International students returning to 90

"Researcher Lin, thank you very much."

"Director Zhang, you are welcome, I will arrange for someone to contact you for follow-up matters."

In addition to the people from the Automobile Association, Director Zhang also rushed over to send the group to the plane. The old director has pale temples, and although he is wearing a suit, the style is from a few years ago. He is obviously the leader of a department with real power. It looks like ordinary people, but in later generations, this should be a person who is called by everyone.

"Okay, we are waiting for your call 24 hours a day."

"By the way, I almost forgot." Director Zhang patted his head, as if thinking of something, "This is for you and Professor Zhuang, I look forward to your arrival!"

This is a red invitation letter. In the upper right corner of the invitation letter, there is a five-star red flag and a white bauhinia pattern with five-star stamens. This pattern may be unfamiliar to people of this era, but Lin Yi is different. How could he not recognize it? This redbud pattern?

On July 1997, 7, Xiangjiang returned to China, and the five-star Bauhinia flag officially replaced the Xiangjiang flag of the Hong Kong British era as the flag of Hong Kong. The pattern behind the five-star red flag in the upper right corner of this invitation letter is the future regional flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

"The invitation letter for the handover ceremony?" Lin Yi couldn't hide his surprise. He had the ambition to create history at the beginning of his rebirth, but when he was really placed in the long river of history, he still had the same shock and excitement as ordinary people. awe.

"Yes, I invite you two to attend as representatives of outstanding international students and outstanding scientific research talents!" Director Zhang smiled all over his face. Which Chinese would not be happy when Xiangjiang returned to China?

"We must go." Lin Yi said solemnly, and at the same time, he helped Zhuangcheng to agree.

It takes twelve hours from Huajing to San Francisco, and when they arrived, it was already early morning in San Francisco time.

Lin Yi had asked someone to park his Grand Cherokee in the airport parking lot one day earlier. Yes, it was the one that saved Professor Zhuang's life.

This car was originally rented, but it was severely deformed by the pressure of the bridge car. The whole car can be bought with a little more compensation to the car rental company. What's more, Lin Yi thinks that Dahong, that is, the red Grand Cherokee, It is a sentimental one who has lived life and death with himself, so he bought it with a wave of his hand.

The carriage was seriously damaged and needed major repairs. Lin Yi did not do anything, and sent the car directly to the refitting factory. The body and seats were re-reinforced, the front of the car was externally cured, and the lights were replaced with the most popular Big monster eyes.

"Go to Berkeley to deal with it for one night, or I will take you back to Stanford?" Lin Yi helped Zhuangcheng open the co-pilot's door, and at the same time sat in the driver's seat by himself.

Zhuang Cheng hesitated, "I'll just call a car and go back to Stanford."

"What time is it now? The law and order in the United States is not as good as you imagined. Get in the car, go to my place to deal with it for the night, and send you back to Stanford tomorrow." Lin Yi decided on his own.

Zhuang Cheng waited for further discussion, Lin Yi pulled him into the car, put on his seat belt, stepped on the door, and Da Hong immediately ran out.

On the second day, Lin Yi did not send Zhuang Cheng back to Stanford as agreed, because something happened in the Simpson laboratory.

It was Xu Dongkui who called him. Xu Dongkui didn't know much, and he was a little vague. He only said that the Ministry of Aeronautics and Astronautics had completely ceased operations, and Professor Logan informed everyone to take a temporary vacation.

When Lin Yi heard this, he didn't bother to eat breakfast, and immediately rushed to the Simpson laboratory.

When he walked to the second floor, he happened to see many researchers coming out of Professor Logan's office. They had different expressions, some were bitter, some were angry, some were decadent, and everyone was happy anyway.

Thomas was among the group of researchers, his head dropped to the ground like a defeated rooster.

"What happened?" Lin Yi asked.

Thomas looked a little dazed, "Simpson Lab, it's over."

Is Simpson Lab over?What a joke, even ten years later, before he was reborn, Simpson's laboratory was still doing well, standing at the top of the scientific research community as one of the best materials science laboratories in the United States.

You're telling me now that Simpson's lab is over?How can this be?

Lin Yi frowned and knocked on the door of Professor Logan's office.

