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Chapter 133, Dinner Location Analysis by Tianming and Twilight (Subscribe)
Bang! Bang!
The train was heading towards its destination, the Northern Ice City. Wang Duoyu sat on the lower bunk, reading a book with his head down.

After meeting Zhu Ling's parents the day before yesterday, he finalized the house deal with Zhu Ling in the afternoon.

The next day, he went to the editorial office of "Beijing Literature and Art" again and brought all the readers' letters stored in the utility room back to the house at No. 87, Zhongguancun West Street.

Wang Duoyu briefly mentioned the reader's letter to Zhu Ling and did not elaborate on it.

This kind of letter depends entirely on the reader's mood, and the reward amount is not certain, so Wang Duoyu didn't say much.

Anyway, the letters are kept at home and locked, so there is no need to worry about anyone prying the door open because the Friendship Hotel is next door and no one dares to come and do anything wrong.

After settling this matter, Wang Duoyu did not stay in the capital any longer, but set off to return to Ice City.

This time I came to the capital, I originally planned to stay for only a few days, but many things happened later, so I stayed for another ten days.

The train ride lasted nearly twenty hours and we finally arrived back in Ice City not too late.

Being more than half an hour late is really not considered late.

After moving the luggage back to his home in the classroom and dormitory building, Wang Duoyu spent more than half an hour cleaning the house. He was just about to take a break when someone came to the door.

"Wang Duoyu, I'd like to ask you something."

The visitor was Xue Xiaoling, a guest who surprised him greatly.

To be honest, his relationship with the students in Mathematics Class 1 is just average.

Although Xue Xiaoling had visited his home during New Year's Day, that was considered a class reunion, except that it was held at his home.

He and Xue Xiaoling had never been alone together, so he didn't know why she suddenly came to him, especially at this time when he had just arrived home.

"How did you know I was home?"

Since guests are welcome, Wang Duoyu still welcomed them in, but the door was open instead of closed, to avoid suspicion.

Rumors are scary, and Wang Duoyu certainly wouldn't ignore this.

Although he is a single man in everyone's eyes, not many people know that he is dating Zhu Ling or Liu Xiaoli.

Even when he and Zhu Ling were about to get married, few people knew about it.

"I happened to see you when I was in the bathroom just now."

When Xue Xiaoling heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up. She walked in with a little restraint and excitement.

After finding a place to sit down, she took out her thesis and started asking questions.

Wang Duoyu's face darkened immediately when he saw it:
"Student Xue Xiaoling, are you sure you want me to help you with this? Didn't I already talk about this paper at Tsinghua University a few days ago? You attended that lecture before?"

"But I don't understand. I have only understood the first two pages so far. I can't understand it from the third page onwards." Xue Xiaoling said aggrievedly with her head down.

If you don’t know, you might think that Wang Duoyu bullied the other person.

Fortunately, the door is not closed now, otherwise Wang Duoyu would have no way to explain himself even if he was right.

"If you have other questions, I might talk to you about them, but I can't talk to you about this paper alone because it would be a waste of my time."

After a pause, Wang Duoyu refused seriously:
"If you want to understand this paper, you need to read more books on topology. I remember that our Computational Mathematics Department office has quite a few of these papers and books. I'll list the titles tomorrow and have Zhu Hanting give them to you."

Upon hearing this, Xue Xiaoling nodded sadly, then took out another textbook and began to ask questions seriously.

That paper was indeed difficult. She thought that she and Wang Duoyu were classmates, and she thought she was good-looking. Wang Duoyu didn't have a boyfriend, so she wanted to try and see if it was possible to get Wang Duoyu to talk to her about the paper.

It turned out that she didn't get any such preferential treatment at all.

Do you feel wronged?
It’s quite unfair, but there’s nothing I can do about it. Wang Duoyu is just such a straight man.

His gentleness and patience are only given to lesbians like Zhu Ling and Liu Xiaoli. Compared with these two girls with youthful beauty and temperament who can make you fall in love at first sight, Xue Xiaoling is really incomparable.

