Time flies, in the blink of an eye, it is New Year's Day in 1998, and the new year is quietly coming.

On the first day of the New Year, at more than nine o'clock in the morning, Geng Zhiyuan led the well-dressed Wei Xiao into the house for the first time. In order to please her future in-laws, Wei Xiao specially bought a few boxes of brand-name nutrition products as gifts, as well as a bag of rare fruits.

Geng Huaiguo and Gao Shuying saw that their son's girlfriend who was talking all day long was really beautiful, gentle and demure, very likable, and they were full of joy at the moment.

The first meeting was always a little restrained, Geng Huaiguo and Gao Shuying briefly asked Wei Xiao's family about the situation, and the rest of the topic could only lean on Geng Zhiyuan.

Gao Shuying took out the photo album at home and enjoyed the images of Geng Zhiyuan from childhood to adulthood with Wei Xiao, Geng Zhiyuan glanced at a few blanks on the album, and immediately understood that it was a photo of him and Yin Xue, which was replaced in advance by his parents who had been prepared.

He secretly rejoiced that with Wei Xiao's jealous temper, if she saw him taking intimate photos with other girls, there would be a storm nine times out of ten.

After lunch, Wei Xiao rushed to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, so frightened that Geng Huaiguo and Gao Shuying hurriedly asked their son to invite her out of the kitchen. The girl did housework before she came to the door, and she wanted Wei Xiao's parents to know, and she thought that the old Geng family was bullying other people's daughters.

After Geng Zhiyuan and Wei Xiao left, Gao Shuying praised: "Xiao Wei, this girl is beautiful, gentle and considerate, and the two of them are classmates who know each other, I am very satisfied with such a daughter-in-law." ”

"It's good, it's good......," Geng Huaiguo said with some concern: "The two of them are now living separately, even if they are married, it is not a long thing not to be together." ”

"Yes. Gao Shuying frowned and said, "I have to think of a way." By the way, how did you do with Zhiyuan's transfer of work to Xiao Wei?"

Geng Huaiguo said with a smile: "I said hello to Lao Li of the Education Bureau, and I transferred Xiao Wei to the thirtieth middle school after the New Year." It's their alma mater, and they have teachers they know before, so they should be able to adapt quickly. ”

"Didn't Zhiyuan say that Xiao Wei was a directional student? Before the service period, can the school agree?" Gao Shuying worried.

"Secondment, not a formal transfer, the relationship is still in the original school. Geng Huaiguo explained.

"Okay, this method is good!" Gao Shuying clapped her hands and said, "Wait for Zhiyuan to come back and tell him the good news." ”

Geng Huaiguo nodded and said, "Okay." However, if they want to be together, Zhiyuan has to make up his own mind, whether to let Xiao Wei go to Ningcheng after getting married, or whether he will come back to find a job. ”

"It's better to come back. Gao Shuying, as a mother, felt sorry for her son: "It is better to get married in a ready-made house here and have the help of your family than to work hard in the provincial capital alone." ”

"That's up to him......" Geng Huaiguo sighed: "Don't look at our son's honest duty on the surface, his heart is high, I'm afraid it's difficult to let him come back." ”

"Yes...... I hope Xiao Wei can tie him up. Gao Shulan also sighed.

After nearly three months of intensified construction, the installation of pipelines and instruments has been basically completed, and the next step is to check and fill the leakage and clean the pipeline, and prepare for pressure testing and follow-up commissioning.

On the seventeenth day of the lunar month, Geng Zhiyuan said goodbye to his girlfriend and parents and returned to the Provincial Chemical Design Institute to participate in the annual summary meeting in the room. Yu Qinghe, Zeng Dayou, Wang Qiang and others, who entered the design institute in the same year as him, have taken on the main design task after half a year of exercise.

As soon as I got to work on Friday, all the members of the craft room gathered in the conference room and held the 1997 annual summary meeting. At the meeting, Director Han Yingjie said a few words, and then read out his personal annual summary one by one.

