In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 16: A fight between two department heads at a state-owned restaurant

If you don’t steam the steamed buns, you’ll lose your breath.

"Absolutely no problem! I guarantee it with my personal integrity! Principal, Xie Wei was a technician before the college entrance examination. He had his own salary and helped the school with projects. We don't even have to pay him! And he has experience in leading scientific research projects..."

Without Xie Wei's knowledge, Du Guowang patted his chest and helped him brag loudly in front of the principal.

It seemed that as long as Li Rui gave the 20 yuan in funding, the results would come out immediately.

"I can sign, but you have to promise that you will only pay the 20 yuan. Even if you are short of money in the future, don't come and bang my desk again!"

Li Rui looked at Du Guowang seriously.

"Don't worry, leader. I promise I won't! Besides, I said that this fund is a loan, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering will return it to the school in due time. Come on, leader, I'll help you take off the pen cap..."

Du Guowang had a smile on his face, fearing that Li Rui would go back on his word.

He picked up Li Rui's pen from the table, unscrewed the cap, held the pen in both hands, and handed it to Li Rui.

Li Rui's mouth twitched.

In the end, he said nothing, took the pen, and quickly signed his name on the funding application. "Shut your mouth, there's only so much in the pot, and everyone is watching..."

"Leader, don't worry. I'll ask the teacher in the metalworking workshop to help me get a stainless steel screw to screw my mouth shut."

Du Guowang was all smiles.

"Get out of here!"

Seeing Du Guowang's chameleon face, Li Rui felt that he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart.

Holding the approval slip for 20 yuan of project funds, Du Guowang happily left Li Rui's office, not caring that it was already half past one and his leader had not eaten yet, and whether he was hungry or not.

Li Rui looked at his departing back and rubbed his swollen temples.

He muttered to himself, "We can't do much with the funds from the department. I hope these two hundred thousand can have an effect. When the funds are sufficient, I can be the principal! Otherwise, everyone will come and bang on my desk..."

Looking at his old desk, which seemed to be cracked, Principal Li forgot about his hunger for a moment and fell into deep thought.

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"Xie Wei, Xie Wei, look, what I got for you..."

After leaving school, Du Guowang trotted all the way home.

He was still at the gate of the courtyard, shouting at the inside.

In Du Guowang's opinion, with the project and 20 yuan of funding, no one can snatch Xie Wei away!
In the whole morning, he forced Li Rui to introduce Xie Wei's "On the Differences and Connections between PLC and CNC", and patted his chest to brag about Xie Wei, saying that Xie Wei had completed all the theoretical preparations when he was a technician before the college entrance examination, and he only needed to directly produce samples for testing, and then improve them through experiments, and the product would be ready.

He even explained in official language the importance of the two systems that Xie Wei had analyzed to him on the train to the development of the entire manufacturing industry and their market prospects.

Du Guowang didn't know that the reason why Li Rui signed and approved the funding was not because he slammed the table.

When Li Rui went to the ministry to ask for funds some time ago, he got a piece of information: the ministry was negotiating with Mitsubishi, Toshiba and other companies in order to introduce a batch of high-precision CNC machine tools for the processing of complex parts in the aerospace field.

The two sides haven't reached an agreement yet.

On the one hand, the prices charged by foreign countries are too high, and on the other hand, Batumi is unwilling to provide high-end CNC machine tools.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is the only competitive major in Harbin Institute of Technology at present, and it has its own funding allocation.

Develop the CNC system and then cooperate with the machine tool manufacturer. No matter what the department does, they will have to provide some funding.

"Ok?"

When I entered the yard, Liang Hongling and Xie Wei were not there.

"That's not right. Hong Ling had specifically called me before and said she would bring food back for Xie Wei. Could it be that she took Xie Wei to a restaurant?"

When Du Guowang thought of Liang Hongling's enthusiastic attitude towards Xie Wei, he suddenly had a bad feeling.

He turned around and ran out.

When Du Guowang ran to the state-owned restaurant not far from his home, red-faced and sweaty, he saw a scene that made him furious:
It was almost two o'clock, the restaurant's chef had already gone off work, and the waiters were cleaning and preparing to close the restaurant.

There was only one table of people left in the lobby.

