Chapter 143

Xu Man was dumbfounded

He asked the doorman again, “Is it that production director Luo Zemin from the workshop? Wasn’t he still working here last week?”

Why did he quit after not seeing him for a week?

I didn’t hear Xu Wen say that he quit, right?

Xu Wen looked puzzled

Tan Changlin also did not expect this kind of unfolding, opened his mouth to say: “He will not escape with the money, right?”

Xu Man: “”

It’s not like there isn’t this possibility, Second Brother said that Luo Zemin took two thousand dollars from him the day before yesterday

That’s a total of three thousand dollars

In 1979, three thousand dollars is not a small amount

But a stable, well-paid director of a foreign company, to give up more than ten years of work for 3,000 bucks?

Objectively speaking, it’s not worth it

And three thousand dollars is not bad, but it’s the military’s money!

Even a thief wouldn’t dare to miss it, right?

Xu Wen thought, and have a lot of confidence, picking up the window of the communication room to ask the grandfather: “Then you know where he went?”

“I don’t know” The doorkeeper shook his head

Xu Wen was a little disappointed, this time the trouble is big!

Tan Changlin is also a bit dumbfounded, if the surname Luo’s money to escape, he is not this period of time in vain?

After all, all he did was to apply on that printer

Xu asked to lazily ignore him, a bit of mourning in the sun to go out, want to go to find the second brother to ask

Before he reached the street, the doorman chased him out, “Little comrade, you wait!”

Xu Man turned around, the gatekeeper was holding a small note in his hand, holding it up and shaking it, “Director Luo left an address when he left, said to give it to a female comrade named Xu Man, you are Xu Man, right?”

Xu Man: “”

The first thing you need to do is to ask the question, and it’s a little bit late

I’m not sure if this is the right time to ask” moncler outlet online Xu Man still walked back towards the moncler outlet store, “Yes, I’m Xu Man”

He showed his credentials, thanked him, and got a note

Xu Man raised his eyebrows in surprise The address on the note was not far from here, just a ten-minute walk

Xu Man walked while wondering, since Luo Zemin does not intend to run, resigned to do what?

Or was he fired?

After all, a lot of companies fired people after talking and letting the person leave voluntarily

It couldn’t be that he was fired because he helped her with the printer, right?

Tan Changlin didn’t think so, “And still calmly let the communication room communicate with you, it’s not like falling out with the company”

The two people, each with their own opinion, kept walking to the place written on the note

This is a courtyard, it also looks like a factory, the scale is quite small, there are only two workshops

There wasn’t even an office building, only on one side of the workshop, there were a few cubicles

It just doesn’t look like it’s in business either, the gate is chained with a thick iron chain

Xu Wen yelled twice at the top of his voice

“Anyone there?”

“Anyone there?”

He didn’t know if no one was there or if he didn’t hear, but in any case, there was no response from inside either

Tan Changlin spat on his hand, rubbed it, gripped the iron bar on the gate, and flipped it up in three or two tries

“Be careful!” Xu Man reminded

This iron gate was quite high, and he didn’t expect Tan Changlin, a high school student, to climb the courtyard wall so skillfully

Xu Man looked dumbfounded

“Don’t worry! When we used to go to school, our dormitory was too far from the school gate, but it was very close to the courtyard wall at the back, so we often climbed over the wall to go out to eat!”

Xu Man: “”

No wonder it was so slippery

Who knew that Tan Changlin had just landed on the ground when a big yellow dog suddenly leapt out from the side and bit at Tan Changlin

Frightened Xu Man shivered

Tan Changlin was even more scared, hands and feet in a hurry and again grasped the railing to flip up

As a result, the more anxious he was, the more mistakes he made, and he was hooked

The upper end of the gate is in the shape of an arrow, and the sharp head is above

Tan Changlin didn’t pay attention and was in a hurry to jump down

Only to hear a hiss, his pants were torn open

Xu Wen subconsciously raised his head and saw the edge of a pair of large blue cloth pants, abruptly lowering his head again

“Tan Changlin”

Tan Changlin was now in a dilemma between up and down, and when he heard Xu Man call out to him, he gave a muffled hmmm

He had wanted to play a handsome game in front of Xu Man, but as a result, he had lost all of his life today

Climbing through someone’s gate and being chased out by a dog was just a matter of time, but he also tore up his □□□

His face became ugly, and he was even more afraid to look at Xu Wen

“That dog ,” Xu asked, raising his hand and pointing to the courtyard, “is chained”

Tan Changlin: “”

He twisted around and looked down, and the force was so strong that he almost threw himself off the gate

Sure enough, as Xu Qian had said, it was a dog with no freedom, only able to bark furiously at him within its limited range of motion

Even if he stopped climbing back, the dog couldn’t bite him

So, instead of making himself more handsome by flipping the gate in and out, he had torn his pants and disgraced himself?

Tan Changlin gritted his teeth and locked eyes with the woodchuck on the ground that was still desperately jumping at his feet and biting furiously at him

Seems to be comparing who is more ferocious

Xu asked, “”

The people in the courtyard were about to be startled by the barking of the dog and finally stirred

“Rhubarb! Stop barking!”

