Rebirth: Growing Up Together

"I see you..."

Lin Wanzhou turned her head and said, "It seems quite good-looking."

As the saying goes, there are no ugly men, only lazy men. Xu Cheng has had the thinking of an adult since he was a child. He pays attention to his image and hygiene. Coupled with his mature dressing style, he naturally stands out among a group of dirty boys.

Listening to Lin Wanzhou's praise, Xu Cheng smiled and felt his hands were frozen by the cold wind.

But he did not take out the gloves that He Ying had packed for him in his schoolbag, but instead covered his hands with air.

"Hiss... It's so cold."

Lin Wanzhou blinked and looked at him, "Eh? You don't have gloves?"

"I forgot to bring it." Xu Cheng lied with a wry smile, and exhaled a puff of white mist, "Do you know why the more you blow on your hands, the colder they get?"

"why?"

"Because the heat taken away by evaporation is greater than the heat absorbed by the hot air blown out of your mouth, your hands will become colder and colder. You see, my hands are getting colder and colder now."

"Oh, no wonder..." Lin Wanzhou raised her head and tucked her hair. "Xu Cheng, there is nothing you don't understand about this strange knowledge, but why don't you focus on studying? You should know that there is a path to a mountain of knowledge through diligence, and there is a boat to a boundless sea of ​​learning through hard work. You are so smart, if you study hard, your grades will definitely be much better than they are now..."

"Hiss!" Seeing that Lin Wanzhou had misunderstood his meaning and was lecturing him to study hard, Xu Cheng had no choice but to cover his hands with his head, and continued to blow air on his hands, pretending to be in even more pain, "Huh! My hands are so painful from the cold, it's getting colder and colder..."

"I really can't do anything with you." Lin Wanzhou took off her gloves, stretched out her soft and warm little hands and held Xu Cheng's hands tightly, looking at him with concern, "Are you feeling warmer?"

Xu Cheng grinned, "It's warmer now."

Lin Wanzhou frowned and looked at the long distance ahead. "Then I'll lend you my gloves."

Xu Cheng stared at the cotton gloves handed to him for a few seconds and suggested.

"Let's do this." He took only one of the two gloves, "We each wear only one."

"What about the other hand?"

"Put your other hand here." Xu Cheng stretched out his left hand, took Lin Wanzhou's right hand, and put it into his pocket. The two hands were put together, with their fingers intertwined, providing warmth to each other.

"Hmph, let's do this for now." Lin Wanzhou's face felt slightly hot, but he didn't pull his hand back. He took two steps forward and added, "Until we get to the vicinity of the school! We can't let other students see us..."

At this age, she is becoming more and more shy, so of course she is worried that she will be talked about by her classmates.

"Know it."

Chapter 17: Things That Have Changed and Have Not Changed

Every evening, Lin Wanzhou would stay at Xu Cheng's house and do homework with him in the bedroom for a while until the adults of both families came back from get off work.

Now she comes to Xu Cheng's house as naturally as going back to her own home. He Ying and Xu Jianghe like this lovely girl very much, not to mention that she also helps supervise their son's studies. They are very welcoming.

Lin Wanzhou also likes the atmosphere in Xu Cheng's home very much, and even deep in her heart, she hides a trace of envy for the relationship between Xu Cheng's parents.

"Did your parents quarrel again yesterday?"

Xu Cheng took a sip of orange juice and looked at Lin Wanzhou standing beside him.

During this period, Gao Manman and Lin Wanzhou's father often quarreled, and the noise was so loud that the entire family compound knew about it, and there were rumors that the two were planning to divorce.

Lin Wanzhou stared at his exercise book in silence, writing and calculating on the paper, and finally pointed the question to Xu Cheng, "Xu Cheng, take a look at this question, do you have any ideas?"

Xu Cheng moved closer to her, their faces almost touching. They could feel each other's breath, but the two were already used to it. They just regarded it as intimacy between friends and did not develop any special feelings.

He took a quick look and said, "Chickens and rabbits are in the same cage. Rabbits have four legs, but chickens only have two legs. If you can't do the math mentally, you can write an equation..."

He wrote and drew on a piece of calculation paper, and roughly listed the equation, "If there are X chickens in total, then the number of chicken feet sticking out from below is 2X...Is that clear now?"

"So that's how it is." Lin Wanzhou nodded in sudden enlightenment, "Actually, Xu Cheng, you're very smart. You can think of all these difficult questions. You always get low marks in exams. It must be because you're not careful enough..."

