Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

As soon as Xiang Dongfang finished speaking, Cao Zhiqiang was stunned, blinked, and then sighed decisively.

"All living beings look like each other, where to find a soulmate in the world."

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang closed his eyes and nodded again: "Finally, someone finally understands me!"

Well, that's what I said, but Cao Zhiqiang was complaining crazily in his heart, feeling that this girl is really super intelligent, but at least her thinking is definitely different from ordinary people.

If Xiang Dongfang hadn't looked very serious when he said these words, Cao Zhiqiang would have felt that she was teasing him.

But, although she misunderstood Cao Zhiqiang's intentions, after thinking about it carefully, her words were not unreasonable.

In fact, what Xiang Dongfang said, if simply translated, is a further extension of the famous saying "With greater ability, comes greater responsibility", or an irony.

Obviously, when Xiang Dongfang was very young, he should have been a child prodigy with an extraordinary IQ, otherwise he wouldn't have been told that he would be sent to some juvenile class.

Cao Zhiqiang knew about the juvenile class, and it still exists now. It is a proper gathering place for child prodigies.

If you want to enter the junior class, it doesn't depend on your background or money, but on whether you are young enough and your IQ is strong enough.

Not enough IQ, not to mention not being able to get into the juvenile class at all, even if you barely get into the juvenile class, you will only reap a lot of pain.

However, regardless of the future, at least for now, the Junior Class is an enviable place.

If my child can enter the junior class, it will save face than being admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University.

After all, the current period is still the era of touting child prodigies.

So normally speaking, if a child is really a child prodigy, generally under the trend of vanity, he will want to go to the junior class.

This is the same as a person who has a high score in the college entrance examination and becomes the number one student in the college entrance examination, and usually chooses a famous school in Qingbei.

The pros and cons of the juvenile class are difficult to define for future generations, but in the early 80s, the juvenile class was still an era of blind worship.

Because of the admiration for child prodigies in society, many colleges and universities later set up classes for teenagers, not only the three universities that later had classes for teenagers.

For example, prestigious schools like Tsinghua University, Peking University and Fudan University all had classes for teenagers, but they haven't opened yet.

So in this period, the juvenile class only refers to the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China, and because there is only this junior class in the country, being able to become a prodigy in the junior class, at least for now, is really glorious.

However, Xiang Dongfang is very intelligent and intelligent, and she can be selected to be sent to the youth class, but she deliberately hides her clumsiness and refuses to go. It is a bit like the protagonist in a certain Japanese anime later, "Welcome to the Classroom of Power Supremacy". .

Cao Zhiqiang is a time traveler, of course he knew that the ending of the youth class was not very good, but Xiang Dongfang was not a time traveler, and she was still a pure child at the time, so she could find out that something was wrong with the youth class first, and then figured out a way to hide her clumsiness. The method is obliterated by everyone, which is a bit powerful.

Xiang Dongfang definitely didn't have front and back eyes and could see through the future. She just simply analyzed carefully and found that going to the junior class would not be friendly to her life.

Because going to the junior class, you must learn a lot of knowledge that adults can only master, which is equivalent to asking Xiang Dongfang to give full play to his ingenuity in advance. …

If you get in touch with those things too early, it looks like the scenery is boundless, but it will lose a lot of childhood fun and make yourself more tired. Tool of.

On the contrary, if she was clumsy, Xiang Dongfang would not have to go to the junior class, and would not attract too many people. She would go to school step by step, and would not give her too much expectation and pressure beyond ordinary people.

As a child of a high-ranking official, Xiang Dongfang has never had to worry about food and clothing since she was a child, and she doesn't worry about being bullied. Even if she is ordinary, she will still live in a caring atmosphere surrounded by good people, and there will be no wind blowing. The rain fell on her.

That is to say, if Xiang Dongfang pretends to be an ordinary person, she can enjoy the protection brought to her by the high-ranking family to the fullest, instead of going to the youth class alone to fight alone.

However, she enjoyed family protection since she was a child, but she didn't want to be bound by this kind of family when she grew up, so she didn't listen to her parents and went to university in the local area, but came to Beijing to go to university, just to leave home far away.

