Annihilation of the solar system

The assistant driving the car was in his twenties, and he kept chattering along the way. Sometimes he would ask about Liu Chaowen's health, sometimes he would talk about academic matters, and he could even talk to passersby on the roadside. A few words. But Liu Chaowen just listened quietly in the passenger seat and occasionally uttered

"Um."

"Yes"

A kind of short answer,

The assistant didn't mind at all. Obviously he had known the character of this talented junior brother for a long time, so he kept talking to himself.

Liu Chaowen in the back row had doubts in his heart. His son's current calm and introverted personality changes only happened suddenly in the past two years. When Liu Chaowen was with him, he still had the vigor of a young man. Ordinarily, he would be the same age as him. People should be more lively when they are together, but they are less talkative.

After crawling for an hour in the crowded evening rush hour, the car finally arrived at the courtyard of Zhou Cheng's villa. Shen Manling was already waiting at the door of the room. The car door opened and she greeted her enthusiastically:

"Lao Liu, welcome! The last few times I invited you to my house, you didn't come. Today I finally invited you. Chaowen is fine, we want to celebrate."

Lao Liu was not very good at dealing with this kind of communication. He could only put on a stiff smile on his face and said repeatedly:

"I'm sorry to trouble you."

Liu Chaowen on the side had no trouble on his face and shouted:

"Teacher Shen."

The assistant locked the car door and handed the car key to Shen Manling and said:

"Master Wife, my mission is completed, I will leave first."

Shen Manling grabbed his sleeve:

"Why are you leaving? It's already this time. Just have dinner here. Your meals are prepared."

The assistant approached Shen Manling's ear mysteriously:

"I told the teacher that I have a steak date with my girlfriend tonight, so I won't eat it here. I understand, Master."

A smile appeared on Shen Manling's face:

"Okay, okay, I won't keep you, go quickly."

Lao Liu and his son followed Shen Manling into the house. In the living room, Zhou Cheng was sitting on the sofa with a middle-aged man talking about something. That man was Cao Rui. Zhou Cheng stood up and came over:

"I'm sorry, Lao Liu! It's our fault that we didn't take good care of Chaowen this time, causing you to come so far. Fortunately, there was no danger, and everyone is happy! It's a rare time for you to come, so let's have a few drinks today."

Old Liu said with a stiff but honest smile:

"Thank you, Teacher Zhou and Teacher Shen, for taking care of Chaowen. I'm really sorry to disturb you today."

Zhou Cheng pointed to Cao Rui beside him:

"This is Cao Rui, my old friend for decades. It just so happened that he came to see me today to talk about something. We will have dinner together and stay at the hotel next to him in the evening. We will talk about other things tomorrow. What do you think?"

Old Liu glanced at his son. Liu Chaowen's expression was calm and a little indifferent, and then nodded.

Cao Rui looked at the father and son carefully from top to bottom, then smiled and stretched out his hand to shake hands with Lao Liu:

"Oh, I've admired your name for a long time. I often hear old Zhou talking about the legendary stories of your father and son, and today I finally met him in person."

Then he turned his attention to Liu Chaowen, who was standing quietly aside:

"This is our classmate Liu Chaowen. Your teacher makes you look like a flower. I can't understand his praising quotations! Haha, it's better to meet each other than to be famous. Your paper yesterday was on the news! Incredible."

A forced smile flashed across Liu Chaowen's calm face:

"It's all the result of the hard work of teachers and fellow students. I didn't do it alone."

Shen Manling's gentle voice came from the dining room:

"Stop standing around talking. The food and wine are all set. Come over and have a drink and chat."

Everyone sat down at the dining table, and Shen Manling poured the yellowed wine juice into the wine dispenser. Cao Rui looked at the old wine, with a surprise smile on his lips. He looked at the wine juice in the wine dispenser like he was looking at a beauty. It was rolling and rolling inside.

After pouring the wine, Zhou Cheng raised his glass, Lao Liu and Cao Rui also raised their glasses, while Shen Manling and Liu Chaowen drank tea. Zhou Cheng cleared his throat:

"It's rare to have Lao Liu come to our home today. Chao Wen's work is safe and sound. The paper is also a great success. It's worth celebrating."

After saying that, Zhou Cheng and Cao Rui swept away the wine in the wine glasses with the same bold movements almost at the same time. Lao Liu held the wine glass in both hands and drank it all carefully. He only felt that the wine was astringent at the beginning and sweet at the end. The throat is not hot. All the way to the stomach, a soft and warm breath slowly rises. It is indeed an old wine.

Zhou Cheng put down his wine glass and looked at Liu Chaowen:

"Kid, do you know? Your paper shocked those veterans who have been engaged in scientific research for decades and they were dumbfounded! The way those unconvinced old guys came up to the stage and deduced the mathematical model with you on the blackboard. I You can see it clearly below, and it’s as interesting as a group of junior high school students competing with college students from the Department of Mathematics in Riemannian geometry.”

When he said this, a trace of loneliness flashed across Zhou Cheng's face. Because he knew that he was among those dumbfounded old birds.

