I really just want to be a scholar

Qin Ke took his sister Qin Xiaoke and took Wei Jing's car directly back to the garden villa of Qingmu University.

From Ning Qingyun’s WeChat message, I learned that Professor Karen Uhlenbeck has been received and is currently returning to Qingmu University, so Qin Ke naturally does not need to go to the airport again.

It is drizzling outside the car window, and everything you can see is a patch of green. Occasionally, you can see flowers dotted with flowers, which makes people feel relaxed unconsciously.

Qin Xiaoke did not sit in the passenger seat, but sat in the back seat with Qin Ke.

The little girl's eyes were still a little red. She probably felt that she was still crying in front of her brother when she grew up. She was a little embarrassed. After getting in the car, she let go of Qin Ke's arm and didn't say much. He kept holding his chin up and looking out the car window at the scenery.

Qin Ke was busy replying to WeChat messages.

"Brother."

"Huh?" Qin Ke looked up and saw Qin Xiaoke looking at him, looking a little worried.

"Can you please not tell your sister-in-law about this today...I'm afraid she'll be worried."

"It's late. She was right next to me when you called me. She knew something happened to you. Your sister-in-law has been asking me about this on WeChat just now. She cares about you very much." Qin Ke raised his phone.

Qin Xiaoke muttered: "I know, that's why I don't want her to know... My sister-in-law has a good heart and always has useless thoughts."

Qin Ke understood what his sister was thinking. He just felt that this matter was a bit embarrassing and embarrassing, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I will try to simplify the details."

Qin Xiaoke finally smiled again: "Hey, thank you, brother."

Qin Ke stretched out his hand to rub his sister's hair and said warmly: "Little sister, tell me if you have anything to do in the future, and don't stop going to school because of this matter, you know?"

Qin Ke knew very well that after something like this happened, even if he made amends later, the rumors would not disappear immediately. Qin Xiaoke would inevitably receive extra attention and strange looks for a period of time in the future.

Qin Xiaoke turned away awkwardly: "I know, brother, you are so long-winded."

"Aren't you the girl who makes me worry? However, if you are really unhappy in that school, just tell me or your sister-in-law, and we will change your school..."

"No need." Qin Xiaoke shook his head: "I can't cause you any more trouble. Moreover, the teachers at CAFA are very professional. I learned a lot of useful painting and coloring skills here. From now on, I will only go back to school when there are classes. Just go home as soon as class is over.”

Qin Ke was helpless: "You... you still need to make more friends in school. I heard that you had Xiaowen when you were in high school and lived on campus, so you had more friends. Now that you don't live on campus after you come here to study, it's even worse. I don’t have any close friends. Let’s do this. This weekend, you invite all the girls in your class out, and your sister-in-law and I will treat them to a meal, so that you can get familiar with them.”

Qin Ke knew that Qin Xiaoke was relatively outgoing when he was in Yingyuan Private High School. After arriving at university, he was bothered by the pursuit of boys. He didn't live on campus and didn't like to interact with others, so he put on the same T-shirt like Ning Qingyun's. Cool face.The university class was already very loose, so Qin Xiaoke's attitude was naturally not able to integrate into the class, so this incident made him isolated and helpless.It is necessary for me to help her reintegrate into the class.

Qin Xiaoke whispered: "I also have acquaintances in the class...and my sister-in-law is my best friend and bestie!"

"How can your sister-in-law have so much time to hang out with you and go shopping? She can't even go on a date with me. You still have to find some girls of the same age to be your best friends to talk to and go shopping with."

"Okay... I listen to you on this matter. Brother, I have something else to ask you."

"Go ahead."

Qin Xiaoke carefully observed Qin Ke's expression and said: "Brother... Well, if I never find a partner in the future and my parents urge me, can you help me block it? I really hate it now except for my dad and me. Other boys besides my brother, of course, don’t get me wrong, I don’t like girls either, and I won’t become a lesbian. I just feel that my life is very happy now. I live in a big villa every day and can paint and sing freely. , I can still be with my brother and sister-in-law, you two are so good to me, what else am I dissatisfied with? Why do I have to force myself to be with a strange outsider? "

Qin Ke knew that what happened today would definitely leave a shadow on his sister's heart. She didn't like being close to boys in the first place, and it was even more difficult after what happened.Fortunately, my sister is still young. As long as she makes more female friends, she will probably open up her heart again.

Qin Ke decided to use a delaying tactic: "Yes, I respect your decision. Anyway, you are still young and everything in the future is uncertain."

Qin Xiaoke's eyes lit up: "Then I'll take it as your promise?"

