Chapter 478 It's Too Early for Me

The problem of talent placement has been solved. After the new year's day, the researchers who joined the job will be in place one after another, and the research plan can be put on the agenda.

As for how to coordinate the work of new researchers so that they can quickly integrate into their new roles and positions, at the same time arrange the work and projects of each research group, and allocate time for some important instruments and equipment, this will test Yang Xu's management ability up.

Walking in the corridor outside the principal's office, Lu Zhou took out his mobile phone and called Wang Peng, asking him to drive to the side of the road outside the administrative building.

However, when he put down the phone, Lu Zhou suddenly had a strange expression.

Speaking of which, after working so hard for a long time, even the staff's dormitory problem has been solved, but he himself has no place to stay in Jinling, so he lives in a hotel all day long.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou couldn't help but shook his head with a smile.

When you are free, take some time to see a room.

...

After going downstairs and getting into Wang Peng's car, Lu Zhou just put on his seat belt when he suddenly received another call.

Seeing that the caller was Xiaotong, he casually pressed the connect button and brought the phone to his ear.

"Brother, where are you?"

Lu Zhou: "I'm planning to go back to the research institute soon, what's wrong?"

Rolling her eyes, Xiaotong, who was holding the phone, asked tentatively, "Will you go to the party after New Year's Day?"

Lu Zhou: "What party?"

Xiaotong said a little coyly: "That's right, the party of the person of the year."

Hearing about the Person of the Year party, Lu Zhou couldn't help but smiled, and pretended to be a jerk with his sister lightly.

"If there is no accident, your brother has to go up to present the award."

Xiaotong was surprised: "Really?!"

Lu Zhou: "Well... what's wrong?"

"Nothing! Hang up, bye!"

Lu Zhou: ...?

After all, Xiao Tong didn't give Lu Zhou time to ask questions, and hung up the phone in a hurry.

Listening to the busy tone on the other end of the phone, Lu Zhou put down the phone in his hand.

Looking at the screen in a daze, he still didn't understand, what was this guy planning to do when he called suddenly?

Wang Peng: "Sister?"

Putting away the phone, Lu Zhou responded casually, "Yes."

Wang Peng, who was holding the steering wheel, sighed with emotion: "That's great."

Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head: "When you really have it, you won't think so."

After driving Lu Zhou for so long, Wang Peng is almost familiar with him.

In addition, there is not much difference in age, and neither of them is that kind of rigid person, so they both speak more casually, and occasionally talk about some personal things when they are chatting and bragging.

Of course, Lu Zhou didn't ask about his specific position, because there was no need to ask, just like Wang Peng never asked about his research.

Wang Peng: "That's not necessarily the case."

Lu Zhou: "Are you an only child?"

Wang Peng sighed: "The family is part of the system, basically you can't escape."

Lu Zhou nodded, expressing his understanding.

But speaking of it, his father's factory seems to be part of the system.

At that time, he didn't remember exactly how his father's job and Xiaotong were saved, but he only heard that the family was in a lot of trouble at that time.

Wang Peng: "When I get married, I plan to have a second child. What about you?"

Lu Zhou coughed lightly: "...It's too early for me to do this kind of thing."

...

On the first Friday after the New Year's Day holiday, the 2018 Jinling University Person of the Year Award Ceremony was held in the auditorium of the new campus as scheduled.

On the way to the auditorium, Lu Zhou accidentally ran into an acquaintance.

"Brother Yan?"

"Junior brother Lu?" Yan Xinjue, who stopped in his tracks, looked back, his eyes lit up, "Why are you here?"

"Principal Xu's invitation," Lu Zhou walked forward, and smiled, "Brother, why are you here?"

If he remembered correctly, just after he got his graduation certificate, this brother from the same school also graduated from Academician Lu and got a doctorate.

After that, he got the Fellowship of CERN (which can be understood as a kind of grant with the highest amount), so he went to Switzerland and started to work on synchrotron radiation light sources and electron injectors in X-ray free electron laser devices. The research on components, from purely theoretical physics research work, began to transfer to the research and development work of the Hadron Collider (LHC) and the future Circular Collider (FCC).

Later on, because their research fields did not overlap, and because they were usually busy, there were fewer contacts.

When we meet now, we are still on the campus of Jinda University, and we immediately feel very cordial.

Yan Xinjue said with a smile: "I only returned to China in the past two days, just in time for my alma mater's annual character party, so I came here for dinner. By the way, I heard that you plan to return to China to develop."

Lu Zhou smiled and nodded.

"Well, it will be this year at the latest. After my work at Princeton is over, I plan to resign there and return to teach at King University. What about you? Are your work and studies going well at CERN? "

Yan Xinjue sighed, and buried his chin in the scarf: "There are too many talented people, and the pressure is great. Every day I stay there is like a wind-up alarm clock."

Lu Zhou deeply sympathized with the senior brother's sigh.

After all, it is the temple of the theoretical physics world, and it is too normal for there to be a lot of people...

Changing the topic to a less heavy place, Lu Zhou continued to ask in a chatty tone: "Has there been any interesting discoveries at CERN recently?"

Yan Xinjue: "Not recently, the laboratories over there are basically on vacation, but at the end of August, we successfully observed the Higgs boson decay into a pair of bottom quarks, which is definitely an exciting discovery. Especially according to For the first time, the confidence level of the observation data on the two detectors ATLAS and CMS has exceeded five σ! At the end of the year, almost half of the big names in theoretical physics went to Switzerland...I thought I could meet you there, but it turned out You didn't go."

"I happened to be in Stockholm at the time," Lu Zhou smiled sheepishly.

Yan Xinjue patted his head and reacted.

"I almost forgot, you even won the Nobel Prize... Uh, should I change my name in the future?"

His junior is so awesome, he is too embarrassed to call him junior.

Lu Zhou joked with a smile: "Yes, you can ask Lao Lu to expel me from the teacher's school."

Senior Brother Yan: "Don't, forget it, don't let Lao Lu be reluctant to part with you and exile me later."

After arriving at the auditorium, Lu Zhou greeted Principal Xu, Academician Lu and Old Tang, and then went to the guest seats to be seated under the reception of the staff.

Not long after, a dance music that ignited youth opened the curtain of the awards ceremony.

Looking at the ladies and sisters of the Academy of Arts who bowed and exited on the stage, recalling the experience of participating in the awards ceremony twice in the past, Lu Zhou couldn't help but sigh with emotion while applauding.

"It's been so many years, it's still the same dance that burns youth, I didn't expect it has never changed."

Yan Xinjue, who was sitting next to him, coughed lightly: "...From 15 years to now, it's not that long."

emmm...

Seems to be too?

I don't know if it's because of Brother Fei's wedding, or because of the Fields Award and the Nobel Prize, or just my mentality has changed subtly...

Looking at the stage that seemed to be similar to him before, Lu Zhou always felt that a long, long time had passed when he remembered the youth that had gone away for a while.