Back to the 80s Machinery Factory

Chapter 416 External Liaison Department
Chen Luyang panicked!

"Didn't I say you don't need to pay anything?"

Director Lu chuckled slowly, "We didn't take any money. We just chipped in some money for food and paid for ourselves to improve our meals."

"What fee?" Chen Luyang thought he had misheard.

"What fee did you say?"

"Food expenses."

Tan Rensong chimed in from the side, "This is the food fee we pay for the collective, so we can supplement our own nutrition."

“Yes, Director Chen,” Sun Hongjun said seriously, “this is all the money that everyone paid to the kitchen, calculated per person, and it hasn’t gone into the factory’s accounts.”

wipe……

Chen Luyang was almost laughing out of anger.

That's really something... food expenses?
Who the hell thought of that?!
Chen Luyang gritted his teeth and said, "Jun'er, record how much each person pays for food in the account."

"Once the factory's funding is approved, we'll return every penny of this money to everyone!"

Sun Hongjun readily agreed: "Yes, Director!"

……

Holding the blueprints, Chen Luyang reluctantly said goodbye to Director Lu and Zhang Guoqiang, and returned to school with his brothers from Class 421.

Back in the dormitory, Chen Luyang didn't even have time to rest before grabbing her notebook and pen and knocking on the door of room 425.

"Zhezi...can I borrow your calculus homework to take a look?" Chen Luyang said pitifully.

That's why advanced mathematics is so annoying!

During major holidays, other teachers give students a break so they can read and relax.

That damn advanced math teacher, he had to leave two math problems.

"no problem!"

Zheng Zhe was reading in his dormitory when he saw Chen Luyang running over to him like a refugee seeking help. Without saying a word, he gave Chen Luyang his own book to read.

"Thanks, bro!!"

Chen Luyang happily took the notebook, just about to copy it.

Zheng Zhe frowned slightly: "Brother Chen, what if the teacher notices that our homework is the same?"

Chen Luyang was stunned for a moment.

"What do we do??? We can't really do anything about it, can we? Aren't the steps all the same?"

Zheng Zhe was still worried: "Wait a minute, Brother Chen, I'll write you another answer sheet, you can copy this one!"

finished,

Under Chen Luyang's astonished gaze, Zheng Zhe picked up a pen and scribbled half a page on the paper.

"Here, Brother Chen, copy this."

Chen Luyang took the piece of paper from Zheng Zhe blankly and compared it with the answer Zheng Zhe had written.

"What's the difference?"

"Of course there is!"

Zheng Zhe picked up his pencil and began to explain, "Mine was a limit calculated using L'Hôpital's rule, and I used substitution in the fifth step. Yours was a formula I directly applied, using Taylor expansion to bypass substitution. The result is the same, but the logical chain is completely different..."

What a strange Chinese phrase.

Chen Luyang stared blankly at Zheng Zhe, who was talking eloquently.

It's all in Chinese, but when we put them together, I can't understand what they're saying!
...Is this even human language?

That sounds like a demonic incantation!
Just as his eyes were glazed over, Zheng Zhe's voice stopped.

"Fine... just copy it."

Hey! I understood that!
"okay!!"

Whoosh, whoosh!

Chen Luyang finished copying in a few strokes, then happily took the notebook and left.

The next morning, I faced the nightmare of advanced mathematics.

Finally, the bell rang, and Chen Luyang, as if she had just been released from prison, jumped up and ran out of the teaching building.

At this moment, the student council is actively recruiting new members on campus.

After the welcome party, almost all the new students from each department who had any talent had made an appearance at the party.

After a month of study, the new students have become somewhat familiar with the school.

The student council also launched a lively recruitment drive.

The promotional boards of each department were neatly arranged, and the second and third-year students were busy and sweating profusely, stopping one freshman after another to introduce the advantages of their department. The atmosphere was even more lively than a fair.

"Hey there! Come check out the Arts and Literature Department! We're having a poetry reading next month!"

"Sports Department is recruiting! Join us, and we'll play a friendly match together at Tsinghua University next year!"

Chen Luyang also squeezed into the crowd to join in the fun.

The offices, publicity department, study department, life department, sports department... shouts could be heard everywhere.

At the small wooden tables next to each department, several students were filling out registration forms.

Just as Chen Luyang was observing them one by one, the large group under the tree caught his attention!

Underneath the large banner that read "External Liaison, Overall Planning,"
A boy with neatly rolled-up sleeves is sincerely shaking a classmate's hand, smiling broadly and speaking rapidly:
"You're a Chinese literature major? That's fantastic! Our external relations department is desperately in need of someone like you who can write well!"

"No, no, no, don't say your writing is so-so. Once you come in, any invitation you casually write will be at the level of a love letter!"

