Early the next morning after the celebration, David received a call from Roche's headquarters in Switzerland.
"Hello, is this David Andorio?" A feeble voice came from the other end of the phone.
"it's me."
"Oh! God! I finally got your call! This Huaguo's phone number is really amazing. I've been on the phone for an entire afternoon, from work to now. The first person to answer is an old man, I thought I made a mistake. Then I called again and was scolded by him. Only later did I find out what post office was needed for Huaguo's call, and there was a lady with a strange accent. We invited almost all Only Roche Chinese employees managed to contact you. It was a magical experience." The person on the other end of the phone looked very excited.
David let out a good laugh, expressing delight in his colleague's experience. How do you think the dark circles on David's face came from? Last night, he was fighting wits with the uncles and aunts at the Huaguo telephone transfer station. It was such a relief to hear that someone had the same experience as him.
"I solemnly inform you, Mr. Andorio. President Robert invites you to return to Switzerland to report and talk about the practical tips you have discovered."
So David rejected the suggestion of the Ministry of Health and Haidong Province to hold a grand signing ceremony, and flew back to Xiangjiang in the morning.
When David left, he was full of smiles and high spirits. He also specially left Li Zheng his residence and phone number in Xiangjiang, and repeatedly assured that the patent documents would be delivered to Li Zheng as soon as possible. superior.
As for the preparation of the pharmaceutical factory, David said that he will hire a manager as the person in charge of the Yang Proline Pharmaceutical Factory, and he will be responsible for all matters.
The decision caught many off guard. Before the reform and opening up, there were only state-owned enterprises on the land of China, and the relationship between government and enterprises was intertwined and complicated, and it was normal for administrative leaders to intervene in enterprises. In some cases, the number of workers in newly built factories is distributed among officials as a benefit.
These people take it for granted that foreigners build factories as well. As soon as the news that Roche was going to invest and build a factory in Yantian County came out, many well-informed people broke their legs, checked the top and bottom, and waited for the new factory to be built, and put their relatives and friends inside.
Now they are told that the new factory is completely in charge of a strange manager, and they can't get involved at all. This is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for these people!
Especially Wang Aijuan, she has become an ant on a hot pot. She knew that her son was expelled from school, but just like Yang Kaijian, she felt that entering a foreign factory was more promising than going to school. However, foreign factory workers are recruited uniformly by so-called managers and require a high school degree or above.
As soon as this condition came out, Wang Aijuan couldn't bring it up in one breath, and almost passed over. She really didn't know how to explain to Yang Sheng.
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Since the foreign friend incident, Li Zheng has become famous in Qinghe Town. When the townspeople mentioned Li Zheng, they said, "Li's baby is very promising, can speak foreign languages, and can make friends with foreigners. It was Li Zheng who persuaded his foreign friends to build the pharmaceutical factory!" with a proud look.
Zhou Sitian also wondered why her brother suddenly spoke foreign languages, but when Li Zheng took out two boxes of foreign language books from under the bed, she fell silent.
The two boxes of foreign books were left by Li's mother. Li's mother was a college student who had studied in France before, but she encountered political turmoil not long after returning to China.
In any case, it would be extremely disgraceful to leave a child and a husband to run away. Zhou Sitian hated her for abandoning herself and Li's father, so she extremely rejected everything about Li's mother. So when Li Zheng took out the two boxes of books, she just glanced at them and walked out quickly.
Li Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Zhou Sitian didn't know the specific content of the foreign books left by Li's mother, and some of his own changes in the future could be pushed to these books.
Li Zheng put the books back under the bed, and when he pushed the box in, the stack of books in the box suddenly fell down. Li Zheng sighed, squatted down to pick up the book, and a black leather notebook appeared in front of him.
The black notebook is very delicate, with fancy English on the leather surface, it should be something from abroad. Li Zheng hesitated for a moment, sat down with his legs crossed, and opened his notebook.
This is Li's mother's diary, written in a mixture of English and French, recording her mental journey from being sent down to escaping from the Li family.
Li's mother was born into a wealthy family. His father was a high-level executive of Huaguo Railway, and his mother was a lecturer at Huajing University. The political turmoil in 1968 changed this happy family at once. His mother was so humiliated that she jumped from the Huajing University building and Yu died. Fragrance disappears. Li's mother and her father were sent to Qinghe Town together.
The father and daughter spend the day drying fish in the fishery, and at night they only have a simple house to keep out the cold, and their life is very poor. And because of the decentralization, the townspeople of Qinghe Town were very unfriendly to him.
