In a middle-class villa not far from the University of California, Berkeley, Alfred . Professor Racha is working on a biological topic in his laboratory on the third floor.

"Hey, honey, don't be busy, let's get down for lunch!"

Downstairs, his wife's voice came from the living room, and it took several shouts before Professor Alfred could hear his wife's voice in full attention.

"Oh, honey, you eat first, I'll observe and play with this cell structure and come down immediately!"

Professor Alfred replied casually, and immediately put his eyes back on the microscope with low magnification, as an avid biology professor, he could not tolerate the 'little thing' of eating interrupting his research.

"Mom, don't shout, the three of us can eat, just let him immerse himself in his own research!"

Alfred's twenty-one daughter Anna frowned and said, as the daughter of a biology professor, Anna is not as obsessed with biological research as her father, but likes business administration very much, with her smart mind, and her father's relationship in academia as a biology professor, Anna successfully entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The younger brother on one side lowered his head and was silent, eating the food in front of him obediently, not daring to intervene in the cold war between his sister and father.

Professor Alfred's dining table was a little old, the patent leather on the wooden table had fallen off, and the ceiling had peeled off in several places, and the wardrobe at home looked very old.

All of this is indicative of this, and it seems that Professor Alfred's family is not in a very good financial situation, only about the average middle class, which is a bit strange.

Generally, university professors in the United States, as long as they are slightly famous universities, the remuneration of professors is very high, much higher than that of the average middle class; Especially global universities like Yale, Harvard, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley. The professors are treated even better.

If you can have your own subject, not only will you have a high income, but also your social status will be more respectable; If you can successfully research a topic, it will be even more rich and popular.

However, Professor Alfred is an exception, his own obsession with biological research is difficult to match that ordinary professors, but he is a mess in interpersonal communication, which can be seen in his relationship with his family, not to mention with the school and society.

In general, the country is criticized for its educational and academic corruption. It is generally correct that the education system and academic atmosphere of the Americans have always been highly respected, and the education and academic system of the United States is very good compared to that of China, and the academics are relatively much clearer.

However, there are no absolutes in the world, and American professors are not academically only, in addition to the academic requirements of professors, other places need to be deliberately managed like interpersonal relationships, otherwise not only may they be inferior to other professors in terms of funding, but even some other things will have problems.

Professor Alfred, for example. This biology professor has a deep knowledge of biological research, but because he is not good at dealing with interpersonal relationships, he has a relationship with the president of the school, Robert Brown. Bai Kino had a very bad relationship, and several times he proposed to Robert to set up a biological research project. The funds needed were denied.

In addition, he is very rigid academically compared to other professors, although there are a few graduate students under him, but they don't like him very much.

Moreover, other professors in addition to research topics. He usually accepts some private jobs for money, but he himself almost never takes private jobs like other professors.

This behavior makes Alfred's professor seem out of place among a group of professors. If it weren't for the fact that his biological level was not bad, I'm afraid not many people would really agree with him.

In this case, it was very difficult for Professor Alfred to apply for a grant from the President for his research, not only because the President Robert almost never approved his project, but even the director of teaching and research and the joint meeting of professors in the university were not willing to speak for him, which made it difficult for him to progress his project, and in many cases Professor Alfred even had to pay for his own research.

In this predicament, Professor Alfred's research has hardly made much progress; And because of this, Professor Alfred, a very outstanding biologist, was not elected as an academician of the American Academy of Sciences.

It is important to know that there are about 1,600 professors at the University of California, Berkeley, and almost more than 100 of them are academicians of the US Academy of Sciences.

Not only that, but because Professor Alfred paid for his own research, he spent a lot of money on it every year, which made the family's financial conditions a little difficult, and the children and wives in the family could not be as decent as other university professors.

This is why Professor Alfred has a bad relationship with his daughter Anna, and in fact even his twelve-year-old son, Wick, has a lot of complaints about his father.

"But Alfred, Anna is back today, won't you come down and have a look?"

The wife raised her voice, and Alfred, who was in the laboratory, put his eyes on the microscope at first, but his daughter's name stunned him, and then sighed softly, and then took the old-fashioned black framed eyes, rubbed his somewhat sour forehead, and walked down the stairs.

Wick looked up at his father, who looked old-fashioned, then lowered his head to look at his sister, and then honestly lowered his head and silently nibbled on the steak, otherwise he would have to be cleaned up if he made the stronger Miss Anna angry.

"Hi Anna, how are you doing in Massachusetts?"

Professor Alfred was not good at words, and watched his daughter eat with her head down, and for a while finally figured out such a way to say hello.

