"I haven't arranged this part yet, and the school hasn't asked me about it-"

Zheng Jianguo didn't expect to really let Levin in the next building guess correctly, in fact, as he finished saying this, Professor Fisher of Harvard University was afraid that he should soon find his own right cognition, but this idea was a little uncertain, of course, considering the fifty hours of study and scientific research time per week in the agreement he signed with Massachusetts General Hospital, he vaguely felt that the two days of Saturday and Sunday could be squeezed out of some time: "According to the requirements of the agreement, I will only have time on Saturday and Sunday——"

"That's good, I thought you wanted to give up research on this, it would be a shame-"

Thomas said that he stood up and rubbed his hands together and walked back and forth a few steps, he had already understood the work and rest of the doctors before contacting Zheng Jianguo, and knew that the residents were cheap labor like the juniors and seniors in the laboratory, but they were much more exaggerated than the laboratory in the hospital, there were 30 hours of shift transfers, and there were also 9 to 5 that were more regular than the Wall Street elite, so even if Zheng Jianguo was considered in the name, he had to work five days a week.

The time of the main shift can't be considered, this was originally in Thomas's consideration, but when he heard Zheng Jianguo open his mouth to confirm, he said with a smile on his face: "Zheng, are you willing to use one of these two days or a day and a half to do research in my laboratory?"

"Well, I don't know if it's required on the residency agreement. ”

Zheng Jianguo wanted to agree to Thomas's invitation, MIT is not too far from Massachusetts General Hospital, if you drive, it will be ten minutes away without traffic jams, even if it is about the same distance from his new home, the most important thing is that he does not want to give up the follow-up of the atomic-scale graphite layer, who knows if there is a big guy who can really solve the problem of industrial production: "If there are no restrictions on the agreement with the hospital, then I don't want to waste the current research on the atomic-scale graphite layer——"

"Good, good, great!"

Thomas nodded with a smile on his face, as a professor, he has seen many good students, but he is still the first to be able to be like Zheng Jianguo who is willing to keep learning and can learn at once.

Seeing Zheng Jianguo nodding in agreement, Thomas watched him drink the poured coffee without seeing him, then turned to his desk and picked up a document, pinched it and put it in front of him: "I inquired that residents can work part-time outside of working hours, and it just so happens that my laboratory is not a biological laboratory, so there will be no conflict with you in medical research, this is an agreement without filling in the time and signing, considering that you don't have a fixed time to come, I would like to invite you to the laboratory as an adjunct associate professor——"

Ulrika is just an assistant professor—

A certain cheek that he hadn't seen for a long time flashed in his mind, Zheng Jianguo had been in the laboratories of MIT and Harvard for so long, and he also knew that most of the PhDs who graduated from the physics department could only get the position of assistant professor, of course, this was only after being able to be favored by the school and send an invitation, but he didn't expect MIT to directly prescribe such a condition for him, and become an associate professor directly beyond the assistant professor?!

The academic titles in the United States are relatively simple compared to those in China, and the four promotion levels of ordinary teachers and assistant professors, as well as associate professors and full professors, are not nothing, but they are out of the category of academic education, and they have become department chairs and deans in the administrative direction, such as the Nobel laureates that Harvard and MIT have, and these people have at most a laboratory or department head or dean title on their heads.

Zheng Jianguo thinks highly of himself, this is because he knows that Helicobium and graphene are both Nobel Prize achievements, and the reason why he is trying his best to toss now is to get this name as soon as possible, after all, a certain cultural person said decades ago that it is necessary to become famous as soon as possible!

And the fact is just as Zheng Jianguo thought, Helicobacter got the MD and PhD joint training program before he won the Nobel Prize, just when he thought that graphene could be thrown away for a few years, he didn't even expect that MIT could give him such a treatment in his dream yesterday: "Adjunct associate professor?"

