Chapter 375 Wang Xu's Engagement Ring Project

After playing for a few days, Wang Xu took Wang Fei home. There was no other way. He still had a lot of things to deal with in the capital, and Wang Fei also had to go back to prepare for various evening parties at the end of the year. From the end of December to the Spring Festival, it was Wang Fei's busiest performance season in the mainland.

There were various evening parties organized by TV stations, and some purely commercial performances, the kind of platter. The performance was not complicated. He flew over, sang a few songs, and then everything was fine. Wang Jinghua would arrange all other things.

Wang Fei's market in the mainland was basically managed by Wang Jinghua. This was a two-sided thing. Wang Fei was the boss. Now all the shares of the entire studio were under Wang Fei's name. Wang Xu had withdrawn from all of them since he joined Shuimu.

Except for the shell company that held all the patents, the remaining shares were all under Wang Fei's name, at least on the surface.

Wang Xu did not do anything about overseas registration. On the one hand, he was too lazy to bother, and the new boss Wang Fei was even lazier. She had no interest in doing business at all. According to her habit, as long as she didn't lose money, she would continue to do it, and if she lost money, she would close the business.

On the other hand, for Wang Xu, his money came too quickly, and he felt that it was a bit hot, so he simply gave back to society in the form of taxes and fees. The couple really didn't spend much money.

In her previous life, Wang Fei also had a hobby of shopping and buying clothes. In this life, she even saved money on this. Whether it was her own fashion brand or a fashion brand, there were countless merchants willing to give her clothes for free.

Now she is too famous to go out shopping, unless she takes a camera team to pose for various photos, which are all agreed in advance. It is almost impossible to imagine wandering around casually like before.

Therefore, her current clothing brand "Fei Mainstream" is actually more like the operation of a buyer's store. Some brand stores will regularly send new clothes to Wang Fei, and Wang Fei will match them herself and then sell them in her own store.

And there is no room for these extra ones, so Tang Yun found a store manager and opened a store opposite the courtyard that specializes in selling clothes that Wang Fei didn't like.

The name is "Not Fei Mainstream", and it is opened next to the "Fei Mainstream" clothing store.

The decoration is relatively simple, and there is not even a wooden mannequin. It is similar to the business style of the small clothing stores that were popular in this era.

The clothes are just hung there, no duplicates, and there are not many sizes. You can pick them at will. First come first served. They will close when they are sold out.

The prices are much lower than those of genuine stores, which is a bit like Taobao stores in later generations.

Many girls with limited money like to go there to buy clothes. If they are not careful, they can buy very good clothes at a very cheap price.

This is also a way for Wang Fei to share happiness with the people. The clothes that he did not choose are useless and it would be a pity to keep them.

People in this era really have no habit of wasting. They simply sell them at a very low price, so that the neighbors nearby can also have fun.

Most of the residents in the surrounding area are just ordinary people. They don’t have much money and don’t have much vision for fashion. Most of those clothes are big brands. Even if they are half the price, most ordinary people can’t afford them.

On the contrary, many young artists who gather in this area like to buy and exchange here.

No matter what, Wang Fei’s clothes are also a good thing to add some fashion atmosphere to this area.

After returning home, the couple told the parents of both families about the matter. The parents were overjoyed. They didn't expect that the two who had been drifting around would suddenly understand after a walk.

So they started to make arrangements. They could only get engaged first. Wang Xu was not old enough, but he could indeed drink the engagement wine.

In this era, rings were not used for engagement. It seemed that this habit had not yet been truly popularized in China, but Wang Xu had an idea.

He took advantage of Wang Fei's performance in the south to apply for a project as soon as possible and submitted a series of documents such as the project establishment report. The name was "Development and Research of Wang Xu's Engagement Ring".

Then, with Professor Yan and Director Jiang looking at their strange faces, he plunged into the school factory. He planned to make some changes to some nodes of the growth method so that the growth method could produce greater pressure and higher temperature, and of course the growth space would be smaller accordingly.

This was what he saw from a certain audio in the future. Henan relied on this thing to toss the jewelry market around the world to the point of lying flat.

