A few days later, Mr. and Mrs. Cheng were stunned by an even bigger surprise.
My son is the top science student in the province!
Their doorstep was practically worn flat by all the footsteps.
They were overjoyed. When Cheng's father's older brother and sister came with their families, as well as Cheng's mother's biological father and stepmother and their entire family, they greeted them with smiles.
However, perhaps because they were so friendly, the two groups started making all sorts of requests, such as tutoring their children, helping each other out as relatives, and lending them money—they somehow found out that Mr. and Mrs. Cheng had opened a small shop, and so on.
It doesn't sound like much, but the premise is that they haven't had any contact with Cheng Shuo's family for many years. Apart from blood ties, they are not even as close as neighbors.
Di Xiu looked at the script for 001 and felt really embarrassed to act in it, but seeing that Cheng's parents' mood was getting worse day by day, he thought for a while and suggested going on a trip.
After discussing it, they decided to go to Sanya for a trip. However, tickets were hard to buy at the moment, so they decided to buy plane tickets first and then travel around the surrounding cities in the meantime, or go to Beijing to see where Di Xiu would go to school in the future.
When the emperor was revising the airfare, Cheng's father, who had only ever taken a train in his life and had never even taken a high-speed train, came over out of curiosity and found that he actually wanted to buy a first-class ticket, so he quickly stopped him.
"The airfare is so expensive, why did you buy an even more expensive first-class ticket? You could have done so much better with that money, like buying an economy ticket."
"Dad, we don't lack this money, I think..."
Cheng's father slapped him on the back of the head and scolded him with a stern face: "What are you thinking? Don't think about it. Shuo Shuo, Dad knows you are capable and can make money, but you can't spend money recklessly. What if you need it urgently in the future? The future is so long, don't waste your money. Listen to Dad, buy economy class tickets, or we'll take the high-speed rail."
Di Xiu rubbed the back of his head and conceded, "Then how about we buy business class?"
"If you keep arguing, I'll call your mom."
Di Xiu called out to his mother, and Cheng's mother came out quickly upon hearing the noise.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
“Mom, I want to buy a business class ticket, so I can sit or lie down. It's your first time flying, and if you feel uncomfortable during the flight, you can take a nap, but Dad won’t allow it.”
Mr. Cheng immediately said, "Those tickets are so expensive!"
"Filial piety is priceless. It's a rare opportunity to go out and have fun, so we should still spend the money we need to spend, Mom, don't you think?"
Mr. Cheng: "It's only been four hours. I just lay down and I should have gotten up. I should have bought an economy class ticket."
"Mom, you work so hard all the time, and you finally get a break. I want you to relax a bit."
Cheng's mother wavered back and forth, but in the end she sided with her son. Di Xiu immediately entered their ID cards and quickly made the reservation.
"You brat."
Despite the scolding, Mr. Cheng was smiling.
The shop was planning to close temporarily, but coincidentally, Cheng's father's brother and his family came over. Seeing this, they quickly recommended their eldest son, saying that he could help look after the shop.
Di Xiu remembered how his aunt and uncle had introduced his cousin. Seeing that Cheng's father didn't know how to refuse, he said, "Doesn't my cousin have a job? Anyway, it's just a small shop. In half a month, he probably won't earn as much as my cousin does in a day. If we cause my cousin to lose his job, we will be in a terrible guilt."
The family was too embarrassed to expose the boast they had made earlier, and were rendered speechless by Di Xiu's veiled barbs, ultimately returning empty-handed.
During that year, Cheng's father got his driver's license, bought a used car, and the family of three packed their things, turned off the electricity, water, and gas at home and shop, and after confirming that everything was okay, drove to the neighboring city.
They had been traveling for over a month, resting at the hotel when they got tired. Mr. and Mrs. Cheng were also at ease and stopped worrying about money, so as not to ruin their trip.
When it came time to fill out college applications, Di Xiu and his family happened to be in Beijing. The admissions officers couldn't find him at his house, so they called to urge him to come back. Di Xiu smiled, hung up the phone, found an internet cafe, and filled out only one application.
The family toured Q University, and Mr. and Mrs. Cheng couldn't help but become solemn, giving their son a heads-up about studying hard in the future.
We also visited Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and the Summer Palace. The allotted time wasn't enough, and we also needed to rest, otherwise we planned to climb the Great Wall.
After a trip to Sanya, they returned home on the way back to celebrate Shuo's eighteenth birthday.
They didn't tell their relatives they were back; the three of them simply got together for a meal and ate a cake.
A few days later, those relatives came again. Emperor Xiu asked 001 to look for items in the system shop, and only then did he regain his peaceful days.
After some time, the admission notice finally arrived. Mr. and Mrs. Cheng were overjoyed and took their son to call each of the teachers to share the good news and express their gratitude.
They had originally planned to hold a thank-you banquet for their teacher and give him a red envelope, but Emperor Xiu stopped them. In recent years, various regions have begun to promote clean governance, lest their efforts to repay a debt of gratitude turn into revenge.
Not long after he entered Q University, he brought his parents to live with him. Naturally, the family's small shop could no longer operate. When the neighbor next door wanted to open one, Cheng's mother, remembering the help they had given each other in the past, transferred the business to them at a price 10% lower than the market price.
Di Xiu wasn't eligible to buy a house yet, but he had previously sold a smart home security system. The buyer was quite satisfied and kept in touch with him. Upon hearing that he had been admitted to Q University and planned to stay there, the buyer proactively helped him resolve his household registration issue and even gifted him an apartment.
001: "They're really rich and powerful."
After completing his postgraduate studies, Di Xiu, too lazy to start his own business, chose to join a leading IT company in China. After much deliberation, he anonymously handed over the system he had in hand to the state.
The remaining energy in the system, converted into points, should amount to around 100,000, which is just enough to improve the country's technological level without taking too big a step.
When Di Xiu was almost thirty, Cheng's parents began urging him to get married and have children.
This time, he had no brothers to help him share the burden.
Emperor Xiu talked to them about this, to find out whether they wanted a daughter-in-law or a grandson. He determined that they wanted someone to take care of him in his old age and see him off in his final days, and then concluded that they wanted the latter.
He waited two years, and the artificial womb technology finally matured, allowing him to "give birth" in just six months. Di Xiu skipped marriage and brought back a child.
Mr. and Mrs. Cheng thought he had bullied someone's daughter and almost beat him with sticks. After learning that he was raised in an artificial womb, they remained silent for a long time in front of the child who looked no different from an ordinary baby, and finally had nothing to say.
As the child grew up, Di Xiu tried his best to give him comprehensive family affection in his spare time, and did not hide his background. As he grew up little by little, he did not turn out badly in the end.
The health problems that Cheng's parents had developed from their busy lives in their early years were all eliminated with the help of the system. They lived a long and healthy life, passing away at the age of 100. When they died, Di Xiu had already grown white hair.
Spiritual power was merely his trump card; he never attained immortality, and with birth, aging, sickness, and death, he naturally returned to the earth.
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