Chapter 1
"This is pure nonsense!" A middle-aged man's angry voice could be heard faintly from the hall across the door: "How old is she?"
The angry middle-aged man was wearing a traditional long gown, which was consistent with his identity as a small businessman. However, the person he was angry with looked like an old farmer, wearing shorts and had a dark complexion. He did not look like someone who could sit down and have a conversation with a middle-aged man in a long gown.
But in such a strange combination, the old farmer-looking man seems more like the superior.
He said to the middle-aged man slowly and calmly, "Comrade Yu Fu, don't get too excited. We sent this person to you exactly as you requested."
"I want to be inconspicuous!" The middle-aged man known as Comrade Yu Fu lowered his voice even though he was dissatisfied and said, "Send me a child?!"
"Isn't this inconspicuous?" said the old farmer. "Besides, thirteen isn't really a child anymore."
"Comrade Shazhou, this is not a joke. You know that calmness and prudence are the most important things in our work. If you send me a girl of this age, she will mess things up if she gets impulsive!" Yu Fu said dissatisfiedly.
"I can't guarantee for others, but I can guarantee with my life that this child is definitely calm and cautious! Even adults may not be able to compare with her!" said the comrade codenamed Shazhou, a man who looked like an old farmer.
As the subject of discussion between the two, Yi Hanxing sat in the store bored, supporting his chin with his hand, watching passers-by and eavesdropping on the vague conversations of the people inside. He couldn't help but shout in his heart: This is all a misunderstanding!
Being calm and cautious, as a time traveler, I was almost thirty years old before I traveled through time, and I was usually afraid of revealing something beyond my time, so I was naturally cautious in what I said and did. I didn't expect to receive such high praise.
When Yi Hanxing pricked up his ears to eavesdrop with his excellent hearing, Shazhou also introduced Yi Hanxing to Yu Fu in detail: "We really let Hanxing come here to help you, not to cause trouble."
"During our base's training as a messenger operator, this child surpassed many middle school and university students who came to the base and became the top student in our training class!" Shazhou said. "Not only that, she's also proficient in English and fluent in Japanese! And guess how long it took her to learn all this?"
"How long?" Yu Fu asked
"Less than two years!" Shazhou said. "And she's an amazing actress! When the art troupe was short of actors for their performances, she acted so well in every performance!"
"Since she has this ability, you shouldn't let her come to my place!" Yu Fu disagreed, "This child should be properly nurtured instead of being sent here to live in fear every day!"
"It's not that we don't want to train her! It's the level of our base. You know, they all say that we should send her to school to learn systematically so as not to delay the child's development!" Shazhou said, "As for the task you need someone to assist with, it's precisely because we need to send her to school. It's very convenient for her to do this work. There's really no other suitable time, so we'll let her do it. Once this task is completed, she won't be allowed to touch it anymore!"
Yu Fu accepted it and said, "It's what I should do! Talents can't be wasted!"
After hearing this, Yi Hanxing couldn't help but feel ashamed. His career in his previous life was a programmer. The encryption and decryption of information was similar to the programming language conversion he learned back then. Because he couldn't bear the 996 and 007 work schedules in China, he went to study in the United States after graduation and worked from nine to six. In addition, he was obsessed with Japanese anime and took the Japanese Language Proficiency Test at university. Therefore, the skills Shazhou mentioned were just rehashing old stuff.
As for his good acting skills, this is a talent. Yi Hanxing has always been the protagonist in all skits in cultural performances since elementary school. According to his mother, he has been a drama genius since he was a child. If it weren't for his handsome appearance and excellent academic performance, he might have been able to enter the Central Academy of Drama and the Beijing Film Academy.
However, Yi Hanxing really did not expect that after arriving in this parallel era of the Republic of China, his skills would be so amazing that the teachers in the base would think that they could not delay him and wanted to send him to a big city like Shanghai to study.
As for the mission that Shazhou and Yu Fu mentioned, it was just a coincidence!
You have to know that Yi Hanxing just wanted to be a technical worker in the beginning because different types of workers in the base had different quotas and only technical workers not only had extra allowances but also had the most meat!
After all, with the illiteracy rate these days, the people who can take up technical jobs are all intellectuals. This group of people is well treated. In the eyes of Yi Hanxing's classmates in the Red Education Class, it is all deserved: "Otherwise, why would college students come to work here!"
Although Yi Hanxing explained to his friends that those college students came here for their ideals and based on the treatment of college graduates these days, they are actually here to suffer!
Having said that, Yi Hanxing was still deeply attracted by the meat in the quota.
For this purpose, Yi Hanxing also carefully studied the types of people who can currently receive technical allowances for technicians: radio technicians, medical personnel, telephone technicians and military education experts from the Red Army School.
