After the coachman left, Tang Xingjian said to his wife: "In the past few days, we have held meetings every day, and almost everyone is busy. ”

Tang Xingjian's wife asked, "What's wrong?" Do you want to fight? ”

Tang Xingjian said: "It's busier than fighting!" You don't know how busy we are right now. Now we need a lot of oil in China, so the oil city is going to have a general battle. ”

"General battle?"

"Yes, General War." Tang Xingjian explained, "It is necessary to mobilize all the elites across the country to station in our oil city and carry out a comprehensive oil development. ”

"What do we need so much oil for?" His wife asked.

Tang Xingjian said: "It's a big use, don't ask so much about you women!" ”

His wife was upset, grabbed his ear and said, "What's wrong with the woman?" What's wrong with women? I'm also an honorable oil worker now, don't underestimate us women. ”

"Don't dare, don't dare. Madame, I'm hungry, what do we have to eat? Tang Xingjian touched his stomach with a hippie smile and said.

"Boys, Daddy's back, it's time to eat!" His wife was facing him, and the back room shouted loudly.

"Daddy's back!"

"Daddy's back!"

Several of his children ran out of the back room to greet Tang Xingjian.

Tang Xingjian pulled a seven or eight-year-old child in one hand and walked in happily, followed by two teenage children.

"What did Mom cook today?" Before Tang Xingjian entered the house, he smelled the fragrant braised pork.

"There is braised pork today." The youngest daughter replied childishly.

His wife followed behind and yelled, "Wash your hands first!" Those who do not wash their hands are not allowed to eat. ”

The little girl innocently said, "Mom, I just washed it." ”

Tang Xingjian washed his hands before serving the table, and after he sat down, he did not immediately pick up the chopsticks, but asked his eldest son: "Have you finished your homework today?" ”

His eldest son said, "The books taught by the gentleman here are all what we have learned in the capital. ”

His wife interjected: "My assistant, can you, a dignified mayor's assistant, care more about your children's studies?" Find a way to transfer him to the second middle school in the city. ”

Tang Xingjian said: "Wife, don't worry, the emperor said that children are the future of our country, and we must attach importance to education." Therefore, whether it is No. 1 Middle School or No. 2 Middle School, they are all schools under our Huaxia and will never favor one over the other. It's just that we are currently in short supply of teachers, and soon, the Ministry of Culture and Education will soon transfer a group of young gentlemen to the oil city. ”

His eldest son asked, "Dad, I heard my husband say that the oil city is going to be built on a large scale, and in a few years, it will be as prosperous as the capital, is it true?" ”

Tang Xingjian said: "In a few years, it is certain that the oil city will be as prosperous as the capital, but it can only be as prosperous as the current capital, because the capital is also developing, and the capital in a few years will be very different from the current capital." ”

The eldest son said, "Then why are we here?" Is it bad to stay in the capital? ”

Tang Xingjian touched the child's head and said loudly: "Children, you all listen well, we are all builders of Huaxia, for our Huaxia, where the emperor tells us to go, we will go, only in this way will our Huaxia get better and better, if everyone wants to stay in the capital like you, then, who will build our Huaxia?" No one has built Huaxia, and there is still the prosperity of the capital? ”

His wife was unhappy, and knocked on the rice bowl and said, "Eat!" All eat! Don't listen to your father's big truths, you all study hard, this is what the emperor asked you to do. ”

Tang Xingjian was also unhappy, and accused his wife: "Am I not right? Am I not right? ”

His wife knocked him on the head with chopsticks: "To your head, now is the time to eat, not the time for you to preach, and you still let people eat with peace of mind?" ”

"Eat, eat." Tang Xingjian bowed his head and admitted defeat.

……

The next day, Tang Xingjian's coachman came half an hour late, and he parked the carriage firmly at the door of Tang Xingjian's house, waiting for Tang Xingjian to come out.

Tang Xingjian walked out with his briefcase, chewing on his mouth.

"Have you had breakfast?" Tang Xingjian asked vaguely.

"When is it now, I've already eaten it!" The coachman raised his whip, and then jokingly said, "Is it that you can't get out of bed because of your sister-in-law?" ”

Tang Xingjian sat in the carriage and patted the coachman on the back: "You kid is not serious, your sister-in-law and I have four children, so there is still so much energy." ”

"Driving ——!"

The coachman flicked his whip, and the carriage began to walk.

"Assistant Tang, sit tight!"

Tang Xingjian wiped the oil on his mouth and said, "You wait, when our car is produced, you don't have to drive the carriage anymore, you will all drive the car one by one." ”

The coachman asked curiously, "Assistant Tang, what does the car look like?" ”

Tang Xingjian said: "There are four wheels, which can run on the road, and it eats not grass, but gasoline. ”

The coachman asked, "Does it listen to men?" Is it easy to control? ”

Tang Xingjian said as if he didn't understand: "Of course it will listen to people's words, it was made by us, how can it not listen to us?" If not, what are we going to do with it? ”

"Shall we tell it to run and run, and stop when we tell it to stop?"

Tang Xingjian straightened his chest and said, "Of course!" If you tell it to lie down, it has to get down, and if you tell it to stand up, it has to stand up. ”

The coachman asked a puzzled question: "What if I want to make it turn?" ”

"This, this, I don't know. When the car is built, don't you know? When Tang Xingjian said this, he suddenly stuck his head out, "Wrong!" Wrong! We are not going back to City Hall today. ”

"Assistant Tang, where are we going?"

Tang Xingjian retracted his head and said, "To the north, go to Bei'an City." ”

The first oil well here is in Bei'ancheng, and since the construction started in March last year, 80 tons of oil have been produced, because the oil utilization value is not large, and these 80 tons of oil are still stored in the underground oil depot, and Tang Xingjian's task is to investigate the current storage situation of the oil depot.

The coachman drove the carriage on a wide concrete road heading north, and the weather was fine today, and the coachman shrunk the canopy in half, and the carriage went north under the blow of the March spring breeze.

"Assistant Tang, you said that this car can run after eating gasoline, how did it do it?" The coachman had not yet been freed from his quirky questions.

"I don't know, I'm going to ask the engineers." Tang Xingjian wanted to sleep on the carriage again, but he couldn't stand the coachman's left and right questions, and drove away all the sleepy insects, he originally wanted to perfunctory the coachman, but now he didn't want to sleep, so he had the idea of chatting a few more words, "This car has a heart, its heart is called the internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine is placed in the car, the car can start, if it is placed in the ship, the ship can also start, the steam engine in the heart of our current steamship burns coal, if it is replaced by an internal combustion engine, There is no need to burn coal. ”

"So burn what?" The curious coachman hurriedly asked.

"Gasoline."

"Gasoline?"

"Yes, it's gasoline." Tang Xingjian said firmly, "Do you understand? ”

"I don't understand, Assistant Tang."