When Chunsheng threw out this trump card, Gao Xiaocheng was also affected.

But his mindset was completely opposite to Wang Beiping's; besides the surprise, he was mostly delighted.

To his surprise, his 17-year-old brother-in-law not only wasn't stumped by his notoriously difficult boss, but instead outmaneuvered him, saying something that even he hadn't expected.

This kid's reaction speed is truly remarkable.

After praising Wang Beiping, Chunsheng immediately got down to business.

"I completely understand your concerns about the accuracy or correctness of my teacher's future translations, and I believe my teacher understands as well, since we've only just met, and you haven't even met my teacher in person yet!"

"Given our lack of understanding of each other, I feel that any assurances I make to you would be meaningless, and you certainly wouldn't believe them."

"But there are two things you can be completely at ease about: First, my English teacher graduated from the English Department of Qin Province Normal University. Nationwide, after Yenching Normal University in Beijing, Qin Province Normal University ranks second."

"Having received four years of professional education and training at the second-ranked normal university in the country, and then taught in high school for three years after graduation, you shouldn't have any doubts about my professionalism, right?"

Wang Beiping listened attentively to Chunsheng's speech, nodded and said, "Of course not. Qin Province Normal University is a national key university. Anyone who can get into Qin Province Normal University is definitely not simple."

Chunsheng continued, "Secondly, machine and equipment manuals and operation manuals are industry-specific documents, so when translating them, my teacher will only follow the English documents and the Chinese industry documents you provided, without any of her personal subjective interpretations."

"It's common for English words to have multiple meanings, which is why I asked us to provide some Chinese materials related to the equipment. The purpose is simply to translate them into Chinese instructions and operation manuals so that our technicians can understand them more easily and avoid misunderstandings or even errors."

After Chunsheng finished speaking, Wang Beiping continued to nod, but did not say anything.

Chunsheng believed that after hearing his words, the scales in Wang Beiping's heart were beginning to slowly tip in his favor.

So he pressed his advantage, smiled sincerely at the other party, and continued, "You just mentioned that you might be worried that our technical staff might be misled by the translated materials in the later stages of their work."

"I think you don't need to worry about this. First of all, as a well-known unit in the province, Hongxing Food State-owned Factory No. 1 has highly professional technicians with many years of experience. Once they find a problem with the translated Chinese materials, they will definitely not blindly follow the materials without thinking. They will definitely raise their concerns with the leaders first before proceeding with the actual operation."

"The Chinese materials were originally translated from English, and no subjective content from the translator was added. If, in actual work, there is a discrepancy between the opinions of the technicians and the operating manual, it is very likely that there are inherent differences in the use of foreign and domestic machines, or that these new machines have adopted more advanced technology..."

When Chunsheng first started speaking, Wang Beiping was still leaning back in his chair, looking disdainful.

But later, he leaned forward, rested his chin on his hands, and propped his elbows on the desk in front of him. His eyes, looking at Chunsheng, revealed undisguised admiration and surprise!

"Yes, that's right."

After Wang Beiping finished speaking, he smiled and asked, "If your teacher were to translate these two booklets, how long do you estimate it would take?"

Chunsheng flipped to the last page of the operation manual and said with feigned difficulty, "The 'Machine Equipment Operation Manual' has over 300 pages, which is quite a lot of content. If only my teacher is translating it, since she has to prepare lessons, teach classes, and grade homework during the day, she can only translate it at night. I think it will take at least a month!"

When Wang Beiping heard that it would take so long, he immediately became restless.

He immediately sat up straight, shook his head, and said, "A month is definitely not enough; I can't wait that long."

Chunsheng immediately asked, "How long will it take you to translate these documents?"

"The translation must be completed next week, and all the translated Chinese materials must be available by noon next Thursday at the latest."

"knew!"

Chunsheng nodded and said, "If it's in such a hurry, I'm afraid my teacher alone won't be enough. She'll have to find a few more experienced English teachers in our high school English teaching group to translate it together."

Wang Beiping said earnestly, "We must find someone at the same level as your teacher!"

"Section Chief Wang, please rest assured. Even if you hadn't said anything, my teacher, being a responsible person, would only have found experienced teachers of similar or even higher skill levels to work with her on this translation project!"

When Wang Beiping heard Chunsheng say this, he couldn't help but smile smugly. "Yes, that's for the best. It will ensure the quality of the translated content."

Just then, Wang Beiping suddenly touched his nose, then raised an eyebrow, looked at Chunsheng calmly, and asked, "How much do you think we should pay you for this translation?"

Upon hearing that the topic of expenses had been raised, Gao Xiaocheng couldn't help but glance at Wang Beiping, before turning his gaze to Chunsheng's face.

I thought to myself, "Wow, this is progressing really fast."

In the past, whenever it came to matters that required money from his unit, Wang Beiping would definitely have argued back and forth with the other party for a long time, until the other party was about to give up, before he would pretend to have suffered a loss and ask about the price.

Unexpectedly, this time, we got to the price point in less than 5 minutes of conversation.

Then he thought again, maybe it's because this translation didn't cost much.

Less money means less time spent.

But isn't 5 minutes a bit too fast?

After hearing Wang Beiping's question, Chunsheng quickly began to think.

Based on the information he had received before, he believed that as long as the cooperation fee was no more than 1000 yuan, Deputy Factory Director Liu would agree.

But that's the price we pay for collaborating with universities in the provincial capital.

If the partner were changed to the commune middle school he represents, the price would definitely not be as high.

Although Chunsheng kept saying that he would have his English teacher translate the two booklets, he actually had no intention of asking Li Yufeng to do it; he wanted to handle it himself.

After reading the 300-page "Machinery and Equipment Operation Manual," he was confident that as long as he had an English dictionary and some industry-related materials, he could handle the matter!

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