The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 1323 Interstellar Stage (37)
The light at noon in New York shines through the veil that floats in the wind, and shines into the slightly narrow but not crowded living room. This is an ordinary house in Queens, with two floors and a small yard, which can’t be called a rich area It is a villa, but it can barely touch the threshold of a middle-class residence.

The light of the car's turn signal flickered, and Ben Parker, who was sitting in the driver's seat, already had a trace of white hair on his sideburns. This middle-aged man was not tall and not strong. He always liked to wear plaid shirts and jackets, or Work uniforms of various colors, and a small tool bag is always hung on the waist, so that emergency repairs can be carried out immediately.

In New York, the job of an electrical engineer is not considered rich and expensive, but it is still decent, and the income is good enough to support a family. Although it is occasionally stretched, most residents living in this community are like this.

They are not poor, definitely not so poor that they can't afford to eat, because when they were young, they caught the tail of the golden age of the United States. A blue-collar worker is enough to support a family, and Ben Parker is like this.

When he was young, he left home early to learn electrical engineering skills. Before he was 20, he was working independently. With a pretty good salary, he got married smoothly. The parents of the two parties each took a small sum of money as The newlyweds used their start-up funds to buy a house and a car, and also bought some financial products as long-term income.

However, such days only lasted for a short period of time. Since the US economy began to decline, the ability to harvest the world has become weaker and weaker. After the golden age passed, blue-collar workers no longer have such superior conditions, at least their income is not as much as before. , but prices have become more expensive.

Most of the residents living in this community are like this. Although their income is not bad, they also have to pay high property taxes and insurance, and they have to plan carefully. At the end of the year, they still have no savings.

Ben Parker took his hands off the steering wheel, opened the door and got out of the car. He glanced back at the Cadillac with a satisfied expression on his face.

But this kind of satisfaction is not the pride of others. Although Peter Parker's achievements are also very gratifying to him, this car was actually bought by him with his own salary, not by Peter.

Ben Parker has always wanted to own a Cadillac, but for so many years, the Parker family's financial situation has left them with little spare power to buy a new car. Even the Ford they bought later was bought from the second-hand market. Just run, you can't pursue the brand and configuration.

Standing in front of the car, Ben Parker stared blankly at the Cadillac logo. This scene fell into the eyes of Aunt Mei in front of the window on the second floor. The lady who was still looking energetic knocked on the balcony with a feather duster dissatisfied. guardrail.

Ben Parker was awakened. He looked up at Aunt May, waved his hand, touched the key on his waist, and walked quickly to the door.

But at this moment, Aunt Mei stopped him, mouth-shaped to him, and waved her hand again. Ben Parker immediately understood that it must be Peter's girlfriend.

At this time, the sunlight outside the window just shone on the armrest of Parker's sofa. Gwen put one arm on the armrest, looked at Peter with a sad face and said, "Now, not only do you want to make an alibi, but I also have to make an alibi." If I made an alibi, I shouldn't have agreed to her with all my heart!"

Peter, who was sitting next to her and unpacking the biscuit box, smiled gloatingly and said, "What is the scarier thing than Director George knowing that his daughter's boyfriend is Spider-Man? He knows that his daughter is also Spider-Man!"

Gwen stretched out his hand to push him, looked around, and made sure there was no one there, so he said angrily, "Stop laughing, you have experience, help me figure out a way, my dad will find out sooner or later!"

Peter shook his head and said: "I realized this earlier than you, so I have given up. There are more than 200 Spider-Man incidents in New York. You should hurry up and prepare some blood pressure-lowering medicine."

Gwen, who was wearing a floral dress, slumped to the side of the armrest, supported her head with her fingers, and said weakly: "My dad will go crazy, he will really go crazy, more than 200 Spidermen are really enough for him." of!"

Suddenly, Gwen seemed to remember something, turned to look at Peter and said, "Aren't you going to buy a new house for your uncle and aunt? Have you chosen the location?"

"It's not that I want to buy it, it's that my uncle plans to change houses." Peter took out a biscuit from the biscuit box of other specialties in the universe and gave it to Gwen, and then said: "Since he changed his job, his salary has increased a lot, and his treatment has also increased." It has changed for the better, first bought a new car, and now plans to change to a more spacious house."

"Uncle Ben has a new job?" Gwen said a little surprised: "Didn't he work in the New York Power Management Authority before? I remember it seems to be doing emergency repairs for municipal facilities?"

"Yes, but this job is actually tiring and dangerous, and it doesn't make money." Peter pouted and said, "If it wasn't for the winter and summer subsidies, he wouldn't want to do it, you know, he used to be a big company If the company hadn't closed down during the economic crisis, he wouldn't have lost his job so hastily, and then he would have been employed in such a hurry to support me and Aunt Mei."

