The daily life of American TV agents

Chapter 488 BABY
"Everything changes because of having kids," Shelton grumbled. How are we going to do these things when we have kids?"

"Take it easy, Sheldon, I think you can take two babies at once."

Ron patted Sheldon's back to comfort him, but unexpectedly, it had the opposite effect. Sheldon looked up and looked at Ron in horror: "What?! Two babies! Whose belly are you making big? Then Two cake sellers? Or the snotty bitch from Tao Xi's family? God, you can't be"

Ron had a black line: "I didn't make anyone's belly bigger! I'm talking about you! Sheldon, you are our other big baby! I believe that no matter how ugly the baby is, it will not be bigger than You are more annoying!"

"Really? How am I a child?!" Sheldon yelled dissatisfiedly: "Which baby needs to shave every eleven days?"

"What adult runs around in anime-themed T-shirts every day? Or spends all pocket money on train trains and comics? Or what adult gets sick and needs his mom to keep him warm?" Sleep? Or..."

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Sheldon quickly interrupted Ron's endless chatter: "I only said one thing, so you can only say one thing, there is no need to say so much, this round counts." We're tied, okay."

"OK, we'll talk about Baby Sheldon later, Howard, how does it feel to be a dad?"

Ron's words once again attracted everyone's attention to Howard, but Howard's situation was not very good, and he immediately started hysterical:
"Do you know? I shouldn't be a father. I don't like to eat vegetables myself. How could I ask my children to eat them! And the Sheldon that Ron said just now, I also read comics and play games every day! God, Ro You're right, I'm a big baby myself!"

"Howard, I think you may be overreacting." Leonard gave Ron a blank look, trying to calm Howard down.

"Or, you can pull Sheldon, add your child, and the three of you go to kindergarten together, at least I can guarantee that no other child can bully you this time, wait! You really don't Will you be bullied by other kids?"

Thinking about Howard and Sheldon's fighting power is not as strong as a chicken, Ron was a little uncertain.

"Uh... probably not?" Howard was also confused, but he immediately realized that this is not the point: "It doesn't matter, the point is, look at my ugly hooked nose! If the child looks like What should I do?! What's worse, what if the daughter looks like me? She won't be able to get married."

"Howard, under normal circumstances, what you should ask is what if the child doesn't look like you?" Raj reminded kindly, but it was strange that when he said this, his eyes were on Ron.

It attracted Howard's eyes to look over, and he couldn't help sighing: "That's great, Ron, you don't have this problem, whether it's a boy or a girl, it doesn't matter if you look like you."

"I suggest not to, if your child looks like me, it will be very embarrassing." Ron bowed his head a little guilty.

Although he and Bernadette are innocent, he has always kept in touch with Hope. The most annoying thing is that after knowing that Ron has a friend whose girlfriend looks exactly like himself, Hope specially keeps in touch with him every time. Let Ron call himself Bernadette while playing.

Ron refused at first, but then...

Well, Ron can only say one thing about this. In terms of it, you sports stars can play, gymnastics, and cosplay games, and now you even play ex-husband criminals...

Fortunately, Shelton brought the topic back on track again: "Yeah, not to mention the impact of this incident on our social circle, everything will change, and Howard can no longer come here as frequently as before."

Raj: "He can bring the baby with him."

"But then we'd have to babyproof the apartment, and my sister Missy's bathroom has a toilet lock, so I, a double-degree Ph. D., can only piss in the sink inside."

"Who told you to lose the toilet key? Or if you don't drink so much yogurt, you don't have to go to the toilet every once in a while. Don't blame everyone else for everything, Sheldon."

Howard suddenly set his sights on Ron, turning his eyes treacherously: "The point is, do you know how much it costs to raise a child? Someone has done statistics, raising a child in Los Angeles until he graduates from college, The cost was over $100 million, oh my god! $100 million!"

With Howard yelling vigorously, everyone focused on Ron, only Sheldon was a little confused by the weird atmosphere, so: "100 million dollars is indeed a lot, but what do you all see Ron doing?"

"Yes, what do you all see me doing?" Ron continued following Sheldon's words: "Or, you can apply to Bernadette and ask her to give you more pocket money."

Although Howard received another salary from Ron, compared with Bernadette, the income is still much lower. After all, Bernadette works for one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the United States. The enthusiasm of R&D personnel, R&D personnel can directly participate in the dividends of drug sales.

Come to think of it, Bernadette gets one cent for every drug sold, which sounds like a small amount, but remember, the purpose of modern medical capital is not to save lives!
In order to obtain the maximum profit, even if medical capital develops a special drug for a certain non-lethal disease, it will generally not push it to the market, but will keep it in the snow. Instead, another drug that can alleviate the disease but cannot Curative drugs are released.

In this way, in order to alleviate the disease, people will continue to buy medicine and take it, which will become a stable income of medical capital until they die.

That's why some people say that after the end of the Cold War, the biggest beneficiaries are not outdated things such as industrial capital or military capital, but medical capital.

Because the regime that was truly capable and whose goal was to liberate everyone has collapsed, medical capital no longer has to worry about the day when the Soviet Union will release the magic medicine that they are using chronic diseases to drag down the wallets of ordinary people.

"Ron, I'm not joking." Howard looked at Ron seriously, and Ron knew that it would be impossible for him not to bleed a little today.

"Okay, I'll give you guys a raise..."

"Yeah!" Leonard and Howard jumped up and cheered loudly, Sheldon and Raj looked at them inexplicably, not knowing what to be excited about.

