As early as after the house in Wugu Village was transferred, Jiang Chen entrusted Chen Fang to help him find someone to renovate it. Because he was too busy, except for the initial finalization of the design drawings and modification plans, he rarely went to the site. Everything was reported to him remotely by Chen Fang and photographed.
Now that the development notice has come down, all residents of Wugu Village need to sign a cooperation contract. Jiang Chen took this opportunity to ask Li Nanfeng to find a professional inspection team to check the decoration effect together.
Chen Fang had been waiting at the entrance of the village early. When he saw a luxury car approaching, he couldn't help but take a few more glances. Unexpectedly, the car stopped right in front of him, and Jiang Chen and two young men got out of the car.
"Mr. Jiang, you're here." Chen Fang's eyes quickly swept over the two people with extraordinary demeanor behind Jiang Chen. He was secretly shocked, and at the same time, he couldn't help but add some weight to his speculation about Jiang Chen's identity. He smiled and asked, "Are these two going with you to look at the house?"
"Yes." Jiang Chen was somewhat helpless. After Li Nanfeng learned that he wanted to find someone to inspect the house, he enthusiastically helped him find a team of inspectors and asked Shi Fengyue to come and take a look, saying that he was too young and could be easily fooled, and that the two of them would be more able to deter those who wanted to deceive him. Then, without waiting for Jiang Chen to object, he arranged everything properly, and drove directly to wait downstairs of his house early this morning.
"Jiang Xiaochen, the scenery here is nice." Li Nanfeng took off his sunglasses and took in the colorful flowers on both sides of the road. It is now late autumn and it is rare to see such scenery.
"Because Wugu Village has many hot springs and the temperature is kept at around 20 degrees all year round, the surrounding vegetation and flowers are different from other places in Yan City. If you go further in, you will see more differences." Chen Fang said with a smile: "Mr. Jiang, and these two gentlemen, please come this way."
Jiang Chen smiled and briefly introduced Shi Fengyue and Li Nanfeng. After saying hello, Chen Fang led Jiang Chen and the other two inside, introducing the future development area as they walked: "Mr. Jiang, you can rest assured that in order to maintain the original ecological environment to the greatest extent and not disturb the residents here, the side where you live will be strictly protected. Even if a plank road is built on the mountain or other construction is done, it will not affect the living here at all."
Going up all the way, from the wild flowers to the endless flower fields to the village filled with the faint fragrance of osmanthus, Li Nanfeng sighed sincerely: "Jiang Xiaochen, why didn't you tell your brother when you bought the house? The environment here is so good, even if it is not developed, it will be comfortable to buy a house for yourself."
Jiang Chen: "I didn't know you at that time, Brother Li."
Shi Fengyue sneered, Li Nanfeng turned his head and crossed his arms: "If he didn't know me, did he know you at that time?"
Jiang Chen: “I know him.”
Li Nanfeng stumbled, and saw from the corner of his eye that Shi Fengyue's eyebrows and mouth were full of ridicule and complacency. He sneered, walked around Shi Fengyue, leaned close to Jiang Chen's ear and said, "Listen to my advice, pay less attention to Shi Fengyue in the future, he is not a good person, and ah ah ah - Shi Fengyue, you are going to break my fingers! Let go!"
Shi Fengyue calmly let go of Li Nanfeng, naturally inserted himself between the two of them, patted Jiang Chen's shoulder lightly, and explained lightly: "All the dirt on his hand rubbed against your shoulder."
"How could my hands be dirty--" Li Nanfeng's voice of complaining while covering his hands came to an abrupt end when he saw an obvious gray mark on Jiang Chen's white sweater. It seemed that he had indeed been skipping stones on the water.
The marks on his shoulders were wiped clean, Jiang Chen looked up and smiled, "Thank you."
Shi Fengyue lowered his eyes and smiled: "No need."
Li Nanfeng rubbed his fingers together, suppressed all the curse words in his stomach, and followed behind angrily.
After walking for about 20 minutes, Li Nanfeng, who was lagging behind, suddenly stopped and quickened his pace to catch up with Jiang Chen and his friends. He pointed at a small building not far away and said, "That house is nice! Whose is it?"
Chen Fang smiled and said, "That's Mr. Jiang's house."
As they were talking, they had already walked to the opposite side of the small building, from which they could see the entire three-story building clearly.
According to Jiang Chen's narration and the designer's drawing, the building was almost demolished and rebuilt.