Geng Zhiyuan's annual summary is very simple, except for a few drawings of three-gas recovery, the rest is only construction services to write. Other young people have done at least one or two projects, and Liu Mei, the most capable, has participated in six projects in a year.

After all the staff read it out, Han Yingjie was about to summarize a few more sentences, when Jia Rui suddenly interjected: "Director, is this year's newly admitted employees going to be regularized?"

Han Yingjie was stunned, the probationary period of newly admitted college students every year is half a year, and it will automatically turn regular after the Spring Festival, and no one has ever raised opinions on this matter since the establishment of the hospital, which one is Jia Rui making trouble?

"I oppose Geng Zhiyuan's regularization!" Jia Rui said straight to the point: "Listen, everyone, he hasn't done a serious project in the past six months, and he doesn't have the level of a regular employee at all, how can this kind of person become a regular?"

Jia Rui's friend Xue Bo also stood up to help: "That's it, Director Han, it's a big deal to become a regular, we can't just fool the past." ”

When everyone in the craft room saw that they suddenly stood up and made trouble, they all came to their senses, and they talked about it for a while. Geng Zhiyuan's brain was stunned: "This Jia Rui really can't open a pot, I spent most of the second half of the year serving on the site of the nitric acid project, can I blame myself for the few projects I do?"

"Be quiet, be quiet!" Han Yingjie saw that the situation was about to get out of control, and hurriedly waved his hand to stop it: "I'll be fair, Geng Zhiyuan was sent to the Liangcheng nitric acid project by the hospital in early October as a representative of the on-site construction service, and it has not ended yet. Therefore, there are objective reasons why he has few projects. ”

"Director, you can't say that. Jia Rui said in a strange manner: "Is it not the same to do projects on the spot? This is an excuse, in essence, he can't do it if his level is not enough." ”

"This ......" Han Yingjie had the intention to help Geng Zhiyuan break the siege, and turned to Xia Su and said: "Xia Gong, Geng Zhiyuan is your student, you know best, or you can say a few words." ”

Xia Su was already angry, the student did not learn well and the teacher could clear the responsibility? Jia Rui said that Geng Zhiyuan's level was not enough, wasn't this obviously slapping her in the face in public?

"Xiao Geng is studious and motivated, people are not on the scene for fun, it is also a serious study of theory and practice, and he often calls us for advice. Xia Su pointed at Jia Rui and asked, "Jia Rui, let me ask you, when you first came, did you do the main project independently in half a year?"

Jia Rui entered the hospital a year later than Xia Su, and there were few projects in the 80s, and his probationary period was basically spent playing cards and drinking, and at most he sketched a few pictures for the old comrades, and he was not even qualified to go to construction services.

Jia Rui was exposed in public, and his face was a little unbearable. Although Xia Su is petite, she is a female man with a strong personality, Jia Rui didn't dare to choke with her face-to-face, so he had to defend himself: "At that time, it was different from now, and the requirements for young people ...... I guess I should keep up with the times. ”

"You say keep pace with the times?" Xia Su asked: "Xiao Geng is very proficient in computer drawing, and he has drawn all the process piping." May I ask Jia Gong, how are you using it?"

"I ...... I'm learning. "The computer Jia Rui was assigned was usually only used to play games, and he didn't have the heart to learn CAD at all. He was taken seven inches and stuttered a little.

Xue Bo saw that Jia Rui was asked, and was about to help him come out to defend himself, when Liang Guangyuan interjected: "Xiao Geng is serving on the spot, and the evaluation in the factory is very good. It is very rare for a recent graduate to be said well by the factory. ”

Wang Ping also said: "Yes, Xiao Geng worked the scene, and we can't let young people sweat and cry." ”

Ma Xingang and Lin Yin then also helped Geng Zhiyuan say two good words, the two of them have old qualifications and prestige, and what they say is also weighty, and the others in the room will no longer express their opinions. Although Yu Qinghe, Pang Dong, Chen Ying, Liu Mei and others supported Geng Zhiyuan from the bottom of their hearts, it was a pity that it was inconvenient for young people to speak on this occasion, so they could only silently support them.

