Genius is just the threshold for me!

The next day was Monday.

Yesterday the sky was sunny, but today it is covered by a thick layer of clouds, with rain mixed with a cold wind, bringing a biting chill.

"My goodness, it's only December, how come it's gotten so cold all of a sudden after the rain..."

On his way to school at two o'clock, Li Tao put on the hood of his light down jacket and stood shivering in the cold wind, shouting.

"The little dog prioritizes style over warmth, wearing only three layers—serves him right."

Zhang Yihao looked at Li Tao's thin frame and mocked him from the side.

"You only have two pieces of clothing, why don't you just say you don't care about warmth?" Li Tao couldn't help but retort.

"I'm not a greyhound."

Zhang Yihao said calmly, "I'm naturally not afraid of the cold. A down jacket is enough to keep out the wind."

"The greyhound didn't eat your rice."

Li Tao raised his middle finger, then suddenly remembered something and ran over to Lin Dong's side in three quick steps, saying with an envious expression, "Lin Dong, I heard your godmother is back."

I visited your family yesterday and brought a brand new game console and limited-edition sneakers... Where can you find a godmother like that? I want one too!

"Wow!"

Su Yue and the others couldn't help but exclaim, "Li Tao, have you no shame? You were bought off with just a game console and a pair of shoes?"

"You just don't understand."

Li Tao waved his hand dismissively, saying, "Your face is something you sell when it matters."

"It's very simple, just hope your father becomes a dragon."

Lin Dong smiled and said seriously, "Go back and ask Uncle Li to promote you to chief engineer, and also get on good terms with Chief Engineer Wang so that he can take you in as his godson."

"Chief Engineer? Never mind... He was only promoted to a junior manager a couple of years ago."

Li Tao was immediately disappointed: "Hoping that Comrade Lao Li will be promoted to chief engineer is not as good as hoping that I will be promoted to chief engineer after graduating from university."

"Wait, I think I've heard something about that too..."

At this moment, Su Yue seemed to have thought of something, and leaned close to Xu Qingling mysteriously, saying with a gossipy look on her face, "I heard that someone moved into the Lin family's house yesterday."

Living together?

Xia Ran, who was walking and chatting with Huang Qingyao not far away, paused when she heard this, raised her umbrella and looked over.

"Where can we stay together? Aunt Xia has guest rooms."

Xu Qingling's ears turned red, but she remained calm and said, "My parents are away on a business trip, so I'm just staying there for a while."

"Wow, you really went, and neither set of parents objected?" Su Yue exclaimed, her eyes wide. "That's amazing!"

"My class monitor, don't be surprised."

Huang Qingyao walked up and patted Su Yue on the shoulder: "At the last summer game promotion event, you went back to your grandparents' house the next day. You didn't know that Uncle Lin and the others went on a trip the next day. Lin Dong stayed at Qingling's house for the whole summer, right?"

"Lin Dong even went to stay at Qingling's house? Uncle Xu didn't chase him away with a stick?" Su Yue was even more shocked now, obviously having heard the legend of Xu Ziming's doting fatherhood.

No, not at all.

Lin Dong smiled, and as if noticing something, he turned around and looked in Xia Ran's direction.

But seeing nothing, he shook his head and ignored it, calling out to those ahead, "Hurry up, everyone. We have a class meeting later. You bunch of class officers, why don't you hurry over to school and get ready?"

"Oh right, and there's also a class meeting... Ugh, why is my homeroom teacher my aunt?" Huang Qingyao broke down upon hearing this.

"Let's rebel, Yao Yao!"

Su Yue egged him on from the side, saying, "You be the powerful minister, and I'll be the great general!"

"You want me dead..."

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After school in the afternoon, the rain stopped, and the damp and cold feeling eased a bit.

Zhuo Shanshan watched the entire class meeting from the sidelines, and after Xu Qingling finished speaking, a relaxed and satisfied smile appeared on her face.

"Everyone can go back now. The ground is slippery from the rain, so be careful. Qingling, come here for a moment."

Zhuo Shanshan looked at the classroom, which had suddenly become agitated because of the school bell, and decisively announced the end of school without extending the class time. Then she gestured for Xu Qingling to go to the office.

"OK."

Xu Qingling responded, handed the schoolbag to Lin Dong, and went to the office with Zhuo Shanshan.

"Lin Dong".

Xia Ran packed her schoolbag and went out into the corridor. Looking at the surging crowd of students leaving school below, she casually asked, "Since the parents at Chengfei are away on business trips, are the children staying with their neighbors?"

However, even though the question was directed at Lin Dong.

But as she spoke, her gaze remained fixed on the crowd below and the gray sky reflected in the puddles beneath the teaching building; she did not turn her head.

Lin Dong looked at Xia Ran strangely, thought for a moment and replied, "It depends on the situation. Generally, we don't arrange for two parents to go on business trips at the same time. If we really need to arrange it, the logistics department will help take care of the child before they start junior high school and pick them up from school."

When I was in junior high school, I would eat at the school cafeteria by myself, or my parents would arrange for me to eat at a neighbor's house if we were on good terms, but I rarely stayed at a neighbor's house in the past..."

At this point, Lin Dong paused for a moment and added, "Qingling and I are somewhat different."

"That's similar to Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group."

Xia Ran nodded, then turned and asked, "I heard from Yao Yao and the others that you taught Qingling how to use drones. Is Qingling preparing to take the Air Force combat command exam?"

