In the second half of the meal, Jiang Yueqin stood up and said she would cook two pots of cabbage soup for everyone, and then went to the kitchen. The chef invited by Chen Huiyan left in time after cooking, but there were still a lot of ingredients. Jiang Yueqin found a few cabbages, put them in the sink, turned on the faucet, and the water in the sink splashed white foam.
Li Jingping came out from the back, filled the pot with water, put it on the gas stove, and then looked at Jiang Yueqin, "Today... why did you want Hong Shao to call Cheng Ran?"
Today, the family invited friends who came back from the Chinese New Year. Originally, there was no need to invite Jiang Hongshao's classmates, but Jiang Yueqin suggested that Jiang Hongshao invite Luo Wei and the others, and also invite the classmate named Cheng Ran. At that time, her daughter's ears pricked up, but she finally said yes obediently.
Li Jingping had been speculating in his mind for a long time, and finally spoke up at this time.
Jiang Yueqin picked some vegetables and turned around, "Any questions?"
"Are you planning to create some obstacles for him? Or are you holding a grudge against him because of what happened before?"
Jiang Yueqin rolled up her sleeves, picked up a cabbage that she was washing and waved it in front of Li Jingping, splashing water on his face. "Even a pig has entered the house to eat your daughter's cabbage. I'm giving you a warning. The guards of this gate... are not just chevaux de frise stakes, but also moats and ditches."
Li Jingping wiped his face with a strange expression, "Put the cabbage down first. I don't think it's that serious... Cheng Ran and Hong Shao are just classmates. She may admire her. After all, Hong Shao is excellent. Who doesn't have a little admiration for her after meeting her? But it's impossible for her to have any improper thoughts. And..."
He tilted his head towards the living room and heard the discussion about Fulong Company coming from there. He frowned and said, "Didn't you let him in?"
Jiang Yueqin was stunned for a moment, then looked annoyed, "You don't understand, you're not here usually, High School Hongshao is here with me, she always consults with me about anything... But ever since Cheng Ran was transferred to her class through her connections, she doesn't talk much about school matters when I ask her, she talks all about it on the CQ online and on the phone. I think I should shut down the internet and take back her phone, and return it to her during the holidays."
"You have no reason. She has such good grades and is very well behaved. I can't find any flaws."
Li Jingping said, then stared at his wife, "You are not... jealous of Cheng Ran because of Hong Shao, right?"
"Would I be jealous of him?" Jiang Yueqin's slender eyes were like Mu Guiying in the opera, her pupils sparkling, as if she wanted to scare the enemy to death, her voice was calm and cold, "Why should I be jealous of him, who is he? A little brat... I don't believe that his tail can be lifted up to the sky? I want to let him know that there are people who are better than you."
Although his wife looked serious, Li Jingping liked the charming Beijing accent that came out of her words. He laughed, "… You are so grown up, a leader older than me, how can you act like a child?"
The water in the pot boiled, and the cabbage was put in until tender. Jiang Yueqin reached out to pick up the pot and pour out the soup. Then she turned her head. The tip of her nose, which was exactly the same as Jiang Hongshao's, was less than an inch away from Li Jingping's face. "Don't interfere with what happens next. Just watch and listen. Don't say anything. Don't worry... Can you do it?"
Li Jingping pointed at his eyes, mouth and ears and said, "Don't look at what is inappropriate, don't say what is inappropriate, don't listen to what is inappropriate."
Jiang Yueqin turned around and went out with a bowl of cabbage soup to entertain the guests.
Li Jingping looked at her graceful figure and the charming look she gave him at the last time, and smiled dumbly. After a moment, he shook his head and said helplessly, "Women... are unreasonable."
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At the end of the meal, Li Jingping and other men were still drinking and chatting at the square table, while the female family members and young people had already moved down from the round table and sat on the sofa in the living room to talk.
After dinner, Aunt Li, the nanny who was usually responsible for cleaning and the daily life of the Jiang family mother and daughter, came to wash the pots and dishes, so Jiang Yueqin didn't have to do it herself. However, she and her best friend Chen Huiyan still put the dishes and chopsticks of the people at the next table into the stainless steel sink.
After finishing, he cut some fruit and brought it to the living room.
Jiang Hongshao's living room is actually in simple European style. It is a two-story high hall. In front of the coffee table made of glass and sandalwood is a TV cabinet with a plasma TV on it, which is not turned on. In the back is an American-style fireplace made of red bricks. The main sofa is made of gray-brown top-layer calfskin, and there are two short side sofas on the left and right.
