Rebirth: The Life of a Scholar

During breakfast, Ji Rong sat next to Tang Xu as a matter of course, and Tang Xu served him porridge like a little wife: "I don't know what senior likes to eat, so I asked my mother to come as usual."

"I'm not picky about food. I miss the home-cooked food in China for so many years abroad." Ji Rong took the bowl and took a sip. The warm porridge went down his intestines and entered his stomach, squinting his eyes comfortably. In his life abroad, he basically Following the mainstream, sandwiches and milk have almost become his staple food for several months when he is busy.

Seeing Ji Rong's expression, Tang Xu knew that he should like it. He smiled and pushed Tang's homemade pickled radish in front of Ji Rong: "This is pickled by mother herself."

Ji Rong picked up a piece of pickled radish and put it into his mouth without the slightest hesitation. While chewing, he could hear the sound of biting: "It's delicious." There was no extra exaggerated expression, and the three words were approval. In fact, in his heart, the Tang family is A very flat and gentle atmosphere, like Tang Xu's, and so did Tang's father and Tang mother.

After being praised, Tang Xu smiled happily, and Tang's mother, who was serving the dishes, also laughed when she saw this scene. She originally thought that her son would be clumsy and unfamiliar in the situation last night, but she did not expect that today it is much closer. , it seems that he really likes Ji Rong.

Of course, what Mother Tang thought of here was just a simple friendship between friends, and she never thought that she would hand over her son to Ji Rong.

Li Yan, who yawned and sat down, walked up to Tang Xu's side, with his head on Tang Xu's shoulder, deliberately coquettish with a nasal voice: "Did Tangtang sleep well last night?" After speaking, he glanced at Ji Rong.

Tang Xu has long been used to Li Yan's intimacy, so he didn't feel anything: "Well, it's good."

"Oh, that's good, hum!" Li Yan hummed at Ji Rong. He still had a lot of dissatisfaction with Ji Rong. If the uncle and aunt know that this guy has something wrong with Tang Xu, hehe, he will definitely beat him out with a broom!

Li Yan, who suddenly started brainstorming, didn't realize that Ji Rong was completely unaffected, and automatically blocked his humming.

Bai Liangshu, who came out right after him, took Li Yan aside, and smiled apologetically at Jirong: "Morning."

"Morning." Ji Rong glanced at him lightly and then continued to look at Tang Xu eating. Before Wang Linhao told him that when Bai Liangshu and Li Yan were together, he had no hostility towards Bai Liangshu. Childish, actually had a lot of vinegar.

The dining table was full of people all of a sudden, everyone greeted and started to eat, a few rushed out after finishing eating in a hurry, Tang's father and Tang's mother persuaded those who hadn't finished eating when they saw this situation Eat slowly, Tang Xu chewed and swallowed obediently.

Bai Liangshu sat there and waited for Li Yan after eating, watched Tang Xu and Ji Rong hesitate to speak several times, and finally asked under Ji Rong's questioning eyes: "Are you returning to work in China now?"

This question made Tang Xu unconsciously stop what he was doing and turned to look at Ji Rong. He also wanted to know if this person would leave again.

"Well, the foreign business has been handed over to a friend, and I fly over occasionally to have a look." Ji Rong's return to China is not just for work, the purpose of his return has been planted and germinated several years ago.

"Oh, that's good." Bai Liangshu smiled when he got a satisfactory answer, and then found that his child's mouth was water-stained, so he reached out to wipe the corner of his mouth in a funny way: "Can't you be a little bit more image?"

"What kind of image do you want, as long as you have it!" Li Yan rubbed his fingers brazenly.

This scene was so sweet that Tang Xu, who was sitting across from him, was full in an instant. A little embarrassed, Chao Jirong smiled and said, "Are you going to the company later?"

Ji Rong wasn't too interested in other people's sweetness, so he stood up and nodded to Tang Xu: "Let's go, I'll see you off." He looked like he couldn't refuse.

Tang's father and Tang's mother sent the two of them out all the way, and asked Ji Rong to come back next time, and asked Ji Rong what he liked to eat, and planned to cook him next time. Ji Rong had a gentle smile on his face. For any perfunctory look, Tang's father and Tang's mother pulled him patiently and pushed him a lot, and in the end it was Tang Xu who was on the side to save him.