"It's very good, it's just that my personal study expenses this year are a bit insufficient, and I can't apply for college loans!"

Anna took her knife and fork and cut the food on the plate with all her might, biting her lip hard, obviously not in a happy mood.

"How much worse?"

Professor Alfred was silent for a moment, then asked.

"Three thousand five hundred dollars, that's about less than half a month's salary!"

Anna looked up at her father. Then he lowered his head and stuck the steak on the plate hard, and said angrily: "However, this money will make your research trouble, won't it?" ”

In the face of his daughter's run, Professor Alfred glanced at the simple and cheap stall goods his daughter was wearing, these denim clothes from China together cost less than eighty dollars, compared to the daughters of other professors, the lowest grade is also Caldano's nose, let him sigh, and said slowly:

"Dear Anna, let your mother give you this money after dinner, my research has not improved anyway. On the contrary, it is an embarrassment for you! ”

The family was stunned for a moment, and the daughter Anna looked at her always stubborn father a little at a loss, and suddenly the filial piety in her heart was revealed, and she asked carefully:

"Dad, will this affect your research?"

"Anna, who has nothing to do, my research has not been excellent for so many years, and you and Wick usually have a lot less care than other people's children, and I have decided to stop this meaningless research today!"

Professor Alfred forced a self-smirk, looking at his family and blaming himself.

Alfred is not stubborn. Obviously, the family that has not been very harmonious all the year round has been happy for a while, and the wife diligently brought a plate of vegetables from the kitchen, and said with a smile:

"This is a vegetable shop opened in our community, which is said to be vegetables from the mysterious China* country. The taste is very good, many professors in our school like to eat it, but the price is too expensive, it costs fifteen dollars a pound! ”

The family suddenly exclaimed. Anna and Wick immediately took a careful bite, and suddenly the fragrance from the taste buds made the two of them even claim that it was delicious.

Professor Alfred tried to take a sip. Immediately, I also felt that the taste was very good, and the taste was very different from the organic vegetables I usually eat.

"Why does this vegetable taste so strange, and what is the reason for it?"

Professor Alfred took another sip with great interest, and the taste buds were so different that it seemed like a treat.

"It's really weird, I think I should look into the difference of this vegetable!"

Alfred's obsession with living things was far beyond that of ordinary people, and he immediately picked a vegetable leaf from it, and carried it upstairs, leaving a few of his family members downstairs who looked at each other.

"Oh my God!!"

The daughter stroked her forehead weakly, very powerless against her demonic father.

Back in the laboratory on the third floor, Professor Alfred immediately conducted a simple slicing study of the vegetable leaves, and immediately felt that the cells of this vegetable were a little different from ordinary vegetable cells.

Immediately, he looked up pictures of the leaf cells of this vegetable on the Internet, and found that the cells of this vegetable are more rounded than the cells of ordinary vegetables, and the adhesion between them is much closer.

"What a miracle!"

Professor Alfred muttered, and immediately he took the cell diagram of the vegetable and went to President Robert, but he didn't even hear his wife call him.

"Oh, dear Professor Alfred, please don't joke with me, what's the difference between such green leaf cells, and it's worth asking me for a million dollars to open such a research project?"

Robert, the principal of the school, immediately rejected Alfred's request, and when he saw what Alfred wanted to say, Robert immediately said;

"Professor Alfred, what is the use of this cell you are studying? It is said that this is a vegetable from a farm in China, and only that farm in China can grow such vegetables, do you think it is a good idea to study other people's patents? ”

Professor Alfred couldn't say a word for a moment, yes, such a delicious vegetable must have applied for a patent, and his own research must have infringed on someone else's patent.

It's just that Alfred understands that the cell structure of this vegetable is very peculiar, and it can't be inferred by common sense at all, and he definitely doesn't believe that someone in China has studied the formation structure of this kind of cell, otherwise the biological world would have been a sensation.

But no matter what he said, President Robert* just didn't believe him, and Professor Alfred, who was most angry, threw down a sentence:

"Robert, you don't give me funds, I'll do the research myself!"

"Whatever you want! But don't get a penny of research funding from me, and let me tell you that if you're away for too long, I'll recommend to the Professorial Liaison Conference that your professorship at Berkeley be removed! ”

Principal Robert* chased after him with an unceremonious word, and Professor Alfred didn't care, he could drop everything for the sake of research.

After returning home, Professor Alfred took the 7,000 dollars he had prepared in his wife's sigh, packed a few things at random, and set out on the journey to China. (To be continued......)

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