Break out of the courtyard

Chapter 618 The Zhang family's daughter has grown up

September 5nd, Sunday.

Shops in Building No. 6, North Bank of Houhai, and Internet Cafe No. 1, Houhai.

When Zhang Heping came back from the airport and put his luggage away, he stopped by the small Internet cafe run by his eldest son Zhang Bei to take a look.

Among 40 computers, only the computer of Ma Yongli, the network administrator at the door, is on. It can be said that business is very bad!

"mom!"

Zhang Heping sat with his back to the street, chatting with others while greeting Ma Xiuzhen, the mother in the Internet cafe. He then glanced at the group of young people and kids behind the network administrator Ma Yongli, and when he found that his nephews and cousins ​​were not among them, he picked up his bag and went upstairs.

When this small Internet cafe first opened, that silly boy Zhang Bei copied the model of the Internet cafe in the Peace Plaza on Hong Kong Island, charging 2 yuan an hour. He also set up a freezer to sell soda and ice cream, and even considered ordering takeout from the alley at the back.

However, there is no comparison between HK$2 in Hong Kong Island and RMB 2 in the Mainland!

For an ordinary office worker in Hong Kong Island, HK$2 is only one thousandth of their salary.

For ordinary people in the capital, 2 yuan is equivalent to about 15 kilograms of flour, which is half a month's food ration!

Although the price has been reduced to 5 cents per hour, still no one is buying it.

If this small Internet cafe doesn't organize some promotional activities, the investment of more than 40 magnesium yuan will be wasted!

Zhang Heping put down his luggage and knocked on the door of his eldest son Zhang Bei's room. He found that only Zhang Bei and his eldest nephew Zhang Yi were tinkering with code inside. He couldn't help but jokingly said, "Boss Zhang, don't you want to make online games anymore?"

"Third uncle!" Seeing that Zhang Bei didn't say anything, Zhang Yi explained, "We are building a domestic university exchange forum."

Zhang Heping hummed, reached out and rubbed his eldest son Zhang Bei's messy hair, and asked, "Where's your sister?"

"She had to attend the school's May Fourth Party today and didn't come back!" Zhang Bei stared at the Chinese code on the monitor and said without turning his head.

"If you haven't done anything bad, just open the door and let the air circulate!" Zhang Heping said, then he walked out of the bedroom and went straight downstairs.

"San'er, what do you want to eat tonight? I'll go buy it right away!" Mother Ma Xiuzhen was waiting by the patio downstairs with a backpack, looking at Zhang Heping happily.

Zhang Heping smiled and said, "Mom, I have to go to a meeting now, so I won't be back for dinner. You can just buy something tomorrow morning."

Hearing Zhang Heping's words, Ma Xiuzhen couldn't help but put down her backpack, followed Zhang Heping out, and asked casually, "What time does the meeting end?"

"Not sure yet!" Zhang Heping replied, then went to the shoe store in Building No. 9 next door and said hello to his father, Lao Zhang.

Finally, Zhang Heping got into the electric car waiting on the roadside and went to attend the nuclear power plant safety seminar.

The shop in Building No. 6 was turned into a small Internet cafe, and the shop in Building No. 7 was turned into a clothing store. Currently, Ma Yongli's daughter-in-law is running the store, and his eldest cousin Ma Lili is teaching the technology.

After the storefronts of the four shops were erected, doorways were opened on the wall facing the street of the back houses of courtyards 4 and 2 next to them, and business began there.

The corner building No. 1 north of Yinding Bridge was originally a garment factory run by the street office. Now the first floor is rented out for business.

There were already several shops facing the street at the alley south of the bridge, and the back house in the neighboring yard also had a door on the street-facing wall, which added a lot of commercial atmosphere.

The next morning, Zhang Heping went to Mr. Hua's office to check out the high-tech research and development directions that had been discussed recently.

"Heping, where is your third daughter going to college?"

Zhang Heping was stunned for a moment when he heard Mr. Hua's question. "I've been busy recently and forgot to ask her. Next time I go back to Hong Kong Island, I'll ask her where she wants to go."

"Zhang Nan hosted a May Fourth Party at Capital University last night. I have a videotape of the party here. You can take it back as a souvenir."

The old man and the young man chatted idly, and gradually the topic turned to the distorted events in Japanese history textbooks.

"Anyway, they surrendered!" Mr. Hua said here, and then said helplessly: "Now we need to seek peaceful development. We can only protest against the Japanese people's distortion of history."

Zhang Heping snorted coldly, "Just because it's inconvenient for you to take action doesn't mean I have to be restrained!"

Mr. Hua hurriedly advised: "Don't do anything rash, our economy has just started to pick up..."

"Don't worry!" Zhang Heping said indifferently, "I just demolished the three small villas where Huayingxiong Company used to work and built an exhibition hall there."

"Exhibition hall?" Mr. Hua asked in surprise, "In a place like Ginza where every inch of land is worth a lot of money, what are you going to display in an exhibition hall?"

"Give the Japanese a history lesson!"

...

In Ginza Peace Plaza, an 8-story building shaped like a book has been successfully topped out!

