Searching for "Jiang Yuanshi" (V)
Xiao Jiangyuan's leisurely life in the countryside came to an abrupt end, and was replaced by the constraints of his parents' home.
Those new and high-end-looking things seemed unfamiliar to Xiao Jiangyuan. Having just recovered from a serious illness, he couldn't help but touch them secretly, and was scolded by his parents, who told him not to touch them without washing his hands.
Xiao Jiang Yuanshi put his hands behind his back and clenched them silently.
When you see your parents at home, you must greet them, don't talk when eating or sleeping, clean up your own clothes and dishes, don't go to bed until you finish your homework, and you can play with educational toys, but not video games...
It seems like a very common requirement, but for some reason, when it comes to practice, it is always not as expected.
The five-and-a-half-year-old child subconsciously wants to stick to his parents, but the result of his careful dependence is unstable. Sometimes his parents will touch him gently and praise him, but most of the time he will just be dismissed with a sentence "Dad/Mom is busy". Sometimes they will even vent their anger on Xiao Jiangyuan because of work problems. They will not beat the child, because the child has to be taken out and the scars on his body will be discovered by others and lead to gossip. So Xiao Jiangyuan will only be punished by standing and not moving, allowing the indifference of the family to irritate the child's nerves until he cries out. Then his parents will be satisfied, and then they will comfort him as if they love him.
It repeats itself over and over again.
In the new year, there is no grandma, no Xiao Huang, only mom and dad, and a group of relatives that Xiao Jiang has never met. Xiao Jiang is surrounded by them and is evaluated and priced like a commodity.
When relatives come to visit, they will bring their children with them, and try to build relationships and show off their children's intelligence between the lines.
"Oh, your child is going to start elementary school soon, right? Are you taking extra classes? The education in the city is incomparable to that in the countryside. The pace is so fast, and you can't keep up without extra classes. But extra classes are getting more and more expensive these days. Fortunately, my child learns quickly, which saves me a lot of worry."
Xiao Jiangyuan looked at his parents' forced smiles, and watched the strange aunt take out the homework for the child's recent math class. He was only in the second grade, but he had already started learning decimal multiplication and division.
But it wasn't a perfect score, so why was it being displayed around? Little Jiang Yuanshi stared at the homework with several crosses on it, puzzled. His relatives, assuming he was curious, even kindly pulled their own children aside to explain the homework to him. He glanced sideways at his parents, who seemed to be smiling but not very happy.
The relative's child said reluctantly, "He hasn't even finished primary school. He won't understand even if I explain it to him."
Xiao Jiangyuan asked in a confused tone, "But brother, even if you don't tell me, I think I can do it too."
"What are you bragging about!" He put his hand on the question he had wrong and said unhappily, "Then solve this one for me! If you can't solve it, you're a dog!"
If he could turn into a puppy, he could communicate with Xiao Huang.
Xiao Jiangyuan was staring at the question in a daze. Seeing his dazed look, the relative's child laughed disdainfully and said, "Just pretend."
At the same time, relatives kindly advised the child's parents: "It's normal for children to be competitive. Take your time. We are not in a hurry."
Jiang Yuanshi's parents frowned and were about to speak when they heard Jiang Yuanshi's childish voice: "38.62 x (59.4 - 50.8) = 322.132."
He spoke clearly and fluently. Seeing that his parents didn't react, Jiang Yuan kindly explained, "Just do the subtraction first. The result is 38.62 x 8.6, which equals 322.132."
A relative said, "This child's weaving is quite fluent."
Xiao Jiangyuan said: "I didn't make it up. My grandma taught me a lot. She didn't believe me at first, but after she used a calculator to calculate it, she stopped talking to me like you did."
The adults came to their senses and silently took out their cell phone calculators.
They punched the numbers into their phones and the answer was correct.
They looked up in disbelief. The relative's children thought he was just trying his luck, and then Xiao Jiang corrected all the other party's wrong questions as soon as he was willing, and kindly helped the other party to write his homework for tomorrow.
