Chapter Thirty-Six: Looking Back It's Another Year

On Chinese New Year's Eve in 1877, Wang Yi celebrated the Spring Festival with his students and foreign scholars in the auditorium of the affiliated school. Originally, there were also some high-level executives of the big business department who wanted to come over, but they were all sent home by Wang Yi.

This is Wang Yi's second Spring Festival in the Qing Dynasty, the first Spring Festival was spent in Zhang's house, compared with later generations, I don't watch TV at night, I don't watch the Spring Festival Gala, it feels quite strange. However, on the Chinese New Year's Eve of this era, compared with later generations, people celebrate the New Year much more than the taste of the festival. Each family has been making noodles such as zuò steamed buns, bean buns, and steamed buns for a long time, and then storing them in small houses. Because of the cold weather in the Northeast, these noodles will not spoil in the short term. And then what Xiao Nian, what Laba garlic, sticky Fu characters, post Spring Festival couplets, wear new clothes, wear new hats, set off firecrackers, press the New Year's money, send the stove prince, eat stove sugar, many Wang Yi will not care at all before the crossing, and do not go back to participate in the things, but in this era I am deeply impressed.

However, in this era, Wang Yi still has a lot of bad experiences, and the biggest of them is that he eats too little food in winter, in addition to cabbage, radish, and potatoes in the cold cellar, there is sauerkraut. After turning over and over a few dishes, Wang Yi was about to go crazy after eating.

Because of this, after the winter has passed, Wang spent money to build 20 glass greenhouses without thinking about it, and this year's winter finally did not repeat the tragedy of 75 years.

Most of the students were left in school during the holidays. Only those students who did not sign a deed of sale and voluntarily came to the school to study returned home and reunited with their parents in the past few days, but they had to return to school before the seventh day of junior high school, and Wang Yi did not have much time to give the students a holiday.

As for the students who signed the deed of sale, Wang Yi looked at them very pitifully, and they were young, and they were afraid that they had forgotten what their parents looked like. In fact, the school is open to parents every Sunday afternoon, but there are not many parents who actually come to see their children.

At least Tong Qianjia's father never came.

Sometimes Wang Yi also felt helpless, watching some children sit near the school gate, braving the bitter cold, expecting their parents to arrive. But most of the time, I come with pleasure, and I return with disappointment, and my expectations are empty again and again, and I am sad again and again, which will always make people unbearable.

Wang Yi will talk to the students when he is fine, and so will the class teachers and nurses, but if he wants to fill the hole in the students' hearts caused by the lack of parents, Wang Yi thinks that he does not have this ability. But then I still thought of a trick, that is, in the spare time, organize some students to go out to help people in difficulty, on the one hand, to distract them, and on the other hand, to make them feel that they are actually doing well. At least the house is warm, well-fed, and there are not too many worries for the day.

Human independence is a process, and leaving the care of parents can hurt children, but at the same time, it will also develop their autonomy.

After the performance of the Spring Festival night, Qianjia, who used the cotton hat, cotton clothes, cotton pants, cotton coats, and cotton shoes issued by the school, looked like a bear. Standing with his classmates, he watched from a distance as Wang Yi commanded a group of foreigners to put flowers. This thing is also a product of the industrial real room, which Wang Yi made when he was idle and had nothing to do, but he didn't expect it to be very popular.

Every time the flowers bloom, the children cheered, Wang Yi came to Qianjia's side at this time, helped her cover her ears, the girl's little face was red from the cold, but she was very excited.

Today, Shen Yazhi was not there, and went to his brother's Chinese-style courtyard near the industrial real room, and it is said that someone from his hometown has come. Although Wang Yi had never inquired about Shen Yatou's life experience, he could guess that the two brothers and sisters must have some unknown secrets. Otherwise, if you don't live in Fujian, you can't go to Fengtian in the northeast, which is a barbarian place in the eyes of southerners, isn't there something wrong.

After eating the dumplings for the New Year, the hustle and bustle gradually stopped, and Wang Yi and the teachers who stayed behind sent the students back to the dormitory to sleep.

Qianjia was standing behind Wang Yi at this time, and Wang Yi didn't notice it at first, so he felt strange at this time, so he deliberately joked: "Why don't you go back to sleep, the New Year's money will be given tomorrow morning after the New Year." ”

"Qianjia is not sleepy, can Mr. talk to Qianjia?"

Wang Yi thought about it and felt that there was nothing wrong, so he nodded and took Qianjia back to his dormitory building.

The school has its own boiler, heating, bathhouse, and running water, and because it is not a profit-making school, there are no dirty things that happen when the boiler is not strong enough. It is not an exaggeration to say that the interior is like spring.

Wang Yi's room is taken care of and cleaned, but important things and texts will be stored in a special safe room, and no one can enter without Wang Yi's key.

In this era, there is one thing that makes Wang Yi feel very inconvenient, that is, there is no electric light!

Wang Yi wanted to make the electric light out early on, but because of the lack of some key equipment, it has not been completed.

The first thing missing is the extractor, and the second is the tungsten wire.

The air extractor is used to evacuate the air in the bulb, and the industrial room has begun to be developed, and now it has a prototype, and I believe that it will not be long before it will be completed.

