Demon's Self-cultivation

Just when Qiao Qiao rarely put down his studies and played with his little wolf dog, Xu Zhengjie drove back home quickly. As soon as he entered the door, he sat on the sofa, turned on the optical computer, and pressed the button on the top of the address book marked as The communication number of "Chen Chuan".

After a burst of melodious ringtones, Xu Zhengjie showed a surprised expression on the connected signal, and joked with a smile: "It's so rare, a busy person, that I got through the first time I called you?"

"It's really rare. You called me just after I came out of the laboratory, and you pinched it really accurately." In the three-dimensional projection of the optical brain, a middle-aged man in a white coat adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, and his tone was flat.

This middle-aged man named Chen Chuan and Xu Zhengjie have two completely different styles.Xu Zhengjie is serious and tough, while Chen Chuan is elegant and personable; Xu Zhengjie is unkempt and focuses on comfort, while Chen Chuan combs his hair carefully and keeps his collar neat without any wrinkles, so meticulous that he seems to have some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder .

There is a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth all the time, but Chen Chuan always looks at what is being calculated with those gleaming fox eyes, and quite accurately shows what is called "dressed beast" and "hiding evil intentions"—for himself Chen Chuan was also very helpless for his natural appearance of "bad intentions".

"Thank you, have you been busy recently?" Xu Zhengjie looked at the slightly black eyes of his friend for many years, and asked with concern.

"It's okay. I just finished a research task. Recently, I'm sorting out the research data and publishing a few papers. The assistants are mainly doing it. I just need to check it out. I can rest for a while." Chen Chuan She raised her eyebrows, "Tell me, what do you want me to do? As the saying goes, 'If you have nothing to go to the Three Treasures Palace', you will not contact me for no reason, and you still care about me."

"Don't say that." Xu Zhengjie scratched his hair in embarrassment, silently thinking about whether he was really so unkind, and then found...it was indeed the case.After a pause of three seconds, he decisively threw the topic aside, "Hey, but I do need your help with something."

Chen Chuan snorted softly, turned his head and walked into the bathroom.He rolled up his sleeves carefully, and then put his hands under the faucet, carefully cleaning between his fingers, and the three-dimensional projection on the optical brain also changed position as he walked: "I knew it would be like this. Tell me, What's up."

"I would like to ask you to give...a four or five-year-old child an exam question, the level of compulsory education is fine." Xu Zhengjie looked at Chen Chuan's obsessive-compulsive handwashing movements with a bit of toothache, only feeling that his hands seemed to be A layer of skin was also washed off.

Chen Chuan paused while washing his hands, then raised his head in disbelief: "What did you say?"

"Please come up with a copy of the test questions for four or five-year-old children." Xu Zhengjie repeated.

The corner of Chen Chuan's mouth twitched violently, and he even put aside such an "important" thing as washing his hands.He adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, lifted the optical brain worn on his wrist to his face, and paused word by word: "Please look at my face, and repeat your request again? While speaking, please tell yourself , the person in front of you is a special technician of the Huameng Academy of Sciences, a senior professor of particle pulse science, and a top scientific research talent with millions of dollars every minute, thank you!"

Xu Zhengjie tilted his head slightly, avoiding the death stare behind Chen Chuan's frame that suddenly approached in the [-]D projection, and laughed twice: "I know you are amazing, isn't it because you can't find other people to help you? You know, I am a Boss, the knowledge taught in school has long been returned to the teacher, and the people I know are about the same level as me, and you are the only one who is so knowledgeable."

Chen Chuan snorted softly, and then put down his wrist: "It's useless to compliment me, you are too whimsical! Let a special technician like me give compulsory education exam questions for a four or five-year-old child? You Is your head broken?"

"If you don't have time to come up with exam questions, can you ask your assistants for help?" Xu Zhengjie still didn't intend to give up.

"My assistants are all sent by the research institute to assist me in my experiments, not my personal assistants. I don't have the face to use public tools for private use, and let them do things that have nothing to do with their own research." Chen Chuan snorted lightly.He also saw Xu Zhengjie's persistence. Although he was reluctant, he still asked, "Who is that kid? Why did you ask me to give him the test questions?"

Thinking of the smart and lovely little angel in the orphanage, the expression on Xu Zhengjie's face softened involuntarily, and a smile appeared on his face: "His name is Qiao Qiao, and he is an orphan in an orphanage that I often sponsored when I was cultivating on star C13." After that, he narrated how he met and got along with Qiao Qiao, even though his tone was very plain and plain, it still made Chen Chuan feel the dog food called "Xuan'er" blowing towards his face.

Looking at the shining eyes of his old friend, the smile on Chen Chuan's face became more and more real.He listened carefully to every detail of the child named Qiao Qiao, patiently responding to each other from time to time, feeling relieved and relaxed in his heart.

Chen Chuan has always known that Xu Zhengjie has a wound deep enough to rot in his heart, and this wound is his only child, Xu Chu.

Xu Zhengjie once had a warm family, a gentle and beautiful wife, and a blood-linked baby conceived in his wife's womb.It's a pity that Xu Zhengjie is a soldier in an important position, so he can't accompany his pregnant wife at home all the time, and his wife is too delicate and in poor health. When she was pregnant, she was always alone without her husband's comfort. , So I suffered from pregnancy syndrome. Not long after giving birth, my health deteriorated due to depression, and soon I died of depression.

For his wife's death, Xu Zhengjie was very painful. He pinned all his feelings on his child and loved him like a jewel, but this child was as weak as his wife, and he was carried with him from the womb. The root of the disease is that she inherited her mother's delicate heart, which is more sensitive and fragile than ordinary children.

