Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

After hearing Xiang Dongfang say that they were the same kind of people, Cao Zhiqiang touched his nose for a rare moment.

Only people who are very familiar with him know that this little gesture of touching his nose means that Cao Zhiqiang is a little embarrassed.

Because Cao Zhiqiang knows very well that if what Xiang Dongfang just said is true, then the other party is a real prodigy and he is a fake prodigy.

At the very least, Xiang Dongfang learned English and Japanese by himself, and he learned it by himself under such conditions.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, his English is fine, but his Japanese is purely based on cheating the system.

Although the results are the same, one relies on true ability and the other relies on cheating. The essence is still different.

Let’s just talk about thoughts. Cao Zhiqiang’s thoughts are the thoughts of ordinary people. As for Xiang Dongfang, it is obvious that not only her thinking is different from ordinary people, but her ideas are also different from ordinary people.

How could Cao Zhiqiang be like Xiang Dongfang, who has been a child prodigy since he was a child and wants to pretend to be superior all day long? How could he be like Xiang Dongfang, who deliberately hides his inferiority and looks ordinary, deliberately ignoring everyone?

There is also Xiang Dongfang's father, a high-ranking official. If Cao Zhiqiang were replaced, he would definitely pretend to be powerful and would not be the same as Xiang Dongfang. Instead, he would feel uncomfortable with having such a father, and even dislike others being nice to her.

Because according to Xiang Dongfang, although her father married her a stepmother, whether it was her father, her stepmother, or even her half-brothers and sisters, they were very kind to her, but there was nothing that could be said to be sorry for her.

This place has always been very caring.

But living in such a loving family, Xiang Dongfang felt very uncomfortable and disgusted, and wanted to escape from that family and stay far away.

It's like, the better I treat you, the more you hate me. Can this be the character of a normal person?

But on the surface, Xiang Dongfang sees no problem at all.

If Hao Shuwen hadn't found out Xiang Dongfang's heel, and Xiang Dongfang was deceived by her into revealing these secrets, Cao Zhiqiang would have always thought that Xiang Dongfang was a vain and strong woman who would do anything to climb up.

But now it seems that this is not the case at all. At least she is definitely not greedy for vanity.

Because what Cao Zhiqiang can currently give to Xiang Dongfang is definitely not as much as what Xiang Dongfang's biological father gave him.

But Xiang Dongfang just like any ordinary citizen, flattered herself just so she could stay on her own, instead of straightening up and telling her father to help her arrange a job to stay.

Yes, although Xiang Dongfang's father, Minister Xiang, is an official in the south, he has a wide network of contacts and has many high-ranking old comrades-in-arms in the capital.

After all, a person of Minister Xiang's level has a network of connections that ordinary people can hardly imagine.

Even Hao Shuwen said that the combined energy of her father and her father-in-law was not as powerful as that of Xiang Dongfang's father.

Because Xiang Dongfang's father is a powerful local official, he is different from Hao Shuwen's father, a senior military officer who has taken a back seat.

So as long as Xiang Dongfang calls her father, her father only needs to call a friend and arrange for Xiang Dongfang to stay in the capital. It is easy and comfortable. Even because of Xiang Dongfang's academic qualifications, ability and background, he can completely arrange for her to join

It's no problem to get into an important position and rise to great heights from then on.

But Xiang Dongfang didn't take this shortcut to the south at all. He had to use his own efforts and his relationship with Cao Zhiqiang to stay.

Cao Zhiqiang didn't believe that Xiang Dongfang knew his identity as a time traveler.

In this case, there is only one explanation. What she said is probably right. She really doesn't want to have anything to do with her family.

"Have you thought about it?" Cao Zhiqiang suddenly asked Xiang Dongfang again in a very serious tone, "If you tell me, it's like starting from scratch, without much extra help.

But if you go through your father's relationship, not only stay in school and become a teacher, but you may even directly join the department and become a cadre. Are you really willing to give up your father's relationship and energy, rely solely on your own strength, and start from scratch?

Are you struggling?"

"Of course I do." Xiang Dongfang nodded, "Otherwise, I would have publicized who my father is when I entered school, so why would I keep hiding my name? When others ask, they will only say that I am the child of an ordinary worker.

In fact, if I were willing to reveal my father's true identity to the school, I'm afraid the school would have arranged for me to become a full-time employee long ago, without the need for my father to come forward."

"That's true." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "But I still wonder why you don't use it when you have such a strong background? Appropriate use of family background is also what a smart person should do, right?"

Xiang Dongfang suddenly raised his head numbly, looked at Cao Zhiqiang steadily, and then said with a blank expression: "Since you and I are the same kind of people, you should be able to know the reason why I did this, so why bother to ask more questions.

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"Me?" Cao Zhiqiang was stunned for a moment, then frowned decisively.

