The neat motorcade slowly drove towards Qinghe Town. On both sides of the road were students from the town's central primary school. They wore red scarves around their necks, held flowers in their hands, and shouted welcome words.
Different from the warm situation outside, the atmosphere in the old red flag led by the team seemed a little depressing. In the past few days, they have accompanied Roche to visit five or six towns, but those foreigners shook their heads in addition to shaking their heads, and Qinghe Town was the last one.
If they are still dissatisfied, Roche's people will leave China and go to Vietnam and India to find a factory site. This result is not what the province and the Ministry of Health do not want to see!
"Have you explained it to the town leaders?" The speaker was the deputy governor in charge of health in Haidong Province. This project province was originally supposed to let the vice governor in charge of economy down, but due to the request of the Ministry of Health, it was temporarily changed to It was with him, of course, that he had worked before. He wanted to pick peaches, but he didn't think that the peaches might be poisonous.
In case he goes back empty-handed like this, he will become a joke of the entire province, government, and government!
"It's all explained clearly, the militia team and the local police station are on duty 24 hours a day, and we must let foreign friends see a fishing town with good law and order and simple folk customs."
Li Zheng was pulled by Li Chaoyang and squeezed into the crowd. Just when he saw David getting out of the car, the group of tall, blond and blue-eyed foreigners stood out among the group.
David smiled and said something, and the translator behind hurriedly translated, "Mr. Andorio said it was too grand, and he was very uncomfortable."
When the county leader heard this, his face became stiff. The secretary behind him had already grasped the leader's wink and made a few gestures. Within a few minutes, the pupils and the banner were gone.
Looking at David's expressionless face, Li Zheng felt amused in his heart. He knew that his old friend must be scolding mother now. He was just polite, why did he withdraw.
David once told him that the period of "exile in Hong Kong" was the lowest point of his career. Although Xiangjiang at that time was already the center of Asia, it was not worth mentioning compared to the European continent and the North American market, not to mention that with the rise of China, the political uncertainty of Xiangjiang became more obvious.
At that time, only those who were not reused were sent to Hong Kong. And David was involved because of the high-level power struggle, and unfortunately he was recruited. He said that in the early days of being exiled to Hong Kong, he healed the wounds in his heart by relying on the beautiful formalism of China. The feeling of being greeted by people everywhere he went was so wonderful, it made him feel his worth again.
The leaders didn't know the twists and turns in David's heart. Foreign friends have always been famous for their uprightness. They didn't know that standing in front of them was a changed British gentleman.
David and his party were welcomed into the town's guest house.
Li Zheng has also found out that Roche's visit to Yantian County is planning to build a basic pharmaceutical factory to extract poplar proline.
Poplar proline is one of the main raw materials for the treatment of neurological diseases. It was first extracted from fish bones and fish viscera. In the late 1990s, after the Japanese successfully extracted this ingredient from a certain seaweed, poplar proline. The production of amino acids rapidly transitioned from animal extraction to plant extraction.
Li Zheng guessed that giant crocodiles such as Novartis, Pfizer, and Roche have long had plant extraction technology, but in order to squeeze the last trace of the value of animal extraction technology, no one took the lead and was robbed by Japanese who did not understand the rules. Get ahead. This kind of unscrupulous thing these pharmaceutical companies have done a lot.
Roche set its sights on Yantian County, first because it is close to Xiangjiang for easy management. Second, it is probably because of the scale of the fishery here.
But... This is probably the reason why Roche finally gave up setting up a factory in Yantian.
"I really envy Sister Sitian! If only I could learn English well!" Li Chaoyang has been talking about it all the way. In order to better entertain foreign friends, the county selected a few girls with good English scores from various high schools to go to the hostel. Temporary waiter, Zhou Sitian is one of them.
Li Zheng rolled his eyes, "Then it's not enough for you to learn English well, you have to go to Thailand for sex reassignment surgery."
Li Chaoyang scratched his head, "What is sex reassignment surgery? Why go to Thailand for it?"
Looking at Li Chaoyang's clear eyes, Li Zheng didn't want to explain to him the scientific proposition of "how the Thai ladyboy was born".
