Reborn in the red age

"Teacher Li, according to the news from Hong Kong yesterday, the Windows 90 system we released last month was a huge success, defeating the OS/2 operating systems of Microsoft and IBM."

"There are long queues outside stores around the world that sell our software. This time our Windows 90 is really popular all over the world."

Li Qingfeng had not been in the research institute for long when the institute's director Ding Guangqing, who had received the news, came to him excitedly and reported the news to Li Qingfeng.

Upon hearing the good news, Li Qingfeng was not as excited as Ding Guangqing had expected. He spoke calmly without even raising his head: "As expected, the people are not fools. Our system is world-changing, so they will naturally choose us."

As the international situation became increasingly unfavorable to Lemon Company, the US government frequently launched investigations into Lemon Company in the name of national information security, and the pressure from the official level was increasing.

The Stanford Board of Trustees and a number of American partners have lacked confidence in the Lemon Company since its performance in the United States declined in the past two years and faced increasing pressure from the government. They have been slacking off in the past two years and are not willing to fully help fight against the US government.

In the capitalist country of America, capital represents everything. Li Qingfeng is counting on this group of American native capitalists to help fight against the government. Anyone can fall, but they cannot.

Seeing that the partners who had been helping to fight the epidemic in the front lacked confidence, Li Qingfeng quickly released the groundbreaking Windows 95 system in advance to boost the confidence of his partners.

So that they can continue to raise their hopes for Lemon Company and use all their strength to fight against the pressure from the authorities.

"Yes, our ally Intel and many partner companies sent us congratulatory messages to celebrate our great victory this time." At this point, Ding Guangqing paused and said with a smile: "This time we have beaten Microsoft into autism. Microsoft withdrew from the alliance with IBM and announced that it would no longer develop the OS/2 operating system for IBM."

"Uh, haha."

Upon hearing the news, Li Qingfeng was stunned for a moment, then he covered his stomach and started laughing so hard that tears almost came out.

Gates, this buddy has a bad mentality. He has just started to work hard, and your mentality has collapsed?

After a while, Li Qingfeng finally stopped laughing, waved his hand, and asked about the attitudes of those capitalists: "Besides sending congratulatory messages, have our allies taken any other actions? What did the American government say? Is the investigation against us over?"

"Our new system gave them a lot of confidence. They united to put pressure on the US officials, ended the investigation into our US branch, and announced that there was no problem with our system and it did not threaten national information security," said Ding Guangqing with a smile.

Li Qingfeng nodded slightly and said disdainfully: "That's enough. Those damn capitalists are all slaves. If we don't maintain the dominance of our products in the American market and bring them huge profits, they won't work hard."

"It's not just the capitalists, human nature is like this, it's the same everywhere. To use an old saying, there are people who do business that will get them killed, but no one does business that will lose them money. The rules that govern the world ultimately come down to the word 'profit'." Ding Guangqing nodded in agreement and said something that made a lot of sense.

Li Qingfeng looked at Ding Guangqing in surprise, and thought to himself, this guy is a science guy, how could he say such philosophical words? Could he be secretly studying?

After sending Ding Guangqing away, Li Qingfeng personally called Hong Kong from his office and inquired in detail about the situation in America.

The question was not about the software business, but about the lobbying of the (www) World Wide Web at the United Nations and the research and development progress of the WIFI wireless technology project.

Li Qingfeng heaved a sigh of relief when he was sure that the further development of these two technologies was proceeding as planned without any official obstruction.

As long as he has these two patents that are powerful enough to influence global Internet projects, Li Qingfeng can get back all the grievances he has suffered now from America in a few years when the Internet enters a period of vigorous development.

If America wants to investigate Lemon Company again with unfounded excuses, don't blame me for collecting patent fees for the www technology.

By then, we will confront the Americans head-on and only charge patent fees from American companies, while other regions will be free.

This is an unsolvable conspiracy. If American companies do not pay patent fees, they are violating international patent law. The whole world can follow suit and imitate America in not complying with patent law.

If this situation really occurs, the country that suffers the most losses will be America, which has technological hegemony.

Unless they bypass Li Qingfeng's patent, re-draft a new Internet protocol, and then force the world to switch to the new World Wide Web.

