Age of Legends

Chapter 166 Going to the sea
Zheng Xue received a call from Shen Nuoyi early the next morning.

"Hey, Nuoyi, I sent you a text message and called you yesterday but you didn't reply! I said you were having so much fun that you forgot everything else!" Zheng Xue complained on the other end.

Shen Nuoyi said, "I didn't bring my phone with me when I went out, and I got back to the hotel very late. I'm calling you now."

"Oh, how did you guys play yesterday? Have you delivered my gift?" Shen Nuo woke up early in the morning and looked at her phone. Zhang Chen didn't send her a message. After saying good night yesterday, there was no follow-up communication. She had to go out with Han Zhouxuan today. Fortunately, she didn't reply to Zheng Xue's text message, so she called Zheng Xue in the morning to ask about yesterday's birthday party.

"What happened yesterday...didn't your cousin tell you?" Zheng Xue became more cautious and asked another question.

"She doesn't call me very often. When she does call, she always comes to my house to tell me in advance... Well, is there anything wrong?" Shen Nuoyi felt that Zheng Xue's words were a little strange.

"Nothing, haha..." Although she has a good relationship with Shen Nuoyi, Zheng Xue knows very well that good friends also need some space and privacy from each other. Besides, between girls, Zheng Xue would never ask such direct questions as "Who is Pei Yan? Have you ever liked him?"

The reason why Zheng Xue has always had a good relationship with Shen Nuoyi is that she understands this sense of propriety very well.

Instinctively, Zheng Xue was unwilling to believe that Shen Nuoyi could have a crush on someone else.

Since Shen Nuoyi called to ask, Zheng Xue told him what happened yesterday, especially that they all went to the fields to dig sweet potatoes together, and that the farm house was nice and fun, and they could choose to have a gathering there next time.

Shen Nuoyi agreed on the phone, and then asked suddenly, "Did you deliver the gifts I asked you to bring, for Zhang Chen and Wang Shuowei..."

Zheng Xue then wondered if the fox was about to show its tail. She had just deliberately talked about this and that, but didn't mention Zhang Chen at all, and as a result, Shen Nuoyi took the initiative to ask.

Zheng Xue said, "Oh, I gave them the pen you gave to Zhang Chen and the gaming mouse you gave to Wang Shuowei. By the way, Zhang Chen's pen must be imported, and the brand is quite niche... Where did you buy it? I don't think it's sold in Rongcheng?"

Zheng Xue deliberately asked why the gift for Zhang Chen was a little special, while Wang Shuowei's was not that difficult to buy. In fact, according to the usual practice, when giving gifts to ordinary friends, wouldn't you just go to a gift shop, choose something, wrap it up, and give it to someone? The gift you gave to Zhang Chen was a little rare, was it because he was a little special?

"My sister gave it to me last time. I never used it at home, so I gave it to him this time."

Wow, it’s watertight!
"So that's how it is," Zheng Xue thought to herself, this is a tricky thing, and then she added, "Let me tell you, Zhuang Yanyue also gave him a cup with a flattened bottle mouth, which looked ugly. But the card she attached to the letter said, 'This ugly cup reminds you that I've been clumsy with you!' Words like that, that woman is really good at it, if I were a man, I would have been tempted!"

"...You are quite gossipy."

Hearing Shen Nuoyi's normal tone on the phone, Zheng Xue said, "But I saw that Zhang Chen was not won over by her either... I think that if Zhang Chen was a bachelor, he might fall for her, but he has no reason to fall for her... Do you think it's because he already has someone he likes?"

Zheng Xue would not ask Shen Nuoyi whether she had a crush on Pei Yan, nor would she ask Zhang Chen whether he was pursuing her, Shen Nuoyi. Who wouldn't do that?

It is better to hint at Shen Nuoyi's attitude in this way than to ask directly, which may not produce any results.

"Hehe, maybe."

Zheng Xue thought to herself, you cunning Shen Nuoyi is sitting pretty.

But there is nothing you can do. If the person involved doesn’t admit it, there is nothing you can do.

They just chatted casually. Zheng Xue wished her a good time, and Shen Nuo said he would bring her a gift and then hung up the phone.

"Let's go, let's go out!" Han Zhouxuan came to urge again.

