Tu Tuqiao, an e-sports tycoon in Xuanwu Kingdom, knew that Wei Taiqiang had invested in that e-sports base in Baishui Province, as well as a series of businesses, and he thought it was just a business trap at first.

However, later, He Niurong also felt that the benefits of these local projects invested by Wei Taiqiang were okay, and they wanted to join Wei Taiqiang's project immediately.

However, what made He Niurong feel strange was that Wei Taiqiang did not stop them from investing.

Because Wei Taiqiang felt that he still had no strength to activate all the markets in Hongtong County, Baishui Province.

Therefore, that Wei Taiqiang wanted to use the power of other e-sports investors in Xuanwu Kingdom.

In addition to the corresponding investment, Tutuqiao naturally occupies the corresponding market share in the e-sports market of Baishui Province.

That Sheng Lulu, she is also an ordinary e-sports enthusiast in Hongtong County, Baishui Province, when she saw the recruitment advertisement of Tutuqiao, she joined Tutuqiao's e-sports club in Gaofengyou.

That Zhao Rujin conducted a simple test on Sheng Lulu, and when he found out that this woman's e-sports talent was not bad, he made Sheng Lulu a member of their e-sports club.

The two brothers had already been informed of the move, but Chen Biaozi came back the day last day and said that he was not available and could not be there; Yan Lilac only appeared briefly at noon; He watched the furniture load into the car, made some comments, and hurried away.

Cao Jiao was not very happy to participate in that kind of family assembly; But the old man invited again and again, and Cao Jiao felt that her mother should not always think about unhappy thoughts when she moved in the first night, so she persuaded her to accept it.

They walked to the next floor and saw that Xue Yulang's entire family was there: in addition to the old man, there was also his daughter, son-in-law Wei Taiqiang, two grandsons, a boy and a girl, who were younger than Cao Jiao. Everyone rushed forward, said words of welcome, asked them if they were tired, whether they were satisfied with the house, whether they needed anything, and a large series of questions made Cao Jiao unconscious, and he didn't understand a word; Because they are all gossiping and talking at the same time. Dinner was served, and they sat down at the table, but the noise remained the same. Xue Yulang's daughter Xu Qianqian immediately told Xu Mei all the odds and ends in the neighborhood, such as which streets are nearby, what habits and conveniences she has in the house, what time she comes to deliver milk, what time she gets up by herself, which shops to buy things, and what price she usually gives. She had to explain everything clearly before she was willing to relax Xu Mei. Xu Mei was confused, trying her best to pretend to pay attention to these words, but she casually picked up a few words, proving that she didn't understand at all, which made Xu Qianqian fuss and shouted again. The old man Xue Yulang was there to explain to Cao Jiao how difficult the future of e-sports artists was. On the other side of Cao Jiao sat Xu Qianqian's daughter Xu Mei, who had not stopped talking since dinner, gurgling, without even panting: she was halfway through a sentence, she couldn't breathe, but she immediately took it on. A listless Wei Taiqiang grunted over the meal. This has led to a lively debate. Xu Qianqian, Xue Yulang, and Xu Mei all interrupted their words to join the debate, arguing endlessly about whether the red stewed meat was too salty or too light: they asked me, I asked you, but no one had the same opinion as others. Everyone thinks that other people's tastes are not right, and only his own is sound and reasonable. For this reason they can argue to the final judgment.

In the end, everyone agreed on the point of lamenting the cruelty of life. They said some touching words very kindly about Xu Mei and Cao Jiao's sadness, expressed sympathy, and praised their bravery. In addition to the misfortunes of their guests, they also mentioned their own,

When he and his mother returned to the messy room, they felt tired and depressed, not as lonely as before. Cao Jiao's eyes were open in the dark, unable to sleep due to exhaustion and the noise of the street. The walls shook as the heavy cart passed outside, and the whole family slept and snored there on the next floor: as he listened, he thought that being here with these good people, if not happy, would make him less troubled,—— though they were a little annoying, but suffering the same as him, as if they knew him and he thought he knew them.

