Chapter 335 - Talented Person (2/2)

“Draw the engine?”

“That’s an engineering drawing with a four-star difficulty factor!”

The students, being all from the same major, appreciated the difficulty of this challenge—there were various curves and slopes, the intersections of circ.u.mscribed circles and inscribed circles, and the scale of work was nothing short of intimidating. Were they really going to compete on this task?

“Yilin, I invited Xiao Luo to share his experiences and insights, not to compare drawing skills with you. Sit down and stop making a scene. I suggest you listen to Xiao Luo’s opinions with an open mind. He is your senior and a pioneer who’s already forged his way ahead of you. His opinions may prove valuable, and it’d only do you good.”

Yu Jiangu intervened and did not want Guan Yilin to continue making a scene, and besides, he was afraid that Xiao Luo would lose. It was kind of Xiao Luo to accept his invitation to be there, but if this challenge were to cause his relations.h.i.+p with Xiao Luo to sour, then it’d be too late for regrets.

“Master Yu, comparing technical skills, is also considered a kind of sharing. Senior Xiao, am I right?” Guan Yilin’s overweening att.i.tude was on full display again at the moment. Despite being younger, she saw herself as an equal to Xiao Luo, priding herself with her ability to get an invitation from CITIC Bank while still in her senior year.

Xiao Luo nodded his head. “I agree.”

Yu Jiangu coughed several times dryly and advised Xiao Luo not to play to Guan Yilin’s tune. It would be fine if he won the contest, but he would be ridiculed by the whole cla.s.s if he lost.

Xiao Luo gestured with his hand to say that it’d be fine, and he actually felt that these juniors were quite an interesting lot, especially this Guan Yilin, who was br.i.m.m.i.n.g over with self-confidence. It was a quality he quite admired but certainly didn’t like. Being constantly challenged by his juniors, he had to continually prove himself to maintain his dignity and pride as a senior.

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Xiao Luo had to use Yu Jiangu’s laptop, while Guan Yilin worked her own computer.

The data sheets of two engines were placed in front of them, and Guan Yilin immediately started drafting the engine design in AutoCAD according to the parameters described.

Xiao Luo didn’t do it right away but instead read the datasheet thoroughly. Having had several years of experience working in the Huahai Group, his use of AutoCAD had reached a much more advanced level. He opted to use a holistic approach in his integrated workflow process, rather than working according to how the data was presented in the engineering datasheet.

Such an approach would be haphazard and would cause mistakes to be made as the designing process went on, hence, increasing his workload and forcing constant corrections. Xiao Luo’s approach considered the overall scope and the steps and factors required to complete the task before defining the workflow process. Thus, he mitigated any risks of errors when he started drafting.

“Xiao Luo, hurry up! she has already drawn a third of the engine!”

Seeing the engine taking shape on Guan Yilin’s computer screen, Guan Tong felt anxious for Xiao Luo.

“Surely it couldn’t be that he doesn’t know where to start drawing from, right?”

“Auto CAD is the required design software that we must master for our major, it’s the most basic thing.”

“Haha, if the senior doesn’t know how to do it, it’ll be a big joke!”

Some of the students began mocking Xiao Luo him, inwardly eager to see him embarra.s.s himself.

Footnotes:

[1] a Chinese phrase that could mean “hybrid,” in the context of the couplet, a pun that implies “b*stard.”

[2] “Lao Tzu”: the Taoist sage who wrote the Tao Te Ching, or a swear word meaning “your father.” In the couplet, Xiao Luo applied a double entendre to elevate his status and swear at Guan Yilin.[3] “Lao Shu”: in Chinese “lao,” meaning “old” and “shu,” meaning “mouse.” Here, Shen s.h.i.+ya implies that Xiao Luo attempted to use his age to his advantage, even when his knowledge was no better than his juniors.

[4] “Wu Gui” is the Chinese word for “turtles.””Wu” also means “black.” Here, Xiao Luo implies that Shen s.h.i.+ya and Guan Yilin were “behaving like turtles,” meaning they were cowards. (Turtles being a metaphor for cowardice among Chinese as they withdraw into their sh.e.l.ls in times of trouble.)

[5] in Chinese, literally, “Without face, one will be invincible,” implying that one is shameless.

[6] in Chinese, literally, “Without bark, one will die,” implying that “Keeping a good reputation is as essential as the bark is to a tree,” hence if one is not careful with one’s actions, then be prepared to lose one’s reputation. It can also be construed as an insult, as the word “bark” has a direct reference to her “face.”

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