Chapter 408 Freshman Meeting
“Are you sure?”

“I am sure.”

“Are you authentic?”

“I guarantee it’s real!”

“.”

Chen Dayue was silent for a moment, not knowing what to say.

“No, I need to give him a call and ask.”

“No, isn’t there a freshman meeting tomorrow?”

Looking at Chen Dayue who was fidgeting, Xia Bican waved his hand and said nonchalantly.

“I heard that the school has arranged a special speech by Qingshan tomorrow. Sigh, time flies by so fast. It’s only been a little over a year, right?”

Chen Dayue put down his phone, clinked glasses with Xia Bican, sighed, and said with emotion.

“Yeah, originally I wanted to train Qingshan well. As long as I can move up, he can also move up with me. I didn’t expect that his pace would be much faster than mine. Now it’s me, the teacher, who is much slower than him. Hahaha.”

Although Chen Dayue said this, there was no dissatisfaction on his face, only a strong sense of pride.

“That’s right. When you finish your two years as the director of the Institute of Mathematics and become the dean, I don’t know if Qingshan will become the president. Hahaha.”

Xia Bican laughed heartily.

He didn’t feel uncomfortable at all because he was just a deputy director.

Two middle-aged men were eating and drinking at a barbecue stall, and their topic of conversation never left out Xu Qingshan.

for them.

As teachers, they felt that they would never meet a student as amazing as Xu Qingshan in their lifetime.

As scholars, they found themselves beginning to look into the distance at Xu Qingshan’s gradually receding and taller figure.

But they are undoubtedly lucky.

Fortunately, they appeared in the same era as Xu Qingshan and were able to develop such a deep connection.

“Now Qingshan is going to be on the same level as you, so how can he still care about you?”

Xia Bican asked curiously.

His relationship with Xu Qingshan was not as close as Chen Dayue’s, and he did not have many opportunities to chat with Xu Qingshan.

“What are you talking about? Of course! He sent me a message as soon as he won the award to tell me the good news!”

Chen Dayue’s eyes widened, his body straightened, he opened his mobile phone and took out the text message that he had marked with an asterisk and showed it to Xia Bican.

“Qingshan is the most sentimental person. I am the most important.”

“Good! This student is great! Come on, let’s have another drink!”

Two well-known Zhongdengs were drinking happily beside this small stall, and they almost drank so much that they missed the freshman meeting of Jingcheng University the next day.

Fortunately, after much hurrying, we finally caught up.

When the two entered the venue, most of the students had already arrived.

When Chen Dayue sat down in his seat, he saw Xu Qingshan sitting in the row of school leaders’ seats on the stage.

Moreover, Xu Qingshan’s seat was not at the side, but directly next to the principal Zhou Qifeng. On the other side were the alumni representatives who were invited this time.

We did not invite any entrepreneurs this year, but the alumni representative we invited was President Ke of Hua Xia Agricultural University.

Xu Qingshan also received this task on a temporary basis.

He sat on the stage with a calm expression, but he was secretly complaining about Lao Zhou in his heart.

This year’s freshman convention was not much different from last year’s. It was still held on the playground, and even the process was exactly the same. Xu Qingshan originally thought that last year’s convention would be the only time in his life.

I didn’t expect that I would be pulled here to stand on the platform this year, and sit in such a prime seat.

Moreover, the secretary was replaced. Xu Qingshan had never dealt with the new secretary, Zhu, before he sat down on the stage, the new secretary had been observing Xu Qingshan, which made Xu Qingshan a little nervous.

Fortunately, Lao Mei will also speak this year, and there are still a few school leaders that Xu Qingshan knows on the stage.

As he was muttering to himself, Vice President Zhang Yan, who was presiding over the meeting, began to introduce the school leaders and professor representatives on the rostrum.

After the usual introductions by the secretary and the principal, Xu Qingshan wondered whether he would be the first one to be introduced.

Honorary Vice President of the School of Mathematics

Xu Qingshan pricked up his ears and looked around. Why did he remember that there were no representatives from the School of Mathematics on the stage? Old Chen and the others were all sitting downstairs watching the fun.

“Fields Medal winner! Well-known alumnus of Peking University! World-class mathematician! Professor Xu Qingshan!”

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Although Xu Qingshan was surprised, he still stood up from his seat, imitating the posture of Zhou Qifeng and others, and nodded and greeted the freshmen sitting in the audience with a smile.

It’s completely different from those two old guys just now.

