Nan Zhiyi sat on the sofa in the office, twisting the cap of a bottle of iced tea in his hand, twisting it around but couldn't open it.

Ling Li watched him wrestle with the bottle in a daze, and still didn't come back to his senses.

The office, like his owner, was a mess of garbage dumps, mud-like stuff all over the floor, with papers, folders, and pens littered everywhere.

Even if her small cubicle is not cleaned up for a year, it will not be messed up to this point.

She couldn't stand it, so she bent down and quietly picked up a signature pen rolling around at her feet, and gently placed it on the coffee table.

I couldn't help but shrug the tip of my nose and sniff it lightly, and I always felt that there was a strange smell in this room.

Well, there's also the sloppy and sloppy uncle in front of him.

He is really Nanzhiyi, but this sharp brother-like shape, where does he look like an academic elite?

Isn't it a genius botanist in his early thirties who is born in a good junior class and has a handsome appearance?

But the vicissitudes of life and decadence in front of him with a fierce face are not only not related to Qingjun, but also 108,000 miles worse than the young and ambitious.

Didn't this person falsely declare his age when he joined the work? Or at least the kind that falsely declares that you are over 10 years old?

There is also this weak chicken attribute that can't even handle a bottle of water......

Nan Zhiyi couldn't twist the cap, finally gave up, threw the drink away, looked up and asked her, "What's the matter with me?" Let me first declare that I will not take doctoral students next year, it will be too hard to raise children, and I like to be a father before I get married. ”

The corners of Ling Li's eyes twitched, and she wanted to say bluntly who cares if you are married or not, but she still tries to keep the topic from going astray.

She took out the information in her cowhide pocket and handed it to him with both hands, and her tone was very respectful: "Professor Nan, I am Ling Li, a lawyer from Chengda Law Firm, and I represent a case of new varieties of plants with intellectual property rights, and I would like to ask you to appear in court as an expert witness to cross-examine the evidence. ”

Nan Zhiyi turned his face to look at her, and his expression instantly relaxed: "It turns out that you are not here to take a chance?" That's good, that's good, you said it earlier, I won't be misunderstood. ”

After speaking, he took the information, flipped through the pages at a glance, and immediately said: "You are looking for the wrong person, I study tomatoes, not rice." ”

Hearing his words that were not even perfunctory, Ling Li smiled, took out his notebook, opened it according to the index, spread it on his knees, and read it word by word.

"Three years ago, you had a project, the cloning and functional verification of rice stress factor genes in southwest China, which was a major special project in Funan Province. Two years ago, you published a paper in Science about rice chromosome engineering and genome editing. A year ago, your patent ......"

Nan Zhiyi twitched the corner of his eyes as he listened to the long list of scientific research results in her mouth that seemed to be something he couldn't even remember.

The enemy actually came prepared, cunning and cunning......

"Good, good, you won!" He interrupted her impatiently, and simply stopped going around in circles, "Your case is time-consuming, laborious and offensive, no matter how you look at it, it is not pleasing to me, and I can't afford to waste my precious time." ”

He was telling the truth, but Ling Li was about to be unable to hold back the power of the desolation in his body, and some words were unhappy.

She took several deep breaths, and finally couldn't help but complain: "Time is precious, so you hide in the office all day and sleep? Shouldn't a pillar of a nation like you have a regular schedule and strive to live a few more years to contribute to humanity? ”

Nan Zhiyi hissed, clenched his hand into a fist and put it to his lips, his eyes narrowed slightly: "Eldest sister, do you still ask me to be so arrogant, and the lawyers are so sharp and sharp in your mouth?" ”

Ling Li regretted a little that she was quick for a while, but the messy office and the dirty and messy people in front of her made her extremely uncomfortable, and she was very irritable, and she couldn't hold back her words.

The words are out, and they will never come back.

She didn't know what to say, but Nan Zhiyi lowered her eyelashes slightly, looked at her generously, and then withdrew her gaze.

He was not angry, and the corners of his mouth seemed to be smiling: "Xia Worm can't be silent, you look stupid, naturally you don't understand that a creative person like me can't live like a robot at a glance." ”

Speaking of this, he seemed to have some discomfort in his throat and coughed lightly.

Ling Li had just offended him and was worried that he didn't know how to get off the stage, his eyes swept and saw the iced tea thrown on the sofa, silently picked it up, easily twisted the bottle cap, and then handed it to Nan Zhiyi.

Nan Zhiyi was stunned, and his eyes, which had not been able to open much, widened: "You are thin and small, but you have a lot of strength." ”

Ling Li looked straight ahead with his eyes level, and explained expressionlessly: "This bottle of water is afraid that it will expand and shrink after being heated, so it can't be unscrewed. ”

He suddenly let out an "oh", shook his head, took the bottle and poured a few sips of water.

Ling Li listened to the sound of him drinking water, and also began to feel a little thirsty.

I have been here for most of the day, but I haven't drunk a sip of water, and my throat is about to smoke.

She came uninvited this time, Nan Zhiyi naturally didn't treat her as a guest, and there would be no good tea to serve.

Besides, she didn't dare to drink or eat what he turned out of the garbage heap.

She couldn't help it, so she had to swallow her saliva secretly.

