Chapter 43 Acceptance
Time passed quickly, and the September autumn wind quietly came. People changed into long-sleeved clothes, and the golden color gradually climbed up to the treetops.
Zhou Shuo stood at the gate of Xiucheng Normal College, looking forward to it. The ringtone rang, and noisy words and footsteps appeared little by little in the quiet campus.
"Li Zhi, here!"
Zhou Shuo waved his arms high, attracting Li Zhi's gaze.
When Li Zhi ran over, he took the heavy schoolbag from her hand and asked with concern: "How is the exam?"
Li Zhi smiled and replied confidently: "Who am I? Of course there is no problem in the computer level exam. I'll take my schoolbag, you'll be spoiled by you."
Zhou Shuo threw his schoolbag on his shoulder and smiled and said, "Haha, this is so heavy, you can see that I don't have any trouble."
As the abortion of people leaving school arrived, many people would look at him with gratitude when they walked through the school gate, either nodding slightly, or waved to greet him.
"These are all your students, how do you feel?"
Li Zhi sat on the frame of Zhou Shuoda's 28 bicycle and asked with his head tilted.
"Haha, isn't you the most proud student?" Zhou Shuo stepped on his foot and rushed out of the bicycle.
"Ah!" Li Zhi screamed in panic and hugged Zhou Shuo's waist tightly.
After a while, Zhou Shuo's bicycle gradually stabilized. Li Zhi blushed and knocked his back, and said angrily: "Why are you so bad? You're just bullying!"
"Miss, mistakes, haha!"
As he said that, Zhou Shuo quietly shook the handlebars again, and a scream came from the rear frame immediately...
He sent Li Zhi home, and then Zhou Shuo rushed to the train station without stopping.
After returning to Beijing, James, the manager of Microsoft's China office, sent the ERP software trial version program back to Microsoft headquarters, which obviously attracted considerable attention. Before the month expired, he led two software engineers to Xicheng again.
"Zhou, we're meeting again."
James pointed at the two people behind him with a breeze on his face and said, "This is Farrell, this is Jessica. They are not very good at Chinese. This time they are mainly responsible for technical testing."
"Welcome to the Embroidery City!"
Zhou Shuo enthusiastically reached out and shook hands with the two people. Farrell was a tall blond Nordic man. He held his head up, stretched out half of his palm and shook hands lightly with Zhou Shuo, saying in stiff Chinese: "Chinese, don't want to please me, Farrell's test will be very strict!"
Zhou Shuo smiled and nodded and said, "There is an old saying in China that real gold is not afraid of fire. I beg Mr. Farrell to use the strictest standards to test it. China's technology can stand the test."
Farrell showed a bloodthirsty smile like a wolf, looked at Zhou Shuo's eyes and said, "As you wish."
Jessica is a beautiful lady with brown hair and blue eyes, with a plump and curved figure unique to European and American women. She smiled and held it with Zhou Shuo's hands, and said, "Mr. Zhou wrote the GHOST software, which is really a genius creative idea, and I look forward to this test."
Zhou Shuo gently shook her hand and said confidently: "Miss Jessica, please rest assured, this software will never disappoint you."
After a few greetings with James at the exit, Zhou Shuo felt that his eyes were more and more focused on him. In 1994, foreigners in the Empression City were a rare sight, let alone three! If people are just novel about foreigners, then they are curious about Zhou Shuo. They don’t have to organize primary school students to offer flowers, nor do they put banners and beat drums. Just such a young man picked up people casually? What is this person’s identity? There was a whisper in the crowd.
Zhou Shuo scratched his head awkwardly. It was not a good thing to be so conspicuous. He quickly took three foreigners to stop a taxi and left.
When he arrived at the first vocational high school, Farrell saw that the school had not prepared any welcome ceremony and couldn't help but mutter: "This is the worst place I have ever seen. The people here lack awe of Americans."
Zhou Shuo glanced at him lightly, pushed open the door of the teaching building, and then said with a smile: "Please come in three. The school is in class. Let's walk as light as possible."
Seeing that Zhou Shuo had gone a little further, James glared at Farrell fiercely and whispered: "Ferrrell, if you have any complaints, be careful that I will let you stay here forever!"
Farrell spoke without saying anything. He cursed in his heart, "It's really a goddamn bureaucrat James is so afraid of a Chinese?" I will let him know that Chinese people may have one or two ideas worth learning from, but their products are simply a bunch of garbage!"
