Super God-Level Top Student-Chapter 1170 - 463: A Small Gathering on the Eve of the Congress (Part 2)
"Yes, yes, yes, you’re the most sincere one, alright? To be honest, you lost the bet back then! I told Zhang that Jian Gao would wear a cap within three years, but you didn’t believe it! We had a bet, if Zhang and I lost, we would perform the ’Breaking Stone on the Chest’; if you lost..."
"Don’t give me that! I didn’t say I didn’t believe it at the time, I just thought it wouldn’t be that simple. Besides, I didn’t bet with you guys; it was you who set the terms of the bet, alright? Moreover, now Jian Gao is not only wearing a cap, but he’s become an academician, okay?" Xu Yansong quickly said.
Li Jiangao smiled wryly.
Because of these friends and their talk of ’Breaking Stone on the Chest’, he was too embarrassed to attend various conferences during that period. In retrospect, it felt like his head was really as big as a bucket.
"By the way, what about Yu Chenggong? It was that guy who messed up our big plans back then." Someone said irritably.
"Yu is currently working on administrative duties at the research institute; he doesn’t need to travel anymore and has gained quite a bit of weight." Li Jiangao explained helplessly.
Actually, he later discussed it with Qiao Ze, reflecting on the ideas at that time. Qiao had always intended to come to Xilin with him, so these people couldn’t really blame Yu Chenggong.
Yu Chenggong’s role in the matter was merely letting the school know ahead of time about Qiao Ze’s value, saving him a lot of trouble.
So, you could say the result was decided when Lu Xiuxiu brought Qiao Ze into his room that day.
Though these professors fighting over him saved a lot of trouble for him and Yu Chenggong.
"Hey, that guy’s living comfortably now! Sigh, before I came, our dean criticized me, saying if I had been more assertive back then and managed to bring Qiao Ze back, Jiang University would now have completely replaced Xilin University of Technology’s status, and Jiangcheng might have directly replaced Xilin."
Though he wasn’t competitive, this remark made Li Jiangao suddenly think of Su Mucheng.
To think that Qiao Ze could proceed so smoothly at the start, this little rich woman was indispensable. Without her initial investment of two million, the Group Wisdom project wouldn’t have proceeded so smoothly, and the subsequent issues couldn’t have gone smoothly either.
He smiled and retorted, "Zhang, that’s really not certain. You have no idea that after Qiao Ze came to our Xilin University of Technology, he had quite the lucky encounters. We can only say Xilin University of Technology is Qiao Ze’s lucky ground. If he had gone to Jiang University, who knows, he might have been restricted too much, and his development wouldn’t have been as fast."
One sentence once again sparked the interest of a group of middle-aged and elderly folks in conversation: "You’re talking about the girl who married Qiao Ze, right? This matter did indeed surprise us all, we thought Qiao Ze’s cold personality would make marriage discussions a problem! Last time when Qiao Ze got married, you wouldn’t tell; could you tell us today how it happened then?"
Well, a group of big shots started gossiping about their students’ romantic lives. Fortunately, there wasn’t anything that couldn’t be discussed.
"Well, this story is really quite long. If I tell you everything tonight, will we skip the opening ceremony tomorrow? Next time, definitely next time."
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Meanwhile, this same evening, the Qiao Residence was also bustling. Qiao Ze was being forced to try on clothing piece by piece, with his family commenting on which he should wear for tomorrow’s conference to look the most spirited and handsome...
Honestly, originally to make Lu Xiuxiu and Ms. Su realize the importance of tomorrow’s event was somewhat challenging.
After all, they were outsiders and couldn’t quite understand how significant it was just to give a report.
Qiao Ze had been invited to participate in various conferences before. Moreover, the conferences he hosted lasted long, each starting at two hours, so he didn’t feel the 60-minute report tomorrow was worth paying much attention to.
But with Su Mucheng tirelessly providing information and explaining the importance of the World Mathematicians Conference, and how impressive it was for Qiao Ze to give the opening report at this conference, the family finally began to pay attention.
But for Qiao Ze, this was clearly not a good thing.
Because, in the eyes of the women at home, in such important occasions, fashion sense is particularly important. If the clothing is unsatisfactory, people won’t blame Qiao Ze, but certainly think it’s the women’s fault.
