Xu Lingbo's voice was so quiet, like a mosquito humming, "Selling mountain products."
In early September, when school just started, Xu Lingbo once carried a bag of mountain products for Lin Zhixia. Lin Zhixia refused to accept gifts from students, so Xu Lingbo had no choice but to carry the mountain products back to the boys' dormitory and then sell them to alumni of different grades through various channels of connections.
Cassava flour and pecans were the fastest-selling products, having long been snapped up by alumni. Xu Lingbo only had a large bag of dried mushrooms left in his closet, but no one was interested. However, Xu Lingbo was already very satisfied. He had earned nearly 1,000 yuan.
Xu Lingbo thought that Lin Zhixia would criticize him for not focusing on his studies.
Unexpectedly, Lin Zhixia didn't care about his school business at all, and only asked: "I found your paper, have you finished reading it?"
Xu Lingbo remembered the "Graduate Student Group Meeting Slacking Technique" that his roommate had taught him. He nodded repeatedly, curling his lips and saying, "I've finished reading it, I've finished reading it."
Lin Zhixia responded meaningfully: "Okay."
Xu Lingbo smiled at her: "Teacher Lin, I went to the laboratory and brought breakfast for my senior sister. She got up at five o'clock..."
The "senior sister" that Xu Lingbo was referring to was Fang Yiwen, the only doctoral student under Lin Zhixia.
Lin Zhixia is a specially appointed professor at the school and enjoys extremely high treatment. She has many titles, sufficient funds, and first-class equipment in the laboratory. She has a very clear direction for Fang Yiwen to plan. Fang Yiwen originally loves research. Now with such good conditions and such a supportive mentor, she has been working day and night to do experiments.
Xu Lingbo was responsible for her logistical support.
He often brings meals to his senior sister.
In Xu Lingbo's view, the three students in their group depend on each other, but others laugh at them as the "old, weak, sick and disabled group" and their alma mater, which makes him very angry. He contributes to the academic career of the senior sister by "sending meals to her" and speeds up the publication of her papers. As long as the senior sister publishes a first-author paper in the first zone of SCI, their entire group will be proud.
Xu Lingbo rushed into the college's laboratory building with a bag of breakfast, while having wild thoughts in his mind.
He ran into many students and teachers.
He always had a smile on his face and would take the initiative to greet everyone, so he became a familiar face in the entire academy. When he saw Fang Yiwen, he immediately put away his smile and respectfully offered her a breakfast: "Senior sister, come and have a meal."
Fang Yiwen sat on an ergonomic chair, her left leg stretched straight, her right leg raised, her knee bent, her heels on the edge of the seat, her sitting posture casual, unrestrained, and unconventional.
She asked slowly, "How much is the breakfast? I'll transfer it to you via Alipay."
Xu Lingbo said, "Four dollars and nine cents, Senior Sister."
Fang Yiwen took a quick look and said, "Come on, stop lying to me. Hot pot stickers, meat buns, tea eggs, tofu pudding... these will cost 9.4 yuan, right? I'll give you 9.4 yuan."
Xu Lingbo shook his head and said, "I made some money selling mountain products."
Fang Yiwen sneered: "You made money, it has nothing to do with me. I should pay you back how much I owe you. Can't you settle this account?"
Xu Lingbo pressed down with both hands: "Okay, okay, sister, you continue with the experiment. I'm going back to the dormitory to catch up on my sleep. Teacher Lin is here to check on me. Send me a text message and I'll come right over."
Fang Yiwen agreed.
Xu Lingbo shouted "Oh wow" happily and left the laboratory leisurely. Just a few steps out of the door, he bumped into Zhan Rui again.
Zhan Rui hesitated for a long time to say "I'm sorry", so Xu Lingbo couldn't help but tease him: "Hey, you are doing artificial intelligence research, what are you doing in this laboratory? Look up, this is the Quantum Frontier Laboratory."
Zhan Rui explained: "My dormitory's internet speed is slow, I need to use a cluster..."
Xu Lingbo patted his shoulder and said, "Go in, my sister is inside."
Zhan Rui and Fang Yiwen have become close friends. He found that as long as he completely separated his emotions from his rationality, he could get along well with Fang Yiwen. He walked to Fang Yiwen's seat and sat down without saying a word. Fang Yiwen asked him, "Have you had breakfast this morning?"
He replied, "The cafeteria is too crowded, so I brought some..." He took out a box of strawberry biscuits from his schoolbag.
Zhan Rui is a person who is good at observation and summarization. He noticed that Lin Zhixia was obsessed with strawberries, so he guessed that there was some connection between strawberries and high intelligence. So now when he buys snacks and drinks, he usually chooses strawberry flavor.
Fang Yiwen said, "You eat biscuits in the morning, isn't your mouth dry? Eat mine, I haven't started eating yet."
She quickly finished a cup of soy milk, saving a plastic cup. She poured half of the tofu pudding into the cup, and pushed the remaining bowl of tofu pudding in front of Zhan Rui. She also picked up some pot stickers and meat buns for him. Zhan Rui hurriedly said, "Thank you..."