"Come on, let's fill out the registration form first... Oh, look at how beautifully you write!"

"That's why students majoring in Chinese literature are so talented."

……

The poor Chinese literature major was completely taken aback.

He casually picked up a pen and wrote his name on the registration form.

After finishing writing, the Chinese literature student handed the application form to a girl behind the desk with a hopeful look on her face.

"Excuse me, I've submitted my application. Will you give me priority consideration?"

The girl didn't even look up: "No. We look at ability, not just talk. Those who talk too much must have gotten in through connections."

Hearing this, the boy with his neatly rolled-up sleeves became unhappy.

"I'm not trying to be mean, Ma Tieli... I even recruited you. You've never seen what I looked like when I first joined the External Relations Department, so how can you say I got in through connections?"

Ma Tieli rolled her eyes at Shen Fei: "Last time you recruited new students, you tricked all four girls in that dorm into signing up, and even treated them to two meals in the cafeteria with three meat dishes and one vegetable dish. If that's not called getting in through connections, what is it?"

Those who use back channels do so through connections within the organization.

He's fine!

Let them in through someone else's back door!

A reverse backdoor is still a backdoor!

Shen Fei glared angrily: "That's called maintaining relationships. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense."

As the two of them began to act out a skit, more and more students gathered around to watch.

Shen Fei, with his sharp eyes, spotted the dazzling Chen Luyang in the crowd.

"Chen Luyang, are you also interested in our external relations department?"

In an instant, Shen Fei seemed to see a weasel spotting a big, fat chicken, and rushed over in a few quick steps.

Chen Luyang was taken aback: "You know me?"

Shen Fei laughed: "Who in our whole school doesn't know you now! You're a big celebrity in the Economics Department. I even stood up and applauded for your big clapper talk on stage before. If I didn't know you were from the Economics Department, I would have almost thought you were a director from the Arts Department who came on stage personally!"

"If someone as talented as you joined our External Relations Department, our recruitment for this year would be a success ahead of schedule!"

Without waiting for Chen Luyang's consent, he grabbed the registration form from the table and shoved it at her.
"Come on! Fill one out."

“We can’t guarantee you’ll be selected just because you apply, but with your qualifications, you’d basically be a candidate for the Minister of External Relations.” Ma Tieli raised her eyes, her tone still indifferent: “That’s right, if you don’t come, the ministerial position will remain vacant.”

Chen Luyang looked at Shen Fei's face, which was smiling sweeter than a freshly baked candy, and clicked her tongue.

"I have a feeling like I've been kidnapped."

Shen Fei became serious: "Chen Luyang, do you think just anyone can join our External Relations Department?"

"Look at yourself!! You're good-looking, speak fluently, can give lectures, and can even play the clapper. Did we choose you? You chose us!!!"

This guy is such a smooth talker.

Chen Luyang gave Shen Fei a brief evaluation, then turned to look at Ma Tieli.

"Senior, what does the External Relations Department usually do?"

“Running around, taking advantage of favorable winds, begging for alms,” Ma Tieli replied succinctly.

"It sounds like he's going to become a monk?" Chen Luyang was taken aback.

"Pretty much," Shen Fei said, spreading his hands. "Every event at the school costs money. If you don't go through the formalities and find people, who will arrange the venue, hang the banners, and get the lighting? If it weren't for us running around behind the scenes, other departments wouldn't be able to support an event."

"Sometimes when we bring back a bag of stationery, we're as happy as if we've brought back a truckload of gold."

As he spoke, Shen Fei sighed.

"This job is tiring and no one praises me... Tie Li, how did I ever get tricked into joining the external relations department in the first place!"

Ma Tieli rolled her eyes at him.

"You're asking me? I'd like to ask you the same thing! How could I have been so bewitched by you and let you trick me into joining the external relations department?"

"In the dead of winter, while everyone else was in bed reading and sleeping, I had to squat by the door with you waiting for the factory manager to get off work."

Shen Fei retorted, "Then why don't you mention that last year when the student council made dumplings, you ate more than 20 large meat dumplings by yourself! And those were from the first batch!"

"If I hadn't arranged for this pork from an old sow, would you even be able to eat it?"

……

Seeing that the two were about to start arguing again,

Chen Luyang asked, "Do we work this hard?"

Shen Fei paused, then quickly changed the subject: "It's tough, but it's very rewarding!"

"Without the funding we secured through our outreach efforts, and without the resources we brought back from outside, where would we get the money to organize events!"

"Every time we go out, we use genuine emotion in our left hand and reasoning in our right to win..."

Ma Tieli lowered her head to write her report and said indifferently, "You're using your left hand to fake a smile and flirt, while using your right hand to get something for nothing."

