Brainoid

Qi Min left the biology department hall with Zhang Zhiyong, and then she thought about whether she should tell Anton if she didn't go back for lunch.

When she was studying for her Ph.D., she usually brought her own lunch because of tight time. But now it seemed to be a tacit understanding that she would not be in such a hurry as a PI, so Anton did not prepare lunch for her in the morning. So should she go back to eat? This is a problem...

Qi Min struggled for a while and decided to call Anton - he was using Qi Min's old mobile phone, so it was also a local mobile phone number, so he didn't have to worry about the phone bill.

The call was answered quickly, and Qi Min asked: "Is there lunch?"

Anton said a little strangely: "Don't you have lunch at school?"

Did he acquiesce that she would not go home for dinner? Qi Min couldn't help but feel a little ignored, and deliberately said: "You also know that the food in our school cafeteria is like that..."

"It's not very good, but it's still edible." Anton said, "It's much better than the French fries you had in the school cafeteria for lunch."

Qi Min finally understood. He just couldn't stand Qi Min eating American fast food for lunch. However, anything that can be regarded as serious Chinese food, regardless of taste, is edible in Anton's eyes.

"Okay." Qi Min wanted to say, "Then I won't go back to eat." But then he thought that she didn't have a share in it, so he had to say, "I'll go back in the evening."

Qi Min hung up the phone, and Zhang Zhiyong next to him took the opportunity to tease: "Call your mother?"

"It's her boyfriend." Qi Min corrected. Her mother is not like this, and since she is so old and does not live with her parents, there is no need to inform her parents about daily matters.

Qi Min originally thought that Zhang Zhiyong would be envious of having someone to cook for her, but unexpectedly he said, "It's good to have a boyfriend."

Qi Min almost stumbled. What's the meaning? She doesn't look like someone who can find a boyfriend?

But remembering Zhang Zhiyong's hobby of gossiping, she felt that she couldn't bring the topic to Anton, so she asked, "What, don't you have a girlfriend?"

"Oh, we broke up during my third year of Ph.D.," Zhang Zhiyong said coolly, "I thought I spent all day in the lab. How can I publish an article if I don't do experiments? It's not theoretical physics. De Broglie patted his head and figured it out. It can send out a material wave."

Qi Min felt that de Broglie's famous paper on matter waves was not that easy. However, both chemistry and biology are labor-intensive industries, and research in this area is indeed energy-consuming and time-consuming.

"Why aren't you looking for another one?" Qi Min asked, "Now that you have a science and a teaching position, it's not easy to find someone."

Many girls studying for Ph.D.s want to find young male PIs like Zhang Zhiyong. Since you have chosen to do scientific research, it is understandable that you want to find a senior in the same industry to help you. As long as they do not violate the rules and there is no issue of academic misconduct, this combination of similar age differences is normal.

"I don't want to find people engaged in scientific research." Zhang Zhiyong was straightforward, "No one engaged in scientific research is normal." He glanced at Qi Min and added, "Including myself."

That means that it also includes her. Qi Min accepted others' comments about her being abnormal, but changed the subject and asked: "Which canteen should we go to?"

"Why are you going to the cafeteria?" Zhang Zhiyong said immediately, "There is a new bullfrog hotpot outside the school. I want to try that. Did you come here by bicycle or by car?"

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Qi Min and Zhang Zhiyong rode out of the school gate, and when they arrived at the newly opened Bullfrog Hotpot restaurant, they found that they had to get a number and wait for a table.

But it’s all here, so let’s get a number. Qi Min took a number and asked the front desk clerk, and learned that he might have to wait for more than half an hour.

Qi Min felt that it was a bit of a loss for her to just have a normal meal and wait so long. But Zhang Zhiyong didn't seem too anxious and said leisurely: "Wait a moment, I happen to be shopping here. Do you want milk tea?"

Qi Min hasn't had milk tea for a long time. I remember that she often drank milk tea when she was an undergraduate, but she didn't drink it often after going abroad. Now that she heard this proposal, she felt it was quite novel: "Okay."

Qi Min and Zhang Zhiyong walked to a milk tea shop not far away. She still familiarized herself with the menu of the milk tea shop before ordering the 30% sugar iced grass jelly milk tea with coconut. However, Zhang Zhiyong ordered something at least twice as complex as hers without thinking.

"Are you a regular customer?" Qi Min was a little surprised. She didn't expect that Zhang Zhiyong also liked drinking milk tea, which she thought was mostly consumed by girls.

"I usually order takeout," Zhang Zhiyong said. "Actually, I'm used to it. When I was studying for my Ph.D., I often ordered it together in the lab."

He was studying for his Ph.D. in the laboratory of a big boss in the chemistry department of the top two universities in China. The area around the school was relatively prosperous. I am afraid that at that time, the laboratory often went out to eat, drink and have fun together. Qi Min had a little guess as to why he had to wait for a seat for this bullfrog hotpot. He must have missed his previous experience of eating with his lab friends. You often have to wait for a table at restaurants around top 2 universities, so you will naturally buy some drinks while waiting for a table.

"You can also find someone to order milk tea with you now." Qi Min suggested to him.

But Zhang Zhiyong couldn't help but frowned: "Other PIs in the chemistry department don't drink milk tea. These people don't usually meet each other. Even if they have dinner together, they are always in a decent hotel, and the entertainment is at most playing cards."

What he said was true. A school like the University of Science and Technology of China with a small population does not have that many young PIs at the same time. Most of the teachers are married, with seniors and juniors. They usually have to take care of the laboratory, children and parents, and also have to attend classes, meetings and lectures... and have no time to deal with young people.

"Then you can try fooling the doctoral students in the laboratory." Qi Min suggested. Isn’t it true that as long as someone mentions something like milk tea, everyone will order it? Many people are addicted to this drink.

"Let's forget it with the students." Zhang Zhiyong chuckled and took a sip of the Hantian crystal ball in the milk tea. "I would also like to advise you, don't always hang out with the students. It's okay if you lead them to do projects now. , if everyone is assigned independent projects in the future, and you still hang out with them, anyone who encounters something wrong in the experiment will come to you."

Qi Min thought for a moment and realized that there were already signs of this. Fortunately for Ke Li, Wang Xin and Chen Linyou always came to her whenever something went wrong in the experiment. Sometimes, even when they saw her without incident, they would tell her a lot about the situation and then ask her if this was normal. In fact, they should have their own judgment, but they became dependent on Qi Min.

This is not easy to handle. Qi Min wanted someone to eat and play games with her, but she didn't want to wait all day to clean up the first-year students' experiments. It’s really troublesome not having seniors to guide the juniors.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it." Zhang Zhiyong changed the subject first, "Have you heard that there is a new British visiting scholar in the Department of Medicine? She seems to have some relationship with Li Huandong from the Department of Physics..."

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Also: I have applied for a cover, but it hasn’t been finished yet... I made the current cover randomly because the automatically generated one is really hard to watch. 23333