Reborn in the red age

After more than a month, the summer vacation is about to end. The news of the satellite launch was also covered by the same bigger news, and no one paid attention to Li Qingfeng anymore.

After staying with the old couple in Gusu for a few more days, Li Qingfeng and his family decided to leave and return to Sijiu City.

Before leaving, the father-in-law looked at his son-in-law and daughter packing their luggage and said with some concern: "Why don't you ask Jiadong to drive over to pick you up? I don't think it's safe for you to take the train."

"It's okay. The two places are not far away, and there are so many people on the train. Nothing serious will happen." Li Qingfeng waved his hand, thinking that his father-in-law was a little too worried.

"What's the point of having so many people? What happened on the long-distance bus a few days ago? There were a lot of people on the bus. If something really happened, wouldn't they be scared to death?"

Regarding what his father-in-law said, Qingfeng Li also read about it in the newspapers during the few days since he came back.

A few days ago, a vicious case occurred on a bus bound for Shanghai.

Eight bandits stopped a bus, raped two girls first, and then robbed the entire bus of people. The incident was quite a big deal and has been mentioned a lot in the newspapers recently.

The mother-in-law beside him also advised: "You should listen to your father. It is too dangerous outside the city now. It is safer to drive on the highway."

Hu Jiabao was also someone who read the news in the newspaper. As a woman, she was naturally timid, and after listening to her parents' advice, she couldn't help but feel a little worried.

He looked at Li Qingfeng and said hesitantly: "Qingfeng, Ai Dang and the others are not here, why don't we let my brother come and pick us up?"

Seeing that the three of them all had the same idea, Li Qingfeng didn't know how to refute any further. He just felt that it would be too much trouble to send someone all the way from the Magic City.

After thinking for a while, Li Qingfeng said, "Since you think it's unsafe to take the train, why don't we take a taxi to the airport? My eldest brother's family is busy with business, so let's not trouble them."

“That’s okay too”

Hu Yuanshan thought about taking a taxi to the airport, which would also be on the highway, so there wouldn't be any robbers or anything like that. So he simply agreed, took out the phone book from the drawer, and called the taxi company to make a reservation.

Chartering a car to Hongqiao Airport is a big job. Not only can you collect charter fees, but you may also be able to pick up a passenger and make more money when you return from the airport. Therefore, taxis come very quickly.

Within half an hour after my father-in-law made the call, a Changhe van painted like a taxi appeared downstairs.

After bidding farewell to his father-in-law and his wife, Li Qingfeng and his family boarded a Changhe van, drove out of the city onto the highway, and headed towards the Magic City.

The taxi driver was a talkative man. During the more than one-hour journey, he never stopped talking and kept chatting with Li Qingfeng about all sorts of things.

From national politics to satellite launches, to trivial matters happening in the city of Gusu, such as which old brand has launched a new pastry, or which new and unique shop has opened on which street.

Li Qingfeng was not a local and did not pay much attention to these matters. He just responded in a disjointed manner.

Hu Jiabao, who was sitting in the back seat, was more interested in the latest news about Suzhou City mentioned by the driver. He would occasionally interject and ask more detailed questions.

From the driver, Li Qingfeng also heard a little thing that he had long forgotten. Li Laosan, who ran a game room, had a bad reputation in Gusu. He was too embarrassed to stay there any longer, so he left Gusu.

Before leaving, he found a few thugs to block Lin Hong who was returning home from get off work and broke his arm.

After listening to this, Qingfeng Li sighed for a while.

But it's just a sigh. At that time, he had already given all the advice he needed. If the other person didn't listen, it couldn't be blamed on Li Qingfeng.

Three hours later, Li Qingfeng's family of four arrived smoothly at the Capital International Airport and returned home safely under the smooth driving of Sun Aidang.

"There's so much dust in the capital. I haven't been home for more than a month and my house is covered in a thick layer of dust."

When the door opened and Hu Jiabao saw the thick layer of dust on the furniture in the room, he couldn't help complaining.

Li Qingfeng glanced at the thick layer of dust on the furniture and wanted to run away immediately.

Just when Li Qingfeng was thinking of an excuse to run away, Chuyi, who also realized what was going to happen next, spoke first: "Mom, I made an appointment with my classmate before I left. I agreed to go to her house to find her as soon as I came back. I can't break the appointment, so I'm leaving first."

After leaving these words, Chuyi threw away the small schoolbag on his back and was about to run away.

