Chapter 22: A Birthday Present

With the help of Ye Zihong, of course, his brother-in-law also helped, and Li Ziqiang's "Ziqiang" pure steam-powered car was manufactured.

The Ziqiang was rebuilt directly from a Volvo four-wheeled truck. It was the most suitable model they found in a scrap company. It is two meters high, five meters long and two meters wide. The front of the car has a built-in steam boiler and steam engine, and the chimney is 1.5 meters high, which is higher than the cab. The cab has no windshield because ...... It's too hot. A pulley door is set in front of the passenger seat, and the driver can use a small shovel to complete the fuel dispensing action with one hand while driving. The fuel is custom-made small pieces of machine-made charcoal, which is easy to carry and dispense. Filled with machine-made charcoal, you can travel without adding charcoal and water for two hours. Speed 30 km/h.

The rear compartment is supplemented with wooden planks, which can load 500 kilograms. The wheels are cast steel with five fixed spokes and hard rubber tires (custom-made). Li Ziqiang and Ye Zihong drove real cars, rumbling in the deserted industrial area. Luckily it's the suburbs and it's easy to drive into the fields.

In the midst of the bumps, the doors rattled with a bang.

Li Ziqiang frowned and said, "The car door doesn't have much effect, so I went back and dismantled it." ”

Ye Zihong did not dislike the baking of the co-pilot's seat, and replied sweatingly: "It's useless, our thinking hasn't changed yet." The place where the angle steel is welded is a bit sluggish, if the riveting effect can be better. ”

After speaking, he smiled again and said, "Brother Li, I feel that taking this car is more stylish than taking a sports car." ”

"yes, we knocked it out little by little, and there was a sense of accomplishment. I didn't expect you to have a very strong hands-on ability, not to mention, and your thinking is still very flexible. ”

"That's how many years I've been modeling. Ay. It's a pity that I don't dare to go on the road, and the traffic police will definitely not let me. ”

"Afraid of what? Let's hit the road! ”

"Then let me do it!"

"Okay." Li Ziqiang agreed. He looked at the pressure gauge and water level gauge under the steering wheel, and everything was normal. The two quickly switched places, and the real car headed off the road.

Along the way, Ye Zihong looked left and right triumphantly. Cars on the highway kept honking their horns to pay their respects and admiration. There are also people who film them with mobile phones.

Ye Zihong said: "Brother Li, do you think there will be a video of "a cow man in Changsha driving a steam-powered car very stylishly" on the Internet tomorrow? ”

Li Ziqiang didn't answer his question, and said to him seemingly indifferently: "Xiaohong, you said your dream. Actually, I have dreams too. ”

"What? Do you make more money? Ye Zihong asked with a grin. I thought to myself, people in their forties probably only want this.

"Be serious, let's talk about the Chinese dream."

"Say it, you."

"Every house has its own basement or garage with lathes and tools and everything. When people like you go home, they can make whatever part they want according to their own design, or they can just complete one of their own inventions. Everybody is working on it, maybe a train driver or a doctor invents a new machine or something. ”

"Haha, Brother Li, you're really joking. It's harder than my dreams to come true. At least we can make all kinds of steam engines ourselves. Every home has a basement or garage? No, there are too many Chinese, where are there so many places. ”

"Then you say, is there more yellow or more white?"

"Of course it's the yellow race! Why don't we implement the Jihua birth policy? ”

"What are the four ancient civilizations?"

"China, Egypt, India, Babylon."

"Who is the largest anti-Japanese team?"

"Behind enemy lines!"

"What about the four most corrupt families in China?"

"Ha, I'm the best at history. It's Jiang Song Kong Chen! ”

"Who said that?"

"It's in the book!"

"You're all right! What a young man! ”

Li Ziqiang posted the video and information of the "Ziqiang" in the QQ group, added a few hahadaxiao expressions, and kept harassing Sun Defa.

That's when his friends began to question him.

"The car shook so badly that I fell apart after watching it for a while."

