Song Ning was eating with her head down and paused at his words.
She looked up and asked, "What did you have a premonition about?"
Jiang Chengshi suddenly looked a little melancholy. "I have a feeling that my meeting with Grandma Jiang is going to run into a few more complications!"
Song Ning immediately tapped his lunch box with a chopstick.
"Just eat your lunch! I'm going back to Qingbei to check on things. Keep an eye out for Principal Li. As soon as he gets back from his meeting, go ask him what happened!"
With that, she picked up her lunch box and left without looking back!
Lao Jiang glared resentfully at Song Ning's retreating figure and grumbled, "No respect for your elders! None at all! Do you even remember that I'm your grandpa?"
Over at the Qingbei laboratory, the project had reached a critical stage.
No matter how brilliant the ideas Song Ning had proposed beforehand were, her prolonged absence inevitably left quite a few people dissatisfied.
Professor Qi sighed with relief when he saw her return.
"Song! You've been gone for more than ten days this time. Nothing happened, did it?"
Song Ning shook her head. "I'm fine! I'm sorry! You must have been under a lot of pressure!"
Professor Qi lowered his voice. "The comrades on the Chinese side have been fairly understanding! I could talk things through with each of them, too. The De side had stronger objections. Quite a few people complained to Mike, but he kept it all under control!"
Song Ning sounded apologetic. "It really was my fault! As the person in charge of the technical work, I shouldn't have been away for so long!"
Once everyone had arrived that afternoon, Song Ning called a meeting and began by sincerely apologizing to