Chapter 201 Extra
Qinhuai had to wait for more than half a month before getting some hardware at a high price. This was because the owner had overseas channels, otherwise they would not be available in China at all. Although computers are now popular, the overall environment is still not as good as that in foreign countries, so some cutting-edge things are almost unavailable in China.
The configuration of the computer has basically reached the top of what he can afford at the moment. Many things cannot be bought on the market with money. I can only wait and see if there will be a chance to update the hardware in the future.
The next focus is to make money. It just so happens that next week a foreign company is organizing an offensive and defensive battle to launch a newly developed security software. The prize is one million US dollars. Qin Huai plans to give it a try.
He can actually only be considered a latecomer in this area, and he only came into contact with some high-tech technologies after he went abroad. When he was a child, he did not have any special interest in certain things. His previous goal in the future was to be a doctor, but because Mu Nan was always sick and had injections when he was a child, he thought that if he became a doctor, Mu Nan would not be so afraid to see a doctor when he was sick.
Later, he was forced to leave. When he did not have much freedom to make choices, he set his sights on the computer, simply because the Internet was his only channel to obtain news about Mu Nan at that time.
But later on, he really fell in love with these things. Although he started late, thanks to the environment at the time and the financial support provided by Yao Xianqun, he was able to quickly close the time gap between himself and the cutting-edge people in this field.
Now the time goes back, but his skills are still there. He dare not say that he can beat everyone. There are too many talents in this field, both official and private. Without really reaching that level, you will never know how talented others can be. But Qin Huai still has the ability to beat that company's security software with the technology of seven or eight years later.
Even though he holds the code to wealth, if he still cannot provide Mu Nan with enough material happiness in this life, then his brainpower would be wasted.
After getting the things, Qin Huai went to the traditional vegetable market. He had eaten fish yesterday, so today he planned to buy some shrimps. Mu Nan liked spicy shrimps, and some fried chicken legs. There was a fried chicken leg stall in the vegetable market that Mu Nan had loved since he was a child, but he rarely bought this kind of fried food, only once in a while. After buying these, he went to the vegetable stall he often bought from and picked a few vegetables.
The owner of the vegetable stall greeted him with a smile, and asked about his brother's high school entrance examination results as if chatting about family matters. The vegetables in this stall were collected by the owner from the countryside every morning, and they were fresh and tender. Qin Huai had been patronizing this stall for many years, and sometimes Mu Nan would come with him to buy vegetables, so the owner knew the two brothers. Knowing that his brother had been admitted to No. 4 Middle School, he specially grabbed two big tomatoes and stuffed them into his bag, saying that he wished his brother good academic success.
Qin Huai had no choice but to smile and thank him. Sometimes this little bit of kindness would make the whole world lovely. He had never noticed these little beauties in life before, but now that he had noticed them, he was even more reluctant to see such a world become unrecognizable because of all kinds of disasters.
As soon as he got home and saw the people sitting at home, Qin Huai's good mood instantly became bad. However, he was a person who did not show his emotions in front of outsiders, not to mention that he had gained more experience in the past few years and was less likely to let others see his emotions. Therefore, Jiang Xuan did not notice the indifference and disgust in Qin Huai's eyes when he saw him.
As soon as Qin Huai came back, Mu Nan jumped off the sofa and ran over in slippers, heading straight for the bag in Qin Huai's hand: "Big chicken drumstick!"
Qin Huai put his index finger on Mu Nan's forehead and pushed his head away, which was sniffing around like a puppy: "Yes, yes, your favorite big chicken drumstick. I bought your favorite. You should also eat a few more bites of the cabbage later."
Hearing about pakchoy, Mu Nan wanted to frown. He didn't like to eat pakchoy, but Qin Huai didn't allow him to be picky. When Qin Huai put the vegetables into the kitchen, Mu Nan followed behind him and said, "It tastes better when it's fresh out of the pot. If it's left for too long, the skin will be softened by the heat. I'll eat it now."
Qin Huai glanced at him and said, "Now you're full after lunch and you don't want to eat anymore?"
No matter how Mu Nan rubbed against him from behind, Qin Huai pushed him out of the kitchen unmoved, but he took some jelly and gave it to him to comfort him.