One day, there was a sudden heavy rain during the day. Mother Li's father, Zhao Guanghua, took back the dried fish and drenched it in the rain. He developed a high fever that night. Li's mother was so anxious that she went to the town clinic overnight to get medicine. On the way to get medicine, she met Zhou Sitian's father, Zhou Deqing, an unemployed vagabond.
Dark night, heavy rain, a beautiful woman walking in the rain, a young man with vigor and vitality, a tragedy happened like this.
Zhou Deqing believed that Mother Li was a woman, and she was a woman who carried politics behind her back. She would only swallow the pain, but she did not think that Mother Li received a Western education, and even joined a feminist club during college.
Mother Li stood up, and the whole town was in uproar. Zhou Deqing was taken away, but at the same time, the life of Li's mother and daughter was even more difficult.
Reality smoothed out the edges and corners of Li's mother, and she finally realized that blindly idealism would only make her and her father's life more difficult, so she saw Li's father. A woman of thought, culture and experience of French romanticism is almost fatally attractive to men, even if she has a daughter born by mistake.
Li Zheng showed a complicated look on his face. He understood but did not agree with Li's mother's behavior, and put the notebook back in the box.
"You never know what you have lost. He left with resentment towards you." Li Zheng said softly, and slowly closed the box.
"Sister, I'm going to the post office."
"Okay, come back before lunch!"
After the incident at the guest house, Li Zheng finally realized that he was no longer the former Cold Spring Harbor researcher, honorary professor of Huaqing University, and head of the National Drug Research Laboratory Li Zheng. He is now a fisherman boy, a fisherman boy whose father disappeared and his mother escaped, leaving only his sister to depend on each other.
God let him be reborn in this life, and he will cherish it. Therefore, Li Zheng intends to send this paper in his hand, and forget about Science and Nature. He is a little-known high school student who may not even be eligible to submit the paper for preliminary review.
Li Zheng thought about a journal with a decent impact factor and a low threshold, and finally thought of a "Microbiology", which is a very American biological journal, jointly founded by several Ivy League universities in the United States. Most importantly, he It is the journal that implements the blind review system best. As long as your paper passes the review of three reviewers recognized by it, it can be published in the journal, with absolutely no exceptions.
"Microbes" has made a lot of jokes because of this, but at the same time it is the easiest place to emerge genius.
Li Zheng walked through several alleys and walked to the door of the post office.
In the post office, several aunts were eating melon seeds and chatting loudly.
"You know, Zhou Deqing came out."
"Zhou Deqing? Who is Zhou Deqing?"
"Isn't that the strong girl who committed the crime, Li Qiang's wife, who came out last week. My cousin saw him when he went to Yantian County. He even asked my cousin about his daughter."
"His daughter? Zhou Sitian? Will he come to her?"
"There is no one in the old Zhou family. He came out alone, and he is just such a daughter. Why don't he come?"
Li Zheng could no longer listen to what the aunts were saying, so he turned around and ran towards the house. Zhou Sitian, sister, you can't be in trouble!
Li Zheng ran into the house out of breath and almost tripped over the threshold because of his weak legs. Zhou Sitian came out of the kitchen with a bowl of rice cakes, her cheeks rubbed with black ash from the baked rice cakes.
"What are you running? I'll keep the rice cakes for you." She looked at Li Zheng with a funny look.
Li Zheng looked at Zhou Sitian up and down, and found that there was no abnormality in her, he was relieved and sat down at the table.
"It's nothing, I'm afraid you will steal my share."
Zhou Sitian rolled his eyes, his younger brother became less and less cute.
"You didn't send a letter, why didn't you send it?"
Li Zheng glanced at the crumpled envelope in the corner of his hand, and pouted, "Suddenly I don't want to send it anymore, let's do it another day."
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On the other hand, Xiao He was fired by the hostel for accusing Li Zheng of stealing. For someone like him who lied in front of the provincial governor and was registered, no unit in Qinghe Town dared to use him.
The girlfriend who had been talking for a long time also fell through because of this incident. Xiao He was waiting at the door of Yang Kaijian's house, and he wanted to make an excuse for himself! He listened to Wang Chengcai and Yang Kaijian's words before slandering Li Zheng for stealing things.
It's not that he didn't think about going to look for Wang Chengcai. Wang Chengcai's family is in Yantian County, and he lives in the county government hospital, so he can't get in at all. Unlike Yang Kaijian, his family is not far from the Xiaohe family, and the Yang family is richer than the Wang family.
Xiao He has already made a plan, ask Yang Kaijian to get a sum of money and go to sea to do business!