Chapter 80

The phone call with Ye Jing lasted a full hour, and they barely touched on any practical topics. For an entire hour, they chatted about trivial matters and romantic musings, discussing whether they preferred salty or sweet soy milk. In the end, it was Jia Hongjian who felt embarrassed about the international call charges and insisted that Ye Jing hang up.

After hanging up and returning to the dormitory, Jia Hongjian saw Jia Jinghang, who was drinking a can of Coca-Cola, suddenly take out several letters from his desk and hand them over. "Uncle, these are the letters that were sent to you while you were away." Jia Hongjian took them and saw that there were five letters in total, all with elegant handwriting, seemingly from a girl. The address in the bottom right corner of the envelope read "No. 155 Jiangsu Road, Changning District, Shanghai," but no sender's name was written.

"Jiangsu Road 155?" Jia Hongjian thought as he opened the letters, "Isn't that near the Third Municipal Girls' High School?" When he opened the envelope and took out the letter, it was indeed from Wang Daiyun, the beautiful girl with asthma he had met on the train a few days after his rebirth. Although it had only been about a month, Jia Hongjian had experienced so much that he almost forgot about Wang Daiyun.

The first letter was written in a conventional manner, starting with "Hello, Jia Hongjian," with no hint of ambiguity. The entire letter... how to put it, it made Jia Hongjian feel like he had received a 21st-century advertisement. The innocent and somewhat cute Wang Daiyun, after entering the Third Municipal Girls' High School, almost recounted the entire history of the school to Jia Hongjian. She mentioned that it was the only public girls' high school in Shanghai, the alma mater of the Soong sisters and Eileen Chang, and that the admission rate to Tsinghua and Peking Universities was nearly 50% this year... While this was impressive, Jia Hongjian was a boy and couldn't attend the Third Municipal Girls' High School...

Well, this was just Jia Hongjian's inner complaint. He understood that Wang Daiyun was too innocent, and this might be the first time she had written to a boy, so it was understandable that she ended up writing an advertisement-like letter. At the end of the letter, Wang Daiyun encouraged Jia Hongjian to study hard, hoping he would get into university. She even offered to tutor him in science if he was weak in it and asked whether he preferred universities in Shanghai or Beijing...

Reading this, Jia Hongjian remembered that the beautiful girl Wang Daiyun probably didn't know he was attending a school with a nearly 100% admission rate and thought he was a boy with a severe bias towards the humanities. Thinking about this, he smiled. The second letter was written after Wang Daiyun saw Jia Hongjian on a special program of "Oriental Time" in Beijing. In the letter, the beautiful young girl gave Jia Hongjian high praise, even claiming she would always support him... This letter seemed to have a hint of ambiguity, though it wasn't obvious from the words, Jia Hongjian could sense the subtle romantic undertones.

The third letter expressed Wang Daiyun's confusion about whether Jia Hongjian had received her previous letters, followed by a rather cute and almost powerless critique of the postal system. The fourth and fifth letters were filled with anger towards the post office, and later, she began to wonder if Jia Hongjian didn't want to correspond with her, so she didn't reply. In the fifth letter, she even wrote that if Jia Hongjian didn't reply, she wouldn't write to him again.

"Ha, this girl is too cute," Jia Hongjian laughed after reading the fifth letter. He had been too busy, and in the 20 days since the start of the semester, he had spent about ten days away from school. The delay in the postal system meant he hadn't seen any of the letters, and he didn't know the girl was speculating that he didn't like her.

After laughing, Jia Hongjian took out a sheet of paper and began writing a reply. In his reply, he didn't reveal his true situation but went along with Wang Daiyun's offer to tutor him and praised her greatly, comparing her to Florence Nightingale. He also apologized, explaining that he had been out of town for half the time and had even gone to Northeast China to do something important. Finally, he expressed his gratitude for her letters, stating that they were not a bother at all...

