Chapter 182: Celebrate the festive season

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December 24, Christmas Eve.
After the six people in the laboratory had dinner together, Xu Qiu and Han Jiaying parted ways with the others at the entrance of the canteen in the North District.
The two of them returned to the first floor of the materials, Duan Yun walked towards the North District Gymnasium, while Chen Wanqing, Wu Feifei, Tian Qing and the others went back to their bedroom to rest.
Reach 216 rooms.
The school girl stepped forward to her seat and picked up her light pink cloth schoolbag.
"Brother, a Christmas Eve gift for you." She took out a gift boxed apple from her bag and handed it to Xu Qiu.
Xu Qiu took the apple subconsciously, and then habitually said thank you.
He has a very vague concept of holidays. Even if it is a birthday, he just has to deal with it. He has rarely received holiday gifts since entering the university.
Of course, this has a lot to do with his narrow social circle and long-term single.
Staring at the apple in his hand, Xu Qiu began to think about whether the school girl gave him a gift.
He looked around, and Han Jiaying put an Apple gift box on each other's desk.
From the appearance, it was exactly the same as the one in his hand.
He faintly felt a sense of loss, after all, who didn't want to be the special and favored one.
However, he quickly became relieved, waved away the distracting thoughts in his mind, and started to unpack the gift box.
In Xu Qiu's impression, the Christmas Eve apples are to be eaten that day, which means peace.
After the package was removed, the inside of the gift box was a big red apple, which looked good, and there was something like a piece of paper sandwiched beside it.
He took it out to check, it was a handwritten greeting card with:
"Zhu: Brothers are successful in scientific research, and post more articles." A little love was drawn behind.
Xu Qiu looked up, just when the school girl's eyes met, the two looked at each other.
He quietly put the card in his inner pocket.
A single greeting card does not mean much.
He didn't think much, holding the apple, walked to the faucet in the room, rushed and rubbed the skin, then dried the surface water in the sink, and took a big bite.
The entrance is sweet and the aftertaste is endless.
When he was a child, he also spent some time in the countryside. Fruits with skins like apples and pears were handled in this way, and not so particular.
I still remember the time when his mother told him, "The nutrition of apples is on the skin. It is best to eat with the skin."
After taking a few more bites of apples, Xu Qiu suddenly remembered a detail.
There were four apples on the table that Han Jiaying took out, plus the ones in his hands, there were a total of five. In other words, the school girl didn't own them.
"Apple tastes good, by the way, didn't you buy it for yourself?" Xu Qiu asked.
"I, I forgot about my own." Han Jiaying stuck out her tongue.
"Um..." He took another bite of the apple and said vaguely.
Think about it, it's really weird to give yourself a gift.
Xu Qiu quickly ate the apple, put on a coat, and said, "I'll go out."
"Yeah." Han Jiaying responded with expectation in her expression.
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The closest fruit shop to the first floor of the material is the "North District Fruit Shop", which is open on the only way to connect the North District and the headquarters.
The flow of people here is very high, the rent is naturally very expensive, and the price of goods is of course also very high. On average, it is about twice as expensive as outside, so it is also called a black shop by students.
Unless there are special circumstances, Xu Qiu will not buy fruit in the fruit shop on campus.
However, now is a special case.
Xu Qiu walked for less than five minutes and arrived in front of the fruit shop in the North District.
In a conspicuous location in the store, rows of gift boxes of apples are placed.
The shop owner greeted him with a smile. Boys at this point in time, there is a high probability that a business can be made.
"Boss, how do you sell this apple?" Xu Qiu asked, pointing to the apple gift box.
"Twenty yuan a piece, how many do you want?" the shop owner said casually.
It is a black shop, the usual price is dark enough, and now it has risen to twenty yuan apiece during the festival.
Xu Qiu murmured secretly, but still gritted his teeth and said, "Come on, two... Let's forget eight."
Originally, he just wanted to buy one for Han Jiaying in return.
Later, I thought that the senior sister didn't help him less, so I should buy one for her too.
I also considered that since I bought them for the senior sister, the other members of the research group could not be left behind. After all, they were still good for him.
And the members of the research group have given it away, so Teacher Wei has to give it away.
