Chapter 369 I and your father are called brothers
"Amo, who is it?"
With the sound, an old man with gray hair and straight waist walked out of the inner room. He walked to the door, reached out to stroke the little girl's hair, looked at the people outside the door, and asked, "Are you guys here to look for me?"
"Grandpa, they said they came from Nanjiang Province, mainland China, but there are only two, and one is not sure what it is for." The little girl named Amo reported to her grandfather as if she was seeking credit, and at the same time she used her shiny big eyes to patrol back and forth on the three people, trying to find out who was excluded from the "two juniors in Nanjiang" introduced by Feng Xiaochen.
"Nanjiang Province? You are from Nanjiang Province!" The old man's eyes lit up, and his face showed a look of surprise.
"Are you Mr. Zhang Guodong?" Feng Xiaochen asked.
"It's me." The old man replied.
Feng Xiaochen bowed deeply to the other party, and then said, "My younger generation Feng Xiaochen is a child of the Nanjiang Provincial Metallurgy Department. I pay homage to Grandpa Zhang."
Zhang Guodong was stunned for a moment, then pointed at Feng Xiaochen with his finger and asked in a guessing tone: "You said your surname is Feng, and he is from the Metallurgical Hall, so Mr. Feng Weiren is yours..."
"He is my grandfather." Feng Xiaochen replied.
"You are Mr. Feng's grandson!" Tears flashed in Zhang Guodong's eyes. He subconsciously stretched out his hand, grabbed Feng Xiaochen's arm, and pulled it into the room, while pulling it, "Come in, come in quickly, and you two, hurry up and come in."
The three of them followed Zhang Guodong into the house and came to the small living room. While Zhang Guodong was greeting everyone to sit down on a small sofa, he shouted Amo to go into the inner room to get a stool. Seeing the little girl running around and laughing, Zhang Guodong introduced to everyone: "This is my granddaughter, whose name is Liu Qingli, and his nickname is Amo. He is 8 years old this year. This child likes to be lively, and a guest at home is happy like the New Year."
Everyone sat down separately, and Feng Xiaochen introduced Yang Haifan and Si Qiang to Zhang Guodong. Zhang Guodong greeted them a few times, and then asked Feng Xiaochen impatiently: "Xiao Feng, why did you find me here? Did your grandfather ask you to come to me? Is he in good health?"
"My grandfather has passed away." Feng Xiaochen said, and then he briefly introduced Feng Weiren's situation over the years to Zhang Guodong. After hearing this, Zhang Guodong sighed and took out a handkerchief to wipe his tears. He was obviously quite sad.
"Old Feng is my teacher, and I have always been a disciple of him." Zhang Guodong said, "Xiao Feng, just call me Uncle Zhang. I know your father Feng Li, and we were called brothers back then. Mr. Feng was kind to me. If it weren't for Mr. Feng, I would have died long ago."
Zhang Guodong is of great origin. Before liberation, he studied at Imperial College in the UK and studied mechanical engineering. After the founding of New China, like many international students in that year, he chose to return to China to serve. Because he was from Nanjiang Province, he was arranged to work in the Nanjiang Provincial Mechanical Department and had a long intersection with Feng Weiren. At that time, Feng Weiren was already a well-known mechanical authority in China, and Zhang Guodong was a young man in his 20s. Although his educational background was good, his experience was far from enough. Feng Weiren had given him a lot of guidance. He called Feng Weiren his teacher, and it was precisely because of this.
For more than ten years, Feng Weiren and Zhang Guodong had a relationship with both mentors and friends, and Zhang Guodong often visited Feng's family, so he had a good relationship with Feng Xiaochen's father Feng Li. To put it in detail, Zhang Guodong even met Feng Xiaochen and Feng Lingyu when he was young, but Feng Xiaochen had no impression of this uncle.
During the movement era, Zhang Guodong was hit by his family background and study abroad background. Unlike Feng Weiren, Zhang Guodong usually likes to say some weird words and was recorded in black files by the revolutionary masses, so he suffered even more severe blows. According to his words just now, even his life safety was threatened.
Helplessly, Zhang Guodong had to ask Feng Weiren for help. Feng Weiren helped Zhang Guodong contact an opportunity to go on a business trip to the south through his own connections. Zhang Guodong took this opportunity to smuggle Hong Kong Island with his wife and daughter, and stayed here. Because of this, Feng Weiren was also implicated, which Zhang Guodong could imagine.
Before Zhang Guodong left, Feng Weiren told him several names, all of whom were colleagues Feng Weiren knew in the past and taught at several universities on Hong Kong. After Zhang Guodong arrived in Hong Kong, he used the help of these people to find a teaching position, which supported the family and was able to retire as a professor more than ten years later.
When Feng Xiaochen was at home, he occasionally heard his grandfather talk about Zhang Guodong with his parents. The elders sometimes guessed Zhang Guodong's current situation, saying that they didn't know whether they were dead or alive, but if they were still alive, how were they doing, etc. Because there was little information exchange with the mainland on Hong Kong Island, and Zhang Guodong was a fleeing Hong Kong person, and he had political problems and did not dare to contact his family. This time, it has been more than ten years since the breakdown of the news.