It's not that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but to be honest, Xue Xiaoling is a beauty in the eyes of ordinary people, while Zhu Ling and Liu Xiaoli are the top beauties among the group of beauties. They are not on the same level at all, so how can they be compared?
If I have to describe it, it is the difference between the old and dilapidated houses in Minhang and the tall and spacious flats in Pudong.

So, these are two completely different things!

After taking a look at the question Xue Xiaoling brought out, Wang Duoyu almost couldn't help rolling his eyes again after hearing her question. Why would she ask such a simple question?

I really don’t know how Xue Xiaoling got into university!
Fortunately, Wang Duoyu held back and didn't say anything more to her.

After a while, after explaining to her, Wang Duoyu was ready to start chasing people away.

Just at this moment, someone came to the door. It was Professor Liu Taoshun.

"So you're back. I was wondering why your door was open. I thought a thief had broken in."

Liu Taoshun stood at the door and was a little surprised when she saw Xue Xiaoling. Then she saw that Wang Duoyu was quite far away from her and almost laughed out loud.

Liu Taoshun was well aware that Wang Duoyu had high standards, because if he remembered correctly, Wang Duoyu seemed to have a girlfriend. During the period around the Spring Festival, he had met her twice at a distance of dozens of meters, but he did not approach to say hello.

Xue Xiaoling was pretty, what a pity.

Old Liu stood at the door and chatted for a few minutes before leaving. However, as soon as he left, Zhu Hanting, Mo Ruogao, Yuan Jigang and others arrived.

When they saw Xue Xiaoling in his house, Yuan Jigang and the others' eyes suddenly became less pure and more ambiguous.

Their gazes made Xue Xiaoling feel shy, but she did not leave because Zhu Hanting asked Wang Duoyu to help talk about the paper.

The result was no exception and was rejected directly. Wang Duoyu took out a piece of paper and pen on the spot and wrote a list of books:
"Here, take this list and go read. Once you've mastered all of these books, then when you come back to read my paper, it won't be as difficult as it is now."

"Okay, I'm going to start doing my own thing. You can either stay and read quietly, or go do whatever you need to do. Anyway, don't disturb me anymore."

Wang Duoyu's goal in returning to Harbin Institute of Technology was to do his own thing.

Xue Xiaoling was very disappointed, but there was nothing she could do.

Yuan Jigang and the others were eyeing the cakes and wine that Wang Duoyu brought back, and said they wanted to get together tonight.

We can have a dinner together, we can just have hotpot, and leave the shopping for groceries to Lou Jianguo and Yu Xinyao, while the others will be responsible for preparing the ingredients.

As a result, Xue Xiaoling said that she also wanted to join in and she could pay.

Wang Duoyu wanted to refuse. After all, this was a dinner party for their dormitory 303. If Xue Xiaoling joined in, it would seem out of place.

A few hours later, at night, there were already more than ten people at Wang Duoyu's house, including Jian Xianglan, Dai Yian and others.

Almost half of the students in the entire Mathematics Class came.

The dormitory dinner we had planned for ended up being a class dinner. How embarrassing!

Because we were having hotpot and there were a lot of people, we ended up borrowing two pots from the teachers next door.

Although everyone in the house has different eating habits, they all know how to cook, whether they are from the city or the countryside.

So, with everyone working together, dinner was quickly prepared.

More than ten people were busy preparing dinner and chatting at the same time, which was quite cheerful.

When everyone was chatting, they would of course talk about lectures and papers, and then they would talk about the book lists.

"Duoyu, is it true that after reading these book lists, I will be able to fully understand your paper?"

This was a question raised by Jian Xianglan. Wang Duoyu smiled and nodded in agreement, but he didn't explain one thing clearly. After reading the books on the list, it is true that he can understand his paper. However, if he wants to understand the paper solely through self-study, it will take at least six months to understand it.

What's more, it is not an easy task to read all the books on the list.

The subject of topology was originally called positional analysis. It is a branch of mathematics formed in the 19th century and belongs to the category of geometry.