Before dinner, Zhou Sitian secretly went home and asked Li Zheng to go to the hostel for dinner. Listening to Zhou Sitian's description of how good the food in the hostel is, and the foreign wine brought by the foreigners, the foreigners don't want it before they finish it at noon, and several of their waiters secretly hid it.
"Master Yang said that there must be a lot of ingredients this time. When the foreigners have finished eating, they will make another table for us, and drink the remaining foreign wine!" When she said this, her almond eyes flashed. When the light came into view, Li Zheng deeply felt Zhou Sitian's feeling of wanting to share with her family what she thought was a good thing.
"That's great! That must be great!" Li Zheng's eyes smiled into a beautiful shape, and the expression on his face was very soft.
"I... I'm going too!" Li Chaoyang finally interjected. He was secretly glad that he went home a while later, otherwise he would not have this good fortune, foreign wine, hehe.
Zhou Sitian nodded with a smile, and the three of them walked to the guest house in the town with a smile.
When they arrived, the preparations for dinner had just started, so they didn't want to disturb Zhou Sitian's work, so they stayed in the waiter's lounge to chat.
On the other side, in the room on the fourth floor of the guest house, Wang Chengcai thought he was going crazy. His cousin actually stole the foreigner's cufflinks!
"Do you know how important this project is! The deputy governor is still living in the downstairs room, accompanying those foreigners in person, but you actually went to steal their things!" Wang Chengcai tried his best to keep his voice down, he knew that his family There are many problems with my cousin, but I didn't expect him to be this far.
"I didn't steal it, they dropped it under the table, and I picked it up." Yang Kaijian also seemed to realize the seriousness of the matter, and his voice was almost as low as the sound of mosquitoes.
Wang Chengcai paced back and forth, "No, you put it back, and put it back where you picked it up!"
At this time, there was a knock on the door, it was Mama Wang.
Wang's mother is the accountant of the hostel, so she is in a long private room in the hostel, and Wang Chengcai often comes to live there. This time, because of the quota for the new factory, Wang Chengcai brought his cousin over to open his eyes when he was happy. He didn't expect such a thing to happen.
"Mom, what's wrong?" Wang Chengcai had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Foreign friends lost something, and the leaders made a big fire. Now the guest house is looking for things up and down. You stay in the room and don't walk around." Wang Mama said softly.
Wang Chengcai's heart skipped a beat, but he replied obediently on the surface.
"Cousin, cousin, what should I do? I didn't mean to." Yang Kaijian finally panicked.
Wang Chengcai thought for a long time with a gloomy face, and suddenly said, "Didn't you just say that you saw that annoying Li family boy in the staff lounge on the first floor."
Yang Kaijian nodded quickly.
"That's just right. Didn't you say you were going to teach him a lesson, we won't kill you!" Wang Chengcai said with a smile.
Yang Kaijian looked at the ruby cuff in his hand, then looked at his cousin's face, and nodded heavily.
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"Wow, this foreigner's wine..." Li Chaoyang took a sip of red wine and put on a gesture of enjoyment, but he couldn't help but spit the wine out of his mouth after his pretentious posture, "It's not very good. ' he continued sullenly.
There was a lot of laughter on the table, the wine was different from the traditional Chinese wine, it had strict requirements on the quality of the grapes, and the cheap wine was very astringent. The wines brought by David belong to the mid-range level and are not difficult to drink, but for young people who do not drink alcohol on weekdays, they are definitely not good.
"Let's eat more vegetables, little baby. This blue-spotted fish Master Liu doesn't often cook, so I borrowed the light of a foreign friend."
While everyone was having a good time, a group of people came to the back kitchen aggressively. Governor Qiu and David walked side by side, then the deputy secretary of the Shennan area, the county magistrate, the mayor of Qinghe Town, and a lot of A and B behind them. Propionate.
The people at the table were startled. Master Liu saw the head of the guest house in the first A, B, C, Ding, and stood up and asked, "Liu, what happened."
Liu Suo sullenly shook his head at him without speaking.
