Chapter 183

Unlike Jiang Ning, who hardly contacts Jiang's father and mother once a year except for calling Jiang's grandfather, Song Peifeng has a good family atmosphere. He contacts his family every week, sometimes calling his parents, sometimes his grandparents, and sometimes his grandparents.

This time he called his grandfather and told him what Jiang Ning had told him about the country's current blank layout in the field of patents. Jiang Ning said to him: "Throughout the 1990s, the United States and the western island countries were all working on patent layouts. Once they complete their layouts, it will become a huge obstacle to the development of our country's high-tech industries in the future."

Of course, he knows that his country is still in the process of rapid learning and development. Every year, a large number of talents are sent overseas to learn advanced foreign technologies. Although many of these talents do not come back, and many cannot come back, as long as a few can come back and bring breakthroughs in domestic technology, then these investments will be valuable. The country is already doing it, but as for patent layout, it cannot be said that there is none at all in China, but there are indeed few.

Grandpa Song didn't know who was talking to him about these words, but from his grandson's tone he knew that this person should be someone around his age, a teenager, but with such a long-term strategic vision that he could see into the future 20 or 30 years later.

He said, "When you are free, you can bring your friends to our house for dinner. You are in the capital and I don't see you coming back."

The old man complained.

Old Master Song knew that there were many hidden talents in Qing University and Beijing University, but he had rarely seen young people with such a broad vision in all these years. Seeing that his grandson was on good terms with such a person, he naturally wanted to deepen this relationship.

When Song Peifeng heard his grandfather's words, the corners of his lips curled up and his eyes looked out the cold window, as if through a translucent glass window, and he saw her upstairs. His eyes couldn't help but soften, as if filled with fine and gentle light: "Yes," he said.

After listening to what Song Peifeng said, Mr. Song thought about it and decided to make a phone call.

Jiang Ning didn't know what kind of impact her tiny butterfly wings, just a slight flutter, would have on this era. It was more than a month later that she heard about the news that Peking University and Tsinghua University had issued a notice asking students and teachers to submit any small inventions or technologies they had to the school, which would apply for patents. Those who were successful would receive bonuses.

There are few students who have made inventions and creations when they were students, but there are some. There are also teachers who have some skills. Which teacher doesn’t have some skills?

After that, the initiative was initiated from within each unit. All the private inventions of factories, enterprises and various technical personnel were passed down from their superiors layer by layer to fill out forms and apply for technical patents. Those who were able to successfully apply for technical patents would also receive rewards and subsidies.

At this time, there are still many people who have no awareness of declaring patented technology. When such a requirement is issued from above, they are not interested in patents or not. What is important is the subsidy.

This era is in the most embarrassing stage. In the true sense, those who make nuclear bombs are not as good as those who sell tea eggs.

The salary growth of internal scientific researchers is not that fast. Many of them have fixed salaries, and the increase is not much. Their technology is developing rapidly, the economy outside is developing rapidly, and people's living standards and incomes are also developing rapidly. The only thing that remains unchanged is the salaries of these scientific researchers.

Everybody has to eat, and these scientific researchers are not immortal men and women who grew up on a whim. They also have to support their families. For a while, the bonus for applying for invention patents stimulated everyone's enthusiasm for invention. Many of their own small inventions in the past, even small technologies that only a few friends in a few circles knew about, were submitted by them.

You know, my country had already made a breakthrough in this field of science and technology in 1962. Unfortunately, in the following 20 to 30 years, while other countries were developing rapidly, China's development was interrupted and stagnated, which is a pity.

Since the Chinese New Year, Jiang Ning found that she missed Song Peifeng's company. When they left Shanghai by plane, he was carrying his bag and pulling her suitcase with one hand. She looked at his empty hand. When they got on the plane, she turned around and looked into his eyes seriously: "Can I read your palm? My dad said that men with soft hands are either rich or powerful."

After saying this, she blinked her eyes very seriously.

For some reason, Song Peifeng's heart skipped a beat. Although he found it funny, he still showed her his palm.

She squeezed his hand, left and right, and finally put her calloused palm against his. She naturally took Song Peifeng's hand and held it in her palm. She held it calmly and squeezed it naturally in her palm, playing with his slender and warm fingers. She sighed and said, "Alas, it's neither soft nor cottony."

What didn't Song Peifeng understand at this moment? His face suddenly turned red, and he looked straight ahead, but he couldn't control the upward curve of his lips and the smile between his eyebrows.

He did not pull his hand back, but let her hold it and play with it. Soon, he turned from being passive to active and held her hand wherever he went.

Usually, he would talk whenever he wanted, and he always liked to hold her hand when talking, just like she had played with his fingers at the beginning, and he would play with her fingers carefully in the palm of his hand.

