Chapter 1 (1/2)
Baozixuan is in a good mood these days. He hasn't returned home since he came to London from Xiangjiang two years ago; Finally going home. As one of the few students in Xiangjiang, he was directly admitted to Oxford University and MIT exchange students from middle school. After graduation, he was awarded two school degrees. This is a student who will be valued in any country in the world; It can be said to be extremely rare.
I haven't seen my mother since I left Xiangjiang at the age of 17. It's not easy for my mother to grow up alone. In order to save travel expenses and earn more money during holidays to reduce mother's pressure. It can be said that baozixuan has done a lot of work in the past two years. She has been a tour guide, a translator and even a waiter in a Chinese restaurant at the beginning.
Xiangjiang, a port city that was concession by Britain in the Qing Dynasty, will return to the embrace of China in 20 years. However, in many cases, they still act in accordance with the British style, so the first choice for many excellent Xiangjiang students to study abroad is British universities. Bao Zixuan was forced to study here by a single mother under this background.
This summer vacation has 45 days. At the beginning of September, Bao Zixuan will go to MIT to report. Then he will finish his remaining two years of study at MIT and think he can see his mother soon. Bao Zixuan boarded the plane with a long prepared gift.
There are other students from Xiangjiang on the same plane as him. Because he was not in a circle at ordinary times, he was soon ignored. Although baozixuan is not very handsome, he is 178 cm tall and has a little melancholy temperament; And the bonus of famous schools can still attract some girls.
But every day except in the classroom and laboratory; Xiangjiang boys who were working and on the way to work didn't give any girls access at all; In addition, the performance in Oxford, which is full of talents, is only medium. Over time, the female students in Oxford didn't pay attention to him and were soon forgotten in the corner.
This also makes baozixuan spend more time on work and study. He only attended the Xiangjiang students' Party in London twice, so it seems that he is an alternative to Xiangjiang's hometown. Other students either study finance or architecture; Xiangjiang entered the mainstream courses of the elite class very well. He was the only one who chose aviation power and machinery manufacturing; A standard Polytechnic man.
Watching two or three people chatting on the plane, baozixuan was looking at the research direction of CNC machine tools in a window position, a book that only a few people in Oxford understood. Seeing the book he read, a middle-aged man was interested in reading it for a while. He chatted with his daughter sitting next to him.
The middle-aged man is about 45 years old and looks like a superior temperament; Especially the eyes give people a very sharp feeling. In fact, what baozixuan doesn't know is that the middle-aged man's name is Zhang Yuliang. He is the second generation of famous giants in Xiangjiang. The family has a deep influence in Xiangjiang. It's just that Zhangjia has been low-key development and has not attracted people's attention like other emerging families. Although Zhang Yuliang is the fourth in the ranking, people with real insight know it; With his ability, he will squeeze out three brothers and become the new leader of Zhangjiakou. On this business trip to Britain, I knew that my daughter would return to Xiangjiang from London; In order to spend more time with his daughter, he asked his men to leave first after he finished his work. After waiting for two days, I got on a plane with my daughter and went back to Xiangjiang; However, due to the hurry of booking air tickets, we can only take economy class.
Zhang Yuliang's daughter, named Zhang Youran, is 20 years old. She is a junior majoring in accounting in the Department of finance at Cardiff University. In fact, Zhang Youran looks ok. She is a girl who can score 80 points. Just in front of Zhang Yuliang, some people can't let go. No wonder, Xiangjiang Zhang's family style is rigorous, and Zhang Youran was born to Zhang Yuliang's third wife. In the 1950s and 1960s, Xiangjiang still followed the ancient law and could take multiple wives. It was not abolished until nearly two years.
Seeing Zhang Youran, he was a little restrained. When the plane flew smoothly, Zhang Yuliang looked at the young man sitting next to him. From the moment he got on the plane, a young man who didn't see anything except reading books seemed to have some curiosity in his heart.
Zhang Yuliang took the initiative to find a topic in order to make his daughter less formal and open up in front of him. Twist to her daughter's ear and ask in a low voice, ”however, do you know the boy next to you?”
Zhang Youran: ”he's not from our school. He should be from London, but I haven't seen him at the Xiangjiang students' party. But I've heard some rumors about him. ”
Zhang Yuliang: ”is he very famous!”
Zhang Youran: ”fame is nothing, that is, one of the few Xiangjiang students who choose science and engineering and should study in Oxford. I basically didn't attend the Party of Xiangjiang students, so everyone just heard of such a person. ”
Zhang Yuliang: ”what book is he reading?”
Zhang Youran: ”it seems to be about machine tools.”