"Xiao He, recognize the person." Qiu Zhengye was really bewildered. He was the deputy governor in charge of health, and now he was in charge of solving the case.
The young man named Xiao He walked out from behind the big bosses tremblingly. Under the inexplicable eyes of everyone at the table, he suddenly pointed at Li Zheng and said, "It's him! It's him! I watched him put Mr. David's sleeve on his sleeve. Put it in the bag."
The scene was silent, and the faces of the people at the dinner table changed greatly. Li Chaoyang was stunned for a moment, then became furious, "What are you talking about, Li Zheng has been with me all the time, what cufflinks, how come I don't know."
Now that he had said it, Xiao He went ahead and said loudly to Qiu Zhengye: "Leader, I saw it with my own eyes, the cufflinks must still be in his bag!"
Zhou Sitian glanced at Li Zheng's empty shoulders, her face instantly turned pale, she naturally knew that Li Zheng would not steal, but she also knew that the cufflinks might have already arrived in Li Zheng's bag now.
"Student Li Zheng, can I ask you and my secretary to go and get your bag?" Qiu Zhengye said, but he was very surprised. The boy who was identified didn't show a trace of panic. There was a casual and shallow smile in his eyes, not like a thief's reaction, nor a high school student's reaction.
Li Zheng nodded, gave Zhou Sitian a reassuring expression, and then followed the secretary away.
When he came back, he had a bag in his hand.
Xiao He looked at the bag nervously, for fear that Li Zheng would secretly take it out on the way.
"Is it this bag?" Li Zheng raised the bag and waved it in front of Xiao He.
Xiao He felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he nodded, because he put the things into this bag with his own hands.
The secretary took the bag in Li Zheng's hand, opened it in front of everyone, and then took out the contents of the bag one by one.
"Found it." A ruby cufflink was flipped out of the bag.
Xiao He breathed a sigh of relief, then jumped up and said, "Look, it's in his bag, I saw him put the cufflinks in the bag with my own eyes!"
Qiu Zhengye took a deep look at Li Zheng, then took the cufflinks from the secretary and walked to David, "Mr. David, are these your cufflinks?"
David nodded, "Yes, this is indeed mine." In fact, what David wanted to say was, it's just a cufflink, he's a lot, so there's no need to make such a fuss. But he didn't say, he enjoys the taste of being valued.
"It's impossible, Li Zheng has always been with me!" Li Chaoyang said loudly.
But obviously, his words were insignificant to everyone present.
Director Shen of Yantian County stepped forward and said to Li Zheng in a cold voice, "Student Li Zheng, please come with us."
The Minors Protection Act was enacted in 1991, and before that, minors were not privileged. According to Xiao He, Li Zheng committed the crime of theft, and the fact that the matter involved foreign friends and investment promotion added to the crime. If he goes with Director Shen, his life will be ruined.
Li Chaoyang's eyes were bloodshot with anger. If Master Liu hadn't held him back, he would probably have gone up to play the bloody Xiao He right now. Zhou Sitian's face was pale and sluggish.
Seeing Director Shen's hand on Li Zheng's shoulder, Zhou Sitian seemed to be awakened suddenly, she suddenly shouted, "It wasn't Li Zheng, it was me, I stole it!" The man slumped on the chair as if he had lost his strength.
Li Zheng turned around in astonishment. For the first time, such a strong emotional color appeared on his face.
"Sister...Sister." From the moment he woke up, Li Zheng didn't have much affection for the original owner's family and friends, and even he had a somewhat careless attitude towards this new life.
Obviously there are many things in his mind, but he has not taken any practical actions, and even the written But Notting Catalyst paper has not been sent.
Because for him, he once had too many things. The sense of superiority that has been at the top of society for a long time made him inadvertently show a temperament that is above everyone else in his rebirth.
However, this time, Li Zheng only felt that he suddenly woke up from a dream, a cold wave rose from his limbs, and suddenly rushed to the back of his head.
"Shut up!" he shouted at Zhou Sitian, "Don't put anything dirty and stinky on yourself!"
