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Chapter 132 Tour Part

Wang Jiankun and his team entered Peking University from the South Gate.

After entering, I found that the area on the left was the student dormitory, so I went to take a look at the dormitory first.

In September next year, Zheng Qian and Yu Zirun will most likely come to this school to study. They will definitely live on campus in the early stage, so it would be a good idea for them to come and take a look at the dormitory first.

After the resumption of the college entrance examination, three batches of students have graduated, and some living facilities here have been improved. Unlike the first two batches, many dormitories were still leaking and drafty, and could only be repaired while in use.

Moreover, the number of students admitted at the beginning far exceeded the original capacity of the dormitory, so the first three classes of students lived in very crowded conditions. Then, as the new dormitory buildings were built, the accommodation conditions began to improve.

When entering the dormitory area, some buildings were quiet, but there were students coming in and out of several buildings.

Then there is a construction site on the open space in the distance, probably where new dormitories are being built.

Wang Jiankun and his group were dressed quite fashionably and soon attracted the attention of several students who stayed on campus.

"Hey! Where are you from? You don't look like you are from our school." A tall and thin boy wearing glasses ran over and stopped Wang Jiankun and his group and said.

"What? Peking University only allows people from Peking University to come in? There doesn't seem to be a notice posted at the door." Wang Jiankun retorted in a somewhat harsh tone.

"It's a misunderstanding, brother. I saw you looking around and thought you were lost. Do you want me to take you for a walk?" This man might have a good eye and noticed that Wang Jiankun and his group were dressed unusually, so he quickly explained.

"Okay, I thought you wanted to kick us out, what's your name, classmate?"

"My name is Chu Yin. I'm a junior this year. I'm doing an internship here during the summer vacation. I'm a little older than you should be. You can call me Brother Chu. What about you?"

"My name is Wang Jiankun. I'm from Jiangxi Province. I came to Peking University to see the environment. Some of my fellow villagers want to study here next year."

"You are from Jiang Province, and you are going to study here next year? Does that mean you are only in the second year of high school this year?"

"You can say that, Brother Chu, take us around Peking University and talk as we walk."

"Okay, if you want to study here next year, your grades should be pretty good. Generally, you have to be in the top 50 in each province to have a chance of getting in!"

"Grades are not a problem, but I heard that Peking University is better in liberal arts, so my two female classmates are going to study here, and the others, including me, are going to Tsinghua University next door."

"Well, who says we are only good at liberal arts? Science and engineering are not bad either! But all nine of you want to go to these two universities, is that possible?"

"Let's not talk about that. Just show us around. How about I treat you to a meal later? You can choose the place."

"Okay, I see you are not ordinary people. I will show you the most famous attraction in Peking University, the One-Pagoda Lake Map. Just walk straight ahead and you will reach it."

Under the leadership of Chu Yin, the group did not go the wrong way. After walking about 800 meters, they arrived at the shore of Weiming Lake. There was a tall tower in the distance, which should be the Boya Tower mentioned in the information.

"Come with me, walk a short distance to the west and then look to the east. That's the best angle." Chu Yin said to everyone who were about to start taking pictures.

So Wang Jiankun and his team walked along the lake for more than 300 meters, and then they saw the emerald green lake water reflecting the tall tower in the distance.

At this time, the sky was blue, and the willow trees by the lake lowered their branches, intersecting with their reflections on the lake surface.

A breeze blew by, ripples appeared on the lake, and the Boya Tower in the lake seemed to move.

Everyone took photos here and asked Chu Yin to help take a group photo. Of course, they also took a few photos for him because he found that the camera was using color film and he had never seen what color photos looked like.

Of course Wang Jiankun was not stingy and he could have as many of these small items as he wanted.

Although Chu Yin only wanted to take one photo, Wang Jiankun knew from his clothes and physical condition that his family was probably of ordinary means, so he asked him to take several photos.

"Student Wang, you are so kind. This film is so valuable! I'm sorry for the expense."

"No big deal. We've finished looking at the lake. Why don't you take us to the teaching building, the research building, and the library?"

"Okay, most of the teaching buildings are closed now. Only one or two are left for students who stay on campus to study. As for the library, only the first and second floors are open now. The other floors are closed."

"Then choose the best route. Go to the open teaching building first, then go to the library, and finally go to the research building."

So Chu Yin thought about it for a while, and then took them to an open teaching building closest to the library.

Wang Jiankun and others went in to take a look and found that it was just average. The tables and chairs were rather old, and the doors and windows were also very simple. The only thing was that the blackboard in the front seemed much larger than the one in their high school.

