Chapter 175 Software Engineering
Li Duomei understood immediately and smiled, "Yes, the fallen leaves are beautiful."
As the principal's assistant with top-notch comprehension skills, Li Duomei certainly did not disappoint.
Just as Gu Yiye was taking pictures of Bai Xuelin, Shanshan, and Wang Zhanbo, a group of students, led by their class counselors, were sweeping up fallen leaves.
After the three of them had taken enough photos, Gu Yiye found a photography teacher to take several family photos. He also took a few individual photos of Lin Shanshan and Gu Yiye.
Around noon, Wang Zhanbo, who was quite satisfied with the photos, said generously, "Sister-in-law, I'll treat you to lunch at the Friendship Hotel."
The Friendship Hotel was built in the 1960s specifically to entertain foreign guests. It is decorated in an extremely luxurious style, and the hotel serves not only Chinese specialties but also cuisines from other countries.
It has only gradually opened up to Chinese people in recent years.
Whether it tastes good or not is another matter, but it's definitely expensive.
Lin Shanshan, who was pregnant with four babies, was a little tired after taking photos all morning. She glanced at Gu Yiye, indicating that she didn't want to go.
Gu Yiye understood and said, "Children should learn to be thrifty and frugal. We'll eat at the school cafeteria today."
Wang Zhanbo pouted and said, "I want to treat my sister-in-law to the best food."
Lin Shanshan laughed: "You'll know once you've eaten at our cafeteria; it's definitely no worse than the Friendship Hotel's food."
Bai Xue also advised, "Zhanbo, listen to me. Your sister-in-law has been taking photos all morning and is tired. She also has a baby in her belly."
Wang Zhanbo, with his childlike nature, immediately stopped worrying about where to eat when he heard "baby" and said, "Then I'll be an uncle soon, right?"
Bai Xue laughed: "Yes, so now that I'm going to be an uncle, I should save the money to buy gifts for my nephew and niece when the baby is born."
Wang Zhanbo nodded, his round eyes full of anticipation.
When he arrived at the cafeteria, Wang Zhanbo was amazed by the wide variety of food available. There was everything, unlike schools on Hong Kong Island which only offered sandwiches, milk, and vegetable salads.
With the meal tickets Gu Yiye gave him, Wang Zhanbo bought a little bit of food from almost every window.
After a delicious meal, with grease still dripping from their mouths, the loudspeaker announced: "[Dear students, please attend the opening ceremony tomorrow morning at 8:30 AM on the school playground.]"
Wang Zhanbo swallowed the sugar-coated glutinous rice cake in his mouth and asked, "Sister-in-law, will you be giving a speech on stage tomorrow?"
Lin Shanshan nodded: "Yes, I will give a speech as the principal."
Wang Zhanbo nodded without saying a word, his eyes darted around, and then he lowered his head and continued working.
My older brother said that if you get your own food, you have to finish it. It's not like home here; nobody spoils you here, and even Mom sides with my older brother.
I ate until my belly was completely round, and finally, I was done.
As the four of them finished their meal and stepped out of the canteen, they heard someone shout, "Lin Zhiqing, is that really you?"
"You and Brother Gu are coming to university too."
The university president has not yet made a public appearance and is still young, so he is mistaken for a student.
Two men and a woman walked over, and they recognized one of the young men as Yang Qiwen, the man who sold them the wheat.
Yang Qiwen walked up to them and said, "Lin Zhiqing, Brother Gu, it's really fate that we met here."
Wang Zhanbo chimed in, his chubby little face proudly raised, and said, "My sister-in-law is the principal, not some educated youth named Lin. You have to call her Principal Lin."
Yang Qiwen opened his mouth, looking utterly incredulous, but the other young man beside him spoke up:
"Principal Lin, hello. I am Meng Zhengyang, a teacher at our school, and also Yang Qiwen's cousin. I just returned from studying abroad."
After saying that, he introduced the girl next to him: "This is my cousin's wife, Liu Qinghong."
Lin Shanshan smiled and nodded: "Hello, welcome to Xinghuo University of Science and Technology. Professor Meng, what did you study abroad?"
Meng Zhengyang said, "Computer science."
Lin Shanshan became interested and asked, "Computers have only been around for less than 30 years. It's really impressive that you were able to study abroad and still want to come back. Why did you choose our school?"
Meng Zhengyang replied: "My cousin sent me a telegram asking me to come over and show him the majors. I saw that there was a computer science major, and it used the DJS-130 minicomputer with integrated circuits, which has a computing speed of 1 million times per second. I felt that Xinghuo University of Science and Technology was capable and had lofty ideals."
Lin Shanshan is currently preparing to develop a smartphone and needs talent in mechanical engineering, hardware design, and software development.
Mechanical engineering and hardware design professionals were easy to find, but software engineering talent was extremely rare in China in the 1970s.
Lin Shanshan can do it herself, but she has to find someone to publicly endorse it; the first design must be attributed to a professional.
Otherwise, if a high school student suddenly invented a smartphone, wouldn't he be treated like a monster and taken to a laboratory for research?
Lin Shanshan, who had been troubled for a long time, never expected that this talented person was right under her nose.
It's like searching high and low without finding it, only to have it come to you effortlessly!
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