Although he may not care much about this at his age, he will at least be happy to receive a holiday gift if he is respected.
What's more, most of the time, it is Mr. Wei who gives benefits to the members of the research group, such as daily fruits, snacks, and dinner parties.
It seems that except for Teacher's Day, the team spent more than 300 joint ventures to buy an indoor landscape crop for Teacher Wei, that is, a more advanced potted plant, but no holiday gift was given to him.
Finally, there are two roommates. The undergraduates have passed these years safely. We must thank the roommates for not killing them, and arrange one for each of them.
In this way, the number of Apple gift boxes has increased from one or two to eight.
Xu Qiu thought, anyway, I just received a bonus of 5,000 yuan for the publication of an AM article. After two visits, there are still about 4,000 left. If you spend more than one or two hundred to go out, it’s okay.
As for himself, he didn't think about it.
This kind of apple adds a lot of "holiday value", which is obviously a substantial premium.
It's okay to give it as a gift, but it hurts to eat for yourself.
During his thoughts, the store owner had already packed the apple gift boxes and put them in a red plastic bag.
"A total of 160 yuan, scan the QR code or pay in cash?" The shop owner still said unhurriedly.
"Cash it."
Xu Qiu handed the money, took the plastic bag, and then carried it all the way back to 216.
Before entering the door, he grabbed a gift box and held it in his hand. After entering the door, he directly handed it to Han Jiaying, and said at the same time:
"For your Christmas Eve gift, I didn't prepare a greeting card in advance, so I would like to give a verbal blessing. I also wish the schoolgirls successful research and post more articles."
"Thank you brother~" Han Jiaying happily accepted the apple, then her eyes rolled and said:
"In other words, brother, your blessing is a bit unwilling, why is it exactly the same as what I said."
Xu Qiu put down the plastic bag in his hand and spread out his hands; "No way, the blessings related to scientific research are so pitiful, and posting more articles is quite appropriate. If it is Senior Sister Chen Wanqing or Senior Brother Duan Yun, I can still wish them well. Graduation is not like a wedding blessing. You can say a lot of things, such as old age together, a hundred years of harmony, and early birth of a precious child."
"Okay." Han Jiaying seemed to reluctantly accept this reason, and did not continue to argue, she opened the gift box, took out the apple inside, and rinsed it with water.
After that, I carefully peeled off the skin of the apple with a fruit knife, then nibbled it, and said, "Well, the gift from the brother is really delicious."
Xu Qiu smiled and nodded. Although the fruit shop is expensive, at least the quality is still acceptable.
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The day after Christmas Eve is Christmas, which is one of the most important holidays in the West.
Teacher Wei had been abroad for a long time, so he followed some of the habits of foreign countries and gave the students of the research group a night off on Christmas night.
Xu Qiu heard the senior sisters say that apart from Christmas, there will be a holiday on Halloween night.
It just happened that this year's Halloween was on Saturday, and it finally stopped.
Regarding the evening plan, a group of six people in the laboratory discussed, and finally decided to eat and eat regularly and play board games.
Because everyone in the research group is relatively well-behaved, and there is no one with rich nightlife.
If Tao Yan was present, maybe he would give a different plan.
Therefore, after the holiday at 5:30 in the evening, Xu Qiu and the others first went to the nearby commercial area and ate Dunjiang provincial food.
I ordered a large table of dishes, including large plate chicken, Napa Liyong, Shihezi Liangpi, mutton pilaf, flame goat skewers, milk rice, and flavored fried naan.
70 yuan per capita, good price/performance ratio, but a bit biased.
At seven o'clock on the hour, when they were almost finished eating, it happened to be in time for a folk dance performance.
The diners in the restaurant all cast curious glances at the Xinjiang girl dressed in shiny clothes, and Duan Yun watched with relish.
After the meal, Xu Qiu and the others found a board game shop on Daxue Road, whose name was "Maid Board Game".
It is said that there are maids in this shop, but the price is not cheap, and they usually come and go during the day. When they go at night, the maids are off work.
Therefore, they obediently found a private room, chose a normal package of 40 yuan per person, and played until 11 o'clock in the evening.