No one knows a daughter better than her mother. As soon as Chuyi opened her mouth, Hu Jiabao knew what Chuyi was going to do.

Before she could open the door and run away, Hu Jiabao had already grabbed the pigtail behind her head.

"No one can escape. Everyone clean up the house today."

Hu Jiabao's unquestionable voice came, and while he spoke, the corner of his eye kept glancing at Li Qingfeng.

Li Qingfeng touched his nose, smiled awkwardly, gave up the idea of ​​running away, and prepared to work honestly.

Hu Jiabao grabbed Chuyi's pigtail and began to assign tasks to the father and his two sons. Even Shiwu was given the task of wiping the table.

After the instructions, the family of four each did their job and started cleaning the house.

Chuyi, who was reluctant to do any work, came to Li Qingfeng and asked weakly, "Dad, when will Aunt Cai come back? I miss her so much."

"It should be soon. It's been more than half a year. I estimate that he will be back in two or three months." Li Qingfeng, who was also quietly working without putting in any effort, calculated the time in his mind and gave an answer.

"Ah, it will take another two or three months."

"Giving birth to a child, do you think it's a small matter?"

Chuyi stopped what he was doing and asked curiously, "Isn't giving birth to a child a trivial matter? Grandma said that when she gave birth to you and your aunt, she didn't even have a rest. She was still at work in the morning, and she went home in the afternoon to give birth to you and your aunt. It didn't affect her work at all."

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Li Qingfeng smacked his lips, thinking that his daughter had the potential to be a capitalist. Well, just to be lazy, she even wanted to exploit pregnant women.

There were only a few days left before school started, and Hu Jiabao did not go to work for the next few days. He stayed at home and watched his two children do their summer homework.

Li Qingfeng got back to work the next day.

The company was very busy in the second half of the year. In addition to the satellite launch, the equipment shipped from the United States was about to arrive in the mainland, the photolithography plant team was officially established, the first self-developed vehicle of Fei Chi Automobile was launched, the layout of Lemon Company in China, and the global promotion of online wallets. There were too many things to do. Even if Li Qingfeng tried his best to delegate power to the people below, there was still a lot of work that needed to be handled by Li Qingfeng himself.

Arriving at the Huaxin Building, Li Qingfeng first went to the domestic headquarters where the framework had already been established, met with Ding Guangqing, the highest person in charge of the domestic headquarters of Lemon Company, and learned about the situation at the domestic headquarters.

Afterwards, he took the elevator and went upstairs to Huaxin to learn about the situation of the lithography factory team and the preparations for the chip factory to receive the 0.8-micron production line.

As soon as he stepped into Huaxin's office area, Li Qingfeng ran into Academician Wang at the elevator entrance, who was seeing off an old man with gray hair on his temples who looked familiar.

Seeing this, Li Qingfeng stepped forward and said with a smile: "Academician Wang, you seem to be getting more and more energetic. What health supplements have you taken recently?"

"Why take health supplements? I'd rather drink some sugar water at home." Academician Wang didn't care about Qingfeng Li's joke at all. He waved his hand and said, "The main reason why I've been in good spirits recently is because of you."

"Me? What do you mean?"

"Of course you are happy to give money. As soon as the photolithography plant project was established, 100 million US dollars was allocated for research and development. With so much money in hand all of a sudden, how can I not be happy?"

"Really? A mere 100 million can have such an effect. If I give you 1 billion, won't you be rejuvenated?"

"Ha ha"

After a brief chat, Academician Wang took the hand of the person next to him and introduced him to Li Qingfeng: "Little Li, let me introduce you. This is Professor Xu Yiyi, a professor at your neighboring Wudaokou School."

Hearing the name, Qingfeng Li immediately recognized who the person was and hurried forward to shake hands with him.

He is a well-known figure in the domestic semiconductor industry and the scientist who led the development of the country's first photolithography machine.

The first photolithography machine and step-and-repeat camera in China were developed under his leadership.

The third-generation automatic alignment step-by-step projection lithography machine, which caused a lot of buzz in the past few years and was once advertised as being able to reach the international advanced level, was also developed by others.

Although the hype is a bit exaggerated, it cannot be denied that the third-generation automatic alignment step-by-step projection lithography machine does pose a certain threat to the international lithography machine giants.