Liu Chaowen lowered his head and raised his eyes to look at Zhou Cheng and whispered:

"I'm sorry, Teacher Zhou. I fainted yesterday before I could finish deriving the mathematical model of evolution for Professor Luther."

Zhou Cheng waved his hands, with a complicated tangle on his face:

"But having said that, the shock your paper brought to the entire theoretical scientific community is no less than a magnitude 10 earthquake!"

Speaking of this, Zhou Cheng looked a little excited,

"Yesterday at the National Physics Academic Conference, you canceled the following topics after you fainted. The experts had completely lost interest in the next report topics. They all took your papers and went back to analyze them individually. Your theory must be serious. If it can be widely verified, you may become the youngest Nobel Prize winner."

The pride overflowing on Zhou Cheng's face became even stronger, while Liu Chaowen only had a faint smile on his face:

"This is the result of the research done by Teacher Zhou and all the senior fellow students."

Zhou Cheng shook his head, embarrassment flashed across his face, and he raised his glass again:

"Hey, let's not talk about this today. I guess it will take a while for those people to digest your paper. During this time, you can have a good rest. You can go home if you want, and stop working on scientific research projects. .”

Hearing this, Liu Chaowen had a restless expression on his face. Old Liu saw his son's thoughts, patted his hand and said:

"The doctor said that your condition is related to overwork. You should take a good rest during this period to recuperate. I heard from Teacher Zhou that there are a lot of things waiting for you later."

Liu Chaowen looked at his father and nodded slightly.

"Um!"

After a few glasses of wine, Lao Liu's face turned slightly red. Zhou Cheng and Cao Rui also became somewhat interested. Zhou Cheng poured the wine and asked:

"Chaowen, when you were in a coma in the hospital yesterday, you kept calling your daddy. Did you dream about something?"

Hearing Zhou Cheng's seemingly unintentional question, Liu Chaowen's eyes flashed with a look of pain and fear. Although the time was short, it also aroused waves of waves on his young face.

Shen Manling captured this moment with a woman's natural delicacy. Before Liu Chaowen spoke, she frowned and said to Zhou Cheng in a somewhat reproachful tone:

"Lao Zhou! This child has just been discharged from the hospital. Why are you asking him this? I think you are drunk!"

Zhou Cheng looked embarrassed and felt that he had said the wrong thing. He raised his glass with a smile:

"Madam is right! Look at me, why are you talking about this? I will punish myself with one drink, and I will punish myself with one drink."

Cao Rui on the side quickly picked up his wine glass and clinked it with Zhou Cheng:

"What are you punishing yourself for...! Punishing yourself! You want to punish yourself for such a good wine. Let's drink it together."

After finishing the drink, the atmosphere calmed down. Liu Chaowen's mood was no longer as volatile as before. He looked at Shen Manling aside with deep meaning.

Those eyes were full of gratitude to his mistress and longing for maternal love. As a mother, Shen Manling could fully understand the emotions shown in Liu Chaowen's eyes, and a trace of pity appeared on her face.

Suddenly, Lao Liu felt that there was something strange about his son sitting next to him, and Shen Manling on the side also noticed something was wrong. They all turned their attention to Liu Chaowen almost at the same time.

I saw his hands trembling slightly. Looking carefully, what was even more frightening was that the eyes that were buried down showed the fast flashing scene before in the hospital. Old Liu was startled, grabbed his son's arm and shouted road:

"Chaowen, what's wrong with you?"

I don't know if it was because of Lao Liu's shouting or other reasons. Liu Chaowen's abnormal symptoms immediately disappeared without a trace. So by the time Zhou Cheng and Cao Rui stood up to observe the situation, he had returned to normal. state.

"Ah...I'm fine. Dad! What's wrong?" Liu Chaowen raised his head and replied, but his blinking eyeballs had disappeared.

Lao Liu was convinced that he had just seen his son's abnormal state. He glanced at Shen Manling, who was sitting next to his son. The panic on her face had not yet dissipated.

Zhou Cheng, who was a little drunk, said with a smile:

"Lao Liu, don't be too nervous. Isn't Chaowen good at this?"

Shen Manling hesitated for a moment and said:

"Chaowen seemed to be shaking a little just now. I think he may have not recovered from the overwork. Chaowen, please eat more and stop sitting there."

After saying that, he stood up and used serving chopsticks to put vegetables into Liu Chaowen's bowl. Lao Liu didn't say anything. Shen Manling might not have been able to see Chaowen's eyes from the angle just now, or he might not have noticed the abnormality in Chaowen's eyes at all, but he was very I'm sure I saw that situation. I was about to ask my son again.

Chaowen changed his shy voice just now and said in a straight tone:

"Teacher Shen, I remember there was a news broadcast on the news some time ago, about an exocomet passing by, right?"

Shen Manling was startled by this sudden question. She put down her chopsticks and thought for a moment:

"Um, are you talking about the comet 'Oumuamua that flew from the direction of Lyra a few months ago and was discovered by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System on the Central Pacific Island?"

Liu Chaowen nodded:

"Yes, Teacher Shen, it's Oumuamua. I want to see it."