CH 145 Top Scorer In The Sciences
Translated by The BL Muse (ko-fi)
When Jiang Chen got out of the car, he saw Professor Xiang waiting at the street corner.
Professor Xiang raised his hand to signal him over. But before he could smile, he saw Shi Fengyue who was following Jiang Chen out of the car. His face darkened instantly, "Why is he here?"
Jiang Chen walked up to Professor Xiang in quick steps, and Shi Fengyue followed behind him unhurriedly. Hearing this, he paused slightly, slightly lowered his head, and lowered his voice, "If you don't want to see me, then I'll go."
Professor Xiang's expression changed. Seeing that Shi Fengyue seemed to be really about to turn around, he gritted his teeth and said, "You're already here, where are you going?"
Jiang Chen saw that Shi Fengyue's body, which hadn't turned much at all, immediately turned around, smiling wide and bright, as if that pitiful appearance just now was an illusion.
Professor Xiang snorted coldly, turned his head and left.
Jiang Chen followed Professor Xiang, and asked, "What are we doing here?"
Professor Xiang seemed to have transferred his anger to Jiang Chen, and said angrily, "Go and ask the one you brought."
Jiang Chen told Professor Xiang: "I didn't bring him here, he came here by himself."
"You don't know how to shoo him out of the car?" Professor Xiang asked.
Jiang Chen didn't think about it before, but when Professor Xiang said this, he regretted not shooing Shi Fengyue out of the car.
Seeing that Jiang Chen didn't answer, Professor Xiang took a look at him. Suddenly his eyes landed somewhere, and he frowned and said, "Did you bump yourself somewhere?"
Jiang Chen said inexplicably, "No."
Professor Xiang: "Then what's the matter with your mouth?"
"My mouth..." Jiang Chen subconsciously raised his hand and touched his lower lip. A slight tingling pain was aroused by his fingertips, and the memory in the car also came back instantly. His ears instantly reddened and his clothing eyes looked in another direction: "The road in front of the scientific research institute is too bumpy, I bumped myself by accident."
"You just said you didn't bump yourself." Professor Xiang scolded him, frowned and said: "It's indeed really not easy to drive on the road from the Military Research Institute. Xiao Wu reported it several times but has not been approved even now, the efficiency is too low.”
Jiang Chen smiled awkwardly, but didn't answer.
Shi Fengyue said with a smile: "I think it's better not to repair that road."
Professor Xiang glared at him. He didn't want to talk to him at first, but he couldn't hold back the words: "You hardly go to the research institute once a year, and other researchers who come and go drive around there every day. Easier said than done."
Shi Fengyue walked on the other side of Professor Xiang. With a rare good temper, he obediently bowed his head to be scolded: "You are right."
Professor Xiang snorted, turned his head away and ignored him.
Jiang Chen glanced at him, and said to Professor Xiang: "Is the road not being repaired over there for concealment?"
"In the past, one or two projects indeed needed to be carried out in secret, but now..." Professor Xiang thought of something, frowned and said: "With the start of your project, it will now take a few years to start construction on that road."
Jiang Chen smiled, "There are too many people involved in the construction. It's really inappropriate to come and go at the entrance of the research institute, and the road is only a bit bumpy in that section. It's been like that for so many years, it'll be no different waiting some more time to repair it."
Shi Fengyue answered: "With that road, the research institute is even more hidden."
Professor Xiang naturally knew about this, but when he heard Shi Fengyue's words, he had the urge to be contrary, and he said coldly: "Does giddiness depend on that road? Its depends on the woods outside and the army stationed on the edge of the woods."
Shi Fengyue was bullied again and again, but he accepted all scathing remarks in a good-tempered manner, not angry at all, and even curled his lips and said modestly: "Then why do you think that road has not been repaired?"
Professor Xiang didn't want to talk to him at all, so he quickened his pace, and Shi Fengyue followed suit, with a smile on his face. Jiang Chen observed the old and the young from the corner of his eye, this was the first time he saw Professor Xiang looking so "lively". He now had new considerations about the relationship between Professor Xiang and Shi Fengyue in his heart.
The main street of Antique Street was very lively, and it was also one of the tourist attractions in Yan City. It was very crowded with people coming and going.
Professor Xiang was a skinny old man, but he walked faster than anyone else. When Jiang Chen was distracted, he could only see the backs of unfamiliar heads.
Shi Feng Yue was still there.
Jiang Chen was tall, and being caught in the crowd didn't block his sight too much. He searched around but failed, so he could only ask Shi Fengyue, "Did you see where Professor Xiang went?"
"Nope."
Just as Jiang Chen was about to take out his cell phone, he realized that before entering the main street, Professor Xiang had given his cell phone to Qian Yi and the others, asking them to help find a place to charge it. At this time, he couldn't reach anyone even if he called.
"Let's look separately." The crowd kept moving, and Jiang Chen was worried that the longer it dragged on, the harder it would be to find someone, so he said decisively, "Call when we find him."
Shi Fengyue said unhurriedly: "No need."
Jiang Chen tilted his head, thinking that Shi Fengyue had already found Professor Xiang.
Shi Fengyue: "I know where he went."
Jiang Chen paused, remembering that Professor Xiang and Shi Fengyue had known each other for a long time, and just now he said he wanted to ask Shi Fengyue what he was doing here. Thinking about it, Shi Fengyue should know exactly where Professor Xiang was going.
He glanced at the time and said, "Then let's go there."
After walking a few steps, he turned around and wanted to ask Shi Fengyue which direction to go, but he saw that Shi Fengyue was moving with the crowd at a leisurely pace, with a calm and lazy expression, as if he was visiting his back garden. In such a crowded and noisy environment, he could still make the crowd move in line with his steps.
