Chapter 82
Xu Wen didn’t say anything, she knew that what Wang Ying needed at the moment was just to listen
Wang Ying cried less and less, and her words became denser and denser
She hid in her room and didn’t dare to go out, but she could put up with the child’s intolerance
Toddlers love to explore the outside world, so they don’t want to stay at home and cry when they’re not allowed to go out
When the little ones cried and the big ones cried too, Zhao just saw the scene when she came over to think of her child, and after asking the reason, she thoughtfully gave her three meals a day and sent her back
He not only gave her meals, but also took her and her child to a less crowded place on the island to relax during breaks
He encouraged her that if she failed once, there would be another time, and that she would be able to pass the exam after studying for another year
However, Zhao Gang was not as kind to her as he used to be, and even though he lived under the same roof, he still shared a room with her
Wang Ying couldn’t describe what she felt, as if they were not husband and wife, and she was just a sister of Zhao Gang’s neighbor, and her heart felt empty and a bit sour
“I know I’m asking for it” Wang Ying sniffled, “This time, I found that although people are still not too willing to talk to me, no one is laughing at me because of my failure”
One day when she took her children to the kiosk to buy something, even Mrs Li encouraged her by saying, “If you fail once, there’s always another time Why don’t you try again next year?”
The others may not have been kind enough to comfort her, but they didn’t mock her either, they just ignored her
But sometimes ignorance is even harder to bear
Wang Ying didn’t like this feeling, but she didn’t know what she could do to change it
Xu Wen listened to her long-winded half a day, or did not hear the point, a little impatient
Mainly Wang Ying daze this place more bushes, mosquitoes thick, Xu asked while listening to the mosquitoes while slapping the body, more and more annoyed, couldn’t help but interrupt her: “What do you want in the end? People provide you with your face when you do not want Now people with you divorce you do not want to leave When everyone was being kind and courteous, you turned your nose up to the sky and didn’t want to talk to anyone Now that you have what you want, you are not satisfied? Wang Ying, the earth does not revolve around you!”
Wang Ying was startled by the sudden outburst of Xu Wen, and finally gave a crunchy, crisp sentence, “I want to get along with Zhao just fine, and I want to ask you to tutor me in my studies”
“Why?” Xu asked her, adding another sentence before Wang Ying opened her mouth, “Cut the crap!”
Wang Ying bowed her head in silence for a while, raised her head, looked at Xu Wen through the dim light, and carefully asked her, “If I say I want to change, do you believe me?”
“Change what?”
“Just try to learn from you to be a good mom, a good wife” After a pause she added eagerly, “I won’t take advantage of the troops! I can help with things, too I may not be able to help much else for the time being, but I’m also someone who went to high school for a year, so I can help you substitute and teach the kids how to read and write”
Xu Man raised his hand and swatted another mosquito that landed on his leg, his fingertips stained with a touch of crimson, a touch of itchiness coming from the place where he was stung, his tone getting worse: “Wang Ying! I think you still don’t recognize your own problem You’re with class president Zhao, it’s not that you’re giving him a handout understand? Squad Leader Zhao has more backbone than you If you really want to live a good life with him, the first thing you need to change is always trying to achieve your own goals through others
Just like now you feel that the college entrance exams failed, high and mighty can not get up, it is very difficult, want to let people again with the same as before to you Then you have to use your heart for your heart, instead of thinking about using Class President Zhao again, as well as pleasing everyone, understand?
As for teaching the kids, talk to me when you really want to help everyone from the bottom of your heart!
Oh! You can help with studying You come and ask me if you don’t know how Or look at class president Zhao’s face, understand?”
Finished holding the hand of Lu Yuanzheng and walked back, complaining while walking: “How come the mosquitoes on the island are so ruthless? The bites don’t just itch but also hurt!”