After letting Mu Nan go to her room to play on the computer, Qin Huai looked at Jiang Xuan and asked, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
From the time Qin Huai entered the door until now, Jiang Xuan had been ignored for almost five or six minutes, which made his face look unsightly, and even his smile was forced.
To be honest, with Jiang Xuan's situation, if he had paid more attention before, he would have noticed the problem. Now thinking carefully, Qin Huai reflected on where the problem lies. The problem is that because they have known each other for a long time, he classified Jiang Xuan as a friend. But they only became friends because of the long time they have known each other, not because they were attracted to each other and became friends.
There is a big difference between the two. The former is passive. The reason why Jiang Xuan was classified as his friend was just a passive result of time. From elementary school to high school, coupled with Jiang Xuan's active approach, they naturally became friends. So he has become accustomed to having a set of ways of getting along with Jiang Xuan, especially when Jiang Xuan and Mu Nan are in the same space, he will not pay attention to what Jiang Xuan is doing next to him.
Judging from the fact that he had recently been catching up on various rebirth novels on the Internet, if there was a rebirth novel with Jiang Xuan as the protagonist, then someone like himself would definitely be a scum cannon fodder who did not know how to cherish and would end up being abused.
Although he felt uncomfortable, Jiang Xuan had long been accustomed to it. No matter where he was, the first person Qin Huai looked at was always Mu Nan. So when he heard his question, he restrained his thoughts and said with a smile: "I just came to see what you are doing recently. You didn't reply to my messages and you didn't go to the tutoring class. What are you busy with?"
Qin Huai walked to the sofa and sat down, holding his phone and looking at something while casually saying, "I'm not busy. I went to get a passport for Nan Nan and planned to take him out to play, so some things need time to prepare."
Jiang Xuan was slightly stunned: "You want to apply for a passport to travel abroad?"
Qin Huai hummed: "He likes to watch anime, so take him to the hometown of anime and buy him some game consoles."
With the development of the times, there are more and more wealthy people in the past few years. Traveling abroad is not a new thing in the general environment, but it is still rare here.
Whether in the past or now, the development of many cities has a very common gap between the rich and the poor. That is, ten or twenty years ago, those who lived in the city center with the best location were city dwellers and rich people. But with future development, the surrounding areas have risen, and those poor people racked their brains to make money for a living and became richer and richer, while the old locals who lived in the once most prosperous areas became poorer and poorer.
The location is good but the house is dilapidated, they have an empty household registration book but little money in the bank. Almost all the people in their area are like this.
So even though their neighborhood is in a prime location, the entire city is well connected, and most of the residents are locals, their conditions are quite average, and traveling abroad can become a topic of conversation for others after dinner. Not to mention, in their environment, there is not even an adult above them, and traveling across provinces is a novelty in the eyes of others.
So when Jiang Xuan heard Qin Huai say this, his first reaction was surprise: "This must cost a lot of money, right?"
Qin Huai: "Fortunately, the prize money from the last competition is enough."
Jiang Xuan's heart suddenly became complicated. At this age, he was already a vain person and could not stand comparison. He envied and even envied Qin Huai's special treatment for Mu Nan. Now that he saw Qin Huai was going to take Mu Nan on an overseas trip, his jealousy surged.
But at least he knew to control himself, and he just smiled a little reluctantly as he said, "You'll be a senior in high school soon, and the cost of going to college will be quite high. It's not a good idea to spend money to go out and have fun at this time."
Qin Huai smiled gently: "What's wrong with that? Nan Nan was still young before and couldn't go to places that were too far away. Now he has grown up and is graduating from junior high school and will be in high school soon. Let's relax for a while."
As soon as Qin Huai finished speaking, Mu Nan ran out of the room with his cell phone in his hand: "Brother, can you help me figure out what this means? I don't understand."
Qin Huai took his phone and took a look at it, while operating it with his hands, he said: "This is the premise of the plot, it's not important, just skip it. How can you play this game in English? Don't you have any idea of your English score? You can skip the front part, but you can't skip the back part. Don't you understand how to play?"
Seeing that he had gone through all the confusing English interfaces, Mu Nan took back his phone and said, "I searched for a guide online. I followed the guide and learned it naturally after I became familiar with it. However, the guide did not teach from the first step, but only taught the subsequent operations. It's too bad. What kind of guide is it if it doesn't provide complete information?"
