Brainoid

Zhang Zhiyong’s car is a Volkswagen Magotan. This car is very cheap and can be found all over the street. It is even worse than many cars owned by postgraduate students. But there's nothing we can do about it. The salary offered to PIs by the University of Science and Technology of China is so low. If we can't afford an expensive car and have to drive it, we can only pursue cost-effectiveness.

But having a car to drive is already better than Qi Min.

Zhang Zhiyong drove Qi Min, Wang Xin, and Chen Linyou to Taoranting Park. They parked in a parking space in a nearby old neighborhood, and then the four of them entered the park.

The snow scene in Taoranting is truly well-deserved, especially when there is a little snow falling and the visibility is not very high, it creates a hazy atmosphere like an ink painting. Although it is located in an urban area, because the light snow blurs the outline of the buildings outside the park, it feels like you are really in the countryside.

Zhang Zhiyong obviously came here after doing his homework. After entering the park, he quickly determined his shooting route. Qi Min came here so many times when he was a child that nothing was new anymore, so he just followed him casually. Wang Xin and Chen Linyou came here in confusion along the way. They didn't even know what the relationship between this person and their senior sister was, so they could only continue to follow them in confusion.

The Chinese Famous Pavilion Garden in Taoranting Park has 11 replicas of famous pavilions from various places in history built on a 1:1 scale, including the Drunken Old Pavilion that most people have learned about in high school. When Zhang Zhiyong arrived at the Drunkard Pavilion, he asked Qi Min to take a photo of him.

He probably thought that Qi Min, a newbie, should take a lot of photos. When he saw the photos, he couldn't help but be surprised and said: "Your framing skills are pretty good."

"That's right, I've also played with a SLR." Qi Min said with a smile.

"No more fun now?" Zhang Zhiyong asked.

"I can't afford it, I can't afford it." Qi Min shook his head. She only used her parents' SLR to take pictures when she was in school, but now she can't afford to do this with her own salary.

"Just have fun. Photography is an art, not just about equipment." Zhang Zhiyong said in a Buddhist-like manner, "By the way, Qi Min, can you ask me to come over?"

Brother? Qi Min was stunned for a second before he realized who Zhang Zhiyong was talking about. She couldn't help laughing: "You call him 'brother'? You are older than him, okay..."

"Really?" Zhang Zhiyong raised his eyebrows, "How is this possible? We are the same age and I am older than your boyfriend?"

"Uh..." Qi Min realized that her use of "too many" was definitely inappropriate, but it was also true that she and Zhang Zhiyong were three years older than Anton. "It's not that much, just three years old."

"Hey, it turns out he is three years younger than you." Zhang Zhiyong couldn't help but tease her, "But when people play games, they are very stable, and you are far behind."

Qi Min really wants to say that Anton is not a sure thing at all, but that his spoken Chinese is not yet able to fully express his real-time mood, so he doesn't speak much in the game. Moreover, he is responsible for driving the vehicle, and with Qi Min's cover, he will not often encounter emergencies.

"What, you don't want to show us what you're doing?" Zhang Zhiyong said again.

Qi Min didn't want to call Anton here. Although she wanted to show off her boyfriend's good looks in her heart, Anton's identity, occupation, etc. were all troublesome for Qi Min to explain. Moreover, when the kindergarten is over in the afternoon, Anton will have to pick Mimi home for dinner.

"He still has things to do, so let's forget about meeting him." Qi Min politely declined, "It's okay to have chicken together in the evening."

When she said this, Zhang Zhiyong, a gossip lover, became even more interested: "Why are you still hiding this? Why can't you see people? It's okay. Even if he doesn't look good, just because he is your boyfriend. Son, I am also convinced."

He said this as if Qi Min was some kind of monster. Is it so difficult to be her boyfriend?

However, as for Anton's appearance, she would praise him even if he said it: "There is no such thing as bad looks. To be honest, I guess you have never seen such a good-looking person in your life so far."

"There's no basis for what you say. People can't come. Let's take a look at the photos?" Zhang Zhiyong said with a smile.

"This is my boyfriend. Can I just look at the photo? I won't give it to you." Qi Min refused.

"If there are no photos, they will be treated as Song Xiaobao." Zhang Zhiyong deliberately joked.

"Then go and see Song Xiaobao." Qi Min also said, "My boyfriend's appearance is private data and does not belong to the public domain."

"Too stingy." Zhang Zhiyong said, "I'll go to the head office to get the photos myself."

When Qi Min stayed up late doing experiments before, Anton probably added Zhang Zhiyong's WeChat account and then asked him about Qi Min's news. In fact, Zhang Zhiyong helped Qi Min and Anton in the middle of the night. Anton and he were considered acquaintances, but they had never met.

However, regarding Zhang Zhiyong's idea of ​​asking others for photos via WeChat, Qi Min just commented: "He will think there is something wrong with your head."

"Isn't it okay if I exchange my photo for his photo?" Zhang Zhiyong said.

But Qi Min said: "Don't ask, I'm afraid he will send you a photo, and you will not be able to find it here because you are so good-looking."

Qi Min said, "You can't find good looks" and couldn't help but make Wang Xin and Chen Linyou laugh.

To be fair, Zhang Zhiyong looks like an ordinary person. He also wears a pair of oval-shaped thin-rimmed glasses. He looks like a typical science and engineering man. He has no other characteristics except that he is taller. Appearance is obviously not something he can brag about, but it would be a bit too much to directly say that someone's appearance is too low to be found.

But Zhang Zhiyong probably knows what kind of person Qi Min is - if the beauty control brags about his boyfriend's appearance, it means that this appearance may really be so good that ordinary people can't find him. But he heard Wang Xin and Chen Linyou laughing behind him, and turned around and asked jokingly: "What are you laughing at?"

"No...nothing..." Wang Xin immediately shook her head.

"It's okay." Zhang Zhiyong said with seriousness and sincerity. "Young people should focus on scientific research and don't think about dating and playing games all day long. Those who are not doing their job all day long will not be able to do anything. How can I graduate with an article?”

"I'm only in my first year, and it's still early to graduate." Qi Min said.

"Don't be anxious in the first grade. The second grade has fun for a year. If the third grade is a little sluggish, the fourth grade will be doomed. If you can't do nearly all the topics in the fourth year of PhD study, you will probably not be able to graduate normally in the fifth year." Zhang Zhiyong said this very clearly.

He didn't encounter this problem when he was studying for a Ph.D. After all, he was a person who discovered Science at the age of twenty-five. However, this question sounded a bit heavy to Wang Xin and Chen Linyou.

Qi Min didn't want to go out to play and still felt worried, so he changed the subject and said, "Why are you talking about this? Zhiyong, please take a photo of the three of us. This can be regarded as one of the activities of the research team."

In order to hang this photo, Qi Min even made a website - and then she remembered that her laboratory did not even have its own website before! No wonder no one has ever sent an email to her school email address for so long.

No matter what kind of PI it is, there is a need to play with it (mistakenly)

(Speaking of exposing the boss more, let’s ask for recommendations every day.