The unparalleled talent of the country started from Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 279, Investigation Results of the Miscarriage Incident

Early February 1985, Yanjiagang Airport in Harbin.

They had only been on the plane for a little over an hour, enough time to eat a meal, when the flight attendant informed Shi Yongjun and his companions that the plane was about to land and asked them to stow their tray tables and double-check that their seatbelts were fastened.
Shi Ningquan was the most surprised, because he remembered that Harbin was at least a thousand kilometers away from Beijing, which seemed to be about the same distance as going to Shanghai.

He remembered that when he flew from Beijing to Shanghai before, it took at least three hours because he had been on the Ilyushin Il-70 series passenger planes produced by the Arctic Bear Empire, which had a flight speed of over 400 kilometers per hour.

The distance between Beijing and Shanghai is 1,200 kilometers, so the flight time is about three hours.

But nowadays, Boeing 737s can actually get there in just over an hour, which is really fast.

What surprised them even more was what happened next, because after they landed, they found that planes from other places had also landed smoothly.

At the airport passenger exit, more than a dozen buses were already parked. These were all luxury buses, specially brought to pick them up.

These buses all belong to the Want Want Group and were all dispatched to pick them up.

The First Automobile Works imported a lot of advanced equipment from abroad and cooperated with Harbin Institute of Technology to produce this luxury bus. So far, sales are not very good, but they are not bad either.

Because just Want Want Group and companies affiliated with Harbin Institute of Technology contributed a large number of orders.

After foreign companies such as Motorola and Nintendo entered Harbin, they also purchased a lot of these buses because they are really convenient.

It's absolutely the best car, especially for transporting workers.

Many workers in this era needed their companies to provide accommodation, while others were locals from Harbin but hoped their companies could provide transportation because public transportation was not yet well-developed.

Therefore, buses have become a relatively important means of transportation.

Taking Want Want Group's Yuma Garment Factory as an example, the current number of workers has exceeded 20,000.

The old factory area was no longer needed because the newly built factory was very large and could easily accommodate 15,000 people.

However, the Yuma Garment Factory has developed very rapidly, with excellent business in Europe, the United States and Japan, resulting in a large demand for Yuma garments. As a result, the old factory area had to be reopened.

The plans keep changing, but the workers' dormitories can never be completely integrated with the factory buildings.

In addition, a considerable number of the workers were actually former employees of state-owned garment factories, quilt factories, and other units in Bingcheng.

These employees are all locals from Harbin, and they all have their own homes, so naturally they don't live in the employee dormitory.

Therefore, they need buses to pick them up and drop them off at get off work every day.

The bus that has come to the airport to pick up Shi Yongjun and the others is not the bus used to transport workers.

Because the workers' buses are relatively ordinary and are dedicated buses, while Want Want Group also has many buses that are specifically used to pick up leaders, VIPs, and foreign guests.

Of course, there are also some cars specifically used to pick up VIPs or leaders with small groups.

After boarding the bus, Shi Ningquan and the others couldn't help but marvel at how good the bus really was.

After the car started and left the airport, it took Shi Ningquan a while to realize how quiet the bus was.

It's not that everyone on the bus was quiet, but the bus itself was surprisingly smooth and quiet.

This is really strange.

Then Shi Ningquan looked out the window, but he couldn't see clearly because it was nighttime and he couldn't see the road conditions at all.

But there's no doubt that the roads in Harbin are very smooth, otherwise the bus wouldn't have been so quiet.

Soon, they were taken to a hotel in the center of Harbin, a four-star hotel that had been completed less than six months ago.

With the economic development needs of Harbin, more and more hotels, restaurants and other businesses are showing great vitality.

Harbin itself has many large hotels, such as the future Longmen VIP Building, which is now the guesthouse of the Northeast Railway Bureau.

However, neither these guesthouses nor hotels were quite suitable, so Want Want Group directly booked the newly built four-star hotel in front of them, specifically to accommodate these distinguished guests who had come from afar.

Shi Yongjun did not stay at the hotel because her home is in Harbin.

Shi Bohua and his family also wanted to stay at their daughter's house, but they were persuaded not to, since the four-star hotel was quite luxurious.

The following morning, a group of doctors gathered at the Harbin Institute of Technology Affiliated Hospital and began to discuss the situation at that time.