At this time, some students are preparing for postgraduate entrance examinations or studying abroad, and many are learning English or Japanese.

"Chu Yin, don't you plan to take the postgraduate entrance examination or go abroad?"

"My grades are only average in the class, so it's impossible for me to go abroad. As for the postgraduate entrance examination, well, my family is in financial difficulty and needs me to start working as soon as possible. Although I will receive a subsidy while studying, it's not enough, and it's difficult to pass the exam. And this year there happened to be an internship opportunity at the Ministry of Commerce, so I applied for the internship."

"Internship at the Ministry of Commerce? Is it at the national or municipal level?"

"It's national-level and under the management of the State Council, but it's not certain whether it can stay in the future."

"Okay, it seems that you are very capable, Brother Chu. Are there many opportunities to work in national ministries now?"

"There are fewer and fewer. I graduated from the fourth class. The first and second classes have the best treatment. Many ministries and even the highest authorities are vying for people, even if the majors are not very relevant. But for our class, there are fewer opportunities."

"Wu Xiaoyi, did you hear that? Brother Chu and his generation have fewer opportunities to work in state agencies, so it's right to take the exam a year earlier, right?"

"Yes, my father has also inquired about it, and it's similar to what Brother Chu said. Most of the graduates from those two classes, except for those who went to do scientific research or other tasks, who entered the government, are now at the level of section chief or deputy director, and their future prospects are limitless."

"So you should work hard. Don't think about going to Renmin University. Come to Peking University. You will have a higher starting point."

"Well, I'll work hard, Jiankun, please help me."

"Okay, please leave your contact information with Brother Chu so that we can write to each other in the future."

"Brother Chu, this is Wu Xiaoyi. His father is Baili Hou. Can he write to you in the future to exchange ideas on study and work?" Wang Jiankun began to build connections for Wu Xiaoyi.

"Okay! Classmate Wu, please write down the address of my dormitory and internship unit, and we can communicate by letter in the future." Chu Yin was obviously a man who knew how to deal with things. After listening to Wang Jiankun's introduction of Wu Xiaoyi's background, he took over the conversation and exchanged addresses with Wu Xiaoyi.

After visiting the classrooms, the group came to the library.

Because it was summer vacation, Chu Yin said that only the study rooms on the first and second floors and some ordinary books were open for lending.

However, although Wang Jiankun and his group were able to enter, they could not borrow books. They could only select a few books to read in the study room.

After entering, Wang Jiankun asked everyone to go to the book lending area and write down the titles of any books they were interested in, and then gather again in half an hour.

Wang Jiankun himself began to project the library's book resources. This library is a comprehensive library that has collections of books from all departments of Peking University, as well as some domestic and foreign journals in recent years.

Wang Jiankun projected layer by layer, and asked Zhizi to help classify them while projecting, removing the duplicates, and moving similar displays together when they appeared.

Peking University is mainly known for its liberal arts, so there are many books on literature, history, language, social sciences, etc. It is also strong in mathematics in science and engineering. However, in the country, its other subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, and materials are also top-notch.

And because of the large proportion of funding, a lot of foreign information has been collected in recent years. Wang Jiankun has seen a lot of photocopies of journals, and some research records and papers of Peking University students and teachers in recent years have been collected.

"Jiankun, I see you have great prestige among this group of people. Are you all classmates in high school?" Chu Yin started talking to Wang Jiankun while waiting on the side.

"Yes, they are all from the same high school in Wuyuan. I have always been the top student. I provide them with some study help, so they all trust me."

"Is that so? You are really great. If you can all get into Peking University or Tsinghua University, your school will become famous."

"Probably, but it's also good to be famous. After all, it's a very glorious thing."

"Indeed, when I was admitted to Peking University, half of the people in our town came to see me. The county also gave me a reward and took me on a tractor to tour most of the county." Chu Yin recalled the highlight moment at that time, with a smile on his face.

"Two years ago, there was a student in our county who was admitted to Tsinghua University. The county newspaper reported it, and I heard that the county magistrate personally gave him a big red flower."

"Me too, but no one has passed the exam in the past two years. I don't know when the next one will be."

The two chatted while flipping through books. Wang Jiankun was doing three things at once and it took him more than 20 minutes to project the entire library.

However, it will take some time to organize it. Tomoko has to go through all the information in her mind first before absorbing and classifying it.

"Let's go, let's go check out the research building and then have lunch."

Next, Chu Yin led everyone to the laboratory buildings and office buildings of several science and engineering departments.

No one went into the building because they couldn't see anything inside. They were definitely not allowed into occupied laboratories, and they couldn't see anything if no one was inside, not to mention that they were all locked.