Qin Huai looked at him grumbling and complaining and couldn't help but laugh and said, "Those who make guides probably never thought that some people wouldn't even understand the English words 'skip the plot'."
Mu Nan rolled his eyes at Qin Huai and ran back to the room with his phone.
When Jiang Xuan came today, he noticed that Mu Nan had changed his cell phone. Although he knew who changed it without asking, he still pretended to ask casually. Mu Nan boasted that this was the reward given by Qinhuai for him to be admitted to No. 4 Middle School.
Qin Huai treats Mu Nan very specially. If he were Qin Huai's biological brother, Jiang Xuan would be envious but not jealous. But they are not like that. He himself doesn't know why he is so stubborn and wants to compare himself with Mu Nan. But if people can be rational in everything, there won't be so many impulsive things.
After Mu Nan returned to the room, Jiang Xuan wanted to find a topic to talk to Qin Huai, thinking that since he hadn't gone to make-up classes these days, he might want to know the scope of the current make-up classes. But before he could open his mouth, Qin Huai stood up and said, "I'm going to cook, you should go back early too."
No matter how thick-skinned Jiang Xuan was, he was too embarrassed to stay when Qin Huai's words almost drove him away. He even felt annoyed and thought that he should come later, and it would be better if he brought one or two dishes when he came, so that maybe he could stay and eat together.
After Jiang Xuan left, Qin Huai soaked the shrimps in a pool of water sprinkled with a little salt, then wiped his hands and walked into the room.
Mu Nan in the room was hunched over in the computer chair with his knees bent, holding a mobile phone in his hand and trying to play an English game.
Qin Huai sat directly on the bed and pulled a chair over so that he could face him.
Mu Nan looked up at him and said, "What are you doing? You look like you want to negotiate with me."
Qin Huai said, "From now on, when I'm not at home, no one, whether you know them or not, can open the door."
Mu Nan immediately looked at Qin Huai with an expression of "What are you talking about?" "Am I three years old this year?"
Qin Huai pulled his chair closer, threw the phone in his hand onto the bed, and asked him to look at him seriously: "Tell me first, how do you feel about Jiang Xuan?"
Mu Nan didn't quite understand what Qin Huai meant: "What feeling? Why do you feel like an old father asking about his son's premature love affair?"
Qin Huai patted him on the forehead and said, "What nonsense! I'm asking you what you think of Jiang Xuan. That's how you feel about him since you met him."
Mu Nan thought for a moment, then said while scratching the armrest of the chair, "It's quite noble. Aren't all good students like this anyway?"
Qin Huai looked at him: "So you don't like him?"
Mu Nan thought, how could he possibly like a person who is aloof? What does aloof mean? It means that he is superior to others and looks down on poor students. Maybe he feels that breathing the same air with a poor student like him is even smelly.
But his brother is so smart and always ranks first. All his friends are top students. He can't just complain to Qin Huai just because others look down on him as a poor student. Who can he blame for his poor academic performance? He doesn't come into contact with many people anyway. He can just bear with it. What else can he do?
Qin Huai rubbed Mu Nan's hair: "Why didn't you tell me before?"
Mu Nan: "What? He said he looked down on poor students? I did not do well in school. He could learn a knowledge point by himself. I wish you could explain it to me a hundred times before I could understand it. Besides, it was just that feeling. He did not tell me directly that I despise you and look down on you. It was just that feeling. I can't stop you from being friends with him just because of my feeling. I am not such a willful person."
Qin Huai smiled and said, "Yes, you are not willful, you are the most sensible. I won't play with him anymore."
Mu Nan groaned, and now he really didn't understand: "Why? He is your best friend. What did he do to make you break up with him?"
"If you have a good friend, with whom you have a very good relationship, but he doesn't like me, will you be friends with him?"
Mu Nan said without even thinking: "How is that possible? I would never make friends with someone who doesn't like you."
He has a few classmates who are on good terms with him. Although they are afraid of Qin Huai, none of them dislikes Qin Huai. On the contrary, they are the kind of people who are both afraid of and admire him. How could he possibly be friends with someone who doesn't like his brother? He would have been eliminated long ago.
