Cultivation Shura Field

Song Xingye was shocked by such blatant behavior. She quickly looked at the teacher and the students around her, and found that it was not just her, but many other students were whispering to each other, but the voices were kept low so that others could not hear. The teacher was busy lecturing the small group around Gao Xuefei, and obviously did not pay attention to her side.

Song Xingye breathed a sigh of relief and wrote: [I don’t have your phone number yet, how can I contact you when the time comes? ]

Then, without much hesitation, she handed him the note under the table.

When Xu Zhe received this small note that was almost filled with the handwriting of the two people again, he was a little surprised.

In the past month or two, Song Xingye and Tang Lingfei had made appointments, and then Tang Lingfei came to find him. Now, why did Song Xingye ask for his phone number?

However, despite being surprised, Xu Zhe still turned the note over and found a blank space to write down his home phone number.

Then push it to her from the table.

Song Xingye rolled her eyes at him, slightly dissatisfied.

Xu Zhe raised his eyebrows, looking indifferent.

The girl stuffed the note into a beautiful notebook, then tore off half a page of paper from the notebook and started writing again.

Xu Zhe watched her movements out of the corner of his eye.

Sure enough, another note was stretched out from under the table and placed on his thigh.

【By the way, do you have a QQ number? 】

Seeing this question on the note, Xu Zhe realized that he still didn't have one. In his previous life, because there was almost no possibility of social interaction, he didn't apply for a QQ number until college. The purpose of that number was to fill in some things required by the school and to add an email address, which he later used to find a job.

Although he has his own laptop in this life, Xu Zhe applied for some very niche accounts in China, such as IRC, to communicate with others in English. The reason for using IRC is that the technical geeks in the birth period of Bitcoin would use it.

As for the QQ number... is it necessary? Forget about that, he doesn't even have a cell phone.

So I wrote the word "no" on the note.

Soon, Song Xingye asked the next question: [Do you want to apply for a QQ account? ]

There seems to be no reason to refuse. Even if I don't do it now, I will need it sooner or later.

So Xu Zhe wrote: [Okay, I'll call you tonight.]

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"I beg you, please don't show off in front of my dad, okay?"

When leaving the school gate, Tang Lingfei said this with a sigh.

Xu Zhe: "What happened to your dad?"

Tang Lingfei: "He told me last night that you finished your homework at school, and then did extra self-study when you got home... I know you're great, but don't let my dad compare you to me!"

Xu Zhe gave a slightly apologetic smile: "Sorry, I was so good at pretending that I forgot about it. I'll pay attention next time, okay?"

Tang Lingfei: "What can you and my dad pretend to be?"

"Let's talk about economy, finance, stocks, etc..." Xu Zhe stopped talking halfway. He also stopped walking and stood there, looking at the road next to him.

He saw a white car parked by the roadside, driving very slowly, almost as fast as he was walking.

The car window rolled down, revealing my aunt in the driver's seat and Song Xingye in the passenger seat.

"Let me take you home." said Song Xingye's mother.

Faced with a strange adult, Tang Lingfei was a little confused and looked at Xu Zhe for help.

Xu Zhe said politely: "Our home is not far away, we can get there in a few steps."

"Xiaozhe and Feifei, right? Our child said that you two are her best friends. So, don't be polite with your auntie, get in the car."

At the enthusiastic invitation of the girl's mother, Xu Zhe and Tang Lingfei sat in the back seat of the car.

Song Xingye took the initiative to introduce: "Xu Zhe, you have met my mother, so I won't say anything. Feifei, this is my mother, I have told her about you. My mother is a very good person, you don't need to be nervous."

How is it possible to say I'm not nervous?

Tang Lingfei sat in someone else's car, with her hands on her legs, sitting upright. Her voice was much weaker than usual, just barely audible: "Hello, Auntie..."

Auntie continued, "Xingye has come to play with you several times and has informed me of this. It's the community in front, right? Where should I park? At the entrance to the community?"

Tang Lingfei nodded weakly: "Yes, the entrance to the community will be fine."

Auntie glanced at the rearview mirror and said, "Xu Zhe, I heard from Xing Ye that you are not only her deskmate, but also ranked first in the class in both the monthly exam and the midterm exam?"

Xu Zhe: “Yes.”

Auntie: "When you helped us choose MP3 players, I thought you were a great kid. Now it seems you are really amazing."

Xu Zhe smiled and said, "You're too kind."

Auntie added, "This is not an exaggeration. Our Xingye's academic performance has always been very good. I thought she could get the first place in the class, but in the end she couldn't beat you."

Song Xingye was a little dissatisfied: "Maybe I can grab it next time?"

After saying that, the girl turned around and looked at Xu Zhe.

Xu Zhe spread his hands with an innocent expression as if to say "it has nothing to do with me anyway".

The car stopped at the roadside at the entrance of the community.

The girl's mother smiled and said, "You two are Xingye's friends. You can come to our house to play with Xingye in the future. Xingye is a good child in other aspects, but she is too introverted and shy. She has few friends since she was a child..."

"Mom!" Song Xingye blushed, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

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Chapter 32 Year of Innocence

2023-09-06

In the evening, when his parents were still watching TV series, Xu Zhe couldn't wait to go back to his bedroom and turn on the computer.

"It should be today..."

Xu Zhe muttered to himself, clicked on the tech geek forum, and his eyes fixed. Sure enough! The account named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a new post, telling everyone that the first block was born, and he got the first batch of 50 bitcoins.

Mining is getting harder and harder. You can still mine with the CPU of an ordinary computer now, but in the future you will need a graphics card to mine. As the price of Bitcoin continues to rise, the difficulty will increase, and you will have to replace your graphics card with a special mining machine.

