CH 148 Not Knowing How To Respond
Translated by The BL Muse (ko-fi)
When he received the call from the He family, Jiang Chen had just ended a meeting.
After working together during this period of time, most of the scientific researchers of the Changjiang Project have become familiar with each other. Jiang Chen was young, but his scientific research strength was obvious to all. Everyone usually respected him, but this time the development on the Internet had really been full of ups and downs, and everyone was curious.
After walking out of the conference room for a while, someone finally couldn't hold back anymore and turned to Jiang Chen who was talking to Professor Zhang Zhizhou: "Boss, do you know that the situation on the Internet has reversed?"
When there was a scolding war before, someone in the team wanted to hack those posts immediately, C was the most ruthless, going through the back door of those portals as if visiting his own garden, and united Shi Fengyue to plant viruses one by one, and was preparing to start a full blown war, when they were discovered by Jiang Chen, and all their attacks had to be withdrawn.
At that time, everyone didn't understand. Who knew that within a day, Hua/Yan and the research institute spoke out at the same time, and the online comments immediately reversed. Everyone was happy for Jiang Chen, but they also knew that there was definitely someone behind this incident.
——Of course they did not mean the reversing of the situation, but about the previous public opinion.
A group of computer geeks who want to find evidence on the Internet was as easy as reaching into a bag. As early as when the water army was first formed, they had stripped each one of them down to their underwears. Not only did they sort out their IPs, but they even found the name, bank accounts, and contact addresses which were all packaged and sent to the place where they should be sent.
Now that one thought about it, everyone who should have received this compressed file should have received it. If they didn't receive it, they wouldn't mind opening the gift for them.
Jiang Chen didn't know how protective this group of colleagues, whose average age was nearly ten years older than him, was, and he didn't even know that they had planned countless ways to vent his anger for him behind his back, and had even implemented many of them.
He smiled and replied: "I saw it before the meeting, thanks to Hua/Yan's statement and our institute's announcement, especially the announcement on our institute's official website, I never thought there would be such a way to directly post the research paper."
"That was put up by Xiao Shi." A relatively young man in the crowd smiled and said, "We didn't expect him to have this trick."
Jiang Chen was slightly stunned, and glanced at Shi Fengyue who was sorting out the data. Shi Fengyue glanced at him sideways, then retracted his gaze and continued to look through the data.
"By the way, I read Yan Uni's statement that you can ignore your attendance rate during school, so boss, will you go to military training?"
Jiang Chen came back to his senses, thought for a while and said, "Depending on our project progress, if it's relatively loose, I'll go."
The several people nodded and were about to say more when Jiang Chen's cell phone rang.
With a slight gesture, he left the crowd, walked to another secluded corridor and connected the call.
It was He Yanfeng who called. He gave a rough account of the things on the Internet, and then told Jiang Chen that he had received an email. The email contained evidence that He Qianjian spent money to instigate the water army to slander him. And not just him, almost everyone in the He family had received this email, including He Qianyang who was traveling abroad.
"Did you send this email?" He Yanfeng asked.
Jiang Chen: "No."
He Yanfeng believed it without further questioning: "He Qianjian's matter is not illegal, but his behavior is very bad. Now your grandpa and the others know about it and have already called him to the old house. If you have time today then stop by."
Jiang Chen didn't want to waste time on He Qianjian's affairs, so he frowned slightly: "Today I..."
"Come over." He Yanfeng said: "Your grandpa has something to say to you all."
Jiang Chen paused slightly, then agreed.
*
The old family house of the He family.
As soon as Jiang Chen entered the door, he was pulled aside by He Qianyang who had flown back at some point. He hooked an arm around his neck and raised the camera: "Come here and take some selfies with this brother, your sister-in-law wants pictures of us two."
"Sister-in-law?"
Jiang Chen was slightly stunned. He Qianyang, who already struck a pose, snapped a lot of photos of them just like that with his dazes face on display.
He Qianyang glanced at his handsome self in the camera, touched his chin in satisfaction, put away the camera and said, "You've seen her before, on my birthday."
Jiang Chen recalled for a moment and matched the person, but he was still puzzled: "Why does she want our photo?"
"You don't know how popular you are now." He Qianyang raised his eyebrows and said, "As soon as your photo came out, everyone who knew me knew that you are my younger cousin. Now everyone is asking me for your contact information, and some people want me to ask you for your signature, so does your sister-in-law."
Jiang Chen didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, but when he thought of the previous life, as long as he appeared in public places, people would secretly take photos of him everywhere, and he immediately understood.
"By the way, He Qianjian is now in Grandpa's study with my dad and your dad." He Qianyang steered Jiang Chen to go in: "He's probably being scolded, do you want to go and have a look?"
Jiang Chen lacked interest, took his hand away and sat down on the sofa. He opened the computer bag he carried with him, and said, "I still have to work, you can go see it yourself if you want."
He Qianyang clicked his tongue: "It's you that He Qianjian wants to mess with. Now I believe it. You definitely didn't send that email."
