After Huang He left, Geng Shuai inexplicably found his title changed. From a mere junior researcher in the hardware department, he was directly promoted to a manager of a research and development team within the company.
His original manager found him with a look of utter disbelief and told him to provide a recruitment list of no more than fifty people. The company would then recruit or transfer professional employees according to the list to form a drone research and development team.
"My product is called a quadrotor mini-aircraft!" Geng Shuai insisted on correcting the product's name.
"It's no use telling me, the company has already officially named it a drone. Your team will be called the Sky Without Borders Drone Project Team. The company requires you to produce the first finished prototype by the end of June next year, complete mass production of the product by the end of December, and launch it in 2005. If you fail to complete the task... well, I don't know how the boss will deal with you, but you definitely won't have an easy time!" the manager said fiercely.
"Can I refuse?" Geng Shuai asked blankly.
"Yes!" the manager nodded. "Then I'll find someone else to be responsible for the team. This thing doesn't seem to have too much technology involved."
"Boss, I was wrong. Do you know how many parameters need to be adjusted to achieve stable flight for this drone, straight up and down, and parallel movement? Others can't figure it out, but I can," Geng Shuai realized he had lost his mind for a moment and immediately tried to salvage the situation. He patted his chest and guaranteed that he would complete the task on time, only then did the manager leave with a gloomy expression.
He originally thought that a disobedient and undisciplined person like Geng Shuai would be phased out by the company before long. Yet, less than three months after joining the company, he had become a project manager.
As an employee who had been with the company since its inception, this was his current position. It was truly a case of comparing oneself to others and feeling miserable!
Never mind that Geng Shuai was already worrying about how to assemble the team, Huang He was already on his way back in the car.
It was already 7 PM on January 1st. Although the driver tried his best to drive at the limit of the regulations, Huang He still arrived in Yandu around 1:00 AM.
However, the gate of the Siheyuan was still left open for Huang He. He gently pushed the door open and found that the main house of the courtyard had its lights turned off, but a side room was still lit.
Huang He pushed the door open and found the sisters Zhiwen and Zhiruo asleep on the sofa.
These two sisters were probably waiting for Huang He to return, but they didn't expect drowsiness to overwhelm them, and they simply fell asleep on the sofa.
The heating inside the house was emitting a lot of heat, making the room warm as spring. These two younger sisters-in-law didn't have to worry about catching a cold the next day.
Huang He, not wanting to wake them, withdrew from the room and stamped his foot.
Huang He didn't need to worry about not having other rooms to sleep in, because this Siheyuan was not lacking in anything but rooms. It was a three-courtyard complex with as many as 12 rooms, eight of which were bedrooms.
All of them had been modernized and were ready to be occupied.
The master bedroom naturally belonged to his mother-in-law, who slept with Leng Zhiyuan. Huang He, Zhiruo, Zhimeng, Zhiwen, and Zhiting each had their own room, so six rooms were gone.
Xiao Yuan arrived and occupied another room, making it seven bedrooms.
The remaining bedroom had been converted into a room for the security personnel. Five professional bodyguards responsible for protecting the mother-in-law's family adopted a two-shift rotation security system. Half of the people were awake, patrolling day and night to protect the safety of the house.
The other half took the opportunity to sleep.
Therefore, although the Siheyuan had many rooms at this moment, Huang He found that he had no bedroom to sleep in.
"Zhiwen and Zhiruo are waiting for me in my room, so their rooms must be empty. I can go to their rooms!"
"Hmm, then I'll go to Zhiruo's room. Her room smells better, and the bed is a soft Simmons!" Huang He thought for a moment and decided to sleep in Leng Zhiruo's room.
The reason was simple: Leng Zhiruo paid more attention to her living environment. Her room was always filled with incense, creating a very suitable environment for sleeping.
Leng Zhiwen was different. This child had been practicing martial arts since childhood and was not as particular about her living environment. She even got into the habit of throwing clothes everywhere, even stuffing her shoes under the bed without washing them. As a result, there was always a strange smell in her room.
Even if that was the case, what made Huang He most unbearable was that Leng Zhiwen liked to sleep on soft beds, whereas she preferred hard beds since childhood. When she slept with Huang He, she usually went back to her own room after waking up. In her words, if she slept on a soft bed, her bones would ache the next day.
Therefore, Huang He would never sleep in Leng Zhiwen's room. He went straight to Leng Zhiruo's room.
"So hot!" As soon as he opened the door, a blast of heat hit him, startling Huang He. The heating in this room was a bit too strong.