Han Yingjie saw that Jia Rui was speechless, and took the opportunity to clapp: "Okay, I won't say more about this matter, let's start voting for the first." ”

As the largest number of people in the provincial design institute, the craft room has six advanced places every year. If you choose the advanced, you will not only have a cash reward, but also be of great benefit to the future job title evaluation, so it is closely related to the interests of individual employees. Although the number of places selected in the room will be adjusted in the hospital, everyone still widened their eyes and became serious.

"Director, I still have something to say!" Han Yingjie was about to instruct Chen Ying, the clerk in the room, to distribute the ballots, when Jia Rui jumped up and shouted.

Seeing that he didn't give up, Han Yingjie couldn't help frowning and said, "What's the matter with you?"

Jia Rui walked to the center of the conference room in a grand manner, and said impassionedly in the voice of the male duck: "Even if Geng Zhiyuan's business level is passable, his character is not good. Not to mention the big belly of other girls, he also abandoned it from beginning to end, making people come to the door and make trouble. Completely disgraced the face of our unit! How can you say that such a person can be turned into a positive person?"

Geng Zhiyuan was dumbfounded when he heard this, he and Jia Rui were just a little contradiction between borrowing money and not giving it, how could they report to such an extent?

The other people in the craft room also looked at each other, what did Jia Rui want to do? Why did he hold on to Xiao Geng's life? Could it be that there was any deep hatred between the two of them, such as killing their father and taking their wife?

Han Yingjie didn't expect that Jia Rui would dare to attack Geng Zhiyuan again and again today, knowing that he had to come forward to stop it, otherwise if Jia Rui was allowed to make trouble, the craft room would become a big joke in the design institute.

"Everyone, be quiet!" Han Yingjie shouted, turned his head to Geng Zhiyuan and said, "Xiao Geng, you explain the ins and outs of this matter to everyone clearly, so as to save some ill-intentioned people from suspicion." ”

"Hmm!" Geng Zhiyuan gratefully agreed, he walked to the center of the conference room, and said unhurriedly to the colleagues in the craft room: "I had a girlfriend when I came to our hospital, her name is Xu Rong, and she works in the pressure vessel factory. In September, I was assigned an internship at the Haixi Fertilizer Factory, and when I came back at the end of the month, I found that she had gotten along with someone else, and we broke up and never met again. Yu Qinghe is my college classmate, and now he is in the same dormitory as me, and he can testify for me. ”

Yu Qinghe stepped forward and debuted: "What Geng Zhiyuan said is the truth, I can testify!"

"A while ago, Xu Rong was pregnant, and his parents came to us to make trouble, so they had to say that the child was mine. Not long after I broke up with her, I went to the Liangcheng nitric acid project site construction service, and I couldn't meet her at all, how could the child be mine?" Geng Zhiyuan said with a smile: "Although we intellectuals are educated and have high incomes, we can't help others with a green hat to raise children, right?"

Everyone laughed when they heard it, and Xu Rong's pregnancy was widely known in the design institute, and everyone had different opinions, and there were many popular versions. Today, Geng Zhiyuan explained, and the whole thing was finally revealed to the world.

Seeing the reversal of the scene, Jia Rui was unwilling to say: "This is your words, we don't believe it." ”

"Okay, have you made enough trouble?" Xia Su saw that he was really making trouble, and came forward to reprimand: "Xiao Geng was kicked by his girlfriend, and he still wants him to be his father, who is embarrassed to talk about this kind of thing? ”

Jia Rui stiffened his neck and said disapprehensively: "Ask everyone, do they believe it?"

"Of course we believe it!" Liu Mei, Chen Ying and other young people said gossipingly.

Han Yingjie knew that he would let him make trouble endlessly, and said categorically: "This matter is over here! Chen Ying, give everyone ballots." ”

Jia Rui saw that everyone was busy filling out the ballot and didn't pay attention to him, so he retreated into the crowd in a huff.