I Have a Research Support System

"Xu Qiu, are you talking about a girlfriend yet?" Teacher Wei said suddenly.

"Ah?" Xu Qiu was stunned for a moment, and quickly realized: "No."

"En." Teacher Wei responded, and then said nothing.

Xu Qiu was lost in thought, why did Teacher Wei suddenly become gossip, did he want to introduce one to me?

Probably not, his son and daughter are both less than ten years old...

Or is it afraid that falling in love will hinder the progress of scientific research?

Or maybe he just mentioned it on a whim.

Unable to figure it out, Xu Qiu put the question behind him.

Most of the people in the research group are currently single, except for Duan Yun who has a girlfriend in a different place.

Tian Qing seems to have had a boyfriend before, and Xu Qiu met him once when he was taking undergraduate graduation photos.

But she seems to have broken up after graduation, at least that person was never seen again.

...

The speed of the car gradually slowed down, Xu Qiu looked out the window, and the car came to a parking lot, and the canteen of the headquarters was not far away.

After the car stopped, the three got out of the car, walked a few steps, entered the restaurant in the headquarters, and then took the elevator to the third floor.

When you get out of the elevator, you will find the faculty restaurant. It is located in the lobby on the third floor of the Bendu restaurant. In principle, it only serves faculty and staff, and you must swipe the campus card with the status of faculty and staff to consume.

Teacher Wei brought Xu Qiu and the students in his group to eat here several times.

After the actual experience, Xu Qiu feels that the taste here is almost the same as the restaurant on the first and second floors of the headquarters, and the price is slightly more expensive. The only advantage is that there are fewer people and there is almost no queue.

In addition to the faculty dining room, there are also several private rooms on the third floor, which can be used for school teachers to entertain foreign guests, organize research group dinners, or use them for some school or departmental activities.

The three of them walked through the hall and came to the bar. Wei Xingsi greeted the restaurant manager.

Then, under the leadership of the restaurant manager, they walked into the private room of "Qingshanju".

The area of ​​the private room is very large. As soon as you enter the door, there is a big round table. It seems that there is no problem in accommodating fifteen people. There is a large floor-to-ceiling window behind the round table. The view from there is excellent. You can see the East Annex Building of the Twin Towers next to it, and A large piece of lawn next to the east auxiliary building.

Next to the big round table is a small square table, several sofas, and a small cubicle.

Mr. Wei seemed to be very familiar with the manager here. After he put the Moutai on the round table, he left with the manager and chatted not far from the door of the private room.

Xu Qiu and Duan Yun also put the wine in their hands on the small square table, and then sat on the sofa next to them.

The dinner party started at six o'clock, and it's only less than half past five, and they came early and there was nothing to do.

The sofa was not too far from the door, and Xu Qiu could hear Teacher Wei and the manager's voices, which were mixed with some Modu dialect, and they were generally intelligible.

"Today, the standard side dishes are 2,000 yuan."

"Do you still need drinks?"

"We brought our own drinks. Lennon asked someone to bring some glasses, as well as bottle openers and wine dispensers."

"How many people are there?"

"There are seven people in our group. Teacher, I invited six of them. Three of them are able to come, and there is one who is not sure. Let's count as eleven people."

"Okay, when will the food be served?"

"The food will be served around six o'clock. You can serve some cold dishes in advance."

Wei Xingsi returned to the private room, nodded to Xu Qiu and Duan Yun, then walked to the French window, took out his mobile phone and started calling the teachers one by one.

Xu Qiu and Duan Yun were still on the sofa, staring wide-eyed.

Fortunately, not long after, Wu Feifei arrived with others.

Teacher Wei turned around, pointed to the table seats on the round table, and signaled Wu Feifei to arrange everyone to sit.

According to the usual practice, the position facing the door is the main seat, which should be reserved for the teachers, so the six students sat down one by one with their backs facing the door.

Xu Qiu was assigned the middle position, Chen Wanqing was on the left, Han Jiaying was on the right, and Teacher Wei was facing him.

Teacher Wei finished the phone call, returned to his seat, and said, "There are several teachers from the department who will come over, Zhou Mathematics, the deputy head of the Department of Materials, is also the head of the Teaching and Research Office of Materials Chemistry, Fang Guangwu, the deputy head of the Department of Materials, In charge of enrollment and student work."

After a pause, he added: "There is also Sun Zheng, from the Department of Chemistry, Xu Qiu, you met at the final project defense last time, Zhou Dagang, from Tongji University, mainly in the field of thermoelectricity, Duan Yun, you must be sure." I know each other very well, originally I also invited teacher Wan Yousheng from the department, and teacher Qiu Zhiquan from Shanghai Jiaotong University, but the two of them have something to do today and can’t make it, so let’s just have a few of us.”

Everyone knows that China is a society of human relationships. Teacher Wei invited these teachers to come here today, because they may deal with them in the future. Not to mention the two deputy deans in the department, the other two are always or may be speaking in the future. One of the review teachers, there is no harm in being able to get acquainted in advance.

After a while, two waiters came in with corkscrews, wine dispensers, wine glasses, goblets, etc.