Even though Qiao Ze earnestly told the women at home that just wearing formal attire was enough. After all, mathematicians hardly pay attention to what their peers are wearing, and he certainly had never cared.
His opinion was obviously gloriously ignored.
Proven fact, even if a man is truly ill, he can’t resist a woman’s obsession, and he ultimately had to compromise.
It was indeed exhausting for even Liu Ying, who was greatly fed up.
This special service personnel, transferred to Lv Bei’s group, who would one day succumb to shopping. Maybe, it partly had to do with mostly buying men’s clothes. For a girl without a boyfriend, browsing men’s clothes is hardly exciting.
Actually, in the eyes of Liu Ying and others, this family really doesn’t need to bother about what Qiao Ze should wear.
Although technically speaking, the mathematicians’ conference won’t garner much attention, this year’s conference is just different.
After all, the conference was originally to be held in Philadelphia but was instead moved to Huaxia Xilin, an occurrence subtly meaningful.
Besides, the award ceremony before the conference would award the Fields Medal, and it was almost certain that Qiao Ze would receive this highest honor in mathematics, marking Huaxia’s first breakthrough in this prestigious award. To be strict, it might boil down to the fact that Qiao Ze holds Huaxia citizenship, and has never studied abroad; he hadn’t even applied for a passport.
The troubling thing is, this very first achievement of breaking through indeed brought quite a stir to the world!
So, regardless of whether others focus on promoting it outwardly, Huaxia internally must definitely intensify their promotional focus.
Of course, for Liu Ying, these insights weren’t hers, but were communicated in team-related notifications...
So, from Liu Ying’s point, why the hassle of buying clothing out? Why not just notify those men’s clothing brands in advance and choose the most suitable set for Qiao Ze to wear to the conference? Those major brands would scramble over each other to have Qiao Ze wear their clothes to the conference and deliver a report.
Well, this was how things should have developed originally.
And he didn’t even need to actively put out messages, as half a year ago when the news spread that the conference was transferred to Xilin, clothing companies began plotting what Qiao Ze would wear to this conference.
Although at that time it wasn’t confirmed that Qiao Ze would definitely deliver a 60-minute opening report, it was almost a certainty that Qiao Ze would receive the Fields Medal. Imagine, the world’s youngest Fields Medal winner wearing your brand’s clothes to accept the award, alongside being humorously dubbed by netizens as the ’Rise Engine’, such an advertisement surely wouldn’t lose.
Especially since Qiao Ze is a young man with a good figure, although slightly thinner, not inherently an ideal clothes hanger, comparing to the pot-bellied middle-aged men, he does have quite a molding space.
Hence, over the past six months, some luxury brands set their eyes on what Qiao Ze would wear. The downside was they couldn’t directly get in touch with Qiao Ze.
But if one were to delve into Dou Dou’s Weibo comment section, they’d find that over half a year, clothing companies had left messages using official brand accounts, hoping to connect with Qiao Ze.
It’s hard to spot them due to the sheer number of daily messages from netizens in Dou Dou’s comment section counting in the millions, and even hundreds of thousands of netizens had adopted the habit of checking into Dou Dou’s comment section daily. Thus, comments seeking business cooperation were tough to see.
Unfortunately, the Qiao Family does not lack money, nor do they have the patience to sign such contracts with clothing brands, naturally, these requests for collaboration were gloriously ignored.
And thus, the burden fell on Qiao Ze to wear and change clothes multiple times the night before.
The two little ones in the family were unusually well-behaved today; the brother, with his mouth half-open, stared dumbfounded each time their dad walked in and out changing clothes, suddenly clapped his hands, then laughed loudly. His sister was lying there, hearing her brother clapping, followed by silly laughter; she promptly lifted her little foot and kicked her brother hard... 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
"Wow..." brother started crying.
Coincidentally, Qiao Ze was just about to be pushed to change into another outfit, but halted.
The two grandmas who were offering critiques hurriedly picked up the two little ones, Ms. Su holding the grandson, complained: "Little rascal, why did you suddenly start crying again."
"Because when younger brother was clapping, little sister lifted her foot and kicked his thigh," Dou Dou described the situation it saw previously.
"Ah? Oh dear, does Dad wearing this look good? How about wearing this one and stop crying!"
"Eee aah yah..."