"Hey Ma Tieli, watch your words!"

Shen Fei said with a serious expression, "That's a negotiation technique!"

Chen Luyang asked with interest, "Are you really going out to discuss cooperation?"

"Of course!" Shen Fei slammed his hand on the table.

"Last year, we wanted to create a festive atmosphere for the New Year's Eve party, so we visited six lighting factories. Finally, one factory agreed to lend us three spotlights. We also wrote four promotional articles for them, painstakingly crafting each word by hand! The factory manager later told me that I was more dedicated than his own son."

“…That was the manuscript I wrote.” Ma Tieli said without looking up.

“You can write whatever you want, but I’m the one who ran errands and negotiated,” Shen Fei retorted.

"You write the articles, I run the errands—we work together seamlessly! Team spirit!"

At this moment, a freshman who was auditing the class couldn't hold back any longer and raised his hand to speak: "So... besides doing the work, what kind of benefits do you guys in the external liaison department receive?"

Ma Tieli looked up: "Yes."

"What?" The freshmen's eyes lit up.

She said casually, "Other departments need their advisors to sign leave slips, but for us, all we need to do is get Shen Fei to draw a circle on them."

Shen Fei quickly explained, "It's not that we don't follow the procedures; we are the core of the procedures."

Even Chen Luyang couldn't help but laugh.

These two are both witty and serious, capable and mischievous; they might actually have some real skills.

The more he looked at it, the more amusing it became, and a stirring began to stir within him without his notice.

Peking University's External Relations Department...

Chen Luyang was smitten!

With Peking University as a platform, the factories, schools, and organizations that I usually contact are definitely not bad!

If I could get to know more people here and pave more roads for my repair center, it might actually be of some help.

“Okay! I’ll sign up.” Chen Luyang picked up a pen and quickly wrote her registration form on the paper.

Shen Fei immediately and solemnly shook hands with Chen Luyang:

"Welcome to the External Relations Department of Peking University, Chen Luyang."

Ma Tieli rolled her eyes and said indifferently, "Didn't you just say he was a ministerial candidate?"

Shen Fei glared at him: "Hey, after I retire, I'll put Xiao Chen up for the nomination!"

Chen Luyang: "..."

wipe!
In summary, he is the Minister of External Relations.

"If I really join the External Relations Department, what will I do first?"

Shen Fei said seriously, "If you really join our External Relations Department, you'll have to start from sweeping the floor."

"Do we have a place for him to sweep?" Ma Tieli raised an eyebrow.

Shen Fei stared wide-eyed: "Yes! First, we'll go through the cooperation relationships between our external liaison department and several units, and then start by dealing with the most difficult one!"

"I'll take you there then~"

Shen Fei gave Chen Luyang a smug wink, which sent shivers down Chen Luyang's spine.

After registering,

As Chen Luyang squeezed out of the crowd, intending to leave,
Suddenly, a surprised and joyful voice rang out.

"Chen Luyang?!"

Chen Luyang turned around and her face immediately broke into a wide grin.

"Senior?! You're recruiting too?"

"Chen Luyang!" The senior student in charge of the welcome party from the Arts and Literature Department walked up excitedly. "What a coincidence to meet you! Would you like to join our Arts and Literature Department?"

"With your talent, you're the perfect fit for the Literature and Art Department."

Chen Luyang said shyly, "How could I do that! My roommate wrote the clapper talk for that program, and I was just in charge of organizing it."

"Being able to organize things well is a skill in itself!" A senior from the Arts and Literature Department had high hopes for Chen Luyang: "Our Arts and Literature Department is in dire need of students with your organizational skills!"

As she spoke, she casually pulled out a registration form from the table next to her.

"You're so outstanding, you'll definitely be selected for the Arts and Literature Department. Let me register you first!"

Seeing that her senior was serious, Chen Luyang quickly waved her hand and refused, "Senior, no, no!"

"I've already signed up in the External Relations Department, so I won't go and cause trouble for our Arts and Literature Department."

The senior from the Arts and Literature Department exclaimed "Ah!" with a hint of regret: "You applied to the External Relations Department...that's pretty good too!"

"The external relations department also needs people who can speak well. If you go to the external relations department, you will definitely be a pillar."

Chen Luyang said embarrassedly, "How could I possibly shoulder such a heavy responsibility? They just said I was a candidate for minister..."

The senior student from the Literature and Art Department was slightly taken aback, and the smile on her face froze for a moment.

She was quite knowledgeable in the arts and literature department.

But I've never seen anyone say "I just registered, and they say I'm a ministerial candidate" so confidently and without any burden.

It seemed she had never seen anything so shameless in her entire life.

(End of this chapter)