Xia Jun was immediately kicked out of the ward and saw Gu Mei and Professor Wang, but he didn't say anything. He stroked his glasses on the bridge of his nose, nodded at Professor Wang, and left.

  Professor Wang and Gu Mei exchanged a glance, full of doubts, knocked on the door of the ward, and then walked in.

  If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would have found it hard to imagine that the spirited Professor Liu in Taiyuan and the old man on the hospital bed who was barely breathing were the same person. She felt that compared to when they were in Taiyuan, Professor Liu looked at least 10 years older.

  Everyone was shocked, and Professor Wang, who had disagreed with Professor Liu for many years, was even more shocked.

  "Old Liu, what's wrong with you?" Professor Wang hurried forward and walked to the bedside of Professor Liu.

  There was also a woman in her 50s with a worried look on her face, who appeared to be Professor Liu's wife. She saw someone coming to visit the patient and busied herself pouring two cups of water for Gu Xiang and Professor Wang.

  "How did you get here?" Professor Liu spoke with a weak tone, his face still flushed with excitement, and the whole person looked quite unwell.

  "You've become so ill, and yet we have a friendship of several decades. How could I not come?" At this moment, Professor Wang had lost his usual argumentative demeanor with Professor Liu, and his face was filled with deep concern.

  Professor Liu looked up at Professor Wang with a sigh and didn't say anything.

  "It seems I should go get the medicine. You all chat slowly, I'll be back soon." Professor Liu's wife said to everyone after checking the time.

  Gu Ming and Professor Wang nodded, then let Mrs. Liu leave.

  After Professor Liu's wife left, Professor Wang said seriously: "When you said that day to let Xia Jun come over here as an assistant, I felt something was wrong. Today, I came and saw you drive Xia Jun out, what happened?"

  "There's nothing much, I'm just getting old." Professor Liu didn't want to say more.

  "I don't know you? Your body is better than many people, if nothing happens, how can you become like this?" Professor Wang obviously didn't believe Professor Liu's perfunctory words.

  Professor Liu turned his head away and remained silent.

  "You're so stubborn!" Professor Wang couldn't help but exclaim when he saw Professor Liu's silent resistance.

  Gu Meng looked at Professor Wang, who was furious, and then at Professor Liu, who was looking away without saying a word. Suddenly, she felt that the two people seemed to have no contradictions between them, unlike sworn enemies, but rather like friends.

  Professor Liu was silent for a moment before speaking: "Just pretend you didn't hear what I told you that day, sorry to trouble you."

  "Xia Jun himself has already told me that he won't come over here, don't you know?" Professor Wang said with a frown.

  Professor Liu looked up at Professor Wang: "Did he tell you himself?"

  "Yes." Professor Wang nodded.

  "Everyone has their own path..." Professor Liu sighed and his expression became even more desolate.

  It's clear now, even a fool can see it. Professor Liu is like this because of his relationship with Xia Jun. But didn't Xia Jun always have a good relationship with Professor Liu? How did things turn out like this?

  Professor Wang and Gu Mei were both very curious about it, but Professor Liu had made up his mind not to say anything, with a mouth as tightly closed as a clamshell.

  Until Gu Ming and Professor Wang left. Professor Liu did not directly answer Professor Wang's question, and finally it was still Professor Liu's wife who sent them out and couldn't help but mention a few words.

  "Did Xia Jun steal Professor Liu's research paper?" Professor Wang looked at Professor Liu's wife in disbelief, hardly daring to believe his own ears.

  Gu Fang beside her was also shocked and stared wide-eyed at Professor Liu's wife.

  "I'm not entirely clear what happened, but somehow it did. When Old Liu found out about this matter, he was extremely angry. He had put a lot of effort into that paper, and apart from Xia Jun, no one else knew what the content was. Just as the paper was about to be completed...”

  Professor Liu's wife shook her head and continued: "Old Liu originally said that if Xia Jun admitted his mistake and proactively clarified who wrote the paper, it would have been fine. But Xia Jun refused. He even hinted that he himself had written the paper."

  Professor Wang furrowed his brow tightly: "How could such a thing happen?"

  "Nowadays, children are so heartless. Xia Jun used to be a good kid, and Old Liu always liked him. Who knew he would turn out like this." Professor Liu's wife sighed a few times, then returned to the hospital room without saying more. After all, someone was needed to take care of Professor Liu.

  Gu Mian and Professor Wang had a bad atmosphere on the way back, regarding Xia Jun stealing Professor Liu's research results to publish, Gu Mian was really surprised.

  She had always heard that some tutors with poor character stole their students' research results and published them, but she had never heard of a student stealing a teacher's research results, which was really surprising.

