Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 36 As long as you open the golden mouth
There are stalls selling New Year's goods on both sides of the street near the New Year's Eve. Most of them have never been seen by Cheng Nuo, and Li Laosan needs to help introduce them.

When passing by the booth selling New Year pictures, Cheng Nuo's face immediately became hot when he heard the yelling, thinking of the embarrassing scene when he bought "paintings", it was really unbearable to look back.

Li Laosan, who was riding a bicycle, noticed this movement, turned his head and said with concern: "Sir, are you going to buy 'Wei trowel'? Then I will stop and let you choose carefully."

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

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

That is to say, he is a foreigner, so he made a joke because he didn't know the meaning.

With the pastries they bought, Cheng Nuo and the two walked through the bustling crowd and came to a residential area.

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

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

Although it is a single-family courtyard, it is obvious that the tiles on the roof are broken and covered with pine.

Li Laosan stopped the car, wiped the sweat from his neck and asked, "Sir, this is the place you are looking for, right? It doesn't look like someone lives there."

Cheng Nuo was also full of doubts. He got out of the car and walked to the door to look in through the crack of the door. Although the yard was small, it was well cleaned up. There should be people living there.

"Not necessarily, maybe the master's family is out." Cheng Nuo looked away, pulled up the knocker on the door and began to knock: "Is anyone at home? Is Senior Shi at home?"

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

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

At this moment, a man with a small bundle of books came over, adjusted his glasses, and said vigilantly: "Why are you here again? You even ran to our door to tell you that no matter how good the terms are, I won't accept them." Go, don't waste your time!"

Cheng Nuo and the two looked at each other, thinking that I hadn't said anything yet, why did I refuse to go up, maybe there was some misunderstanding in the middle.

Quickly explained: "You are Senior Shi Jin, right? Hello, I am Cheng Nuo, a professor in the Department of Mathematics of Peking University. I need to discuss something with you."

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

Cheng Nuo looked around, and there seemed to be people watching the tricycles again. He pointed at them and said, "Senior, look here."

Shi Jin patted 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 the two of them in with a cart.

As expected of a high-achieving student majoring in mechanical engineering, Shi Jin immediately focused his attention on the tricycle, put the book on it, looked left and right, and finally pointed to it with great interest and said: "This is your tricycle. Is it your foreign car? Can you let me go up and have a try?”

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

The reason why we put him as the first stop in recruiting is because the manufacture of light bulbs or bicycles in the future will require the support of mechanical engineering, while Cheng Nuo is only a theoretical school, making a sample is okay, but mass production is beyond his capabilities up.

Interest is the best teacher, but also the best working conditions.

Riding on the tricycle, Shi Jin circled the yard for a few laps before stopping: "It can be seen that this tricycle should be produced by you yourself. It is very creative, but there is still a lot of room for improvement, such as the chain. Too tight, the chainring is probably twisted by hand rubbing, and the rebound of the brake components is not strong enough.”

Originally, Li Laosan was a little dissatisfied with outsiders robbing his tricycle, but now listening to those half-understood words, he couldn't help sighing: As expected of a gentleman, anyone who can find so many problems can find so many problems. They study hard.

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

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

To use a sentence from later generations, he wants to say now: Lao Shi, if you want a machine or not, as long as you open Jinkou, I will send it to you later.

But afraid that his attitude would scare the other side, Cheng Nuo smiled and said, "It's okay, Senior Shi, I messed around with this too. If you're interested, I'll make another one for you tomorrow."

"It looks like it will cost a lot of money, so it can't be done." Shi Jin waved his hands again and again, picked up the book, walked in front and said, "Come on, let's talk about something."

But the moment the door was pushed open, Cheng Nuo was stunned. In addition to a table and two benches, there were large bookshelves on the walls, filled with books by category. But that's all.

Randomly picked out a professional book, the blank pages were filled with notes, and it seemed that he had read it carefully.

Shi Jin poured a cup of hot water over, and said politely: "The house is too shabby, there is only plain water, why don't you dislike drinking some to drive away the cold."

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

"Not many, only a thousand or so books, most of which are in foreign languages, and mechanical engineering is only a part of it." Talking about his book, Shi Jin said with regret: "It's a pity that the luggage was lost by foreigners when I returned home." box, or there are more professional books than that.”

Afterwards, the two continued to chat, and Shi Jin's attitude became closer when he learned that Cheng Nuo was also a student studying abroad under Geng's money, and that he was the recently famous Mr. Tom.

Later, Cheng Nuo also learned that after Shi Jin returned to China, because he was not sociable, he knew how to read books and touch machines, but he was never reused and was pushed out as a marginal figure.

And he was so happy, he spent more than ten yuan a month to buy all the books except food and drink. He eats in the pile of books and sleeps in the pile of books, so he only needs to find a partner in the pile of books.

After hearing the intention, he agreed without saying a word, and excitedly wanted to move there immediately.

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

"Money is something outside of me. Just give me a bed, food, and books." Shi Jin packed his things, saying that the sooner the better: "By the way, my 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 okay to have another two thousand copies."

"That's good, that's good, I'll follow you after learning."

When they were packing up their things, Cheng Nuo happened to pass by the kitchen after going to the bathroom. The gatekeeper opened the door and glanced at it. Unexpectedly, Shi Jin 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 for the rewards of book friend Lin Zhige's 500 starting coins, TB227's 100 starting coins, and Flying Fat Pigeon's 100 reading coins!
　　
　
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