Xu Zhe knew very well that the essence of mining is to solve math problems. Whoever can calculate faster can get Bitcoin. In the first year of mining, very few people really paid attention to it, and even fewer people could actually mine. So even if you have an ordinary computer for personal use, you might be able to try mining.

"Mining with graphics cards will be more efficient. I may be the only one in the world who knows this..." Xu Zhe muttered to himself, "But that requires developing software that adapts to graphics cards. With my current programming ability, this can't be said to be a piece of cake. It's harder than climbing to the sky."

Compared with the old guys on this website, his technical ability is much worse. So, if you want to keep up with them and become one of the first miners, what should you do?

Xu Zhe pondered for a while and found Satoshi Nakamoto's email address - when necessary, he could also be a beggar and contact the main person directly.

Of course, this requires consideration of how to word it.

Just as Xu Zhe was staring at the screen in a daze, a phone rang outside the bedroom door, followed by footsteps getting closer and closer. He came back to his senses with a start, quickly closed the laptop, and stuffed it under the pillow.

So when father Xu Guowei pushed open the door, he saw his son standing by the bed, not knowing what he was doing.

"Aren't you studying?" Xu Guowei asked.

Xu Zhe shook his head.

"Then what are you doing?"

Facing his father's slightly puzzled gaze, Xu Zhe said calmly: "I'm working out."

Xu Guowei: "Fitness?"

"That's it, squats." As he said that, Xu Zhe squatted down on the spot, then stood up and demonstrated the fitness movement.

"Don't worry about it. Go answer the phone. A female classmate wants to see you."

A female classmate is looking for me?

Xu Zhe suddenly remembered that he had promised Song Xingye in the classroom that he would register a QQ account to contact her. However, after he turned on the computer, he was so focused on Bitcoin that he completely forgot about it.

He came to the landline in the living room, sat down under his mother's teasing gaze, picked up the receiver, and said, "Hello, is this Xiaoye?"

Song Xingye: "It's me. Have you applied for your QQ number?"

Xu Zhe: "Oh, not yet. It may take a while."

Song Xingye: "Why wait a while... Can't you use the computer now?"

Xu Zhe glanced at his mother and replied, "Yes."

The girl on the other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly realized, "Your parents don't know you have a computer, and you can't let them find out, so you have to wait until they fall asleep before you can turn on the computer, right?"

Xu Zhe: "It's good that you know."

Song Xingye: "Then when can you use the computer? I have to go to bed soon..."

"It should be quick, just wait a moment."

Xu Zhe knew that he didn't have to wait until his parents fell asleep to use the computer as long as he was vigilant. Now that he remembered this, he would first get the QQ number, and then think about how to write the email to Satoshi.

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Several blocks away, in a newer and more spacious residential building, Song Xingye had just put down the phone.

My mother walked by and asked casually, "Who are you calling?"

"Ah? Uh... the call with Feifei."

The girl, who was not used to lying, said this without confidence. Fortunately, her mother did not pay attention to this detail, but walked away to do her own thing.

Song Xingye breathed a sigh of relief, but she felt something was wrong because she suddenly realized that if she pressed the redial button on the phone, it would naturally dial Xu Zhe's house, and she would be exposed.

Although he didn't know whether his parents would press the redial button, Song Xingye felt uneasy as long as the possibility existed.

So she dialed Tang Lingfei's home number again.

After a while, the call was connected.

"Hello, is this Xiaoye? What do you want to talk to me about?"

Song Xingye: "How come you answered it..."

Tang Lingfei smiled and said, "You called my home number, how come I didn't answer it?"

Song Xingye: "Because I just called Xu Zhe's home, and his mother answered. I noticed that you were the one who answered the phone at your house, right?"

Tang Lingfei: "You think too much. Whoever is closer to the phone will answer it. I'm the only one watching TV at home... Hey, you called Xu Zhe just now? What's going on? You want to play with him instead of me?"

Song Xingye quickly explained: "No, I want to ask him for his QQ number so that I can ask him some questions later."

Tang Lingfei: "Is it a problem with study?"

Song Xingye: "Yes."

"I can't believe that a top student like you can ask him questions. I didn't know he was so good at studying..." Tang Lingfei exclaimed.

Song Xingye held the telephone receiver, suddenly feeling a little confused.

Why do I have to have Xu Zhe’s QQ number?

She was in the classroom during the day, and suddenly she felt that she and he should be friends, but she didn't even have any contact information, which seemed a little unreasonable.

But now that we have the contact information, what should we talk about?

It seemed that, apart from their mutual friend Tang Lingfei, they had no other common topics except studying...

At this moment, Tang Lingfei on the other end of the phone suddenly said, "I don't even have a QQ number, but you and Xu Zhe do. You two are chatting, are you suddenly going to start a relationship?"

Song Xingye was startled: "Why do you think so?"

Tang Lingfei smiled and said, "We just watched the one about online dating, didn't we?"

The two girls had just read a novel recently. The theme was that a man and a woman who had never met before met online, talked more deeply, and started a platonic love. Then, a series of blunders occurred offline...

Song Xingye immediately stated: "I don't want to fall in love, those things, just look at them."

Tang Lingfei: "Why are you reacting so strongly..."

Song Xingye: "This is not a strong reaction, this is just telling the truth. Let me tell you, my goal is to be the first in the class and pull Xu Zhe off that throne!"

Speaking of this, Song Xingye felt more and more that this was the reason why he had been paying attention to Xu Zhe recently - that's right, if it wasn't for the desire to be the first in the class, why would he even look at him?

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