As soon as Jiang Chen got off the car, he saw Mr. Xiang waiting at the street corner.
Mr. Xiang raised his hand to let him pass. Before he could smile, he saw Shi Fengyue getting out of the car right after Jiang Chen. His face darkened instantly. "Why is he here?"
Jiang Chen walked to Xiang Lao in two or three steps, and Shi Fengyue followed behind him at a leisurely pace. Hearing this, he paused slightly, stood still, lowered his head slightly, and lowered his voice: "If you don't want to see me, I'll leave."
Elder Xiang's expression changed. Seeing that Shi Fengyue seemed to be about to turn around, he gritted his teeth and said, "Now that you're here, where are you going?"
Jiang Chen saw Shi Fengyue, who had not turned much at all, immediately turned around, with a smile on his face, as if the pitiful look just now was all an illusion.
Mr. Xiang snorted coldly and turned away.
Jiang Chen followed Xiang Lao and asked, "What are we doing here?"
Mr. Xiang seemed to be angry at Jiang Chen and said unhappily, "Go ask the one you brought with you."
Jiang Chen told Mr. Xiang: "I didn't bring him here, he came here by himself."
"You won't kick him out of the car?" asked Mr. Xiang.
Jiang Chen hadn't thought about it before, but after hearing what Mr. Xiang said, he actually regretted not kicking Shi Fengyue out of the car.
Seeing that Jiang Chen didn't answer, Xiang Lao glanced at him, his eyes suddenly stopped at a certain point, and frowned, "Did you miss something?"
Jiang Chen was puzzled: "No."
Mr. Xiang: "What's wrong with your mouth?"
"My mouth..." Jiang Chen subconsciously raised his hand and touched his lower lip. A slight stinging pain was aroused by his fingertips. The memory of the car also hit him instantly. His ears instantly turned red and his eyes flickered as he looked in other directions: "The road in front of the research institute was too bumpy. I accidentally bumped into it."
"You just said you didn't hit it." Elder Xiang lectured him, frowning and saying, "The road leading out of the Military Research Institute is indeed difficult to drive on. Xiao Wu has reported it several times, but the road construction has not been approved. The efficiency is too low."
Jiang Chen smiled vaguely and did not respond.
Shi Fengyue said with a smile: "I think it's better not to repair that road."
Mr. Xiang glared at him. He didn't want to talk to him at first, but he couldn't hold back the words that were on his lips: "You can hardly go to the institute once a year. The other researchers who come in and out drive around everywhere every day. It's not painful to talk while standing."
Shi Fengyue was walking on the other side of Xiang Lao. He was in a rare good mood and lowered his head to accept the training: "You are right."
Mr. Xiang snorted and turned his head away, ignoring him.
Jiang Chen glanced at him and said to Xiang Lao, "Is it because of concealment that there is no road over there?"
"There were one or two projects that needed to be carried out in secret before, but now..." Mr. Xiang thought of something and frowned, "Even if your project is approved, it will take a few years for that road to start construction."
Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes, "If it's construction, there won't be too many people coming and going in front of the institute. Besides, that road is only a little bumpy in that section. We've been here for so many years, so it's the same if we repair it later."
Shi Fengyue continued: "With that road, the research institute will be more hidden."
Xiang Lao naturally knew all this, but when he heard what Shi Fengyue said, he became upset and said in a cold voice: "Does concealment rely on that road? It relies on the forest outside and the army beside the forest."
Shi Fengyue was repeatedly criticized, but he accepted it all with good temper, not angry at all, and even asked modestly with his lips curled: "Then why do you think that road has not been repaired?"
Old Xiang didn't want to pay any attention to him at all, and quickened his pace. Shi Fengyue followed closely, with a smile on his face. Jiang Chen observed the old man and the child from the corner of his eye. This was the first time he saw Old Xiang so "lively and energetic", and he had new thoughts about the relationship between Old Xiang and Shi Fengyue.
The main street of Antique Street is very lively and is also one of the tourist attractions in Yan City. It is very crowded with people coming and going.
Xiang Laoting was a skinny old man, but he walked faster than anyone else. When Jiang Chen was distracted, he could only see the backs of unfamiliar heads.
Shi Fengyue is still there.
Jiang Chen was tall, and being stuck in the crowd didn't block his vision much. He searched around but to no avail, so he could only ask Shi Fengyue, "Did you see where Mr. Xiang went?"
“No.”
Jiang Chen was about to take out his cell phone, but he remembered that before entering the main street, Mr. Xiang gave the cell phone to Qian Yi and others and asked them to help find a place to charge it. Now he couldn't contact anyone even if he called.
"Let's split up and look for him." The crowd kept moving. Jiang Chen was worried that the longer he delayed, the harder it would be to find him, so he made a quick decision: "Call me once we find him."
Shi Fengyue said calmly, "No need."
Jiang Chen tilted his head, thinking that Shi Fengyue had already found Mr. Xiang.
Shi Fengyue: "I know where he is going."
Jiang Chen paused, remembering that Mr. Xiang and Shi Fengyue had known each other for a long time, and he had just asked him to ask Shi Fengyue what he was doing here. He thought that Shi Fengyue should know where Mr. Xiang was going.
He checked the time and said, "Let's go over there."
After walking a few steps, he turned back to ask Shi Fengyue which direction he was going, but he saw Shi Fengyue moving slowly with the crowd, his expression calm and indifferent, as if he was walking in his own backyard. In such a crowded and noisy environment, he could actually make the crowd move in coordination with his steps.
