After a while, Zhao Yuemin came back with a cloth bag.

Driller Wang Wei and several others looked at Zhao Yuemin in surprise.

"I said, Zhao Yuemin, we college students can't do anything. What can you do? Wang Wei said with a smile.

In the surprised eyes of everyone, Zhao Yuemin just smiled slightly, and took out an empty can from the meat factory, a bottle of liquor, a pair of scissors, and some dry branches from the cloth bag.

Several workers looked at Zhao Yuemin, a little confused, and they didn't know what this young man was going to do.

Team Leader Wang...... These things are only given by people who have said a lot of good things in the kitchen. It's so cold, I'll make a stove for everyone. Zhao Yuemin said.

Stove?

Wang Wei scratched his head, he couldn't associate what was in front of him with the iron-clad charcoal stove.

I saw Zhao Yuemin remove the empty canned cover with scissors, and cut the edges flat. A few more openings were made in the bottom of the can to ventilate it.

Then, he shoved a piece of paper into the bottom of the can, picked up the bottle and poured some liquor, soaking the paper. Then put the folded sticks into the can.

Wang Wei nodded beside him and said, "Young man, interesting, have ideas." ”

After everything was prepared, Zhao Yuemin drew a match and threw it into the can, and immediately the can ignited red and became a miniature stove.

In the tin room of the dormitory, the space was already small, and the surrounding workers gathered around this small stove, stretched out their hands, and immediately felt a trace of warmth.

"It's small, it's small. It doesn't cause trouble, but it's quite interesting. A worker exclaimed.

Zhao Yuemin said modestly: "That's what it means, this small stove can burn for a while, and I will be satisfied with everyone to go to the cold." I don't dare to pour more liquor yet, this is a collective asset, and I have to return it for a while. ”

"What the hell is this!" Wang Wei picked up the liquor with a rich and bold voice, and said to everyone in the dormitory, "Come, it's cold, take a sip for each person, everyone warm up." Zhao Yuemin, you have the greatest credit, you take a sip first. If those mothers-in-law and mother-in-law people in the kitchen come to me, I'll give you the top! ”

"Good!" Zhao Yuemin took the wine bottle, took a sip of white wine, and his stomach gradually warmed up.

The firelight was warm, reflecting the smiling faces of everyone in the dormitory, and everyone drank the liquor in one sip, and surrounded by this small stove, and the mood was suddenly very good.

As soon as he was in a good mood, everyone became cordial to Zhao Yuemin and greeted him with warmth.

These drilling workers, who were originally bold and straightforward, praised Zhao Yuemin, and by the way, they squeezed the college student Liu Guoguang and made a joke about him.

Although they were all good-natured jokes, Liu Guoguang's face was slightly unbearable, but he was also a college student, and he was the most educated person in the drilling team, he helped the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said: "This stove is actually a synthesis of the physics and chemistry knowledge we learned in middle school, theoretically...... I can do that, too. ”

Zhao Yuemin didn't refute, patted Liu Guoguang's shoulder, and showed a sincere smile: "Guoguang, I believe you will definitely do it." ”

The work of drilling is hard work. Derricks were erected in the snow and ice, deep wells were drilled, covered in snowflakes and oil. There is a saying on the drilling site: the driller is like a mud monkey at work - his uniforms are full of mud and oil, and after work he is like a horse monkey - the tent is ventilated on all sides, freezing goosebumps in winter, and hot in summer to cover prickly heat and tickle constantly. If you take off your clothes, you're a skinny monkey.

The drilling operations of the 70s were labor-intensive, and the nutrition and equipment could not keep up, all of which were maintained by the enthusiasm and high sense of honor of the oil workers in building the oil fields.

Zhao Yuemin is well aware that this job opportunity is not easy to come by, and he works hard and earnestly learns the knowledge and skills required as a driller. Fortunately, he has a natural affinity for any mechanical instrument, and it seems that just by touching it, he can communicate with him like an old friend.

After work that day, everyone went to the cafeteria to have dinner, shivered and took a shower in the half-hot and lukewarm water, and then returned to the dormitory.

When a worker arrived at the dormitory, he took out the miniature stove made by Zhao Yuemin yesterday from under the bed, concocted it according to the law, poured some liquor, put on a branch, and lit the fire again, which instantly warmed the dormitory.

Zhao Yuemin sat down, and suddenly thought of a problem, there is no toilet in his simple dormitory, if you want to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, you have to walk to the public toilet two hundred meters away from the dormitory. This drilling living area has just been built, and in the middle of the night, there are no black lights, no street lights, only a few strings of small light bulbs, in case you step on the pit and fall, sprain your ankle, and even your work will be affected.

Zhao Yuemin thought that if he had a flashlight, it would be convenient to go out to light at night. The three major pieces of the seventies, watches, sewing machines, and bicycles. This flashlight is not something that exists, it is usually shared by several dormitories. Remembering that he had nothing to do when he was in Yunnan, and had studied flashlights, Zhao Yuemin decided to make his own flashlight.

He learned to be obedient this time, and directly mobilized the masses and asked the people in the dormitory to help him find materials. Several workers in the dormitory heard that Inventor Zhao had a new action to make a flashlight for everyone to use at night, and they immediately enthusiastically helped to find materials.

After a while, a pile of materials was already placed in front of Zhao Yuemin: round iron cans, empty plastic medicine bottles, toilet paper cores, a small light bulb, and various hammers, screwdrivers, waste paper, and so on.

Zhao Yuemin first drew a simple drawing on the paper, got sure, and then used a hammer and screwdriver to smash a bump at the bottom of the iron can to connect the positive and negative poles of the battery. Then bend one end of the wire into two arcs and put the bulb into the wire.

Then cut off the bottom cover of the empty plastic medicine bottle and dig out two round holes, one large and one small.

Zhao Yuemin was in the process of production, and the college student Liu Guoguang was also watching from the side, and interjected from time to time: "Well, it's the same as what I simulated in my head." ”

Zhao Yuemin smiled angrily, took the round cover, one large and one small, and asked, "Liu Guoguang, what are these two holes for?" ”

"This ......," Liu Guoguang said, "Yuemin, I actually majored in archaeology in ...... university."

The people in the dormitory burst out laughing.

"Archaeology master, let me tell you, this big hole is used to pass through the light bulb, and the small hole is used to pass through the wire." Zhao Yuemin explained.

Finally, Zhao Yuemin inserted the wire into the small hole of the plastic box, and then screwed the bulb into the big hole in the middle of the plastic cover and the ring of the wire, so that the metal surface of the bulb was in good contact with the wire, and put the fixed battery pack into the round iron can.

"Everyone is watching, ......," Zhao Yuemin pretended to be mysterious.

Everyone leaned their heads closer.

"Here's the time to witness the miracle......" genius Zhao Yuemin took the lead in using the lines of the popular Spring Festival Gala decades later. He pressed the wire with his finger to the metal surface of the tin can, and the light bulb lit up.

The workers were so excited, watching Zhao Yuemin conjure up another electrical appliance for no reason.

"Just press the wire on the metal surface, it will light up, let go, and the flashlight will go out." Zhao Yuemin taught everyone how to use it.

"In the future, the problem of everyone getting up at night to go to the toilet has been solved! Don't trouble the party, don't trouble the organization. Do it yourself...... Clothed...... No, don't worry! Zhao Yuemin is now making up slogans.

Team leader driller Wang Wei couldn't close his mouth, touched Zhao Yuemin's head, shook the simple flashlight and said happily: "You kid, what a skilled craftsman!" ”