Chapter 946 This Time It's Not Just an Hour! (2/4)

Chapter 946 This time it's not just an hour! (twenty four)

[If you are willing to wait until seven o'clock, I will attend the appointment. ∠("∠)＿】

I turned on the phone again and checked the email. Although I didn't really understand the meaning of the character emoticons used by young people, Professor Krugman could still understand the line in front of it.

"Five minutes to seven o'clock." Lifting up his cuffs and looking at the time on the watch, Professor Andis continued, "Are you sure he said seven o'clock in the evening?"

Professor Krugman shook his head with a bitter smile on his face.

"Honestly, I'm not sure, I'm not even sure if he's referring to today or tomorrow?"

"You should ask clearly!"

Professor Andis muttered something in a low voice, stood up with a sigh, and continued.

"I'm going to get something to eat first... It's impossible to wait so endlessly. I advise you to get something to eat. The meal will be collected in an hour, and you should fill your stomach before going to bed It's not healthy to be full."

Just when Professor Andis picked up the plate and was about to pick up the meal, a figure suddenly walked quickly from the direction of the door.

The moment he saw the face that left a deep impression on him, Professor Krugman's eyes lit up...or stared, he stood up with his hands on the table, and then enthusiastically stretched out right hand up

"Haha, welcome! Professor Lu Zhou, nice to meet you!"

Also seeing Lu Zhou appearing in the cafeteria, Professor Andis did not leave immediately, put down the plate in his hand with a smile, and followed him to meet him.

"I finally got you here!"

"I'm not late, am I?" Lu Zhou glanced at the silver watch on his left hand, and whispered to himself, "It's dangerous, I'll be late by a minute."

Patting Lu Zhou on the shoulder, Professor Krugman showed enthusiasm no less than that of an insurance company salesman, and said with a smile: "There is no need to worry about that for a minute or two, we are willing to wait for you no matter how long it takes, Let's eat and talk, my stomach is almost flattened."

Lu Zhou said unexpectedly: "You haven't eaten yet?"

Professor Andis said as a matter of course: "Isn't this waiting for you?"

Lu Zhou's expression was slightly embarrassed, and he coughed lightly.

"...Actually, you can wait while you eat, I don't really mind."

After hearing this sentence, Professor Krugman and Professor Andis fell into a bewildered silence, and finally looked at each other silently.

That expression seemed to say...

MMP!

Why didn't you say it earlier!

...

The three of them took their meals and came back, and sat at a table for four by the window.

Looking at the empty seat next to Lu Zhou, Professor Krugman suddenly remembered something, so he took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

"Let me make a call first."

Lu Zhou nodded. He was already so hungry that he was not polite to the two sitting across from him. He reached out and picked up the knife and fork, and began to break down the Boston lobster on the plate.

After a while, Professor Krugman, who was on the phone just now, came back.

He came here with Lu Zhou's younger sister, Xiaotong who just flew to Princeton a few days ago...

"Hi... bro."

Xiao Tong waved her hand in embarrassment, and sat next to Lu Zhou in embarrassment.

Seeing his younger sister sitting next to him, Lu Zhou was not surprised, just smiled and said.

"How? Are you still adapting to the new environment?"

"It's pretty good..." Xiaotong scratched the back of her head embarrassingly, and said in a low voice, "Aren't you surprised? I'm here in Shanghai."

Hearing Xiaotong's question, Lu Zhou frowned.

"Professor Krugman is here, I probably guessed that this guy will definitely bring you. Let me guess, when the plane landed here, did he still ask you to call me? Let You asked me to come over?"

Hearing that Lu Zhou perfectly restored what happened the day before yesterday, Xiaotong blinked in surprise.

"Huh? Can you guess all of this?"

"Wait, you didn't call?!" Krugman glanced at Xiao Tong in surprise, and then at Lu Zhou, who was smiling but not smiling. Then his face showed an expression of being seen through, and he coughed lightly in embarrassment. Said, "Let me state in advance, I didn't tell her to call you over, I just hoped that she would call her family to report that she was safe."

Lu Zhou: "Is there any difference?"

"Okay," Krugman shrugged as if giving up, leaned back on the chair, and said helplessly, "I apologize, I did play a little clever, but I swear I have absolutely no malice."

Professor Andis, who was sitting next to Professor Krugman, also helped his friend and said: "Krugman is also out of kindness, he hopes you can see that your research results are shining in this field, so he I want you to come here... In fact, I believe you have seen that the Lu-Bewley model is now one of the hottest directions in economics. Even if the Nobel Prize committee considers awarding you an award for this, I would be a little bit It doesn't feel weird."

