diskusbooks Chapter 459: It's Not a Good Time
Chapter 459: It's Not a Good Time
Chapter 459: What a bad time
Under normal circumstances, this might not sound like a big deal.
After all, the courtyards in Beijing are places for big shots to live. There is a political commissar every three steps and a secretary every five steps. The mayor and the governor are neighbors, and so on. It is simply too normal.
Normally, those famous bigwigs would gather in such places, which would make people sigh with emotion or just laugh it off as a way of gaining knowledge and experience.
But at this moment, the teachers in the admissions team linked it to another incident that happened not long ago.
No wonder they thought they had a strong hand and put the list of resources and contacts in front of Bai Yuan, but the other party remained calm and did not even show the slightest yearning or excitement from beginning to end.
Feelings are something that ordinary people can only come across by chance, but for the people in this courtyard, each individual connection is extremely common.
Or maybe it can be said that Meng Mu's three moves were for the sake of creating an environment for teaching and educating people.
The children in the compound have been neighbors with these big shots since they were young. They see them every day, and some of them even grew up under their care.
Aren’t these friendships and connections closer than those between “alumni” and “seniors” who have gone through who knows how many twists and turns?
If you really need any connections in the future, you don't need to ask anyone. You can just go downstairs with two bags of fruits and sit in the other person's living room in less than ten minutes.
Isn’t this more convenient and faster than queuing up in advance, making an appointment, and applying for a report?
How many detours can be avoided!
No wonder the other party looks down on them, and these people even put them on the table as bargaining chips to negotiate with others.
It's a bit presumptuous and just a way of trying to attract attention.
Thinking of this, the teachers in the admissions team felt their faces burning.
I recalled that I was just boasting, showing off and bragging in front of these kids, acting as if I was confident and determined to win.
They suddenly realized how embarrassed they were and wished they could find a place to hide.
This was also thanks to the good education of the Bai family. They handled the conversation properly and did not make these people feel uncomfortable or neglected, nor did they realize that something was wrong.
Otherwise, you would be exposed in public and lose face, and in the end you would be unable to save yourself. That would be extremely embarrassing!
Everything was fine before I figured it out, but now that I've suddenly realized the reason, I feel like everything is awkward and uncomfortable.
Therefore, the admissions teachers who were originally full of confidence not only had their self-confidence crushed after this incident, but they even seemed a little hesitant in their subsequent visits.
I'm afraid that I'll make another ridiculous joke, and others may not point it out at the time, but I'll become a laughing stock afterwards, and I'll be embarrassed when I realize it belatedly.
I think they were top students who graduated from prestigious universities, otherwise how could they be qualified to do admissions work for Jingli University?
Since he is a top student, he is bound to be arrogant and conceited.
Relying on their own strength and level, it is common for them to look down on those second and third generation children of aristocratic families who have gained something for nothing with a silver spoon in their mouth.
In the past, I thought that success or failure was not determined by family background, and that strong personal strength was the key. With talent and the courage to fight and take risks, there is no need to worry that you won’t be able to achieve great things in the future!
But now it seems that I was too naive in the past.
The resources, wealth and connections accumulated by family background and the original accumulation of several generations, the cliff-like gap between them cannot be easily made up overnight.
I can only say that this trip was definitely not in vain, as my horizons and knowledge have broadened. As for whether my state of mind will be affected by this, it varies from person to person and it's hard to say.
But the only thing that is certain is that they are all suffering from social phobia now!!!
The thought of sitting together with more than one prospective college student who has lived in this environment since childhood and who, at such a young age, already has vision, experience and unlimited prospects far beyond theirs was enough to make me feel happy.
The teachers in the admissions team began to sweat profusely.
This is what it means to transcend tribulation!
But what surprised them and also relieved them was that the target candidate was not at home this time.
"...It's really unfortunate. Our Taozi...recently went out to attend a summer camp with his friends. He probably won't be back for another week."
This may sound insignificant at first, but upon closer inspection, it is not difficult to find the far-fetched and awkward nature of the other party's words, as if there is something unspeakable, which makes one think of a sentence:
——Don’t air your dirty laundry in public.
But "family scandal"?
The admissions teacher felt a little doubtful, as if something was not right.