Xu Qingshan himself is handsome and has an excellent height. Even though there is some distance between the podium and the freshmen’s position, and even the freshmen in the back row can’t see Xu Qingshan’s appearance clearly, they still cooperated with him and screamed and cheered when Xu Qingshan stood up.

At this moment, the playground of Kyoto University did not seem to be holding a freshman meeting, but rather a fan support meeting.

Even though Vice President Zhang emphasized Xu Qingshan when introducing him, he did not expect that Xu Qingshan would be so popular among the freshmen. However, he subconsciously paused, which gave the students in the audience more time to cheer.

Even though Xu Qingshan’s emotions were stable, he couldn’t help but smile even more at this time.

But he still did not affect the subsequent process too much. He just made a pressing gesture with his hand and sat down.

After sitting down, while Vice President Zhang was introducing other leaders, Xu Qingshan turned his head slightly and asked in a low voice without opening his mouth.

“Old Zhou, what’s going on? Why are you targeting the vice president?”

“hey-hey.”

Old Zhou didn’t say anything, just chuckled. Seeing that he didn’t answer, Xu Qingshan could only shut up.

When he shut up, he happened to see Old Chen in the audience. Chen Dayue had a very happy look on his face, but he couldn’t tell how surprised he was. Xu Qingshan thought about it and realized that Old Chen hadn’t even been elected as the dean yet, but he had become the dean first.

It is truly amazing that a 19-year-old is the vice-president of a vice-ministerial university, even if it is only an honorary vice-president.

Moreover, to some extent, it seems that the title of honorary vice president is even more valuable than that of executive vice president.

After all, the executive vice president usually relies on many years of teaching and research experience and is promoted through seniority. Sometimes, people become vice presidents based on administrative management skills rather than academic ability.

But the honorary vice president is most likely someone whose academic achievements are so high that they cannot be summarized by a simple professorial title. In order to maintain respect, he is given such a title which has no practical use.

However, perhaps considering that Xu Qingshan is still too young, normally people would give him an honorary title, either directly as honorary dean or honorary professor. As a result, Xu Qingshan was stuck in a delicate stage in the middle, which means that Peking University still wants to reserve some space for Xu Qingshan.

After all, there is still an unfinished Riemann hypothesis.

No one can predict how many awards and honors Xu Qingshan will win in the future. As for whether he can win them all, they are not worried. They are just considering the time issue.

Let’s put the matter of the honorary vice president aside for now.

Xu Qingshan didn’t see Tong Tong when he was sitting on the stage. Even though he was sure that Yuanpei Academy was over there, he couldn’t find her after looking around. It wasn’t until the student representative spoke that Xu Qingshan noticed that it was Tong Tong who had been preparing the speech on the other side. The girl, who was not wearing any makeup, was dressed completely differently today. Her high ponytail made her look more heroic.

When she went on stage, she smiled at Xu Qingshan subtly.

The freshmen, who had seemed a little bored and drowsy because of the standardized speeches of a group of school leaders, were once again startled by the sudden contrast in appearance and burst into warm applause and cheers.

What Tong Tong said is not important.

The important thing is that Xu Qingshan has observed that the eyes of many boys in the audience have changed. It seems that Tong Tong has conquered the hearts of many of his peers with just this first appearance on stage.

Xu Qingshan was not scheduled to speak at this freshman meeting. Lao Zhou said that he was afraid that Xu Qingshan had been too busy recently and that the last-minute speech would affect his current image. However, even with such a brief appearance, this group of young people who had just entered the campus still felt the charm of China’s strongest 19-year-old mathematician.

After the freshman meeting.

The freshmen who flocked to the campus BBS did not discuss course selection or which professor was good or which professor was good. Almost the entire panel was discussing Xu Qingshan and Tong Tong at today’s freshman meeting.

Even the top academic masters in a country will still focus on appearance when chatting.

If it is intelligent and good-looking, its lethality will be even greater.

“Okay, stop looking. You two really stole the show in school today.”

Jiang Huanxi helped to rearrange the dishes and called out to Xu Qingshan, who was still sitting on the sofa browsing the BBS on the computer, with a hint of doting in her tone.

“Sister Xiaoxi, I’m here to help.”

Tong Tong came out of the house to help Jiang Huanxi with some work. Xu Qingshan held the computer in one hand and pouted as he walked.

“These guys are still thinking about dating a little kid, tsk tsk tsk.”

“Why do people still bring their computers to eat? Isn’t it heavy? It’s so big.”