Glancing at Xiao He mockingly, Li Zheng avoided Director Shen's actions, took two steps forward, and said in a skilled New York accent, "David, can I talk to you alone?"
David looked at Li Zheng in surprise, but what surprised him even more was that he actually wanted to agree. God, this is unreasonable, this Oriental doll is really beautiful, but he should not be such an irrational person.
"Never underestimate anyone, never give up any opportunity." Li Zheng spit out English words with a smile.
"Of course, it's my pleasure, sir," David agreed, his tone more polite than ever.
David wondered if he was caught in some oriental secret art, just like what he heard from his little assistant in Xiangjiang, what is it called, Gu art. A sorcery that can manipulate others, otherwise how could he see this Oriental doll and feel like he and himself have been friends for many years...
And what Dongfang Doll just said was his motto, which he saw in an American magazine. How can a Chinese know!
Li Zheng and David walked to the corridor one after the other.
The people who stayed in the back kitchen looked at each other in dismay. What happened? Why didn't they understand the development of things all of a sudden
"That kid Li Zheng's English is so good? No, he only got 32 in the last mid-term English test, which is five points lower than me." Li Chaoyang said to himself, looking up to see everyone looking at him with strange eyes, He couldn't help laughing awkwardly, he seemed to have misunderstood the point.
Zhou Sitian was stunned, obviously not coming back to her senses.
"Never underestimate anyone, never miss an opportunity. This is my motto, I don't know how Mr. Little knows." David didn't think he was important enough for a middle school student to memorize his materials, let alone , there can be no such message as a motto on his profile.
"Mr. David, it doesn't matter. The important thing is that I have something here that I want to give to Mr. David."
David frowned, "What." He didn't think a Chinese student could come up with anything that made his heart flutter.
Li Zheng took out a rough tissue and handed it over.
David's brows furrowed even tighter, but because of the Oriental magic, he had an indescribable awe for Li Zheng. After hesitating for a while, David took it.
Just looking at it, David jumped up.
"Is this true? Is what you said true?" David's exaggerated shout attracted everyone from Qiu Zhengye.
"This method is not difficult. You can try it out on any production line. I don't need to tell such unskilled lies." Li Zheng touched his nose. In fact, he was still a little guilty.
What he wrote on the tissue was a little trick for improving the production line of "Xiao Cuo'an". "Xiao Cuo'an" is a multi-molecular polymer, but there has always been an annoying little problem on its production line. The compound reacts with a puff of white smoke. The white smoke is slightly corrosive, so that the parts of the synthetic part of the production line need to be replaced from time to time.
Drug production lines are very expensive, and even a small part is worth a lot of money. Moreover, Xiaocuoan is a very basic multi-molecular polymer, which is used in many drugs. Therefore, Roche alone has nearly a thousand Xiaocuoan production lines in the world.
If the method written by Li Zheng on the paper towel is true, the money saved in the replacement cost of parts that year will be enough to build a pharmaceutical factory to produce "Poplar Proline".
The most important thing, this is what David Andorio discovered! This is enough to make his name "exile" appear in the sight of Roche executives again!
"Oh, my friend, if this is true, I will definitely apply for a huge bonus for you!" David felt that he was too discerning, he said why he fell in love with this oriental doll at first sight, oh no , it is like seeing it at first sight! It was God who was guiding him!
Li Zheng coughed twice, "My friend, for your sake, I can give this technology to Roche for free. But I would like you to do me a favor and help me complete the patent application for this technology. If Novartis and Pfizer are interested in it, so there's a price to pay."
Why is Li Zheng so generous, because this technology was told to him by David in his previous life. Of course, at that time, it was because David was jealous of his African colleague who was transferred back to Europe because of this technology, and at the same time he devalued the scientists in the Roche lab, saying that such a simple technique had not been studied for so many years. come out!
"Oh, my friend, you moved me so much. Okay, don't worry, the patent document will be down and delivered to you as soon as possible." David looked at Li Zheng now, as if he was looking at Saint The angels in the church are gentle enough to drip water.
Li Zheng laughed dryly, his face still needed to be exercised.