Qin Huai's heart was filled with sourness when hearing these words blurted out without thinking. He suppressed the churning emotions in his heart and smiled gently: "So, if he doesn't like you, then he doesn't deserve to be my friend. We won't play with him. In the future, if anyone doesn't like you, we will ignore them and only play with people who like you."
Mu Nan touched his face, feeling a little hot, a little happy, and a little embarrassed: "Well, there's no need to be like this, I'm not RMB, everyone likes me, you should make friends you like, the kind of really good ones, who can understand everything you say, and you can talk about any topic together, like a genius. If you meet a confidant who you can fight with, you won't be lonely. If there is such a person, it doesn't matter even if he doesn't like me. I'm your brother and he's your friend, there's no contradiction."
Qin Huai picked Mu Nan up from the chair and held him tightly in his arms: "Silly boy."
Mu Nan frowned in confusion: "Brother, what happened between you and Jiang Xuan? Did he do something to let you down?"
Qin Huai hummed: "Yes, so in the future you should stay away from him, don't contact him, don't listen to anything he says, especially those who ask you to talk alone, you must not go, don't be alone with him, and when he comes to our house in the future, don't open the door for him, understand?"
Mu Nan nodded: "I know, don't worry, I've watched a lot of TV dramas like this, I will never give him the chance to kidnap me as a hostage to threaten you!"
However, Mu Nan was still concerned about Jiang Xuan's matter. They were just getting along well, so how could they suddenly have a falling out? However, his focus was not on easing the relationship between the two. There must be a reason why Qin Huai had a falling out with him, and he also asked him not to get close to him. Jiang Xuan must have done something excessive, otherwise his brother had such a good temper and had never made enemies with anyone, so why did he turn against his friend who he had been playing with for so many years?
But he is a person who, although his grades are average, has been law-abiding since childhood, because he has basically been in the same school with Qin Huai since childhood. Qin Huai is well-known in the school whether in elementary school, junior high school or high school, so he has never experienced such things as being blackmailed by school bullies. Although his grades are poor, he is definitely a good student.
So the first time Mu Nan went online in an Internet cafe with his classmates, he didn't go straight to the game. Instead, he searched for how to fight, how to teach people a lesson, etc., and was seen by his classmates.
One of them, Yang Yong, said, "For this kind of thing, all you need is money."
Mu Nan: "I have money. Do you mean I can pay someone to fight me?"
Yang Yong: "As long as it's not too difficult, it can be solved by spending money."
"How difficult is it?"
Yang Yong looked at him and said, "For example, your brother is a difficult person to deal with. He is famous both inside and outside the school. If you provoke him, it will be difficult to end up like this. It's best if the family is average and they won't take minor incidents too seriously."
Mu Nan thought about it and finally refused. He felt that if he paid to beat someone up, the nature of the matter would be different. Although he didn't quite understand the difference between beating someone up himself and hiring someone to beat them up, he still felt that it wasn't a good idea.
Yang Yong thought Mu Nan didn't have money, but that made sense. Ten yuan for surfing the Internet was nothing, but looking for someone to fight would cost at least one or two hundred yuan. So he suggested, "Then do it yourself. If fighting doesn't work, then try another method that doesn't involve fighting."
Qin Huai sat at the dining table and looked at the time. Usually at this time they would have almost finished dinner, but today Mu Nan sent him a message saying that she had something else and would be back a little later, so he cooked dinner a little late. But it was almost seven o'clock and he still hadn't replied. Wasn't it too late?
Just when he was about to make a phone call to ask whether someone had returned, he heard the sound of the iron gate being opened. Qin Huai got up to open the door, and was finally relieved to see someone coming back, but the next second, his brows frowned again.
"Where have you been? Why do you smell strange?"
Mu Nan pulled up the clothes and smelled them, then ran in with a grin: "I'll go take a shower first, and then come over to eat."
On the other side, Jiang Xuan, who was hit by a huge bag of garbage, finally climbed to the top floor. He just saw someone on the roof of the building where the garbage fell, and he immediately shrank back when he saw him looking up. This was obviously intentional. He wanted to see who dared to play a trick on him like this.
As a result, when he climbed up the stairs all dirty, he found that the top floor was actually the roof of two connected houses, which meant that the other party might have escaped from the other side.
Jiang Xuan, who had never encountered such a thing in his life, was so angry that he was shaking all over. Those people had better not be found by him, otherwise he would make them pay!
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