Jiang Huanxi rolled his eyes at Xu Qingshan.

The three of them sat at the dining table.

When the old lady was not around, if the three of them did not eat in the cafeteria, they would basically ask restaurants outside to prepare meals and deliver them to them. Xu Qingshan’s family had become regular customers of the small restaurants outside.

“I won’t talk to them.”

Tong Tong heard what Xu Qingshan had just said and took the initiative to speak.

“Okay, okay, I know there’s no place for anyone else in your heart, so eat quickly.”

Jiang Huanxi reached out and pinched Tong Tong’s face.

“But your outfit today actually suits you quite well. Your whole temperament is much brighter and you still look quite stunning.”

The recognition from Jiang Huanxi made Tong Tong’s cold little face look a little more shy and cute, and he could even smell some sweetness in the meal as he ate.

“But, little boy, are you really planning to study biology?”

Xu Qingshan closed the computer reluctantly without reading the posts praising his handsomeness. He asked while eating.

“It’s biology plus computer science. I think it may cross more towards medicine and pharmacy in the future.”

Tong Tong held the bowl in both hands and drank the soup while answering honestly.

“Medicine and pharmacy? Then why don’t you choose Kyoto University School of Medicine? Okay, just pretend I didn’t ask.”

Xu Qingshan said this subconsciously, but when he met Tong Tong’s bright eyes, he stopped talking.

Why else? For him.

“My lab will probably also be working on some biomedical-related AI projects in the future. You have to work hard. I’ll need your help to review them when the time comes.”

Xu Qingshan said.

“Yeah! I’ll try my best!”

Tong Tong’s eyes lit up.

Isn’t this what she chose and worked hard for?

“Qingshan, I.”

Jiang Huanxi, who was watching from the side, felt a little jealous for a moment, no matter how open-minded she was. Just as she opened her mouth to say something, Xu Qingshan blocked her mouth with a piece of chicken.

“You will be very busy in the future. Come to the lab as soon as you have time after class. We will work on the Riemann hypothesis in the future. I need your help with my work.”

“it is good!”

Jiang Huanxi glanced at Tong Tong inconspicuously.

Xu Qingshan sighed secretly.

It’s impossible to keep things fair when it comes to balancing things.

After dinner, Xu Qingshan went to work in the office area converted from the large balcony next to the living room. He had a heavy workload, especially the mailbox, which was a huge project. Before winning the award, his various work mailboxes already received a lot of emails every day. Now, after winning the award, it is normal for there to be thousands of emails in the mailbox every day.

If I want to process all these emails, I will have to spend hours just reading the titles.

Fortunately, Xu Qingshan’s brain is strong enough and he can process information very quickly.

The three of them stopped talking to disrupt each other’s work and study. Each of them sat at a desk, which seemed quite peaceful, with a feeling like a public study room.

The incandescent lamp on the large balcony, which could barely be considered a study, was always on.

It was unknown how late into the night it was before the three of them went to take a shower and rest one by one.

September is not a very special month.

As Xu Qingshan’s workload increased, he began to live a life that revolved around Yandongyuan and the laboratory.

Fortunately, the graduate students he has now were all selected in the summer camp for guaranteed postgraduate study, and some of them have even been working with them for a while. Otherwise, he would have to deal with the training programs and teaching plans for the new graduate students in September.

But now that he is a professor, Xu Qingshan inevitably needs to teach courses.

There is no need for Xu Qingshan to take “Foundations of Number Theory”.

Instead, there are the annual compulsory courses “Number Theory I” and “Number Theory II”. Among the names of teachers for the optional courses, there is a familiar new name, Xu Qingshan.

Fortunately, “Number Theory I”, which was placed in the fall and winter semester, will start in the second half of this semester, that is, after the midterm exam week in November, so Xu Qingshan does not have any worries about teaching work for the time being.

But this does not mean that Xu Qingshan is idle. On the contrary, he is a little worried about the increasing number of invitations to academic conferences and forums in his mailbox.

He couldn’t spare much time to attend all the academic conferences now, but there were so many and complicated conferences here. It was easy to deal with the formal conferences that could be found. He could politely decline those that were not of a high enough level and just pick the A-level ones to go through the motions.

But what gave him the most headache were the invitations representing various schools of thought, those invitations to private academic conferences.

Accept it, there is no end to it.

If I don’t accept it, I’m afraid it will ruin our relationship and affect our cooperation in the future.

There was no other way, Xu Qingshan could only go to Tian Gang for advice.

(End of this chapter)