Nan Zhiyi noticed this small detail, raised his eyebrows and smiled brightly: "There is no water, and it is useless for you to be greedy." ”

Then, he returned the information in his hand to her, and said, "For the sake of your perseverance and strength, I will give you a chance for the time being." However, I've run out of reading today and don't want to read anything more. You dictate and see if you can convince me to participate in this case. ”

After another sip of water, he tapped his fingers on the table and added, "No more than ten minutes to speak." ”

Finally getting to the point, Ling Li perked up and began to talk about the case, the results of the first trial, the appraisal conclusion, and her own opinions.

Nan Zhiyi put away the impatient expression on his face, listened carefully to her layman's class axe, and did not interrupt her the whole time, but corrected her in the case of the wrong use of a few special nouns.

It was easy to shorten dozens of pages of material into ten minutes, and Ling Li only felt a trace of green smoke coming out of his throat.

She licked her somewhat cracked lips and asked, "Professor Nan, do you see any hope?" ”

Nan Zhiyi stood up abruptly, his eyes narrowed slightly, his fingers tapping his temples, but his eyes were getting brighter and brighter.

He seemed to be in a state of deep thought, and Ling Li didn't dare to interrupt him silently, blinking at him pacing around the office, waiting for an answer.

And after looking at him for a few minutes, Ling Li found that Uncle Nan had no place in his body that could make her look pleasing to the eye, except for a pair of eyes.

It was clean and transparent, with large and round pupils, and when he walked to the window, the sunlight shining through the dappled shadows of the trees reflected in his eyes, as if they were filled with stars.

It's really beautiful.

He paced slowly around the house for a moment before he said, "It's interesting, you make me think about it." ”

Before Ling Li could be happy, he turned his face again and his voice cooled down: "Okay, don't send it slowly." ”

Swept out of the house by Nan Zhiyi like this, Ling Li stood in front of the door of his office, feeling a little confused.

The one in the office, Hang Erlang is unkempt, no matter how you look at it, it has nothing to do with the industry leader who won the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

He was in a daze, when suddenly the door in front of him creaked open.

The uncle walked out with a small basket, threw it to her and smiled slightly: "Seeing that you are thirsty, the tomato has been sent to you." ”

And added: "Washed." ”

Ling Li looked down at the evenly plump and red tomatoes in the basket, and suddenly the sour water in her mouth bubbled up, and she couldn't swallow the indecent sound of swallowing saliva.

She didn't have hope for the sloppy uncle's hygiene habits, but the water droplets on the tomatoes still looked quite clean and should be used as food.

Coupled with the fact that she hadn't eaten a drop of water for most of the day, she couldn't help it, grabbed one and took a bite.

Fragrant, sweet, and juicy, it kills all the tomatoes she's eaten before.

"Is it delicious?" The uncle smiled brightly, revealing eight white and neat teeth.

She nodded vigorously with round eyes, and was about to say thank you, but unexpectedly, the uncle said with a cold face: "Genetically modified." ”

"Huh?" Ling Li pinched the tomato, and only came back with a word, when she saw the wooden door in front of her close quickly, she instinctively reacted and took a small step back, so that the door was about to hit the tip of her nose.

His ears were buzzing with the sound of the door closing without him sparing.

Ling Li was holding a basket of small tomatoes, and she couldn't laugh or cry.

It is said that people who engage in academics will have a strange temper, and she is also mentally prepared to meet a difficult master, but she didn't expect the painting style of the one inside to be so strange.

Raunchy and sloppy is the standard for academic madmen, but moody and mischievous, what does it mean?

Ling Li shrunk her neck, and had a strange thought in her heart.

Isn't it, what she encountered was a fake Nanzhiyi?

After eating the tomatoes, Ling Li drank another bottle of mineral water, and finally replenished the water to relieve herself.

Ling Li carried a heavy briefcase, walked for more than ten minutes to the Funan University subway station, and deliberately chose a platform with few people to wait.

When the subway came, I was lucky that there were still vacant seats.

Ling Li sat down in a hurry, relaxing and relaxing her legs, which were a little swollen and sore because she had stood for too long in the afternoon.

This trip through the city, not to mention the hard work, please not invite this strange expert to the court, it is still unresolved.

However, there is finally some hope for the case.

More than half an hour later, Ling Li returned to her place in the capital.

There is a traditional saying in Rudu, "the east is poor and the west is rich, the south is rich and the north is chaotic".

Businesses like to buy property in the south of the city, where government departments are concentrated, while in the north of the city is the railway station and a large wholesale market for small commodities, with a large floating population, and the highest incidence of theft and robbery.

As for the eastern part of the city, a number of dormitories of industrial enterprises are concentrated.

With the collapse and relocation of state-owned enterprises 20 years ago, a large number of laid-off workers were concentrated in the eastern part of the city. Ling Li's uncles and aunts were two of the laid-off workers back then.

In recent years, the development of the capital has greatly improved this situation, but there is still a large area of old communities in the east of the city that are difficult to transform, and Ling Li's residence is in such a community.

The cramped space, the red brick building, the narrow corridors, the dim lighting, the place where her nest is located, all of these are the standard features of the old-fashioned tube building in the early 90s.