護花近衛 - 第3125章 失望的電話 - 翰墨軒

"What do you mean, accept you?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. "Let me be your girlfriend!" Xiao Jiu said. "Didn't you say that if you can't change something, you don't change it?" "What I meant was, we're childhood sweethearts—what does that have to do with you being my girlfriend?" Wei Zhao could not help but smile bitterly; Xiao Jiu really did know how to push her luck. "Isn't a childhood sweetheart a girlfriend?" Xiao Jiu retorted. "Qiqi and I are childhood sweethearts too, so is she my girlfriend as well? Then aren't the two of you both my girlfriends?" Wei Zhao shot back. "Exactly, who says otherwise?" Xiao Jiu said, as though it were the most natural thing in the world. "Dry Daddy has so many wives!" "..." Wei Zhao was momentarily speechless. "Let's not talk about that for now. That... you know as well as I do, a Successor can't do that sort of thing... so the girlfriend business, let's put it on hold..." "I know, we just won't sleep together for now, that's all... hugging and cuddling is still fine," Xiao Jiu said. "...Xiao Jiu, when did you become so impure..." Wei Zhao was sweating profusely. "Do you expect a girl who spends all day online mingling in forums to be pure? I'm almost losing track of who's male and who's female myself..." Xiao Jiu said. "..." Wei Zhao was speechless. "Then can we talk about this in person? Such a serious matter can't be explained clearly over the phone." "Fine!" This time Xiao Jiu did not argue further with Wei Zhao; she knew when to stop. If she had not already learned from Yang Qiqi about the change in Wei Zhao, she would not have been able to press him so relentlessly today. With the old Wei Zhao, he might well have simply stopped speaking altogether! "Oh, right, Xiao Jiu, the reason I called you this time is that there's something I'd like to ask your help with!" Wei Zhao said. "Are you any good at encrypting the programs inside microcontrollers?" "Microcontrollers? As far as the ones currently on the market go, most of them can be decrypted. Why do you ask?" Xiao Jiu was a little puzzled as to why Wei Zhao would ask about such a thing. "It's like this..." Wei Zhao then told Xiao Jiu about Han Jingyi's invention of an automatic pill cauldron capable of refining pills. "Oh, that's easy. Send me the source program, and I'll encrypt it for you, then put it into a kind of microcontroller that my Dry Mother and I developed back when we had nothing better to do. There's no documentation for this microcontroller anywhere on the market, and its encryption is formidable to begin with—decrypting it would be extremely difficult," Xiao Jiu said straightaway. "All right, I'll send it to your email in a bit." Having settled one matter, Wei Zhao let out a breath of relief. "Mm. And then, didn't you say you wanted to generate several kinds of programs? Tell me what appearance and functions you want for each one, and I'll help you reintegrate and encrypt them," Xiao Jiu said. "No problem." Wei Zhao nodded in agreement. "How has Qiqi been lately?" "Same as always. After Little Seven Sister learned she no longer needed to run herself ragged over my illness, she threw herself body and soul into helping you search for things like the blue crystal. She'll let you know the moment there's any news," Xiao Jiu said. "Fine. Once things quiet down a bit, I'll come back and visit," Wei Zhao said. After ending the call with Xiao Jiu, Wei Zhao hesitated for a moment. Then he dialed Liu Jinghan's number directly. This time, Wei Zhao did not go to Liu Tianyi first—he went straight to Liu Jinghan. Wei Zhao did not know why, either; perhaps he wanted to prove something? "Mr. Wei Zhao?" Liu Jinghan picked up quickly, her voice sounding somewhat delighted, yet also somewhat worried. "Miss Liu Jinghan. I hear the bank has started pressing for repayment?" Wei Zhao asked, coming straight to the point. "Yes. The Liu family incurred a great deal of external debt previously." Liu Jinghan did not conceal it either, but answered tru