Free Web NovelChapter 1400: Chapter 665: Preparing the Test of the Universal Spaceship_2
Zhao Zhenxi chuckled and responded, "You’ve been winning all day, but only against your own daughter. Anyway, I haven’t lost any money."
Zhao Yi immediately looked at Lin Xiaoqing. As expected, Lin Xiaoqing was grinding her teeth furiously, her gaze towards her dear father lethal.
This was her competitive spirit being reignited once again.
Zhao Yi couldn’t help but laugh when he saw this.
Lin Xiaoqing glared at Zhao Yi and said, "Come over here, look at my cards! I don’t believe I can’t win! I must win back!"
"Haha—"
Lin Xudong laughed and said, "Qingqing, I might be no good at studying, but playing cards? No matter how good you are at studying, it’s useless, I’m the professional here."
"You— you’re really making me angry!" Lin Xiaoqing glared at her cards and grumbled discontentedly, "How can they be so bad!"
Indeed, playing cards is about luck.
But in a game like Fight the Landlord, skill level can also play a part.
"Let me take a look!"
Zhao Yi, amused, walked over. Playing cards with two fathers and a wife, he would definitely side with his wife.
He glanced at Lin Xiaoqing’s cards and immediately said, "Bid for the landlord!"
"Bid? With these crappy cards?" Lin Xiaoqing was incredulous, "Do you even know how to play, Zhao Yi?"
Zhao Yi rolled his eyes and said, "When have you ever beaten me at cards?"
Lin Xiaoqing thought hard and realized that she indeed had never won. She felt a little dismayed but quickly regained hope, "Bid for the landlord! It’s mine."
"Pass!"
Lin Xudong laughed and said, "You two academic elites, big-time scientists, bidding with just any cards?" He found it a bit funny, holding two jokers in his hand.
Zhao Yi immediately said, "Bid back!"
The multiplier was now quadrupled.
Lin Xudong pondered and couldn’t quite understand, but decided to stay quiet. With the stakes now higher, he had to be even more serious. Meanwhile, Zhao Zhenxi tentatively asked, "Is it okay, Officer Lin? I really don’t have anything."
"Watch me!"
Lin Xiaoqing revealed her bottom cards and immediately broke into a smile. The cards ’3, 7, 2’ completed a straight for her, along with a ’three of a kind’, and she even had an extra 2. Her hand suddenly changed.
Without needing any guidance from Zhao Yi, she immediately laid out a straight. Then she was left with two 2s, a Q, and a bomb.
Lin Xudong, after some thought, played the pair of jokers, "Smother it!"
After he played a pair, Lin Xiaoqing laid out her two 2s, a Q, and the bomb.
Game over!
"Hahaha! Sixteen times the bet this round!" Lin Xiaoqing quickly calculated, rubbing her hands together excitedly. With a base of ten yaun per round, sixteen times meant one hundred sixty yuan, and beating two people at once meant she won a total of three hundred twenty yuan.
The pile of money in front of Lin Xudong suddenly moved over to Lin Xiaoqing.
Zhao Zhenxi went pale, "Old Lin, what’s going on? I didn’t even get to play a card and lost a hundred and sixty!"
"Well—"
Lin Xudong grumbled in frustration, "Who knew she had such good cards!"
"That’s it?"
Zhao Yi watched gleefully, continuing to give Lin Xiaoqing pointers. Cards were no challenge for him—his system abilities gave him the answers directly, without him having to put in any effort at all.
Of course, this wasn’t cheating!
It was causal thinking!
How could the way an academic elite plays cards be called cheating?
The following rounds of the game were completely controlled by Lin Xiaoqing, because Zhao Yi knew exactly what cards the others had, making it effortless for them to play.
Except for three or four rounds where the cards were terrible, they controlled all the other games.
Lin Xudong and Zhao Zhenxi both had dark expressions on their faces.
Upon hearing Zhao Yi mention "he had a pair left with a kicker, and played a pair", Zhao Zhenxi stood up and kicked him, "Get out of here, quick! Who helps their wife to screw over their own father!"
Lin Xudong was also emitting intense dissatisfaction, "Exactly, don’t talk while looking at your cards! You, a great scientist, playing cards with us, isn’t that bullying? Have you memorized all the cards!"
"How can we even play like this!"
