Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

As soon as Xiang Dongfang finished speaking, Cao Zhiqiang was stunned, blinked, and then sighed decisively.

"Among all living beings, where can I find a close friend in the world?"

Having said this, Cao Zhiqiang closed his eyes again and nodded: "Finally, someone finally understands me!"

Okay, that's what he said, but Cao Zhiqiang was complaining crazily in his heart. It felt like this girl didn't really have an extraordinary IQ, but at least her thinking was definitely different from ordinary people.

If Xiang Dongfang hadn't looked extremely serious when she said these words, Cao Zhiqiang would have felt that she was teasing him.

However, although she misunderstood Cao Zhiqiang's intention, if she thought about it carefully, her words were not unreasonable.

In fact, Xiang Dongfang's words, simply translated, are a further extension of the famous saying "The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility", or it is an irony.

Obviously, when Xiang Dongfang was very young, he should have been a child prodigy with an extraordinary IQ, otherwise he wouldn't have been asked to be sent to some juvenile class.

Cao Zhiqiang knows about the youth class, and it exists now. It is a proper gathering place for prodigies.

If you want to enter the juvenile class, it doesn't depend on your background or money, it only depends on whether you are young enough and have a strong IQ.

If you don't have enough IQ, let alone not being able to enter the juvenile class at all, even if you reluctantly enter the juvenile class, you will only get a lot of pain.

However, let’s not talk about what happens next. At least so far, the junior class is an enviable place.

If your child can enter the junior class, it will be more prestigious than being admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University.

After all, this era is still an era where prodigies are praised.

So normally speaking, if a child is really a prodigy, he or she will want to go to the youth class due to vanity.

This is just like a person who scores very high in the college entrance examination and becomes the top scorer in the college entrance examination, usually chooses a famous school in northern Qing Dynasty.

It is difficult for later generations to define the pros and cons of the Junior Class, but in the early 1980s, the Junior Class was still an era of blind worship.

Because of the worship of child prodigies in society, many colleges and universities later opened juvenile classes, and not only those three universities later had juvenile classes.

For example, famous schools such as Tsinghua, Peking University, and Fudan all have youth classes, but they haven't opened them yet.

Therefore, at this period, the junior class only refers to the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China. It is precisely because there is only this junior class in the country, so being able to become a prodigy in the junior class, at least for now, is really a glorious one.

However, Xiang Dongfang obviously has extraordinary intelligence and intelligence, and she could have been selected to be sent to the juvenile class, but she deliberately hid her clumsiness and deliberately refused to go. It is very similar to the protagonist in a later Japanese animation, "Welcome to the Classroom of Supremacy of Strength"

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Cao Zhiqiang is a time traveler, so of course he knows that the ending of the youth class is not very good, but Xiang Dongfang is not a time traveler, and she was still an innocent child at the time. She was able to detect something wrong with the youth class in advance, and then she found a way to hide her clumsiness.

The method was able to defeat everyone, which is quite impressive.

Xiang Dongfang definitely didn't have the foresight to see through the future. She simply made a careful analysis and found that going to the juvenile class would not be friendly to her life.

Because when you go to the junior class, you will definitely have to learn a lot of knowledge that only adults can master, which means that Xiang Dongfang needs to use his intelligence at full power in advance.

Exposure to those things too early may seem to be very glamorous, but it will lose a lot of childhood fun and make you more tired. The key is that you will become the focus of everyone, enter the eyes of many people too early, and then become someone to take advantage of earlier.

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On the contrary, if she had hidden her clumsiness, Xiang Dongfang would not have to go to the juvenile class, nor would she attract too much attention. She would go to school step by step, and she would not be given too many expectations and pressures that exceed those of ordinary people.

As a child of a high-ranking official, Xiang Dongfang has not worried about food, clothing, or being bullied since she was a child. Even if she is ordinary, she will still live in a caring atmosphere surrounded by good people, and there will be no trouble.

The rain fell on her.

In other words, if Xiang Dongfang pretends to be an ordinary person, she can fully enjoy the protection brought to her by her high-ranking family without having to go to the juvenile class alone to fight alone.

