Chapter 144: Xiao Qianqian Can Speak

The next day.

Xiao Qianqian was the first to wake up, and Xie Wantang woke up not long after she did.

"Mom, good morning." Xiao Qianqian greeted her, as if a seal had been broken, she opened her mouth to speak, and even took the initiative to greet Xie Wantang.

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Xie Wantang knew that Xiao Qianqian had spoken to her the night before, but given the circumstances, she had been half-asleep and thought it was a dream.

Now it seems all of this really happened; it's definitely not a dream.

"Mom, the uncle who brings you red roses every morning is a bad person." Xiao Qianqian said while dressing herself.

"The one who sends me red roses? You mean Yan Xiu?" Xie Wantang took a moment to react.

Yan Xiu hasn't been in Haishi these days, yet he still has the flower shop send a bouquet of red roses every day—sometimes nine stems, sometimes seven, sometimes even eleven.

Xie Wantang couldn't fathom why he insisted on making the flower shop staff go through so much trouble.

The first day, she threw that bouquet into the trash bin at her doorstep, even took a photo and sent it to Yan Xiu, but he still sent another.

This person really is thick-skinned.

After returning to Sijiucheng, on the day he took over the Lu Clan Group, Yan Xiu announced a joint project with LC Technology Company, launching a product called the memory card.

At the press conference, Yan Xiu briefly explained what the memory card meant.

This is not a memory card placed in electronic devices, but one implanted in the human brain, intended to let those who undergo the memory surgery store their most important memories in the card.

Then, like installing a heart stent, the memory card is placed inside the person's brain.

Human brains have been proven inferior to artificial AI, whether in memory or other abilities; based on this, the two professors at LC Technology Company spent nearly twenty years developing the memory card.

Initially aimed at patients with senile dementia and forgetfulness, the research direction later expanded as the two professors enhanced the memory card's applications.

For children who constantly fail to memorize lessons and knowledge points, implanting the memory card via this minor surgery can turn them from poor students into top scholars.

When this claim was announced, Xie Wantang felt it was shocking and outrageous.

She never imagined that after Lu Chen left, LC Technology Company would actually have his adoptive parents conduct this research.

And they claimed it had taken nearly twenty years.

And they even called the brain surgery a minor procedure?

Xie Wantang simply thought these people's ideas were utterly bizarre.

Yet, surprisingly, some people believe it.

Two days have passed since Yan Xiu's press conference; word is that the Lu Clan Group has become wildly popular because of it, with many people visiting the memory card website under the Lu Clan Group each day, and even some signing up for the surgery.

No official authority has stepped in to regulate this.

Therefore, to Xie Wantang, even if Xiao Qianqian didn't tell her these things, her impression of Yan Xiu remains that he's not a good person.

Before, he invited her to dinner and then had all those people from the pharmaceutical industry invited, making a grand show, as if he truly intended to enter the pharma business and do legitimate work.

In reality, he teamed up with two mad professors to perform this heaven-defying surgery.

Are they really helping people or trying to harm them?

"Mm, Mom knows he's a bad person; she's never accepted his flowers, right?" Xie Wantang said with a smile.

"Mm, my grandparents' home has a garden; Mom can have whatever flowers she wants right at home."

"Besides, flowers only have life when they grow in the ground; once picked, they lose it."

"Yes, Xiao Qianqian understands so much; she's amazing."

Xie Wantang didn't stint on praise.

"Thank you, Mom."

Just as the mother and daughter finished their conversation, Dongdong and Xiao Chengzi beside them also woke up.

The two still thought they weren't awake, after all, Xiao Qianqian had spoken and chatted so well with Mom—something like that could only happen in their dreams.

How could it possibly happen right before their eyes?

But they were already awake, which means everything happening before them is real.

Xiao Qianqian really can speak now; and when communicating with Mom, aside from her voice being a bit soft and milky, her logic sounds quite impressive.

Even Dongdong ge couldn't say such a thing.

For example, 'flowers only have life when they grow in the ground; once picked, they lose it'—I don't know where this little girl heard that.

They just couldn't say it.

"When did you two wake up?" Xie Wantang saw their eyes wide open and mouths round, realizing they'd been startled by Xiao Qianqian.

"It's been a while, Mom." Xiao Chengzi said.

Dongdong, excited, grabbed Xiao Qianqian's hand: 'Xiao Qianqian, you can speak—how great!'

Xiao Qianqian nodded: 'Thanks, Dongdong ge; I actually could speak all along, I just didn't want to.'

Dongdong: '……'

Dongdong originally wanted to say, 'You actually know I'm Dongdong ge,' but then realized asking such a question was no different from being foolish.

They really could speak; they just didn't want to.

The fact that Xiao Qianqian can speak is, to the Qin family, practically the best news ever.

They had thought Xiao Qianqian had a speech defect, but now that defect has spontaneously healed—of course that's wonderful.

"Qin grandpa, Xie grandma, Qianqian says she actually could speak all along, she just didn't want to before." Dongdong told Qin Siyuan and Xie Ningmeng.

Since Dongdong joined this family, Qin Siyuan and Xie Ningmeng have treated him just like Xiao Chengzi and Xiao Qianqian; in Dongdong's heart, they are his family.

So Dongdong's words carry a hint of grievance.

Only in front of one's own family does one unconsciously reveal true emotions.

"Really? Xiao Qianqian, why?" Xie Ningmeng felt Dongdong's grievance, first reaching out to pat his head; during the time the little sister couldn't speak, Dongdong this brother had been very worried.

Now, discovering that such worry was completely unnecessary, feeling a bit aggrieved is also quite normal.

"Grandma, Xiao Qianqian didn't mean to." Xiao Qianqian apologized, but she didn't know how to explain that during the time she didn't want to speak, things she herself didn't understand appeared inexplicably in her mind.

So, after she picked up a pen, she began to draw, wanting to draw out those things in her mind that she couldn't understand.

However, after those things were drawn by her on paper, she still couldn't understand them, didn't know what they were; on the contrary, her mother seemed to be able to understand a little.

However, it was only a little; most of it, she still couldn't understand.

Until her mother returned from abroad, she discovered that she gradually began to understand.

Especially, that drawing of her father that she drew.