"Really... Then try marrying me."
In the evening, Jiang Hongshao's words were like a peerless swordsman who, in this cool night of late autumn, handed over a sword, appearing suddenly and stunningly.
There was a brief pause on the other end of the phone, and Cheng Ran came back to his senses and said, "What hatred do I have against you? Why are you trying to hurt me like this..."
"I'll beat you to death."
Cheng Ran narrowed his eyes and said, "If I say yes, yes, I guess what will follow is 'You are taking it seriously just because I'm joking', or 'You are not of legal age, so it's useless to say that'. Do you think you are trying to trick me?"
Jiang Hongshao chuckled, "You've become smarter... It's not fun. Even if you meet the legal age, don't think about being too beautiful."
"Do you know that provoking others like this is very dangerous, Jiang Hongshao?"
“La la la… The red star is shining brightly…”
Jiang Hongshao hummed a short tune and asked, "What's going on with you recently?"
"What's wrong?"
"I always feel like you're a little distracted."
"New school, new environment, it always takes time to adapt." Cheng Ran is not a superman. Sometimes he thinks about Tianxing Dojo, CQ, and even the overall situation of Cheng Feiyang and Fu Long. It is inevitable that he has something on his mind. However, Jiang Hongshao seems to be inattentive in school, but she actually observes herself very carefully.
Jiang Hongshao listened to Cheng Ran's tone and felt that he didn't seem depressed, which was not like the influence of the incident at Baoguo Temple some time ago. She felt more at ease and said, "Then, after lunch, we will be in the classroom. If you have any knowledge points that you don't understand, I will explain them to you."
Hearing Cheng Ran's silence, Jiang Hongshao asked, "Is there a problem?"
"Not really," Cheng Ran said, and as expected, he ended up being frivolous. "It's just that the treatment will not be too good... I'm the top student in the grade. If I agree, will I become the target of public criticism and be hunted down by many people?"
"You're exaggerating, Cheng Ran." Jiang Hongshao smiled and said lazily, "Your experience is not that bad. At most, you can't take care of yourself. Don't worry, I have plenty of fish and meat, so you won't be short of porridge. I can afford it."
"…" Cheng Ran, "You are so kind."
"No way, a person should be consistent in appearance and heart."
…
As a result, many students of No. 10 Middle School experienced a scene that made them beat their chests and stamp their feet. After lunch, Cheng Ran and Jiang Hongshao were often seen eating in the same place. Of course, at such times, there were more girls from the same class as Wei Shu and Zhao Lilin, who had a good relationship with Jiang Hongshao. Secondly, Marco, Su Hongdou and others would sometimes join in. Zhang Ping also followed Cheng Ran, and it felt pretty good.
The most important thing is that after lunch, when they return to the classroom, Jiang Hongshao will do questions and test papers with Cheng Ran. Most of them are homework assigned in the morning. However, after finishing, Jiang Hongshao will see which questions Cheng Ran is stuck on, and then she will explain them to him. Occasionally, someone will come to her at noon, it seems to be about club or student union activities, but Jiang Hongshao entrusts others to arrange it, and will turn it down if it is really not possible.
Once when she refused a literature club activity, the president was stunned for a moment, looked into the classroom through her shoulder, saw Cheng Ran sitting next to her, looked up at them, and smiled. The president of the literature club, who had worked with Jiang Hongshao for a period of time every week, also smiled at him cheerfully, but when he turned around, he felt lost, as if a piece of his youth was missing.
At the same time, he was a little envious. The boy named Cheng Ran must have seen the best scenery.
Cheng Ran found that he really liked looking at Jiang Hongshao's profile, watching her serious look when solving problems, watching her look of timidity when she occasionally looked up at him when she noticed his gaze, watching her running exercises and playing badminton in physical education class and on the badminton court, her sweat-soaked hair floating by her ears, sometimes sparkling.
She stood there on the court under the setting sun, the red light dyed her face, this scene seemed familiar. In the mountains and seas that she had to leave, and now reunited in Chengdu, and perhaps in many future periods, Cheng Ran sometimes had an impulse, hoping that in every period of time, it was himself who was watching her like this.
Such impulses are rare. In the previous life, such impulses among young adults might be common, but they are mostly unreliable, and are often just a hormone-regulated phenomenon of the young people's admiration for love.
It was precisely because he had experienced this life all over again and had gone through so many things that none of them were the right one that Cheng Ran was somewhat surprised at how precious this throbbing feeling from the soul was.
Courage is something that is often described in novels and TV shows as a person who can defeat thousands of enemies with one horse and charge into battle against a powerful enemy. However, when living in the secular world, we understand that it is easy to watch others with indifference, but it takes great courage to participate in a person's life.
Either they wander around forever, or they live together in the daily necessities of life. In the eyes of some people, either of them is like drawing a circle around themselves and asking for trouble.
Life is like a sea of suffering, and it takes courage to travel against difficulties.
…
Cheng Ran and Shanhai Fulong Courtyard have not lost contact, and they can basically maintain correspondence through letters and phone calls every month. This month, during a phone call, Yu Xiao mentioned that he knew about his ranking in No. 10 Middle School. Cheng Ran was not surprised, because Cheng Feiyang would tell people around him about his grades, and when they talked about their own children during casual chats, everyone would have common topics.
