I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 118. An Unexpected Examination Location
"Xu Qingfan and Xia Xiaoxiao, come to my office after class. get out of class dismissed!"

The bell rang, and Guan Bianyue, unusually, did not extend the class time and left early. After she left, Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi both looked at Xu Qingfan.

"Brother Qingfan, what does Teacher Guan want with you and Xiaoxiao?" Lin Wanning asked curiously.

Xu Qingfan shrugged, tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said uncertainly, "I guess it's about the math Olympiad competition we're going to participate in during winter break. Let's go!" He stood up, turned around and patted Xia Xiaoxiao's shoulder.

"Wait until I finish this problem."

As Xu Qingfan had predicted, when the two arrived at the office, Guan Bianyue took out two plane tickets and a parent consent form from the drawer and handed them to the two of them.

"Keep your plane tickets safe. Sign the parent consent form when you get home and give it to your teacher. Do well on your exams. You are your teacher's pride!" After the two of them received their tickets, Guan Bianyue patted their heads and said.

The airfare and accommodation expenses were all arranged by the Education Bureau. Because booking airfare in advance would result in a better price, the official documents were booked and distributed well in advance.

"I'll try my best," Xu Qingfan shrugged, sounding quite dismissive.

He had gone through all the past exam papers. Some of the questions were not designed for elementary school students at all. There were hundreds of possible combinations of sorting questions and questions about the shortest flight distance of insects. If he hadn't studied probability theory and the distance formula between two points, he would never have been able to come up with the answers.

What's most disgusting is that these are all fill-in-the-blank questions; without a doubt, they're backdoors opened for specific groups.

Xu Qingfan had to borrow books to review parts of advanced mathematics and probability theory just to participate in a primary school math Olympiad. How can you argue with that?

Xu Qingfan simply couldn't imagine how Xia Xiaoxiao and Wu Lingyu could calculate the answer using only elementary school-level thinking skills like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

"What do you mean 'try your best'? Give it your all!" Guan Bianyue tapped him on the head lightly. "Go back now, your teacher will be waiting for your triumphant return."

"Well, goodbye teacher."

The plane tickets were in an envelope, but neither of them opened it. They walked back to the classroom together, looking at the parent's informed consent form.

"The exam is on January 10th, when do we get our holiday?" Xu Qingfan looked at the time on the screen and asked Xia Xiaoxiao curiously.

"It seems to be the 8th," Xia Xiaoxiao said uncertainly, recalling the holiday dates from previous years.

Back in class, Xu Qingfan put the plane ticket back in his bag, and Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi eagerly crowded around to look at the paper in his hand.

"Waaaa~ Ningning also wants to go to Yanjing to play, climb the Great Wall, visit the Forbidden City, and eat Peking duck!" Lin Wanning pointed out the fun things in Yanjing with her little finger.

Xu Qingfan pushed her forehead with his index finger in an annoyed tone: "It's below zero in Yanjing in January. I'll freeze you into an ice cream cone."

"I just want to go~ to cheer on Brother Qingfan for his exam, right!" Lin Wanning snuggled against him and said in a cute and coquettish manner.

Zhang Yi blinked and looked at the two of them. During the winter vacation, she still had to go to the United States with her mother for medical treatment, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.

"Let's wait until summer vacation. It's freezing cold in winter, and there's the Spring Festival travel rush, it'll be so crowded. Let's go play together during summer vacation!" Xu Qingfan helplessly stretched out his right hand to give a head pat.

"Okay~ then Brother Qingfan, you have to bring Ningning a gift!" Lin Wanning said, drawing out the words, then added after thinking for a moment, "And Yiyi's too!"

"Take it, take it, take it! I'll use all my money to buy you gifts, and I'll buy Ningning a candied hawthorn as big as my fist."

"Hehehe~ Brother Qingfan is the best!"

Xu Qingfan smiled faintly and turned to the next page of the notification.

The exam location written on it startled him: Yenching Normal University.

[Isn't this the school that bad woman Chen Zipei went to?] Xu ​​Qingfan thought to himself.

However, thinking that he had been out of contact for more than 20 years in his previous life, Xu Qingfan quickly felt relieved. He should always think positively. Maybe the other person died of a terminal illness?

In this life, he is unaware of this matter yet, so he mustn't let it slip later, Xu Qingfan reminded himself.

After putting the notices away, he patted the two of them on the head: "Let's go, next class is computer class, hurry up and grab your seats."

"If Ningning hangs up for another two hours today, there will be three moons!!"

He recalled that he seemed to have gone through a similar period, giving his QQ account and password to many people in order to keep his QQ account online and level up, and then, unsurprisingly, his QQ account was stolen.