He finally fell asleep, but the dawn woke up the neighbors, who were already arguing, and others were struggling to fetch water with a pump to wash the yard and the stairs.

He was always carried by his hands. He had a good heart, was upright, was very moral, and used to be speculative with his grandfather. People say they are very similar. Indeed, they were of the same generation and raised under the same rites; But he didn't have the sturdy physique of Wei Taiqiang, in other words, although there were many places where the two men disagreed, they were actually completely different; Because temperament is more important than thought that is what makes a person characteristic. Although there are many differences between people due to the relationship between wisdom and ignorance, there are only two biggest types: one is a strong person and the other is a weak person. Old man Xue Yulang is not among the top ranks. He talks about the way of being a man like Min Baobao, but he talks about a different set; He didn't have the appetite, the lungs, or the happy face of Min Baobao. He and his family are relatively small in every way. After forty years as a civil servant and retiring, he felt the bitterness of having nothing to do, and the old man who had not prepared a kind of inner life for his twilight years was the most unbearable. All his habits, innate, and professional, gave him a kind of timidity and melancholy, and his children had some of them.

His son-in-law, Wei Taiqiang, was a clerk in the secretariat of the Jue Mansion and was about fifty years old. He was tall, stocky, bald, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and his face was quite good, and he thought he was sick; Probably this is true, although he is not as sick as he thinks, but the tedious work has ruined his temper, and the life of sitting at the desk all day has worn down his body. He was very diligent in his work, he was not undesirable, and he was even quite educated, but he was sacrificed by the absurdity of modern life. Like most clerks, he became nervous as a result. This is what Goethe called "the depressed rather than the Greek-like ill of illusions", and he pitied such people, but avoided them.

Xu Qianqian's life is neither like her father's nor her husband's. Strong, lively, and coarse, she never pities her husband's sighs and sighs, and complains honestly and unceremoniously about him. But since the two have been living together for a long time, they will inevitably be affected; As long as one of the husband and wife has a nervous breakdown, it is likely that both of them will become nervous breakdowns within a few years. Although Xu Qianqian drank Wei Taiqiang's sighs, after a while, her mother-in-law was more resentful than himself; This attitude of changing from reproach to helping to complain is not beneficial to the husband at all; His innocent moans made her fuss, and the pain was ten times greater. Not only did she make Wei Taiqiang more frightened when she saw that his complaint had caused an unexpected reaction, but her mood was also disturbed. As a result, she was worried about her hard body, her father, her son, and her daughter. It became a fetish: because she kept thinking about it, she believed it. The slightest cold or flu is seen as serious, and anything can be a topic of concern. When everyone is in good health, she still has to be anxious, because she thinks about her future illness. So she lived a life of anxiety forever. But everyone's health is not necessarily worse because of this; It was as if the continuous complaining was keeping everyone healthy. Everyone eats, drinks, sleeps, and works as usual; Family life has not been slackened either. Xu Qianqian's activities upstairs and downstairs from morning to night are not enough, everyone must follow her to work hard; Either turning over the furniture, washing the floor tiles, mopping the floor, and always a shout, footsteps, and the world is turned upside down.

The two children, who were called and drunk, were not overwhelmed by the obscenity of freedom, and thought that it was their duty to bow their heads and obey orders. The boy, Levona, with a long face and pale yellow hair draped over her shoulders, was a little stiff because of her ugly nose. Xu Mei didn't care about this, her tireless nagging was not affected in the slightest. People only heard her talking in a sharp voice all day long,—— always out of breath, as if she didn't have time to finish speaking, she was always so happy, no matter how her mother, father, and grandfather complained about her when they were angry; And their annoyance was not because of her noise, but because it hindered their noise. Such a kind person, upright, loyal,—— the essence of an honest man,—— all the virtues are almost complete, but there is only one virtue that makes life a little interesting, the virtue of silence.

