Chapter 978 Professor Harold Is Targeted

Time goes back to about ten minutes ago.

After returning to the kitchen, Zhou Li has been busy cooking, so naturally she doesn't know what is going on outside.

Originally, according to her expectations, it had only been ten minutes, and the three young people should have just become familiar with each other.

On the contrary, Chang Yuanchao couldn't help much because he couldn't cook, so he wandered back and forth in the kitchen, almost scratching his head and ears in anxiety:

"I'm talking about the child's mother, how far do you think Xiaonan and this girl... have developed?"

While speaking, he also moved closer to the door, as if he was ready to use his professional skills to poke at the crack in the door.

As a result, before he could touch the door handle, his arm was hit hard with a chopstick:

"What are you doing?"

"If you have nothing to do, just pour me a pot of oil and heat it up for frying the meatballs later..."

Chang Yuanchao, who was scolded, quickly retracted his hand angrily:

"I also want to see the situation..."

Although he said this, he still walked to the stove honestly, unscrewed the lid of the large bucket of peanut oil, and got ready to pour it into the pot.

"How much further can it develop?"

Zhou Li said as she opened the gauze covering the bamboo drawer and put the cold meatballs that had been steamed last night into a basin, ready to be fried in a pan later:

"Look at the way that girl first walked in, she must be interested in our Xiaonan, but I guess... neither of them must have made it clear."

"Oh... take your time, no matter what you say now, there is always something on your mind..."

"Is it……"

Chang Yuanchao turned on the gas stove with a snap, and it was clear from his tone that he did not agree with Zhou Li's judgment:

"I think that although the two of them seem to have nothing on the surface, they actually have a very good understanding."

"Maybe it was nothing before, but as long as the window paper is broken, the progress should be very fast..."

After hearing this judgment, Zhou Li curled her lips:

"Come on, your son is just like you back then... If I hadn't taken the initiative to go to the hospital when you were injured and couldn't get up from bed, I don't know when I would be able to get married..."

"Ahem..."

Seeing that his wife was going to dig out the old sesame seeds and rotten millet things again, Chang Yuanchao hurriedly coughed twice:

"Actually... I just sprained my foot, so I lay in bed for two days..."

"Um?"

Zhou Li’s hand movements stopped:

"But your instructor told me..."

"That's why I asked him to scare you..."

Chang Yuanchao used a chopstick to test the oil temperature:

"Who knew he wouldn't even make up a lie? He just said that I might not be able to get out of bed for the rest of my life..."

"But the effect is really good. You came to our place the next day and said that for the rest of your life..."

Before she finished speaking, Zhou Li kicked her hard:

"How old are you? You still remember those things back then..."

"I've long seen that there's something wrong with you guys. You're all holding back your bad intentions..."

Although she said this, Zhou Li's thoughts were obviously a little shaken.

After thinking about it again and again, she saw that the oil temperature had not yet come up, so she temporarily put down the things in her hands and walked out the door.

"Hey, didn't you just let me out?"

Chang Yuanchao was obviously dissatisfied with this behavior that only state officials were allowed to set fires but the people were not allowed to light lamps.

"I'm going out to get some seasoning..."

Zhou Li directly gave a high-sounding reason.

After saying that, he quietly opened the door a crack.

Then……

I saw Yao Mengna and Chang Haonan sitting next to each other on the sofa.

Chang Jiayao was nowhere to be seen.

Yao Mengna was holding a pillow and patting Chang Haonan with the same force as tickling.

"hiss……"

Almost subconsciously, Zhou Li didn't care about the seasoning or not, and quickly closed the door.

"Old man... you may be right..."

As for the two people in the living room...

From Chang Haonan's perspective, he couldn't actually see the situation in the kitchen.

But Yao Mengna saw it clearly——

Just now, the kitchen door opened for a moment.

And there seemed to be a figure flashing inside...

That is to say.

All are seen...

"What's wrong?"

