Brainoid

But the fact that Qi Min and Ke Li are close doesn't mean anything. The social circle of people engaged in scientific research is inherently narrow. There are only a few people in the laboratory who meet every day. As long as they are not enemies, they will gradually get to know each other. Ordering takeout, going to the canteen or even playing games together is nothing.

However, Qi Min invited Ke Yue to have dinner at the Japanese restaurant where she had invited Hua Ruiming before. This did not seem to be in line with the relationship between ordinary colleagues.

Of course Qi Min asked Ke Li to thank him for his help. However, when Chen Linyou accidentally learned about this from Ke Li, and then told Wang Xin, the gossip girl's thoughts were far away.

"Senior sister wants to invite him to dinner? Why?" Wang Xin asked Chen Linyou in private.

"I don't know..." Chen Linyou's thoughts were relatively simple, and he was only thinking about the laboratory questions. "I think it takes them two or three hours to eat, and they may not go back to the laboratory after eating. You Are you going to the rat room tonight?"

"I'm not going." Wang Xin answered his boring question first, and then lowered her voice and asked, "Why don't you think Senior Sister will treat us with you?"

"I don't know... maybe I think it's too expensive." Chen Linyou didn't think much about this issue, "And when we first came here, our senior sister also invited us."

Wang Xin gave him a somewhat hateful look, feeling that she really couldn't gossip with a straight man. However, she couldn't hint anything to Chen Linyou, but Wang Xin made it clear to Hua Ruiming directly on WeChat.

Less than a minute after the message was sent, Hua Ruiming replied "Thank you."

——

Qi Min and Ke Li came to this restaurant. After sitting down and ordering their meals, the waitress poured the two of them some very low-alcohol plum wine, and then Qi Min got straight to the point and raised his glass: "Come on, I would like to express my special thanks for coming to our laboratory to help. "

Ke Li was a little flattered. He originally thought that Qi Min just wanted to come out to eat some expensive food, but he didn't expect that he was invited specifically: "Oh... I don't dare... I was sent by the boss. Isn't that where I am?" It’s work, isn’t it?”

"But you have helped us a lot." Qi Min said with a smile, "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know how to mess with that rat thing."

She and Ke Li clinked glasses and each took two sips of plum wine. Ke Yue said jokingly: "If I had known it was your treat, I wouldn't have ordered so much. This would probably cost me a week's salary."

"Yeah." Qi Min also joked, "How about we still be AA?"

"Uh... well..." Ke Yue knew that since she planned to treat, she would definitely not evade the fare, so she deliberately said, "AA seems so sentimental. How about you treat me this time and I treat you next time?"

"Okay, this time I would like to thank you for helping me with the animal experiments." Qi Min clinked glasses with him again, "Next time you come up with your RNA algorithm, you have to thank me."

"That's for sure. We are a collaborative laboratory, and if I want to publish an article, I have to bring you with me." Ke Li was very generous in this regard. It is not ruled out that he is just trying to find Qi Min's favor, but it is also a good thing for members of the collaborative laboratory to help each other.

The two of them were chatting academically with each other while eating, when suddenly a tall figure walked over, and it turned out to be Hua Ruiming.

Hua Ruiming saw Qi Min pretending to have met by chance and said hello: "Hey, long time no see, No. 2."

After such a long time, Qi Min didn't care much about what he once tried to confess to her: "Yes, No. 1, we haven't formed a team together for a long time." She introduced Ke Yue opposite him by the way, "This is Ke Yue from Zhou Xiaoshan's laboratory at the 'Nimbus' Computing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences came to our place to help with animal experiments."

Hua Ruiming shook hands with Ke Li and said, "'Yuyun' is over there in Shunyi, isn't it tiring to run back and forth like this?"

"I'm temporarily living in the doctoral student dormitory of the University of Science and Technology of China. I don't have to go back there every day." Ke Li just replied calmly.

Qi Min introduced Hua Ruiming to him again: "This is Hua Ruiming from the Department of Medicine. You should have heard Wang Xin and Lin You mention it."

"Oh, it's Senior Brother Hua who teamed up with them to eat chicken." Ke Li recognized the number.

When they met in a public place, the three of them exchanged a few academic words as usual, and then Hua Ruiming said, "Then you talk slowly, I'll leave first."

Qi Min felt a little confused. When he came before, he didn't see Hua Ruiming at any table. He suddenly appeared, said a few words and left immediately. It was hard to understand what he was doing here.

But facing so much food, Qi Min had no time to think about how he accidentally saw himself.

When she lived with Anton before, she had to eat his cooking every day. There is nothing to say about Anton's cooking skills, but to be honest, in such a globalized world, eating regular Chinese food 365 days a year is a bit monotonous. Moreover, when she occasionally bought a hot dog outside, Anton would tell her it was rubbish when she returned home.

Ironically, Qi Min had to eat Chinese food every day when he was in the United States, but after returning to China, he had more choices because no one cooked at home. Although it can't be said to be very delicious, it is at least a bit fresh. And since she came here specifically to eat Japanese food, she had to eat it seriously in order to be worthy of the money she spent.

——

Unexpectedly, Qi Min went to work the next day and when he arrived at the door of the Department of Biology, he saw Hua Ruiming waiting at the door.

"Hi," Qi Min greeted him and asked casually, "Are you looking for someone?"

"Well, I want to ask you a few questions." Hua Ruiming replied.

"Oh...then you ask." Qi Min was a little confused. The research direction of his laboratory was very different from her brain-like body project. What questions could he have to ask? What about her?

Who would have thought that the question Hua Ruiming asked was really not related to professionalism: "Why did you invite that kid to dinner yesterday?"

Qi Min was a little confused and wanted to laugh: "You mean Ke Yue? He came to our laboratory to help, so of course he has to thank him."

"Why did you choose that hotel?" Hua Ruiming asked immediately.

In his opinion, maybe that Japanese restaurant symbolized the failure of his confession, but for Qi Min, that restaurant was originally a place where she would invite people who would help her conduct animal experiments. She thought Hua Ruiming was suitable before, so she invited Hua Ruiming; after Hua Ruiming became unsuitable, she could still go to that place and invite Ke Yue.

"I think that shop's hand rolls are pretty good." Qi Min replied with some humor. And this is the truth. If the restaurant did not meet her expectations the first time, Qi Min would not go there for the second treat.

But Hua Ruiming asked: "So...you broke up with your ex-boyfriend?"

"What does this have to do with him?" Qi Min had a headache because he had to bring all kinds of things to it. "I have already said that treating guests to dinner is only an experimental matter."

"If it's really an experimental matter, why don't the whole laboratory go together?" Hua Ruiming seemed to have entered a reluctance mode.

"I have already invited Wang Xin and Lin You when school started." Qi Min explained, "No one's money comes from the strong wind. Every time I have a treat, everyone in the laboratory has to go to it. This I can’t afford it.”

She glanced at Hua Ruiming and felt that it might be because she was disturbed by emotional issues that time she invited him. She felt psychologically unbalanced, so she said comfortingly: "If you still want to go, I will be alone next week after the salary is paid." Please."

After she finished speaking, she swiped the key card and hurriedly entered the biology department hall, leaving Hua Ruiming standing there in surprise and confusion.

The strange brain circuit that regards going to restaurants as the most important ritual in daily life (mistake)