1. Big Brother's Farewell Banquet
In Qingzhou, the weather is already hotter. The birds chirp and start working at noon. The climate of this beautiful medium-sized city has become worse and worse over the years. The winter is getting colder and hotter in summer. However, spring is getting shorter and shorter, as if the first two weeks were still cold winter, and in the blink of an eye, it skipped the spring and entered the hot summer.
As soon as Jiang Zhihan walked out of the research institute's door, the Hanxian pager on his waist sounded beating. He took it off and looked at it, stepped on his worn-out bicycle, and rushed out in a flash.
Outside the institute is a steep slope, which is quite famous on campus. It is said that many long-lasting idiots fantasized about the famous scene of hitting people with bicycles and meeting beautiful women. From here, rushing down at lightning, 7 of the 10 people who really hit are men, and 2 are dinosaurs. If you run into a lucky day and meet a girl with a moderate appearance, congratulations, if she doesn't slap you in the face and then let your boyfriend next to you come up and beat you up.
Jiang Zhihan is a cautious person. From childhood to adulthood, he has always been a person with medium-sized appearance, average grades, and high grades. He said he doesn't work much (except in front of friends he knows). If he uses two words to describe him, it is ordinary. It is difficult to find him in the crowd, but it is harder than climbing to the sky. If his parents' friends want to praise him, they usually cannot find other words, that is, the child is honest and down-to-earth. The most common thing the teachers use is a steady person.
But Jiang Zhihan is actually a bit proud in his heart. Among the friends and classmates he knows, he really feels that few people are smarter than him. Although he was born in an ordinary family, he was labeled an honest person since he was a child and went to college smoothly. He has never been a very outstanding person. In his heart, he has confidence that many people don’t know - I can do what those guys can do!
Jiang Zhihan's caution is reflected in small parts of life - for example, when rushing down this 20-degree slope, he usually gently pinched the brakes so that the car would not be too fast. Today, he let go of the brakes and let the worn-out second-hand phoenix car under him rush down freely. The wind blew past him, and the trees on both sides of the avenue quickly retreated. For a moment, he simply felt that he was not riding a phoenix, but driving a Ferrari.
Finally, after staying on this campus for 7 years, it was time to say goodbye. Before I got old, I began to recall the past, just because it was the season of parting.
The campus in May is very common for most people, but it feels a bit unusual for people in graduate classes.
The graduate students who graduated in spring have completed the defense, some have left, and some have stayed to deal with some trivial matters about the aftermath. Undergraduate graduates will start the defense immediately, but for most people, it is just a form. The work has basically been decided, and those who take the postgraduate entrance examination have already known the results, and the rest is nothing more than the last ceremony.
The campus in May is therefore full of various farewell activities. For us Chinese, there is no activity that can compare to...eat.
At the lunch banquet, the host was a doctoral student from the institute named Shen Cheng. Shen Cheng is already 34 years old this year and is a doctoral student who has applied for after working for a few years. His graduation has gone through several hardships. He stayed in the institute for seven and a half years before he got this certificate. Speaking of which, Jiang Zhihan was very helpful in getting a graduation from Shen Cheng, and even worked hard to contact him. Therefore, although he was not in the same research group, the two had a deep friendship.
After asking the waiter, he pushed open the door of box No. 7 and heard someone singing a new song of the popular queen. The new ancient lyrics sing the most famous "I held hands and looked at each other with tears in my eyes, but I was speechless."
"I kao, who is disgusting people? Ten old men are sitting here and singing this," Jiang Zhihan cursed with a smile. Those parents and relatives who praised him honestly might be shocked when they saw it. The two and a half years of experience in the institute, especially since they started to go to the manufacturer and do projects, have gradually transformed Jiang Zhihan. Although they are not good at socializing, the social engagements on the scene and the jokes between friends are considered free and natural.
The person who sang was named Lin Pang. He was not resistant to this nickname. Over time, people often couldn't remember what his name was. The seven people sat in the house, except Lin Pang and Jiang Zhihan, were the master and his junior brother of the research team.
The reason why Lin Pang was because of Shencheng's graduation and job search. Lin Pang was another person who made great contributions. He was probably much greater than Jiang Zhihan. Lin Pang was one class lower than Jiang Zhihan and was a junior brother under a tutor. He basically came to the research institute to get a diploma, and in the future he went out to target the administrative work of state organs.
At first, Jiang Zhihan was inevitably a little disgusted with such a junior brother who had a diploma. It was very difficult to take him to do projects, and he even had to do many things himself. However, Jiang Zhihan has a good temper and has become more and more aware of the world after graduating from undergraduate studies. In addition, his supervisor mentioned a few words, so he has always taken good care of Lin Pang. Even he wrote 80% of the paper he needed for his master's degree and let him sign it.
But in the matter of Shencheng, Jiang Zhihan re-recognized this junior brother. Not only was he the power of his family's network, but he also felt that this person was quite chivalrous and enthusiastic, and he was also a friend who could make. Therefore, the deeper the relationship between the two was, and they could usually joke about Wuji.
