170 One of the Essences of Humanity
On the afternoon of this weekend, more than a week later, Wang Jian didn’t turn on his game, because today was the day Wang Heng was leaving home.
Wang Jian and his son arrived at the bus station and stopped there.
“Go back, go back and rest well. You have to work tomorrow.” Wang Heng adjusted the straps of his backpack and turned around.
“Be careful on the road…”
“How old am I? What’s there to worry about?” Wang Heng teased, “What, do you want me to stand here while you go buy some tangerines?”
“Do you want to eat tangerines?”
“Forget it, too lazy to wash my hands.”
But Wang Jian still seemed hesitant, as if he had something difficult to say. After struggling for a while, he asked, “You’re familiar with taking buses and planes, so I have nothing to worry about. But…”
“But what?”
“You won’t pick up girls on the way again, will you?”
Wang Heng didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at his father’s worry. “How is that possible! For someone as clean-living and aloof as me…”
“But you’ve already picked up two,” Wang Jian put his arm around his son’s shoulder and lowered his voice. “I wanted to ask you too, what exactly do you think? Those two girls are both quite pretty, and they seem to like you quite a bit. Who do you fancy?”
Wang Heng said helplessly, “Dad, stop gossiping, okay?”
“Okay, okay, okay, I won’t gossip. But son, you have to know that you are now an eighteen or nineteen-year-old young man, an adult. Dad can’t control many things, but there is one thing, that is, you can’t just seek your own happiness, you have to take responsibility!”
As he spoke, Wang Jian took out a beautifully packaged small box from his pocket and stuffed it into his son’s hand.
Wang Heng looked down. It was Durex ultra-thin…
“What are you thinking!”
Wang Heng had black lines on his forehead, but his father still looked serious.
“Let me tell you, girls are the easiest to suffer losses in relationships between men and women. You can’t just care about your own pleasure, understand? As a boy, if you don’t even take this responsibility, will that do?”
Looking at his father’s serious lecture with a straight face, Wang Heng sighed and stuffed the box of Durex into his backpack.
Then, he said helplessly, “It’s not a question of responsibility or not. The key is, I haven’t reached that step with them at all!”
Wang Jian was immediately heartbroken. “Tell me, what do you mean by ‘them’? More than one, you really dare to think!”
Wang Heng: “…Can you stop imagining things?”
**
After taking the bus to the provincial capital in the afternoon and finding a small hotel to stay overnight, the next morning, Wang Heng arrived at the provincial capital airport and boarded the plane to Rongdu.
Just like the previous two times he took a plane, he put his backpack under the seat in front of him, and before takeoff, the little hamster obediently crawled into the bag.
Today was Monday, and the stock market had already opened.
Two hours later, when the plane landed, the first thing Wang Heng did was turn on his phone and check the stock information.
Unsurprisingly, that stock was still at the daily limit up, and the price of the stocks he held had more than doubled. Although it was expected, seeing this progress was still pleasing.
So until he walked out of the terminal and got into a taxi, Wang Heng still had a faint smile on his face.
The taxi driver uncle was obviously a bit talkative. After stepping on the gas, he started chatting intermittently, and his mouth was rarely idle. Wang Heng didn’t say much, just chimed in from time to time…
When the taxi passed a large billboard, Wang Heng’s gaze was briefly attracted by the content on it. It was an advertisement by a signal operator giant—【4G, make life faster.】
The driver suddenly said, “They talk big, but what use is it?”
Wang Heng: “Are you talking about 4G?”
Driver: “Of course. Aren’t current mobile phones enough? Making calls, sending text messages, and surfing the internet, isn’t that enough? Let me tell you, that whatever 4G plan will be much more expensive, and the internet speed won’t necessarily be that fast. It must be a trick by the operators to cheat money…”
Wang Heng didn’t interrupt the driver uncle’s rambling, just smiled and said nothing.
What is one of the essences of humanity? Eating one’s words.
When 4G is fully rolled out, from mobile games to short videos to live streaming platforms, there will always be one suitable for this driver uncle.
**
Getting out of the taxi and walking into the campus, Wang Heng suddenly received a text message from Ye Xun.
【Has Senior returned to Rongdu? I accumulated a lot of questions while doing problems during the winter vacation and want to ask you for advice.】
Wang Heng thought for a moment and replied: 【Just arrived. You can come find me when you’re free.】
Then he walked into the dormitory building, climbed the stairs, and finally arrived at his dormitory. Taking out the key to open the door, he saw Fu Hanwen sitting at the desk studying hard. Besides him, there was no one else in the dormitory.
“Yo, finally starting to study hard?” Wang Heng teased.
Fu Hanwen looked back, slightly surprised. “You don’t need to take make-up exams, why did you come back to school so early?”
Wang Heng: “I want to use the school’s database and library.”
Fu Hanwen: “What for?”
Wang Heng explained, “Checking some information about artificial intelligence and big data. The papers I downloaded before were too difficult, I need to start from simpler and easier ones.”
Although the hamster always mocked him, he didn’t give up easily. After all, having a vision several years ahead of others, if he only used it for investment and still followed the rules in his studies, it would be a bit of a waste.
But this kind of consideration was too much in Fu Hanwen’s view.
“The make-up exam is in a week, but Linear Algebra is really hard…” Fu Hanwen held his head and groaned, “Teacher Wang, can you tutor me again?”
“Sure, but wait a moment.”
Wang Heng walked to his desk, put down his backpack, took the hamster out, and stuffed it into the cage. Then he turned around and walked to Fu Hanwen’s side, ready to give some pointers.
But just then, his backpack fell off the chair—obviously, it hadn’t been placed steadily just now.
An exquisite small box fell out of the backpack.
Fu Hanwen’s gaze froze instantly: “Durex!”
Wang Heng hurriedly stuffed the small box into the deepest part of his drawer, but turning around, he could still see Fu Hanwen’s meaningful gaze.
Fu Hanwen: “I saw it right, it’s definitely…”
Wang Heng: “No, you saw it wrong!”
Fu Hanwen: “Then don’t hide it, take it out and let me see?”
Wang Heng: “Little Fu, looking at other people’s things randomly is not a good habit.”
Fu Hanwen: “You can’t blame me for this, it fell out by itself…”
Just as the two boys were arguing endlessly, there was a knock on the dormitory door.
Fu Hanwen stood up, opened the door, and saw a pretty girl with a slightly shy face.
The visitor was Ye Xun.
Fu Hanwen looked at the graceful girl, then turned his head to look at Wang Heng’s drawer, and suddenly realized with an “Oh”.
Wang Heng: “Do you still want me to tutor you or not!”
