After leaving the train station, Goncharova was going to stay at the Metropole Hotel, and Wang Weidong wanted to take Ivan and Konstantin to Pancailovna's house, where they had stayed in the last time they came to Moscow.

A car was parked not far from the four people, Goncharova glanced at the car and turned back to Wang Weidong and said! "Mr. Verton, it is better to leave someone to wait at Pancailovna's house while you are in Moscow, and I will take you to meet a few people in the next few days."

The three then took a taxi to Pancailovna's house on Arbat Street.

The old lady was very happy to see Wang Weidong's arrival and invited three people into the house.

"Comrade Pancairovna, this time we have come to Moscow to live in your house again." Wang Weidong said.

"Mr. Verton, you are very welcome!" Pancailovna said.

I haven't seen her for a year, and the old lady's body seems to be a lot more rickety, and there is a very strong smell of onions in the whole room.

In the large northern countries, onions and cabbage, also known as kohlrabi, are the two most common vegetables eaten by the poor, and the staple food of the poor is the potato.

Wang Weidong took out the money to ask Big Ivan and Konstantin to buy more things at the Gum mall not far from Arbat Street.

He accompanied Pancailovna to chat in the living room.

Wang Weidong was surprised to find that the TV in the living room was playing a documentary about Yuri Gagarin's rocket taking off like time travel.

The bookshelf in the living room is stacked with all kinds of videotapes, all of which are films, TV series and documentaries from the former northern powers.

Pancailovna, an old lady, has been numbing herself with these videos for the past few years, so that she can still live in the past era.

Most of the ideas in the northern powers are still Western, and although Panselovna also has children, they rarely come to visit their mother, let alone live with her and take care of her.

"Mr. Verton, since you have been in Moscow, I have been paying more attention to the news from China. I heard that the economy of your country is developing very well. ”

The old lady Pancailovna raised her hands tremblingly, then put them down helplessly and said, "Look at what a mess we have here! The great northern powers have become a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor in just a few years! Several people I knew died quietly in their homes, and it took a long time for someone else to find them. The eighty-year-old man fell on the snow while receiving bread and could not get up again. ”

Wang Weidong looked at the TV, where Yuri Gagarin was speaking, and he said: "After I ascended into space, I looked around and did not see the shadow of the emperor!" ”

Big Ivan and Konstantin returned, and the two bought a lot of vegetables, rice, macaroni, fruits, and wine.

"We'll go buy a bigger fridge tomorrow and come back." Wang Weidong said.

That night, Goncharova came to Wang Weidong.

She came in her own car, and just when Big Ivan and Konstantin also wanted to get in the car, Goncharova said: "You two don't have to go, the location is not far away, just a few hundred meters away." ”

What Goncharova said was not wrong at all, the place where she took Wang Weidong was really not far at all, and that place was only more than 200 meters away from Panselovna's house.

And it was a building exactly the same as Pantselovna's house. Goncharova and Wang Weidong got out of the car and walked to the front of the building and rang the doorbell.

It was an old lady who opened the door, and when she saw Goncharova standing at the door, she turned around and shouted: "Comrade Barentin, Miss Goncharova is here!" ”

Goncharova led Wang Weidong into the room, and the old man standing at the door of the living room greeted them with a cane.

Wang Weidong felt that this old man was older than Pan Cailovna's. The wrinkles on his face are like the ravines of the Loess Plateau, and only his two eyes are still refreshed.

"Hello, Uncle Barentine! This is Mr. Verton from China. Goncharova said.

Then she turned to Wang Weidong and said, "This is the academician of the Academy of Sciences, Mr. Barentin, the general engineer!" He is the best vacuum tube scientist in our country! ”

"It's a great honor to meet you, Mr. Barentine!" Wang Weidong said.

Although he didn't know who Barentin was now, he must have been a very good old man when he heard Goncharova just say the title of academician general.

As she helped Barentin into the living room, Goncharova said to Wang Weidong: "The Academy of Sciences of the former northern powers is directly under the leadership of the Council of Ministers, so my father and these scientists are very familiar with each other. ”

The former northern powers are still leading the world in many scientific and technological aspects, such as vacuum tubes, that is, electron tube technology, which have the world's most advanced technology. They also used tubes to produce the best tube computers of the time.

The rapid development of semiconductors and transistors in Western countries has left the northern powers far behind, but Wang Weidong is very interested in and understands household appliances because of the production of radios.

For a long time, the technology in the field of electron tubes in China is not up to par. In the early 80s, the state launched many black-and-white television factories, and these television factories had to import electron guns and cathodes from abroad until they failed to operate well and went bankrupt in the early 90s, and even directly imported picture tubes.

The reason is that these parts imported from abroad will not be broken until the TV is scrapped, and it is difficult to ensure the service life of domestically produced picture tubes.

Goncharova is now bringing herself to meet the authoritative scientist of vacuum tubes in this large northern country, and she will definitely not let this old guy popularize the knowledge of vacuum tubes for herself. Wang Weidong's heart faintly guessed Goncharova's thoughts.

"Uncle Barentin, isn't the state now allowing you to give lectures at universities and take graduate students?" Goncharova asked.

"They are all gone, their apparent reason is to study in the United States and learn more advanced knowledge, in fact, I know that some people are secretly trying to woo them to immigrate to the United States. Those Western dog mongrels laughed at us in the newspapers for doing technical research in the garbage heap, and the technology of vacuum tubes was the garbage that had been eliminated! But secretly, they sent people to us to win over our technical talents and spend a lot of money to buy our technical materials! Barentin replied.

Wang Weidong and Goncharova sat in Barentin's house for less than an hour before they took their leave.

Sitting in the car, Wang Weidong asked, "Miss Goncharova, what do you think?" ”

"Instead of letting all these technologies be taken away by Westerners, it is better for us to cooperate to build a vacuum tube factory in China!" Goncharova said.

(End of chapter)