Chapter 615
Liu Xiaoli's double standards, Wang Yifei's dumbfounded reaction, Wang Jun&#03
Shanghai, a bustling metropolis.
The temperature in August was quite scorching, with temperatures in the thirties making people reluctant to go out.
However, at Hang Lung Plaza, the central air conditioning system provides stable output, keeping the temperature inside the mall at around 20 degrees Celsius, which is quite cool and comfortable.
Bai Doufu led her younger siblings on a stroll ahead, while Wang Yifei walked slowly beside her parents.
Yesterday, she returned to Shanghai and was picked up and taken home after landing.
Wang Duoyu also owns houses in Shanghai, and more than one, but he doesn't live there very often.
He owns villas or large apartments in major cities across the country, so he has no shortage of places to live.
For a tycoon like him, he already owns many houses; it's not that he's hyping them up, but rather that they are simply places where he stays in different locations.
After all, he flies all over the country every year, so it's normal for him to have so many houses.
As soon as she got home, Wang Yifei was severely scolded by her father.
Even though she had already transferred the fifty million back to her father, she still couldn't escape punishment.
The astronaut's fate was sealed; she had to go.
Wang Yifei wanted to refute this, saying that Want Want Group had already launched a space travel project last month, and that the service could be purchased for just five million US dollars.
If that's the case, then why would we need a bicycle?
By signing up for such a program, you only need to undergo three months of training to go into space and experience the daily life of an astronaut.
Of course, this project is still too niche, because not many people can come up with such funds.
Five million US dollars is no small sum of money; most people simply cannot come up with it.
"Never mind that, what you said is like water spilled on the ground, you always keep your word!"
Suddenly, Wang Yifei thought of something and asked, "If that's the case, then if Sister Xiaoli urges me to get married and have children, how will I continue training?"
"And Brother Big Fish, isn't your Want Want Group looking for an heir? Are you planning to abandon me?"
Wang Duoyu looked helpless.
"Who said I gave up on you? You've already graduated this year, and in a few days you can go directly to astronaut training. Four years from now, you'll only be twenty-three."
"You'll only serve for a year or two at most, and when you finish, you'll be twenty-five at the latest."
"You are not prohibited from getting married and having children during this period. It is your freedom. If you do not wish to, you can wait until you retire to get married and have children."
In an instant, Wang Yifei was completely dumbfounded.
To everyone's surprise, her father gave such an answer. It seems she can't escape her destiny of becoming an astronaut.
But can Big Fish really convince Sister Xiaoli?
She just doesn't believe it!
So she rolled her eyes and began to coax her father into persuading Xiaoli before bringing up her matter.
Wang Duoyu laughed and said, "You just know how to play clever tricks!"
The family strolled around until a little after four in the afternoon. At this point, Wang Duoyu found an opportunity to pull Liu Xiaoli to sit down and chat at a coffee shop.
It was just the two of them; the children were playing by themselves nearby.
"Xiaoli, Qianqian is all grown up now. What are your thoughts on her marriage?"
"Of course, you should get married as soon as possible."
Liu Xiaoli said:
"But since you spoil her so much, you're not planning to find a son-in-law to live with you, are you?"
It can be said that Wang Yifei was spoiled by her father from childhood to adulthood. Whether it was letting her release an album and enter the entertainment industry at an early age, or taking her to a family meeting before.
All of this is enough to show that Wang Duoyu's doting on his eldest daughter has reached its peak.
Since Wang Duoyu dotes on his daughter so much, Liu Xiaoli naturally assumed that he would arrange for her to marry a son-in-law.
“I have no objection. It depends on Xixi’s own wishes. But I’m more worried about you pressuring her to get married in the next few years.”
"She's almost twenty, why not let her get married? The best age for a woman to have children is around twenty years old, you said that yourself."
Liu Xiaoli exclaimed in surprise:
"Do you mean you plan to let her get married and have children when she's 25 or 26? Or do you not plan to let her get married at all?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Wang Duoyu rolled his eyes at her:
"Here's the situation: she wants to become an astronaut, which requires at least four years of training, followed by one or two years of service before she can retire..."
"If she gets married and has children in the middle, the time will be extended, and it may even lead to her retirement."
