Not only did Xiaotong not expect that the paper published in "Econometrica" would be so popular, but even Lu Zhou did not expect that he had just returned home and was about to cut off contact with the outside world.

Some of them were sent by his old friends in Princeton, and some of them were unknown to him, but judging from the introduction of his own family, it seems that they are all scholars engaged in macroeconomics, computational economics and other fields, and many of them are relatively well-known.

It was from these emails that Lu Zhou learned that his mathematical model was actually popular in the economics community, and there had been several economic seminars on this mathematical model held in universities in New York, Boston, London and other places.

And the economists who found him basically expressed the same meaning as Professor Krugman, hoping that he could continue to work on the Lu-Bewley model and move towards a higher peak with macroeconomics and computational economics.

Unfortunately, however, Lu Zhou was not very interested.

At first, he seriously replied to a few emails and expressed his euphemistic refusal, but later there were more and more emails, and he simply threw Xiao Ai to reply.

For a while, Lu Zhou suddenly became much clearer, and finally had time to calm down and continue to study the mathematical tool he created some time ago-"Hyperelliptic Curve Analysis Method".

On the evening of the third day before the Chinese New Year, it was just after noon in London.

Xiaotong, who was packing his luggage, opened the WeChat video, and while harassing his brother who was on vacation, he also reported the good news that he was invited by Professor Krugman to Princeton to study for a doctorate.

After listening to Xiao Tong's excited twittering statement, Lu Zhou thought for a moment before suddenly interrupting her.

"Xiaotong."

"Huh?"

was suddenly called, and Xiao Tong, who was stuffing the small skirt into the suitcase on the other side of the video, did not look back, and said that he heard it.

After a pause, Lu Zhou continued.

"Theoretically, a model based on economic design...... Is it possible to predict the future? ”

These days, he almost forgot what Professor Krugman said to him, but Xiaotong suddenly mentioned the news that he was admitted by the Nobel laureate, which made Lu Zhou reminisce.

Predict the future......

Predict the future social environment and even the political landscape through macroeconomic changes......

Can this kind of thing really be done?

Hearing this strange question, Xiao Tong stopped packing his suitcase, tilted his head and thought for a moment before answering seriously.

"You can't say no...... But economics doesn't exist to predict the future. ”

Lu Zhou: "What's that for?" ”

"For the efficient allocation of social resources...... Or in other words, to make the future better? ”

When she said this, Xiaotong's tone was not particularly certain, after all, she was just a master's student who had just graduated for less than a month, and for her, there was still a long way to go on the academic road.

"That's ......"

Lu Zhou nodded thoughtfully, but didn't comment on anything.

Looking back at the computer screen, like an old brother who was stuck in thought, Xiaotong asked curiously.

"Brother, aren't you studying the Riemann hypothesis? Why do you suddenly ask that? ”

Suddenly, her heart moved, and she spoke happily.

"Could it be...... You're suddenly interested in economics? ”

"You're thinking too much, but suddenly someone mentioned this interesting question to me," without telling her that this person was her future mentor, Lu Zhou smiled, ended the topic, and continued, "Speaking of which, what time are you coming back this year?" ”

It's an interesting subject, but it's not interesting enough to fascinate Lu Zhou.

After all, predicting the future is nothing more than a conjecture, and Professor Krugman didn't even use a very positive tone when he mentioned the concept to him.

Of course, if he could do it, he wouldn't mind taking the time to study it and use a quantum computer to see what interesting things would happen in the future.

Of course, it's not that I want to make money with this technology, it's just purely out of curiosity about the unknown from the perspective of a scholar......

Xiaotong said happily: "Tomorrow's plane!" First go to Shanghai and land, play there for two days, and then take the high-speed train back~"

Lu Zhou nodded.

"Then come back and talk again...... By the way, are you still living enough? ”

"Hmph, I don't need your money, the pay for the outsourcing work I took from HSBC is not low, it's much higher than when you were working...... Speaking of which, are you home, brother? ”

Although he has a little skin, he is the only one who doesn't want to trouble others, which is simply carved out of the same mold as himself. At the beginning, I seemed to be the same, my wings had just grown hard, and I didn't want to ask for a penny from my family.

Hearing Xiao Tong's first half of the sentence, Lu Zhou couldn't help but smile and nodded.

"Well, it arrived yesterday."

"Hey, I envy you...... I'll go down for lunch in a moment, and I'll hang up first. ”

"Well, come back early."

After hanging up the video call, Lu Zhou looked at the table below, and in ten minutes, his mother should probably come to knock on the door and call him over for dinner.

But just as he was about to get up and walk, a string of bubbles popped up in the lower right corner of the computer screen.

Xiao Ai: [Master, Xiao Ai has received a somewhat special email here, do you need me to help you reply?? (^?^*)】

Seeing this line of prompts, Lu Zhou hesitated slightly.

“…… What does it mean to be a little bit special? ”

Ai: [It was sent by a lady named Vera.] (?? ▽?) 】

Vera?

Hearing this unexpected name, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned, and then said calmly.

“…… I'll reply myself. ”

[Okay~ (well-behaved .jpg)]

Although I am curious about how Xiao Ai identified which emails she might want to reply to, I guess it was the last upgrade that somewhat improved the IQ of some of this mentally retarded classmate.

But just as Lu Zhou was about to click on the email, there was a sudden knock at the door.

"Zhou'er, someone is looking for you outside."

Through the door, the old lady's voice came.

Slightly stunned, Lu Zhou thought about it carefully, as if there was no appointment or something, and subconsciously asked with confirmation.

"Looking for me?"

"Huh! It's looking for you, they claim to be people from Jianghe University, and they are all teachers! I heard that he is an academician! They are so polite, they are all waiting at the door, let me ask you first. ”

Listening to the old lady's voice, it seemed to be full of joy, and even a little trilling with joy.

The son not only made his own university questions, but also came and went with "university scholars", not only became academicians himself, but even academicians came to visit in person during the New Year's holidays.

What's more, Jianghe University is still quite famous in Gangneung City!

However, after hearing the keywords "Jianghe University", "teacher", and "a few academicians", Lu Zhou's heart faintly gave birth to a bad feeling, and even a little headache.

At that moment, he suddenly realized how unrealistic it was for him to think that he would be able to avoid those human contacts by returning to his hometown.

"The trees want to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop......"

Xiao Ai: [(°ー°???] )】

Fang Mei: "Zhou'er? ”

"Nothing, I'm coming."

Pushing away the chair and standing up, Lu Zhou walked towards the door with his head full of thoughts.

I always feel ......

It's too naïve to expect yourself to spend the New Year in a relaxed way......