Clearly, he himself was in danger. When Jiang Fuyue asked him about it, a soft “mm” lightly brushed it off.
But the moment he heard she wanted to go, he immediately couldn’t sit still.
Jiang Fuyue laughed at him. “You’re really playing double-standard.”
Xie Dingyuan didn’t buy it and didn’t play along. He said bluntly, “You’re not allowed to come!”
Hearing that he was genuinely anxious, Jiang Fuyue’s heart softened. She coaxed him, “I’m not coming. I was just saying it.”
The man’s tone was firm. “Not even saying it is allowed!”
Jiang Fuyue: “…Oh.” So fierce.
“Yueyue, listen to me.”
It wasn’t that Xie Dingyuan was overreacting. It was that he knew her too well.
Her courage was bigger than the sky. There was nothing she didn’t dare to say and nothing she didn’t dare to do.
Before hanging up, the man continued to repeat himself again and again, “Don’t come.”
Jiang Fuyue agreed verbally. As for what she was thinking inside, probably only she herself knew.
…
The second time she received a call from Xie Dingyuan was in the evening.
It wasn’t a WeChat message, but a direct phone call.
Jiang Fuyue was surprised. “You can make international calls?”
That didn’t seem right…
Compared to chatting on WeChat, making a phone call made it easier to trace one’s location, because the registered area could be checked openly. Therefore, phone signals were usually prohibited in military restricted zones.
If internal communication was needed, they generally used walkie-talkies with self-adjusted and encrypted channels.
Xie Dingyuan said, “I’m carrying out a mission in Dama City.”
Dama City was economically developed, with complete infrastructure. It was an international metropolis. Presumably it was quite far from the base, no wonder he dared to do this.
But…
“You can make phone calls while carrying out missions?”
“….” There was a brief silence on the other end.
The answer was obviously no.
Jiang Fuyue raised her eyebrows. This really didn’t match Xie Dingyuan’s style.
He was serious about work to an almost harsh degree. How could he use public duty for personal reasons and call her during a mission?
The domineering brainless CEOs in TV dramas might do that, but Professor Xie absolutely would not.
“Did something happen to you? I—”
“Yueyue, wait for me to come back…” Before he could finish, a loud bang came from the other end, followed by the call being cut off.
Jiang Fuyue’s chest tightened suddenly. Her first reaction was that something had happened.
Just as she was about to call Niu Rui and ask him to use his connections to check, a WeChat notification sounded.
Xie Dingyuan: “Don’t worry. There was a small accident just now. I’ve started work.”
This “work” should be referring to the mission.
Jiang Fuyue blinked, holding her phone and standing there in a daze. While letting out a sigh of relief, she suddenly couldn’t understand the meaning of this call that lasted less than twenty seconds, and one that Xie Dingyuan hurriedly made right before executing the mission.
Chatting?
Obviously not.
Informing her?
It didn’t seem like Xie Dingyuan had revealed any important information either.
Did he simply miss her?
But the way he spoke wasn’t mushy at all.
So why exactly?
Jiang Fuyue was pondering when, in a flash of insight, she suddenly remembered his excessive reaction the last time they talked, when she said she wanted to go to F Continent.
Could it be that he deliberately made this phone call just to check her registered location, afraid that she might really run off to F Continent without saying a word?
This probing move was played…
At that moment, far away in Dama City, Xie Dingyuan had already put on his protective suit, donned his isolation mask, and was about to enter the church.
“Achoo!”
Someone was thinking about him.
“Achoo!”
Mm, thinking about him even harder.
Jiang Fuyue: “…”
…
On the last day of 2051, December 31, Jiang Fuyue finally selected her next research topic.
Ming Yu said, “If you need help, come to me anytime.”
Jiang Fuyue didn’t stand on ceremony with him and smiled. “Sure!”
The man smiled as well.
Her familiarity and ease toward him made him suddenly feel as if they had returned to twenty years ago.
Close without any distance.
“By the way, when are you planning to move over?”
After this period of adjustment, Ming Yu had gradually adapted to his current life and gained a certain understanding of the unfamiliar Ming University.
Overall, he was adapting well.
Just as life issues were being resolved, academic issues followed closely behind.
For a physics giant like Ming Yu, even teaching students already counted as a waste of time. At this level, more energy should be spent on academics.
Previously, when he was in the Northwest, he had always stayed on the front line of scientific research, and once he started, it was for decades. Researchers like him, whether in academic thinking or practical experience, would not degrade with age or a comfortable life.
What Ming University needed to do was to provide Ming Yu with the best possible academic environment.
The most urgent task was to solve the issue of his personal laboratory.
But in the short term, there was no way to do what they had done back then when building the “Jiang Fuyue Laboratory,” holding their breath, hugging a pile of money, and starting immediately.
A nuclear physics laboratory and an ordinary interdisciplinary laboratory were two completely different concepts.
First of all, a nuclear physics laboratory required special approvals and all kinds of stringent procedures and formalities. Not only did it take a long time, it was also troublesome.
Xiao Shan said, “It really is quite troublesome, but sooner or later we have to build it anyway. If we delay it, won’t we still have to go through all these steps later? We can’t just not arrange a lab for him, right?”
Jiang Fuyue said, “His personal laboratory is a must, no doubt about it. What I mean is not to rush. Let’s wait until Wujin Building is completed.”
The experimental building constructed by Little Six already had a name: Wujin Building, also called X Building.
X represented the unknown.
The unknown was endless.
At present, the exterior had already taken shape. Twenty-two floors rose from the ground, standing by the campus lake.
A few days ago, when she asked Little Six about the progress, he said interior planning and renovation had already begun. It was estimated that it could be completed by early spring.
Jiang Fuyue naturally reserved one floor for Ming Yu. Even if he wanted to build two or three laboratories, there would be plenty of space, no problem at all.
No matter how big a picture of the future you paint, if it doesn’t exist now, then it simply doesn’t exist. Ming Yu himself didn’t mind, but Jiang Fuyue was anxious.
For a true scientist, time was fuel, driving them forward to explore ever more profound realms of knowledge.
They couldn’t let Ming Yu be delayed until spring, waiting for the building to be completed before starting work.
How much fuel would that waste?
And this kind of fuel was nonrenewable.
So Jiang Fuyue suggested that Ming Yu move in with her for now and temporarily share this laboratory. It was new enough and big enough anyway.
Xu Kaiqing and Old Peter often came to use the equipment as well.
“You’ll have to put up with it for a while. Once the experimental building is finished…”
“It’s fine. I like it here.” Ming Yu agreed immediately and even looked quite satisfied.
That was why, at the beginning, Jiang Fuyue asked him when he planned to move in.
“The equipment will arrive at four o’clock. It can be put into normal use tomorrow.”
Jiang Fuyue raised her wrist to check the time. It was already three-thirty. Only half an hour left.
“Then I’ll wait with you.”
“Okay.”
Ming Yu handed her a cup. “Thirsty? I brewed some flower tea.”
Jiang Fuyue took it and took a sip. Her mouth was instantly filled with a light fragrance. “This taste…”
The man curled his lips. “You can taste it?”
“Still the same formula as back then?”
“Yes. It hasn’t changed in twenty years.”
Because you like it.
As expected.
Jiang Fuyue nodded and praised sincerely, “It’s still just as good as it was back then. And you’re still as deft and skillful as you were back then.”
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