Fanwai – Arctic
Time seemed to be on a gas pedal, and before anyone knew it, it quickly jumped to a stage, stage, stage…
After Su Jinqing’s contract expired, she faded out of the entertainment industry —— Not with any big fanfare of a farewell party (I’ve already experienced that kind of big scene once!!!). Instead, she gradually took fewer jobs and reduced her appearances in the circle.
The entertainment industry had always been forgetful. Although the birthday party of the two Su sisters shook the whole entertainment circle, after some time, the mention of Su Jin’s name gradually dwindled. But some marketing accounts still posted the photos of the sisters when it came to ‘those unforgettable beauties in the circle’.
After graduating, Su Jishi gathered talents with Mu Xiulun’s financial assistance and set up her own geological exploration team, which she affiliated with a well-known scientific research institute, and chose the direction of their research in the Arctic Circle.
Polar research —— Mysterious, dangerous, yet full of attraction.
The Arctic was different from the Antarctic. The Antarctic had a vast Antarctic ice cap, while the Arctic Ocean was a vast frozen ocean, surrounded by many islands, with extensive tundra and taiga forest zones.
When Su Jishi recruited, she didn’t want to make a big deal out of it, and at first she only asked her mentor to introduce her to the talents.
Unfortunately, some people in the industry had deep-rooted stereotypes, thinking that she was a female boss and a Chinese, and that she wouldn’t produce any research results. Once they heard that her research was privately funded, they were even more afraid to join!
In the field of polar exploration, China was the latest to start, and indeed lagged behind Russia, the United States, Canada and other countries by a large margin. And so far, the actual economic value of polar exploration was limited. It had more political and military value. A lot of research was also burning government funds.
Su Jishi recruited and recruited, but a majority of the staff was still vacant in the team.
She had no choice but to post a recruitment notice on a website, and began to openly recruit from the meeting.
Who would have thought after a night’s sleep, she woke up with her mailbox stuffed!
She then realized that although she had left the entertainment industry, the legend she left in the entertainment industry was still there.
In Su Jin’s official fan club, there were still many people who followed her every move. She never turned the software on, but her classmates, teachers, and colleagues were using it. If net Sherlock Holmes couldn’t burrow into the hole, they would climb over walls and pay attention to the people around her. As soon as there was a sign of disturbance, they could immediately spread it to China!
Therefore, just a dozen hours passed, her recruitment mailbox was nearly stuffed with a thousand emails.
She first roughly screened some, and found that four fifths of the emails were confession letters.
Some people whined that they missed her too much and hoped she would return to continue her development in the entertainment industry; some wished her to realize her geological dream and cheered her on; some other letters, under the banner for her, pointed at her dream, The cold wind of the Arctic Circle isn’t at all suitable for a fairy life!
Su Jishi impulsively wanted to delete all these letters into the Trash, but after chewing over it, she ended up transferring all of them to a separate folder.
As for the remaining one-fifth with cover letters, few met her requirements.
After all, geology was a hard profession. Those who wanted to make money switched to studying oil exploration and geological engineering; those who wanted to benefit the people switched to studying earthquake control and hydrology…
After picking and choosing, Su Jishi finally sorted out ten candidates and interviewed them one by one.
Coincidentally, three of the ten candidates were familiar faces.
There were two of them, who were members of the geological exploration squad she had met when Mu Minde threw her on a snowy day to the outskirts of the capital! She also remembered that one of them was called Big Head and the other was the Squad Leader. The two came together, living like a comedy.
As for the third, Su Jishi also had a relationship with her. When she was still a doctoral student, she once took a group of students from the Department of Geosciences of Hong Kong to Yellowstone Park. When she took off her masked sand proof towel, the young man noticed her similarity to his idol ‘Su Jin’. As a result, Su Jishi was kidnapped that night…
She didn’t expect to go round and round, and she actually received the three people’s resumes one day.
Su Jishi spent a week interviewing several candidates and finally picked five of them. Big Head and Squad Leader got formal offers. As for the Hong Kong young man, he only got an intern qualification because he hadn’t graduated from his undergraduate studies yet. As for the remaining two, they were two girls, who harbored the same heart and world as her.
In this way, more than half of Su Jishi’s team were Chinese faces.
And more than half were also her fans…
When the team was first formed, Su Jishi was quite troubled, because no matter what she did, no matter what expression she put on, those five people all looked at her like nymphos…
For example —— “Miss Su, the way you use the microscope is too fascinating!”
Another example —— “Ms. Su, your hammer is real!”
And then again for example —— “Ms. Su, your data citation for this paper is fantastic!!!”
Sometimes when Su Jishi was assigning tasks, she would catch someone secretly raising a phone while secretly filming her out of the corner of her eye… If it wasn’t for the outstanding performance of these five people, Su Jishi definitely would have driven them away!
