On December 28, it rained and the wind was cold in Sacramento.

Today, the three Evan are going back to Los Angeles.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Joseph and Audrey said goodbye at the door of their home. Evan stood outside the door with a black umbrella, the collar of his coat cocked, but he was still shivering in the cold wind.

After more than a year of hard work, Joseph's position in the bank was finally promoted to a higher level, no longer a small salesman, and his salary also increased a lot. Therefore, before Audrey left home, Joseph stuffed his daughter with a large amount of pocket money.

"Boy, take care of Audrey, there's a problem, I'll ask you!"

After instructing his daughter, Joseph "routinely" knocked Evan. For Audrey's sake, Evan didn't reply, and after saying "don't worry", he took Audrey's shoulders, carried an umbrella into the rain, and walked to the Ford parked on the side of the road.

"Let's go!"

Audrey waved goodbye to Joseph through the window before Evan said to Bob.

As the car headed south, the weather outside was getting better and better, and it didn't take long for the sun to change from rainy to sunny.

Affected by this, the atmosphere in the car was also liberated from the sadness of parting.

On her first night back in Los Angeles, Virginia slept in a "cabin in the woods", sharing a bed with Audrey.

Linda hasn't returned yet, and the house she rented didn't get tenants last semester, so Evan is really not at ease.

Haynes, who Evan had arranged, couldn't follow her closely.

Regarding this, Evan couldn't help but be a little dissatisfied with Andy Vydak (the director of SHIELD), he had already arranged the request to recruit female guards, but two months later, Andy still couldn't give him a satisfactory answer.

Admittedly, Evan also knew that there were not many women who were suitable for security jobs during this period.

You must know that although the United States allows women to join the military at this time, almost none of them actually go to battle, not to mention that the number of people who join the army is not much.

During this period, women in the United States were almost all traditional women, and although the shortage of labor during World War II caused many women to leave the house and go to work, they were as rigid as feudal women, which was completely incomparable with the feminists of later generations.

Thinking of this, Evan made a phone call to Andy that night. Andy's reply was, "Sir, the person you want is in training, please wait patiently for a while." ”

Only then did Evan realize that Vidak had not listened to his orders. At the same time, he also somewhat understood why Vydak couldn't do anything in the army.

This is a person who only knows how to bury his head in things, does not know how to show his skills, and does not know how to deal with his boss...... fool

Is it okay for this kind of person to be a middle-level person who executes orders, and then go up...... Evan smiled wryly and shook his head.

However, although Evan was a little dissatisfied, he didn't want to do anything to Vidak yet. Although Vidak's subjective initiative is a little worse, he is a person who can do things after all.

What's more, Evan will not be able to find someone who can both trust and replace Vidak for a while.

Virginia only stayed for two days, and went back to her house after New Year's Day, she didn't quit her part-time job, she lived in Evan, and she had to drive to work every day, which she felt was a waste of gas money.

Of course, the more reason is that Virginia doesn't want to be fed dog food every day.

In the matter of her relationship with Audrey, Virginia felt that her brother Evan was a little abnormal. I've never seen a boyfriend and girlfriend who have been dating for a year and can be as tired as the two of them.

1947 arrived.

On January 3, the new parliament and government began to perform their duties.

Evan is also fully committed to the new project he leads.

Evan didn't choose the wrong partner, and Dr. Layton wasn't your average capable. Not only did he persuade Watson to give him a vacant house as a laboratory during the school holidays, but he also didn't know where to get a bunch of testing equipment. Although it can be seen at a glance that it is a patchwork, and it is a little worse, according to Layton, it can still be used.

But these alone are useless, the key of the key - germanium crystals are not yet clueless.

The new Caltech semester begins on January 6.

On the first day of school, Evan and Leyton took the application materials they had prepared for the application to the dean Dubridge to sign. Prior to this, Acting Director Watson had already signed.

Before that, Dubridge had heard from Watson about Evan's intentions, so he was not at all surprised when the two of them came to the door.

Unlike Watson, who thought Evan's move was unconventional but had to sign it (because the nominal person who made the application was Leiden), Dubridge didn't think there was anything wrong with it, and after listening carefully to the topic that Evan wanted to study, he immediately signed off on the Leiden/Evan plan.

As a result, Caltech's PME Solid State Physics Group was formed.

Not only that, but after learning that Evan wanted to get a single crystal of germanium from Bell Labs, Dubridge promised to help contact him personally.

This overjoyed Evan.

It didn't take long for Bell Labs, located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, to receive an application from Caltech. The application was sent directly to Oliver Buckley, president of Bell Labs, along with a handwritten letter from Dubridge.

President Oliver and Dean Dubridge are alumni, and both spent a significant time at Cornell University.

Because of such a relationship, he didn't even want to pay attention to this application, and he called Bardin, who used the most germanium single crystals.

Hearing that someone wanted a single crystal of germanium, and Oliver was willing to give it, Bardeen was wary and a little unhappy at the same time.

"Mr. President, germanium monocrystals are not enough for our own use, how can we give them to others?

Oliver understood why Bardeen reacted the way he did, so he swallowed the unhappiness of being knocked out and explained, "The applicant uses it to study the crystal structure, and you do it in two directions, so you don't have to worry." ”

"But ......"

Bardeen opened his mouth, still not wanting to open the opening.

Seeing this, Oliver said in a low voice: "Of course, if you are still worried, you can also not agree......"

With that, Oliver lowered his head and stopped looking at Bardeen.

Hearing this, Bardeen's face was cloudy for a while, and after hesitating for a moment, he reluctantly agreed: "Okay, I can give a little, but only this once!"

Oliver looked up, gave Bardeen a smile, and said, "Thanks! Bardeen, you can go back." ”

A week later, when Evan and received a sample of the germanium single crystal, his jaw dropped in surprise.

Because he didn't have much hope of getting a sample from Bell Labs, he was prepared for rejection from the beginning, and he didn't expect the hardest hurdle to be passed so easily.

Compared to this, it was a trivial matter that there was a transfer student living across the street from his dorm room who was as familiar as William.