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Chapter 339 No oil, no electricity, perpetual motion machine!!

Since the second half of 1959, due to some reasons,

Elena's work was affected. She was no longer free to move around the city. Because she was exhausted from dealing with these things every day, she hadn't made an appointment with Zhang Shenfei to discuss the Eighteen Styles of Avi for a long time.

That day, Zhang Shenfei returned to Yenching University from the courtyard.
From a distance, he saw Elena, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. She was wearing a camel cashmere coat, a black wool sweater, high heels, and her long hair was loose. She was standing outside the school gate, looking around, obviously waiting for him.

Seeing her suddenly coming to his house, Zhang Shenfei's eyes flashed with surprise, but after thinking about it for a while, he had a rough guess.

He walked straight over, but did not stop when passing by Elena, just glanced at her seemingly unintentionally.

The relationship between the two countries has been tense recently, and there are fewer opportunities to see foreigners these days.

When passers-by see the blonde and blue-eyed Elena, they can't help but take a second look. Zhang Shenfei's behavior is no different from theirs.

Elena seemed not to notice his gaze and did not react at all to Zhang Shenfei who passed by her.

Only after he left her for a few minutes did she turn around and walk slowly in the direction Zhang Shenfei left.

The two of them walked like this, one in front of the other, for several minutes as if they didn't know each other at all.

Only after he was sure that he was far away from Yenching University and would not be discovered by acquaintances did Zhang Shenfei slow down his pace. Elena then quickened her pace to catch up, and the two of them were soon shoulder to shoulder.

"Fei, I'm leaving Sijiu City and Country Z." Elena said as she walked, looking at the dead trees on the side of the road.

"Yeah, I guessed it." Zhang Shenfei nodded. The current situation is serious and it is time to leave. "Let's go. I will treat you to a meal to practice for you. You decide what to eat."

Elena tilted her head, looked at the gray sky and thought for a while: "Let's go to Lao Mo."

Lao Mo? ? ? A hint of surprise flashed across Zhang Shenfei’s eyes.

He thought that this foreign girl had stayed in Beijing for so many years and was about to leave, so she must have a last meal of Chinese food like roast duck or Shandong cuisine.

At worst, it's still some old city snacks like stewed pork, right? ? After all, I can't eat it anymore.

I never expected that I would go straight to my hometown to eat the delicious food.

"After the Mao Bear Meals return to your motherland, can you eat as much as you want? Why do you have to eat them in Beijing?" he asked curiously.

Could it be that the ones from the four-nine cities are more authentic than those from their own country???

"Although I can eat the bear meal anytime I go back, the person who eats with me may never be you again..." A hint of sadness flashed in Elena's emerald eyes.

But she has always been an open-minded person. Since she had made up her mind to spend the last unforgettable night with Zhang Shenfei, she quickly adjusted her mood and smiled at Zhang Shenfei.

Zhang Shenfei was touched by her eyes and smiled back: "Let's go, let's go to Lao Mo. Today, everything is up to you. Whatever you say is what it is."

After saying that, he stopped a tricycle.

The two of them rode a rickshaw and headed west. After leaving Xizhimen, they continued west until they reached the Sijiucheng Exhibition Hall.

The predecessor of the Sijiucheng Exhibition Hall was the Soviet Bear Exhibition Hall built in October 1954. It was an exhibition hall designed to showcase the achievements of socialist construction in the fields of Soviet economy, culture, science and technology, architectural technology and architectural art.

In 1958, it was officially renamed the Sijiu City Exhibition Hall.

It is the first large-scale comprehensive exhibition hall in my country. It is a Mao Zedong-style building with typical Mao Zedong characteristics.

The building is symmetrical along the central axis, with the main building in the center towering and the middle and sides being low. It is divided into three horizontal parts by the eaves, walls and plinths, forming a "three-section" composition.

From the outside, it has a high and pointed roof, a red curved gate, and European-style round columns.

Turn right along the path next to the exhibition hall, and Lao Mo will appear before your eyes.

Lao Mo is the first Mao Bear restaurant in New Taipei City. It was built in 1954 and is a supporting building for the exhibition hall. At the beginning, Lao Mo was only open to foreign guests. It was only opened to the public after a few years.

After getting off the tricycle and approaching Lao Mo, a waiter helped open the door and led the two of them inside.

After finding a seat and sitting down, Elena prepared to take out money and bills from her bag.

"I'll invite you." Zhang Shenfei stopped him.

"Fei, you don't have to be polite to me. My financial situation is not good right now, and your family is burdened with heavy expenses. You should not have enough bills..." Elena Zaba looked at Zhang Shenfei.

