Establishing a company is a huge undertaking, and there are too many things that need to be prepared in the early stages. Jiang Chen mentioned this not only to give Huo Bo and Shen Xu some psychological preparation in advance, but also to give them a goal.

In the first life, Jiang Chen was devastated by a family accident and often skipped classes. Shen Xu and Huo Bo sacrificed all their rest time for him, and stayed with him almost every weekend, holiday, winter and summer vacation from the second semester of the second year of high school to the third year of high school. At that time, in order to cheer him up, they somehow came up with the idea of ​​studying with him.

Jiang Chen didn't want to study but couldn't refuse his friend who came to him with a book to ask for advice. After a while, he gradually came out of the shadow, and Shen Xu and Huo Bo unexpectedly got good scores in the college entrance examination because of a whole year of study. However, the current situation is different from the first life. Jiang Chen is no longer depressed, and Shen Xu and Huo Bo don't need to study to motivate their friends. Just like before, one wants to study but the other doesn't study at all.

So, Jiang Chen once again gave them a goal, a future that was within their reach.

When Shen Xu first heard that he and his good friend were going to start a company belonging to the three of them, his blood couldn't stop boiling, especially when he heard Jiang Chen say with certainty that their company would be at the top of the world, he was like a chicken with blood injected, and he came to Jiang's house on time every day to attend classes with his books.

However, his boiling passion was cooled by the endless sea of ​​questions within a few days. He lay on the table and said weakly: "Jiang Zi, I really can't study anymore. I beg you, let me play a game, or let Changjiang chat with me, I will rest for half an hour..."

Jiang Chen paused while turning his pen and turned to look at Huo Bo.

Huo Bo said calmly, "School starts in a week. We agreed that those who get low scores on the test the day before school starts will bring breakfast for the entire semester."

"Need I tell you the result?" Chen Xu pressed his face against the table even more tightly, complaining, "You hid it better than Jiang Zi. You are the last in the grade, but in just one month, your grades surpassed those of me who are in the top 200. Jiang Zi must have installed a chip in your brain, right? Did Changjiang secretly give you extra lessons?"

Huo Bo glanced at him with disdain and lowered his head to do the questions.

Huo Bo was unwilling to pay attention to Shen Xu anymore, so Jiang Chen had to fight on his own: “Your grades have improved a lot, and you still have a chance to win the exam when the time comes.”

"I won't listen!" Shen Xu covered his ears and said, "You two are just trying to trick me into studying."

Jiang Chen was silent for a moment, took a deep breath, and said, "Are you going to do it or not?"

“No!”

Jiang Chen stood up and stretched his arms.

Chen Xu shrank back, hugged himself and said, "You are threatening! It's intimidation! If you do this, our friendship will be in jeopardy! For the sake of our friendship..."

Huo Bo put down his pen, stood up and stretched his neck.

Shen Xu quickly picked up the pen and opened the exercise book: "I'll do it!"

When the summer temperature in Yan City reaches its highest point, it is time to go to school.

Jiang Chen came out of Fu Jinyu's office and turned a corner to see Sun Zhi coming out of the Academic Affairs Office at the other end. He paused slightly and Sun Zhi happened to look up and look at him.

"Hurry up?" The middle-aged woman next to Sun Zhi did not stop walking. She turned back and said to him, "Tell me what's the use of you? You are not good at studying and housework. You are so big, but a group of people caught you in a fight. How can you, a sports student, go to college with such a heavy punishment? Do you think it's still the time when your uncle is the vice president here? Can you be smarter?"

The woman walked for a while, and seeing that Sun Zhi didn't move, she frowned and turned back and said, "I'm in a hurry to go back and cook for your dad, what are you doing standing there?"

Sun Zhi stood there, staring at Jiang Chen, gritting his teeth.

Jiang Chen curved his eyes and curled his lower lip at him. He probably guessed the reason why Sun Zhi was punished. During the summer vacation, he had a fight with He Qianjian in the park behind the skating rink, and Sun Zhi was one of He Qianjian's people. He had been hiding behind other people before, and Jiang Chen's attention was all on He Qianjian, so he didn't notice him until the police came. He Qianjian couldn't run fast because of his injury, and Sun Zhi was pushed out by their people to run to the other side to divert the police. Then he noticed him.

The middle-aged woman followed Sun Zhi's line of sight, and after seeing Jiang Chen, she asked, "Is this your classmate?"

"No." Sun Zhi came back to his senses, and the voice seemed to be squeezed out from his throat: "He is a senior in high school."

