Tech Hammer

Fortunately, Ning Wei asked first, because Lu Dongyi's answer was completely beyond his expectation.

"I didn't mention it earlier. The dormitories in our school are very tight, so doctoral students share a room with two people, including in the international student building. You know, the capital is expensive!"

"A room for two?"

Ning Wei shook his head and said: "Brother Na Lu, what is the policy of purchasing houses in Beijing? For example, if someone like me responds to Director Tian's call and comes to study at Yanbei University, will I be eligible to buy a house?"

It's not that he would rather live with another doctor than he can't, but the key is that he can't make do with March. After all, March is an innocent and cute little female cat.

"Buy a house? Junior brother, don't you have some misunderstanding about the housing prices in Beijing?" Lu Dongyi said confused.

Even though he was insensitive to money issues, he still remembered that when he first went to Jiangcheng to see Ning Wei, this junior was still proud of being able to write papers in top journals and get rewards.

That performance clearly didn't look like he was rich.

It has only been a year and you are planning to buy a house in the capital? Suddenly rich? !

He knew that the patent for the turbulence algorithm was in Ning Wei's hands. Ning Wei had consulted him about the patent at that time, but the real situation he saw at that time was that Ning Wei stayed in the school laboratory to conduct turbulence algorithm research.

He has not had much exposure to this kind of applied research, but based on his understanding of domestic universities, the patents for such results produced by collaboration between students and school laboratories are generally shared with the school. The economic value generated is usually taken by schools and laboratories.

But he didn't know that Ning Wei was in a special situation when designing the turbulence algorithm.

At that time, it was just that the dean and professors of the School of Mathematics saw the paper he published in Nature and after the defense, they felt that he had great training prospects. It happened that Ning Wei proposed a research project, and the dean of the School of Mathematics came forward. I asked the lab boss for a favor, but no one took it too seriously at the time, so neither party thought about approving some scientific research funds for Ning Wei.

After all, scientific research funding in universities is very tight, and many eyes are watching.

What's even more terrible is that Ning Wei typed out the code of the turbulence algorithm independently without waiting for the laboratory to react. The most terrible thing was that Lu Dongyi visited Jiangda. Under his reminder, let Ning Wei quickly applied for all the patents...

So everything has become a fait accompli. Who has the nerve to talk to Ning Wei about patent rights anymore?

Even if the copyright of the software can be hung in the laboratory, it was Lu Changbin who forcibly stuffed a R\u0026D fund into the turbulence algorithm project team and only got it by putting in good words.

So in a sense, Ning can now afford a house in the capital thanks to his senior brother.

"Hey, isn't the turbulence algorithm I designed now available online? The results are good, and I have attracted a large investment. The laboratory rewarded me with a sum of money in advance. It is not much, but it is still enough to buy an apartment in the capital." Ning Wei He explained in a very low-key manner.

This is understandable.

Lu Dongyi thought of the practical value of the turbulence algorithm, nodded, and said: "If this is the case, it will be easy to handle. With your current achievements, it is not a big problem to get a Beijing household registration. Later, you can submit the Ten Thousand Talents Plan for Top-notch Youth When applying for talents, tell Director Tian that once the approval of the Ten Thousand People Plan is passed, this matter will probably be completed. By then you will be eligible to buy a house in the capital."

"The relationship is good. I'll rent a house for the next few months. Which neighborhood is closer to us?" Ning Wei asked.

Lu Dongyi thought for a moment and said, "Wait for me to make a call. I know an old professor who asked me if I was interested in buying his house next to the school. Because my daughter has gone abroad, they are also planning to It’s over. The old professor’s wife has already gone there last month, and I don’t know if the house has been sold yet. If it hasn’t been sold, you can go over and have a look. If it’s suitable, you can pay the deposit first and live there directly. Waiting for you. The plan is to settle the account, then pay the balance and go through the transfer procedures."

Ning Wei immediately thanked him: "It's the best to be able to do this. Thank you, Senior Brother Lu."

Lu Dongyi didn't waste any time picking up the phone and making a call.