After experiencing several account theft incidents, Xu Qingfan got tired of it and stopped paying attention to how many little stars followed the little sun icon after WeChat was released.

After turning on the computer, Lin Wanning couldn't wait to download the QQ client from the webpage.

Logging into her account, the little girl habitually clicked on Xu Qingfan's blond male profile picture, ID: Past Events Drift with the Wind.

"Brother Qingfan, why does your QQ still only have three stars? Do you want Ningning to help you register?"

"I'm too lazy to hang it up at home and waste electricity, can you log in for me?" Xu Qingfan's QQ account had nothing to hide, so he openly entered his account and password on Lin Wanning's keyboard.

QQ's level system was just launched in September this year. He remembered that it took a whole month to get a full moon. It's only just past December, and the little girl's account already has three moons, which shows that she has hardly missed a single day.

After Lin Wanning logged on, he automatically set Xu Qingfan's QQ account to invisible mode. "Let's play cops and robbers!"

The school computers use Kingsoft Little Lion antivirus software, which comes pre-installed with Kingsoft Typing Tutor. Several games included in the software, such as Frog Crossing the River, Shooting Airplane, and Cops and Robbers, are very popular among students.

Xu Qingfan's typing speed is far ahead of his peers. Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi played with him once and then never played with him again. Especially when Xu Qingfan played the thief, he would run right behind the police and not have any gaming experience at all.

Xu Qingfan plugged the USB drive from his keychain into his computer and downloaded Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne to his own computer.

"Here you go." After finishing the game, he safely ejected the USB drive and handed it to Xia Xiaoxiao.

"I'll beat you up!" Xia Xiaoxiao took the USB drive, plugged it in, and quickly dragged the game to the desktop.

Not many second-graders played this complex war game. After Xu Qingfan created the room on the local area network, Xia Xiaoxiao followed closely behind.

"Xu Qingfan, you big idiot, what kind of weird name did you come up with!" Xu Qingfan said speechlessly after spelling out a long string of letters for Xia Xiaoxiao's name.

"You're still better than those honest guys from your port city. I can't beat you up!"

"Don't cry when my dragon rides you in the face later!"

Xu Qingfan randomly selected a map. He chose the human race, while Xiaoxiao, as always, chose the night elf. "Let's begin!"

As soon as the game started, Xu Qingfan circled the five migrant workers and headed straight for Xia Xiaoxiao's base.

Human peasants can spend money to upgrade to a combat-ready state during battle, giving them considerable combat power from birth.

When the five peasant vanguards arrived at Xia Xiaoxiao's house, her hero's altar was only two-thirds complete. Xu Qingfan immediately stepped forward to sabotage it without saying a word. "Xu Qingfan, are you a dog?!"

The sprites had no offensive capabilities, so Xia Xiaoxiao gathered all the sprites together to help repair them, and the situation became deadlocked for a time.

While Xu Qingfan was causing destruction on one side, he was frantically producing farmer units on the other, cutting down trees, mining, and building houses.

Not long after, a squad of soldiers armed with hunting rifles arrived at Xia Xiaoxiao's base and brutally beat up the cavemen.

After the game returned to the results page, Xia Xiaoxiao glared at him, exited the LAN, and started a simple AI game against the computer.

"Choose this one. Don't buy this unit, it's useless. Upgrade the Tree of Life, you don't have any more population units." Xu Qingfan pointed and gestured from the side, resting his chin on his hand.

Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't take it anymore and turned her screen away, refusing to let him see it.

Playing alone was no fun, so Xu Qingfan turned off the game and idly observed his classmates.

Except for a few students browsing the forum, almost everyone was playing Kingsoft Typing Tutor.

There wasn't much to do online in 03. QQ Space and QQ Pets, which became popular, didn't appear until 05, and the 4399 website didn't even exist yet.

A computer class is only 40 minutes long. A large online game that is several hundred megabytes in size is not even finished downloading before get out of class ends. Therefore, the typing games and pinball games that come pre-installed on the computer become the students' first choice.

[CrossFire, Dungeon Fighter Online, Audition Online—it's a pity Aunt Zhang isn't involved in the gaming industry.] The thought of missing out on so many golden opportunities made Xu Qingfan feel like he was losing out big time.

One shouldn't be too greedy. It would be good enough if he could catch the wave of food delivery and short videos during high school and college, Xu Qingfan told himself.

The first comic book brought in 152 million after tax. The second book is conservatively estimated to bring in 270 million.

Xu Qingfan was unaware that, despite being only in second grade, he had already earned over four million yuan by selling books.

