Gu Biao didn't know if Qiu Qing was showing favor to him when he mentioned his cousin Gu Chi when he finally saw him off.

Gu Biao is a very humble and low-key person, so he would rather be inclined to believe that the other party is just out of a friend's concern. Let the deputy cadres of a provincial city sell to him, Gu Biao is not ready for this "virtuous person to live".

It's going to be shocking.

Between the thoughts flying, two hours passed quickly, and Gu Biao landed in the capital.

When you arrive in the capital, you have to keep it in a nest, which is no way. Gu Biao didn't even dare to bring more bodyguards, and when he came out of the airport, Xiao Sui drove to pick him up - Mina is still in Iraq and has not resigned, so Gu Biao only has Xiao Sui's best friend in the capital.

Xiao Sui came to the capital on the eleventh day of the first lunar month, two days earlier than Gu Biao, and settled down to clean up after arriving in the capital. Because she is now a graduate student of the "Literature Workshop", she has just been in graduate school for a semester, so she will naturally return to school as soon as the school starts, and Gu Biao is helping Qiu Qing negotiate with Haig for a long time and coming late.

The husband and wife each have so many things to do, and they can't even get together for a two-day time difference, and they have to go to Beijing in batches.

(Note: As mentioned above, the "Literature Workshop" is the future Lu Xun Academy of Literature, but it will not be changed to that name until the first batch of graduate students officially graduate and issue certificates.) ）

The car Xiao Sui drove was the Toyota Crown that Mina bought in order to keep a low profile. Anyway, Mina, Gu Ao, and Xiao Sui are not separated from each other, the car is driven casually, and each other has a key.

Gu Biao's six-year-old broken Volga second-generation car, before he returned to the United States last time, casually gave it to a colleague who had a good relationship in the Foreign Investment Commission.

Because he knows that the 84-year-old Toyota Crown is no longer eye-catching in the capital, and it can be opened by ordinary officials and wealthy businessmen. In this case, there is no need to use Volga's pure tattered low-key.

As for Daben, let's endure it for another two years, this is the capital after all.

……

As soon as he got in the car, Gu Biao sat in the driver's seat by himself and drove Xiao Sui to the co-pilot next to him.

He still didn't have the habit of trusting female drivers.

After activating the crown, Gu Biao remembered something and asked, "By the way, the courtyard house I bought during the summer vacation, did the person who Director Liu found to help me build it? Can you live in it? Are you living on campus or at home for the past two days?"

Xiao Sui: "It's all done, it's pretty good, it's fully equipped, but it looks antique, a combination of Chinese and Western, I like it very much." And I see that a vacant lot in Yuyuantan Park next to us has also been fenced off and planned recently, I wonder if there are other rich and powerful people who want to follow our example and build a garden there together. ”

Gu Biao nodded, and with one foot on the accelerator, he drove to the west of the city.

To believe in the speed of construction of the Chinese, especially when Party A's money is in place, it is basically as fast as you want. In particular, Gu Biao's house is a courtyard house, and there are no more than two floors, and all parts can advance the construction progress in parallel, so it will be faster.

Two months to renovate the house, the rest of the time to decorate, disperse, absolutely enough.

While driving, he was more curious about Xiao Sui's last mention that "the plot next to their courtyard has also been planned", and asked a few more questions, but Xiao Sui didn't know more about the situation, so he gave up.

The car soon arrived at Yuyuantan, and on the way, it also passed by Gu Ao's alma mater, the Foreign Affairs College.

When passing by the school gate, Gu Biao glanced in quickly and nostalgically, and could see several young and energetic elementary school girls coming in and out, and did not forget to raise their eyes and point at the red cloth banner pulled above the school gate.

Gu Biao slowed down the car, only to notice that the banner at the entrance of the school read, "Warm Congratulations to Our University Alumnus Gu Biao for Receiving a Ph.D. from Georgetown University's Wales School of Foreign Service."

Gu Biao couldn't help but look at it.

It was nearly a month before he got his degree, but the winter vacation of American universities was just a little later than that of China, so when the semester ended in Georgetown, the foreign affairs college was already on winter vacation. After the end of the 20-day winter vacation, I remembered to hang this banner at the beginning of the school year.

"This kind of logical thing that will definitely graduate, and they also use it to hang banners, they don't want to publicize it, and I am ashamed. Gu Biao parked the crown car at the door of his house and jokingly mentioned what he had just seen to Xiao Sui.

Xiao Sui is very able to put himself in his shoes, so he is kind enough to excuse himself:

"This kind of thing, the school can blow it more than once. At least the freshmen of the 83rd class of the Foreign Affairs University will definitely not have the opportunity to see the scenery when you go abroad, and the school will put up a banner to boost their morale and increase some bargaining chips for future enrollment.

I called Mina a while ago to ask her how she was doing in Iraq, and she told me about the current situation of your alma mater, and that the freshmen who enrolled last fall, even if they took a 60-person diplomatic major, may not be able to be 100% assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduation in the future.

In the past few years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has allocated 60 and 60 cadre quotas every year, and when they graduate from the 82nd class, they will not have to fill in the three or four hundred fat vacancies, so how can there be so many fat vacancies. Mina said that by the time the 84th and 85th classes graduate, not to mention the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, even the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and other ministries and commissions involved in foreign affairs will not necessarily be lacking.

