CH 149 Starting College
Translated by The BL Muse (ko-fi)
Jiang Chen put down his laptop. He didn't look at He Qianjian, but said to old Mr. He: "Grandpa, I heard that you have something to tell us."
Old Mr. He looked at Jiang Chen with an inscrutable expression, and nodded after a while: "In the future, Qian Jian will move out from your parents' house. I heard that it is not convenient for him to live in your adoptive parents' house, so he will live in the old house with us."
Jiang Chen had no objection, and only He Yanya frowned slightly, as if she didn't like this decision very much, but she didn't say anything.
After the matter was finished, the whole family had dinner. After the meal, He Qianyang asked about He Qianjian's college application.
——Recently, there had been a lot of noise about which school Jiang Chen would apply for, and Jiang Chen had already received the pre-admission notice. Instead, everyone had forgotten that there was still a person in this family who needed to apply for a college.
He Qianjian's originally relaxed expression changed slightly after hearing He Qianyang's words. Before anyone could notice, he immediately adjusted his expression: "I plan to study at the city college."
He Yanya frowned, "Where is the city college? It isn't in Yan City?"
He Yanfeng said lightly: "It's not far from the old house, half an hour by bus."
"Is that a third-rate or second crate college?" He Qianyang asked, "How many points did you get this time? Why did you choose this school?"
He Qianjian paused, and lowered his voice when he spoke: "Second-rate."
"Second-rate?" He Qianyang glanced in the direction of his father, only to see that he was reading a newspaper, as if he didn't care about this side at all, and then turned his gaze to He Qianmin.
He Qianmin received He Qianyang's puzzled gaze and gave him a look. He Qianyang was even more puzzled and shocked.
He knew He Qianjian's previous grades. Even if something happened to him during the college entrance exam, he wouldn't be reduced to this level unless he handed in a blank paper.
Thinking about it this way, He Qianyang asked, "Did you miss the exam or did you hand in a blank paper?"
He Qianjian's complexion changed slightly, and he felt that every word He Qianyang said was ridicule and sarcasm, but he had to endure it forcefully, letting the humiliation and unwillingness in his heart eat away at him.
"No, I didn't feel well the next day, so I didn't do well on the exam."
He Qianyang didn't really believe it. As the eldest, he always talked to his younger cousins, and he was not at home during this time, so he had no special views towards He Qianjian, so he treated him no differently than before. When he heard this reason at this time, he didn't believe it at all.
"Based on your previous grades, as long as you didn't pass out, you wouldn't get this score. What's going on?"
However, while in He Qianyang's eyes his attitude was exactly the same as before, in He Qianjian's eyes, it was sarcasm. He secretly cursed the He family for being all the same, saying that feelings were the most important, but in the end they all stood by Jiang Chen who could bring them benefits.
He Qianjian only felt mockery in his heart. He twitched the corner of his mouth when facing He Qianyang, and said with a wry smile: "I don't know, I was not clear-headed at the time."
He Qianyang saw that his complexion was not very good, and suddenly realized that what he just asked might make He Qianjian unhappy, but as someone who had been through it, he felt that he could still provide some advice on filling in the application form: "How much is your total score? Let me help you find out which school is suitable for you to apply for. The City College is too lacking, it’s almost at the bottom of the second-rate college list and almost third-rate, so you should choose another school.”
He Qianjian was silent for a while without speaking, and it was He Yanfeng who answered for him: "408."
He Qianyang nodded: "For 408... 408?"
He Qianyang didn't hide his expression at all. He Qianjian only felt humiliated, his face turned green and then pale. At this moment, he felt that He Qianyang was as hateful as Jiang Chen.
After a brief silence, He Yanfeng said, "Enough, his school has already been decided, so there's no need to look at other schools."
He Qianyang coughed lowly, touched his nose and stopped talking.
He really didn't know He Qianjian's score. He went abroad for vacation just after the summer vacation. He would come back this time because Jiang Chen's affairs caused too much of a stir. He came back to see what was going on because he was a little worried. Moreover, Jiang Chen's score could be easily found on the Internet. When he asked He Qianjian, he didn't think too much, he just wanted to help.
After dinner in the old house, Jiang Chen went back to the He family's house for the night, went to the Jiangs' for lunch at noon the next day, and then went back to the research institute.
Time passed in an orderly manner. In the past month or so, Huo Bo took over the responsibility of the company, showing extremely fast growth. Shen Xu studied along with him. He never showed much interest in managing the company. However, he was very keen and sharp-eyed in regards to recruitment, and temporarily took over the position of HR in the company.
The scientific research team finally became familiar with all the operations and functions of the Changing system under the leadership of Jiang Chen, and started the formal stage of innovative research and development. Jiang Chen led Shi Fengyue and two other researchers to form a small team to study the home version of Changjiang.
When the company and the Changjiang project were on track, his first semester at Yan Uni was also ushered in.
As a person who dominated the topic in the first half of the summer vacation, before the start of school, there was already a high degree of enthusiasm in Yan Uni’s forum and various discussion groups. The military training would start soon, and many sophomores and juniors who did not need to come to school in advance all came to the school in advance, just to see Jiang Chen's true face.
