Break out of the courtyard

Office of the Vice Dean, School of Computer Science, Shuimu University, Capital.

"Zhang Bei, I know your family is very rich and you don't care about the salary." The dean of the School of Computer Science said earnestly: "But, have you ever thought about the meaning behind assigning you this job?"

Zhang Bei, standing in the office, looked at the old man sitting behind his desk and asked calmly, "Dean, what do you think of the significance of this research intern job at the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences?"

"Will this job improve my programming skills? Or will it allow me to participate in some major software projects? Or will it allow me to waste my youth and wait for promotion based on seniority?"

The vice president, who had not yet realized that he had not asked the other party to sit down and talk, hurriedly explained: "Director Liu over there said that he values ​​your programming ability very much. Once you go there, you can lead the team to develop human-computer interaction, satellite navigation, and intelligent software projects."

"These technologies are on my father's computer. There is no need for me to waste time researching them. If the Chinese Academy of Sciences wants these technologies, they can contact my father directly and don't need to worry about me." Zhang Bei directly broke the window paper and didn't want to waste time with the vice president.

"Dean, I'm an exchange student, so there's no need to trouble you to assign me a job. What's more, I have my own company and plans for the future. Excuse me, Dean!" Zhang Bei said, then turned and left the office.

The counselor of the fourth-year computer science and technology student had advised Zhang Bei once, and Zhang Bei's response was relatively tactful at the time. After all, he had been in contact with the counselor for more than three years, so he should still give him due respect.

However, Zhang Bei's refusal was regarded by the school leaders as a sign that there was still a chance.

In order to avoid subsequent troubles, Zhang Bei just made it clear to the vice president, "I have seen through the intention behind this job at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is nothing more than wanting to obtain cutting-edge computer technology from his father through him!"

However, his father doesn’t want to give or reply to those technical consultation letters now!

After Zhang Bei left the office building, Mr. Hua walked out of the office next door, followed by the president of Shuimu University and the dean of the School of Computer Science.

As soon as the three of them sat down in the vice president's office, the vice president, who was sitting on a bamboo chair, asked, "Mr. Hua, Zhang Bei has seen through the intention behind the job at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and has clearly refused. Do you think we should continue to persuade him or try to assign him another job?"

Mr. Hua frowned and said, "Apart from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where else can it be assigned?"

"How about staying at the school as a teacher?" The president of Shuimu University gave a suggestion, "Let him lead his own students to do research in the future, and we can just give some guidance on his research direction."

Mr. Hua shook his head, "Don't forget that his family owns two Heping Vocational Training Colleges. Why would he stay here to be a teacher?"

"This is not an easy matter to handle!" The dean of the School of Computer Science said helplessly, "Since Zhang Bei opened a company in Houhai, many students have reported him for not doing his job properly, but he still does what he wants. We can't be too strict with him."

"After all, he's just an exchange student. At worst, he can just go back to Hong Kong Island to study at university. I heard the conditions there are much better than here."

"How about assigning him to the central bank?" said the vice president of the School of Computer Science. "I heard that Zhang Bei wanted to build an online payment platform. If he were to go to the central bank, would it be possible for him to lead a team to build a domestic bank online payment platform?"

~
Peace Group conference room, Central, Hong Kong Island.

A group of executives were staring at Chairman and General Manager Chen Shuting, who was standing by the window and talking on the phone.

The only people who could make Chen Shuting suspend the executive meeting that was in progress were her family members.

The person speaking on the other end of the phone was Zhang Nan, who once again rejected the job assignment.

I only heard this girl babble about the job assignment. "Little Mom, let me tell you, they recruited me over there with bad intentions!"

"Guess what happened after I told my second aunt about this?"

Chen Shuting responded with a smile: "They are interested in your Global Trading Company?"

"No!" Zhang Nan said seriously on the other end of the phone, "Second Aunt said that they want my dad to relax the restrictions on the Meiguo guy and let him enter Peace College to steal technology!"

Chen Shuting's face changed, and she said seriously, "He really has no good intentions. I'll tell your dad about this later. By the way, how about Xiaobei? Did they assign a job to Xiaobei?"

"Yes!" Zhang Nan replied confidently, and then said, "However, the job assigned to him is a research intern at the Chinese Academy of Sciences."

"He said that the job was for my dad's software skills, and he didn't like his skills at all."

The atmosphere in the conference room became increasingly gloomy as Chen Shuting's face became more and more serious. The executives who were originally whispering to each other all buried their heads in the paper notebooks in front of them, and wrote and drew with pens, as if they were making some important plans. They looked very serious!
After a while, Chen Shuting put down the phone, thought for a moment, and asked the executives to discuss the issue on their own and send the results to her email address later.

