In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 43: The market is here! No, Principal, AES is not detergent
"Principal, hurry up, we are waiting for you to give us the money!"

When Xie Wei followed Li Rui to the cafeteria, Du Guowang and others had already lined up.

The staff serving meals are still the same people who served lunch.

The person collecting vegetable coupons saw the principal coming and was about to say hello, but then he saw Xie Wei and couldn't help but frowned.

Providing midnight snacks in the evening is not a normal practice. It is because school has started during this period and the faculty and staff are busy, so they prepare it for those comrades who are too busy with work to have time to eat dinner and whose families are not here.

I don’t prepare too much.

Three new graduate students just came over and said they were busy in the laboratory with their supervisor until too late and didn’t have time to eat dinner, so they got some food.

If other students who are hungry at night find out and come to get meals too, it will not only affect the canteen's work; students whose meals are rationed will still be hungry at the end of the month.

He still remembered Xie Wei: "Classmate, midnight snacks are prepared for the faculty and staff who are too busy with work to have dinner..."

"He was in a meeting with us just now and didn't have time to eat dinner. I'll treat him to this meal."

Before he could finish, Li Rui spoke.

what?
Meeting with the principal?
Isn’t this classmate in front of me a freshman?

I didn’t even know to order half a portion of food for lunch.

What’s the origin?
"Wu Jian, hurry up and serve the food. We still need to discuss things after we finish eating. One meat dish and one vegetable dish for each person. Don't exceed the limit. Also, don't ignore the portions. Serve them as much as you can."

Li Rui ignored Wu Jian's shock and took out a stack of money from his pocket.

A big black unity banknote contains the yuan and Mao bills.

Xie Wei sighed in his heart: It seems that the principal doesn't have much money in his pocket, not as much as I do!

Xie Wei gave the meal ticket.

"Classmate, where is your lunch box?"

The lady who served lunch gave Xie Weidu lunch at noon. When she saw him coming with the principal, it was the principal who paid the money, with a kinder smile on her face.

"Oh, it's in the dormitory. I'll go get it."

"Don't go back to get it, Hu Jun. Go to the kitchen in the cafeteria and get him one. He'll give it back to you after he eats it."

Li Rui gave instructions to Hu Jun who was collecting meal tickets.

And let me discuss with them?
If the boss doesn't rest, shouldn't I rest too?
Even the donkey in the production team that I worked in the countryside with didn’t dare to be used like this.

A donkey can kick.

School has just started.

Li Rui didn't care what Xie Wei was thinking, and he didn't completely treat Xie Wei as a freshman who had just entered the school.

Du Guowang and others ordered their meals and sat at the table next to them, discussing something while eating.

Hu Jun quickly brought out a yellow soup bowl from the kitchen.

The blue enamel on the edge of the soup bowl had fallen off, revealing the black metal inside. A lot of enamel had fallen off the bottom and surrounding areas, and it was shiny in the dim light.

Xie Wei even saw large black stains inside.

The lady serving the food took the enamel soup bowl, looked at it, pulled up her apron around her waist to wipe the bowl, and when she felt it was clean, she prepared to serve the food.

Xie Wei felt a chill when he saw this.

You have to eat it to get diarrhea.

"Auntie, wait a minute."

"???"

The old lady looked at Xie Wei in confusion and wiped the dirt off with her apron.

Then he remembered that Xie Wei didn't eat much, and grinned, "Don't worry, I won't give you too much."

"No, the grease on the bowl..."

"It's okay if it's not clean. It won't make you sick if you eat it. Besides, it's cold now, so bacteria grow slowly. I boiled it in hot water before to sterilize it."

Hu Jun, who was holding the soup bowl for Xie Wei, said dissatisfiedly.

If the principal hadn't ordered it, he wouldn't even lend the other party the soup bowl. Why would there be so many troubles?

Haven’t you noticed that when the school leaders forget to bring their lunch boxes, they also use the bowls from the kitchen? I haven’t seen them being so particular.

"Auntie, please give me the soup bowl so I can clean it."

"You are such a particular classmate!"

The aunt was good-tempered and handed the soup bowl to Xie Wei, "There is hot water in the pot in the kitchen, you can use that to wash it."

He took the enamel soup bowl and the aluminum spoon from Hu Jun, and without paying attention to the dissatisfaction on Hu Jun's face, he walked towards the kitchen.

Li Rui, holding a porcelain bowl, didn't bother to get his meal and followed them.

"Did Xie Wei go to verify the effect? ​​Let's go and take a look."

The department heads who were eating and discussing at the dining table went straight to the kitchen with their bowls in hand.

"Lao Kang, don't you want to go and take a look?"