However, she had enjoyed family protection since she was a child, but she did not want to be restricted by such a family when she grew up, so she did not listen to her parents and go to college locally. Instead, she came to the capital to go to college, just to be far away from home.

After coming to college, she basically had no contact with her family, and even did not go back once during the holidays. She just wanted to deliberately use this alienation method to cut off as much contact with her original family as possible.

As a result, as time goes by, her parents will gradually distance themselves from her and focus on her younger siblings again.

Once her younger siblings grew up, Xiang Dongfang's parents began to focus on those two younger siblings, and Xiang Dongfang gradually became relieved.

In other words, Xiang Dongfang has had his own opinions and ideas since he was very young.

She used her family background to make her childhood and adolescence go smoothly without any disturbance.

When she reached adulthood and had the ability to live independently, she decisively applied for a university in the capital, and then used distance and studies as excuses to gradually begin to cut ties with her original family.

In this case, she can decide her own life without being influenced by her family.

Even if her father has another problem in the future, she will never be implicated.

It can be said that she has taken her egoism to the extreme and has been operating secretly since she was a child.

The key point is that no one else noticed her actions. Instead, they all felt sorry for her and thought it was because of her introverted personality. They then loved her even more and never thought about what her true intentions were.

It's a pity that no matter how smart she is and no matter how much thought she puts into it, all her plans are just a night walk in brocade.

It's good not to let outsiders know, but it's a bit indifferent and sad that no one can see through her true intentions.

So, she is actually very lonely.

The reason for her loneliness is that she feels that the people around her are stupid people who are not worthy of being with her or knowing the truth about her.

Well, it sounds a bit like a split personality.

However, by chance, she met Cao Zhiqiang and became interested in him.

She found that there were many interesting things about Cao Zhiqiang, and he was most likely the same person as her, but the turning point in his life was different, and his subsequent path was different.

In order to confirm her thoughts, she began to inquire about Cao Zhiqiang's situation in many ways, mainly through Cao Lili.

Then based on the intelligence she collected and her own reasoning and analysis, she finally concluded that Cao Zhiqiang was just like her, a child prodigy with hidden clumsiness.

It was only because he was forced by life and had no choice but to expose his talent when all his guardians were dead, and then he got out of hand.

But because of this, Cao Zhiqiang was favored by some big shots, and thus became a knife in the hands of those big shots, taking on responsibilities that he should not have shouldered in advance.

"I've asked about it."

While Cao Zhiqiang was still deep in thought, Xiang Dongfang suddenly said sternly: "The Hongguang Publishing House you control is a subsidiary of Hongguang Machinery Factory, and Hongguang Machinery Factory has already been put on the capital city government's renovation list.

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Starting last month, the municipal government's financial subsidy to Hongguang Machinery Factory began to be halved, and then at the end of this year, the municipal government will completely stop the financial subsidy to Hongguang Machinery Factory.

If Hongguang Machinery Factory cannot be responsible for its own profits and losses and support itself before the end of this year, it will have to respond to the above-mentioned transformation plan and actively cooperate with Shougang. In fact, it will be swallowed up by Shougang.

At that time, the main part of Hongguang Machinery Factory's production, such as workshop workers, production equipment and other parts that can create value, will be relocated.

The remaining factories, hospitals, schools and other buildings, and of course the factory land, will be taken away by the city government, and the nature of the land and departments will be converted, so that industrial land becomes commercial land, and factories, hospitals and other departments will also become government-owned.

Business units.

Once this transformation is completed, ordinary workers may not have much impact, but for those who are officials, it will not be good.

Especially Li Siming, the director of your machinery factory, is probably about to lose his power completely, be beaten to the bottom, and be relegated to the second line to wait for retirement.

Your Hongguang Machinery Factory is now like Soochow before the Battle of Chibi.

Everyone below wanted to surrender, but none of them opposed surrender.

Because for now, after the Hongguang Machinery Factory was jointly annexed and renovated by Shougang and the municipal government, the treatment of ordinary workers will not change much, and they will still be retained.

But for the leaders of a factory, or in other words, for those top people who hold great power, it is different.

Before the Battle of Chibi, all ministers of Soochow could surrender, but only the Lord of Soochow could not surrender.