When everyone sat down, a very natural environment for chatting was formed. The overhead chandelier was turned on, and the warm white light was cast. Although it was dark outside, the atmosphere here seemed even more peaceful.
There were many people present, and the sofas were not enough to seat people. Su Hongdou hurried to help Jiang Hongshao move some chairs to the living room. After everyone sat down, Cheng Ran sat on the last chair that Jiang Hongshao moved and smiled at her, "I would be disrespectful to refuse such a good service."
Jiang Hongshao then realized that Cheng Ran didn't take his seat just to wait for this moment, as if she had moved the chair specially for him... If it were in the past, she would probably have slapped the man who dared to take advantage of her on the shoulder without hesitation, but now, in front of everyone, she could only remind herself to be a lady and glared at Cheng Ran with hatred.
Seeing that the usually proud Lao Jiang was now allowing himself to bully her, and she was unable to resist due to the situation, her face as red as Fuji apple, Cheng Ran was secretly happy.
As a result, Cheng Ran didn't feel comfortable for too long. He turned around and saw two pairs of eyes from Jiang Yueqin and Chen Huiyan, like snow wolves that had been stalking their prey in the snow for a long time.
It turned out that the banter between me and Jiang Hongshao just now was seen from beginning to end.
Looking at Jiang Yueqin's face, which was as ridged as the snow-capped peaks of Mount Nanga Parvati but covered with frost and mist, Cheng Ran always felt that the other party seemed to have misunderstood something... but he was speechless for the moment.
Jiang Yueqin suddenly waved to Jiang Hongshao, "Come here, Aunt Chen bought you a coat, try it on..."
"Yeah." When Jiang Hongshao stood up and walked over, Chen Huiyan promptly gave up the seat next to Jiang's mother. Cheng Ran didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that the moment Jiang Hongshao sat down next to her, Jiang Yueqin's lips curled up slightly without making a sound, as if she had regained the power of life and death.
This is... putting eye drops on yourself.
The episode was just an episode. Just now at the dinner table, Luo Wei mentioned the debate between Cheng Ran and Sun Xiao. Everyone looked at Cheng Ran and refreshed their cognition. If he had previously studied Internet theory more deeply as a high school student, now he is brave, not afraid of authority, and even very thoughtful. He does not follow the crowd and can see the truth. However, as the elders present, they frowned a little, thinking that in that kind of situation, this teenager refuted others in front of school leaders, newspaper reporters and famous experts. Isn't it a bit wild
It was the first time that Chen Huiyan heard of this. She glanced at Jiang Yueqin and thought that she finally understood why her best friend was so wary of Cheng Ran.
However, the young people present did not have such concerns. No matter whether it was Luo Qin, Wei Weiqing, or Gao Lin, they all looked at Cheng Ran in surprise when listening to Luo Wei and the others' vivid description. Gao Lin also said, "You are quite good. Even the experts can compete with you!" The other two also nodded at him in approval.
Of course, they still faced Cheng Ran with the airs of university seniors, with an attitude of "What a capable little brother!"
Gao Lin asked, "How did you know that the expert made it up? After all, even I have heard about this expert's stories." He certainly wouldn't say that he had no doubts, but putting himself in Cheng Ran's shoes, he felt that he might not be as organized as Cheng Ran was when he stood up.
When talking about this, Jiang Hongshao's beautiful eyes moved and she looked at Cheng Ran, as if she remembered what happened that day. Cheng Ran stood up in front of her, and the shadow formed by the light shining on him enveloped her. That feeling... very reassuring.
Cheng Ran couldn't say that this rumor had already been debunked in the future, so he said, "I usually like to read newspapers and cut out the good ones when I see them. At that time, I happened to see the rebuttal article, so I kept it in mind. I didn't expect that later, Sun Xiao came to our school..."
Cheng Ran said casually, paused for a moment, and was about to say something like he loved to study and think hard. Jiang Yueqin suddenly spoke in this gap, looking at Gao Lin with some concern, "How are your studies at the University of Mannheim? Do you find it hard? You should know that the economics department of your school is said to have kidnapped the German government and the European Central Bank. It is said that the world's top investment banks will come to your school for recruitment. You studied accounting, right? I know that this major is not inferior to the top 50 universities in the United States. Your parents should be proud of you for the rest of their lives for being able to get in. Auntie knows that you have always been excellent, but remember to be humble and calm. Do you have any long-term plans for the future?"