The small building in front of you is square as a whole, but not rigid at all. Four rectangles of different lengths, widths and heights form staggered floor heights, adding a sense of design to the exterior of the house. As a result, there are balconies and large terraces extending from the original walls. The small building, with white as the main color, is matched with dark gray rectangles extending from the wall and large floor-to-ceiling windows. The collision of colors and visual harmony form a more three-dimensional and modern whole.
The three of them crossed the street and came to the entrance to the courtyard. The periphery of the courtyard integrated the overall design sense of the house. The entrance door, garage door and small flower bed were not in a straight line, which distinguished the functions of the house and avoided mutual interference. Except for the front wall which was made of old wall bricks in a light wood color, the other three sides were black. At one-quarter and two-thirds of the front wall, there were two black metal doors that looked like the same material as the frame of the floor-to-ceiling windows, one was the entrance door and the other was the garage door. In addition, there were two small flower beds of different heights built with black wall bricks next to the door, but they were big enough for the entrance and were planted with green plants, which made the house and the courtyard echo each other while adding a bit of warmth and vitality.
Judging from the appearance of the house alone, this house looks better than the decoration renderings Jiang Chen had seen before.
Jiang Chen sincerely thanked him: "Brother Chen, thank you for your hard work."
"This is what I should do." Chen Fang did not take credit for it: "I took the initiative to take on this task, and you trust me so much, of course I can't let you down."
Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows and smiled, then walked to the black metal door on the outside with familiarity. His finger lightly touched a protruding piece of metal, and a blue light passed through the metal surface, revealing a touch-screen electronic screen. The original password was entered correctly, and the door opened automatically with a click.
"Is this what you were tinkering with in our mobile phone screen R&D lab?" Li Nanfeng approached the door, touched the metallic screen, and whistled: "Jiang Xiaochen, is there anything you can't do? This screen is much cooler than the touch-screen phone we are about to launch. Do you want to sell your technology?"
"The raw materials cost more than 100,000." Jiang Chen pushed open the door with a smile: "If you install this screen, how much do you plan to sell your phone for?"
Li Nanfeng's hand on the door froze, and he laughed dryly: "We'll discuss this later."
Jiang Chen was the first to enter the house, followed by Li Nanfeng. After he saw the high-ceilinged and light-transmitting entrance, he couldn't wait to take a look around. After looking around, he had only one thought: "Who is the designer of your house? Introduce it to me immediately. I need to renovate my villa in the northern suburbs urgently."
Chen Fang had been silent since he entered the room. When he heard what Li Nanfeng said, he smiled and said, "All the designs here were completed by Mr. Jiang. All the drawings of our designers were made after Mr. Jiang's oral instructions. So if Mr. Li wants to find a designer, he can only discuss it with Mr. Jiang."
Li Nanfeng was silent for half a minute before he asked very slowly, "Master Jiang, besides giving birth, is there anything you can't do?"
Jiang Chen chuckled: "This house is not designed by me. All of this is the work of the designer. You can find him if you want to renovate it."
What he often said was the truth. He was just describing the house he lived in during the interstellar era. It was because of the designer's amazing understanding that the small building now has a 60% similarity to the house he lived in back then.
Shi Fengyue pointed to a piece of black metal in the corner and asked, "What are you going to do with these boxes embedded in the wall?"
"Isn't that a detail that matches the overall design?" Li Nanfeng pushed open the French window and exclaimed in surprise, "Hot springs! Jiang Xiaochen, you really know how to enjoy yourself!"
Jiang Chen didn't expect Shi Fengyue to be so observant. He didn't hide it: "I plan to design a security system that can monitor the entire house. These boxes will be useful then."
"Security system?"
"Yes, there is already a prototype, but it may take a few years for the final result to come out."
Shi Fengyue was very interested and wanted to ask more questions, but Li Nanfeng squatted beside the hot spring and shouted to them from a distance: "Let's take a bath!"
Shi Fengyue's eyes moved slightly and he looked at Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen smiled and said, "If you don't mind not having a change of clothes, you can take a bath if you want."
Li Nanfeng couldn't wait to soak in the hot spring. He ran in like the wind, took off his coat and put on slippers, and asked in a formal way: "Jiang Xiaochen, can I soak in your hot spring?"
"Of course." Jiang Chen repeated what he had said to Shi Fengyue and said, "I still have to go upstairs to communicate with the testing team. You guys go to the bar first."
