TWWMABMTBH Chapter 13

Giving salted duck eggs and salted fish as gifts? The person who receives them would probably slap Rong Ziyan to death.

However, Rong Ziyan was quite calm, and even found a ribbon from somewhere to tie the basket of salted fish, making it look quite presentable.

Contrary to what the System thought, Rong Ziyan didn’t really have too many ulterior motives. Salted fish and salted duck eggs might sound ridiculous, but in reality, they could be sold for money and they did taste very good.

Rong Ziyan wrapped them up because he intended to give them to his mentor, who had always taken care of him, as a local specialty to try.

Rong Ziyan is a person who never likes to owe favors. Despite losing his parents at a young age, he has always lived very independently, not relying on handouts from others. Even if he occasionally receives kindness from those around him, he will do his best to repay it within his abilities.

Because he understands that debts are easy to repay, but favors are the most difficult.

Before, when he had just arrived in the village, Rong Ziyan had a lot of his own things to deal with, and he didn’t have much chance to contact his mentor. So now that he had settled down, Rong Ziyan felt that he should report his safety to his mentor and put his mind at ease.

Moreover, although Rong Ziyan has a job at the animal husbandry station, he has not yet received his graduation certificate. His mentor has also not removed Rong Ziyan from his research team. This will be beneficial for Rong Ziyan’s future application for publication of his papers.

Therefore, Rong Ziyan is even more grateful to his mentor and genuinely wants to produce some results.

Right now, he has a ready-made research subject at hand. He has been observing that duck with complications.

Yes, it was the one that was given hormones, “quacked” all the way, and finally lost to the frozen beltfish.

Rong Ziyan kept it for treatment, for no other reason than that Rong Ziyan intended to study the case of duck tuberculosis in depth. Especially this duck was particularly unique, it not only had duck tuberculosis, but also duck plague.

It was also a coincidence that Rong Ziyan’s previous research topic at school was related to the prevention and control of poultry infectious diseases. The main framework of his paper had already been written, but it was later put on hold due to an incident. Now, with relevant cases as a supplement, it is even more outstanding than before.

Of course, with such progress in the research, Rong Ziyan also had to find time to tell his mentor. So, Rong Ziyan called his mentor.

The phone rang only twice before it was answered.

“Rong Ziyan? How have you been lately? Are you getting used to the work?” As soon as his mentor saw that it was Rong Ziyan’s call, he immediately expressed his concern.

“It’s all good, don’t worry. I’m calling you this time just to report my safety,” Rong Ziyan replied with a smile.

The teacher and student, who hadn’t seen each other for a while, chatted for a long time. It was the mentor who first brought the topic back, asking about the progress of Rong Ziyan’s research.

“It’s almost finished, I was just about to send it to you for a look,” Rong Ziyan answered truthfully.

“Okay!” The mentor was very pleased to hear this, and was even happier when he heard that Rong Ziyan had sent them local specialties. “Then I’ll wait for the express delivery to arrive.”

Rong Ziyan hung up the phone, feeling much more relaxed. His mentor has always taken good care of him, and he was finally able to repay him a little.

Putting his mood in order, Rong Ziyan put his focus back on his paper. The duck’s condition had already improved significantly, and the rest was mainly observation.

Two days later, Rong Ziyan’s paper was finished, and his mentor also received Rong Ziyan’s express delivery.

Rong Ziyan was his mentor’s favorite student, and he liked him very much. His colleagues in the office also knew this, so when Rong Ziyan had his accident, these professors who knew him all felt very sorry. But since the school had made a decision, they were also powerless.

Now hearing that Rong Ziyan hadn’t given up on his studies because of his demotion, they were all relieved for Rong Ziyan’s mentor.

When they saw Rong Ziyan’s mentor carrying a big box of express delivery, they curiously asked, “What’s this?”

“It’s a local specialty sent by my little disciple,” the mentor said proudly.

Everyone in the office thought it was quite novel. They had all heard of the place Rong Ziyan had gone to, a normal rural village. What kind of local specialty could there be?

So they all gathered around to see what Rong Ziyan’s mentor had received. However, as soon as they opened it, five salted fish tied with ribbons stared at them with their shiny dead fish eyes. Next to the salted fish was a small note written by Rong Ziyan himself.

“Dream salted fish, tastes amazing. Very appetizing when deep-fried with porridge, you can feel the charm of the stars and the sea.”

“…” [Stunned Value +1000], the entire office fell silent.