"There are indeed not enough food coupons, but there are more than enough pastry coupons." Zhang Shenfei smiled.

In the era of planned economy, everything required a ticket, and all tickets were allocated on a per capita basis.

In addition to basic necessities such as grain coupons, meat coupons, soap coupons, match coupons, non-staple food coupons, cloth coupons, and oil coupons, a portion of pastry coupons would also be issued.

Pastry tickets can naturally be used to buy various Chinese and Western pastries, such as cake shops, such as Daoxiangcun.

Another function is that it can be used when eating at Western restaurants. Ordinary restaurants accept money, grain coupons, and meat coupons.

Western restaurants do not accept grain coupons or meat coupons, but they do accept pastry coupons.

It’s just that cakes and Western food are both high-end luxury goods in this era. For most people, what they need is staple food that can fill their stomachs, preferably coarse grains.

These pastries that don't fill their stomachs and are ridiculously expensive are not even within their consideration.

Therefore, after most people get the pastry tickets, their first reaction is to take them to the Pigeon Market to exchange them for other useful supplies and tickets.

Zhang Shenfei had no shortage of food, money, or receipts, so he naturally would not sell the pastry receipts. Every time he received one, he would throw it directly into the space, and over the years, he had accumulated quite a few of them.

He pretended to take out a few cake tickets and a big black ten from his pocket, but actually took them out from the space and slapped them on the table.

"OK, a lady shouldn't compete with a gentleman to pay." Irina followed suit and put the things she had taken out back into her bag.

The two of them then began to order food. Zhang Shenfei chose grilled mixed vegetables with milk sauce, braised beef in a pot, log root cake, and beetroot soup.

Elena chose fried pork chops, mixed salad and cold coffee with ice cream.

After the waiter left with the menu, Elena looked around and nodded with satisfaction.

Just as she thought, in addition to the experts from the Bear Country, there were also many people from the Bear Country and Country Z having dinner together. There were two different faces at one table.

it's here,
The combination of her and Zhang Shenfei is completely inconspicuous and will not attract anyone's attention.

And this is the real reason why she insisted on coming to Lao Mo.

It is different now than before. Her skin color is too conspicuous. If she and Zhang Shenfei walk into any Chinese restaurant, they will probably attract attention.

She herself was not afraid, as she would be leaving Sijiu City soon anyway. She was just afraid that she would cause trouble to Zhang Shenfei, who lived in Sijiu City for a long time.

How could Zhang Shenfei not know what Elena was thinking? ? ? If the other party didn't tell him, he would just pretend not to know.

The two of them ate Western food, which could definitely be considered luxurious in this era, and chatted about every little detail of their acquaintance over the years.

Zhang Shenfei asked Elena about her plans after returning to China, and the latter told him that everything was unknown.

"There are many people going back to Mao Xiong this time. We need to gather together after we return, and then wait for arrangements... But don't worry, my family has a certain influence in Mao Xiong, and I won't encounter any danger...

"Fei, I will definitely come back to see you if I have the chance. The days with you are a beautiful memory in my life." Elena's eyes were filled with a subtle affection. Zhang Shenfei was her only lover in China. The two had been together since 1952, which was eight years.

This is even longer than the time some people in their country spend as couples.

Elena knew Zhang Shenfei's character. She didn't mind accompanying Zhang Shenfei with Chen Xueru. In her opinion, it was nothing if they stayed together all the time.

It's a pity that fate plays tricks on me... I'm destined to quit...

"Fei, will you forget me after I'm gone?"

Zhang Shenfei saw Elena's sadness and couldn't help but reach out and gently rub her blonde hair:
"Don't be sad, Elena, we will meet again one day."

"Really?" Elena was a little skeptical.

Zhang Shenfei nodded solemnly: "It will definitely happen."

There are no eternal friends or eternal enemies in this world, only eternal interests.

This is true between people and between countries.

Seeing his determined look, Elena finally felt better.

After dinner,
The two returned to Elena's cabin, poured red wine and started drinking... There were not enough umbrellas, so they just got caught in the rain.

A night of absurdity,
The next day, Zhang Shenfei got up early, washed up, and prepared to return to Yenching University.

He has an early class today and can't be late.

Elena was awakened by his noise. She sat on the bed, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and watched him clean up.

Her snow-white arms stretched out from her bright red silk pajamas, her long golden hair was lazily draped over her shoulders, and her eyes followed Zhang Shenfei's movements.

After Zhang Shenfei finished his work, he turned around and saw Elena like this. He couldn't help but move over and give her a light kiss on the lips.

"I'm leaving now. I won't see you off when you leave Sijiu City today..."