The Seven Bridges of Königsberg, Euler's theorem on polyhedrons, the four-color problem, etc. are all important problems in the history of topology. It is already difficult to understand them alone, not to mention that topology has wide applications in functional analysis, Lie group theory, differential geometry, differential equations and many other branches of mathematics.

Although the Poincare conjecture paper in four-dimensional space is not as difficult as that in three-dimensional space, its difficulty coefficient is also very high.

Therefore, if one does not have a certain talent for mathematics, they may not be able to finish reading and learn all the books listed by Wang Duoyu.

"So what books should I read so that I can write a paper like you?"

Jian Xianglan continued to ask questions, and this was her purpose.

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present stopped what they were doing and stared at Wang Duoyu.

Because they also wanted to know how Wang Duoyu did it.

Who wouldn't want to be noticed? Being personally invited by a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, to study abroad in the United States?

Among everyone in the room, Wang Duoyu, the weirdo, is probably the only one who is unhappy, but people like Jian Xianglan, Dai Yian, and Zhu Hanting are all very willing to study in the United States.

Even the honest Sichuan man Lou Jianguo must have wanted to study in the United States very much, but he hasn't left the basic class yet, and there is still a gap between him and his classmates in the professional class, so he can forget about studying in the United States.

And it's not just about studying in the United States. I even heard from older mathematicians that Wang Duoyu's paper has the potential to win the Fields Medal.

Information was blocked in those days and not so smooth, but Jian Xianglan and her companions had been to the capital. In just over two days there, they heard a lot of things, including a lot of information about the Fields Medal.

To sum it up in one sentence, it is the Nobel Prize in mathematics, which is enough to prove the status of the Fields Medal.

Therefore, Zhu Hanting, Dai Yian, Xue Xiaoling, Rong Guangxia and others all want to publish papers at a young age like Wang Duoyu, and then have the possibility of competing for the Fields Medal.

"This isn't just about reading books; it requires hard work, a little bit of talent and inspiration."

Facing everyone's expectant gazes, Wang Duoyu spoke nonsense seriously.

He is really talking nonsense.

For a top mathematical problem like the Poincaré conjecture, anyone who can prove even one of the small problems is already very impressive and is definitely a top mathematician in the world.

There are not many top mathematicians in China at present who can be called top mathematicians in this field. Hua Luogeng, Wu Wenjun, Chen Jingrun, Su Buqing and others are all such mathematicians.

Of course, there are also many people who are not pure theoretical mathematics researchers, such as Qin Yuanxun, Zhou Yulin and others. They all left mathematics halfway and engaged in research in other areas.

Take Qin Yuanxun as an example. Before 1960, he had been working in the Institute of Mathematics, starting as an associate researcher, then becoming the deputy director of the Equation Room, and then the head of the Ordinary Differential Equations Group.

In May 1960, Qin Yuanxun received a transfer order from above, and from then on he hid his identity and went to work in the Theoretical Research Department of the Ninth Institute of the Second Ministry of Machine Building.

Isn’t Qin Yuanxun powerful?
Of course it is very awesome. You should know that he entered Harvard University in 1946 and obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard the following year, setting a record for the fastest doctorate degree in Harvard University's history.

Later in 1972, many Chinese-American scholars came to Beijing and asked to see Qin Yuanxun, so he returned to the Institute of Mathematics and is now the deputy director of the Office for the Promotion of Applied Mathematics.

So, there are really quite a few mathematicians who have come from that era.

It is still hard to say whether there will be a group of such talents among Jian Xianglan and her group.

Anyway, Wang Duoyu just needs to try his best to fool them, encourage them to look forward, not think too much, and work hard.

Zhu Hanting and the others were so excited by Wang Duoyu's words that it seemed as if the Fields Medal was just around the corner.

"Our department office has a lot of books and professional journals. You can borrow them all. But don't be blind. It's better to be down-to-earth and choose a direction to move forward."

Wang Duoyu fooled them for a while, and then persuaded them to eat quickly.

