The Passion of an Academic Rising Star

While Han Shixiu was working on the project in the university laboratory, he did not forget the paper he had collaborated with Zhou Moqun.

He visited several professors one after another, and asked these people what the problem was.

Among them, two highly respected scholars were very interested in Han Shixiu's research and gave many valuable opinions.

One is a fellow of Han Shixiu. He brought his wife and children to the United States to study for a doctorate when he was in his twenties. At first, he could not find a teaching job, but he was unwilling to work in the industry due to the pressure of survival. He had to work as a postdoctoral fellow one by one. Keep doing it, suffering year after year.The family's source of income is only a little subsidy for his postdoctoral fellow. Everyone persuaded him to give up, but his wife supported him in pursuing his dream.According to him later, at that time, his wife only bought one or two pieces of clothing that did not exceed 50 per year, never asked to travel, and did not know how to eat out. She only bought some cheap dishes, but they could fry them deliciously.Once, he suddenly said to his wife, I still decided to go to the company, living like this, the child is too hard, but when he said this, he cried, saying, I really want to go to college.At that time, his wife told him not to think about those things, and from the next day, she went out to work as a babysitter and washed dishes in restaurants until her husband's dream finally came true.Unfortunately, the professor's wife didn't live long, and died of a serious illness before she was 10.For the next [-] years, the old man never thought of remarrying. He was alone and looked a little lonely.Friends around him advised him to find a woman to accompany him, but he would just say "hmmmmmmmmmmm" every time, and no one would mention it after a long time.However, the old man started to play the erhu and was addicted to it. It is said that he spends more than half of the time at home playing the erhu.A Chinese student heard it when he was a guest at his home, and said that the voice was sad and desolate, which always made people unconsciously think of Mo Da in Jin Yong's novel "Swordsman", and this professor behaved quite decently, but Small in stature and ordinary in appearance, he looks more like someone who goes out of business than a research institute, so he has more and more similarities with Mo Da.From then on, all the Chinese students called him "Mo Da". After a long time, it was rumored that the song that the old man played every day was Xiaoxiang Yeyu. What is the tone of the rain?

At the beginning, Han Shixiu didn't know who Mo Da was, but after describing it with the students in the laboratory, he had a vague idea.

And the other professor who helped Shixiu Han a lot is an old white man who has been working hard in the industry in his early years and his experience is quite legendary.After several years in the company, I started my own business, not to mention the hard work, and the business situation is quite bleak.Then because of worrying for too long, I got a serious illness, owed tens of thousands of dollars in foreign debts, my credit card was not paid, and there were still bills from the hospital.At this time when he fell to the bottom, the old man became more chic, no longer thinking about everything like before, and decisively filed for bankruptcy. At that time, he said that bankruptcy would mean bankruptcy. Seven years later, he was a good man again. He said that he "does not break and does not stand", and at the same time told others, don't carry it hard if you have no money, and you will break and be born early.A few years later, the old man started his second business, which was extremely successful and quickly made tens of millions. When I was about 40 years old, I sold the company and entered a university.Until now, he still often tells his students that if he hadn't experienced the most miserable situation, he might not be able to succeed in the future.

Both of them liked Han Shixiu very much, and when Han Shixiu asked those questions, they seriously put forward their opinions and gave them guidance.

Little by little, gradually, Han Shixiu had a clearer understanding of the background of this joint research with Zhou Moqun, and the whole problem showed a clearer outline.

……

——Since Zhou Moqun left, Han Shixiu will send emails to Zhou Moqun every week.At the beginning, he was still looking forward to receiving a few words from Zhou Moqun, so he checked the option of "send receipt" for all letters, thinking, in this way, if Zhou Moqun opened the email, he could get the news .Of course, the premise is that Zhou Moqun, as the recipient, agrees to send a receipt.However, as expected, Han Shixiu never heard back.Later, he no longer expected to get an answer from Zhou Moqun, but just wishfully reported all kinds of big and small things about himself this week.

Originally, the purpose of sending emails every week was to talk about academic progress.But those are too few, and Han Shixiu feels ashamed, so he can't really just write one sentence: still nothing has been done.Thinking that the two of them are still good friends, then... it's always very appropriate to talk about your recent situation.