"Pretty much, I'm just naturally good at games."

"As for air force combat command, my dad said that with the development of unmanned combat platforms, this is a path that aligns with Qingling's personal talents and interests."

Lin Dong nodded.

He didn't usually hide these things, since he was good at any action game, and there was no need to conceal Xu Qingling's plans.

"So that's how it is..."

Xia Ran nodded in realization, then asked somewhat seriously, "What do you think I should do in the future?"

"this……"

Lin Dong looked at Xia Ran: "That depends on how Uncle Xia and the others plan it, what you think, or your own talent and interests."

Lin Dong knows that many of Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's core employees start planning their children's future development when their personalities and talents have already begun to emerge in the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school.

In his previous life, Lin Weiliang and Zhang Xiali were influenced by this atmosphere, which also consciously cultivated him to pursue military research. However, in the end, he could not resist his rebellious and immature nature and chose to major in animation.

"By the way, Xia Ran, do you know calculus?"

At this moment, Lin Dong seemed to have thought of something and asked a question out of curiosity.

This semester, he heard Xu Qingling, Huang Qingyao, and Li Tao say many times that Xia Ran was very talented.

Although he didn't feel anything at all, he was still a little curious about what level the other party belonged to according to Jiao You and Wang Xingguo's calculus system.

"Calculus?"

Xia Ran paused for a moment, then nodded slightly as if she remembered something: "When I was in the third grade of elementary school, I was looking for material for an essay and I saw this advanced mathematics textbook in my father's study."

I was curious and flipped through it for a while, and I understood it, but my parents later put it away and replaced it with a children's storybook from elementary school.

"Why put it away?" Lin Dong asked, somewhat puzzled.

In his past and present lives, he knows that many families know their children have talent and are eager to send them to special programs for gifted children. Some families even force their children to "have" talent when they don't have it themselves.

Even if you don't expect your child to become a dragon or send them to a special program for gifted children, most people will let their child's talent develop naturally, but to keep it hidden like Xia Ran did... I've never heard of such a thing.

"My parents were busy with work in those years and didn't have time to spend with me."

Xia Ran paused for a moment, then calmly said, "They're afraid that if I see these things, I won't have anything in common with my peers in the neighborhood, and I'll become withdrawn and unsociable."

"So that's how it is..."

Lin Dong recalled Xia Tianqiang and He Ying's resumes and a sense of realization dawned on him.

Both are core employees of Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group (XAC), and a few years ago was during a critical period of tackling key challenges in the XAC KJ-500 project...

Although he, Xu Qingling, Li Tao, and Huang Qingyao are all from dual-income families.

However, after their birth, the parents changed jobs one after another, one taking on a core role and becoming an elite worker, while the other took a peripheral role to take care of the children and the family.

People like Xia Tianqiang and He Ying are a minority.

As for people like Wang Xingguo and Su Ruohua, they are even rarer.

Of course, this may be because Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) is a large company with many elite employees, so it is not lacking in core staff and positions can be adjusted more easily.

Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group (XAC) is a small company with a shortage of elite personnel. Each of them is a pillar and a key player in overcoming challenges, making it difficult to adjust their positions.

"Humans are social animals. We are human beings first, and then we can become geniuses. Uncle Xia and the others just want you to grow up healthily, not to become a reclusive genius."

Lin Dong smiled and encouraged him, "Since you have talent, the future direction is really up to you. Just stick to whichever path you want to take."

This world is very forgiving of talented people.

For them, the whole world is full of choices.

For ordinary people, biology, materials science, and chemistry are all considered dead-end majors.

But for these gifted individuals, there's no such thing as a bottomless pit; it's just a puddle on the road to becoming a big shot.

"First a human being, then a genius... Thank you."

As Xia Ran listened to Lin Dong's encouragement, she looked up at the clouds on the horizon. A crack appeared in the sky, revealing a color like the glow of dawn.

"nailed it……"

At this moment, several class monitors, including Xu Qingling and Huang Qingyao, came out of the teachers' office.

Seeing Lin Dong already waiting in the corridor, Xu Qingling quickly ran over and happily said, "We can go home now."

"What did the teacher say?" Lin Dong asked with a smile.

"It's nothing, they just told us to keep an eye out for anyone in the class who is being bullied or bullying others, saying that an inspection team is coming to investigate."

Xu Qingling took her schoolbag and explained briefly: "It is said that in several schools where bullying incidents occurred last month, the school leaders were summoned to the Education Bureau and severely criticized. Several of them were even dismissed, and the parents of the bullies were also ordered to pay a large sum of money in compensation."

"That's quite a bit of force."

Lin Dong nodded with some emotion.

Two punches and a kick—the school and the parents each take a punch, and then a kick sends the bullying student to a special school.

The school will most likely only see a scene of gentlemen using words instead of fists, with everyone engaged in the ultimate debate, learning the ultimate secret to how to avoid swearing and cursing.

"An unprecedented level of intensity."

Xu Qingling glanced at Lin Dong with sparkling eyes, then waved to Xia Ran and said, "Xia Ran, let's go back first."

Because Lin Dong often goes to the lab in the afternoon, the two of them usually walk ahead of each other after school and go home first.

"it is good."

Xia Ran nodded, watching the two leave side by side, then looked away and stood quietly in the corridor waiting for Huang Qingyao and the others to go back together.