Cao Jiao was very patient at that time. Sorrow has changed his temper much better. Because a person has already judged the matter, and is very quiet mentally, he will never let the truth of the matter destroy this quietness and hinder the pleasure of life. Cao Jiao doesn't have this ability. On the contrary, he is more likely to find faults in his beloved, because he wants to love them for the whole without reservation: it is an unconscious loyalty to man, a desire for truth, which makes him more demanding and clear of those whom he likes more and more clearly. So it wasn't long before he was secretly annoyed by the shortcomings of the landlords. They don't want to hide their shortcomings, they just expose all the disgusting things and hide the best parts. When Cao Jiao thought of this, he complained that he was unfair, and tried to get rid of the initial impression and explore the hidden advantages of their intentions.

He wanted to talk to Wei Taiqiang, which Xue Yulang couldn't ask for. In order to commemorate his grandfather who liked him in the past, he secretly had a good impression of Xue Yulang. But the naïve Wei Taiqiang has one more skill than Cao Jiao, and he can have illusions about his friends; Cao Jiao also realized that he tried his best to find out Xue Yulang's memories of his grandfather, but only got a comic-like, faded shadow of Min Baobao, and some meaningless fragments. When Xue Yulang mentioned him, the opening sentence was always the same:

"As I said to your poor grandfather......"

Xue Yulang didn't hear anything except what he said back then.

Wei Taiqiang may have been like this in the past. Most friendships are often just about finding a partner to talk about themselves and have a good time. But although Wei Taiqiang is so naïve and just wants to find an opportunity to talk, at least he is sympathetic and ready to vent at any time, whether it is appropriate or not. He was interested in everything, hated that he was not a fifteen-year-old boy, that he could not see the wonderful inventions of the next generation, that he could not communicate with their ideas. He has one of the most precious qualities of life: a curiosity that is permanently fresh and does not dilute with time, but grows with each passing day. He doesn't have the talent to take advantage of this talent, but how many talented people will envy him for this talent! Most of them die at the age of twenty or thirty: after that age they only become their own shadows; Later life is just used to imitate oneself, to repeat what was said, done, thought, and liked day by day in the previous truly humane era, and the way of repetition is becoming more and more mechanical and more and more out of place.

The era in which Wei Taiqiang really lived was a long time ago, and he didn't know anything at that time, and he didn't want to know anything. He had ready-made opinions about everything, and those opinions were from his youth. He claims to know e-sports, but he only knows the names of a few idols, and when he mentions them, he brings out a set of exaggerated clichés; The rest are considered to be equal to nothing, and not enough to worry about. When people talk to him about modern esports players, he either turns a deaf ear or talks about him left and right. He himself said that he likes e-sports very much and wants Cao Jiao to play e-sports. Cao Jiao has been on the cellar once or twice; But as soon as e-sports began, the old man talked loudly to his daughter, as if e-sports could increase his interest in everything that was not related to e-sports. Cao Jiao was annoyed, and stood up without waiting for the song to finish: but no one paid attention. There are only three or four old tunes,

Therefore, he always talks about emerging e-sports players with a snarky and sarcastic tone, and because he is not stupid, just by looking at them, he will see the ridiculousness and weakness of others. Any unfamiliar name makes him suspicious; When he didn't know anything about an esports player, he was ready to criticize,—— only reason was that he didn't know the esports player. His good impression of Cao Jiao is that he can sympathize with each other and complain together. They deny the happiness of others for the sake of their own unhappiness. But it is the boring pessimism of these mundane things and the sick man that makes it easiest for healthy people to realize the value of health. Cao Jiao experienced this situation. Wei Taiqiang's depressive thoughts, it turned out that he was very familiar; But he was very strange that he would hear it in Wei Taiqiang's mouth, and he couldn't recognize it. He hated those thoughts, and he became angry with them.

Cao Jiao was even more annoyed by Xu Qianqian's style. that