Although he was dissatisfied with Kang Yi's behavior of snatching his students, Du Guowang did not regard Kang Yi as a class enemy.

"He's been working on it in my lab for a long time, how could I not know the results? What are you still looking at! Isn't it delicious to just sit and eat?" "You are so high-minded!"

Du Guowang curled his lips and walked to the kitchen with the bowl in his hand.

Little did he know that Kang Yi was watching Xie Wei working on AES in the laboratory and had no idea what the effect would be.

After being fooled by Xie Wei, his superiors took him to ask the principal Li Rui for money for further research.

If we go now, won’t the truth be revealed?
You will be considered unstable and it will be more difficult to get funding in the future.

In fact, Kang Yi also wanted to go and see it.

In the kitchen, Xie Wei looked at the large iron pot on the stove, which was filled with steam and a layer of oil foam floating on the surface, and shook his head helplessly.

If you pour it into the pot, you have to use at least one third of the amount.

I used a soup bowl to scoop some hot water from the pot, but felt that the water temperature was too high, so I added cold water to make it warm.

Under the gaze of Li Rui and others who squeezed in with bowls in their hands, Xie Wei took out AES from his trouser pocket.

Unscrew the plastic bottle cap, carefully put a little bit of liquid in, hold it with one hand and stir with the other hand to accelerate the dissolution of the AES particles. Soon, foam came out.

I twisted it with my thumb and index finger, and judging from the viscosity, it felt still not enough, so I poured a little more reluctantly, and the soup bowl was directly filled with foam.

After seeing the black rag on the stove, I didn't have the courage to use it to wash the dishes.

I simply dipped my hands in the foam and wiped the soup bowl thoroughly inside and out.

Soon, all the oil stains that had been stuck to the soup bowl for who knows how long were washed into the water by the AES solution. At least apart from tiny traces of foam on the outside, the previous black oil stains could no longer be seen.

"Wash that rag and see how it goes."

Seeing Xie Wei preparing to pour out the foamy water, Li Rui spoke.

Xie Wei had no choice but to pour the foam in the soup bowl onto the black rag. He felt that AES was not enough to dissolve the oil that had accumulated on the rag for who knows how long, so he endured the pain and poured a little directly onto the rag and started rubbing it.

Soon, turbid emulsified dirty water with foam began to drip from the gap in Xie Wei's hands.

The bosses who were carrying the food were stunned and petrified for a moment.

Holding the rice bowl and chopsticks, he stared at the dirty water that squeezed out when Xie Wei wrung the rag.

"Ugh~"

Some people began to feel nauseous.

All kinds of tableware in the cafeteria are washed with these rags!
"Oh my god! What do these guys in the cafeteria use to wash the pots?"

"The food I eat every day is mixed with these dirty things. I was wondering why I always have diarrhea when it's hot, and I thought it was because of my stomach..."

Even though they usually don't care about it, the big guys can't help but feel annoyed when they think about the oil and bacteria on the rags they eat in the cafeteria every day.

My stomach churns.

"I just wiped the stove with a rag and haven't had time to clean it yet! I usually clean it with baking soda..."

The staff who followed the principal into the kitchen realized that something was going to go wrong the moment they saw Xie Wei washing the soup bowl.

It was even more annoying when the dirt in the rag was wrung out.

It wasn't just the department chairmen whose stomachs were churning;

They eat these too.

"Could it be that there is something wrong with his powder? He inspects the kitchen hygiene every day before leaving get off work."

Hu Jun defended himself.

As a staff member in the cafeteria's kitchen, if I didn't clean the dishes and kitchen utensils properly, if this got out, the teachers and students in the school would probably turn the cafeteria upside down.

"Principal, this is a mistake in our cafeteria work."

As the person in charge of a kitchen, Wu Jian did not shirk his responsibility.

No matter what method is used, it is impossible to completely remove the grease stains. People who know the canteen well know this.

"Also, where did you buy this? Can you buy some for the kitchen?"

market.

Isn’t this coming?

Hearing this, Li Rui and the department heads' minds instantly became active.

"Student Xie Wei has developed a product specifically for kitchen cleaning. Xie Wei, leave the bottle of AES in your hand to the kitchen. The laboratory will make another batch tomorrow. The cafeteria must thoroughly clean all kitchen utensils and tableware. We cannot let the health of teachers and students be affected because of unclean pots and pans."

Li Rui looked serious.

"Principal, this won't do..."

Hearing this, Xie Wei suddenly became anxious.

AES is not a dishwashing liquid that can directly wash dishes and remove grease. It can be marketed as a product and the industrial preparation process requires a lot of experiments!

I don't want to be buried in the pit of chemistry.

Even if the Nobel Prize beckoned, he would not accept it.

(End of this chapter)