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Chapter 1 Night Flights

"Yangyang, don't get along with those messy people after you arrive in the United States. Your dad and I still have some savings. You don't have to worry about tuition and living expenses. We have worked hard all our lives, but we just point to you to stay in the United States after graduation, and then pick us up and enjoy our happiness!" On Boeing Flight 747 from Beijing to New York, a middle-aged woman said earnestly to the little girl beside her. The little girl responded one after another, and didn't seem to take her mother's words in her heart.

It takes more than ten hours to fly directly to Beijing to New York. Now it’s still early to go to bed. Many people are looking around in vain. In 2002, studying abroad was not easy. The middle-aged woman’s words quickly attracted the attention of the middle-aged man sitting across the aisle. He asked in admiration, “The little girl is really amazing! She went to the United States to study at a young age, but she is much better than my unscrupulous brat!”

"Oh, look at what you said." A flower immediately bloomed on the face of the middle-aged woman. When she was her age, she would live with face. What else could make her happier than her own child being praised? She turned around and stroked the child's hair with care. "But our Yangyang has never had to worry about since she was a child. This time she applied for it herself!"

"The little girl is so quiet. She is a sensible child at first glance. I don't know which university to go to in the United States?" The conversation between the two has attracted the attention of several rows of passengers in front and behind. The middle-aged man quickly asked about the topics that everyone is concerned about.

"State University of New York!" The middle-aged woman's voice became a little louder, and she once again gained envious eyes from many people. After saying that, she became humble and proud, "The school is not very good, it is still worse than Harvard!"

"New York is a metropolis! It is definitely awesome for universities with New York to name them!" The middle-aged man consciously brought the rules of naming Chinese universities into the United States. "New York University's status in the United States is similar to that of the University of Kinth Festival in China!"

"This foreign affairs are different from China sometimes, but I heard that New York University ranks relatively high in the United States!" The middle-aged woman glanced at Lu Qiujian on the seat next to her with the corner of her eyes. It would be great if he could give up the seat near the aisle to himself. The journey was boring and he was just showing off with the people opposite him.

Lu Qiujian was holding an original English version of "Scattering Theory of Self-Conserving Functions" and was enjoying it, without paying attention to the gaze of middle-aged women.

"SUNY has a good ranking in the United States." The front row passengers also participated in their discussions, "especially the strongest universities at Buffalo, Stony Brook, Binghamton and Albany are all world-class good universities!"

This is like someone gives you a pillow when you are sleepy. There is no happier thing than when you want to praise someone who knows what you know. The middle-aged woman unbuttoned her seat belt and stood up and said, "Yes, yes, my daughter is at Albany! What kind of work do you do? You know so much!" After saying that, she glanced at Lu Qiujian again.

"I am a reporter from the Education Newspaper. I went on a business trip to New York!" He smiled and then popularized the strength of the State University of New York, Albany. "Albany can also rank in the top 100 in the United States, and many of the majors are top in the United States! The School of Nanotechnology and Engineering is the world's number one, and the business school is one of the strongest comprehensive business schools in the northeastern United States..."

The strongest comprehensive strength made the middle-aged woman's face even more bright. She automatically ignored the northeastern and one of the two words, nodded repeatedly, "My daughter is going to go to this business school!" Then she glanced at Lu Qiujian for the third time, thinking why the young man is so ignorant, wondering if he should talk to him.

"What did this little brother go to the United States?" The reporter followed the aunt's gaze and saw the book in Lu Qiujian's hand. The heavy design of the cover in English and academic works aroused his curiosity.

"Oh, I'm also studying in the United States!" Lu Qiujian closed the book and replied calmly.

"Hey, you are going to study in the United States too! Which university is it?" The little girl called Yangyang poked her head out from behind her mother and looked at Lu Qiujian curiously. She saw that he was thin and gentle, and she felt like she was standing about the same height as her mother while sitting, probably more than 1.85 meters tall.

"Oh, Princeton! Not far from New York." Lu Qiujian smiled politely at the little girl.

"Ah! Princeton!" When the little girl heard Lu Qiujian's name come out, she screamed in dismay, just like the Koreans who saw a long-legged Oppa and star-eyed eyes emerged.

"Is this school very good?", her mother looked at her strangely, "In that city?"

"In a small town between New York and Philadelphia!" Yang Yang hurriedly answered his mother's question, and immediately turned his attention to Lu Qiujian, "How did you apply for it? What major did you study?"

"It turns out to be a country school!" Her mother muttered neither high nor low. In her concept, powerful universities can only exist in big cities, such as Shuimu University and Kyodo University in the imperial capital, the hatched egg university in the magic capital, and the Jiaotong University in the town. The schools that were driven to the town are probably similar to those of XX Vocational and Technical College!

"I recommend going to Princeton's Mathematics Department as an exchange student." Lu Qiujian seemed to have not heard the words of a middle-aged woman, and he felt secretly feeling that he had spent a lot of effort in the past few months for this place.

"Haha, Princeton is not a country school. This school has long been in the top ten in the world. Last year and this year, it surpassed Harvard to rank first in the United States!" The reporter's words quickly shattered the pride of middle-aged women, "especially the Department of Mathematics, it has ranked first in the world for several consecutive years!"

Middle-aged women were speechless. After all, she could understand the gap between the top 100 and the top in the United States. In China, it was the gap between the normal university and the Beijing University in their province. However, after being tested by the office verbal struggle, she would not give up easily, and soon found a new direction of attack. "Hmph, what can I do after reading mathematics? My daughter is studying finance and will go to Wall Street to make a lot of money in the future!"

"Mom!" The little girl was so embarrassed that she could hardly raise her head. Whether it was Merrill Lynch or Morgan Stanley, which big company would reject the graduates of Princeton's mathematics department? She would be considered a big deal after graduation.

"You can't say that! Many fund managers on Wall Street who are calling for trouble now have graduated from the Department of Mathematics!" The reporter once again showed his extensive knowledge. "I know there is a man named Li Yanxiu who graduated from the Department of Mathematics of University of Science and Technology in 1987. After coming to Wall Street, he quickly created a unique investment analysis method with his mathematical talent, allowing his company to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in net profit every year. I heard that his annual dividends are used as units of tens of millions of dollars."
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