So it becomes like this:

"Zhou Moqun, I seem to have two good friends now. They are my roommates, and they are both very hard-working students. From the eyes of others, they should also be bookworms who only know how to read. These two people are not Don't think I'm weird or laugh at the fact that I'm in the lab all the time. We get along pretty well."

and also:

"Zhou Moqun, I met a few Americans today. These Americans asked me whether China has restrictions on the use of the Internet. I answered truthfully that there are. They seemed very interested and continued to ask me, What kind of restrictions are there, what is the situation like. I don’t quite understand. They explained, meaning, what measures the government has adopted, what are the punishment methods, are we dissatisfied, are we trying to break through the barriers? In detail. I told them, that is, you can’t go online without paying. Their expressions became very strange, as if they didn’t get the answer they hoped for. All I know is that you can’t go online without paying. Is there anything else? I I usually only send and receive emails and download papers when surfing the Internet, so I really don’t know these things.”

"Today, when I was waiting for the elevator in the teaching class, I pressed it many times. A black man next to me said that you Chinese seem to think that the more you press the elevator, the faster the elevator will come. He also said that it is the same when crossing the road and waiting for the green light. , every Chinese will press that small button continuously. I said, I always thought so, not only the more times you press, the faster the elevator will come, but also, if you keep pressing and don’t let go, the elevator will come. will come soonest."

"Zhou Moqun, today I heard from my middle school classmates that I can't find a job after graduation, and the university has no knowledge to teach. Studying is useless, squandering youth, wasting time, because there is no guarantee of future. I think what these people said No. Entering university is just a higher platform, which is just a reward for the hard work in middle school, because students with excellent college entrance examination scores have put in a lot of sweat. And a good job after graduation is a reward for the hard work in college. Hard work pays off. Many people have gone to college, how can they get the same results? Isn't that very unfair? I know some people, for four years, skipped classes, or games, or relationships, or drinking , How can you complain about the school and the teachers with such an attitude. When I was studying undergraduate and master degrees at T University, many students around me were desperately acquiring knowledge and seized every opportunity to do internships in companies. When these people were looking for jobs, Not too unlucky. Maybe it will be difficult at first, but it will pay off in the end."

——In addition to these trivial matters, the more important thing is naturally the progress of the paper.

"Zhou Moqun, I used another method today, but the data is still irregular. The icon is in the attachment, you can take a look."

"Zhou Moqun, I discussed our thesis with a professor again today, and he gave some good opinions, but I still don't have a clue about the specific operation. But I won't admit defeat."

"I thought about it again. There may be two solutions. One is... and the other is.... I think we should try the first one first."

Sometimes, Han Shixiu would think, really, I am the only one left.

It's hard to fight alone.

He would open his outbox, look at the row of "Recipients: Zhou Moqun", and think, Zhou Moqun, why on earth have you not heard from him at all.

——This is the research you value the most. I’m asking for your opinion. Why don’t you answer a single word and leave it to me to make this difficult choice?

——Even me, don’t you want to contact me?

Then, Han Shixiu would look through the part that had been completed before, which clearly contained Zhou Moqun's painstaking efforts, so Han Shixiu would feel that Zhou Moqun would never give up.

He also firmly believed that Zhou Moqun would come back as before.

– Will definitely see this paper published.

When this paper was published, it was when Zhou Moqun's unique ideas finally materialized.

Before Han Shixiu left for the United States, he went to the temple in City B.At that time, there was only one wish, to make Zhou Moqun get better soon.

As a future scientist, of course, Han Shixiu has never believed in unfounded things like praying to the Buddha, but when people around him said that the temple has many spirits, he didn't know what happened, and suddenly his heart was moved. , took the bus for two hours, and made that wish.

No one knew about this, not even Zou Sijiu.

……

——Just tossing and tossing like this, one morning, when Han Shixiu was reading a book with a bean paste bag bought from Chinatown, he suddenly felt that he seemed to have thought of a way to overcome the first difficulty.

Han Shixiu, whose heartbeat accelerated, immediately put on his clothes and rushed to the laboratory.

I wrote line by line of code until the next morning.

Go back to lie down for a while, then start to continue.

The result of a few nights of sleepless nights - neat rows of data, statistically significant data.

It really came to fruition...

Finally ready to advance to the next stage...

Before this, Han Shixiu and Zhou Moqun thought about giving up countless times, but they persisted in the end.Both of them thought uncontrollably, maybe it’s not possible, maybe it’s something beyond our ability, otherwise, forget it... But in the end, Han Shixiu and Zhou Moqun still felt that this is what they want to do. If you do, you will definitely regret it later.

——Looking at the things displayed on the computer, inexplicably, Han Shixiu suddenly remembered the day he first came to City B. On the school bus of University T, he once said to the seniors who came to pick him up: "' Don't give up', the most beautiful moment is not the moment when you make this choice, but when the goals are realized one by one, and the dreams are approaching step by step, look back on this journey, and think of the progress one by one I recalled the determination to persevere again and again, and then secretly rejoiced, thank God, thankfully, I did not give up easily at that time."