Many of these people are from the old courtyard. Some of them just came here on their own, and their family members are still in Shanhai. They just work here and go back once a week or two. Many things are common between the two courtyards.
Yu Xiao's attitude towards Cheng Ran's grades was quite good. On the contrary, he was more concerned about the progress between him and Jiang Hongshao, and he would often ask, "How far have you come? Have you held hands yet... You are really too slow. I tell you, I didn't make it to No. 10 Middle School. If I had gone to No. 10 Middle School... your relationship with Old Jiang would have nothing to do with it."
"Here in Shanhai, I gave it to you, did you know that... I have a bottle of Robust milk at home, which was fed to us by Lao Jiang before, remember? At that time, you were given mineral water, and I got that bottle of milk... There was a moment when I told you that Jiang Hongshao was very serious about me that time. I still have the bottle, which is a testimony that I didn't respond at that time, I gave it to you..."
Cheng Ran simply hung up his phone. When it rang again, he picked it up and the voice on the other end was Yang Xia.
The slightly arrogant voice of the girl who had been familiar to me since childhood rang out, "Cheng Ran, I heard that your results in No. 10 Middle School were not very good this time... Could you please pay more attention? After all, you are the first in our Shanhai No. 1 Middle School. Isn't it enough that our teachers usually compare us with the students of No. 10 Middle School and Mianzhong Middle School?"
"Many people are not convinced. You are in No. 10 Middle School. Some people have been asking about it through their friends in No. 10 Middle School. Your ranking this time has spread throughout No. 1 Middle School. Yao Beibei also heard teachers in the office talking about you. It was our Tan Qingchuan and the 'Egghead' who used to teach Class 3. They lamented that No. 10 Middle School is different. Like Old Tan, many people actually have high hopes for you..."
Then Yang Xia dragged out his tone and murmured, "No. 10 Middle School, the whole province knows that there are so many beautiful girls... The atmosphere there is relaxed, it's because they have the resources, you are also slacking off, are you unable to walk?"
Listening to the scolding on the phone, Cheng Ran shook his head and smiled. Miss Yang's temper seemed to be the same as always.
…
On November 3rd, at the time agreed with Li Mingshi, the first version of CQ was officially formed after testing and revision. The server was set up in the Rongcheng data hangar in Fulong. Cheng Ran and Li Mingshi's team released the software to the BBS forums of various universities as scheduled. In fact, they are very familiar with this aspect. Li Mingshi's team includes graduates from West China Normal University, Rongcheng University of Science and Technology, Nankai University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Beijing. Li Mingshi also asked for help from his graduate student senior who is an administrator at Tsinghua Forum, and provided a top download recommendation on Shuimu Forum, and then put it on some developer forums and entertainment forums.
Cheng Ran also contacted Xie Feibai's uncle Xie Qian, hoping that he would help publish CQ's advertisement on the Sitong portal website. Money was not a problem. As a result, Xie Qian asked, "Is this developed by him?" Cheng Ran told the truth, and Xie Qian said, "Why spend money? It's something developed by my own nephew. I recommend it to you in the best position for one week."
Cheng Ran was a little stunned. This was also in this era. In fact, through the coverage of the World Cup this year, the traffic of Sitong has increased significantly, with more than 400,000 visitors per day, which is probably the largest scale of Chinese websites in the world. If it is the kind of traffic in the future, it will be terrible if it is recommended for a week.
After writing about Uncle Xie, Cheng Ran and Li Mingshi's team dealt with these matters calmly.
The current gimmick is that you can use this online paging software to directly send information to a personal pager for reception. Although mobile phones have already shown their advancedness in the era, pagers have been widely distributed since the 1990s and are still the mainstream of personal communication. This year, Bird produced more than one million pagers a year. Being able to communicate with a pager through computer dial-up and software is a very technological experience at that time.
This small software has spread like wildfire.
At that time, it was just a tiny wave.
Cheng Ran did not use his so-called "creative number" 100101, but registered another number: 225628. He then introduced this software to Jiang Hongshao and helped her apply for a number. Old Jiang has a computer at home. This Sunday, the shadows of the trees were swaying outside the window.
A "beeping" sound that seemed to come from another world came from the turned-on computer.
Cheng Ran was sitting in front of the computer when he saw the cartoon image of the female "Sonic the Hedgehog" flashing. He clicked on it and a message box with the number 278866 popped up. There was a line of text on the end, "Is this the chat app?"
Cheng Ran typed: "Yes, you can change your nickname."
After the reply of "Oh.", a message came, "User 278866 changed his nickname to 'Ginger Spring'."
Cheng Ran clicked on the nickname he wanted to change: "Cheng Dachui."
A pop-up message came: "Network world, let's reintroduce it."
"Hello, beautiful lady, my name is Cheng Dachui." Cheng Ran smiled and typed.
"Hello, handsome guy, my name is Jiang Changchun." Imitating Cheng Ran's response, Jiang Hongshao raised her head. On the second floor of the villa in Huanhua Creek, the Ludao Island was shimmering with ripples. She was wearing a pair of soft fur slippers, picked up the black tea on the table, held it in her hand, took a sip, and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth.
The sunlight shines into the house through the leaves and falls on Cheng Ran's body, bringing some warmth and condensing time.
The times are turbulent, and this scene is inconspicuous in the gap.