Chapter 15: The American Team Before the Experiment
Jonathan also only has twice a year off to go home to visit his mother, so in order to allow Ms. Emma to have some entertainment in her spare time, Jonathan used the money from the farm to buy a black and white big-headed TV.
Television was only beginning to become popular in the forties, and color television sets did not begin to appear in the fifties, when only the wealthy had televisions.
Jonathan placed the TV with a few rotary buttons on the coffee table on the first floor of the home, so that Ms. Emma could catch a few glances at the TV show while she was washing the dishes in the kitchen.
"This is the TV! It's amazing! β
"Look that toothpaste can still move!"
Knowing that the farm had bought a television, the retreating female workers on the farm, who had not had time after the harvest, pointed at the television with a look of novelty and surprise on their faces, and the female workers who worked on the farm were generally not wealthy at home, so they had not seen such a thing as television a few times.
Jonathan couldn't cry or laugh at this, the whole performance of Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, I don't know how shocked they would be when they saw the ultra-thin LCD TV.
"Mr. Green, I've got a letter!"
On this day, Jonathan shoveled the corn in the warehouse with a shovel, and the warehouse has been a little wet lately, and Jonathan has to turn it over often so that it doesn't grow hair later.
The letter came from his brother Howard, who was one of the main leaders of the serum research and development program, and told himself that the development of the serum had come to an end. Of course, if it weren't for the fact that the two of them have been relatively close in the past five or six years, there would be no way for me to know about something like this, which is obviously confidential.
It's time, it's time to strengthen your physique with the so-called serum.
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"How is it, is life in the barracks bitter?" Dressed in a mature suit vest, Jonathan walked in the middle of the barracks training ground with his hands behind his back, before him was Steve, who had not grown taller but full of determination, and to his left was Howard, who had two beards with his hands in his pockets.
"Mr. Green, could it be your ......" Steve wiped the sweat from his forehead as he tried to let Jonathan know from his words and deeds that he was no longer an innocent teenager who licked the door.
"No, it's your own efforts to get you to be favored by Dr. Erskine, and you think too much of me, I don't have so much energy!" Jonathan smiled, it seemed that Captain America had indeed grown up, and he began to suspect that he had used his Stark status to pass him through the back door.
Before that, Jonathan was actually very disgusted that he was born in the early 20th century, because he had no mobile phones, no computers, and his entertainment life in this world was very scarce.
But now that he thinks about it, he can watch Captain America grow up, he can look at the Stark family before he made his fortune, and he can watch Dr. X who struggled to found Academy X.
In this Marvel universe, the major forces are just in the beginning, and as long as they plug in their own feet, it is very likely that they will easily become giants in a few decades.
Although Jonathan just wants to live an ordinary life, if this world is so dangerous, then he should also establish his own power to protect himself and his family, and only then can he live an ordinary life.
"Mr. Green, although I have been running around since joining the army in the past few years, and we haven't seen each other much, I have always had a thank you that I want to say to you!"
"How?"
"At the beginning, when everyone didn't believe me, when everyone looked down on me, and even my parents didn't have any hope, only you patted me on the shoulder and told me not to give up!"
Although the American team that did not conduct the serum experiment was short, it was extremely stubborn and gritted its teeth firmly: "I will definitely succeed, I want to let those who look down on me see that I am not a waste, and I will not disappoint those who look down on me!" β
Jonathan didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and the reason why he believed that Steve would succeed was because he saw that Steve succeeded.
It's just that he didn't expect that at that time, Steve was alone, insisting on his dream of joining the army, and suddenly Jonathan stood up to support him, but he became the object of his gratitude.
Maybe at that time, Jonathan's appearance was his lifeline, after all, "finishing touches" are not real help, but "sending charcoal in the snow" can be regarded as real help!
"Steve, you will succeed, and one day you will become a spiritual symbol that everyone admires......" Jonathan patted Steve's still thin shoulder, just like he had been on the farm.
Steve's body is very weak, and he has been dragging on to the end in various trainings, looking at Steve's appearance of hanging at the end and still trying not to give up, Howard, who has nothing serious except for the development of a project, smiled: "You see that his little short legs are quite fast!" β
"you!" This was funny, so that Jonathan, who was originally a little talkative and had no sense of humor, couldn't help laughing.
Although Howard is sometimes a bad man, he is not a big traitor, on the contrary, he does not treat people as scheming as those who are calculating, at least his scheming is not necessarily as good as Jonathan.
"Jonathan, I am in charge of the company's development in recent years, although you also said that you will never point fingers at me to give me enough room to play, I am very grateful to you, but you don't have to be so opinionated!"
"Aren't I afraid that I, a layman, will command an insider to make jokes!" On the playground of the secret barracks, Jonathan and Howard, who haven't exercised much recently, are walking in circles, while the soldiers who are going to participate in the serum experiment are training overtime.
The weather after autumn is cool, and in the barracks, the wide golden leaves of the plane trees, and the swaying sound of "whoosh" is the sound of the paulownia leaves falling from the trees when the wind blows.
"You're not ordinary, you've completed all the courses in college before you were fifteen, and you've been working on your farm since you've been ten years old, so I don't believe you don't have any ideas!"
Howard knew something about his childhood, Jonathan was not surprised, there was suddenly an extra half-brother in the family, and it was an accident that Howard didn't find out this brother!
"It's all my own brothers, so I won't beat around the bush, first of all, the flying car project you are developing now can be put aside for a while. Not to mention the time-consuming and laborious investment of a lot of money, it is not too practical so far in the future, and it can only be an ornament at that time. β
"Jonathan, to be honest, the company you and I have been in the joint venture for six years, and I have made some achievements in the past six years, but the future development is like a fog for me, I can't see through it or think through it, I can only say that everyone is developing flying cars, and our company can't lag behind."
"You're right, the most important thing in doing business is to master the market, just like playing chess on a black and white chessboard, you have to be able to anticipate five moves if others expect one move, so that you can seize the opportunity!"
For Jonathan, his half-brother Howard, he did not dare to underestimate him, even if he claimed to be one of the smartest people in the world, he could not start reading "Montaigne's Essays" at the age of three, and read aloud with emotion to criticize the church and criticize the feudal society of the last century.
This brother not only has a variety of poetry collections, prose novels, but also knows a variety of violin songs, but also understands the research and development of various technologies.
Jonathan looked at the seven-colored rainbow hanging above the empty barracks after the rain, and his thoughts had returned to the hard-pressed college student in the 21st century who didn't dare to add eggs to pancakes.