Shen Nuoyi didn't care about it anymore. Seeing the long box containing the Xiangfei bamboo folding fan next to him, he thought that Zhang Chen performed well, so he would make up for the missed birthday with a gift.

...Time flies. In a blink of an eye, the summer vacation is over and it is the eve of the start of school at Yude. The life of senior year is about to begin.

In his previous life, Zhang Chen had vague memories of his senior year in high school, and there wasn’t much worth remembering.

Even in Yude, a key middle school, there are still students who don't want to study and take naps. Of course, there are those who sleep in class but still get good grades in exams, which is really frustrating.

In addition, even though he was a poor student, Zhang Chen’s memory was filled with test papers.

Even the wind that blew became sticky, and even the green of the leaves that covered the sky was filled with a stuffy and humid atmosphere.

So there isn’t much to miss actually.

But the mentality is different now.

The reason why he felt confused and miserable back then was purely because he didn't know the future. But now, how could Zhang Chen, who came with the entire prophet, be confused?

You can even step back and look at a period of time. Anyway, his grades have already reached the 600 mark. With a certain foundation and hard work, studying is not that difficult and he does not feel that life is difficult.

Furthermore, compared with the difficult problems encountered after leaving the ivory tower, the suffering of the vast number of test papers during this period is actually not that unbearable.

During this holiday, Zhang Zhonghua and Huang Huifen didn't pay much attention to Zhang Chen. On the one hand, Zhang Chen really didn't need their worry. One day, Huang Huifen suddenly remembered something and asked Zhang Chen, "Do you have money for this holiday? Why didn't you ask us for money?"

That's also the case. In the past, whenever Zhang Chen asked them for money to go out and play during the holidays, Huang Huifen would always nag him, saying things like money is hard to earn, and that the students are lazy and like... Now it's quieter, and Huang Huifen is a little uncomfortable with it.

Zhang Chen said, "Don't worry, I sometimes work part-time for my godfather, so I have money in my pocket!"

The provincial TV station's "Emotional Mediation Room" is in production, and now there is a stable source of advertising income. After Zhang Chen's birthday, he activated his registered studio and set up the framework with Wang Bowen.

Although Wang Bowen used to give him a share of the advertising revenue, it was not formal after all, and it was still a small workshop operation. Now Zhang Chen has a studio where he works with Wang Bowen. Specifically, Wang Bowen's previous advertising company invested in Zhang Chen's company and established a new studio with a 55:45 equity distribution. This studio is responsible for the accounting of advertising revenue, and Aunt Song Xiu, the lightning sloth, is the accountant of the studio. In the future, advertising revenue will be directly deposited into Zhang Chen's personal account as dividends.

Zhang Chen now has millions of dollars in his card, but he just didn't tell Huang Huifen about it.

Secondly, Huang Huifen and Zhang Zhonghua were both accumulating funds for their own entrepreneurial projects. The real estate company of my mother and godmother had already been established. With the help of Chen Xuran's family, the park renovation project in the district was also going through the corresponding procedures. My mother organized the practitioners she met at the real estate exchange center for more than half a year and set up an engineering department. Now that we are going to carry out the old city renovation project, the engineering department is the most important. As for the development land obtained in exchange for the project, the subsequent sales and marketing department can be built at that time.

Zhang Chen didn't care about this at all. He didn't care whether their entrepreneurial project was successful or not. Firstly, interfering in such matters would definitely consume a lot of energy, and Zhang Chen was not interested in this. If his mother's business was successful, he could be a rich second-generation, of course. If the business was not successful, it would not affect him. At most, he would just keep her from falling into the debt trap. Secondly, he couldn't interfere in such matters unless he really stopped going to school and stationed himself in their project.

So, let them do it. At least now it seems to be working. The key is that my mother seems to have found a new meaning and pursuit in life in this project, just like when she opened a fruit stand. Zhang Chen was amazed by her enthusiasm.

On the other hand, my father Zhang Zhonghua obtained a government-supported loan of 3 million yuan from an old classmate, and he also organized a company to develop cathode ray tube engineering. He assembled a team of seven people, all of whom were former technical line engineers. He was given 10% dividend shares, and the decision-making power of the entire company was still in his hands.

Neither of them could control Zhang Chen, which made Zhang Chen feel at ease.

The ship that carried the family's destiny was launched into the water.

Sailing towards the sea of times.

(End of this chapter)