Chapter 682: This is called family

6:30 PM.

The four of them sat at the dining table in the living room and opened a bottle of red wine that Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao had brought.

After eating for a while, Ding Jiahui began to share all sorts of gossip.

"Back at our old class, another top student from the Shu region has emerged!"

"The old teacher hasn't retired yet?" Xu Qingzhou vaguely remembered that in his past life, the teacher had retired only a few years after they graduated.

"No, he was rehired," Ding Jiahui said.

"A few days ago, that guy Zhou Xingjian from high school sent me a message asking about you guys, wanting to know if the research institute needed any graduate students..."

"Zhang Yuquan and Wan Xi got married."

Ding Jiahui let out one piece of gossip after another.

"That's quite early," Xu Qingzhou remarked.

"Wait, aren't you guys surprised at all?" Ding Jiahui was taken aback. Seeing the calm expressions on Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao's faces, she suddenly lost the joy of sharing gossip.

Song Yao explained, "Xu Qingzhou and I ran into them at the airport before."

Xu Qingzhou added from the side, "Back then, we just felt like those two were making eyes at each other."

"Can't you use a different idiom?"

Song Yao frowned. People had a perfectly good romance, and he made it sound so strange.

"Of all the people who dated in our high school, except for you two, everyone else has broken up."

Ding Jiahui felt a bit wistful.

In any case, she had already concluded that the two people in front of her had been dating since high school—yes, and they were having a very fresh kind of romance.

The meal was quite good. Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao heard a lot of news about their high school classmates; some had gone abroad to study, while others had returned to Rongcheng to take the civil service exams, having tried for several years without success.

There was also Zhang Yuxin, whose recent historical drama seemed to be quite popular.

In any case, things were much smoother than in his past life.

As for the details, Xu Qingzhou didn't really care; it didn't matter anymore anyway.

Ding~

Just as everyone was chatting, the phone on Xu Qingzhou's table vibrated.

The living room went quiet.

Xu Qingzhou answered the phone, "Hmm? So fast? You guys worked hard... I have something going on outside, I'll come over tomorrow morning."

After finishing the call, he hung up.

"Something up?" Song Yao saw Xu Qingzhou's surprised expression and thought something had gone wrong at the research institute.

Xu Qingzhou nodded and said, "Hu Jingxuan and the others finished the layered doping, and the results are quite good."

"Didn't you say it would take a week?" Song Yao was actually well-informed about the institute's experiments.

"I was surprised too; they finished it in just two days."

Xu Qingzhou was a bit stunned by the speed of this team leader Hu; the efficiency was very high.

"What are you guys talking about?"

Guo Ziyang and Ding Jiahui felt like they were listening to a heavenly book.

Xu Qingzhou said, "A type of carbon composite material technology that might be able to solve the battery shuttle effect problem."

"Could you explain that a bit more clearly?"

Ding Jiahui rested her chin on her hand, feeling helpless. What carbon composite material technology? And "shuttle effect" was such an unfamiliar term.

Xu Qingzhou thought for a moment and continued, "It means that if we solve this, we can easily sit in cars with a range of one or two thousand kilometers. As for mobile phones, a single charge would last a week."

"..."

This time, Guo Ziyang and Ding Jiahui understood, and their expressions went blank. Although they had long known that Xu Qingzhou was doing world-shaking things, every time they heard about it, they couldn't help but think: Such a mysterious thing was actually created by someone they knew?!

"Awesome." ===== CHAPTER 683 =====