When Liu Chen finished her class and arrived at Professor He Long's home, she understood why there had been no news about the production line.
"I just found out that the arrested Jiang Demin had told the school that a student of his had a production line that could be sold to the school.
Naturally, the school felt that buying a production line was more cost-effective. However, this time Jiang Demin had an accident, and it's said that national security found many gold bars, foreign property deeds, and documents in his laboratory."
At this point, He Long nodded at Liu Chen, as if saying, "Well done."
Liu Chen: No, no, Professor, please listen to my sophistry, oh no, listen to my explanation!
"Therefore, the school no longer wanted to have any connection with Jiang Demin and notified me early this morning, agreeing to the proposal I submitted earlier."
After saying this, He Long looked at Liu Chen with an expression of:
Although I don't know how you knew Jiang Demin was a 'traitor,' your actions this time have been very positive.
Liu Chen really wanted to refute that this incident had nothing to do with her, but thinking of the USB drive she had personally handed to Old Master Shen, she felt a little guilty.
He Long had only suspected that Liu Chen was involved and wanted to test her. Seeing Liu Chen's reaction now, what else could he not understand?
"Since the contract is entrusted by the school, I'll take you to the finance department this afternoon to sign and seal it."
Just as He Long was about to say more, the kitchen door opened, and then Zhen Yu brought the soybean and pig trotter soup, which had been stewed for a full six hours, to the table. He Siyu followed her mother, holding a plate with four bowls of rice and four pairs of chopsticks.
"The soup is ready, come and eat. After you've eaten, let Chenchen take a nap in the guest room, and then you can take the child to the finance office."
Hearing this, Liu Chen and He Long stood up from the sofa and walked towards the dining table.
"Ding dong!"
The doorbell suddenly rang outside. Zhen Yu looked at the old man, He Long.
"Is anyone else coming over?"
He Long shook his head slightly: "No one said they were coming. I'll go see. Chenchen, please sit down first and try your teacher's wife's cooking."
Saying that, He Long bypassed Liu Chen and walked to the entrance, looking out through the peephole on the door.
Then, he frowned slightly, a hint of impatience on his face. He turned around and said to his wife Zhen Yu and daughter He Siyu, who were looking at the entrance curiously:
"It's Ge Jian."
Liu Chen raised an eyebrow when she heard the name, then smiled and nodded at Professor He Long:
"We'll tell him after we sign the contract."
Professor He Long nodded and then turned around to slowly open the anti-theft door.
Outside the door, Ge Jian was holding a bag of apples. Seeing Professor He Long behind the door, his smile was very enthusiastic.
"Teacher, I've come to see you." Without waiting for He Long to say anything, he pushed the bag of apples into He Long's hand.
As he handed them over, Ge Jian skillfully took off his shoes at the entrance and put on a pair of dark blue cotton slippers before entering.
Seeing this, Liu Chen finally understood why Professor He Long both disliked Ge Jian and couldn't stop him from visiting.
With gifts and a smiling face, and without directly expressing his pursuit of He Siyu, it was naturally difficult for He Long, as Ge Jian's professor, to drive him away.
After Ge Jian entered, he first smelled the aroma of stewed pig trotters wafting through the house, and then he saw Liu Chen, who was already standing in the dining room.
Why was Liu Chen eating at the teacher's house?
Was she here to urge the teacher about the production line?
Lost in thought, Ge Jian momentarily forgot to greet He Siyu, which made He Siyu secretly heave a sigh of relief.
Liu Chen met Ge Jian's scrutinizing gaze and smiled frankly:
"Senior Ge Jian? You're here to eat at Teacher's house too? What a coincidence. I was just telling Teacher's wife that if Teacher isn't working on any projects this year, we should encourage the single senior brothers under him to find girlfriends to accompany them for meals and outings."
Hearing Liu Chen's words, Ge Jian subconsciously glanced at He Siyu.
Liu Chen saw this action and continued to smile:
"But I heard that Senior Ge Jian has a rich and beautiful girlfriend. I envy you so much!"
When Ge Jian heard Liu Chen's words, he subconsciously looked at the professor and his wife, but he didn't see any surprise on their faces.
His heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but resent Liu Chen. This nosy woman must have said something behind his back to the professor. With a hardened heart, he decided to directly pledge his loyalty to the professor!
"Junior Liu Chen, please don't joke. Everyone knows I'm pursuing Siyu. How could I possibly have a rich and beautiful girlfriend?"
"Oh?"
Liu Chen feigned surprise and turned to look at He Siyu.
"Siyu, is Senior Ge Jian pursuing you?"
He Siyu mouthed to Liu Chen and shook her head.
Liu Chen then turned back to look at Ge Jian, who was standing there with undisguised shock.
As if to awaken He Siyu's memory, Ge Jian quickly gave an example: "How could that be? Siyu, don't you remember? I invited you to dinner before?"
This time, He Long frowned before He Siyu could shake her head.
"Ge Jian, have you misunderstood something? Siyu, your teacher and I often let students take her out for meals to make her more lively."
Hearing this, Ge Jian's eyes widened as he looked at his teacher's wife, then turned to He Long.
"Teacher, you didn't say that before!"
He Long's face also turned serious: "Then what did I say?"
Seeing He Long's expression and Liu Chen's gloating look as she watched him, Ge Jian felt a surge of heat rush to his head.
"Teacher, you clearly wanted me to be your live-in son-in-law!"
He Long looked at the red-faced Ge Jian, who was stubbornly stating his original intentions, and a flicker of confusion crossed his eyes.
Could it be that, as Zhen Yu said, he truly had no judgment of character, and was not as discerning as his precious daughter Siyu?
However, since Liu Chen could force Ge Jian to be so open, he could finally refuse Ge Jian's familiarity.
He Long, with a stern face, looked at Ge Jian:
"Ge Jian, you have misunderstood. Teacher never had such an idea."
He paused:
"If you are helping Teacher look after Siyu with such intentions, then I must tell you that you are overthinking it, and Teacher will not accept you as a suitor for Siyu."
Ge Jian couldn't understand. What was wrong with him? And, he had already spent most of the money given to him by that mysterious person. If the professor knew, what would he do?
"Why!"
He Long looked at the disbelieving Ge Jian in front of him, and his annoyance was irrepressible, like a bout of hiccups.
"Why else? Of course, it's because you don't really like Siyu, and yet you're pursuing her. Someone with ulterior motives naturally cannot be our teacher's son-in-law!"
Liu Chen, standing behind He Long, said this with a smile.
"You, you're talking nonsense!"
Facing Ge Jian's scolding, Liu Chen shrugged and did not respond.
"Teacher, I, I'll come again another day."
Ge Jian pursed his lips, said this, turned around, and left. He waited downstairs for a long time and was sure that no one was chasing after him to stop him before he walked away dejectedly.
Inside the house.
After confirming from the balcony that Ge Jian had indeed left, He Long returned to the dining table, sat down, held the soup that his wife Zhen Yu had served him in both hands, and asked:
"Didn't we say we'd use him to lure out the person behind all this? Now it seems unlikely."
Liu Chen put down the soup she had drunk more than half of and wiped her mouth.
"The person behind him has already shown himself."
He Long: "Huh?"
He Siyu: ???
Zhen Yu: Where?
Liu Chen blinked: "Think about it, what was the purpose of sending Ge Jian?"
Teacher's wife Zhen Yu quickly answered: "To stop you from taking over the school's production line!"
Liu Chen nodded affirmatively at her teacher's wife Zhen Yu, who was sitting opposite her:
"Before, I didn't know about Jiang Demin's involvement, so I kept my focus on Ge Jian. But now that I know what Jiang Demin did, I think the person who contacted Jiang Demin to deliver the production line is the person who contacted Ge Jian."
With Liu Chen's explanation, the family members nodded in understanding.
He Long, however, had a headache and looked at Liu Chen with doubt:
"Aren't you being too impulsive in thinking this way? What if Jiang Demin genuinely had a channel for a production line?"
Liu Chen scooped another bowl of soup. Hearing Professor He Long's words, she waved her hand:
"Think about it yourself. As a university professor in computer science, where would he meet foreign manufacturers selling production line equipment?"
