Material Empire

Champs Elysees, Paris, France.

Qin Hai and Tranquility held hands and walked slowly on the boulevard. The summer sun shines on the two of them through the leaves, mottled, like jumping notes, which makes people feel refreshed. The peaceful heart is also filled with brilliant sunshine. I only hope that this road will never end, and let the two of them go on like this for a long time.

"Qin Hai, I thought about it. You have never walked the streets with me like this. When people talk about friends, they are always in pairs. What's the matter with you?" Tranquility tilted her head and looked at Qin Hai, pouted slightly, complained with a smile.

"Really?" Qin Hai thought for a while, then smiled and said, "You can't blame me. When I was in the capital, I told you to go shopping with you. Every time you didn't want to go, okay?"

"How can it be that every time, how many times have you visited me in total?" Tranquility retorted in a low voice.

"Uh... isn't it because I'm busy." Qin Hai felt that he was in the wrong, so he could only search for a reason.

Qin Hai himself didn't know how his relationship with Tranquility developed to this day. In the earliest days, he just liked Tranquility's beauty and cheerfulness, but he always felt that Tranquility was still a little girl in his heart, and there was a psychological age gap with him. Unknowingly, Tranquility has grown into a big girl, and the relationship between the two of them has developed smoothly to the point where everyone feels that they are a natural couple.

Ning Zhongying and Qin Minghua are now the general manager and deputy general manager of Daqin Group respectively. Their offices face each other. When they have nothing to do, they will get together to smoke, drink tea and chat about trivial matters. At the beginning, both parties were a little reserved, not knowing how to talk about the matter of the children. Later, as the two young people got closer and closer, the two parents no longer had any scruples, and they had already quietly talked to each other in private. Called "in-laws".

According to the thoughts of the parents of both parties, Qin Hai is already 26 years old, and Ning Jing is also a 24-year-old older young woman. It should be time to discuss marriage. Helpless, Qin Hai's work is one after another, and it always involves major national issues, so he really can't spare the energy to think about his own affairs. And Tranquility is still a postgraduate student studying at the school, so it seems a bit inappropriate to discuss major matters of marriage. So this matter was delayed again and again, which made the adults of the two families feel extremely headache.

In the past two years, Qin Hai traveled around the country, and he didn't have much time to settle down in one place. Inspired by Qin Hai, Tranquility devoted herself to the research of iron-based superconducting materials. It took several days and nights to start the experiment. Sometimes when Qin Hai came to the capital, it was not easy to see her. Later, Qin Hai came up with a way, that is to go to the laboratory to do experiments with Tranquility, and he could give Tranquility some pointers from time to time. After careful calculation, the chances of the two of them shopping together are indeed very few, but more often they do experiments together.

Sometimes, Tranquility also feels that she is a bit at a loss. When other people fall in love, they are in love with each other, but she and Qin Hai are circling around a bunch of experimental equipment. Among the two people's words, two of the three sentences are related to Regarding superconducting materials, there is no sweet talk at all.

This time, the two of them were finally able to come to Paris at the same time, and they were able to take a leisurely walk on the famous Champs-Elysées Avenue, which made up for some regrets in Tranquility's heart. However, her relaxation was only for a short while. After a few words of nonsense between lovers, the content of the conversation turned to academic aspects.

"Qin Hai, I feel very uneasy right now. Tell me, after I speak tomorrow, what questions will others ask?" Tranquility asked Qin Hai with a mournful face.

Qin Hai reached out and patted Tranquility's head, helped her straighten the messy hair on her head, and said with a smile: "How do I know what questions others will ask? However, as long as you are ready, you can respond as usual. Ever-changing, isn’t everything that others say within the scope of your preparation? Think about it, so far, who is more professional than you in the research of iron-based superconductivity in the world?”

It turned out that the purpose of Ning Jing's visit to Paris this time was to read her paper on iron-based superconductivity at the International Materials Annual Conference. Under the guidance of Qin Hai and financial support regardless of cost, Ning Jing was the first to discover the superconducting characteristics of iron-based materials in the entire superconducting field. A short review she wrote was also published in the top international academic journal Nature as she wished. It was published and caused a sensation in the international superconducting circle.

As the discoverer of iron-based superconductivity, Tranquility was invited by the International Society for Materials to give a keynote speech on iron-based superconductivity at the annual meeting of materials. It is said that this opportunity to give a keynote speech has never been given to a graduate student who has not yet obtained a Ph.D.

In order to prepare for this keynote speech, Tranquility spent two months writing conference papers. Different from the research reviews written before, in this paper, she not only introduces the iron-based superconducting phenomenon itself, but also explores the mechanism behind this superconducting phenomenon from the perspective of physics. For this reason, she needs to propose some A theoretical model that has never been proposed before.