"Can you please leave faster?" Jiang Chen said unhappily.
Shi Fengyue said as a matter of course: "People are crowding me, I can't move."
"Don't people crowding you just want you to move faster?"
Shi Fengyue stood still: "Are you anxious?"
"Of course." Today is the He family's dinner party, and he has to hurry back for dinner.
Shi Fengyue stretched out his hand, and Jiang Chen was puzzled.
Shi Fengyue raised his eyebrows and raised his hand suggestively.
Jiang Chen thought of something and couldn't believe it: "You want me to lead you away?"
"I just asked you to hold me." Shi Fengyue looked like he was thinking about Jiang Chen: "But if you want to hold my hand, I can agree."
Jiang Chen rolled his eyes at him and grabbed his arm: "Go over there."
"Go forward first."
Shi Fengyue let him pull him, followed his footsteps, and walked behind to direct the direction.
The main street of Antique Street was crowded, but the alleys next to it were a little deeper, and there were fewer tourists. Jiang Chen let go of Shi Fengyue's hand and said, "You said Mr. Xiang came to visit a friend, but why did you call me?"
Shi Fengyue placed his fingers on the hand that Jiang Chen had just held, stroking it gently twice, and raised the corners of his lips: "Professor Zhang Zhizhou."
"Zhang Zhi..." Jiang Chen paused and turned his head to ask, "Professor Zhang Zhizhou, the chief researcher of the high-performance computer with a peak computing speed of 233.5 trillion times and a linpack value of 180.6 billion times?"
"It's him."
Jiang Chen thought of many things in an instant. He was already accustomed to discussing everything about work with Shi Fengyue, so he immediately forgot about the previous "conflicting unpleasantness" and went straight into work.
"Does Mr. Xiang want to invite Professor Zhang Zhizhou to come out of retirement or just bring me here to meet him? If he wants to come out of retirement, he will definitely be the one to guide our hardware. If he just wants to meet him, there is no need to bring me here. So he should want to ask Professor Zhang Zhizhou to guide our team?"
Shi Fengyue's smile deepened: "Very happy?"
"Of course." Jiang Chen added: "If Professor Zhang joins our team, then we can speed up the project. Remember the project brief I showed you before? In fact, the software development is mainly to expand other applications of the Yangtze River system and to upgrade it more. If the team has a short running-in time and cooperates well, the completion time can definitely be faster, but the hardware..."
Shi Fengyue lowered his eyes and smiled, listening to him quietly, only interrupting from time to time. The afternoon sun lengthened the shadows of the two people, and they walked slowly, their shadows sometimes overlapping and sometimes jumping.
This was the scene that Xiang Lao saw when he was waiting at the door of his old friend's house. His eyebrows jumped, and he felt something was wrong for some reason. However, until Jiang Chen and Shi Fengyue came closer and ended the conversation, he still couldn't figure out what was wrong.
It was already late, so he put aside his doubts, motioned for the two to stand behind him, and raised his hand to knock on the door.
…
The conversation with Professor Zhang was very pleasant. Just as Jiang Chen guessed, Professor Zhang will join their team as a hardware instructor, and he will come to work after the team members have gathered.
Although he had guessed it a long time ago, it was hard to calm down in a short period of time because he was able to gather the best scientists of this era into his team, and two of them were representatives in the field of computing technology research who he had highly respected both in his first life and in the interstellar era.
Walking from the alley into the long lane, Jiang Chen's eyes were still bright, and the smile on the corners of his mouth was very dazzling.
After Fang Yuan was squeezed around in the main street for an interview, he finally found a quiet alley to rest. Before he could even sit down, he was caught by this smile.
He didn't recognize Jiang Chen because they were at a distance, but he subconsciously said to his partner, "Don't turn it off. I'll interview another person."
The cameraman followed Fang Yuan's line of sight. Jiang Chen and his companions had already come a little closer. He was slightly startled. The camera was facing them, and he couldn't help but say, "What a coincidence."
Fang Yuan saw that Jiang Chen was thinking the same thing, so he immediately went up to him with the microphone in hand and said with a smile, "Wait a moment, classmate. We are doing a street interview. Can I ask you a few questions?"
Jiang Chen recognized Fang Yuan as the reporter who came to his house a few days ago. Seeing that Fang Yuan was sweating and smiling, he couldn't refuse. He glanced at Xiang Lao and Shi Fengyue, and seeing that neither of them seemed to mind being on camera, he nodded and asked, "What do you want to ask?"
"Our freshman newspaper is conducting a survey on how students from elementary school to college plan their time and future." Fang Yuan smiled and said, "Can I ask if you are in high school or college now?"
Jiang Chen readily agreed: "A freshman."
"That student took part in this year's college entrance examination." Fang Yuan's eyes sparkled, and he moved the microphone forward: "The college entrance examination scores came out a few days ago. Can I ask how you did?"
Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows slightly, the corners of his mouth curled up, the smile just now had not faded, and now it deepened a little: "Not bad."
"Since it's not bad, can I ask about your college entrance examination score?"
"748."
Fang Yuan's eyes were about to burst into light, and he suppressed his excitement to continue the interview, but his voice was still a little trembling: "748, I remember that the highest score in previous years was not more than 740. Classmate, you are not the legendary science champion in Lianyan City, are you?!"
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