Riding the wind of rebirth

Actually, besides seeing Feng Xueshan and Yang He's baby, seeing Mai Xiaomiao is also an important part of the reason everyone came here today.

Actually, everyone was still a bit skeptical. Through the conversation, everyone has already learned that Mai Xiaomiao has a childlike personality—innocent, romantic, simple, kind, straightforward, sincere, and very sunny and cheerful.

Although everyone is friends with Jiang Shuyi, they all feel that compared to Jiang Shuyi, who has more worries and is always carrying a bit of anxiety, Mai Xiaomiao is indeed more suitable for Zhouzhi.

Mai Xiaomiao also thought Zhouzhi's friends were quite nice, especially Liang Hong and Zhao Zhonggang. She had a particularly good impression of the two of them. Liang Hong's cheerful and generous personality and Zhao Zhonggang's burly figure and armed police uniform made Mai Xiaomiao like them very much.

She had even more "respect" for Yang Honghui. It was only through Zhou Zhi's introduction that Mai Xiaomiao learned that Yang Honghui was the national martial arts champion in Tai Chi. She learned that Yang Honghui had taught Liang Hong, who in turn taught Gu Lao and Zhou Zhi, and then Zhou Zhi taught her.

Yang Honghui was very happy to hear that Mai Xiaomiao, this "American friend," had also fallen in love with Tai Chi and Tai Chi sword.

However, the main topic today is the baby, and what everyone finds even more unbelievable is the marriage of Yang He and Feng Xueshan.

Even now that the couple has a child, everyone is still quite confused.

After all, the two hadn't had much interaction before. Feng Xueshan and Yang He didn't have much contact before. When Yang He entered Jiachuan Middle School, Feng Xueshan had already gone to Manzhou Hydropower School.

The only time they got to interact was during holidays when Zhou Zhi organized trips together. At that time, Feng Xueshan was Zhou Zhi's best friend. What impressed everyone most was that Feng Xueshan liked to pat Yang He on the shoulder and praise him for being well-behaved, but that was definitely just teasing him. Given Yang He's dull and introverted personality, he could only blush and stammer without doing anything else.

"Don't be angry, Xiao Miao, but there was a time when I felt you and Xue Shan were getting along really well." Liang Hong, being a very easygoing person, said, "Back then, I remember it was around the beginning of the second semester of seventh grade, right? You two walked home together every day after school, didn't you?"

"That's impossible." Yan Xiao's relationship with Zhou Zhi was much closer than Liang Hong's back then: "Xue Shan liked the older brother upstairs back then, and she was good friends with Zhou Zi, right?"

“Zhouzi and Sister Xueshan actually seem more like siblings.” Mai Xiaomiao wasn’t angry at all, and leaned against Zhou Zhi’s arm to join in the comment: “I knew that from the first day I met them.”

"This is the first day you've met them?" Yan Xiao asked. "Isn't it the time they teamed up to ambush you at Suihuaxuan? I heard you even jumped from the second floor right onto the belly of the elbow?"

"It's not that exaggerated!" Zhou Zhi quickly interrupted.

"Wait a minute, how did you know back then that their relationship was more like siblings?"

“Because of the way they talk, I can just tell,” Mai Xiaomiao said.

"Xiao Miao, you didn't fall in love with pork knuckle at first sight, did you?" Liu Lu teased Mai Xiaomiao, "You had such a keen sense of it on the very first meeting."

“Actually, I already knew him quite well before I met him,” Mai Xiaomiao said. “He just didn’t know me.”

"What's going on here?" Yang Honghui had never heard of this part.

"This matter is currently a secret from the outside world." Zhou Zhi held Mai Xiaomiao's hand: "Xiaomiao used Xue Shan's office line at Suihuaxuan to hack into our group's system. She used her superb skills to make it impossible for a group of experts to deal with her. During that period, our group's system was basically transparent to her."

"That's amazing?!" Yan Xiao, whose personality was a mix of good and evil, loved hearing stories of authoritative systems being trampled underfoot by individual heroes. His eyes practically sparkled with admiration as he looked at Mai Xiaomiao. "How did you guys manage to find her again?" "We couldn't find her using technical means, but we had other auxiliary methods." Zhou Zhi recounted how they had pieced together the connections between Mai Xiaomiao and the university, confirming that she lived near Shuda University. They had also analyzed her activities on the forum to gradually uncover her whereabouts, and finally explained how they found her.

Yan Xiao scoffed at this, saying, "Hmph! If you can't win, you resort to dirty tricks. That's not a fair fight!"

"We've gone off on a tangent. Weren't we talking about Xue Shan and Yang He? How did this get onto us?"

"Oh right, you're best friends with both of them, so you should know the whole story, right?" Yan Xiao asked.

"Actually, I'm not entirely sure either," Zhou Zhi said. "Didn't Yang He arrive in Chengdu first? By the time Xue Shan came up, we were already friends and worked in the same unit. Yang He also had a car, so of course he had to take on the task of picking her up and dropping her off."

"You all know Xue Shan's personality. Yang He was dressed in a very unfashionable way back then, and she couldn't stand it. So she naturally had to guide Yang He on how to dress and style his hair, becoming Yang He's life consultant."

"Yang He probably has never had a girl treat him so well in his life. Xue Shan's actions gave Yang He the courage to pursue her. Plus, the two often went to the movies and shopping together on weekends, so they naturally started dating."

“No, there must be something that triggered them to start,” Liang Hong said with certainty.

Liu Lu nodded in agreement.

“I wasn’t in Chengdu at that time, so I don’t know the specifics.” Zhou Zhi spread his hands, but his eyes were on Mai Xiaomiao. Mai Xiaomiao looked at him as well, and they both thought of the same question at the same time.

If, as Liang Hong and Liu Lu believe, love must begin with a catalyst, then how did we begin?
Zhou Zhi recalled catching Mai Xiaomiao as she jumped downstairs at Suihuaxuan. The two of them rolled onto the grass together, and the last thing he saw was her large, panicked eyes under her disheveled hair.

At this moment, Mai Xiaomiao thought of the arm that tightly hugged her, as if afraid she would get hurt, and the shocked yet calm, concerned and gentle gaze.

"Hehe!" A hand slapped between their eyes, ruthlessly interrupting their sweet moment: "You're not allowed to show affection here when my wife isn't around!"

It was Yan Xiao.

"Speaking of which, the fall recruitment season is very important, and there's not much time left. You need to write to Shiqing and tell her to make the most of it."

As a sports talent from Sichuan, Yan Xiao has built up some connections within the provincial team, making it much easier for him to enter schools or the sports system in Chengdu after graduation, and he is more likely to find better employment.

He Shiqing continued to demonstrate her academic excellence, consistently maintaining her outstanding performance at school. She received numerous awards, including the title of "Excellent Student of the School," "Excellent Youth of the City," "Outstanding Student Union Cadre," and "First-Class Scholarship." She was the kind of student that any recruitment agency would want to recruit.

Therefore, it is much easier for He Shiqing to choose a good job in Yan Xiao's city than for Yan Xiao to choose a good job in He Shiqing's city.

If He Shiqing were to come to Sichuan to work, it would naturally be at the airport or the branches of major airlines in Chengdu, all of which are high-paying jobs in this era.

However, He Shiqing also encounters a problem: with so many desirable employers vying for her attention, she can easily become overwhelmed with choices. (End of Chapter)