Chapter 451

4:30 PM, library entrance.

"Phew~"

Xu Qingzhou took a deep breath, and the fatigue disappeared for the most part.

Boston's rainy season had arrived. It had been drizzling since morning, and the whole world was gray. From the library to the outdoors, a moist and fresh breath rushed toward him.

After revising the Riemann Hypothesis paper, he started writing the academic report materials for June 20th.

Although he was confident, he still needed to organize the lecture outline, framework, focus, and go through the questions he might encounter.

Therefore, after finishing class for students this morning, he didn't go back and came to the library to read books and check materials.

Ding~

On this side, Xu Qingzhou had just gotten into the car when his phone rang with a message notification. He opened it and saw several messages from Song Yao.

Song Yao: Professor Xu, buy some groceries on the way back.

Song Yao: Screw peppers (0/5)

Tomatoes (0/2)

Eggs (0/10)

Pork tenderloin (0/1)

Reward: A sweet kiss

Send any emoji to claim the task.

Xu Qingzhou: "..."

Xu Qingzhou's expression was strange. He sent the received emoji and started the car.

He went to a specialized Chinese food supermarket and bought all the groceries according to the list Song Yao gave.

"Five screw peppers, two tomatoes... not to mention, clearly it's just buying groceries, but it's become ritualistic."

"This girl Song Yao is getting better and better at playing."

This trick was learned by Song Yao from the internet, just like the video she watched last time about how to make a boyfriend do all the housework; all roads lead to Rome.

5 PM.

"I'm back..."

Xu Qingzhou stood his umbrella in the bucket specially for umbrellas and carried the groceries home. Song Yao was typing away at the computer.

Her paper had also reached the final stage, so she was quite busy during this period, which was one of the reasons why Xu Qingzhou was willing to be a nanny.

"I'll do it, you get busy." Xu Qingzhou carried the groceries into the kitchen.

Just as he turned around, Song Yao had already entered, wrapping her arms around Xu Qingzhou's waist and leaning in on tiptoe.

"Wait." Xu Qingzhou called a stop.

"Hmm?"

"Can the reward be accumulated? For example, if it's accumulated a few times, it can... hiss~ never mind what I said."

Xu Qingzhou pressed his lips onto her delicate ones.

On the windowsill, Er Miao turned its head to look at the two-legged beasts hugging and gnawing on each other, turned its head away, and didn't look.

After a while.

"Phew~ Xu Qingzhou~"

Song Yao pushed Xu Qingzhou away, her eyes glistening, her breathing a bit rapid. She had almost been suffocated by this guy!

Based on experience, if they kept hugging, something would happen. She still had to call Professor Morton later to report on the paper situation.

"I'll help with the chores."

Xu Qingzhou nodded, still feeling unsatisfied. School Beauty Song had already removed her makeup, but the foundation was there: cold white skin, flawless skin, no lipstick, but her lips still looked watery, making people want to bite them again.

However, the timing was indeed not right. He had only eaten a sandwich when he came out from Professor Roberts and the others at noon, and he was a bit hungry now.

And this girl had things to do at night.

Xu Qingzhou helped wash the vegetables in the kitchen but was chased out by School Beauty Song. It was a good thing that his boyfriend liked her, but this guy kept touching and hugging, and this meal might not be done until dark.

Xu Qingzhou returned to the living room and poked Er Miao a few times.

Er Miao looked up, thinking this two-legged beast was coming to serve it, and stood up yawning, but it was disappointed. After Xu Qingzhou finished disturbing Er Miao with his hands, he sat down to write the report for the 20th.

After a while.

Song Yao's voice came from the kitchen: "I bought the tickets. We'll fly directly to Kyoto on the 26th, stay in Kyoto for three days, and return to Rongcheng on July 1st."

"Alright."

Xu Qingzhou nodded, closed the computer to prevent the document inside from being ruined by Er Miao, and went to the kitchen to talk to Song Yao: "Return on June 26th, return to Boston on July 10th... go to Rio de Janeiro together on the 30th... have to fly everywhere in the last two months."

At the beginning of June, Xu Qingzhou received an invitation letter from the ICM (International Congress of Mathematicians). The 28th International Congress of Mathematicians would be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 1st.

The conference would last for 8 days, including the opening ceremony, award ceremony, academic reports, thematic seminars, round-table discussions, and the closing ceremony, etc.

At the opening ceremony of the conference, the winners of the Fields Medal would be announced simultaneously.

Generally speaking, the Fields Medal would have 2-4 winners.

People who could win the award were now roughly clear.

Without a doubt, Xu Qingzhou was definitely on the list.

The rest were Jonathan Birmingham, who proved the exponential ergodicity of solutions at 1-Wasserstein distance, and Jerry Bronson, who proved the Strong Mason Conjecture...

This last seat was slightly controversial.

Akshay Venkatesh, a master in the two fields of analytic number theory and homogeneous dynamical systems.

And Caucher Birkar, who proved the boundedness of Fano varieties and promoted the development of the Minimal Model Program.

Because these two people didn't have an overwhelming advantage when compared.

As for the two scholars who had previously worked on the non-trivial zero estimate of the Riemann Hypothesis, they originally had hope, but after Xu Qingzhou's paper came out, the zero estimate didn't seem so important.

To be precise, among the popular candidates, everyone except Xu Qingzhou was controversial.

After all, no matter how you looked at it, compared to Xu Qingzhou, others didn't seem to be on the same layer.

Although a mathematician's contribution couldn't be calculated solely by solving a certain conjecture, this could still distance him from other winners, especially since Xu Qingzhou had also solved four world-class conjectures.

These were all things for later; Xu Qingzhou didn't care that much. As a hot new star in the mathematical world, he only needed to prepare a 1-hour keynote report. As for the winners, let the committee have a headache.

Returning to Xia Nation, in the end, the two only stayed at home for seven or eight days. Xu Qingzhou's time was okay, relatively free, but Song Yao only had a two-week vacation.

The sound of stir-frying rang out in the kitchen.

Xu Qingzhou leaned on the door frame, watched for a while, and pondered: "Then I'll see what gifts there are; I can just visit my old teachers when I return to Kyoto."

"Hmm." Song Yao nodded. In the blink of an eye, they had been out for a year.

Professor Li Daiyue would call every month to ask about her situation, whether there was anything she couldn't adapt to in her studies, or if there were any difficulties in the project process.

She was afraid that her student would suffer here in the United States.

Xu Qingzhou sniffed. At this moment, the kitchen was filled with the fragrance of food.

Looking at Song Yao, who was cooking skillfully, he had that feeling of trance again. Song Yao in the past... was like a fairy who didn't eat the food of mortals, cold and indifferent, and one could feel the cold aura even from a few meters away.

Now, there was a lot more of the smoke and fire of life on her.

"What are you looking at, serve the food!"

Song Yao shouted at Xu Qingzhou, who was in a daze.

"Oh, okay."

The cold girl from the past gradually overlapped with the current School Beauty Song.

(End of chapter)