Chapter 17. “Good Questions”
As soon as Jiang Wen arrived at the office today, he felt that Xing Xiao was too excited.
This is not a good sign, because it often means that he has a new idea to make things difficult for others.
Jiang Wen had been cautious all day, and just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he realized that his excitement was not directed at him, he suddenly caught sight of an extra document on his desk.
It was not his own case, but some data from the Oasis Wind Turbine in Jinshi.
Why does he want to look into Mr. Ke’s case?
This doubt was soon resolved. Before the core meeting, Jiang Wen heard a few whispers between Xing Xiao and his like-minded friends.
There is only one minute left before the meeting starts.
He only had time to send a message to Ke Fan saying be careful and didn't dare to send any more messages.
The meeting started, and in case Ke Fan needed to share the screen, he didn't want to cause trouble for her.
Jiang Wen was not included in the meeting invitation, so he could only sweat in his heart and listen to Xing Xiao's voice coming from next door.
As expected, Xing Xiao was aggressive and enthusiastic as he threw out one sharp question after another.
Excited like a bloodthirsty beast.
"Director, I think the Oasis project is extremely inappropriate. Although it is not my project, some engineers at Oasis who know me also sent me some information and asked me to review it for them." Xing Xiao's tone showed his usual pretentiousness.
"Engineer Ke, your plan doesn't consider the impact of artificial grouting on the ecology at all?"
"Have you selected your grouting materials? Have you done any ecological monitoring on your plan?"
"Have you read the environmental protection department's notice?"
"This year, the wind farm is focusing on achieving green targets," Xing Xiao paused, then added sarcastically, "You've dragged down our targets by yourself."
The meeting fell into a brief silence.
Ke Fan frowned slightly, looking like he was stumped by the question.
Xing Xiao folded his arms, leaned back in his chair, and felt a sense of relief in his heart.
From the moment Ke Fan joined the company, he instinctively disliked her.
I don't like her brilliant academic resume, and I don't like her calm, self-respecting and non-flattering personality.
How can a woman be excellent and indifferent?
What's more, he has been working for many years, but his limelight has been overshadowed by Ke Fan.
At first, due to his deliberate exaggeration, everyone thought that she had a strong personality and was difficult to get along with.
After other people had worked with her for a few years, no matter how subtle the smear campaign was, it would no longer work, especially for the new employees, who were all completely obedient to her.
He just answered a few questions from those kids, what's the big deal? He didn't bother to care about those stupid questions.
And after all, he always has a subtle contempt for girls.
This is a male-dominated industry. How can a woman really make any brilliant technical decisions?
In a few years, when she gets married and has children, she won't have the time to solve problems here and show off.
It was extremely quiet for a moment. Jiang Wen could not hear any sound even when he pricked up his ears, which made him even more anxious.
Xing Xiao sneered in his heart, cleared his throat, and was about to speak for another attack.
Ke Fan, who had been silent all the time, suddenly looked up and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Beautiful and cold eyebrows, eyes as sharp as ice.
“That’s a good question,” she said.
Xing Xiao suddenly felt something was wrong.
Ke Fan met his gaze through the screen with a hint of a smile. There was no panic in his dark eyes as he had imagined, but calmness and indifference.
She spoke slowly, "It turns out that Engineer Xing is still very concerned about my project."
"However, I have already thought about this problem in advance, in order to avoid any more trouble." She looked at Xing Xiao, whose expression changed, with a half-smile, and emphasized the last few words.
"The day after returning to Tianjin, I assessed and simulated the ecological impact and selected the most suitable materials," she paused, opened a PDF document that had been prepared in the background, and began screen sharing. "For future ecological issues, I plan to cooperate with the fisheries near the oasis to develop a green ecosystem of marine wind power and marine ranching."
"I've already drafted a report and have made preliminary contact with the wind farm owner. I was just about to send the PDF to everyone to review. And Engineer Xing just happened to bring it up, so I'd like to take this opportunity to explain it to everyone so I don't have to come back again."
Her eyes were filled with a coldness that saw through everything. She said in a leisurely tone, "Mr. Xing, do you mind?"
The meeting that was supposed to embarrass her turned out to be a good opportunity for her to show off. Xing Xiao looked like he had eaten a fly and couldn't spit it out.
He tried to maintain a smile: "Of course I don't mind."
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"Thank you, Xiao Jiang." After the meeting ended and he closed his computer, Ke Fan sent a message back to Jiang Wen.
Then click on a dialog box below, tap and send:
"all the best."
On the other side of the screen, Nie Fei just parked his car in the underground garage.
In the dim environment, the light from the mobile phone screen illuminated his face, and his thoughts went back to the past.
That day, Ke Fan found him and mentioned future cooperation to him.
When she was in Hai City, she studied the case of Yang City very thoroughly, and when she returned to Jin City, she immediately began to prepare countermeasures to deal with the ecological impact of the grouting plan.