Originally, it was Gao Lin who was asking Cheng Ran, but Jiang Yueqin's words immediately changed the subject, not giving Cheng Ran a chance to continue to perform, and directly brought the topic to another level. Since they didn't want to dwell on these things, Gao Lin, an international student from a prestigious university with bright prospects, was enough to be the real focus of the chat at this time.
Gao Lin was flattered to be praised in public by Jiang's mother, and he responded to Jiang Yueqin, "Mannheim University is not well-known in China, so I may stay there in the future. Language integration was difficult at first, but it's better now. It's just that there's not much sunshine in winter, so it's rumored that Germans suffer from depression in winter... But it is indeed a developed country, and there are many aspects that we can learn from."
Jiang Yueqin nodded. "When we went to Europe for inspection, we visited an agricultural machinery factory in Mannheim. What I remember most is that in the center of the factory there was a statue of the founder of the former tractor factory that they had acquired. After acquiring it from someone else, they still kept the statue well. This is actually a kind of preservation spirit. I have a very good impression of Germany. Their factories are highly automated and precise, just like their rigorous people..."
Jiang Yueqin and Gao Lin talked about Germany, as if they were elders guiding the younger generation, but they also showed their appreciation and praise for him. For a moment, everyone looked at Gao Lin with a halo.
But when Jiang Yueqin mentioned this, Gao Lin looked a little hesitant and did not respond to her point of view immediately.
Cheng Ran saw Gao Lin hesitated to speak, and he knew it well. In fact, the so-called rigor of Germans is like saying that all Chinese people know kung fu and that every household in Chengdu keeps pandas. It is just a labeling behavior. At least the general feedback from the Germans Cheng Ran met and dealt with later and those who returned from studying abroad is that people are actually like that. The so-called rigor of engineering is because they are developed and have a management system. If the acceptance is not qualified, it means they are not competitive. If the quality does not meet the standards, the contract will be terminated. The rigor of academic studies is because such people are very steady in doing things. Similar examples can be found in other countries.
International students like Gao Lin probably start their study abroad career with admiration for the Germans based on rumors, but end up finding that many things go against their wishes.
Cheng Ran said, "In fact, Germans are not so meticulous in their daily lives... Their railways are known as the most delayed in Europe, and there are also situations where the road is marked on the map but you can't actually find it."
The atmosphere came to an abrupt end.
"How do you know?" Gao Lin looked at Cheng Ran and nodded in sympathy. "When I first went to report, I caught the wrong bus. And when I go out, whether it's DB or ICE, I often encounter delays of a few minutes. Lateness is the norm. There was an extra digit printed on my residence permit. Later, I went through various channels and it took me a week to get it back..."
Maybe because he wanted to complain too much, Gao Lin said in one breath, for example, some students skipped classes in college, and some were lazy when doing group assignments...
This made his mother Yuan Hui keep winking at him, but as a young man, he didn't care about so many things. Because the things that happened during his study abroad were really unpleasant, he complained about everything he could, especially since there was someone like Cheng Ran who "understood him", so he must have been holding it in for a long time.
Jiang Yueqin's face was once again covered with frost and mist like the snow-capped Mount Nanga Parbat.
Chen Huiyan almost couldn't help laughing. She looked at her arrogant best friend. She must have been very frustrated.
Luo Weishu, Jesse, Marco, Su Hongdou, looked at Gao Lin, then at Cheng Ran, and felt that Cheng Ran became even more mysterious. He was indeed worthy of being called Brother Cheng.
Jiang Hongshao looked at Cheng Ran with a smile on her face. It was obvious that she had already seen through the wit between him and her mother.
Jiang Yueqin withdrew her gaze from Jiang Hongshao. Her frosted face only appeared for a few seconds. Her usual manner was there. At this moment, her eyebrows slightly raised. She turned to Wei Weiqing and smiled, "It is said that your team has successfully manufactured the 'digital high-definition television system' this time, and thus won the second-class national scientific and technological progress award. I heard from your father that this has basically laid the foundation for the digital industrialization project? Can you tell me what it will develop into in the future? A future great scientist?"
Wei Weiqing was a little proud and shy, especially when he praised Jiang Yueqin so much, and responded with a red face, "In general, we have a domestically produced digital high-definition TV. We can also make some of the imported TV systems... The next step is transmission, such as terrestrial broadcasting. In the words of our mentor, it is to open up the Ren and Du meridians. In simple terms, it means that the TV does not need to be received through satellites or cable signals, but only through ground antenna towers. Whether it is fixed or mobile, high-definition images can be received! This solves the problem of watching TV in areas with sparse populations and large geographical areas."
