Back in 1978, I was admitted to Northwestern Polytechnical University.

Chapter 129 Is this what meeting the parents means?
Northwestern Polytechnical University, North Village Faculty and Staff Dormitory Building.

This is a four-story tenement building. Starting from the second floor, there are railings outside the stairwell. The mottled blue bricks indicate that this building has a history of many years.

It was sunset, and the last rays of sunlight shone on the corridor. A beautiful figure appeared at the door of one of the single dorm rooms.

dong dong!

"Who is it? You're here." Qin Baomin strode out, opened the door with a creak, and was instantly stunned.

"Yang Duo'er?"

"Yes, Uncle, just call me Duoduo. Qin Liang went to work, so I came alone first. Here are some gifts I bought for you. I hope you don't mind..."

Qin Baomin looked at the bulging net bag, filled with snack boxes, malted milk powder, canned meat...

"You silly child, you came all this way, but why did you bring so much stuff? It's too much of a hassle. Come on in, come in and sit down!"

Qin Baomin ushered Yang Duo'er into the room and quickly wiped the stool with his sleeve: "Come, sit here! By the way, you haven't eaten yet, have you? I'll give you some..."

"No need, I've already eaten. Uncle, could you tell me about Qin Liang's childhood?"

"This is...good!"

When Qin Liang walked into the stairwell, he heard a silvery laugh coming from his own apartment.

"Haha, so you're saying Brother Liang was quite mischievous when he was little..."

Qin Liang's face darkened, and he walked up in a few steps.

"Duoduo, didn't you go back to the guesthouse?"

"Yeah, after I got back, I felt bored, so I came over to chat with my uncle. Brother Liangzi, when you were little..."

“I’ve long forgotten what happened when I was little, Dad… how could you…”

"It's alright, Duoduo's not an outsider." Qin Baomin didn't seem to care. What's wrong with bringing up embarrassing things from your childhood? Oh, right, there's something else I need to do…

Qin Baomin stood up, walked to the cabinet by the bedside, rummaged around for a while, and then... took out a bronze bracelet.

“Duoduo, this was made by Liangzi’s grandma back then. Although it’s not worth much, it’s a family heirloom of the Qin family. Qin Liang’s mother passed away early, and this bracelet has always been with me. Now, I’m putting it…”

"Dad, what are you doing! I've already said that Duoduo and I are just friends! Okay, Duoduo, I'll take you home!"

*Smack!* Qin Liang received a hard slap on the head: "You're not in a hurry, kid? I'm in a hurry to hold my grandson! Our Qin family line has never been very prosperous..."

"Dad, you don't understand. In the West, the DINK (Double Income No Kids) lifestyle is popular. If you want to hold your grandson, I'll find you a big-hipped daughter-in-law so she can bear children. Duoduo, let's go!"

Yang Duo'er glanced at Qin Liang with a resentful look, then smiled at Qin Baomin: "Uncle, I'll come to see you again when I have time."

Qin Baomin looked at the bronze bracelet in his hand, but still didn't give it away. DINK (Double Income No Kids)? No children? There must be a reason why foreign countries have small populations!

The campus was quiet, with only the rustling sound of the wind through the treetops and the swaying streetlights casting long, long shadows of the two people...

"Duoduo, that's just how my dad is, you... don't take it to heart."

"It's okay, anyway... you like big butts too."

"No, no, Duoduo, I was just teasing my dad. This isn't the Tang Dynasty, where being plump is considered beautiful."

Do you think I look good like this?

"Of course... cough cough, let's change the subject. I have another business deal I'd like to ask for your help with."

"Speak." "Buy a batch of 8086 chips and their supporting components. I have three million pounds here..."

"Hey, struck it rich again? Did you extort money from that foreigner who came today?"

"How can you say that? How can you call it extortion when it involves scholars?"

"Well, I'll take care of this, but... you have to promise me one thing too."

"explain."

"I have already met your father. If you have the chance in the future, could you... meet my father?"

What does this mean? They've already reached the stage of meeting the parents? I'm not even planning on getting married yet! Besides, I haven't even found a boyfriend!

“When I went back last time, I told my father about you. He was very interested in you. Even if you don’t go to MIT, it would be great to go there for an exchange visit. Don’t worry, MIT will reimburse all your travel expenses.”

"Okay, let's organize an exchange delegation of one hundred people!"

This is a rare opportunity, so let's take more classmates and teachers out to broaden our horizons. Anyway, someone will reimburse us!

"Okay." Yang Duo'er nodded, then looked up at the guesthouse that was just a stone's throw away. This road was so close!

"I'm going up now, see you tomorrow!"

"Okay, I'll take you to Famen Temple tomorrow."

Sigh... Women are such a hassle. But... since it's inconvenient for me to go abroad, I have to entrust someone to buy anything from overseas. Yang Duo'er is my best purchasing agent. For example, this time, the Department of Electronic Engineering processed radar antennas for Marconi and the pounds earned were directly deposited into Yang Duo'er's account. Yang Duo'er bought chips from overseas and sent them to the Department of Mathematics. The Department of Mathematics sold the computers and the RMB earned was then returned to the Department of Electronic Engineering.

That way, everyone gets what they want, makes money, and the foreign exchange issue... doesn't need to be resolved by the relevant departments! As for whether those guys will be furious... humph, we already offended them before, so now we can bypass them and do it on our own, it's awesome!
"Qin Liang, we've finally found you! We've encountered some problems with the application we're developing." Just then, a voice rang out.

Zhu Xianghua?
"Teacher Zhu, what software?"

"It's drafting software. We initially thought it was very simple, but now, the more we design, the more complicated it becomes..."

When the 8086 microcomputer first came out, there was no Wintel alliance yet. We in the East developed our own software and formed our own ecosystem, so that we wouldn't be held back by others in the future!

Back then, with the DOS/370 system code available, creating a simplified operating system was relatively easy. However, developing application software afterwards made things much more difficult!

"Okay, I'll go take a look." Qin Liang nodded. Little did he know that this trip would take until the next morning. It wasn't until Yang Duo'er stood at the door of the computer room that he realized he had forgotten about her!
Yang Duo'er looked at the code flashing on the computer screen and became interested: "Brother Liangzi, I've also learned programming, I can help you!"

"Okay, here's a module, it's quite complex, why don't you give it a try!"

Soon, Yang Duo'er's fingers began to tap rapidly on the keyboard, and lines of code jumped across the screen. She... was actually a programming expert!

The computer technology at Northwestern Polytechnical University was developing rapidly, while the engineers in the capital, after failing three times, dared not try again. So, they invited experts from the Institute of Computing Technology.

The forty-year-old expert held the circuit board in his hand, examining it over and over, repeatedly exclaiming, "Amazing! I never imagined that Northwestern Polytechnical University could manufacture this kind of circuit board!"

“Engineer Ni, this circuit board is just made of thinner lines, it’s not exactly high-tech!” Fan Tongyu said, still somewhat unconvinced.

"Make it thinner?" Engineer Ni shook his head: "No, no, even making it thinner won't meet the requirements! This circuit board has four layers!"

"Four layers? What does that mean?" Everyone was puzzled, and then... they saw Engineer Ni pick up a... cutting knife and forcefully cut down on the edge of the circuit board!

"Hey, what are you doing?"

　PS: I couldn't find a four-layer structure. Modern circuit boards usually have at least six layers. The red ones are copper foil on the circuit board, and the green ones are insulating boards. The six layers can be connected together or separately. There are no buried holes in the middle, which makes it simpler.

　　
　
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