I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 538 The unyielding figure in the snowstorm!

On December 12, the day before Qin Ke's birthday is Wednesday, which means that tomorrow the 23th is Thursday, a normal school day.

And this period of time has also entered the end-of-term review stage, and many subjects have begun to focus, especially in the first semester of their sophomore year, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun have taken a lot of liberal arts courses, including business management, securities investment, Intellectual property law, technological development and human civilization, psychology, appreciation of Chinese culture, etc.

These courses have a lot of content to recite. For Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, who have limited free time, it is very important to use the class time as much as possible to absorb, digest and recite the key points. This can reduce the review time at night and weekends, so After discussing with each other, the two decided that they would not be on vacation for these two days. Going out for a meal together in the evening was regarded as a pre-celebration, and they would make up for it on weekends.

Now is the last elective course in the morning, "Securities Investment". The reason for taking this course is relatively simple. The two of them still have more than 300 million US dollars in a securities custody account in a bank in the United States. The misappropriation of money in the U.S. stock market is only due to the fact that the U.S. stock market has been very sluggish in the past six months, even hitting new lows. Before the two of them have mastered the theoretical knowledge, they will not act rashly, but maintain the strategy of cash being king.

Interesting to say, they only hold cash, and the statistical function of the account tells them that the rate of return has outperformed 99.99% of American stockholders, which shows how bad the market is.

Although this elective course of "Securities Investment" did not make the two of them become value investors or technical investors, it still allowed them to learn a lot of basic knowledge about securities.

This is enough for the two of them. Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun are neither interested nor have so much time to make themselves investment masters. They are more interested in obtaining a relatively safe return on investment that exceeds the market through mathematical methods. , Get some money from the US stock market to support your research and experiment funding in China.

In particular, the recent purchase of new equipment for the lime plant cultivation laboratory made both of them realize that if they want to do scientific research freely and build a larger and more advanced laboratory in the future, the money spent will be astronomical. It is impossible to support a large-scale laboratory with sufficient financial resources, and even a medium-sized laboratory is somewhat reluctant.

But the two don't want to make too much money from the domestic people through scientific research results, and they don't want to cut the leeks of domestic investors in the domestic stock market. The best way is to make more money through high overseas patent licensing fees and foreign stock markets. Accumulate some research funds.

Qin Ke quietly passed a note to Ning Qingyun: "I think after learning this, we can almost try to build a mathematical model for investment. Start after the final exam?"

With the basic knowledge of securities investment, plus the detailed transaction data, stock rise and fall data, and financial data in the stock software, it is basically enough for them to build mathematical models and write programs for autonomous trading.

"Okay." Ning Qingyun was also quite interested.

Compared with computational seed science, it is actually easier to build useful mathematical models in a trading market with huge data such as stocks.Ning Qingyun prefers to apply what she has learned, which is why she is particularly good at functional analysis and mathematical modeling.

After class, Qin Ke took Ning Qingyun's hand and walked to the cafeteria, surrounded by familiar classmates, such as Li Xiangxue, Hua Manting, Jiang Zhenjie, Ximen Hui, Gu Yanfei, Ren Jianan and so on.

Now that the weather is too cold, there are not many people who can insist on attending classes every day. The elective courses with more than 60 people originally had an attendance rate of only about [-]% at the critical moment, and even less in normal times.However, under the leadership of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, the students in the basic science class still maintained their usual class rhythm, and they were considered to be the class with the best style of study in the whole school.

Because the temperature was too low and it was snowing lightly, no one spoke a word along the way, and hurried to the cafeteria.

Pushing open the door and entering, the warm air rushed in, and everyone felt that their bodies that were about to freeze were relieved.

After eating their own meals, everyone sat around for a "dinner".

After continuing to complain about the unusually cold winter, everyone turned the topic back to the school's daily news.

Jiang Zhenjie is the most active, and he is also familiar with the people in the student union, and his new girlfriend from the animation club is very fond of gossip, so Jiang Xiaopang has become the most informed person among the crowd.

He asked mysteriously: "Have you heard that Chen Licheng, the youngest associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and a doctor of overseas returnees, recently had a big scandal?"

