When they returned to school after the activity, everyone was still in a daze.
Early in the morning, Gu Xi saw Dong Mingming lying on his desk when she arrived at the classroom.
"What's wrong?" Gu Xi looked at Dong Mingming and asked.
At this time, Dong Mingming slowly turned her head and said faintly, "I have some unfortunate news for you."
"What?"
"The final exam is coming soon," Dong Mingming said.
Gu Xi raised her eyebrows and said, "Isn't it always like this?"
The time of the final exam was fixed. It happened to be two weeks before the Affiliated Expansion Event of A University.
"No, no, no, it's different this time." Dong Mingming propped himself up and said with a 'I'm telling you a ghost story' expression, "According to my informant, the final exam this time is a city-wide exam."
The city-wide exam also means that the exam scores will be ranked in the city. Isn't this the same as a public execution?
Dong Mingming complained in his heart.
Seeing that Gu Xi still looked indifferent, Dong Mingming suddenly realized something.
"I almost forgot that we're different." Dong Mingming looked at Gu Xi bitterly and sighed.
For perverted geniuses like Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan, the city-wide ranking was not a public execution, but a public exhibition!
"But it's a city-wide ranking, aren't you nervous?" Dong Mingming shook Gu Xi's hand and asked.
Hearing this, Gu Xi pretended to think for two seconds before saying, "I'm not nervous."
Dong Mingming: "Okay, we're indeed different."
Dong Mingming leaned on the desk and howled, "Ahhh, what should I do? I can already foresee how miserable the next two weeks will be."
Theoretically speaking, the entire city's test paper would be easier than the one set by the HKUST, but there were still so many 'competitors'. In order to make the HKUST's rankings look better, the school teachers would definitely squeeze the students to death to learn!
Looking at Dong Mingming's listless appearance, Gu Xi was a little embarrassed. She was a top student, so how could she have the confidence of a top student?
"Why don't I split the two books fifty-thirty with you?" Gu Xi suggested seriously.
Dong Mingming's face darkened. "No, you can keep them." She did not want to make things worse.
Seeing that Gu Xi did not seem worried and was still looking at her phone, Dong Mingming could not help but move closer curiously.
"Gu Xi, what are you looking at? Is there any gossip recently? "
"No." Gu Xi shook her head. She was just looking at the news. To be precise, she was looking at the news about Lin.
The Lin Group seemed to have encountered a lot of trouble recently.
First, the transport vehicles and ships were found to have been cleared. Then, it was found that the Lin family had tampered with some of the orders in order to avoid paying taxes and made a Yin and Yang contract.
Then, people found out that the Lin Group was operating a regular freight logistics company, but in fact, there were many irregular small logistics companies that were invested in by the Lin Group. These small logistics companies were skirting the edges, pretending to be subsidiaries of regular freight companies, or directly scamming regular freight companies with their logos and names. In the name of various' preferential activities' and 'anniversary activities', they announced their activities at low prices to attract orders.
But in reality, these companies had very low transportation security. The loss rate was very high, and they disappeared directly after an accident …
This was indeed what Lin Yize did. Lin Yize had even accumulated a lot of wealth because of this series of 'operations'.
However, in the novel, this method was glorified and described as a 'low-cost business model that conformed to the diversity of the market'.
In the novel, Lin Yize's development was smooth sailing, and he had never encountered such trouble.
"Could it be …" Gu Xi's eyes flickered, and she instinctively thought of Gu Shao.
"This Lin Group is going to be done for." Dong Mingming muttered after reading the news on Gu Xi's phone and the netizens' comments.
Gu Xi shook her head uncertainly. "I'm not sure."
After all, Lin Yize was a male character in the novel. Who knew if he had some kind of halo to protect him and get through this wave of adversity unscathed?
Gu Xi secretly sighed and put her phone away.
—
After school, Old Master Gu specially asked the driver to pick up Gu Xi, Gu Yanxiao, and Gu Chenyi and bring them back to the Gu residence.
