The bus went down the crossing and arrived at the platform. Cheng Ran and Yu Xiao got off the bus as the hydraulic gate opened.
"From tomorrow on, I can't make a blackboard with you guys..." Yu Xiao looked like she had lost her parents, "It's all because of my mom! Her classmate is now a science teacher at No. 2 Middle School. She's running a sprint class for the high school entrance exam and she asked me to go to her every afternoon after lunch to take a make-up class. I'm really convinced by my mom..."
Yu Xiao showed a look of genuine disappointment and was very depressed.
Losing the time to spend with Jiang Hongshao felt like something was taken away out of thin air.
"I'm telling you, Cheng Ran, without me, you should be more polite to Lao Jiang... If you chase her away, I'll hold you accountable..." Yu Xiao warned, "You just don't know how to get along with girls. You pushed her away at first, and Lao Jiang didn't get angry... Look at Liu Ying and Yao Beibei, when they heard that we were making a bulletin board in that place, they immediately wanted to stay away from us. Lao Jiang lent us watercolors and sent us food. Hey, the Coke she brought was delicious, wasn't it? The doll heads she brought were delicious, weren't they... Cheng Ran, don't you understand... Without me, would you be able to eat these things?"
"What do you mean?" Cheng Ran asked.
"I know how to get along with others and I can talk, unlike you... You see, Lao Jiang is in a group like ours, I know how to behave, so naturally she feels very happy. She feels that such a group is very harmonious, so she will make spontaneous contributions... She bought us water and brought us some food... Isn't it because of the beauty of our daily blackboard newspaper time! So when I'm not here, you have to keep it up."
"Yeah?"
"yes!"
"Okay." Cheng Ran nodded with a smile.
"By the way, why did you want Xie Feibai's phone number? You don't really intend to have any contact with him, do you..."
Yu Xiao frowned, and seemed to mature all of a sudden, and said to Cheng Ran earnestly, "Let me tell you, what kind of background is their family, and what kind of family is ours... It's different. Look at his interactions with people in society... It's best not to have any entanglement with such a person. Otherwise... Be careful not to get yourself involved."
The young Yu Xiao knew about the fame of Xie Feibai, who was only a middle school student, but he also understood the gap between his ordinary family and Xie Feibai's level. He also roughly understood that a person like Xie Feibai was a giant ship, and they were like the small boat next to it. When the huge waves came, others would remain stable, but a small boat like theirs would probably end up being shattered to pieces. So based on the principle of seeking benefits and avoiding harm, Yu Xiao did not think it was a good thing for Xie Feibai to show goodwill to Cheng Ran, and he also hoped to remind him to stay away as much as possible.
Of course, what Yu Xiao saw at this moment was boundaries everywhere, just like Cheng Ran in his previous life. He certainly didn't know that in Cheng Ran's eyes, the world was already boundless.
"I know." Cheng Ran looked down at the number on his palm, then raised his head and looked into the distance, thinking for a moment. After a moment, he turned around and patted Yu Xiao's shoulder, "Let's go home."
As they were walking back with Cheng Ran's arm around their shoulders, Yu Xiao seemed to remember that Cheng Ran's attention seemed to be focused in one fixed direction recently when getting on and off the car. Yu Xiao turned around and saw that the direction was a fork in the street. There was a clay pot rice noodle shop that had been opened there since they could remember. The taste of the mushroom clay pot rice noodles would make people drool just by thinking about it.
Next to it is a small corner where bicycle tires are repaired and tires are filled and pumped up. Next to the hardware store is a disc rental store that rents VCD movie discs. At this time, VCD players have become part of thousands of households, and these street rental stores have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. It usually costs 30 yuan a month, and you can rent all kinds of movies, and even some discs that are not suitable for children. Most of their adolescent enlightenment education comes from the movies rented from these places.
There's nothing special about that street.
"Yu Xiao, do you think things like life and fate can be changed?"
Yu Xiao laughed, "Of course, fate cannot be changed, because it is a predetermined result. For example, with your current grades, it is impossible for you to be admitted to No. 1 Middle School, but there is a one in ten thousand chance that you have absorbed all your review, so you are admitted to No. 1 Middle School. Many people may think that this has changed your life, but strictly speaking, this is still your predetermined fate and life. Your life is just that your grades suddenly improved and you were admitted to No. 1 Middle School."