"I only used regular leaf springs for the shock absorbers, and then I switched to the suspension system. In some places, the next time you use riveting, the effect will be good. Li Ziqiang explained.

"Can you still make it over there?"

"I can't."

"What's the point of that?"

"Not to mention the Jishu reserve, you can also bring some more parts, and when those modern transportation equipment is completely broken, you can immediately have a replacement."

"Your tonnage share is already the largest, and a lot of chemical equipment here is going to be replaced by ceramic parts!"

"There's no way, industry is the mother of civilization, and you can only make sacrifices for your mother."

"The most haode material, the most haode processing method, can reach this level?"

"There's a lot that could be improved, there's a kid working there. Besides, how can there be any information on steam-powered cars now? ”

"Then you don't want to go to Australia to see?"

"There's no time. Besides, you've seen the video, and everyone is pretty much the same. Foreigners only took a long time to prepare, and I only took less than two months. I'm so busy that I haven't eaten KFC with my daughter once, where can I lead my little sister on a tour like a fat boy?

"Don't mention me, little sister, don't bother."

"Don't say it, Fa Zai has made a significant contribution this time."

"Yes, who would have thought that Taiwan has so many resources, and it turned out that it was also a big coal producer!"

"Why don't you call it Treasure Island?"

"Therefore, it is a good idea to choose Taiwan for development."

After building the building crookedly, Li Ziqiang quietly withdrew. Tonight, it was the third time he promised his daughter to accompany her to eat KFC, and he missed the appointment twice.

In the KFC Evening News Avenue store in Changsha, Li Ziqiang is accompanying his daughter.

He brought his daughter a lot of things she liked: discs from the second season of "The Daughters of the Goddess of Memory" and "The Three Sisters of the Southern Family", a black Meizu M8 phone, a jade pendant, a Prada girl backpack, and a model she didn't see what it was.

He easily waited for his daughter to put down the phone, and when he raised his head, he ignored his daughter's cold eyes, and quickly showed a friendly smile and took these things out of his bag.

Ever since she was picked up from home, she had been looking at her phone without looking at him once. Even when eating chicken nuggets, my eyes did not take off the screen of my phone. Li Ziqiang's question, she just answered without a word. Li Ziqiang looked around, and saw how many other boys and girls were doing the same, and there were even six young people sitting at a table, who seemed to be in a group, but all of them looked at their mobile phones without raising their heads. No one is talking cordially. He couldn't help but feel sad in his heart.

He endured this sad feeling, and said to his daughter gently: "Tingting, guess who's giving this birthday gift?" ”

"The disc was given by Uncle Wu, and he must have asked a friend in Japan to buy it. How annoying, why do TV stations ban Japanese anime! Well, the phone must have been given by Uncle Sun, who always bought the most haode mobile phone. Ha, Prada, none of my classmates! It was sent by Uncle Song! He was always able to buy the original. The jade pendant belongs to Uncle Jian, and I have more than a dozen pieces. This is ――――――"

"This is the most fun," Li Ziqiang took out a lighter, hurriedly lit the small alcohol lamp placed under the glass cylinder of the model. Then gently pull the small flywheel, and the model immediately starts to work, making a slight booming sound, "This is a model of a Stirling engine, which uses the principle of thermal expansion of air to move." You think, as soon as the air is hot, it expands, just pushes the piston up, and then it gets cold again, and the piston retracts. Daddy made it just for you. ”

"Oh." After the daughter looked at it a few times, her eyes returned to the phone screen.

"Like these gifts?"

"Hmm."

"Which one is your favorite?"

"It." The daughter clung to Prada.

Li Ziqiang drove his daughter home.

When the daughter parted from him, she said, "Dad, I think Mom is very innocent." She's right, a man who doesn't care about his family is not a good man! You won't have love! ”

"Yes, Tingting, it's all Daddy's bad. Listen to your mother in the future and take good care of her. ”

He stuffed his daughter with a bank card, "Show your mother, this is the money you will use to study abroad in the future." Don't you love Australia? To Mom, she will send you in the future. Guess what the password is? ”

"It's my birthday! You'll have this one password. ”

"Ha, my Tingting is so smart."

