Meeting Zhang Zhiyong on the road can be regarded as a small episode. When Zhang Zhiyong walked away with his two doctoral students, Wang Xin whispered on the side, "Senior sister, who was it just now?" ”

"That's Zhang Zhiyong from the Department of Chemistry." As PI Qi Min still pays more attention to proportion, even if he feels in his heart that he is a god and he is a waste of firewood, he still has to understate it on the surface, "He's very powerful." ”

"Department of Chemistry...... I don't usually go much. Wang Xin muttered, "Senior sister, how did you know him?" ”

"I met while I was on a business trip." Qi Min replied, "He lived next door to me when he was staying. ”

It sounds like it can have something to do with the future bigwig, but in fact, it's just a general acquaintance. Qi Min doesn't know much about how people who really devote themselves to scientific research usually live, and he thinks that Zhang Zhiyong will not spend his leisure time eating chicken.

Qi Min also wants to be a big man in academia, such as nature and science, and everyone who is engaged in scientific research thinks so. But the reality is that struggle and success are not linearly related, and it is more or less a matter of luck to do this. In fact, she was lucky, although the topic during her PhD studies had not yet been published, she at least graduated and had a teaching position that could support her family. is more unlucky than her, there are many people who can't do the project, there are many people who can't finish their jobs by the boss, and there are many who can't find a suitable job after graduation. It's so difficult for people to live, who doesn't want to graduate from science at the age of twenty-five, but how many Zhang Zhiyong can be accommodated in the current social structure?

Qi Min thought so, and felt that it was not good to take Zhang Zhiyong as an example. Just as the proletarian workers cannot point the finger at the working aristocracy if they want to turn over, it is not the fault of the academic bigwigs that ordinary PIs have low incomes and ordinary doctors are exploited. However, going back to its roots touches on what is not allowed to be taught in public at school.

When Qi Min was studying for his Ph.D., he often went home at night with Anton on the English translation of Capital, criticizing the various exploitations and misfortunes caused by the capitalist social structure. But the next day, Qi Min went to the laboratory to be exploited, and Anton went to a Chinese restaurant to be exploited, and everything was the same as the day before.

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Wang Xin and Chen Linyou don't pay much attention to who Zhang Zhiyong is. After all, they are only first-year students, and they don't know enough about other departments, so it's normal that they don't know if they haven't listened to a few lectures.

However, the doctoral students in Zhang Zhiyong's group are a little concerned about who Qi Min is. After all, biology and chemistry are also somewhat related, and most of the senior doctoral students in the Department of Biology have heard of Zhang Zhiyong, but basically no one knows Qi Min among the senior doctoral students in the Department of Chemistry.

Presumably, a Ph.D. student in Zhang's group privately checked Qi Min's information—which is not difficult, because the information of all science PIs is posted on the Faculty of Science's website—and found that her doctoral dissertation was in second place in the joint work, and the first place was obviously an English native surname plus a male name.

This would be a bit suspicious in the eyes of some gossip lovers, and Qi Min did look unusually young, so it couldn't be easier to make something out of it. Fortunately, the chemistry department may have been so dangerous that the boys were much more surprised, and most of the boys were not very good at this kind of gossip that tested their associative skills, so nothing came out. On the contrary, it was Zhang Zhiyong's doctoral students in his group who teased their boss about sending an umbrella to the bioinformatics laboratory where the young female PI was located at night.

Of course, Zhang Zhiyong couldn't have taken a fancy to Qi Min, but after Zhang Zhiyong left school on Friday night, he sent a WeChat message to Qi Min: "I heard the students in our lab say that the papers you sent when you were studying for your Ph.D. are the same, and I am a little curious. ”

Qi Min didn't know why someone as big as him suddenly wanted to be curious about this kind of question. Shouldn't people who publish science in non-popular fields not eat fireworks in the world?

But she and Zhang Zhiyong did not have any conflict of interest, and this was explained to the school leaders, so Qi Min still replied: "The article I graduated from my doctorate is from someone else." Garry was one class ahead of me, and he was a gap year because he was married, and I helped him do the experiments for a few months. ”

"I see." Zhang Zhiyong replied, adding another sentence, "What about your subject?" Failed? ”

"It's not done, I'm still doing it." Qi Min replied.

"It's as simple as that? I thought there was something hidden, it was boring. Zhang Zhiyong made a [sweaty] expression in the back.

Qi Min felt inexplicable and a little surprised, and asked him this on WeChat at night, just to satisfy his gossip heart? Unexpectedly, on the surface, Zhang Zhiyong is a very serious young PI, but in private, he is even more gossip than the doctoral students in his laboratory.

And even if you don't get any appalling stories, you don't have to just say "it's boring", right? She almost didn't graduate, can't she even express sympathy formulaically as a colleague......

Qi Min replied: "That's, it's definitely not as interesting as the story just made up by a certain person." ”

After she finished posting, she cut the page back to eating chicken, and after playing a game, she found that Zhang Zhiyong sent her a message back: "I'm sorry, I've overdone my brain [呲tooth] to chat more in the future, let me also eat some melons from the biology department [sneer]"

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Qi Min doesn't have much interest in gossip, but this is barely a way to get along with the future boss. And Wang Xin likes to spread gossip in the laboratory, so she knows a little bit about it.

The next day, Saturday, Qi Min had to pick up Anton and Mimi at eleven o'clock in the evening, and there were no experiments arranged in the laboratory during the day.

When it was almost time for dinner, Qi Min was going to ask Wang Xin and them to go to the cafeteria together, but she saw Zhang Zhiyong's WeChat message to her: "Are you at school?" Let's make an appointment for dinner. ”

Qi Min knew with his toes that he just wanted to listen to the gossip of the biology department, and he didn't know how a young talent in the chemistry field could have such an unpopular hobby.

But let's talk, let's talk, Qi Min replied: "Okay." ”

Zhang Zhiyong made an appointment with the meeting place, and it was accurate to the number of rows and tables on the first floor of the canteen, and Qi Min also passed.

At the beginning, when the two bought food, Zhang Zhiyong didn't move his chopsticks much, but asked in a rather serious tone: "Hmm...... Do you know about Director Li of the Department of Chemistry? ”

"I don't know......" Qi Min really doesn't know.

"He's getting married for the third time, with a chemistry graduate student." Zhang Zhiyong said in a serious tone, as if he was talking about something professionally related - but it is indeed professionally related, and if it involves academic misconduct, it may be considered a serious matter.

"What is this...... Circumstance? Qi Min was a little confused.

"His second marriage was also with a former graduate student." Zhang Zhiyong said, "You don't even know about this? Looks like we've got a lot to talk about. ”