Scholars in the courtyard

the other side.

The man in a white shirt stood with an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, looking through the window at the ongoing experiment.

"Old Huang, you are very fast. A few days ago, you said there was no progress, and now it suddenly works? Unexpected."

The white shirt said, and the middle-aged man named Lao Huang just hummed and continued to look at the long tubular object inside.

This thing was made by their manufacturing department after a lot of effort, and the core part was only completed recently. Even so, the accuracy requirements in some places can only barely pass.

Just for experimentation.

In the words of the person in front of me, success here is the best, which means success there.

If you fail here, summarize your mistakes and still succeed there.

However, if they fail again this time, they have no other choice.

Seeing that the other party ignored him, the white shirt didn't say anything more and continued to look down at the test.

The palms of my hands were already sweating.

Plaid Shirt was directing from below and quickly installed the machine.

"Are all departments ready?"

"Team leader, preparations are complete."

"Okay, start adding pressure!"

"yes!"

As the sound fell, the machine began to rotate.

"The pressure has increased. The pressure is now 0.05KP."

"Keep making it bigger."

"yes!"

five minutes later.

"Report, there is an air leak in area 6."

"continue!"

"Report, there is an abnormality in area 3."

"Continue, how many more times will it reach the ultimate pressure?"

"Report, there are ten seconds left!"

"hold onto."

"Report, there is an abnormality in area 8."

"Report, there is an abnormality in area 7."

"Report, there is an abnormality in area 4."

"Report, the gap at the connection point of Area 3 is expanding."

Waves of reports sounded, and the sound of airflow became louder and louder.

The plaid shirt didn't react at all. He just glanced at the pressure gauge, which was still rising.

"Keep the pressure on while the others withdraw."

"yes!"

Soon, everyone at the scene, except for the people operating the pressurizing equipment, left and continued observing with telescopes.

"Team leader, the pressure limit at simulated temperature has been reached."

"Time!"

"yes."

"Everyone, be quiet."

呲呲呲岲

At this time, the entire component is like a leaky rubber ball, breaking open everywhere and constantly leaking air.

Everyone around was sweating, fearing that it would explode like the previous few times.

Fortunately, this kind of thing didn't happen. Under everyone's nervous explanations, the tester shouted in a cold sweat, "Team leader, three seconds are up."

"Stop the pressure."

"yes!"

The experimenter immediately turned off the machine and breathed a sigh of relief.

…

Plaid Shirt looked at the "riddled" object in the distance. Fortunately, it didn't explode, which was much better than the previous experiments.

It shows that they are making progress.

However, looking at the report sent up, although it lasted for three seconds under extreme pressure, there were still problems.

After all, they don't know the data from which the reaction started.

They don’t have much experience with these, and they don’t know whether it’s the right thing to do, or whether these flaws will affect the final result.

But he firmly believes that flaws will definitely affect the results.

Therefore, defects must be removed just in case.

Taking the notebook, he walked to the room behind him.

"Team Leader Ran, did you pass the test?"

Lao Huang saw Plaid Shirt walking in and spoke hurriedly.

"Sorry, Director Huang."

"The test results are much better than before, but they still do not meet the standards."

"What? Not yet?"

Director Huang was a little excited, and the man in white shirt on the side stepped forward, "Old Huang, don't be excited, let's go out and talk."

"good!"

The three people left the experimental site and came to the office.

On the other side, the two people who were waiting boredly were squatting on the ground playing chess.

In his previous life, Yang Xiaotao lived in a rural area where entertainment was scarce. The old people had fun in their hardships and invented many fun games.

Among them, "magnifying stick" is an authentic poor man's game.

Five horizontal lines and five vertical lines are intertwined, one with a stick and the other with a stone.

"Ha ha."

"It's a small mouthful, let's take a piece!"

Yang Xiaotao pointed to the square made of four stones and said excitedly, and immediately took away a piece of wood.

This time, a piece of the diagonal line that Zhang Dedao had prepared so painstakingly was removed. The old Taoist was so angry that he pinched his beard and groaned.

For a while.

"Ha ha"

"Tongtian, la la la"

Yang Xiaotao pointed to the diagonal line of the chessboard and flicked another piece of wood away.

At this time, the three-child slash that Zhang Laodao was planning to do completely failed.

"No more playing, no more playing."

"It's boring if you win every time."

Zhang Dedao said, but his eyes were staring at the chess board, obviously unwilling to do so.

"Hehe, you're a big loser. Don't forget, you owe me two bowls of wine!"

"Who can't afford to lose? I haven't lost this game yet."

Just when Yang Xiaotao was about to speak, there were footsteps outside the door, the back door was pushed open, and both of them looked up.

The three people who came in were all stunned.

There was silence in the air for three seconds. Zhang Dedao immediately stood up and raised his feet to smooth out the scratches on the ground. Yang Xiaotao quickly followed.

"Director Zheng, Director Huang, Team Leader Ran. You guys are here."

The three of them glanced at the two and then walked into the house.

Yang Xiaotao lowered his head, like a student caught cheating, and followed Zhang Laodao.

Three people walked in, and the last one looked at Yang Xiaotao from time to time.

Yang Xiaotao could feel this man's gaze.

Probably the scene just now was too "novel".

The white shirt looked at Yang Xiaotao, then glanced at the plaid shirt next to him, and suddenly grinned.

The plaid shirt coughed when he saw it.

"Director Huang, this is the result of this test. These parts need to be remade and the accuracy must be improved."

Yang Xiaotao looked up at the person who spoke, and that person happened to look over as well.

The two people's eyes suddenly intertwined, and then they both nodded.

"Director Zheng, Team Leader Ran, aren't you making things difficult for us?"