Then, Chen Shuting left the meeting room directly and went to the top floor of the Big Health Medical Research Institute with four bodyguards.

Tang Qiang was still bothering Zhang Heping outside the laboratory, but when he saw Chen Shuting coming over, he immediately stepped aside and greeted her.

Chen Shuting just nodded slightly, then walked to the glass partition of the laboratory, looked at Zhang Heping inside, and said seriously: "Husband, there is a problem with Xiaobei and Xiaonan. The school over there is assigning them work, trying to influence our decision through Xiaobei and Xiaonan."

"Oh!" Zhang Heping asked casually, "What kind of work was assigned to them? Did they agree?"

Chen Shuting explained the whole story that she had just learned, but Zhang Heping was not excited. Instead, Tang Qiang next to him was particularly excited.

"Those people are ridiculous!" Tang Qiang said loudly, "For a salary of just over a hundred yuan, they want to get the most cutting-edge software technology from my uncle through Xiao Bei!"

"They actually want to change my uncle's attitude towards the Magnesium guy through Xiaonan, and then teach the Magnesium guy the technology. Is the Magnesium guy their real father? They are helping the Magnesium guy like this!"

"It's okay. They are already grown up. Let them choose for themselves!" Zhang Heping's tone was still casual. "By the way, have they started dating recently?"

Seeing that Zhang Heping looked nonchalant, Chen Shuting felt relieved and guessed that her husband might have expected this situation.

"Xiao Nan said that she hasn't met anyone she likes yet." Chen Shuting told the gossip she got. "Xiao Bei doesn't have any feelings for Jiang Xiaomeng. She said that girl has too much self-esteem."

"Recently, Xiaobei treated all the classmates to ice cream and soda, and the girl immediately gave him a bottle of soda in return."

Zhang Heping couldn't help but laugh when he heard this and said, "Is there a possibility that if Xiaobei kisses classmate Jiang, classmate Jiang will kiss him back immediately?"

"Puchi!" Chen Shuting laughed, "I'll call Xiaonan later and ask her to get her brother to give it a try."

Zhang Heping smiled and shook his head, "Forget it! There is a crime of hooliganism in the mainland, but this kind of thing is just talk. If you really put it into action, it will be a joke!"

Tang Qiang interrupted and said, "I heard that the punishment for hooliganism in the mainland is very severe, so Xiaobei really can't be allowed to make such a joke. Even if he wants to, he has to go back to Hong Kong Island first, hehe..."

Tang Qiang's smile was too obscene. Not only did Chen Shuting look at him strangely, but even Zhang Heping turned around and glanced at him, as if to say, "You dare to teach Zhang Bei bad things, you will be in trouble!"

The three of them chatted for a while, and then Zhang Heping paused his experiment for today and changed his clothes.

When they got downstairs, Tang Qiang, the third nephew who had stayed here for most of the day and even had a free lunch, watched Zhang Heping and his friends leave the port by boat. Then he took out his cell phone and called his father Tang Ren.

"Hey, Dad!"

"My uncle said he hasn't developed a drug to prolong life yet. I stayed outside his lab for a day and saw him busy doing this and that in the lab. He didn't even conduct animal testing. I don't think he has developed it yet."

"Yes! I will continue to pay attention. Also, my uncle didn't express his opinion on the Hutchison matter, so I didn't ask any further questions. I guess he doesn't want to get involved."

"Japanese stocks... My uncle wants us to start withdrawing our investment now. I asked him why, but he didn't tell me."

……

After Zhang Heping returned to his home in Shenzhen, his first wife Tang Xin told him about the work assignment that she had heard from Zhang Nan.

"I just told Shu Ting that Xiaobei and Xiaonan have grown up, so let them make their own choice." Zhang Heping said as he picked up his eighth son Zhang Hao, who ran over and hugged his calves.

Chen Shuting took Tang Xin's right arm and whispered about the interesting things she heard outside the laboratory.

Zhang Heping sat on the sofa in the living room, picked up the landline and called his home in the capital.

The person who answered the phone was my second brother-in-law Zhang Yong. The family had just finished their meal and went out for a walk, leaving him alone at home waiting for his wife Zhang Pandi.

Zhang Heping asked him about the work allocation of Zhang Yi, Chang Wen, and Zhou Xiaochun, and the result was:
My eldest niece Chang Wen is preparing to pursue graduate studies, and the school has preliminarily approved her admission procedures.

It was said that it was Zhang Panddi's suggestion that nephew Zhang Yi chose to stay at Capital University of Technology to teach computer science, and Zhang Yi did not object.

My cousin Zhou Xiaochun is studying journalism, and Zhang Pandi is helping her contact CCTV. It is said that the wife of the director has already agreed.