Now, the whole family was quiet.
Only Xiao Jiangyuan himself was confused. Why were everyone so surprised when he did an arithmetic problem? He was obviously normal when he was with his grandmother. Moreover, he taught Xiao Huang, and Xiao Huang could do addition and subtraction within 100 and multiplication and division within 10.
Just as Xiao Jiangyuan was about to share his experience teaching a puppy, he was picked up by his father. The child, still confused, looked at his parents and said with a smile, "Sorry, I'm just a kid, my words are illogical, and I can't hold back my words."
In the end, the relative's face was as black as the bottom of a pot in the countryside, and he took his child away.
Xiao Jiangyuan was still in their arms. He looked at his parents cautiously and said seriously, "I really didn't lie. Xiao Huang really can do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division."
After he finished speaking, his nose was tapped. His mother smiled and said, "You...I don't believe you."
Mom and Dad looked very happy today. Xiao Jiang touched his nose and chuckled. Mom and Dad took turns holding him and spinning him around several times. They also told him a bedtime story before he went to sleep for the first time. This was the first time he had heard a story since he came to this family.
When Xiao Jiang wished, he was afraid that he would wake up tomorrow and it would be gone, so he insisted on not going to sleep. Today, his parents were very easy to talk to. Seeing his struggle to sleep, they asked him what was wrong. After he honestly explained the reason, his parents looked at each other, and a hint of guilt seemed to appear on their faces. Finally, they touched the child's head and said, "I'm sorry, it will happen every day from now on. Go to sleep... Wish, wish, wish."
Xiao Jiangyuan finally fell asleep, and this time he began to look forward to the next day.
Mom and Dad did not lie. They had bedtime stories every day and even rewards. Everything changed suddenly from the day when Xiao Jiang's wishes started to count. Mom and Dad started to become more intimate with their child, and came home more and more frequently. They even tested Xiao Jiang's wishes during dinner time. Xiao Jiang's wishes could almost answer the questions fluently, and he would not be scolded if he answered incorrectly. They would just take him to the bookstore to buy books for him to continue studying, or enroll him in some preschool classes.
Xiao Jiang Yuanshi agreed without any resistance, because he found that as long as he performed well, or when strangers praised him with "Your child is so great, you have taught him well", his parents would be surprisingly happy, and that was when they loved Xiao Jiang Yuanshi the most.
Xiao Jiangyuan felt that he seemed to have found a way to make his parents like him and fulfill his parents' expectations and wishes.
Gradually, little Jiang Yuanshi's life was filled with cram schools. Mathematics, English and speaking were all considered normal. Apart from that, there were also some sports and arts. Jiang Yuanshi's parents seemed to have tasted the sweetness of wanting their son to be successful, and they couldn't stop themselves. They were determined to develop him into a polygon warrior, but Jiang Yuanshi did it. No matter how hard or tiring it was, he was willing to do it, because in this way his parents would not hate him anymore. Maybe if he performed well one day, they would agree to bring grandma and Xiao Huang along?
Young children do not understand that human desires are insatiable, and by the time they realize it, it is already too late.
Xiao Jiang Yuanshi is in elementary school now. He heard that he might be able to make friends in a new place. Although his parents asked him to focus on his studies, Xiao Jiang Yuanshi still hopes to make new friends. It would be great if he could make friends.
He thought so, and the fact proved that it was indeed possible. Within a few days after school started, many children surrounded him, mostly girls. The reason was simple: Jiang Yuanshi looked the best. At the same time, some boys were dissatisfied and even challenged him to a battle. In the end, they were defeated and convinced by him in the Pia Jika competition.
Xiao Jiang Yuanshi became a popular boy and lived a happy life every day. Although his parents were busy with work and seldom came home after school started, he could tell the aunt they hired at home that she was very kind. Although not as good as his grandmother, she was also very good.