Then, Cao Zhiqiang shook his head: "Sorry, maybe we are all different from ordinary people, but people are different. I may not be able to understand your thoughts, so I'm afraid I don't know the reason why you did this."

"No!" Xiang Dongfang continued to look at Cao Zhiqiang steadily, "You know, you must know, but you don't say it! Because you are still wary of me!"

Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Xiang Dongfang showed a strange smile, and then suddenly said seriously: "Okay, since you refuse to tell me, let me ask you too!

Since you are a child prodigy yourself, your talents have been outstanding since you were a child, and you have already discovered the difference between you and ordinary people.

Then why have you always been so stubborn and unmotivated, waiting for your parents to pass away and life to push you to a dead end before you were willing to reveal your talents?

Don't tell me that you had an epiphany after your mother died. Others will believe such nonsense, but I will never believe it.

The talents you are showing now must have been something you had for a long time, not just suddenly.

You may have an epiphany about your attitude towards life, or you may have an epiphany about a certain thing, but it is impossible to achieve an epiphany with a huge accumulation of knowledge.

If you have some enlightenment in mathematics, physics and chemistry and solve some super difficult problems, I won’t say anything else.

But being able to write such good poems and be proficient in English and Japanese requires a huge accumulation of knowledge. Even if you are gifted and have a photographic memory, it cannot be achieved overnight, and it is impossible to rely on some epiphany.

Apart from anything else, the poems you wrote are rich in connotation. You must have read a lot of books to write them. It is impossible to have such a huge amount of knowledge in two or three months after your epiphany.

And your English and Japanese must have been secretly worked on, at least one or two years. It is impossible to reach this level by secretly studying for two or three months after enlightenment.

But I heard that your mother passed away and you began to have the so-called epiphany. It has been less than four months since then. During this period, you have to work, write poems and publish them, open a publishing house, and run here and there. Where are you?

Want some time to study quietly?

Prodigies also need to be scientific. Without enough time and preparation, how could you perform as well as you do now?

So you must have accumulated these things early on, had those poems early on, and learned English and Japanese early on!

You know it all the time, but you never tell others, and others never know you know it. This is wrong in itself.

Therefore, you must be like me, you discovered your differences early, and then you used your own way to hide your clumsiness early, so that no one could see your difference, and prevent others from knowing that you are a child prodigy.

It's just that I'm lucky, my family has always been very good, and I have never needed to expose myself to survive, so I can continue to pretend to be an ordinary person.

But you are different. Your family conditions are not as good as mine, and life has pushed you to a dead end. You can only expose your talents and use your talents to rise.

During this period, you acted very cautiously, which is not what ordinary peers of your age should be.

Maybe the epiphany is real, but your epiphany allows you to tear off the disguise of an ordinary person and stop pretending to be an ordinary person at all.

So here comes the question. You ask me why I don’t use it even though I have such a strong background. It feels strange, but what about you?

Why didn't you show your talents and abilities earlier while your parents were still alive?

If you show your talent early and break out early, it’s hard for your father to tell you, but your mother won’t leave so early!”

Seeing Cao Zhiqiang's sullen expression and not speaking, Xiang Dongfang smiled slightly and continued with an "I've seen through you" look on his face:

"I come from a high-ranking family. I am a child prodigy, which is just the icing on the cake and more praise. I am not a child prodigy. It is just a lack of praise, and my life will not be worse because of it.

But you are different. You come from an ordinary working-class family. If you can show your talent early, you can live a better life. So why did you hide your weakness before?

So there is only one answer, because you think that hiding your stupidity and hiding it from others can make your life better and easier!"

After listening to Xiang Dongfang's words, Cao Zhiqiang was speechless for a moment.

What could he say?

Could it be told to her that the previous Cao Zhiqiang was really a weak young man, and his lack of ability was really due to his lack of ambition.

The subsequent big outbreak was just because of rebirth after death, a new soul, and a new operating system internally updated, and it was also a new operating system with plug-ins?

Finding that Cao Zhiqiang was still frowning and silent, Xiang Dongfang smiled again: "It seems I was right."

After sighing, Xiang Dongfang said again: "Many people now envy and praise prodigies, but they don't know the troubles of people like us.

When I was very young, I often had headaches because of the stupidity of the people around me. I was also tired of the fact that these stupid people couldn't see that I hated them. Instead, they were envious and jealous of me and made excuses for me.

I once deliberately looked for trouble and deliberately violated church discipline, but I did not receive the punishment I deserved. I only received more praise, saying that this was unique and that this was what a genius should look like.

If it was just like this, I would have tolerated it.

Although the people around you are stupid, just don't associate with them.

But later, I secretly heard the teacher telling my parents that a prodigy like me should be sent to some kind of youth class.

I secretly inquired about the situation in the junior class, and then I realized something was wrong.

What kind of juvenile class, to put it nicely, isn’t it just a prison and a cage?

From then on, I began to observe those stupid people, or ordinary people, who I looked down upon.