After the discussion, Shi Bohua and several other veteran Chinese medicine doctors expressed their desire to personally examine Liu Xiaoli and inquire about her previous condition.

In the teaching building of the Mathematics Department of Harbin Institute of Technology, Wang Duoyu was in his office, engrossed in his work without any distractions.

The final exam week is over; his students have either gone home or continued working.

For example, Yorke went back to his country because he only has free time during the Chinese New Year period each year, and he doesn't really want to go back to his country at other times.

Bocherz went to Shanghai for a trip, supposedly to meet a girlfriend from Harbin Institute of Technology, and is now on his honeymoon.

With no students bothering him, Wang Duoyu was much more relaxed and could finally focus on his own things.

By the end of December, he had already completed the proof of the reciprocity law conjecture. Now, more than a month has passed, and he has hardly touched any mathematical problems.

Aside from discussing related mathematical issues with Shing-Tung Yau and others during that period, he did not conduct any further research on the subject.

This is because quite a few things have indeed happened in the past period of time.

He has now managed to calm himself down and is finally able to conduct his research.

First, there was the choice of research topic. He used to decide his research direction by flipping a coin, and his choices included the functor conjecture, Langlands' reciprocity law conjecture, the boundary of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function, and so on.

Over the past six months, he has solved two major proof papers on the main conjecture of complex dynamic systems in chaos and the reciprocity law conjecture, and has also completed several other papers with relatively average results or conjectures.

Completing this work in six months is already quite impressive.

In the first half of this year, apart from the report meeting in May, he didn't have any particularly important work.

Of course, projects such as the Mach 5 fighter jet will still take up a lot of his time.

When selecting new research topics, he has brought out some of his previous ones, such as partial differential equations in infinite dimensions and the hyperplane conjecture in Banach space.

He had previously listed two major problems: the master conjecture of complex dynamical systems in chaos and the fundamental lemma of automorphic form theory in the Langlands program. These two problems have now been marked with an "X" because he has already proven them.

Therefore, among the research topics he has chosen so far are partial differential equations in infinite dimensions, the hyperplane conjecture in Banach space, the functor conjecture, and the boundary of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function.

Wang Duoyu also considered for a long time how to choose among these issues.

It wasn't that he didn't know how to make a choice, nor that he found it difficult; rather, he suddenly had a strong ambition to prove all these questions in the coming period of time.

Of course, the functor conjecture is indeed very difficult, its difficulty level certainly surpasses that of the reciprocity conjecture, and in some respects, it is even more difficult than the Poincaré conjecture.

John Milnor researched this area, and although he had achieved some results over the years, he hadn't made much progress.

Because the functor conjecture contains many famous conjectures, such as the Artin conjecture, the Ramanujan conjecture, and the Sato-Tate conjecture.

Therefore, it is very difficult to solve this functor conjecture.

"Forget it, let's not choose any more. Let's derive the results in order first, and leave the functor conjecture for last."

After sitting in the office for a long time, Wang Duoyu finally made up his mind.

The functor conjecture is extremely difficult, so it was placed last. Even Wang Duoyu was worried that it might end up being as troublesome as the strong solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations, the existence and mass gap of Yang-Mills equations, and the Riemann Hypothesis.

In the end, we had no choice but to give up.

In Wang Duoyu's view, this kind of top-level problem would take at least a year, or even two years, for him to solve.

Therefore, the effort and time he would need to solve such problems might not be what he is willing to put in at this particular time.

While he's young, he just wants to do more things, not just focus on solving one particular problem.

From the outside perspective, he is now the undisputed and only grandmaster in the martial arts world, even stronger than any martial arts alliance leader.

After all, the title of "Martial Arts Alliance Leader" is just a position, while "Grandmaster" represents a level of strength.

Michael Atiyah and Alexander Grothendieck are both near-masters, while John Milnor, Smail, Charles Feifman, and others are top-tier masters.

This is roughly the current situation.

Wang Duoyu's ambition is to become a grandmaster who establishes his own school of thought, not just a master.

In the history of mathematics, there have been many masters, but there are very few who can establish their own schools of thought.

Archimedes, Newton, Euler, Gauss, and others are all renowned masters, as is John von Neumann, who founded game theory.

However, von Neumann was relatively less influential because he lacked the necessary impact.

Game theory is like a small sect, while calculus and other disciplines are like large sects of martial arts, but in terms of influence, it is still slightly inferior.

