After returning to the guest house, Geng Zhiyuan was afraid that Su Qing would worry, so he did not reveal to her the provocation of Hu Tianbao and others.

After the conflict with them, although Geng Zhiyuan was not afraid of Hu Tianbao, he was worried that the gang of ruffians behind him would come to make trouble and take revenge. Geng Zhiyuan thought to himself that he could no longer stay in the factory for construction services, after all, he was alone and far away from home, even if he could fight again, he would not be able to fight a group of local snakes no matter what.

After Geng Zhiyuan found Liu Jun in the afternoon and discussed it carefully, he asked Chief Engineer Chen for a leave under the pretext that the unit had something to do, and prepared to rush back to Ningcheng the next day.

That night, Su Qing learned from Liu Jun about the conflict between Geng Zhiyuan and Hu Tianbao and others, and she hurried to the guest house early the next morning, found Geng Zhiyuan and asked, "Brother Geng, Hu Tianbao, are they making trouble with you?"

Geng Zhiyuan sighed and said, "Xiao Su, I could have stayed for a few more days, but now that this kind of thing has happened, I have to go back early." I'll leave this morning, and you're here to say goodbye to you. ”

"Why?" As soon as he heard that Geng Zhiyuan was leaving, Su Qing couldn't help but say angrily: "Are you afraid that they will retaliate?"

"Yes!" Geng Zhiyuan nodded and said: "I am a foreigner, and I am unfamiliar with the people here, so I can't fight them to the death." There is a way that thirty-six plans are to go up, and I can afford to hide if I can't afford to provoke them, so let's see what else they can do when they leave?"

Su Qing was heartbroken, tears rolled in her eyes: "You are gone, what about me, what should I do?"

Geng Zhiyuan softly comforted: "Please take a leave to go home, and go to school when there is news from the school, don't fight against these hooligans, we are not worth it." ”

The man she admired in her heart wanted to leave her as a deserter, and Su Qing said with tears of grievance: "Are you ...... You don't know...... Don't you know what I want about you?"

"Alas!" Su Qing's careful thinking, Geng Zhiyuan didn't know, he sighed, and persuaded: "Xiao Su, you are still too young, it's not time to fall in love......"

"No!" Now that it has come to this point, Su Qing boldly confessed without any scruples: "I like you! Brother Geng, tell you the truth, do you like me?"

Geng Zhiyuan looked at her beautiful face, nodded silently, and said, "Of course I like you to be so beautiful." ”

"Then why did you leave me?" Su Qing said with her eyes widened.

"I treat you as a sister and my student, and of course I like it. Otherwise, I will make an enmity with Hu Tianbao and them in order to protect you?" Geng Zhiyuan persuaded step by step: "However, liking and loving are two different things, and loving someone is responsible. You can't understand it now, but when you grow up, you will understand. ”

"I don't understand! I don't want to understand either!" Su Qing lost his temper, grabbed his arm and said, "I won't let you go!"

"Qingqing, fate is natural. Geng Zhiyuan saw that she insisted on going her own way, and persuaded with a whim: "If you can be admitted to university, if I don't marry and you don't marry after graduation, it will be the fate that God has given to the two of us." At that point, if you want, we'll continue the frontier. Do you think it's okay?"

Su Qing pouted and thought for a long time, knowing that he couldn't keep people after all, and said angrily: "Then I must apply for the university in Ningcheng, and when the time comes, I will go to you every day and annoy you." ”

"Okay, I'll be waiting for you in Ningcheng. Geng Zhiyuan advised: "Take leave to go home today, you must not stay alone in the guest house, understand?"

"Hmm...... Good. After Su Qing was in a mood, he knew that he had gone a little too far, so he hurriedly said attentively: "Brother Geng, have you packed your things, do you need my help?"