Feng Xiaochen accidentally found Zhang Guodong's name while searching for information in the Metallurgical Bureau. At that time, Feng Xiaochen was assigned by Luo Xiangfei to consult academic journals and was preparing to do an intelligence review about open-pit mining equipment. In a paper from Hong Kong Island Polytechnic University, Feng Xiaochen saw the name Zhang Guodong, and the content was about mining machinery, which was consistent with the situation of Zhang Guodong he knew.
At that time, Feng Xiaochen did not intend to contact Zhang Guodong, but just treated it as a gossip, cared about it for a little while, and then told his parents that his father Feng Li told him some anecdotes about Zhang Guodong. The final summary was: It is best not to contact a person like this, so as not to get into political trouble.
Feng Xiaochen thought of Zhang Guodong again because he wanted to do construction machinery. There are not many domestic companies engaged in construction machinery. If his company wants to stand out, it must have its own core competitiveness. At this time, he suddenly thought of Zhang Guodong. This old man is a big mechanical master. Seeing that he worked in Hong Kong Island, he happened to be engineering machinery. Feng Xiaochen read Zhang Guodong's paper and found that he proposed many new ideas that have been verified in later generations, but he has not received everyone's attention at the moment.
Feng Xiaochen planned to invite this big guy to be a chief engineer and provide him with some ideas from later generations. With Zhang Guodong's ability, it is not difficult to learn from one example and design several competitive good products.
Of course, there are other reasons for asking Zhang Guodong to join, that is, to use the connections he has accumulated in Hong Kong to help Feng Xiaochen achieve other goals.
After this idea arose, Feng Xiaochen asked Zhang Heping to help him investigate Zhang Guodong. Zhang Heping handed this matter to Si Qiang, and what Si Qiang provided to Feng Xiaochen in the car just now was the result of their investigation. According to the information provided by Si Qiang, Zhang Guodong was indeed the Zhang Guodong who escaped from Nanjiang Province and has been working on Hong Kong Island for many years. Si Qiang's information also shows that although Zhang Guodong was a fleeing Hong Kong person, he had never had contact with any hostile forces during his time in Hong Kong Island, nor did he do any reactionary things. This means that he had to be asked to return to the mainland to work, and there were not many obstacles.
The experience of escaping from Hong Kong was quite a bad political issue at that time, but it was gradually downplayed after the 1980s. Feng Li did not understand the direction of the policy and was worried that contacting Zhang Guodong would cause trouble, but Feng Xiaochen was very clear that there would be no problem asking Zhang Guodong to return to the mainland, and it might even be praised by the "relevant departments", listing important examples of why overseas patriotic talents were introduced.
"My father often talks about you at home."
When Zhang Guodong talked about Feng Li, Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "He said you especially like to eat fried rice cakes. You have to eat them indigestion every time, but you still can't help but feel greedy after that."
"Haha, does he really remember this?" Zhang Guodong laughed heartily. When meeting an old friend in a foreign land, the most exciting thing is to talk about the past. Some things were thought to be trivial things back then. After 20 years, they were filled with warmth, making people feel warm, and at the same time they couldn't help crying.
After chatting for a while, Zhang Guodong was already sure of Feng Xiaochen's identity, and also said a few things about Feng Xiaochen wetting the bed when he was a child, which made everyone laugh again. After laughing, Zhang Guodong asked about Feng Xiaochen's purpose:
"By the way, Xiao Feng, where are you working now? Are you here to go on a business trip to Hong Kong Island? Are these two colleagues, are they?"
Feng Xiaochen sat down and said solemnly: "Uncle Zhang, if you don't ask, I'm planning to report to you. I have worked in the Major Equipment Office of the State Economic Commission in recent years and am the deputy director of the Comprehensive Department. However, last month I resigned from the unit and the unit wants to send me to the Academy of Social Sciences to study for a master's degree."
"Is that so good!" Zhang Guodong praised, "It's amazing. He was the deputy director of the State Economic Commission at a young age. Now he is going to further his studies. He will definitely have a bright future in the future. Mr. Feng should also feel relieved in heaven."
Feng Xiaochen smiled, thanked Zhang Guodong for his praise, and then introduced the identities of Yang Haifan and Si Qiang. Yang Haifan is the general manager of Chenyu Bearing Company, which did not surprise Zhang Guodong. After all, Hong Kong Island does not lack the title of general manager. Si Qiang is the director of a news agency, and this identity scared Zhang Guodong. As a person who escaped from the mainland, how could he not know the real background of a news agency in Hong Kong? For a moment, he almost thought that Feng Xiaochen brought Si Qiang over to arrest him and brought him back to justice.
"The main purpose of my juniors to visit Uncle Zhang this time is to visit Uncle Zhang. I want to invite Uncle Zhang back to Nanjiang. I don't know if Uncle Zhang has such a plan."
Chapter completed!