After making his selection, Wang Duoyu's first task was to solve the infinite-dimensional partial differential equation, which he was very good at and could definitely derive and solve quickly.

But it seems there's always someone who doesn't want him to finish his work so quickly.

Because while he was busy, Smail called.

"Professor Wang, where are you? You're in your office, right? Okay, we're coming right away. I guarantee you'll be very surprised."

Upon learning that Wang Duoyu was in his office in the mathematics department building, Smelton immediately hung up the phone with a smile.

"This little old man."

Seeing that Xiaolingtong had already hung up the phone, Wang Duoyu smiled and shook his head, then continued with his own business.

Not long after, there was a knock on the office door, and Smail and John Thompson walked in, followed by John Milno and several others.

"Professor Wang, do you need me to introduce John to you?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Duoyu immediately laughed:
Are you referring to this John, or this particular John?

Standing before him were two Johns, one named John Thompson and the other John Milnor.

To be honest, that's how it is with foreigners; there are quite a few people with the same name. To distinguish them, you have to look at the middle name and the surname.

Of course, there are many more people with the same name as Zhang Wei and Wang Wei in China.

Especially in the southern regions, in some towns, a brigade with more than ten villages all share the same surname.

Then, within their elementary school campus, several people with the same name and surname would appear in the same class.

In his past life, Wang Duoyu had heard his mother-in-law mention this.

Because his mother-in-law is from Guangdong, she experienced something similar when she was in elementary school. There were three classes in the sixth grade, and in one of them, there were as many as five people named Fan Zhiming.

Strictly speaking, the surname Fan is not a very common surname. It ranks in the 50s nationwide, with only about four to five million people in the country.

Compared to the two most common surnames, Wang and Li, which have a population of 100 million across the country, it is simply incomparable.

However, if they are all from the same village, then such an unexpected situation is quite normal.

"Of course it's John!"

Smail chuckled and patted John Thompson on the shoulder, then said:

"John and I have formally applied to join Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) and would like to teach in the Department of Mathematics. I wonder if you would welcome us?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Duoyu's smile widened even more.

This is indeed a big surprise.

Since both Smail and John Thompson are Fields Medal winners, their abilities are beyond doubt.

However, I'm afraid the US might have some objections to their coming here to teach at Harbin Institute of Technology.

Because if you do the math, you'll find that six Fields Medal winners—John Milnor, Shing-Tung Yau, Charles Fefman, David Bryant Manford, Joseph Cohen, and Daniel Gray—have all come to Harbin.

Although they joined the Department of Mathematics at Harbin Institute of Technology and the Harbin Institute of Advanced Studies respectively, from the outside perspective, they were the same place.

In addition, there were William Thurston, Gerd Faltings, Robert Langlands and his team, etc., who were either from the United States or were originally going to the United States, and they were all top mathematicians.

In particular, William Thurston, Shing-Tung Yau, and Gerd Faltings, who just received the Fields Medal two years ago, were at the height of their careers.

Then, they all came to Harbin.

Although Robert Langlands did not win the Fields Medal, his talent is undeniable, and he is only 49 years old this year, which is not very old.

In addition, there is Vladimir Feld, the Fields Medal winner from the "Polar Bear Empire." So, by simply counting on your fingers, you can quickly calculate that Harbin Institute of Technology has a total of eleven Fields Medal winners.

And Robert Langlands and his team, as well as Wang Duoyu and his six students, and several Fields Medal nominees including Andrew Wiles, Jean-Baptiste Gaine, Alain Connie, and Edward Witten.

In addition, there's Wang Duoyu, a master-level math emperor.

The math team in Harbin is really something else.

Therefore, Harbin has become one of the world's three major mathematics centers, and even has the potential to surpass Princeton.

There's no way around it; all the Fields Medal winners have come to Harbin, and Princeton has practically been eroded of its foundation.

Of course, John Milnor and his group were all Americans, not Chinese.

"Of course you're welcome!" Wang Duoyu said with a broad smile.

"I don't think any university would reject you, right?"

Upon hearing this, both Smail and John Thompson laughed with delight.

At this moment, Wang Duoyu continued:

"But if you want to join the Mathematics Department at Harbin Institute of Technology, you shouldn't be asking me. Look, Professor Qiu right here is the head of the Mathematics Department at Harbin Institute of Technology. You should be looking for him. Besides, Smail, you and Professor Qiu are old friends."