The testing team was all men, so Li Nanfeng had no scruples: "Brother Shi, let's go together."
Shi Fengyue: “Not interested.”
Finally, Li Nanfeng was soaking in the hot spring in the backyard alone, while Jiang Chen and Shi Fengyue went upstairs to inspect the house together.
Half an hour later, the testing team finished the test and handed the results to Jiang Chen, then said: "The quality of the house, including the materials used for decoration, is very good. There will be no problem moving in right away."
Jiang Chen: "If a pregnant woman lives here, will it need to be aired out for a while?"
"No need." The inspection team said: "Looking at the materials and decoration, we can tell that you spent a lot of money on the decoration of your house. The materials used in this house are very environmentally friendly. No formaldehyde can be detected in the house, and there are no other harmful substances. It is okay for pregnant women to live in it."
Jiang Chen nodded and thanked him, and sent the inspection team away. Li Nanfeng asked curiously, "I don't know how many houses the inspection team has seen, and few of them said that the renovation costs were high. How much did you spend on this house?"
"Three million."
Li Nanfeng: …
Li Nanfeng looked up and looked around the room, applauding: "Jiang Xiaochen, I've seen second-generations spend money like water, but none of them spend money as calmly as you do. You're amazing, really amazing."
Jiang Chen had never thought that the renovation would cost so much. In fact, the cost of rebuilding and hard decoration of the house plus the design fee was less than one-third of the total cost. The real big expenses were the hidden smart products in the house and the customized furniture.
Among the smart products, the touch screen lock for the main door and the fingerprint lock for the entrance door alone cost more than 200,000 yuan, and some other seemingly insignificant details were even more expensive. This was because with the current science and technology, most of the materials that would be common in the future had not yet appeared, and Jiang Chen needed to invest more to find suitable substitutes. Moreover, many technical aspects also required more professional people to design them. Jiang Chen could design a program but could not make a computer by himself, so anything related to the security system of this house, even the metal locks on the windows, needed to be customized by someone, which was why the decoration cost was so high.
Fortunately, the result was satisfactory. Jiang Chen believed that after installing the security system, this house would become the private residence with the highest security level in the world, and he could rest assured that his parents could live here.
In his previous life, before entering the Federal Research Institute, Jiang Chen had experienced two assassination attempts. Even during an artificial intelligence seminar, a researcher changed his ticket temporarily because his family members were threatened. At that time, he was alone and had nothing to worry about. But now it is different. Jiang Chen will never expose his parents to danger. He knows very well what he will face in the future. Even if the times are different, the huge benefits and the risks brought by the reform of promoting the development of a country are not much different.
After brewing a pot of fresh tea sent by a neighbor, the three of them sat on the terrace on the second floor, chatting leisurely and enjoying the scenery.
Li Nanfeng crossed his legs and joked, "If I didn't know everything, I would really suspect that Jiang Xiaochen was a prince of an unknown family."
Jiang Chen was thinking, and suddenly heard Li Nanfeng say this, his eyes were confused: "Why?"
Li Nanfeng didn't know what he saw, his eyebrows slightly raised, and he retracted his gaze and said, "Just two things. The robot you gave to He Qianyang, not counting the shell you made yourself, the wheel motor controller and parts inside must have cost at least tens of thousands of dollars. I haven't seen many people who are so generous as to give a gift to a stranger."
"Also when we signed the contract, I found that you didn't care about how much money was negotiated at all. As long as the licensing fee was as low as possible within your scope, you would accept it." Li Nanfeng said with a smile: "Jiang Xiaochen, if our team only gave you one million a year at that time, would you agree?"
Jiang Chen didn't care and said calmly: "I know how much my things can be sold for. A little more or less doesn't mean much to me. We are just a short-term cooperation. If it's not suitable, I can change partners immediately after the time is up."
Li Nanfeng paused as he crossed his legs and silently wiped the sweat off his face: "Luckily, I didn't accept their proposal to lower your price."
Jiang Chen: "So we have a pleasant cooperation."
Li Nanfeng held Jiang Chen's hand: "We will definitely have a pleasant cooperation in the future." After letting go, he thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Jiang Xiaochen, if you want investors when you start a company in the future, come to me. I guarantee that the cooperation will be more pleasant."
Shi Fengyue opened his eyes and glanced at him lazily: "He won't be short of money."
