Chapter 133: Making Sugar from Dun Dun Peaches
Hearing Tinari's rebuke, the brown-haired boy pushing the cart immediately pursed his lips and stopped laughing. Two of the three people in the cart also turned over and stood up immediately. Only the scholar with short black hair was a little slow in his movements, as if he was still unsatisfied.
At this time, two more young scholars opened the door while chatting. One of them wore three scholar's hats on his head, and the other wore one on his head and held one in his hand, turning it around with his fingers while talking.
When they walked in and saw Tinari with a serious expression, they immediately fell silent. The one wearing three hats silently took off the extra hat, and when Tinari looked at another person, he quickly threw the hat into the hands of a standing classmate. The one playing with the hat quietly hid the hat behind him.
The situation was similar for the next few scholars who came back. Tinari scolded them one by one without any discrimination. The scholars who were scolded hung their heads and dared not refute. They were dissatisfied with their tutors and sometimes deliberately went against them. However, they admired and feared their seniors who were only a few years older than themselves and were known as geniuses. They just wished that they could be remembered by their seniors.
After criticizing all the younger students, Tinari slowed down his tone and asked about the exhibition arrangements.
“They’re all put away!”
"We are the fastest group. When I came back, I saw four people from Sipantama Academy carrying an alchemy platform. Fortunately, our academy doesn't have that thing." The black-haired scholar said with some gloating.
"Senior Jenna Ji and another senior were arranging the exhibits. The senior said that we put them in a bit of a mess..."
Tinari nodded and asked the young scholars to go back, while he and Harold went to the booth of Amyrido College.
"Oh, we can't help but worry. If we had known that these freshmen were of this quality, we should have followed them." Tinari sighed helplessly.
"Why have you suddenly become so mature? It's normal for people of this age. It's just that they are too unstable for scholars. However, with those two watching over them, there shouldn't be any trouble over there." Harold responded with a smile.
"Yeah, that's true."
The two of them talked as they walked, and only chatted about insignificant topics, or simply let the silence stretch for a long time. In places where there were idle people, they tacitly did not continue the topic of the Sages' Meeting.
When we came to the commercial street and the residential area, we could see that scholars from the six colleges were busy preparing for the fun fair.
The Sahavara College had the most staff and the largest booth. The scholars with the white lion emblem on their hats displayed several models of buildings and mechanical devices covering more than two square meters.
The amusement park hasn't started yet, but the models and installations have already attracted some residents to stop and look. Even the porters who happened to pass by would turn back and look in that direction from time to time.
Several more scholars from the Sahavara Academy came over, holding some miniature landscapes and parts in their hands. When they arrived in front of or behind the academy's booth, the scholars in charge of the layout quickly took the items from their hands and carefully added details to the placed models and installations.
"The exhibits at the Sahavara Institute are truly spectacular," Tinari said with emotion, and then changed the subject, "...Isn't the cart you brought too small to carry that kind of equipment?
I heard that you and Kavi, the 'Light of the Myo-ron School', jointly applied for a project on the use of four-wheeled carts in colleges. Have you considered the model of vehicles to be distributed to each college?
To make the project more effective, the cars sent to Sahavartha, Ritvandi and Sipantama should be bigger and stronger than those to other colleges.”
"Senior Kawi has already considered this problem. He is looking for stronger materials to make tires and outer rims.
The tires of today's carts are made of metal, and the wheels are made of metal and rubber. Although these wheels have been tested to bear a load of up to 500 kilograms, which is fully capable of bearing the weight of the planetarium and the alchemy table, their outer edges are easily damaged by bumps and collisions, and may even cut the rubber. The terrain here has a large drop, and if the car loses control, it is easy to cause an accident.
Otherwise, given Senior Ikawi's personality, he would have given a few cars to the three colleges anyway." Harold shook his head.
"Hmm... maybe you can use some elemental creatures' bones or remains to replace rubber and metal," Tinari said, thinking. "But most of these materials are expensive and difficult to shape. If you want to avoid detours, you'd better find a scholar of the Elemental Theory to cooperate with you and try combining it with alchemy."
Harold: "Senior Kawi thinks so too. The main reason is that rubber wheels have a short service life and have significant defects when used in combination with metal outer casings. In fact, if you pay attention to regular maintenance, today's rubber tires have great advantages, such as shock absorption and noise reduction, which are better than pure metal tires.
However, Senior Kawi is still not satisfied. He hopes that the car he made can have a longer service life and safety, so he has been purchasing various materials to make tires and outsourcing tires. If there is no suitable material in those batches, he should consider letting a Sulun scholar join.