"Then why are you staring at him?"

"He was there during the last fight."

The middle-aged woman suddenly turned to look at Jiang Chen, her eyes swept across his clean and handsome face, and hesitated for a moment: "Did he fight with you?"

Sun Zhi gritted his teeth: "It was him who beat us."

The middle-aged woman was stunned for a moment, her expression changed instantly, and she asked: "Why didn't you say anything in the office just now?"

"No one would believe me even if I told them." Sun Zhi said, "He is the top student in his senior year."

"You are so stupid. It is because he is the top student in the grade that you want to..."

Jiang Chen listened to the conversation between the two, smiled lightly, and turned to go downstairs.

Huo Bo and Shen Xu were waiting downstairs. When they saw him coming down, Shen Xu complained, "Why did it take so long? I'm almost melted by the sun."

"I ran into Sun Zhi and his mother." Jiang Chen said calmly, "Last time we had a fight, he was the only one caught. Now the school knows about it, and it seems he was given a serious warning."

Chen Xu sighed, "You deserve it."

Huo Bo leaned against the pillar with his arms folded. He suddenly looked up and saw the middle-aged woman Jiang Chen had just met coming down from upstairs. She grabbed Jiang Chen's wrist and said, "Come with me to the Academic Affairs Office. You hit my son, why should he be punished when you are fine? The school must treat everyone equally! Either both of us should be punished or neither of us should be punished!"

Jiang Chen was not annoyed when he was caught, but smiled good-naturedly: "Auntie, are you sure you want me to go to the Academic Affairs Office with you?"

Sun Zhi hurried over, grabbed his mother and asked, "Mom, what are you doing?"

"Let's go to the Academic Affairs Office again." Sun's mother said, "I want to see if this place of teaching and educating people can treat students equally."

Jiang Chen used his eyes to stop Huo Bo who wanted to go forward, handed the competition exercise book in his other hand to Chen Xu, and said with a faint smile: "Since Auntie wants to go, let's go."

This was the scene Fu Jinyu saw when he came down from upstairs.

He frowned: "What is this for?"

Sun's mother looked Fu Jinyu up and down and asked, "Are you a teacher here?"

Fu Jinyu: "I am Jiang Chen's math teacher."

"That's great. Come with me to the Academic Affairs Office. I want to ask you teachers why he beat my son, but he is fine while my son is."

"Jiang Chen hit your son?" Fu Jinyu's eyes moved from the pale and thin Jiang Chen to the dark and strong Sun Zhi who was half a head taller than Jiang Chen. He said with a smile: "Dear parent, are you sure?"

"Why are you not sure? My son said it himself."

Fu Jinyu looked at Jiang Chen: "What do you say?"

Jiang Chen said calmly: "I didn't hit him."

"Okay." Fu Jinyu nodded: "Let's go to the Political Education Department together."

In the office of the Political and Educational Department, the director of the department stared at Sun's mother, feeling very troubled.

"Director, you must give me an explanation for this matter!" Sun's mother said, "Otherwise you are treating students with good grades and students with poor grades differently. If this is the case, I will report this to the Education Bureau to handle this matter."

The director of the political education department said, "My dear parent, I understand that you want fairness, but the two children have different opinions on this matter. One said he beat him and the other said he didn't. We should follow the evidence, right? At that time, only Sun Zhi was arrested and taken to the police station, and he had an impact on the school. Why do we need to involve other people now?"

"What do you mean by involving other people?" Sun's mother said excitedly, "Why should my son be punished while he has nothing to do with anything? This is unfair! I will go to the Education Bureau to sue you!"

Hearing that Sun's mother had been complaining to the Education Bureau, the director of the Political Education Department looked a little darker. He turned to look at Sun Zhi and said, "Tell me, did Jiang Chen hit you? Where did he hit you? Was it on your face or body? Do you have any evidence?"

"I beat him..." Facing the director's dignified look, he paused and said, "I didn't beat him..."

The director of the Political Education Department put down his pen heavily and asked: "Did he beat her or not?"

Sun Zhi was so nervous that his whole body was stiff. He blurted out the truth without thinking: "He didn't hit me, but he hit someone else."

"Then why did you just say he hit you?" Chen Xu interrupted, "Director, I suspect Sun Zhi was just accumulating revenge. When the results of the joint exam came out last semester, he promised someone from Chenghua to threaten Zhang Zhipeng from our class to trick Jiang Chen out. Unexpectedly, Jiang Chen saw him and broke his plan. He was so angry that he blocked Jiang Chen on the Saturday of the joint exam week. Huo Bo was there and can testify to this. At noon that day, Jiang Chen went to Teacher Fu to ask for leave, and Teacher Fu can also testify to this."