Every day after listening to Xiao Jiangyuan’s stories about his campus life, his aunt would praise him and make delicious food for him.
Perhaps Xiao Jiangyuan was too complacent, and after he shared his experience with his parents who rarely came home, he suffered retribution.
His parents remained silent and just perfunctorily passed it over. The next day, Xiao Jiang Yuanshi did not attend class, but was taken to the principal's office. He completed a test paper on the spot. After finishing it, Xiao Jiang Yuanshi waved goodbye to the principal and other teachers he had not met before.
At that time, Xiao Jiangyuan didn't understand what was happening until he went to class again. Everything became unfamiliar. He was in a new class, with new classmates and new teachers. Now he is in the third grade of elementary school.
He didn't understand why. Was it because of him? Why did everyone disappear?
The teacher said that Jiang Yuanshi was too smart and no longer needed to study the first and second grade classes. Jiang Yuanshi began to regret it. If he became stupid now, could he go back? But parents don't like stupid children.
He didn't even have the room to resist. He was promoted to higher school and skipped grades under the expectations of all the adults. His peers became passing strangers, and campus life no longer existed. There was only study, and he became a "genius" in the eyes of the public. Perhaps it was because of the title of "genius" that he had the opportunity to touch electronic products. His parents agreed to let him learn computer programming when he was in junior high school, but the prerequisite was that he successfully entered the junior class.
He was ten years old that year.
Jiang Yuanshi completed the task as promised and opened the door to computers. While learning programming and participating in competitions, he secretly began to play games. It was a new world. In the world of games, he could put all his ridiculous ideas into it and create a new world.
He played games secretly without his parents' knowledge, learning about the game mechanics, world structure, etc., fantasizing about making his own games one day. But a child is a child after all, he could not beat his parents, and was eventually discovered. His parents did not smash his computer, but restored it to factory settings in front of him, and then installed all-round cameras in the house to warn him that there would not be a next time.
As despair enveloped Jiang Yuan, his parents became more and more extreme. He often wondered if it was his fault. If he were not so smart, would his parents not have become so paranoid? But he didn't understand why they didn't notice the scars on his face and the dirt and damage on his clothes when they were monitoring everything he did through the surveillance camera?
Later Jiang Yuanshi understood that they only wanted to see what they wanted to see. As for being bullied and hurt... they said, why don’t you think about your own problems?
In people's eyes, "geniuses" always have some unusual defects or abnormalities. For example, Jiang Yuanshi is not talkative, likes to be alone, is taciturn and not good at socializing, which makes his parents very dissatisfied.
Who would want someone like this in society? They naturally forget about their children’s situation and future, which could even be snatched up by big companies. They need normal people again.
They want a perfect genius.
They started paying for Jiang Yuanshi to enroll in classes, such as being a young reporter or doing journalism, etc. Anything that required going out and socializing was given to Jiang Yuanshi. When they didn't do well, they would just go back to his computer or look through his favorite things to clear things up.
After all, the child is still young. He needs and depends on his parents. They can control him.
Under the encouragement of his parents, Jiang Yuanshi became more and more dazzling. While showing his brilliance, he also learned to hide his shortcomings and be scheming. When he learned to switch the surveillance camera for the first time and his parents didn't notice, he suddenly realized that they were not omnipotent.
Jiang Yuanshi wanted to escape. He wanted to go back to find his grandmother, and then take his grandmother and Xiao Huang to a place where his parents could not find them, to do what he liked.
But he can't go anywhere now. His parents are watching him more and more strictly. There are surveillance cameras inside and outside the house, and teachers and classmates at school are also watching him.
Maybe just growing up would be enough.
With this idea in mind, Jiang Yuanshi climbed up without stopping. He was admitted to university at the age of 13. According to the procedure, he should have gone abroad to study for a doctorate smoothly a few years later, but was stopped by his parents again. His parents believed that people should be developed in many aspects, so he took advantage of his youth to study several majors, get several bachelor's degrees, and then go on to study for a doctorate as a graduate student.