Hearing the familiar voice, Big Yellow looked back and grunted twice in a low voice, wagging his tail, still looking warily at the two uninvited guests outside the door, but the barking lowered

Xu Wen raised an eyebrow, this voice she also found familiar, if she wasn’t wrong it should be Luo Zemin

With the sound of footsteps approaching from afar, Luo Zemin appeared in front of the main door, seeing Xu Man she froze, then with a joyful face: ”Comrade Xu Man, you’re finally here! I was afraid you wouldn’t be able to find me!”

Xu Man forced a smile, thinking, “I was also quite afraid that I wouldn’t be able to find you

As he spoke, Luo Zemin saw Luo Zemin, who was still riding on top of the gate, and was a bit puzzled, “This comrade is? Riding on our company’s gate for what?”

Tan Changlin: “”

Xu asked, “”

“It’s a long story, for now it’s better to trouble you to help find a pair of pants for my friend!” Xu Man pointed at Tan Changlin

Luo Zemin took a few more steps closer at this moment, and when he looked up, he saw Tan Changlin’s predicament, and forced a smile and nodded, “Then you guys wait a little while”

He ran back and back again, first throwing a pair of work pants to Luo Zemin above the gate, “They were issued by the previous unit, I haven’t worn them yet, so you’ll have to make do for a while” Again, he unlocked the lock on the gate, leaving the side without Tan Changlin open, allowing Xu Man to come in first

He pointed to the small cubicles, “My office is there, you go ahead and wait for a while There’s tea on the table, help yourself”

Xu Man also knew that if he was here, Tan Changlin would be too embarrassed to change his pants, so he didn’t make much of a fuss with Luo Zemin, said thank you, and lowered his head as he entered the courtyard and headed for the boarding houses

These boarding houses are slightly away from the main gate, sitting in the west and facing east

The material of the houses was not something Xu Wen was familiar with, about plasterboard

It was very low, and each house had only one small window in addition to a door

Xu Man didn’t know which of these rooms was Luo Zemin’s office, so he had to check them out one by one from the first room on the side

The door of the first room opened, a wave of heat Inside the furnishings are very simple, a bed, a table, a chair, a closet, should be Luo Zemin’s residence

The packing was still quite clean

Although the bottom of his heart wondered how Luo Zemin had been reduced to living here, he still left the room based on the principle of “don’t look at me without honor”

The second room looks like a kitchen, there is a gas stove, next to a cupboard

A stone in the center of the room was covered with a square wooden board, and there was leftover food on it, with mosquitoes and flies circling around at this moment

Xu Wen frowned, closed the door and opened the third room

This time, he finally found the right one

The office was the same as the bedroom, very simple but cleaned up

Two writing desks occupied half of the space, with a pick of long wooden benches on the side that could do about two people

One writing desk was piled high with books and materials, the other was temporarily empty, with what Luo Zemin said was a tea set on it

There was a fan in the room, but it was still uncomfortably hot

A house like this was permeated by the sun, and having a fan was futile

Xu Wen sweated just as she sat down

She wore a pair of white pants, fearing that sitting and sweating too much would make it awkward to stand up later, she simply stood in front of the writing desk

The books and materials on the writing desk were all related to printers There were also some hand-drawn drawings and data

Xu Man looked down and saw that it should be 3d printer related, it should be the printer she wanted

She picked it up and flipped through it

Luo Zemin’s handwriting was beautiful, but because of his Chinese heritage, he used more English for labeling and such

Luckily, Xu Wen could read it

The more she read, the more she smacked her lips

First of all, Luo Zemin had to be praised, he was indeed a talented person, and it was estimated that his achievements in the field of printers were no worse than Tan Changlin’s He was only a representative of the direction of scientific research

Only one represents the direction of scientific research, one is the direction of business, the pattern is different, Luo Zemin is slightly worse

In addition, Xu Wen lamented that it was fortunate that Second Brother knew Luo Zemin

After reading these data, she realized that with her own layman’s knowledge and the things she searched on the magic mirror, she couldn’t make such a precise instrument

Just by looking at these drawings and data, Xu Wen was already looking forward to the finished printer

It was at this time that Luo Zemin led Tan Changlin in

“Why don’t you turn on the fan?” Luo Zemin wiped the sweat from his forehead and plugged in the fan, blowing towards Xu Man in a very gentlemanly manner

Xu Man had the good sense to take the initiative to reach out and press the button on the fan’s oscillating head

Luo Zemin first poured Xu Man and Tan Changlin a cup of water

Xu Man apologized on behalf of Tan Changlin, “Sorry! We were shouting outside the door just now, you probably didn’t hear us My friend took the liberty of wanting to come in to see if there was anyone, and ended up accidentally ”

Tan Changlin was thirsty and was drinking water, when he heard Xu Man’s words, he smiled in embarrassment, “I’m sorry ”

Luo Zemin does not care much, waving his hand, also filled a cup of cool tea water, “Mainly usually just myself here, so regularly lock the door and forget to open it”

“I heard that you resigned? Was it because of helping me with the printer?” Xu Wen said with concern, with a bit of self-doubt in his tone

“Right!” Luo Zemin nodded without hesitation

Xu Man apologized, “I’m sorry!”