For the two of them, Sheldon only needs to meet the basic survival needs, well, and make the food more delicious. Apart from the game comics, there is basically no other expenses.

As for Rajesh, the salary is dispensable to him, and the extra salary given by Ron is not as much as the pocket money given by his father. His research is originally a hobby, but his hobby is played at a high level. a little.

For such two people, it is still too difficult to expect them to be excited about the salary increase.

"Quiet, guys, be quiet!" Ron pressed his hands down to quiet the excited friends: "But I want to make it clear in advance that I can't raise your salary too much, at most it's every About one thousand dollars more per month."

"Why?" Leonard asked disappointedly.

"Because the project you are helping me with is a non-profit weapon development project. It is impossible to make a profit if the weapons are not sold out. It can only be a project that burns money. Although my IRS special operations team does make a lot of money, but Burning money is not such a burning method.”

What Ron said was the truth. Of course, everyone understands that although Ron has money, it is Ron's own money. He has no obligation to support his friends. Besides, how much the work done by Howard and the others is worth. Also very numerous.

Although they are indeed the top scientists, they have not created much value themselves. Most of their work is theoretical research. Only Howard's engineer work has a little touch with practice, but that is also a large-scale scientific project, not How much will it increase his income.

Howard lowered his head dejectedly: "You're right, I'm just for a while...you know..."

"You don't have to be so depressed, do you know what we should do now?" Ron patted Sheldon's thigh and stood up.

Shelton rubbed his sore leg and complained, "Should we all be sterilized to avoid future troubles?"

"Of course not! It's about finding a place to have a drink, my God, why do you have such an idea?" Ron gave Shelton a blank look: "First of all, we have to celebrate, celebrating our first fatherhood Howard, secondly..."

"And second?"

"Secondly, we need to come up with a good idea. Use your scientific minds and my capital to create a company together. This time, we will make a profitable project and make a lot of money!"

Ten minutes later, Ron repeated what he said just now at the bar the four of them liked to go to, and raised his glass: "Let's raise a glass to our friend, Howard, a man with a big heart and a beautiful soul..."

"There is no man who is infertile in leggings!" Raj cut the conversation and clinked glasses with Ron.

"cheers!"

After a round of drinking, Howard took off the small umbrella on the cocktail and said with emotion: "Look at this, the person who invented this little umbrella must have made a lot of money now, he can have as many children as he wants, and there is no need to worry about running out of money The problem."

"It can also block the rain in a small area of ​​​​the head." Shelton said with a red face. Although it was a cocktail, he still maintained his unbeatable record and got drunk in one sip.

"If I want to raise a child, I must think of a super-profitable idea, but I don't have any ideas in my mind right now." Howard said distressedly.

"Actually, the idea is in your hands, my friends. Even you have been studying him for a long time, haven't you found it?" Ron looked at a few scientists who were still worrying about money, and asked.

What I got in exchange was a few pairs of unbelievable eyes: "How is it possible? If we have a super profitable project, why don't we know?"

"Oh my God!" Ron almost choked on the whiskey. "Recently, I asked you to help me research the new mecha energy supply system. I remember that Sheldon seems to have been inspired and made new progress, right?"

"Yes, that's right. I redesigned it based on Christo's energy storage principle. The idea of ​​the battery is good, but it is too radical, so it is easy to cause explosions and super electromagnetic waves that can damage the human body. After my Although the energy density is much smaller, I assure you that it is absolutely very safe... Huh... Huh..."

While talking, Sheldon drank the cocktail in one gulp, then fell directly on the table and fell asleep.

"Yes, that's what I'm talking about." Ron took Sheldon's face out of the snack plate and put it on the table: "I think the battery that has been re-validated by Sheldon should be more versatile than the current one." Lithium batteries are easier to use, right?"

"Of course! It's so easy to use~" When talking about this, Raj couldn't help dancing: "Its energy density is almost three times that of current lithium batteries, and it is almost not affected by temperature. Operating in a low-temperature environment of minus 10 degrees, the power loss is less than [-]%, which is already the lowest temperature that can be encountered on the earth.”

Ron lowered his voice and smiled mysteriously: "So, do you know what this means?"

"What does it mean?"

"It means that if all electric vehicles are replaced with this type of battery, fuel vehicles will be completely defeated!"

"That's right, we will become the overlord of new energy sources," Shelton was awakened by the urge to urinate in a daze. He had just swallowed his cocktail and drank too much water: "Where is the toilet?"

"Over there, at the corner." Raj said, "I really hope that the men's and women's signs in the toilet can be more obvious."

"It doesn't matter, anyway, he was walking towards the kitchen." Ron shrugged, Raj pointed at him just now, but Sheldon followed his finger and walked in the opposite direction: "Where did we go just now?" gone?"

"Oil fuel vehicles will be beaten to the point of no defense. By the way, we can sell the battery to Tesla!" Howard is now focused on making money and is very sensitive to this area: "I talked to Bernadette last time. I met Musk himself when I was a volunteer, and I have his business card."

Howard excitedly took out a crumpled business card from his pocket. From the clearly visible sweat stains on it, it can be inferred how many times this business card has been rubbed repeatedly in Howard's hands.

"That's his assistant's phone number. I don't think that joking Tony would take this kind of fantasy-sounding thing seriously and tell Musk," Ron glanced at and took out his cell phone: "I'll call him Bar."

"Wait, you have a Musk phone?" Several friends stared at Ron in disbelief.

"Of course, didn't I tell you? I am one of the shareholders of Space Exploration Corporation."

(End of this chapter)