Li Nanfeng opened his mouth to refute, but when the words came to his lips, he felt that Shi Fengyue was right. Jiang Chen and Shi Fengyue were both a treasury. If they were short of money, they could just shake their money and the money that would drop might be more than he had earned through hard work.
He drank the tea in one gulp and said bitterly, "God is so unfair."
As soon as he finished speaking, the doorbell rang, and at the same time there was a voice with a rural accent calling out: "Is anyone inside? Young man, are you there?"
Jiang Chen stood up, walked to the edge of the terrace and looked down. After seeing the person standing at the door clearly, he was stunned for a moment and frowned slightly.
"What's wrong?" Seeing Jiang Chen's expression was not right, Shi Fengyue spoke up.
Jiang Chen turned around and said calmly, "He Qianjian is downstairs."
"I just saw it." Li Nanfeng still crossed his legs. "I guess they came here with the He family elders to say hello. They said the houses here are not for sale, but in fact, most of them have been privately expropriated by the government. It's not surprising that the He family elders can get one."
Shi Fengyue asked Jiang Chen: "Open the door?"
Jiang Chen nodded. Although he didn't want to see He Qianjian, and even more didn't want him to enter the house, he couldn't lock the two old people out.
Downstairs, after waiting for a while but seeing no one opening the door, the villager muttered, "Did he leave?"
He Qianjian asked: "Didn't you say their car was still parked at the foot of the mountain?"
"They came in three cars." The villager said, "Two cars just left and there is one left. I wonder if the young man will follow those two cars."
Mr. He said calmly: "Since you are not at home, let's visit you next time."
"Grandpa, let's wait a little longer. Since there is still a car, the family should still be here. Maybe they didn't hear it." He Qianjian advised coquettishly. He had taken a fancy to this house as soon as he went up the mountain. In the He family for so many years, he had seen countless high-end villas, grand courtyards, and buildings of different styles from various countries, but no house could make him want to take it for himself as soon as he saw it from afar like today. Since the villagers said that this family was not allocated a house, the background should be very simple. Although it was clearly stipulated that it could not be bought or sold, it was possible for him to exchange houses with this family by making some adjustments and adding more money.
Madam He made the decision: "Then wait a little longer."
He Qianjian pressed the doorbell twice again and asked loudly, "Is there anyone inside?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the door opened with a click, and a handsome young man appeared in the door, saying in a clear voice, "Excuse me, what can I do for you?"
As soon as Jiang Chen said the word "matter", He Qianjian's expression changed and he blurted out, "Why is it you?"
Mr. He's eyes fell on Jiang Chen's face, and a sharp light flashed in his slightly cloudy eyes. He turned around and asked He Qianjian: "Do you know each other?"
"I..." He Qianjian never expected that Jiang Chen would be here. He looked so much like He Qianyang, and his grandfather would definitely get suspicious when he saw him. He was a little panicked and didn't know what to say.
"Young man, are you home?" The villager was standing at the back and couldn't see He Qianjian's expression. He just thought they knew each other before. He smiled and said, "These two old people will move near your house in the future. I brought them here to say hello. I didn't expect that you and their grandson are friends. What a fate."
Jiang Chen's expression remained unchanged. He nodded slightly and said, "Thank you for your help, Uncle Duan."
Uncle Duan didn't expect Jiang Chen to still remember his name. He was so surprised that he smiled more and looked at his younger generation's gentleness: "It's no trouble. When you move here in the future, come to my house for dinner more often. Your Aunt Duan kept talking about you the last time she saw you."
Jiang Chen curved his eyes, "Thank you first, uncle. Last time I ate the noodles with soybean paste and the pork ribs and beans made by Aunt Duan, I couldn't forget them for a long time. When I move here, I must try them again."
"I'll go back and tell your Aunt Duan later. She'll be very happy!" Uncle Duan realized that he seemed to be stealing the show, so he smiled and said, "Since you two know each other, I won't bother you. If you don't go home at noon, come to my house for dinner."
Jiang Chen: "Okay, thank you uncle, goodbye."
"Goodbye, bye."
After Uncle Duan left, Jiang Chen made way for him and politely introduced himself, saying, "Mr. He, Mrs. He, please come in."
When Jiang Chen was talking, Madam He had been looking at his profile. When she saw him looking at her with a smile, she was dazed for a moment and nodded quickly: "Okay, okay."