Peter broke a piece of biscuit and put it in his mouth, recalled for a while and said: "Probably when I was still in primary school, Uncle Ben stayed at home for a while. During that time, he really couldn't open the pot, so he had to make do with it." Find a job and get through the hard times first."

"But when the difficult period passed, he was getting older. Although he had rich experience, he didn't have a senior professional title. Many private companies were unwilling to hire such an employee, so he could only find a job as a repairman in the power bureau. .”

"Then why is he thinking of changing jobs again?" Gwen asked.

"It's not that he wants to change it." Peter sighed and said, "Since the establishment of many stations on air transport lines, because they are too advanced and do not match New York's slightly outdated circuit network, there have always been power outages. .”

"Although the application of new energy has been put on the agenda, it is a pity that it is not that simple to replace all the power and network cables in such a large city, so we can only make do with it now."

"But if it's broken, it can't just be broken. Someone has to rush to repair it. Stark has installed alarm bells in the New York Power Management Authority, but the bell doesn't stop ringing 24 hours a day. There are problems everywhere. , The same is true of the company my uncle works for."

"There are more than 60 electrical engineers and apprentices in their team, and it's not enough to send out all the members. The problem is that every time they go for emergency repairs, they have repaired half of the faults. They can understand it and it will be over soon. But The other half of the faults involve more advanced technologies, and no one can understand them, so they can only wait for the Stark Group to send technicians over."

"Wait!" Gwen interrupted Peter, and she said, "Then just ask Stark to send technicians, isn't it enough? Isn't the anti-monopoly law already lenient on companies like Stark?"

Peter shook his head and said, "Haven't we all worked in the Stark Group? Don't you know? Those so-called technicians in the Stark Group are actually researchers. It's easy for you to ask them to draw a circuit diagram and explain the principle." , it will be difficult for you to ask them to do it themselves, they will electrocute themselves to death."

"Now, the biggest problem with power failures in New York is that the old masters who have experience can't understand the new technology, and the young researchers who know what the new technology is can't repair it at all. Every time the two parties have to torture each other a few times Hours to fix a small problem."

Gwen sighed, nodded and said, "If that's the case, it's really troublesome. You haven't said what it has to do with Uncle Ben's new job?"

"I was just about to talk." Just as Peter was about to speak, Aunt Mei walked over with a smile, brought two cups of tea for the two of them, clapped her hands lightly and said, "Tea should be served with biscuits. The British said it."

Peter picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. Aunt May patted him on the shoulder lightly and gave him a wink, telling him not to be so rude in front of his girlfriend.

Peter wiped his mouth and said: "My uncle really can't stand this situation anymore, he thinks it's a waste of time, so he randomly grabs a researcher and asks him to explain to himself exactly what the technologies on the shuttle platform are. what happened."

"Actually, it's nothing complicated. The circuit technology used by the shuttle platform has not changed fundamentally. It is not much different from the previous principle. It is only because the conductors and lines of some key technologies use new materials that they show different characteristics. The old An electrician can understand what's going on after a few times."

"Every time Uncle Ben meets young Stark Group technicians, he grabs them to give him lectures, and it didn't take long for him to become the most efficient emergency repairer in their power management bureau, and even became a member of the shuttle platform maintenance team. experts."

"As time went on, Uncle Ben became more and more proficient, to the point where the rest of the power management staff would call him to ask him about any operational difficulties."

"With this kind of technology, it's hard not to get promoted. Now my uncle is a senior technical consultant of the New York City Power Management Authority's Air Transportation Technology Power Service Department. You know, the jobs used to be those university professors of electrical science. Part-time, decent and profitable, and not tired, just need to help answer technical problems."

Peter smiled and said: "Now my uncle takes 9 apprentices and runs back and forth between the stations of all the air transport lines in New York, in order to quickly accumulate technical experience for these apprentices so that they can become teachers. The bureau is urging this matter every day, and I can't wait to help it grow by myself, they are insanely short of people!"

In the beginning, Gwen just asked out of concern for Peter's elders, but the more she listened to her, the more fascinated she became. When she heard this, she couldn't help asking with some doubts: "Is there a shortage of people in the Power Management Bureau?"

"Of course, it's more than just the Power Authority." Ben Parker's voice sounded at the door, he took off his coat and hung it on the hanger, took off the tool bag from his waist, and said, "I just came from the shuttle bus in Queens." When I came over from the boarding center, it was the eighth time that the old Pence of the Transportation Management Bureau complained to me about the shortage of platform security personnel, and asked me if I had any relatives or friends that I could recommend."

Gwen frowned slowly, and said as if thinking of something: "Since there is a shortage of people everywhere, why are there still parades in the Bronx because of unemployment?"

(End of this chapter)