Reborn in 1994, escaping from marriage and going sea fishing, I won!

Chapter 1378 It turns out there's a connection.

"Of course!" Liu Meilan nodded. "I firmly believe it's possible! Because there are many people like me and expert Xu who are working diligently and conscientiously!"

Xu Mingzhe laughed, "Yes, definitely! How long do you think it will take to surpass it?"

Liu Meilan thought for a moment, "It will take at least 30 years!"

"That's exactly what I predicted!" Xu Mingzhe's eyes lit up, feeling like he had found a like-minded friend despite the age gap. "President Liu, please don't refuse! You must come to our next symposium! If you don't come, I'll personally invite you!"

Seeing Xu Mingzhe's enthusiasm, Liu Meilan nodded, "Okay! But don't do it too often! After all, I'm very busy with work, and I'm also a mother of two, so time is really tight!"

"I know, it definitely won't take up too much of your time!" Xu Mingzhe quickly assured him, feeling that this trip was really great and he had gained a lot from traveling with Liu Meilan.

When they got off the plane, they walked side by side, chatting and laughing.

Professor Xie happened to be at the school attending an academic conference, and after it ended, he came to pick up Liu Meilan.

Seeing Liu Meilan chatting and laughing with a man around fifty years old, Professor Xie was quite surprised. "Meilan, who is this gentleman?"

"Mom, this is Director Xu from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange!" Liu Meilan introduced. "Director Xu, this is my mother, Xie Qingya from the Department of Pharmacy at Shenzhen University!"

Xu Mingzhe quickly extended his hand to shake hands with Professor Xie, "Hello Professor Xie, I've heard so much about you!"

"Please forgive me, I don't pay much attention to the securities industry!" Professor Xie didn't recognize Xu Mingzhe, and his tone was very polite.

Xu Mingzhe replied earnestly, "You are an advanced representative from Shenzhen, and so am I. It's just that we are in different fields, so people don't know much about each other! Heng Hui Pharmaceutical uses a lot of Professor Xie's patents, which I learned when I was reviewing their materials."

Professor Xie suddenly realized, "I see! Director Xu, is someone coming to pick you up?"

Xu Mingzhe shook his head. "My parents passed away a long time ago, and my wife died five years ago. My daughter is studying at a university in Shanghai and is now working here alone!"

"I'm so sorry!" Professor Xie quickly said, "We didn't mean to ask!"

Xu Mingzhe quickly waved his hand, "The reason I said that is to be friendly! If you're going the same way, you can give me a ride!"

There are so many people at the airport now, waiting for a taxi is a waste of time.

“Of course!” Liu Meilan replied. “It’s on the way anyway. Are you going home, or going straight to your workplace?”

Xu Mingzhe replied, "Then please take me to Ruili Garden!"

Along the way, Xu Mingzhe realized that Liu Meilan was truly outstanding. He wanted to communicate more with such a person, so he shamelessly hitched a ride with her.

The relationship between people improves starting with asking for help from others or helping others.

This little trick is very useful.

After Xu Mingzhe got into the car, Professor Xie, sitting in the passenger seat, couldn't help but ask, "Director Xu, you're a financial economist. For my daughter to praise you like this, you must have real talent. Did you become self-taught in China, or did you study abroad?"

Xu Mingzhe replied, "I was among the first batch of government-funded students to study abroad after the resumption of the college entrance examination! I was a sent-down youth, passed the college entrance examination, studied at Tsinghua University for four years, then went abroad to study for a master's and doctoral degree, and then worked in a financial institution abroad for five years before returning to China!"

Professor Xie tentatively asked, "With your talent, you must have made a lot of money if you hadn't come back back then, right?"

Xu Mingzhe smiled and said, "I do have some classmates who stayed abroad, earning high salaries, living in big villas, and traveling everywhere. They are indeed enviable! But I remember my teacher once told me that it would take the annual output of ten thousand farmers to support the expenses of one student studying abroad for a year!"

"I went abroad to study with the hard-earned money of ordinary people. My goal was to learn Western financial and economic policies and methods, to learn from the barbarians to control them, and to build our country."

"After returning to China, I found that the financial sector was in dire need of development and had unlimited potential! Over the years, I have worked hard with my colleagues and achieved some results. It was worth spending the hard-earned money of ordinary people to study abroad!"

Professor Xie and Liu Meilan were deeply impressed. "Director Xu, you are truly remarkable!"

Xu Mingzhe quickly replied modestly, "Professor Xie, you flatter me! Even if you hadn't gone abroad, your achievements in medicine are no less than those of foreign experts! You've made it possible for our people to have effective medicines with few side effects and low prices, which is a great deed!"

Liu Meilan's impression of Xu Mingzhe improved even more. She turned her head to look at Xu Mingzhe's handsome face. He was over 1.8 meters tall and had a refined and handsome appearance. Suddenly, her aunt Wu flashed into her mind.

Liu Meilan asked curiously, "Director Xu, where did you study abroad?"

Xu Mingzhe replied, "Don't go abroad! You can complete your master's and doctoral degrees in four years!"

"Do you know Alice Wu?" Liu Meilan asked.

Xu Mingzhe was taken aback. "Do you also know a lady named Alice Wu?"

Liu Meilan replied, "Yes! We went to the same university and majored in the same field, and we're about the same age!"

“That’s my junior sister!” Xu Mingzhe replied. “We even have the same advisor. I used to need a lot of materials, and it was always Junior Sister Wu who sent them to me! When I returned to China to work, my salary was very low. My monthly salary couldn’t even afford a high-end economics journal from abroad! I’m so grateful to Junior Sister Wu for sponsoring me!”

Having contact with his great-aunt is enough to prove that Xu Mingzhe is not only outstanding, but also of very good character.

“What a coincidence! That’s my aunt! She’s my mother’s cousin!” Liu Meilan replied. “I never knew you two had such a connection!”

Hearing this, Xu Mingzhe's tone became more intimate, "That's great, we're all on the same side!"

Professor Xie dropped Xu Mingzhe off at Ruili Garden residential area before heading to the pier.

"Mom, you're not trying to set up Auntie and Mr. Xu, are you?" Liu Meilan asked.

Professor Xie rolled her eyes and retorted dismissively to her daughter, "I wouldn't bother trying to match them up! One of them is widowed, the other is divorced, and they're even classmates! If they wanted to start a new family, they would have been together already!"

Liu Meilan chuckled, "I just think this Director Xu is really handsome! And he's managed to look so good for his age, that's amazing!"

Professor Xie nodded, "That's very good! But matters of the heart are not for outsiders to discuss, so let's not interfere! Unless my cousin asks me to pass on a message, I won't get involved. Let's avoid playing matchmaker in the future!"

Liu Meilan wholeheartedly agreed, "That's true. Interfering in other people's relationships is like interfering in their karma! But this Director Xu is strongly inviting my subsidiaries to go public! Mom, what do you think?"