my school boy

Naturally, Tian Yu would not know these things.

I heard from Shen Shucheng that the nights in the United States are very scary. When you walk on the road, some black brothers will come out and ask you for money. Before it gets dark, Shen Shucheng hides in the room silently, carrying Time difference to prepare the oral presentation for the next day.

The sound of knocking on the door was unexpected, Tian Yu looked out vigilantly through the cat's eyes, saw that it was Shen Wanjun, and opened the door hastily.

"How are you preparing?" Shen Wanjun asked.

"I've memorized the speech several times, but I'm still a little nervous." Tian Yu answered truthfully.

Shen Wanjun seemed to have guessed Tian Yu's answer, but nodded, "This is the first time I give a report, it will always be like this." He turned around and looked at the night view of New York outside the window, "Try telling me about it."

"..." After a long time, Tian Yu agreed hesitatingly, "Okay."

It's not that he doesn't want to accept Shen Wanjun's guidance, but the report is in English. Tian Yu has never spoken English in front of others, and he often feels inferior because of his unauthentic English accent. He reluctantly said: "Today , mytopicis..."

"Stop." Shen Wanjun frowned, signaling Tian Yu not to continue.

It's over.Tian Yu's heart sank, maybe Shen Wanjun had never heard such a bad spoken language, he lowered his head, ready to be scolded.

"The pronunciation is pretty good, why are you so weak? Is it because the things you made are not good enough, so you don't have confidence?" Shen Wanjun looked at Tian Yu's face flushed with shame, still expressionless.

Pronunciation is good?

Tian Yu glanced at Shen Wanjun suspiciously, not sure whether he was encouraging himself or telling the truth, so he could only take a deep breath and start all over again.

Hearing Tian Yu's words, Shen Wanjun raised his temper a little bit, finally nodded with satisfaction, took out a pen and paper, and recorded the things that should be revised in the slides.

"In this place, the order of pictures and text should be changed."

"The pushing of this place is too cumbersome, you should skip it, so to speak..."

"And here, you can change a word, don't always use a sentence pattern."

Tian Yu wrote down Shen Wanjun's words verbatim in his notebook, and nodded repeatedly while listening. After Shen Wanjun's instructions, Tian Yu became more confident in tomorrow's report.

"Okay, I have nothing to say, I wish you a smooth tomorrow." Shen Wanjun finished speaking and was about to leave.

"Professor Shen, I..." Tian Yu stopped Shen Wanjun's footsteps when he hesitated to speak. He turned his head and looked at Tian Yu who was looking at him, "Is there anything else?"

"Thank you!" Tian Yu bowed solemnly.

There was an imperceptible smile on the corner of Shen Wanjun's mouth, "It's nothing, you are a person with great potential, this is what I should do."

"But……"

"Speak up if you have something to say, people who do scientific research, don't be so awkward." Shen Wanjun pursed his lips, as if he was quite dissatisfied with Tian Yu's hesitant to speak.

"But you could have been so kind to me." Tian Yu saw that Shen Wanjun was a little impatient, and hurriedly said what was in her heart, "I am not the smartest, and I don't seem to have much talent, and my family and family conditions are not good. very good……"

Thinking of so many unsatisfactory aspects of herself, Tian Yu sighed.

"If there are any advantages, it's probably more hard work and persistence than others, but there is nothing remarkable about it."

"Don't think so." Shen Wanjun looked at Tian Yu, only feeling familiar, he pulled out the armchair beside him, and sat down to talk with him in detail.

"Many people in this world envy the kind of prodigy who shows great talent in a certain aspect and can learn everything at once."

Tian Yu nodded in agreement, and he was very envious, even envious of those around him who didn't study much and could still score high in exams.

I always feel that they are more suitable for this laboratory than myself.

"However." Shen Wanjun still said calmly, "Being able to work hard and persevere all the time is also a rare talent in itself."

Hard work and persistence are also talents!When Tian Yu heard Shen Wanjun's words, a certain corner of her heart seemed to be touched, her bright eyes opened very wide, and she looked at the person in front of her who she admired so much.

"When I see you, it's like seeing myself when I was young."

"So I can understand your thoughts now."

"I was also a poor student when I was young. My parents died early, and I supported myself while working. Later, Ben met Principal Dou and my wife. They have always supported me in scientific research."

Shen Wanjun spread his hands.

"Maybe in the eyes of others, my life is smooth sailing. I graduated first in my major, went abroad to study, came back to teach, won various titles, and even became a person with a relatively right to speak in a field."

"They put my achievements down to luck and talent."

As Shen Wanjun said, Tian Yu, like most people, has an impression of Shen Wanjun as one of the top talents in Jiangcheng University. When others publish a good article, it is like winning a lottery. Shen Wanjun is different, he is like winning a high-value lottery ticket Any paper in the printing press and laboratory will be cited on the cover of the top journal.

"But my wife knows that when I gave a report in English for the first time, even the Chinese could not understand my English. I have never slept before 20 o'clock in the past [-] years, and I was still working on my thesis when I was [-] years old. , once held a meeting in Moscow, and was sent to the hospital because of a sudden heart attack and almost died."

"Everyone can only see the result, only you know the process."

In Shen Wanjun's mouth, the ups and downs of the first half of his life were as calm as something that had nothing to do with him, but it stirred up Tian Yu's inner turmoil.

"Tian Yu, in this world, there are two types of people who can live the life they want and do what they want to do. The first type is extremely intelligent, like Galois. The second type is absolute persistence."

"Yeah." Shen Wanjun, who was usually silent, seemed to have opened up his words in front of him. Tian Yu nodded and bit his lower lip.