The distribution of work among the three of them was relatively normal, so Zhang Heping didn't say much about it.

Then, Zhang Heping took out his smart phone, opened the QQ chat software, and sent a video invitation to Zhang Bei.

After the video call was connected, Zhang Heping found that his eldest son Zhang Bei was staying in the dormitory, so he joked, "Didn't you go out on a date?"

Zhang Bei has never had a girlfriend. In addition, his mother and stepmother have come to his father's side and appeared on the screen with his eighth brother Zhang Hao. Zhang Bei is a little embarrassed to answer the previous question, so he asked: "Dad, have you eaten?"

"I just got home, and the nanny hasn't finished cooking a few dishes yet." Zhang Heping said as he pointed the camera of his mobile phone at his first wife, Tang Xin. After Zhang Bei called her "Mom", he turned the camera to his second wife, Chen Shuting.

After Zhang Bei finished greeting, Zhang Heping started talking to Zhang Bei, "Xiao Bei, in two months, you and Xiao Nan will be 22 years old. No matter what decision you make, your mother, stepmother and I will support you, understand?"

"Dad, I know!" Zhang Bei stood on the balcony holding his phone and said with a smile, "You guys should go eat! I estimate that I will be back next month, or no later than mid-June."

After saying that, the father and son hung up the video.

Then, Zhang Heping sent a video call invitation to his second daughter Zhang Nan.

Compared to Zhang Bei's three roommates who were quietly surfing the Internet, Zhang Nan's side was much more lively. This girl was dancing disco somewhere.

When Zhang Nan's video was shaking, Zhang Heping keenly noticed that Zhang Nan's three roommates were around, and he felt relieved.

Zhang Heping said little to Zhang Bei, but he seemed to talk a lot to his daughter, which made his two wives on both sides cover their mouths and laugh.

"Okay, go back to the dormitory early!" After Zhang Heping said this, he handed the phone to his first wife Tang Xin and asked her to give him a few more instructions.

On the way, Zhang Heping thought about who came up with the idea of ​​assigning work.

After much thought, Mr. Hua, who had been in the capital for a meeting for more than a month, was a major suspect.

However, Zhang Heping guessed that Mr. Hua only targeted Zhang Bei, and it was someone else who was causing trouble on Zhang Nan's side.

It’s not that he doesn’t want his children to work in the country, to change their life experience and let them meet different people and things.

However, after the work was assigned in this way, Zhang Heping was even less willing to reply to those technical consultation letters.

Thinking about those consultation letters, I saw Mr. Qian walking in with a smile on his face, followed by a bodyguard.

When the bodyguard saw Zhang Heping nod slightly, he retreated quietly and continued to stand guard at the door.

"Advisor Zhang, I discovered a technology called Bluetooth in the lab today. It is said to be used in mobile phones, wireless headphones, wireless speakers, wireless mice and other electronic products." Old Qian came to Zhang Heping with a smile and said:
"Can you explain to me the multi-layered network structure? And the frequency hopping technology?"

"There is information in the lab, go and see for yourself!" Zhang Heping said indifferently.

"I've seen it. I came to ask you for advice because there are some things I don't understand." Old Qian followed him to the dining table and sat down, as if he wanted to have dinner here.

The Zhang family's nanny was used to this, and silently added a set of bowls and chopsticks for Mr. Qian, then returned to the kitchen to organize the lunch boxes of the four nannies, preparing to take them back to their respective homes to eat after washing the bowls and chopsticks.

Zhang Heping took his smartphone back from his first wife Tang Xin, clicked on the education section of the World Internet Forum, found the course on network layering, and showed the screen to Qian Lao. "If you are interested, find a computer and take your time to read it. I don't want to repeat the explanation!"

Mr. Qian took out a small notebook and carefully wrote down the four key words "network stratification" with a pen.

"What about frequency hopping technology?" Mr. Qian held a pen and paper and looked at Zhang Heping eagerly.

Zhang Heping took the soup bowl from his first wife Tang Xin and placed it in front of Mr. Qian. Then he said, "Ask Lao Jiang from Lab 15. I've explained it to them."

"Number 15, Lao Jiang..." Old Qian murmured, having already written down the key information, and prepared to go find Lao Jiang after dinner.

This Jiang is not that Jiang, but the homonym does not affect Mr. Qian's search for someone. Zhang Heping did not speak out to correct it, but picked up the bowl of soup and started drinking.

"Dad, it's my birthday soon. Can you give me a smartphone?" Seventh daughter Zhang Nuo suddenly asked, causing Tang Xin and Chen Shuting to frown and look over.

"Oh, what do you want the phone for?" Zhang Heping did not rush to deny it.

...(End of chapter)