His fingers were slender and strong with distinct joints, but her palms were covered with fine calluses. When he held her hands, they felt as soft as clouds, and she felt as soft as if she were in the clouds.

Although Jiang Ning's mental age is not young, he is actually completely blank when it comes to relationships.

Even clumsy and indifferent.

Because her starting point does not come from love, but from her need.

Regarding relationships between the sexes, she actually went through three different periods, with different moods and different feelings.

In the first period, she was ignorant and, when everyone around her was urging her to get married, she chose to meet everyone’s current expectations of a standard woman, entered into marriage, and chose to take care of her husband and children.

At that time, she had just entered the system not long ago and her work was not very busy. She was able to balance work and family. In the eyes of others, she was the perfect partner, daughter-in-law, and good wife.

The second period is when she saw through the essence of gender relations and understood that most of the conflicts and troubles in life are caused by gender relations. When her long-term emotional needs were blank and the gender relationship had become a complete burden on her, she decisively broke up and focused on her career from then on.

During this period, hospitals conducted physical examinations every year. At the end of the examinations, there were psychological tests to test everyone's psychological problems.

At that time, her career was going smoothly and she was very proud of herself. She felt that anyone in this world could have psychological problems, but she would not.

The third period is long-term, when her personal emotions, whether happy or unhappy, proud of her career, or depressed, have to be digested by herself and cannot be relieved. She begins to desire to tell others her true feelings and desires. She needs someone to share when she is proud, and she also needs comfort and company when she is frustrated. Long-term self-digestion and self-suppression have gradually caused her to develop symptoms of bipolar disorder, and she is unaware when she falls into depression.

When she realized it herself, she realized that she had fallen into a bottomless black hole and could not climb out by herself.

But her profession and identity make her very cautious when choosing to see a doctor and take medicine.

Unlike other people's mania, when she is excited, she just wants to talk, wants to communicate with others, wants someone to accompany her, and talks non-stop.

But her reason made her suppress her desire. She couldn't speak out and couldn't make mistakes.

Until now, Jiang Ning still has no idea how he was reborn. It was as if he suddenly woke up from dizziness in the field.

Rebirth, what is changed is time and age, not psychology. In the beginning, she is still the same as in her previous life, still digesting all kinds of emotions by herself, good, bad, happy, unhappy. She is used to facing all things alone and carrying them alone. The only time when she has an outburst of emotions without control is when she is facing Jiang's father.

At that time, she really had a string in her head, as if the top of her head, which had been trying to suppress herself, was blown away by her.

After regaining her sanity, she continued to actively go out and face the world she loves with a positive and optimistic attitude.

The only selfishness and exception is Song Peifeng.

She truly felt in him the true inner strength, stability, and tolerance of a boy who grew up in a good family atmosphere, as well as his gentleness, affirmation, and companionship towards her.

Intellectually, she certainly knew that it was unfair to him to pull him into her world like this.

But emotionally, she likes it.

So she did what she wanted.

Fortunately, he was not averse and even took the initiative to approach me.

Perhaps it was because of the unfair guilt she felt towards him that when they were together, not only did he show tenderness and tolerance towards her, but she also showed the same tenderness and tolerance towards him. The reason for such patience, tenderness and tolerance was actually that deep in her heart, she truly felt that all that mattered was what she once had. Who wants forever?

If this is applied to a man, this is the typical mentality of a scumbag.

But this is also her truest thought at the moment.

Even she herself cannot guarantee that she will never change, let alone ask others to do so? Is forever important? unimportant.

They fell deeply in love at the first time, and every day they felt that they liked Jiang Ning more than the day before. Song Peifeng, who was sweet and happy every day, had no idea what Jiang Ning was thinking about in her future as a scumbag woman. He was still thinking about when to bring her back to the old house to meet his family.

But perhaps it was precisely because she had this idea that she enjoyed the present moment more and purely enjoyed this relationship. On the contrary, Song Peifeng felt only sweetness, without any other pressure at all.

Song Peifeng is not the kind of person who falls in love at first sight or gets hot-headed quickly. He is a very slow-moving person who needs to think calmly. Once he gets hot-headed, it is difficult for him to cool down, and the temperature keeps rising. He has even planned that when they are old, they will go home together in the afterglow of the sunset, leaning on crutches, holding hands, and reading together in the sun at home, just like they do now.

But Jiang Ning is the one who gets hot quickly.

She gets hot and cold quickly, which means when she's passionate, she's extremely passionate and fully committed, giving him the best feeling.

When it's cold, I can completely forget that there is such a person by my side, but as long as I see him and think of him, when I look up, my eyes are filled with extreme tenderness.

The way the two of them get along has always been that Jiang Ning is busy doing her own things. When she thinks of him or sees him, she goes over to rub against him like a cat. When she can't see him, she is completely immersed in her work and study. On the contrary, Song Peifeng is always chasing and sticking to her.

