Top Student at Their Peak
Chapter 346 - 128 This is even closer to me than my own grandson! _6

Chapter 346: Chapter 128 This is even closer to me than my own grandson! _6

After finishing speaking, he didn’t give Qiao Yu a chance to object and directly turned around and went upstairs.

Qiao Yu pouted. Apparently, Senior Brother Chen, who’s about to graduate, had thoroughly gone off the deep end and was starting to have issues with money.

...

On the other side, Tian Yanzhen had just walked out of the building after a meeting when his phone rang in his pocket.

He took it out and looked at it, surprised.

Although the two had met in the Century Auditorium at Huaqing Library, Tian Yanzhen really didn’t expect the old man would take the initiative to call him one day.

But soon he thought of the situation Xue Song reported that afternoon, and a slight smile appeared on his face.

He answered the call, and the old man’s vibrant voice made his eardrums start to vibrate.

"Tian Yanzhen, my grandson is studying at Yanbei, and you let him live in a storage room? The room doesn’t even have a bathroom! Do you know how cold it is at night in Beijing? He has to go outside to use the toilet? How are you being a mentor? If available housing is tight on your side, just tell the kid, let him come to Huaqing! I’ll arrange it for him!"

Tian Yanzhen was stunned.

The moment he answered the phone, he thought of many things the old man might say to him, but never did he expect Elder Yuan to say this.

Honestly speaking, Qiao Yu is living in a single room now, which is really no worse than a doctoral student.

Many PhD students, because of tight school dormitories, can only rent outside. And Qiao Yu even had an independent dorm before his academic status was transferred to Yanbei University...

Honestly, Qiao Yu’s accommodation conditions can already make many PhD students envious and jealous. Never did Tian Yanzhen think his former teacher would criticize him over this.

Besides, as far as he knows, even Huaqing’s PhD students’ living conditions are just so-so.

The environment at Zijing Apartment may not necessarily be better than Qiao Yu’s.

Of course, the lack of a bathroom in the room is indeed a major flaw.

But Tian Yanzhen knows his mentor well, who always believed that young people should endure some hardship?

So he kindly said, "Elder Yuan, Qiao Yu is still young, although that temporary room indeed has some shortcomings..."

"What do you mean by some shortcomings? I won’t criticize the small living space, but with no bathroom, and the door and windows all on one side, if your place had the same layout, I wouldn’t say anything! So, if you insist there’s no problem, I’ll find a renovation team to redesign your house like that? I’ll pay for it!"

Tian Yanzhen fully realized how sharp the old man could be when he wasn’t prepared to reason.

After a mental loop, Tian Yanzhen directly said, "Alright, Elder Yuan. You’re right, the conditions Qiao Yu is in now are indeed a bit tough. How about this, there’s an office on the third floor of Qiao Yu’s building that will be freed up next month. We’ll also clear the adjacent room to build a bathroom and add a suite, how do you feel about that?"

"Can it have good ventilation from north to south?"

"Yes, it can."

"Hmm, have it done before he returns from France! Use quality materials, make sure there’s no renovation pollution. If there’s a financial shortage on your side, Huaqing could contribute as well."

"No need, Elder Yuan, rest assured, it will be the best materials."

"Hmm, you need to pay attention to this task, I’ll go check it out."

"You are always welcome to supervise the renovation."

"If it’s not done well, I’ll take him away. Don’t argue! Beep beep beep..."

The other side hung up abruptly, quite unceremoniously, like a final ultimatum.

But there’s no way around it; even if Tian Yanzhen still wanted to say something, he had no chance.

His former mentor had already hung up the phone.

Tian Yanzhen shook his head, not bothering to exchange pleasantries with others, leaving the building to the car, then directly dialed Qiao Yu’s number.

Given his understanding of Elder Yuan, it couldn’t be that while being all settled at Huaqing, the old man suddenly just wanted to come to Yanbei to see Qiao Yu without a reason.

If that were the case, couldn’t he just have called Qiao Yu over to Huaqing?

Quickly the phone was answered on the other side.

Qiao Yu’s voice followed, "Director Tian, what are your instructions?"

Hmm, today’s "instructions" sounded particularly comforting.

"Did Elder Yuan visit you today?"

"Yeah, Director Tian, Elder Yuan stayed for about twenty minutes today, encouraging me to study hard and make daily progress."

"Come on, what shocking thing have you done to make Elder Yuan visit you personally?"

"Speaking of which, I really have to thank you!"

"Thank me?"

"Yeah, didn’t you mention in one of your lectures to find constancy in change and seek simplicity in complexity?"

"Was that... during the symmetry principle lecture?"

"Yeah, exactly, that’s what Senior Brother Chen relayed to me. Your words really inspired me, it was like a light shining straight into my mind, and then I accidentally solved a problem that Professor Li and his team were facing with their project.

Professor Li, lacking in grace, didn’t thank me directly, but thanked Grandmaster instead, and then he probably thought I was giving him so much face, so he came over to encourage me, and told me many things. Then I saw Elder Yuan off in his car."

Tian Yanzhen suddenly felt a complex mix of emotions.

The problem was simple to describe, but those who do mathematics know what it truly signifies.

"What problem did you solve?"

"I helped Professor Li and his team prove that on a given commutative heap, all global functions can be described by the automorphism of the Whitaker Layer, and that these automorphisms have a direct relationship with the representation of algebraic groups."

"Are you sure there are no issues?"

"Grandmaster said, Professor Li told him my proof was particularly elegant, they completed the process and feel it’s very accurate! They want to give me a mountain of kudos. Oh right, earlier today, Grandmaster invited me to move to Huaqing, but I firmly declined. I’m a Yanbei person for life, right, Director Tian."