Love in the Courtyard: Starting with Engineers

At the entrance of the family compound, Li Yu carried Bai Ling's luggage for discharge and carefully helped her out of the car, with Nannan skipping and hopping behind her.

Li Yu held the baby in one arm and supported Bai Ling's waist with the other. "Slow down, slow down, be careful on the steps."

I had just entered the house and put my things down when I heard the doorbell ring.

When I opened the door, I saw Mr. and Mrs. Li Jianshe standing there carrying large and small bags of health supplements.

As soon as the door opened, Li Jianshe's wife said with a smile, "Xiaoling's been discharged from the hospital! We've come to see you and your big, chubby son!"

After saying that, he went to Bai Ling's side and exclaimed, "Oh my, this child is so beautiful! Her eyebrows and eyes are exactly like Li Yu's!"

Li Jianshe placed the things he was holding on the table: "Li Yu, you must take good care of Xiaoling. You can't be careless during her postpartum period. Don't worry about things at the factory. We'll let you know as soon as anything happens."

Li Yu quickly smiled and nodded in agreement.

As they were chatting, there was another knock at the door. Li Yu opened the door and saw Li Huaide standing there with a woman in her thirties.

Li Huaide smiled and said, "Brother Li, this is Zhang Guihua, the wife of Old Zhou, the technician at the factory, whom you asked me to find for you to take care of Bai Ling. I've already arranged for her to work for two hundred yuan a month to help you with housework and take care of the adults and children."

Zhang Guihua quickly stepped forward and greeted Bai Ling inside the house with a smile: "Don't worry, Bai Ling, I'll definitely take good care of you and the child."

Bai Ling smiled and replied, "Then I'll trouble you."

Zhang Guihua quickly replied, "Don't mention it! It's only two hundred yuan a month! That's almost as much as my husband, Lao Zhou."

After he finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter.

At this moment, Li Yu said, "It's perfect timing, everyone's here, so I'll show you what I'm capable of."

At this moment, Li Jianshe's wife also stood up and said, "Then I'll help you out."

Li Yu went to the kitchen pretending to get ingredients from the refrigerator, but actually he was redeeming them through the system. Before long, with the two of them busy, the dining table in the living room was full of dishes.

"Wow, Daddy's cooking smells so good!" the little girl said, swallowing her saliva.

Li Yu laughed and said, "Of course, Dad is omnipotent." Li Huaide also chimed in, "Brother Li, you're truly a hidden talent. I never expected you to have such culinary skills."

Just as Li Yu was showcasing his skills, in the Rockefeller family's conference room in New York, the new helmsman, Alexander Rockefeller, held a report on Longteng Electronics in his hand, his eyes revealing disdain.

Alexander slammed the report on the table. "A bunch of cowards! Faced with Li Yu, all they do is cower in the back and plot assassination? They dare not compete head-on; what kind of Western technological superpower are they!"

Since the last series of bombings, the old guys in the alliance have been terrified by Li Yu's methods, and they are only concerned with protecting themselves, no longer daring to provoke him easily.

Alexander looked at the attendees and said, "Li Yu's rise to power relies on satellite communication and rocket recovery technology. He wants to seize the global market, so we'll cut off his foundation first! Listen, the first step is to use all the family's capital, join forces with Wall Street investment banks, manipulate the Hong Kong stock market, and create an economic crisis!"

He paused, a sinister smile curving his lips: "The second step is to take advantage of the chaos in Hong Kong and poach those so-called 'technical talents' at exorbitant prices. I refuse to believe that Longteng can function without them!"

An executive cautiously spoke up, "But it seems that Longteng's core technologies are all in Li Yu's hands."

Alexander sneered, "So what? Even if we can't poach his core technical staff, we'll empty his middle management team! Without manpower, his plans, his global network, are just empty talk!"

Once the order was given, the financial giants of Wall Street sprang into action instantly.

In just three days, the Hong Kong stock market experienced violent fluctuations, with the Hang Seng Index plummeting by a thousand points. Countless retail investors sold their stocks, and the market was in a state of panic. At the same time, a group of headhunters in suits were moving through the streets and alleys of Hong Kong, targeting employees of Longteng Electronics.

What's even more ridiculous is that those technical staff who had betrayed Longteng and were kicked out by Li Yu are now jumping out like clowns, spreading rumors and badmouthing Longteng in the media.

"Longteng's technology relies entirely on plagiarism; it has absolutely no independent research and development capabilities!"

"Li Yu is a technical fraud; he'll collapse sooner or later!"

"Following Li Yu leads nowhere. Come join us, the pay will be doubled!"

Suddenly, the public discourse in Hong Kong was in chaos. Many people who were unaware of the facts began to question DragonPass.

In Longteng's conference room, Lou Zhenhua stared at the report in his hand, his face turning ashen with rage: "These bastards! They're spouting utter nonsense! And those headhunters, they're camped out at the factory gate every day trying to poach our employees, they're so arrogant!"

Immediately afterward, Lou Zhenhua dialed Li Yu's number under the watchful eyes of all the senior executives.

On the day of the phone call, Li Yu sat in a chair in his study, toying with a pen in his hand, and calmly said, "Let the stock market fluctuate. We don't need to play along with this game of capital."

"But Chief Engineer Li?" Lou Zhenhua asked urgently.

"Don't worry. What they want are talent, markets, and technology. So we'll give them a little surprise."

Li Yu paused for a moment, then said, "Hold a press conference in Hong Kong immediately. Longteng Electronics will be the first to officially launch its 3G mobile communication technology."

"Second, the rocket launch program will be accelerated, from three satellites per month to ten per month, and the launch site in Hong Kong will be put into operation."

As soon as the voice on the other end of the phone fell silent, the conference room fell into complete silence.

Everyone was stunned, and then their eyes lit up with disbelief.

3G technology! This is a whole era ahead of the current 2G technology!

Lou Zhenhua's voice trembled with excitement: "Chief Engineer Li, this...this is true? You've already developed our 3G technology?"

Li Yu's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Of course. It's been prepared for a long time, it's just not the right time yet."

"Do Western capital want to ruin us through stock market volatility? Do they want to poach our talent and leave us without anyone to use?"

"They're wrong! Longteng's core technology has never been in the hands of those middle managers, but with me! In our own laboratory!"

"What we want has never been just Hong Kong, but the entire global market!"

"They play the capital game, we play the technology crushing game! They want to harvest talent."

"We'll show them that in the face of absolute technological superiority, all schemes and tricks are just paper tigers!"

The following day, Longteng Electronics' global launch event shocked the world.

When Lou Zhenhua demonstrated high-speed internet access and high-definition video calls using 3G technology on stage, media reporters from around the world were thrilled.

"My God! Is this real? They've already mastered 3G technology!"

"That's incredible! This speed is more than ten times faster than our 2G!"

"Dragon Tech is going to revolutionize the entire telecommunications industry!"

The news from the press conference, like a thunderclap, reverberated throughout the global communications industry.

Hong Kong's stock market began to rebound against the trend the day after the press conference.

Countless amounts of capital poured into Hong Kong, causing stock prices to skyrocket and leave others in the dust.

Those traitors who once predicted the downfall of Longteng were instantly proven wrong and became universally reviled.

The headhunters who were poaching talent were completely dumbfounded—no one wanted to leave Longteng because it held the technology of the future.

In a conference room in New York, Alexander watched the demonstration of DragonTech 3G technology, his face ashen.

He slammed the wine glass in his hand to the ground, splashing the scarlet wine all over the expensive carpet.

Alexander gritted his teeth, "Li Yu! I won't let you get away with this!"