"Okay, okay, I'll be more careful next time." Xu Cheng casually brushed off the topic and suggested, "We've been studying for so long, why don't we watch some cartoons?"

Lin Wanzhou glanced at Xu Cheng hesitantly, "What are you looking at?"

"Detective Conan, I just asked my dad to rent a set of Conan discs." Within just a few years, almost all of Longguo's once-powerful video halls went bankrupt. Instead, the model of renting discs became popular. Xu Jianghe installed a home theater at home and played the rented discs at home, which was very enjoyable.

By the way, this business model of renting movies was learned from the United States. There is a company there that specializes in renting videotapes called Blockbuster, which is a giant American company. Once a small company wanted to sell itself to it but was driven away. Later, Blockbuster went bankrupt, and the small company called Netflix became a legend.

"Conan? No, I don't want to watch that." Lin Wanzhou frowned and shook his head. "Every time I see that door click shut, I feel like my breathing is going to stop. I often have nightmares when I think about it at night."

"Is that so?" Xu Cheng thought for a moment, "Since you're afraid..."

"Then you have to look at it even more!"

Happy times are always short. After Lin Wanzhou returned home, Xu Cheng sat up from the sofa, stretched, and started his official work!

After studying computers for a period of time, Xu Cheng had already developed his own navigation website, which has been in operation for two and a half years.

Xu Cheng named it "16 Website Navigation".

The technical content of URL navigation is not high, which is related to its function. After all, the purpose of URL navigation is to facilitate the mode of finding the website by entering the URL. Therefore, all 16 needs to do is to group popular websites together and establish links with them. In this way, when users go online, they don’t need to remember the URL at all, just click it.

Currently, 16 has become well-known in Longguo, and many Internet cafes are using this navigation website. Xu Cheng does things "very low-key", and no one knows that he is the webmaster of 16. His daily job is to check and update links, and then delete some illegal and virus links in time.

After finishing his work, Xu Cheng decided to reward himself.

"Since my parents haven't come back yet, I can take a look at that secretly..."

He tiptoed to lock the door, then lifted up his mattress and pulled out a book with yellowed pages from underneath.

He had obtained this book with great difficulty, and he hid it very carefully, like a treasure. He absolutely could not let his parents see it, otherwise he would have trouble explaining it.

"Gudong."

Xu Cheng swallowed nervously, opened the title page with a smile on his face, and turned to the place he had last seen.

"The solubility of a solid indicates that at a certain temperature, a solid substance..."

"Chemistry for Junior High School Grade 9, Volume 2"

Xu Cheng is very strict with himself. In order to strive to make himself better in this life, he lives a very disciplined life and works and studies simultaneously.

Especially in studying, he was particularly attentive, just because his academic performance in his previous life was average. In this life, he followed the principle of the early bird catches the worm. Even if he was not as talented as others, I could always make up for it by starting to study a few years earlier.

The goal he has set for himself now is -

Read for four hours every day and your cultural level will be synchronized with that of junior high school students!

At dinner time, the family of three ate happily, and "The World's Granary" was playing on TV.

Four years have passed, and both parents do not seem to have aged much. Instead, there is a sense of vitality and thriving, which is completely different from the original trajectory in the previous life.

This is of course inseparable from the butterfly effect brought about by Xu Cheng, the reborn person. Just by gently flapping his wings, a slight ripple changed the fate of his family.

He Ying is currently doing very well as the regional manager and recently there was news that he had been promoted to deputy director of the marketing department.

On Xu Jianghe's side, Jing'an Communications had just recovered from the trough of the communications industry. He holds a fingernail-sized share of the company and is currently in a middle-level position in the company, also serving as deputy manager in the marketing department.

Both parents are doing well at work and the family is living in harmony. The Xu family has already entered the fast lane on the road to a well-off life and is living a very comfortable life.

These are the things that Xu Cheng has indeed changed.

However, perhaps it was the world's self-repair mechanism that worked, or perhaps Xu Cheng's dust particle in the era was too small, and in the past four short years, the main course of the world was not affected by Xu Cheng.

Those bad things still happened: the Nasdaq Internet bubble burst, the emerging Internet entered its darkest hour, the communications industry was affected and ushered in an industry winter; the international situation was grim; housing prices soared; Milk Tea Lun was criticized for running out of ideas...

Good things also went smoothly: joining the WTO, the return of Hong Kong and the Olympic Games, the Chinese national football team entered the World Cup, the Internet winter was broken, and the American Nai 11 incident...

a few days later.

In class, the head teacher Zhu Ziqian pushed open the door of the classroom, followed by a little girl who looked very rustic.