Qin Ke was taken aback, Chen Licheng?Senior Chen?
He and Chen Licheng are good friends. The two met in the online academic live broadcast room of Qin Ke when he was a sophomore in high school. Chen Licheng, who was still a PhD student at MIT at the time, connected with him and kindly invited Qin Ke to join his scientific research team.

Later, Chen Licheng returned to Qingmu University to teach, and he also dealt with Qin Ke several times. In October last year, when he was studying the regular solution of the Schrödinger equations in the steady state form, he fell into a similar "Zeno" problem because he was eager to produce results. In the "turtle" problem, Qin Ke once helped him solve the problem.

In Qin Ke's impression, Chen Licheng had the arrogance and unyielding attitude unique to a genius, and had a stronger personality, but he was upright and sincere and friendly to others. He really didn't expect that Chen Licheng would cause any big scandal.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him curiously, Jiang Zhenjie said in a more mysterious way: "This has actually been reported for a few days, but the school has been suppressing it and not making it public, but giving Professor Chen Licheng a chance to prove his innocence. What a pity..."

Gu Yanfei has a straightforward personality, she is the most impatient, and said anxiously: "Fatty Jiang, don't be fooled, tell me what's the matter quickly? Is there any scandal with a female graduate student?"

Generally speaking, young, unmarried male professors, with great prospects and good looks, are the most likely to attract female students. It is not surprising that there are scandals. There have been rumors that Chen Licheng received several love letters and dated female students. But Chen Licheng denied it, and once said that he would abide by the teacher's morality and would never associate with female students.

Jiang Zhenjie shook his head: "It's not these, it's an academic misconduct scandal of plagiarism."

"how can that be?"

Now everyone was even more surprised. Qingmu University is quite rigorous in academic studies, and everyone knows the serious consequences of plagiarism. How dare Chen Licheng take the risk?Moreover, Chen Licheng has been known as a math genius since he was a child, and his popularity and reputation in school are quite good.

"Although it's unbelievable, it's almost solid." Jiang Zhenjie sighed:

"The thing is like this. At the beginning of last month, Professor Chen Licheng contributed to the core domestic journal "Xiaguo Applied Mathematics and Communication". You should have heard of "Xiaguo Applied Mathematics and Communication", and the impact factor ranks first in the country The most professional mathematics journal. Originally, "Xiaguo Applied Mathematics and Communication" had passed the draft and was printed and planned to be released on the market. However, another core mathematics journal "Xiaguo Mathematics Practice" published a paper last week. The paper submitted by the professor is almost exactly the same! And various evidences show that the submission time of this paper was nearly a month earlier than that of Professor Chen Licheng, and Professor Chen Licheng's paper had not been completed at that time."

The crowd was in an uproar.

Originally, some people wanted to say whether Chen Licheng's thesis had leaked or something, but they were speechless after hearing the last sentence.

A paper that has been completed and submitted ahead of schedule, and another paper that was not completed at that time and was submitted a month late, it can be said that it is almost clear at a glance who should own the right of ownership.

"That is to say, Professor Chen plagiarized other people's papers, and even submitted them?" Ximenhui said disappointedly.She had taken the mathematics elective course taught by Professor Chen Licheng, and she had a lot of respect for the young and promising Professor Chen. At this time, she felt a sense of disillusionment.

Qin Ke frowned even more. He knew Chen Licheng's senior better. With Chen Licheng's aloofness and strength, he would rather die than commit such humiliating academic misconduct.

Ning Qingjun, who was next to him, knew that Chen Licheng and Qin Ke had a good relationship, so he couldn't help but ask Fatty Jiang, "Is this unlikely? If Professor Chen really plagiarized other people's papers, how could he submit them to "Xia Guo Applied Mathematics and Communications?" "?"

Jiang Zhenjie shrugged his shoulders: "The current statement is that Professor Chen's research encountered a bottleneck at that time. He accidentally discovered that others were doing similar research, so he secretly plagiarized it and planned to publish it first, but he didn't expect others to submit it earlier. The "crash incident" happened. "Xia Guo Applied Mathematics and Communication" had to withdraw Professor Chen's manuscript and reprint it all, resulting in a delay of the latest issue for nearly a week. The editor-in-chief was very angry and had already The problem has been reported to the school, and the school is required to deal with it seriously. The school is still studying how to deal with Professor Chen, and the biggest possibility is expulsion."

