Desperate

Cen Lu, who was almost in a coma, was awakened early the next morning by a hasty knock on the door.

Before Cen Lu got up to open the door, Xie Xingchui's secretary came in with high heels, and the sound of the heels knocking on the marble floor was harsh and clear: "Professor Cen, Director Xie asked you to come over."

Cen Lu rubbed his eyes, thinking that today isn't the weekend.Why is the secretary still working overtime with Xie Xingchui: "I wrote about my reflection yesterday."

"It's not the one in your class, it's the other one."

Stimulated by the bright sunlight outside the window, Cen Lu's pupils dilated a bit: "What's that?"

"You'll know when you go."

For some reason, Cen Lu followed the hot-tempered secretary, dragging his sloppy trousers through the corridors of the Department of Mathematics.Digong University attaches great importance to the construction of science and engineering buildings. Even for science subjects such as mathematics, which are not lucrative, the buildings are very grand.The cross-section of the whole building is cross-shaped, extending from all directions. The offices of Cen Lu and many professors of pure mathematics are located in the southeast, on the side that invites Akashi.As for the management like Xie Xingchui, most of them occupy the northwest side of the opposite side, facing the gate of Digong University.

When Cen Lu walked through the most luxuriously decorated northwest corridor, he accidentally saw outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the side of the bulletin board at the school gate was crowded with people noisily.

Cen Lu found it strange that since the beginning of the new year, under the veterans' welfare policy, everyone in the school was in danger, and it was rare to see such a large group of people gathering.I couldn't help but look a few more times, only to find that there were even more school police officers with live ammunition trying to disperse the crowd, and two sturdy school police officers blocked the bulletin board, as airtight as a wall made of human flesh.

Cen Lu pushed open the door of Xie Xingchui's office with some trepidation. The head of the department was facing him, leaning forward and saying something to him with a serious expression. As for the person opposite the conference table, Xie Xingchui's back blocked him For most of the time, Cen Lu couldn't see clearly.

"Teacher, are you looking for me?" Cen Lu asked anxiously.

Even Cen Lu, who is so heartless and used to it, could feel the atmosphere in the meeting room suddenly changed after he spoke.

Xie Xingchui's covered head trembled when he heard Cen Lu's voice, then tilted his head and looked at him with cold eyes.Cen Lu took a closer look, Li Zhou's fingers were crossed on the table, and when he saw him, he clenched his fists.There was undisguised hatred in his eyes.

Cen Lu's footsteps stopped, and he had already guessed the ** point in his heart.

Xie Xingchui turned his head and saw Cen Lu's pale face, and he seemed to be comforting him, but his voice was very serious: "Xiao Cen is here, sit down. Don't be nervous, let's just speak clearly today."

Cen Lu sat on Xie Xingchui's side, deliberately avoiding the position facing Li Zhou.My heart is up and down, what's going on?Could it be that Xie Xingchui found out what happened yesterday?But yesterday the Department of Mathematics was clearly in the dark. Who else would stay in the school after the weekend except for a wimp like him who can't go home and a workaholic like Xie Xingchui?Even if Xie Xingchui stayed here, their offices were located on the diagonal of the building, how could they be seen by such a coincidence?

Before Cen Lu sorted out his chaotic thoughts, Xie Xingchui said, "The thing is, this was posted on the bulletin board at the main entrance of the Imperial University of Technology early this morning." Xie Xingchui raised his hand, Throwing two or three pieces of crumpled printing paper between the two of them, Cen Lu could vaguely see a color-typed photo, which was generally not very clear, but it happened to be at the right angle, and it happened to be able to see clearly Li Zhou's face was somewhat dimmed by the light.As for the other person hidden in the darkness in the photo, who else is it if it's not Cen Lu?

As for the other two sheets of paper, there were no less than a thousand words of typewritten handwriting. Cen Lu glanced at it, and complained with a headache that Li Zhou's wolf ambition had been dormant for a long time, and he had been jealous of a certain young mathematician. Dan Niu has both ability and political integrity, and there is no chance to frame him.So Li Zhou changed his course and started with the thesis, and in the middle of the night, he went to the big cow's office to slander and plagiarize his results.

The corners of Cen Lu's mouth trembled. Although the writing of this essay against Li Zhou was immature, it could be seen that it was written by a child, but she managed to piece together most of the truth of the matter.

And this little friend, Cen Lu thought sadly, even if you didn’t name the “Daniel” in the article, but the pure number department has only two hands, Xie Xingchui doesn’t need to be special After investigation, it can be found that Cen Lu is the only one who stays at the school on weekends.

