Chapter 437: Professor Chen Comes to Yujing

On the twenty-fourth day of the first lunar month, Chen Shu drove Chen Banxia's car to the airport to pick up Chen Jiaoshou.

"Where are you staying, Chen Jiaoshou?"

"The bureau booked a hotel."

"Not staying at Chen Banxia's place?"

"No."

"Not staying at your best friend's place either?"

"No."

"Alright then." Chen Shu started the car and asked, "What's the hotel called? Where is it?"

"Not far from the school, Tuanzi Hotel."

"Oh, I know that one."

"Is this the car your sister bought?"

"Cute, isn't it?"

"It's tiny." Chen Jiaoshou said with some disdain, "And it only seats two people."

"Otherwise, would I be the only one here to pick you up?" Chen Shu glanced at him. "This car is even a convertible; want me to put the top down and take you for a spin? It'll turn every head."

"No need."

"Haha..."

"Does your sister have class today?"

"She's in class right now."

"Have you found an internship yet?"

"No, no rush, I'm quite lazy." Chen Shu yawned. "Besides, I'm not like you. Any stock I buy just goes up; I can't find the motivation to work until I'm bored out of my mind."

"..."

For the rest of the way, Chen Jiaoshou didn't speak again.

The mini car drove all the way to Tuanzi Hotel. Chen Shu accompanied Chen Jiaoshou to check in and helped him carry his luggage. It wasn't until everything was settled that they drove to the restaurant; by this time, afternoon classes had already ended.

Chen Shu treated them to Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, the same place Zhang Suannai had treated them to before the new year. This time there were four people, including Teacher Shi Qian.

Chen Shu specifically requested a private room to be quieter.

Seeing two old friends meet was naturally a happy occasion.

The two were university classmates, one in Yuanzhou and one in Yujing, separated by four thousand kilometers, and they hadn't seen each other for many years. As soon as they met, the first topic they discussed was when they had last seen each other.

They finally concluded it was before Chen Shu started university, when Chen Jiaoshou came to Yujing for an academic exchange and the two met up.

"There will be plenty of times to meet in the future." Chen Shu said from the side, "Chen Banxia and I are both in Yujing; shouldn't Chen Jiaoshou come visit us often?"

"It's too far."

"I heard the country is preparing to lift the ban on personal low-altitude aircraft. In the future, if you buy a two-seater flying car, it'll be quite convenient to travel back and forth during short holidays."

"A rumor, right?"

"It's real. The technology for personal low-altitude aircraft has long been reached; it was just for various reasons that the country hadn't opened it up. Now that safety and management can be technically guaranteed, it will naturally be opened."

"Where did you get this news?"

"My roommate said so."

"Then wouldn't the flying car sector skyrocket?"

"…Is that what I'm discussing with you? I'm telling you that once there are flying cars, get one and come to Yujing more often to maintain your university friendship, and by the way, maintain our father-son/father-daughter relationship, which is even easier to crash than the stocks you buy." Chen Shu felt helpless and had a headache.

Chen Banxia laughed out loud beside him.

Teacher Shi Qian also revealed a smile.

Only Chen Jiaoshou didn't laugh much, remaining in deep thought, then nodded: "I'll consider it when the time comes."

At this moment, the waiter knocked on the door and began serving the dishes.

This restaurant specialized in Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, using a set menu system with four price points per person: 799, 999, 1299, and 1599. The main dish was always Buddha Jumps Over the Wall; in any case, the more expensive it was, the better the ingredients. You could also choose a few large dishes, and the chef would provide a bunch of hot and cold side dishes, so the portions were guaranteed to fill you up.

Chen Shu still chose the 1599 price point.

Once the food arrived, he and Chen Banxia stopped talking and focused on eating. The siblings, one having ordered the original broth and the other the golden broth, even swapped to try each other's.

Only the two friends of several decades were conversing.

"The Historical Artifacts Administration got their hands on a pile of Xia Dynasty artifacts, the same nature as those unearthed in the Square Body before, and no one knows where they came from." Chen Jiaoshou said, "I heard they got them a while ago and had scholars in Yujing secretly organize them for a few months. Only recently did they start calling people from all over the country to study them... and by the way, Professor Shi from the History Department invited me to give a lecture at your school."

"The Xixiao Cube, obviously, where else."

"I suspect so too."

"It's just hard to know how the country emptied the things inside before opening the Square Body and breaking the Mijing."

"I'm puzzled too."

"Then for those of you coming to Yujing from out of town, doesn't that mean all the good jobs are picked by others?" Teacher Shi Qian was very concerned about his old friend's interests.

"At least my task is quite good." Chen Jiaoshou said, "I heard there's an Autobiography of Shengzu inside, and they asked me to come and analyze and organize it."

"That's not bad; you can publish a book after you're done." Teacher Shi Qian was also in Surprise, then glanced at Chen Shu, imitating Chen Shu's tone of teasing his father, "When the time comes, publish the book, earn a huge amount of royalties, and you can cover your positions again."

"Pretty much."

As the two chatted, they talked about their former classmates and teachers.

Both had attended the History Department of Yujing Academy. Later, because Teacher Shi Qian had outstanding cultivation talent and was also interested in that area, he switched to the then-popular Ancient Cultivation major during his further studies and eventually stayed at Yujing Academy to become a teacher. Most of their classmates from back then were teachers; by comparison, Chen Jiaoshou, as one of the most famous history scholars in the country, was doing the best.