Fu Jinyu thought for a moment and nodded, "It is true."

"Jiang Chen was not injured because Huo Bo showed up in time that day. Later in the summer vacation, we ran into each other at the skating rink and had some minor conflicts. I guess he wanted to drag Jiang Chen into it after he was caught in a fight. This is not the first time he has wanted to harm Jiang Chen."

Recalling the time that Shen Xu mentioned, the director of political education suddenly remembered something and said, "You were the ones who fought outside the school that day? You ran pretty fast."

"That was the day when Sun Zhi led his men to block Jiang Chen." Chen Xu looked at Sun Zhi, his voice a little cold: "I don't know what kind of bribe he received from people from other schools. During the fight, he said he would break Jiang Chen's hand so that he would never be able to take the exam again. He..."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Sun's mother interrupted Shen Xu and said, "You are slandering me!"

"Go and see if Zhang Zhipeng is still in school." The director of the Political Education Department frowned and said to Shen Xu, "If he is, call him over. We'll know if he is slandering or talking nonsense after confronting him."

Sun Zhi's face turned pale. He had never thought that Chen Xu could bring up something that happened so long ago. If Zhang Zhipeng really came and confirmed that he wanted to hurt Jiang Chen, then this matter would not be settled even if he was given a serious warning. Moreover... he didn't know what He Qianjian wanted to do to Jiang Chen, but if he was expelled from school, He Qianjian would definitely not give him money to monitor Jiang Chen. He would have no books to study and no money, and then he would be finished.

"Don't call him!"

Shen Xu paused, and everyone in the office looked at Sun Zhi. Sun Zhi said with a pale face, "I was talking nonsense. Jiang Chen didn't fight. I was just jealous of his good grades and I couldn't stand him, so I slandered him."

The director of the political education department looked at Fu Jinyu and said thoughtfully, "Sun Zhi's parents, this matter is not just about Sun Zhi fighting, but also about slandering senior students and threatening to hurt others. How do you think our school should deal with it?"

Sun's mother looked at Sun Zhi's expression. No one knows a son better than his mother. She knew at a glance that what the boy said was probably true. She was panicked and angry, but she had to speak for her son: "Sun Zhi is only in the first year of high school. He may have learned bad things from hanging out with his friends and lied. Director, please give him a chance. I promise he won't do it again."

"Fighting, bullying classmates, and teaming up with students from other schools to bully and harm students from our school." Fu Jinyu said expressionlessly, "Dean, these are enough to expel him."

"No, no, no, teacher." Sun's mother instantly lost her previous arrogance and said anxiously, "Teacher, you misunderstood. My Sun Zhi usually has a good personality. He must have been led astray by those bad students in his class. Give him a chance, and he will definitely turn over a new leaf."

Fu Jinyu and the director of the political education department did not speak, so Sun's mother turned her attention to Jiang Chen. She held Jiang Chen's hand again and said with a smile, "Classmate, you are two or three years older than Sun Zhi, and you are smarter and more mature than him. You must be very kind with such good grades. How about we just forget about this matter? Can I just consider it as a request from my aunt?"

Jiang Chen pulled his hand away and said calmly, "Auntie, I have no say in how to deal with Sun Zhi. Everything can only be decided by the school."

The director of the Political Education Department also frowned: "Mr. Sun Zhi, Jiang Chen is the complete victim in this matter. Why are you dragging him to do this?"

"I……"

The director of the Political and Educational Office made a decision without waiting for Sun's mother to speak: "Regarding Sun Zhi's treatment, I will discuss it with the teachers in the Academic Affairs Office. He should not come to school tomorrow and will be suspended for a period of time. We will notify you when the results come out."

"How can this be possible?" Sun's mother was dissatisfied: "Sun Zhi is now a sophomore in high school. What if he can't keep up with the classes when he returns to school after a period of suspension?"

"Then maybe you can just help Sun Zhi with the transfer procedures?"

Sun's mother paused for a moment, then immediately put away her dissatisfaction and forced a smile, saying, "I understand, Director. I will take Sun Zhi back first. It is true that our Sun Zhi did something wrong. I hope the teachers will give him another chance."

The director of the Political Education Department nodded perfunctorily and looked at Jiang Chen with a kind smile: "Student Jiang Chen, if you encounter any difficulties in your study and life in the future, you must tell the teacher. Your homeroom teacher for the new semester has been arranged. It is Teacher Fu. If you have any problems, tell him. If you really can't help, you can come to me. Got it?"