When the three of them returned, Old Master Gu had already asked someone to prepare a large table of food, which was called a nutritious meal for the examination.
Not only that, Old Master Gu specially asked someone to clean up a room with three desks for Gu Xi and the other two to review for the examination.
It was obvious how much importance Old Master Gu attached to this examination.
—
After dinner, the three of them stood in front of the door of the study room that had been cleaned up for the examination.
Gu Xi tugged at Gu Chenyi's clothes and whispered, "Did Grandpa do this in the past examinations as well?"
"He did, but it was not so exaggerated," Gu Chenyi whispered.
Not only did he specially set up such a study room, but he even hung a countdown board on the wall with the words' X days until the final examination '. This was too much!
Gu Yanxiao sighed softly and shrugged. She said, "Grandpa probably heard that this time, it's going to be ranked in the city, so he's competing with someone again."
No, no, Gu Yanxiao was wrong.
Old Master Gu attached so much importance to his grandchildren's final examination results because he was secretly competing with the grandchildren of his old friends.
He had already bragged about it. What if his three precious grandchildren failed the examination?
Therefore, when they returned home, Old Master Gu thought about it carefully and came up with a 'review plan for Gu Xi and the other two students after two weeks of exams.'
Old Master Gu wanted Gu Xi to stay at the Gu residence for a while, and Gu Shao did not refuse.
However, Gu Feng could not help but complain about Old Master Gu's arrangement.
In the study room, Gu Feng rubbed his brows and complained, "Dad put the three of them together. It would be strange if they didn't interfere with each other. Is he still thinking of making them study obediently?"
Gu Shao did not comment. He had his own considerations on this matter.
Lin and Song Kexin had been up to a lot of tricks recently, and Gu Shao had been very busy recently. It was inevitable that he would not be able to take care of them. If Gu Xi stayed at the Gu residence temporarily, she would be taken care of by his sister-in-law. It would also be safer for her.
"I'll be more at ease if she stays here," Gu Shao said.
When he heard Gu Shao's words and connected it to the fact that Gu Shao had been suppressing the Lin Group recently, Gu Feng quickly understood Gu Shao's thoughts.
"This Lin." Gu Feng tapped his finger on the table and sneered. Then, he said with a sullen face, "It's time to teach him a lesson."
Gu Feng did not know what Song Kexin had done to Gu Xi, but he knew that recently, Lin had been thinking of ways to get Gu Xi's custody back.
They were all reasonable people. Other things could be discussed, but if he wanted to take Xixi away, they would definitely not allow it.
Old Master Gu and the others were very clear about this.
After Gu Feng finished speaking, he heard Gu Shao say calmly, "It's not teaching him a lesson."
Hearing this, Gu Feng was stunned. Then, he understood. If it was not teaching him a lesson, then it meant that he wanted to destroy Lin.
Gu Feng did not think that this was a bad idea.
After all, recently, Lin had indeed been frantically testing the waters on the verge of death.
Speaking of Lin, Gu Feng thought of Gu Yaobai.
"Gu Yaobai handed over the things in his hands through Yang Jiande," Gu Feng said with a cold face.
Yang Jiande was not considered one of Xie Hongbo's men, but because Xie Hongbo had something on him, he had to do things for Xie Hongbo. Over the years, Xie Hongbo did not have any contact with Gu Yaobai. Even if they did, it was through Yang Jiande.
"What are the things? Have you seen them?" Gu Shao asked.
"Most of them are letters from Dad's old friends," Gu Feng said. He paused and muttered, "I don't know how Gu Yaobai got so many of them."
The earliest part of those letters was from 20 years ago. If those were collected by Gu Yaobai in a planned way, it proved that Xie Hongbo had probably contacted Gu Yaobai through some means in the past 20 years and successfully made Gu Yaobai an enemy of Gu Yaobai.
At that time, Gu Yaobai was only a few years old.
