"Uh... this..."
"Alright, enough with this and that, this is a gentleman's agreement. Xu Dajiang, you scheme and calculate every day, if you can't even handle this, you might as well retire early. Don't let it get in the way of your meal, go about your business."
Chen Yuanzhi waved his hand, clearly shooing him away.
...
After leaving the administrative building of the university, Xu Dajiang felt more and more annoyed the more he thought about it.
This clearly wasn't right.
How did he get roped into this with just a few words?
Not only did he get the responsibility of a full-scale audit of the school's special research funds thrown at him, but he also had some inexplicable burden added?
What did they mean by accommodating his wishes?
If real problems were found, the credit would go to the leadership, and if no problems were found, was it Xu Dajiang from the School of Mathematics who personally requested it?
No, even if real problems were discovered, and others were involved, wouldn't that mean he had to take the blame?
Xu Dajiang's eyebrows twitched. He suspected that, in a few days, the whole school would be spreading stories about Xu Dajiang going to the principal to demand an audit of research funds.
He was tempted to turn back and have another chat with Chen Yuanzhi, but the difference in their statuses...
This damn...
A thousand-year-old fox indeed!
Fortunately, he wasn't ambitious anymore, or else he'd certainly have been doomed!
...
At the same time, Chen Yuanzhi stood by the window, watching Xu Dajiang leave the administrative building before picking up the phone and making a call.
"Secretary Zhou, hello... Yes, I've just had a talk with Xu Dajiang... Sigh, don't even mention it, he still doesn't understand, I don't know if he's eaten gunpowder, a fifty-year-old man with such a fiery temper. He slammed the table in my office and said if this matter isn't clarified, nobody will have peace."
"Hmm... what else is there to say? Of course, he needs to be criticized... I've already told him off, yes, his attitude has improved a bit. But who knows what he's really thinking? However, to be fair, Zhang does indeed have difficulties, with so many schools in the university, how can anyone distribute resources evenly?
"Professor Li."
"Uncle Li, it's fruit time."
"Alright, why did you buy so much?"
"Thinking that Aunt Lu would come tomorrow, we just bought a bit more of everything. I'm going off to find Qiao Ze." Su Mucheng explained and then hopped off to the lab.
As expected, Qiao Ze was still sitting there.
Tan Jingrong wanted to talk with Li Jian about Zuo Jie, but seeing his mentor busy writing a letter, he felt the timing wasn't right, so he followed Su Mucheng to the lab, planning to continue working.
After all, the project hadn't officially been handed over to the Youwei Group, and the work at hand had to continue.
As Tan Jingrong opened the work interface, he overheard the two opposite discussing the project.
"My dad just mentioned he had something to ask you. I hope it's not interrupting?"
"No, it's fine."
"Hold on, let me check WeChat. The first thing is, the Youwei side asked if you could go to the Shencheng headquarters and give their technicians a few lessons, broadly introducing this framework and algorithm."
"I won't go, but I can write an instruction document."
"Alright."
"Also, we need to arrange a technical contact person on our side, Qiao Ze, whom do you think is suitable?"
"Tan Jingrong."
"Just what I was thinking, Tan is indeed suited for the job. But it requires being ONCALL; that shouldn't be an issue for Tan, right?"
"Ah? I have no problem with being the contact or ONCALL. But what if a real engineering problem arises that I can't solve?" Tan Jingrong quickly responded.
His heart was torn between joy and concern. Being the technical contact for Youwei Group would undoubtedly allow him to learn a lot; he just feared not being up to the task.
"No worries, there's always the work log. If there's an unsolvable issue, you can ask me any time, and I'll help you ask Qiao Ze."
"Uh... then I have no problem." Tan Jingrong