Mom's Advice
After finishing their work before the Spring Festival, Shen Qi and Ou Ye went to Ou Ye's house to celebrate the Spring Festival and have New Year's Eve dinner.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the two flew to Nangang, where Shen Qi's father, Shen Qi Shen Zhishan, Ou Ye them up at the airport.
"Xiao Ou, welcome, Happy New Year." Shen Zhishan had met Ou Ye in Hong Kong before and even gave her a red envelope. He had a good impression of Ou Ye, saying she was a refined and elegant girl.
"Uncle Shen, Happy New Year! Wishing you good fortune and good health." Ou Ye greeted him with a cupped-hand salute, showing no nervousness upon seeing Shen Zhishan.
Shen Zhishan immediately gave Ou Ye a red envelope, as it is local custom for married people to give red envelopes to unmarried people.
Shen Zhishan drove to a high-end residential area in the city's CBD. Old Shen's business has been doing quite well in recent years, and he has moved to a large house, 200 square meters, costing over 100,000 yuan per square meter.
"My home is on the 7th floor. The business owner is superstitious; he thinks 'seven up, eight down' is a bad omen." Shen Qi looked up and pointed to a building, then got out of the car with Ou Ye: "It's not as big as your villa, but we'll make do for a few days."
"We live in a second-tier city, nothing like the high-end cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong." Ou Ye and his son Shen Qi went up to the seventh floor and entered Shen Qi's home.
Shen Qi's Mom, Fan Yunxia, was welcoming guests at home. She had seen Ou Ye's photo before, but this was the first time she had seen Ou Ye in person.
"Hello, Xiao Ou, Happy New Year." Fan Yunxia sat upright on the sofa, exuding an air of majesty, and carefully examined Ou Ye.
"Hello Aunt Fan, I wish you a Happy New Year." Ou Ye seemed a little nervous when she saw Shen Qi's Mom.
"Mom, Ou Ye brought you some gifts," Shen Qi said, noticing Ou Ye trembling.
"Yes, yes, a gift." Ou Ye quickly placed the gift box she was carrying on the coffee table.
"Thank you for the expense, Xiao Ou. Please have a seat," Fan Yunxia said with a slight smile.
Ou Ye didn't know where to sit. She stood there, completely forgetting everything Shen Qi had taught her.
Shen Qi sat down first, patting the sofa cushion to indicate that Ou Ye should sit next to him.
Ou Ye sat down, Fan Yunxia took out a small, thin red envelope containing a bank card. "Xiao Ou, this is a small token of our family's appreciation. Please accept it."
The red envelope from Shen's father was a private one, but the one from Shen's mother was an official one. Even if Ou Ye was clueless about social etiquette, she knew that she had to accept the official one.
"Thank you, Aunt Fan." Ou Ye accepted the red envelope. The amount of money wasn't important; it was a necessary procedure.
Fan Yunxia stood up, walked to Ou Ye's side, sat down, poured tea for Ou Ye, and asked in a kind and gentle manner, "Have you adapted well since returning to China? Is your work going well?"
Ou Ye nodded. "Yes, it's fine."
Fan Yunxia took Ou Ye's hand, her expression particularly kind. "Shen Qi is a very busy person at work, so you'll have to take good care of him in his personal life."
"Okay, I will." Ou Ye knew it or not, she had to agree first.
"Come on, let's watch some TV. The seven-day New Year holiday is so funny," Shen Qi interrupted. He realized that if he continued questioning her like this, Ou Ye would probably take drugs.
That evening, while Ou Ye was taking a shower, Fan Yunxia and Shen Qi were chatting on the balcony.
"Xiao Ou still has some health problems; I've checked her pulse," Fan Yunxia with some worry.
"Mom, didn't you study Western medicine? You can even take a pulse?"
"Your Eldest Uncle is a traditional Chinese medicine doctor; he taught me." Fan Yunxia is now a chief physician and a renowned internal medicine doctor at their top-tier hospital. "When is Xiao Ou available? I'll take her to our hospital for a comprehensive checkup."