  After a long while, Professor Wang suddenly spoke up: "The relationship between teacher and student is different from that of master and apprentice. Old Liu has really fallen this time. He exhausted his efforts to cultivate what he thought was a good apprentice, but who knew it turned out to be a white-eyed wolf!"

  "Professor Wang..." Gu Meng listened to the anger in Professor Wang's tone and couldn't help but shudder.

  "In our line of work, taking on an apprentice is a very serious matter. You can have many teachers, but only one master. Unless your master agrees, it's not acceptable to abandon them for someone else just because you've found someone better." Professor Wang sighed.

  Gu Xiang nodded, thinking that Professor Wang had never taken an apprentice before. Although he was also very kind to her, he had never shown any intention of taking her as his apprentice. She didn't know if it was because he was afraid of encountering the same situation as with Professor Liu, so he didn't take apprentices.

  If what Professor Liu's wife said was true, then Gu Mei would also be ashamed of Xia Jun's behavior.

  Only two people know the research paper, if it really makes a fuss about who wrote it, I'm afraid it will not be clear until the end. However, Gu Mian believes that if he really wants to investigate, most people will believe Professor Liu, just by looking at Professor Liu's appearance when facing Professor Wang's inquiry, he knows that Professor Liu is softhearted and would rather be angry himself than pursue it too much.

  Once Xia Jun is confirmed to have stolen someone else's research results, he will probably have no way to stand in the antique industry.

  What pained him more than his research results being stolen was Xia Jun's betrayal.

  In just a few days, a research paper signed by Xia Jun was published in an international popular science book, and the paper was also awarded first prize.

  Professor Wang was furious when he saw this article and immediately tore off the page and threw it into the trash can.

  At the same time, Mr. Xue was also holding a book that Professor Wang had torn apart, which was exactly the same as the one he had. He looked at Xia Jun's research paper and couldn't help but let out a soft hum, then threw down the book and went back to his room to rest.

  Mr. Qiao picked up the book that Mr. Xue had thrown to the ground, couldn't help but sigh, and turned around to go to the living room.

  Qin Shengzheng was sitting in the living room waiting when he saw Mr. Qiao arrive, and stood up.

  "Alright, hurry up and sit down." Mr. Qiao waved his hand at Qin Sheng.

  "What about Old Xue?" Qin Sheng asked without seeing Old Xue's figure.

  "The teacher is in a bad mood at the moment, and has gone back to rest." Mr. Qiao put down the book and asked Qin Sheng: "How have you been lately? Is everything okay on your end?"

  "It's still manageable." Qin Sheng nodded and asked, "What about Old Man Xue's attitude?"

  "It's still the same, looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer." Mr. Qiao looked at Qin Sheng and couldn't help but speak up: "But I'm also very curious, why did you think of this matter? That Miss Gu is quite capable, but I haven't seen anything special about her that would attract you."

  "She's very talented." Qin Sheng smiled slightly.

  "People with talent are not rare," said Mr. Qiao.

  "Believe me, if you choose her, there won't be any mistake." Qin Sheng said with considerable confidence.

  "That's all we can do for now." Mr. Qiao shook his head and turned to say, "The teacher has received an invitation from Country Y to attend a seminar, do you want to go take a look?"

  "I came just to say this thing, and I will go at that time." Qin Sheng paused for a moment, then added: "I heard that Professor Wang seems to be going too."

  Mr. Qiao was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "I understand."

  As Qin Sheng said, Professor Wang indeed received the order from above to go abroad for an exchange conference. He was not the only one; newly arrived Professors He and Guan also received this task.

  For the two new professors going abroad to attend the exchange conference, others did not have much opinion on this matter. Such exchange conferences are held countless times every year, both domestically and internationally, and most people have participated in them before. This time it's just the turn of the two professors who haven't attended before, and others don't have any particular views on it.

  As for Professor Guan, he simply played a leading role and took care of the two professors who had never attended such an exchange meeting.

  Professor Wang has always wanted to work here, apart from being able to see more and better things, participating in various academic exchanges is also a point he attaches great importance to.

  Since receiving the notification that he could go abroad to attend the exchange meeting, Professor Wang's original displeasure due to Prof. Liu and Xia Jun's matters flew away by more than half, letting his assistants Gu Mei and Chen Peng both breathe a sigh of relief.

  No matter what, Professor Wang still felt a lot of pressure every day facing low atmospheric pressure.

  The pressure is gone, but another problem has come. The professor wants to attend the exchange meeting and must bring someone with him. How many people to bring and who to bring are worth discussing.

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