Jiang Chen smiled and nodded: "Thank you, Director Liu."

The director of the political and educational department said this in front of Sun Zhi's mother and son. Sun's mother's face turned pale. She pinched Sun Zhi's arm, pulled him to apologize again before leaving the office.

As soon as they left, Jiang Chen and the other two also left the Political Educational Department.

On the way to the junior high school, Jiang Chen received a call from Jiang Zhuo.

Today is also the day when the court tried Yang Tianci. Jiang Zhuo told him that the verdict of Yang Tianci has come out. Because of the serious circumstances, Yang Tianci was sentenced to ten years in prison. The two elderly people of the Yang family were also present just now. When they heard the result, Mr. Yang fainted on the spot and was taken away by an ambulance not long ago.

After saying this, Jiang Zhuo sighed and said, "School starts today. I heard that no one took Yang Shengmao to report. He is still staying at home. His mother left the Yang family a while ago. I don't know what will happen to him as a child after this incident is over."

Yang Si's voice could be heard faintly from the side: "From now on, whatever the Yang family does has nothing to do with our family. What happens to Yang Shengmao is up to his mom and grandparents, not us."

Jiang Zhuo said: "Of course, the Yang family's affairs have come to an end. From now on, our family will live our own lives. It's good to be simple."

Jiang Chen hung up the phone, and Chen Xu was still gesticulating and describing the expressions of Sun Zhi and his mother at the time: "Sun Zhi's mother should learn Peking Opera face-changing. She would definitely be a mainstay in a minute. She has a different expression from moment to moment, and she is quite flexible. Why didn't that idiot Sun Zhi learn this from his mother?"

Huo Bo sneered: "He didn't learn it? I think he learned it very well."

"Where did he learn that?" Chen Xu said, "I saw that he couldn't hide his expression at all. When I mentioned the time when he blocked Jiang Zi, his face changed instantly. Later, he said he was going to find Zhang Zhipeng and stopped me without thinking. Who wouldn't understand this? He thought that since Zhang Zhipeng didn't come, Director Liu would just ignore it."

Huo Bo turned to look at Jiang Chen: "Uncle's call?"

Shen Xu also turned around immediately: "Has Yang Tianci's verdict come out?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "Ten years."

After the words fell, the clear voice of the young man pierced through the noisy crowd, attracting Jiang Chen and the other two to look forward.

"elder brother!"

At the school gate, He Qianmin, who had been tanned several degrees, smiled with his white teeth and waved vigorously in the sun.

Chen Xu laughed out loud: "Why are you so tanned?"

The first year of high school started ten days earlier than the second and third years of high school because of military training. Now it is almost the end of the military training. Due to the long period of sun exposure, people can tell the first year students from the second and third years of high school just by their skin color without having to look at their military training uniforms.

Standing among a group of tanned high school freshmen, He Qianmin was already considered fair, but in the eyes of Shen Xu and others who had seen his past appearance, they still couldn't help but want to laugh.

The boy next to He Qianmin bumped his arm and said, "Fuck, that's Jiang Shen from the third year of high school, right? I've seen him in a post from No. 1 Middle School before. Is that your brother?"

"What's wrong?" He Qianmin asked.

"That's awesome." The boy gave a thumbs up and leaned over to say with a flattering smile, "Bring a brother along to share the happiness with you in the future."

"Not only Jiang Shen." Another boy also came over: "The one on Jiang Shen's left is Huo Bo, the school bully from the high school, right? And the one on his right is Shen Xu, who is from the student union. Although he is not the president, no one in the whole No. 1 Middle School can compare to him in terms of popularity. These three together are simply invincible."

“So amazing?”

"They must be amazing." The boy said, "Have you seen the post at the top of the forum? Besides the rules, there is another rule: the three people you should not offend at Yanyi are the top three."

Others also came over and after hearing the boy's explanation, their expressions changed when they looked at He Qianmin. Someone clicked his tongue and said, "You are the boss's younger brother, and the boss's friend is also the boss. Then you will be able to walk sideways in Yan No. 1 Middle School in the future, right?"

He Qianmin raised his chin and pursed his lips to suppress the corners of his mouth that were raised. He didn't know why, but when he was in Chenghua, whenever someone implicated him and He Qianjian, he couldn't control his anger, but now when he heard others tying him and Jiang Chen together, he just wanted them to say more, and it would be best if everyone knew that he was Jiang Chen's brother.