“Look, that’s Professor Lu!”
“Wow, he really has extraordinary bearing—he’s even more handsome than a movie star!”
“Every one of his classes is packed. Students from other schools sneak in just to attend his lectures.”
“I’ve gone to his class too. Even though I couldn’t understand a thing, it didn’t stop me from appreciating that face!”
“With looks like that, and being so young and accomplished—his wife must be incredibly happy! I’m so jealous of his wife, getting to look at that face every day.”
“What wife? He’s not married.”
“What?! He’s not married?!”
“Wait, that’s not right. Didn’t I hear that Professor Lu was married? So is he or not?”
“Probably not?”
“He was.”
“What does that mean?”
“I heard that when he was sent down to a farm before, he got married there. But when he returned to the city, he divorced her.”
“What?!”
Everyone was stunned.
“How are men all so heartless?!”
“……”
“Achoo!”
Lu Heng, who was walking upstairs, suddenly sneezed for no apparent reason.
He had come to visit the experimental base of the Agriculture Department.
At the base, he ran into the department head—Director Qi.
Director Qi stared blankly at Lu Heng, thinking he must be seeing things.
The most sought-after Professor Lu at Huaqing University had actually come to their agricultural base?
“Isn’t this Professor Lu? What wind blew you here?”
The unspoken meaning was clear—what was a scientific researcher like him doing at an agricultural base?
Didn’t he see that the students were all too busy staring at him?
Lu Heng walked over to examine the newly cultivated seedlings and asked:
“Director Qi, I came to take a look. Has the lab grown any new varieties of fruits or vegetables?”
“No. This isn’t a marketplace!”
“Is that so?” Lu Heng stood with his hands in his pockets, looking disappointed. “So there really isn’t any. Yesterday at the conference, I heard that in the distant, freezing Beidahuang, a local girl without higher education managed to grow winter strawberries. Yet here we are, a prestigious university’s agricultural laboratory, and we still can’t produce off-season fruits and vegetables…”
“…………”
Director Qi of the Agriculture Department completely snapped.
Outrageous!
Absolutely outrageous?!
To be openly looked down upon by someone from the science department?!
Did he think the entire Agriculture Department was useless?!
Old Qi had been competitive his whole life—how could he tolerate such humiliation? On the spot, he gathered the department’s teachers and students for a meeting to discuss that so-called winter strawberry.
Director Qi had heard of winter strawberries before.
But he hadn’t paid much attention.
Strawberries weren’t exactly an important crop—so what if they could be grown?
Director Qi wanted to prove to others that it wasn’t that they couldn’t grow them—it was that they didn’t bother to!
Off-season fruits and vegetables—what’s the big deal?
He would definitely grow them and slap that man in the face!
Right then and there, Director Qi organized a research team to begin studying off-season fruits and vegetables.
During the meeting, a student suggested:
“Should we invite Teacher Sun Danhua to join? She previously focused on fruit research.”
So Director Qi brought Sun Danhua over and appointed her as the leader of the research group.
Sun Danhua was naturally overjoyed.
But she was also curious—Director Qi had always focused on wheat and rice research. Why the sudden interest in fruits and vegetables?
This didn’t seem like his style at all.
One of Director Qi’s students covered his mouth and whispered to Sun Danhua:
“Director Qi was openly looked down upon this morning.”
“Who would dare to do that to him?”
“Professor Lu from the science department.”
“Lu Heng?”
“That’s him!”
“???”