Chapter 21 (1/2)

CHAPTER 21: THE LIBRARY

Looking at his own math solution, Zhang Yang felt proud of

himself as he put the piece of paper between the pages of the book. He felt a

great sense of accomplishment, and he reckoned that his cla.s.smates wouldn’t

have been able to solve this question.

Zhang Yang didn’t know that he was fully focused on solving

the problem, when the daytime came across and the old man was not too far from

looking at him, apparently seemed to have lost in his own thoughts.

………

That night, Zhang Yang slept very well, he had his money,

sleep incense, and as he was lying in his bed, the old man was sitting on the

desk with the “The principle of computational fluid mechanics” book on his

table. And the old man was holding the piece of paper in his hand.

This needed Harvard science and technology inst.i.tute’s

students’ level of talent to understand the extent of three-dimensional

geometry. As even the remarkable students of this garbage school only knew

plane geometry, the old professor was shocked to see this kind of person to

actually appear.

Although the old man resided in C City’s College of Art and

Sciences, he was actually a professor from Harvard Inst.i.tute of Science and

Technology, retired to return to his hometown and occasionally came to the school

for few lectures only.

Of course, the old man was not shocked that Zhang Yang

solved the question but the method Zhang Yang used to solve the problem. The

question was solely applied the knowledge of three dimensional geometry but

still to solve it with just using plane geometry patterns allowed the old man

to be full of excitement.

Because the method of the solution to the problem was way

too simple, simple enough to make him incredible. Zhang Yang first used plane

geometry to infer a few three dimensional geometry of the formula, and then

used his own reasoning to solve the problem.

The old man didn’t know that Zhang Yang entirely was a kind

person at heart. He was afraid that the students wouldn’t understand the note

so he wrote the solution in the simplest way as possible. He didn’t know that

his own kindness would leave the old man so shocked.

The old man sighed and gently put down the paper from his

hand and he felt a little excited. This sensation hadn’t appeared for a long

period of time. There was a trace of sadness in his eyes as he remembered the

time when he had felt this kind of feeling many years ago.

……………….

There was a specialized course the next morning so Zhang

Yang woke up early and made his bed. Whether it was junior or senior, Zhang

Yang would generally go to such specialized course. He had his own set of

personal standards. He believed that as he studies this specialized course, he

would also know the key strong points to some extent.

The morning light was in the window, Zhang Yang glanced at

the half opened curtains. He could not help but swallow a mouthful of saliva,

eventually, Zhang Yang could not bear the temptation so he gently walked

towards the window to open the curtains … …

“Cha …”

“Chaa…”

Zhang Yang scared a jump he had just merely opened the

curtains when from the opposite building came a bursting sound of the curtains

being opened. According to the situation, the distance was so far that Zhang

Yang should not be able to hear anything but still he persistently heard the

sound.

Zhang Yang quickly hid himself and pulled the curtains to

look outside from the gap between the curtains. He saw the buildings behind the

dormitory had their window curtains pulled, and a lot of them were still

swinging, obviously, they were just pulled down a moment ago.

He couldn’t help but feel depressed in his heart, such a

good weather on such a nice day and because of his own stupidity, there was

nothing left to see. ….

“Bro, don’t be strenuous, as long as there’s a slight

movement in our curtains here, the curtains over there will be completely

pulled down.” Zhang Yang’s roommate stretched his head.

“Ahem … cough … cough …. No … no … I just realized the

ventilation …..” Zhang Yang said in an embarra.s.sing way.

“Zhang yang, we also thought of the ventilation ah, however,

now they suspect the ventilation too. You can still pull the curtains if you

want to see, there’s a crack inside from where you can see the same thing. Rest

a.s.sured, we won’t tell anyone ……” Another roommate also lift his head.

“………………” Zhang Yang was silent.