“Truly, truly ingenious!” Perhaps feeling that the atmosphere was too awkward, one of the mentors was the first to break the silence. But after searching for a long time, he couldn’t find a suitable word and could only say that Rong Ziyan had special ideas.

There were quite a few students who sent local specialties to their teachers after graduation, but there were very few who were as straightforward as Rong Ziyan.

Rong Ziyan’s mentor also understood what he meant. After a moment of silence, he could only blurt out, “My little disciple is actually quite simple.”

“Yes, quite simple.” The other teachers quickly agreed. But their mood became more complicated. For some reason, they all felt as if these salted fish were mocking them, “Tch! You bunch of corporate slaves…”

[Professor Zhang Mingzhi’s Complicated Value +300] [Professor Li Kongrong’s Complicated Value +444] [Professor Xu Youcai’s Complicated Value +345]

…

At the animal husbandry station, Rong Ziyan couldn’t help but sigh as he looked at the four thousand extra gold coins in his account, “It seems people who do research are indeed very sensitive.”

System: … It’s also very kind of Rong Ziyan’s mentor not to have killed him.

However, even though he received not so reliable local specialties, Rong Ziyan’s mentor was still very attentive to Rong Ziyan.

After receiving the paper that Rong Ziyan sent over, he quickly opened the document sent by Rong Ziyan, ready to help him check it carefully.

This project was the one he helped Rong Ziyan choose in the first place, intending it to be the topic for Rong Ziyan’s first published paper after his postgraduate studies.

Generally, there are six levels of publicly published papers. The first tier is T-class, like SCI. The levels then go from A to E in order.

However, postgraduate papers do not need to be strictly submitted to these six levels of journals. Submitting to internal journals is also completely fine, as long as they are provincial-level journals or higher.

So the mentor had already chosen the journal he was going to help Rong Ziyan submit to and had even contacted someone in advance to help Rong Ziyan pay attention to the issue of the format.

However, when he actually started reading Rong Ziyan’s paper, he was completely shocked!

The level of Rong Ziyan’s paper was far higher than he had imagined. He even felt that it had the qualifications to be submitted directly to domestic core journals. That was the C-class level.

The mentor suddenly thought that recently, the core journal of animal husbandry, “World Agriculture,” was advocating for scientific research by university students and was accepting submissions from university students.

Although the school’s intention is that even if Rong Ziyan passes the national unified recruitment examination before the end of the year, they will not recruit him as a postgraduate student of their school. But human effort matters, if Rong Ziyan’s own performance is outstanding, it may not be certain!

“World Agriculture” belongs to the scope of core journals of Peking University, and it is considered a top journal in China, which is Rong Ziyan’s best hope to return to school.

No, it should be said that if Rong Ziyan can seize this opportunity, go to the next level, he may not even need to test back to school. Maybe he could have higher achievements in the future.

The mentor’s mood suddenly became extremely excited, and he immediately called Rong Ziyan to tell him about this matter.

“Think about it carefully yourself, the specific submission requirements were given to the class monitors before, it should be in your class group, go and check it out.”

“Thank you, teacher.” Rong Ziyan’s heart skipped a beat, and he quickly opened the class group to check the specific requirements.

Just like his mentor said, this was a golden opportunity and also the best chance for Rong Ziyan to make a comeback. It was true that many researchers would go to the grassroots level, but that was not the case with Rong Ziyan. He was essentially trapped in the village.

But once his paper is successfully published, he will most likely have a chance to return to campus. What’s more, only by frequently contacting that rich second generation, could Rong Ziyan find the loopholes in his plot to frame him.

And at this moment, those who are also paying attention to this matter are not only Rong Ziyan, other students in the class group are also discussing it.

“Ahhhhhhh! ‘World Agriculture’, a core journal! I heard from the previous senior that even postgraduates might not be able to publish in it! I don’t know if this so-called encouragement of scientific research by university students will lower the threshold.”

“Don’t dream. Lowering it is impossible, after all, it is a core journal. And even if they are accepting submissions it’s useless! Postgraduates are barely able to get in, let alone our undergraduates. You have to be a real academic to even try!”

“Not necessarily. Speaking of real talent, isn’t there a top student in our class? I heard them say before that Rong Ziyan seems to have some kind of research project that is very powerful, maybe he can get chosen!”

As soon as this person said that, the entire class group fell silent.

Rong Ziyan is now a forbidden area in the class. Ever since the rich second generation confronted Rong Ziyan in public, many rumors have spread around the school. Some busybodies said that the reason why Rong Ziyan was assigned to the village was because he offended someone.

