Chapter 117: An unspoken understanding
Nanjing University's homecoming festival was grander than ever. After nearly a quarter of a year of preparation, the Nanjing University Homecoming Festival Organizing Committee had already worked out every step with precision. The committee had been meticulous about every detail: the arrangement of the flower baskets at the entrance, the length of the red carpet measured down to the centimeter, the banners hanging from the Administrative Building, the strings of colored lights on the paulownia trees by the entrance, and the construction of the cultural corridor along the southern approach to the square. Even the university history display wall had been put together without room for the slightest error.
The vice president in charge of the committee, the Party leadership groups of the university's senior administrative offices, and the senior personnel drawn from various departments dared not take any of these matters lightly. After all, Nanjing University ranked among the top five universities in the country. Leaving its illustrious history aside, the arrival of alumni who had left the school in recent times or decades earlier and had now become big shots in their respective fields was enough to make the university exceptionally cautious. No amount of care was excessive.
With accomplished figures from energy, finance, education, government ministries, and even overseas returning for the homecoming festival, it naturally became a matter of the utmost importance to Nanjing University.
Even Zhang Xiaoqiao's academically formidable father, the dean of the School of Life Sciences-whose son lived in sophomore Room 602-had to prepare the biology and genetics buildings and arrange the reception of life sciences alumni. Like the other established schools at Nanjing University that had produced many notable figures, his was overwhelmingly busy.
At the entrance to the university square, the synchronization between the newly installed