"Brother Chao, it’s up ahead, right?"
"What’s the number?"
"That building up front? Have you bought a parking space yet? Yes, we need to buy a car too, we’ll go check it out when we have the ti."
Xu Chao was leading the way up front, with Zhao Yi asking questions as they walked.
Zhao Hongjuan and Lin Xiaoqing followed behind, feeling a bit strange. If they didn’t know Xu Chao, they would certainly think that Zhao Yi was about to buy a house, and Xu Chao was the real estate agent showing him around.
Who buys a house without even knowing where it is?
This was utterly absurd!
In reality, it wasn’t that Zhao Yi didn’t care, he just hadn’t had the ti. He’d only co once during the property transfer, and the rest of his ti was dedicated to his research. Then he went to Madrid and hadn’t had the chance to co and see it again.
They soon arrived.
Per Zhao Yi’s request, both apartnts were in the sa building and block, each 130 square ters and of the sa structure. Though these apartnts couldn’t compare to ZhengYang’s villa, due to their location, they were much pricier.
Both apartnts were second-hand properties; one was a bare shell, the other had been renovated.
After a detailed look, they decided to visit the renovated one.
It was then that Zhao Yi realized he was in an awkward spot. He had just bought the house and hence, it only had the basic furniture and so appliances left by the previous owner. It wasn’t complete though, they could live here, but many things were missing making it inconvenient.
"I’m sorry, it’s my first ti here too."
Zhao Yi apologized awkwardly, "It seems we may have to wait a while, I need to get all the furniture and appliances."
Zhao Hongjuan stood up, "This house isn’t so bad, we can give it a look," she said while looking around. She gave so light comnts, noting the ti, she said, "Qingqing, we should go back to the hotel."
"No..."
Lin Xiaoqing hesitated, then said with a firmness, "Mom, let’s stay here."
"But it doesn’t have..."
Zhao Hongjuan didn’t finish her sentence; she was worried it would sound like complaining, but Xiaoqing interrupted her.
"Zhao Yi hasn’t stayed here even once," Lin Xiaoqing took Zhao Hongjuan’s hand and joked, "So we’ll be the first ones to stay, to help him out!"
Zhao Hongjuan stood still for a mont, not quite understanding. After making eye contact with her daughter, she understood her intention.
Her little girl had grown up, she seed to know how to protect things now?
Even though her daughter’s intention seed a bit odd, she got the gist and made a decision, "Alright, we’ll do as you say. We’ll be staying here for the next few days, sorry to impose, Zhao Yi."
"No bother at all! No bother at all!"
Zhao Yi still felt embarrassed, he was playing host but only had an empty house to offer, and now they had to buy a lot of things to make it habitable?
...
That day they all went to the supermarket for a big shopping trip and even ordered a few appliances to be delivered the next day.
They all felt tired after shopping.
The next day, the mission continued.
Furniture, appliances, daily necessities...there were a lot more things in the house now, it was starting to look more like a ho.
Zhao Hongjuan helped choose so kitchen utensils, unboxed them, and placed them in the kitchen, setting out plates, bowls, and chopsticks.
As she walked out of the kitchen, she noticed a middle-aged man by the door, looking suspicious and rummaging through their boxes.
Zhao Hongjuan quickly ran up to him, grabbed his arm, and slamd him against the wall, her movents so smooth and swift that the man hardly had ti to react.
"Thief!"
"Ah~~~~I’m not a thief! Isn’t this Zhao Yi’s ho! Where is Zhao Yi! Where is Zhao Yi!"
There was a noise from the bathroom.
Zhao Yi poked his head out of the bathroom, wearing just his boxer shorts and asked, "Is that Professor Qian?"
"It’s ! It’s ! Zhao Yi, help !" Qian Zhijin’s face was pinned to the wall, he yelled out at the top of his lungs.
Zhao Hongjuan reluctantly let go.
"Phew..."
Qian Zhijin took a breath of relief as if he had just survived a calamity. He quickly rubbed his arm, glanced at Zhao Hongjuan, and imdiately took two steps back.
This woman was terrifying!
Zhao Yi ca out casually, drying his hair. Lin Xiaoqing also ca out of the bedroom.
They all sat in the living room.
Zhao Hongjuan apologized to Qian Zhijin with a pot of freshly brewed tea, "I didn’t know... I saw you at the entrance... I misunderstood..."
"Yes, a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!"
Qian Zhijin eagerly agreed with the misunderstanding. He was careful to keep a distance of one ter from Zhao Hongjuan when sitting down on the sofa, only then did he feel sowhat safe. He thought to himself, ’never judge a book by its cover.’
He was still experiencing discomfort in his wrist where she had grabbed him.
After introductions, Qian Zhijin found out that the girl was Zhao Yi’s classmate and the woman was the girl’s mother. They were also neighbors.
"Hmm, judging from their expressions, there seems to be a deeper relationship, like boyfriend and girlfriend?" Qian Zhijin observed for a while and arrived at this conclusion in his mind.
Of course.
This wasn’t really his business.
Qian Zhijin explained the purpose of his visit, "Zhao Yi, you should visit the school soti."
"What happened?"
"The people at school have been waiting for you like crazy!" Qian Zhijin rubbed his forehead and began to explain in detail.
While Zhao Yi’s award at the International Mathematicians’ Conference was secondary, his academic presentation at the conference had significantly impacted the global mathematical community. He had exposed logical errors in Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem—the work of the world’s number one mathematician—and expanded the solutions of pri numbers in three-dinsional tremor waveform graphs.
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