Mr. He originally only intended to say hello and had no intention of entering the house as a guest, but now he changed his mind and said to the messenger who followed him, "Wait outside for a while."
Jiang Chen looked back and smiled when he heard that: "It's okay, come in together."
Mr. He nodded: "Come on then."
He Qianjian said nothing and followed him into the house. After seeing the decoration and design of the house, his mind finally calmed down. It can be seen from both the exterior and the interior decoration that this house must have cost a lot of money. Jiang Chen is a poor student, where did he get so much money? This should not be his house.
Just as he was thinking this, Li Nanfeng and Shi Fengyue came down from the building. They both greeted him at the same time: "Grandpa He, Grandma He."
Mr. He didn't expect to see Shi Fengyue and Li Nanfeng here. He was a little surprised: "Why are you two here?"
He Qianjian was also surprised, but at the same time he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief - this was definitely not Jiang Chen's house. Although he couldn't change the house regardless of whether the owner was Shi Fengyue or Li Nanfeng, he was more willing and happy to accept this result than if the owner was Jiang Chen.
However, Li Nanfeng's words shattered his fantasy: "Feng Yue and I came here to accompany Jiang Chen to inspect the house. I didn't expect to meet the two elders here."
Jiang Chen led the two old men to the sofa, poured two cups of tea for them, and said with a faint smile: "Please sit down. We only have the new tea sent by the neighbors, and we don't have any suitable tea sets. I'm sorry for the poor hospitality."
"How can we not entertain you well?" Madam He said with a smile, "We don't care so much, and the old man likes this very much. He is so happy that he can't wait to see it."
Mr. He nodded, took a sip of tea, looked at the three people opposite him, and his eyes fell on Jiang Chen: "Xiao Jiang, are you also studying in Chenghua?"
Jiang Chen said: "I am in Yan No. 1 Middle School."
Mr. He was a little surprised that He Qianjian and Jiang Chen knew each other even though they were not in the same school: "Then how did you and Qianjian know each other?"
Jiang Chen lowered his eyes, and the smile in his eyes faded a lot. Just as he was about to speak, Shi Fengyue answered for him: "We met during the school joint entrance examination and competition."
Mr. He also knew that He Qianjian had given up the competition. He paused while holding the cup. Mrs. He smiled kindly and said, "Then Xiao Jiang must have done very well."
"Of course." Li Nanfeng said with a smile: "Jiang Xiaochen has always been the first in the joint entrance examination. Before the math competition, people from Yan University and Huazhong University rushed to his school to recruit him. As soon as the results came out, two pre-admission letters came. His family's phone was blown up. Mr. Xiang was angry with me a few days ago because Jiang Xiaochen chose Yan University."
Mr. He did not expect that the child that his old friend had been talking about for a long time was the boy in front of him. Thinking of his old friend's praise and love for this child, he put down his teacup and said, "I heard that you plan to study computer science in the future, and Professor Xiang's students are teaching at Huazhong University. If you choose Huazhong University, with Professor Xiang's appreciation and his students' recommendations, it will be much easier for you to go to the National Academy of Sciences after graduation. In this case, why did you choose Yan University?"
Jiang Chen smiled and said, "Mr. He, maybe you think I'm frivolous, but to be honest, in my opinion, I can easily enter any computer-related research institute in the world as long as I want. I chose a school in China because I am a C countryman and I want to contribute to the progress and development of my country. I chose Yanda because I think the computer major courses at Yanda are the most suitable for me."
While Jiang Chen was speaking, Mr. He's cloudy but sharp eyes were fixed on him, the color of which was unfathomable.
He Qianjian didn't expect Jiang Chen to say such arrogant words. Thinking of the young people who are ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth, who are overconfident and fail to see their own position, what his grandfather hates most, he couldn't help but reveal a gloating and fortunate expression on his face. Fortunately, he came today. As long as his grandfather hates Jiang Chen, even if their identities are really discovered, Jiang Chen will not be able to cause any trouble in the future.
The atmosphere fell silent, so quiet that it seemed frozen. Li Nanfeng glanced at the old man and the young man sitting opposite each other, counting silently in his heart. If no one spoke in ten seconds, he would go and smooth things over.
However, before he could count down to seven, a hearty laugh rang out in the living room. Mr. He clapped his hands and said, "Old Xiang was right. A strong youth means a strong country. If we hand over the country to young people like you, we can rest assured even when we are really old."
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