Cen Lu cleared his throat, and was about to resist for a while.He didn't care too much about the life and death of a villain like Li Zhou, he had already given him a chance yesterday, but it's a pity that God wanted to take him in, and he couldn't save him, he just hoped that the dog wouldn't be forced to jump over the wall: "Director, this is... ..."

Xie Xing glanced at him, and interrupted the nonsense that Cen Lu had written out: "Little Cen, I just want to ask you, is this true?"

Cen Lu: "..." He didn't expect Xie Xingchui to disrespect him so much, and was speechless for a while.

Xie Xingchui frowned, as if a little irritable, and tapped his wrinkled knuckles on the conference table: "Xiao Cen, for us academics, honesty is the cornerstone. The sudden exposure will have a very bad impact on our department. But since the matter has reached this field, we can only deal with it seriously and give the school an explanation." Halfway through the speech, he turned his eyes to Li Zhou: "Dr. Li ,Am I right."

One is Xiao Cen and the other is Dr. Li, not to mention that Cen Lu's identity is actually much higher than Li Zhou's.Li Zhou didn't look at Xie Xingchui, but just kept staring at Cen Lu.If eyes could kill, Cen Lu's chest would have burned a hole.

Cen Lu thought for a while, and decided to answer Xie Xingchui's question head-on: "It did happen last night."

Li Zhou's last glimmer of hope was also shattered, his two fists were clenched even tighter under the table, and he didn't even feel his nails piercing his palm.

"Okay, I see." Xie Xingshui narrowed his eyes, glanced at Li Zhou who was shaking like a sieve from the corner of his eyes, and said to Cen Lu in a low voice: "It's hard work, you go back."

Cen Lu sighed in his heart, now Li Zhou's academic career is over.

He stood up and took one last look at the young man with red eyes.Li Zhou's back shrank like a shrimp, and his whole body seemed to be drained of water, and he suddenly aged ten years.

Cen Lu thought blankly as he closed the door, if the old man was still alive, he would probably be very disappointed with this result.At any rate, he still lived to the age of knowing his destiny, but Li Zhou lost his academic reputation before he even reached his thirties, and he no longer had the opportunity to show his fists.

Li Zhou is not a good person, Cen Lu thought as he walked outside the teaching building, but his love for mathematics is probably not all fake.

Before he knew it, Cen Lu found himself in front of the school bulletin board.

There are still traces of white paper on the kraft paper-colored background board, probably because of the urgency of the morning, the school police were a little impatient when they tore off the printing paper, and they don't know what the student who posted the list has with Li Zhou Damn, it's so tight.

Cen Lu thought about it again, it couldn't be that he hated Li Zhou so much because he had a good relationship with him.

Suddenly, Zhou Pushen's handsome but always serious face was filled with Cen Lu's thoughts. Cen Lu was taken aback for a moment, and then he was amused by himself: how could a man as steady as Second Lieutenant Zhou do such an out-of-the-ordinary thing.

Besides, they just met each other not long ago, how could they feel so cheeky that they have a good relationship with others?

Cen Lu shook his head mockingly, even Liang Qian, who was out of shape all day long, would not have done such a stupid thing.He was a little annoyed and uncomfortable, and walked around the bulletin board: If this little composition with a sneak shot was really for him, then he really hurt himself in reverse!

Cen Lu turned a little dizzy, and was just about to sit down on the steps, but suddenly felt a gaze from behind, he suddenly turned his head, the man was startled, and was about to run away unexpectedly.

At that moment, Cen Lu saw half of the girl's face that had not had time to retreat behind the bushes. He only felt that the face was familiar, but he couldn't quite figure out who this girl was.Seeing that she looked abnormally flustered, he made up his mind that the child probably had something to do with this matter, so he immediately ran after her.

The girl didn't seem to have much intention of running away, and the hiding just now was probably because she was frightened by Cen Lu.Professor Cen's two infrequently exercised legs chased after the female student in the corridor behind the bushes without taking a few steps.Although this place is close to the gate, unexpectedly there are not many people because it is close to the corner.The wooden corridor extends far away, and the gazebo above the head is entangled by rose vines with almost no gaps. A few delicate white roses bloom tremblingly in the cold wind at the end of March, probably only need a spring rain Then the fragrance will disappear and the jade will die.

Cen Lu panted a little: "You...are you...a student in my calculus class..."

The girl looked at Cen Lu who was panting heavily, and seemed to want to reach out to help him, but bit her lips and finally did not do it: "Yes."

Cen Lu leaned on the wall with one hand to borrow strength, and straightened up: "I will ask you directly, do you have anything to do with the commotion this morning?"