Haha!

This was just a joke, and everyone knows what the situation is. Besides, Shing-Tung Yau is only the nominal head of the mathematics department; in reality, he doesn't really manage things and doesn't care about those matters.

Not to mention the Department of Mathematics at Harbin Institute of Technology, even the entire Harbin Institute of Technology, including the Harbin Institute of Advanced Studies, is actually controlled by Wang Duoyu.

The conversation went very well, and the matter was settled today.

However, Smail then made a request:

"Professor Wang, you seem to be in a good mood today, how about having a couple of drinks?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Duoyu immediately understood that the other party was eyeing his treasured vintage Moutai liquor.

This guy used to love Peking duck, and that preference has never changed. But now he's added aged Moutai liquor to his list of favorites.

"No problem, but today we won't drink Moutai, we'll drink Wuliangye instead, how about that?"

Wang Duoyu was thinking of saving the Moutai he had stored at home and not drinking it all at once.

On the other hand, he also didn't want the group of people in front of him to drink so often.

Moderation is fine; there's no need to drink so often.

Before Smail could speak, John Milnor noticed the mathematical manuscripts on Wang Duoyu's desk, picked them up and took a look, and his eyes widened in surprise.

"Professor Wang, are you currently researching the functor hypothesis?"

The paper in his hand was actually a list of mathematical conjectures that Wang Duoyu had previously compiled that needed to be completed. Some of them were marked with an "X", and some were left unmarked.

John Milnor, however, only focused on the phonon hypothesis, paying little attention to the list of hypotheses marked with an X.

Instead, Qiu Chengtong and others came over and, after seeing the contents of the manuscript, couldn't help but ask, "Does the 'X' mark mean it has been proven?"
The mathematical problem of the reciprocity law conjecture has already been marked with an "X". Similarly, the fundamental lemma of automorphic forms in the Langlands program and the principal conjecture of complex dynamical systems in chaos have also been marked with an "X".

The fundamental lemma was one of the main topics discussed at the conference in May of this year, while the relevant problem on complex dynamical systems was published in December.

So, if we both draw an X, doesn't that mean Wang Duoyu has already completed the proof of the reciprocity law conjecture?

This guy didn't even post anything?

Considering Wang Duoyu's past offenses, it's highly likely that he has already proven it, but simply hasn't brought it to light.

Faced with these questions from a group of intelligent people, what can Wang Duoyu do?
He is also desperate!

Leniency if you confess, severity if you resist!
Yau Shing-Tung and his group are no ordinary people; they are extremely intelligent, and it's impossible for them to hide it.

Wang Duoyu could only say this:
"The proof has been proven, but as you know, I've been quite busy lately and haven't had time to check it. So, my plan was to check it first, then have you review it before publishing it." Charles Feifman couldn't help but complain.

"My God, Professor Wang, you're getting better and better at lying now, you don't even need to prepare a draft anymore, do you?"

"You know, you lied to me and Professor Qiu before."

He mentioned this matter more than once, because he and Shing-Tung Yau had previously come to see Wang Duoyu about a paper on verifying the restricted Burnside problem.

Another time was a paper on the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture. There are a total of five papers on the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture, and it took Wang Duoyu quite a long time to publish his paper.

Furthermore, the fourth and fifth proof papers will not be presented until the conference in May.

Upon hearing this, Shing-Tung Yau echoed, "Yes, Professor Wang, you can't do this. Now that it's proven, just present it openly instead of always hiding it."

“Yes!” Smail echoed in agreement.

John Thompson, standing to the side, stared blankly, almost unable to believe his ears, because he didn't quite understand what they were talking about.

As is well known, Wang Duoyu is a very prolific mathematics professor who has published a large number of papers of very high quality.

In the past four years alone, he has published several papers on the geometric Langlands conjecture, the fundamental lemma of automorphic forms in the Langlands program, and the proof of complex dynamical systems for approximate solutions of third-order equations, totaling more than ten papers of varying sizes.

Most importantly, the quality of several of these papers is exceptional. If it were any other mathematician, they would have a very high chance of winning a Fields Medal if they had just won one of these papers and were under forty years old.

However, Wang Duoyu wrote so many high-quality papers in just one year.

It’s simply outrageous to open the door for outrageous things. It’s so outrageous.