Everyone sighed.

"Xiaguo Applied Mathematics and Communication" has suffered heavy losses in terms of economy and reputation this time. If the school does not deal with Professor Chen Licheng seriously, it will not be able to explain to "Xiaguo Applied Mathematics and Communication" and the mathematics community.

It is really sad to think that a young associate professor who had a bright future went astray and ended his academic career.

Qin Kenning raised his eyebrows and said, "Zhenjie, do you know what Professor Chen himself said? Didn't the school give an opportunity for Professor Chen to explain?"

"Professor Chen Licheng insisted that he completed the thesis independently without any plagiarism, and his thesis was completed more than [-]% one month before submission. Because the old man in his family died of illness, he took a vacation for a period of time and returned to his hometown for the funeral. Finished the rest of the research and then submitted it. Maybe his paper was plagiarized during this period and he submitted it first after completing it.”

Jiang Zhenjie shook his head and sighed: "But the current evidence is very unfavorable to Professor Chen. It is said that Professor Chen's paper was completed by him alone, and no one else participated. The only person who knows is his colleague, associate professor Su Yongfeng who also belongs to the Department of Mathematics. .Professor Chen said that he had discussed it with Su Yongfeng several times, but Professor Su said that it was only discussed once recently... This made Professor Chen very passive."

"This is not the worst." Jiang Zhenjie put down his chopsticks and said, "The person suspected of being plagiarized is Professor Zhang Chi from the School of Mathematics of Yanda University. Professor Zhang Chi has been famous for many years and is very influential in the mathematics world. He has publicly stated that he wants to hold Professor Chen accountable. The responsibility for academic misconduct, in short, Professor Chen is doomed this time."

Everyone sighed greatly, but after all, the matter had nothing to do with them. Most of them had never had contact with Chen Licheng, so they sighed a few times and stopped discussing it.

Qin Ke finished eating in a hurry, found an excuse to leave, and called Chen Licheng in the corner.

On the other end, it said that the phone was turned off.

After thinking about it, he simply called Wei Yuanfu, the head of the mathematics department, and the call was connected quickly this time.

"It's Qin Ke? Is there anything I can do for you?" Wei Yuanfu's voice was heavy and exhausted.

"Hello, Director Wei, I want to know about Professor Chen Licheng. He is my friend. I don't think he would do something like plagiarize other people's academic achievements."

"Qin Ke... I don't recommend you to intervene in this matter. Although I don't want to accept such a scandal in the Department of Mathematics, the matter has basically been verified. Except for Chen Licheng himself who refused to admit it, all the evidence points to him. Indeed academic misconduct.”

Wei Yuanfu said bitterly: "Professor Zhang Chi of Yanda University has now spread this matter on the Internet, and has also mobilized many relationships to spread the matter, which has aroused heated discussions. The school is under great pressure and has to deal with it quickly and strictly. Now Chen Li Cheng has been suspended, and the school will give the final solution tomorrow... Sigh, I personally invited him to teach at the school. I don't want to see the worst result when things have developed to this point, but the department has tried its best Now, don't set yourself on fire."

After the call ended, Qin Ke felt a little heavy.

He still didn't want to believe that such an arrogant and lofty scholar as Chen Licheng would do such a thing, especially since Chen Licheng insisted on refusing to plead guilty, which made Qin Ke firmly believe in this.

Although Wei Yuanfu expressed that he was helpless, Qin Ke still wanted to meet Chen Licheng, understand the details, and see if he could help Senior Chen.

After the meal, Qin Ke bid farewell to everyone as usual.

Ning Qingyun glanced at his face, and said in a low voice: "Do you want to take care of Professor Chen's affairs?"

Qin Ke nodded without hesitation and said: "Senior Chen is my friend, I can feel his love for mathematics, I believe him. If he is expelled with such a stigma, his life will be ruined, Xia The national mathematics community will also lose a bright star of tomorrow."

"Then let's go together." Ning Qingyun smiled sweetly: "You trust him, and I trust you."

Qin Ke's heart felt hot, he held the girl's little hand tightly, pulled her, and walked into the wind and snow together under an umbrella, towards Chen Licheng's scientific research laboratory.

