Fall in love with the ex Bai Yueguang

Tan Ke will stay in Kaner City for three days.Instead of going home, he flew directly from Paris back to the imperial capital, then transferred to Yecheng, and then took a car to Kaner City in Yecheng.

It takes four hours to fly to Yecheng, the imperial capital, and another four hours to Kaner City.

It was already nine o'clock when we arrived at Kaner City, Lancheng and the imperial capital had already entered the night, but there was still a ray of gorgeous sunset glow in the sky of Kaner City, intertwined with orange red and blue purple, like a painter's palette being overturned, dyeing half of the sky .

Kaner City is a military-reclamation city sandwiched between the Gobi Desert and the snow-capped mountains. Going out of the city, there are mountains to the east and deserted beaches to the south and north.There are no tourist attractions, no local specialties worthy of word-of-mouth, and the only thing that can be talked about is probably the tens of thousands of windmills on the Gobi outside the city, turning day and night like an endless steel forest.

There is also an observatory, and a planetarium built next to the observatory-probably the only decent planetarium in the state.

The car was parked in front of the largest hotel in Kaner City.

The parking lot in front of the hotel was empty.The plastic flowers in the revolving door are tilted to one side, and no one cares.

This is already the best one in Kaner City.

Assistant Xiao got out of the car first, and went to the lobby to check in with Tan Ke's ID.

The doorman of the hotel was hiding under the pillars at the entrance, playing with his mobile phone, and had no intention of parking for the guests at all.

"The conditions here are not good. It is not as good as a big city. You can only make do with it."

The driver is from Yecheng, he is used to the decadence in the small town,

He walked in with Tan Ke, and chatted casually: "The economy is not good, and there is no name for tourism. In the past two years, the local government took out a loan to build a wind power project, but the maintenance cost was high, and the price of on-grid electricity was too high to sell. Bad. It's all for show now."

Tan Xin also arrived the next day.The brothers and sisters set off from Kaner City to the former site of the observation station.

The car departs from the hotel in the city center.The buildings on both sides of the street showed a tired state, as if they had given up resistance in the dust and let it erode.

There are no office buildings, and the name of the commercial street is not worthy of its name.There are almost no people on the road, and there are mostly toddler old people and children with snot.

When passing through the windmill jungle when leaving the city, there are indeed many generators in a static state.

There are sparse villages outside the city.But it is not so much a village as it is just a gathering area made up of a bunch of simple earthen houses.

The wind here is strong, the rain is little, and the saline-alkali land is barren.The thin shallow soil on the surface is full of hard gravel, except for the camel thorns that even goats are unwilling to eat, there are no economically valuable crops.

Tan Ke sat in the car and looked all the way over.This is Xie Li's hometown, where his mother is buried.

It's the same as when he first came a few years ago.

Looking at the power generating windmill towering like thousands of arms, he felt deep admiration, because Xie Li was able to get out of here, and because his mother was willing to stay here.

And Tan Qisheng.

Although Tan Qisheng has made no contribution to the family, he is completely invisible in Tan Ke's heart.But no one can deny that he devoted half of his life and even his health to the Gobi underground nuclear laboratory, and he did make a contribution.

This cognitive contradiction tore Tan Ke in two.

Half of it is his rightful admiration and pride for his scientist father as a son, and the other half is his resentment as a son for his father's long-term absence of family life and always trying to interfere forcefully.

If he could love or hate decisively, maybe it wouldn't be as painful as it is now.

After leaving the area with the windmill forest, there is no difference between the earthy world and the four fields.There is only one straight road so that people will not lose their sense of direction.

The car ran like this for two hours, and finally entered the mountain road.

On one side is a rugged stone wall, and on the other side is a protective fence that is higher than a car.

"The road here was only repaired last year. If you came here last year, you wouldn't be able to get on it." The driver was so idle that he couldn't help saying, "During the earthquake that year, stones fell from the top of this place. The road was smashed in a mess. At first, no one came to this area, and there were only two observation stations above it."

This driver is a local man that Assistant Xiao found. He is good at everything, but he talks a lot of nonsense.Assistant Xiao did not disclose his identity and purpose, he thought Tan Ke and his party were on a business trip.

The observation station is on the top of the mountain, but the car can only drive halfway up the mountain, and the rest of the road has to be walked up by oneself.

Assistant Xiao asked the driver to stay in the car, took the shovel and walked up with Tan Ke and Tan Xin.

In the past few days, I have caught up with Qiuhu, and it is the hottest time at noon. The sun is scorching hot, and it is almost like a bun in a steamer.

After the earthquake, the mountain was deserted, and the few trees that were left after the observation station were moved away were all dead.

When the three of them reached the top of the mountain, they seemed to have just been fished out of the water.

The old site of the observatory is still there, and the two buildings, one high and one low, have long been empty.There are also vine-like cracks on the wall, recording the earthquake.

There are many large and small deep pits in the nearby open space, which were not backfilled after the equipment was removed.

Shortly after the earthquake, after the new station was built, people and equipment were evacuated here one after another.

Ye Chunxi's ashes were buried in front of the building.

When Tan Qisheng got the news of his mother's death, he initially kept it from Tan Ke.