Teacher Wei rarely participates in this kind of laboratory activity similar to team building. He only provides funds. He occasionally makes a call in the middle to ask about the situation.
According to his words, "It is more suitable for young people to play together. You can't let go after I have passed."
Objectively speaking, this is indeed the case.
...
Recently, the overall pace of scientific research within the research group has slowed down a lot.
The two glove boxes in the usual group, especially the spin-coated glove box, were used uninterrupted for 12 hours, and now its daily use time is only about 6 hours.
On the one hand, after a busy semester and the holiday approaching, people will inevitably have the idea of ​​paddling.
On the other hand, Xu Qiu and Han Jiaying are busy testing on public platforms of faculties and schools, and rarely do experiments in the laboratory.
In the past two weeks, under the leadership of Xu Qiu, Han Jiaying's two jobs have basically completed the data.
The school girl is also preparing to write her first article.
Fortunately, she has never fallen behind in literature reading. Although she has not read as much as Chen Wanqing and Xu Qiu, she has hundreds of articles.
Moreover, her English is not bad, and her advantage in writing articles is not small.
But even so, she wanted to write the first article, it would take a month, after all, it was the first time.
From the time point of view, the article can be posted just before the holiday.
Speaking of articles, the articles that Xu Qiu and Chen Wanqing had each contributed to have also received news this week.
His work is "PBT4T design, synthesis and optoelectronic applications", the journal he submitted is ACSAMI, and the comments returned are "No modification, direct acceptance is recommended."
The treatment is the same as that of Wu Feifei's original CM vote. Generally accepted articles have the opportunity to be published in higher-level journals, which means that the vote is low.
This result is slightly unexpected, but understandable.
Because Xu Qiu's idea at the time was to send this work out quickly to prevent others from being intercepted, so he really voted in the low, in order to publish it earlier and take the pits first.
Take the way of other people, leaving them nowhere to go.
Xu Qiu's several articles this year went well.
So far, two minor revisions, one directly accepted, and three published successfully.
He is also considering whether he should be more aggressive in journal selection when submitting articles later.
Submitting an article is essentially a game between the author and the editor.
The author's appeal is very simple. The higher the grade of the journal the article is published, the better, and the faster the article is published, the better.
The editor's request is relatively complicated.
On the one hand, I want to keep the manuscript as much as possible. As long as the manuscript is retained, it is a profitable business for the journal company, which involves the author’s page fee and the reader’s reading fee.
On the other hand, it is necessary to maintain the overall level of the journal, not to drop too much.
Therefore, authors generally vote from high to low ~EbookFREE.me~ For example, if you are rejected for AFM, switch to JMCA, and then switch to ACSAMI.
Of course, there are normal people, and naturally some authors of metaphysical contributions, from low to high, ACSAMI rejected it, voted for JMCA, then was rejected, and then voted for AFM.
However, there are not many such people, because they will eventually be taught to be human by reality.
Chen Wanqing's work is "The design, synthesis and photoelectric application of ternary conjugated copolymers based on BDT, TT, and BT". The journal he submitted is JMCA, and the comments returned are minor changes.
Under normal circumstances, the editor did not directly reject the manuscript for the first time, but gave suggestions for revision, which shows that he still has a certain degree of approval for this work.
As long as the revisions are made according to the opinions, there is more than 80% chance that they will be published successfully. The specific difference is nothing more than one revision or multiple revisions.
Therefore, when she first saw that Xu Qiu's article was directly accepted, and then saw the results of her small changes to her article, she was only slightly depressed for a while, and the corners of her mouth smiled again.
After receiving this JMCA, she will have three second-district articles, plus the one she is currently writing, and she can make up four articles.
Now that she is just over half of her PhD career, she has no worries about graduation, and there is a lot of leeway in the remaining time.
During this time, Chen Wanqing is also considering the next research direction.
Maybe it's time to consider sprinting into an SCI area. You can't always be the king of the mouth.
We must jump out of the comfort zone of "ternary blending and ternary copolymerization" and find a new field.
For example, non-fullerene systems?
However, non-fullerenes have been working for more than ten years and have been unable to challenge the status of the traditional fullerene system. Does it mean that this road itself is not working?
Tangled...