“What are you apologizing for?” Luo Zemin gave her a strange look, “Should I say thank you?”

Xu Wen, “??”

Luo Zemin then reacted to the fact that Xu Wen had misunderstood and waved his hand, signaling for them to sit down and said, “I wasn’t fired by the company Truly resigned on my own”

“Why?”

Luo Zemin pointed at the drawings in Xu Man’s hand and said, “Because I want to open my own factory and become a boss Of course, this requires your permission, or entry into the business”

Xu Man raised his eyebrows, “What do you mean?”

Luo Zemin drank another cup of tea, “It’s a bit of a long story ”

Luo Zemin’s family was forced to emigrate decades ago, and he was born abroad

But unlike other rich immigrants, their family was considered stowaways, and their living conditions were particularly poor

Later, his father died early after doing hard work for years that was bad for his health, and his mother married a local widower

Only then did he have a household registration and was able to attend school openly Though schooling was also difficult

His stepfather didn’t have any money, so he went to school mainly by his own hard work and thrift

So he worked his way up to his current company after graduating from college

His grades were actually very good, but due to some environmental reasons, such as racial discrimination, he could only find a small company

He was lucky that the company grew more and more, and he was considered a contributor to the company’s growth, and his position and salary kept going up

Not long after graduating from college, I lost my mother a few years ago

It just so happens that the company’s top management is interested in our country’s uncultivated market and cheap labor, so they want to come over to try the water

Luo Zemin remembered that his parents are longing to return to their roots, so he took the opportunity to transfer to this side, basically equivalent to their second-in-command here

The first-in-command was of course someone from someone else’s country

“Even if I sell my life for this company until the day I die, I’m still just an ‘outsider’, as in, even if I have that country’s domicile, I still can’t enjoy the same treatment as them

In the past two years, especially this year, I’ve watched our country develop vigorously, and I’ve watched this land change day by day I’ve been thinking that I don’t want to work anymore!

I want to be my own boss and add bricks and mortar to our country Although I have the nationality of another country, I have not forgotten for a moment that this is my root

I hadn’t thought about what to do until the day I took the information you gave me and went back to read it all night That night, I lost sleep

Early the next morning I went to the company to hand in my resignation and rented such a small courtyard”

About afraid that Xu Man misunderstood, Luo Zemin added, “Don’t worry, I didn’t touch the printer’s payment Renting this yard and plant is my savings over the years

I want to wait for the first printer to be made out, and discuss with you, cooperation to open a factory”

Xu asked, “”

For a moment, he was so shocked that he didn’t know what to say

The printer hadn’t even been made yet, and it wasn’t exactly known if it could be made yet, and Luo Zemin had quit his job?

What if it was going to fail?

And the matter of cooperating to open a factory had never even crossed her mind

She did the printer only wanted to buckle a big cage for the Kaya

Tan Changlin didn’t have such concerns as Xu asked, and asked in a dry and straightforward manner, “So have you made the printer yet?”

“Not yet!” Luo Zemin honestly shook his head

Xu asked, “”

Tan Changlin: “”

Both had one thought: who gave you the courage to resign?

“But it’s coming soon! There are still a few parts missing I’ve already ordered them abroad, and they should arrive in a couple days It’s about eighty-eight percent complete now” Luo Zemin invited them with an excited face, “Do you guys want to take a look?”

Xu Wen and Tan Changlin nodded without hesitation

They had come just for the 3d printer

Luo Zemin took the lead and led them into the first large workshop

Tan Changlin looked left and right for a long time, only seeing two or three youths getting a few more slender square tubes, so he asked Luo Zemin: “Where’s the 3d printer?”

Luo Zemin pointed to the several long arms hanging above the workshop, and pointed to the three youths assembling the square tubes again, “This is it! It’s still missing the last arm, it’ll be finished in a while When the parts come and are pressed on, it’ll be ready to use when you guys hit the program”

Tan Changlin: “”

He held up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and was so shocked that his mouth couldn’t close, “This this is a three-dimensional printer?”

Are you kidding?

Who’s printer looks like this?

Even if this square tube is pressed on, the whole thing looks like a rectangle

With the printer he is familiar with can be half a bit not like

The printers he knew were all square, or cubic or rectangular, big or small, and definitely not like this

Xu Wen is through the magic mirror to understand a lot of three-dimensional printers, and then again the appearance of this figure is also her drawing, so there is psychological preparation, just

Xu Man frowned: “How many meters can this be made the longest?”

Luo Zemin said, “Ten meters”

“So short?” Xu Man frowned, ten meters was not enough

The width was fine, the length was far from enough

Whose warship was ten meters long? It’s not like it’s a bus

Luo Zemin spread his hands, “There’s no way I looked for a lot of foreign experts and friends have asked, I myself have done a lot of tests, the limit I can do is ten meters long and five meters wide

“Impossible!” Xu Man shook his head, “Five meters high is even less”

Is a sea five meters deep still called a sea?