Chapter 45: Lunchtime
In the car on the road, Jenny leaned lazily on the seat, looked at Lird beside her and said, "Okay, don't worry, Grandmother Marge will be fine, I feel that she is healthier than me." Besides, my father would go to Dr. Gus, and with his medical skills, he would cure the disease, and he cured my major illnesses since I was a child. ”
Leard smiled when he heard this: "I believe that everything will be fine under Mr. Wyatt's arrangement, in fact, I am not entirely worried about my grandmother, I am thinking about my future after that." ”
Jenny blinked and said, "Your future?" I don't think Stalin would have begged you to take him across the Atlantic. ”
Lird smiled bitterly, "Please, Jenny, I'm talking to you very seriously right now. ”
Jenny shrugged her shoulders and said, "Me too, I'm using the elimination method to help you get rid of the impossible options." ”
Lird let out a long sigh and said, "Jenny, be serious. ”
Jenny twitched her small nose, then sat up straight and said, "OK, OK, I'll listen carefully, but before you do that, you should tell me what you think, so that I can better help you analyze." ”
"I don't have any clear ideas, I just feel that I will always have to leave here in two years..."
"What, you're leaving?" said Jenny's eyes widened and she sat up straight, as if the momentum was about to pounce on Lird.
Seeing this, Lird smiled and said, "Don't do this, it's really scary." ”
Jenny's apricot eyes rolled and said, "It's obviously you who is scary, right? Why did you suddenly have the idea of leaving? Could it be that our family is not good enough for you?"
Hearing this, Lird hurriedly shook his head and said, "Of course not! Of course not! Both Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt are very kind to me, including the servants, who take great care of me, but..."
Jenny rolled her eyes and said, "So I'm the only one who is making things difficult for you?"
Lird smiled bitterly: "You are also very good to me, um... You should know what I mean, I didn't want to leave the manor because of you, but because of my own will. ”
Jenny said, "Subjective will, that means you really want to leave my house?"
"I don't want Jenny, I don't. Lird said seriously.
"But I had to leave. ”
Jenny blinked, looking at Lird in confusion.
"I can say that the life of these two years has really been like a dream for me, and I feel like I'm dreaming of happiness, and sometimes I'm really worried that this dream will suddenly wake up and everything I have now will disappear," Lird said. ”
"Mr. Wyatt not only helped me and my grandmother escape the war in my homeland, but also gave me the warmth of home that I never had before, you know, my mother died early, my father was away all the year round, and I had no siblings around, although my grandmother took good care of me, but I sometimes felt very lonely, and with you, it all changed, I felt... It felt like I had been given a new lease of life. ”
Jenny raised her eyebrows and said to Lird, "You still have a little conscience." ”
Lird smiled, then said, "But things can't always be like this. Jenny, I have grown up and should learn to be independent, and I can no longer live under Mr. Wyatt's protection. ”
Jenny pouted and was about to say something, when Lird said, "You have also seen many classmates of our age who have begun to live independently on their own, don't you also agree with this way of life?"
Jenny grinned, "Of course I yearn for it, but my rigid father will never let me do it, in his eyes I am a little girl who will never grow up, and if he can, he is willing to keep me by his side forever to feed me, just like our dogs." ”
Hearing this, Lird smiled bitterly and said, "You can't say that, isn't it that your performance in the past few years has been too poor for Mr. Wyatt to rest assured?"
Jenny immediately retorted: "What is too bad performance, what do you think I should behave in? Do you still sit on a garden bench with a doll in your arms and sing nursery rhymes like when I was a child?"
Lird laughed, "Mr. Wyatt did compliment you again in the morning. ”
Jenny pursed her lips and said, "It's because I was so well-behaved at that time that he can't look down on what I do now, and in his eyes it's like a dead thing of that doll." ”
"Mr. Wyatt never thought of you like that, he really cares about you and loves you," Lird said. ”
Jenny waved her hand impatiently and said, "Okay, okay, I know all this, now let's talk about your problem." ”
Lird said: "My business is as simple as I just said, of course, in fact, it is more than that, you must know that the reason why I have lived here for the past two years is because my father is working outside the home, but he will always have to do everything one day, and when he comes back, we always have to leave." ”
Jenny said, "Why does your father have to leave when he comes back? ”
Lird smiled bitterly, "Jenny, things don't think like that. ”
Jenny exhaled a long breath and said, "Actually, I can understand what you say, but some... Reluctantly. The last words were so faint that even Leald could not hear them, even when he was very close.
"What did you say?" asked Lird.
"Nothing!" Jenny pushed Lird away, and said, "I understand your intentions, but I want you to put this idea on hold for a while, at least until after the New Year, knowing that Christmas is less than twenty days away, and I don't want my socks without your gifts." ”
Lird smiled: "Don't worry, I'm not in such a hurry to do this, and besides, I won't miss your Christmas gift at any time." ”
Jenny smugly cocked her chin and said, "That's pretty much it." Then he said, "Let's spend more time with Grandmother Margo lately, let her get better soon, and then beg her to make me a delicious pumpkin pie." ”
Lird smiled: "No problem, but I'm afraid you'll gain a few pounds by then." ”
"Lird, you crow's mouth!" erupted from the middle of the carriage with Jenny's angry growl.
...
At the end of the morning's lesson, Leard rushed to his professor's lab, which was more of a small library than a laboratory, since the practice of nautical science could not be done in a laboratory alone.