His college entrance examination score was ranked eighth in the city. Although there is still some distance between him and the top scorer, it shouldn't become a "family shame", right?
Or maybe this family is just like the Bai family, with some secrets that make it inconvenient for their descendants to enter officialdom, so they come up with an excuse to shirk responsibility?
Although the group had many doubts in their minds, since the candidate himself was not there, there was no way to force it.
All I can say is that the worse your luck is, what can you do if it really happens?
After all, the candidate's choice still needs to be agreed upon and confirmed by the candidate before it can be filled in.
No one else has the right to interfere and make decisions for them.
All we can do is provide reference opinions and directions.
After returning empty-handed again, everyone was afraid to stay any longer, for fear that students from Peking University and Tsinghua University, who would arrive later, would overtake them and get there first, so they hurried on to the next one.
However, things don't always go as planned. When one is unlucky, even drinking cold water will get stuck in one's teeth.
They thought that the situation where the candidate was not at home was just a special case.
After all, today is the first day of the college entrance examination results release. Any family that cares about college entrance examination results will be sitting in front of the computer early, waiting for the countdown to end, and then rushing into the system to check the results.
People like this who don't care about test scores.
Except for those candidates who have been admitted to major prestigious universities from the beginning and take the college entrance examination just as a formality.
Or they are the kind of last-place students whose grades are so bad that they are nothing and not even worth looking at.
But when they walked around the compound thoroughly and kept hitting a wall, and after going to several houses without seeing the candidate himself, even Professor Zheng Huairen noticed that something was wrong.
"My son Dabin accidentally sprained his ankle while climbing a mountain the day before yesterday. He is now in the hospital. He told me the same thing. I told him..."
"Jie Zi went out to play with his friends... He hasn't come back yet, and I don't know when he will come back. I can't control him now that he's grown up..."
"My son's waist was twisted, and he went for acupuncture... It's serious, very serious, it's because he's tired from studying. Kids nowadays are so hardworking..."
Admissions teacher: So the students in your compound have been having conflicts recently, right? ! !
In the end, after wandering around the compound for a while, they only saw three or two prospective college students.
This is more than half the number of people expected to be interviewed on the list.
It's quite frustrating to have energy but nowhere to use it.
Fortunately, after their unremitting lobbying, a student finally decided to choose Jingli University as his/her major.
It is better to have this trip not come back in vain than to have nothing at all.
After they walked along the winding path and dragged their exhausted bodies to the gate of the compound, they saw from a distance a group of non-compound staff standing by the gate, preparing to register and hand in their personal belongings.
The appearance and posture looked similar to when they first came in.
The leading admissions teacher was instantly alert, just like a sworn enemy who had met a narrow road. He gestured and lowered his voice and said:
“They are from Peking University and Tsinghua University!”
At the same time, the admissions teachers from Peking University and Tsinghua University also met the admissions teachers from Jingli University in the academy.
The two groups of people with the same goal, who were nominally colleagues but actually competitors, stared at each other fiercely across the large iron gate of the Jingli compound security office.
The smell of gunpowder filled the air and the war was about to break out.
"Hey! Old Zheng! You came so early this year? Looks like you got a lot of harvest, right?"
"Teacher Xia! Hahahaha, I just saw someone who looked just like you. What brought you here?"
Just as the two groups of people were in a stalemate looking at each other through the door, a white-haired old lady slowly walked out from behind the teachers from the admissions team of Peking University and Tsinghua University.
He is like a stepping stone and a face to Peking University and Tsinghua University, with a status equal to that of Professor Zheng Huairen of Beijing University, whose purpose is to provide support and leadership to the teachers in the admissions team.
Seeing this, Professor Zheng Huairen also walked over with a smile.
The two professors, who were of similar rank, appeared to be reminiscing about the past, but in reality they were secretly testing each other's background and strengths.
On this side, they are trying to find out how many interested students they have found, and on the other side, they are trying to find out how many cards the other side has in its hands, and whether its popularity will overshadow their own school and cause students to change their minds temporarily.
From this, we can get a glimpse of how fierce the competition for students is between the two schools every year.
This is the case in the courtyards of Beijing. The rules are strict, and there are many eyes watching you when you come in and out, so it is not easy to do any tricks.