"Yes, it's all about your wishes anyway. If you want to have a boyfriend, you can have one, and if you don't want to, don't. Neither my parents nor I are people who will force you to do things you don't want to do. You see, your parents have always been As long as we live a happy life, they probably won't push you if you really don't get married, they will just be worried and anxious in their hearts."

"No matter what, with my brother's support, I feel confident. Thank you, brother. Long live my brother! Hehe."

Hearing this long-lost "Long live my brother", Qin Ke suddenly remembered the follower figure who stuck to him all day long when he was a child. He couldn't help but stretched out his finger and flicked Qin Xiaoke's forehead, sighing: "Sometimes I feel that you have grown up, but sometimes I feel that you are still the little girl before who has not grown up."

Qin Xiaoke said with a "hehe" smile: "Brother, can I just be a little girl who hasn't grown up from now until I get home?"

"What do you want."

"Just sleep like this for a while." Qin Xiaoke hugged Qin Ke's arm, pillowed it on his shoulder, and closed his eyes like he did when he was a child when he went out to ride in the car.

Well, my brother’s shoulders are still as warm and reliable as before.

"You are so old, and you are still acting like a baby." Qin Ke shook his shoulders in disgust, and when he didn't shake the stinky girl off, he let her go.

Qin Ke knew in his heart that Qin Xiaoke was really frightened today, so he had such a subconscious behavior of relying on his relatives.

Wei Jing, who was sitting in the driver's seat, listened to the conversation and felt a little envious in her heart. She had no brothers or sisters, and she had never felt lonely before. But now when she saw Qin Ke caring about her sister, she suddenly felt that if she It would be nice to have an older brother or older sister, someone to rely on when you are tired and sad.

This kind of warm interaction between loved ones is indeed the best medicine to heal the hurt of the soul. …

After sending Qin Xiaoke back to the villa and letting her have lunch by herself, Qin Ke briefly dealt with the two, and then went to wait at the entrance of the cafeteria of Qingmu University.

After only waiting for a while, the motorcade that greeted Professor Karen Uhlenbeck came back.

Professor Karen Uhlenbeck is over eighty years old, but she is energetic, with a slightly curved waist. She has shawl silver hair and golden glasses. She looks quite serious. Qin Ke feels a bit like Academician Tian Jianlan.But her attitude towards Ning Qingyun was quite good. She kept chatting with Ning Qingyun and occasionally smiled.

Naturally, she spoke in English, and she spoke quite fast. Even people with poor English proficiency may not understand what she was saying. Fortunately, Ning Qingyun's English proficiency has long been improved. At the International Congress of Mathematicians, They can all talk and give academic reports in English, so such communication is naturally no problem.

Mr. Qiu and Edward Witten followed, occasionally interjecting a few words, and the atmosphere seemed good.

However, seeing the wry smiles on the faces of Principal Gu Bojun and other school leaders, it was clear that the four of them were discussing advanced mathematical theories, which made it impossible for them to interrupt.

Qin Ke stepped forward, first hugged Ning Qingyun's shoulders as usual, and then greeted Professor Uhlenbeck: "Professor Uhlenbeck, I have long admired you, I am Qin Ke, welcome to Xia Kingdom."

Professor Karen Uhlenbeck looked at Qin Ke for a few times and nodded slightly: "Academician Qin, I have admired your name for a long time. I talked with your wife today. She is very good. You have a very good sense in choosing your wife."

Qin Ke was stunned. He didn't expect that Ning Qingyun would win the favor of Professor Karen Uhlenbeck on the road, and he didn't expect that the first thing he would be recognized for would be his choice of wife.

Isn’t it said that Professor Karen Uhlenbeck is a typical strong woman with high vision?
But who is Qin Ke? He immediately said with pride on his face: "Yes, I also think that having Qingjun by my side is the luckiest and least regretful thing in my life."

Ning Qingyun's face was slightly red, but her beautiful black eyes were full of sweetness. She held Qin Ke's hand tightly with her little hand and whispered in Chinese: "On the way back, Qiu The old gentleman chatted with Professor Witten and Professor Karen Uhlenbeck about gauge theory, and I also participated in the conversation, and the conversation was quite enjoyable.”

So that was it. When Qin Ke saw Ning Qingyun winking at him playfully, he immediately understood.

Gauge theory is the theoretical basis of many modern physics. It is an indispensable tool for cutting-edge physical research such as particle physics, relativity, and string theory.

This gauge theory is a direction that Professor Uhlenbeck is very good at. Ning Qingyun has also worked hard in this area. She and Qin Ke have applied gauges many times in their papers on the "Yang-Mills Equation" Theory, and also made major innovations in the topology theory of four-dimensional differential manifolds.