Who would believe that if I told them?

Xiao Qingfan doesn't remember how much Apple's stock would rise by 2008, but he knows it rose nearly 500 times by 2023.

Even if we only conservatively estimate it to be ten times, Xu Qingfan and his classmates would already be millionaires by the time they entered junior high school.

[Holy crap!] Xu Qingfan exclaimed inwardly.

Choices are often more important than effort. If you bought one million yuan worth of Apple stock in 03, you would be a billionaire twenty years later; if you bought one million yuan worth of oil stock in 03, you would only have a little over four hundred thousand yuan left twenty years later.

In his previous life, when he was pursuing his doctorate, he often regretted choosing to study during the time when he should have been an internet celebrity. As a result, while others had collected all the Lamborghini fragments, he was still aimlessly spending his time in the lab, doing research with the monthly stipend of two thousand yuan from his supervisor and the university.

Xu Qingfan has always felt that the happiest way to study is to not have to worry about life and the future, to study simply for the sake of learning, without the pressure of competition or anxiety.

It's good to be rich!
The bell rang, signaling the end of the computer information class, which concluded with Xu Qingfan's final sigh.

"Mom, we're going to Yanjing for the exam on January 10th. Please check and sign it." When they got home, Xu Qingfan showed the notification letter to Yao Jinping.

"It's settled. It's freezing in Yanjing in January. You and Xiaoxiao both need to buy down jackets!" Yao Jinping said casually as she took the notice.

"Mom, the down jacket doesn't fit properly and isn't warm enough, please don't buy me a size too big again!"

Go do your homework, doesn't your mom know that?

Xu Qingfan shrugged, picked up the remote, and turned on the TV.

In his previous life, Yao Jinping would never have allowed him to watch TV, and Xu Qingfan had done plenty of things like using wet towels to cool him down and listening for footsteps.

Now that his grades have improved, his treatment at home has become much better. As long as he doesn't go too far, Yao Jinping generally won't interfere.

“Yanjing Normal University?” Yao Jinping subconsciously read out the school name written on the paper, then fell silent.

The only sound in the room was the television.

After sitting there for a few minutes, Yao Jinping suddenly realized something and took out her phone from her pocket.

Then Xu Qingfan watched as his mother took out her phone to call his grandparents. After the call was connected, Yao Jinping glanced at him, silently walked back to her room, and locked the door.

Xu Qingfan curled his lip, thinking to himself, what's the point of hiding it from me? It's not like it's something shameful.

When Yao Jinping came out of the room again, it was half an hour later.

"I'm going back to the countryside this weekend," she told Xu Qingfan before turning and going into the kitchen to cook.

On Saturday, the Xu family of three returned to Chuxi Village.

The appearance of Chuxi Village did not change rapidly after his maternal grandfather became the village chief. Apart from the family planning banner at the village entrance being changed to "Fewer births, better births, a happy life", Xu Qingfan did not notice any changes.

Of course, Xu Qingfan thought this was good enough. Yao Shulun had already surpassed 99% of village cadres nationwide without doing anything.

To borrow a famous quote from a League of Legends streamer from my past life—I'd rather you do nothing than make a mistake!
"Father-in-law, mother-in-law, uncle!"

"Hey~ Didn't the little girl from last time come?" Grandma asked with a smile when she saw that only Xu Qingfan was there.

"They're busy!" The annual New Year's Eve party is just around the corner, and the kids have been busy rehearsing for their play.

"You're busy, remember to invite them to come play next time," Grandma said with a smile, patting Xu Qingfan's head.

"it is good!"

While making lunch, Grandma took Xu Qingfan to her room, locked the door, and then Lai Manyao took out a photo from a mooncake box and showed it to him.

He had seen this photo in his past life. Could it be that his grandmother was planning to tell his uncle about it in advance?
Xu Qingfan thought to himself.

“Xiao Fan, this person is your aunt. She went to Yanjing and hasn’t come back for many years. She was admitted to Yanjing Normal University back then. If you were…” Lai Manyao’s voice began to choke as she spoke.

Xu Qingfan sighed silently. It had always been the grandparents' wish to see their grandson. Although his maternal grandparents also loved him very much, a grandson from a maternal grandparent is ultimately not as close as a biological grandson.

After Lai Manyao finished speaking haltingly, Xu Qingfan took the photo and said earnestly, "I remember, Grandma. If I ever run into her, I will definitely pass on your message!"

He carefully put the photo away under his grandmother's expectant gaze, and the two returned to the living room as if nothing had happened.

Thank you so much, Brother Shangxue Mengshang, for the 1600 Qidian Coins!

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(End of this chapter)