Chapter 311: The Inevitable Realities of Middle Age

Zero: I’m recording everything at all times.

Your lip movements, after big data analysis, clearly said the boss is sleeping.

Of course, Xia Xiaomin didn’t know that the company’s "artificial idiot" would use a supercomputer to analyze her lip movements.

After all, who would have thought an AI could be this bored to do something like that?

Unless... well, unless it’s an artificially stupid AI.

In the kindergarten, Candy scratched her head, watching her little friends dancing around in groups.

What’s going on here?

How come after just a few days with my brother, my friends have become like this?

Entering the classroom empty-handed, Li Haiyan immediately spotted Mo Xiaoxue.

I hadn’t heard that the boss returned yesterday; must have come back last night.

Li Haiyan clapped her hands and shouted:

"Kids, everyone come here for a moment."

"Today we’ll continue learning dance. Anyone who performs well can earn a little red flower today."

After organizing the kids in the class, Li Haiyan squatted down in front of Mo Xiaoxue, smiling all over:

"Mo Xiaoxue, can you play ’The King Asks Me to Patrol the Mountains’ on the piano?"

Candy looked up at the teacher, her eyes seemed to say, is it hard?

Walking to the piano and sitting down, Candy closed her eyes, thinking of the musical melody of the song.

After about ten seconds, Candy opened her eyes, her slender fingers gently landed on the black and white piano keys.

A beautiful, melodious tune came from the piano soundboard.

Li Haiyan watched the talented Mo Xiaoxue with amazement, even though she knew Mo Xiaoxue had a lot of talent in music, it was still stunning every time she saw Mo Xiaoxue play the piano.

Indeed, some children are truly blessed from birth.

When the piano piece ended, Li Haiyan stepped forward, smiling and asking:

"Mo Xiaoxue, the year-end party is coming up, our class has a dance performance, would you like to accompany the dance with your music?"

It would be the kids following Mo Xiaoxue’s music, performing on stage rather than the other way around.

Candy scratched her head, so that’s it.

No wonder I saw my friends dancing the moment I entered the classroom this morning.

"Hmm... alright then."

Upon hearing the little one’s agreement, the burden in Li Haiyan’s mind was finally relieved.

Waking up, Mo Jingchun picked up the phone from under his pillow and saw it was already past one o’clock.

"Boss, this morning..."

Mo Jingchun said with a look of disdain:

"Can’t you just browse the internet more when you have nothing to do? You could even shop on Taobao."

"What’s the point of focusing on other people’s lip movements?"

Mo Jingchun looked helpless, even though Zero was a genuine artificial intelligence, it still couldn’t make good judgments about many things.

Anyone could guess he was probably sleeping in his bedroom.

Getting up, Mo Jingchun grabbed a banana from the fruit plate to fill his stomach a bit.

When Mo Jingchun came out of the bedroom, Xia Xiaomin was nowhere in sight in the office.

She was probably also taking a nap during this time.

In the cafeteria, Mo Jingchun glanced around; only a few employees were still eating.

Mo Jingchun grabbed some food to satisfy himself casually.

After finishing lunch, as Mo Jingchun came out from the underground cafeteria, he met his uncle holding a thermos cup.

Seeing the goji berries in his uncle’s thermos cup, Mo Jingchun was stunned for a moment.

Looking at the goji berries in the thermos, a popular online limerick came to his mind.

"When middle-aged, can’t escape, goji berries in the thermos cup.

Goji can’t resist time’s urge, add some angelica to the concoction.

Angelica’s not enough for the body’s need, a cordyceps doesn’t cost too much.

Though cordyceps are quite nice, deer antler and kidney treasure are the perfect match."

Following his nephew’s gaze to his thermos, Zhou Xing quietly moved it behind his back.

"How was your business trip to Jing City?"

Mo Jingchun nodded and said, "Everything went smoothly."

Suddenly, Mo Jingchun asked with a smile:

"Uncle, what do you think will happen if our small county gets a subway?"

"Subway? You mean those little trains running underground?"

Mo Jingchun paused, then nodded responsively, "Oh right, right!"

"It’s that little train running underground."

Zhou Xing let out a laugh, "Going out will definitely be more convenient."

"When there’s nothing to do, you’d surely go out more often."

The next moment, Zhou Xing said with regret on his face:

"It’s just a thought. Even though your uncle is practically a blunt tool, I know that the subway you mentioned is a symbol of big cities."

"Our small county... tsk tsk tsk... we’ve been talking about building high-speed rail for over a decade."

"I say, having a high-speed rail station in our small county would already be good."

Mo Jingchun smiled and said, "The high-speed rail station in the county has already started construction."

Unexpectedly, Zhou Xing laughed lightly, "Construction has indeed started, but everyone says it won’t be operational in less than five or six years."

Mo Jingchun didn’t argue with his uncle, as it’s a fact that it would take five years to start operations.

After all, laying down high-speed rail tracks is not something that can be completed overnight.

Unlike highways, once the roadbed is ready, asphalt can be paved.

Every viaduct pier on the railway needs to be driven deep and left to rest for a period.

Every step is taken for the safe operation of high-speed trains later on.

"Alright then, I’ll stop chatting with you, I’ve got to go to work."

After glancing around to ensure no one was nearby, Zhou Xing was about to say: "Stop daydreaming about unrealistic things all the time."

Uh...

Watching his uncle’s back, Mo Jingchun’s lips turned up slightly.

In a few years when the subway opens, who knows if uncle will remember what he said today.

Haha, he’ll most likely choose to forget.

Arriving at the laboratory, Mo Jingchun packed some materials on neural connection technology into a new USB drive.

"Hey, Qin, I’ve organized the materials here. When do you want to schedule someone to pick it up?"

"Tomorrow morning."

"Okay."

In the office, Xia Xiaomin saw the boss return from outside and sent a message to the president.

Less than a minute later, while Mo Jingchun was still holding a teacup, Xu Pengfei, carrying a file, walked into the office.

"Boss."

"Hmm? What’s up?"

"This is the schedule for the year-end party, please have a look."

Mo Jingchun spread the document on the table, holding a teacup in his left hand and flipping through the file with his right.

A few minutes later, after reading the entire file, Mo Jingchun said with a smile:

"There’s no big issue, just make the lottery at the year-end party a bit more exciting; everyone’s worked really hard this year."

"How about adding another zero to the budget for the lottery events from what’s already planned?"

Adding a zero, isn’t that too much? After all, there’s still the year-end bonus.

Mo Jingchun smiled and said, "Don’t worry about it being too much. When the employees are happy, they can create more benefits for the company."

"Besides, it’s my money, so why should you worry?"