Under such circumstances, this freshness only lasted for less than half a month. Su Jishi used her strict imperial measures, and they became all obedient.
She was a very serious and strict boss. She was always the first to come and the last to leave in the research room. The other employees she recruited were older and more experienced researchers in their 30s and 40s. They had worked in other research institutes before and had long been accustomed to such intense work.
And because some came because they were attracted by her fame, in a short month, everyone, male or female, cried at least three times. She scolded some of them into tears, and some of them cried because the pressure of work was too much and they couldn’t bear it.
Su Jishi never expected that this group of doll soldiers were actually so fragile.
She was really naive ah. They got together and had a frank talk, “If you think I’m too strict, if you think that working with me has broken your star chasing dream, I can give you a chance to leave.”
As a result, everyone shook their heads and said they didn’t want to.
Because on top of being ‘fans’, they also had another identity, as ‘geologists’.
They did come because of her star effect at first, but more than that, they had dreams in their hearts and wanted to use their feet to conquer the mysterious polar regions.
……
After making preparations, the team finally packed up all the equipment and materials and prepared to go to the Arctic. In the next ten months, they would live in the Arctic Circle, where the signal was weak, the task was heavy, almost like saying goodbye to the real world.
They first flew to Russia, where the icebreaker would depart from Murmansk, the only terminal unfrozen port in the Arctic Circle. Then, they would be sent to Greenland, covered by the Arctic ice sheet and tundra, which would be both their research base and accommodation for the next ten months.
Before boarding the ship, each team member telephoned to say goodbye.
One female team member called her mother.
Her mother was very worried about her and felt that this work station was too hard. She finally completed her PhD, so she could have been a teacher in school. Why did she have to do any field research? It was hard and dangerous, and she hadn’t found a date yet.
She replied, “Who says that a girl can only wait at home to marry someone? Besides, I’m not alone on this road. My idol is also struggling in this field. I want to go walk the road she walked, to the scenery she passed.”
On the other end of the line, her mother hesitantly asked, “Your idol? … Isn’t your idol the actress named Su Jin?”
”My idol is Su Jin, yes. But she’s not an actress!” The female team member proudly replied, “She is a geologist!”
……
Time was limited, so Su Jishi called her twin sister.
Su Jinqing instructed her to be careful and be safe.
After leaving the entertainment industry, Su Jinqing returned to Kakadu National Park. The two sisters, one in the north and the other in the south, one studying the polar regions and the other protecting the wetlands, could be considered to be on the same path.
After Su Jishi hung up the call, it was time to board the ship.
Two young team members whispered, “It’s strange … Why didn’t Ms. Su call President Mu?”
They were senior fans of Su Jin, so they naturally read the news that Su Jishi and Mu Xiulun were dating. Not only that, Mu Xiulun came to their institute once, stayed for a while in a rush, and then left.
Another person also felt it was strange: “Yes, ah. My family has a long-distance relationship, they would have at least three phone calls every day with non-stop chatting. But Ms. Su works overtime every day. She sometimes slept directly in the laboratory, which left little time to cultivate feelings ah.”
”…They won’t break up, will they?”
”Shut up! You’re talking nonsense! You don’t know how much our research lab costs a month, seven figures minimum! Haven’t you heard that it’s better to hush the cold and warm with a stupendous payment? —— He issued such vast sums, so how could you still not know how much President Mu loves our Miss Su ah?!”
The two did not control their voices. Su Jishi gave them a glance, shook her head, and left them to their conjectures.
Neither she nor Mu Xiulun weren’t the besotted kind who regarded love as their heaven.
When the passion of not wanting to part with each other in the passionate period faded away, what remained was a more profound thing.
Mutual trust, total support and eternal longing.
Just like now——
Because of Mu Xiulun’s busy schedule, he often had to go abroad for business negotiations. Few people knew that in fact, his routes from China to the United States, from the United States to Europe, etc., all flew across the Arctic Circle.
So they made an agreement. When they missed each other and could exchange feelings through radio waves, Su Jishi only had to look up at the sky and Mu Xiulun just had to look down at the clouds.
……
When boarding the ship, Su Jishi took pictures of the port, set it as a screensaver on her phone and treasured it carefully.
It was just that the view of Murmansk was devoid of the birds and flowers of European cities. The port was also bare.
But when Su Jishi captured the photo on her phone, a smile surfaced deep in her eyes.
You know, when Su Jishi was focused on work back at the institute, she seldom smiled. Not to mention this dazzling smile.
The male team member whose nickname was Big Head approached and asked why she was smiling so happily.
Su Jishi said, “Nothing.”
Some love didn’t need to be known to others.
[Fan Wai-Arctic-End]
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