On the other hand, if you look at your Factory Director Li, he is the same.

Once he surrenders, he will have nothing.

However, Director Li's energy and abilities are limited. It is impossible to turn the machinery factory from losses to profits in a short period of time just relying on his abilities.

He had no choice but to take a fancy to your talent.

You see, he deliberately applied for a publishing house, and got you, a little-known person, to be the vice president and general manager. He gave you fame and power, just to let you go big.

You really lived up to your expectations. You published a book immediately after taking over, and it immediately became a hot bestseller. I don’t know how much money you made, but it was definitely not a small amount.

Seeing that you are so useful, Director Li, in order to keep you as a cash cow, promoted you to the president of the publishing house against all opinions and became the real leader.

He seems to be delegating power to you, but in fact he is putting shackles on you to make you work harder for him.

Let's just talk about your "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes". Almost all our college students know about it, and it is even more popular than your original poetry collection.

I also know some of the inside story of the publishing industry. In a situation like this, the profit your publishing house can earn is definitely not small, at least over one million.

You have created so much value for the publishing house, but how much money will they give you? I’m afraid it won’t be a lot, right?

You seem to have great power, but don’t forget that this publishing house is a subsidiary of Hongguang Machinery Factory. As long as your Director Li is not satisfied, he can remove you at any time.

So, they are just using you and treating you as a pawn.

Although in this process, you may have made a lot of money, and even gained status and power.

But compared with your efforts, this is nothing.

I think this is very unfair to you, so I tried my best to come to you, just to wake you up and help you.

But looking at you now, it seems like you already knew all this?

Could it be that you are not simply being used, but are using each other?"

Cao Zhiqiang frowned, then smiled and clapped his hands: "It's amazing. It's really amazing. I feel like you've seen through it."

Xiang Dongfang smiled: "It's nothing. I was just a bystander. I also found some people and asked some questions, but I don't know the specific situation. I can only speculate based on the existing situation."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "So, your claim that you want to stay in the capital through my relationship is actually just an excuse. You just want to work here and help me?"

"Yes." Xiang Dongfang nodded, "If I want to stay in the capital, there are many ways, even if I don't have to find my father.

However, I suddenly felt that you are quite interesting, and you should be the same type as me, so I wanted to take a closer look at you, and if I can help you, I would like to help you.

It's a pity, after all, it's because of the same kind of people. I also think you are more than that stupid, so I can't help but tell the truth.

Of course, even if I didn't tell you, with your intelligence, you would probably have discovered my problem very quickly.

If nothing else, at least you can find out who my father is, which is not easy in itself.

You can find a way to find out who my father is, which means that you not only have a strong background, but also can find someone with a background to help.

However, what impressed me even more is that you were able to see through my disguise and find someone to check my details in advance. This shows that you are a cautious person.

You know, I have been a tutor in your family for so long, and you have always been so careless. I thought you were a person who did not stick to trivial matters and was very careless about small things.

But now it seems that you should have checked my details a long time ago, so you are so trusting of me.

A cautious and extremely smart person, who does things quietly and can hide his true thoughts, is unlikely to be used as a weapon.

If so, then there must be something else!"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "If I am such a terrible person, are you still willing to work for me?"

"Of course I do." Xiang Dongfang said with a slight smile.

"Originally, I wanted to find an ordinary place, work an ordinary job, get married in an ordinary way, and live an ordinary life.

Although I am indeed a genius with an extraordinary IQ, no one said that a genius cannot live an ordinary life, right?

On the contrary, geniuses have more choices.

I can choose to be as calm as water, or I can choose to be magnificent.

Originally, I really wanted to continue to be as calm as water, that would make me feel more relaxed.

But your appearance aroused my curiosity and interest again.

I think it might be interesting to follow people like you and see the majestic waves."

"I understand, I completely understand." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "Then there is one last question left. Since you are deliberately planning to come to work with me and take a look around me, why did you bring an outsider here?"

"Outsiders?" Xiang Dongfang was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Oh, you mean that Xu Jingli?"

"Yes!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "Why did you bring her here? Don't tell me, she is also your kind, and she is also a super genius who can hide her clumsiness!"