Chapter 978 Professor Harold was targeted


    Time goes back to about ten minutes ago.


    After returning to the kitchen, Zhou Li has been busy cooking, so naturally she doesn''t know what is going on outside.


    ?Originally, according to her expectation, it had only been about ten minutes, and the three young people should have just become familiar with each other.


    On the other hand, Chang Yuanchao couldn''t help much because he couldn''t cook, so he wandered back and forth in the kitchen, almost scratching his head and ears:


    “I’m talking about the child’s mother, how far do you think Xiaonan and this girl... have developed?”


    While speaking, he also moved close to the door, as if he was ready to use his professional skills to open the crack in the door.


    As a result, before he could touch the door handle, his arm was hit hard with a chopstick:


    “What are you doing?”


    “If you have nothing to do, just pour me a pot of oil and heat it up for frying the meatballs later…”


    Chang Yuanchao, who was scolded, quickly retracted his hand angrily:


    “I also want to see the situation…”


    Even though he said this, he still walked to the stove honestly, unscrewed the lid of the big bucket of peanut oil, and got ready to pour it into the pot.


    “How much further can it develop?”


    Zhou Li said as she opened the gauze covering the bamboo drawer and put the cold meatballs that had been steamed last night into a basin, ready to be fried in a pan later:


    “Look at the way that girl looked when she first walked in, she must be interested in our Xiaonan, but I guess... neither of them must have made it clear.”


    “Oh...take your time, no matter what you say now, there is always something you want to think about...”


    “Is that so…”


    ?Chang Yuanchao turned on the gas stove with a bang, and it was clear from his tone that he did not agree with Zhou Li''s judgment:


    “I think that although the two of them seem to have nothing to do with each other on the surface, they actually have a very good understanding.”


    “Maybe it was nothing before, but as long as the window paper is broken, the progress should be very fast..."


    Hearing this judgment, Zhou Li curled her lips:


    "Come on, your son is just like you back then... If I hadn''t taken the initiative to go to the hospital when you were injured and couldn''t get up from bed, I don''t know when I would be able to get married..."


    “Ahem…”


    ? Seeing that his wife was going to dig out the old sesame seeds and rotten millet things again, Chang Yuanchao hurriedly coughed twice:


    “Actually... I just sprained my foot, so I lay in bed for two days..."


    "Um?"


    Zhou Li stopped moving her hands:


    "But your instructor told me..."


    “That’s why I asked him to scare you...”


    Chang Yuanchao used a chopstick to test the oil temperature:


    “Who knew he wouldn’t even make up a lie? He just said that I might not be able to get out of bed for the rest of my life…”


    “But the effect was really good. He came to our place the next day and said he would spend the rest of his life..."


    ?Before she finished speaking, she was kicked hard by Zhou Li:


    “How old are you? Still remember those things back then…”


    “I’ve already seen that there’s something wrong with you guys, everyone is holding back their bad intentions...”


    ?Although she said this, Zhou Li''s thoughts were obviously a little shaken.


    After thinking about it again and again, she saw that the oil temperature had not yet come up, so she temporarily put down the things in her hands and walked out the door.


    “Hey, didn’t you just let me out?”


    Chang Yuanchao was obviously dissatisfied with this behavior of only allowing state officials to set fires but not allowing people to light lamps.


    “I’m going out to get some seasoning…”


    ?Zhou Li directly gave a high-sounding reason.


    After saying that, he quietly opened the door a crack.


    Then…


    I saw Yao Mengna and Chang Haonan sitting next to each other on the sofa.


    Chang Jiayao was not seen.


    ?Yao Mengna was holding a pillow and patting Chang Haonan with the same force as tickling.


    …


    Almost subconsciously, Zhou Li didn''t care about the seasoning and quickly closed the door.


    “Old man...you may be right...”


    As for the two people in the living room…


    ?From Chang Haonan''s perspective, he couldn''t actually see the situation in the kitchen.


    But Yao Mengna saw it clearly—


    ?Just now, the kitchen door opened for a moment.


    And there seemed to be a figure flashing inside...


    That is to say.


    All were seen…


    "What''s wrong?"


