"Ah! Right." Xu Ke's eyes lit up again. He rummaged through his messenger bag for a long time, his expression growing increasingly gloomy. Finally, he held up the half-finished iron box and glared at Li Xiao, "It's all your fault! Look, you kicked and broke everything I worked so hard to make!"
Li Xiao: “…”
"I'm sorry!" Li Xiao apologized dryly.
I should apologize for kicking and breaking his things, but I feel a little unwilling to do so.
Thinking of Xu Ke's words about being rude, he snorted again, "Who told you to be sneaky and not like a good person?"
Xu Ke: “…”
Jiang Shiyue was afraid that the two of them would fight again, so she hurriedly asked Xu Ke to go upstairs.
After opening the door, Jiang Shiyue cleaned up the coffee table and made room for Xu Ke to reassemble his iron box.
While busy with his work, Xu Ke told Jiang Shiyue the reason why he came.
He was greatly inspired after his last conversation with Jiang Shiyue. Whenever he had free time recently, he would study what Jiang Shiyue said and put it into practice.
I just finished making a new walkie-talkie this morning and wanted to find Jiang Shiyue to share his work.
After asking around, I found out that Jiang Shiyue was no longer majoring in light industry, or that the so-called light engineering major of Jiang Shiyue was different from what he thought it was.
Fortunately, Jiang Shiyue is very well-known in the school, so it is easy to find out her real major and class.
After hearing from Jiang Shiyue's classmates that she had moved out, he asked for the general address, but didn't know the specific floor, so he waited for her at the door of the unit.
Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, he didn't say anything and was kicked in the chest by Li Xiao.
After listening to this, Li Xiao touched the tip of his nose guiltily, sat down next to Yangyang, and imitated Yangyang, picking up the book and pretending to read attentively.
Xu Ke, a grown man, would not hold on to Li Xiao because of such a misunderstanding, and he did not pay any attention to Li Xiao's little movements at all.
Jiang Shiyue, however, found it funny and mouthed a reminder to Li Xiao: "You're holding the book upside down."
Li Xiao: “…”
Xu Ke quickly assembled the walkie-talkie, handed it to Jiang Shiyue, and ran downstairs with another walkie-talkie.
Li Xiao was confused and asked Jiang Shiyue, "Is your classmate a little bit mentally ill?"
Jiang Shiyue: “…”
She replied to Li Xiao in a pretentiously profound tone, "He's a genius! He's a little different from ordinary people after all."
For example, her son Yangyang.
As Jiang Shiyue finished speaking, Xu Ke's voice came from the intercom on the coffee table.
"Hey! Hey! Can you hear me, Jiang?"
Li Xiao stared at the brick-sized piece of iron on the table in amazement.
Jiang Shiyue picked up the intercom and pressed one of the buttons. "Yes, can you hear me?"
"Yes! Yes! Yes!" Xu Ke's voice was filled with uncontrollable excitement.
Li Xiao curled his lips and shouted into the intercom, "I can hear you clearly even without this thing if you're shouting downstairs! It's just a waste of time."
Buildings are generally not soundproofed, and the room is not on a high floor, so the noise Xu Ke made downstairs could be heard clearly.
"What do you know?! I just want Jiang to know that I did it! And my intercom isn't limited to such close-range communication. I tell you, with this intercom, I can hear you even if you talk here in the college dormitory."
Li Xiao was surprised: "So powerful? Isn't it the same as a phone call?"
She walked over to the coffee table and circled the intercom twice, her face full of surprise: "Why doesn't this thing have a phone line?"
"Because this is called a walkie-talkie. Wait, I'll go upstairs and talk to you." Xu Ke hung up the phone and ran upstairs.
Jiang Shiyue was also surprised. Of course she knew that this was called a walkie-talkie.
In 1978, walkie-talkies were not yet used by civilians and were mostly used in places like the military.
The last time she chatted with Xu Ke, he mentioned radio casually. She didn't expect that Xu Ke could actually make it.
Xu Ke ran back and asked Jiang Shiyue excitedly like a student waiting for praise from the teacher: "How is it?"
Jiang Shiyue smiled and gave him a thumbs up, "Xu, you are amazing!"
Xu Ke waved his hands quickly and smiled innocently, "Thanks for your guidance."
He pointed at the walkie-talkie and said, "It was you who told me how it worked that led me to try to use the school radio to establish a radio channel. I never thought it would actually work."
"I was just saying it casually. It's your credit that we were able to research it. However, I have a small suggestion, but I don't know whether I should say it or not." Jiang Shiyue pinched her thumb and index finger together.
"You tell me, you tell me."
"Every profession has its own expertise. I can't give you any professional advice." Jiang Shiyue shook her head, dispelling Xu Ke's expectations before speaking: "I just think this walkie-talkie is a bit bulky and not very convenient to carry around. Do you think it can be optimized? Can it be made smaller?"
Xu Ke was somewhat disappointed, but still nodded, "I really didn't expect this. I will work hard to improve."
Making the shell smaller is not really a technical problem.
The old-fashioned wall clock chimed at the appointed time.
Six knocks meant six o'clock in the afternoon.
Seeing that Xu Ke would not be able to make it in time for dinner if he went back home, Jiang Shiyue invited him to have dinner downstairs and said that she had something to discuss with him.
Xu Ke, who wanted to refuse, had no choice but to agree.
The four of them found a small state-owned restaurant downstairs and ordered two ordinary home-cooked dishes and a bowl of lean pork rice rolls that Yangyang liked.
While waiting for the food, Xu Ke couldn't wait to speak: "Student Jiang, what do you want to discuss with me?"
Jiang Shiyue bit her lower lip lightly, organizing her words before speaking: "I remember you said your dream is to allow people to communicate with each other long distances at any time without being constrained by telephone lines, right?"
Xu Ke scratched the back of his head, smiled innocently and nodded, "Yes! But now it seems a bit unrealistic. Please don't laugh at me!"
Jiang Shiyue knew very well that Xu Ke was not just dreaming. She knew better than anyone how popular mobile phones would be in the future.
"All inventions originate from wild imagination. Besides, if you can even make a walkie-talkie, it's only a matter of time before you can make a tool that can communicate wirelessly and in real time!"
"Really? Do you really believe that I can do it?" Xu Ke's eyes began to shine again. Even his mentor said that it was difficult to achieve, but Jiang Shiyue said that he could do it.
Jiang Shiyue nodded. "You can definitely do it. Here's what I want to discuss with you: we can build a small laboratory together at the college. Find a few like-minded classmates, and we can work together to see if we can realize your dream."
If mobile phones had been invented in the late 1970s, it is easy to imagine the enormous wealth they would have brought to them.
Without even thinking, Xu Ke shook his head and refused with a wry smile: "Mr. Jiang, you don't know that my dream can't be realized not only because of technical problems but also because of money." He pointed to his shoulder bag, "Just this simple walkie-talkie cost a lot of money!"
At this point, he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Don't worry if you laugh at me, but to do this, I'm eating one meal every three days. I even borrowed money from all my roommates for living expenses."
Fortunately, the people in his dormitory were generous enough to contribute half a month's living expenses and eat pickles and dry food with him.
"I know. That's why I said we should form a partnership. You provide the technology and I'll provide the money!"
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