Desperate

No matter how charming Professor Cen was on the podium, today Chen Linglin couldn't help but give some attention to the second lieutenant sitting beside him.

This officer in his twenties was really handsome, and the closer he got to this dazzling face, the more he couldn't ignore it.But he seemed indifferent to the admiring or jealous gazes around him. Ever since the professor came, his eyes seemed to have grown on the other person's body, and he wrote in a brush, as if he was afraid of missing something.

From the perspective of the nobles who were born in the imperial capital and received a good education since childhood, it is inevitable that they are a bit poor.

Chen Linglin took a closer look at him again, and found that he had an impression of him.

One, of course, is because of the very upright face, and the second is that he seems to be the only student who doesn't skip class besides himself.Chen Linglin is very confident in his conclusion. The reason is that Bangguo finally decided to sign an armistice agreement with the Empire during the cold weather. Almost all the citizens of the country stayed at their homes to watch the signing ceremony. The class was suspended, so she and the second lieutenant were the only ones present.

I am doing it for Professor Cen, and what is this person doing for it? It can't be because he loves calculus.Chen Linglin felt a little angry for no reason, as if a certain treasure that only belonged to him was suddenly missed by others, so he looked at him with a little bit of hostility: looking at this person, I am afraid that he just came from The young soldier who retired from the front line, no, judging by his age, he is no longer a young soldier.

Chen Linglin twitched her lips in disdain. In the past two years, the queen did not know what medicine she had taken wrongly. She insisted on improving the treatment of retired soldiers, and even used taxpayers' money to send these ruffian soldiers who had withdrawn to the rear to receive higher education.

The students of Imperial Engineering University are either rich or noble, even if there are occasional poor families, they will definitely be the pillars of the empire in the future, and their status is precious, so how can they share the same poverty with the lowly civilians who have been withdrawn from the front line?In addition, most of the soldiers who joined the army were desperate and vicious, and there were criticisms in the noble house for a while.

In response to all kinds of doubts, Her Majesty the Queen and the person behind the curtain only gave a simple sentence: military administration is the foundation of the country, and it is imminent to train highly educated military officers.In order to appease the Humeros who are worried day and night, the Queen ordered the military technical department of Region G to be moved to the vicinity of the Imperial University of Technology to strengthen the security, and even arranged a few Humers to sit in the town to show that they will live and die with the proud sons of heaven.

Cen Lu was so distracted during the lecture that the chalk in his hand seemed to be disobedient, and the words he wrote floated up in rows.The resentful students sat underneath and looked at each other. If their thoughts could be heard, Cen Lu would have been deafened by the overwhelming "why are you going crazy again today".

Cen Lu was completely focused on the theory that he had stagnated yesterday. The stock in his head had to be split into two parts. It is not impossible to do it with Professor Cen's talent. It's just that he has had a weird headache these days. Don't have a double-edged mind.At this moment, he was also suffering from a faint pain in his head under the strong pressure, and continued to teach as if nothing had happened.

Until the teaching assistant sitting at the side couldn't stand his overly freehand writing on the blackboard, and reminded him: "Professor Cen, are you going to rewrite this lemma?"

Only then did Cen Lu come back to his senses, and he slapped his forehead in a sudden realization.After simply thanking the teaching assistant, he still didn't forget to blame others for his fault: he turned his head and took a vain glance at the classroom with few people, and sighed with an incongruous elder air: "I don't understand. You have to ask, how can you wait for the teaching assistant to help you speak?"

Li Zhou: "..."

He was really amazed by this person's face, and began to secretly regret that he had promised Xie Xingchui to be Cen Lu's assistant.

He and Cen Lu were enrolled as doctoral students at the same time, and he didn't know much about him because he was withdrawn and arrogant.Unexpectedly, in the past four years, Cen Lu has been on the rise all the way. Not only did he pass the doctoral defense with a high standard, but he was also the first person to get a professorship in the same period.But I am still struggling in the quagmire of my graduation thesis, and I can only be a teaching assistant for others if I die.