"It's been a long time since I said so many words." Shen Wanjun got up from the chair, looked at Tian Yu who was thinking, and patted him on the shoulder, "I hope you can gain something."

There is nothing more rewarding than an inspiring story about someone you admire.Tian Yu nodded, and suddenly had a lot of confidence in the report the next day.

At the meeting place the next day, Tian Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief after successfully completing the task. Thinking that he would have a half-day rest in the afternoon, Tian Yu asked Shen Wanjun for leave and wanted to go out for a walk.

The weather in New York is much milder than that in River City. At the end of July, it was still only over 20 degrees. Except for the occasional showers caused by the heat island effect, it was a bit depressing.

Cao Kefan specifically told him before he left, begging him to bring a Columbia football as a souvenir.

He originally wanted to bring one as a gift for Shen Shucheng, but Tian Yu suddenly felt a little lost when he saw the unattractive football except for Columbia's logo.

What Shen Shucheng gave himself was a pendant with a Mobius ring. That gift was quite commemorative, but what about him?A clumsy football, really like perfunctory.

He went back and forth in the souvenir shop several times, and was attracted by a ring in a display case, standing in front of him and couldn't move his feet.

"Are you Chinese?"

The part-time student clerk saw Tian Yu and asked tentatively.

"Ye, Ye, Yes." Tian Yu replied in embarrassment.

"You are from Jiangcheng University, right! I graduated from there too!" The girl looked at Tian Yu's participation badge on her chest, which had her name and unit written on it, and said enthusiastically.

"Really?" Seeing an alumni abroad is like seeing a relative, "Hello, senior."

But why would a student studying abroad work as a clerk in a souvenir shop? Tian Yu wondered, "Why is my sister here..."

Before the words came out, I felt embarrassed.

Fortunately, the girl didn't feel embarrassed, "Earn some money to support yourself, and the family doesn't have much money, so I can only rely on myself."

It turns out that the family can go abroad without money, Tian Yu secretly sighed in her heart, she is really an amazing girl.

"Do you want to buy this back?" Seeing that Tian Yu had been looking at the ring in the cabinet, the girl took it out very clearly, "This is designed by the students of our mathematics department."

"It's so beautiful." Tian Yu took the ring from the girl's hand and looked at it over and over again. The front of the ring looks like a butterfly flapping its wings. Behind the butterfly is the badge of Columbia University's Department of Mathematics. "This pattern is..."

"This is the Lorentz attractor in the power system." The girl explained.

"Attractor?" Tian Yu frowned, he didn't know enough about this term.

"To put it simply, an attractor means that any place in space will be attracted by this attractor."

Looking at the wings of the butterfly, Tian Yu suddenly felt a little more tender in her heart.

Just give this to Shen Shucheng.

"I, I want this, wrap it up for me..." Tian Yu looked at the price, and he had saved money for several months, which was just enough to buy one.

The girl quickly wrapped the things up and asked again, "Is this for your girlfriend? Many boys from the mathematics department bought this for their girlfriend."

"..."

Tian Yu swallowed, "Give it to your boyfriend."

The girl's body froze.

Tian Yu was almost mentally prepared to be scolded as a pervert by the girl in front of him.

"Then I'll change it to a men's ring for you. I'm sorry, I got it wrong for you."

The girl took out the ring in the box, "I also have such a gay honey, I don't know what you are like, anyway, he and his boyfriend are stuffing dog food every day, and they are more tired than me and my boyfriend!"

She handed the wrapped ring to Tian Yu.

"You guys have to be happy forever!"

Regardless of whether this sentence is because of political correctness, Tian Yu sounds very comfortable.

Yes, I will be happy forever, Tian Yu told herself.

After returning to China, Tian Yu went home directly, but secretly told Shen Shucheng that he had prepared a surprise for him and started school for him.

"What surprise?" Shen Shucheng's voice on the other end of the phone was softened by the long distance.

"I can't tell you." Tian Yu looked at the blue ring box in his hand, "It wouldn't be a surprise to tell you."

"You don't know what I want?"

Listening to Shen Shucheng's guessing, Tian Yu snickered here, and when she heard Shen Shucheng's serious question, she asked timidly, "What do you want?"

"I want you."

Shen Shucheng could feel the hot temperature of Tian Yu's cheek through the mobile phone.

"I...isn't it already yours." Tian Yu squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth for a long time.

On the other end of the phone, Shen Shucheng chuckled, "It's not enough."

Before Tian Yu could react, Shen Shucheng quickly changed the subject.

"Football at Columbia?"

"Hoodie?"

"It won't be the little record in Times Square."

Shen Shucheng couldn't guess.

When school started, he finally saw his long-awaited surprise.

Tian Yu said, this is the attractor.

Tian Yu said that he wanted him to know that no matter where he started from, he would be like an attractor in his life, drawing him closer.

The author has something to say: Explanation of terms:

Attractor: An attractor is a mathematical concept that describes a convergent type of motion, which exists in the phase plane.In short, an attractor is a set to which all orbits of an unsteady flow starting on any bounded set tend to as time tends to infinity.

--"Baidu Encyclopedia"

ps Effort and diligence are also a kind of talent. My friend told me about it. I complained to him. I am a very mediocre person without talent and talent. Continuing your life and persevering is just a reward for hard work, but I don't like such people myself.

Everyone prefers the kind of genius who can get something even if he doesn't pay. I said that I am very envious of someone who looks very smart and talented like him.

Then he told me that hard work and diligence are also a kind of talent. Many people say that if they work as hard as so-and-so, they will be able to do anything, but these people don't even have the ability to work hard.

My gay friend is a straight man and knows that I am writing about Tanmei. Although he doesn't read it, he always encourages me and believes in me.

I will always stick to it, for what I believe in.

thank.