Looking at the pile of money before her, Lin Xiaoqing waved her hand generously, "Zhao Yi, don’t speak. I can play by myself!"
Alright then!
When a bird of prey is gone, the bow is put away; when the cunning rabbit dies, the hunting dog is cooked!
With disdain for Lin Xiaoqing’s actions, he could only go to the side to soothe the children.
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Zhao Yi took a two-day rest at home before returning to Yixing Company.
After the company meeting ended, the related research and development activities commenced, and he had many tasks to do, starting with the design of the transport and sightseeing ships.
Having completed numerous designs and holding several core patents, the company found designing transport and sightseeing ships lacked technical difficulty; the main issues were still related to structure.
For Zhao Yi, this was essentially no challenge at all.
He only spent about three days to come up with two designs and handed them directly to the company’s design department.
Yixing Technology’s spacecraft design department had only four employees, with the department’s manager being Li Jianhua, who was responsible for the J-31 fifth-generation fighter’s design at the Shencheng Aircraft Research Institute. Another key person was Bao Enhong; both joined Yixing Company directly.
Now, Li Jianhua was just as he had always been. When he came to work in Zhengyang, Li Jianhua envisioned participating in a spacecraft design project, transitioning from an aircraft designer to a spacecraft designer, which was an innovation and leap in his career. He also did it to keep pace with the development of the era, especially since fighter jet design was nearing obsolescence, and the Shencheng Aircraft Research Institute was almost half-closed, with only some civil aircraft projects ongoing.
After completing the spacecraft design work, Li Jianhua decided to stay with Yixing Company, only to find that he had no improvement, couldn’t get his hands on any projects, and even had a lot of free time, becoming the most leisurely manager in the company.
Li Jianhua’s salary was very high; his base annual salary was 600,000 yuan, much higher than his previous salary. Adding the company share dividends, annual bonuses and others he received as a manager, claiming an annual salary of a million yuan was not an exaggeration at all.
Feeling like he had entered a pre-retirement phase with an annual salary of a million yuan, Li Jianhua was initially uneasy, but once he got used to it, found himself falling in love with this lifestyle. He even went ahead and bought a house in Zhengyang, moving his wife and children over.
This life was truly blissful.
The truth was not that Li Jianhua didn’t want to work hard, content with idly passing time on his job; it was just that there really wasn’t much work to do.
For example, right now.
The main body of the design for the functional spacecraft was directly the job of the design department, but Zhao Yi had completed the core of the main design, leaving only odds and ends for the department to handle.
They only needed to add a few details and construct the exterior of the main design, which was nearly enough.
This task would probably take about a week to complete, half a month to finalize, and then proceed directly to the technical review phase.
In fact, the design department originally had its own transport and sightseeing ship designs, more than one, and they were all the result of everyone’s hard work. However, when it came to the design and construction phase, Zhao Yi took the original design and then quickly settled on the design drafts.
Receiving the design drafts, Li Jianhua felt somewhat helpless. He said to Bao Enhong, "I really didn’t expect working under Academician Zhao to be this relaxed, so relaxed, I feel like I’ve aged."
Bao Enhong nodded in understanding, "It’s always been like this, even when designing the Warhawk aircraft, Lei Yong and I just verified a sci-fi aircraft model. Academician Zhao’s capability is just too strong."
"Indeed."
Regretful, Li Jianhua immediately brought up, "Speaking of Lei Yong, he’s doing well in the spacecraft project team, right? Seems like he became a team leader too, must have caught up with my old position, right?"
Bao Enhong replied, "I contacted him last month, he said he was promoted to team leader, but he’s very busy, apparently the spacecraft is preparing for testing."
"Really?" Li Jianhua shook his head, "That’s too bad. I really envy him. If I had known, I would have joined the spacecraft project team back then."
Bao Enhong rolled her eyes, "It’s not too late now. If you go there, you’d directly be the team leader."
"That—"
Li Jianhua sighed, shaking his head, "Let’s forget it, I’m already old, I don’t have the energy to compete anymore."
Bao Enhong gave a strained smile as she listened.
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This guy is only around fifty, right? It’s just that under Academician Zhao’s supervision work is easy, he’s involved in designing spacecraft, and even receives a high salary. There couldn’t possibly be a better job!