"Yes, if you agree, then you will become the youngest associate professor at MIT, of course, due to time constraints, you are not scheduled to teach college students, but you will be responsible for the teaching arrangements of doctoral students in the laboratory——"

Thomas put the agreement in Zheng Jianguo's hand and sat on the sofa next to him, he remembered that Ulrika said that this product has a gray prospect for atomic-scale graphite layers, and he germinated the idea of looking for a chance to wait for him to graduate, after all, this is the first person who is most likely to win the Nobel Prize in physiology and physics at the same time, and more importantly, he is so young: "If you have any conditions, you can also mention it." ”

"$18.5 an hour, sixty hours a week—"

Sweeping the agreement at a glance, Zheng Jianguo didn't expect it to be so generous, except that the hourly salary was five or six times higher than his resident treatment, the other benefits were similar to those prescribed to him by the hospital, roughly calculated that he would earn four or five thousand dollars for a week's work every month, so he nodded without much thought: "Well, since you have wasted so much painstaking work, if I refuse again, I won't know how to lift——"

"Oh, good!"

Stunned, he looked at Zheng Jianguo in surprise and signed, looking at him so cheerfully, Thomas couldn't help but hesitate a little: "This, you, Professor Fisher didn't talk to you?"

"Not yet~"

After signing it unabashedly, he saw Thomas take out another agreement, so he took it and put it in his arms, and said with a bright smile: "It's just that the time of reporting will be postponed for a few days, and tomorrow - oh, you will go too, right?"

"The March meeting, I definitely have to go, but it's still your light~"

Speaking of Zheng Jianguo's discovery at that time, Thomas still had a wry smile on his face at this time: "Who would have thought that what was stained on the tape was what I was looking for, Zheng, your observation was too keen-"

"It's just that you guys had a preconceived idea before, and I'm a newcomer to the same attention—"

After being humble again, Zheng Jianguo's smile was also very bright, and then he sat in the office for a while and chatted with Professor Thomas about the progress of the research, and then got up to say goodbye when someone came in.

Out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pulled up the collar, Zheng Jianguo got into the Plymouth car and bought a few burgers and fried chicken when passing by the fast food restaurant, his favorite food after coming here is chicken, usually to the supermarket is mainly chicken wings and chicken thighs, Coke chicken wings Coke chicken thighs toss and eat.

Of course, sometimes when I am lazy or like this, I will buy some fast food that people will call junk food decades later, but when Zheng Jianguo got out of the car and carried him back to his residence, he vaguely felt that he would not have the opportunity to cook by himself in the future.

And the reason for this temporary intention is also because we have to prepare for the speech at the March meeting held by the Physics Association on the day after tomorrow, that is, on the 27th, after half a year of brewing, the atomic-level graphite layer has become the most cutting-edge hot spot in the physics community.

It's just that everyone is not studying all atomic-level graphite layers, but all kinds of materials - relying on Zheng Jianguo's method of tearing tape, now there are researchers constantly tearing out new two-dimensional materials every day, and there are several papers in "Nature" and "Science" alone, but the impact outside the field is not as great as his discovery.

Closed the door, took off his coat and put the food and drink on the table, Zheng Jianguo glanced at the prompt light on the transponder and walked over and pressed it, and soon Zhao Liangliang's voice came from inside: "Hi, Jianguo, when will your graduation ceremony be held, the country said that it will arrange a film crew to come over to interview you, and the beautiful woman has an appointment to help me take a signed photo when the time comes." ”

"Have a date?"

Zheng Jianguo glanced at the answering machine with question marks in his eyes and walked over, but before he got to the telephone, a voice came from inside: "Hey, Zheng, haven't you come back yet, I didn't have anything to do with the call, I just want to tell you that after yesterday's shock, today's oil contract finally broke through $30——"

"That's 200 million—"

A few steps to the phone, Zheng Jianguo looked at the answering machine after playing Charlie's message, and remembered the oil contract callback he saw on the plane when he came back yesterday, just when he wanted to pick up the phone, Zheng Qiuhua's voice came from the answering machine: "Grasshopper, our mother had a ligation operation today, and said that I don't want to tell you, I discussed it with Donghua and I still have to talk to you, and now that the operation is successfully completed, you should not know." ”

Zheng Qiuhua's voice was a little urgent, and there seemed to be Zheng Donghua's voice in the background sound next to her, Zheng Jianguo thought about it on the phone, and decided to pretend not to know about it, last time the old lady and father didn't talk about it on the phone, even if there was a plane, there was no way to come here to do this operation - if you really did it, you would be in prison!

