The crafting of files required time, and Fang Er’s request was for custom orders.
While waiting, he and Huang Tago were invited into the office.
“Commander Huang, Mr. Fang, please sit.”
“I had a friend from Jiangnan visit the day before yesterday and bring some tea. Would you two care to try?”
After they were seated, Li Xiaolu rose to prepare the tea.
“Save it, use this to brew,”
Fang Er casually tossed a cloth bundle onto the table.
A plain, unremarkable cloth bundle.
Li Xiaolu was somewhat taken aback. Did he bring his own tea when going out?
What arrogance!
But out of politeness, she used Fang Er’s tea.
A pot of tea filled the room with fragrance.
Upon smelling it, Huang Tago’s nose twitched vigorously.
“Holy hell! Mother Tree!”
He lunged forward and snatched the remaining tea leaves from Li Xiaolu’s hand.
He looked at the leaves inside, then slyly stuffed them into his pocket.
Li Xiaolu: ???
What was going on?
Did Commander Huang just say “Mother Tree”?
She looked at the leaves unfurling in the teapot with shock.
A whole pot’s worth…
Fang Er, standing beside her, was also speechless at Huang Tago’s reaction.
It’s not like he hadn’t drunk it before, why act so exaggerated?
“Hey, Old Huang, I need to ask you about someone.”
“Who?”
Seeing that Fang Er didn’t mention the tea, Huang Tago smugly sat back on the sofa.
“Institute 69, eighth-grade fitter, Liu Sandao!”
“Never heard of him. Little Lu, have you?”
“Let me think…”
Li Xiaolu took the question from Huang Tago, furrowing her brow as she searched her memory.
“That’s not right?”
“I have heard the name Liu Sandao, but didn’t he pass away after the 596 project?”
Hearing this, Fang Er’s heart sank.
Liu Sandao was his master’s moniker.
He was one of the earliest eighth-grade fitters and had participated in the 596 project, Miss Qiu’s project development.
In Fang Er’s original world, his master was still alive until he transmigrated.
Unexpectedly, his master in this world was already gone.
He had originally planned to have Old Huang use his connections to bring his master to the Great Tang for retirement, but it seemed he had thought too much.
“What are you looking for him for?”
Huang Tago asked Fang Er curiously.
“It’s nothing, I just heard he was very skilled and wanted to get acquainted. Seems my information was mistaken.”
Fang Er shook his head helplessly and gestured to the tea on the table.
“Drink up, drink up!”
They drank pot after pot of tea, and had a seafood feast for lunch.
In the evening, the workshop director under Li Xiaolu delivered the file samples.
One was five centimeters long, half a centimeter wide, with 1500 grit.
The other was three centimeters long, half a centimeter wide, with 2000 grit.
There was also something else that surprised Fang Er.
It was a pair of gloves!
The size was a bit small, probably suitable for Fang Xin.
The fingertips were specially treated.
They were firmly coated with diamond powder!
“What is this?”
Fang Er picked up the gloves and looked at the workshop director with a puzzled expression.
“This is 3000 grit precision. We tested several approaches, and this one provided the best experience!”
The workshop director took the gloves, put them on his own hands, and casually wiped his hand across the tea table as he spoke.
Fang Er’s heart stirred. His brainwaves projected outwards, probing the area he had wiped.
In the scene visualized by his brainwaves, the originally smooth and flat tea table now had fine depressions!
The depth of these depressions did not exceed half a hair’s width!
That is, 0.005 millimeters!
“Let me see!”
He took the gloves back from the workshop director and put them on to try.
They had excellent elasticity, made of composite elastic fabric throughout.
Though seemingly small gloves, they fit the shape of the hand and skin perfectly when worn.
The inside also seemed to have undergone other treatments; when operating, they didn’t feel slippery.
The coating on the fingertips was very thin. He stroked the tea table with them.
With the aid of his brainwaves, his movements were extremely gentle.
His technique was like that of a masseuse in a foot massage parlor.
If the tea table could speak, it would have jumped up and cried out in ticklishness.
A minuscule sense of resistance between the fingers, as the diamond powder brushed across, leaving barely visible marks on the tea table.
Even shallower than the marks left by the workshop director earlier!
0.001 millimeters…
Fang Er was overjoyed!
“Hahaha, excellent, excellent!”
“Give me ten thousand pairs of these gloves first!”
“And also, five thousand of each of those two file models!”
With a loud laugh, he carefully put away the gloves and the two files like treasures, then looked at Li Xiaolu.
“Ms. Li, name your price!”
Li Xiaolu instinctively touched the two diamonds in her front pocket, her expression hesitant.
Seeing her prolonged silence, and his hand still resting there, Fang Er knew what she was thinking.
“Hey, consider those two little things a token of our first meeting. Business is business, private is private. Whatever the cost, just say it!”
“Then, sister, I won’t be polite?”
Li Xiaolu’s eyes lit up with joy. She tilted her fair chin to look at him.
“Just name it!”
Fang Er waved his hand grandly, appearing very generous.
“Alright!”
“Mr. Fang, a total of twenty million is fine.”
“Only twenty million?”
Hearing the figure, Fang Er’s mouth gaped in surprise.
These files were made of the finest alloy materials, and sandblasting was not cheap.
Most importantly, the higher the precision, the lower the yield of acceptable products.
The defective items had to be accounted for in the cost.
Seeing Li Xiaolu nod with a smile, Fang Er unceremoniously clapped Huang Tago on the back.
“Old Huang, pay the bill! Let’s go!”
Huang Tago: ………
“Damn it!”
“Why should I pay?”
“Do you still want this black technology?”
Fang Er rolled his eyes at him.
Black technology?
Upon hearing these three words, Huang Tago’s interest immediately piqued.
“Yes, absolutely!”
“Wait…”
After saying that, he took out his phone, scrolled through his contacts for a moment, and dialed a number.
“Hello! Transfer twenty million from Qindao First Light bank!”
“Reason?”
“You don’t have the authority to inquire. That’s all, goodbye!”
He put his phone back into his pocket, chuckled, and grabbed Fang Er’s arm, waving goodbye to Li Xiaolu.
“We’re leaving, sis. Come to the military district for tea sometime!”
“Oh, and those things my brother needs, when they’re made, deliver them all to the military district. Just give my name.”
Having said that, he pulled Fang Er and walked out.
Li Xiaolu: ????
This…
That’s it?
They gave away such large diamonds and didn’t even ask if he had a girlfriend or was married?
She stood at the factory gate, completely bewildered, watching the Z-20 helicopter ascend and depart.
After thinking for a long time, she still couldn’t figure out what had happened…