Li Zhou was angry in his heart, and he agreed to be a teaching assistant because of Xie Xingchui's persuasive words: "Xiao Li, you are a steady child, we are not at ease with Cen Lu in class, so I trouble you to watch him." The words more or less ironed out the reluctance in Li Zhou's heart, but also somewhat ignited his curiosity.

It turned out that the department was aware of Cen Lu's virtues.So why on earth did he continue to favor him?If it's because of the genius Li Zhou's self-proclaimed self, he will do his part, and there will be no fuel-efficient lamps in his peers.

Li Zhou gradually forgot Xie Xingchui's thousands of exhortations, his thoughts slowly drifted away from Cen Lu's out-of-the-ordinary classroom, and he vaguely remembered a certain rumor in the school.

I don't know when it started, there was a vague saying in the department that Cen Lu had a lot of relationship with the military, and he was taken care of by the Imperial University of Technology because of his close personal relationship with a certain important person in the technical department.However, Li Zhou glanced at the sloppy person on the podium in disbelief, how could such a person attract the attention of those old fritters in the military department.

Five to ten minutes ended in Li Zhou's disbelief, but the teaching assistant didn't pay attention to the ringtone that he marked as the background sound. Even the second lieutenant, carrying a dark military bag and stepping on his leather military boots, walked towards the I have never heard it when I came here.

"Assistant Li," Zhou Pushen called out to him, seeing that he didn't respond, he could only call again more forcefully, "Assistant Li."

Zhou Pushen has been fighting on the frontline all year round, and his subordinates can be considered to be in charge of a few small and medium soldiers, and it is commonplace to give orders.Therefore, when calling people by name, they often inadvertently added an unquestionable sense of deterrence, and at this moment the thin doctoral student in front of him was taken aback: "What, what are you doing?"

Li Zhou saw the meticulous military uniform of the person in front of him, and remembered all kinds of horrible rumors about the soldiers on the front line, so he leaned back a little and distanced himself from the person standing in front of him.A pair of eyes randomly glanced at the black pistol pinned to the waist of the man, even though he knew that there would be no bullets in the gun, he still trembled in fright.

After the war, Her Majesty the Queen personally ordered, in order to appease the front-line soldiers who had been fighting for years, a large number of young military officers were specially approved to return to the capital to join the G district, and further study at the Imperial University of Technology.In order to show honor, front-line soldiers who withdraw from the front line every Wednesday "Day of Homecoming" must wear uniforms and wear bulletless guns at their waists.

Li Zhou felt that he could probably understand the reason for the declining enrollment rate of Emperor Gong Dalian.

But the man quickly realized something, his obsidian-like eyes withdrew a bit of pressure, his white and slender left hand was raised on his waist, covering the pistol without leaving any traces, he calmly said: "Thank you for today Speak and remind him."

It took Li Zhou a few seconds to realize that he was referring to the time he reminded Cen Lu to rewrite the introduction, so he took it as a thank you for his duty.Just as he was about to say no thanks, he heard the young officer add another sentence: "Thank you for taking care of him this semester."

Li Zhou replied "It's okay" half-spontaneously and half-frightened.But after the man nodded his head and walked away for a long time, he slowly came to his senses.For some reason, I felt a little strange. Hearing what the military master said, it seemed that Professor Cen was his family.

When the door of the office was knocked by a young man in military uniform, Cen Lu didn't react for a while.I just feel that today is really abnormal, why everyone is starting to think about him, this rat shit that spoiled the soup.

Just when he was sitting upright and was about to throw people out, someone took the opportunity first: "Now is the weekly question-and-answer time in the office."

Cen Lu was completely blocked by his words. It is a tradition of the Imperial University of Technology to set up a time for answering questions in the office, and it is also a rule that every teacher must abide by.That is, set aside one to two hours a week to answer questions for students.

Although Cen Lu set the question-and-answer time on every Wednesday afternoon at the beginning of the semester, the students didn't seem to take it seriously, and no one ever asked him questions at this time.He was also happy and relaxed, either taking a nap for these two hours or soaking in the pile of draft paper to continue his energy conversion formula.