Xu Zhengjie once thought about resigning from the military and waiting for his child's growth, but his wishes failed. Before he could make up his mind, the border suddenly became urgent, forcing him to leave the family he needed to accompany again and go into battle.

Even if Xu Zhengjie entrusts his children to the most professional childcare institutions, it cannot make up for the pain of young children without the company of their parents.Xu Zhengjie was fighting abroad, but his child's health was ups and downs. He desperately wanted to be with the child who was becoming more and more reticent and never smiled, but the fierce battle left him no private leisure , I can only touch my son's photo and think silently after a day's fierce battle.

That war was fought intermittently for several years, and at the most critical moment of the war, he received news that his child had died of a serious illness.

At that moment, Xu Zhengjie collapsed, but he couldn't even attend the funeral of his beloved son, let alone express pain and despair - because he was the commander, the backbone of tens of thousands of soldiers, and behind him was the protection of Countless ordinary people, he has no right to cry.

In front of people, Xu Zhengjie was still the strongest fighter and the most decisive commander. He could only lick the wound that had been covered up tightly in his room alone, hopelessly allowing it to rot and hurt to the marrow of his bone.

After the war, Xu Zhengjie was awarded the highest medal of honor, but this did not make up for his pain at all.He made a resignation report to the military department, chose to retire at his strongest and most glorious time, and then left his hometown, exiled himself to the most remote and quiet small planet to heal himself.

As Xu Zhengjie's close friend, Chen Chuan saw everything in his eyes, but he had nothing to do about it—unless he stepped out, no one could help Xu Zhengjie.

Now, my friend actually found an orphan on C13 that resembles his dead son. For Xu Zhengjie, this may be a kind of drinking poison to quench his thirst, but in another sense, it may be a redemption.At least, since the death of Aiko, Chen Chuan has never seen Xu Zhengjie with such a relaxed and happy smile.

"That child, do you want to adopt him?" Chen Chuan asked after pondering for a moment.

Xu Zhengjie nodded: "If possible, I would like to adopt him. Anyway, I have retired now, and... have time to spend with my children."

To be honest, because of his past experiences, Xu Zhengjie couldn't guarantee that he could become a qualified father, and he didn't even know how to shoulder the responsibility of being a father.He was afraid that he would harm Qiao Qiao as if he had harmed his own child, so even though he loved Qiao Qiao very much, even if he had a harmonious and intimate relationship with Qiao Qiao, he never thought of adopting him.

——From the bottom of his heart, he didn't dare to have children anymore, for fear of being punished again.

But now, the worry about Qiao Qiao overcame Xu Zhengjie's inner doubts.He feels that a precocious child like Qiao Qiao must have the correct guidance and considerate care of his parents. As the saying goes, "the extreme of wisdom will hurt". He is worried that Qiao Qiao will take a detour on the road of life because he is too smart.

"...That's fine. Since I'm the future nephew, I don't want to be too shameless." Chen Chuan shrugged his shoulders, "This is my meeting gift for the little nephew."

The corner of Xu Zhengjie's mouth twitched: "Give my nephew a test paper as a gift, you are quite weird."

"Knowledge is power." Chen Chuan snorted softly, "This meeting gift is the most precious."

"Just do it, I know you are a penny-pinching rooster." Xu Zhengjie complained indifferently.

For Xu Zhengjie's ridicule, Chen Chuan didn't take it seriously.He walked to the table and picked up a pen and paper—even though high technology is prevalent now, he is still accustomed to using such a primitive recording method: "How do you plan to produce this test paper? Give me a general idea?"

Xu Zhengjie pondered for a moment, and said the few questions he gave Qiao Qiao today: "From the first grade to the senior grade, each grade, each subject, and more important knowledge points should have one or two questions. How about some more competition questions?"

Chen Chuan heard the veins twitching slightly on his forehead, and really wanted to poke the tip of the pen in Xu Zhengjie's face through the screen: "You are really a lion, even if it's just compulsory education for a few years, the workload is enough!"

Xu Zhengjie looked innocent: "Am I a layman? Just listen to my opinion. The key is up to you."

"Okay, okay, I know about this, you go away." Chen Chuan pressed his temple, his tone bored, "I will consider your opinion and the actual situation to make a question."

"Thank you so much!" Xu Zhengjie heaved a long sigh of relief when he heard Chen Chuan agree.Although Chen Chuan's tone was extremely perfunctory, Xu Zhengjie knew that as long as the other party's temperament—as long as he started to do it, he must do his best. Occupy a place in a top research institute like the League Research Institute.

However, as the saying goes, "slow work leads to careful work", although the more perfect the test paper is, the better, but Xu Zhengjie has to remind: "By the way, I promised Qiao Qiao that he will give him the test paper within a week, so don't delay too much." How long!"

Chen Chuan: "……………………"

Chen Chuan hung up the communication silently and viciously.

——Don't look at him as a gentle scum, but Xu Zhengjie is a serious and steady person, but in fact, he is always jumping his feet because of this natural blackness, really... careless in making friends!

Sitting at the desk, Chen Chuan managed to suppress his desire to scold his mother after a long time of luck, and regained the elegance and calm that a scientific researcher should have.

After thinking for a moment, he raised his hand and pressed the communication button on the left hand side directly to his assistant: "Tomorrow morning, organize all the textbooks and exercise sets for compulsory education and send them to me. Oh, by the way, the competition questions for each grade over the years are also available." Tidy up."

——As for what you swore to say before that you can’t "use public equipment for private use", what is that?The existence of the assistant is to cooperate and facilitate oneself in all aspects, isn't it?

An assistant who received a summons from his superior and was tortured by the research data: "Meow meow????"