A few hours later, as soon as the plane landed, George called Carl at the airport. The content of the call was very simple, that is, the company hired a lawyer to go to Caltech to find someone.
Although the transportation was not very developed in this era, thanks to the developed communications and legal profession in the United States, Carl, who was far away on the East Coast, reached an agreement with a Los Angeles law firm with only a few telegrams.
"What? What did you say?"
Arthur Galston looked at the lawyer in front of him and asked puzzledly.
"It's like this, Mr. Galston, there is a company on the East Coast that is very interested in you and the "plant growth regulator" you invented, so they are not only willing to buy the patent you hold, but also willing to provide a position for you to continue to engage in research in this direction. I wonder if you are interested."
While speaking, Lawyer Hudson had taken out a check from his briefcase. It must be said that even if he had been a lawyer for forty years, Hudson had never seen such a generous employer.
"This is $20,000 to buy the patent you hold!"
When Hudson received the wire transfer check, he couldn't even believe it was true.
$20,000!
Just to buy a patent that seems to be useless!
This is simply... unbelievable!
"$20,000!"
Oh my God!
Arthur Galston, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, whose father lost his job during the Great Depression and whose childhood memories were always spent in hunger, looked at the check with incredible eyes and the string of zeros on it.
This money is equivalent to his salary for several years. With this money, not only can his wife move into a new house, but also buy a car, if she can buy it...
At this time, he thought a lot in his mind.
Of course, he also thought of his father's debts, and he would help his father repay some of the debts.
But reason still made Arthur Galston say.
"Are you sure, sir? This plant regulator can only accelerate the early flowering and fruiting of soybeans..."
Is this invention worth $20,000?
Galston himself is not sure. $2,000 is more realistic. Even when he invented this plant regulator, he did not find any special use for it.
After all, its yield-increasing effect is very limited. If it is used during planting, it can even be said to be a bit of a loss.
It is an invention without any production value at all. Of course, it may be useful in the future, but now - $20,000.
Someone actually spent $20,000 to buy his invention!
"Mr. Galston, the check represents everything. As long as you sign the contract, the money is yours."
$20,000!
Anyone in this world would be tempted by it. Hudson knows this very well. No one can resist its temptation.
If it were him, let alone the patent, he would not blink an eye even if he sold his wife to that guy. Even his daughter is not impossible.
This is $20,000!
As long as this deal is made, Hudson will spend the rest of his life showing off all this!
"Mr. Galston, you have to know that opportunities in this world are always fleeting."
"Then..."
After carefully examining the contract in front of him again, after being sure that it was all true, Galston finally signed his name, and then he asked again.
"Sir, you just said that they are willing to give me a job. How about the salary there?"
This company is definitely the most generous company Galston has ever seen. For this reason, Galston hopes to work for this company. Of course, he can continue to engage in the research he loves there, and he can also get a good salary.
"We are going back to New York!"
At the train station, Galston, who was carrying a suitcase, held his wife Darai Judith Kunz's hand and said excitedly.
"When we get to New York, I will buy a house, a house that belongs to us, not an apartment, but a house with at least four bedrooms..."
Galston is now full of all kinds of imaginations about the future. Although he has obtained a doctorate degree and should have a happier future than his father, it's just that now all this has come so fast that he even dares not believe it is true.
In fact, Galston has lost his job. When the lawyer found him, he was actually unemployed. For that job, he and his wife moved to Pasadana because James Bonner, a plant biologist at the California Institute of Technology, invited him to work on a war-related project, calling the Mexican shrub Guilai. Their research is to extract rubber from it as a rubber raw material. This project is supported by the military and aims to provide rubber for the army. Just when this project was successful. With the mass production of synthetic rubber, the military no longer needs this project.
Without the support of the military, Galston naturally lost his job. Just when he was thinking about his next job, the sudden job invitation and the check for the purchase of the patent changed everything.
"Yes, when we get to New York, our lives will be completely different from now."
Just at this moment, Dale's eyes fell on a person and said.
"Huh? Look, it's Sun."
Sun Tianlei, who was carrying a suitcase, also saw them, their classmates at Caltech.
"Arthur, Dale, why are you here..."
Sun Tianlei said.
"Are you going to New York?"
"Yes, what about you?"
Dale said as if he suddenly thought of something.
"Sun, are you going to KJ Laboratory in New York?"
KJ Laboratory is the laboratory that hired Galston and acquired his patents. The reason why Dale asked this is because Sun Tianlei is also a chemist.
"Why, are you too?"
"Yes, Arthur is going there too. It's really great. I didn't expect you to work together."
Dale said with some curiosity in his joy.
"Sun, do you know what KJ means?"
"KJ..."
Sun Tianlei shrugged his shoulders.
"Who knows? Maybe it means "kill japs"."
Kill the Japanese devils...
As a Chinese student, Sun Tianlei is undoubtedly straightforward.
Well, he guessed right. George is so straightforward most of the time. In fact, the reason why he was looking for chemists and botanists across the United States was to...kill the Japanese devils.
And it was the maximum extent.