Before he could finish speaking, Liu Xiaoli suddenly interrupted him:
"You mean Sisi wants to be an astronaut? Doesn't she want to be a star and make a lot of money? How could she possibly become an astronaut? Besides, I heard from the professors at school that the astronaut selection process is extremely rigorous and very disadvantageous for women. Given your daughter's situation, is it even possible?"
She's not someone who knows nothing.
During her time at Harbin Institute of Technology, she often interacted with the wives of the professors, and their casual conversations inevitably included the topic of astronauts.
As one of the top universities in China, Harbin Institute of Technology has several astronauts, and their wives or parents know something about astronauts.
Astronauts are an extremely rare group, a small group of people whose conditions in all aspects reach the pinnacle of human capabilities. They can be said to represent the slogan of "morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor".
So, it's highly likely that Wang Duoyu himself was the one who decided to send Wang Yifei to be an astronaut.
"By the way, didn't Sisi go to hide in America before? If you hadn't called her back, would she have come back? It seems you wanted her to become an astronaut, right?"
Wang Duoyu looked at her in surprise and gave her a thumbs up:
"Not bad, you have such keen observation skills, you're quite clever."
Snapped!
Liu Xiaoli slapped him lightly, clearly annoyed.
"Am I stupid? Do you need to praise me like that? Honestly, you chose your own wife, don't you know whether she's smart or not?"
"Also, let Sisi do whatever she wants. I advise you not to force her. She's all grown up now, so just let her live according to her own wishes..."
A doting mother often spoils her son!
Suddenly, Wang Duoyu thought of this word.
To be honest, Liu Xiaoli is a real hypocrite.
She was quite strict with her sons, very traditional, and wished they would get married and have more children as soon as possible.
However, she is much more tolerant of her daughter, Wang Yifei. Perhaps it is because Wang Yifei is too outstanding that Liu Xiaoli believes no one is good enough for her daughter.
“I didn’t force her.”
Wang Duoyu pouted:
"She wanted to be an astronaut herself, and I had warned her before that being an astronaut is very dangerous and the selection process is very rigorous, and she might not be able to pass the selection..."
Liu Xiaoli asked suspiciously:
Is that really the case?
After chatting for a while and reaching an agreement, the couple got up and left the coffee shop.
As evening fell, in a villa in a private residential area in Pudong New Area, the Wang and Dai families sat together eating and chatting.
This villa is not a residence, but a private restaurant that only accepts reservations, and is accessible only through referrals and operates on a membership basis.
So most people have no idea that there is a private restaurant here.
Dai Yishan looked at Wang Duoyu with respect and admiration, his voice trembling slightly and punctuated by a few stutters. "Professor Wang, I've long admired your name. You are a towering figure in our country's scientific community, the goal that we researchers strive for our entire lives..."
Wang Jun'an, standing to the side, gaped and remained silent for a long time.
After all, Dai Yishan is his future father-in-law and a professor at Tongji University, so his status is not bad. Even if his father, Wang Duoyu, has a very high status in the domestic scientific community, he shouldn't be so humble, right?
To be honest, he really didn't expect Dai Yishan to do this.
In the past two decades, he had seen other people fawn over his father.
"Dad is amazing!"
Now he has once again witnessed just how high his father's status was in other people's eyes.
Han Suyin was very dissatisfied with her man's attitude. After coughing, she saw that her man was still unmoved, which made her very angry, and her face fell slightly.
Dai Junzhu was completely numb.
She had previously been admitted to the Harbin Institute of Technology's gifted youth program, and later pursued a master's and doctoral degree, eventually working in Wang Jun'an's laboratory. It can be said that she spent many years at Harbin Institute of Technology and was very familiar with her future father-in-law's situation.
Moreover, after she started dating Wang Jun'an, she would learn more or less about the true situation of his family from the sidelines.
She had only learned about her future father-in-law from others before, but later she saw him with her own eyes.
Even with all the knowledge, it's far less shocking than seeing her father so reluctantly bowing and scraping before her future father-in-law.
This is one of the concrete manifestations of her future father-in-law's status in the scientific community.
This was also the first time she had realized how much her father admired Wang Duoyu.
"Sister, what's going on? How could Dad do this? It's so embarrassing! Anyone who didn't know better would think you married the crown prince..."
Standing next to Dai Junzhu is a young man, her younger brother Dai Wenjie.
