By the time the food was served, Zhou Yanfeng and Tang Yuanyang had returned from buying furniture.

They dragged back a large round table and seven or eight stools.

The food was served, but Tang Yunling had not returned from school yet.

"Where is Lingling?"

As soon as Zhao Lingling entered the house, she asked Lu Baiwei and Tang Yunling why they didn't come back from school.

Lu Baiwei explained that she was researching the topic of ancient epidemics with a professor from the history department.

At this moment Zhou Yanfeng came back and didn't see Tang Yunling, so Zhao Lingling asked again.

"It's time for me to come back. I guess things at school delayed me. You guys eat first. I'll go pick up Lingling."

Zhou Yanfeng appeared calm on the surface, but secretly he was gritting his teeth and cursing the stinky old man who was trying to steal his wife from him, saying that he had no sense of propriety at all.

Zhou Yanfeng couldn't help but mutter to himself. Just as he was about to go back to the school to pick someone up, Tang Yunling entered the house, turned around the screen wall, and started shouting at the screen wall in the outer courtyard.

"Weiwei, look what delicious food I brought you."

As her loud voice fell, Tang Yunling, carrying a large paper bag, appeared in everyone's sight.

Seeing who was sitting in the yard, Tang Yunling shouted in surprise: "Sister Yueying, Professor Chen, and Lingling Xiaotong, why are you all here?"

"You guys came just in time. I spent a lot of money today and bought a roast duck from the state-owned restaurant."

Tang Yunling handed the paper bag to Lu Baiwei, with a proud look on her face: "Come, add some dishes. I'm the host today, let's have roast duck."

Tang Yunling looked like a wealthy man. Lu Baiwei chopped the roast duck with a knife and brought it to the table. While eating the delicious roast duck, Zhao Lingling, who was sitting next to Tang Yunling, nudged her with her elbow.

"Sister, this roast duck is so delicious."

"You didn't know we were going to come here today and get such a big roast duck."

Zhao Lingling asked: "Do you usually eat like this?"

"Have you become rich?"

"Yes, I'm rich."

Tang Yunling happily told Zhao Lingling: "Actually, I bought this roast duck for Weiwei. You guys can enjoy it too."

"Thanks to my Weiwei, I was chosen by Professor Zhou from the History Department to study ancient epidemics with him."

"You don't know that the old man in the history department is quite nice and generous. I told him that I was moving recently and he said that the school had allocated research funds and he paid me first for my assistantship."

"It's a full fifty big unity notes. I've never seen so much money before. My hands are cramped from counting."

"In fact, I didn't help him much. I just helped to look up information and summarize and organize things."

Five hundred yuan is not a small sum of money.

Not to mention Zhao Lingling's surprise, even Tao Xiaotong, who had seen the world, was stunned.

“That doesn’t make sense.”

Zhou Yueying, who is also a teacher, questioned: "In theory, the research funds allocated by the school are paid to individuals on a monthly basis. Even if the research funds are sufficient, such a large sum of money will not be given all at once."

"Lingling, you study medicine. Why would a professor from the history department ask you to work on a research topic together?"

In response to Zhou Yueying's questions, Tang Yunling told her everything that happened when Professor Zhou came to the medical school to select people.

"I told him frankly that I didn't know anything, and he said I was honest and admired my character."

"Then he hit his waist, and I carried him to the school infirmary. Maybe he regarded me as his savior. Knowing that I needed money to buy a house near the school, he used the research funds taken from the school to give me a subsidy in advance?"

Tang Yunling said that she carried the old man to the school infirmary, and the old man regarded her as his savior.

Zhou Yanfeng's mouth twitched when he heard this.

God knows that the reputation of his wife, Lu Zhishen, who uprooted a weeping willow tree, has spread throughout the school, and now the history department is full of legends about his wife.

The old man felt extremely embarrassed because he was carried by his grandson's wife, but he had to pretend nothing had happened.

It was only later that he found out that in order to get close to his grandson's wife, the old man used the method of selecting people from medical schools to research topics.

The grandfather and grandson engaged in a battle of wits and courage. When Zhou Yanfeng learned about this incident, he almost got internal injuries from trying so hard to hold back his laughter.

His daughter Lingling thought that the old man treated her as his savior because of this incident.

Tang Yunling was gnawing on the duck neck when she caught a glimpse of Zhou Yanfeng laughing. She, who was analyzing the situation nonstop, suddenly fell silent.

The more she spoke, the more guilty she felt, and she felt that her analysis above was almost impossible.

"why are you laughing?"

She kicked Zhou Yanfeng under the table in dissatisfaction.

She was puzzled: "Yes, why is the weird old man so nice to me?"

"Could it be that he really felt bad because I was scared by him that time?"

Tang Yunling muttered to himself, "At least he's not interested in me and wants me to date his stupid grandson, is he?"

Zhou Yanfeng: “…”

Lu Baiwei couldn't help but almost laughed out loud and looked at Zhou Yanfeng.

Knowing what was going on, He Ting also looked like he was enjoying the show.

Zhou Yanfeng almost choked on a mouthful of roast duck that got stuck in his throat.

All right!

He is the foolish grandson of the weird old man who was destined to be...

Tang Yunling learned from Professor Zhou Yueying and Chen Wen that universities would not provide so much research funding at once. She thought that the old man was paying out of his own pocket to repay her for saving her life, and planned to return the money to him.

At this time, something happened to the weird old man, Professor Zhou, and he was reported to the Education Bureau.

"Have you heard? Let me tell you, during the last class of our history department, people from the Education Bureau came to school and called Professor Zhou to his office. I heard that they were here to investigate him for abusing his power for personal gain and embezzling the school's educational research funds."

"Oh, which Professor Zhou from the History Department are you talking about?"

"Is he the Professor Zhou who used to work at Liulichang and was invited by our president to teach in the History Department?"

"Yes, it's him."

At noon in the school cafeteria, Tang Yunling had just squeezed to the front to get his meal, and was eating at a table with Lu Baiwei when he heard people at the next table discussing Professor Zhou's abuse of power for personal gain.

What is the crime? Misappropriation of educational research funds?

Tang Yunling had originally felt that the 500 yuan educational research fee that Professor Zhou had given her was very expensive, and she had been thinking about going to the History Department to find him after dinner in the cafeteria and returning the 500 yuan that he had given her, but she had never expected to hear this news.

Could it be that the five hundred yuan she got was not what she guessed?

The money was not paid by Professor Zhou, but was embezzled from educational research funds?

Tang Yunling felt a pang in his heart when he was inexplicably involved in a case of embezzlement of educational funds.

She didn't even bother to eat her meal, and just pricked up her ears to listen to the conversation of her classmates at the next table.

Several girls who were having dinner together asked the female history student who knew about the situation: "How did your Professor Zhou abuse his power for personal gain and embezzle the school's educational research funds?"

"Nepotism!"

"I heard that he applied to the school to do a research project on ancient epidemics, but he didn't choose students from our history department, but insisted on choosing people from the medical department."