Tungsten filament, on the other hand, is relatively more difficult and requires powder metallurgy. However, Wang Yi has already begun to send people to buy and mine scheelite in Hunan and wolframite in southern Jiangxi, and some of the ore has been transported to Yingkou, and as long as the process is mature, it can be refined. Tungsten ore is an important strategic material, and the king will be too little, not too much.

After both of them freshened up, Qianjia and Wang began to chat in bed. Because it is the relationship between Wang Yi's secretary, sometimes I need to deal with a lot of copywriting. So Qianjia also stayed at Wang Yi's side, which is not unusual.

Wang Yi's bed was very large, Qianjia sat opposite Wang Yi, there was only a candlestick next to him, and there was still a candle flame burning in the past, but he didn't expect it to be blown out by Qianjia.

Although he was still young, Wang Yi still felt a beautiful atmosphere.

"I don't like the smell of wax!" Qianjia said with a smile. "It's a lot better that way."

The two leaned on the big quilt and chatted without a word.

"Is Qianjia homesick?"

The girl shook her head and immediately asked, "Is the gentleman homesick?" ”

"I thought, I didn't think about it before, and I can't go back now."

"Mr. is more pitiful than Qianjia!"

"Why?" Wang Yiyi smiled.

"Although my father treats me badly, they are always there, and if Qianjia has the ability in the future, if she wants to, she can still go and see them."

The king nodded a little.

"That's not bad, compared to you, I don't have a place to see if I want to."

"Why don't I accompany my husband to kowtow to my parents?" Qianjia began to come up with ideas.

Wang Yi smiled at this time and said, "Isn't that a visit to the church to get married?" …… Then I told my parents that this is your daughter-in-law, look, how beautiful she looks. ”

Tong Qianjia was embarrassed and didn't dare to look at Wang Yi again.

"Alright, alright, I know you're kind!"

On the morning of the first day of the new year, of course, Wang Yi could not sleep with Qianjia Dafu, and the two of them slept in different rooms. Of course, in another six or seven years...... Maybe three or four years? …… Maybe it's a year or two, it's hard to say, anyway, Wang Yi never denies that he is a beast.

Before eating, everyone set off firecrackers in the cafeteria together, there was no special arrangement after the meal, those who wanted to sleep and sleep, those who wanted to study and study, the only thing was not to mess with the relationship between men and women. However, before the free activity, all the students in the school gave Wang Yi a New Year's greeting, and there was no New Year's money, but they just used the breakfast time to conduct a lottery, and everyone won a good fortune.

After that, Wang Yi went to the insurance team and had a tea party with the remaining team members.

At this time, Wang Yi was working in the office, and vaguely heard Shen Yatou's crisp laughter, and sure enough, it didn't take long for her to break in.

"What are you doing, it's like raiding your home during the New Year, you won't knock on the door!"

Shen Yatou pulled Qianjia and ran in, glared at Wang Yi first, and then gave Wang Yixing a formal salute, and said coquettishly: "Happy New Year, sir!" ”

But before these words landed, the girl's face changed in an instant, and she became a thief in an instant.

"Hurry up and give the New Year's money!"

Wang Yi gritted his teeth, and said in his heart that before he wore it, he was shaved enough by a bunch of wild children, and even the money to go to Fenglou was put in. As a result, I wanted to find a clean place, but I didn't expect this girl to come to block the way*.

"If you don't want money, you need to die!" Wang Yi tilted his neck and put on a posture of smiling at the sky with a horizontal knife to leave the liver and gallbladder.

"Stingy!" Shen Yazhi grimaced at Wang Yi, and then ran away with Qianjia, probably another teacher went to pay New Year's greetings.

Wang Yi closed the door and sat down in his place, and then picked up several reports from the desktop -- "Successful Development of Alkaline Rotary Blowing Furnace", "Plan for the Establishment of Microbial Laboratory", "Investment Plan for Dashang Silver Furnace in the Next Year", "Information Summary of Various Countries of Dashang Consulting Company", and "Report on the Successful Application of Telephone Patent Application".

After working for a morning, at noon, Wang Yi took his guards to the octagonal platform to pay New Year's greetings to Mr. Zhang. When Wang Wang of Zhangfu met Zhang Jingxiao, the two talked about the shipyard again, until Zhang Jingxiao's new wife, Qin Luan, who had seen Wang Yi unpleasantly, appeared, and the two stopped talking.

"Guangxu two years, for the big business is a year of development, a year of success, a brilliant year, although we have experienced ups and downs, encountered difficulties, faced setbacks, but with the joint efforts of all colleagues, we forge ahead, continuous progress, and made ......"

At the shareholders' meeting of Dashang Group, Wang Yi's speech as the chairman of the board of directors was actually not nutritious, and it was a large set of words for later generations. In Wang's eyes, this kind of official speech is only stronger than the eight strands that he can't understand, but it is also limited.

Of course, the shareholders of each branch are not concerned about his speech, but about the benefits they receive, the dividends of the shares.

At the end of the meeting, Wang Yi looked at the smiles on the faces of many people, and he still had a sense of accomplishment - how can the little master be more reliable than the GEM of later generations! Think about it for a moment...... I really can't catch up, other people's shareholders are billionaires, and Xiaodian is worth tens of millions!