After three bowls of pig's trotter soup, Liu Chen's forehead was beaded with sweat. She leaned back in her chair with satisfaction, her bulging belly showing, and looked at Professor He Long, who was still frowning.
"Teacher, don't worry. With Jiang Demin's incident, students and teachers who received unofficial funds in our school will probably not escape scrutiny."
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Liu Chen was right. In the following week, students and teachers were frequently questioned at school. However, there were few actual spies. Most were involved in part-time jobs or shell companies outside of school.
For students, it was simpler; they took on small jobs, and after a few simple questions, it was over.
Ge Jian, on the other hand, was in trouble. The money in his account was real. When he was questioned and his QQ chat messages were restored, he had received money from an unknown source. The sender said that if Ge Jian could marry Professor He Long's daughter, He Siyu, within three months, they would give him three million yuan.
Who was Professor He Long?
He was the most outstanding professor at Tsinghua University for his active commercial applications in the field of food research. More importantly, Ge Jian had agreed.
The interrogation of Ge Jian was conducted in secret. Ren Yu also destroyed the surveillance footage on her phone when national security intervened.
Liu Chen, however, had no time to pay attention to all this because she was busy with—drawing lots!
"Most handsome system, I hope I can draw a construction speed-up ticket!"
With her hands clasped together, Liu Chen lay on her dorm bed and prayed softly, then began to draw lots.
There was no other way. The contract with the school for contract manufacturing had been signed. Although Uncle Mi had sent all his workers to build the factory, because Liu Chen's factory was large and there were material turnovers, according to Uncle Mi's estimate, it would take until mid-June at the earliest for actual production to begin. Moreover, at Liu Chen's request, the first thing built in the factory area was the staff dormitory. Including decoration, the staff dormitory would be well-ventilated by mid-June.
Living arrangements would not be a problem.
Yes, perhaps because she had experienced hardship, Liu Chen wanted to help others. The dormitory she was building not only had bunk beds like those in schools but also resembled the doctoral student dormitories she lived in now.
She built a dormitory for internal rental, and the rent she intended to collect was only symbolic. To ensure security and confidentiality within the park, this fifteen-story apartment building was a separate area with a separate entrance to the road.
Thinking about the dormitory, the spinning wheel in mid-air had already finished drawing.
'Received 2,000 RMB (transferred to Swiss bank account)'
'Received 2,000 RMB (transferred to Swiss bank account)'
'Received one construction speed-up card (from the construction robot team of the bionic company), valid for 30 days.'
'Received 2,000 RMB (transferred to Swiss bank account)'
'...'
Whether it was because the system had to spend a lot to draw the construction speed-up card or because she didn't wash her hands before drawing today, her luck was bad.
Liu Chen reviewed the prizes, all of which she had drawn before.
"It's okay, as long as I draw the construction speed-up card. Thank you, system~~~"
She quietly expressed her gratitude, took the construction speed-up card out of her backpack, and examined it carefully.
The card had a built-in sparkle. It read:
Bionic Company Construction Robot Usage Voucher.
"It feels very powerful, but can I use it if I'm not in C City?"
Hearing Liu Chen's question, the card body immediately projected an answer in the air:
The host can complete the delivery by writing the delivery address and requirements on the card.
Looking at the time, it was half-past eleven at night. Liu Chen had to put the voucher back into the system backpack for now.
"If I deploy the bionic team now, Uncle Mi will probably think someone is trying to rob the construction site. I'll call Uncle Mi tomorrow to let him know."
She put the voucher back into her backpack and then got up and sat at her desk, opening her computer to log in to her overseas account to check how much money the system had deposited this time.
The national security incident had served as a reminder. Most of the money she used in China was borrowed from Ren Yu, forced upon her by Grandpa Chen, and the payments from Meimei Brand's goods these days.
The money from the system's lottery draws was mostly deposited into her overseas account. She had now accumulated over 46 million RMB. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
Thinking of her stock trading plan originally scheduled for May, she needed to start slowly infiltrating Chengfei Integration and Guang Sheng Nonferrous Metal now.
But this money was still in her overseas account, and with the strict scrutiny of financial transactions at the school recently, it would be best to have someone else execute her stock purchase plan.
Sitting in front of the computer and deep in thought, Liu Chen felt that she might need to go abroad.