Rebirth 1975: My Wife is Love-Brained

"I'm not saying anything bad to you, Old Xu, but if any young person can translate things, then what do we need those professionals for? You think too simply! Over the past decade, related education has been basically stagnant, and there is a severe shortage of talent in this area! How can anyone just show up and do the job?" Zhu Dakang said with a wry smile.

Xu Zhanyuan sighed, "I have no choice! The tasks in the factory have been decided. If I can't complete them on time, my job as the factory director will be over! I can't bear this responsibility! I can only say that God didn't help. How could Master Liao die out of nowhere?"

"Can't you discuss this with the leaders above you? There are complete uncertainties in this matter!" Zhu Dakang asked.

Xu Zhanyuan spread his hands, "Why didn't we discuss it? It doesn't work! I went to meet with the leaders a few days ago. The production task is very heavy! And we are using imported machines that have just come back! In the words of the leaders, we gave you the best guns. If you can't win the battle, it's your own problem! It's normal to have difficulties. Find ways to overcome them yourself!"

"Can't we find a few translation experts from the provincial capital?" Zhu Dakang hesitated and came up with a solution that was not a solution.

"It's easy for you to say! The Xinhua Bookstore in your small county town has to undertake very important translation tasks. What do you think is the situation in the province? There is a general lack of talents in this area in society now! I have no choice but to try my best! You must help me this time! I don't need your translation, I have found a translator myself, but it won't take much time to check it. You must solve this problem for me!" Xu Zhanyuan relied on Zhu Dakang!

Zhu Dakang smiled bitterly, "You've been blocking me for so long, let me think of a way! I'll see if Liu Wenchang can spare some time! He's an intermediate translator, and he's also well-known in the Provincial Translation Bureau! He recently took on a very important translation assignment, and I guess he won't have time for three to five months! When you finish translating it, I'll take the manuscript to their house and beg them to approve it for you! But it's hard to say whether the young man you found can translate it!"

Zhu Dakang was not optimistic about the young man named Chen Yan that Xu Zhanyuan mentioned.

It's not that easy.

"Old Zhu! Thank you very much!" Xu Zhanyuan said gratefully.

The two were talking!

Suddenly, a man ran in from outside, and when he saw Xu Zhanyuan, he excitedly said, "Director, hurry back! It's done! It's all done!"

"What's over! What's wrong with being so reckless? You are a team leader after all, can't you be more steady when doing things?" Xu Zhanyuan asked with a frown.

The person in front of me is the leader of the third production team in the workshop, named Sun Youliang.

"Haidong asked me to come here, saying that the operating manual is out and asked you to go back and take a look!" Sun Youliang said with a red face.

He was also a worker in the factory. The production task was not only something that worried Xu Zhanyuan, but also the workers themselves.

After all, if the production task is not completed, no one will be in trouble!

This is the only good news today.

"It's translated right away?" Xu Zhanyuan stood up in a flash, his face full of shock! As for what he said just now about Sun Youliang being unstable, he had already forgotten it.

How long has it been!

At this moment, he suddenly remembered what Chen Yan said before: half an hour would be enough!

"This... Could it be that this Chen Zhiqing really has such a high level of foreign language proficiency?" Xu Zhanyuan was not calm at all.

He was stunned for a moment, then turned to ask Zhu Dakang, "Is it possible to translate the operating instructions in half an hour?"

Zhu Dakang shook his head. "That's an imported machine! There are a lot of professional terms on it. If it's ordinary daily language, I can translate it for you! How can it be done in half an hour? I think there is a problem with the translation! Lao Xu, you have to think about it carefully. If you operate it according to the wrong translation, the machine is likely to have problems!"

Xu Zhanyuan nodded solemnly.

"But I feel that Chen Zhiqing doesn't seem like the kind of person who would brag!"

Hearing him say this, Zhu Dakang suddenly said, "Come on, let's go and take a look! Let's see how the translation is! My foreign language level is only half-baked, but I still have no problem with some daily expressions! The operating instructions are not all professional vocabulary! I will take a look at his translation of those daily expressions, and I can also see his level! Doesn't this solve the problem?"

When Zhu Dakang said this, Xu Zhanyuan's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Yes, yes! Come on, come with me to the factory!"

"Wait a moment, I'll find someone to look after the bookstore for me. We're still working!" Zhu Dakang said.

He then gave some instructions to the store staff and turned around to work as Xu Zhanyuan's assistant.

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"Chen Yan, I didn't feel it before, but this time, I really felt it! People still need to study! Without education, you are nothing!" After eating and drinking, Xu Haidong and Chen Yan chatted for a while in the office, and suddenly he became emotional.

Chen Yan nodded, "Culture is one thing, but knowledge must be learned at all times!"

"Unfortunately, many places now... Alas..." Xu Haidong hesitated to speak.

Chen Yan reached out and patted his shoulder. "Don't worry! The country will not ignore all this! I feel that education will soon be emphasized again! After all, development requires a lot of professional talents. To be honest, the current Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University can no longer meet today's development needs!"

Chen Yan's words are both a feeling of emotion and a personal experience.

The current education and talent selection mechanism follows the path of recommending workers, peasants and soldiers to go to university.

Many of them claim to be college students, but in fact they have not even learned the knowledge of high school thoroughly. In just two or three years, they have to spend a lot of time taking ideological courses. How much can they learn?

But now, the higher-ups have realized all of this and will soon restore the college entrance examination system... Chen Yan had personally experienced all of this in his previous life.

"Haidong, have you been to high school?" Chen Yan asked suddenly, his heart moving.

Xu Haidong said, "I did go to high school! But I didn't learn anything! I basically just messed around! Hehe!"

Chen Yan nodded. Xu Haidong was considered lucky as his father was a leader. Most people, after graduating from a good primary school, could only rarely go to middle school. In order to earn more work points, many families sent their children to work in the fields at a very young age, and many of them could not even read!

This is not uncommon in this day and age.

"I suggest that if you have time, you should pick up your high school books and take a look. Maybe when you let go, you can go to college!" Chen Yan said to Xu Haidong.

He was well aware of the importance of education to people in the coming decades.

Xu Haidong is a nice guy with a lot of intelligence. If he continues to mess around like this, it won't be a big deal.

It would have been fine if they didn't know each other, but since they did, and they got along very well, Chen Yan gave them a little reminder.

"Go to college? Is that true? Can I become a college student one day? But I can't get a recommendation!" Xu Haidong asked excitedly, and then became listless again.

"No, I'm not talking about the current Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, but the kind of university that you get into seriously!" Chen Yan said in a low voice.

hiss!

Xu Haidong was stunned for a moment and took a breath.

"This... Did you hear any rumors, Chen Yan?" There was horror in his eyes.