“Go home and I’ll get you some mint leaves to rub on it” Lu Yuanzheng took off his jacket and flung it around beside her to drive away the mosquitoes
Wang Ying stared blankly at Xu Wen’s back, suddenly understanding what Xu Wen meant, collecting her tears, her gaze gradually firming
She is not a good person she knows
She has made mistakes and is not popular, she also knows
But she also learned an old saying, “There is no greater good than to learn from one’s mistakes!”
National Day The whole country celebrated
The island is busy
It rained in the middle of the night last night, and it was wet everywhere
The temporary stage that the battalion had rushed out in the past few days was battered by the wind and rain, and some of the soldiers were busy repairing it
Next to the stage, another squad of soldiers was busy setting up a tent to serve as a dressing room for the comrades or students of the cultural performance
The road from the battalion headquarters to the temporary harbor has not yet been paved, in order to prevent slippery, along the road lay thick hay, will still be soaked, but can be non-slip
Shi Lei personally went to the center island to pick up the people, and Lu Yuanzheng was responsible for adjusting the guard posts to strengthen the deployment
Repeatedly instructed and checked the war preparation arrangement
The comrades and students who came to the show have more than a hundred, not only do they need to ensure their safety, but also the safety of the island
So Lu Yuanzheng got up earlier than usual in the morning
Xu Wen was woken up and complained, “It’s not easy to celebrate the holiday, why are you guys busier than usual?”
Lu Yuanzheng kissed her on the forehead, got up and took the clothes and put them on his body, and casually replied to her, “The more festive the holiday is, the more vigilant you need to be!”
“Why?” Xu Man asked vaguely
“When fighting a war, they all like to pick before dawn because that’s when people are most sleepy and tired The fight is about who has the strongest will Holidays are the same”
Xu Man was listening to these words as she fell asleep again, and she couldn’t remember what else Lu Yuanzheng said afterward
When Xu Man woke up again, the outside was still bustling with activity, Lu Yuanzheng was still nowhere to be seen, and Dongsheng wasn’t there either
Recently, the sisters-in-law on the island have brought a lot of children here, and Dongsheng is busy making new friends, except for meals and sleep, basically no one can see
Xu Wen went downstairs, on the coffee table with a screen cover covering the food, pressed a note
She bent down and drew it out, it read: don’t just be busy with high research, eat your meal first!
The handwriting was a bit scribbled, and it could be seen that the person who wrote it was in a particular hurry
Xu Wen hooked her lips, remembering to bring her food even in her busy schedule
The meal is still warm, Xu Wen is not hungry, but also ate a lot
Eating to go back upstairs, holding a cup of cold milk tea as well as a dish of fruit walked back to the second floor terrace, placed on the small table, and folded back to the bedroom to take a pen and paper, sat on the futon, first leaned against the railing and swept out a circle
On one side, Shi Lei’s boat to pick up people has just arrived, and many warriors are gathered around the shore to pick up people
Xu Man’s ears vaguely heard a series of droning sounds such as “Be careful!” “Don’t slip!” “Hold on to my arm” and so on
On the other side, the beach was bustling with activity as the new sisters-in-law were still familiarizing themselves with Rainbow Island
Most of the people on land had never seen the sea before, and were especially excited because it was new
It happened to be a rest day again, in order to let the officers and soldiers whose families came to the island to have a family reunion, they tried not to assign work to them, so that they could spend more time with their wives and children
That’s why the beach is so lively at this moment
From time to time, there were cries of surprise from sister-in-laws or children
“Wow! There are crabs here!”
“Look at this beautiful shell!”
“The sea water is so clear”
“The sand is really soft!”
“Be careful with your bare feet, don’t get stabbed by the stones”
Xu Wen swept his gaze for half a day without seeing Lu Yuanzheng, so he withdrew his gaze and moved inward closing his eyes to recall what he had communicated with the Magic Mirror earlier
“Magic mirror, magic mirror, what is the principle of the storage battery that the children asked?”
“Magic mirror, how to teach children to make their own batteries?”