Seeing that her mood returned to normal, Geng Zhiyuan smiled and said, "There's nothing to pack, just a duffel bag, which has been made." I just called the factory office, and they sent a car to see me off in a moment. ”

When they finally parted, Liu Jun came to the guest house with the car after a while, and after picking up Geng Zhiyuan, he apologized: "I won't send you, there are still a lot of things in the factory." ”

Geng Zhiyuan smiled indifferently: "It's okay...... But you must let Xiao Su go home today, it's not a big mistake to be careful, understand?"

Liu Jun nodded and said, "I understand, I'll send her home first in a while." ”

"When I'm gone, you give this to her. Geng Zhiyuan secretly stuffed an envelope to Liu Jun and said.

Liu Jun pinched it, and there seemed to be a wad of money in the envelope: "This ......?"

"Remember, I'll give it to her when I'm gone. Geng Zhiyuan shook his hand and said, "Goodbye!"

The car went away along the mountain road, Liu Jun glanced at his cousin who was staring with affection in his eyes, took out the envelope from his pocket and said, "Here you go, he asked me to give it to you." ”

Su Qing took the envelope blankly and opened the cover to see that there was a stack of money and a note inside. Su Qing took out a note and unfolded it, and it wrote: "Qingqing, let's go goodbye, I hope there will be a time to meet in the future." Leave 1,000 yuan to help you go to school, and don't forget to tell you when you are titled on the gold list. Signed: Zhiyuan. ”

"Brother Geng......" Su Qing pinched the letter in her hand and couldn't help tears like rain.

"Alas, this Geng Gong...... Alas!" Liu Jun shook his head and sighed as he watched from the sidelines.

The beginning of September coincides with the start of school year, and train tickets are even tighter. With the help of his younger brother, Geng Zhiyuan only got on the train three days later, and by the time he arrived at Ningcheng Station, it was already the early morning of September 6.

Returning to the familiar dormitory in Ningcheng, he collapsed on his bed, half-asleep and half-awake to recall the construction service in Sichuan Province, like a dream of Nanke. He said to himself: "I hope Su Qing can be admitted to university, a girl like her who is out of the ordinary, will naturally have a chance to be admitted to university." The gap between us is too big, and I am afraid that there will be no more conflicts in the future. Goodbye, Qingqing!"

September 7 was another Monday, Geng Zhiyuan got up early in the morning, went to the yard to do a few punches, went to the door to buy a baked cake with eggs for breakfast, and hurriedly went upstairs with it in his hand.

Life is as usual, after cleaning the office and filling boiling water, he just started to eat breakfast, and when he was eating fragrantly, he suddenly remembered Su Qing: "I don't know if Xiao Su has entered school?

When he was sighing, a tall and strong young man suddenly pushed the door in, and saw a stranger in the office, and the two of them looked at each other and were stunned.

"Are you ......?" Geng Zhiyuan saw the young man who came in, and took the initiative to ask, "Who are you looking for?"

"You're Geng Zhiyuan, right?" the young man smiled shyly: "My name is Shen Xi, and I am a student who came here this year. ”

"Shen Xi?" Geng Zhiyuan looked up and down, Shen Xi was slightly shorter than him, about one meter seven or eight, with a strong body, a circle bigger than him, and a simple and honest face wearing glasses.

It turned out to be a colleague who had just entered the hospital, Geng Zhiyuan said with a smile: "I'm Geng Zhiyuan, I just came back from a business trip, I didn't know you were new." What school did you graduate from?"

Shen Xi smiled: "I graduated from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, I came with my girlfriend, her name is Ji Li, next door to us." ”

"Who is your instructor?" Geng Zhiyuan asked again.

"Forest worker, the room arranged for me to study with her. Shen Xi said and sat down on Ma Xingang's seat in a grand manner.

"Why do you sit in the seat of a horse worker?" Geng Zhiyuan wondered, "Where is he sitting here?"

"Oh, the horseman is retired, that's why I sat with him. Shen Xi explained, sitting in his seat and fiddling with the computer.

Lao Ma has retired, and a new colleague has arrived. Geng Zhiyuan put down the half-eaten breakfast in his hand and sat there in a daze.