    ?Although Chang Haonan didn''t know what happened yet, he could feel the change in Yao Mengna''s mood next to him, so he turned his head and asked curiously.


    "It''s over, it''s over... we''ve all been seen..." The latter had a lifeless expression on his face. He changed his behavior from just now and sat upright on the sofa like a primary school student.


    “What is seen…”


    “We just… just now…”


    Yao Mengna didn’t know how to describe it, so she could only point to the pillow in her hand:


    “When I was here, I saw my aunt come out of the kitchen for a moment, and then go back right away...”


    ∣


    Looking at the panicked senior sister, Chang Haonan couldn''t help laughing.


    “You’re still laughing…”


    “No…let’s make it clear first.”


    ?Chang Haonan reluctantly suppressed his smile and pretended to be serious:


    “It was your unilateral action just now, I didn’t do anything…”


    It’s strange to say that I haven’t felt it in the past few years, but today I suddenly discovered that it seems quite interesting to tease this senior who is usually very cold and strong...


    "you…"


    ?Yao Mengna is popular again.


    But having learned from the past, she did not dare to make any big moves again.


    Logically speaking, if she went upstairs to find Chang Jiayao, who is of the same sex, she might feel better.


    But the two of them just met for the first time today. They can only say that they know each other''s names, but in fact they are not familiar with each other at all...


    ??But if she continues to sit here, Chang Haonan''s half-smiling eyes make Yao Mengna clearly feel that the temperature on her face is rising...


    “Forget it, I’ll go see if there’s anything aunt can do to help…”


    Finally, she was defeated and ran to the kitchen...


    In the following time, due to being frightened several times in a short period of time, Yao Mengna behaved well and did not dare to do anything out of the ordinary until the New Year''s Eve dinner.


    Only when I was making dumplings with Chang Haonan at night, I secretly kicked Chang Haonan under the coffee table.


    Chang Haonan’s family also tacitly agreed not to mention what happened during the day.


    ? No matter what, the relationship between the two people has been invisibly brought closer during this day.


    ?And this New Year’s Eve passed in such a quiet and peaceful atmosphere.


    However, for the two parties involved, especially Yao Mengna, who was celebrating the New Year at someone else’s house for the first time, this night was destined to be tossing and turning and difficult to sleep...


    …


    At the same time, across the ocean.


    In 2002, Chinese culture did not have a particularly strong influence abroad.


    Basically, except for Chinese-inhabited areas such as Chinatown, not many people pay attention to this festival.


    ?However, even though it is not the Spring Festival, Professor Harold Huang has not been able to sleep well for several days in a row.


    As for the reason…


    Things that can keep a scholar awake are most likely to be nothing other than papers.


    It’s just that this time it’s not because of the rejection—


    In the field of numerical computing, even theoretical research has extremely high requirements on computing resources.


    Harold is currently in a relatively marginalized state, so since he published the paper in JCAS last year, the data for the next article has not yet been collected.


    In fact, the source of his upset was last year’s paper.


    The United States at the beginning of the 21st century is similar to China 20 years later, and the paper volume is booming.


    Although Harold is already a full professor, he has just joined Ohio State University a few years ago. Many things still have to be achieved through performance evaluation rather than mixed qualifications.


    However, just after he submitted his thesis last year to the school as a result, he was quickly called back.


    Faced with this situation, Harold was naturally confused.


    Before submitting, he also checked it specifically.


    Even though it has only been published for less than a year, JCAS has been included in the SCI database, and the impact factor has reached 4.71.


    ?Of course, this number accounts to a large extent for the cost of several biomolecular papers.


    ??But in any case, in this era where the impact factor has not yet been inflated, it is definitely very dazzling for a new journal to achieve such results.


    At least it should not be excluded from effective results.


    ?So, he directly took the relevant information and went to investigate.


    The answer was -


    The school believes that JCAS was included in SCI and had an impact factor in early February 2002, so papers published there before that cannot be counted as effective results...


    Harold almost laughed in anger.


    ??He has spent half his life in academia, and although he has spent most of his time in companies, he has never heard of such an outrageous calculation method.


    Obviously, it can only be explained as being targeted...


    (End of this chapter)