——It just so happens that there is a positionalist in our society, but he is a bit busy at work, and he also likes to play various card games outside of work. I wonder if he can spare the time. "
Tinari: "If you really can't find a suitable candidate, you can go see my mentor and ask him to think of a solution for you. Let me tell you secretly, my mentor has a good relationship with the former Sulun Sect sage."
Coincidentally, the person I just mentioned happened to be the adopted son and disciple of the previous Sulun school sage.
Haroldt sighed in his heart that the Xumi F4 were indeed attracted to each other, and complained that it was the same in the previous generation, but Tinari and Seno didn't know each other, and then smiled and thanked Tinari for his advice.
Arriving at the booth of Amyrido College, Jenaji and Elias had indeed arranged the exhibits neatly, but the common plants and bottles and jars filled with unknown contents did not attract the attention of the residents.
However, after Harold and Tinari appeared, many people recognized the silver-haired boy as one of the scholars who had been promoting the shared tricycle project in the residential area not long ago. Many people also secretly looked at Tinari's ears and tail.
In order to see the plant up close, some residents came over and pretended to read the text description posted in front of the potted plant.
"Harold, I left your little guinea pigs in the classroom and asked a junior schoolmate to help feed them. I'll bring them here tomorrow morning," said Jennaji.
Harold: "Well, thank you. They are better suited indoors."
Then the four of them discussed the time arrangements for guarding the stalls. Jenaj and Elias would be one group, and Harold and Tinari would be another. Each group would guard for three hours until the event started at eight o'clock the next morning.
Harold and Tinari stayed to see the exhibition first. Three hours later, Jenaj and Elias came to take over their shift. After four shifts, it got dark. Harold and Tinari sat in front of a pile of plants and ate the burritos they had just bought.
Harold looked at the time. It was half past eight. After today's society activities, he wondered what Kavi, Elhaisen, Seno, and Setale would talk about.
"Harold, this is so boring." Tinari sighed while eating a burrito. "Who stipulated that 'every scholar must participate in at least one recreational activity before graduation'?"
It's just like if you don't participate in a few club activities at Blue Star University, you won't be allowed to graduate. The only benefit is that if a rich woman takes a fancy to their work and buys it at a high price on the spot, they can earn some money.
Others didn't know, but he really needed to make some money recently. Many of the materials that Kawi used to make the cart wheels were bought from Dolly. After all, it was a project between the two of them, so how could he let Kawi pay for it alone?
"Anyway, this is the last time for us. You plan to graduate as soon as possible, right?" Harold took a sip of water and swallowed the food in his mouth.
"Well, there are too many miscellaneous tasks in the Ministry of Education, and there are too many annoying noises. If I stay here, I will go crazy sooner or later." Tina looked bitter.
“I agree. I hope some of the approval procedures of the Fatwa Council can be simplified.”
"When I graduate, I will build a research institute in Huachengguo just like you did. I can rent equipment. I just met a businessman named Dolly. She has a lot of useful equipment. Although her rent is very high, the quality of her equipment is guaranteed."
"Well, I know her, but when dealing with her, be careful that she doesn't sell you some novelty products that you won't actually use many times."
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The two of them chatted to pass the time, and the topic shifted from the freshmen who were attending the amusement park together to the exhibits in front of them, and finally returned to the sage meeting they had discussed in the morning.
"The quality of scholars a hundred years ago was indeed much higher than it is now, both in terms of overall quality and the degree of mastery of the knowledge of the academy.
At that time, the famous Zhilun School master, Falushan, was proficient in various ancient characters and was also the founder of classical mechanical technology. But if it were now, scholars like her would be considered to be not doing their job properly. "
Tinari looked up at the sky, watching the stars while casually saying, "The House of Lords is gradually lowering its requirements for scholars. Why?"
"In order to make more ordinary people aim to study in the Ordinance Institute?"
If I focus all my energy on the entrance exam and graduation, I won't be able to pay attention to other things, Harold added in his mind.
Or maybe they really have no money. The great sages of all times must have spent a lot of money on researching and curing the World Tree. It's not just Azar's extreme plan to create a god that consumes the national treasury.
However, the situation of the World Tree is even worse today. Azar is more anxious than his predecessors. Some of the already extreme measures have become even more severe, and even the lives of ordinary people have been affected to a certain extent.
"This is not a good thing." Tinari said after a moment's silence.
Harold nodded.
Around five in the morning, Jennaji and Elias came to relieve the shift, and they brought Harold's white mice, banners and posters.
Jenaji deftly pasted several posters with Azar's head on them in front of the stall, and then hung up a banner that read "Use Dun Dun peaches to make sugar, embrace a better life."
"I deliberately hung up the posters and banners approved by the Great Sage at this time. When the residents wake up and see them, they will be surprised!" Jenaj said with a smile.
I was surprised, too. Harold squinted his eyes, feeling that he couldn't see.