Jessica looked around at the teaching building of Yiqigao. This building has a history of at least ten or twenty years, and some corners are inevitably a bit dilapidated. However, it can be seen that it is actually well taken care of. The fallen wall paint has been carefully re-repaired, and the anti-slip strips on the cement steps are also newly nailed. The clean paint of the handrail can be seen...
There are many details like this, just like the impression that the Chinese people brought to her in this era. Although they are not rich, they are not decadent, but they appear energetic.
Listening to the sound of reading aloud from the classroom passing by, Jessica couldn't help but feel curious. Is the principal of this school actually the very young Chinese in front of her?
The four people walked into the computer room silently, and a low buzzing sound of the computer fan suddenly echoed in their ears. Zhou Shuo patted his hands, and the busy programmers in the computer room raised their heads one after another.
He pointed to the three people behind him and said, "Let me introduce to you, these are the three representatives sent by Microsoft. They are the James Manager of the China Office, Mr. Farrell, and Ms. Jessica. Starting today, they will work with you to complete the testing of our ERP software with you. Come on, welcome guests from afar!"
A warm but not noisy applause sounded in the computer room. James nodded with a smile and said, "On behalf of Microsoft, I thank everyone for the welcome. I hope we can cooperate happily! I won't say anything extra, let's devote our enthusiasm to our work!"
Zhou Shuo moved out a pile of thick documents from the file cabinet against the wall of the computer room, placed them on the table, patted them and said, "This is the software development document. Let's start with the document review part of the software acceptance!"
Jessica looked at the document that was nearly half a man tall and shouted in shock: "So many?"
Farrell stood beside her and hummed in English: "It looks good, but since it is a Chinese document, it would be nice to have one-tenth of the valid content. The extras are probably political learning and revolutionary slogans?"
After Farrell finished speaking, he realized that he was very funny and laughed.
Jessica opened the document, looked through it, and said in surprise: "What's your development document in English?"
Zhou Shuo nodded and said in English: "We use bilingual development to ensure that the English version of the software is accurate and smooth."
Jessica took out the acceptance document catalog and said line by line: "Feability research report, software requirements specifications, project implementation plan, database design instructions, software design instructions, software test plan instructions, user manuals, source program list... It's really good. Such a complete acceptance document is almost impossible for many American companies to do!"
Farrell hurriedly stepped forward and opened a document, looked at the contents, and had to nod and said, "Oh, it's really formal, but writing documents is not a Chinese specialty, it looks good on the surface."
Zhou Shuo shrugged and made a gesture to James and said, "Our time is precious, why not start working now?"
James took off his blazer, nodded and said, "Okay, I hope our acceptance goes well."
Three Microsoft people sat around and started to look through the documents. Zhou Shuo sat opposite them, responsible for explaining the questions they kept asking clearly.
Farrell's face gradually curled his smile. The technical content of these documents made it difficult for him to read, and many of his ideas were never exposed to before.
The three of them looked at more than a dozen documents, and the school ringtone suddenly rang. Farrell stretched, knocked his wrist and looked at James. James looked at his watch, clapped his hands and said, "Okay, Jessica, let's be here today."
After saying that, he said to Zhou Shuo opposite him: "Dear Zhou, we are going to get off work, and the rest of the work will continue tomorrow."
Of course, Zhou Shuo knew the tempers of these Americans, so he nodded immediately and said, "Okay, have you found your place to live? Do I need to arrange it for you?"
James blinked and said, "Oh, thank you, Zhou. But we have booked a suite at the Xiucheng Hotel. I won't bother you when I get off work. We have our own activities..."
"I wish you all a happy time!"
Zhou Shuo took them to the school gate, watched them get in the car and leave, and turned back to school.
Farrell and James were sitting in the back seat of the taxi. James suddenly turned his head and asked him: "Frrell, what do you think of the Chinese technology?"
Farrell pursed his lips and said, "If their technology is as rigorous as the documentation, I think it is indeed a good product."
James hesitated for a moment and asked, "So if we imitate it, are there any difficulties?"
Farrell nodded and said, "There must be difficulties. This Zhou is very talented, and his ideas are almost beyond the times in many places."
"Is there no way?" James looked a little surprised.
Farrell shook his head and smiled, "Of course not. If they could get their development documents, Microsoft engineers would never be worse than Chinese."
Chapter completed!