Chapter 1430 Old Kong Personally Guides You! (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets!)

Friday, January 25th.

Pei Qian arrived at his counselor Zhang Wei's office.

It had been a long time since he'd last been there.

Generally speaking, counselors became increasingly busy in the third and fourth years of university, as they had to worry about the entire grade. Some students wanted to be recommended for postgraduate studies, some wanted to find employment, and some wanted to study abroad. All of these matters inevitably required the counselor's involvement.

And students naturally came to the counselor more and more frequently.

But Pei Qian was different; he didn't have any such needs at all.

And Zhang Wei's requests for Pei Qian had also become less and less frequent.

Why? Probably because he felt a little embarrassed...

When Tengda's scale was still relatively small, Zhang Wei had asked Pei Qian to help solve the employment problems of some senior students. Later, Zhang Wei also facilitated things like donating money to poor students and finding graduate students to help grade Tengda's recruitment exams.

But now, Tengda's scale had become ridiculously large. It was already the most valued enterprise in the entire Jingzhou City, and it was even subtly changing the entire city's employment environment and living environment.

Even as a counselor, he was too embarrassed to keep calling the big boss of such a large company around.

Zhang Wei was well aware that anyone who still regarded Pei Qian as an ordinary student at this point definitely had a problem in their head.

Zhang Wei was even a little conflicted about whether he should notify the school leaders to receive Pei Qian the next time he came to the school.

If Pei Qian had already graduated, then according to Tengda's current status in Jingzhou, it would be perfectly reasonable for the school leaders to receive him. But the problem was that Pei Qian was still a student.

This was a really troublesome issue.

Pei Qian arrived at the office door and found that there were already guests inside. He could vaguely hear the voices of people talking.

Outside was a student cadre on duty, usually a member of the college's student union, who came to help the counselor run errands and do odd jobs.

Clearly, he didn't recognize Pei Qian either, and assumed that he was just a senior student asking about graduation or postgraduate recommendations, as such things often happened.

So, he asked Pei Qian to sit on the sofa outside and wait for a while.

Pei Qian wasn't in a hurry. He sat down on the sofa and casually picked up a copy of the school's internal magazine to flip through.

After a while, the door to Zhang Wei's office opened, and three people walked out, chatting and laughing.

"Two senior brothers, the venue for the lecture has been arranged, and the time is set for three o'clock this afternoon. I've already had people send notices to the students in the college, so you can go directly there then."

"There's no need to prepare too much in advance. Just simply talk about your entry into Shenhua and your relevant work experience at Shenhua."

Zhang Wei said to the two people in their early thirties with a smiling face.

The two people in their early thirties also nodded. "Teacher Zhang, don't worry, we will definitely be forthcoming and do a good job of employment guidance, answering questions for the junior students!"

Pei Qian instantly understood what these two people were here for.

These were outstanding graduates from previous years, who had returned to give employment guidance lectures.

From Zhang Wei's words, it could be heard that these two should be outstanding graduates of the college who graduated even earlier than Zhang Wei. It seemed that they had already reached the middle management level in Shenhua Group. This time, they had returned to give lectures, mostly at the invitation of the college, to share their experiences and improve the employment rate of the junior students.

As a leading company in the country, Shenhua was the goal of many students after graduation. It was normal to give a lecture and share some entry-level experience.

Judging from their age, these two were at least four or five years older than Zhang Wei, so it was no wonder that Zhang Wei called them senior brothers.

Students in their era liked to call each other senior brother and senior sister, while students in Pei Qian's era liked to call each other older brother and older sister. It was unknown what the specific rules were behind this.

Just as the three of them walked out, Zhang Wei saw Pei Qian sitting idly on the sofa.

Zhang Wei's expression instantly changed. "Huh? Why didn't you have the student tell me when you arrived? Why are you still waiting outside?"

Pei Qian smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm not in a hurry."

"That's not right. Why are you being so polite with me? Two senior brothers, you should go and rest for a while, I won't see you off."

After Zhang Wei finished speaking, he hurriedly led Pei Qian into the office and closed the door.

The three people outside looked at each other, a little confused as to what was happening.

The two senior brothers asked the student on duty outside in a low voice, "What's the background of this person?"

The student on duty looked dazed. "I don't know. He said he was a senior student."

The two senior brothers obviously didn't believe a word of it.

A senior student who could make Zhang Wei invite him in like a god? Something was wrong.

The two looked at each other and whispered, "I haven't heard of any children of school leaders studying in our college, have I?"

"Regardless of whose child it is, they wouldn't personally run to the counselor's office for something."

"And looking at Zhang Wei's attitude, it seems even more important than that."

The two couldn't figure it out.

...

Inside the office, Zhang Wei got up to pour tea.

Pei Qian quickly waved his hand. "There's no need for that, Teacher Zhang. I'm just here to say something simple, and I'll leave soon."