After briefly talking about Ning Wei's situation on the phone, the other party was obviously very interested. Soon Lu Dongyi hung up the phone and said to Ning Wei: "He happens to be here, let's go, I will take you to see the house first. "

…

The community where the old professor's house is located is right next to Yanbei University. It takes about three minutes to walk from the southeast gate to the community. What makes Ning Wei even more satisfied is that the building is still in the middle of the community and is very quiet.

There was an access control system at the door of the unit building. Lu Dongyi called again and waited for about five minutes before the old professor rushed over.

"I'm sorry, Professor Lu. My wife has gone to my daughter's place first. I've been living in the old house next to the park these days. It's a little late to hurry up and hurry up."

"It's okay, Professor Luo, this is Ning Wei, the tutor Tian student I told you about."

"I know, it was on CCTV, haha. I didn't expect that my poor house might be sold to a celebrity." Professor Luo said with a smile.

Ning Wei smiled shyly, forgetting who he heard said that before a large transaction, don't be too enthusiastic about the seller.

However, this Professor Luo probably developed good eloquence during the teaching process. After saying hello and taking the two of them upstairs to view the house, he almost never stopped talking. Of course, most of them were praising the beauty of the house.

"Although it is an old community, you can see the community environment. Moreover, most of the people living here are faculty and staff of Yanbei University, and most of the houses rented out are master's and doctoral students and international students from Yanbei University, so you can know the quality of the residents. Don’t worry. There are rarely noisy situations. The decoration of the house was quite high-end, so you can move in with just your bags..."

During Professor Luo's eloquent introduction, Ning Wei walked around the house carefully.

The house is indeed quite good, with a layout of three bedrooms and one living room. It should have never been rented out, and the owner also takes good care of it.

Although the various furniture and appliances look a bit old, they are all in good condition from the outside.

Especially the furniture is made of solid wood and is still very strong.

Among them, Ning Wei is most satisfied with the study room, which will be perfect for March. The only flaw is that there is only one bathroom, but it doesn't matter if he lives alone now. In addition, it has obviously been unoccupied for a while and it is a bit dusty.

"Professor Luo, how much do you plan to sell this house for?"

"The current average price in our community is about 100,000 yuan. This house is 97 square meters, which is 9.7 million yuan. But since you are a student of Tutor Tian, ​​and I heard Professor Lu say that you can buy it in full, I will give you a discount. 9.5 million, if possible, we will sign the contract."

During the price negotiation, Ning Wei glanced at Lu Dongyi and found that Lu Dongyi was also looking at him.

It seems that neither of them is very good at negotiating prices.

"Well, look, can you make it a little cheaper?" Ning Wei asked tentatively, making a plan in his mind. If it doesn't work, he will settle the deal for 9.5 million.

"This... oh, forget it, for the sake of you coming to study at our Yanda University, I will give you another 200,000, 9.3 million! Let me tell you, Ning Wei, this is definitely the lowest price in the whole community. You won’t find a cheaper house like this around here!”

"Okay, let's sign the contract, Professor Luo. But did Professor Lu just tell you? I'm not qualified to buy a house yet..."

"No problem, I plan to go there after the Chinese New Year anyway. Let's do this. You pay a deposit of two million first, and I will give you the key, and you can live in it first. Don't worry, with your previous achievements and the help of your field guide , your household registration will definitely be settled before the end of the year. When the time comes, you will notify me and I will accompany you to transfer the ownership, and you can just pay the balance on the same day." Professor Luo said cheerfully.

In this way, it only took an hour for Ning Wei to finalize the first house in his life, and it was a small three-bedroom apartment next to Yanbei University in the capital...

After signing the contract and transferring money via mobile banking, Ning Wei still sighed in his heart when he received a call from the bank to confirm the large-amount transfer: "March, March, you are such a little gold-swallowing beast!"

…

After getting the key given by Professor Luo, Ning Wei felt a bit like he was in a dream, especially since the sun was setting, which made him feel even more trance-like.