That's right, he planned to get some artificial diamonds. This thing is not rare. The principle has long been known. After all, diamonds are just the crystal structure of carbon. If there are some other elements mixed in it, it is a colored diamond, and if not, it is a pure diamond.

"A diamond is forever" is the Chinese translation of "A diamond is forever". The English is the commercial slogan of De Beers in 1951. Later, with the operation, diamonds were made into luxury goods.

This Chinese translation was only collected from the whole society through Ogilvy Advertising in Hong Kong this year, and then a teacher's translation won. It must be said that this translation is even more charming than the original text.

Later in China, De Beers even used this advertisement to make a broken stone into a hard currency linked to marriage, and I don't know how many men who want to get married are jealous.

It was not until artificial diamonds were put on the market in large quantities that ordinary people were suddenly confused, and the price in the second-hand market fell to that of real stones.

The myth of diamonds began to slowly fade from China and gradually return to its original attributes.

Wang Xu plans to make an artificial diamond. The raw material is the hair of Wang Fei and Wang Xu. Yes, it is made of hair. There is such a business in the future. The main components of hair are carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. After burning into ash, the remaining is mainly carbon.

Of course, there will be some other impurities. Most of the non-metallic impurities will be removed. Those impurities will affect the quality of the diamond, such as cracks and turbidity.

And some metal impurities must be retained, and these impurities can just form different colors of diamonds, so that each customized diamond presents different colors.

The processing technology of artificial diamonds in this era is not mature. Until later generations, it is still difficult to process large diamonds of several carats.

But Wang Xu does not have this worry. This is just a derivative application of the growth method. With perfect basic research, it is not difficult to expand the pressure and temperature.

From changing the equipment to finally processing the diamond into shape, it only takes ten days. The day has come. Of course, it still needs to be polished into a sparkling ring face.

This process sounds amazing, but in fact it is just making full use of various scattering and reflection. If you want to split the light into colorful colors, you have to scatter it. If you just want it to sparkle, try to use total reflection, a simple optical principle.

What years of manual experience, what careful design, may be believed in the era without optical principles, but in the modern times when science is highly developed, it is a joke.

The lens processing of any optical instrument is much more complicated than diamond. The only difficulty in diamond polishing is that it is high in purity and hardness, which makes it a bit troublesome to process.

As for using diamond as a lens, it is actually not good, because it is too brittle and difficult to process. It is not the most ideal optical material. However, due to the good light transmittance of diamond, a small amount of diamond is used for processing in some more precise lasers.

Therefore, most artificial diamonds are basically used to make drill bits, relying on the hardness of diamonds to dig the earth, cut various high-hardness materials, etc., and even scalpels can be made of diamonds.

Wang Xu also wants to disgust De Beers by doing this. In his previous life, his girlfriend asked him for a few carats of diamonds. In this life, I will just make a big one. Then let Wang Fei promote it unintentionally to see if he can still make a fuss about the necessity of diamond rings for marriage in China.

At this moment, De Beers has not yet sold in large quantities in China. Once Wang Xu's patent is released, it is certain that the streets will be full of cheap artificial diamonds. No matter how high-end you brag, it is not worth much.

Compared with meaningless commodities, Wang Xu is creating a concept of "hair diamond", which has been the concept of China for thousands of years. For a married couple, what better meaning is there than a shining hair diamond?

Regarding this wave of cultural propaganda, Wang Xu asked De Beers, do you dare to follow.

"Damn, you really made a diamond. I said that the growth method might be able to grow diamond crystals." Professor Yan couldn't help but burst out a swear word, looking at the diamond crystal that Wang Xu had just crystallized and had not yet polished.

This is a big guy with a diameter of about two centimeters. It is crystal clear and has a light blue-green color. This is the color brought by the loading of metal ions.

The growth method is actually a general term. This method includes both the chemical vapor deposition method and some ion transport and processing methods. Therefore, its growth rate, crystallization rate, and controllability are far beyond the reach of ordinary vapor deposition methods.

This is why Shuimu has developed countless new ideas based on this project, and this trend has begun to expand outward.

