University of Pennsylvania, Wharton's student apartment. Chen Yushan, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by her phone ringing.
It was twelve o 'clock in the morning.
She muttered to herself, "Who's calling so late at night?" Then, a fair hand reached out from under the blanket and groggily reached for the phone on the bedside table. She pressed the answer button and brought it to her ear.
"Hello —?"
When Chen Baohua heard his daughter's sleepy voice, he hesitated.
"Are you asleep?"
Chen Yushan yawned when she heard her dad's words and said weakly.
"Dad, take into account the time difference when you call … It's already 12 o 'clock here."
Chen Baohua coughed and said, "I thought it was only nighttime on your side. I didn't expect it to be so late …"
"It's fine, if there's anything, just tell me. If there's nothing important, I'm going to sleep." Chen Yushan couldn't help but yawn again.
She was already used to this careless father who didn't know how to take care of others. She didn't know how he managed to woo her mother back then.
Recently, she had been writing her graduation thesis. She had a lot of work every day, so she was usually very sleepy at night.
However, compared to those senior brothers and sisters who were treated as free labor and delayed their graduation, she was undoubtedly much luckier.
To be honest, Ms. Michelle's meticulous care made her a little flustered.
As the saying goes, those who are unaccountably solicitous must be up to something. Although this saying might not be accurate, there was still some truth to it.
Every time they looked at each other, Chen Yushan could see something "different" in her eyes, so much so that Chen Yushan always suspected that she had ulterior motives for her beyond the teacher-student relationship …
In short, for the sake of her moral integrity, she made up her mind to finish her graduation thesis as soon as possible. The sooner she graduated, the sooner she could get out of here.
Chen Baohua's heart ached when he heard his daughter yawning.
Therefore, he didn't beat around the bush on the phone and got straight to the point.
"I'm calling to ask you about something."
Chen Yushan replied, "Yes, yes."
With a serious tone, Chen Baohua continued, "Tell me, what's the relationship between you and Lu Zhou?"
Hearing this, Chen Yushan, who was curled up in the blanket, almost coughed.
"That's right … friends, what else could it be? Didn't I tell you last time? "
Chen Baohua asked in disbelief, "Just friends?"
Chen Yushan didn't know whether to laugh or cry as she said, "Dad, what's the matter? Just say it. "
Hearing his daughter's words, Chen Baohua's expression was a bit awkward.
To be honest, he did not want to win over Lu Zhou. The person who gave this task to him was obviously up to no good and was plotting against his daughter.
But there was no other way, this person was not Old He, but the leader of the Organization Department.
Although he understood the importance of talents like Lu Zhou to the country, she was still his daughter, and he only had one daughter.
It would have been fine if the two of them had taken a liking to each other, but it didn't seem to be the case now …
"… Nothing, I just wanted to ask around."
After much consideration, Chen Baohua still couldn't bring himself to sell his daughter.
He would rather go to America and talk to Lu Zhou about his treatment in China.
"I'm coming to America in a few days. Can you help me get that Lu guy … Cough, help me get that Professor Lu to come out. I have some things I want to talk to him about in person."
Chen Yushan didn't think too much. She yawned and said, "Okay then, you can talk to him in person. If there's nothing else, I'm going to sleep …"
Chen Baohua nodded and said, "Mhmm, goodnight."
"Goodnight!"
Chen Yushan threw her phone on the bedside table and continued to sleep under the blanket.
However, at this moment, she suddenly realized something. Her cheeks, which were hidden under the blankets, quickly heated up, and two blushes floated up.
When she agreed, she didn't notice it at all.
What should I say about this?
Should I just say, "My dad wants to see you"?
Or "I want to take you to see my dad"?
What's wrong with you!
Chen Yushan, who was no longer sleepy, couldn't help but bury her head under the blanket. She wanted to crush herself with the blanket.
Jesus, what should I do?
…
Early in the morning, Lu Zhou arrived at the laboratory on time and began the day's experiment.
With Connie's help, he carried out N-type and P-type doping on the graphene material. Then, he selected a small angle twisted bilayer graphene from a large number of samples and placed them under a scanning electron microscope to observe the microstructure.
They needed to find two energy bands with a structure close to zero dispersion.
In theory, the positions of these two energy bands should be fixed. They should be at the negative and positive doping relative to the Dirac point of graphene.
However, it was very difficult to actually do this.
However, if they could find it, it would be a huge help to the entire superconducting material research.
Connie wasn't the only one in his laboratory. Professor Chirik was also here.
In order to complete the data collection as soon as possible and complete the superconducting material research as soon as possible, Lu Zhou dragged this big name in the organic chemistry field into his research.
Even though Professor Chirik's main research area wasn't graphene, after he heard about Lu Zhou's project, he still expressed a strong interest.
Especially after he heard that the project funding was as high as US $10 million, he immediately suspended his project and brought his research team to join Lu Zhou.
In the laboratory, Professor Chirik, who was standing next to Lu Zhou, suddenly spoke.
"It's already October."
Lu Zhou, who was fiddling with the scanning electron microscope, said, "Yeah."
Chirik: "You're only saying 'yeah'?"
Lu Zhou's hand that was fiddling with the scanning electron microscope paused and asked, "What else? Is there an event in October?"
Professor Chirik said, "You don't care about this year's Nobel Prize?"
When Lu Zhou heard this, he sighed and said, "My dear Mr. Chirik, if I start paying attention to this, I'm afraid that when I become an old man, I won't be able to sleep well."
Chirik shrugged and made a helpless expression.
"Okay then, it's boring to talk about this with you. I thought you were looking forward to it. After all, the theoretical model you made last year was pretty good. "
Lu Zhou: "Let's leave this kind of thing to time. The Nobel Prize isn't the reason I'm in academia."
While the two were talking, Lu Zhou's phone in his pocket began to vibrate.
When Professor Chirik heard the vibrating sound, he had a strange expression on his face.
Lu Zhou immediately saw through Professor Chirik's expression and sighed. "I know what you're thinking, but that's impossible … I'm going to take a call."
Professor Chirik jokingly said, "Why don't you take it here? What if it's the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences?"
"Wake up, it's only the first of the month!"
The caller obviously wouldn't be the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Normally, the Nobel Prize winners would call within a few minutes of the announcement.
The identity of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry would only be announced on the fourth.
Not to mention, Lu Zhou knew how small the probability of winning the Nobel Prize was.
Lu Zhou picked up the phone and put it next to his ear.
"Hello?"
"Chen Yushan …"
When Lu Zhou heard the unnatural voice on the other end of the phone, he hesitated for a second and said, "What?"
Chen Yushan carefully asked, "Are you free this weekend?"
Lu Zhou had a strange expression on his face as he said, "I am … What's up?"
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