After breakfast, Xu Jianguo greeted Du Yu and then slipped into the space. Then he came to the outside of the small workshop through the space portal, opened the padlock on the door and walked in.
After waiting for a while, Li Delong and others arrived. When they saw Xu Jianguo, they greeted him with a smile.
"How's your craftsmanship going these days?" Xu Jianguo asked with a smile.
"Mr. Xu, we feel it's pretty good. This is what we made these days. What do you think of it?" Li Delong said with a smile, taking out several metal objects from a drawer beside him.
Xu Jianguo took the thing he handed over, picked up the measuring tool beside him, and began to check it carefully.
After a moment, Xu Jianguo looked up at the others and saw that they were all looking at him with hopeful eyes. He couldn't help but grin. "Congratulations! All the parameters of the fragmentation grenades and magnetic grenades meet the design requirements. They're qualified!"
"Okay!" After hearing Xu Jianguo's words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then Li Delong growled.
Immediately afterwards, warm applause broke out from the crowd in the small workshop.
The applause contained their encouragement to themselves, their gratitude to Xu Jianguo, and their expectations for the future.
Xu Jianguo raised his hand and pressed it downwards, then spoke, "Alright, there's still some time before work starts, so let me say a few words. The next few days will be the busiest time for our small workshop, so I ask everyone to put aside all distractions and devote themselves wholeheartedly to the manufacturing work, so that we can complete the production of the project prototype as soon as possible."
"Yes!" several people said.
"Okay, everyone, hurry up and pack up. Li Delong, take two people to the warehouse to get materials. Let's start making fragmentation grenades and magnetic grenades today!" After Xu Jianguo finished speaking, he handed the warehouse key and a list of materials to Li Delong.
"Okay, Engineer Xu!" After Li Delong took the keys and the list, he took two people to get the materials, while the rest of the people started to light the stove, fetch water, and sweep the floor.
The fragmentation grenade designed by Xu Jianguo used a layout of 3,000 diamond-shaped fragments, which was a huge workload for the seven of them. Several people took turns to operate it, and it took a day and a half to make the nearly 20,000 fragments needed for six fragmentation grenades.
As the fragments were in place, Xu Jianguo began to assemble them with everyone, covering the fragments that had been cut but not completely separated in circles around the outer periphery of the trigger-type blasting device. When the safety ring of the grenade was pulled and the grip was released, the blasting device was immediately activated. The delayed fuse would generate huge kinetic energy after 3-4 seconds, and then the fragments would be launched from the inside to the outside, causing damage to the enemy.
However, due to regulations, gunpowder filling was not allowed in the research institute, so he could only make the sample first, and then have a special person take it to a designated place to fill it with gunpowder, and finally conduct the test.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye. During this time, Xu Jianguo and the other seven people almost lived in the small workshop. They came before seven o'clock every day and left at ten o'clock in the evening. Finally, before noon on the third day, they made six samples of fragmentation grenades.
After a brief moment of joy, the seven people calmed down. Xu Jianguo took out a few food coupons and some money from his pocket and gave them to Li Delong, asking him to go to the cafeteria to get a few more dishes to improve the food at noon. After all, they still had to manufacture magnetic grenades in the afternoon.
In this way, the seven people worked hard in the small workshop from dawn to dusk for five days, and the time came to New Year's Eve of 1962.
In the afternoon, Xu Jianguo went out and borrowed a cart from the head cook in the office cafeteria. Then he found a deserted place and moved out a large wooden box from the space. In the box were the New Year's goods he had prepared for Li Delong and the other six people.
Each person was given two pounds of pork, two pounds of flour, and five pounds of pumpkin, and each person was given a bottle of Elm Daqu from the supermarket.
After preparing everything, Xu Jianguo pushed the cart back to the small workshop of Institute 523, and before leaving get off work, he distributed cloth bags filled with New Year's goods to everyone.
The six people were a little confused, but when they opened their pockets and saw what was inside, they suddenly felt happy.
Although these six people worked at the 523 Institute, they were neither soldiers nor formal employees. They were just apprentices. Although Li Delong was the oldest, he was only in his early twenties, so they never expected that they would also receive a New Year's gift.
But after thinking about it, the six people understood. They knew that this must have been prepared for them by Xu Jianguo out of his own pocket. They were so excited that they didn't know what to say.
Xu Jianguo looked at the slightly red eyes of the six people and said with a smile: "Alright, alright, there's not much I can do. Take these things back to your families. You can't work for a year and bring nothing back!"
"Thank you, Mr. Xu!" Several people originally thought that they would not be able to get anything back this year, but unexpectedly, Xu Jianguo gave them an unexpected surprise. Now the family can finally stand up straight in front of the neighbors, so everyone's thank you to Xu Jianguo came from the heart.
"Okay, go back early. You don't need to come so early tomorrow. I'll give you half a day off. Just come before 1 p.m.!" Xu Jianguo said with a smile.
"Yes!" The six people responded with a smile, then said goodbye to Xu Jianguo and left the workshop.
Watching the six people leaving and listening to their happy discussions, Xu Jianguo couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.
Xu Jianguo put all the samples and drawings into the space, then turned off the furnace. After checking in the warehouse, he pushed the cart and prepared to leave.
As he passed by the office building, he heard a familiar voice calling him: "Jianguo!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