The entire content of the growth method is relatively confidential in Shuimu, and even most participants can only understand a small part of the entire growth method. Only a few core members have a holistic understanding of the growth method itself.

Even the papers produced by the growth method itself are handled in the mode of confidential papers. They are not open to the public at all. The papers are published in confidential paper journals within Huaxia.

This is why Wang Xu estimates that the growth method project can produce at least two academicians.

But it is not only the professors of Shuimu who can see those papers, but also other universities, especially Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and some digital research institutes. There are still a large number of scholars who can see these papers.

This new theory can be said to have opened up the horizons of some people. Various conjectures and theories have been proposed, and a large number of people have devoted themselves to in-depth research. This is the power of Wang Xu.

He broke off a stick of graphene, and before the growth method actually grew graphene, he used the tape to prove the existence of graphene.

Then, this guy left, leaving behind a pile of scientific research projects and even unsolved mysteries about the principles.

But no one said that Wang Xu was doing anything wrong. In the eyes of qualified scientific researchers, what Wang Xu left behind was much more important than the piece he broke off.

In their eyes, Wang Xu did break off a corn, but he clearly told everyone that there was a cornfield here, so everyone should break it off.

Then, a group of people found out in the process of breaking it that this was not a cornfield, but a vegetable market.

This is an important reason why the growth method has become more and more popular in the entire Chinese scientific community, and it is also the reason why Wang Xu has not produced much recently, but the attitude of the superiors towards him has become more and more important.

"Well, it is indeed unexpectedly perfect. I succeeded after a few attempts. It took only ten days for this crystal to reach this size. Even I was shocked. The appearance is unexpectedly perfect. God is cheering for my engagement." Wang Xu was very proud.

Indeed, it was a new topic after all. It was completed in just ten days, and the result was so perfect. Of course, he could show off.

"It's so big to make a ring?" Professor Yan turned it over and looked at it carefully. He compared his fingers and felt that it seemed a little too big. It didn't seem to be the same as the engagement ring in his impression. He had never seen such a big one.

"This one is too big. I will make a few more and make a set. This one will be made into a necklace pendant, and a pair of rings. Now I just want to report to you. The project is completed. I asked Xiaolin to write the paper." Wang Xu replied with a proud smile.

What project or not, this is the engagement set he made for his wife. This is to show off, the naked kind.

"You really care about your wife. Such a big diamond, if foreigners see it, they will be envious to death.

By the way, are you going to hold an engagement ceremony?" Professor Yan still gave a few compliments to her. He had studied abroad and had never eaten pork, but he had seen pigs run. He still knew the rules of giving rings when proposing in foreign movies and TV.

Don't be surprised. At this time, Chinese people really don't know that rings are used for proposals. It seems that most people don't know it later.

The rings given when proposing are usually diamond rings. The main feature is that they are beautiful, exquisite, and the more dazzling the better. Naturally, diamonds are better.

When exchanging rings at marriage, they are usually a pair of precious metal rings with the names of the other party engraved inside. They are worn daily after marriage.

It's inconvenient to do anything with a diamond protruding all day.

Of course, if you encounter some occasions, the cool ring will come in handy again.

Of course, this is just the daily life of this era. Later, as the promotion of various luxury goods became more and more lively, wedding rings also became dazzling. In the final analysis, they are all products of commodity society.

In ancient China, people also gave various jewelry and headgear as gifts, which is the origin of the saying of "three golds" in later generations. However, these were usually brought with the dowry, mainly to give the woman something to hold on to for a while when she was down and out.

But diamond rings are not the same. If you pawn a gold bracelet when you are in trouble, you can get as much money as you should, and your family may be able to survive because of it. Why don't you try with a diamond ring?

But Wang Xu's is different. It really has the meaning of eternal love and companionship. It can be given to the other party as a beautiful promise, so you don't expect it to be exchanged for money.

When the two are together, this thing is a witness to love and marriage. When the two are separated, this thing is worthless, which happens to match the love and marriage of the two. This is the embodiment of true love.

The diamonds dug out do not have this meaning. Why can they symbolize love and marriage? They are not as good as gold in terms of value preservation.

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