Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 513 - 513 508 Loss of Raw Materials

Chapter 513: Chapter 508: Loss of Raw Materials Chapter 513: Chapter 508: Loss of Raw Materials After the party ended that evening, Jiang Yan still called Jiang Fengwei to notify him that the old man Jiang had passed away.

He could have chosen not to tell him, but Jiang Yan felt that the decision should be left to him, rather than making it for him.

After all, that was his father.

After making the call, Jiang Yan squatted by the roadside waiting for Mu Jiawen, who turned out to be quite obedient, not touching a drop of alcohol as she’d been told.

Xue Weisong and Shen Mengfei also came over to say hello, followed by Huangfu Yun, who was clinging to Kou Chuan’s arm and crying as they walked, with tears and snot streaming down her face, then she’d duck her head to wipe it on Kou Chuan’s shirt hem before looking up to continue crying.

Jiang Yan was bewildered by the sight.

“What’s going on with him…”

Xue Weisong and Shen Mengfei simultaneously took two steps back to distance themselves from Huangfu Yun.

“Xiao Huang and Chuan’er are close and can’t bear to part with each other.”

Kou Chuan looked down at his T-shirt, utterly disgusted.

He turned his head to look at Shen Mengfei and cursed, “You knew this bastard gets like this after drinking cat pee, yet you still filled him up with it. Look what you’ve done now!”

Close indeed, whoever’s near him when he’s drunk, that’s who he gets close with.

It was also his own fault for not paying attention, occupied with a conversation; in that time, the bastard had grabbed a bottle and sidled up next to him.

As other classmates gradually emerged from the restaurant, Mu Jiawen said her goodbyes to everyone and walked home with Jiang Yan.

“We’re both not busy lately, how about we go out and travel a bit?”

The four years of college life had flown by, but it was completely different from what he had originally imagined. He really hadn’t thought that he’d be as busy as a dog while studying at the same time.

And now he had to go to grad school.

Having been offered a place without taking entrance exams, it felt wrong not to go.

Yes, now that he had a house and a car, and there were no financial worries, a graduate degree seemed almost unnecessary. But beyond that, deep down, he actually wanted to study more.

“Our group’s experiment will wrap up the day after tomorrow. I’ll work hard to finish the report ASAP, and we can leave the day after that.”

As they talked, they arrived back at Qinghe Garden, then casually strolled to the last row of buildings, where the first and second floors of the second building from the right were bought for Mu Jiawen by Mu Chenyan from the start.

The place was still a shell, not yet renovated. It was waiting for the two of them to graduate and design it according to their preferences.

“Shall we start the construction in the second half of the year?”

Once this place was finished, it would truly be their own home.

Both of them couldn’t help but show longing on their faces!

Jiang Yan said, “When we return from the trip, I’ll find a designer. You can start thinking about the preliminary plan. There has to be a studio, right?”

“Hmm, and we can also have a glasshouse like my mom’s in the yard. In winter, it will be comfortable to drink tea and admire flowers in there.”

“Sure, what about the backyard? Do you still want to raise sheep?”

Mu Jiawen shook her head decisively, “No, Xiaohei got sick before and almost didn’t make it. My heart was in knots, it was so distressing. I think I might not be suited to keeping pets. It’s joyful while caring for them, but I can’t handle it when an accident happens or if they grow old and die.”

Jiang Yan hadn’t considered this, because when Xiaohei was taken to the pet hospital a while ago, he wasn’t home.

By the time he returned from the factory, according to Yu Ci, they had visited several pet hospitals before finding one that could treat a sheep, almost causing Xiaohei’s death.

Although Mu Jiawen was trying to hold back, one could still see her eyes were red.

So this girl only looks colder when she’s not smiling, but she’s not cold at all.

The two of them stayed for a while before going back to sleep.

The next day, Mu Jiawen got up early and went to the laboratory.

The important steps had all been completed in the previous days, and the data had been recorded clearly. Today, after rechecking the last step, her work would be done. Then she could write the report tomorrow and go on holiday the day after.

She had planned well, and after greeting the two senior lab mates in her group, the three of them went about their business as usual.

But when the results of the final recheck came out in the afternoon, it left all three of them greatly shocked.

It wasn’t just a discrepancy from the previous calculations and experimental data, it was completely at odds, not matching the previous data at all.

Something was clearly wrong.

“That’s impossible, the steps were correct,” Wang, the senior brother, said, furrowing his brow and going through the experiment records from start to finish, failing to find where the problem lay.

Mu Jiawen, wearing gloves, took out the last triangular container, which still contained some residues from the experiment, and held it up to the light, squinting at it for a long time before finally stating with certainty, “This isn’t tungsten.”

Wang, the senior brother, turned pale with shock, “How can that be? I personally went to the storeroom this morning to get…”

He stopped speaking abruptly.

Zhang, the other senior brother, glanced at him, took the container from Mu Jiawen’s hand to look, and nodded in confirmation, “Indeed, it’s not.”

Then both of them turned to look at Wang, asking him, “Remember something?”

“Wait for me, I’m going to check the storeroom,” Wang replied hurriedly before dashing out, with both Zhang and Mu Jiawen feeling uneasy and following close behind.

After all, the storeroom wasn’t far; just around the corner from the laboratory.

Because the raw materials for the experiments were so hard to come by, they were treated like treasures by Professor Li. Thus, only two keys to the storeroom existed: one with Professor Li and the other entrusted to the careful and conscientious Wang.

But now that there was an error with the experimental materials, could it mean that the remaining one kilogram in the storeroom was also compromised?

This was material that Professor Li had obtained after much persuasion from the school, for an experiment that the three of them had reported on and intended to publish after its conclusion.

To take a step back, even if the experiment wasn’t published, the results couldn’t be confirmed just once; they had to be verified a second time.

What’s more, they had been preparing for this experiment for three months, and if it were to be ruined at the last minute due to a switch in materials… Wang broke out in a cold sweat just thinking about it. Setting aside the academic credits the experiment would bring, the key was that the teacher had trusted him enough to entrust him with the key, and what had he done?

His thoughts were a jumbled mess that flashed by in an instant. Once they reached the storeroom door, Wang’s hands were shaking so much with the key that it took several attempts before he could insert it into the keyhole.

After he finally managed to open it, Zhang and Mu Jiawen had also arrived.

The three entered the storeroom and walked to the back where the tungsten was stored in a wooden box. Upon opening it, their eyes widened in shock and their hearts sank – it was gone!

So not only had the part he had taken been switched, but what was left here had been stolen as well.

Zhang and Mu Jiawen’s expressions turned serious.

“Quickly, get the storeroom inventory. Let’s check if anything else is missing,” Zhang said.

Seeing Wang standing there, dumbfounded, Mu Jiawen pushed him along, “Now’s not the time to blank out. Hurry up.”

Zhang followed him out, asking as they went, “Someone was with you when you came here this morning, right? Who was it?”

Wang’s face was ashen, but he still said through clenched teeth, “Lu Qian!”