After coming to university, she basically didn't contact her family, and she didn't even go back once during the holidays. She just wanted to deliberately use this method of alienation to cut off contact with her original family as much as possible.

In this way, as time goes by, her parents will gradually alienate her and turn to her younger siblings.

Once her younger siblings grew up, Xiang Dongfang's parents began to focus on those two younger siblings, and Xiang Dongfang gradually became relieved.

That is to say, Xiang Dongfang had his own opinions and ideas from a very young age.

She used her family background to make her childhood and teenage years go smoothly without any disturbance.

When she was an adult and able to live independently, she resolutely applied for a university in the capital, and then used the distance and studies as an excuse to gradually cut ties with her original family.

In this way, she can decide her own life without being influenced by her family.

Even, if her father had any problems in the future, she would definitely not be involved.

It can be said that she has achieved the extreme of self-interest, and has been secretly operating since she was a child.

The key point is that no one else noticed her operations, but felt sorry for her, thinking that it was because of her introverted personality, so they loved her even more, and never thought about what her real intentions were.

It's a pity that no matter how clever she is, no matter how hard she tries, all her schemes are just nights in brocade clothes.

It's good to keep outsiders from knowing, but it's a little sad, because no one can see through her true intentions.

So, she is actually very lonely.

The reason for her loneliness is that she feels that everyone around her is stupid, and they are not worthy of being with her or knowing the truth about her.

Well, there is a bit of a split personality.

However, by chance, she met Cao Zhiqiang, and then became interested in Cao Zhiqiang.

She found that Cao Zhiqiang has many interesting things, and there is a high probability that he is the same person as her, but the turning point of his life is different, and his later path is different.

In order to prove her thoughts, she began to inquire about Cao Zhiqiang's situation from various sources, mainly through Cao Lili. …

Then, based on the information she collected, plus her own reasoning and analysis, she finally believed that Cao Zhiqiang was the same person as her, and also a clumsy child prodigy.

It was only because of being forced by life that Cao Zhiqiang had no choice but to reveal his talent when all his guardians were dead, and then it got out of hand.

But also because of this, Cao Zhiqiang was favored by some big shots, and thus became a knife in the hands of those big shots, taking responsibility that he shouldn't have shouldered in advance.

"I've asked."

While Cao Zhiqiang was still in deep thought, Xiang Dongfang suddenly said seriously: "The Hongguang Publishing House in your hands is a subsidiary unit of Hongguang Machinery Factory, and Hongguang Machinery Factory has already been listed on the reform list of the Beijing Municipal Government. .

Since last month, the municipal government's financial subsidy to Hongguang Machinery Factory has been halved, and at the end of this year, the municipal government will completely stop the financial subsidy to Hongguang Machinery Factory.

If Hongguang Machinery Factory cannot be responsible for its own profits and losses before the end of this year and support itself, it must respond to the above-mentioned transformation plan and actively cooperate with Shougang. In fact, it will be swallowed by Shougang.

At that time, the main production part of Hongguang Machinery Factory, such as workshop workers, production equipment and other parts that can create value, will have to be relocated.

The remaining factories, hospitals, schools and other buildings, and of course the factory land, will be taken away by the city government, and then the nature of the land and departments will be converted, so that industrial land will become commercial land, and factories, hospitals and other departments will also become government-owned. business unit.

Once this transformation is completed, ordinary workers may not have much impact, but for those who are officials, it will not be so good.

Especially that Li Siming, that is, the director of your machinery factory, Li, who is about to lose power completely, will be pushed to the end, and will directly retreat to the second line and wait for retirement.

Your Hongguang Machinery Factory is now like Soochow before the Battle of Chibi.

The people below all wanted to surrender, and none of them objected to surrender.

Because as far as the current situation is concerned, after Hongguang Machinery Factory is merged and transformed by Shougang and the municipal government, the treatment of ordinary workers will not change much, and they will still be retained.

But for the head of a factory, or for those top people who hold power, it's different.

Before the Battle of Chibi, all ministers of Soochow could surrender, but only the lord of Soochow could not.

On the other hand, look at your factory manager Li, he is the same.