The temperature outside was still frighteningly low, only about minus fifteen degrees Celsius, and the breath I exhaled almost froze.

Fine snowflakes are floating in the sky, and when the north wind blows, they will continue to dance in the air, and then slowly fall to the ground.

The road leading to Chen Licheng's Mathematical Research Laboratory is a bit long, and it takes at least 10 minutes to walk in the snow.At this time, Ning Qingyun was wrapped in a thick white mink coat and even wore a windproof cotton cap on her head. She was still a bit cold, but she didn't complain at all, but just held Qin Ke's big hand tightly behind her back .

Although Qin Ke's behavior seemed a bit ambiguous to outsiders, he was wading into the muddy water when he clearly had nothing to do with him, but it was this kind of innocence and passion that made Ning Qingjun feel that he had chosen the right partner for life.

If a person doesn't even care about his friends when they are in trouble, how can such a selfish person be able to shoulder the responsibilities of family and society, how can he be a man of indomitable spirit?

The two of them walked for 10 minutes under the umbrella and braved the wind and snow. They were getting closer, and they were getting closer to Chen Licheng's mathematics research laboratory.

Due to the bad weather and the remote location, there were almost no other students around, only two figures followed Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun far away.

Qin Ke stopped suddenly, and Ning Qingyun was taken aback: "Why..."

Before she finished speaking, Qin Ke yelled, put the umbrella into her little hand, and ran forward at full speed.

It was icy and snowy, the snow was not deep, but the ground was slippery. Qin Ke ran too fast and almost fell down several times, but he ignored it and yelled "Senior Chen—!" and ran forward.

Ning Qingyun looked from a distance, and saw a figure standing beside the bare tree on the side of the road, his body was covered with snow, he couldn't see his face clearly, and he didn't know how Qin Ke recognized Chen Licheng through the wind and snow of.

The man, who seemed to be wearing nothing but his shirt, was standing under a tree like a javelin, motionless, and seemed to be completely frozen.

Only the whiteboard he was holding with both hands had a bright red line of blood on it that stood out:
"I did not plagiarize other people's papers!!!"

Ning Qingyun's eye circles suddenly turned red, because she understood what was going on.

Chen Licheng was wearing a white shirt and standing outdoors in minus ten degrees. He wanted to prove his innocence at the cost of his life!
He would rather lose his life than live with a stigma!

How could such a noble and arrogant person plagiarize other people's papers?

Ning Qingyun only felt that his blood was surging and tears welled up in his eyes. Chen Licheng was stupid, but his arrogance was admirable!While shedding tears, the girl tried her best to move forward, chasing Qin Ke.

Qin Ke was running very fast. At this time, he had already stumbled towards Chen Licheng, and when he touched Senior Chen's face, he was already stiff with ice, his eyes were closed tightly, he had lost consciousness, his breath was extremely weak, and his life was at stake, but Chen Licheng's waist was still straight, and he refused to bow his knees in the slightest.

"Senior Chen!"

Qin Ke felt that his nose was sore and his throat was blocked. He took off his coat and wrapped it around Chen Licheng, then carried Chen Licheng on his back and ran to the nearest building.

The two men who were in charge of protecting them in the distance realized that something was wrong and rushed over to help.Qin Ke's eyes were red, and he yelled at the two of them, "Call for a car and send him to the hospital! As quickly as possible!"

The two were startled, and immediately whispered something to the collar, and soon, a car sped up...

Sitting in the car rushing to the hospital, Qin Ke held Chen Licheng's hand tightly. Chen Licheng had been poured with warm water, but his face was still blue, his palms were barely warm, and his life was dying.

With tears in his eyes, Qin Ke gritted his teeth and said, "Senior Chen, take a good rest. If this happens to me, I will definitely investigate and find out! As long as you are wronged, I will definitely make those wicked people pay a heavy price!"

Ning Qingyun's eyes were red, and she clenched Qin Ke's other hand tightly.

Anger flames danced in the eyes of both of them.

No matter who it is, even if the Heavenly King Lao Tzu comes out to stop him, they will investigate to the end!They want to give Senior Chen a clean life!What's more, let those bad guys who framed Chen Xuechang get their due retribution!

(End of this chapter)