"Come in."

Professor Logan seemed to have aged many years overnight, his usual leisurely smile had long since disappeared, his brows were tightly frowned, and his expression was very decadent.

"Forest?"

"Can anyone tell me what happened?"

Lin Yi sat down opposite Logan, "Is the world destroyed? Or has the US-Russia war started?"

Logan smiled wryly when he heard the words, "It's not that serious, it's Simpson, something happened to Simpson."

Simpson?These three words can represent Simpson's laboratory or Professor Simpson. Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously defaulted to the latter.

"What's the matter?" Lin Yi's mind was in a mess, something happened to Professor Simpson?What could be a major event that could affect Simpson's laboratory?

But shouldn't that happen two years later?

Two years later, Entergy Cable has been able to form a certain scale, and his solar energy plan should have achieved initial results. At that time, he was sure that Professor Simpson would get out of the storm unscathed.

Could it be that thing?If yes, why two years earlier?

"Two days ago, the Hercules 4A carrier rocket exploded shortly after take-off, destroying the rocket and the satellite, and causing losses of more than one billion US dollars."

"The accident appraisal report came out, and it was believed that the unqualified materials of the rocket No. [-] developed by Simpson were the main cause of this loss. NASA announced yesterday that it would terminate the cooperation with Simpson's laboratory and take back all the materials in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics."

Lin Yi's heart beat twice violently, it wasn't the incident he remembered, but the seriousness of this incident was no less than the one in Lin Yi's memory, did such a big incident happen in the previous life?Why has he never heard of it?

If it happened, how did Simpson Lab get through this difficulty in the previous life? If it didn't happen in the previous life, why did it happen in this life?Could it be because of... him?

"If it's just like this, you wouldn't look like this, would you?" Lin Yi's mind was spinning rapidly, and he tried to calm himself down.

The scientific research ecology of the United States is good, which not only refers to the high level of scientific research development in the United States, advanced instruments, and sufficient funds, but the most important thing is that they are extremely inclusive of scientific research. For example, the Simpson incident this time, the loss of one billion US dollars, the US government Apart from terminating the cooperation with Simpson Laboratory, NASA and NASA did not take any drastic measures.

Professor Simpson may lose his reputation, but his professorship and his wealth will not be affected in any way.

In other words, if it is just that NASA terminates the cooperation with Simpson Laboratory, Simpson Laboratory will be hurt, but it will definitely not be as serious as Thomas said, "It's over", this is not how the word is used.

"Hercules exploded because the materials provided by the Simpson laboratory were unqualified. I don't know why it was spread. Ford originally promoted a material used in cars and rockets as a gimmick. Now Ford's customers began to doubt the quality of Ford cars. quality, and there have been a lot of returns."

"Ford believes that Simpson has violated the clause in the contract that 'during the duration of the contract, you must not do anything that will damage the image and reputation of both parties', and requests to suspend the cooperation and compensate for the loss of brand image, which is 1000 million U.S. dollars."

Logan is the person in charge of the Ford Center. He has been devastated by this matter and has not slept for several days.

Terminate the contract and pay $1000 million in damages?

Lin Yi twirled the ring on his thumb, and said thoughtfully: "Ford Center doesn't want to suspend the cooperation, they just think our asking price is too high, they want to take advantage of the fire, if I guess correctly, as long as You ask for a few more negotiations, and they will offer to re-sign the contract and drive down our patent price as much as possible.”

Logan was taken aback. In the past, it was Simpson and the legal counsel who negotiated contracts. He didn't have much experience in shopping malls.

"You mean we can still talk?"

"From the beginning to the end of Ford Motor, how many materials are provided by our laboratory, professor, you are a material engineering student, you should know how much a material affects automotive engineering, if it wants to replace the Simpson laboratory Materials, such as the alloys used to make engines, Ford not only had to find a replacement for this alloy, but also had to redesign the engine model.”

"How long does it take to design a new car engine? Does Ford have the energy? Will it invest so much money knowing that the product is good? No."

"So, its only purpose is to keep prices down."

Taking advantage of the fire to rob, this kind of thing is commonplace in the mall.