"Dad, I'm leaving."

Outside the community, he watched his daughter walk into the door of the community while looking at her mobile phone. When he restarted the car, tears fell from his eyes. A heart-rending pain filled my heart.

When Li Ziqiang drove the car to Pozi Street, he stopped. It's a glittering food street, and I immediately wanted to have a drink.

He thought of Jianren and gave up again, that guy has been tired lately, and he can't drink, let him go. Big Bird Ambassador Fat Tsai is unlikely to appear. He used his mobile phone to log on to QQ, and it was filled with some recently recruited talent information and various analyses, and he didn't have the heart to look at it now. Fa Tsai didn't post a video, and it looks like he's coming back. He put on a smile and exited. Flip through your phone, let's find Ye Zihong, this kid can still drink beer, it's okay.

"Xiaoye, what are you doing?"

"Just got off work and went online. This time we are famous, Brother Li, I have more than a hundred replies! All with phone numbers, all begging me to play with them, all salute us! ”

"Come here, I'm on Pozi Street. Drink with me. ”

"Brother Li, I'm drinking again, I still have to reply. Several beautiful girls are online, and the avatars are very beautiful. ”

"Damn, your avatar is still handsome, are you handsome? Come right here. ”

"You're having trouble again? Didn't we imitate anti-aircraft guns and rockets? Isn't Gatling going to be done soon? It's a pity that I didn't find a suitable motor, and the hand crank is not bad―――――― but it's a pity that you won't let it be posted on the Internet, or they won't be screaming at me. ”

"Shut up, if you don't come, don't come to me tomorrow."

"Who's to say no? Brother Li, don't drink too much this time. ”

"Shut up, come here."

When Li Ziqiang woke up the next day, he found himself lying in a luxurious room, and Ye Zihong was sitting on the edge of the bed opposite him, looking at him with resentment.

"Where is this?"

"The most haode bathing center in Changsha."

"You're in such a vulgar place again. Can't find a cheaper home? ”

"Who's coming? Who's coming?! You've been drinking four times, and you're still drinking. Can I convince you?! You're going to drive home, do I dare you drive it? You won't let me drive you, hold me and tell you, I was carried across the street by you, and many beautiful girls have seen it. You still sing "Deliverance" all the way, how many years of old songs, it's too earthy and out of tune. It's easy to persuade you to get into a taxi, you open your mouth to go to the most fun place, of course the driver sends it, and they can receive a kickback! ”

"Get me a drink, my mouth is bitter."

Ye Zihong took out a bottle of Binghong in the refrigerator in the room, unscrewed the lid and handed it to him.

"You've drunk all the drinks in the fridge, it's a bottle of zuihou."

"It's stingy, no matter how expensive it is, you can have a few dollars."

"And said! You opened your mouth to ask for the most haode two private rooms, and you found three little sisters by yourself, not sitting in the hall, but you chose from the computer! ”

"Nonsense, how can I deal with three by myself, 4P? You also drank too much at the time?! ”

"Why! When you are done, you call one and another. It's all high-end goods. Crazy, that's not your style. Luckily, I brought my overdraft card with me, one at a time, or they would have called the police to arrest us. We came by taxi! Not VIP! ”

"Okay, don't talk about it, don't come to a place like this next time. I was very touched that you have your own room and don't have to be with me all the time. ”

"It's not okay if you don't accompany you. My room left early, you added another half a day here, and I also found a little sister - my card can only be overdrawn by six thousand-"

"Damn, let's go take a shower!"

“——”

"What's wrong with you?"

"You also smashed my phone ――――――"

"Hey, I'm going to smash your phone?"

"When you were drinking and excited, I secretly played with my phone and surfed the Internet."

"It's okay, stingy, all losses and consumption are mine."

"No, I downloaded a 1G novel on my phone, and I also have a 1G actress photo, I'm distressed, I!"

"The memory card should be fine, right?"

"Where, after you smashed it, you stepped on it again!"