Without raising his head, Jiang Chen tapped his fingers on the computer, and lines of code appeared.
"This is your new project?" He Qianyang stuck his head over.
Jiang Chen hummed and kept typing.
He Qianyang was curious: "I heard that your project is at the confidentiality level. What are you researching?"
"Since it's a confidential project." A voice inserted and said coldly, "By are you still asking so many questions?"
"Aunt." He Qianyang said with a smile, "I'm curious. The person who is most likely to win the International Young Scientist Award is my younger cousin. When he wins the award, I, as an older brother, can't not know anything."
He Yanya knocked his head, walked to Jiang Chen and sat down.
"I heard that your project has already started."
Jiang Chen raised his head, "Yes."
"Good luck, do it well."
Jiang Chen paused, smiled, and nodded slightly: "Okay."
He Yanya also smiled, and the look in her eyes softened.
Seeing that He Yanya had nothing else to say, Jiang Chen continued to work hard.
After an unknown amount of time, there was movement upstairs.
He Yanjun was the first to come down and saw Jiang Chen who was concentrating on his work so he lightened his steps. At the same time, he glared at He Qianyang who was playing video games, and sat down beside him.
Jiang Chen felt something, and looked up to see that He Yanjun had already sat down opposite him. He nodded and greeted, "Uncle."
He Yanjun nodded with a gentle expression, old Mr. He and He Yanfeng also went downstairs, and He Qianjian was the last one walking——old Mrs. He supported him, it seemed as if he was injured.
Jiang Chen glanced over, and then turned his attention back to his work. He modified this code several times but it still didn't work out. He just discussed it among the team's chat group and got some inspiration so he wanted to find some time to modify it completely.
When Jiang Chen was working, no one spoke in the living room, only the sound of his fingers tapping on the keyboard could be heard.
Jiang Chen had always been focused whenever he did things, and he often ignored the time when he devoted himself wholeheartedly. When he finally wrote a satisfactory code, Yang Yun and He Qianmin who went to pick up He Qianyu from class had already returned, and the dining room was also ready for dinner.
Seeing that everyone was waiting for him, Jiang Chen paused slightly, a little apologetic: "Sorry, I was too devoted to work just now, and I didn't notice that everyone was waiting for me."
"What are you apologizing for?" He Qianyang said, "It was my dad who forbid us to bother you, and he is the one who should apologize."
He Yanjun glanced at him: "Little rascal deserves a beating, huh?"
He Qianyang got up, rolled his shoulders, and when Jiang Chen looked at him, his eyes vaguely gestured in one direction.
Jiang Chen followed his gaze and saw He Qianjian standing behind old Mr. He and old Mrs. He's sofa with his head bowed low. Perhaps because he noticed his gaze, He Qianjian raised his head, met his gaze for a brief moment, and immediately retracted it.
Old Mr. He coughed lowly, Jiang Chen looked over, and He Qianjian came out from behind the sofa tremblingly, walking like he had a back injury.
"Xiao Chen." Old Mr. He said: "We have heard about the things on the Internet during this time, and the person behind it is He Qianjian. Your father and uncle and I have taught him a lesson, and now he is to apologize to you here."
Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows slightly, looking at He Qianjian, whose face was shifting between green and pale, he couldn't imagine him apologizing.
However, He Qianjian apologized very simply, and his words were sincere, his expression was apologetic, and his posture was extremely low.
"My results on the college entrance examination were too poor this time. I was impulsive. I couldn't accept the gap between my scores and yours. I wanted to create some public opinion on the Internet to trouble you, so I hired a water army and people from the Xinsheng newspaper to report that you chose Hua Uni to make both schools have a bad impression of you. Now I know I was wrong and I regret it. I hope you can forgive me and give me a chance to change. I'm sorry."
Jiang Chen looked at He Qianjian who was bowing at ninety degrees in front of him. Although it was unexpected, he felt nothing else in his heart. He knew from the very beginning that He Qianjian was behind the scenes, but he didn't take this matter seriously, because he knew very well that this matter would not affect him in any way.
Later, Yan University, Hua University, and the Military Research Institute spoke up one after another, and instantly reversed the public opinion. He Qianjian's scheme was solved almost immediately after it started, and Jiang Chen would not pay any special attention to this matter. At this time, He Qianjian's apology was completely unnecessary in his opinion.
Because no matter what kind of gesture He Qianjian made, or whether he really regretted it or not, he didn't care. These would not change the plan he had already started, nor would it affect his determination to destroy the System.
"You don't need to apologize." Jiang Chen said calmly, without rushing: "Although I didn't send that email, it must have been sent by my people."
He Qianjian raised his head and looked at Jiang Chen in disbelief. He thought that Jiang Chen would respond to his apology in countless ways, including not accepting it. He had already rehearsed what he would say and was just waiting to respond back in the way that was best for him.
However, he did not expect that Jiang Chen would directly admit that the email was sent by his people. What was he doing? How should he even respond to this?