Siheyuan: My Northeastern Farmhouse

Chapter 284 Starting Again (Transitional Chapter)

Gu Weijun took out a cigar and talked to the neighbors in the courtyard. All the people who had smoked said what the foreigner was smoking.

They are not as easy to smoke as our domestic dry cigarettes, and they are so spicy!

It's not as rich and mellow as our domestic cigarettes at all.

It can be seen that people in foreign countries are really living in dire straits.

After Gu's father came back from get off work, the neighbors in the courtyard went home to eat. Gu Weijun took out the sobered red wine and poured a glass for everyone in his family. At his brother's strong request, he also poured some for him.

"Bah!" My younger brother Gu Weimin couldn't wait to take a sip and his face twisted into a ball. "What the hell is this? It looks red and beautiful, but why is there no sweetness at all?"

"Haha!" The whole family laughed at his brother's expression. Gu Weijun held the bowl with three fingers and demonstrated first, "This is foreign wine. It does not contain sugar. You have to drink it in small sips, roll your tongue, and then Let the wine flow back and forth between your mouth and tongue to fully appreciate the fruity aroma.”

Gu Ma was so annoyed that she took a big sip and said, "This foreigner is so coy, it's not easy to drink like this!"

"And the degree is still so low?"

"What's the point of drinking?"

"Uh~" Gu Weijun was wasting his efforts in vain. It was equivalent to ogling a blind man. He didn't even dare to mention that this bottle of red wine was worth thousands of dollars for fear of getting beaten.

Gu Ma drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp, then smacked her lips, "It's still tasteless!"

"Forget it, you guys just drink it. Next time you bring something sweet for me and your brother, it will be better than this thing!"

Gu Ma's words immediately shocked Gu Weijun. The cultural differences are irreconcilable. What would happen if Catherine and Constance met after coming to China? Do I still arrange to meet?

Fortunately, Dad Gu followed Gu Weijun's explanation, took a sip, and said with a smile: "It's not bad, but it's almost boring for us to drink from a bowl."

"This red wine should be served in a glass."

"Don't we have a poem?"

"Glow-in-the-dark cup of grape wine!"

Gu Weimin immediately took over, "If you want to drink Pipa, hurry up!"

"Haha!" There was singing and laughter in the Gu family's house. Lou Xiao'e stood at the window and looked out, feeling depressed. Gu Weijun's performance today shattered the extravagant hopes deep in her heart. Some people would be gone if they missed it.

Everyone in Qin Huairu's family in the middle courtyard also looked happy. Although the main dishes on the table were corn paste and noodles, plus a stir-fried cabbage, but now that Gu Weijun is back, is the meat still far behind?

Especially Jia Zhang, who kept winking at Qin Huairu and asking her to go directly to the backyard to see if she could order meat and vegetables, but Qin Huairu ignored her. What was she thinking? Gu Weijun just came back for a family reunion. Wouldn't it be annoying to go up on a pole like this?

Banggeng discovered grandma's intention, and gradually slowed down his chopsticks in cooperation, and finally said directly: "Mom, I want to eat meat!"

"Bang!" Qin Huairu suddenly got angry and slapped the chopsticks in his hand on the table, "If you like it, eat it, if you don't like it, get out!"

"You have less food to eat or less clothes to wear?"

"Did you eat less meat before?"

"Go and ask your classmates, who usually eats as much meat as you do?"

"How long has it been since I've eaten meat? Why are you so embarrassed by me?"

"Your Uncle Dajun took pity on us. Every time he got meat and rice noodles, he asked me to spend some money to buy some back for you to improve your life. Do you think other families in the courtyard have this condition?"

"You've only had good food for a few days and you don't know who you are?"

"I asked you to eat well and keep your clothes neatly dressed. What did I do wrong?"

Qin Huairu's sudden outburst left Jia Zhang and Banggan stunned. The impression that Qin Huairu had always had was that she worked diligently for this family and spared no effort to keep them well fed and clothed.

This time it was just because Gu Weijun came back and asked her to get some meat. Why did she react so badly?