Lird was going to have a quick lunch in the lab, Jenny had a class to attend after the lunch break, and when it was all over, the two of them were going home together.
After pushing open the door of the laboratory, Lird smelled a strong smell of hamburger meat, and Lird immediately smiled bitterly and said, "Gerald, you sneaked away to us for lunch again." ”
After passing through the screen, I saw an extremely exaggerated man with an obese body sitting on an office chair, and the comfortable and wide office chair on weekdays seemed very small at this time, and could only barely support the fat on the man's body.
The man named Gerard saw Lird walking into it, wiped the oil from the corner of his mouth and said, "Good afternoon, Lird." I didn't sneak in today, but my uncle gave me the key. ”
Lird's gaze swept over the table not far away, but he saw that there was a bronze key, which was owned by his supervisor, Mr. Torreman, who was also the uncle of the fat man in front of him, Gerald.
Lird laughed, "It seems that the professor forgave you for spilling coffee on his paper last time." ”
Gerald pouted and said, "Don't mention it, he complained about me for a long time, and finally I promised him to help him polish his shoes for a month before he would forgive me." Hmph, what a stingy uncle. ”
Lird laughed: "Then who is to blame? It's not that you were careless?"
Gerald rolled his eyes and said, "I didn't mean to..."
Lird said: "The laboratory of your physics department is so large, and the environmental facilities are more complete and excellent, why do you need to go to this warehouse-like place to suffer." ”
"I didn't want an experimental environment, but a comfortable place to rest," Gerald said. ”
Lird said: "I don't like to hear you say that, is our oceanography laboratory just a motel?"
Gerard smiled: "Naturally not, my words do not have any discriminatory meaning, just that the environment here is good enough to make people feel at ease." ”
Lird couldn't help but laugh and said, "So it's best for taking a nap." The two of them burst out laughing.
After laughing, Gerald shoved the burger in his mouth, then took another from the paper bag beside him, and said vaguely as he removed the greaseproof paper on it, "You haven't been to our lab, so you don't know what's going on inside, it's as noisy as the strip bar in the harbor at midnight, and people are noisy every day." It's really annoying!"
"Are they discussing something?"
Gerald nodded, "They're talking about using the power of physics to change warfare. ”
"The physical method?" asked Lird, puzzled.
Gerard refused the food in his mouth and said: "It's complicated, I'll explain it to you briefly, that is, to create a powerful weapon, defeat the Germans and the Japanese in one go, and end the current war in one fell swoop." ”
Lird laughed, "A weapon that can stop a war, haha, are you going to find clues from the Bible to summon God, and then when he settles it all?"
Gerard pursed his lips and said, "You guy's mouth stinks, but I like it." It's not what you think, this envisioned weapon uses the principle of nuclear fission, that is, the atom that many people know, if there is nuclear fission inside it, it will produce a very large amount of energy, and if it triggers a series of chain reactions, then the energy released is quite huge. ”
Lird frowned and said, "Atomic... If I'm not mistaken, this thing should be smaller than a walnut, right?"
Gerald nodded, "Much smaller than sesame seeds?"
Lird said: "Something that big can cause something... What about the chain reaction? It can't be more powerful than a tank shell. ”
Gerald said, "Actually... It is much more powerful than a tank. ”
Lird said: "And what about the airdrop compared to the airdrop?"
Gerrard:...
After a moment of silence, Gerald said: "Brother, listen to my advice, you should really read more books on physics when you have time, your physics foundation is really too poor." ”
Lird laughed, "What am I studying that kind of thing for? What is the intersection of my discipline and his?"
"I don't know about navigation, but I know that everything in life is closely related to physics, and I can say that physics is the root of all disciplines," Gerard said. ”
"That's what my teacher said when I was in math class. ”
Gerald said: "I didn't lie to you, it's all true, trust me." The least specialized subject in this school is navigation, and I can't believe how you could have made that choice. ”
Lird said, "So you're saying that Professor Torreman is not professional enough?"
Gerald hurriedly said, "No, I didn't mean that..."Lird smiled and tilted his head at him, Gerald seemed to have made up some kind of determination when he saw this: "Okay, I admit it, I don't think my uncle is a professional, in my eyes his nautical knowledge system is full of loopholes, it's just.... Phew, let me tell you, my uncle, though he was a professor of navigation, had never really traveled to sea himself. ”
"Einstein proposed the theory of four-dimensional space, but he never actually set foot there. ”
Gerald's eyes widened when he heard this, and he said, "My God, you actually know Einstein." ”
"He's a very famous man. ”
Gerard said, "It's not just famous, if it weren't for him, I would have been able to take a nap in the lab." ”
Lird frowned and said, "That powerful weapon you said has something to do with Einstein?"
Gerald shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's not just related, it's just... Hey, I won't understand if I explain it to you, but in short, with Einstein in this world, physicists can't take a nap in the laboratory. ”
Lird laughed: "It seems that he is not only a celebrity, but also a great man." ”
Gerald laughed and said, "No matter how much, whether it's a celebrity or a great person, it has nothing to do with me, now I just want to have a good sleep after eating a full meal." ”
With that, Gerard had reached into the paper bag to remove a burger.
Lird came to his senses and asked, "This is the first burger you've ever had?"
Gerald said, "The ninth..."
Hearing this, Lird shrugged his shoulders and smiled bitterly.
"Gerald, if one day I go to sea with you, then I must be crazy. ”
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