Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 1621 - 772: Invitation_2

Chapter 1621: Chapter 772: Invitation_2

Hearing that they were going out to eat as a social engagement, the young lady had no objections, standing up and opening the wardrobe door: "Yan Xiaofei, what should I wear for dinner with the leader’s family today?"

Now, the young lady’s wardrobe finally had a respectable collection, allowing her to pick and choose outfits suited for various occasions.

Yan Fei had no idea about this, but he still had something to say, pretending to come over and glance at the wardrobe: "These are all old clothes, I don’t see anything appropriate. How about we go out and buy a couple of new sets later?"

People change, in the past, he would have definitely said, it’s just a meal, wear anything you like. Now, he was putting on a show to humour his wife.

As soon as Xu Xiaoyan heard about buying new clothes, she immediately pulled out a set from the wardrobe, feeling delighted, "Actually, this set is not bad, I’ve only worn it a few times! What do you think? We can shop for clothes later, it’s too early to buy now..."

Yan Fei actively helped the young lady change her clothes, naturally not without a bit of flirtatious teasing. Once she was dressed, he promptly showered her with compliments, and they walked downstairs hand in hand...

Deputy Mayor Chen brought his daughter, who was a bit younger than Xu Xiaoyan and currently studying at a college in Provincial City. With family members present, dinner became casual conversation, less formal, and there wasn’t much drinking—it was much more relaxed.

The meal ended with everyone in high spirits. After sending his slightly tipsy wife back, Yan Fei returned to the laboratory.

It was the initial stage of the laboratory, and he spent as much time there as possible. Without him, the lab staff were overly cautious in their work, afraid to make mistakes, which meant work progressed slowly, albeit without errors.

Additionally, the plethora of instruments were prone to minor malfunctions, and without his presence, no one else dared to tamper with them.

By mid-afternoon, he picked up another phone call: "Teacher Yang, you’re back?"

"I’m back, preparing a bit, and I will have to go again soon," Yang Xing sounded thrilled. "Remember the fossil I asked you to look at last time? The conclusion is basically settled now; it’s a fake, assembled from different parts. The paper the other lab was about to publish has been withdrawn, and now they’ve invited us over. In addition to announcing this, they also plan to host a paleontology symposium..."

"Us?" Yan Fei was quite surprised.

"Yes, us." Yang Xing laughed heartily. "You don’t know how amusing it was when I showed them your drawings. Initially, they thought I was fooling around. But when I presented the two verified illustrations aside from the others, the foreigners’ eyes almost popped out of their heads, haha!"

Of course, relying on pictures alone wouldn’t suffice; after all, Yan Fei had made many drawings, and without accompanying text, others might dismiss it as a lucky guess. However, with articles to back them up, it was clear that here was an amateur enthusiast who gradually deepened his research and eventually formed his own speculative theory of dinosaur prototypes, with some degree of feasibility.

Yang Xing was genuinely delighted when he thought about that moment.

In the field of paleontology research, while China had rich resources, research had lagged behind due to issues in previous years. Being behind meant facing challenges. The smuggled fossil, which had clearly been illegally taken out of the country, was protected by law against smuggling.

However, at that time, the fossil’s owner was not willing to return it. After the mediation of a well-known international magazine, the owner agreed to return it, but demanded a compensation of eighty thousand dollars for his loss. On top of that, they insisted the fossil must be exhibited for five years in their country before it could be returned.

Yang Xing had joined the research but, due to various reasons, had never seen the specimen in person.

In fact, it was after secretly studying for quite a while and preparing to publish papers that they remembered the source of the fossils due to a controversy. It’s evident that if there had been no controversy, China would have only found out after the paper was published that such a significant fossil had once been discovered here.

The ’fake fossil’ that had left the country was finally proven to be a sham after passing through multiple tests in American laboratories. It was a fake created by a fossil trafficker to make money.

There have been many such frauds in history, but a grand deception that could fool a bunch of laboratories is absolutely a major event in the scientific community. Initially, many researchers believed this was a groundbreaking discovery. This fossil was considered an indispensable link in the study of dinosaur evolution.

At that time, several papers were prepared to be published in world-renowned journals like Nature and Science.

Although the fossil was pieced together, the different parts of the specimen still contained important scientific information, making it a significant sample. It just didn’t live up to the initial expectations of the researchers. Yet its research value remained, and thus Yang Xing also had the responsibility of retrieving the fossil on his trip.

For the owner of the fossil, once it was confirmed to be pieced together, he was utterly disgraced and couldn’t wait to return the fossil. As for the talk of a five-year exhibition? That was never mentioned again—only a fool would exhibit a piece of evidence proving they were deceived. What would be exhibited? To show the world ’Look, this is how I was fooled by a pieced-together fossil’?

As for inviting Yan Fei, apart from the other party being genuinely interested in this young enthusiast, it was also the result of Yang Xing’s strong recommendation.

Yan Fei did not directly respond to Yang Xing’s invitation, although it was sincere and earnest.

If he were to attend the seminar, he would have to brush up on his knowledge of paleontology, which seemed bothersome. And since he was just attending a seminar and had no significant findings from his own laboratory, he would just be a student compared to the experts, which didn’t sound fun.

However, it just so happened that his shipment of twenty cows had been sent over, and the more credible Anderson sounded, the less credible Yan Fei felt.

Considering the timing, if he were to go, he should be able to catch up with Anderson and supervise the guy handling his business. After some hesitation, he decided to return and consult with Xu Xiaoyan, "There’s an opportunity coming up in a few days to visit America, do you want to go or not?"

"To America?" The girl immediately hesitated. "It’s so far away, what for?"

"To attend a paleontology seminar." Yan Fei was always so confident in front of his wife. "Those articles I published and the illustrations I made myself, the depictions of two species of dinosaurs have been validated. It turns out that my drawings were more accurate than the original dinosaur reconstructions speculated by those experts. Now they have invited me to attend this meeting, along with Teacher Yang who visited last time."

"Then you should go!" The girl’s eyes widened. "What a great opportunity, haven’t you always loved this stuff since you were a child? You even used to look at those bone books."

After a pause, the girl suddenly laughed mischievously: "I thought you were just scribbling nonsense when you wrote those articles! I didn’t expect you actually achieved something, Yan Xiaofei, you really keep your light under a bushel!"

"Aren’t you going?"

"Why would I? I have no reason to," the girl shook her head. "If I went, you’d have to look after me, you should just go by yourself! Besides, I don’t understand much about this stuff. What would I do while you’re at the conference? No one to go shopping with either..."

"You can’t be in meetings all the time; just treat it as a fun trip!" Yan Fei invited warmly.

Oh well, the farther from home, the more the wife depends on him, the better his chances. Each trip they had gone on had brought some new progress. Now that he was about to seal the deal, he couldn’t waste this opportunity!