Only then did I realize that life for ordinary people is better.

On the contrary, the future life of people who are out of tune may not be so good.

So in the beginning, in order not to go to the junior class, I started to pretend to be mediocre, and I pretended to be mediocre bit by bit, showing that I was in a state of hurting Zhongyong who had exhausted all his talents.

Sure enough, they found that I was no longer special or a genius, and their attitude towards me was completely different.

Slowly, I began to discover that it was actually quite good to pretend to be an ordinary person and live among ordinary people.

Although ordinary people's lives are dull, at least they don't have to worry, they don't have so many burdens and responsibilities, and they don't have to worry too much.

I pretend to be an ordinary person and can handle various tasks easily, and I can do what I want with the extra time.

But if I were considered a child prodigy and sent to some youth class, I would definitely not be like ordinary people. I would be forced to learn things that I should not learn at my age and take on responsibilities that ordinary people do not need to bear.

If it were other people, they might be happy to contribute to the country, but I am different. I have long hated this idea.

Why must people serve the country, the people, and the collective, but why can’t they live more for themselves?

So I hid my stupidity and pretended to be an ordinary person, just to avoid some responsibilities that I shouldn't bear and to live a more comfortable life.

As for whether I hate my family, it's also because I don't want to be kidnapped by that family and have to sacrifice everything for that family in the future.

Ordinary people may envy me for having a father who is a high-ranking official, but I know that power and responsibility are equated.

The more I get from that family, the more I have to pay back in the future.

Apart from anything else, if I rely on my father’s strength to find a good job, what will I get in return?

That would have to be repaying it with my marriage, marrying the man that my father favored or designated, and having a well-matched political marriage.

Moreover, precisely because I am my father's daughter, once I take what he gave me, I will not be able to resist with any confidence when he arranges my life in the future.

Because if I resist at that time, he will self-righteously think that it is for my own good. My so-called resistance and thoughts will definitely be regarded by him as young and ignorant, as rebellion and stupidity.

Parents often think that they have rich experience and think that what they have arranged for their children is the best, but they never care about what their children really think.

Especially for someone like my father, who has always been a high-ranking official. He usually holds a high position and is used to being bossy. He also speaks his mind at home and never cares what his children think.

My brother is a fool who only knows how to obey. My sister is a little smart, but she probably doesn’t dare to resist her father.

In other words, if I don't think of a solution early, then I, the eldest sister, will definitely become the first victim in the family.

What's more, you should have seen Dream of Red Mansions, right? No one is as good as a thousand days, and a flower is as red as a hundred days.

My father is now at the top of his game and holds a high and powerful position, but who can guarantee that he will be like this in the future?

I didn't want to be a victim of my family. I wanted to live the life I chose, so I chose to hide my shame and stay away. Unless I had to, I would never reveal my relationship with my father or the others, and I wouldn't even interact with them.

In your case, although your family background is different from mine, you must have had similar experiences to me, and you must not want to become a special person who attracts all the attention, and then shoulder some special responsibilities that you are not willing to bear.

You must be like me. You want to hide your stupidity secretly until you grow up, and then go out on your own and rely on your own abilities to live the life you want.

It's just that your fate is a bit unlucky. Your mother's death and the fact that you have to support your sister force you to expose your talents.

But no matter what, once your talent is exposed, it will attract the covetousness of others.

I think that as the president of a publishing house, you are probably not willing to do it yourself, but you were forced to become the publisher, right?

If a factory leader hadn't insisted on letting you become a 19-year-old young man, how could He De have become the president of a publishing house?

Others only see your infinite beauty, but I see your sadness and helplessness.

It must be a hard time for you, too, to be forced to stand on the front desk after your talent is revealed, to be forced to shoulder a burden that you don't want to bear, and to have to carry the burden for others, right?"

Speaking of this, Xiang Dongfang looked at Cao Zhiqiang's silent expression, suddenly sighed, and reached out to touch Cao Zhiqiang's head.

"I understand, I understand everything!"

"Others envy the talents of people like us and call us geniuses."

"But they don't know that the title of genius itself is our shackles."

"The stronger our abilities are and the more unique we are, the more people will take a fancy to our abilities and the more people will want to take advantage of us."

"Just like a thousand-mile horse, the thousand-mile horse discovered by Bole is the worst thousand-mile horse, because it has to be given more expectations and forced to use more abilities. In the end, it has to become someone else's tool and keep running to death!"

"Others try to hurt Zhongyong, but I think he is a truly smart man."

"Only when you know how to hide your stupidity and how well you understand it is lost in the crowd, can you get true happiness, have the energy to spare, and truly take control of your own life."

"Only I can see the anguish in your heart, and only I can know the helplessness in your heart."

"As people of the same kind, it's better to get together."

"Otherwise, you will also feel very lonely."

"That's why I gave up my disguise and came to you, just to walk with you."