“Magic mirror, the child wants to know if there were storage batteries in the seventies”
Little by little, Xu asked the Magic Mirror to find out more and more about batteries
So she learned that the device that turns chemical energy into electrical energy is a chemical cell, commonly known as a battery
If after the battery is discharged, the internal material is reactivated by charging to store the electrical energy as chemical energy, and when it is used again, the chemical energy is converted into electrical energy again This type of battery is called a secondary battery which is also known as an accumulator
Storage battery usually refers to lead-acid batteries
Xu also learned through the magic mirror, as early as the beginning of the twentieth century on the battery has been invented, in the twenties rechargeable batteries have been used in automobiles
Even as early as the end of the nineteenth century has produced a battery grid frame, its principle is still the lead-acid batteries use parts
Until the end of Xu Man’s last life there was not much change, it was always those individual batteries, plates, and sulfuric acid
Of course other components of lithium batteries were slowly being explored, it was just that lead-acid batteries were best suited to this era
These let Xu ask a sigh of relief also long sigh
Relieved that lithium batteries are not something rare
Long sigh of relief is that the times are different prices are different
The biggest difference between the seventies and a few decades later is that houses are worthless but industrial goods are worth money
Now Beijing’s courtyard house 10,000 can buy a set of quite large, but 10,000 yuan can not even buy a car wheel
Even if the lead-acid batteries have been the cheapest of the batteries, it is still a bit expensive for Xu to buy finished batteries
Xu asked to drum up these although it is said to contribute to the troops, when the time comes will definitely reimburse her, even if she does not want to be changed into rewards or condolences to her
But before making it can only be counted as a personal experiment, always have to pay for their own raw materials
Xu Man was still watching the video and notes on the homemade accumulator on the Magic Mirror mirror over and over again with her eyes closed when she heard a knock on the first floor, “Sister-in-law, at home?”
Xu Man was busy opening her eyes to get up and probe downward, and saw Lu Yuanzheng’s paperwork standing at the courtyard door, she waved at the paperwork and responded, “I’m here!”
The clerk heard her voice and took two steps back, tilted his head to look at her, and raised the snakeskin bag he was carrying in his hand, “Sister-in-law, Camp Lu asked to send this over to you, do you think I’ll send it up to you or what?”
“Just put it in the yard for me, I’ll be right down”
Clerks answered and pushed open the courtyard door
Xu Man took his sun hat and stomped down the stairs Opening the snakeskin bag, the positive and negative electrodes and dilute sulfuric acid as well as other material parts were complete
The person who can be a clerk is naturally not illiterate, and when he saw the diluted sulfuric acid, he took the initiative to pull out a pair of gloves with a rubberized inner layer that they use in their daily work from his pocket and handed them to Xu Man, ”Sister-in-law, this is dangerous, so you’d better bring your hand□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□! Don’t worry, these gloves are new and not dirty”
Xu Man accepted the instrument’s kindness and thanked her
Fearing that the things were heavy, the clerk helped her arrange them one by one, and asked curiously, “What’s all this, sister-in-law?”
Xu Man pointed to the latticework filled with spongy lead and said, “This is the negative electrode of the battery” She also pointed to the lead base plate grid filled with lead dioxide and said, “This is the positive terminal of the battery”
Clerks let out an oh, “To make a battery, huh? Sister-in-law you’re too good at everything!”
“I’m just bored and messing around”
Clerical Instruments set the things under the parasol for Xu Wen and asked her, “Sister-in-law, do you see anything else I need to be busy with? I’ll leave if there isn’t”
“Nope” Xu Wen shook her head, remembered something, and called out to the paperwork again, “Wait for me”
She ran back to the room and poured a cup of chilled watermelon juice and handed it to him, “It’s hard work, drink some juice to cool off”
On such a hot day, the sweat on Clerks’ head flowed down his hair
Clerks a little embarrassed, would like to refuse, but really thirsty and then see the bright red cold watermelon juice, licked the corner of the lips, refusal words some can not speak
Xu Wen laughed, and shoved the enamel cylinder into his hand, “Drink it!”
