Chapter 560

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"Mr. Liu, due to time constraints today, we will hang up the phone first. We will find your relatives and those of other compatriots as soon as possible. Please wait for our news."

"Thank you, thank you. I know the situation is difficult now. I only hope that if my mother is still alive, you must tell her that Xiao Sanzi is still alive..."

"Okay, Mr. Liu, goodbye. Please take care of your health and wait for the day we are reunited."

Pan Xiaoying patiently finished speaking before gently hanging up the phone receiver.

At this moment, her forehead and palms were already covered in sweat, as if she had just fought an intense battle.

"Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap."

In the conference room, which had not had a single sound of noise just a moment ago, dense and intense applause erupted.

Two big shots took the lead in applauding, congratulating the complete success of this cross-ocean call and congratulating a breakthrough in cross-strait relations.

Li Ye also joined in the applause, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

In the era decades later when "everyone knows about anti-fraud," if an unfamiliar overseas call comes in, if you don't hang up within three seconds, the risk of being scammed increases by two hundred percent.

But today in 1985, a randomly dialed cross-ocean call actually made the person answering the phone believe it deeply, talking for half an hour before reluctantly hanging up.

The reason for this is that the batch of people who ran from the mainland to the other side of the strait back then were all still alive.

After Liu Xunzhang reported the name and address of his old mother, he reported several more hometown addresses of fellow compatriots, requesting Pan Xiaoying to help inquire about news.

The longing and concern these people had for their hometown was something that those decades later could not compare to.

As long as this batch of people had not all died, it would not be the turn of those clowns to take the stage and perform.

It's just that... it won't be long either.

That Taiwan compatriot named "Liu Xunzhang" was only twenty-five when he crossed the sea back then, and now he is already sixty-one years old, while the remaining few who arrived on the other side with him and were still alive were already over seventy.

I don't know if these people would jump out of their coffins in anger if they knew about the chaos decades later.

After the applause ended, several big shots delivered speeches, highly praising the telecommunications staff at the scene, and they did not stint on praise for Pan Xiaoying.

But Pan Xiaoying's performance made Li Ye very surprised.

She did not take the credit for herself but modestly said, "Actually, I was also inspired by several people in the cultural circle to make this plan..."

"This is Mr. Pei Wencong. He is the person in charge of the Hong Kong Treading Waves Literature Publishing House. He has been dedicated to the 'Ten Thousand Mile Search for Relatives' activity for five years,

and has successfully connected hundreds of overseas compatriots with their families. This time, he has provided financial and technical support again..."

"This is Li Ye. He also has a pen name, Seven-Inch Blade. When he participated in the film festival in Tokyo, he learned about the distress and homesickness of his compatriots who also participated in the film festival..."

Pan Xiaoying actually brought Pei Wencong and Li Ye out, and then the big shots shook hands warmly with the two of them.

Seeing that several reporters nearby had already found their angles and started taking pictures, even with the blessing of Li Ye's rebirth bug, his heartbeat could not help but accelerate. As for Pei Wencong, he was even more excited.

"This is all what I should do. For the reunification of the motherland, it is all what should be done..."

"Although family members don't speak of two families, we still have to thank Mr. Pei for his generosity..."

The big shot encouraged them with two gentle sentences and took an extra look at Li Ye when he was leaving.

Perhaps he felt that although this Li Ye was young, he was different!

After the big shots left, the scene suddenly became lively.

Pei Wencong said excitedly to Li Ye, "I thought I was just doing a small thing while I was at it, but now I feel... it is too meaningful."

Li Ye smiled and said, "Do you feel that some things are more interesting to do than making money?"

"It is meaningful, not interesting. How can such a big thing as a family reunion be called 'interesting'?"

Pei Wencong rarely argued with Li Ye and corrected Li Ye's "slip of the tongue."

Li Ye smiled and nodded: "Yes, you are right. If you want to do more meaningful things, you can contact the Guangxi Film Studio and help them get that movie 'Bloody Battle at Taierzhuang' released in Hong Kong sooner."

"Okay, I will contact them as soon as possible. Leave it to me. Now they all have to give me some face."

Pei Wencong agreed without even thinking, which made Li Ye very gratified.

The Pei Wencong of the past was not keen on the issue of "reunion," but with deep contact with the mainland, he had slowly been influenced into a firm "reunion faction."

"What are you two chatting about so lively?"

