Chapter 90: Chapter 76: Not Even Wanting Money Anymore?! (12 more episodes for monthly pass)
Unfortunately, they could tell that Qiao Ze wasn\'t interested in Yanbei University and even seemed to have a slight aversion to it.
Well, the latter was purely an overthinking on their part.
At least for now, Qiao Ze didn\'t have any aversion to any university.
Of course, he didn\'t have any particular fondness either.
Except for Xilin University of Technology.
After all, people have emotions, and his classmates were actually quite nice.
But then again, although the three professors from the Capital had only met Qiao Ze once, they were left with an extremely deep impression.
So much so that on the high-speed train back to the Capital from Xilin, the conversation never strayed from this kid.
...
"This child indeed has something," Qian Yuhai said earnestly.
Lu Changzheng nodded as well, providing a fair assessment, "Qiao Ze\'s memory, computation abilities, logical thinking, and reasoning skills, spatial imagination, they must all be top-notch. Considering what he said, he spent half a day to figure out the problem in your video.
That means he sensed something wrong while attending the lecture, indicating that he also has enviable mathematical intuition! It\'s hard to imagine all these strengths being concentrated in a child."
"It\'s just that his air of arrogance is a bit too much, sigh..." Zhang Hongcai sighed.
Most people probably get this wrong impression when they first meet Qiao Ze.
Especially considering that when Zhang Hongcai visited, it was precisely during Qiao Ze\'s busiest time. Naturally, he didn\'t feel like paying much attention to them, which led them to perceive him as quite arrogant.
"Ah, you can\'t really say that. If I had his talent at a young age, I probably would have been more arrogant than him," Lu Changzheng commented with a smile.
Zhang Hongcai looked at Lu Changzheng with some surprise; Zhang Hongcai remembered that Lu was the most upset when Qiao Ze blocked their phone numbers the day before, yet now he was speaking up for Qiao Ze?
"Don\'t look at me like that; after I went back last night, I watched Old Qian\'s lecture video again. The mistake in Qian\'s lecture video that Qiao Ze pointed out went unnoticed by me unless he reminded me. Moreover, I had my graduate students find the last edition of the Group Theory textbook last night; the proof process is indeed written that way.
Although we started using a new textbook last year, that textbook had been in use for six years, and it\'s surprising that no one noticed the mistake. So when he says he found an error in a lemma proof in a Group Theory paper within a few minutes, I truly believe him."
"Oh?" Zhang Hongcai was slightly startled. Was it really a problem in the textbook?
Zhang Hongcai instinctively turned to look at Qian Yuhai; after all, that textbook was primarily authored by Qian.
Qian Yuhai shrugged and sighed, "Ah... don\'t look at me. I really didn\'t notice it, and despite so many rounds of proofreading, Lu, Yan Song, they all proofread it and still missed this little flaw. Thankfully, we\'ve switched textbooks now; otherwise, if this got out, the loss would be severe."
"Come on, a few small issues in the textbook are inevitable, so stop making a big deal out of it," Zhang Hongcai disdainfully said to Qian Yuhai.
"Actually, what I mean is, if possible, should we mail a copy of the new internal textbook to Qiao Ze and let him go through it?" Qian Yuhai suggested thoughtfully.
Zhang Hongcai pondered and eventually shook his head, "Forget it, if that got out, it\'d become a real joke. Even if you guys can disregard your own reputations, what about the reputation of the college and the research institute?"
"Heh, it\'s a pity indeed!"
"What\'s a pity? I think the University of Technology\'s Mathematics College simply can\'t keep Qiao Ze."
"Maybe he\'ll get poached by Physics College in the future?"
"That\'s why I say it\'s a pity."
"Forget it, let\'s not talk about it anymore. No matter how good he is, he\'s someone else\'s kid. Actually, we also have a few promising talents this year. Once we get back, we can focus on cultivating them; they may not necessarily be inferior to Qiao Ze! It\'s not as if there haven\'t been many prodigies who were surpassed in this world."
"Ah..."
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Almost at the same time, just as he had sent off the three bigwigs, returned to school, and confirmed that Li Jiangao was still in the office, Xu Dajiang came looking for him with a face brimming with delight.
"Jiangao, there\'s truly good news this time," Xu Dajiang said with a mysterious air as soon as he entered.
"Dean Xu, hello... What\'s the good news? It can\'t be that you\'re planning to have me go abroad as a visiting professor, can it? I can\'t do that at the moment," Li Jiangao joked casually.
"Haha... Jian Gao, you\'re starting to enjoy teasing me more and more!"
Xu Dajiang laughed unnaturally—it certainly wasn\'t a good time to be sending Li Jian Gao abroad.
Let alone under the current circumstances, where sending him would be very difficult.
"No, no, just tell me what it is, I\'m just joking," Li Jiangao said. Read exclusive chapters at m_v-l\'-NovelBin.net
Xu Dajiang nodded, put on a serious face, the smile now absent, "You know about the commotion caused by the people from the Capital, right? Their first dinner here was personally hosted by Old Zheng."
"Oh, I didn\'t know," Li Jiangao shook his head.
He hadn\'t been asked to meet the Yanbei University professors at all.
The only reason he went to have a meal was that it had been pre-ordered, and when the three professors left, they were already starting to eat when they called, so Xu Dajiang summoned him to join for the meal. So he really didn\'t know.
"It doesn\'t matter if you don\'t know about that, but the point is, I mentioned Qiao Ze\'s matter to Principal Zheng and roughly talked about you wanting to cooperate with Qiao Ze on a project. Old Zheng gave the go-ahead on the spot. Once this month\'s exams are over, he will coordinate, and at a minimum, try to allocate one million yuan in research funding for your project. One million yuan...
Jian Gao, you and Qiao Ze will have to work hard! For this one million, both Principal Zheng and I have taken on pressure!"