The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 266 Revealing feelings
Although Cui Jian is a rebellious young man, rebelliousness is just his attitude towards life and society.

It doesn't mean that this person is always dissatisfied and resentful in life. He is well educated and knows what it means to treat others with courtesy.

He returned to his room, took out the rent he had saved for several months, and bought a pound of tiaozi cake when he passed by the supply and marketing cooperative.

When he arrived at Liu Hua's house, he knocked on the door first: "Teacher Liu, is Teacher Liu here?"

Although people in the entertainment industry would call each other "teacher" in the future, Cui Jian calling Liu Hua "Teacher Liu" at this moment was definitely a sign of respect. What's more, he just heard from Sha Zhu that Liu Hua was a teacher in a university, so calling him Teacher Liu was appropriate.

"come in."

Cui Jian then carried the things into the yard. Liu Hua was reading a novel, a pirated novel bought from a bookstall in the alley, The Legend of the White-Haired Witch by Liang Yusheng.

In my previous life, I only watched new versions of movies and had never read the original novels. This morning, when I was taking a walk, I saw a small stall selling novels by Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Liang Yusheng, so I bought a few just for fun.

"Teacher Liu." Cui Jian stood opposite Liu Hua, who waved, "Please sit down. What's the matter? Is there something wrong with the house? If so, I'll find someone to fix it."

"No, the house is fine. You haven't paid rent for several months."

Liu Hua smiled and knocked his head with a book. "Damn it, I forgot about it. I've been very busy in the past six months and forgot about this little thing. But it doesn't matter. The monk can run away but the temple cannot. What's more, the monk hasn't run away yet and has come to give me money on his own initiative."

"It's my first visit, I don't know what to buy." Cui Jian put down the trough cake and said, "I bought some trough cake, don't be afraid of the cold."

"It's a good thing." Liu Hua said with a smile, "It's only now that supplies are plentiful. Back then, we might not have been able to buy tiaozi gao."

The two chatted, and Cui Jian asked curiously: "Teacher Liu, I heard from Uncle Zhuzi that you teach at a university. Which university?"

"Huaqing University. Actually, strictly speaking, I am not a teacher at Huaqing University. I was seconded there." Liu Hua said with a smile, "It was also by chance that I agreed to teach them four classes of students. This time it took eight years."

Liu Hua smiled and asked, "Are you the trumpet player in the art troupe?"

Cui Jian nodded: "Strictly speaking, the trumpet is not my favorite instrument. I like the guitar."

"It's understandable. After we opened up our borders, the outside world has come in and has had a big impact on us. Guitar is an instrument that is easy to play and can make you look cool in front of girls. There's nothing wrong with liking guitar."

"Teacher Liu, can you play the guitar?"

Liu Hua shook his head. "I don't know how to play any musical instruments. I have never had any artistic talent in this area since I was a child. The only thing I have done related to music is designing a cassette recorder with an engineer from a semiconductor factory."

Cui Jian scratched his head in confusion: "Wait a minute, you mean you invented the magnetic tape."

"To be precise, I invented the commercial cassette tape." Liu Hua said with a smile, "To be more precise, I provided the idea, and then the engineer invented it." "I always thought it was introduced from foreign countries." Cui Jian said with a smile, "I remember my father bought this tape recorder ten years ago, and then I treated it like a treasure, listening to music at home every day. I didn't expect to see a true god today."

Liu Hua waved his hand and said, "I'll show you the second largest cassette recorder in the world."

Liu Hua took out the tape recorder that the semiconductor factory gave him and said proudly, "After the successful production of this cassette recorder, the number 001 was put into the honors display room by their factory, and the number 002 was given to me."

"Wow, this is really a memorable thing." Cui Jian stroked it carefully and said, "Your tape recorder looks quite new, doesn't it?"

"I used it very carefully, and I bought another one that year." Liu Hua explained cheerfully: "I told my wife that this thing of mine was very commemorative and could be sold for a high price decades later, so my wife bought a new one and I kept this one as a treasure."

"I don't have money. If I had money, I would definitely buy this one."

Liu Hua shook his head: "Even if you have money, I don't want to sell it."

The two chatted for a while, and Cui Jian offered to leave, mainly because he had a commercial performance tonight, which is now called "moonlighting", which is how people in the entertainment industry make extra money.

But he was always thinking about the tape recorder. He asked about it many times later, but Liu Hua never opened his mouth.

Twenty or thirty years later, Cui Jian accidentally let this matter slip when he was on a TV show. After that, many collectors, after doing some investigation, came to Liu Hua and begged him to transfer the tape recorder. By that time, Liu Hua had already achieved great success and fame, and his status was so high that these people could not imagine.

So even if someone offered a price of several million, Liu Hua would still be dismissive. At that time, Liu Hua's wealth was enough to kill these people with money.

After two days of rest, Liu Hua went to work in high spirits. He met Professor Li in the office. He smiled and said to Liu Hua: "Old Liu, you are not doing your job properly now. When you were seconded to Huaqing University, you were supposed to teach students about semiconductor computers. You have done very little work related to computers in the past few years since you came here. Apart from a supercomputer and a personal computer, you have not done any other work related to computers."

"You can't say that. We're a semiconductor major." Liu Hua counted on his fingers, "Aren't the avionics on the plane semiconductors? Aren't digital cameras semiconductors? And radars, aren't they semiconductors too?"

"Why don't you just transfer your relationship to Huaqing University?" Professor Li suggested seriously, "Then you will be responsible for the entire semiconductor major, not just limited to computers."

Liu Hua shook his head: "Forget it. I want to jump out of the system."

Professor Li's face changed. "No, what do you mean? You don't want to go into business, do you? You are a research talent. Isn't it a waste of your talent to go into business?"

"Research?" Liu Hua shrugged. "Look at how much funding we have each year and what we can research. I estimate that our funding will be even more difficult in the next few years. I might as well go out and start some business and raise some money to do my own research."

"Stop." Professor Li shook his head like a rattle: "Get rid of such dangerous thoughts from your mind immediately."

(End of this chapter)