, he didn’t think too much, just answered her questions politely.

Before leaving, Han Qiya suddenly asked: “Do you know that I have a marriage contract with you?”

Jiang Chen’s mind unexpectedly recalled what Shen Xu said teasing him before. After a slight change in his expression, Han Qiya smiled before he could speak, and said, “It seems that you know.”

Having said that, there was no need to deny it.

“I’ve heard a bit.”

Han Qiya nodded, and asked him with a smile: “Do you have someone you like?”

Jiang Chen paused, but did not answer.

Seeing him like this, Han Qiya smiled and said, “Then I’ll pretend you don’t have one.”

Jiang Chen put away his smile, and said politely but distantly: “Even if I don’t have someone I like, I think the marriage contract was just a joke among the elders.”

“That’s not necessarily true.” Han Qiya approached Jiang Chen and whispered, “Look over there.”

Jiang Chen took half a step back and looked in the direction she was pointing at, only to see old Mr. He, old Mr. Han, and Professor Xiang looking at this side with smiles on their faces.

He took another half step back, narrowed his eyes and said, “Sorry.”

The smile on Han Qiya’s face faded, she bit her lower lip, and said with a smile: “It’s okay, we are not familiar with each other now, it’s normal for you to reject me.”

Jiang Chen frowned slightly, but before he could speak, the girl had already turned and ran away, waving at him while running, saying with a smile: “We will meet again soon!”

Not long after the old people left, He Qianyu came back from her dance class. She chattered at Jiang Chen, asking him if he could accompany her to the playground during the summer vacation, and asking him about Jiang Chen’s newborn little sister, whether she had grown up a bit. Wherever Jiang Chen went she followed, like a little tail.

When dinner was about to start, other people also arrived at the old house one after another. Among them, He Qianjian was the latest one. It may be because of the distance from the school, or it may be because of his leg and could only walk with a crutch.

As soon as He Qianjian entered the old house, he saw Jiang Chen, and the hand holding on the crutch pausex. New and old hatred surged up at the same time, and he almost swung his crutch to hit him.

Fortunately, the System reminded him in time: [If you want to stay in the He family, I suggest you calm down.]

[I know.] 

He Qianjian’s chest heaved for a while, he retracted his gaze and walked in with his head down: [Now is not the time to deal with him, I will not let him grab hold of a weakness again.]

The voice of the System was colder than before: [It’s good that you know, I don’t have any extra energy to help you wipe your ass now, I hope you can take care of yourself. There is a third mock exam in ten days, if you want to continue using the system’s optimal choice function, you’d better find it as soon as possible…..]

Jiang Chen looked up at the direction in which He Qianjian was walking away, his eyes flickering slightly, thoughtful.

What was the optimal choice function? And what did the System want him to find?

He suddenly realized that he had discovered a System function that he had never understood before, and even wanted to get up and follow He Qianjian, and listen to the conversation between him and the System within a certain distance, but it was too obvious to get up and follow him at this time.

“Brother.”

“Brother?”

“Brother!”

Jiang Chen came back to his senses, turned to look at He Qianmin: “What’s wrong?”

“What were you thinking just now? You still didn’t hear me after I called you several times.” He Qianmin handed the phone to Jiang Chen and motioned him to look at it: “Isn’t it just a week before you guys will have the third mock exam? Everyone is discussing who will be the number one this time, our school basically placed their bets on you, look.”

Jiang Chen glanced at the content of the forum, raised his eyebrows and said, “Even betting?”

“We started betting as early as the first mock exam.” He Qianmin thought of something, suddenly laughed, and said: “Before, Chenghua was betting on He Qianjian taking first place, but he never got first place. He was also overtaken by Zhang Liang in their class, I wonder what he is thinking now.”

Jiang Chen rubbed his head amusedly: “So happy?”

“Of course.” He Qianmin leaned over and said, “Brother, can you take first place on this third mock exam?”

“What do you think?”

“Absolutely! It must be possible!”

“What absolutely must be possible?” Yang Yun cut the fruit and put it on the coffee table in front of them, smiling: “Dinner is about half an hour away, you should eat some fruit first.”

He Qianmin said: “We were talking about whether my brother can take first place in the third mock exam this time.”

“Well, then Mom also believes that you can do it.”

Jiang Chen pursed his lips and smiled, not trying to be modest: “I also believe that I can.”

He Yanya sat down opposite Jiang Chen, and after listening to them finish speaking, she suddenly said to Jiang Chen, “I heard that the project in your hand has been completed.”

Jiang Chen nodded, not surprised how He Yanya knew about this. Although she was in the Central Research Institute, her research direction was not related to that of computers, but the scientific research circle in the entire Yan City was only so big, and gossip resources were extremely scarce. A little bit of wind and grass could easily spread.

He said mildly: “It has been put into the special forces for experimentation, and it will be put into the public security system after the experiment yields no problems.”

He Yanya looked at Jiang Chen with complicated eyes, “You are very amazing, completing the expected two-year project within half a year.”

Long before Jiang Chen was recognized back into the He family, she had actually heard about him already. At that time, the van in Chengyang Square chased and tried to crush the young man in the street. Everyone in Yan City knew about it. And on that day after learning about it she put pressure on the task force through He Yanjun. As a He family member, she knew about this matter for the first time, and it was also the first time she heard of Jiang Chen’s name.

Later, her best friend told her that the Seventeenth Research Institute had parachuted in a genius boy with a mysterious identity. He was in charge of a project alone despite being a teenager, and this project was led by Major General Wu, which showed the importance of it. Her friend joined Jiang Chen’s project team, and when mentioning Jiang Chen, their tone changed from casual at first to being of high praise now, which was a huge change.