Thinking of this, Gu Feng's expression turned serious.
"It's just a plan," Gu Shao said.
Xie Hongbo's goal was to defeat Gu Zhi, so even Gu Yaobai was only part of his plan.
"That's true." As Gu Feng spoke, he sneered and said, "However, that Xie guy probably didn't expect Gu Yaobai to lose his cool this time."
Gu Yaobai should have handed over the things in his hands to Xie Hongbo.
Although the letters from Old Master Gu did not touch on any sensitive topics, some of his old friends did have special identities. Therefore, it was not impossible for Xie Hongbo to twist the truth and accuse Gu Yaobai.
Xie Hongbo did not make a move because he wanted to find a suitable opportunity to suppress Gu Yaobai.
But who knew that Gu Yaobai would lose his cool and hand over the things.
If those things were in Xie Hongbo's hands, it might be useful. After all, Xie Hongbo had been in that position for so many years. His words would always be believed.
Now that it was Gu Yaobai who handed it over, it would not be very convincing.
"The things were stopped at Wang Mu's place, but just in case, I still asked Wang Mu to clean up the things inside." He cleared out some of the letters that were not easy to explain.
Hearing this, Gu Shao nodded.
After a pause, Gu Shao asked again, "How much evidence did you collect on Xie's side?"
"I have collected quite a lot of evidence on Xie's underhanded dealings over the years." In addition to the things in Gu Shao's and Gu Xuan's hands, Xie Hongbo's problems could probably be written into a book.
"It's just," Gu Feng frowned and said, "It's not a big deal. It's not impossible for Xie to find a few people to take the blame."
"If we want to defeat Xie, I'm afraid we still lack something crucial," Gu Feng said sternly.
Xie Hongbo was looking for an opportunity to get rid of Gu, but Gu was also waiting for an opportunity to defeat him.
Gu Shao lowered his eyes and did not say anything for a moment.
After a while, Gu Shao opened his mouth and said, "What if we add in Xie's underhanded dealings and Gu Yaobai's matter?"
"About that matter, didn't Dad …" Gu Feng paused, "You're saying that Dad is going to make a move?"
Back then, in order to prove his innocence, Old Man Gu had specially investigated the entire matter. Naturally, he had also found out about Xie Hongbo's shady dealings in private.
However, at that time, Gu Qinghua did not know that Xie Hongbo had deliberately framed him. He even thought that Xie Hongbo was his teacher, so he helped him hide the truth.
Now, this trick that Old Man Gu had left behind could be put to good use.
Gu Shao nodded, "It's very possible."
"Also, there's the matter of you getting injured back then."
"You found out?" Gu Feng's gaze was focused as he looked at Gu Shao.
— — Back then, in order to harm him, Xie Hongbo had created an accident. That accident not only injured Gu Feng, but also caused a great loss to the battalion. However, they could not find out the reason, so they could only give up.
If they could find evidence that pointed to Xie Hongbo, then Xie Hongbo would definitely have to bear a heavy punishment.
"I found some clues." Gu Shao said and did not say anything else.
However, Gu Feng already understood Gu Shao's attitude.
…
The conversation between the two ended.
Gu Feng stood up and said, "No, I'll go take a look at the three of them."
He did not believe that Gu Xi, Gu Chenyi, and Gu Yanxiao would be able to study obediently.
Obviously, Gu Shao had the same opinion. He also stood up and said, "I'll go take a look too."
— —
When Gu Shao and Gu Feng walked to Gu Xi's study room, they could hear the happy voices of the three people through the door. Listening to their conversation, it seemed that Gu Chenyi and Gu Yanxiao were teaching Gu Xi to play a game.
Gu Shao frowned.
When he opened the door, he saw the three people huddled together and playing with their mobile phones.
"Go down the road and jump over here."
"Yes, go this way. It's okay. Don't be afraid. The other party is a … dad."