Unfortunately, as soon as there were some minor results, the domestic leaders' desire for quick success and instant benefits began to emerge. They were eager to push these results to the world stage and demonstrate the country's strength in the high-tech field.

This "automatic alignment step-by-step projection lithography machine" was specially developed and exhibited at the "First National Industrial Enterprise Technological Progress Achievement Exhibition".

We have also sent out invitations to international lithography machine peers, inviting them to send representatives to visit the country's highest-level products in the field of lithography machines.

Just invite me. It’s understandable that I want to prove myself after achieving some results.

Unfortunately, at that time, there was no sense of confidentiality in the country. The lithography machine was placed in the exhibition hall for people to visit and study at will. Foreign experts in lithography machines were allowed to study it carefully, and they even took the initiative to open the outer casing to allow them to study the internal structure of the lithography machine.

They also called Xu E-yi over and asked him to answer the foreign delegation's professional questions about lithography machines, and did not tell Xu E-yi that these delegation members were all lithography machine experts from abroad.

I have to say, this is such a stupid thing, it's the only one of its kind in the world.

After the lithography machine experts from these countries thoroughly studied the "automatic alignment step-by-step projection lithography machine", they returned and announced to the outside world that the ban on the export of projection lithography machines to China would be lifted.

In particular, the two countries that produce lithography machines have taken advantage of their price advantages to sell their own lithography machines to domestic companies in large quantities.

The Japanese have studied the heads of these domestic state-owned enterprises thoroughly. While using their price advantage to promote their products, they have also launched a killer weapon: as long as a company buys Japanese lithography machines, the head of that company can come to Japan for a trip, and all expenses during the trip will be borne by the Japanese company.

Wow, when this powerful weapon came out, the leaders were all interested.

After all, the benefits are collective and the enjoyment is one's own. We finally have this opportunity to enjoy it openly, so why not get on the bus and set off?

Faced with this temptation, companies that had already placed orders canceled their orders and instead purchased lithography machines from Japanese companies.

The new automatic lithography machine developed and manufactured by Xu Eyi lost its market and thus its living space, and all his efforts over the years were wasted.

Since then, the domestic lithography machine industry has been completely devastated.

Xu Yuyi himself was also very disappointed with this. He bid farewell to the development of lithography machines and instead began to develop optical disc storage technology.

Qingfeng Li held Xu Yiyi's hand and said with emotion: "Professor Xu, I have heard of your name for a long time. I have long wanted to meet you. Today I finally get to meet you."

"Really? Teacher Li, I live next door to you. The straight-line distance between our residences is no more than two kilometers," Xu Yiyi laughed and joked.

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"It's inappropriate to come here without permission." Li Qingfeng smiled awkwardly and quickly changed the subject: "By the way, why did Professor Xu come to Huaxin today?"

Before Professor Xu could speak, Academician Wang on the side said, "Professor Xu is very interested in our Kunlun Mirror Project. This time he came here to talk to us about joining the Huaxin Kunlun Mirror Project No. 1 Team."

The precedent set by Professor Xu is still there. Now Huaxin attaches great importance to confidentiality and intellectual property rights.

The lithography factory is a confidential project at Huaxin, and a code name has been specially discussed for the lithography factory.

In Chinese mythology, the Kunlun Mirror has magical powers and can see through everything in the world, which is similar to the photolithography machine. Therefore, the photolithography factory plan is called the Kunlun Mirror Project within Huaxin.

After hearing what Academician Wang said, Li Qingfeng was stunned and wanted to ask, "You are starting to work on the photolithography machine again, so will you still work on the optical discs you have?"

This was just a thought in his mind. Li Qingfeng was not ignorant of the ways of the world, so he naturally would not ask such an embarrassing question.

He held Xu Yiyi's hand tightly again and pretended to be excited and said: "Professor Xu, this is really great news. It is an honor for Huaxin that you can join our Kunlun Mirror Project No. 1 Team. I believe that with your joining, our Kunlun Mirror Project will surely be a success."

"Teacher Li, you are too kind. With Academician Wang here, Huaxin's Kunlun Mirror Project can be successful even without me," Professor Xu said modestly.

Academician Wang pursed his lips and was about to say something when he was interrupted by Li Qingfeng's next words.

Li Qingfeng held the two old men's hands respectively, with a sincere look on his face: "Academician Wang and Professor Xu are both leading figures in the industry. Neither of them can be missing."

"You two are simply the dragon and phoenix of Huaxin" (End of this chapter)