In the current situation, there is absolutely no benefit in getting too close to the Russians.

Zhang Shenfei thought about it and took out a jade pendant from his pocket. It was something he had bought from Panjiayuan when he went there before.

He placed the jade pendant on Elena's snow-white neck: "This... you can keep it as a souvenir."

Elena has been in Country Z for so many years that she has already become half an expert on Country Z.

It can be seen that the jade pendant Zhang Shenfei gave him is a good item. He blinked his eyes and promised: "Fei, I will definitely keep this jade pendant well until the day we meet again."

"Finally, let me hug you again!!!"

The two hugged each other and then parted.

Zhang Shenfei returned to Yenching University and continued his previous busy life.

Although I always fantasized about being able to lie down and do nothing every day to reap the benefits of socialism.

But now is a difficult time, how can she really stay out of it???
Every day, he leads the students of Yenching University to do what he can, and when he has time, he also takes time to return to Sijiucheng to guide the work on the farm.

When he has time, he will communicate with Yuan Longping to ask about the progress of the rice. Zhang Shenfei feels that his days are extremely fulfilling.

After school that day,

After returning to the dormitory, he saw Tong Luoyang buried in his desk writing and drawing, so he went over:
"How was it? Were the experimental results today satisfactory?"

Since the middle of last year, Tong Luoyang has been independently developing a water turbine pump. He developed it himself and bought the materials and assembled it himself.

As for the experiment, it was conducted directly on the farm built by their school.

According to Tong Luoyang, this water turbine pump can pump water on its own without electricity or oil. With it, the subsequent investment is basically zero.

Over the past six months, Tong Luoyang has modified his turbine pump several times, but the parameters and results were always unsatisfactory.

Watching him working hard and staying up late every day, Zhang Shenfei couldn't help but sigh at the greatness of scientific researchers.

As the president of the school's student union, all he could do was to help the other party collect materials and run some connections, and to keep an eye on the other party's work progress from time to time.

After hearing Zhang Shenfei's words, Tong Luoyang put down his pen and pointed the data he had just calculated to Zhang Shenfei:

"We have found the last problem in today's experiment. I just re-adjusted the calculations and will make some adjustments tomorrow so that we can try to conduct the experiment the day after tomorrow..."

He had a feeling that the day after tomorrow might be the last experiment.

Zhang Shenfei also became slightly excited: "Luoyang, you have paid too much for this water turbine pump during this period of time, and your hard work is obvious to all of us.

Our country is experiencing a severe drought right now. If this water turbine pump that does not require electricity or oil can be successfully tested, you will have done something great that will benefit the present and future generations!!!"

Since 1958, my country has invested 12000 million yuan in various factories in the industrial pump industry.

At that time, the Fengtian Pump Factory, Shanghai Pump Factory, Shachang Pump Factory and others were relocated and newly built, forming 5 backbone factories and 12 key factories, and the layout of industrial pumps was basically formed.

Each factory actively develops special pumps and produces some supporting pumps for thermal power plants, mines, military industry, petrochemical industry, agriculture and other fields.

There are two main types of agricultural water pumps, one powered by electricity and the other by diesel.

Water pumps that use electricity have high requirements for power resources.

Although electricity was available in every alley in 1949 and every household had electric lights, the degree of electricity popularization was not very high across the country.

In many rural areas, only the production team and the commune office have electricity and electric wires.

If farmers wanted to use electric lights, they had to spend their own money to pull wires from the commune office.

This is of course unacceptable to farmers who have been used to careful budgeting all their lives, so basically outside of the old cities, most people in rural areas still use oil lamps.

How can we irrigate the fields if we don’t even have electricity at home?
Therefore, the electric water pumps currently available on the market are not practical at all for rural areas, especially those in mountainous areas.

What about diesel? The situation is not very good either. In the era of reconstruction, the lack of resources is not just one or two, but a general backwardness and lack.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhang Shenfei is optimistic about Tong Luoyang's water turbine pump that does not require electricity or oil.

Tong Luoyang was always reserved. Hearing Zhang Shenfei's words, he couldn't help but blush: "Student Zhang Shenfei, what you said is really too exaggerated..."

How can it be beneficial to the present and future generations?
“Don’t underestimate the role of yourself and the turbine pump. I will go with you during the experiment the day after tomorrow.

Once confirmed, I will help you contact the factory and company immediately, and we will put this water turbine pump into production as soon as possible." Zhang Shenfei patted his shoulder.

"Really, is there really a company willing to mass-produce water turbine pumps?" Tong Luoyang felt like Zhang Shenfei was just making empty promises.

(End of this chapter)