There are 4 plates of cold dishes, stir-fried screws, boiled edamame, mixed cucumbers and salted fish on the table, which are considered to be the classic four cold dishes for students to have dinner together. Under the table is naturally a box of beer. New students who have just entered the school (especially after the expansion of enrollment) seem to be getting better and better, and their bags are getting bigger and bigger. However, for the students of Jiang Zhihan and his generation, the four cold dishes and inferior beer are also eternal and warm memories of their students' time.
Shen Cheng smiled and said, "Put the cold dish first, drink some wine to warm up. Before the hot dishes are served, I'll wait for you and Sun Yue." Sun Yue is a graduate student in the next two classes. That year, the institute recruited 16 people, only one girl. This ratio is said to be comparable to that of the Department of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Everyone joked that she was called "a little red" behind her back, which means a little red in the green cluster.
Jiang Zhihan apologized, "The boss is in a meeting and you can just wait as long as you want. We can't work for others. But we don't have an excuse to be late, so I'll punish you for one cup. I'll do it now." Nowadays, people don't call mentors or professors, but they call him the boss.
After some urging and fighting for wine, Sun Yue called and said that he couldn't come at noon. So the hot dishes started to whirl up, the wine began to drink, and the game of Sijicai Brothers began to be staged. Eight big men performed the plays that have been repeated countless times in this season in a private room: Drinking farewell wine.
Wine is the birthplace of words. This is definitely the truth. After half a box of beer, men seem to have become women or elderly people, their family matters and gossips are constantly spit out of their mouths. Jiang Zhihan sat there, and for some time, as if he was a little distracted. He seemed to be floating outside his body and was watching a drama. Every sentence seemed to come from a distance, and there was an echo in his body.
Zhang Zhang, a junior brother who was two years younger, was nagging Sun Yue’s gossip. It is said that three men were competing for this. One was a doctoral student in the institute and the other was a master’s student of the same level. It is said that he was a classmate since middle school and has been infatuated with him. Another new member is said to be from the computer department and has a lot of money in his hand when he started working on projects.
Jiang Zhihan looked down on this gossiper from the bottom of his heart. It would be better to say one or two of these gossips of girls occasionally, but they can understand the causes and consequences clearly and talk about them with relish. They are more like the aunts in the neighborhood committee than the man in their twenties.
In college life, sometimes it was so lonely. Jiang Zhihan sighed in his heart, but his mind drifted to other places. I remember that from recognizing Shen Cheng to being familiar with each other, it was actually quite boring to play games. From the Three Kingdoms to racing to the Fairy Sword, whether it was cooperation or fighting, revolutionary friendship sprouted and grew up online. For a while, the two often rode together for ten minutes to eat at the staff cafeteria outside the school. Although it was also irrelevant, Jiang Zhihan gradually felt very speculative. Although Jiang Zhihan was not the kind of guy who liked to find someone to talk about his ideals and depression, occasionally the bourgeois mood of being sad and cherishing autumn was mostly digested by himself. But a friend sat down and chatted with some things calmly, which was also a good feeling.
In the middle of a chat, Shen Cheng talked about him. The second year after joining the institute, he recruited his supervisor to go to the Chinese Academy of Sciences to be promoted, but he still had the qualification to lead a doctoral student in the school. He was just happy to have a title. His supervisor was still under that person, but the actual relationship had been transferred to another new doctoral supervisor.
This doctoral supervisor who is less than 40 years old valued the most is economic revenue generation. He opened a company outside and his research topics were biased towards the field of intelligent database control. However, the research on the real basics of this major has long been put aside. Shencheng's work experience and the foundation of this major are still very solid, but because he was studying in college very early, he was blinded by computer-related things when he started a doctoral student, which was far less than that of his younger juniors, so it was inevitable that he would not be valued by this doctoral supervisor. Those who could not work and make money were basically not within his vision. The research topic delayed more than three years before it started, and then he staggered.
Shen Cheng is old and his spirit has gradually smoothed out. The project is not going well. He once fell into the process of playing games all night and was depressed. It was also during that time when he began to truly get to know Jiang Zhihan.
Later, a new doctoral supervisor came to the institute. Jiang Zhihan helped him do a small project for a month. He happened to know that it was difficult for him to find a doctoral student even if he was just a newcomer. In addition, he had a project from the National Natural Science Foundation that matched Shencheng's strengths and work experience, so he helped both parties.
Shen Cheng was still a little hesitant at first. After all, it had been delayed for 4 years and the paper had already started, but in the end he made up his mind to beat him. As expected, he graduated in less than three years. For this matter, Shen Cheng thanked Jiang Zhihan very much, and felt that Jiang Zhihan was quite capable, if he had the opportunity to be a non-something in the pool.
Later, because Shen Cheng's mathematical theoretical foundation was not good, Jiang Zhihan made a lot of contributions to his papers. By chance, Lin Pang wrote in. In a short time, he was able to report papers in first-class academic journals, and Lin Pang left his parents' network of relationships. Even later, he worked hard in Shen Cheng's work.