Chen Shu didn't care about these things and just focused on eating, stopping from time to time to stare at the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall in the clay pot, showing a thoughtful expression.

After the meal, the group stood at the restaurant entrance.

"How are you going back?"

"You two go ahead." Teacher Shi Qian said, "I'll take Lao Chen over and chat a bit more on the way."

"Is that okay, Lao Chen?"

"It's okay."

Chen Jiaoshou waved at them and then got into the car of Shi Qian.

"The personalities of you father and son, father and daughter, are quite different," Shi Qian said with a smile. "If you didn't look quite alike, I would have suspected..."

"That they aren't my biological children, right?"

"Hahaha..."

"Chen Shu has a flighty personality; I've caused you trouble."

"Not at all," Shi Qian said with a smile. "Chen Shu does have a flighty personality, but he gets along well with everyone. It's very relaxing to be around him, and I'm afraid he's more capable than you imagine. His future might be much higher than both yours and mine."

"He has always had his own ideas," Chen Jiaoshou said indifferently. "I don't really manage him, nor do I worry much about his affairs."

"Everyone has their own path..."

Shi Qian sighed as he drove, following the small mini-car in front.

That evening, in the small courtyard.

Chen Shu and Qingqing were wearing identical cartoon pajamas—the kind with a shirt on top and shorts on the bottom. They were both loose and light, and quite comfortable. Qingqing sat leaning against the headboard, engrossed in A Book, while Chen Shu received a message from Chen Jiaoshou.

Chen Jiaoshou: 【Presentation】

Chen Jiaoshou: Help me look at my lecture slides.

Chen Shu:...

Chen Jiaoshou: Take a look.

Chen Shu: ==

Chen Jiaoshou: What does that mean?

Chen Shu: Wait.

Chen Shu opened the presentation, feeling somewhat helpless—a dignified history professor, going to a world-class academy to give a history lecture, actually needing his own son to help look at his slides...

Oh wait, it was a presentation.

There is a difference between a presentation and a lecture script. This only listed the lecture structure, sequence, and general points. The document was only a dozen pages long. Except for the first page, which was a summary, almost every subsequent page had only a title plus a few keywords, and at most one sentence of general point description.

Chen Shu looked from top to bottom.

Chen Jiaoshou was still talking about the history of the Xia Dynasty, which he was most proficient in, and intended to analyze the person of Shengzu for everyone; he was an authority in this regard.

Yet, just by looking at the title and keywords of each page, he roughly knew what Chen Jiaoshou was going to talk about and how he would talk about it.

Chen Shu: There are two points that are controversial.

Chen Jiaoshou: Hmm.

Chen Jiaoshou: But they cannot be avoided; just state the controversial content.

Chen Shu: Since there are still a few days before the lecture, go read Shengzu's Autobiography first. There might be a lot of brand-new things in it; maybe it will solve these controversies, and maybe it can further enrich the content of the lecture. By then, you can make your peers at Yujing Academy stare in astonishment.

Chen Shu: You can also add a bit more content about the Daoist Ancestor, the Buddha Ancestor, the first Spirit Saint, and the several eternal famous generals under Shengzu. Everyone likes to hear legendary stories and heroic stories.

Chen Shu: By the way, this presentation looks too ugly. Ask Chen Banxia to redo it for you.

Chen Jiaoshou: She is the one who helped me make it.

Chen Shu: Ask your graduate students to redo it for you.

Chen Jiaoshou: Help me redo it.

Chen Shu:...

Chen Shu: Looking at it this way, this presentation is actually not bad; it's concise and clear. True academic big shots never care about these flashy things. Hmm, just be a bit more humorous in your language when the time comes. Young people like humor, so they can listen to it.

Chen Jiaoshou: I'll try.

Chen Shu: Where are you?

Chen Jiaoshou: Hotel.

Chen Shu: I thought you had been taken back by your good buddy.

Chen Jiaoshou: I still prefer staying in a hotel.

Chen Shu: Keeping yourself pure, Chen Jiaoshou / thumbs up.

Chen Jiaoshou: Get lost.

Chen Shu: Going to cultivate, good night.

Chen Shu closed his Mobile Phone and tossed it onto the nightstand.

"Qingqing, come quickly for Double Cultivation."

Ning Qing glanced at him sideways and continued reading. It wasn't until she finished that section that she put it away and began her Daily Cultivation with him.

The brightness of the bedside lamp dimmed rapidly, replaced by the faint colorful light of the Spirit Power Field Effect.

Chen Shu had also reached the Seven-Tier Peak.

The first day of the second lunar month, Monday morning.

Chen Jiaoshou's lecture was held in the auditorium.

For this kind of lecture, students from the History Department naturally had to attend, especially the juniors and seniors; participating students could also add quality credits. In addition, students from other departments were welcome to attend voluntarily. A post was made on the school forum, and the Publicity Department had also notified all teachers and students through various channels. Banxia Laoshi and Shi Qian had also advertised for Chen Jiaoshou.

History has its own charm and value; no matter what major students are in, they should learn about history.

Coupled with the fact that "Shengzu" indeed had a very high attraction and brought its own traffic, and the students of Yujing Academy loved to study, the popularity of Chen Jiaoshou's lecture was very high. By the time Chen Shu and Chen Banxia came to join the fun, the auditorium was already almost full.

The two found a seat and listened to the lecture with peace of mind.