Patent Application

After returning to the factory, Xiao Hua was already processing Zhu Gang's parts. Seeing Zhang Yi come in with a large pile of books, she said,

"Big Brother, you bought the books back! Let me see." Saying this, she temporarily turned off the machine tool and skipped towards Zhang Yi.

Since Xiao Hua officially recognized Zhang Yi's mother as her godmother last night, Xiao Hua had also been upgraded from Zhang Yi's employee to Zhang Yi's sister. This left Zhang Yi speechless; he had never expected to gain a sister overnight.

Moreover, this sister was someone he had hired from the Genius Store with money, and she wasn't human, or rather, not purely human.

He could imagine that if Zhang Yi didn't continue employing Xiao Hua after a year, his mother would definitely make him pay for it.

After the two of them moved the books to the office, Xiao Hua casually flipped through them.

"Brother! You only bought these books! A lot of the content in these books is repetitive, and several books are completely useless." Saying this, Xiao Hua picked out a few books from the dozen or so and carefully placed them aside.

Then she said to Zhang Yi, "Brother, only these few books are useful to me. The others, like 'Fundamentals of Machinery,' are useless to me. After all, I'm not a beginner in mechanical processing. What's more, even for a beginner, many of these books are useless."

Hearing Xiao Hua's words, Zhang Yi felt a bit depressed. He had spent a whole morning working hard to buy these books, and most of them were completely useless. How could he not feel depressed?

However, in their small county town, these were all the mechanical books available at the Xinhua Bookstore. If he wanted to buy more, he would have to go to large bookstores in the city or province.

Just as Zhang Yi was worrying about where to buy books, he suddenly realized how foolish he was. Humans had already entered the internet age. Why didn't he buy them online? He was still foolishly thinking of rushing to the Xinhua Bookstore in the city or province to buy them.

So he immediately opened the computer in the office and skillfully entered Mou BaoBao's shopping website. He typed in "mechanical processing books," and immediately countless mechanical processing books appeared.

At this time, Xiao Hua hadn't left yet and was also very curious about Zhang Yi's operation. Although computers were not unique to the Earth civilization Zhang Yi was in, Xiao Hua's Dwarf race also had them. However, they were different from Earth's computers. Their computers were basically pure computers and did not have the ability for large-scale networking. Moreover, their civilization did not have an internet like Earth's, so there was naturally no such thing as online shopping.

Seeing that Xiao Hua hadn't gone out, Zhang Yi let Xiao Hua choose some useful books on the website herself. However, after choosing a few books, Xiao Hua stopped choosing because she felt it was enough for now.

So she said, "I'll finish reading these books first, and then if I need more, I'll buy them."

"Okay! I'll listen to you!" Zhang Yi replied.

"Brother! Then I'll go to work now."

After Xiao Hua finished speaking, she went straight out, turned on the machine tool, and continued processing parts. After all, completing five thousand parts within four days was also stressful for Xiao Hua, because Xiao Hua was also flesh and blood, not a machine; she also needed to eat and rest.

In fact, in less than one morning, Xiao Hua had already machined quite a few parts. According to Zhang Feng's rough estimate, she had processed at least four hundred parts. If calculated at this efficiency, it seemed a bit difficult to complete this batch of orders in four days.

Subsequently, Zhang Yi also came out and stood beside Xiao Hua. After she finished processing a part, he said to her, "Xiao Hua! I'm going out for a bit. You can go back for lunch by yourself later! I need to register some patents."

"Okay! Got it! You go ahead! I'll be fine here!" Xiao Hua said to Zhang Yi without lifting her head.

Then Zhang Yi returned to the office, took out the blueprints he had put away earlier, got into the small truck parked at the door, and drove towards Zhou Tai City.

Zhou Tai City was about a two-hour drive from his home in Xian County. This meant that if he left Xian County now, he wouldn't arrive until noon.

Along the way, there was a lot of traffic. Zhang Yi didn't arrive at the patent office until after one o'clock in the afternoon.

Although the patent review process was very fast now and the procedures were not many, since it was Zhang Yi's first time applying for a patent, he still made quite a few jokes during the patent application review.

Fortunately, in the end, with the help of a patent office staff member named Zhang Yingying, Zhang Yi completed the application for the Aerodynamic Bicycle itself and its related patents.

Although the structure of the pneumatic bicycle did not seem complicated, there were more than a dozen patents generated by the pneumatic bicycle. Although many of these patents seemed to be of little use to Zhang Yi, he still applied for them.

Of course, among these patents, many were very practical, such as the Pneumatic Motor, Mechanical Tire, Pressure Relief Valve, etc. These patents could be used not only on Zhang Yi's Aerodynamic Bicycle.

For example, in addition to being used on Zhang Yi's Aerodynamic Bicycle, the Pneumatic Motor could also be used on pneumatic tools such as air wrenches, Pneumatic Hammers, and Pneumatic Drills. The Pressure Relief Valve had even wider uses, and the Mechanical Tire could also be used on vehicles such as cars. So it wasn't until around four o'clock in the afternoon that he finished.

"Miss Zhang! Thank you for your help this afternoon. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known what to do. I wonder if I have the honor of inviting you to dinner!" When the patent application was almost completed, he said to the patent office staff member named Zhang Yingying who had been helping him with the patent application.

After hearing Zhang Yi's words, Zhang Yingying didn't answer immediately. Instead, she first looked up at Zhang Yi, then said, "No need! I have something to do after work today, so maybe next time!"

After hearing Zhang Yingying's words, he said, "Alright! But Miss Zhang, don't refuse next time."

By the time Zhang Yi got home, it was already evening, and Xiao Hua had also returned. After eating, she quickly went to rest.

"Big Brother, all the parts are finished. You have to treat me to dinner tonight." Time flew by quickly. On the afternoon of the fourth day, as Zhang Yi was carefully looking at the Aerodynamic Bicycle blueprints, Xiao Hua's cheerful voice came from outside.

So Zhang Yi put away the blueprints, then said to Xiao Hua, who had just entered, "Okay! We'll go out for a big meal tonight."

Afterward, Zhang Yi and Xiao Hua loaded all the machined parts onto the small truck and transported them to Zhu Gang's factory.

"Boss Zhang, you're really something. You finished processing five thousand parts so quickly. Even with our factory using CNC Machines, it would be very difficult to complete the processing of so many parts in such a short time. Amazing. Is it still a transfer this time? I'll transfer the money to you now." As he spoke, Zhu Gang picked up his phone and transferred the money to Zhang Yi.

"Boss Zhang, I wonder if you're interested in taking on another order. If so, I happen to have a Ji Li order in my hands. The time is also very tight, but the profit is very considerable." After Zhu Gang finished the transfer, he said to Zhang Yi.

After hearing this, Zhang Yi didn't answer immediately. Instead, he thought for a moment before saying to Zhu Gang, "Okay! Then thank you, Boss Zhu."

In the end, Zhang Yi still agreed. After all, Zhang Yi's factory is still very weak right now. Besides an old-fashioned machine tool, there are no other machine tools in the factory. Since Zhu Gang has an order, Zhang Yi naturally has to take it.

After all, the mechanical processing industry is different from other industries. For a factory to produce and develop, it must have orders. Of course, he can also produce his own products and open up sales channels. However, these are still a bit far off for Zhang Yi's workshop. He doesn't even have a decent factory building right now, let alone sales channels.

Although he now has a product, the equipment needed to produce this product is not just one or two things. If he wants to produce Aerodynamic Bicycles, he will need to buy a lot of equipment, and the money he has in hand right now is far from enough.