Zhang Wei was very enthusiastic. "It's okay, it won't hurt to have some tea."

Pei Qian: "...I'm not used to drinking ordinary tea."

Zhang Wei: "..."

Pei Qian also felt that his words might have been a bit harsh, so he quickly said, "I'll bring some of the tea from my office over for Teacher Zhang to try later."

Zhang Wei helplessly gave up pouring tea. "Alright."

Pei Qian didn't want to exchange too many pleasantries and went straight to the point. "Teacher Zhang, I'm here mainly for the matter of my graduation thesis. Could you recommend a tutor to me? Also, how should I choose the topic?"

Zhang Wei was also an outstanding graduate of the college and a top student back in the day, otherwise it would have been impossible for him to have the opportunity to stay in the school as a counselor.

Asking him about this kind of thing was definitely the right choice.

Zhang Wei nodded. "Oh, I was just about to talk to you about this matter."

"The college has already contacted Old Kong and arranged for him to guide you in writing your graduation thesis. You don't need to worry. Old Kong himself is quite approachable, and he has a good impression of you because of the Useful App matter. Just write your thesis normally. As long as it passes the plagiarism check, the professors in the college won't make things difficult for you."

Pei Qian was stunned for a moment. "Professor Kong Zhemin?"

Zhang Wei nodded. "Yes, is there a second Old Kong in our college?"

Pei Qian was greatly alarmed. "Teacher Zhang, this is completely unnecessary!"

Wasn't this a joke?

What level of person was Old Kong, to be a graduation thesis tutor for an undergraduate student like himself?

Was he worthy?

No, he wasn't worthy!

Professor Kong Zhemin was a Level 1 Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Handong University, a doctoral supervisor, the director of the Institute of Chinese Language Education at Handong University, the chief editor of primary and secondary school Chinese textbooks, a member of the Basic Education Expert Committee, and the convener of the expert group for standard revision of Chinese language courses...

This long list of titles basically represented the highest level of research in liberal arts at Handong University.

With Old Kong's status, he was one of the best in the country's universities.

In theory, undergraduate students could choose any professional course teacher who had lectured them as their graduation thesis tutor.

And Professor Kong Zhemin had once given a lecture to Pei Qian and his classmates.

Although it was only this one lecture, according to the regulations, in theory, it was indeed possible to choose Old Kong as a graduation thesis tutor.

But generally no one did this; students were very self-aware.

Old Kong was guiding the top batch of doctoral students; guiding an undergraduate student to write a thesis, wasn't this a joke?

How could you have the nerve to bother the old man?

Pei Qian had never thought of asking Old Kong to guide him in writing his thesis, partly because he felt embarrassed, and partly because he was afraid of being embarrassed.

What was Old Kong's academic level?

Pei Qian knew his own weight. He was just a pay-to-win warrior who barely passed by giving money to the college. Handing this undergraduate graduation thesis to Old Kong, wasn't this embarrassing his mother by opening the door to embarrassment, embarrassing him to the extreme?

It was like asking someone who didn't know anything to perform a dance in front of the King of Dance. Who wouldn't be embarrassed?

If you really wanted to do such a thing, you would have to choose to do it by the sea, because you could awkwardly dig out a set of seaside villas nearby.

Pei Qian had originally thought of finding a younger, junior lecturer, and he would just write something casually, and the lecturer would just take a look, and as long as the graduation thesis could pass, it would be easy for him, easy for the college, and good for everyone.

But he didn't expect that he was one step too late. Zhang Wei and the college had already invited Old Kong out of the mountain for him!

This made him extremely embarrassed.

Pei Qian hurriedly said, "Teacher Zhang, you know my level. It's just a graduation thesis. Is it necessary to alarm Professor Kong? The college isn't helping me, it's putting me on the fire to roast!"

"In my opinion, you should just arrange a junior lecturer to check it for me. As long as I can graduate smoothly."

Zhang Wei was immediately unhappy. "How can that be?"

"I know you're busy with work and don't have time to study academic matters, but now your graduation thesis isn't just your own business, it concerns our entire college!"

"Even undergraduate theses are uploaded to CNKI. At that time, all the students in the country, your junior students, will be able to search for your thesis on CNKI."

"You're hiding it well now, but sooner or later you'll be exposed after graduation. When people search on CNKI and find your graduation thesis, they'll see, 'Wow, the president of Tengda Group, an outstanding graduate of Handong University, a famous alumnus, and his graduation thesis is at this level?'"

"Then they'll look at the guiding professor, and it's just an ordinary lecturer. Isn't that showing that our college is blind and hasn't cultivated talent well?"

"It doesn't sound good!"

"It would be fine if you were just an ordinary student, no one would pay attention, but the key is that you're not. If this really happens, it will not only affect Tengda's image, but also the image of the college and the entire school. How can we be perfunctory?"

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