Memory inheritor

Chapter 118 Sect

While Zhou Qihong was talking with Wei Hongsi and Gu Shiming, Liu Guanhong, Feng Weixu, and others were having a different kind of lively conversation.

It all started when Feng Weixu mentioned the "16,000" group in a chat with Dai Mengqi. Upon hearing it was an unfamiliar group, Liu Guanhong asked, "Why didn't you add me?"

Feng Weixu said, "This is a chat group for a few of us students."

Liu Guanhong said, "So, you guys are actually forming cliques. And to make matters worse, you didn't even include me. What are you up to?"

Jiang Haiyang joked, "Professor Liu, this is a student group."

"Call her 'Senior Sister'." Liu Guanhong flicked Jiang Haiyang's forehead with her hand, then added, "Call her 'Eldest Senior Sister'!"

"Why should I?" Jiang Haiyang covered his head and stepped aside, teasing with a smile, "You're two levels below Senior Brother."

Liu Guanhong put her hands on her hips and said, "I am the teacher's first female disciple. Who among you disagrees?"

"Alright, alright, you're the senior sister." Jiang Haiyang cupped his hands in greeting. "But you're the teacher, so please don't mess around with us students, okay?"

"I'm a student too, why can't I join the group?" Liu Guanhong said, then pointed at Wei Hongsi, "If you're talking about current students, Wei Xiaosi has already graduated, right? Is he in your group?"

After she finished speaking, she pointed at Feng Weixu and Zhao Hongquan respectively: "You two will graduate next year. Will you leave the group chat on your own then?"

Wu Jie said, "What Senior Sister said makes a lot of sense." Seeing that several people were looking at him, he couldn't help but shrink his neck.

Liu Guanhong then said to Dai Mengqi, "Aren't you the only girl in the group? Aren't you afraid they'll bully you?"

Dai Mengqi said, "Oh right! Who's in charge here again? Quickly add our senior sister!"

Jiang Haiyang was somewhat helpless when he saw that two traitors had appeared in the blink of an eye, so he pulled Liu Guanhong into the group chat.

It wasn't that they had any grudge against Liu Guanhong, but rather that they genuinely felt there was a difference between students and teachers, and they were hesitant to discuss certain topics, such as complaining about the school. Besides, there was a large group chat within the group, so there were plenty of things to talk about.

The more they refused, the more Liu Guanhong wanted to join. Doing research and mentoring students was usually quite exhausting, and she only felt truly relaxed when she was with her teachers and fellow students.

Upon joining the group and seeing everyone's nicknames, Liu Guanhong couldn't help but laugh.

The Four of Hearts is Wei Hongsi, and the Queen of Hearts is Zhao Hongquan; both names are homophones.

(Note: In some places, the Queen of Spades in playing cards is called "Queen".)

Jiang Haiyang's name is a straight flush, which is easy to understand. Both his name and surname have the water radical (氵), which is considered a flush; and the characters Jiang, Hai, and Yang represent a progression from small to large.

Feng Weixu's is even simpler; his name has two, three, and four dots in its radical. Hmm, just a little Shun, yet he's jumping around so enthusiastically.

Dai Mengqi's "Seven of Diamonds" also uses a homophone, but it's the English word "Diamond" plus the Chinese character "七".

Wu Jie's Jack of Spades is a bit abstract. Jie and J are homophones, so perhaps Wu corresponds to Spades? I don't know the answer to that.

After thinking for a moment, Liu Guanhong changed her nickname in the group to "Leopard Nine".

Jiang Haiyang laughed when he saw it: "The nickname 'Senior Sister' is quite domineering, but you can't just change it like that."

Liu Guanhong scoffed dismissively: "Would I do something without evidence?"

Jiang Haiyang thought to himself, "Didn't you just do that?" After a moment's thought, he realized the origin of "Leopard Nine"—all three characters in her name had nine strokes. He gave her a thumbs up and said, "Amazing!"

Liu Guanhong's lips curled slightly, and with a flick of her fingers, she sent five large red envelopes in the group chat.

Upon seeing this, everyone immediately started grabbing red envelopes, and after grabbing them, they spammed the group chat with "Master Sister is awesome" emojis.

Everyone was laughing and joking when they saw the teacher coming over, so they all put down their phones and started chatting with him.

As Zhou Qihong's direct disciples, they actually don't have many opportunities to meet with their teacher like this throughout the semester. This is because Academician Zhou is extremely busy, and therefore doesn't supervise as many students as other doctoral supervisors. It's estimated that in another three to five years, Liu Guanhong will have more students than him.

On the other side, only Gu Shiming and Wei Hongsi remained. Zhou Qihong left them alone to discuss matters within Zhiwei Company.

Gu Shiming said, "President Dai is preparing to convene a general meeting of shareholders next Monday afternoon to discuss and decide on some issues. The review of your 'psychological virus' prevention project is also one of the topics."

Wei Hongsi nodded, not too surprised. He had expressed this idea when he met with General Manager Dai yesterday afternoon.

Gu Shiming added, "Although President Dai holds a controlling stake in Zhiwei, he doesn't have absolute control. Besides President Dai, Zhiwei has seventeen other shareholders of varying sizes, who hold more than 45% of the company's shares. Many of these people have now become the biggest obstacle to the company's development."

"Two years ago, they wanted to take the company public, but Mr. Dai firmly rejected it. In the past two years, Mr. Dai has wanted to increase investment in research and development, but they have also firmly disagreed and demanded that those profits be distributed as dividends."

This was all information that Wei Hongsi had never heard of or understood, so he asked with some confusion, "Don't they know that the long-term development of technology companies depends heavily on R&D investment? If Zhiwei doesn't develop well, it won't benefit them either."

Gu Shiming sneered, "People are all short-sighted, and most of those shareholders are quite old. They can't see that far ahead, nor do they want to. They don't treat Zhiwei as their own company, but only as a goose that lays golden eggs. If the eggs the goose lays can't be divided, then it's meaningless to them. They don't care about the goose's health or even its survival."

Wei Hongsi frowned and asked, "I heard that many shareholders started the business with President Dai. Are they like that too?"

"People who once shared the same goals will eventually go down different paths, or even go in opposite directions. Besides, some shareholders were kicked out of the management team by President Dai because of differences in business philosophy."

Gu Shiming then looked at Wei Hongsi and said, "I'm telling you this because I want to let you know that President Dai is planning to use the opportunity of reviewing your project to resolve some long-standing issues. Think carefully about whether you'll give the project presentation at Monday's shareholders' meeting yourself, or have someone else present it for you?"

Wei Hong thought for a moment and said, "Since this is the situation, I'll go myself."

Gu Shiming smiled approvingly: "Then make good preparations. If necessary, I'll take you to meet President Dai on Monday morning."

"Okay." Wei Hongsi nodded.

He knew that this choice would inevitably bring more pressure, but if he didn't go to the shareholders' meeting to see what it was like, he would definitely regret it later.

The teacher just said that he wanted Mr. Dai to be his off-campus mentor, so of course we can't back down at a time like this.