As Jiang Chen’s aunt, He Yanya’s understanding of him mostly came from other people instead, which made her feel more complicated about Jiang Chen, but no matter what happened before, she had to admit that her feelings for Jiang Chen now was mostly admiration, after all, he was definitely a rare scientific research talent.

Jiang Chen didn’t know that He Yanya had many things going through her mind in an instant. He nodded slightly: “Thank you.”

He Yanya nodded, and did not say anymore to him.

At 6:30, the He family served dinner on time. When the family dinner started, only then did He Qianjian appear. Jiang Chen listened attentively, and saw that he wasn’t talking to the System at this time, so he withdrew his focus.

Jiang Chen didn’t care about He Qianjian, but He Qianjian always paid attention to Jiang Chen’s every move. Seeing him chatting with He Yanfeng in a leisurely manner, one could tell from the occasional few words that He Yanfeng cared about him. Asking whether he could adapt to school quickly after being absent from school for so long, and also expressing confidence in his mock exam results.

This kind of conversation, before Jiang Chen returned to the He family, would only happen between him and He Yanfeng, but now that Jiang Chen was back, everything had changed, everything that originally belonged to him had become Jiang Chen’s.

[You are sure that if I find promethium, I will definitely be the number one scorer in the sciences in the college entrance examination.]

He Qianjian’s voice suddenly sounded, and Jiang Chen’s eyelashes flickered slightly.

Promethium?

Jiang Chen thought about the text behind the pronunciation in his mind, while listening intently.

The System’s cold electronic voice: [Yes.]

[Good.]

He Qianjian picked up a piece of fish, and chewed to hide the coldness in his eyes: [I will definitely help you find it, but you have been absent recently, I don’t really believe that you will show up to help me in time during my college entrance examination, so I want you to promise me that you must be online all day during the two days of my college entrance examination.]

The System was silent for a while, and then said: [I can promise you.]

He Qianjian was relieved, so long as the System promised, it had never missed an appointment. The last math competition should indeed be just an accident.

It was just that the System had been offline frequently recently, which still made him very uneasy, and no matter how much he asked, the System would not tell him the reason. His confusion amplified his uneasiness even more, and he even had an ominous premonition that something had gone out of control.

Thinking of this, He Qianjian asked again without giving up, but he changed his method: [You said earlier that you encountered some small troubles, have you solved them yet?]

[It won’t be long before it will be resolved.]

The System answered quickly, and probably because He Qianjian’s frequent asking made it irritated, it added a word of consolation: [The civilization level of the planet where the host is located does not have any technology that can pose a threat to me, you don’t need to worry.]

He Qianjian really believed in this before, but after the System lost contact many times and a bug appeared at an important time, he was not so sure. If there was really nothing in this world that could threaten the existence of the System, then what was the little trouble it had to solve during this time?

Also, were the small troubles really just small troubles?

While He Qianjian was immersed in his uneasiness, old Mr. He put down his chopsticks, and seeing that most of the people at the table had almost finished, he said, “Xiao Chen, we decided to hold a banquet on the second day after your college entrance examination, to announce your identity.”

Jiang Chen also put down the chopsticks in his hand, looked up at old Mr. He, and didn’t speak.

He knew exactly what old Mr. He meant. Holding a banquet the next day meant that he would have to show his cards to his parents after the college entrance examination. Regardless of whether they could accept this fact, the He family’s banquet would be held as scheduled.

This was the result he had agreed with the He family from the very beginning, and he would not raise any objections.

“I know, Grandpa.”

Old Mr. He nodded in satisfaction, and seemed to mention another matter casually: “I heard that you and Qian Jian had some misunderstandings.”

A trace of glee flashed across He Qianjian’s eyes, and he fixed his eyes on Jiang Chen, wondering how he would answer.

He had lived and maintained his relationships in the He family for eighteen years, and the people he knew best were not He Yanfeng and Yang Yun, but old Mr. He, who only brought him by his side and raised him for a period of time when he was a child. Because he knew very well that in the whole He family, who was in charge in the end and winning over the person who gave orders would naturally bring more protection for future variables.

This moment was the reward for his hard work in the past.

What old Mr. He hoped most was the harmony and unity of the family, so naturally he didn’t like disharmony between brothers. He was able to gain the upper hand in the confrontation with He Qianmin every time, precisely because he grasped this point, and interpreted a gentle, generous and helpless elder brother perfectly, contrasting against the hysterical He Qianmin who hated him blatantly, setting off the other as willful and narrow-minded. In such a comparison, anyone would choose to believe the former.

Therefore, He Qianjian had never had a direct confrontation with Jiang Chen in front of the He family before. He knew very well that he was already in a weak position, and he would definitely be at a disadvantage if he confronted Jiang Chen, but he never expected that Jiang Chen would barge into the He family, break his leg and force him to jump off the balcony.

That being the case, how could he not make good use of this opportunity, causing Jiang Chen’s status in old Mr. He’s heart to plummet, and causing the He family to feel guilty about him, while consolidating his position in the He family.

KillIng three birds with one stone.

He Qianjian hid the resentment and glee in his eyes, and waited leisurely for Jiang Chen’s answer.

Jiang Chen wiped his mouth slowly and said calmly, “It’s not a misunderstanding. He smashed my friend’s head with a stool, and I broke his leg with a table. It’s just an eye for an eye.”