The girl didn't seem to expect him to ask so straight to the point, her face flushed all of a sudden, Cen Lu looked at her blushing face, and felt a little more certain in her heart, but she also knew that she couldn't force her at this moment, she had to be persuasive .

"This classmate, can you tell Teacher Cen why you did this?" Cen Lu didn't comment on whether her behavior was right or wrong, and didn't ask why the students broke into the teaching building after the lights were turned off in violation of the regulations. The voice asked a question softly.

The girl didn't refute, but just wrung her fair hands and lowered her head, not daring to look at Cen Lu: "Mr. Cen won't scold me?"

Cen Lu thought to himself, I want to scold you, why don't I want to scold you, I wish I could scold you to death.On the surface, he tried his best to show friendliness, and continued with a pleasant face: "Voluntary violence can't solve the problem, I just want to know why you did it," and then asked the most terrible question: "Do you still have photos there?"

The female student seemed less scared than before, at least she dared to look up into Cen Lu's eyes: "No, I will delete the photo after I printed it, for fear of causing trouble for Teacher Cen."

Cen Lu glanced at the girl's watery eyes, seeing that it didn't look like she was lying, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

The child continued to say unconsciously: "Mr. Cen, now you don't have to be angry with Li Zhou anymore, and you can go smoothly in calculus class in the future?"

Cen Lu was puzzled, and raised one eyebrow: "What are you talking about, when did Li Zhou get angry with me?"

The girl's expression suddenly became angry, and her two white and soft hands clenched into fists inappropriately, as if she was waving at the imaginary enemy's face: "Mr. Cen, you don't know, this villain Li Zhou has been behind the scenes all the time. To trip you up. Spread rumors among us that you are a weirdo, and that taking your class is almost as good as not taking it, saying that you intentionally manipulated us to give such inappropriate papers. Also, the post that slandered you on the Internet, It's also him..."

Cen Lu rubbed his nose. In fact, what Li Zhou said was not completely wrong... For example, it was almost the same if he attended his class or not... But he glanced at the girl's face filled with righteous indignation, and decided to swallow his words back in stomach.

The person on the opposite side stared at Yuanyuan and said: "Those idiots... It's their loss that they don't come to your class, only I know... What a good person you are, Mr. Cen, and you are only me, Mr. Cen... "

The more Cen Lu listened, the more uncomfortable he became. Seeing the girl getting more and more excited, her almond eyes were filled with tears.Cen Lu only felt that one was the first and the other two were big, and the last thing he knew how to deal with were the tears of these young ladies. In the past, when a girl cried in front of him with a test paper, he would have nothing to do, let alone this child...

Cen Lu tried to take a step to the left, and sure enough, the girl's eyes seemed to grow on him, and they stuck tightly together.Professor Cen had a panoramic view of the girl's demeanor, and then he was almost speechless and asked the sky, how could he, Cen Luhe De, take the girl's heart into his pocket inadvertently!

Also, how can he tactfully convey the idea that a teacher-student relationship is not desirable while preventing her from discovering the fact that he doesn't even know her name.

"Little..." Cen Lu wanted to call her name but couldn't remember it, so he changed his words halfway: "Little girl, you are still young, and there are many things you don't understand. Not everything is black and white. Some things that can't be put on the table are laid out in broad daylight, and it may not necessarily solve the problem." He stretched out a hand and patted the child's shoulder cautiously.

Chen Linglin's tears suddenly flowed down his eyelids to his chin, like water breaking a bank.After hearing Cen Lu's words, the inexperienced little girl also vaguely felt that she probably did something bad with good intentions, and she regretted it deeply.But struggling to retain the last bit of dignity in front of his sweetheart, sobbing and choking just to keep himself from crying.

Cen Lu saw the girl crying like pear blossoms and rain, so he didn't want to say anything, and he didn't dare to touch her again, for fear that she would cry even harder: "Forget it, forget it, I don't know what happened today, you Also remember, never tell anyone that you did it."

Chen Linglin nodded while shedding tears.

Cen Lu nodded dryly, and waved his hand to signal the other party to go back earlier.Chen Linglin turned around meekly and left, wearing some small-heeled leather shoes, stepping on the last remaining leaves that fell in spring, making a crisp sound.

It was like the heartbreaking voice of a young girl in love.

Suddenly, Cen Lu's voice came from far behind, and he couldn't hear much emotion, but Chen Linglin keenly caught a hint of worry: "Son, don't come to school these two days, remember, let alone Come to my class."

When Chen Linglin heard the words and turned her head, the man's tall and tall figure had disappeared under the frame of roses.