After finishing the letter, Jia Hongjian vaguely heard someone calling his name in the corridor. He went to the door and saw that he had another phone call. "Damn, not having a mobile phone is really inconvenient," Jia Hongjian thought as he walked to the public phone, deciding to ask his family for money to buy a Nokia phone in a few days. After all, Nokia had already started entering the Chinese market, promoting GSM phones and base station equipment. "Technology is all about the shell..." he muttered, mimicking a future Nokia ad, as he picked up the phone.

"Hello, is this Little Hongjian? This is Xiao Lizi's grandfather." The voice on the other end of the phone said. Recognizing it as Old Luo, Jia Hongjian quickly greeted him, "Old Luo, calling so late, is there something important?"

"Not really, just wanted to ask you to write an article about your trip to the north and the fake oil scandal. Try to be as objective and neutral as possible, and send it to me when you're done," Old Luo said.

Hearing this, Jia Hongjian immediately guessed what was going on. Old Luo must have heard about the high officials still believing Wang Hongcheng's water-to-oil scam and wanted him to write an article to inform the higher-ups. Jia Hongjian was curious about where his article would be published—whether it would be in the "Internal Reference Selection," which could be subscribed to at the post office with a work ID, or the "Internal Reference Draft," which was only for provincial and ministerial-level officials and was collected and destroyed by a dedicated person every other day, or the legendary "Internal Reference Supplement," which was only for the top leaders like the General Secretary, Politburo Standing Committee members, President, NPC Chairman, Premier, CPPCC Chairman, CMC Chairman, and Central Advisory Commission members.

He was curious, but he knew he couldn't ask. Old Luo was testing his character and protecting his growth, ensuring he wouldn't get arrogant or lose interest if he knew who would read it.

"Sure, I'll try to draft it tonight and won't let you down," Jia Hongjian replied in the standard revolutionary youth manner.

Back in the dormitory, Jia Hongjian sat at his desk, considering how to write the article. If he knew the audience, he could tailor the content accordingly. After all, Jia Hongjian had grown up in the overly shrewd city of Shanghai, and even if his personality was more northern, he had been influenced by some calculating habits. In his previous life, Jia Hongjian's scheming could be astonishingly precise!

For example, at a banquet, if Jia Hongjian wanted to meet a certain official or businessman, he would find an opportunity to go to the restroom with them, pretending to meet them by chance and chatting casually. He would then deliberately bring up topics of interest to the other person and chat for half an hour in the restroom, scheduling a time to talk further.

If the other person had a strong bladder and never went to the restroom, Jia Hongjian had other tricks! For instance, he might pretend to pass by the other person and accidentally knock off their bag or coat from the back of their chair, using the opportunity to pick it up and apologize while bringing up topics of interest.

Now, since Old Luo didn't specify the platform, Jia Hongjian had no choice but to write objectively, trying to avoid personal opinions.

The next day, when Jia Hongjian appeared in the classroom, the entire Class 5 of Grade 1 was in an uproar! Especially after Jia Jinghang spread the news that Jia Hongjian's family had signed a contract with Ma Junren's secret formula, almost all the classmates gathered around him, asking about the signing process. To satisfy their curiosity, Jia Hongjian made up a story on the spot, full of twists and turns but ultimately exciting.

In this story, Ma Junren initially refused to meet Jia Hongjian's family, saying he would never sell, even for 10 million yuan. But Jia Hongjian's father, after much persuasion, almost like the story of the Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage and the Snow at Cheng's Door, finally convinced Ma Junren. Moved by their sincerity and plan, Ma Junren even offered to reduce the purchase price...

Jia Hongjian felt that this impromptu story could be written into an article and submitted to magazines like "Readers" or "Story World" for a hundred yuan per thousand words.

At the same time, Sun Yusheng was called to the CCTV director's office, where he saw a notice on Director Yang Guang's desk titled "Notice on Temporarily Suspending the Production of Programs on the Authenticity of Wang Hongcheng's Technology"...

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