This shocked the global mathematics community, who speculated whether Wang Duoyu was the reincarnation of God, otherwise how could he be so amazing?

Even if he really is the emperor of mathematics, there should be an end to his career, right?

If you count them carefully, Wang Duoyu's achievements in mathematics are truly astonishing.

The Poincaré conjecture, the ABC conjecture, the Fermat conjecture, the honeycomb conjecture, plus the fundamental lemma, etc., all these achievements combined, and that's all Wang Duoyu accomplished in the past six or seven years, is terrifying to even think about.

Most importantly, Wang Duoyu is only twenty-nine years old this year! He's so young!

It's truly unimaginable what the future holds.

Logically speaking, Wang Duoyu's speed in publishing papers was already outrageous, but John Thompson only realized today that this was not Wang Duoyu's limit.

He even has other unpublished papers proving this!

And depending on the situation, if it weren't for Qiu Chengtong and others seeing through his 'little tricks,' he might really not have published it at all.

My God, this is truly unbelievable.

"Okay, Professor Wang, could you give us a specific timeframe? Around when can you finish checking? We'll come over and collect the paper from you then, is that alright?"

At this point, Shing-Tung Yau was already 'forcing' Wang Duoyu.

John Milnor and the others nodded in agreement, saying that Robert Langlands would be very excited if he came as well.

The reason is simply because the paper that Wang Duoyu hasn't yet released is the reciprocity law conjecture, which is actually a component of the Langlands program.

This conjecture proves that Langlands' conjecture holds true over the domain of algebraic curve functions with positive characteristics, thus establishing a new connection between the two major fields of number theory and analysis. In short, it establishes the Langlands correspondence.

For Robert Langlands, the most important work of his life was the Langlands Program.

Although, so far, the biggest contributor has been Wang Duoyu, after all, he proved three major mathematical problems: Fermat's Last Theorem, the geometric Langlands Conjecture, and the Fundamental Lemma.

But even if Robert Langlands didn't accomplish much significant work, the program was already named after him, and the more it was perfected, the better for him.

Even if many important conjectures and questions were not proven by Robert Langlands, it doesn't matter.

"I'll try to be as fast as I can!" Wang Duoyu said helplessly.
"As you all know, there are less than two weeks until the Spring Festival, so you can imagine I'll be very busy."

Today is February 5th, and there are 14 days left until Lunar New Year's Eve on February 19th.

He didn't go back to his hometown for the Spring Festival last year, but he will definitely go back this year.

Of course, she couldn't go back early either, because Liu Xiaoli needed at least fifteen days, and preferably more than twenty days, to recover from her postpartum confinement.

Hearing this, everyone had no choice but to nod and indicate that they should hurry up and not keep everyone waiting too long.

Wang Duoyu said he would do his best in response.

They stayed for quite a while before leaving.

At noon, Wang Duoyu returned home, and the little guy came up to report that guests had come to the house that morning to give his mother a medical check-up.

"Oh, did they diagnose anything?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Duoyu's heart stirred, and he looked at Liu Xiaoli and asked.

"They said it's related to the dampness-removing soup I drank before. They've narrowed it down to a few herbs and are already investigating."

Upon hearing Liu Xiaoli's words, Wang Duoyu nodded silently.

He spent so much money, if he still can't find it, then I really don't know what to do.

In the evening, Wang Duoyu went to a private room in the Harbin Institute of Technology cafeteria. Tonight's dinner was a welcome banquet for Smail and John Thompson to join the Department of Mathematics at Harbin Institute of Technology.

When you come to China, you should naturally follow the local customs.

Having a good meal and drinking good wine is the most important thing; everything else is secondary!

The crowd clinked glasses and raised their glasses in celebration.

The dinner lasted for almost four hours, and both host and guests enjoyed themselves immensely.

Over the next few days, Wang Duoyu was busy 'checking' the paper proving the reciprocity law conjecture, which was actually deriving the partial differential equation for infinite dimensions.

Meanwhile, Shi Ningkang and his team were still doing their best to investigate Liu Xiaoli's miscarriage.

Shi Bohua is, after all, an 86-year-old man. He didn't stay with them the whole time, but stayed at the affiliated hospital to communicate with the doctors there.

His eldest son cooperated with the police and assisted in the investigation.

This investigation took a week.

As time went on, they quickly identified a 'farmer' in a vegetable market near Harbin Institute of Technology.

