The dean's wife got angry. "Li Lizhang, why can't I introduce people? Can anyone I meet in the future be as good as the one I know? I have better ones on hand!"
Dean Li snorted, "Go, go, go. You old hag, you're always making a fuss. We have serious business to discuss. Who's like you, thinking about these things all day long? You don't even know if someone has a sweetheart or what their ideal partner is like, yet you're already making these arrangements."
"Li Lizhang, you clueless old man!" The dean's wife stormed off. She needed to think carefully about which families' daughters she knew. She knew many smart and beautiful girls, but now that she was older, she couldn't remember them all. She would look through the photos when she got back.
After the old lady left, Dean Li shook his head, took out his folded reading glasses from his pocket, and said while putting them on, "Little friend, don't listen to the old lady. She's old now and confused. After leaving the research institute, all she can do to pass the time is these kinds of things."
Jiang Jianian smiled politely.
Dean Li had already begun inquiring about Jiang Jianian's situation, "I remember that quite a few schools were vying for you after the national competition you participated in. How's your application for admission going? Do you have any schools you'd like to attend?"
Jiang Jianian replied, "I did not sign a guaranteed admission agreement, and I will take the college entrance examination."
This was somewhat unexpected for Dean Li. Many students participated in the national competition solely for the purpose of being recommended for university admission. In order to achieve a ranking in the national competition and obtain the opportunity for admission, they neglected many other subjects besides the competition subjects. If they were not recommended for admission, they might not be able to get very good scores in the college entrance examination.
"Why would you want to take the college entrance exam? You must have fallen behind in other subjects during this national competition, right? Are you dissatisfied with the university that offered you direct admission? That shouldn't be the case. I heard that almost all the well-known universities extended offers to you this time." Dean Li frowned. "Which university have you forgotten?"
"I just want to participate." Jiang Jianian didn't reveal much information, and his answer was concise.
This was almost exactly what Dean Li wanted to hear. Dean Li laughed heartily: "That's right! We have to have that kind of confidence. We've already won first place in the national competition, so what if we only get one in the college entrance exam? Even without a guaranteed admission, we can still get into any school!"
Dean Li asked a few more questions, and finally couldn't help but mention one of his projects, "You know about telomeres, right? Our research institute has been paying a lot of attention to this project recently. Ever since our research project proposed a complete model of yeast telomerase recruitment, we plan to invest further in this area."
Jiang Jianian chuckled and said politely, "There may be similar telomerase recruitment pathways in human cells. From this perspective, it is a new approach to developing anti-cancer drugs and is indeed worth studying."
Dean Li became increasingly excited as he spoke, and he chatted with Jiang Jianian several more times in depth. Finally, he couldn't help but ask, "Young Jiang, are you interested in this area of research...?"
Jiang Jianian was not surprised by Dean Li's tentative invitation. He declined with a distant yet polite attitude and calmly said, "I'm sorry, Dean Li, I may not be very interested in this area."
Which area are you interested in?
“Molecular gastronomy.”
Dean Li frowned in surprise and regret: "I didn't realize that Xiao Jiang was more interested in cooking?"
Seeing Jiang Jianian nod without changing his expression, Dean Li really didn't want to miss out on Jiang Jianian. He intended to recruit him and train him personally, and he persuaded him a few more times.
After exchanging a few words, Jiang Jianian once again dodged his question and returned to the same point. Just when he was at his wit's end, his little old lady came over with a photo album to bother him again.
"Old man, old man, what do you think of my introduction of Ye Qingcheng's daughter? Have you forgotten that little girl? She has big eyes with upturned corners, she's so pretty! It's just that she's not very studious. Every time she comes over, I have to say a few words to her, and after she gets dizzy from listening, she just wants to run out and play... It's okay if she's not good at studying, as long as she's pretty. Oh my, every time she comes over and looks at me with those big, bright eyes, my heart melts."
As she spoke, the dean's wife held up a photo album of Ye Zhiwei as a child to show Jiang Jianian.
"Why are you here again, you old woman? She's a child of the Ye family, how could she not know Zhiwei? Don't meddle and try to matchmake people!"
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