So on the way back to the school hotel with Lu Dongyi to pick up their luggage, Ning Wei sighed: "Brother Lu, am I buying a house now? Why does it feel a bit unreal? People feel a sense of accomplishment when buying a house. You have to be selective. Carefully select, shop around, and finally make a final decision. How come when I buy a house, it seems like I just went shopping around and then made a decision, without any sense of ceremony?"

Lu Dongyi thought for a while and replied: "Maybe it's because you are too rich recently."

Ning Wei felt that this answer hit the nail on the head, and he couldn't help but realize it suddenly, and subconsciously sighed: "Sure enough, being too rich will really deprive you of a lot of fun in life."

Lu Dongyi glanced at Ning Wei sideways and said, "Don't worry, God of Wealth, I will help you arrange the cleaning aunties later, but remember to pay for it at your own expense."

…

Lu Dongyi was very reliable. When he went to the guest house to check out and pick up his luggage, he made a phone call to the guest house manager and immediately arranged for two aunts to follow them back to Ning Wei's new home. They were busy until nine o'clock in the evening and the house was already cleaned. It's clean.

After paying the housekeeping cleaning fee and sending away the two aunts, Ning Wei walked around in his new home and suddenly found a feeling of excitement that he had not experienced when paying.

I immediately took out my phone and sent a video to my mother.

The video will be connected soon.

"Mom, I followed your instructions and bought a house in the capital today. I will show you the layout of the house..."

Ning’s mother: “What…???”

…

After explaining the cause and effect clearly to my mother, and asking Lu Dongyi, a professor at Yanbei University, to show up, and repeatedly ensuring that I had not been cheated, let alone being cheated, and that the landlord was still a professor at Yanbei University, I hung up on WeChat.

"Hey, Senior Brother Lu, are you feeling hungry? You were so excited just now and suddenly realized that we haven't eaten yet?"

"Oh, you know you didn't eat?"

"Let's go, I'll treat you to a meal. Don't talk about eating steamed buns! I'll treat you to a big meal."

"Let me see what time it is. It's half past nine. Let's go buy something. I'll take you to a place to eat." Lu Dongyi looked at the time and said.

…

There are always a lot of snacks near the school, especially since Yanbei University is also located near the once prosperous Guanzhong Village.

It’s just that during holidays, most small shops don’t stay open that late.

So the random things Lu Dongyi said he bought were three hamburgers and two chicken rolls. He bought so many mainly because he thought he could eat a lot.

After buying food, Ning Wei picked up the KFC bag and followed Lu Dongyi around the campus, passing the liberal arts college with a simple architectural style, and finally got into the lawn of the backyard of a two-story building.

"Just eat here."

Ning Wei looked around. The scenery was not as good as that of Weiming Lake. No, it should be said that there was no scenery at all, just an ordinary lawn. He really didn't understand that Senior Brother Lu had come so far to bring him to this place. Well.

Fortunately, there was a big stone on the lawn, so Ning Wei and Senior Brother Lu simply sat on the lawn together, threw things on the stone, and then each of them held a burger and started chewing it.

"No, senior brother, do you still have such a good idea? Come here to look at the stars and just eat?" Ning Wei couldn't help but ask.

Lu Dongyi turned on his phone and looked at the time, and said, "You'll know in a few more minutes."

Well, seeing as how busy my senior brother is today, Ning Wei is too embarrassed to continue talking nonsense.

Fortunately, he didn't have to wait long. About two minutes later, the lights on the second floor opposite suddenly turned on. After a while, a soft piano sound came from the classroom.

To Ning Wei's surprise, he actually understood the music.

Because what is played on the piano is not those world-famous songs, or etudes by a certain master, but a popular song in the form of a piano solo.

Ning Wei still remembers that the title of this song should be "The Whale Who Transformed into an Isolated Island".

I have to say that with the melodious piano music, Ning Wei suddenly felt that the burger in his mouth tasted a little better.

"So Brother Lu, you brought me here specifically to listen to someone playing the piano?"

Ning Wei asked.

"Shh..." Senior Brother Lu made a gesture.

All right……

Ning Wei closed his mouth and listened to the melodious melody under the starry sky with Senior Brother Lu.

Finally, one song ends, and then the next one begins.