Later, Huang He learned that because this room was the first bedroom the heating pipes passed through, it was adjacent to the main heating pipe, and the incoming water temperature was the hottest, so the temperature was naturally higher than in other rooms.
However, it was good to be warmer. Huang He took off his clothes, turned on the lights, and went directly to the bathroom to take a bath.
Although this room was a bedroom, it was actually divided into three rooms. At the entrance was a living room for work and rest. At one end of the living room was a bathroom, and at the other end was the actual bedroom.
This was also the traditional layout of old Yandu Siheyuans. In the past, many households lived together in one Siheyuan. Each separate room was actually a household.
The living room was the only place for the entire family to activity. The original bathroom was either the kitchen or converted into a small bedroom. Families with many children would generally do this.
If they didn't convert it, the bedroom inside was the only place for the whole family to sleep.
Therefore, although the Siheyuan seemed very large, it was actually quite crowded. After the Siheyuans were allowed to be sold and traded, many families immediately sold their rooms, and the money they received could be used to buy large apartments in high-rise buildings. This was why Huang He was able to buy such a three-courtyard Siheyuan for tens of millions.
Otherwise, if it were another decade or more, let alone whether there would be a policy prohibiting the sale of Siheyuans, the residents within them would not sell such a valuable treasure.
Getting back to the point, Huang He took a comfortable bath. Because the room was warm and his clothes were in his own room, there were no undergarments of his own in Leng Zhiruo's room.
But it didn't matter. He could just get into bed and sleep. The next morning, he would ask Zhiruo to bring his clothes over.
Then Huang He entered the bedroom and saw someone similar to himself, except for an extra N.K., lying on the bed with their legs spread open. Because it was too hot, she had even kicked the quilt away and was lying there naked, snoring loudly.
"..." Huang He was stunned for a moment, then whispered, "This girl is actually quite well-endowed!"
Leng Zhimeng, don't know when she had gotten into her sister's bed.
Huang He was not a virgin, so there was no nosebleed scene. In fact, nosebleeds were just a plot device; they were impossible in reality. If you don't believe me, try to find out for yourselves whether you would get a nosebleed!
Huang He couldn't help but look a few more times, then quietly withdrew from the bedroom, helplessly put on the clothes he had taken off, and hurried to Leng Zhiwen's room. After confirming that no one was sleeping in this room, he reluctantly made do with sleeping on the hard bed for a night.
However, he was woken up by a loud scream at some point the next morning.
Huang He couldn't be bothered to deal with her and continued to sleep. But before long, Huang He was shaken awake. Leng Zhiruo looked at him with concern and asked, "Brother-in-law, why are you sleeping here?"
"I came back late last night and didn't want to wake you, so I came here to sleep," Huang He said. "Quickly get me some clothes. I'm not wearing anything underneath!"
"I've prepared them for you early!" Leng Zhiwen came in with a pile of clothes. Huang He changed into them and casually asked, "Who was screaming outside this morning? Are you letting people sleep or not?"
"It was Zhimeng. She said there was a thief in the house or something, but the security guards checked the surveillance footage all morning, and besides you, no outsiders came in. Nothing was stolen from the house either. I don't know why this child is going crazy," Leng Zhiruo said helplessly.
"Oh! Let her be. She might be overly excited!" Huang He said this, but he felt inexplicably guilty. After coaxing Zhiruo and Zhiwen away, he put on his clothes and got up. While he was brushing his teeth, Leng Zhimeng came in, staring intently at Huang He and said, "Did you see something last night?"
"How did you know!" Huang He nodded. Since Leng Zhimeng had come to him, pretending not to know would seem very fake.
"I found out that someone took a bath in the bathroom last night, and the security guard said that only you came back at night, so you must have wanted to sleep in second sister's room and then saw me naked..." Leng Zhimeng said with her teeth bared and claws brandished.
"You're quite smart. So what do you want? To fight me?" Huang He rolled his eyes.
"No, I suffered a great loss. You must compensate me!" Leng Zhimeng had a fierce expression, but she looked so cute and adorable!
"Okay, tell me, what compensation do you want!" Huang He thought Leng Zhimeng wanted some new gadget or wanted to go watch WCg or something.
"I want to develop game consoles myself. Shall we make this the next development direction for our 00 game platform?" Leng Zhimeng suddenly said. This genuinely startled Huang He.
This was a market where entering meant certain death! Could it be that Leng Zhimeng's brain had been burned out last night?