Offshore wind power combined with marine ranching.
This is a complex ocean utilization model that integrates clean energy development and marine fishery farming.
Carrying out marine ranching activities (such as fish, shellfish, and seaweed farming) in the underwater space of offshore wind turbines can improve biodiversity and purify water quality, which is also a good way to repair the ecological impact of artificial grouting on habitats.
Of course Nie Fei had no objection. Cooperating with Oasis was a rare opportunity for the fishery.
What's more, this is also part of the "plan".
Looking at Ke Fan's profile picture, the red and white lighthouse overlooking the vast ocean, his thoughts went back to a long time ago, to the day when he reconnected with Ke Fan.
To be honest, he didn't lie to Li Jing. He and this goddess, who became famous for her ID photo on the first day of school, were not very familiar with each other in college.
At that time, she was the only girl in the class and she always kept to herself.
Later, Yi Lingjia was by her side, and it was Yi Lingjia who chased her around and sat with her in the library for the whole day. She had no interaction with Nie Fei and the others.
But as Yi Lingjia's roommate, I would hear him chattering about everything about Ke Fan.
"You idiot Nie Fei! I confessed to her like you said, but she didn't even look at me and went straight upstairs!" He returned to the dormitory dejectedly, holding the flowers that he hadn't given away and a pile of burnt candles.
"We, we, we are together today! She promised me!" The boy's eyes sparkled with sparkling light, and his heart and eyes were full of joy.
But suddenly those smiling eyes turned into a pair of depressed and lifeless black holes: "She said she wanted to break up with me, what should I do?"
After Yi Lingjia went abroad, Nie Fei didn't have much contact with him until he returned to China three years later. Nie Fei was shocked when he met him at the airport.
His condition was so bad that Nie Fei could hardly recognize him.
Later, he accompanied him through the crisis and founded Fengshun together. Nie Fei always held hope in his heart that he could recover completely.
But the reality is always contrary to our wishes.
Not long ago, Nie Fei was at his house, and the two of them had a drink together. Yi Lingjia was busy in the kitchen preparing to cut some Spanish ham.
Nie Fei suddenly heard a small cry and hurried into the kitchen to see.
Yi Lingjia was holding a very sharp Swiss Army knife, standing there in a daze.
He accidentally cut a deep gash on his hand, and blood was gushing out, dripping onto the white floor tiles in the kitchen. The blood was bright red and shocking.
However, he did not stop the bleeding immediately. Instead, he stared at the wound intently, as if he felt no pain, and there was even some hidden surprise and excitement in his eyes.
Nie Fei's heart was filled with alarm. He actually knew that Yi Lingjia had been taking medicine and thought everything was under control.
He consulted a friend who was a psychologist, and the friend told him that this was a self-destructive tendency and needed intervention and treatment as soon as possible, otherwise...
Nie Fei was so scared of the words that followed that he didn't want to think about them anymore.
In the days after Yi Lingjia was injured, he mentioned it to Yi Lingjia several times in a joking manner: "By the way, young people are under a lot of pressure to start their own businesses nowadays. I have a friend who opened a psychological clinic, which is really popular. They also gave me a lot of treatment courses, but I don't need them, so I'll give them to you!"
Yi Lingjia glanced at him calmly, his eyes devoid of emotion: "No need. I have a psychologist when I'm abroad, I'll contact him if I need anything."
Nie Fei was anxious. Isn’t there a need now?
But he didn't dare to show it too obviously, fearing that it would backfire, so he came up with a plan and asked Yi Lingjia for the contact information of his psychologist in a roundabout way:
"Really? My friend wants to talk to a doctor in the United States. Boss Yi, how about you give me your consultant's contact information?"
Yi Lingjia didn't doubt him and gave him an email address.
The reason why Nie Fei stopped hesitating and contacted Ke Fan also happened on the night when Yi Lingjia was injured.
Maybe it was because Yi Lingjia allowed himself to drink a lot of alcohol at home and became unconscious.
When moving him from the sofa to the bed, Nie Fei heard him muttering a name.
Nie Fei leaned in closer to listen. Yi Lingjia's face was flushed and he reeked of alcohol. He kept mumbling incoherently, "Xiao Fan... Xiao Fan..."
Nie Fei's heart trembled, and he finally made up his mind and contacted Ke Fan.
The two met at a cafe near her workplace. After a few pleasantries, Nie Fei stated his purpose straight away:
"After you broke up, he had a really hard time in the United States. For so many years, he was reluctant to interact with women, let alone a girlfriend. After his father passed away, his condition became so severe that he started taking medication to control himself, and recently he even had self-destructive tendencies."
"Can you help him?"
The girl opposite lowered her eyes, her eyelashes trembling slightly, like the wings of a butterfly about to fall in the wind.
She slowly stirred the spoon in the coffee cup for a long time, then sighed and said, "Give me that email address."
"I'm not going to make things worse," she said.
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