Once he accepts his fate and surrenders, he has nothing left.

However, Factory Manager Li has limited energy and limited ability. It is impossible to turn the machinery factory into a profit in a short period of time by relying on his ability alone.

He had no choice but to take a fancy to your talent.

You see, he bid for a publishing house on purpose, and even hired you, an unknown person, to be the vice president and general manager, to give you a reputation and power, and let you do your best.

Sure enough, you lived up to expectations. After taking over, you published a book immediately, and it became a bestseller immediately. I don’t know how much money you made, but it is definitely not a small amount.

Seeing that you are so useful, in order to keep you as a cash cow, the factory director tried his best to promote you to the president of the publishing house and become the real top leader. …

He seems to give you power, but in fact he puts shackles on you and makes you work harder for him.

Let's just talk about your set of "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes", almost all of us college students don't know it, and it is more popular than your original collection of poems.

I also know a little bit about the inside story of the publishing industry. In this case, the Lilan that your publishing house can earn is definitely not small, at least over a million.

You have created so much value for the publishing house, but how much do they pay you?I'm afraid there won't be many, right?

And you seem to have a lot of power, but don't forget that this publishing house is a subsidiary of Hongguang Machinery Factory. As long as your factory manager Li is not satisfied, he can remove you at any time.

So, they are just using you and using you as a pawn.

Although in the process, you may have made a lot of money, and even gained status and power.

But it's nothing compared to what you paid for.

I think this is very unfair to you, so I found a way to come to you, just to wake you up and help you.

But looking at you now, it seems that you have already understood all this?
Could it be that you are not simply being used, but using each other? "

Cao Zhiqiang frowned, then clapped his hands with a smile: "It's amazing, it's really amazing, I feel like you've seen through it."

Xiang Dongfang smiled: "It's nothing, I was just a bystander, and I found some people and asked some questions, but I don't know the specific situation, I can only speculate based on the existing situation."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "So, what you say you want to stay in the capital through my relationship is actually just an excuse. You just want to come to work with me and help me?"

"Yes." Xiang Dongfang nodded, "If I want to stay in the capital, there are many ways, even if I don't need to find my father.

But, I suddenly felt that you are quite interesting, and you should be similar to me, so I wanted to take a closer look at you, and help you if you can.

It's a pity, after all, it's because of the same kind. I also think you are more than that stupid, so I couldn't help but tell the truth.

Of course, even if I don't tell you, with your cleverness, you may be able to discover my problem soon.

Among other things, at least you can find out who my father is, which is not easy in itself.

You can find a way to find out who my father is, which means that you not only have a strong background, or you can find someone with a background to help.

However, what I admire even more is that you were able to see through my disguise and find someone to check my details in advance, which shows that you are a cautious person.

You know, I have been a tutor in your house for so long before, and you have always been careless. I thought you were a careless person who was careless in small things.

But now it seems that you should have checked my details long ago, so you are so relieved of me.

A cautious and extremely intelligent person who does things quietly and can hide his true thoughts, such a person is unlikely to be used casually.

If so, it must be something else! "

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "If I am such a terrible person, would you still be willing to work with me?"

"Of course I would." Xiang Dongfang smiled slightly.

"Originally, I wanted to find an ordinary place by myself, work in an ordinary job, get married in an ordinary way, and live an ordinary life.

Although I am indeed a genius with an extraordinary IQ, no one said that a genius cannot live an ordinary life, right?

On the contrary, geniuses have more choices.

I can choose to be flat like water, or I can choose to be magnificent.

Originally, I really wanted to continue to be as flat as water, which would make me more relaxed.

But your appearance has aroused my curiosity and interest again.

I think it might be interesting to follow the side of your kind and take a look at the magnificent waves. "

"Understood, fully understood." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "then there is only one last question left, since you are deliberately planning to come to work by my side and have a look around me, why did you bring an outsider here?"

"Outsider?" Xiang Dongfang was taken aback for a moment, then smiled, "Oh, you mean that Xu Jingli?"

"Yes!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "Why did you bring her here? Don't tell me, she is also your kind, and she is also a super genius who can hide her clumsiness!"