Snapped!
Dai Junzhu slapped him angrily and hissed in a low voice:
"Shut up! If you don't speak, no one will think you're mute!"
She was absolutely furious with her younger brother!
They're so immature!
He's still calling himself the Crown Prince?
The country has been established for decades, the Qing Dynasty has long since died, what a load of rubbish the Crown Prince is!
If she knew that the Wang family had a vast business empire with businesses spanning the globe, Dai Junzhu might not have argued with her brother.
Moreover, Want Want Group actually has its own industries on the moon and is now expanding into interstellar space, not just limited to the Earth.
With a cash flow exceeding one trillion US dollars, thousands of tons of gold, and various resources such as oil and gold mines worth over ten trillion US dollars, as well as enterprises worth over one trillion US dollars and real estate and land worth over ten trillion US dollars, such a vast business empire, given Wang Jun'an's business acumen, it wouldn't be wrong to call him the crown prince.
However, this matter is currently only known to Wang Duoyu and his five sons; even Liu Xiaoli is not very clear about it.
Not to mention Dai Junzhu, who is not yet a daughter-in-law.
"Professor Dai, you're too kind. We can all learn from each other and make progress together."
Wang Duoyu smiled broadly, after all, it's never a bad thing to be polite:
"And on this occasion, let's not talk about work, just chat about everyday things, okay?"
Upon hearing this, Dai Yishan nodded in agreement.
At this moment, he had no eyes for anyone else but Wang Duoyu.
Because almost everyone who does scientific research knows Wang Duoyu, or finds his name very familiar.
Unfortunately, many academic papers in mainland China cite Wang Duoyu's work.
In particular, many engineering calculation formulas are basically inseparable from Wang Duoyu.
To be fair, Wang Duoyu has indeed created many miracles over the past two decades.
Wang Duoyu has independently completed more than twenty top-level mathematical papers, and many theorems, lemmas, and formulas are named after him.
In the Chinese scientific community, there is a saying that Dai Yishan once told his students: "If you don't do research projects, seeing Professor Wang is like sitting in a well and looking at the sky; if you do scientific research, seeing him is like a mayfly gazing at the vast sky."
This clearly demonstrates that Wang Duoyu holds a very high position in the domestic scientific community.
Han Suyin sat quietly, her face ashen.
Liu Xiaoli, who was standing next to him, originally wanted to chat with the other person for a bit, but when she saw this scene, she immediately fell silent.
Wang Junan and Dai Junzhu helped introduce Wang Yifei, Bai Doufu, and Wang Junkang.
Both families arrived.
Dai Yishan never expected that Wang Duoyu would have so many children.
Moreover, the eldest son, Wang Junhong, is already married and has two children, and his wife is pregnant with their third child.
In addition, there are six other children born to Liu Xiaoli.
These days, it's really rare to see a family with so many children.
As far as Dai Yishan can remember, families in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong usually have four or five children, but never seven.
Moreover, Wang Duoyu is a university professor; logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case.
After all, most people are only children, or at most two children.
Seven children? That's way too many!
Hello everyone...
Dai Yishan chuckled dryly, saying that he had only given a brief greeting before chatting with Wang Duoyu.
The latter said they wouldn't talk about work today, but Dai Yishan didn't want to miss the opportunity and chatted with Wang Duoyu for a long time.
From the moment we met until the end of the dinner, Dai Yishan was practically nonstop.
Han Suyin was speechless and had no choice but to swallow her pride and talk to Liu Xiaoli.
It must be said that Han Suyin, as the women's director, has truly exceptional eloquence.
But Liu Xiaoli was not intimidated at all, and chatted with the other party with a smile.
Surprisingly, both sets of elders seemed quite happy, while Dai Junzhu and Wang Junan breathed a sigh of relief.
They are a perfect match, and their families are well-matched. If this isn't enough, then no one else will.
After dinner, the deal was settled.
No engagement, just straight to marriage registration.
The wedding date has been set for this year's National Day holiday, October 3rd, which is a very auspicious day.
The banquet will be held in Harbin, and there will be no banquet in Shanghai. All the guests from the bride's family will travel there by chartered plane or high-speed rail, since some relatives and friends may not be willing to fly.
P.S.: Happy Lunar New Year's Eve everyone! (End of Chapter)