Mr. Qiu and Professor Witten are also experts in this direction. For example, Mr. Qiu has published a paper on the existence of Hermitian Yang-Mills connections on stable holomorphic vector bundles on complex N-dimensional manifolds, and Professor Witten has also used gauge field theory (especially supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory) to study mathematical problems such as low-dimensional topology, and published many related papers.

Of course, they would suddenly bring up this topic, which is exactly what Professor Uhlenbeck wanted. Naturally, it was because Professor Witten or Mr. Qiu brought it up first. After all, Ning Qingyun is not as good at mathematics as Professor Uhlenbeck. There are many gaps in the subdivision direction, regardless of the depth and breadth of knowledge, but focusing the direction of the conversation on the normative theory that Ning Qingyun has studied in depth with Qin Ke will undoubtedly give full play to Ning Qingyun's strengths.

The conversation was so enjoyable that it was no surprise that Professor Uhlenbeck had a good impression of Ning Qingyun.

After all, when it comes to normative theory, I am afraid that not many of the older generation of mathematics masters can match Mr. Qiu, Professor Witten and Professor Uhlenbeck. Ning Qingyun can keep up with their conversation rhythm, which is in itself a strength. symbol.

In short, it would be right to thank Mr. Qiu and Professor Witten.

……

With the good preparation in the early stage, Professor Uhlenbeck, who originally had the mentality of "stepping on the field", was full of laughter at the following dinner, and also exchanged a lot with Qin Ke about minimal surfaces, harmonic mapping, Theory on partial differential equations.

Qin Ke answered fluently.

Although he is still some distance away from the level of the God of Mathematics, he has absorbed the master-level mathematical knowledge. Among the contemporary mathematics masters, his depth, breadth and profoundness of knowledge are unmatched by anyone.

But Professor Uhlenbeck is indeed the world's top mathematical physics master, and Qin Ke also benefited a lot from the exchanges and discussions with her.

Professor Uhlenbeck looked at Qin Ke with more and more surprise. He could not help but say several times: "Amazing, Academician Qin, you are much better than I expected. You and Ning are indeed the best partners. "

So the host and guest enjoyed themselves.

After the lunch banquet, Professor Uhlenbeck went to the hotel to rest first. After all, he was very old, quite tired from traveling long distances, and had to reverse the jet lag.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun don't need to worry about these reception matters.

At this time, the spring rain has stopped, the air is quite fresh, and the temperature is around 20 degrees Celsius, which is the most comfortable. Qin Ke, Ning Qingjun, Mr. Qiu, and Professor Witten were walking in the garden villa area.

Qin Ke held Ning Qingyun's tender little hand with one hand and hugged her waist with the other to prevent Ning Qingyun from accidentally falling due to the slippery ground.

Mr. Qiu and Professor Witten walked beside Qin Ke.

Mr. Qiu's eyes widened and he smiled and said: "Karen is a very good person. Her achievements are not only in mathematics, but also made great contributions in encouraging women to study mathematics and engage in mathematical research. Nowadays, men dominate the mathematics world. status, and a cultural atmosphere that is inevitably discriminatory against women. Karen has always been a staunch advocate of gender diversity in the fields of mathematics and science, and firmly supports and advocates for women to study mathematics. Under her influence and donations, the United States has been engaged in mathematics throughout her life. There are at least 500 full-time female mathematicians working on it.”

Professor Witten also broke the news: “When she was invited to Xia Country this time, she probably wanted to persuade Xiao Ning to stand up and become a new generation advocate and leader for women to study mathematics in the international mathematics community, which can be regarded as inheriting and inheriting her After all, she is already old, and it is indeed quite difficult to implement true gender equity in academia. Even in the past two years, the proportion of women winning mathematics awards is still far lower than that of men. This can only mean that The fire is passed down from generation to generation. And Xiaoning has won the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize in Physics, so he is undoubtedly the best candidate. If Xiaoning is willing, he might as well get closer to Karen. I heard that there is a so-called ' The culture of master and apprentice is not so important in the United States, and there is no need to have the title of teacher and student, as long as they are like-minded."

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun looked at each other, thinking that this old lady's ambition was admirable.

At the same time, the two of them truly understood why Professor Uhlenbeck regarded Ning Qingjun so differently. It must have been that after recognizing Ning Qingjun's strength, he became more interested in making her a new flag for female mathematicians to encourage the world. Women from all over the world are breaking gender stereotypes and joining the mathematics community in large numbers.