"Can you walk quicker?" Jiang Chen said in annoyance.
Shi Fengyue said naturally: "I can't walk because of people crowding me."
"Aren't people squeezing you just to tell you to move quicker?"
Shi Fengyue stood on the spot: "Are you in a hurry?"
"Of course." Today was the day for the He family to have dinner together, and he had to rush back later.
When Shi Fengyue stretched out his hand, Jiang Chen was puzzled.
Shi Fengyue raised his eyebrows and shook his hand meaningfully.
Jiang Chen thought of something, and he couldn't believe it: "You want me to hold your hand?"
"I just want you to take my hand." Shi Fengyue looked as if it was for Jiang Chen's sake: "But if you want to hold my hand, it's not that I can't agree."
Jiang Chen rolled his eyes at him and grabbed his arm: "Let's go over there."
"Let's go ahead first."
Shi Fengyue let him pull him. He followed his footsteps, walking behind while directing the way.
There were many people on the main street of Antique Street, but the side alleys were deeper, which was the residential area, and there were fewer tourists. Jiang Chen let go of Shi Fengyue's hand, and said, "You said Professor Xiang always came here to visit friends, but why call me over?"
Shi Fengyue touched his fingers on the hand that Jiang Chen had just held, rubbed it lightly twice, and the corners of his lips curled up: "Professor Zhang Zhizhou."
"Zhang Zhi..." Jiang Chen paused, turned his head and said, "Professor Zhang Zhizhou, the main researcher of the high-performance computer with a peak computing speed of 233.5 trillion times and a linpack value of 18.06 billion times?"
"It's him."
Jiang Chen thought of many things in an instant. He was used to discussing everything about work with Shi Fengyue, and he immediately forgot about the previous "conflict and annoyance" and went straight to business mode.
"Does Professor Xiang want to ask Professor Zhang Zhizhou to come out of retirement or just bring me to meet him. If it is the former, it will be a given that he'll be the hardware guide on our side. If it is just to meet, it is not necessary to bring me here, so he probably does want to invite Professor Zhang Zhizhou to guide our team?"
The smile in Shi Fengyue's eyes deepened: "Very happy?"
"Of course." Jiang Chen said again: "If Professor Zhang joins our team, we can speed up the project. Remember the project brief I showed you before? In fact, the development of software is mainly from the expansion of the Changjiang system's other applications, as well as more upgrades to it. If the team has a short breaking in time and cooperates tacitly, the project completion time can definitely be faster, but the hardware..."
Shi Fengyue lowered his eyes and smiled slightly, quietly listening to him, only inserting a few words from time to time. The afternoon sun elongated their figures as the two walked unhurriedly, the shadows sometimes overlapping and sometimes jumping.
Professor Xiang was waiting at the door of his old friend's house, and this was what he saw. His eyebrows twitched, and he somehow felt that something was weird, but until Jiang Chen and Shi Fengyue came close and ended the conversation just now, he still couldn't figure out what was weird.
It was getting late, so he put aside his doubts. He motioned for the two to stand behind him, raised his hand and knocked on the door.
…
The conversation with Professor Zhang was very pleasant. Just as Jiang Chen guessed, Professor Zhang would join their team as a hardware consultant, and he would come to work after the team members were assembled.
Although he had guessed it already, the fact that he would be able to gather a group of the best scientists of this era into his team, and two of them were even representatives of the computing technology research field that he highly respected in both this life and his life in the interstellar era. His excited mood was still difficult to calm down in a short time.
Walking into the long alley from the alley entrance, Jiang Chen's eyes were still bright, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was very attractive.
After Fang Yuan was squeezed within an inch of his life around the main street for his interviews, he finally found a clean alley to rest. But before he could sit down on the floor, he was instantly caught by this smile.
Some distance away, he didn't recognize Jiang Chen, but subconsciously said to his colleague: "Don't close it, don't close it, I'm going to interview another one."
The cameraman followed Fang Yuan's line of sight. At this moment, Jiang Chen and the others had come a little closer. He was slightly taken aback, with the camera facing them, he couldn't help but say, "What a coincidence."
When Fang Yuan saw Jiang Chen he also thought the same way. He immediately greeted him with the microphone in his hand, and said with a smile, "Student, please wait a moment. We are interviewing on the streets. Can I ask you a few questions?"
Jiang Chen recognized Fang Yuan as the reporter who came to the door a few days ago. Seeing that he was sweating profusely and smiling, he couldn't refuse. He glanced at Professor Xiang and Shi Fengyue, and saw that they didn't seem to care about being on camera, so he nodded: "About what?"
"Our Xinsheng newspaper is doing a survey on the time and future plans of students in different grades from elementary school to university." Fang Yuan smiled and said, "Can I ask if you are currently in high school or university?"
Jiang Chen answered readily: "Soon to be a college freshman."
"Then this student took the college entrance examination this year." Fang Yuan's eyes were bright, and he moved the microphone forward a little: "The scores of the college entrance examination came out a few days ago, can I ask how you did on the exam?"
Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows slightly, and the corners of his mouth curled up. The smile just now hadn't faded away, but now it deepened: "Not bad."
"Since it's not bad, can I ask for your college entrance examination score this time?"
"748."
Fang Yuan's eyes were about to bug out of their sockets, and he suppressed his excitement before continuing the interview, but his voice still trembled a bit: "748, I remember that the highest score in previous years did not exceed 740, student, you wouldn't happen to be Yan City's legendary number one top scorer in sciences, would you?!"