Chapter 642: Chapter 642: Graduation Ceremony
At the dinner table, while smelling the fragrant smoked meat, Candy stood up and used her chopsticks to give her brother a piece before getting one for herself.
This made Zhou Yaling, who was sitting nearby, feel a bit jealous. She decided to remind Candy that one shouldn’t favor one over the other.
"Cough, cough..." Zhou Yaling coughed twice, seemingly unintentionally.
While eating her smoked meat, Candy looked up at her sister and blinked a few times. She asked with concern, "Sister, do you have a cold?"
"Cough, cough..." This time, Zhou Yaling was genuinely choked. How could she not get such an obvious hint?
"Hahaha." Mo Jingchun laughed heartily and said, "Your sister isn’t catching a cold."
"She’s just a bit jealous because you didn’t offer her some meat."
After her brother’s reminder, Candy paused for a moment, then innocently said, "But the smoked meat is closer to Sister, and my arms are short, so I had to stand up to grab it."
"Besides, my sister is sitting across from me, so my arms aren’t that long."
Mo Jingchun smiled and said nothing, while Zhou Yaling kept her head down and continued eating without making a sound.
For a moment, Candy, feeling a bit at a loss, sighed gently, got off her chair, walked over to her sister’s side, and used her chopsticks to offer her a piece of smoked meat.
Now, Zhou Yaling felt even more embarrassed to speak up.
Late at night, after many places studied the complete video of Candy Technology’s aerospace engine test for a whole night, they finally came to a unanimous conclusion that Candy Technology’s aerospace engine is truly just one step away from success.
This means the previous rumors about Candy Technology preparing to launch a rocket before the Spring Festival are highly likely to be true. The continuous rush of work at Anyang County further proves this point.
Candy Technology is indeed likely to launch a rocket before this year’s Spring Festival, and it might even include a satellite!
Just like Mo Jingchun said, many people are losing sleep tonight.
The research and development staff in those companies are feeling an invisible pressure as well. It’s foreseeable that from tomorrow onward, working overtime might become the norm, and they might even face layoffs before getting their year-end bonuses.
By then, what will become of those who were once the cream of the crop? Go to Candy Technology? Many people shook their heads. Candy Technology is famously strict about hiring researchers; most of the time, if you have the right level of expertise, Candy Technology’s HR will reach out to you proactively.
In the past few years, potential rules for recruitment at Candy Technology have become well-known in the talent market, which is that the level of qualification directly affects whether you can be hired by Candy Technology.
Although Candy Technology’s recruitment never explicitly states this requirement, those who have gone through the recruitment process know that this uniform standard is always enforced internally at Candy Technology.
Early the next morning, after returning from his run, Mo Jingchun was surprised to find that overnight, all topics about Candy Technology’s aerospace engine had dropped from the trending list on social media.
Mo Jingchun smiled casually, not caring about the reasons. Being watched every day by a crowd wasn’t really a good thing. Although it hasn’t yet attracted international attention, once they successfully send a satellite into low Earth orbit, it will be a completely different story.
If they can deliver a satellite, why not a missile?
Just modify it a bit. As a private enterprise, as long as the authorities approve, exporting to some friendly brother nations would be quite normal, right?
As for whether the customers use the space rocket to launch satellites or to "research," that’s not Candy Technology’s concern.
There’s a popular saying: I’m just a steel pipe seller; what’s it got to do with me if you use it as a gun barrel?
Hearing the commotion, Mo Jingchun looked up at the stairs. "Up already?"
"Hmm." Yaling replied listlessly and headed straight for the kitchen.
Mo Jingchun didn’t pay it much mind and went back to his room to shower. He was already used to seeing Yaling in this state almost every morning.
Given Yaling’s speed in her pursuit of immortality, although she’s a year younger than him, Mo Jingchun always believed that Yaling, being a big shot in cultivation, would definitely ascend to the Immortal Realm before him.
Of course, that’s assuming nothing unexpected happens. After all, nobody knows which will come first, the unexpected or tomorrow. Perhaps one day, due to some accident, he’ll be the one to ascend first.
In the morning, while Mo Jingchun was in the office signing documents, he received a message from the laboratory.
The reason for the engine test failure was found: the oxidizer fuel pipeline burst under high pressure, preventing the fuel from being delivered on time.
With the reason identified, the remaining issues should be relatively easy to resolve.
"Another test in a month?" Mo Jingchun muttered to himself. After thinking for a while, Mo Jingchun agreed to the lab’s request to build a brand new aerospace engine.
In late June, Mo Jingchun was extremely busy.
Aside from taking care of company matters, he was also occupied with Candy’s graduation ceremony.
June 23rd was the day when the two major classes at Candy Kindergarten were graduating, and the ceremony was prepared with great care.
What was troublesome was that each class had to prepare three performances involving the parents.
Since the 10th, Mo Jingchun had been rehearsing every night. At first, other parents were a bit reserved around him due to his status, but after a few days, they became much more at ease with each other.
Frankly, even if Mo Jingchun didn’t participate in the performances, no one would say anything. But he couldn’t handle displeasing the little darling. After thinking it over, it made sense — Candy only has him as a relative, while others have either a dad or a mom performing. If he didn’t participate, Candy would be the only one left out, and how would that make her feel?
On the surface, the little one might not say anything, but in her heart, she’d surely be sad.
With June 23rd finally here, despite being a Saturday, the children of the major classes arrived at the kindergarten eagerly.
Candy was no exception. Wearing the sunflower outfit that was distributed for free by the kindergarten, for the first time going to school without her backpack, Candy eagerly dragged her brother along to the kindergarten.
Candy took a look at the rows of seats and purposefully led her brother over.
Looking at the name on the seat, Mo Jingchun asked in surprise, "How did you know the seat was here?"
Upon hearing this, Candy sat her brother down, giggled mischievously, and said, "Because I checked the seating after school yesterday~"
"Otherwise, with so many people today, finding the right seat would be troublesome."
"Brother, don’t you think your sister is really smart!"
Unable to hold back his laughter, Mo Jingchun gave a thumbs up, smiling as he said, "My dear Guoguo has always been very smart."
If it weren’t for the fact that Mo Jingchun found himself sitting in the most central seat of the first row, he might have really believed Candy’s little fib.