In fact, they don't know that it really makes a difference whether there is someone to support them? Especially in the past month, after losing Gu Weijun's funding, Qin Huairu put in a lot of effort to maintain her living standard from falling.

So she sincerely felt that her dependence and attachment to Gu Weijun was growing day by day. With him back, she finally had a backbone. However, seeing that Jia Zhang and Bang Gen still looked so ignorant, Qin Huairu felt that all her hard work was in vain! The old one doesn't care, the young one takes it for granted. Besides Gu Weijun, who else cares about her and knows her suffering?

Thinking of this, Qin Huairu's tears fell unsatisfactorily.

It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Seeing Qin Huairu angry and crying, Jia Zhang and Bang Geng became honest. They still knew that whether they could eat meat often depended on Qin Huairu!

Other families in the courtyard also have different thoughts, including envy, jealousy, and hatred.

After dinner, Gu, the delivery boy, Wei Jun, started his delivery career. Starting from Aunt Wang's house, relatives, friends, and city bureau leaders delivered the gifts one by one.

Because Aunt Wang served as the director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, she asked Gu Weijun to ask about the situation of many overseas Chinese and Hong Kong compatriots. She learned that Gu Weijun had worked closely with French friends and Hong Kong patriotic compatriots to open factories, and she greatly praised his actions.

However, after asking a few words to her French friends, Aunt Wang's eyes immediately changed when she learned that they were young women. She looked at Gu Weijun with suspicion and asked him to run away.

Gu Weijun’s final destination in the evening was Tsinghua University.

In Principal Jiang Nanxiang's office, he saw that his beloved disciple had returned from a mission abroad and brought back a gold pen. After playing with it for a while, Principal Jiang asked with a cold face: "Is the mission completed?"

Gu Weijun stood there and replied loudly: "The mission was successfully completed!"

"Oh~" Principal Jiang sneered at the corner of his mouth, and the lenses of his glasses cast a cold light. He raised the pen in one hand and shook it, "This gold Parker pen is worth a lot of money!"

"How did you have the money to buy this?"

After putting it away carefully, Principal Jiang slammed the table and said, "Bang!" "Tell me, have you done anything that harms the interests of the motherland?"

Gu Weijun had an innocent look in his eyes. Hey, women are just unreliable. How can you buy something at such an expensive price?

Gu Weijun could only spread his hands and explain helplessly, "Principal, I met a few confidantes in France. They are rich."

"They all bought it with their help."

"Both leader Fang of the technical team and Ambassador Huang in France know about it."

The study room suddenly fell into silence. After a while, Principal Jiang recovered from his shock and squeezed out two words, "Talent!" Then he lowered his head and waved his hand, indicating to get out.

This student is becoming more and more incomprehensible to himself.

At Li Youshan's house, Mr. Li Youshan and his wife, Professor Xu Huimin, were overjoyed when they saw Gu Weijun. They even put the gifts aside without looking at them, and pulled him to tell him two pieces of great news.

The 2-ton hydraulic press was successfully developed!

And it has been shipped to Wuhan and is ready for assembly!

The success of the 2-ton hydraulic press has allowed us to get rid of the foreign technical blockade in this area, allowing our research and development of aircraft, ships, submarines, etc. to reach a higher level!

This is a qualitative breakthrough in technology after Jiangnan Shipyard successfully spliced ​​a 61-ton hydraulic press in !

This is replicable!

This is the most meaningful!

Xu Huijuan excitedly told Gu Weijun that within a few days after he went abroad, people from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Swiss Academy of Sciences came, and there were more than one. They were all a group who came to visit the Beijing Pharmaceutical Factory.

After scientists from both countries observed the efficacy of cimetidine in detail at Union Hospital, they all showed incredible expressions and gave thumbs up!

I have great admiration for Chinese scientific researchers!

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences directly listed the invention of this drug on the list of the 66 Nobel Prize in Chemistry!

After this result came out, Swiss pharmaceutical companies heard the news and directly asked the lion to buy the patent for US$100 million!

After hearing the news, Gu Weijun couldn't sit still and asked nervously: "Mrs. Li, have we sold it?"

(End of this chapter)