Chapter 124 Project Launch
"... On the contrary, Xu Qiang and Liu Jun often send peat to my house, and sometimes they even help me fetch water. They don't ask for anything from an old man like me. What kind of spirit is this? This is the feeling of the proletariat!"

If there is someone in the village who is not afraid of the Zhao father and son, this old Wu is definitely one of them. As the oldest person in the village, he dares to curse anything in front of Zhao Xigui, but Zhao Xigui has no way to deal with him. After all, he is the only five-guarantee household in the village and is also the object of frequent care from his superiors.

Old Wu got angry today, obviously because he had been holding back a lot of anger for a while. After all, since the production team split up, Zhao Xigui had indeed been somewhat indifferent to him.

"...You guys don't do your work all day long, but you use the children of this village as a target. You are really good at fighting among yourselves, and you are not afraid of being laughed at by outsiders!"

Once Mr. Wu started talking, he couldn't stop. The accountant Zhao Zhiqiang next to him tried to dissuade him, but he cursed even harder.

"Let's leave it at that for today. Let's all go back." Helplessly, Zhao Zhiqiang said to everyone while Old Wu was drinking water.

"Thank you all for your hard work. We will continue investigating Xu Qiang's case. It's getting dark, so we won't keep you for dinner." Zhao Xigui's face was ashen at this time, but he still ordered them to leave in a calm tone.

Everyone noticed that the atmosphere was not right, so they all got up and left.

When leaving, Wang Zhong passed by Xu Qiang, patted him on the shoulder with a smile, said nothing, then got on the 212 driven by Wu Zhigang and left.

As for Xu Qiang himself, he also slipped out of the village committee.

For a while, only Zhao Xigui and Zhao Zhiqiang were left in the village committee.

"Brother, is this the end?"

"What else can we do if it's not finished?" Zhao Xigui replied unhappily, "The security department said that the evidence is insufficient. What can you do to him?"

"But isn't this evidence?" Zhao Zhiqiang pointed to a dozen bags of humic acid fertilizer in the room.

"Forget it, just consider this as a fine." Seeing the dozen or so bags of fertilizer, Zhao Xigui's expression suddenly eased a little.

"I'll take a few bags later and leave the rest at your house?"

"You take a few more bags, I'll just keep seven or eight bags..."

Zhao Xigui set his eyes on the bags of fertilizer.

However, at this moment, Xu Qiang, who had just left, suddenly turned back and appeared in front of the two of them.

"I just counted, you took a total of fourteen bags of fertilizer from me. Oh, and there's also a half bag that was opened, so a total of fourteen and a half bags. I'll ask Liu Jun to move the stuff away later so that it doesn't take up space here."

After Xu Qiang finished speaking, he turned and left...

……

The next morning at work, Xu Qiang was called to the chief engineer's office again.

But when Xu Qiang entered Li Cunzhu's office, he found Liu Siying and He Wei were already waiting there.

"Xiao Liu, I have considered your wish to join Xu Qiang's project team." Li Cunzhu said to Liu Siying with a smile, "I think what you said yesterday makes sense. Military batteries are part of electronic fuses. If they are developed separately, there will be many adaptation problems. They can only be developed together. So I think it is necessary for you to join Xu Qiang's new product project team..."

"Well, I will do my best to help Xu Qiang complete the task." Liu Siying nodded.

"That's great." Xu Qiang agreed after hearing this. In fact, Xu Qiang still didn't quite understand Li Cunzhu's decision. After all, his new product development project was a "pitfall" in the eyes of outsiders. Moreover, he had signed a military order. Even if it was the daughter of the factory director, she would not be able to escape the responsibility if the project failed.

But even so, just one night later, Li Cunzhu agreed to Liu Siying's application and let her join his project team. This was somewhat unbelievable. In Xu Qiang's opinion, the relationship between the factory director and the chief engineer should be very good, but by doing this, he was clearly pushing Liu Siying into a trap.

But in any case, Liu Siying's joining is indeed of great help to Xu Qiang. On the one hand, by cooperating with Liu Siying, Xu Qiang can obtain more technical information and thus make more suitable batteries for new electronic fuses.

On the other hand, after all, Liu Siying is the factory director's daughter. Through her, Xu Qiang can mobilize more human and material resources in the factory, so as to complete the R&D tasks more efficiently.

"Then you sign this letter of responsibility. Xu Qiang, your project will officially start from now on." Seeing that the two had no objection, Li Cunzhu handed the letter of responsibility that he had prepared long ago to them.

Signing a project responsibility letter is also a required step in the factory's R&D project establishment. The project leader needs to bear the main responsibility, but correspondingly, if the project is successful, the project leader will be the one to bear the credit.

As for Liu Siying, she had signed such a letter of responsibility several times, so she just took a quick look at it and signed her name below.

Seeing this, Xu Qiang also walked forward, but he looked at the letter of responsibility carefully.

In his previous life, Xu Qiang had also signed a similar project responsibility letter at the research institute. However, the letter from Shengli Machinery Factory seemed to be a little different. It contained a series of strict confidentiality clauses, and the penalties were much more severe, and might even involve criminal offenses.

But other than that, the other terms are pretty normal.

After reading the letter of responsibility, Xu Qiang also left his name on it.

"Okay, you can go first." Li Cunzhu signaled the two that they could leave.

"As for you, He Wei..." Seeing the two people leave, Li Cunzhu looked at He Wei.

"Leader, my dad will be back from a business trip in Shanghai soon..." He Wei stepped forward and whispered to Li Cunzhu at this time.

"I'm doing this for your own good. Never mind. I'll give you a few days to think about it." Li Cunzhu said with a frown.

"Thank you, Chief Engineer Li." He Wei thanked him and quickly left Li Cunzhu's office.

In the corridor outside, Xu Qiang and Liu Siying walked together and talked to each other.

"Thank you for helping me with my R&D project. Without you, I wouldn't be able to set up this project team." Xu Qiang said with gratitude.

"We are classmates in the same class, so it's only natural for us to help each other. Besides, I'm doing this for my new project," Li Siying said with a smile.

"I'm worried that if the project fails, you'll also be implicated..."

"Working in our factory, you have to be responsible for whatever you do. My father once told me that if you are afraid of taking risks, then don't do research and development. You don't have to worry about me. I am doing this for myself. I don't want to see any defects in the products I develop. In fact, I should be the one thanking you." Liu Siying smiled slightly and continued, "And I feel that you are not an ordinary person. The person who can take the first place in the class must not be the kind of person who does stupid things just because of a momentary impulse. Even if our project fails, I should learn something from you."

"Haha, thank you for your affirmation of me." Xu Qiang said with a smile.

At this moment, Xu Qiang suddenly realized that Liu Siying was definitely not as simple as he had imagined before...

(End of this chapter)