Zhang Laodao from the side took one look and immediately shouted, with a rich expression on his face, as if he had been wronged a lot.

Yang Xiaotao remembered what the old man said, and looked at the two of them in his heart, it didn't look like they were fighting.

Director Huang has long been accustomed to this, which is why he asked Zhang Laodao to come here.

I am thin-skinned, but fortunately there is someone who is thick-skinned.

"We people worked day and night. How many of us were tired and vomited blood but still persisted."

"Look at my beard, it's almost all gone due to worry. You're still not satisfied and didn't say anything above. Why is there so much trouble here?"

Zhang Laodao cried and shouted, looking sad and angry.

The white shirt and the plaid shirt looked at each other and said nothing.

They have already experienced this kind of thing.

Zhang Laodao was crying, and Yang Xiaotao lowered his head. This old Taoist priest was not thick-skinned enough, and he could only cry a few words back and forth. If it were the old pious woman Jia Zhang, she would have sat on the floor and acted like a fool.

Thinking of the courtyard, Yang Xiaotao missed Ran Qiuye a little.

Ahem

Director Zheng coughed twice, interrupting Zhang Laodao's cry.

"Team Leader Zhang, we have already reported this matter to our superiors, and they agree with our plan."

As Director Zheng said, Zhang Laodao snorted coldly.

He knows this.

"We can understand your difficulties, and we also know the hard work that our comrades have put in for victory."

"We all have the same goal, which is to get things done and get our spines stiffened."

"I believe that if everyone works together and exerts their energy, there will be no difficulty that we cannot overcome."

Zhang Laodao still had a grimace on his face. He understood this truth better than anyone else. The reason why he was like this was not because of the supplies.

Everyone in the entire base doesn't know that those who work in technology are given the best treatment. Although they themselves demand to be treated equally, they use their brains. In Taoist terms, it consumes their energy. Naturally, they need to eat something good to recharge their batteries. .

Therefore, people like them are treated very dearly by everyone at the base.

What's more, it was emphasized personally by the superior leader.

Therefore, when he came this time, he had discussed it with Director Huang, and it was to fight for everyone's interests.

“We don’t have enough to eat, so how can we have the energy to work?”

Zhang Laodao hesitated, feeling that the heat was almost done, so he looked at Director Zheng, waiting for him to speak, but he didn't want Director Zheng not to look at him, so he turned to look at Yang Xiaotao.

"This little comrade is new here, right?"

Yang Xiaotao was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Yes, leader, I am Yang Xiaotao!"

"Well, the accent sounds like it's from Sijiucheng?"

"Yes, leader, from Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill in Sijiucheng."

Director Zheng nodded, "Forty-Nine City, I'm from there too. I haven't been back for a long time."

Yang Xiaotao didn't know what to say.

Director Huang and Zhang Dedao on the side were also stunned. They didn't know what Director Zheng was planning, so they just waited and watched.

"You should get used to coming here."

"fine."

"Well, young people should come out and see the world. It will be good for them to see more."

"You are right. Along the way, I have indeed seen a lot and seen a lot. I have benefited a lot."

"Well, that's how it should be. We revolutionary workers will go wherever the motherland needs us."

Ahem

Behind him, Team Leader Ran suddenly coughed twice. Yang Xiaotao glanced at him. The two looked away again and nodded to each other.

"Have you been out for so long? Have you made arrangements at home?"

Yang Xiaotao looked at the plaid shirt who was speaking, "Everything has been arranged."

"My wife and children work as teachers in my hometown. I usually go back to Sijiu City to see my mother-in-law. Life is not a problem."

"Oh, your wife is a teacher."

"Yes, I am a primary school teacher in our village."

"Isn't that hard? Life in the country is hard."

"You are wrong. This may be the case in other places, but our Yangjiazhuang..."

The two of them somehow talked about life while chatting, and the other three people in the room had different expressions.

Director Zheng knew the truth. He saw Weng and his son-in-law chatting about family matters here, but Lao Ran didn't dare to speak directly and could only ask for information from the side.

Zhang Dedao and Director Huang were confused. Team leader Ran came up and asked about life matters. Something was wrong.

Normally I don’t talk about anything but work, so why...

Director Huang wanted to interrupt several times, but Director Zheng stopped him with a look.

Zhang Dedao on the side saw some clues and glanced back and forth in front of Yang Xiaotao and Team Leader Ran.

Yang Xiaotao talked to Team Leader Ran for a while, and then saw Team Leader Ran take out a box of cigarettes from his pocket.

The unopened kind.

"I'm also from Sijiucheng. We are fellow villagers. You can take this cigarette and smoke it."

"No, no need."

Yang Xiaotao refused. Although the exchange with Team Leader Ran was very pleasant, he couldn't just come up and take other people's things.

"Hey, you kid, do you know what it means to dare not refuse a gift from an elder? Take it quickly."

"Team Leader Ran, don't worry, I will keep an eye on this kid and nothing will happen to him."

Zhang Dedao smiled and said, Team Leader Ran and Director Zheng looked at each other, and the latter smiled and said, "Thank you very much."

"I still have a bottle of Fenjiu. I'll..."

"Oh, thank you, thank you."

Zhang Dedao smiled, feeling even more convinced that this boy had an unusual relationship with these two people.

It's just that this kid hasn't thought about it yet.

Seeing this, Director Zheng and Team Leader Ran returned to the previous topic.

Team leader Ran handed the conclusion report to Director Huang, and then gave two copies to Zhang Dedao, "These are the problems exposed this time. It is worth noting that the core components still cannot withstand the pressure. This is because the material itself has not expanded due to heat. If it expands due to heat, the consequences will be more serious."

"Other components also need to be modified."