However, this is impossible. Not to mention the difficulty of bypassing patents, forcing the whole world to change to the World Wide Web together is simply an impossible task.

Li Qingfeng felt happy when he thought about the scene where America was feeling disgusted but had to pay the patent fees reluctantly.

"Dad, Dad, have you found a job?"

After returning from the Computer Research Institute, Chuyi, who had just walked home from school, looked at Li Qingfeng eagerly and asked about his work.

Ever since Li Qingfeng took away the more than one thousand yuan in New Year's money from Chuyi, this girl would come to Li Qingfeng every now and then, asking him if he had found a job.

The implication is, when will Li Qingfeng return the money to her?
Seeing Chuyi looking at him pitifully, Li Qingfeng shrugged his shoulders and pretended to be helpless: "I'm sorry Chuyi, Dad is trying hard to find a job, but the overall environment is not good now, and it's not easy to find a job. Wait for a while, Dad will definitely find a job."

"Ah, it's been so long, and Dad, you still haven't found a job?" Upon hearing Li Qingfeng say that he hadn't found a job yet, Chuyi's expression changed immediately, and he pouted with a look of disappointment.

"Yes, the overall environment is not good. Be good, my daughter. When daddy finds a job, he will return your New Year's money double."

"Alas," Chuyi lowered his head and sighed deeply, saying with despair, "Okay, then Dad, you must find a job as soon as possible."

"rest assured"

Chuyi looked at Li Qingfeng deeply, then holding the doll in his arms, he returned to his room with a look of despair and closed the door.

Looking at the aggrieved Chuyi, Li Qingfeng smiled and shook his head, hung his backpack on the rack at the door, changed into slippers and walked into the house.

When passing by the sofa, he was playing with the 15th of the Rubik's Cube that he had discarded on the first day of the new year. He raised his little head and said with longing: "Dad, when you find a job, will you pay back my sister twice the money?"

Ok?
Li Qingfeng was stunned for a moment, but soon realized something. A sincere smile appeared on his face. He looked at Fifteen who was looking at him expectantly, and said in a seductive tone: "Of course, Daddy is a man of his words. When I find a job, I will definitely return it double. What? Fifteen also wants Daddy's double return?"

At this moment, Qingfeng Li was like a demon with horns on his head, evilly seducing the innocent Fifteen.

Fifteen did not answer immediately, but counted on his fingers, trying to figure out how much it doubled.

Fifteen, who just started kindergarten this year, can only do addition and subtraction within ten. He has trouble figuring out numbers above ten.

Fifteen couldn't figure it out after calculating over and over again, so he simply gave up and looked up and asked innocently, "Dad, I have three blue ones, five green ones, and eight gray ones. If I give them all to you, how much will you give me back after you find a job?"

"Seven, eight or nine yuan" He bullied Li Qingfeng who couldn't count and casually reported a number.

I counted fifteen on my fingers for a long time, but I couldn't figure it out. After thinking for a while, I tilted my head and asked uncertainly, "Is it really seven, eight, or nine?"

"Of course, you have to trust dad. I will definitely double the amount and return you seven, eight or nine yuan when the time comes," Li Qingfeng said sincerely.

Fifteen felt that his father could be trusted, and with Li Qingfeng's promise, he immediately jumped off the sofa excitedly and ran into his room to get the New Year's money.

Hu Jiabao, who was writing something nearby, looked up after Shiwu left and said angrily, "Who are you? How can you be a father like you? You even lied to your own son."

"Play, aren't children born to play? Otherwise, why would we have children?" Li Qingfeng said with a grin.

"I don't understand you. If mom were here and heard what you said, I would definitely not forgive you."

“Isn’t the problem not there?”

"Humph"

Hu Jiabao snorted coldly and continued to write his own materials without paying any attention to Li Qingfeng.

Soon, Fifteen came back to the room with a stack of colorful banknotes.

Li Qingfeng took it and looked at it. Wow, this is all of Shiwu's savings, right? How come he didn't even take out a penny?

In front of Fifteen, Qingfeng Li carefully counted the money and patted Fifteen on the shoulder solemnly: "Fifteen, you have seven or eight or nine yuan here. When Dad finds a job, I will definitely double it and return you eighteen yuan."