Clerks thanked him, raised his head, gulped down a mouthful, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, returned the enamel cylinder to Xu Man, and thanked Xu Man with a pained face, “Thank you, sister-in-law! I’ll be off then, sister-in-law”
Xu Wen nodded and waved her hand at him
When the paperwork was gone, Xu Man began to study assembling the battery
There was a saying that once you see it, you’ll know it, but once you do it, you’ll lose it
Although it was simple, there were always some fine details that couldn’t be gotten right
Tossing and turning until the sun dipped in the west, Xu Man finally wiped the sweat from his head and mounted the battery on the four-wheeled bucket truck
Literally loaded, take a discarded small wooden box, the battery to the inside of a London began to small engines and bearings on the wiring
Electric line expedition has long been laid, she connected to the line, tried, electric four-wheeled bucket car really moved!
Back to call Xu asked to eat Dongsheng, just saw this scene, happy jumped three feet high: “Wow! Ma Ma you are also too powerful! A cart that can go without pedaling!”
Xu Man patted the bucket, “Come on, get in! I’ll take you out for a ride”
Without saying a word, Dongsheng climbed neatly into the bucket
Xu Man sat on the seat, holding the suggested steering wheel and stepping on the pedals
The car really went
Xu Man drove the car all the way to the beach, not taking the already trodden path, directly pressing through the barren grass
Dongsheng stood in the car’s bucket, holding onto the edge of the bucket and shouting excitedly
About his voice is too excited, attracted a lot of people’s attention
People didn’t realize what was wrong at first glance, and most of them turned back to look at the sea after just a glance
However, there were a small number of people who were familiar with Dongsheng and knew that Dongsheng was not the kind of child who liked to shout and did not know how to be polite, so they looked at him more
This look was astonishing!
The car bucket actually moved?
Oh, there were wheels
Just no stirrups
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How did they ride without stirrups?
Out of curiosity, the small portion of people who noticed the abnormality stretched their necks to look in the direction of Xu Wen’s mother and son
“Holy shit! What kind of thing did sister-in-law Xu ask invent? How come it’s so fast without pedaling?”
“A four-wheeled vehicle that doesn’t need pedaling? Isn’t that a car?”
“But I don’t hear any engine noise!”
In the middle of the crowd’s discussion, Xu Wen had already brought Dongsheng to the beach
The soft sandy beach instantly offloaded some of the force, and Xu Man clearly felt the speed slow down, but it was still manageable, better than expected
She drove the humble but equally strange car in front of the astonished stares of the crowd, driving Dongsheng around the beach
Lu Yuanzheng was originally over at the stage, and when he heard the commotion on the beach, he casually asked the warrior who had just returned from the beach, “What’s tossing around on the beach? It’s so lively”
The warrior put the sack on the ground, wiped the sweat on his head, looked back and returned to him, “Oh, Xu Wen’s sister-in-law got a particularly strange car carrying Dongsheng on the beach!”
When Lu Yuanzheng heard this, he took big steps in the direction of the beach without saying a word
He knew that Xu Man’s electric car had been successfully developed
He couldn’t wait to see it
Xu Man turned around and saw Lu Yuanzheng walking here, so he drove his four-wheeler over to pick up Lu Yuanzheng
When he arrived, Lu whistled and patted the frame of the car, “Yell! Really got it out! Not bad!”
Xu Man jumped down from the seat and proudly tilted his head, “That’s right! You don’t even look at who I am”
She opened her arms facing Lu Yuanzheng
Lu Yuan Zheng understands in seconds and picks her up and puts her in the bucket
Dongsheng was in front, so Xu Wen moved back and squatted in the bucket
Lu Yuanzheng jumped on the seat and pressed the pedals
“Yell! It’s really quite impressive! My daughter-in-law is a cow!”
Xu Man nodded, “There’s still a couple of minor flaws somewhere For example, we should add another reverse function and brake function And get a first and second gear!”