Siheyuan: No One Can Be Left Behind

Chief Engineer Qian had just finished instructing the waiter when he saw Li Dongfang carrying two bottles of red wine and a large teacup. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Li Dongfang say, "Uncle Qian, we have limited resources and don't have a decanter, so let's just use the teacup."

After putting down the wine bottle, Li Dongfang suddenly felt troubled again. It would be difficult to open the red wine without a wine opener. He couldn't just knock off the bottle mouth, as that would be too unsightly.

After thinking about it for a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he borrowed a pair of pliers and a large screw from the people at the guesthouse.

Seeing Li Dongfang using screws and pliers to open the red wine, he smiled. However, when the red wine was poured into the teacup, Chief Engineer Qian didn't find it so difficult to accept. After all, even if there was a wine opener and a decanter, there was no red wine glass, so he still had to use a small wine cup. Now there was a bit of inexplicable harmony.

Chief Engineer Qian didn't expect Li Dongfang to bring red wine, and couldn't help but say, "It's hot and dry here, it would be even better if we had some iced beer."

Li Dongfang blinked and looked at Chief Engineer Qian, who had a somewhat teasing expression on his face. He snapped his fingers and said, "Don't tell me, don't tell me, I really do have it."

He went out again and came back with a bundle of big green sticks tied with ropes. This was a lot of work for him. He spent a long time tying the beer bottles. This was a feature of the time. Most things could be tied with ropes, unlike the plastic film or cardboard boxes of later generations. (Now that I think about it, tying beer bottles with ropes really has a sense of art. Unfortunately, it is rarely seen now. Sakura has learned it to tie people...)

"It's been too long, the ice has melted, it's not very cold anymore, let's just drink it." Li Dongfang put the steaming beer on the table.

This Versailles look almost made Lao Li lose control, and he gave him another round of fatherly love.

While they were talking, General Chen also came over. He didn't enjoy the Moutai he drank last night, so when he heard that Lao Qian wanted to treat Li Dongfang to a drink, he put down the work at hand and rushed over quickly.

Seeing all kinds of liquor, including white wine, beer and red wine, especially the big green stick that was steaming, I suddenly felt like my throat was smoking.

He hurriedly greeted everyone, picked up a bottle of beer, opened the cap with chopsticks, and without even having time to use a cup, he gulped down half the bottle, and burped comfortably after he was done.

"Wow! So comfortable and refreshing!" He put the wine bottle on the table and immediately called the waiter to serve the food.

The men poured beer, and the women poured some red wine. Li Dongfang stood up and held the glass to Chief Engineer Qian and General Chen and said, "Thank you, uncles, for taking care of my parents for so long. I toast to you two."

Chief Engineer Qian raised his hand and said, "There are no outsiders here today, so let's stop toasting each other. Let's all toast together."

After drinking a glass together, General Chen and Lao Li couldn't wait to switch to Maotai. Chief Engineer Qian and the other women except Lin Shu also switched to red wine.

After drinking for more than thirty minutes, Chief Engineer Qian pulled Li Dongfang aside to talk about technical issues. General Chen couldn't get a word in, so he turned around and started drinking with Old Li.

As for the other girls, they of course surrounded Li Dongfang's mother and chatted about family matters, which made her smile all the time, quite like the empress dowager being flattered by concubines.

Since there were too many people present, Chief Engineer Qian couldn't ask too specific questions, so he only talked about relatively macro issues. "You mean to say that nuclear fusion releases more energy than nuclear fission?"

"Yes, nuclear fission is caused by heavy mass nuclei entangled with neutrons and colliding to form more light nuclei, releasing their own original energy. Nuclear fusion is the opposite. It uses small mass atoms as raw materials to aggregate more atoms together to generate mass-tracking nuclei, which leads to greater energy release due to mass, high temperature and high pressure." Li Dongfang and Chief Engineer Qian said in a low voice.

Chief Engineer Qian had not yet considered this question. He was very interested in Li Dongfang's idea and continued to ask, "As far as I know, no one in the world has proposed such a theory yet. How did you come up with this statement?"

Li Dongfang had no idea of ​​such a profound principle. He only read it from the information. It would be too difficult for him to explain it. However, he rolled his eyes and said, "I just happened to think of the saying that many ants can kill an elephant. How much energy can you release? If you use the energy from the outside world to continuously strengthen yourself, and countless forces gather together, you will be more powerful, right?"

"Is it that simple?" Chief Engineer Qian raised his eyebrow.

"Yeah, it's that simple." Li Dongfang nodded as a matter of course.

Chief Engineer Qian was also speechless. Although what Li Dongfang said seemed to be good, he always felt that something was wrong.

But I did remember what he said about nuclear fusion.

In the following days, Li Dongfang's parents were granted a long vacation, and they came every day to take Li Dongfang and the girls for a stroll in and around the base.

But Li Dongfang couldn't stay any longer. Chief Engineer Qian came to eat with him every night. Li Dongfang didn't mind it, but the questions Chief Engineer Qian asked became more and more professional, and the design technology became more and more obscure. Li Dongfang felt that he couldn't cope with it by just reading from the script, so he finally agreed to prepare a paper material to fool people.

But over the past few days, although Chief Engineer Qian did not urge him, every time he looked at Li Dongfang's eyes, he felt uneasy and felt that if he stayed any longer, he might be exposed.

On the seventh day after returning to the base, Li Dongfang finally decided to leave. He copied out the relevant information on nuclear fission, not caring whether it was complete or not, as he had no idea anyway.

What he had in his hands was controlled nuclear fusion technology, and the things about nuclear fission were not explained in detail, but there was nothing he could do about it. He just copied down everything he thought was relevant. There was no doubt about the correctness of the technology, but as for how to use it in practice, he was powerless and could only let Chief Engineer Qian worry about it.

When he told his parents about his intention to leave, they were definitely reluctant to let him go, but they also knew that Li Dongfang would have to go back eventually, and they couldn't give up their work and go with him.

"Dongfang, I didn't prepare anything for your visit this time. Besides, with so many daughters-in-law, I can't come up with any gifts at once." Mom pulled Li Dongfang aside to complain.

"What did I think it was? Just this? Wait." Li Dongfang took out a piece of luggage, rummaged around in it, and took out a cloth bag.

"Look, I've prepared everything for you. You can say it's a family heirloom of our Li family." Li Dongfang stuffed the cloth bag into his mother's hands.

My mother looked at Li Dongfang in surprise and then opened the cloth bag, inside which lay four jade bracelets.