Fang Yiwen put one hand in front of him and said, "Don't talk, don't make a sound, okay, I'm thinking about the formula."
Zhan Rui nodded repeatedly.
The senior sisters and junior brothers from the same school gathered together and quietly enjoyed a sumptuous breakfast.
Xu Lingbo stood at the door in a daze. He looked at his senior sister's fluffy and unruly hair from afar, and for some reason, he felt a sour taste in his heart.
The sky was clear and the breeze was gentle. The bell for class rang on time at nine in the morning.
Lin Zhixia held her head high and walked slowly into a tiered classroom.
The entire classroom was packed with people. Such a grand occasion greatly encouraged Lin Zhixia.
She walked up to the podium, faced the students, and heard a whisper.
A group of boys from a dormitory in the first year of college came to audit Lin Zhixia's class. They came at six in the morning to reserve seats. They sat in the center of the first row, closest to Lin Zhixia and with the clearest view. One of the young boys, who had just turned seventeen, said directly, "She's so pretty, my favorite type..."
Another boy whispered to him: "She's prettier in person than in the photo."
Such discussions continued one after another.
Lin Zhixia turned on the computer on the desk and adjusted her course slides before she spoke: "Please be quiet. Class is about to start."
The noise in the classroom gradually subsided.
Many students cast their eyes towards her. She smiled at them, and the freshman boy in the front row turned on his cell phone, placed it in the middle of his pencil case, pointed the camera at Lin Zhixia, and secretly filmed a video.
His roommate stopped him, "Stop..."
But he said very sincerely: "Nothing special, I just want to learn more about this course."
The next second, Lin Zhixia said, "Hello, students. I am Lin Zhixia. This semester, I will be leading you to study "Quantum Bits and Computers". Our course schedule includes two large classes per week, one homework class, and one experimental class. Regular grades account for 30% of the total grade, and exam grades account for 70%. I have opened a forum section in the school. If you encounter any problems outside of class, just ask them publicly on the forum and I will definitely answer them."
She stood straight and spoke in a clear voice: "If you have any questions in class, you can raise your hand to interrupt me at any time. Every Friday afternoon from 2 to 3 is my office open time. If you want to communicate with me face to face, you are welcome to come to the college office building to find me..."
Under the podium, many students took notes quickly.
Lin Zhixia thought about it briefly. Why did the boy in the front row start taking notes before she even got to the point? Perhaps this was the positive attitude of a good student. Back then, Jin Baihui also kept a notebook in her hand.
Lin Zhixia nodded.
She briefly introduced the course outline and without wasting a minute, she went straight into the first lesson. She went through the basic concepts, expanded on the mathematical derivations behind the concepts, and demonstrated them on the blackboard for the students to see.
A third-year boy suddenly raised his right hand, ready to ask a question.
This boy has a handsome appearance and a resolute look. He is known as the "God of Interdisciplinary College". His average college score so far is as high as 98 points. He read the string theory textbook written by the world-renowned theoretical physicist Joseph Polski in his freshman year. He raised his hand high and was soon discovered by Lin Zhixia.
Lin Zhixia held the chalk in her hand: "Do you have any questions?"
The boy stood up and in a few words questioned the limiting conditions of Lin Zhixia's mathematical derivation.
Lin Zhixia suddenly became excited.
She put down a new blackboard and quickly demonstrated her calculations. She spoke faster and faster, expanding on more and more things, and told everyone without hesitation that this knowledge was the focus of the final exam and would also appear in the students' homework in the next few months.
The group of young people in the audience showed shocked expressions.
Before the course "Quantum Bits and Computers" officially started, the college organized an assessment, and the vice president, department head, and several professors, including Professor Shen Zhaohua from the School of Physics, attended the assessment. They jointly evaluated Lin Zhixia's teaching quality.
In fact, many professors in the school believe that Lin Zhixia is Professor Shen Zhaohua’s granddaughter.
Lin Zhixia's first paper was affiliated with Shen Zhaohua's Ocean Physics Laboratory. When Lin Zhixia was young, she often appeared in Shen Zhaohua's research group. Shen Zhaohua's favorite student... the female doctor named Zhu Chan was very kind to Lin Zhixia and always smiled.
In recent years, Shen Zhaohua has made significant research achievements. She is recognized as a world-class top scientist in the industry and is often busy. She took time to look at the new course assessment of Lin Zhixia, the new teacher, which is enough to explain some problems.
Just like that, Lin Zhixia passed the test successfully.
After Lin Zhixia's first class ended, the classroom was filled with noisy conversations.
Lin Zhixia walked out of the classroom, went to the corridor, and called a laboratory equipment manufacturer. She still needed some customized equipment, so she could only find the manufacturer to communicate individually.
She didn't hear the discussions in the classroom.
The boy nicknamed "God of Interdisciplinary College" stood in the middle of the classroom and told everyone: "Teacher Lin is pretty good. Her class is worth listening to. Have you checked the homework? The quality of the homework is quite high."
Unexpectedly, it was his words that started the calls for students to drop out of the course.
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