Chapter 523： Fellow (Part 1)

"Old Xu, don't you understand yet?"

This sentence was like a knife stabbed into his heart.

At this moment, Xu Chenyang was disheartened.

He was the only one who thought so...

"But..." Xu Chenyang's lips trembled, and an emotion surged in his body.

"But, that's our motherland!"

"There are our relatives, our compatriots..."

Yun Zhiwei raised his brows and looked at Xu Chenyang in surprise.

"Lao Xu, are you alright? A purely theoretical scientist has no motherland, because his achievements belong to all mankind. So our focus should be on theoretical mathematical research."

"You don't want to carry personal feelings, you just say that it is more suitable for pure theoretical mathematics research in the United States than in China?" Yun Zhiwei asked calmly.

"The United States is indeed suitable for purely theoretical research, but Guanghua University is different!" Xu Chenyang explained.

"Why is it different? I also pay attention to Guanghua, and I don't even have a mathematics department. How do you know that there is soil for mathematics to survive there?" Yun Zhiwei said lightly.

"..." Xu Chenyang wanted to refute the other party, but there seemed to be no supporting data for the debate.

Guanghua is indeed a magical school, but only those who have been there can appreciate it.

He sighed slightly, his eyes dimmed.

He knew he had tried his best.

Xu Chenyang didn't speak, but Yun Zhiwei persuaded him, "It's old Xu, you said that we are all 40 years old, we have wives and children, you should think about them if you don't think about yourself!"

Yun Zhiwei was married in 2011. His wife was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Southern California. Later, because Yun Zhiwei was recruited by Yale University, he even enrolled his wife and became a faculty member of Yale University.

This time, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dug Yun Zhiwei over, and also solved the family's work problem.

Xu Chenyang looked Yun Zhiwei up and down, as if he wanted to get to know the whole person again.

"Zhiwei, you have changed."

"When I told He Ying that I was going back to China, do you know how He Ying replied to me?"

"You said." Yun Zhiwei said.

"He Ying said something, she said: one day a Chinese, a lifetime is a Chinese!"

Xu Chenyang's eyes seemed to be shining with some kind of dazzling light, and his voice was so loud and thought-provoking.

"If mathematics does not abandon me, I will definitely not abandon mathematics. If China does not abandon me, I will never abandon China!"

Yun Zhiwei was silent after hearing this, and Zhang Wei, who was beside him, was already crying while covering his face.

Xu Chenyang had already given up on Yun Zhiwei, and he turned to look at Zhang Wei.

"Old Zhang, let me ask you a question, do you want to go together?"

Yun Zhiwei was born in Changzhou City, Handong Province, and his family was not bad, but Zhang Wei was different.

Zhang Wei is a native of Dazhou, Tianfu Province, and was born in a rural area in Dazhu County.

He is the second child in the family, with an older brother and a younger sister. Both parents are farmers, and they also run a small business to make ends meet.

The family is very ordinary, even a little shabby.

Zhang Wei studied in the village primary school for the first four years of primary school, and then transferred to Tiancheng Township Primary School in Dazhu County in the fifth grade. It was from then on that Zhang Wei's mathematical talent began to emerge.

Under the enlightenment of elementary school math teachers, Zhang Wei's interest in mathematics turned into an obsession, and then he participated in the National Primary School Mathematics Competition and won the first prize.

In Dazhu County Middle School, he participated in the National Mathematical Physical Chemistry Competition and won the first prize.

Then, informed by the teacher, knowing that a classmate was admitted to Rongcheng No. 7 Middle School because of winning the National Award, Zhang Wei wrote a self-recommendation letter with the mentality of giving it a try. At that time, he didn't know who to send the letter to, so he wrote "Seventh Middle School Principal's Receipt".

Unexpectedly, I received a reply from Yang Nengsheng, the vice president of Rongcheng No. 7 Middle School, and became one of the five non-local students recruited by Rongcheng No. 7 Middle School in 1997.

Also because of his rural dialect, Zhang Wei had difficulty communicating with his classmates. He hardly had any friends, so he occasionally chatted with the same table next to him. The rest of the time he basically sat in his seat and kept doing math. topic.

When he was a sophomore in high school, Zhang Weiwei fell ill. In addition, his family background was not very good and he could not afford the medical expenses. It was the teachers and students of Rongcheng No. 7 Middle School who raised donations for him, which relieved a lot of his burden.

Later, in the year of graduating from high school, Zhang Wei participated in the National Mathematics Winter Camp as a representative of Tianfu Province, and thus obtained the qualification to be recommended to the Department of Mathematics of Peking University.

After graduating from Peking University, Zhang Wei went to Columbia University to study for a doctorate step by step until he achieved today's achievements.

It is no exaggeration to say that it was mathematics that changed Zhang Wei's fate.

Otherwise, he might be in a certain field in the countryside of Dazhu County, holding a **** handed down from his parents, wiping the sweat on his forehead, and looking up at the hot sun.

But it is also some policies of the state that allow Zhang Wei to successfully complete his studies.

The country is worthy of Zhang Wei, but Zhang Wei today...

He took off his black framed eyes, wiped his tears with his hands, and turned his head to the side, not daring to directly Xu Chenyang.

"Old Xu, I'm different from you. I can get to this point, and I have paid too much, I can't afford to lose..."

Xu Chenyang closed his eyes and sighed with regret.

He stood up.

"It's okay, I respect your choice, but I'm sorry, I used to think we were comrades-in-arms with common aspirations."

He shook his head, "It turns out that I was the only one who thought so."

They also started from mathematics at Peking University, and then the three came to the United States to start their doctorate studies.

He originally thought that everyone took a different path, but just like the starting point is Peking University, the final destination will also return to Peking University or go to teach in other domestic institutions.

But some people just walk away.

He got it.

So, I'm not advising anymore.

You can wake a sleeping person, but you can't wake a pretending to be asleep.

"Let's go, see you when I have a chance~"

Looking at Xu Chenyang's back leaving alone, Zhang Wei's heart seemed to be stabbed by a needle, and the pain was so clear.

His lips moved.

In the end, those two words were not spoken.

...

Walking numbly on the MIT campus.

He didn't know why the young man who worked so hard back then became what he is today, so unfamiliar to him that he couldn't recognize it at all.

He can understand not returning to China in the past, after all, the domestic scientific research environment is indeed not good.

Based on its national conditions, China still does not pay much attention to the scientific research work with large investment, long cycle and unpredictable benefits in basic research.

This is also a helpless move based on the current national conditions.

In addition, the current environment is not comparable to that of the 1950s.

At that time, the people worshipped and respected science and scientists very much.

But now, the news of a celebrity scratching his skin can overshadow the death of a scientist who dedicated his life to the Republic.

However, in the past two years, domestic public opinion has become better visible to the naked eye.

The news of capitalists being suppressed stars will also be covered by the Olympic Games and by scientists.

For scientific research, China is also gradually attaching importance to it.

Especially at Guanghua University, it made him feel like he was at Princeton University and MIT.

Respecting scientific research and academics, attaching importance to scientists and scientific research, and not just talking about dedication, but actually supporting scientific research.

"Even if I'm the only one who insists on this road, I won't give up!"

Xu Chenyang gritted his teeth and said.

At this moment, a shout came from behind.

"Old Xu!"

ps: It is a headache to check the information. It is not a slander of Yun Zhiwei and Zhang Wei. It is only a novel creation. If there is any similarity, it is purely fictional.

The next chapter will be late.