After Feng Xiaochen said this, he didn't delay any longer, he stood up directly and nodded to Kang Haidong, and then beckoned Wu Shican to go out with him. Kang Haidong also stood up, his mouth open, wanting to say something, but he didn't know where to start. Wu Shican followed Feng Xiaochen and left, while throwing an apologetic look at Kang Haidong. He and Kang Haidong are old acquaintances, and they are both engaged in technology, and they have some incense friendship, which is really not suitable for being as ruthless as Feng Xiaochen. However, he didn't feel anything wrong with Feng Xiaochen's attitude, and as far as he was concerned, he didn't think about slapping the table with the petrochemical institute.

Kang Haidong sent the two out of the office building all the way, and politely asked if they wanted to stay for dinner, Feng Xiaochen and Wu Shican naturally declined. Watching the jeep driven by Feng Xiaochen out of the gate of the design institute, Kang Haidong sank his face, walked into the door of the building with his hands behind his back, and met Hou Chao, the director of the administrative department. Hou Chao saw Kang Haidong's unpredictable face, and subconsciously asked: "Lao Kang, what's wrong, who came just now?"

"It's not the people who equip the industrial company yet. Kang Haidong replied angrily.

"Is that the Director Wu of the Equipment Industry Company?" asked Hou Chao.

Kang Haidong said: "It's not just him. If it's just Lao Wu, there is a young man who came today, I heard that it was their assistant general manager, and he spoke very impulsively, and at first glance, he was a young man, and he didn't know how many taels of dry rice he had eaten. ”

"So what did they say?"

"What to say, it's not that the ethylene plant is urging us to work, and if it is delayed, they will have to do things according to the contract. ”

"Do things according to the contract?, can they still ask for the money back?" Hou Chao said disappretently, "Besides, aren't they also engaged in this thing, Lao Song, why, it's not finished yet?"

The old Song he said was Song Shijun, the chief engineer of the design institute, and he was responsible for the design of the ethylene plant this time. Song Shijun is already 65 years old this year, and his enthusiasm is enough, but unfortunately his body is not strong, and he belongs to the kind of situation where he has more than enough heart but not enough strength. Kang Haidong asked him about the progress several times, and the old man was ashamed every time, but there was nothing he could do, Kang Haidong couldn't be anxious with him, so he could only drag it out like this.

"This matter has indeed been delayed for a long time, alas, let's hold another meeting tomorrow to mobilize and mobilize. Kang Haidong said helplessly.

Not mentioning what Kang Haidong thought in his heart, Feng Xiaochen drove Wu Shican out of the gate of the design institute in a car, but did not return to the company directly, but drove the car next to a bus stop and stopped, and then said to Wu Shican: "Old Wu, see if you can take the bus back by yourself, I still have something to do here." ”

"No problem, no problem, I like to take the bus. Wu Shican responded, and after that, he didn't rush to get out of the car, but asked in a low voice: "Xiao Feng, how are you going to deal with this matter?" If they can't give us a satisfactory answer in three days, are you really going to do things according to the contract?"

"That's all there is to it. Feng Xiaochen said.

"However, the design institute is a public institution, can you really fine them?"

"Even if you can't pay a fine, you have to let them suffer some losses. Feng Xiaochen said, "You haven't seen Lao Kang's attitude today, and he even said any about being responsible for history, which is obviously trying to play tricks." ”

"Alas, blame me for this. Wu Shican did self-examination, "I didn't expect them to have such an attitude, I knew that this was the case, I shouldn't have paid the design fee in advance, and now that the money has reached their account, I am afraid it is really not easy for them to withdraw again." ”

Feng Xiaochen smiled bitterly, Wu Shican is indeed too sincere, this person has no problem with technology, but it is not effective to deal with this kind of thing involving the interests of the department, this kind of thing still has to rely on him Feng Xiaochen to do. He smiled at Wu Shican and said, "Old Wu, leave this matter to me, I always have a way to get them moving." ”

Wu Shican got out of the car, Feng Xiaochen drove forward for a while, turned a few corners, and came to a small door on the wall, outside which stood a young man of the same age as Feng Xiaochen, who seemed to have been waiting for a while. Seeing Feng Xiaochen's car driving over, he greeted him with a smile and greeted, "Assistant Feng, you are here." ”

"It's coming. Feng Xiaochen stopped the car, pulled the handbrake, jumped out of the car, and said with a smile while shaking hands with the other party, "Cold, did you keep you waiting?"

The person in front of him was clearly Yan Han, a graduate student whom Feng Xiaochen met at Pujiang Jiaotong University. That year, Feng Xiaochen went to investigate the misappropriation of Wang Hongtai's funds, and it was Yan Han who informed him of the true situation and passed on a lot of words for him among the graduate students. Since then, Yan Han has always been in contact with Feng Xiaochen, and even after he graduated, he was able to work in the petrochemical design institute in the capital, which was also because Feng Xiaochen helped him find some connections.