"It's the Lunar New Year, isn't it inappropriate to take your son's girlfriend to the hospital?" Shen Qi disagreed with his Mom's proposal; his Mom had been getting increasingly cheeky lately.
"I didn't mean the Lunar New Year holidays; I meant later, if it's convenient."
"Oh, we'll talk about it later." Shen Qi took out his phone and showed his Mom some photos, which were Ou Ye's medical records and medication lists from the past two years.
"Xiao Ou's illness is a bit troublesome. It's a chronic disease with a complex mechanism. In your daily life, you should pay attention to these points to stabilize the condition and prevent it from worsening..." Fan Yunxia whispered the key points to Shen Qi.
Doctors probably value health the most. Fan Yunxia didn't approve of Shen Qi dating Ou Ye before, but her son liked the girl and had been living with Xiao Ou for several years. From the perspective of feelings and morality, Fan Yunxia, as a mother, could only go along with her son and provide professional help.
Biological experience points +1
Chemistry experience points +1
The system suddenly displayed two messages.
Hey, my mom is an elite expert in biochemistry... Shen Qi's chemistry level 7 and biology level 5, after listening to his Mom's professional medical advice, his experience points in chemistry and biology increased slightly.
Biology and chemistry are not entirely synonymous with medicine. Medicine is a vast discipline that encompasses knowledge related to biology and chemistry.
The system didn't have the medical function enabled. Even though Shen Qi had upgraded his biology and chemistry to the highest level, he felt that in the medical field, he still needed to listen to the advice of experienced and renowned doctors like his Mom. The best medicine could only cure diseases and save lives if used correctly; otherwise, it would have the opposite effect.
Shen Qi stayed at Ou Ye's house. Although he was treated to good food and drinks, he felt somewhat constrained.
Ou Ye, who was staying at Shen Qi's house, had the same feeling.
The two stayed in Nangang until the tenth of the month, completing the necessary procedures, before flying to the capital to enjoy a carefree life together.
The Shen Qi Mathematical and Physical Research Center officially commenced operations on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month. The Physics Room welcomed a new full-time researcher, a Ph. D. in physics from Wuhan University, specializing in Theoretical Physics, with a focus on Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Mechanics.
Shen Qi allowed the physics PhDs from Wuhan University to freely explore and fully express themselves. This is the current experimental condition of our center, and research on Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Mechanics mainly relies on imagination.
Shen Qi's review article, "Disorder-Order Phase Transition Rules and Fundamental Equations of a Class of Compounds," published in PRL in early January, has been controversial in the Physics Community.
Regardless of outside opinions, Shen Qi continued working on his 973 Physics project.
In late February, news came from the United States.
The physics team at Princeton claims that their research has found that the disorder-order phase transition rules and basic Mathematical Physics equations proposed by Shen Qi Team at Yenching University are universal in a class of oxides with similar structures, and can serve as a basic theoretical support for standardized promotion.
Based on Shen Qi's "Disorder-Order Phase Transition Rules and Basic Equations of a Class of Compounds", the physics team at Princeton has given a new conclusion, namely a new mechanistic explanation for the critical phenomenon of Amorphous Alloy.
Shen Qi discovered that the Boss the physics team at Princeton was Professor Duncan Haldane.
Professor Haldane is a top expert in Condensed Matter Physics and Nobel Prize in Physics.
Shen Qi had met this chubby Nobel laureate when he was at Princeton, and they had chatted briefly.
Haldane is British, recruited by Princeton from Cambridge University. The team of Nobel Prize in Physics recognized Shen Qi's research results and, based on Shen Qi's research, developed something new.
"This is a good thing, but also a challenge." Shen Qi's research results can provide Nobel laureates with some new inspiration, and he is happy to see this situation.
This also shows that the physics team at Princeton University, led by a Nobel laureate, is doing something similar to what Shen Qi Team was doing.
Shen Qi felt it was necessary to communicate with Professor Haldane of Princeton University, suggesting that they share the profits and complement each other's work to avoid duplication.