Although in the process of writing the thesis, Qin Hai and her supervisor Chen Zongze both gave her some help, but when the thesis was finally completed, Qin Hai still had to admit that Tranquility's attainments in this field had reached a very high level. It is not in vain that Qin Hai gave her the opportunity to discover iron-based superconductivity.

"I'm really unreliable." Tranquility said, "I am very immature in thinking about the model of electron-hole symmetry. Question, how should I answer?"

"Just answer according to your own thinking." Qin Hai said, "How can there be a theory that will not be questioned? Even if it is an academic authority at the first level of Taishan Beidou, their theories are frequently questioned. Some people question whether A good thing, it shows that your theory can arouse the thinking of your peers, and if they want to write articles to question your theory, it can also increase your citation rate.”

"Hee hee, that's really the case." Tranquility smiled. The academic circle is very concerned about the citation rate of papers. If a paper is often cited by other scholars, it means that the paper has high academic value, which can reflect the citation rate of the paper. The author's academic standing. Even if the purpose of other scholars' citations is to question or even refute, it also shows that your article has the function of throwing bricks and attracting jade, not the kind of waste that cannot be heard when thrown into the water.

Qin Hai hopes that Tranquility will become an outstanding scholar, and to reach the pinnacle of academics, this kind of experience of being questioned at top academic conferences is a must, and at the same time cultivate the psychological quality of not being surprised. He personally accompanied Tranquility to this annual meeting, hoping to give Tranquility some guidance on the spot and help her pass the threshold from a student to a scholar as soon as possible. He believed that, with quiet gifts, she could do it.

"Okay, Xiao Jing, the speech at the conference is tomorrow, don't think about it now. You see, this street is full of luxury goods, do you want to pick out some jewelry?" Qin Hai changed the topic , pointing to the shops full of jewels on both sides of the road, asked Tranquility.

Tranquility's face flushed slightly, and she whispered, "Do you want to give me some jewelry?"

"No problem. I'll just pay for what you want to buy. My brother is a big money now. Not to mention that he can buy the entire Champs-Elysées, it is probably possible to buy three or five stores." .” Qin Hainiu said calmly.

Tranquility snorted, and said, "What do you mean I want to buy something? You want to give someone jewelry, but do you want others to speak for themselves?"

"Uh..." Qin Hai scratched his head, suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, and hurriedly said, "I'm so confused, it seems that I should buy you a diamond ring?"

"Why buy a diamond ring?" Tranquility asked knowingly.

Qin Hai shyly smiled and said, "Of course I proposed. Now that even fat people know how to buy a diamond ring to propose, can I fall behind?"

"You still have the face to say, my brother bought a diamond ring in Pujiang, and you went with him, you never thought of buying one for yourself?" Tranquility said with a bit of coquettishness.

The fat man Qin Hai mentioned just now was referring to Tranquility's older brother Ning Mo. Ning Mo had formally proposed to Xu Xiaoqi last year, and Xu Xiaoqi's parents also made a special trip to Anhe to meet Ning Zhongying and Song Yulan, and they agreed to marry Xu Xiaoqi when she came back from studying abroad. Qin Hai spent a lot of energy on Ning Mo's affairs, accompanied Ning Mo to buy a diamond ring, and gave him a lot of advice. But when it happened to him, he seemed a little dull instead.

"Okay, let's go buy it now!" Qin Hai has a good habit of correcting when he knows his mistakes. He pointed to the front and said, "Look, there is a jewelry store over there. Let's go and have a look. Buy the one you like the most. Don’t save money for me, brother is so poor now that he only has money left.”

"You must be poor!" Tranquility punched Qin Hai and cursed angrily.

Women are naturally fond of luxury goods. As soon as they walked into the jewelry store, Tranquility completely forgot about superconductivity and models. She leaned timidly in front of the counter, looking at the dazzling array of rings, necklaces, etc. in the window, lingering. In her view, each piece of jewelry is so dazzling that she can't choose at all.

"Excuse me, miss, which piece of jewelry do you like, I can show it out for you to try." The clerk of the jewelry store walked up enthusiastically and said respectfully to Ning Jing. Although the clothes on Qin Hai and Tranquility were not fancy, and they didn't look like they could afford high-end jewelry, the shop assistants still treated them as distinguished customers.

"This... I don't know!" Tranquility's face suddenly turned red, and Qin Hai, who was standing by the side, also felt some inexplicable embarrassment, not knowing what to say. These two people can be considered among the top richest people in China, but when it comes to buying luxury goods, they are really outright idiots.

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