Liang Hongbin was handing a pen to Xie Wei, who was drunk, with a dazed look and shaking body, and asked him to sign something written on the table.

"Xie Wei, sign this quickly."

Seeing Du Guowang coming in, Liang Hongbin became very anxious and urged Xie Wei, who had already been drugged by him, to sign quickly.

In his heart, he even blamed Du Guowang for not showing up later.

Liang Hongling sat aside, watching the angry Du Guowang come in, and then looked at Liang Hongbin who was urging Xie Wei to sign, and a flash of embarrassment passed across her face.

She lowered her head and drank tea silently without saying a word. On one side was her brother, and on the other was her husband.

Who do you favor?
No matter what, Xie Wei must learn advanced mathematics.

At Liang Hongbin's urging, the dizzy Xie Wei tried hard to hold the pen and was about to sign.

“I can’t sign it!”

Du Guowang at the door didn't care about being out of breath, he rushed to the table and grabbed the paper on the table.

I was so angry that I laughed when I saw that the content on the paper was "Voluntary Transfer Application".

He pointed at Liang Hongbin with gritted teeth and said, "Liang Hongbin, I respect you as my brother-in-law. I usually put up with whatever you do. But today you want to snatch my student. That's too much!"

"What do you mean your students? They haven't reported yet!"

Seeing Du Guowang snatching the transfer application, Liang Hongbin stood up suddenly, "Xie Wei feels that high-energy physics can contribute more to national construction, and he volunteered to study high-energy physics. Give it back to me quickly! Otherwise, don't blame me for not recognizing you as my brother-in-law!"

"fart!"

Du Guowang gritted his teeth and became even more furious when he saw Xie Wei being drunk by the shameless Liang Hongbin.

I wanted to just say I didn’t recognize her, but the lovely Liang Hongling was next to me.

Then he looked at Liang Hongling, who was drinking tea silently with her head down, hoping she could say a word for him.

"Hongling, can't there be this little bit of trust between husband and wife? I asked you to help keep an eye on my girlfriend, but your brother came to steal my girl..."

"She didn't ask me to come here! Hurry up and give me the application and let Xie Wei sign it!"

Liang Hongbin didn't want to put his sister in a difficult position, so he reached out to grab the transfer application from Du Guowang.

If Xie Wei does not sign his application for transfer, the various departments will end up arguing over his talent, and the case will be brought to the principal, Li Rui. Even for the sake of the life of his own desk, Li Rui will simply try to smooth things over.

By then, Xie Wei will still have to stay in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Seeing Liang Hongbin's outstretched hand, Du Guowang dodged to the side, causing Liang Hongbin to stagger and about to fall to the ground. Du Guowang hurriedly reached out to pull him, but failed to catch him.

"Bang~"

Liang Hongbin fell heavily to the ground.

"..."

The scene fell silent.

"Hongling, you saw it. I fell down by myself..."

Du Guowang hurriedly explained to Liang Hongling, who was biting her lower lip and looking angry.

Because of the angle, what we saw was Du Guowang pushing Liang Hongbin.

"Damn you Du Guowang, you actually pushed me! I'm going to fight you~"

Liang Hongbin, who had been drinking, got up from the ground. He thought that if Du Guowang had shown up one minute later, Xie Wei would have been a student of high-energy physics.

If we want to restore the high-energy physics major, it is impossible without outstanding students. Without even the major, there is no way to even talk about funding.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, so he reached out and hit Du Guowang.

"I went to school to fight with Li Rui and asked Xie Wei for project funds, and you guys poached my people in the back! What's wrong with my brother-in-law? Do you really think I'm afraid of you?"

Du Guowang was already angry and had been on guard against Xie Wei being poached by another department, so he went to Chengdu specifically to bring him back and settle him down at home.

However, due to a moment of negligence, my brother-in-law snatched my student away first!

You can’t hit your wife.

Can’t I beat my brother-in-law?
If you don't show your attitude, you will have a hard time in peace in the few days before you report to school as other departments are trying to snatch your people away.

"Bang~"

Du Guowang's fist hit Liang Hongbin's arm hard.

So, the two of them started fighting in the state-owned restaurant...

"hu~hu~"

At this moment, Xie Wei, who was drunk, lay down on the table and started snoring.

(End of this chapter)