"Let me introduce you to a new student in our class, who transferred from Yingcai Primary School."

"Yu Yu..."

Chapter 18: Old Culture

Let’s go back a little bit in time.

Late at night, Xu Cheng was lying on the desk with a book called "C Language Programming" under the desk lamp.

Regardless of whether you will work in the computer field in the future, it is always a good idea to improve your abilities.

Even if he were reborn once, Xu Cheng would not dare to guarantee what he would be able to do in the future. If fate played tricks on him and all his plans failed, at least the skills he had accumulated would not disappear and could provide him with the capital to gain a foothold in society.

I looked up at the forum on the computer screen.

"Should I go with C# or Java? Should I follow Sun or Microsoft? Should I do ASP.NET or PHP? Should I give up C++?"

This is basically the situation in the current programming circle. Everyone is discussing which programming language is good and which language I should learn.

Xu Cheng felt that he still had a say. He had a slight impression of the languages ​​that had been popular, including Java in the smartphone era, C++, the first choice for game development, the crazy running crawlers, and the stable C language. Later, in the embedded era, C language was still very critical.

Faced with the complex programming language system, Xu Cheng also struggled about which ones he should learn. Later, he simply put his hands in his pockets.

Only children do multiple-choice questions, as an adult, of course I want them all!

Adults are driven by utilitarianism and worry about wasting time on useless work, but Xu Cheng has no such concerns at all. He has a long time to learn and master various languages. As the saying goes, sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. After mastering multiple technologies, he will definitely make up for all the time he has spent.

"beep beep"

The computer in front of Xu Cheng started to ring, and a little penguin wearing a scarf began to flash in the lower right corner of the screen. It was said that this prompt sound was recorded by Xiao Ma Ge from his own pager.

"Mr. Zhou: Are you there?"

"The most affectionate person in Jinghai: Yeah."

Xu Cheng is an old Internet user. In 99, when QQ was first launched in Huajun Software Park and was still called OICQ, he registered several accounts.

Five digits!

I won’t sell it. I’ll leave it for my grandchildren to show off.

Lin Wanzhou was not very experienced in using computers and hadn't replied to messages for a long time. Xu Cheng could imagine her typing word by word on the keyboard with two fingers. While waiting, Xu Cheng casually looked up at the chat history.

"Mr. Zhou: Today is Ma Huateng's birthday. Forward this message to 10 friends and your QQ number will have one more sun."

"Jinghai's Most Affectionate: Hello, I am Qin Shi Huang. Actually, I am not dead. I have 100 tons of gold in Chang'an. I need 2000 yuan to unfreeze it..."

"It's really a collision of new and old cultures." While Xu Cheng was complaining, Lin Wanzhou's message had already been sent.

"Mr. Zhou: Xu Chengcheng, can you take my shift the day after tomorrow?"

"Mr. Zhou: I need to take a few days off tomorrow. My mother wants me to go back to my grandmother's house with her."

"Mr. Zhou: Is this okay?"

"Mr. Porridge: [Poor]"

There were four people on duty. Xu Cheng was originally in a group with Lin Wanzhou. According to the convention that boys mop the floor and girls sweep the floor, when it was her turn on duty, she had to sweep and mop the floor.

"The most affectionate person in Jinghai: No."

"Mr. Zhou: [Heartbroken]"

"Mr. Zhou: I want an affirmation."

"Jinghai's Most Affectionate Person: Definitely not."

……

Of course, the deal was finally agreed to. After all, Xu Cheng had been using Lin Wanzhou's iPod for free for so long, and given their relationship, it was impossible for him not to help her.

Putting on Lin Wanzhou's iPod and playing a song "Love in AD", Xu Cheng stood up and prepared to get a glass of milk from the refrigerator. On the way, he was stopped by Xu Jianghe, who was wearing a coat and going to the toilet.

"Hey, Xu Cheng, where did you get this?"

"I borrowed it from Lin Wanzhou."

“Is this an… MP3?”

"No." Xu Cheng shook his head. "Dad, you don't understand the market at all. This is Apple's new iPod."

Xu Cheng handed the iPod to Xu Jianghe, who took it in his hands, looked at it, and sighed.

"Times are really changing fast now. I used to think that having a Walkman or a Diskman was pretty impressive, but now there are MP3s and this is getting criticized."

"By the way, Xu Cheng, are MP3s very popular among you kids?"

"It's very popular... but a little expensive."

I have the impression that there was a period of time when Sony, the big brother of traditional players, was stubborn and insisted on Walkman, which led to a large market share of players being divided up by foreign MP3 manufacturers.