Hedong University.

The deep winter has not yet been far away, the early spring has not yet bloomed, and the campus that has just begun to welcome students is full of gloomy scenes.

The small bridge, which is the most popular among the students, has only some dead branches and leaves that have not been swept away, embedded in the cracks of the stone slabs, shivering in the breeze.

It was very cold outside, but even so, there were still students wrapped in green military coats, holding their heads high, and reciting English in high-pitched voices.

On a small bridge more than ten meters long, there are seven or eight people reciting, some people are leaning against the bridge piles to hide from the wind, some people are relying on their backs to keep warm, and a boy is actually riding on the bridge, against the biting wind, with a sharp voice, reading new concept English.

"People who don't know, do you think that if he wants to jump, he can't find a warmer place to memorize English?" Yang Rui was wearing a cashmere sweater, a cashmere tweed coat, and a scarf around his neck, still not feeling warm, his body was much better than before, but the weather was much colder than in later generations, and now it is the era when cotton clothes and cotton pants are the standard.

Yao Yue covered her mouth and smiled, and exhaled lightly by the way, Nuan Nuan's cheeks were already red from the cold, and said: "That's a member of the Cantilever English Club, and the meaning of taking the head of the cone is to learn English well when the conditions are difficult." Reading on the bridge is just to let the cold wind blow and clear the mind. ”

Yang Rui shook in the wind, shook his head and said, "The conditions are hard enough, aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"

"Not only are the conditions difficult, but the results of the members of the Cone English Club are also good, although they are not as good as everyone else......" Yao Yue glanced at Yang Rui with a smile, and continued: "Some of them have applied to study in the United States this year, and the number of applicants for the Cone English Club has increased by seven or eight times all of a sudden. ”

Yao Yue's mood was excellent, and when Yang Rui took the initiative to find her, Yao Yue was so happy that she wanted to jump up. As for what Yang Rui was looking for her to do, Yao Yue didn't care anymore, and just dragged him around the campus.

Yang Rui was not in a hurry, following Yao Yue's footsteps, flickering fast and fast, flickering left and right, flickering forward and backward and touring Hedong University, chatting casually.

As the only key university in Hedong Province, Hedong University is very good in terms of location and area, the campus is surrounded by mountains and rivers, including century-old giant trees and thousand-year-old Confucian Temple, the building history of the First Five-Year Plan period, and the newly renovated stadium is magnificent.

However, compared with Peking University, these advantages are not worth mentioning. In terms of location and area, Peking University was the first among the universities before the expansion, and it was even better in terms of campus environment and long history.

The long-term uneven distribution of resources naturally creates class differences between schools.

When Yang Rui came to the real room of the Department of Biology, this sense of difference was even stronger.

After more than half a year, the real yàn room of the Department of Biology, which belongs to Professor Cang, has hardly changed in the slightest, which is exactly the same as when Yang Rui first came here.

The glass in the room is still smooth and bright, the glassware in the room is still clean and bright, and the appearance of the instruments in the room is still clean and bright. However, there are no new instruments, no new equipment.

The feeling here for Yang Rui is like a new factory that has been on display for more than ten years, which looks beautiful, but is actually outdated.

Biotechnology developed rapidly in the 80s, and it can be said that it is changing with each passing day, and when Yang Rui first came to Professor Cang's real yàn room, he felt that it was similar to his simple real yàn room. More than half a year has passed, Yang Rui's real room has been replaced by the first-class level in China, and Professor Cang's real room in the biology department is still worth 30,000 US dollars.

The $30,000 chemistry room can still be a little present, and the $30,000 biology room can only be said to be rough.

Of course, in terms of the level of the 80s in China, the real yàn room of 30,000 US dollars can barely be said to be second-rate, but the real yàn room of China's second-rate real yàn room, if you want to make something of international level, it is too difficult. At the level of the same era, Brazil has a second-rate real yàn, Malaysian a second-rate real yàn, a South African second-rate real yàn, a third-rate real yàn in Norway, a third-rate real yàn in the United Kingdom, and a fourth-rate real yàn in the United States...... are stronger than it.

There are no excellent hardware conditions, and perhaps they can be compensated for by excellent software conditions, but as far as China in the 80s is concerned, it would be good to be able to teach without textbooks 20 years behind the times, and researchers who can replace advanced instruments with intelligence, that is, there are a few people, among them, naturally Professor Cang of Hedong University is not included.

The first time Yang Rui met Professor Cang, it was introduced by Shen Pinghui, director of the Pingjiang Institute of Biology, that the WestJet factory had just been put into production, and Yang Rui had made a super-quality large crystal coenzyme Q10, and Professor Cang repeated that the practice was unsuccessful and wanted to "explore and exchange" in an unsuccessful attempt.

Yang Rui looked around and secretly commented that based on the current real conditions of Professor Cang's real yàn room, it is estimated that it is still difficult to succeed in repeating the real yàn.

Although the WestJet factory is a factory, it is also a factory with an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the basic equipment is much better than Professor Cang's real room.

The technical condition of the factory is better than that of the real yàn room, which is also a very embarrassing thing.

Yang Rui glanced at Yao Yue and thought: It was time to pull her out of here earlier.