Yi Hanxing couldn't handle medical work and military education. What's more, when medical soldiers and military education go to the battlefield, they either have to stuff their intestines or kill the enemy. As a child who grew up in a peacetime, Yi Hanxing really couldn't do it. But in order to have a bite of meat for ten days or half a month, Yi Hanxing planned to delve into the direction of electrical work. The first step was to sign up for the base's signalman training after the Red Education Class was completed.
Unaware of how many students would be selected for further studies in each batch, Yi Hanxing gave it his all, intending to fight tooth and nail with his classmates. Unexpectedly, he would be the only one to stand out. Later, Yi Hanxing was stunned: Are college students these days so incompetent?!
The result of always standing out was that the organization contacted a special school for me and planned to let me take the college entrance examination.
Yi Hanxing hadn't expected the result to turn out like this, and was even a little panicked: I really can't be a talent who can master all the skills in two years! Wouldn't it be a waste of the organization's funds to send it to me for training?
Although Yi Hanxing was selected from the modern college entrance examination, according to the college entrance examination ranking, he cannot be said to be one in ten thousand, but he is one in a thousand among hundreds of thousands of people. He has also won several provincial awards in competitions. But when he thinks about those translators who are proficient in eight languages and scientists who can be detained by the Lighthouse Country and not allowed to return, Yi Hanxing feels like Alexander.
It's like when you were working on your master's and doctoral degrees, your goal was just to land a teaching position at a third-rate university and settle down. But your advisor, your dean, your president saw you as having great potential and thought you could make the list of the 1,000 Young Talents. Not only did they believe that, they also painstakingly applied for tons of experimental funding for you! And these funds were all government grants, not corporate sponsorships. Every penny wasted is taxpayer money!
This is the panic of Yi Hanxing, who just wants to be a technician and have a few bites of meat to eat. Especially when he thinks about the fact that people in the base can only eat meat a few times a year, and the organization has to squeeze out money from the limited funds to send him to school, if he doesn't learn anything, he will feel extremely guilty!
Yi Hanxing had repeatedly told the teachers and the leaders of the base that they didn't want to send him to a special school, but his refusal was always rejected. The teachers and leaders even consoled Yi Hanxing, saying, "Don't worry, we don't have enough funds! In fact, in addition to the children of our comrades who are in the Red Army training classes like you, many of them are also sent to study in the Shanghai Concession or abroad!"
How can it be the same! Yi Hanxing cried silently.
In fact, Yi Hanxing's understanding of himself is still a bit wrong. Although there are geniuses these days, Yi Hanxing is definitely talented.
Putting aside other issues, given the current state of education, perhaps only one in a hundred people can actually read. And among those who can, what percentage are gifted? And among those gifted, what percentage are willing to study science and engineering?
Yi Hanxing, who was able to rank in the top 1,000 among the province's science exam candidates and even win awards in competitions, was definitely considered a gifted athlete these days. Otherwise, how could those university students not be able to surpass Yi Hanxing during their training as messengers?
While the people inside were discussing and Yi Hanxing outside was worried, the waiter from the store came in with breakfast and newspapers: "Sister, come here and have breakfast!"
A passerby heard the second brother's loud greeting and couldn't help asking, "Zhuzi, is this your sister?"
Yi Hanxing heard the voice and it was obvious that he was familiar with the waiter.
"Where? Sister He, look at her face, which is as white as a steamed bun. How can it be my sister?" Zhuzi's face was a little dark. "This is a member of our Dong family's family!"
"Oh, then why don't you call me Miss but Sister?" Sister He couldn't help laughing when she heard it: "You are so brave, aren't you afraid that the boss will beat you up!"
"Sister He, what you said is that my cousin relies on Brother Zhuzi for help in his business on a daily basis. Brother Zhuzi is like a family member to us. I call him Brother Zhuzi, so why can't he call me sister?" Yi Hanxing replied with a smile after hearing this.
"Your daughter is lively and outspoken." Sister He laughed: "I'm old enough to be your mother, and you still call me Sister He? You should call me Miss He!"
"Oh, you're already over 30?" Yi Hanxing pretended to be surprised: "I really can't tell. When I heard Brother Zhuzi call you Sister He, I thought you were only in your twenties! Besides, I call Brother Zhuzi "Brother" and Brother Zhuzi calls you "Sister He". If I call you "Miss He", wouldn't that be a different generation?"
He Jie smiled at Zhuzi and said, "Your boss's daughter is quite eloquent. Your boss should read "The Biography of Manjun" to us tomorrow. You can let your niece do it for you!"
Hearing Sister He mention "The Legend of Manjun," Yi Hanxing sighed silently again: Why am I so afraid of failing to learn? Is it because I lack talent, or is it because this world is a synthesis of plagiarized official documents from the Republic of China, stories about concubines from the Republic of China, stories about time travel to the Lighthouse Country, and period novels? The world has changed, who knows if Newton's Third Law and the Theory of Relativity are still valid!
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