Pei Wencong was whispering to Li Ye when Ni Dashen walked over, accompanied by a middle-aged man in military uniform.

Ni Dashen was here today to provide technical support. He had been busy for most of the day before he could say his first sentence to Li Ye.

Li Ye smiled and said, "Mr. Ni, you are asking what you already know. What else could we be chatting about at this time? The same as everyone else! This is..."

Since Ni Dashen brought this middle-aged man over, he must want to introduce them to each other. However, Pei Wencong had never been in contact with active-duty military personnel in the mainland, so he was inevitably a bit nervous.

And looking at the shoulder straps of this soldier, he was actually a two-star, three-stripe officer; his rank was not low at all.

So Li Ye asked first. After all, in the eyes of overseas people, mainlanders and mainland soldiers are not the same type of people.

If everyone speaks their mind openly, wouldn't it be clear?

"This is Old Bu, Bu Qingjun, a friend of a friend of mine. He just happened to go to Factory 506 these past few days to understand some technical issues, and he just came over to take a look while he was at it..."

"Oh, Colonel Bu, hello, hello..."

Pei Wencong smiled and shook hands with the other party, then started to exchange pleasantries.

And Li Ye's eyes suddenly lit up.

Even without checking the biological hard drive, Li Ye knew who this two-star, three-stripe officer was.

His name might not be as loud as Ni Dashen's, but his contribution was not small at all, because he was one of the founding developers of the mainland's Beidou satellite navigation system project in later generations, a proper big-shot figure.

In 1983, Korean Air Flight 007 took off from New York and mysteriously veered off course into Soviet airspace.

The sky was dark, the Soviet military fired warning shots, the passenger plane did not notice, and as it was about to fly out of Soviet airspace, it was shot down by a missile.

When the news broke, the world was shocked. The Cold War clouds were thick, and the US and the Soviet Union were suppressing their anger, waiting for the results of the black box investigation.

The results showed that the passenger plane intruded into the airspace due to a geomagnetic navigation failure. In the same year, US President Reagan decided to open the GPS system under construction for global civilian use.

For the first time, ordinary people could clearly know where they were on the planet. And this year, the person in charge from the Chinese side was able to attend the US GPS seminar, and this person in charge was this Old Bu.

And Factory 506, where Ni Dashen had just been transferred, had always been researching radio, so it made sense for Old Bu to go over to understand technical issues.

"Mr. Bu, what exactly is the communication research project you are talking about? If I don't know anything, it's hard for me to invest in you, because projects without feasibility cannot pass the board of directors..."

"It is mainly research in the direction of wireless communication. I heard from Old Ni that you are going to develop mobile phones in the future, right? When the time comes, we can share some research results..."

"This..."

And as Pei Wencong exchanged pleasantries with the other party, Li Ye could not help but feel a bit embarrassed and also a bit sad.

Because Old Bu's intention today was actually... to beg for help.

And Pei Wencong, because the other party revealed too little, was actually going to refuse.

Of course, whether considering it from a commercial perspective or analyzing the current social atmosphere, Pei Wencong's decision was not a problem.

There were too many things happening these days where people begged for help under various banners and then squandered it privately.

Li Ye interrupted the conversation between the two sides and said with a smile, "If we can't explain technical matters clearly, let's talk about other things first!"

Ni Dashen and Old Bu both looked at Li Ye helplessly. It was already not easy to talk, and you kid interrupted; is there still anything to talk about?

However, Li Ye immediately said again, "Actually, based on my understanding of mainland research institutions, they are not lacking in talent and confidence, but some other conditions are really simple, such as the low income of scientific researchers, the inability to solve housing, etc..."

"Mr. Pei, you can donate a few scientific research dormitory buildings first to improve the lives of scientific researchers!"

The eyes of Ni Dashen and Old Bu changed; they became strange.

If this is us begging for help, then you are... robbing money, right?

But Li Ye knew that a few years later, when the Beidou project was finally approved, Old Bu went to Harbin Institute of Technology to recruit doctoral students, and the result was that one sentence made him extremely embarrassed.

"How much is the salary? Can you solve the housing problem?"

It's fine if the salary is not high, but how to live without housing? How to get married?

Even a hen needs a nest to lay eggs!

A project of the Beidou level consumes an astronomical amount of funds, and the bulk must be promoted by the state, but Li Ye could still afford the money to build a nest.

(End of chapter)