They are all pop songs with very simple melodies and no ostentatious elements, but they are in line with Ning Wei's aesthetics and they sound very comfortable indeed.

After about forty minutes like this, the lights in the classroom went out.

Senior Brother Lu stood up, patted his butt and said, "Let's go."

…

On the way back, Ning Wei couldn't help but ask: "Senior Brother Lu, do you often come here to listen to people playing the piano?"

"Well, that was more than a year ago. The project I was doing at that time was troubled by the small spacing problem of the classic Gaussian orthogonal ensemble in a random matrix. The radio happened to be broken that day, so I just wandered around the campus. When we got to the road outside the lawn just now, we heard the sound of a piano inside."

"It's quite a coincidence that I suddenly felt a little tired, so I simply went to the lawn to listen to the piano playing. In fact, the person who played the piano at that time must have just started playing the piano. In fact, his playing was far from as good as it is now. In many places, the rhythm was different. It was wrong. But I don’t know why, but I thought it sounded pleasant to my ears, so I went to the lawn just now, listened to the sound of the piano, and thought about my own problems.”

"Guess what, that night, I actually got inspiration from the sound of the piano, and the problem was solved that night. Later, when I encountered a problem that I couldn't figure out, I would often come over and sit on the lawn for a while. Yes. If someone is playing the piano, listen to it; if no one is playing the piano, just listen to the radio."

"Later I gradually discovered a pattern. Except during the winter vacation, the piano players here would come here almost every day around ten o'clock in the evening, practice for about half an hour to forty minutes, and then leave."

"In the beginning, I practiced the same one or two songs over and over again every day, and then I played more and more songs. Let's put it this way, I listened to this person's piano skills and I have been playing pretty well since I started. of."

After hearing this, Ning Wei felt a little puzzled and asked: "No, Senior Brother Lu, I heard that people who practice piano seriously should practice basic skills first, and then slowly challenge those difficult piano pieces. ? This person plays these pop songs every day, how can he improve?"

"Yeah! But I think it's pretty good. After all, if I really have to play those piano pieces that I can't even name, I won't be able to appreciate them."

Ning Wei nodded, feeling that what his senior brother said made sense, because he couldn't appreciate it either.

Then, Ning Wei thought of a possibility and continued to ask: "Huh? Senior brother, don't you have a crush on the girl who plays the piano in the classroom?"

Lu Dongyi glanced at Ning Wei strangely and said, "How do you know the person playing the piano is a girl?"

Ning Wei thought for a moment and said, "Could it be that the person playing the piano just now was a man? The songs they chose were all very soft, and there are more female singers singing them. It should be what girls like to play, right?"

"No, I don't know the gender of the person playing the piano at all! Why do you like it? I've never seen it." Lu Dongyi replied.

Ning Wei was stunned...

Senior brother, this is not acting according to common sense!

Who hasn’t been a little curious these days?

After listening to someone playing the piano for more than a year, Brother Lu actually didn’t even know what the person playing the piano looked like. How much endurance it took to resist the urge to explore the truth!

"Why? You didn't want to wait a little longer and go to the front of that building to see who came out in the middle of the night?" Ning Wei asked in surprise.

"Why do you want to watch? I just came to listen to this person play the piano. As for whether this person is male or female, old or young, and what he looks like, it seems to have nothing to do with me, right?" Lu Dongyi shook his head. I'm also puzzled by Ning Wei's fuss.

Well, after hearing this answer, Ning Wei was sure that one of him or Senior Brother Lu in front of him was abnormal.

"Senior brother, are you a person without the slightest curiosity? Although these have nothing to do with you, people will naturally be curious! When you listen to someone playing the piano, don't you think about the person's height, height, weight, or thinness? "

Lu Dongyi thought for a while and replied: "I really haven't thought about it. When I come to listen to the piano, I always encounter problems. There are not enough cells in my mind to think about mathematical problems. How can I have time to be curious about other things?" ?”

Ning Wei once again had an epiphany...

"Brother, do you mean that only the top geniuses are qualified to feel curious when thinking about mathematical problems?"

Lu Dongyi suddenly didn't want to speak and gave Ning Wei a roll of his eyes.