Jiang Zhihan felt a little strange. Why did he always feel nostalgic in recent days? He often felt that he was standing outside to watch himself? Are he still acting like a ghost? He stopped his mind and felt that Zhang Zhang was still chatting about his gossip. He couldn't help but interrupt, Junior Brother Zhang, I'll give you four words:
Where is the world?
Rabbits don't eat grass by their nest
Since the quality is not good
Why do you want to find it by your side
Lin Pang took the lead and said in the tone of the leader, "My comrades should look farther. Qingzhou Normal University and Qingzhou Medical University have countless grudges waiting for us to comfort us." So he closed the table and laughed, which concluded the topic.
After a meal, eating, drinking, chatting and bragging, I sat for three hours. After a long meal, everyone got up and checked out, and walked to the parking lot. Of course, it was the parking lot of bicycles. Shen Cheng and Jiang Zhihan were at the end, so they had the opportunity to talk about the itinerary.
Jiang Zhihan asked, have you booked a ticket?
Shen Cheng said it was Tuesday afternoon.
Jiang Zhihan is a little regretful, I am afraid he can't send you there. He has to go on a business trip to Shanghai and Ningxia on Monday and it will take at least three days to come back.
Shen Cheng drank a lot of wine and was a little excited. He held Jiang Zhihan's shoulder and said, "It's just a formal matter whether to give it or not." After being in Qingda for so many years, I will give you a friend who is really willing to help and help. Lin Pang is loyal enough, but to be honest, he also depends on your face. You helped him a lot in the research team, and never bothered him. He remembered it in his heart if he didn't say it. You tried your best to help me without asking for any reward. He looked at you with a higher look, thinking that you are a loyal and promising person. As for me, I'll find someone this time.
A famous university is a lecturer, and slowly strives to get involved in an associate professor or something, and he doesn't think about anything like a doctoral supervisor. First, he is close to his parents, and they can take care of him when they are old, and second, his work is quite stable. Although the opportunities are not as good as here, the pressure of attracting money for projects is relatively less. I want to be a university teacher peacefully and teach students a few lessons. I am a self-aware person, but my ability is limited and my time is delayed. Now I am just trying to be a stable person. What about you? You are still young and capable. Although we don't know the future, I believe you have a big future.
Jiang Zhihan smiled and said, although I am a few years older than you, I am no longer a naughty person. Those unrealistic fantasies when I was young have long been wiped out. Fortunately, I have found a good job, become a white-collar worker, and strive for progress. I pray that anyone who gives me a virtuous and not ugly wife can live a lifetime with a warm kang.
Shen Cheng said a little confusedly, I'm optimistic about you. Don't underestimate yourself, you have a bright future. I won't say anything else about the place I went, the air is fresh and the environment is good, and it's not crowded. Whenever I have time, I will definitely come and take a look.
Jiang Zhihan patted his shoulder. It’s an era now, and what the great man said has been fulfilled, and the natural barrier has become a thoroughfare. It’s not a matter of hours to go anywhere. It’s very convenient to contact A1s on a phone. When it comes to kill you, there is a big chance. You don’t have to worry about not coming, you just want to worry about me coming too much.
The two of them came to the parking place and each unlocked the lock and picked up the car. Shen Cheng said, I was going to go outside the school and broke up with you here. After hesitation, he suddenly said, "I haven't told you before, and I think it's too boring." I applied for a doctorate for my girlfriend at that time. Although I was a technical backbone in the factory, I didn't have a backend education, so she felt that the future would be bleak, so she persuaded me to suspend my postgraduate entrance examination. Think about how sacred the title of doctorate was in that era. I didn't expect that I was not good at it, but instead got stuck here for seven years. In seven years, there was one more piece of paper, and a lot of head was missing, seven years. After compensation, my wife and soldiers were also lost. Haha, the master's degree was all over the street, and the doctorate was not as good as a dog.
Jiang Zhihan knew that Shen Cheng had drunk a little more and was a little sad about parting, so he didn't say anything extra encouragement or comfort, but just patted his shoulder hard and said solemnly, "Senior Brother, take care of yourself."
Shen Cheng grinned and said, "You have lost your composure, so do you, take care of yourself."
So the two waved their hands and rode their bikes to their respective ways.
The alcohol was blown by a gust of wind and rushed to his head. Jiang Zhihan rode on the bike and suddenly recited loudly,
A close friend in the country
As far as the world is,
Inaction is on the road
Children and children share scarves
Several people on the side of the road turned around and looked at him like a psychopath. Jiang Zhihan was not afraid at all, and he said louder and louder.
I'm talking about teenage crazy
The left is raised to the cang, the right is led to the yellow, and the thousand riders are rolling to the flat roof.
The words behind suddenly got stuck and I don’t remember what it was. A few passers-by A and passers-by B smiled loudly, and such nerves were more common on campus when parting.
In the girls' dormitory in the distance, another old song of the queen floating in the ethereal, singing gently and lingeringly, asking what love is in the world, which makes people agree with life and death?
Chapter completed!