Everyone paid curious attention to it. Gao Lin asked with a smile, "This is great. If we continue to develop it, we won't need cable TV in the future. How much material can we save?"
Wei Weiqing showed some arrogance and pride at this time, "You are only considering one aspect."
"So will we be able to watch TV in our cars in the future? Or even use a portable TV that can be equipped with batteries and watch programs when we go out?"
"good."
"Wow… "
Human beings have never lacked beautiful visions of the future, and it is a wonderful thing to immerse ourselves in such imaginations.
Cheng Ran suddenly realized that the quality of television broadcasts by current TV stations is still very grainy and the picture quality is relatively rough. However, with the changing times, TV pictures are becoming sharper and higher definition, more realistic, and restoring the true nature of the world to the greatest extent. This is actually the process of researchers like Wei Weiqing constantly polishing and improving this technology.
Cheng Ran said, "This technology has a bright future. It can transmit high-definition digital signals, which means it can transmit more information signals. In the future, with ultra-high-definition wireless networks, it is very likely that anyone with a mobile phone that has a TV screen will be able to watch high-definition TV and pictures, and even make face-to-face video calls with the person on the other side."
In this era when wired dial-up networks transmit at speeds of only tens of kilobits, who could have imagined that we would enter a world of high-speed 4G and 5G wireless networks in the future
Everyone saw that Wei Weiqing, who had been responding calmly to everyone's compliments and had a somewhat cold demeanor, suddenly looked up and looked at Cheng Ran in surprise, "What you said is exactly the same as what my teacher had imagined. After solving the single-carrier transmission technology, he will work on high-speed network transmission, but he said that this is a castle in the air and an extremely long-term goal..."
Su Hongdou and the others all exclaimed "Oh!" and looked at Cheng Ran.
Ma Ke laughed and said, "You have a very rich imagination, Cheng Ran!"
Cheng Ran laughed, "It's just good luck..."
When Jiang Hongshao looked at Jiang Yueqin, her face was once again covered with frost and mist like the snowy peak of Mount Nanga Parbat. Then she stood up, expressionless, and said, "I'll go get some water."
…
In the kitchen, Jiang Yueqin held a one-liter cup and poured water into it in big gulps.
Thinking about how she had to bring up the topic time and time again, just to overwhelm Cheng Ran by showing off others' excellence, but in the end she always got the upper hand over him... The topic never went in the direction she expected.
It was clearly just a conversation after a family dinner, intended to give that kid a warning, but it ended up being like she was fighting those old foxes at a government meeting!
The key is that I haven’t taken advantage of it yet!
Interesting, interesting...
The enemy is strong...
It's also unforgivable...
Boom!
Jiang Yueqin took a big gulp of water and then slammed the cup onto the table, splashing water all over her hands.
She wiped it casually with a handkerchief and narrowed her eyes.
Interesting... Maybe I was too impatient. So next, I should just sit back and wait for the right opportunity to strike.
She walked back into the living room, regaining her dignity and elegance.
The people over there were already chatting about all sorts of things.
Then she sat down, as if she had become a different person, smiling... and quietly listening to everyone's conversation.
Everyone was talking about a place called Tianxingdaoguan in Chengdu.
Luo Qin smiled and said, "You have all been there before. I was dragged there by a friend when I returned to China. We played board games and surfed the Internet. It was pretty good. But what I know is that the building was opened by a group of students younger than us. They are said to be still in high school. I have a friend who knows one of the shareholders."
Luo Wei and the others also nodded and looked at Cheng Ran and said, "Cheng Ran also knows their shareholders, right? When we went there to play that day."
This is Xie Feibai, Cheng Ran nodded. However, since Cheng Ran mentioned this topic just now, he found that the smile of Aunt Chen, the best friend of Jiang Hongshao, looked a little mysterious.
Jiang Yueqin smiled and said at the right time, "Really... If that's the case, then it proves that there are still many excellent young people among us today!" She paused, seemingly speaking to the young people present, but her final gaze fell on Cheng Ran, "You are still far behind, you need to learn more..."
Jiang Hongshao and Cheng Ran... their eyes met.
Some people tried to hold back a knowing smile.
Chen Huiyan almost covered her face with her palm.
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