Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 2 Super Brain Mode
"So you've decided to continue reading?"

After his parents came home in the evening, Yang Ning told them about his plan.

When the couple first heard about their son's plan, they were a little surprised. They had long known what kind of person their son was, but they didn't expect that after being hit by someone a few days ago, he was like a different person.

Yang Liu took a whisk with a bunch of rags tied to it and patted the dust off Yang Dagen's body. Then she patted herself and said in surprise: "Today the sun rises from the west. This rude boy in our family also knows how to study?"

Yang Liushi had stayed in the Lou family for a period of time after all. Although it was very chaotic at that time, she also knew some of the benefits of studying.

If there were no benefits, why would those young masters and young ladies study so hard?

Although Yang Liu didn't know much herself, she would learn. If it weren't for her persistence, the original owner would have dropped out of school and become a street urchin.

"Well, I'm only fourteen now anyway. Even if I come out, I'll have to work for others for a few years for nothing. I might as well learn more."

Yang Ning brought out a basin of hot water, startling Yang Dagen who was changing his clothes: "No, you are not causing trouble again, are you?"

What you said, can't your son be sensible for once?

"Wash it if you want." Yang Ning placed the washbasin on a stool with all the paint peeled off and rolled his eyes at his father.

"Are you really okay?" Yang Dagen was still a little worried and asked again.

"Go to hell, it's not good enough that my son has grown up. Do you really want him to continue to mess around?"

The mother slapped the father hard on the back, and soon a bloody handprint appeared on his back.

"No, I'm not..." Yang Dagen felt a little lacking in confidence in front of his wife, and for a moment he even forgot what he was going to say.

"Hey! I shouldn't have cared." In the end, he just lay down casually, and said, "You two, mother and son, can do whatever you want."

After a while, the mother brought out a bowl of corn porridge, five steamed buns made of 3-gram flour, and a plate of pickles. This was dinner for the family of three.

The three-in-one flour here is not the three-in-one flour with white sugar and something else in the previous life, but a mixture of flour, corn flour, and some sorghum or sweet potato flour, mainly for the purpose of saving money.

There are even worse types of noodles, which are made entirely of mixed grains without any flour.

"Come here, my sons, the two of you can each eat two. If the steamed bread is not enough, you can use porridge to make up for it. It is not good to eat too much at night."

Yang Liu began to distribute the food according to the previous rules, and then the whole family began to eat with a gusto.

Yang Liu felt sorry for her husband, so she only ate half of the steamed bun and put the other half into her father's bowl.

The father secretly glanced at his mother who showed no strange expression, chuckled, picked up the half steamed bun and started eating it in big mouthfuls, as if it was the best delicacy in the world.

Yang Ning is no longer surprised by this. This may be the happiness of this era.

"His father, do you think your son has really changed for the better?"

After dinner, Yang Liu sat cross-legged on the kang under the dim light, with a sewing basket in front of her, mending Yang Dagen's shirt, which was covered with so much pudding.

There were a few pairs of socks with holes in the basket. The couple had been wearing them for several years and were reluctant to throw them away. They could no longer be seen in their original state.

"No matter what, our son is still our son, no matter what he becomes." Yang Dagen was lying in bed, and after hearing his wife's words, he turned over and stared at the dim roof. The dim light shone on his face, which was blackened by the fire for many years, giving people a sense of security and solidity.

"I didn't say he wasn't your son. I just felt that my son suddenly became wise after that collision." Yang Liu said, and after seeing her husband's expression, the trace of uneasiness in her heart instantly disappeared.

Then she put down the needle and thread in her hand, and whispered something in her husband's ear.

Yang Dagen just smiled, spread out the quilt and wrapped Yang Liu in it, then blew out the lamp on the kang. The patched quilt suddenly became restless and began to move.

"Son, get up."

After a night of tossing and turning, Yang Liu was still in high spirits the next day and started singing early in the morning.

After Yang Ning finished washing up, he sat at the dinner table and looked at this terrible pair of parents with resentment. They didn’t know how to restrain themselves when doing things at night. Didn’t they know that they have reached the stage of puberty?
However, the couple ignored Yang Ning's resentful look. After finishing their breakfast, Yang Dagen went to work with the workers in the yard.

Because the factory now only provides one lunch, Yang Liu was not in a hurry to go to work. Instead, she cleaned the house and took a basin of clothes and sheets to the central courtyard, which was both the water source for the entire courtyard and the information exchange center.

Yang Ning seldom goes to the middle yard and the back yard when he has nothing to do now, because there are a lot of things going on there.

Taking out an old primary school textbook, Yang Ning moved out a stool and sat at his door to read.

Each word is input through the eyes and quickly stored in the modified brain.

Yang Ning's life memories are processed by the brain, while knowledge is stored specifically in the brain's hard drive.

The computer that Yang Ning brought with him had 32G of memory and a 1T memory stick. Although it seemed like a lot, it was still necessary to save money wherever possible.

The dual core can provide a computing speed of 5 billion times per second. Because it has not been assembled yet, what came through is a whiteboard computer. In addition to these functions, it also transformed Yang Ning's eyes into an information input window, and there is nothing else.

In other words, Yang Ning is now a super human who possesses human thinking and logical abilities, and can perform calculations at a speed of 5 billion times per second, and can remember everything he sees even when his memory is not full.

Yang Ning calls the state when he transforms his brain the super brain mode.

Every hour of maintaining the super brain mode would consume the energy absorbed by his father Yang Dagen in a meal.

Even if he used the super brain mode for ten hours a day, it would consume more than three days' worth of food from his father.

Given Yang Ning's family's current situation, if Yang Ning went all out, it wouldn't be long before the whole family would have to beg for food.

Fortunately, Yang Ning doesn’t have much to learn now. Before his mother Yang Liu went to work, Yang Ning had memorized all his previous textbooks.

"Son, I'm going to work. I've already prepared lunch for you and put it in the pot. Remember to heat it up if you want to eat it later."

Yang Liu, who had satisfied her craving for gossip, saw her son sitting at the door reading a book and shouted a warning.

"understood."

Yang Ning watched his mother change into a set of clothes that were a little worn but very clean, and was about to walk out the door, so he echoed loudly.

(End of this chapter)