Chapter 17: The Butterfly Effect (I)
"A butterfly in the Amazon rainforest of South America, with a few occasional flaps of its wings, could cause a tornado in Texas, USA, two weeks later. The reason for this is that the movement of the butterfly's wings causes changes in the air system around it, and causes the generation of weak air currents, which in turn cause corresponding changes in the air or other systems around it, which causes a chain reaction, and eventually leads to great changes in other systems. ”
—Excerpt from a lecture given by American meteorologist Lorenz at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in December 1979
Lorenz dubbed this phenomenon the "butterfly effect," meaning that a seemingly unrelated and very small thing can make a big difference.
A century has passed, and the "butterfly effect" proposed by Lorenz continues; Shen Baixian's return brings a story of butterfly effect.
Ji An appeared at the school café on time according to the agreement on the phone, and waited for half an hour to see Shen Baixian, who was late.
Shen Baixian grinned, and smiled into a square, with Yue Ya's crooked smiling eyes, which instantly overlapped with the image of his cousin Lu Baixian in Ji An's memory.
Ji An took a closer look, Shen Baixian was indeed a human who enjoyed the same number of lives as Lu Baixian, and even the small, imperceptible mole above his lips fell in the same position without a single point.
018's cousin, can't he get rid of this layer of blood relationship when he arrives at 011?
"Hello, may I ask if someone called the Hell Hotline and summoned the devil?" Shen Baixian playfully knocked on Ji An's table.
Not only the appearance, but even the appearance of Laipi, who was naturally late, was the same as his cousin Lu Baixian.
Hell's Hotline? Ji An almost rolled his eyes to the sky, why did the "Baixian" of any time and space, whether his surname was Lu or Shen, he was the same patient with the second middle disease?
"Am I qualified to summon you? Don't you already have a beautiful 'master'? Ji An deliberately probed.
Shen Baixian touched his chin, rolled his eyes, and said happily, "Huh? You finally know the game Secret Devil, it seems that you must have met Fang Ting, right? ”
He paused, grinned a little wider, and smiled: "No, it's not just that you've met, you should be in love, right?" ”
As soon as the words fell, Shen Baixian hurriedly sat down like a child, supported his cheeks with his hands, blinked his curious eyes and said, "Say it quickly, are you in love?" How did it start? Say it quickly, say it quickly. ”
At this moment, Ji An was really confused by him, he thought that Shen Baixian's appearance would bring Shi Lei's secret, but he didn't want him to just ask Mu An and Fang Ting about it.
"What do you mean by these questions? Why did I fall in love with Fang Ting? Also, how did you meet Fang Ting? Ji An couldn't help but ask rhetorically.
"You have to answer me first, I'm the one who asks the question first. Are you with Fang Ting? Shen Baixian's eyes widened, and he looked even more childish.
"Nope." Ji An replied angrily, and was about to ask again but was interrupted.
"It's not that there isn't, it's 'yet'." Shen Baixian shook his fingers and confidently emphasized the word "also".
"What's the difference?" Ji An is even more angry now, he really doesn't want to get entangled with Shen Baixian on such a boring topic.
"It's like if I ask you, 'Are you a woman?' and you will surely answer: 'no' instead of saying: 'not yet'; But if you've already scheduled sex reassignment surgery next month, there's a different way of saying it, it's really just 'not yet'. Shen Baixian paused, looked at his cousin's look of being stunned by him, and had to change to a more straightforward statement.
"To put it simply, you and Fang Ting, it's just a matter of time, you will definitely come together - because she is your destined marriage." Shen Baixian's eyes were blazing, and he said firmly.
Ji An was not interested in this marriage or not, but he clearly felt that Mu An's heart was out of order after Shen Baixian finished saying the word "marriage", beating strongly and powerfully.
Since 018's cousins are still a pair of cousins when they change to 011, will 018's lovers still be thunderous when they arrive at 011?
Thinking of Mu An's mood and his curiosity, Ji An decided to be patient and listen to the story that Shen Baixian was going to tell.
What Shen Baixian wants to say is not a story of wind and snow, but the origin of when butterflies fluttered their wings before the tornado hit this campus - everything starts from Mu An and Fang Ting's junior high school days......
Similar to Mu An's background, Fang Ting's father is a factory owner who manufactures titanium dioxide, although the scale is not as large as Mu Di's enterprise, the family is finally worry-free, rich and small.
However, the intervention of Mu Yi Enterprise ruined everything.
Mu Di enterprises began to buy a large number of peers, and strive to develop a single business, not hesitating to operate at a loss, driving small and medium-sized enterprises with insufficient food and bombs to a dead end and then merging and selling at low prices - among them, there is a family business in Fangyi.
Because the merger and acquisition plan proposed by Mu Di Enterprise does not include the placement of employees, Fang Ting's father has always been unwilling to accept the conditions offered by Mu Di Company.
In the end, Mudi changed its strategy and proposed to exchange factories for factories: Mudi transferred 45% of Fang's father's shares in Hecheng Titanium Dioxide Plant, and Fang's father became the major shareholder of Hecheng Titanium Dioxide Plant in exchange for Fang's father's 35% shares in Fangdi Enterprise.
At that time, Fang's father was unbearable with the Mu family's hurtful competitive methods, and seeing the company turn profits into losses, he knew that it was not a long-term plan to hold on; Coupled with the huge scale of the nuclear city titanium dioxide plant, it seems to be profitable; The most important thing is that in this way, it can also protect all the employees of Fangdi Enterprise, Fang's father thought about it and accepted the plan of Mudi Enterprise, and borrowed a huge loan from the bank, and was ready to regain the lost ground with the help of the nuclear city titanium dioxide plant.
At that time, there was a strike wave in the nuclear city titanium dioxide factory not long ago, and Fang's father happened to bring all the employees to become a wasteland development team.
After Fang's father arrived in the nuclear city, he realized what kind of mess this was: the nuclear city titanium dioxide factory was originally a state-owned enterprise, but after it became private, the original employees were at a loss, and they could not adjust from the mentality of holding an iron rice bowl in the past, so they were going to go on strike at both ends in three days, hoping that the government would retake the nuclear city titanium dioxide plant, and there was no production power.
What's even more difficult is that in order to rectify the titanium dioxide factory in the nuclear city, Fang's father rebuilt the internal structure and dismantled the waste equipment, which was originally a good thing, but it was sued in court.
It turns out that the nuclear city titanium dioxide plant is a state-protected industry, and theoretically it is not allowed to rebuild or dismantle any internal structure without permission, otherwise it is equivalent to destroying state property.
Fang's father worked hard, running between the factory and the courthouse all day long, and finally was sent to the hospital for the first time due to a sudden rise in blood pressure under great mental pressure.
Father Fang finally had to leave the nuclear city temporarily and return to the capital to recuperate.
After not seeing her for a year, Fang Ting saw that her father seemed to have shrunk as if his whole body had shrunk, his originally round face was so thin that only two cheekbones were left high, there was no blood on his face at all, and even his lips were white.
At that time, a fierce torch erupted in Fang Ting's heart, and she told herself that she had to come out of this grievance.