One of them was in charge of distributing glasses and tablecloths, while the other asked, "Shall the wine be opened now?"

"Let's open two bottles first." Teacher Wei said, "You students, please drink wine. Both of you, Xu Qiu and Han Jiaying, can do it."

"I can drink a little." Xu Qiu said, he originally thought that he would be able to drink Moutai today, but after thinking about it, there is only one bottle of Moutai, and each of the five teachers has a drink, and that's all.

In fact, it doesn't matter if he can't drink it, he doesn't like this one, if possible, he would like to replace the wine with happy water, even coconut milk is fine.

Han Jiaying seemed to hesitate, but finally nodded lightly without raising any objections.

Xu Qiu noticed the strangeness of the junior girl, and said in a low voice: "When it's time to toast later, if you feel that you can't drink it, don't force it, just take a sip to express yourself."

"Yeah." Han Jiaying also responded in a low voice.

The waiter opened two bottles of wine and poured them into two wine dividers, then placed the wine dividers on the turntable in the center of the round table, and asked, "Would you like to serve cold dishes first?"

Wei Xingsi checked the time on his phone, and it was already 5:50, so he said, "Serve the cold dishes first, and let you know the hot dishes later."

As soon as he finished speaking, a fat middle-aged man appeared at the door, waved to Teacher Wei, and said hello.

Xu Qiu turned his head curiously, but found that he didn't know the person who came. It could only be Zhou Dagang from Tongji University. Unexpectedly, the first one to come was not one of the three teachers from the school.

However, the Sifang Road campus of Tongji University is not far from Modu Comprehensive University, only a few streets away.

Teacher Wei and Duan Yun got up to greet him. The three of them shook hands and said some polite words. Zhou Dagang took a seat on Teacher Wei's left.

Soon after, Sun Zheng, Fang Guangwu, and Zhou Xuexue arrived one after another, but no one was late, and they were all on time. Teacher Wei greeted them all alone.

Although Xu Qiu and the two materials department teachers are familiar with each other, they don't have many personal relationships, unlike Duan Yun, who has an article with Zhou Dagang, even though he is only a second author.

Everyone was present, and after the teachers were seated, Teacher Wei waved to the waiter by the door and said, "Serve the hot dishes."

"You use the wine dispenser to pour the wine yourself." Teacher Wei instructed the students, and he opened the Moutai and poured it for him and several teachers separately.

Xu Qiu chose white wine and poured himself about half a glass. He took a sip, and the taste was relatively light, slightly sour.

While everyone was pouring wine, the waiter began to serve dishes one by one, most of them were from Shanghai, and the dishes were somewhat similar to the Xiaobeiguo that Han Jiaying went to last time.

Teacher Wei first raised his wine glass and started:

"Everyone performed very well this year. The four fields of organic, perovskite, thermoelectric, and mechanism research have all made good progress. I hope the new year will be more brilliant! Cheers!"

Everyone raised their wine glasses, and Duan Yun echoed, "Cheers!"

Xu Qiu observed around, except for him and Duan Yun who had a big drink, the others were relatively conservative.

"Let's eat." Teacher Wei put down the wine glass, waved his hand, and moved the chopsticks first.

The dishes here are served very quickly, within fifteen minutes, all of them were served, and the last dish was the fish head soup that Duan Yun and the others had raved about before.

I saw the waiter holding a super-large bowl with both hands. The diameter is close to 60 cm. There is a super-large fish head in the center. The milky white soup is very rich. Some green leafy vegetables are placed on it as an embellishment. There are pig's trotters looming.

It's really impressive to look at, but I don't know how it tastes, this is Xu Qiu's inner evaluation.

Xu Qiu's position happened to be at the mouth of the dish, so he used the turntable to transfer the fish head soup to Mr. Wei's side.

Today's big dishes, he gave priority to transfer to the teachers, and the others also cooperated with him tacitly, and did not grab the food.

If it was Teacher Wei's usual treat, when it was only him and his students, Xu Qiu and the others would not be so polite and would rush to eat, but now that there are other teachers around, they should be more "sensible".

Teacher Wei helped the other four teachers take a bowl of fish head soup, and kept saying, "Fish head soup is a specialty here and it's very delicious."

The atmosphere at the dinner table was well mobilized by Teacher Wei. Several teachers were chatting and laughing, discussing various gossip in the scientific research circle recently.

Xu Qiu who was beside him was also secretly surprised. He didn't expect Teacher Wei to have such an exquisite side.

They usually eat with Teacher Wei, and they chat about topics such as "the progress of scientific research work", "handle reimbursement", "how is the writing of the article?" and so on.

Soon, the fish head soup came back, and Han Jiaying weighed a bowl of fish head soup for herself, then turned her head and asked, "Senior brother, do you want it?"

"Yes." Xu Qiu came back to his senses, and added: "Thank you, junior."

"You're welcome~" Han Jiaying picked up his bowl, filled a bowl of soup, and added a pig's trotter into it.

Xu Qiu took Xuemei's soup, scooped up a spoonful with a spoon, and tasted it.

Well, the taste is really good, and the deliciousness is hard to express in words.

One word, praise.