Chapter 16. Mr. Ke, be careful
Time always flies when you are busy. It has been several weeks since I returned to Tianjin, and the grouting plan to improve the seabed has been half implemented.
In the office, Ke Fan was sitting in front of the computer, talking on a video call with Li Chengjin.
She reported some recent work progress and then asked:
"By the way, Chief, are the test results for the interim seabed samples that Ji Hang brought back out?"
Li Chengjin nodded slightly. "Xiao Lu should have sent it this morning, but I haven't had time to read it yet. Didn't you receive it?" He opened his mailbox and found Lu Qiaoyuan's report among the pile of unread emails. "It was sent at 6:15 this morning."
He put on a teasing smile and said, "The report was expedited in less than three working days and sent to you early this morning, yet you didn't even look at it. It really hurt our Xiao Lu's heart."
Because of Ke Fan's relationship, Li Chengjin had met Lu Qiaoyuan several times and had a good impression of this gentle and polite young man.
Especially the scene of the two tall and graceful people standing together under the magnolia flowers is extremely pleasing to the eyes. Even a middle-aged uncle like him can't help but sigh that it is so beautiful, a perfect couple.
He would occasionally use this as a joke to tease Ke Fan, who was always very methodical at work.
Ke Fan was also somewhat accustomed to her leader's irregularities, and smiled helplessly: "I didn't have time to see it either."
She moved the mouse and opened the email software.
What she saw was the interface of her own personal mailbox, and she was slightly stunned.
Then she remembered that she had finished writing the email to the United States after get off work last night and forgot to switch back to her work email. In addition, she was busy on site today and had only just reopened her computer, so the status of her work email had not been updated.
She clicked the switch.
After a while, Lu Qiaoyuan's email popped up.
Li Chengjin had just finished reading and sighed, "Xiao Lu is so attentive."
It turned out that Lu Qiaoyuan had not only attached the report, but had also picked out every important data point and written densely packed, extremely detailed annotations for her. Finally, he had summarized the test conclusions and follow-up precautions in the body of the email.
"Based on mid-term samples, the problem of seabed subsidence has been significantly improved, especially in terms of wind turbine foundation stability. The existing plan can continue to be implemented. However, attention should be paid to the environmental impacts of artificial grouting in the future, such as the potential impact on seawater and seabed ecology. Continued follow-up monitoring is recommended."
Ke Fan's eyes and brows were filled with a faint smile.
On the one hand, because the test results were very good, she felt more certain and confident about the plan.
On the other hand, it was because of Lu Qiaoyuan's tone when he wrote the report. Just like him, he was steady, dignified, meticulous, and had the demeanor of an old scholar. She could almost see him in front of the computer, seriously writing the conclusion for her.
Over the years, they have always been the most compatible professional partners.
After carefully reading the report with Li Chengjin and discussing the follow-up, Li Chengjin was also very satisfied with the progress of the plan. He also reminded Ke Fan to take care of her health. Just as he was about to hang up the phone, he suddenly remembered something and mentioned it to her:
"By the way, because many people are not in Hai City, tomorrow's core exchange meeting was originally going to be cancelled. I don't know what Xing Xiao and the director said, but the director said it will be changed to an online meeting. If you have time, you should still attend."
"Well, okay." Ke Fan agreed.
The so-called backbone exchange meeting is a monthly meeting organized by Xing Xiao himself for the higher-level engineers in the institute. It is very lengthy.
To be honest, given Li Chengjin and Ke Fan's emphasis on efficiency, neither of them was willing to participate and waste time.
However, Xing Xiao was brought up by the director, and later he bought a house in the same community as the director. The children of the two families often visit each other, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that they have a very good private relationship.
So even though he has been doing nothing for so many years, thanks to this relationship and the fact that he appears to be a good person on the surface, Xing Xiao has formed cliques and factions in the police station and has a considerable influence.
Especially in recent years, there has been a subtle trend of confrontation between the conservative faction represented by him and the innovative faction represented by Li Chengjin and Ke Fan. Absent without reason, he will inevitably be attacked behind his back for all sorts of reasons - such as being too arrogant and not humble enough.
Not wanting to be bothered by these things, Ke Fan and the other person would show up at the meeting to avoid gossip.
Although Ke Fan knew that this so-called "core exchange meeting" was becoming increasingly distorted.
It seemed that everyone was sharing their current cases and learning from each other, but in fact, the group led by Xing Xiao was inquiring into other people's work and even finding fault with it.
When did Ke Fan realize this?
Actually it was very early, in the early stage of her employment.
At that time, deceived by Xing Xiao's hypocritical enthusiasm, Ke Fan really thought he was a good senior.
Her first project after joining the wind power station was a business trip to Tong City to work on a case on the optimization of wind turbine foundation structure.
After checking some information, she found that Tongshi’s wind turbine towers used a lot of bolts to connect to the foundation, making installation slow and costly.
Perhaps reducing the number of bolts while maintaining quality is a good solution?
Because Yaya was sick, Li Chengjin was away on leave. Feeling a little uncertain, she could only ask Xing Xiao for advice:
"Engineer Xing, if we reduce the number of bolts in one circle and use thicker bolts, this will ensure the connection strength while saving construction time and material costs. Do you think this is feasible?"
Xing Xiao strongly affirmed her idea: "That's a good idea, it kills two birds with one stone."
He also strongly invited Ke Fan to attend the next core staff meeting: "This plan may be able to be promoted to other wind farms. You should share it with everyone at the meeting. You young people are the real backbone and the future hope of the institute!"
At the invitation, Ke Fan presented his optimization ideas and calculations at the meeting: "As shown above, and based on the data simulation, this change can save hundreds of thousands of dollars for the entire wind farm in the future, and the installation cycle can be shortened by two days."
The other participants all looked interested and were about to ask questions, but Xing Xiao spoke first, staring at her word by word:
"Engineer Ke, I just have a quick question - have you looked into the typhoon history of Tongshi in recent years?"
He still looked like a friendly senior, but his tone was filled with contempt after success: "This plan might be good in other places, but Engineer Ke, you young people are so reckless. You do things without considering the worst consequences."
"Tongshi wind turbines require stronger calculated pull-out resistance than ordinary wind turbines. If there's one less turn of bolts, will the entire tower shake more violently during a typhoon? Is it possible for it to loosen or even break? If something really goes wrong, can you take responsibility for it?"
The barrage of criticism was so different from the person who had strongly affirmed her that day that Ke Fan was stunned.
Unbelievable, a chill ran down my spine.
Only then did she realize that she had been tricked.
The meeting reminder popped up on the computer screen, and the backbone meeting began immediately.
Ke Fan pulled himself out of his memories and watched the small notification box appear and disappear calmly.
One minute before the meeting starts.
Ke Fan suddenly received a random sentence from Jiang Wen: Mr. Ke, be careful.
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