Cheng Ran smiled and said, "Thank you for watching."
"But I don't have the final say. I do notice that you're much better at math now... Maybe your review is effective... But don't forget, there are still so many subjects! But it's not without a chance. As long as the gap is not too big, within 30 points, someone like me can get in if I grit my teeth and ask my parents to pay a high price!" Yu Xiao never hesitates to criticize his best friends at times like this.
"Thank you for your honesty!"
Cheng Ran punched him, and Yu Xiao rubbed his shoulders and grinned.
The two men entered the compound with a smile.
Yu Xiao's words are correct in a certain sense, provided that parallel time and space do not exist. However, his experience of rebirth can establish a coordinate system, allowing him to compare his present life with his previous life, and come to the conclusion that probably no one in this world can reach: fate can be changed.
But is he capable of changing
Do your best.
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"The domestic backbone communication network has been expanding, and the switch market has also been enduring. The earliest market was derived from the high initial installation fees of telecom operators. Telecom operators charge high initial installation fees, but small switches can significantly reduce the initial installation costs of various units and residential areas, so they became popular. At that time, Huatong Company was an agent for foreign brands, and its profits were several hundred million, which was not considered a domestic giant..."
Whenever Cheng Feiyang talked about his analysis of the market, he was always eloquent and enthusiastic. And from Cheng Ran's advanced vision, his father was simply shining at that time.
"In this rapidly growing market, some domestic manufacturers have begun to enter the production of switches, but Huatong Company has abandoned this path, believing that domestic switches can never be compared with foreign ones, and therefore will not have the upper hand in the quality competition. I criticized this idea at the beginning, and sure enough, it didn't take long for domestic brands of switches to be born. These low-priced products entered the market, and the high-priced foreign switches were immediately defeated! Those manufacturers, it can be said that as soon as they made a product, countless orders were snatched away... In those days, a small production company, even a small factory that could supply, could have sales of over 100 million!"
“After these years of development and evolution, those first-mover advantages have gradually been lost, but the expanding market has a huge demand for new, more advanced, and higher-capacity machines. From the perspective of technical parameters, the Fulong we developed can fully enter the market of high-capacity programmable switches and establish a benchmark. With a suitable price, we may be able to ride on the wave of development in this market renewal period… We no longer have the investment of Shanshui Development, and now we can only hope to break through the last few technical nodes of Fulong. As long as we can break through, perhaps the source of subsequent funds will be guaranteed.”
Cheng Feiyang has also been making a final desperate effort in his career recently. The company can hardly afford to pay salaries, and most people in the technical institute have to support their families. They can go out to find jobs and earn a living with their own abilities. There is no reason for Cheng Feiyang to restrict them. This is a serious issue of survival.
We can only take advantage of this last moment to make the final sprint.
When he said this, Cheng Feiyang still felt a little guilty towards Cheng Ran, "Dad has been coming home very late every day recently, and sometimes he can't take care of you. Your high school entrance exam is approaching..."
Xu Lan also has a job, and sometimes she gets home from get off work after six o'clock every day. Normally, Cheng Feiyang, who lives closer, goes home to wash, cut and cook for Cheng Ran. Now that things are busy, Cheng Feiyang basically has to work overtime, and Cheng Ran often goes home without food.
So the two of them bought meal tickets for Cheng Ran at the company cafeteria, which was still contracted to outsiders at this time, so that Cheng Ran could go to get his own meal or make instant noodles if no one was home. It was common to see Cheng Ran holding a large bowl and being filled with rice by the chef of the company cafeteria.
Seeing the two large boxes of instant noodles in the corner of the house, Cheng Feiyang felt a surge of guilt.
Cheng Ran smiled, "Dad, you are working hard, and I am working hard too. Let's work hard together. You do your Fulong well... I will get into my high school. How about we join forces when we succeed?"
"You kid..." Cheng Feiyang stretched out his hand and rubbed his hair, feeling indescribably relieved. "If you can really get into No. 4 Middle School, whatever you want to eat, dad will treat you!"
"Just eat some delicious skewers!"
The lights in the house are bright yellow. Although this family is like a lonely boat that is tossed around in the tide of the times and has an uncertain future and destiny, the warmth in this small boat is eternal.
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