"It's too early to talk about it now. They still owe me a physics prize for the theory of strong electric interaction. They should send me that stuff first."

Smiling indifferently, Lu Zhou turned his attention to Xiaotong who was a little nervous, and said a few words.

"You have already arrived in Shanghai, why didn't you call me?"

Xiao Tong pouted, and finally said with a sigh.

"Okay, let me tell you the truth... I'm afraid you'll laugh at me."

"If you tell me the truth, you won't say such things to fool me."

Looking at Xiaotong with a look of astonishment, Lu Zhou paused for a moment, then continued.

"Actually, you don't have to worry about causing trouble to me at all."

The moment he heard this sentence, Xiaotong's eyes slightly opened.

"Why...you say this all of a sudden?"

In that astonished voice, there was a trace of surprise and astonishment that was seen through, and the expression in his eyes was also completely unexpected.

It was as if he had done something bad secretly without telling the adults, but he was spotted right after he got home.

"Because that's what you're thinking of, isn't it?"

With such an expression on his face, Lu Zhou shook his head with a smile, and said with a light sigh.

"Actually, it's really troublesome for me to be asked by others. Many things that can only be done by me can't be pushed back, and I can't push it away because of responsibility. Including coming to Shanghai, Including attending the unveiling ceremony of the IMCRC, these are troublesome for me...and quite troublesome."

In fact, he has always been able to feel the contradiction in Xiaotong's heart.

On the one hand, she wanted to rely on herself, but on the other hand, she longed to get rid of her dependence on herself. She longed to change from the little girl who was bullied at school and only yelled at her brother, to a girl who was as strong and as strong as her brother. Independent, even powerful, mature people...

Having lived together for so many years since childhood, he really knows her very well.

After all, this little guy has been running behind his butt since he wore open crotch pants, and his personality is almost carved out of the same mold...

Having said that, Lu Zhou paused for a moment, looked into Xiaotong's eyes and continued.

"...But you are my sister, you are not someone else. No matter how many times you ask me, I have never regarded your affairs as trouble."

The opened eyes were slightly enlarged, gradually covered with a layer of water mist.

"...old brother."

Seeing Xiaotong's moved face, Lu Zhou smiled, reached out and rubbed the little guy's head vigorously, and continued.

"Don't hide anything from me in the future! Remember what I told you a few years ago when you were just an undergraduate student, during the Chinese New Year?"

Raising his sleeves and rubbing the corners of his eyes, Xiaotong sniffed, his voice choked with disappointment.

"...Which sentence? You talk so much, I can't remember it."

"Take you to pretend to take you to fly," Lu Zhou smiled and joked, "By the way, I will come back with a Nobel Prize in Mathematics."

The previous conversations were all in Mandarin, but the last half of the sentence was in English.

He had been listening in the fog all the time, and suddenly heard such a sentence, Professor Andis suddenly muttered and complained unhappily: "Nobel doesn't have a prize for mathematics, it's a prize for economics!"

"That's right! I agree with Professor Andis' point of view," Professor Krugman, who was sitting next to him, nodded earnestly, protesting, but soon his tone softened again, "Of course, although Nobel There is no mathematics award, but this does not prevent mathematicians from winning awards... If you are willing to continue researching in the direction of the Lu-Bewley model, it is only a matter of time before you win the award."

"Haha, don't get excited, you are right, the Nobel does not have a mathematics prize, that is an honor for economists... I was just joking."

Seeing that the atmosphere at the table gradually became more pleasant, Lu Zhou smiled, looked at Xiaotong with a serious look on his face, and continued.

"About the afternoon report meeting, after leaving the lecture hall, I thought about it for a long time."

"It would cause such a major misunderstanding for an excellent scholar like Joseph who is good at using mathematical tools. Maybe I also have certain problems."

"This time I was a little more serious and simply improved the Lu-Bewley model." He took out the A4 paper folded into squares from his pocket, unfolded it, looked at it again, and handed it to Xiaotong In his hand, "The thing on these few draft papers is the improved Lu-Bewley model."

"Although it is not sure whether it is really as effective as you describe, but at least in a mathematical sense, it will be more rigorous and more operable than the previous model."

After that, he frowned, and in front of the astonished Professors Krugman and Andis, looking at Xiaotong who was holding the stack of A4 papers in his hand and his face was full of surprise, he said: said jokingly.

"This time, your brother and I didn't just spend an hour."