Gu Yanxiao was still teaching Gu Xi how to sneak attack the other party's people. However, halfway through her words, she saw Gu Feng at the door and was stunned.
Gu Xi and Gu Chenyi also reacted quickly. With a "whoosh", they quickly jumped back to their seats, opened their books, and pretended to read.
The three of them lowered their heads, and no one dared to look at the door. They looked as if they had been caught doing something bad. As long as they didn't admit it, no one could do anything to them.
Looking at the heads of the three people, Gu Shao slowly said, "Have you ever learned an idiom?"
The three of them didn't speak.
However, Gu Shao said again, "Deceiving yourself."
"Well, we …" Gu Chenyi raised his head cautiously and wanted to fight for leniency for the three of them. However, he met the stern eyes of his eldest uncle and second uncle.
"What's wrong? Don't you want to continue pretending?" Gu Feng said in a deep voice.
However, Gu Chenyi chickened out immediately.
"And Gu Yanxiao." Gu Feng mentioned Gu Yanxiao's name again.
"…" Gu Yanxiao, who had been named, continued to play dead.
"Xixi."
"I've finished my homework." Gu Xi raised her hand and said in a low voice.
The other two quickly said, "I've also finished my homework."
"Me too."
The three of them were very fast at doing their homework. Therefore, they finished their homework in less than half an hour.
Unfortunately, Old Master Gu had set a time limit for them to study until 9: 00 AM. They would drink a cup of milk, exercise for 10 minutes, revise for 30 minutes, wash up at 9: 00 AM, and go to bed at 10: 00 AM.
"Did I make you feel wronged?" Gu Feng asked.
The three of them: "…"
Gu Feng and Gu Shao looked at each other.
"Tell Dad to separate the three of them tomorrow." Gu Feng said with a headache.
Gu Shao agreed.
— —
On the other side, Old Master Gu, who had gone out for a walk at night, didn't know that the time he had arranged for his three grandsons to study science and military had been 'ruined' by the game. When he returned to his room and saw the three of them obediently following the schedule, Old Master Gu was very satisfied.
Old Master Gu didn't know that when the three of them returned to their rooms, none of them went to bed at the scheduled time.
The three of them first complained to Gu Yanlin about their miserable experience in the group chat. Then, Gu Xi talked to Gu Yanlin about the 'Innovation Competition' in private.
Unlike the youth competition that Gu Xi participated in, the 'Innovation Competition' had a long competition cycle. During the finals, there would be many rounds of special reviews and public displays. This was equivalent to an assessment of the progress of each team's product development.
The next round of reviews would be in two weeks. Although there was plenty of time, according to their plan, it wouldn't be easy to increase the quality of 'Xi Bao' to 40% during the next round of reviews.
After discussing the competition with Gu Yanlin, Gu Xi wanted to continue talking about her new ideas. However, Gu Yanlin had already started sharing the things he had recently bought with her.
[Gu Yanlin]: Take a look and see what you like. I'll bring it back for you when I go back.
Below was a photo of the pile of gifts that Gu Yanlin was going to buy for Gu Xi.
Looking at the pink-colored pictures on the screen, Gu Xi felt that she was about to get tired of looking at them.
Gu Xi was about to reject these gifts when her phone suddenly rang.
A string of numbers popped up on the screen of her phone. With just a glance, Gu Xi had already recognized who this number belonged to.
This was Song Kexin's phone number.
This was also the first number that Gu Xi had memorized in her memory, followed by Lin Yize's, Zhang Cui's, and Xu Jiaofeng's …
Unfortunately, even though she had memorized these numbers, they didn't come in handy.
At this moment, looking at the number on her phone, Gu Xi couldn't help but frown.
This was a new number that Gu Xi had registered before coming here. Gu Xi wasn't surprised that Song Kexin knew her phone number. After all, her phone number wasn't something that needed to be kept secret. Any random student of A University might know it.
However, why was Song Kexin looking for her?
Gu Xi's heart was full of doubts.
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