parentshiftbook Chapter 22 This academic genius isn't all-around perfect after all!
Chapter 22 This academic genius isn't all-around perfect after all!
"Professor Xia?"
Wu Tianming turned around and saw that the person who came was their department head, Xia Qing, with a man and a woman standing next to her.
Wu Tianming and Wang Ye quickly stood up straight and looked at Professor Xia respectfully.
How can one explain being caught eavesdropping by the department head?
"Professor Xia, don't misunderstand. We were just passing by and heard arguing inside, so we were curious." Wang Ye persisted, shamelessly offering an explanation.
Xia Qing glanced at him expressionlessly, ignoring him. She looked towards the office door and asked, "Is Professor Ke Zhan inside?"
Wu Tianming and Wang Ye nodded in unison. Wang Ye was even more eager, taking a step forward and saying, "Professor Xia, should I knock on the door for you?"
"Hmm," Professor Xia replied.
After receiving permission, Wang Ye hurriedly knocked on the door, and then footsteps could be heard from inside.
As soon as the door opened, Ke Zhan's face appeared. He first saw Wang Ye and frowned. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the person standing next to him.
"Director Wei, Vice Dean Han, Director Xia, what brings you here?"
Xia Qing looked at him and said slowly, "We'd like to talk to you about your thesis. Is that a convenient time?"
"Uh, of course, please come in." The arrival of Xia Qing and the other two seemed to have completely taken Ke Zhan by surprise. He hurriedly invited the three into the office before he realized that Luo Yao was still standing there.
"Luo Yao, you should go out first." Ke Zhan didn't want Xia Qing and the other two to know about his conversation with Luo Yao, so he quickly told Luo Yao to leave.
Xia Qing watched Luo Yao leave without saying anything. Only after Luo Yao closed the office door did she turn her sharp gaze to Ke Zhan.
Outside the office door at this moment.
"Boss Ye, the way you knocked on Teacher Xia's door just now looked like you were leading the way for the Japanese!" Wu Tianming breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Luo Yao come out and couldn't help but tease him.
"It's all because of San Tu! You have no idea how worried I was just now." Wang Ye wiped non-existent beads of sweat from his forehead.
"Let's leave here first. We haven't had breakfast yet. Let's go get lunch first," Wu Tianming suggested.
"Don't you want to keep listening?" Wang Ye said softly, his eyes still lingering on the office door.
"Being caught is embarrassing enough, and now two grown men are eavesdropping here. Go ahead and listen if you want!" After saying that, Wu Tianming left with Luo Yao. Wang Ye saw that he was left alone and thought that being embarrassed alone was truly embarrassing, so he quickly caught up with them.
Along the way, Wu Tianming asked Luo Yao if Ke Zhanyou had said anything in the office, and a rare emotional fluctuation appeared on Luo Yao's face.
"He's so stupid. He kept asking me why I emailed the editor of Semiconductor magazine instead of sending it directly to him. It seems like not sending him an email was the best decision. He probably wouldn't understand even if he saw it."
Wu Tianming and Wang Ye fell silent.
She thought to herself that Luo Yao seemed to be on a completely different wavelength from the other person. One of them was only focused on wanting the other to correct their mistakes, while the other was desperately trying to cover it up.
Ke Zhan probably never expected to encounter someone as stubborn and unyielding as Luo Yao.
"San Tu, you don't understand. Ke Zhan's current title is still a regular lecturer. He probably wants to be promoted to associate professor. The promotion to associate professor is linked to the number of published papers. If you do this, his paper probably won't be counted in the evaluation criteria."
"Associate professor? How could someone with his level become an associate professor?" Luo Yao's serious expression made Wu Tianming and Wang Ye both laugh and cry.
This person really doesn't hold back when they speak!
They had never seen such a straightforward person before.
"Holy crap! I suddenly remembered the look Ke Zhan gave me earlier. Could he have thought that I invited Professor Xia and the others?" Wang Ye suddenly froze on the spot.
Wu Tianming also recalled what had just happened, and he said somewhat dejectedly, "Well, now we can only pray that Ke Zhan fails to be elected as an associate professor, otherwise we'll all be in trouble in the future."
"I don't know if there will be any good consequences, but now that you mention it, I really feel hungry. Let's go eat quickly. I'm so hungry that I'm dizzy. If this continues, I'll definitely get low blood sugar." Wang Ye slumped his head listlessly.
Wu Tianming also felt hungry. He said, "Let's go then, canteen one or two? I think canteen two has spicy hot pot today..."
"I'm not going, you guys go ahead," Luo Yao said, seeing that they were already discussing what to have for lunch.
"Hey? You didn't eat breakfast or lunch? That won't do. Not eating on time can cause cholecystitis. You should eat something." Wu Tianming's family often deals with medicine and pharmaceuticals, and he has been exposed to this since childhood, so he naturally pays special attention to his health.
"Really?" Luo Yao asked doubtfully.
From childhood to adulthood, apart from completing the reading tasks given by the system, he really didn't know that skipping meals could cause cholecystitis.
This academic genius isn't all-around perfect after all!
Wu Tianming and Wang Ye both realized this.
"San Tu, I've noticed you're not very good at living independently. Come on, let's go eat." After saying that, Wang Ye waved and gestured for Luo Yao to follow him.
"But I need to go to the library to read books." Luo Yao wasn't lying. He needed to prepare for EDA work, and since he didn't have a computer, the best way was to go to the library, where it would be convenient to find information and write code.
"Eat first, then study. As our ancestors said, 'Man is made of iron, food is made of steel; you'll get hungry if you skip a meal.' Think about it, if your body can't handle it, what's the point of studying!"
Luo Yao usually didn't pay attention to this kind of knowledge, and his brain would automatically filter out things that seemed useless to him. So when he heard this, he subconsciously felt strange: "Iron is a metallic element, while steel is an alloy. Iron can be smelted into steel, so if people are iron and food is steel, this cause-and-effect relationship is wrong."
Wang Ye said he didn't want to talk.
"Look how thin you are! If you don't eat, you'll look like a mummy's relative in a few days. Hurry up and go, I'm starving too." Wu Tianming couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted Luo Yao's continued explanation.
After hesitating for a moment, Luo Yao finally decided to go to dinner with them.
It wasn't that they convinced him, but rather that their constant nagging reminded him of his mother.
After getting their food at the cafeteria, the three of them sat down and started eating. Wang Ye was so hungry that he quickly finished his bowl of rice. He wasn't full after one bowl, so he went to get a second bowl.
After finishing his second bowl of rice and a piece of savory pancake, Luo Yao finally finished his meal.
"Boss Ye, can you learn to eat like San Tu?" Tianming saw Wang Ye calling Luo Yao "San Tu" and, seeing that the other party didn't seem to mind, he started calling him that too.
Wang Ye waved his hand, looking disgusted: "That won't work. If I eat that slowly, I'll starve myself to death."
After the three finished eating, Luo Yao went to the library to study. Wang Ye originally wanted to go back to sleep, but Wu Tianming persuaded him to go to the library with him, calling it a "digestion activity".