For example, those experienced admissions teachers in their school would have already set out to various provinces and cities to go straight to the homes of the top scorers to recruit them.
Sometimes, in order to prevent other schools from finding the students, the admissions teachers are responsible for taking the students and their families on a tour until they are at ease filling out their applications and everything is settled.
I heard that this trend was even worse a few years ago.
There have been extreme cases where students were lured away and then taken to hotels, resorts, and kept under strict surveillance.
What other schools plan and arrange has little to do with Bai Yuan.
Not long after the group from Jingli University left, calls from Tsinghua University and Peking University came in through the security department and into the Bai family.
The subsequent procedures are similar, which are nothing more than the old professors coming to intercede, the admissions teachers using threats and inducements, and offering all kinds of generous treatment and policies to buy people's hearts and minds.
Peking University and Tsinghua University and Jingli University have different professional directions and different teaching philosophies. They cannot be generalized and there is not much comparability in professional fields.
However, a series of basic standard features such as bonuses, resource allocation, excellence evaluation, and free tuition for undergraduate and graduate studies are still similar.
Bai Yuan and Pei Jin listened patiently to the conditions offered by Peking University and Tsinghua University, and said a lot of roughly the same polite words.
Twenty minutes later:
"Teacher Xia! It's done! It's done!"
The teacher from the admissions team of Peking University and Tsinghua University said excitedly:
"Through the unremitting efforts of our admissions team, we have successfully secured 3,000 job opportunities for our graduates, replaced all laboratory machine tools, provided three supercomputers, two canteens, provided 30 million yuan in subsidies for laboratory consumables each year, and provided seven sets of campus buses..."
Teacher Xia: …
She finally understood what Professor Zheng Huairen of Jingli University meant by that meaningful look before he left!!!
For several days in a row, I received a constant stream of calls from admissions offices of major universities.
In addition to Jingli University and Peking University, several schools have also begun to take actions one after another.
The annual battle to attract students has thus begun.
The compound was therefore a lot more lively than usual.
It is common to see many non-hospital personnel queuing up to sign registration forms at the security office.
During the period of protection of candidates' scores, in addition to Peking University and Tsinghua University visiting in person, several other schools also used internal channels and successfully passed the checkpoints of the Jingli Compound Security Department after being recommended by others.
Among them is Bai Yuan's second uncle, Jiang Yun, who appears and disappears mysteriously and is hard to find.
The last time Bai Yuan saw him was two and a half years ago.
At that time, because Jiang Yun was short of staff in his laboratory, he wanted Bai Yuan to skip several levels and go directly to graduate and doctoral studies, and work in his laboratory as his assistant.
But Bai Yuan declined at that time, so he had to give up for the time being.
But people who do scientific research are a bit stubborn. To put it nicely, they are persistent, but to put it bluntly, they are stubborn and will not turn back until they hit the wall.
All I can say is that people with this drive will succeed no matter what they do.
After being rejected by Bai Yuan, Jiang Yun did not get discouraged, nor did she give up the good seedling she had found with great difficulty.
Finally, after two and a half years, he made a comeback, representing the National University of Defense Technology, a thermal weapons research and development school, and personally went to the Jingli compound and the Bai family to ask for people.
"Have Peking University and Tsinghua University contacted you? It's right not to go. It's useless to go there. It's just a waste of time."
Jiang Yun, wearing a dark grey long coat, had a cold and expressionless face, and unscrupulously "slandered" the top domestic university which was also her competitor.
"You only need to flip through books to get theoretical knowledge. The academic education model is not suitable for you. You can enter the laboratory in the first year of your study and start your own project team in the second year... We both study for bachelor's and master's degrees, but our school is more efficient. If you achieve significant results in research and development, you can apply for a doctorate in the second year... If you enroll now, you can join me in the international academic theory research and research and development results conference after the New Year..."
As he spoke, Jiang Yun looked at Pei Jin who was standing beside Bai Yuan, and said as a matter of course:
"It's just right. If you two come together, our hospital will be able to achieve this year's target. This is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone."
If he didn't know that his second uncle had no ill intentions, he would have spent years in the laboratory working with data and experiments, making him speak and act as if there was a computer installed in his head, and he could only issue program instructions.
Bai Yuan even thought that the second half of his sentence should be:
——I advise you not to be ungrateful.