Tan Ke returned to China immediately after receiving the news of his sister-in-law, so he didn't miss his mother's body to bid farewell.

The father and son had a quarrel.

Then after the body was cremated in Kaner City, Tan Qisheng had to leave because of work needs. He didn't have time to explain the burial, so he could only entrust it to his children.

As a result, Tan Ke made his own decision and buried his mother's ashes in front of the building where the Observatory used to be.

Tan Qisheng was furious when he learned about it, and almost came back overnight to beat Tan Ke.

Tan Xin had painful memories of those days.The mother left, and the father and brother quarreled so much that they almost turned against each other, as if the family fell apart overnight.

It was only at that time that she began to vaguely realize that her brother seemed to hate her father.

In the past few years, she didn't even want to live with her parents, and she always found various reasons to run out.Tan Qisheng hardly ever went home.When it was time for the holidays, no one offered to go home for a reunion.Either she couldn't come back from abroad, or Tan Qisheng was busy with work and couldn't leave.

Assistant Xiao took the shovel and wanted to do it, but Tan Ke asked to leave.

So Assistant Xiao had no choice but to stand dryly with Tan Xin, without saying a word, while Tan Ke held the shovel in his hand and shoveled the soil vigorously, also very silent.

The driver saw these people holding the yellow paper with a shovel when they went there, and when they came back, there was something wrapped in a black cloth, which seemed to be a jar, and finally guessed the purpose of these people.On the return trip, he drove the car very carefully, for fear of disturbing anything.

When Xie Li came back from Brazil, his biological clock was completely messed up.

He also has no experience of jet lag. He stays at home and sleeps whenever he is sleepy. He often wakes up in the middle of the night, almost passing the American time.

This made it easier for him to contact Sanders.

Sanders himself is actually a dry little old man, very serious.But the photo of him hanging on the official website is still a fat man with a tonnage.This caused Xie Li's perception of him to be very different at first, and he almost didn't recognize him at the airport.He was the one who recognized Xie Li first and came over to say hello.

Saunders and the professor who interviewed Xie Li last time have completely different styles, very pragmatic.The first time I sat down to talk face to face, without a word of pleasantries, I started with a lot of professional questions.

From the formula to the parameters, from the structure to the final display effect, Xie Li came prepared, and almost broke out in a sweat when asked.

But it can also be seen from these questions that Sanders has read his paper very carefully.

Sanders' plane was an hour earlier than Xie Li's.

Before leaving, Sanders asked him about his specific plans, saying that if Xie Li was willing to join his team, he would even help Xie Li persuade his mentor to release him.

Xie Li quickly shook his head and denied it, saying that Shen Zhichuan was not the problem, but that he only wanted to exchange for two or three years, and had no intention of staying abroad for a long time.

Sanders thought he had financial concerns, and stated very directly that his group has always been well-funded, and money is definitely not a problem.If you are willing to take some time to be a TA, it is also an income.

Xie Li shook his head again.He was not sure whether to tell the truth, afraid that if he did, it would make the other party think that he had no ambitions.

But it is true that he will not be able to find a suitable excuse for a while.

"Actually, I don't want to stay abroad because of my lover." He finally opened his mouth, "I don't want to be separated from him for too long, too far. It's not that I don't trust him, it's just—"

He hesitated, but chose to express his true thoughts: "I feel that academics are only a part of my life, and it is far from important enough to be worth sacrificing other parts of my life for it. For me, being with my lover, It’s also a very important thing.”

Sanders nodded, indicating that he understood.He didn't comment on Xie Li's thoughts, nor tried to persuade Xie Li, but just said "Isee" in a normal way.

Xie Li thought of Sanders' reaction on the return plane, and felt that he should have been rejected.

The doctor who came with him was very curious about what he and Sanders had said, and Xie Li only said that they chatted casually.

But he is by no means regretful, just slightly regretful.

During the more than ten hours of being unable to eat on the plane, he listened to his stomach growling and protesting, thinking about which schools and teachers he should contact next.

He got off the plane and was sent back to Tan Ke's home by Tan Ke's driver.

Shen Zhichuan hadn't returned to China yet, Cheng Guang went home to take care of his children, Xie Li was not in a hurry to go back to school, and stayed at Tan Ke's house with peace of mind.

The night after he returned home, he received an email from Sanders.

Sanders expressed that he would like to invite him to Princeton as a visiting scholar, and he will pay for it. They can further finalize the specific time.

It turned out that Sanders did not express his position in person because he did not know about the visa.He is very strict in life, so he didn't say anything at the time. After returning home, he immediately asked someone to ask clearly before replying to Xie Li.

Xie Li was so excited that he couldn't sit still with such a big piece of good news, and walked around the room with his mobile phone in his arms.

How much he wanted Tan Ke to be by his side right now.

The author has something to say: J1: exchange visitor visa

TA: teaching assistant

Isee: It means "I know". It usually has an implicit meaning that the speaker cannot make any response to what the other party said.So Xie Li felt that Sanders' reaction was equivalent to rejecting him in disguise.

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Tan Ke browsed a question-and-answer website "What are the necessary items for children to go abroad for school" in the office.

Fang Xian: Brother, haven't you ever gone abroad to study? ? ? ? ?