It's early September, and it's been a whole year since he entered the Provincial Chemical Design Institute. A year has passed, and he has gone through the process of falling out of love, falling in love, and falling out of love again...... The ups and downs, all kinds of past, flashed through my mind.

He secretly sighed: "A year has passed in the blink of an eye, but I haven't improved much technically. Next, I have to seize the time to do more projects and learn more technology, otherwise the back wave will push the front wave, and the front wave like me who has not mastered the technology will be shot alive on the beach. ”

After half past seven, the rest of the office came one after another. Xia Su, Wang Ping, and Lin Yin greeted Geng Zhiyuan warmly when they saw that Geng Zhiyuan had finally returned.

Wang Ping said: "Xiao Geng came back just in time, the project of the research institute has been signed, the project team is ready, and it will start this week." ”

"Oh?" Geng Zhiyuan was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "Wang Gong, which part should I be responsible for?"

"You dry methanol distillation. Wang Ping introduced: "In their process, there is an excess of methanol during the reaction, and the excess methanol is recovered and distilled and then reused. According to the data provided by the research institute, about 8,000 tons of methanol need to be distilled a year, and you can design 10,000 tons per year. ”

Geng Zhiyuan came into contact with the methanol distillation process for the first time, and he didn't have any information at hand, so he didn't know how to start, so he had to ask again: "Wang Gong, do you have any information on methanol distillation there?"

Wang Ping spread his hands and said: "I haven't done methanol distillation either, Xiao Yuying is your checker, she is an expert in this area, you just ask her." ”

It is said that Xiao Yuying is a strict person, demanding of people, and is not a good person to get along with. But since he was his own checker, Geng Zhiyuan could only bite the bullet and go to her for help.

Xiao Yuying's office is in room 701 in Dongtou, and in the same office is Jia Rui, who hates Geng Zhiyuan the most. Geng Zhiyuan gently pushed open the door of 701, and Jia Rui, who was rushing to the door, saw that it was him outside the door, and twisted his head and snorted impatiently.

Geng Zhiyuan ignored him, walked straight to Xiao Yuying on the innermost side, and said with a smile on his face: "Xiao Gong, the additive project of the research institute allows me to dry methanol distillation, I haven't done it, I want to ask you if you have any information that you can refer to." ”

Xiao Yuying glanced at him and was about to speak, but heard Jia Rui scream: "Xiao Geng, close the door, come in without closing the door, there are no rules." ”

Geng Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look, it turned out that he gently pushed the door after he came in, and the force was too small, and he didn't close the door tightly, and the wind blew open the crack in the door.

Jia Rui was obviously looking for trouble, Geng Zhiyuan knew that he couldn't be as knowledgeable as him in the courtyard, so he smiled calmly and said, "Oh, okay, I'll close it." As he spoke, he walked over and firmly pushed the door shut.

Everyone in the craft room knew that Jia Rui had a prejudice against Geng Zhiyuan, and it was definitely his deliberate provocation to talk about the matter today, intending to provoke Geng Zhiyuan and take the opportunity to teach the young man a lesson.

Unexpectedly, Geng Zhiyuan was not surprised by the provocation and humiliation, and he did not fall into his trap at all. Xiao Yuying saw it in her eyes, and secretly said in her heart: "Xiao Geng is really good, he is not as knowledgeable as a scoundrel like Jia Rui, he is a manufacturable material." ”

Geng Zhiyuan returned to Xiao Yuying's side, and she smiled and ordered: "Xiao Geng, you go to the library to borrow a set of drawings for methanol distillation." I have a book of calculations here, so you can refer to it. In addition, you can take a look at this book "Hydrazol Production", which has all the technical data required for methanol distillation. ”

"Thank you! Thank you, Xiao Gong!" Xiao Yuying is like a mentor pointing out the direction, and in three or two sentences, she gave solutions to all the problems that plagued Geng Zhiyuan. He was grateful, thanked him repeatedly, and then returned to his office with the calculation book and "Lianol Production".