Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 43 Blind Date
"Fengnian, the test will probably take a few days. We need to try out various environments and equipment. I'll let you know as soon as I have any news."

Early in the morning, Li Qingyuan left after he finished speaking, and when he left, he took away the integrated circuit boards, transistors and a stack of design drawings.

It can be said that Zhou Fengnian’s research results were taken away in a package.

However, Zhou Fengnian was not worried at all. Li Qingyuan was not that kind of person, and Luo Cheng was there.

"This old guy didn't say a word to me this morning. He left in a hurry after talking to you."

Luo Cheng said with a rather unpleasant feeling in his heart that he almost became a guest yesterday.

"Haha, Mr. Luo, you still care about this? Anyway, you and Li are both in Sijiu City, why don't you just make an appointment to get together another day?"

Zhou Fengnian said, "Let's go out to eat in the morning. I'll treat you to fried dough sticks and soy milk."

"Forget about soy milk. I'll drink soy juice."

Luo Cheng shook his head and said, then went out with Zhou Fengnian and Zhou Chunhua.

After arriving at the breakfast stall, Zhou Fengnian ordered soy milk and fried dough sticks for himself and Chunhua, asked for soy milk and fried dough sticks for Luo Cheng, and bought one for Li Nianhua, which he would bring back on the way.

After eating, the three of them went to work.

After arriving at the factory, Zhou Fengnian began to continue researching and designing CNC machine tools.

The integrated circuit board can only be regarded as the brain component of the CNC machine tool. The braking system and others can be optimized a lot on the current machine tools.

In the decades before the original body's rebirth, he spent the most time dealing with machine tools and saw many advanced machine tools.

Just to express it with drawings, it would take at least hundreds of drawings, which is a huge project.

The CNC machine tool produced in the 1950s had a research team of dozens of people.

However, Zhou Fengnian could only draw it slowly by himself. The CNC machine tools he wanted to manufacture were at the level of more than 20 years later, and no one could understand it.

The work in the technical department is very busy when it is busy, and very relaxing when it is relaxed.

Although Zhou Fengnian is also the deputy director of the new workshop, he only needs to check and maintain the machines every day and he doesn't need to worry about anything else.

As for other people in the technical department, three of them had been sent out in the morning. The farthest one had to go to a machine repair shop in the suburbs to repair a machine.

The Second Machinery Factory sold a lot of machines. Most of the machines in Sijiucheng and even the whole northern Hebei were ordered from the Second Machinery Factory.

When it's busy, all the people in the technical department have to be sent out, and Luo Cheng himself will choose the most difficult machines to repair.

It’s not too busy now, only three people have left, and the rest are drawing the parts drawings arranged by Engineer Luo.

He met Zhou Yan while having lunch in the cafeteria at noon. The girl took the initiative to bring her lunch box to his table.

While eating
Time passed and a day went by.

When it was time to get off work, Luo Cheng suddenly walked out of the office and said to Zhou Fengnian, "Xiao Zhou, go to the market to buy some vegetables later. The thing I told you last time will be done tomorrow."

"Last time. Oh, I see. Don't worry."

Zhou Fengnian didn't react at first, but after thinking about it, he remembered that Aunt Li introduced him to a blind date.

He will come tomorrow morning, so he needs to go to the market in advance to buy some fish and meat. Fortunately, he still has tickets on him. Although there are not many meat tickets, he can go and exchange them.

After Luo Cheng returned to the office, Liu Ganming couldn't help but ask: "Fengnian, what did Mr. Luo mean to you? You two have been on good terms recently."

"I am living in Luo Gong's house now. Didn't I move out of the factory dormitory some time ago? My sister and I rented Luo Gong's house."

Zhou Fengnian said casually: "Mr. Luo can't give me any advice on the things I'm researching. He's quite easy to talk to. If you have any questions, just ask him."

"Forget it. I don't have any R&D ideas."

Liu Ganming quickly shook his head and said, "Besides, if Engineer Luo asks me too many times, I will get anxious and angry. If I am not 80% sure, I dare not ask Engineer Luo."

Zhou Fengnian smiled in silence. Luo Cheng was indeed a little anxious, but his technical background was much stronger than Luo Cheng, so he did not encounter the situation Liu Ganming described. After work, Zhou Fengnian first found a few people to transfer meat tickets. He used industrial tickets and tobacco and alcohol tickets to exchange.

Industrial tickets are also known as universal tickets. They can be used to buy many things, even bicycles. Their value is almost the same as meat tickets, and it all depends on demand.

Zhou Fengnian was rewarded with a lot of tickets last time, and he didn't spend much of them, so after exchanging enough tickets for a pound of meat this time, he took his fourth sister Zhou Chunhua to the market.

Zhou Fengnian spent a lot of money on this meal, which included a pound of meat, a fish, some pork offal and half a pound of eggs.

In other words, he agreed to treat Luo Cheng to a meal, otherwise two meat dishes would be enough to get through the blind date.

It's the weekend.

After Zhou Fengnian got up, he tidied himself up.

After all, it was Aunt Li and Engineer Luo who introduced us, and it would hurt Aunt Li's feelings if I just treated her casually.

If it’s suitable, you can contact him/her. If it’s not suitable, forget it. It’s just a meal anyway.

However, Zhou Fengnian only needs to clean himself up, change into new clothes and go to that station, and it will be difficult to find fault with him.

When it was almost time to cook, Zhou Chunhua poked her head into the house and said with a smile, "Third brother, I'll help you light the fire!"

"Fourth sister, why do you look more anxious than me?"

Zhou Fengnian smiled and stood up and asked, "Do you want you to get married sooner after I get married?"

Although Zhou Fengnian said that if there was a suitable one, she wouldn't have to care about his brother and it was okay to get married early.

But Zhou Chunhua still wanted to wait until he got married, as she was a little afraid of Zhou's father's rules.

However, Zhou Chunhua had just started working not long ago and had not saved much money, so it would be okay to start a year later.

When he becomes an engineer, Zhou Chunhua will be the engineer's sister, and her family background will also be a plus.

"I don't have any. I'm working all day."

"Fourth sister, have you gone to the literacy class I told you about last time? The workers' promotion also depends on their literacy level."

"I've already signed up, San Ge. I'll go after work on Wednesday and Saturday."

"Okay, you can ride my bike for those two days, and you'll be back faster."

Zhou Fengnian and his sister walked towards the backyard while chatting.

After Zhou Fengnian cut the meat and fish and prepared the ingredients, Zhou Chunhua also lit the fire.

Zhou Fengnian started cooking immediately. Every dish was just right and his cooking experience continued to increase.

Before noon, Zhou Fengnian had prepared six dishes.

Braised pork, stir-fried pork with chili peppers, boiled fish fillet, green onion and egg, two vegetarian dishes and a bowl of tofu soup.

There were six dishes and one soup. After all, there were too many people, including the two women from the bride's side, so there were six people in total. Preparing five or four dishes seemed a bit stingy.

Just as Zhou Fengnian served the last dish on the table, he heard Aunt Li shouting in the yard:
"Fengnian, come out quickly, the people are here."

Zhou Fengnian wiped his hands and walked out of the house. He soon saw a young woman next to Aunt Li.

She was wearing a blouse, white socks and small leather shoes. Her pretty face was a little chubby, but her skin was very fair. She was considered beautiful and cute.

A pair of big eyes stared at him without blinking, and there was no shyness in the look.

Aunt Li was not exaggerating; the person he had a blind date with today was indeed beautiful.

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said, "The meal is ready. Aunt Li and the two female comrades, please come in and sit down."

(End of this chapter)