Logan frowned tightly, "Then I'll talk to them."

"No, don't talk about it." Lin Yi shook his head, "If we talk about it, Ford Center will make wedding dresses for others in the future. If you stop the cooperation, you will stop the cooperation, 1000 million, pay him, and then we will immediately withdraw the alloy patent right and demand Ford immediately ceases production of products containing Simpson Laboratories patents."

Logan was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately reacted. He slammed the table, "That's right, it takes time to find alloys, and it takes time to redesign the engine! They can afford the loss of the production line shutting down during this period of time?"

"Hahahaha, Lin, you have an unparalleled head. I'll talk to them right now, right away!"

Lin Yi heard that, before he had time to be modest, he saw that Professor Logan had already picked up the phone, and hurriedly stopped him.

"Don't worry, wait for Ford to come to you. The most important thing right now is Professor Simpson's affairs."

"Scaring Ford back is a temporary solution, not the root cause. It's not hard to find a replacement, and the engine will always need to be replaced. Ford is not the same as Simpson Labs. If we can't reverse the current situation, Simpson Labs will lose its reputation." , Ford will suspend its cooperation with us sooner or later."

Logan put down the microphone with a wry smile, "Of course I know, but it is a fact that the rocket exploded due to unqualified No. There will be profits and we should be able to survive.”

"Survive?" Lin Yi was dumbfounded, "Professor Logan, the Simpson Laboratory is one of the best material science laboratories in the United States!"

"Hercules bombed not only one billion US dollars, but also the reputation accumulated by Simpson for decades, but what can we do? What we can do now is to survive. As long as we can survive, maybe we will die in the future." A miracle happened."

Lin Yi doesn't know how he got out of the Simpson laboratory, his mind is in a mess, he has not been in the Simpson laboratory for a long time, but for Professor Simpson who fully supports him, for the hardworking assistants and the strange dishes in this cafeteria There is still a bit of emotion in the laboratory.

Foolishly waiting for the so-called miracle to happen, no kidding.

"Why haven't you left yet?" When Lin Yi opened the door, he saw Zhuang Cheng bringing the dishes out of the kitchen, and couldn't help but froze in place.

After receiving the call in the morning, he left in a hurry and threw the car keys to Zhuang Cheng, thinking that he should go back to Stanford.

"I saw that you didn't look well when you left in the morning, and I didn't get through to you when I called you. Seeing that it's time for dinner, I made something casually." Zhuangcheng wore a "Tom and Jerry" white T-shirt. "The patterned apron, Zhuang Cheng is tall, but the apron is a bit small, hanging around his neck like a bellyband, which looks a bit funny.

"This is the only thing left..." Zhuang Cheng realized that Lin Yi was looking at his apron, and a blush quickly flashed across his face.

Looking at Zhuangcheng like this, Lin Yi's mood subconsciously improved a lot.

He looked at the four dishes and one soup on the table, "This is called cooking casually, then what I eat every day is pig food."

When the apartment was rented, there were large electrical appliances such as ovens and induction cookers in the kitchen, but there were no kitchen knives, pots and pans at all. Lin Yi never had the habit of starting fires, so he never bought them.

But at this moment, everything that should be in the kitchen is there, neatly placed.

"How much is it for me to call you?"

Zhuang Cheng pursed his lips, "You don't want to charge me for car repairs, why, why do you want to care about such a small amount of money?"

Lin Yi scratched his head, "It's the first time someone bought something for me, and I'm not used to it."

"Since you don't accept it, I won't give it to you. I'm poor recently. Eat and eat." He went to the kitchen to get chopsticks.

The two sat facing each other, egg yolk pumpkin, golden salted egg yolk, the edges were fried into a beautiful golden yellow, boxy shape, sweet and salty bloomed on the taste buds at the same time.Salt and pepper shrimp, the shrimp line is picked very clean, the red oil is poured on it, the deliciousness of the shrimp and the salt and pepper are perfectly combined.

Lin Yi put a shrimp into his mouth with an inexplicable expression on his face.

"That time? Did you do it yourself?" he heard himself ask.

The author has something to say: Lin Yi: How much is it, I will call you.

Fish: Zhu Gusheng...