After this meal, more than ten people were almost fooled.

But just as it was about to end, Dai Yian suddenly asked, why didn't Wang Duoyu want to study in the United States?
As soon as this was said, Zhu Hanting and others all echoed it, expressing how great the United States is.

Besides, aren’t mathematics professors like Shiing-Shen Chern living well in the United States? Why is Wang Duoyu so opposed to them?
"Don't ask me about this. I've said this many times before. There's nothing much to say."

Wang Duoyu has become somewhat immune to this question and doesn't want to answer it, not even to give a perfunctory response.

Perhaps in the eyes of Dai Yian and others, the United States is very powerful and is the most developed country in the world. And as the saying goes, we should learn from foreigners in order to defeat them. However, Wang Duoyu is so opposed to the United States.

Is this some serious illness?

Seeing that Wang Duoyu didn't want to talk more about this matter, everyone tactfully stopped talking about it.

After returning to Harbin Institute of Technology, Wang Duoyu's life began to become regular.

In the blink of an eye, it is already March, when spring is about to begin and flowers are about to bloom. The scenery of the north is also beginning to enter the season of revival.

Liu Xiaoli didn't write to him, and he didn't take it seriously. It seemed that they were both arguing with each other, and it was just a matter of seeing who would lose control first.

Zhu Ling did write him a letter, talking about the neighbors in Courtyard No. 6, Xila Hutong, or to be more precise, the tenants.

When he was in Beijing before, Wang Duoyu visited the Zhu family for the first time, and he visited as Zhu Ling's boyfriend and bought a lot of gifts.

Although we haven't registered our marriage yet and haven't even started discussing it, we've already bought the house.

Her father Zhu Qizhen contributed 1,000 RMB, Wang Duoyu contributed 2,000 RMB, and Zhu Ling contributed 300 RMB, totaling 3,300 RMB to acquire the No. 6 courtyard in Xila Hutong.

Later, Zhu Ling also moved into the small courtyard of this quadrangle courtyard and never lived in the dormitory of the Academy of Medical Sciences again.

Wang Duoyu had previously given her a 26-inch bicycle, allowing her to ride it back and forth between Xila Hutong and the Academy of Medical Sciences every day.

Of course, the two places are only one kilometer apart, which is very close. Even if you don’t ride a bike, there will be no problem at all.

The house has been bought, so Zhu Ling became the landlady as she wished, and this month she experienced the feeling of collecting rent.

Although it was only ten dollars, she was so happy that she wrote a letter to share it with Wang Duoyu.

In fact, Wang Duoyu knew that the reason why she was happy was not just because she could collect rent, but also because her parents no longer urged her to get married and she didn’t have so many worries.

After all, Wang Duoyu and she are now tied together. When Wang Duoyu goes to Beijing to give an academic report in April, he will probably formally propose marriage.

You can even get married directly when the time comes.

Wang Duoyu was married for the second time. He confessed this to Zhu Ling. She even met his ex-wife Chen Qingwan. It was when their relationship progressed rapidly that they met by chance during a visit to Peking University's Yanyuan.

However, Zhu Ling has no recollection of this matter, and she doesn't care much about it. After all, Wang Duoyu didn't have any children with his ex-wife, and Zhu Ling herself is already 27 years old, so of course she won't delay any longer.

What Wang Duoyu didn't expect was that Zhu Ling asked him to hide the fact that he had an ex-wife and not tell her parents for fear of complications.

After reading Zhu Ling's letter, Wang Duoyu smiled, picked up a piece of paper and a pen, and wrote her a reply, mentioning his recent busy work at Harbin Institute of Technology.

Although his future father-in-law Zhu Qizhen supported him with 1,000 yuan and told him and Zhu Ling that they did not need to pay the money back in a hurry.

However, Wang Duoyu has been writing like crazy recently, and has directly written "Snow City Volume 3: Dawn" and "Snow City Volume 4: Twilight".

Each volume has 160,000 words, for a total of 320,000 words.

(End of this chapter)