Chu Yin explained to everyone which department this building belonged to, which professors were currently leading the scientific research, and some of the history of the building.

Wang Jiankun began to collect technical information in the building, and the styles of experimental instruments and equipment were also projected into his mind.

However, after visiting the laboratory buildings of several departments in succession, Wang Jiankun found that the research in these places was too simple. Many of them were just for verification experiments to lay a foundation for scientific research for undergraduates.

It was not until he went to several graduate schools that Wang Jiankun "saw" some more advanced things.

For example, some are studying lasers, some are studying semiconductors, and some are studying condensed matter physics.

It seems that we are not only following foreign research, but also starting our own exploration.

After the projection, Wang Jiankun took note of these researchers and planned to find an opportunity to contact them in the future to see if they could conduct joint experiments.

Wang Jiankun found that his research efficiency was too low if he relied on himself. Although he could control atoms, his knowledge was still insufficient, his energy was insufficient, and his imagination also had a bottleneck.

If he could get many researchers to conduct collaborative research through the help of instruments and experiments, then his dream of entering the universe might be realized sooner.

At the Institute of Physics, Wang Jiankun discovered an interesting theoretical study that said if carbon elements were combined in a ring shape to form a single-layer structure, a two-dimensional substance could be obtained.

When Wang Jiankun saw this, he thought, isn’t this the basic composition of graphite?

He used his superpowers to look at the structure of graphite. It was composed of layers of carbon elements. Each layer was a hexagonal structure composed of individual carbon elements. The layers were connected physically without forming chemical bonds.

This theoretical study also mentioned that if this two-dimensional carbon structure can be prepared, it will change materials science.

Because carbon is a multi-electron structure, it can form conductors such as graphite rods, and can also form bonding bodies such as diamonds.

So Wang Jiankun immediately used his superpowers to create this single-layer carbon structure, and soon a 10-square-centimeter rectangular transparent structure was formed.

Wang Jiankun looked at it with the naked eye and found that it was almost invisible. Only a little trace could be seen at the edge due to the angle. He could not find any trace at all when looking at it from the front and back.

In this structure, carbon is double-bonded and should be classified as olefin, which is the basic structure of graphite. Wang Jiankun therefore named it graphene.

The data also speculated on some physical and chemical properties of this graphene, but Wang Jiankun did not have much time to study and verify them at the moment.

So he made 10 irregular pieces of graphene, put them in a glass container and placed them on the research material, and used his superpowers to leave a few words on the glass: "Graphene, the substance you guessed, study it carefully."

After doing all this, Wang Jiankun asked Chu Yin to take them to a restaurant near the west gate for dinner.

"Come on, Jiankun, this boss's Shandong cuisine is pretty good. In the past, Shandong cuisine was the best cuisine in BJ. You people from Jiang Province have definitely never tasted it."

"Okay, you order and I'll pay. Order something special. There are 11 of us, so order more."

"Okay, I'll just invite teachers and classmates to eat a few times, and I'll let the boss watch over the serving."

So the eight people brought by Wang Jiankun, plus Ma Qingyang and Chu Yin, a total of 8 people, took up most of the seats in the restaurant after they sat down.

"Brother Chu? Do you know this boss?"

"Jiankun, the owner of this restaurant is my fellow villager. He has been running a restaurant here for four years. He came here the second year after the college entrance examination was resumed. He specializes in serving students. Business was not good in the first two years, but it has only improved in the past two years."

Chu Yin then introduced the origin of this restaurant. At first it was just a storefront with only two tables and very few dishes. After all, there were great restrictions on purchasing things at that time.

Then as the market gradually opened up, wealthy students and some greedy people would come out for meals from time to time, so the boss bought two more stores, and the business reached its current scale.

The boss's cooking skills are really good. Wang Jiankun and his friends were very satisfied with the meal, especially the stir-fried kidney and pork in jars, which were particularly delicious.

After the meal, Wang Jiankun asked Chu Yin to take them to visit the Old Summer Palace behind Peking University, because he heard that the garden was built by Empress Dowager Cixi and it consumed the money that was originally used to build the navy.

"Hey, there's nothing to see in this garden. You'll definitely be disappointed if you go there. It was looted by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and now there are only some stones left that are difficult to move and have no use."

"We should go and have a look. The book says it was very luxurious when it was completed."

"It must have been very beautiful when it was first built. You can see some of the sculptures left behind, but now it's all abandoned and we don't usually go there."

"It's okay. Look, if it's just like you said, just turn around and come out."

So Chu Yin took Wang Jiankun and his group, who were unwilling to give up, to the Old Summer Palace.

(End of this chapter)