"Ah? Isn't it seven, eight or nine dollars?"

"Seven plus eight plus nine equals eighteen dollars"

Fifteen counted on his fingers for a long time, but couldn't figure it out, so he gave up counting and decided to trust his father. A bright smile appeared on his face, revealing two rows of white teeth.

"Okay, go ahead and play. Auntie Xiao Cai will be ready soon. Let's get ready to eat."

"it is good"

Seeing Fifteen happily continuing to play with the worn-out Rubik's Cube, Li Qingfeng smiled and nodded, then casually stuffed more than six hundred and fifty yuan into his pocket.

Hu Jiabao, who was listening at the side with her ears pricked up, really didn't know what to say to her husband who shamelessly cheated on her child and her foolish son.

Li Qingfeng, who was in a good mood, noticed Hu Jiabao's speechless gaze, smiled at Hu Jiabao, walked into the kitchen, and gave Xiao Cai the more than 600 yuan he had cheated from Shiwu as food expenses for the family in the second half of the year.

Xiao Cai took the money, wiped her apron awkwardly, looked at Li Qingfeng cautiously and asked, "Teacher Li, how long can I continue to work in your house?"

"Huh? What? You want to resign?" Li Qingfeng asked puzzledly.

Cai Genhua waved her hands in panic: "No, no, I am doing well here and don't want to resign."

"Then why do you ask?"

"It's not that you've lost your job. It's just that Dr. Hu is the only one working and earning money at home. I'm worried..." Cai Genhua seemed to be afraid of hurting Li Qingfeng's male pride. She didn't finish her words, but rubbed the corner of her apron and spoke awkwardly.

???

Li Qingfeng was a little confused. This little girl had been living in his home for more than a year. Didn't she realize that his family didn't live on wages?

Glancing at the awkward Cai Genhua in silence, Li Qingfeng pointed in the direction of the study room and said, "Were you there when Jiabao was installing the network cable some time ago?"

"Well, I was the one who opened the door and let the network cable installer in."

"We spent nearly 10,000 yuan to install that crap. Do you think my husband and I are people who live on our salary?"

Cai Genhua realized that she had misunderstood, and quickly apologized to Li Qingfeng awkwardly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Li, I heard your conversation with Chuyi and Shiwu, and I think you have some financial difficulties recently."

"You misunderstood, I was playing with the child"

Cai Genhua nodded on the surface to show that she understood, but Li Qingfeng could see from her eyes that she was confused about the way he got along with children.

Li Qingfeng held his forehead in silence, secretly complaining in his heart, as expected, there is a huge generation gap between me, a post-90s generation, and you, the post-60s and 70s generation.
At the dinner table, Fifteen excitedly told Chuyi, who had just come out of the bedroom, what had just happened, and said that he had also lent money to his father, and that when his father found a job, he would also pay him back double the money.

After learning about Fifteen's specific loan amount, Chuyi, who already knew simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and had a certain amount of social experience, looked at Li Qingfeng strangely.

However, he did not choose to expose it, but cooperated with Li Qingfeng's deception, saying that Fifteen had made a lot of money.

After fooling around with Fifteen, Chuyi kept looking at Li Qingfeng strangely at the dinner table. He didn't eat properly, and held his chin with both hands, wondering what he was thinking.

Li Qingfeng felt a little scared by the look of the little girl Chuyi. He quickly finished the rice in the bowl and stood up to leave the table.

In the toilet, Chuyi blocked Li Qingfeng at the toilet door, and smiled as he stretched out his right hand with his palm facing upwards towards Li Qingfeng.

"What are you doing? Didn't I tell you that I'll pay you back when I find a job?" Looking at Chuyi who was asking for money, Li Qingfeng asked knowingly.

Chuyi smiled and shook his head: "No, I don't want my money, I want the money you took from Shiwu. If you don't give it to me, I will tell Shiwu that you cheated him and ask him to ask you for the money back."

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After a moment's silence, Li Qingfeng silently took out ten yuan from his pocket and placed it in Chuyi's palm.

After taking a look at the ten yuan in his hand, Chuyi didn't make any movement and still kept his hand outstretched.

Only after he put fifty yuan in his hand did Chuyi leave happily. (End of this chapter)