CHAPTER 411: CHAPTER 140: ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT MY MOM MIGHT ALSO BE A MATH GENIUS_2

"Mr. Yang, I’m back."

"Hmm, good you’re back. Did Academician Tian invite you to dinner today?"

"No, it was Elder Yuan who invited us to Huaqing for a meal. Oh right, I might need to ask for leave later; Elder Yuan mentioned today that after the summer camp here is over, Qiao Yu should take me to Qiuzhai at Huaqing."

"Oh, all minor things. Just let me know when the time comes. Go rest quickly, don’t miss tomorrow’s opening event."

"Okay!"

...

On the other side, Qiao Yu hesitated for a moment and then went to Building No. 9 of the Shao Garden Hotel.

With Qiao Xi here, his little suite didn’t seem appealing anymore. He decided to sleep on the hotel sofa for the next few days.

The good thing about summer is that you can sleep anywhere for a night.

He knocked on the door, and soon it opened. Qiao Xi must have just taken a shower, as her hair was still somewhat wet.

"Keke has already gone back?"

"Yeah."

"Planning to sleep here tonight?"

"Yeah, there’s a sofa in the suite anyway."

Qiao Xi looked at Qiao Yu, gestured, and said, "Isn’t the sofa a bit short?"

"Short? Then let’s add another one."

"Might as well get a double room."

"No need. Remember when I was young, I loved sleeping on the sofa."

"Did you really love sleeping on the sofa? You just wanted to watch TV on it."

"Mom, see through without tearing through, we’ll still be good friends! Otherwise, friendship ends."

Qiao Xi sniffed with a disdainful face and scolded, "Go take a shower, why do you smell so bad? It’s such a hot day, I doubt you bathe every day!"

Qiao Yu argued, "This is Beijing, who bathes every day! Besides, I’m already popular without bathing; if I bathed fragrant every day, wouldn’t that be too much?"

...

After the routine banter between mother and son, Qiao Yu obediently went into the bathroom.

He quickly took care of hygiene, then came out, and sat next to Qiao Xi, who was browsing her phone.

"Don’t browse short videos so much." Qiao Yu said.

"Just looking occasionally, you always need to stay in touch with the outside world, otherwise you’ll feel pretty dumb knowing nothing."

Qiao Xi put down her phone.

"Why not listen to me tell you about my trip to the Paris conference?"

"Sure, go ahead."

Qiao Yu started talking about his experiences in Paris, inevitably focusing on that man.

From the breakfast meeting to leaving at the end... he described it colorfully.

Qiao Xi just listened quietly, fully satisfying the little guy’s desire to perform.

"By the way, there’s more good news. Guess how much I got paid as a consultant in the chemistry lab?"

After finishing talking about Paris, Qiao Yu looked mysteriously at Qiao Xi.

Qiao Xi, seeing Qiao Yu’s expression, thought for a moment and said, "A million?"

"Hmm? Why do you think it could be that much?" Qiao Yu asked.

"If it were just tens of thousands or a few hundred thousand, you had earned that before; you wouldn’t be showing off like this."

Qiao Xi analyzed.

Qiao Yu didn’t really think he was showing off, but Qiao Xi always seeing through him made him a bit disheartened.

"It’s 1.367 million after tax!"

"Wow, Qiao Yu, you’re amazing."

"Please be a bit more sincere when you praise me next time."

Qiao Xi shrugged and said, "Can’t be more sincere than this. Because I’ve always felt with your capability and intelligence, no achievement of yours ever surprises me."

It can only be said that Qiao Xi knows how to compliment Qiao Yu.

"I now have 1.6 million, I’ll transfer half to you later." Qiao Yu said.

"No need, I can’t even spend all my own money. You know, I neither like luxury goods, nor am I into makeup, and I don’t even invest money, so why do I need so much? If I really run out of money, I’ll ask you for some."

Qiao Xi shook her head slightly, refusing Qiao Yu’s kind offer.

"By the way, Qiao Yu, over the past few months during my breaks, I’ve carefully read the paper you published. Now I have some ideas, though I’m not sure if they’re right."

"Hmm? About the upper bound derivation for rational numbers on curves?"

"Yeah, you only sent me that one paper, right?" Qiao Xi said softly.

"You understood it?"

"Originally I didn’t, but using the method you told me, I first looked at the references you cited, then the references of those references, and then read some books, and I think I sort of get it."

Qiao Yu looked at Qiao Xi with some curiosity.

He originally thought this paper was easy to understand, but even his Senior Brother Chen found it difficult, which made him realize that what he found simple might not be that easy.

At the time he sent it to Qiao Xi not only to show off in front of his mom but also because Qiao Xi was the second author of the paper.

In case someone really wanted to scrutinize, having Qiao Xi look at it first would mean she could say something about it.

However, Qiao Xi managing to somewhat understand it did intrigue Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu asked, "In the references I cited, there’s Peter Schultz’s paper. Are you sure you understand his document?"

"You mean that ’Perfectoid Spaces’ one? It’s about constructing a series of different spaces to perfect a given geometric object. Is that... really hard to grasp? I think it’s just a clever solution."

Qiao Xi said casually.

Qiao Yu got anxious and sternly lectured, "How can you call it a clever solution? In p-adic number theory and algebraic variety research, the construction’s goal was not to simplify problems because there weren’t similar tools available before.

Otherwise, what tools can effectively handle algebraic geometric objects over fields based on the prime p as a base number? You must know that the combination of p-adic numbers and algebraic geometry is the most challenging part of algebraic geometry! If you talk like this outside, people will laugh at you."