"Manager Ou, congratulations on the successful topping-out of your Huayingxiong Company's headquarters building!" Miss Suzuki stood in front of Peace Building No. 4 on the east side and applauded and congratulated with others.

Ou Yanzi smiled and said, "Thank you, Mrs. Aso, for your support. We will invite Councillor Aso and Mrs. Aso to cut the ribbon for us on the opening day!"

"Then I'll wait for good news!" Miss Suzuki agreed with a smile, but she didn't know what impact this building would have on her man.

"Manager Ou!" Miss Suzuki asked softly, "I see you didn't buy any more properties in Dongdu this year. Did you invest in other profitable projects?"

"No!" Ou Yanzi explained casually, "Two loans are about to expire, and we are recovering funds and preparing to repay them."

Miss Suzuki said "oh" and immediately remembered that Huayingxiong Company owed Huifeng and Standard Chartered Bank more than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Then, Miss Suzuki thought of the appreciation of the Japanese yen and the depreciation of the Hong Kong dollar. Huayingxiong Company had borrowed Hong Kong dollars to buy real estate in Dongdu, Japan. Now it has not only made the difference in the appreciation of the real estate, but also the difference in the exchange rate. Mr. Zhang has really made a fortune!

...

At the request of his second daughter, Zhang Heping took some time out on Thursday afternoon to accompany her to the Workers' Stadium in the capital to watch the 1986 International Peace Year commemorative concert.

However, when Zhang Heping was riding in an electric car to pick up the girl from Capital University, he actually ran into her suitor.

"Zhang Nan!" A male student wearing a Zhongshan suit and black-framed glasses trotted over, then took out two tickets from his shirt pocket without even looking at Zhang Heping who was wearing a white T-shirt and beige shorts next to him.

"Can I ask you to go and see..."

"cannot!"

Zhang Nan refused without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, then took her father's right arm and walked towards the electric car.

Zhang Heping said jokingly, "I think this guy is quite sincere. Why not give him a chance?"

"That guy is like an idiot. It's so hot, but he still buttons up his clothes!" Zhang Nan said dissatisfiedly: "Also, do you know what flowers he gave me the first time?"

Zhang Heping looked back at the boy who wanted to take a shortcut and said with a smile: "Chrysanthemum!"

Zhang Nan was surprised and asked, "Dad, how did you guess that?"

Zhang Heping opened the car door and let his daughter get in the back seat.

After he sat down, she smiled and said, "With our daughter's pretty face, she must have been pursued by someone on her first day at school. So, what flowers can be found in the capital during the first semester of her freshman year?"

"My dad is still the smartest!" Zhang Nan did not forget to flatter her dad in business and praised him back.

Zhang Heping looked at the male student who had not moved for a long time outside the car window, and his tone suddenly turned cold, "That boy is not stupid, as long as he marries you, he can save decades of detours!"

"I also think he has ulterior motives!" Zhang Nan pointed at the students holding books outside the car window and said, "Others are eager to stick their books to their eyes. I asked other female classmates, Xiaochun, Wenwen and others to go to the concert, and they all said they wanted to study. But that guy just now is elusive and can block me on the road once or twice every day."

Zhang Heping looked at the driver's eyes in the rearview mirror and asked casually, "What's that guy's name?"

"Sun Yun!" Zhang Nan said indignantly, "She's from the journalism department of Sister Xiaochun."

The driver looked up at the rearview mirror and saw Zhang Heping looking at him. He immediately nodded in understanding.

After Zhang Heping accompanied his second daughter to the concert and sent her back to the school dormitory, the driver Xiao Li reported to Zhang Heping the situation of Sun Yun, the second son of the deputy director of an agricultural machinery factory.

Zhang Heping didn't say much about this matter, but the next morning, when Zhang Heping was supplementing the high-tech research and development plan report in Hua's office, Hua asked Zhang Heping about his opinion on the male student.

"Impure intentions!" Zhang Heping replied indifferently.

Zhang Heping thought about it last night. Although the boy was a bit annoying, Zhang Nan didn't say what he would do to him, so he didn't need to intervene for the time being and just let it go.

Mr. Hua didn't understand what Zhang Heping was thinking, so he called Capital University and told the president about it.

That afternoon, the journalism student was summoned for a talk, given counseling, and finally received a warning.

It was not until Sunday when Zhang Nan went home and told Zhang Heping about the matter that he learned that Mr. Hua had intervened.

However, seeing that Zhang Nan spoke casually, Zhang Heping put the matter aside.

That afternoon, Zhang Heping went to the Harmonious Hospital to discuss the hair transplant surgery for Zhao Jianguo's group of burned soldiers with the dermatologist.

Because the operation is simple, but the process is cumbersome, and these patients do not grow much new hair, so multiple transplants are needed.

So, Zhang Heping did a sample on Zhao Jianguo's head and then gave it to a dermatologist to practice on.

Things in the capital were put on hold. Zhang Heping went to the Shenzhen Precision Instrument Factory to pick up five newly made artificial hearts, and then returned to Hong Kong Island Peace Hospital.