But Rong Ziyan has always been less social, and any free time he had was either spent making money or in the laboratory doing research projects. Where would he have the chance to offend anyone? Wasn’t it that rich second generation?

By coincidence, that rich second generation also saw the chat in the group and was also very upset.

These days Rong Ziyan had done several shady tricks in the open and the dark, and almost sent him away. But he could not find a chance to retaliate, so this time he took it as a chance to vent, directly saying in the class group, “Even if Rong Ziyan can write it, he needs money to publish. Has he paid back the 200,000 yuan he owes yet? Hehe.”

Sharp and poisonous.

Publishing a paper in a journal costs money. And the prices between journals vary. Ordinary journals, that is, provincial or national level, are the cheapest, a few hundred, and national ones cap at 5,000.

But core journals are different. If it is a core journal it would be a bit cheaper, but a Peking University core journal already costs over 10,000. And a Nanjing University core journal is almost twice that of a Peking University core journal.

And “World Agriculture,” although it belongs to the core of Peking University, it also takes real money to publish.

Therefore, for others, the biggest problem in publishing a paper in a core journal is their knowledge, but Rong Ziyan was stuck because of his poverty.

However, even so, the rich second generation’s tone was a bit too annoying. Someone in the group who couldn’t stand it said anonymously, “Don’t be so harsh, Rong Ziyan has a job now, how do you know he doesn’t have money?”

“Besides, if he really produces results, our Agricultural University will also benefit, the department might give financial support!”

The rich second generation sneered, “If the department supported him, how did he lose his guaranteed recommendation spot?”

“Why did he lose it? Don’t you know what’s going on?”

“He did something bad, serves him right for his bad character. Like you guys are anonymously talking behind people’s backs, do you dare to remove the mask and confront me openly?”

“…” Confront openly? Who dares?

The rich second generation wasn’t clean himself, Rong Ziyan was just an eyesore to him and his future was ruined. No one is stupid, how can they openly argue with him?

This person was also arrogant to the extreme.

Rong Ziyan sat in front of the computer, watching this entire conversation in the group.

The system was so angry, it couldn’t help but swear, “F* this bastard! I really want to use a frozen beltfish to beat this grandson to death!”

“It’s okay, it’s not time for him to cry yet.” Rong Ziyan was not angry at all, but calmly typed a line in the chat box, “Thank you for your concern. The paper is finished, I can submit it anytime, no need for the department to pay.”

“!!!”

“Holy shit! The academic god is back!”

Rong Ziyan’s sudden appearance immediately blew up many people, especially those who had to hug Rong Ziyan’s legs and borrow his notes before every exam. They couldn’t help but anonymously @ him, crying and lamenting that even exams had become difficult after Rong Ziyan was gone.

The rich second generation couldn’t stand the way Rong Ziyan was being praised by everyone, and couldn’t help but ask, “Where did you get the money to publish in a journal?”

Rong Ziyan’s reply was as steady as an old dog, “By selling salted duck eggs!”

“???” The rich second generation was speechless, not responding for a long time.

Rong Ziyan saw that the group was silent, and also felt that what he said was a bit awkward.

Considering that he was now a businessman, and maybe he would sell salted duck eggs to the school canteen in the future, in order to appear a bit more lively, Rong Ziyan downloaded a very popular meme [Coffin Dance.jpg] online.

Under the snow-white coffin, four dark-skinned black people walked forward with cheerful smiles, carrying the coffin, jumping along in rhythm.

“…” Suddenly, everyone in the group felt even colder. It wasn’t until a long time later that someone echoed, “Hahahaha, academic god, you’re so humorous.”

At the same time, providing Rong Ziyan with a staggering two thousand points of awkward value.

As for the rich second generation, he was choked by Rong Ziyan’s words and couldn’t find a way to refute him for a long time, and was getting so angry his liver was hurting. It wasn’t until a good while later that he suddenly realized, holy shit! Rong Ziyan actually appeared in the group.

That last video, and the several times he was humiliated when Rong Ziyan made him pay back the money, he finally had a chance to vent.

So, he clicked on the group’s private chat dialog box, found Rong Ziyan and opened it. His fingers flew, and in less than three minutes, a string of questions was sent out, but all he saw was a row of red exclamation marks in front of the conversation box.

There was also a prompt saying, the other party had blocked him.

“F* your mother, Rong Ziyan!” The rich second generation had been holding his breath in his throat and provided Rong Ziyan with another three thousand anger value.

Rong Ziyan had gained more than six thousand gold coins with the addition of the class group’s reaction, adding them to the original, it was another ten-pull.

Rong Ziyan: Pull or not pull?

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