They are not real farmers, but outsiders who pretend to be old farmers and sell vegetables they grow at the market.

They also wholesaled some vegetables to a stall in the market, which was the place where Liu Xiaoli and her friends used to frequently buy vegetables.

But the trail went cold here, because the old farmer hadn't appeared for over a month.

In this day and age, finding someone is like finding a needle in a haystack.

At this point, there was no way to continue the investigation, because all the clues had been exhausted.

Places like farmers' markets have a high turnover rate, especially in winter.

Harbin is developing rapidly, especially the vegetable markets near Harbin Institute of Technology. There used to be only two vegetable markets, but now there are eight.

Centered on Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), within a radius of two to three kilometers, there are many affiliated units of HIT, and the total population in the vicinity is at least 200,000.

What does a population of 200,000 mean?
The population on the Harbin Institute of Technology campus alone is already around 40,000 to 50,000, so it's quite normal that the total population of its subordinate units and their families exceeds 200,000.

So these 200,000 people are equivalent to four or five Harbin Institute of Technology.

The scale of seven or eight farmers' markets is quite normal.

The high turnover rate of personnel has increased the difficulty of the investigation exponentially, so this is the only way we can proceed for now.

After hearing Zhao Guobin's report, Wang Duoyu felt helpless but had no choice but to accept it. What else could he do?

"By the way, Professor Wang, there's something I'm not sure if I should say."

Inside the office, Zhao Guobin hesitated for a moment before speaking. Upon hearing this, Wang Duoyu immediately replied:

"If it's not something you should say, then don't say it!"

Zhao Guobin: "."

We're all seasoned shrewd people, why are we playing these ghost stories?

Although Wang Duoyu wouldn't admit to being a cunning old fox, he's certainly not stupid. How could he not know what Zhao Guobin was up to?

It was nothing more than what he was about to say that might anger or upset Wang Duoyu, but he didn't want to take responsibility. Instead, he hoped that Wang Duoyu would ask him "on her own initiative" so that he wouldn't blame him afterwards.

Hey, what kind of good thing is that?

So if that's the case, then let's not talk about it.

"Lots of fish, this."

"Old Zhao, I know you're busy, and I'm busy too. Let's not waste each other's time, understand?"

"Okay, it's like this. Among the traditional Chinese medicine doctors who came to participate in the investigation this time, there is one named Shi Bohua, who is Lin Dehong's father-in-law."

Oh?
Upon hearing this, Wang Duoyu was taken aback for a moment, then fell silent.

He certainly remembered Lin Dehong. He used to be Lin's boss, then they became good friends, and then they went their separate ways.

Originally, Lin Dehong should have faded from his sight, but he did not expect that this time the other party would actually call out his father-in-law.

Wang Duoyu had also heard of Mr. Shi Bohua, who was eighty-six years old. Given his age, the fact that he had traveled such a long distance to come to Harbin truly earned Wang Duoyu's respect.

I just didn't expect it to be Lin Dehong's father-in-law, just like always.

"Okay, I understand!" Wang Duoyu nodded, his expression calm as he indicated his understanding.

However, the person behind Liu Xiaoli's miscarriage has not been found this time, and Wang Duoyu's anger has not subsided.

Therefore, even though they knew Lin Dehong had helped, they didn't express much gratitude.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Guobin opened his mouth, but finally sighed helplessly.

"By the way, what I promised you will be done soon, but Lao Zhao, I hope you can ask the police in Bingcheng to keep a close eye on things, as well as the relevant departments in Bingcheng."

Upon hearing Wang Duoyu's words, Zhao Guobin immediately stopped:
"No, I haven't been able to help at all."

"It's settled then. I have things to do, and I'm sure you're busy too, Lao Zhao, so I won't see you off."

Deeply moved, Zhao Guobin could only nod emphatically, indicating that he would continue to follow up on this matter.

A ten million US dollar investment, all used for public services in Harbin. He donated it without hesitation. Wang Duoyu is truly a man of his word.

No sooner had Zhao Guobin left than Wang Duoyu immediately picked up his mobile phone and called his eighth brother-in-law, Xue Lisheng, to arrange the matter.

If you don't do these things now, you'll easily forget about them later.

Because it was such a trivial matter, he wouldn't bother to remember it, and might even have assumed he had already done it.