This time, Feng Xiaochen came to negotiate with the Petrochemical Design Institute about the design of the ethylene plant, and called Yan Han in advance, saying that he wanted to talk to him privately. In order not to let Kang Haidong and other leaders of the petrochemical institute notice, Yan Han asked Feng Xiaochen to meet outside the small door of the petrochemical institute.

"Didn't wait a moment. Yan Han said politely, "Assistant Feng, I heard that you went on a business trip to Mexico some time ago, how is it, is things going well?"

"Fortunately, it went well, and the harvest was not small. ”

"That's for sure, Assistant Feng is out of the horse, how can there be a reason not to succeed immediately. Yan Han said half compliment, half sincerely.

The two exchanged a few words, and Yan Han pulled the conversation back to the point and asked, "Assistant Feng, you asked me to meet, is there something wrong?"

"It's a bit of a thing. Feng Xiaochen restrained his smile and said: "I want you to inquire about the internal situation of your petrochemical institute, you must know the reason, that is, the 600,000-ton ethylene plant designed by the petrochemical institute we commissioned it." ”

"Well, I know a little bit about that. Yan Han said, he looked at the pedestrians around him, and said, "Assistant Feng, if you are not busy, you should not go to my dormitory to talk." ”

That's exactly what I mean. Feng Xiaochen said.

This side door of the petrochemical institute is only convenient for workers to enter and exit, and jeeps cannot drive in. However, it is not yet the time when cars are overflowing, and there are parking places on the side of the road. Feng Xiaochen parked the car at a place by the fence that did not affect pedestrian traffic, locked the car, and entered the petrochemical yard with the severe cold, and came to the tube building where he lived.

"You live in a place like this?"

As soon as he entered the tube building, Feng Xiaochen's eyebrows furrowed. Nowadays, the housing of most units is very difficult, and living in a tube building is nothing new, but Feng Xiaochen dares to swear that it is the first time he has seen a tube building that is dilapidated and crowded to such an extent. The corridors of the building are lined with all sorts of things, all the way to ceiling height. The only vacant space is used to place briquette stoves, and these stoves even directly block half of the door, and it is estimated that the people in the room can only step over the stove if they want to come out.

"How can there be so many things?" Feng Xiaochen asked in surprise.

Yan Han smiled and didn't say anything, just led Feng Xiaochen through the small aisle in the middle of a pile of miscellaneous things, until he came to a door. He took out the key and opened the door, and motioned: "Assistant Feng, please come in, the conditions are like this, you can bear more." ”

"Well, a lot of units are like this now. ”

Feng Xiaochen said as he walked into the cold room. Entering the door, his surprise was even worse, such a room of less than 20 square meters was actually stuffed to the brim, half of the two bookshelves were placed with books, and the other half were placed with pots and pans, teacups and toothbrushes, etc., the walls were nailed with shelves, shelves were placed with boxes, and some exposed walls became places to hang clothes, and the most strange thing was that there were two double-layer shelf beds on the left and right sides of the room, and a curtain was drawn in the middle.

"This is ......" Feng Xiaochen pointed to the curtain with his finger, and a thought flashed through his mind.

"This is my home, and over there is where my colleague Zhou Ting and his lover live. There was a bit of sarcasm in Yan Han's tone.

"You two families, live in one room?" Feng Xiaochen finally understood. Yan Han is already married, since he said that one side is his house, it is obviously where he and his wife live, and on the other side, there is actually another couple.

As a family, there is always some property, at least two people's clothes, bedding, etc., to occupy a lot of space. The living conditions of other units are poor, and only one family can live in one room, and all kinds of things can be stuffed. And the tube building of the petrochemical institute is actually a room for two families, so it is no wonder that they have to pile a lot of worthless things into the corridor.

There's just no storage space, that's it. The two families lived in the same room, but there was no privacy at all. This is not comparable to a college student dormitory, no matter what, a dormitory is of the same sex, there is nothing to avoid, there are two men and two women living in this room, how embarrassing it will be every day, Feng Xiaochen can't imagine it.

"Didn't expect that, right?" Yan Han laughed self-deprecatingly, "I'm not afraid of your jokes, I have a tacit understanding with Lao Zhou, I take my lover out for a walk twice a week, two hours each time, and then he and his lover do the same...... You know. ”

"......" Feng Xiaochen did understand, but he didn't want to laugh at all, but felt a little like crying. He was stained with the light of Yan Leqin, occupied a courtyard house in the capital, and never suffered from housing difficulties. He didn't expect that a high-level talent like Yan Han would live like this.

"Sit down. Yan Han pointed to his bed, beckoned to Feng Xiaochen, he closed the door, took a stool and sat down, and said, "Assistant Feng, don't you want to ask about the ethylene device, after seeing our room, do you already have some answers?"