Chapter 36 As long as you speak Chrysostom

As the Chinese New Year approaches, both sides of the street are lined with people setting up stalls selling New Year's goods. There is a dazzling array of items, most of which Cheng Nuo has never seen before, and he needs Li Laosan to help introduce them.

When passing by a stall selling New Year paintings, Cheng Nuo's face immediately heated up when he heard the shouting. He recalled the embarrassing scene of buying "paintings" and it was really unbearable to look back.

Li Laosan, who was riding a bicycle, noticed this movement and turned around and asked with concern: "Sir, do you want to buy a 'Wei Trowel'? Then I will stop and let you choose carefully."

"No, are you talking about this New Year painting? Let's do our own thing first and talk about it later." Although he didn't understand why he called Wei Mozi, Cheng Nuo didn't want to have anything to do with the painting anymore and urged him to leave quickly.

As the name suggests, the New Year pictures in Beiping City are called "Wei Mo Zi" because most of them come from Wei Yangliuqing in Tianjin. The production technique uses less "drawing" and more "wiping", hence the name.

In other words, he was a foreigner and didn't know the meaning, so he made a joke.

Taking the pastries they bought, Cheng Nuo and the two walked through the bustling crowd and arrived at a gathering place of residential buildings.

According to the address registered on the list, the first target was found - Shi Jin, who graduated with a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.

But what I didn't expect was that the house he lived in was so shabby.

Although it is a single-family house, you can clearly see that the tiles on the roof inside are in tatters and covered with tiles.

Li Laosan stopped the car, wiped the sweat from his neck and asked: "Sir, this is not the house you are looking for, is it? It doesn't look like someone lives in it."

Cheng Nuo was also full of doubts. He got off the car and walked to the door and looked in through the crack in the door. Although the yard was small, it was quite clean. Someone should be living there regularly.

"Not necessarily, maybe the master is out." Cheng Nuo put away his eyes, pulled up the door knocker and started knocking: "Is anyone at home? Is Mr. Shi at home?"

But half a day passed, and except for some chickens commotion in the yard, there was no reply.

Helpless, Cheng Nuo was about to get back in the car and head to the next house.

At this moment, a man carrying a small bundle of books came over, adjusted his glasses, and said warily: "Why are you here again? And you even ran to our door, telling you, no matter how good the conditions are, I won't

Go, don’t waste your efforts!”

Cheng Nuo and I looked at each other in confusion, wondering why I refused before I even said anything. Maybe there was some misunderstanding.

He quickly explained: "You must be Senior Shi Jin. Hello, I am Cheng Nuo, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Peking University. I need to discuss something with you."

"Professor of Peking University? The Peking University that solved Kronecker's youth dream?" After Shi Jin knew the origin, his attitude was obviously relaxed: "I am Shi Jin, I don't know what you want to see me for?"

Cheng Nuo looked around and saw that there seemed to be people watching the tricycle again. He pointed at them and said, "Senior, look at this."

Shi Jin slapped his forehead repeatedly and said embarrassedly: "I was negligent. Come on, let's come in and talk."

Then he opened the door and led Cheng Nuo and two people to push the car in.

As expected of a top student who graduated from mechanical engineering, Shi Jin immediately focused on the tricycle, put the book on it, touched it left and right, and finally pointed at it with interest and said: "This is your tricycle."

Is it a foreign car? Can you let me get in and have a try?"

Cheng Nuo nodded in agreement, seeing that the other party liked this bicycle very much, and it was exactly what he wanted.

The reason why we put him as the first stop for recruitment is because in the future, light bulb manufacturing or bicycle manufacturing will require the support of mechanical engineering, and Cheng Nuo is just a theoretical person. Making a sample is okay, but mass production is beyond his capabilities.

Already.

Interest is the best teacher and the best working condition.

Riding the tricycle, Shi Jin circled the yard a few times before he stopped with unfinished content: "I can see that this tricycle was produced by you yourself. It is very creative, but there is still a lot of room for improvement, such as the chain."

If it’s too tight, the crankset may be a little twisted due to rubbing by hand, and the brake components don’t have enough rebound strength.”

Originally, Li Laosan was a little dissatisfied with outsiders snatching his tricycle, but now when he heard those words that he seemed to understand, he couldn't help but sigh: As expected of you, sir, a random person can find so many problems, it must be so embarrassing

Let them study hard.

When Shi Jin finished speaking, he felt a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, Professor Cheng, I'm also very happy. I haven't seen such a novel thing for a long time, and I couldn't control it all of a sudden."

Cheng Nuoxin said that I wish you were like this, which just proved that the other party's sword was still young and he had not forgotten all his knowledge.

Using a later saying, he now wanted to say: Lao Shi, if you want the machine or not, as long as you open the golden mouth, I will send it to you later.

However, he was afraid that his attitude would scare the other person, so Cheng Nuo smiled and said, "It's okay, Mr. Shi, I made this for fun. If you are interested, I will make one for you tomorrow."

"Seeing as this will cost a lot of money, you can't do it." Shi Jin waved his hands repeatedly, picked up the book again, walked in front and said, "Come on, come in and talk about anything."

But the moment he pushed the door open, Cheng Nuo was stunned. In addition to a table and two benches, there were large bookshelves on several walls. They were filled with books in different categories. To describe it as "a huge pile of books" is more appropriate.

But that's it.

I picked out a professional book at random and took notes on the blank pages. It looked like I had read it carefully.

Shi Jin poured a cup of hot water over and said politely: "It's too shabby at home. We only have plain water. If you don't mind, drink some to drive away the cold."

Cheng Nuo took the hot water and put it aside, and asked, "About how many books are there here, are they all about mechanical engineering?"

"Not many, just about a thousand books, most of them are in foreign languages, and mechanical engineering is only part of them." Talking about his books, Shi Jin also said with regret on his face: "It's a pity that foreigners lost my luggage when I returned home.

box, otherwise the professional books would be more than this."

Afterwards, the two of them continued to chat, and when they learned that Cheng Nuo was also a student studying abroad under Geng Jian, and that he was Mr. Tom, who had become very famous recently, Shi Jin's attitude became closer.

Later, Cheng Nuo also learned that Shi Jin was not reused after returning to China because he was not good at socializing, so he knew how to read books and touch machines, and was marginalized as a marginal figure.

And he was so happy that he spent more than ten yuan a month to buy all the books except food and drinks. He ate in the piles of books and slept in the piles of books, so he only had to find a partner in the piles of books.

After hearing the intention, he agreed without saying a word and was so excited that he wanted to move there immediately.

Cheng Nuo smiled bitterly: "Senior, why don't you ask about salary?"

"Money is an external thing, just give me a bed to eat and buy books." Shi Jin packed his things and said the sooner the better: "By the way, my junior, the house is big enough. I have translated some foreign books myself."

, it would be a pity to lose it.”

Cheng Nuo smiled: "No problem, it's no problem if I get another two thousand copies."

"That's good, that's good. I'm determined to follow you."

Just as a few people were packing their things, Cheng Nuo happened to pass by the kitchen after going to the toilet. He glanced at the door when it was open. Unexpectedly, Shi Jin had also worshiped the Stove Lord, but the sacrifice looked very philosophical.

Three sticks of incense, a bowl of water, and a copy of "Principles of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics".

Thanks to book friend Linzhige for his 500 starting coins, TB227 for his 100 starting coins, and Flying Pigeon for his 100 reading coins!
Chapter completed!