This spring is destined to be an unusual season. It has been drizzling since March. The mountain stream is rushing, flowing quickly to the rice fields down the mountain, and then through the canal into the Shahe River.

Jiang Guotai did not stop coveting the sand of Shahe River because of the rising water level of Shahe River. He has been working on the affairs of Shahe River beach since the beginning of spring. He is a shrewd man. Even without Jiang Ning's suggestion, he would have spontaneously divided the profits of the smallest piece of sand factory among them. No one person monopolized it. He even contracted the river sand beach two years earlier. Politics! People in the mansion had not yet realized the value of this beach, so he contracted it for ten thousand yuan a year. In order to resolve future troubles, he even borrowed six hundred thousand yuan from the bank at one time and directly contracted the two largest beaches for thirty years.

The local government’s fiscal revenue suddenly reached 600,000 yuan.

The 600,000 yuan immediately attracted the attention of some leaders, who probably thought that others would not spend so much money to buy a worthless thing. There happened to be a piece of beach that had not been contracted by anyone. He revealed the matter to his brother-in-law, and many other smart people also realized that this piece of beach might not be that simple, so they sent people to go down and see what was going on.

When we got down there, we were dumbfounded. It had been raining for a month and the water level in the Shahe River had risen sharply. The river surface was extremely dangerous, especially for city dwellers who were not familiar with the local river surface. If they were not careful, both the person and the motorboat might crash into the power lines that were getting lower and lower to the water surface due to the rising water level.

These people drove a motorboat around the Sha River, but nothing could be seen except the yellow water on the river surface due to continuous rain.

Not to mention the beaches, even the low ridges of fields were flooded, including many paddy fields.

The ditch used to irrigate farmland was not closed because of the rising water level of Shahe River. The water from Shahe River began to flow back into the dam through the ditch. The Linhe Brigade and several brigades adjacent to Shahe River were so frightened that they hurried to close the sluice gates of the canal and Shahe River.

These people came to the Shahe River and ran around. Not only did they not see anything, they were also soaked. Two of them would have drowned in the Shahe River if they had not had two people with good swimming skills. They no longer had a good impression of this place. They no longer wanted to go to that poor and barren place again.

When the local government saw that no one wanted that piece of sand, they went to find Jiang Guotai again. Their words and actions all seemed to indicate that they wanted Jiang Guotai to make another effort and contract the remaining piece of beach.

Jiang Guotai repeatedly stated that he was really broke and that the money he used to contract the other two beaches was all borrowed from the bank.

The leader said that the bank will continue to lend you money!

Moreover, because the remaining beach is not only small, but also geographically located between the two large beaches, the former is closer to the neighboring city in terms of transportation. Whether by water or land, large trucks and ships from other places will buy river sand at the beach close to the neighboring city and leave, and will not spend time and energy on the middle one. The beach near Linhe Brigade is closer to Tanshan and Shuibu Town. Shuibu Town is a transportation hub with developed water and land transportation. No matter whether going from Wucheng to Wujiang City or to the provincial capital, people will only go to this sand factory and will not go to the one in the middle.

Jiang Guotai repeatedly said that he had no money, but under the persuasion of his leaders, he "reluctantly" accepted the smallest, most geographically unfavorable beach in the middle in order to increase fiscal revenue and give face to his leaders. The price was 50,000 yuan cheaper than the previous two sand factories. In the end, he only spent 250,000 yuan, for a 30-year contract, to contract the three sand factories in Shahe.

Of course, in order to solve subsequent troubles, Jiang Guotai also specially took out 5% of the annual profits from the three sand factories, which belonged to different local governments, and gave them to the government.

At this time, the local government did not know how huge a sum of money this 5% profit represented in terms of fiscal revenue. They only felt that Jiang Guotai was very open and aboveboard in his work, and the leaders were all very pleased with his approach.

At this point, the three sand factories in Shahe were completely in the hands of Jiang Guotai alone.

At this time Jiang Guotai thought of Jiang's father again. He was really short of people and really wanted Jiang's father to manage the sand factory. After all, the sand factory was such a huge treasure trove, it was like a gold mine that could make money. He was really unwilling to let others do it. For this reason, he pulled his sister, brother-in-law, and brother-in-law to work together. The sequelae of doing this were also very obvious. As the business grew bigger, the intricate personal relationships within the enterprise became more and more complicated.

When Jiang Guotai was around, he could naturally suppress everyone with his own strength and make them dare not even breathe against him. But once he fell, those people whom he had trusted would become the most powerful group fighting for power.

Of course, he has no choice but to bring in all kinds of relatives. He doesn't dare to use outsiders, so he can only use relatives.

Since March, Jiang Ning has been reminding netizens online that the weather this year is not right and there may be floods, and asked netizens who saw the news to pay attention to flood prevention.