Sitting in Ji Rong's car, Tang Xu stared out the window in a daze, thinking that Ji Rong said that he would work in China in the future. In fact, he was very happy at that moment, and finally felt that Ji Rong really came back.

"This is a congratulatory gift for you." Ji Rong suddenly took out a gift box and handed it to Tang Xu: "I don't want to listen to polite words, you can just accept it."

Tang Xu reflexively wanted to refuse but was blocked by Ji Rong first: "Congratulations?"

"Celebrate the certification of the device you developed. I couldn't participate that day, sorry." Ji Rong didn't tell what happened at the hotel that night, and when he saw that he refused to take it, he knocked on his forehead with a gift box: "I'm still here." Will you let me hold it like this all the time while driving?"

Tang Xu finally took the gift box helplessly, lowered his head and rubbed the gift box with his fingers in silence for a moment, his thoughts still settled on one point, and wanted to confirm it himself, biting his lips without hesitation: "Senior, are you really not leaving this time?"

Ji Rong didn't expect the child to ask. He turned his head and couldn't see his eyes buried in his hair, but it was obviously a little low. It seems that the sudden departure back then really cast a shadow on him.

In fact, Ji Rong didn’t dare to read too many emails over the years, and many times he didn’t dare to reply after reading them. From outsiders’ point of view, he was calm and excellent, and he also had some fears. He was afraid that he would give up everything and rush back just because of Tang Xu’s simple and friendly emails. , afraid that if he replied, it would be out of control, and that everything he had done abroad would be in vain.

"Well, I'm not leaving."

Tang Xu seemed relieved to get Ji Rong's extremely serious answer, as long as he had this sentence, he could put aside all the questions he wanted to ask.

"Aren't you going to open it and have a look?" Ji Rong laughed and patted Tang Xu on the head to make him stop thinking about it.

Only then did Tang Xu focus on the gift box. Seeing that the size of the box was not small, he gently removed the top cover, and there lay a white mobile phone inside, which was the latest popular touch-screen mobile phone on the market.

"Thank you very much for using the mobile phone I gave you all the time, and keeping it very well." When Ji Rong saw Tang Xu still using the mobile phone he gave him when he was in the hotel, it would be false if he was not moved. It was the first time he felt the cherished feeling in Tang Xu.

"Student, senior...I wanted to return that phone to you..." Tang Xu really never thought that that phone would replace Ji Rong to accompany him for so many years.

"It was originally for you, give me that phone." Ji Rong parked the car on the side of the road and stretched out his hand towards Tang Xu. Tang Xu didn't know why and put the phone in his palm. Ji Rong turned off the phone and pulled out the calling card to install it. On a new phone: "I'll use this from now on, and I'll show you how to use it."

Ji Rong almost taught Tang Xu to use it hand in hand. In fact, Tang Xu really wanted to say that he could read the manual by himself, but seeing Ji Rong's serious attitude, Tang Xu didn't say anything in the end. Seeing Ji Rong's teaching mode again after so many years But it's for the phone, which is interesting to think about.

"Do you have time tomorrow night?" Satisfied, Ji Rong set his number to 1 and started inviting.

"Tomorrow? It should be fine after 7 o'clock." Tang Xu was a little excited to get the new phone, lowered his head and swipe the screen with his fingers to play twice.

"Then I will pick you up around seven o'clock tomorrow, and I want to get together with everyone."

"And Wang Linhao, Lin Ziyang and the others?"

"Well, call Li Yan and the others."

"Okay, you must be very busy, just tell me the address and I can go by myself."

"It's okay, let's go."

"Oh……"

"Call me if you need anything, don't think too much about it."

"Huh? Hmm..." Tang Xu always felt that the taste of these words was a bit different.

The two sat in the car and chatted for a while. After Ji Rong sent him to the school gate, he watched his back disappear before driving away. On the way to the company, he called the secretary to confirm the company's situation and asked her to prepare for the meeting. I was in a good mood, and suddenly I had a lot to say to the shareholders.

