Xu Dishan-bottom gill of iron fish

　　the cancellation of the alarm the other afternoon was already ringing. A busy street in a big city in South China is lined with two pedestrians, all in stood, looking at the chaps procession that prepares to defend the homeland.
after the procession, the roadside flashed an old man, hair fluffy like wearing a hats, wearing a suit, but mended to go. He held a roll of things in his hand, and hurried over the alley, not wary of bumping into a man.
"Mr. Ray, so busy!" "
The old man looked up and recognized him as a friend he was not very familiar with. In fact, Mr Ray has no intimate intimacy.
The two men stopped and talked about some gossip. Until the surname Yellow friend asked him what he held in his hand, he said: "This is my work, a long story, if you are interested, you can please to by remaining, I open to you to see, read also to consult." "
Huang knew he was the first to be sent to the foreign school system cannon of the official students, after returning home, there is no gun-casting arsenal, so that his life bumpy not meaning. English, mathematics teacher when a while, the factory also managed for many years, and finally in the big city is not far from a ceded island of the naval dock to do a small staff, but also long quit. He knew that the interest of the old man was in the weapon science, thinking: what he held in his hand, must be the ideal weapon of the pattern. He smiled to Ray and said: "Mr. Lei, I guess what is the ' death mirror ', ' airplane arrow ' a kind of sharp weapon pattern?" Ray replied: "No, no, this is more important than that." I have made a small model, please go to by remaining, I experiment to show you. "
Yellow as he walked, he would arrive at home. The old man let the guests go into the house and put the paper roll on the table and sit on the side. "This is the model of a submarine I've been trying to come up with recently. Ray followed Mr. Huang's gaze to the side of the rack and took down a wooden case about three feet in length and opened it to remove a "iron fish". He went on to say, "I've been thinking about it for years." The submarine is characterized by its being like a fish with gills that can breathe. "
He led yellow to the house behind the patio, where he used lead plate made of a large basin, about eight feet, outside with a plank to protect, a look on it is to use three large foreign goods box transformation. The basin is filled with more than four feet of water. Before he put the iron fish in the water, he opened the lid of the fish, explaining the inner body to Huang. He said that his "fish" air supply method is different from the current body. His iron fish can get air, like a real fish in the water to breathe in general, so the time in the water can be very long, even days do not float on the surface can be. He said, he opened the blueprint, one by one, and indicated it. He said, when he heard the alarm, nothing to take, he took the blueprint out of hiding, for other advantages, he said: "I this fish have a lot of ' tour ', no matter how deep the sink, the usual refractive mirror can not be done, just put a few ' PwC ' Make them float on the water, and by the flow of electricity, the water and the air can be projected onto the mirror plate in the boat. Floating on the surface of the ' eye ' volume is very small, shape can be arbitrarily modified, although low-flying aircraft are not easy to find them. Also, its torpedo radiation tube is outside the boat, when the body does not have to move, it can be sent to any direction, and there is no such as the old submarine in the radiation of the torpedo may occur when the danger of the situation. There are sailors in the boat, all have a man-made gills, in case the boat wreck, everyone can quickly escape from the convenience door, floating to the surface. "
one side, he said, was to uncover a hive-like turntable door on the model, explaining how sailors could escape. But Huang has been a bit impatient, he said: "Your special words, said I also do not understand, rather than first put it down in the water to try, and then to explain the reason, how?" "
"into, into." Ray answered, turning the small generator, put the lid tightly and put it in the water. Indeed sank for a long time, put a small torpedo and then floated up. He went on to say: "This does not explain the work of the iron gills." When you get inside, I'll show you a model. "
He conveniently put the small submarine on the table, and led yellow to the other side of the frame, from a small wooden box to remove a pair of iron Gill model. The model was like a fish glass box, separated by two panes of glass, and the ingenious small body was sandwiched between them. He was pouring water and connecting the wires to the latches. There is water on the side of the glass plate has a lot of meticulous long seam, water can dip into, and soon, sure enough, the small body in the middle of the glass and pump started up. This side of the water, which represents a part of the boat, has several things like pump, attached to many pipes on the board. He told Mr. Huang that the model is an artificial gill that pulls oxygen out of the water and drains the carbon dioxide. He said that the boat also has a regulating machine, can be used to reconcile the air to the extent that people can breathe freely. As for the underwater pressure, he said, the combat boat would not dive into the deep sea. He is also studying how to make a submarine that can detect the deep sea, but there is no certainty.
Huang listened to a set of things he did not understand, and did not want to ask questions, only by Ray himself said the hype, until he put the blueprint, put all the small model back in place, and then sit down with him to talk about something else.
but Ray's interest was still in his iron gills. He did not rest to say how useful his inventions were and how they could enhance the armament of the Chinese navy.
"Naval docks should pay attention to inventions like yours. Why did they let you go? "
"You must remember that it was someone else's dock, sir." I honestly said that my interest in submarines was also born during the work of the shipyard. Before I worked in the shipyard, I was a manager at the Hosiery factory. Then the factory went bankrupt, and it happened that the naval dock there wanted a machine worker, and I was picked up as a skilled worker. I certainly dare not say that I have been specially educated, because they want only skilled workers. "
"Why do you want to quit?" "
"The reason is simple," he said. Because I studied submarines, and every time I went to work in a boat, I talked to the sailors and inquired about their experience and difficulties. Once, asked an officer to pay attention, never sent me to the submarine to work. I think, I also did not draw my own drawings for their reasons, their national interests to put in the head, so quit work, leave the dock. "
Huang asked: "According to the ideal, you should go to China's shipyard." "
Thunder shook his head and said, "China's shipyard?" No, some shipyards are just a hometown, don't you know? I know of a shipyard, who must step into the door of the factory, with the authority of a bit of direct or indirect descent or nepotism, can not get a considerable status. "
Yellow look at the watch, it is not early, so he got up and went home.