"Hi Zheng, I'm Ulrika, did you see Camille Small's invitation to you? My brother wants an autographed photo of her, can you help me get one if I'm going to the premiere?"

Before the hand holding down the phone was lifted, Zheng Jianguo withdrew his hand after this sentence, he knew how the beautiful woman in Zhao Liangliang's mouth came to the appointment, but he quickly picked up the phone and called the embassy, and when he asked which side, he heard Zhao Liangliang say in the microphone: "She sent you an invitation in the Manhattan area newspaper, saying that the new movie will be released on June 5, and you will be invited to the premiere, why, will you go when the time comes?"

"Well, I shouldn't be able to go. ”

Listening to this brother's voice and eyes were full of cheerful joy, Zheng Jianguo didn't take much effort to remember that the domestic outlets should have income, but because I didn't know if anyone was listening on the phone at this time, he also said his own reason: "Not counting the work of the Massachusetts General Hospital at that time, today the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave me a letter of appointment as an associate professor, so it will be when I am busy in two months, and there is a high probability that I will not be able to go- But last time I offended her mother, if it weren't for the news that I passed the exam now, I even doubt that her mother would be going to rub off on my traffic. ”

"You're an associate professor now?"

The cheerfulness in Zhao Liangliang's throat and eyes quickly disappeared, Zheng Jianguo also knew that this brother didn't know the title of the United States, so he thought about it and said: "After graduating from the doctorate, the good ones will be left by the school and hired as assistant professors, and then after a period of teaching and scientific research, they will be promoted to associate professors, and the reason why I directly got the appointment letter of associate professor is because the atomic-level graphite layer discovered before has added a lot of points——"

"Then congratulations—"

The cheerfulness in Zhao Liangliang's voice and eyes recovered, and he heard what he wanted to express from Zheng Jianguo's words, but he didn't say it for some reason at this time, so he must have been reluctant to talk about it, after all, he had already received the letter of appointment from others: "That's okay, when you take all the names you can here, won't you return to China in one step at that time?"

"Hehe, I want to get the Nobel Prize and go back, but I'm afraid that the people above will be embarrassed by the time, and I'm not a loser-"

Zheng Jianguo didn't expect the temptation to come so quickly, and it was made by this person who was closer to him, but thinking about the whole of the United States, it was this brother who had a good relationship with him, so he also expressed his concerns.

In the previous academic atmosphere in China, although it was said that there was a suspicion of overturning the whole boat because of Professor Kong, once he was bitten by a snake, he was afraid of the well rope for ten years: "Now those two goods are still tossing up and down with my spending all day and wine, don't you want to think about why Nong Shaoshan didn't dare to come to the United States to sue me for violating his right to reputation?"

"He's afraid of meat - there is no return, you also said the founding of the country, they can only jump back and forth in the country, not to mention half of your ability, even one-tenth of the ability will not be so embarrassing, but since you have opened your mouth to your brother, then this matter will be covered by my brother. ”

The joy in Zhao Liangliang's throat disappeared again, this time he really heard Zheng Jianguo's resentment, of course, he was also shocked by the fact that this product directly completed the transformation from a student to an associate professor, and he personally experienced the desire for talents on the American side, even if Zheng Jianguo returns to China now, he is afraid that he will be a lecturer, and he has the right to start a class, and then he is afraid that he will have to refer to this side to give him the qualification of a special lecturer?

"Then I'll hear your good news—"

Seeing that he finally got a response when he talked about the third time, Zheng Jianguo was also very tired, he and Nong Shaoshan have been tearing their faces for more than a year, and Professor Kong has been almost two years, and now he seems to be beautiful here, and these two people wear small shoes for him everywhere in the country, purely because you can't fight, you have to disgust your morality, of course, he is not only talking about these things now: "Is there any news in China?"