He was used to the greetings on the way to the company, and he took the materials prepared for him by the secretary without any pause, and walked into the elevator while checking: "Are all the shareholders present?"

"Yes, no one is absent, and I'm already waiting for you in the meeting room." The secretary is a very capable professional woman who followed Ji Rong back to China. The work experience and means she possessed at the age of 40 made her become Ji Rong. left hand.

Ji Rong nodded and flicked through the documents in his hand, and the elevator arrived at the 11th floor in a dozen seconds: "How is the investigation of the data problem going?"

"Manager Zhang said that the reason has been found out soon, please wait patiently."

"It's been three days. If you haven't found out next week, you can deal with it."

"Ok."

The atmosphere in the conference room was very dull. Ji Rong was sitting at the top, with a wide perspective to see the expressions of everyone present, while Wang Linhao on his right was sizing up with an ambiguous expression in such an atmosphere. He, Ji Rong, who felt the gaze, frowned slightly, while Wang Linhao pulled his collar to signal without fear of death. Of course, Ji Rong knew that he was implying that he was wearing the same outfit yesterday and today.

"Mr. Wang." Ji Rong glanced over with a sharp look, and Wang Linhao immediately hesitated: "I see, I'll start..."

The purpose of this meeting was actually to hint at some shareholders who were making small moves behind the scenes. Ji Rong returned to China with a large amount of money and connections in just a week or two. During this time, he bought all the scattered shares of the company. Already the largest shareholder, he now occupies 50.00% of the company's shares by himself. Some shareholders are very dissatisfied with this. They want to rely on Ji Rong to make money but don't want to be under the hands of someone younger than themselves. So there has been a lot of movement within the company these days.

Ji Rong thought about this when he came back, so he had already prepared for it.

While Ji Rong was struggling in the company, Tang Xu in school behaved the same as usual, he didn’t look very special, but only he knew that he was not peaceful at all today, he would just think of Ji Rong who came back after a short break. Rong, it seems that Ji Rong is not around so he can think carefully about Ji Rong's changes.

At first glance, Ji Rong seems to have changed a lot. The most obvious ones are his height and figure. He used to be very thin, but now he is very healthy. Tang Xu is a little jealous because he is obviously over 1.8 meters five. Standing next to Ji Rong, will he look even shorter?

The outline of that face is more distinct and handsome than the photos I saw on the Internet the year before last, and the eyes seem to be as profound as they were back then, but there seems to be more things mixed in. When people grow up, it becomes even more incomprehensible. Tang Xu has always Knowing that he didn't know Ji Rong well enough, now that he saw Ji Rong again, he felt a sense of urgency to know Ji Rong better, as if this would make himself and Ji Rong better than before.

"Tang Xu, what are you thinking? It's time for lunch." The senior patted the man who was in a daze: "Also, your phone rang twice just now, did you change it? I thought it was someone's phone. "

Tang Xu came back to his senses, took off his gloves, thanked his senior, and took out his mobile phone. There were two text messages from Ji Rong, and Tang Xu unskillfully tapped the screen to reply.

"Hey, does Tang Xu have a girlfriend!" The senior looked gossip and wanted to go over to read the content, but Tang Xu shy away embarrassedly: "If you can't watch it, it must be a girlfriend hahaha!"

Tang Xu's thin-skinned face couldn't stand such a fuss, and his ears turned red: "No, it's a man."

"What!! Boyfriend!!?" The senior felt frightened.

"It's not that kind of boyfriend! Just, it's the kind of friend! Senior, don't make random guesses..." Tang Xu blushed anxiously now, is what he said really so misunderstood?

"Oh...that's it, that, ahem, the senior is not delusional, it's time for you to have a girlfriend, don't you feel bored with these materials every day?" The senior tried hard to explain and abducted.

Tang Xu thought about this question seriously: "It's not boring, I like it very much."

"The focus is wrong, young man... Forget it, geniuses are lonely, let's go for a walk to eat, next time I meet a nice girl and introduce you." The senior didn't seem to give up.

Tang Xu silently put the phone in his pocket, it seems that he will hide from his seniors in the future...