The inventor's character is very straight, do not know him, often mistakenly think he is a psychopath, in fact, someone called him to do "daft Ray." There was no one in his family, only a widowed daughter-in-law who was a teacher in Manila and a grandson who was studying there. The monthly fee was supplied by the daughter-in-law since he quit the dock more than 10 years ago.
tense, less than three days, the embankment of the road has found the invaders of the chariot. The citizens were awakened in a dream, and all were too late to pack their things and saw the ship go down. Rotor everywhere up, no one on the railway to drive, so that Mr. Ray holding a little things in a hurry to the river to jump into a boat, along the way aboard more and more people, not to go half a day, the ship sank down. Fortunately the water was not deep, and many people took a small boat to escape ashore.
Ray's side was only more than 10 yuan, and went to the former work in the island. All the difficulties along the way, ink is difficult to describe. He is a character rigid person, that island is not to have been over the years, the former worker friend, even if found, also not necessarily can help him how much. No other place to go, even the inn he can not afford to live. He had to accompany a group of refugees on a street in West. Beside him was a middle-aged woman with two children, also escaped from the great city which had just fallen.
these days, he had been acquainted with a small rice stall owner, wrote to Manila to tell his daughter-in-law what had happened to her, so that she would like to send a sum of money, from the small rice stall.
One day, accidentally met Yellow in the street, each one complained of a bitter. Huang sincerely invited Ray to live there, but Ray but because to take care of the family met on the road, also because Huang is not very rich, not willing to move past. Speaking of his invention, the old man told him that the model of the submarine had been lost. He was left with a big picture and a model of the iron gills. The rest of the stuff is gone. On the road there were people laughing at him fleeing the unconscious, nothing, with a small wooden box.
Ray took the yellow to his place, after the small rice stall, the host shouted: "Mr. Lei, Mr. Lei, the letter arrived, the letter arrived." I see you are not in, teach the postman to take back, he said to send again tomorrow. "
Ray listened very happily, the daughter-in-law sent the money. Huang also celebrated him with a few words, unaware of the street where he lived. He said to Huang: "We cannot talk about this place for a long time. After taking the money tomorrow, I'll mothering Sunday you. Your address, please open one for me. "
Yellow from his pocket to take out a business card, write the address to him, said "tomorrow in by remaining waiting", went away.
that night he could not wait until dawn, and the next morning he went to the small rice stall. Sure enough, the postman came and took him a receipt and handed him the letter. He opened the letter, knowing that his daughter-in-law had sent him a fee for a boat trip to Manila, as well as a passport and other expenses, and asked him to take it to Huitong. At Huitong, the steward told him he had to take a photo of his passport first. He said he did not want to go to Manila, to the steward of the money to him first, the steward of the non-promise, must first telegram to ask clearly not.
from Huitong Company, he went to Jianyao to find Mr. Huang, and told him what had happened. Huang is also in favor of him going to Manila. But he said his invention is his contribution to the country, although the current large-scale submarines do not need, in the future will be a large number of applications, if not used to combat, at least can promote the possibility of sea shipping, so that the blockade of the invaders lost effectiveness. He seems to think that the problem of construction is the second step, as long as the authorities adopt him, and try to build a small submarine in the river, if it succeeds, the wish will be fulfilled. The source of the material, he did not seem to think deeply. He thought, if possible, to make an ordinary submarine in a foreign country, to come back and revise it, to install the Gill, PwC, etc., which he invented, and so on.
Huang knew he was a little daft, and he stopped trying to persuade him. After a moment's talk, Ray took leave.
after a day or two, Ray again to Huitong company, the Steward of the money to give him, said: Manila call back, with his meaning. He said the mainland did not need a lot of money, only 500 yuan, the rest are called to remit back. Out of the company, to the Chinese travel service to inquire, know tomorrow there will be a boat to Guangzhou Bay. Go and tell Mr. Huang at once. Two people go back and pack their bags. In the roll of bedding, he found his blueprint, a lot of it was torn up, and his heart was so angry and surprised, asked only to know that the woman for several days, they use the paper to wipe the children dirty. He hurriedly opened a look fortunately, the most inside of the few iron gills of the pattern, still good, just outside a few less important general map was destroyed. The Iron Gill model in the small wooden box is still intact, although he is not happy, can also be assured.
He said to the woman, he was going to disembark and leave her 50 dollars for life. Then he went with Mr. Huang, with the rest of the blueprints and the small box of models.
after the ship left the port, Huang looked forward to getting his message to Guangzhou. After a number of days, he came from a Chikan people heard that an old man to the port when the boat, miss a small wooden box dropped into the sea, he was anxious up, also jumped down. Yellow does not feel a few lines of tears, thinking of the fish gills, maybe it should not be invented too early, so to potential underwater. Iron fish bottom Gill Xu di Shan

Xu Dishan-bottom gill of iron fish