Cold chain for 20 years

Chapter 45 The Ocarina Player

A day in early March.

At dusk, Hu Shutong returned to Ming University.

The dormitory was on the third floor, but when he walked downstairs, he heard the very ethereal sound of the ocarina.

This is a clear and charming voice, like bulging shells shrinking in the eardrums of people, and it can take people to the place they want to go in an instant.It seems to come from the soil, the wonderful reverberation is like the breath, and it seems to come from the clear stream, there are ding-dong stone pines and continuous streams.

Following the sound, Hu Shutong walked up to the third floor and found that it was getting closer and closer to him. When he found the dormitory, he realized that he had a roommate.

A man in a black gown was sitting on the balcony, with his head bowed, his fingers on the ocarina shaped like a submarine the size of a fist, and it was beating gently. The quiet sound resounded all over his body.After putting down the things, Hu Shutong sat down at the desk without disturbing him.

This person had long hair, and his high cheekbones highlighted his thin cheeks, giving him a very artistic temperament.On the opposite table were collections of poems by Baudelaire and Neruda. Hu Shutong guessed that this should be a graduate student from the Faculty of Arts.

The window of the balcony was kept open, and the cold wind came in slowly. The man blew one tune after another, but Hu Shutong didn't know what tune it was.When he stopped, the whole person was still facing the original direction, and Hu Shutong didn't come forward to say hello. This scene was a bit uncertain for him.

It was time for dinner, and Hu Shutong was hungry all the way, so he went to the cafeteria to eat. It took less than an hour, and when he came back, he found that the roommate had already laid down.

He was facing the direction of the wall, and occasionally he could hear the soft flipping of a book. Hu Shutong settled his luggage for a while, and then began to read a book.

The sense of distance this person brings to people is unprecedented. At least, he doesn't feel that he still has a roommate, and it's as if Hu Shutong doesn't exist.

For three days in a row, this person's biological clock, Hu Shutong, was pretty good. He got up on time at six o'clock every morning, and then disappeared, returned to the dormitory on time at twelve o'clock in the afternoon, left at two o'clock in the afternoon, disappeared, and disappeared at six o'clock in the evening. Come back, play the ocarina for an hour, go to bed at seven o'clock and read a book, I don't know when I will fall asleep.

Hu Shutong was not used to such a cold and lonely person at first, but gradually he got used to it, and he didn't behave as lightly in the dormitory as before.Every day, Hu Shutong would listen to him play the ocarina before going to dinner, because the sound is really charming.

The texture of this sound is like wrapping people up. Whether it is reading a book or thinking about things, it can always bring people a sense of openness, without knowing what the song is.

During this time, Hu Shutong also discovered many peculiar habits of this person.For example, he would take apart a pack of cigarettes and put them into an iron box at one time. There were as many as twelve pens on his desk, but he never used only the red one.

Three days later, in mid-March, the long-awaited refrigerated food laboratory will finally hold its inaugural meeting on this day.

There are 15 people in the whole team, which are composed of professionals from Ming University and four other universities in other provinces. Teacher Pang is the research team leader.In the conference room, Master Pang sat at the main seat, and the youngest members of the two teams sat at the farthest end of the conference table.

In other words, the moment Hu Shu entered the conference room, he was already deeply shocked, and the other party's mood was also the same, and he gave Hu Shu the same look in astonishment.

He is none other than Hu Shutong's roommate.

How could Hu Shutong not be surprised, a quiet and even melancholy person who knows musical instruments, reads poetry collections, is actually a member of this top team, the contrast is too astonishing.

At the beginning of the meeting, Mr. Pang introduced the people who are doing it one by one. There are doctoral supervisors in materials science, professors in refrigeration and cold transportation, and professors in low-temperature food science. Interdisciplinary scientific research provides superior human conditions.

Only then did Hu Shutong know that the roommate sitting across from him was named Li Zhou, a doctoral student at Mingjiang University of Technology. When introducing him, Master Pang devoted the most space to him.

Because Li Zhou is a special case of the entire refrigerated food laboratory, his research is in the field of information technology. At first, Hu Shutong was also confused about how this laboratory can support information technology, but when he heard about RFID, his heart suddenly became clear.

RFID is radio frequency identification technology, and it has been used in air consignment, high-end hotel door locks, parking management, etc. This is a booming field that countless people are optimistic about, and it has too many irreplaceable places.

Li Zhou's attempt is "the application of radio frequency identification technology in the cold chain industry", which is exciting enough. Once this technology becomes mature and popular, it will boost the industry at another level.

Next, Master Pang announced the main project of the refrigerated food laboratory. After Hu Shutong heard it, he finally understood why Minghe Group could not send the technical team to the on-site office.

New refrigerated food packaging.

Simple eight words, but enough to make people feel a lot of pressure. The research and development of packaging is extremely complicated. Barrier properties, moisture resistance, wear resistance, cold resistance, and oil resistance must all be considered. This is a very difficult subject.

At present, the common refrigerated packaging materials on the market include paper packaging, plastic packaging, metal packaging, and composite packaging. Composite packaging is widely used in the market, but in meat packaging, the impact of composite materials on food safety has been increasingly valued. Elimination is a matter of time.

The reason is not complicated. Composite materials must be bonded with glue, and aromatic and aliphatic glues contain harmful substances, which are easy to freely penetrate into meat products.As a result, multi-layer co-extruded high-barrier packaging has become a new direction, using PA, PE and other internationally recognized environmental protection materials to be co-extruded by physical methods at one time.Compared with the traditional dry lamination, because no adhesive is used, the invasion of harmful substances such as fat and benzene to food is prevented, which is also related to the standard of export food.

In addition, the refrigerated food laboratory also shoulders many small tasks, such as portable incubators, micro-combined cold storage and so on.

In this way, with the unremitting efforts of Mr. Pang, the refrigerated food laboratory finally set sail.

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(End of this chapter)