Zeng Wangcai shouted twice at the door, but no one answered from inside the house.
He looked at the four words "No entry for idlers" written in cursive on the door and wondered, "Isn't he home?"
"Impossible!" Huang Liang shook his head decisively. "You know the teacher's personality. Apart from work, he writes. He just came back and was ordered to rest. If he is resting, he will definitely stay at home and not go out."
This is Zhou Yuanbai's character, he immerses himself in his own world and does not want to be disturbed.
Zeng Wangcai recalled what the teacher said before he left, and asked in confusion: "Liangzi, according to what the teacher said before, he should not be able to come back. The work in the west cannot be completed in a short time."
Zhou Yuanbai is a true expert. Zeng Wangcai only knows that his field is roughly physics, but he is not very clear about the specific details.
However, Zeng Wangcai vaguely knew that his teacher's work direction was the research and development of some kind of weapons. Combined with this Western direction, he once guessed that the teacher was studying the atomic bomb.
This is top secret and something that will go down in history. If it is true, there is no reason to come back in a short time.
"Nothing will happen, right?" Zeng Wangcai listened at the door for a while and heard a gurgling sound from inside. He didn't know if it was made by a person or something else. "There's movement inside, Yangzi, listen."
Lin Huyang also listened to the door, thought for a while and said, "The water is boiling. It should be boiling."
"Don't get poisoned..." Huang Liang reminded.
It is winter now, and burning a stove in the room is inevitable for every household. Generally speaking, a pipe will be installed on the stove as a chimney to discharge exhaust gas, but there are exceptions.
Zeng Wangcai and his companions did not dare to delay and began to look for the key. They first pushed the window and found that it was locked from the inside and could not be opened. Then they looked among the sundries at the door.
They actually found the key in a flowerpot without any flowers.
Zeng Wangcai opened the door and went in, and several people smelled a strong smell of alcohol.
There was an upside-down glass bottle of white wine on the table in the living room, a half-eaten plate of peanuts, and Zhou Yuanbai, with half-white hair, lying on a recliner, snoring.
The coal stove in the kitchen was burning brightly, and steam was coming out of a small tin kettle.
"Teacher doesn't drink. Have you drunk too much?" Zeng Wangcai stepped forward to check on Zhou Yuanbai's condition and found that he was indeed drunk.
Well, no one is talking.
"Brothers, don't just sit there, get moving." Zeng Wangcai took a look at the messy house. The characteristics of the whole house perfectly matched the attributes of a single man and a scientific researcher. In one word - messy.
Zeng Wangcai called on everyone to work together to clean up Zhou Yuanbai's house. They ignored the study. This kind of place is not a question of confidentiality or not, but a question of habit. If the layout is disrupted, the owner will not be used to it.
It took them two hours to clean Zhou Yuanbai's house, and it was almost dark.
There was fire in the stove, there was rice and vegetables at home, and the supplies they brought included oil and meat, so they started cooking.
Zhou Yuanbai is from the south and likes to eat rice, so Zeng Wangcai cooked a pot of rice, fried a bowl of fish, roasted a large bowl of braised pork, and started making some shredded potatoes.
Perhaps attracted by the aroma of meat that he hadn't smelled for a long time, Zhou Yuanbai slowly woke up.
"Hey, you guys... Wangcai, didn't you join the army?" Zhou Yuanbai, who had regained consciousness, was very happy to see Zeng Wangcai. He scratched his eyes and sat up. He saw Zeng Wangcai's shoulder straps at once, "You've become a lieutenant so soon? That's not right..."
Zhou Yuanbai is not an ordinary person. He knows that Zeng Wangcai became an official too quickly and it is abnormal.
"Teacher, please wash your face first and wake up. We can talk while eating." Zeng Wangcai said with a smile.
Zhou Yuanbai nodded, went to the washbasin rack in the corner of the living room to get a washbasin and towel. He refused to use hot water and washed his face with a basin of cold water, completely waking up.
He did not continue to ask, but looked at Zhang Xiuzhi: "You are Zhang Xiuzhi, I heard Huang Liang say you are very good... Wait a moment!"
As he spoke, Zhou Yuanbai entered the study and soon took out two gift boxes. One gift box was full of Western elements, while the other was made of wood, simple and elegant.
"This is for you. This is my wedding gift to you. I don't know if you will be in Sijiu City when you get married, so I'll give it to you first. Haha, don't mind that I'm too direct..." Zhou Yuanbai laughed and explained while giving the gift, "This is a set of coffee utensils I brought back from abroad, and this is a set of tea sets..."
Zeng Wangcai did not refuse and let Zhang Xiuzhi accept it, and then they had dinner.
During the meal, Zeng Wangcai asked why Zhou Yuanbai suddenly came back.
Zhou Yuanbai pointed at the bottle and smiled bitterly: "For this, because I can't drink it, how ironic..."
As he told the story, Zeng Wangcai was filled with emotion. It turned out that Zhou Yuanbai was ostracized after returning. Some people said that he did not know how to behave and did not know the rules at the dinner table. So they found the excuse that he was studying and living abroad and sent him back.
In other words, Zhou Yuanbai was excluded from the western mission.
Zeng Wangcai has seen a lot of such things. He remembers that there was a joke on the Internet in later generations. Netizens joked that even if Hawking came, he would have to stand up and toast. This was about the drinking culture and the overall environment.
Zeng Wangcai watched a drama, but he forgot what it was called. In the drama, there was an expert whose situation was similar to Zhou Yuanbai’s. In the end, he also used his identity as an excuse. But that happened during the ten years of ups and downs, which was slightly different from Zhou Yuanbai’s current situation.
"Then you won't go there in the future?" Zeng Wangcai asked.
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