Although Chang Haonan didn't know what happened yet, he could feel the change in Yao Mengna's mood next to him, so he turned his head and asked curiously.

"It's over, it's over...everything has been seen..."

The latter had a look of despair on his face. He changed his previous behavior and sat upright on the sofa like a primary school student.

"What was seen..."

"We just... just now..."

Yao Mengna didn't know how to describe it, so she could only point to the pillow in her hand:

"When I was in the house, I saw my aunt come out of the kitchen for a moment, and then go back right away..."

"puff--"

Looking at the panicked senior sister, Chang Haonan couldn't help laughing.

"dare you laugh……"

"No... let's make it clear first."

Chang Haonan reluctantly suppressed his smile and pretended to be serious:

"It was your unilateral action just now, and I didn't do anything..."

Oddly enough, I haven't felt it in the past few years, but today I suddenly discovered that it would be quite interesting to tease this senior who is usually very cold and strong...

"you……"

Yao Mengna is popular again.

But with the previous experience, she didn't dare to do anything big again.

Logically speaking, if she went upstairs to find Chang Jiayao, who was of the same sex, she might feel a little better.

But the two of them met for the first time today, and they only knew each other's names, but they were not familiar with each other at all...

But if she continued to sit here, Chang Haonan's half-smiley eyes made Yao Mengna clearly feel that the temperature on her face was rising...

"Forget it, I'll go see if there's anything I can help with from my aunt..."

In the end, she was defeated and ran to the kitchen...

In the following time, because she was frightened several times in a short period of time, Yao Mengna behaved well until the New Year's Eve dinner was over, and she didn't dare to do anything out of line.

Only when she was making dumplings with Chang Haonan at night, she secretly kicked the latter twice under the coffee table.

Chang Haonan's family also tacitly didn't mention what happened during the day.

In any case, the relationship between the two people was invisibly brought closer during this day.

And this New Year's Eve passed in such a quiet and peaceful atmosphere.

However, for the two parties, especially Yao Mengna, who celebrated the New Year at someone else's house for the first time, this night was destined to be tossing and turning, and it was difficult to fall asleep...

...

At the same time, on the other side of the ocean.

In 2002, Chinese culture did not have a particularly strong influence abroad.

Basically, apart from Chinese communities such as Chinatown, not many people would pay attention to this festival.

However, despite not celebrating the Spring Festival, Professor Harold Huang has not been able to sleep well for several days in a row.

As for the reason...

There is probably no other possibility that can make a scholar sleepless except for the paper.

However, this time it was not because of the rejection of the manuscript-

In the field of numerical calculation, even theoretical research has extremely high requirements for computing resources.

Harold is now in a relatively excluded state, so since he published the paper in JCAS last year, he has not been able to collect the data for the next article.

In fact, the root cause of his upset was the paper last year.

The United States in the early 21st century was similar to China 20 years later, with a high volume of papers.

Although Harold was already a full professor, he had just joined Ohio State University for a few years, and many things still had to be evaluated through achievements rather than just by mixing qualifications.

However, just after he submitted his paper last year as an achievement to the school, it was quickly rejected.

Faced with this situation, Harold was naturally confused.

Before submitting, he even checked it out.

Although it was less than a year since its founding, JCAS has been included in the SCI database, and the impact factor has reached 4.71.

Of course, this number is largely due to the advantages of several biomolecular papers.

But in any case, in this era when the impact factor has not yet been inflated, it is absolutely dazzling for a new journal to be able to come up with this result.

At least it should not be excluded from the effective results.

So, he went directly to ask for punishment with relevant information.

But the answer he got was -

The school believes that JCAS was included in SCI and generated an impact factor in early February 2002, so the papers published there before that cannot be counted as effective results...

Harold was almost laughed out of anger.

He has been in the academic circle for half his life, and although he has been in the enterprise most of the time, he has never heard of such an outrageous calculation method.

Obviously, the only explanation is that he was targeted...