Yao Yue thought that Yang Rui was asking himself with his eyes, and said with a smile: "Professor Cang will be here soon, some time ago, he has been reading a paper on potassium ion channels, and it is estimated that he has a lot to talk to you." ”

Yang Rui was dumbfounded: "I didn't come to chat with him, besides, the last time I saw him, wasn't he making a duplicate of coenzyme Q10? Later, when you helped me do the plant extraction method to produce coenzyme Q10, Professor Cang seemed to be quite interested." ”

"Because I couldn't apply for a patent if I did it, I didn't do it anymore. Yao Yue chuckled: "I don't know who registered the patents for coenzyme Q10." In the past, Professor Cang used to repeatedly do some European and American patents, then apply for patents in China, and then use the patents to apply for funds. Under normal circumstances, the patents in Europe and the United States will not be patented in China, but coenzyme Q10 is an exception, Professor Cang spent thousands of dollars in vain, and his distressed waist can't straighten up, where will he be interested. ”

"Does he think that no one has applied for a patent for the potassium ion channel?" Yang Rui laughed.

Yao Yue shook his head and said: "Potassium and potassium ion channels are academic papers, and Professor Cang just wants to publish a heavyweight paper, so he studied it seriously......

After a pause, Yao Yue covered her mouth and whispered: "I only tell you alone, Professor Cang will read the paper carefully after translating it into Chinese." ”

Yang Rui was puzzled and asked, "Why do you want to translate into Chinese?"

"Because Professor Cang thinks that as a Chinese, when you publish an English paper, there must be some words that are difficult to express clearly, so he reversely translates your paper, hoping to guess the parts you didn't express clearly, and then ......."

"And then?"

"And then it's a good article. Yao Yue exhaled like an orchid, and her cheeks were slightly red.

Yang Rui stared at her for a while before he said, "That is, Professor Cang wants to find out what is not clearly stated in my paper and then publish it as his own paper?" And the way to find out what is not clearly explained is to translate the English version of my paper into Chinese?"

"That's right. ”

"He didn't think about it, could I have written a thesis directly in English?"

Yao Yue smiled and said, "He taught us to write papers, all of which were written in Chinese first, and then translated into English, how could we think about that." ”

"Then you didn't sue him?"

Yao Yue blinked and said with a smile: "I don't think he believes it anyway, so it's better not to say it." ”

Yang Rui was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

Yao Yue was obviously dissatisfied with Professor Cang's "research" method of reverse translation, and deliberately did not report it, so that Professor Cang wasted his time.

Yang Rui smiled, sighed again, and said: "Don't waste your time, if it's not easy to do, just look at the foundation of the thesis first." ”

"Well, I'm looking at the book you sent me. ”

Yang Rui nodded and said, "After reading those tomes, there is no problem with the grammar and French style of the paper." ”

Strictly speaking, when Yang Rui himself was a graduate student, he failed to read a large number of biology monographs. However, at that time, there were already many professional translators, and they could not be compared with the current environment.

In 1984, universities had just resumed their teaching work, and high-energy subjects such as mathematics and literature could still be used in the old ways. But for other fast-growing disciplines, Chinese translations are too old.

Translating a large biological monograph requires thousands of hours of speech, and a translator with a good level of biology can translate it relatively accurately.

But at the current pace of biological development, a large number of biology monographs have not yet been translated, and new things have come out.

Although basic biology is still basic biology, it is unlikely that one will be able to complete the entire study of biology in one's native language, as was the case with later graduate students.

Yang Rui took the opportunity to ask Yao Yue a few questions, and Yao Yue was also very accustomed to this way of communication, which made it easy for her to think of the scene when she was an assistant to Yang Rui.

The good memories came to an end when Professor Kura returned.

"Yang Rui is here. Professor Cang greeted with a smile and stroked his beard, his attitude was very different from when they first met.

Yang Rui suddenly felt a little nostalgic. When we first met, he was a new researcher who published a paper in Biochemical Systems Ecology, and although he had a WestJet collaboration with Jielizene, he really didn't have much to come up with academically, that is, he was younger.

In the final analysis, at the age of less than twenty, publishing a few SCI entry-level papers is not worthy of Professor Cang's second look.

However, this time, Yang Rui is already a new academic who writes papers on JMC.

SCI Impact Factor 4. 0, in the research community of any country, it can be said to be a hurdle. Without a long period of accumulation or excellent talent, such a paper is not easy to publish.

Professor Cang did not get this standard.

He is 52 years old this year, and he has wasted a lot of his time in non-academic fields, and it is not easy to keep up with the fast-paced academic life, let alone publish high-end papers.

Of course, his papers published in China's national journals are not young, which is also the basis for his seniority promotion, but when he is in the same room with Yang Rui, Professor Cang is still short of breath.

After all, not long ago, Professor Cang wanted to study Yang Rui's loopholes and add some luster to himself.

Yang Rui said hello, lost his polite interest, and said directly: "Professor Cang, I have a reluctant request, I want to invite Yao Yue to join my team and be my practical assistant." ”

"Team?"

"I have a team working at Peking University to do potassium channel-related practice, and I would like to invite Yao Yue to join. ”

"Do potassium channel-related real yàn?" Professor Cang couldn't help but look surprised anymore.

"Perhaps, it depends on the needs of the team. Yang Rui said casually.

Professor Cang groaned inexplicably.

Just when Yao Yue began to get nervous, Professor Cang spoke: "Yao Yue is still in the learning stage, and there is nothing to be done by joining your team, why don't I help you choose a few more people......

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