Before separating the conjoined brothers, Zhang Heping asked the cardiac surgery doctors to perform an artificial heart transplant on an experimental monkey at the Medical Research Institute, and then waited to observe the monkey's quality of life.

After finishing his work at the hospital, Zhang Heping finally had time to ask his third daughter Zhang Nian what she thought.

"Dad, I want to go to Capital University, too!" Zhang Nian put down her chopsticks and looked at her father seriously, "I want to study economics-related majors."

Zhang Heping was a little surprised, "Why do I need to study economics?"

Zhang Nian smiled and said, "I want to make a lot of money like my stepmother!"

Zhang Heping looked at his concubine Chen Shuting and asked with a smile: "Why do you make so much money?"

"I'm giving you flowers!" Zhang Nian's quirky words made Zhang Heping, Tang Xin and others laugh.

"It's up to you, as long as you are happy!" Zhang Heping decided the matter with a smile.

...

It was one month after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion and leakage accident that North Sudan announced the results of the investigation, which then caused global shock and made people turn pale at the mention of nuclear weapons!

Subsequently, all countries publicly stated that they would suspend their nuclear power plant construction plans.

But there is an exception, that is the Taishan thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plant, which has not stopped construction!

There are more than a dozen Chinese people guarding the Taishan thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plant, so Zhang Heping rarely goes there.

Since the main building of the nuclear power plant was completed last year, the quality of the remaining equipment has been strictly inspected in relevant military factories before being sent to Taishan.

The Chinese in Magnesium want to steal the technology of the Taishan thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plant. However, the most critical container and pipeline materials cannot be opened to them because they did not give the aircraft manufacturing technology that they had promised to give to the mainland.

McDonnell Douglas is playing a delaying tactic, while Taishan is playing dumb. It is already very good to allow the magnesium guys to watch the equipment installation process of Taishan's thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plant from the sidelines!

However, three years ago, the Japanese and Magnesium people stole a hard drive that contained the bidding information for the construction of the Taishan thorium-based molten salt reactor nuclear power plant. They obtained a formula for the alloy material from it and have been testing it for more than two years.

Therefore, the Japanese and Magnesium people were confident that they could use this alloy material to build containers and pipelines for thorium-based molten salt reactors, so they did not urge the mainland people in Taishan too much.

What the Japanese and magnesium people don’t know is that that kind of alloy material cannot be placed in service at the seaside, otherwise it will cause a big disaster over time!

This is a mine laid by Zhang Heping with his master-level attainments in materials science. The Japanese will definitely fall into it, but it will depend on luck for the Magnesian people, since they have a very long coastline!

Therefore, although the Japanese announced to the public that they would suspend the construction of nuclear power plants, they were still secretly developing equipment related to nuclear power plants.

Time passed quickly and it was May 5th. The Peace Hospital was still observing the monkey that had received the artificial heart transplant and recording its quality of life. The family members of the conjoined brothers suddenly wanted to be discharged from the hospital and clamored to go to France.

However, Zhang Heping had already secretly gone to the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant to conduct an on-site inspection and verify the safety of the nuclear power plant, and was unable to receive any information from the outside world.

Naturally, they didn't know that just yesterday, France transplanted another heart into a patient who already had an artificial heart implanted, creating a person with three hearts. This attracted the parents of the conjoined brothers.

Without Zhang Heping's decision, Dean Lu released the conjoined brothers from the hospital because he considered that the monkey experiment had not yet been completed.

A week later, a French intern at the Peace Hospital said that the separation operation of the conjoined brothers was successful. One of the boys had an artificial heart installed and his vital signs were currently stable.

This news made the doctors at Heping Hospital a little disappointed, but after some encouragement from President Lu, the learning enthusiasm of all the medical staff was aroused again, and they secretly vowed to catch up with the world's cutting-edge medical level.

However, when Dean Lu found the newspaper article about the separation operation in France, he was a little surprised.

"What kind of artificial heart is this? Why does it need a tube inserted into the body?"

"What's the use of this black cloth around your waist?"

Just as the cardiac surgery doctors were looking at the photo in the French newspaper in confusion, Director Lu bought the same artificial heart used in the French separation operation through Chen Shuting.

Then, a group of doctors at the Peace Hospital felt relieved and published a paper on the transplantation of wirelessly rechargeable artificial hearts in monkeys in the June issue of the Peace Hospital journal.

This wireless charging artificial heart does not require external tubes. It is not only equipped with a wireless charger, but also a palm-sized wireless mobile charging power supply. When charging, just stick it to your chest.

As soon as the news came out, while other hospitals were still questioning the authenticity of the paper, medical device distributors surrounding Tingmei Trading took action first.

They don't care whether the artificial heart is still in the trial stage or has been mass-produced. They just want to sign the purchase order as soon as possible, so as not to be late and have to wait in line for several years.

As excited as these distributors was ATV's Manager Qu.

"Hero", sung by Zhang Heping at the Super Girl finals last year, became a chart-topping hit in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Europe and the United States, and this year it was the theme song for the 6th Super Girl.

However, on June 6, no one from the Zhang family went to watch the Super Girl finals...