This has little to do with good or bad memory, because that's how the human brain works; it's impossible to record every single image you see.

Some unimportant things are easily forgotten.

Xue Lisheng, in the office of the Want Want Group's Brabus Watch Factory, looked quite surprised after hanging up the phone.

Did they really just donate ten million US dollars like that?

Zhao Guobin will make the specific arrangements for how it will be used, but the person in charge will be the Want Want Group.

Although Want Want Group is wealthy, donating ten million US dollars at once is still quite a big deal.

However, since Wang Duoyu spoke up himself, Xue Lisheng did not try to dissuade him, and said he would carry out the matter well.

Back at the mathematics department's teaching building, Wang Duoyu had barely hung up the phone when his mobile phone rang again. It was Wu Congxin calling.

"Duoyu, Lao Lu just collapsed and has been taken to the hospital, but I heard it's not good."

Upon receiving this call, Wang Duoyu's heart sank.

The "Old Lu" that Wu Congxin mentioned was Lu Jiaxi, whose health was starting to decline.

Previously, Lu Jiaxi did not pay much attention to his health. When he joined Harbin Institute of Technology in July 1979, his body had already reached its limit.

According to the original timeline, Lu Jiaxi should have left in October of 1983.

But it is now February 1985, and he has lived for more than a year longer than in the original timeline.

But now it seems that Lu Jiaxi's days are numbered.

"Okay, I'll be right over!"

Wang Duoyu said in a deep voice.

Although he knew that going to the affiliated hospital would be of no use, he knew that if he didn't show up at all, it wouldn't work.

"Duoyu, you're so busy, don't come over yet. I'll let you know when there are any results!"

"No need, I'll go there. I remember there are still several experienced traditional Chinese medicine doctors at the affiliated hospital who haven't left yet. I'll see if I can get them to help with a consultation."

"Oh, okay then, I'll trouble you to make the trip, Duoyu."

Upon hearing this, Wu Congxin knew he couldn't persuade Wang Duoyu, so he simply went along with it.

After hanging up the phone, Wang Duoyu immediately got up and went straight to the affiliated hospital.

Meanwhile, the affiliated hospital was unusually busy.

The doctors, who were originally having a special discussion in the conference room, were all urged to leave by the nurses.

The reason is that an hour and a half earlier, a chemical plant explosion occurred in another corner of the city of Harbin, causing a fire.

The incident caused significant casualties, and nearby hospitals simply did not have enough beds, so the only option was to transfer patients to the Harbin Institute of Technology Affiliated Hospital.

This has led to the affiliated hospital being exceptionally busy.

It's the dead of winter now, and many people are staying indoors, but quite a few are catching colds and fevers as a result.

It's very simple. The indoor temperature is as warm as summer, but the outdoor temperature is minus twenty or thirty degrees Celsius. There are always some mischievous people causing trouble, so accidents can easily happen.

When Wang Duoyu arrived, he saw patients, doctors, and nurses coming and going; everyone seemed quite busy.

The hospital director personally treated Lu Jiaxi not only because he was more familiar with Lu Jiaxi's condition, but also because Lu Jiaxi was highly valued by Wang Duoyu.

Upon learning from the nurse that the hospital director had personally led several doctors from Beijing to conduct a consultation and perform surgery on Lu Jiaxi, Wang Duoyu breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Jiaxi's two children were standing next to him, while his wife, Zhang Shuqin, was in the ward.

Zhang Shuqin originally worked at a hospital and was a nurse.

However, she couldn't persuade Lu Jiaxi, otherwise, she wouldn't have let him go into the operating room.

Old Lu has a heart condition, and he has been working like this for years without giving himself any time to rest.

A reporter had previously interviewed him: "Old Lu, now that you've basically solved the mathematical problem you've been researching, you should take a good rest and take care of your health."

But he replied with this: I'm almost fifty years old, and I don't have much time left. I have to hurry up and make the most of my time.

So that's the kind of person Lao Lu is; he spends his whole life in a busy schedule.

Standing in the corridor outside the operating room, Wang Duoyu was also reflecting on himself.

The body is one's own. Lu Jiaxi is about to turn fifty, but it seems that God is not letting him pass the hurdle of fifty years old, and is going to send him to meet the King of Hell.

Wang Duoyu himself is already twenty-nine years old, but whether he can live to fifty is anyone's guess.

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