"Is the laboratory short of money again?" Jiang Shiyue asked.
"No...no." Xu Ke waved his hands quickly.
Their lab spends money like water.
He came to see Jiang Shiyue several times out of ten to ask for money.
"I came back to wish you a happy new year." Xu Ke handed the local specialties at his feet to Jiang Shiyue, "This is what I brought from home, try it."
Jiang Shiyue thanked him and took out the specialties he brought from Yincheng from the hole in the table. "If you didn't come to see me, I would have planned to look for you after class. Happy New Year! I hope that all our wishes will come true this year."
It has been more than half a month since the Spring Festival, but the festive atmosphere is so strong this year that people regard the Spring Festival as the grandest festival.
As long as the first month of the year is not over, relatives and friends who have not seen each other during the New Year will always say "Happy New Year!"
Unlike Chen Shanhe and the others, they celebrate the festival like a task. They hang up couplets and lanterns on time and take them down all at once on the seventh day of the New Year. The New Year atmosphere comes and goes quickly.
Xu Ke didn't have as many emotions as Jiang Shiyue, and after a moment's hesitation, he spoke up: "Ordinarily, I should report to you now, but I'm afraid that if I fail, you'll be disappointed. But it's New Year's! I still wanted to say something to cheer you up."
"Um?"
"There's been some progress in the cell phone research."
"Huh?" Jiang Shiyue's eyes, already extremely wide with distinct black and white, were now even wider. "Progress? What do you mean?"
Xu Ke couldn't help but straighten his back when Jiang Shiyue looked at him like that, but he felt a little weak in his heart.
"We can now convert text signals into radio waves and send them to the base station."
"That's great!" Jiang Shiyue clapped her hands happily and pulled Xu Ke along. "Come on, I'll treat you to dinner. We can talk while we eat."
Before Xu Ke could refuse, he was dragged away by Jiang Shiyue.
Jiang Shiyue had many classes that day and could only eat in the cafeteria at noon.
Xu Ke squeezed into the crowd and got two meals, then put them on the table before he had time to wipe the sweat off his face.
Jiang Shiyue obviously had no interest in food. She looked at Xu Ke eagerly, "What did you mean just now? Are you saying that our phones can make calls now?"
Xu Ke lowered his head, raised his hand to scratch the back of his head, and said embarrassedly: "No, it's just that it's a little better than the previous walkie-talkie. The big mobile phone uses radio transmission to transmit voice signals, and we just added a module on top of the voice... In fact, it's equivalent to a text version of the walkie-talkie."
Jiang Shiyue was not disappointed. You know, the earliest mobile phones were not popular among wealthy families until ten years later.
However, the first mobile phone was actually developed in 1973, but it could not be mass-produced and popularized due to various reasons.
Jiang Shiyue was surprised that Xu Ke had completed it in just half a year. She smiled and encouraged Xu Ke, "That's already great! You guys are amazing."
Who knew Xu Ke would still shake his head.
"It's embarrassing to say that a bunch of us so-called college students aren't as good as your kids. We only managed to get to one step before, but after spending a month and a lot of money, we still couldn't make any further progress. It was Xiao Yangyang who reminded us."
However, Yangyang is young after all, and he is more of a paper composer. The specific values were obtained by Xu Ke and others through repeated experiments.
Speaking of Yangyang, Jiang Shiyue was not modest at all, "Of course, our Yangyang is a little genius!"
Xu Ke: “…”
After a conversation over the meal, Jiang Shiyue understood what Xu Ke meant. The next experiment would be more difficult, with a very high failure rate and huge costs, so Xu Ke hesitated whether to speak up just now.
Jiang Shiyue laughed. "I know what you're worried about. I'm the one making this phone, and I'll take the full responsibility for its success or failure. And I'm willing to cooperate with you because I value your character. As the saying goes, trust a man you employ, and don't employ him if you doubt him. Since I'm working with you, I won't suspect you're making up excuses to embezzle money. Don't be so cautious when talking to me in the future."
Xu Ke felt even more embarrassed, "I was being mean."
In fact, the progress of mobile phone research had already been made years ago, and Xu Ke wanted to come and tell Jiang Shiyue the good news.
Other people in the laboratory stopped Xu Ke and advised him not to say anything.
It would be fine if the experiment is successful in the future, but if it fails, it would be a scam.
Xu Ke said at the time that Jiang Shiyue was not such a person.
But everything his classmates said made sense, and he was persuaded. He hesitated until the winter vacation.
After a month at home, he felt uneasy. He always felt that it would be bad if he didn't tell Jiang Shiyue, but he was afraid that she would be suspicious if he told her.
When we met today, I couldn't help but tell her the truth.
Jiang Shiyue only asked Xu Ke the name of the classmate who persuaded him and didn't say anything else.
***
In the blink of an eye it's summer.
The old man drew a line casually, and a two-meter-high wire mesh fence was erected across the entire city of Pengcheng. A pass was required to enter or exit.
Many bigwigs who will become famous all over the world decades later are still drilling holes in barbed wire!
Jiang Shiyue relied on his golden finger and bought a house in Pengcheng early on. He had a residence permit and could come and go freely.
However, the situation in Shajia Village, Yingcheng has not made any progress.
The lack of progress was a direct rejection of Jiang Shiyue for Shajia Village.
Jiang Shiyue drove to Shajia Village again when he had no classes.
Jiang Shiyue was received by Sha Yu.
"Sister Shiyue, why are you here again?" She looked around and quickly closed the door when she saw no one was paying attention. "The adults will be back from work soon. If they see you, they will definitely kick you out again."
Jiang Shiyue smiled bitterly: "Even if you blast me a few more times, I will still come."
Sha Yu moved a stool for Jiang Shiyue and placed her under the fan to cool her down. She then went to the well to fish out the watermelon, cut a few slices, put them on a plate and handed it to Jiang Shiyue.
"Sister Yueyue, the adults in our village don't appreciate your kindness, so why do you insist on doing this thankless task?"
Jiang Shiyue didn't answer but asked: "Do you think what I did was a good thing?"
Sha Yu nodded vigorously without thinking, "Of course! Wouldn't it be nice to let us live in a more spacious place in the future?"
"Then you should listen to the captain... No, the village chief and the others said that there are conditions for me to build a house for you."
Thanks to Xiaogangshan Village, many production teams have begun to restore the administrative village system.
Villages like Shajia Village, which had no land, were among the first to be restored.
The team leader became the village chief again.
Sha Yu hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded: "Sister Yueyue, if we want to build a house, do we have to move our ancestors' graves?"
The remaining collective land in Shajia Village is now occupied by half living people and half dead people.
The average floor space per person in the more than 300 households with living people is much smaller than that of the dead.
The best way is to relocate the grave.
But Shajia Village is just like its name, most of the villagers have the surname Sha, and every household has relatives, whether distant or close.
The cemetery contains several generations of ancestors of all the families in Shajia Village.
Who would be willing to agree to Jiang Shiyue's suggestion?
The village chief was furious and said, "We would rather sleep standing up like animals than disturb our ancestors' graves!"
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