This is ridiculous. Isn't dual degree the most a university can offer? His parents, using Jiang Yuanshi as an excuse, approached the administrators and teachers. If they disagreed, they could switch schools. They were certain the school wouldn't refuse. But even top universities aren't so short of "geniuses."
After their requests were fruitless, the parents shifted their plans to work. Since you can only get a double degree, you should finish your studies quickly, then find a company to work for you, gain experience, and then go on to study for a master's or doctoral degree with more security.
It sounds reasonable, but if there had been no interference from them, Jiang Yuanshi would have started his doctoral studies at the age of eighteen or nineteen, and would not have been old when he graduated. Looking at his resume, how could no company want him? After Jiang Yuanshi participated in programming competitions, he was able to cooperate with large companies and obtain patents during his school years, so he would not have had to worry about it.
When everyone was puzzled as to why Jiang Yuanshi's parents, both highly educated, would hold their child back, Jiang Yuanshi already knew the reason. They were afraid that Jiang Yuanshi would escape their control. Once he developed, he would only drift further and further away from his parents, and eventually they would have no contact anymore.
They once hoped their sons would become successful, but now they are afraid that the dragons they raised will fly away and never come back.
Then their capital for showing off will disappear in an instant.
Can't.
They had to keep a close eye on him, but the university was too far from their jobs. In the end, they even planned to have one of them quit his job to follow the child, but they were reluctant to do so. Besides, they couldn't watch Jiang Yuanshi all the time, so they might as well bribe his classmates and install a locator on him to keep an eye on his movements.
So when they later learned that Jiang Yuanshi had rented a house to make games, they were so angry that they smashed their computers on the spot. What made them even more angry was that their child had a lot of money, more than they could earn in several lifetimes. Why did he have it so easy? Why didn't he give his money to his parents?
Their children turned bad.
But it didn't matter. They went to the media and knelt down in front of the public and confessed. Amid public opinion, Jiang Yuanshi was defeated. He handed over all his money and was penniless. He could finally go and look for a job honestly.
The festival is coming soon, and the popularity on the Internet has increased a lot. They have a very good image on the Internet. Everyone feels sad about the children's rebelliousness, feels the difficulties of their parents, and admires their profession.
On the way home, they drove and smiled with satisfaction at the obedient child in the rearview mirror.
The father who was driving was so dazzled by the praise online, and so was the mother. They were even looking at their phone on the road and didn't notice that they were unintentionally speeding up.
“Beep!”
The sound of the horn woke them up and they realized that they were about to hit the truck in front. They swerved the steering wheel, and the car crashed into the highway guardrail in a dizzying spin.
"Bang--!"
The rear end of the car hit the guardrail and was smashed to pieces. Jiang Yuanshi, who was sitting in the back seat, had his face scratched by the glass and the broken chair back hit his head. He was confused and unable to move. In a trance, he heard a rustling sound in the front seat, followed by the hurried sound of doors opening and fleeing footsteps.
His parents left and forgot about him.
He seemed to hear the sound of turning back, but it stopped abruptly.
The heat climbed up my skin.
It would be better to die, he had had enough.
He slowly closed his eyes.
“Clatter, clatter—!”
There was a sound of rain, very loud.
The news that day reported an accident on the highway, the outcome of which could be described as a "miracle."
The heavy rain poured down and extinguished the burning vehicle.
No one died.
[Beep!]
[This world has been disturbed by anomalies, and the ending has gone awry——]
The alarm stopped abruptly, and a black and red monster stood in the silvery and transparent river, looking up at the scene in the eye-like crack that broke through the blue mist.
The monster had only one hand, with a small amulet wrapped around its fingertips. It quietly crushed the screen that popped up.
After Z01 was killed and ejected, the scene changed, and it was realized that this was not a false reality, but one of countless parallel worlds.
He faced the blue misty sky, and countless eyes were looking at him, among them were Jiang Yuanshi.
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