During the holidays, groups of people are scattered within a radius of two or three kilometers centered on the Red Mansion, and the noise comes and goes, startling countless seabirds.

However, for young people who are about to go to sea, this holiday is a rare time to rest, so except for the Xiaomi couple who take their children to walk slowly hand in hand by the Moon River after dinner every day, everyone else either gathers and chats in the restaurant, or sleeps lazily in the dormitory to recuperate.

Of course, people like Mr. Zhao, Mr. Wang, and Mr. Zhu Luo, don't seem to have the concept of Sunday recently, and usually do things when they have something, and do their own research when they have nothing to do.

As a result, the only place to bring people together during the festival is the restaurant.

On the night of New Year's Day in 1657, it was customary for most people to go to the conference room to chat and gather, and according to last year's custom, everyone would wait until the big clock on the wall of the conference room rang twelve o'clock before it gradually dispersed.

Usually on this kind of night, everyone gathers in the conference room to eat, drink, and chat, and no one proposes to engage in any theatrical performances.

Although in the new world, the form and way of entertainment are very simple, but everyone is usually very fulfilling, everyone has their own life plan, plus they are usually tired of work, and they have to rush to recharge themselves in their spare time, so whether it is in the library on the fifth floor or in the computer reference room, there has been no lack of learning from morning to night.

Therefore, no one plays the clichés of those theatrical performances, and most people still think that those theatrical performances not only delay time and cost the people money, but also are too vulgar and formal, in short, it is a very boring thing.

Although there are no literary and artistic activities, it does not mean that there are no lively group activities.

In view of the fact that the New Year's Day night party is actually a very important public event occasion, therefore, just before the holiday, Sun Lao and others promptly proposed that everyone should still engage in the New Year's Day party, but that kind of friendship activities will be exempted, and we should use that opportunity to let everyone get together again and initially discuss the future medium and long-term development plan.

And there is no limit to the topic, there is no theme, everyone can talk freely, any ideas and concepts can be proposed, and everyone can even put forward various ideas in an entertaining manner.

To put it bluntly, according to what Sun Lao and they meant, it is to have a lively, themeless, divergent thinking, and no topic restrictions brainstorming meeting.

As soon as Sun Lao's proposal was put forward, it was immediately accepted by everyone, and gradually formed a practice later.

This was the origin of what became known as the "New Year's Talks," which were usually held on the last day of the year, or New Year's Day, and were usually held in the evening.

The first New Year's party was held in the conference room on the fifth floor of the Red Mansion, and after dinner, all kinds of melons, fruits and drinks were moved to the conference room.

At this time, under the light, there are 100 kilograms of gold bricks are neatly stacked in the center of the hollow conference table, and the dazzling golden light reflects everyone's faces yellow.

A few people immediately chimed in and said that it would be better to put some flowers and plants in the middle of the round table in this conference room, don't chat around a pile of gold all day long, looking like a group of nouveau riche, it's too funny, besides, I can't stand this eye if I keep dazzling like this.

So the first topic of the meeting was to move the gold, but where to move it? Everyone looked around, yes, let's continue to pile up the corners.

As soon as they said it, everyone immediately lifted the gold bricks, and finally all the 9.3 tons of gold bars returned to the team, and they were neatly stacked by everyone and leaned against the four walls.

However, everyone still felt dazzling, and in the end, there was no way, Sun Lao brought a few pieces of white cloth and covered these gold bars, and this time everyone's eyes were clear.

After tossing these things, Lao Wang hurriedly beckoned a few high school students to go to the farm with him, and after a while they moved a few red brick-colored large tile pots from the farm, this thing is a recent product of the brick and tile factory, because the fire does not seem to be grasped well when firing, the large tile pot is mixed with some blue-gray, and the shape is not very regular and round, but it obviously does not affect the use of the function.

These jars and jars were originally produced by Hou Xianglin at the request of Lao Wang, large and thick, and they were ugly for ten days, but they were very practical.

However, the crowd did not complain about these clay pots, because people's eyes were attracted by a few inconspicuous weeds in the clay pots.

Didn't you say moving flower pots?

Why are there no flowers?

Why don't you plant a few bamboos?

Looking at everyone's puzzled eyes, Lao Wang explained with a smile, don't underestimate this grass, this is a special rubber grass! It hasn't bloomed yet, but it's actually beautiful.

Lao Wang went on to say that the temperature and dry and wet conditions in the conference room are very suitable, and the conference room will be used as a nursery room for a few days for a few days, because it is always raining on the island these days, and the rainy season here is too humid.

Lao Wang went on to explain that he had carefully studied the varieties of this rubber grass, and the vitality was tenacious, but he liked a cooler and slightly drier climate, and he was currently improving the seeds to adapt to the climatic conditions here, preparing to transplant a few acres experimentally after the rainy season, and after success, he could engage in large-scale seedling planting.

At this time, Mr. Zhao also ran over to take a closer look at the grass in the clay pot, and finally nodded and said that this rubber grass can indeed extract rubber, although the quality of the glue may not be as good as the rubber trees of the old world, and the production efficiency is also a little low, but the benefits are also obvious: once the trial is successful, we can obtain rubber raw materials without relying on the outside world.

I don't need to say more about the purpose of rubber, right? Lao Wang said to everyone with a smile.

The conference room suddenly became noisy, so the topic began to start with rubber grass, people's thinking began to diverge, from rubber to rubber shoes, to tires, and of course there must be people talking about the use of rubber in industrial machinery, especially steam engines and internal combustion engines.

A group of onlookers and melon-eating people also said that when there is rubber in the future, there will be tires, so will the car be far away? Then someone next to me immediately complained, you seem to have reversed the direction of research and development in the automobile industry, right?