Jiang Yubai held Lin Zhixia's hand tightly and asked in a very cryptic way, "Do you want to go home?"
Lin Zhixia suddenly remembered that before she and Jiang Yubai kissed for the first time, he also asked her opinion. At that time, he asked her very solemnly, "Can I kiss you?" Before she answered him, he began to back off.
That year, he just turned eighteen.
Lin Zhixia fell into a brief recollection, and the fragmented memory fragments aroused her joy. She deliberately tested Jiang Yubai: "I would rather go to the company to see how the quantum technology laboratory is prepared."
She raised her head and stared at him quietly.
He actually said directly: "Let's go."
Jiang Yubai walked a few steps along the sidewalk, passing under the shade of the trees. The falling raindrops soaked his suit jacket. Lin Zhixia asked again, "Did you promise me?"
He smiled: "When have I ever refused you?"
"I've rejected you several times," Lin Zhixia brought up the past. "You used to be a very reserved and conservative person. Whenever I gave you something, you would symbolically refuse it..."
The autumn wind blew through the lush branches and leaves. Lin Zhixia's voice was softer than the wind: "Also, the first time you unbuttoned your clothes and let me look at you... you only allowed me to look for ten seconds."
Jiang Yubai vaguely remembered the scene of that day. He raised his left hand, held his collar, and pulled his tie tighter, then said, "You can watch as long as you want tonight."
Because of his words, Lin Zhixia's imagination ran wild. She couldn't help but hold his hand again, actively interlocking her fingers with his, and rubbing her palms against his for a moment, as if she could understand his palm lines through just a few seconds of exploration.
Jiang Yubai and Lin Zhixia slowed down their pace in tacit agreement. Students from the university town were still walking on the sidewalks. People were interweaving and talking nearby. Xu Lingbo suddenly realized, "Where is Teacher Lin?"
Fang Yiwen glanced at him and said, "Teacher Lin left with her master."
"Where are they going?"
"I don't know. Ask the teacher on WeChat."
Instead, Xu Lingbo stuffed his phone back into his pocket. He held the plastic bag in his left hand, put his right hand in his pocket, and tapped the plastic shell of his phone with his fingertips. He asked, "There will be a meeting in the group next week. Are you two ready?"
Needless to say, Senior Sister Fang Yiwen is very knowledgeable and can handle things with ease, and she was able to have a very pleasant conversation with Lin Zhixia.
Xu Lingbo's questions were mainly directed at Zhan Rui.
Xu Lingbo didn't expect that Zhan Rui would start to talk about his research progress as soon as he finished speaking. It turned out that Lin Zhixia had already prepared data sets and sample codes for Zhan Rui. Zhan Rui completed one-third of the experimental work this summer vacation, and now he is doing his best to implement the remaining two-thirds of the experimental content.
Xu Lingbo's heart skipped a beat.
It’s less than half a month since the start of school…
He was keenly aware that Lin Zhixia had extremely high expectations for her students.
Lin Zhixia not only set extremely difficult homework for undergraduates, but also invisibly intensified the competition among graduate students within the research group.
That afternoon, after Xu Lingbo returned to his dormitory, he put the lamb skewers and leftovers on the table and invited his roommate to taste them with him. His roommate was also a big shot. He had just entered the second year of graduate school and was called "Brother Qiang" by a group of classmates.
Xu Lingbo sat on a chair, his hands on his thighs, and called out, "Brother Qiang?"
Qiang was playing games. He was wearing headphones and facing a laptop. It took him a long time to reply, "Paudie, what's up?"
Xu Lingbo ruffled his hair and said, "It's not a big deal. My instructor treated us to lunch at noon and I was very happy. On the way back, I asked my seniors and juniors about the progress of their projects. I didn't know until I asked, and I was shocked..."
Brother Qiang closed his laptop, took off his headphones, turned around, and said to Xu Lingbo, "What did I scare you about?"
Xu Lingbo said honestly: "My junior fellow student will be able to publish his paper by the end of this year at the latest. Do you believe it?"
Brother Qiang picked up a mutton skewer, took two bites, and gave instructions: "You, don't panic, listen to me, show up at your tutor's office more often, ask her for projects and topics, aren't you quite capable of handling things?"
“I went to see her,” Xu Lingbo said, “and she gave me a bunch of papers.”
Brother Qiang raised his right hand and pulled his sleeves: "Bodi, you have already found a mentor, what are you worried about?"
Xu Lingbo leaned on the pillow and said, "Brother Qiang, we have a group meeting next week. Don't I look like a fool compared to my seniors and juniors? Look at my previous mentor. He didn't care about the students and rarely held meetings. There were two or three students in the group who were not as good as me. Now, I am the last in our group..."
Brother Qiang frowned, thought for a moment, and then taught Xu Lingbo a set of "graduate student group slacking techniques" that he had summarized.
Brother Qiang also said that as long as you master this set of "graduate student group slacking techniques", you can deal with 90% of college tutors in the world and make them unable to guess what you have done this week. They will think that you have read a lot of papers, produced a lot of results, and spent a lot of time and energy.
Xu Lingbo thanked him quickly.
With a grateful heart, he humbly learned the "Graduate Student Group Meeting Slacking Method" - the secret of this method is to try to talk about something that the tutor does not understand, pick out complex terms from the latest high-level journal articles, and then throw the topic to senior students and junior students. After a few rounds of back and forth, the tutor will forget the student's specific work for the week after the time is spent.
"Master, really a master," Xu Lingbo was deeply moved. "Brother Qiang, you have saved so many postgraduate students from dire straits. With this great method, I don't have to worry about speaking at group meetings anymore!"
Brother Qiang smiled with a look of concealing his achievements and fame: "If you want to study for a master's degree, you have to know how to get by. Look at me. After I submitted my thesis last semester, my supervisor didn't ask me to do any work. This semester, I will protect you and make sure you can live comfortably under Teacher Lin. Your supervisor and master are both good people. You will have a better life than me."
Xu Lingbo applauded enthusiastically for his speech.
At the same time, Lin Zhixia and Jiang Yubai took a special car to the door of the main building of the Internet company. This is a high-tech software company park. The office building of their "Quantum Technology Laboratory" is on the side of the main building. Lin Zhixia followed Jiang Yubai around two buildings, and when she looked forward, she immediately saw the five eye-catching English letters "PTSIC".
PTSIC is the original code name of their quantum programming platform, representing the initials of the alma mater universities of all members of their team.
Lin Zhixia looked up at the "PTSIC" sign and said with emotion: "When I was a child, I never thought that I would have such an opportunity."
Jiang Yubai followed her lead and asked, "An opportunity to start a company?"
Lin Zhixia shook her head and said, "I never thought there would be someone like you who would accompany me through every important stage of my life."
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