Now the school is promoting you as a benchmark figure, and it is also giving them a fantasy, thinking that 'no matter what the future employment situation is, at least after entering the Foreign Affairs College, you will be the first in your grade and the first in overall performance, and maybe you will have the opportunity to study abroad and study international relations with the former US Secretary of State'. ”

Gu Biao pondered Xiao Sui's words for a while, and felt that it was actually very reasonable.

Indeed, at this time, it is time for the Foreign Affairs University to start thinking about the quality of students.

Before the 85th grade, because of the advantages in package distribution and the small enrollment scale, it was very easy for the admission score line to crush Tsinghua University and Peking University, regardless of the school's running strength.

However, after that, it gradually became the same as Tsinghua Peking University, and after entering the 90s in history, it was overtaken by Tsinghua University, and Peking University was also surpassed in 92.

In this case, President Liu has Gu Biao, the card of "outstanding alumni of the school", to play, and he can't play it vigorously.

Gu Biao is President Liu's killer weapon for making the college entrance examination score of China Foreign Affairs University crush Tsinghua University and Peking University for two years.

Later history has really proved this point - in the original time and space, when the 86-level college entrance examination freshmen were enrolled, the admission score of the Foreign Affairs University in various provinces was basically the same as that of Tsinghua University.

However, in today's plane, because of the existence of Gu Biao, because the Foreign Affairs University later frantically promoted Gu Biao, the college's value in the college entrance examination was maintained for two more years, and until 88, it was 15 points higher than Tsinghua University's score. As for being overtaken by Tsinghua, it was delayed to 93 years.

Gu Biao, a "famous alumnus", made a university that originally relied on administrative resources to become bigger and its own comprehensive strength was not strong, but after the ebb of administrative resources, it still remained strong for two more years, which was later analyzed by many experts and professors in the field of education in China as a model case.

Gu Xiao also became a model case and synonym for the mantra "tomorrow's alma mater will be proud of me" when the Chinese later said.

So much so that after Gu Fu's younger brother Ma Feng also rose, his alma mater, Qiantang Normal College, was also a little immortal. But this case failed to arouse the attention and analysis of more education experts, because Ma Feng's limelight was completely overshadowed by Gu Biao's Zhuyu.

Brother's glory cannot be replicated.

……

Gu Biao parked the car, pulled his thoughts back from the long-term topic of "how to help his alma mater correct his name", and walked into the newly built mansion with Xiao Sui in his arms.

He observed the style and shape of the building with great interest, the main entrance and the front courtyard wall, are bluestone white powder, vermilion column window lattice, emerald green glazed roof, that style and style, really let Gu Biao, who is used to seeing a lot of money, can't help but admire the style.

"I really found the right place to ask Director Liu to help design the yard. It is worthy of the Landscape Architecture Design Institute of the China Academy of Art, although the innovation is not as good as Pei I.M., and the hard foundation is solid. ”

Moreover, Gu Biao noticed that just the roof shape of the main gate was very particular - when Gu Biao originally put down this quadrangle, although it was also a courtyard with three or four entrances, and in the Republic of China or the late Qing Dynasty, it was also inhabited by large families and even high-grade officials, but the roof of the main gate was just an ordinary "hard hilltop".

The so-called "hard hilltop" is a type of roof system of ancient buildings, and the main feature is that the left and right sides are flattened, so the top spine is the same length as the two lower beams of the rafters. Such a top, if you have money, you can use it, and the feudal era will not be impeached and overstepped.

After Director Liu pushed Gu Biao to rebuild, the roof of the main entrance was the "top of the palace", and the roof beam of this kind of roof was shorter than the rafter beam, so the end of the roof beam would hang down four ridges diagonally.

It may be a bit boring to say this, but it is easy to understand for example - people who have traveled to the capital, if they have been to the scenic spot of Prince Gong's Mansion, they will know that the main gate of Prince Gong's Mansion is the "top of the palace".

Gu Biao's new mansion, compared with Prince Gong's Mansion, only lacks the decoration of the cornices and arches, and there is no upturned carved eaves corner. But anyway, if you really put it in ancient times, you would have to have a bit of a knighthood on your body to cover such a house. The present age has been opened, and it does not pay attention to these.

After entering the main entrance, Gu Biao saw that the architectural style inside was also very perfect, with the same vermilion lacquered mahogany pillars and mahogany window lattice, and the price of high-grade wood in the 80s was still cheap, so he could afford to use this material.

If it is placed in the future generations, a proper window can be tens of thousands of dollars, who can afford to use mahogany as a pillar.

The courtyard of the last two entrances was also changed from the original single-storey to a two-story small building by Director Liu, and the courtyard of the atrium became a "real patio" - when it rains, the eaves that are surrounded by all sides will gather the rainwater on the inner slope of the roof ridge and fall into the patio of the atrium, and the patio is just right to dig a lotus pond with white marble carved railings, and you can enjoy the artistic conception of the rain hitting the residual lotus.

Gu Biao is very satisfied with this park, but the only thing that still makes him a little uneasy is that the land next to his mansion has also been requisitioned by the plan. Gu Biao didn't know who wanted to follow suit, he had never liked to compare with other powerful people.

However, this question can't be solved at home, Gu Biao and Xiao Sui had lunch briefly, so he decided to go back to the Ministry of Electronics Industry in the afternoon to make up the procedures that should be made, and then find Uncle Bao to find out the news.