During this summer vacation, Jiang Chen focused almost all his energy on Changjiang. The previous news and interviews had long been forgotten by him. He Qianmin even called to remind him to fill out the application form, so that he would not miss the deadline.
Before school started, the home version of Changjiang had already taken a small prototype. The other members of the team who were not involved in the research and development of the home version were very pleasantly surprised. They did not expect Jiang Chen and his team to be so efficient.
In fact, it was not just them. The other two researchers working with Jiang Chen and Shi Fengyue were also at a loss. The algorithm had already been determined, and Jiang Chen practically took care of most of the code rewriting work. Oftentimes his comprehension speed was faster than theirs, and the only one who could keep up with Jiang Chen was Shi Fengyue.
It was also because of this that other scientific researchers who originally had a bad impression of Shi Fengyue because of his bad reputation were able to get along with him so quickly. After all, in scientific research, strength and talent were more important.
At first, there were some people who complained because Shi Fengyue was "specially recruited" because he didn't have any relevant papers other than two patents, but after working together, they understood why the several old professors in the field of computing technology research were so sad and disappointed that Shi Fengyue didn't take this path.
When everyone found that a medical student was stronger than them, any amount of dissatisfaction disappeared. When Jiang Chen announced that he would leave for a month and that the Changjiang home version team would be temporarily managed by Shi Fengyue, no one raised any objections.
Yan Uni's military training started half a month earlier than the start of school. Jiang Chen returned to the Jiangs' house one day earlier, and went to school with Shen Xu and Huo Bo the next day.
Huo Bo chose the finance department of Yan University. Shen Xu was afraid that he would not be able to be accepted, so he chose to accept a transfer of majors. Unexpectedly, he was transferred to the law department he least wanted to go to. Before the start of school, in the small chat group of the three of them, Shen Xu wailed every day, full of fear for the four years of university life.
However, don't know what happened but just a few days after the military training, Shen Xu changed his previous resistance and suddenly looked forward to the start of school. He counted down the time of the military training every day, and on the day of reporting he was even more joyful. Excitement was written all over the strands of his hair.
Jiang Chen looked at Huo Bo: "What's going on with him?"
Huo Bo didn't know either. He spent the whole summer vacation on the company's affairs, studying and managing at the same time. Even though he made rapid progress, he made many small mistakes during this period. Luckily, the company was still small with a simple network of employees so remedies were timely and did not cause any loss to the company.
But also because of these small setbacks, his time and energy were already completely taken between the company and his studies, so he couldn't care less about what Shen Xu was doing every day.
Hearing Jiang Chen's words, Shen Xu opened the car window, smoothed his hair back, and winked at the two people in the back seat: "You will find out later."
Huo Bo looked away in disgust, and focused on the work in hand again. Jiang Chen was for once quite free, and wanted to care more about his friend, but before he could ask any more questions, the car stopped.
Jiang Chen's computer department and Huo Bo's finance department were in two directions, while Shen Xu's law department was next to the computer department. It would be closer to get to the finance department through another entrance, so only Jiang Chen and Shen Xu got out of the car.
There were freshmen coming and going at the school gate, and many volunteers from other grades received them warmly. When Jiang Chen got out of the car, he felt the eyes gathering around him. He paused slightly, "Is there something on my face?"
"Yes." Shen Xu said with a smile, "You are amazingly handsome."
Jiang Chen elbowed him, finally recalling the previous news and the turmoil on the Internet. He nodded to the two girls who turned their heads frequently, and asked Shen Xu, "Is it because of the gossip during summer vacation?"
"That's the one." Shen Xu smiled and waved to the people looking this way, and said: "Do you know how famous you are now, and even now in Yan Uni's forum, the discussion is all about what you look like in real life. Look over there someone is snapping your picture."
Jiang Chen raised his eyes, and saw a boy put down his camera. He didn't panic at being caught, and walked over with a smile: "Classmate, you are Jiang Chen, right? I'm Zhang Zhe, a junior in the Department of Computer Science, Mo Xi's roommate."
Jiang Chen paused, nodded and said, "Hello."
"Let me take you to the computer department." Zhang Zhe looked at Shen Xu and said with a smile, "You are Shen Xu, right? The law department is not far from our department. I'll send you there later."
Shen Xu wasn't at all shy: "Then I'll trouble this senior brother."
Jiang Chen didn't expect that he even knew Shen Xu, and was slightly surprised. Zhang Zhe seemed to see his surprise, and said to him with a smile: "You don't know, those junior sisters in our school's journalism department have super fighting power and in the past two months they practically dug up all aspects of information on you, including your two best friends. The other is Huo Bo, right, in the finance department."
"...Right."
Probably because he thought Jiang Chen's expression was funny, Zhang Zhe gave him a heads up: "You'd better be mentally prepared, in just another 200 meters, you might be surrounded."
"What do you mean?"
After the words fell to the ground, Jiang Chen paused and looked forward.
No less than ten senior brothers and senior sisters wearing volunteer armbands made their way over with a clear goal in mind, and their steps were getting bigger and bigger, heading straight over here.
Zhang Zhe shrugged: "It seems that there is no need for two hundred meters."