But her voice on the Internet and in "Wuxia" magazine, using her influence, was not as strong as her voice telling Song Peifeng about her concerns about the flood.

At this time, there was actually very little Song Peifeng could do. He could only remind his grandfather, grandfather, uncle, and his father that the rainfall this year was unusual.

In fact, there was no need for him to remind them of these things. The weather forecast reported rainfall every day, and his father, Secretary Song, also went to the river embankment below to check the water level in the rain time and time again.

There are more than one person like him in the country. Many cadres who have noticed that the rainfall this year is not right are anxious about this year's spring ploughing. In addition, there may be a factor of butterfly wings flapping. In this life, the capital city has prepared and responded to the impending severe floods earlier than in the previous life. One after another, the capital city's instructions on flood prevention have been issued.

Leaders have also spoken time and again in the news about fighting floods and disaster relief, but compared with nature, humans are so small.

People like Uncle Jiang, who have been farming for a lifetime, have some experience in weather. Seeing that the weather is not right this year, he planted spring wheat, rapeseed, sweet potatoes and other crops on the mountainous land at the foot of the mountain. It is adjacent to Shahe River, separated only by a dam. There is a whole piece of paddy field below the hydropower station. It is his own paddy field and Jiang's father's paddy field. He chose not to plant rice this year.

The so-called non-transplanting rice planting is the same as the ancient rice planting method. Modern people must first soak the rice seeds in water in the early spring to germinate. After the rice germinates, it is concentratedly scattered in a paddy field the size of a field until it grows into dense seedlings. Then they are pulled out one by one, tied into handfuls with straw, thrown into the large paddy field, and transplanting begins. The rice grown in this way will have a much higher yield than randomly scattering the germinated rice seeds in the paddy field and letting it grow wildly.

But this year, Uncle Jiang and Jiang's father's paddy fields near Shahe River that he contracted were all sown with rice seeds. If there were no floods, this pattern of sowing rice seeds would result in much less yield, but their local rice is not a high-yield rice, and their main food still depends on growing hybrid rice.

However, not everyone makes the same choice as Uncle Jiang. There are many people who choose normal breeding and transplanting.

The farmers worked hard throughout the spring and finally planted all the seedlings in the paddy fields. Then starting in April, the rain, which had just stopped for a few days, poured down with even greater amounts than before.

Not only the area where Jiangjia Village is located, the flood that year was a very rare catastrophic flood in the entire history. A total of 29 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in the country suffered from flood disasters, and the area of ​​farmland affected was as high as more than 300 million mu.

In early May, the embankment of Shahe River was completely submerged. This embankment, which has been protecting Jiangjia Village and the entire Wujiang City since the 1950s, was built by two generations of people, Grandpa Jiang, Dad Jiang and Mom Jiang, carrying loads on their shoulders and using shovels. However, it failed to stop the devastating flood that year. The river burst its banks, and the raging floods poured into the rice fields of thousands of households. The entire Yangtze River basin was submerged in a vast ocean.

As early as the end of April, Jiang Ning withdrew most of the money she had invested in the stock market at the beginning of the year. After the rise in the past few months, the money she invested has increased by 159%.

Jiang Ning divided the money into two parts. With one part, she bought 200,000 life jackets and various supplies and gave them to Song Peifeng, hoping to donate these life jackets to the soldiers going to the front line to fight the flood through the Song family's channels. With the other part, she organized a volunteer team for flood fighting and disaster relief at school and personally sent the supplies back to her hometown. The supplies had been snatched away by those non-disaster-affected people in the county and town before they reached the disaster area, and she personally delivered them to the hands of the victims below.

This matter may be difficult for others, but it is very easy for Jiang Ning, because fortunately, the current secretary of Wucheng happens to be Song Peifeng's father, and her fourth uncle is also the mayor of Yaoba Town. She is more suitable to implement this matter than the donors who are full of enthusiasm to send supplies to the local area but cannot find a suitable contact person, and ultimately the supplies do not reach the hands of the real victims.

Secretary Song, Mayor Jiang and many other leaders are preparing for flood control and disaster relief every day. Because they took precautions early on, there were not many casualties, but countless people's houses collapsed and were submerged in the flood.

Secretary Song had received the call a long time ago. Jiang Ning, who was admitted to Wucheng No. 1 Middle School, knew that his hometown had suffered a disaster, so he donated a large amount of supplies and returned to his hometown to help his fellow villagers and overcome the difficulties together.

When he heard about the "large amount" of supplies she donated, he had already thought that this little girl might have emptied all her scholarships for studying over the years. These scholarships, for individuals, are already a huge "sum of money", but for these disaster-stricken people, it is still a drop in the bucket.

This was the first batch of donated materials that Wucheng had received. To show his importance, Secretary Song went to the dock to greet them in person. Then he saw several large ships sailing across the vast water, all of which were filled with supplies.