It's just that today's uninvited guest is a little aggressive.Cen Lu was rarely robbed of the right to speak, so he couldn't help looking up at him, but unexpectedly saw his dark eyes staring at him, and there was no hostility in his eyes.Cen Lu was surprised that this man's pupils were so pure, that he didn't pay much attention to his formal military uniform for a while.Due to geographical location, most of the citizens of empires and states entrenched on the northern continent have brown or gray pupils, and Cen Lu himself is no exception.In recent years, the people of the empire have even more because the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. Due to the morbid worship of blood silver, many people have transformed their pupil color into a silver-gray color like blood silver through surgery or pupil stickers. .

The officer looked at him for a while without speaking, then bent one knee, and slowly knelt down on one knee towards him.

Cen Lu: "..."

His whole body was stiff, no matter how wild he was, he would never have imagined that he had lived for more than twenty years and had never touched a girl's hand, let alone knelt down to propose marriage. Today, he was regarded as a girl and was kneeled firmly by someone. .

Cen Lu only felt that his scalp was numb, and no matter how thick-skinned he was, he couldn't stand it. He quickly got up to help him, but he didn't want to be slapped in the face by the man's next actions.The officer neither took out the diamond ring from his pocket nor offered him the yellow rose that was close at hand, but quickly put his left hand behind his back, and his right hand was clenched into a fist and placed horizontally on his chest.He obediently lowered his head, showing the clean back of his neck unsuspectingly towards Cen Lu.

Cen Lu abruptly stopped the movement of bending over to help him, and a corner of his heart relaxed.He thought to himself: It's okay, it's not a marriage proposal.

But another nerve in the brain tensed again, no, how could he, a member of the military, do this kind of gift to himself? Isn't this a courtesy to show loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen?Could it be that I have been soaking in the ivory tower for too long, and I can casually perform this kind of salute to irrelevant people outside?

Cen Lu reached out to touch the man's shoulder half anxiously and half suspiciously: "This...officer, you...don't salute me like this, I..."

I might be killed.

However, Zhou Pushen stood up the moment Cen Lu's hand was about to touch him, brushed the non-existent dust on his knees smoothly, and said in a low and soft voice: "You are worth it."

Cen Lu thought he had a headache and tinnitus: "What did you say?"

The man did not intend to repeat at all, and returned to normal color. The military boots came together and made a "snap" sound of leather colliding. He raised his chin, as if his subordinates were reporting to their superiors routinely: "G area Marine Corps Aviation Unit Second Lieutenant Zhou Pushen and Major Liang, Minister of Technology, send their greetings to Professor Cen."

Seeing the serious faces of this and that person, Cen Lu felt that he could not hold back his laughter, but it was too impolite to laugh now, so he could only show a slightly awkward expression: "No, you sit down."

This kid turned out to be Liang Saobao's subordinate.Cen Lu glanced at Zhou Pushen again, his white jade-like face collapsed, but his ink-painted facial features were serious and expressionless.Cen Lu sighed inaudibly, such a little old-fashioned, probably will be played to death by Liang Qian.

However, Zhou Pushen didn't know the little girl in Cen Lu's heart at all. He just said in a business-like manner: "Thank you, Professor Cen, for your kindness. I won't sit down. Immediately report to the Technical Department of District G."

Cen Lu sat down on his own, and thought to himself why did you come to me? When I am a public toilet, you can come and go whenever you want, but there is no expression on the face, just pointing out the door with all five fingers: "please convenient."

Zhou Pushen did not move at all: "Major Liang, please tell Professor Cen to go together."

Just as Cen Lu was about to refuse, the tall officer's spotlight-like eyes fixed on him: "Sir, you have to go if you are bound."

Professor Cen, who was skinny, glanced at the man's shoulders, and saw that inside the neatly rolled cuffs, the biceps were bulging to support the entire sleeves without a single wrinkle.

Cen Lu immediately smiled dog-leggedly, and fully agreed to the second lieutenant's request.