Rebirth 1975: My Wife is Love-Brained

"Dad, Uncle Zhu is so unfriendly. You kindly gave him the office to communicate with Chen Yan, but he just ran him away!" After going out, Xu Haidong started to mutter.

"Yeah, this Old Zhu! He is so unfair! I will talk to him about it later! You said Chen Yan helped our factory so much, but he took him away before we had the chance to thank him properly. How will Chen Yan view us?" Xu Zhanyuan nodded and said.

"No! Wait a minute!"

Xu Zhanyuan suddenly seemed to remember something and stopped.

"What's wrong, Dad?" Xu Haidong asked.

Xu Zhanyuan asked in a low voice, "What does Chen Yan like?"

"How would I know what he likes? Maybe he likes his wife?" Xu Haidong shook his head without even thinking.

Xu Zhanyuan said angrily, "That's nonsense! He doesn't like his wife, but he likes you! Don't you have a good relationship with Chen Yan? How come you don't even know what he likes? How can you be a friend!"

Xu Haidong said awkwardly, "Dad, we didn't know each other for long. He was selling popcorn in the cinema, and I went to see the Plain Guerrillas these days. We became familiar with each other after a while!"

"Come on! Boy, be more reliable in doing things next time! It's a good thing that Chen Yan really has the ability this time, otherwise, I would have been tricked to death by you!" After hearing what he said and figuring out what was going on, Xu Zhanyuan said unhappily.

Then he thought for a moment and said in a deep voice, "Go to the finance account and withdraw 300 yuan, then go to the supply and marketing cooperative again!"

"What are you going to do at the supply and marketing cooperative?" Xu Haidong asked puzzledly.

Xu Zhanyuan glanced at him and said, "Chen Yan didn't say anything, but we can't say nothing! Today it's the machine manual, what if it's something else next time? Our chemical plant's technology is relatively backward, and we will inevitably have to send some foreign information to us in the future! With Chen Yan, a great translator, our troubles in this area are solved! This time they are helping you out of your kindness, what about next time? What about the next time?"

"As a human being, you must understand the etiquette of reciprocity and the ways of the world!" At this moment Xu Zhanyuan said to Xu Haidong earnestly.

"Okay, Dad, I get it! Lend me your car for a while, I'm going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things now!" Xu Haidong suddenly realized and said excitedly.

Xu Zhanyuan nodded, handed the car keys to Xu Haidong, and reminded him, "We won't go to Lao Zhu's place for now! Lao Zhu has a lot of work on hand right now, and he's probably looking for Chen Yan for this matter. I'll call him later. When Chen Yan is done, let him notify me, and you can pick him up in person later! Let's have dinner together later!"

Xu Zhanyuan thinks much more than Xu Haidong.

What is the most valuable thing these days? It is definitely talent, and Chen Yan is the kind of foreign language talent that is quite scarce.

In time, the future will be limitless!

Don’t say that Chen Yan helped the chemical plant a lot today. Even if he didn’t help, he would still have established a good relationship!

Chen Yan had no idea what the factory director Xu Zhanyuan was thinking. At this moment, he had already returned to Xinhua Bookstore with Zhu Dakang.

Although he had been working in the countryside for several years, this was Chen Yan's first time to visit the Xinhua Bookstore in the county town.

For Chen Yan before, queue-jumping was too hard.

How can I still remember studying?

Smelling the familiar scent of ink at this moment, Chen Yan's heart was filled with emotion.

I don’t know why Qin Yurou likes me. Although I used to be an intellectual college student, I had long abandoned the pride that a scholar should have!

"The past is too hard to recall!" Chen Yan smiled bitterly and shook his head.

At this time, Zhu Dakang called Chen Yan to his office and took out two pages of English manuscript from a small cabinet.

"Chen Yan, how long will it take you to translate these two pages of manuscript?" After saying this, he looked at Chen Yan eagerly.

After what happened at the chemical plant, Zhu Dakang already knew that Chen Yan was a rare translation talent, but after all, he had never seen him in person, and the task he had undertaken was relatively important. To be on the safe side, he deliberately took out two pages of more difficult manuscripts to test Chen Yan.

Chen Yan took it and looked at it. "About ten minutes! Well, five minutes for translation and five minutes for verification, that should be enough!"

"What? Five minutes? Is that true?" Zhu Dakang was shocked.

The two pages of manuscript he took out were said to be an excerpt from a very popular literary work abroad, and it was also one of the main translation tasks undertaken by Arashiyama Prefecture!

Previously, Zhu Dakang gave part of the manuscript to one of the translators, but... two months have passed and only a dozen pages have been translated!

According to that comrade, this article is a kind of stream-of-consciousness work. The thinking inside is very complicated and it is difficult to translate!

That’s why the progress is so slow!

Under such circumstances, the Lanshan County Xinhua Bookstore was on the verge of failing to complete the current translation task.

Just at this time, Chen Yan appeared!

According to Zhu Dakang's judgment, Chen Yan might need an entire afternoon to translate these two pages of complex manuscript.

But he never expected that Chen Yan would speak for five minutes!

Five minutes, just the time it takes to smoke a cigarette!

"What? Is there a problem with time? If that doesn't work, I'll just translate it directly! Translate a little faster..." Chen Yan looked at Zhu Dakang and said a little nervously.

He had never been involved in translation work of this era in his previous life, and he didn't know what the current translation standards were. Seeing Zhu Dakang's silence at this moment, he wondered if he was too slow.

Whoosh!

It was not until this time that Zhu Dakang came back to his senses and looked at Chen Yan with a complicated expression.

"Chen Yan, normally, in order for you to join the translation work, you need to go to the provincial capital and get approval from the Translation Bureau! But this trip back and forth is a waste of time! We'll talk about time later! You must first ensure the accuracy of the translation! After all, it is not easy for the country to get these foreign language manuscripts! If there are errors in the process of dissemination, there will be serious consequences! Now the translation task of the entire Lanshan County Xinhua Bookstore is very heavy! I can only act out of urgency! These two pages of the manuscript have been translated. If there is no problem with your translation, then I can let you join the translation work immediately!"

Chen Yan nodded and understood what Zhu Dakang meant. Obviously, these two pages of manuscript were an assessment of his work ability!

"No problem with me! Let's get started now!"

He then took the two pages of paper from Zhu Dakang's hand, sat down at the table and started translating.

But the moment Chen Yan saw the content, his expression turned strange.

"An excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye? I've read this book several times!"

He scanned the two pages of the manuscript from beginning to end, and then started writing the translation directly!

quickly!

The next few sheets of paper were filled with translations.

Chen Yan glanced through it from beginning to end again. There was no problem with the translation. He looked up at Zhu Dakang who was busy at the side and shouted, "Uncle Zhu! It's done! Take a look!"

When Zhu Dakang heard Chen Yan's voice, he turned around and looked at the paper where the ink marks had not dried yet. He stood there in a daze.

"Three minutes...it only took you three minutes?" His voice trembled a little due to shock!

The expression on his face was as if he had seen a ghost!