"Then thank Professor Dong for me." Ma Wenmin's expression was very calm, making it difficult to see the emotions in her eyes.
The man smiled embarrassingly, then nodded to Li Zheng and the others, and then trotted away.
"Mr. Wen is ill?" Zhong Peng couldn't help asking. He has had several encounters with Wenxuefeng and his wife, and is still very fond of the young man who has ideas.
A bitter smile appeared on the corner of Ma Wenmin's mouth, "In the advanced stage of liver cancer, I can only try to change the liver."
In the 1980s, the success rate of liver transplantation was not high, and the prognosis of patients was relatively poor. Few, if not a last resort, choose such a high-risk procedure.
Several people were silent for a while,
It was Ma Wenmin who broke the silence first, "Mr. Li Zheng, you came to see us at Dongchen University, and then gave up for other reasons, didn't you?"
Li Zheng was surprised that Ma Wenmin still cared about this matter at this time.
He hesitated, but nodded.
Seeing this, Ma Wenmin's face was even more bitter, "Because of the so-called plagiarism?"
There was an embarrassed look on Li Zheng's face. Indeed, the plagiarism of the paper was the most important reason why Li Zheng removed the two from the candidate list.
But in the face of Ma Wenmin and his wife in such a situation, he really couldn't bear to say this.
"I wonder if it's an honor to ask Mr. Li Zheng and Professor Zhong to move to the humble house? Just give us a chance to defend ourselves." Ma Wenmin said with a strong smile.
Li Zheng and Zhong Peng looked at each other and nodded in agreement. For the sake of everyone's words, these two big men naturally couldn't refuse.
Seeing this, Ma Wenmin finally showed a genuine smile on his face.
"Wait a second, please, I'll push the cart." As she said, she trotted towards the carport not far away.
When Ma Wenmin was pushing the bike in the carport just now, she saw Li Zheng and Zhong Peng, and because she was in a hurry, they spilled the things on the ground. She hurriedly picked them up, threw them into the bicycle basket, and then pushed the cart towards the bicycle. The two came.
"Mr. Li Zheng, Professor Zhong, let's go."
So Ma Wenmin pushed the bicycle, Li Zheng and Zhong Peng followed, and slowly walked out of Dongchen University.
The three were speechless all the way.
About twenty minutes later, Ma Wenmin stopped in front of a half-old residential building.
The off-white walls of the residential building were slightly yellowed. Li Zheng looked at it a little, and it looked like it was about eleven or two floors, and it seemed to be an elevator room. The facilities nearby are also quite complete, and the couple's life is not very embarrassing if they want to come to Wenxuefeng.
Ma Wenmin led the two to the elevator after placing the bicycle on the stairs.
The elevator stopped on the ninth floor, which was a four-family structure on the first floor, one for the east and one for the east, and two for the elevator entrance.
Ma Wenmin took out the key and opened the one facing the elevator entrance, "Mr. Li Zheng, Professor Zhong, please come in."
Zhong Peng waved his hand, "I have been away from Hong Kong University for a long time, so don't mention the title of professor. Just call me by my name."
Ma Wenmin was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Then my name is Teacher Zhong. You can afford the title of teacher."
"Wenmin, who is it?" A hoarse male voice came from the room, and a thin man walked out of the room.
Wenxuefeng was young, in his early forties, but his hair was mostly white, his complexion was dull yellow, and his wide jacket was loosely draped over his body, as if it would leak.
His hand was attached to the handle of the door of the room, and the palm that was as dry as firewood was startling.
"It's Mr. Li Zheng and Mr. Zhong." Ma Wenmin quickly stepped forward, placing the contents of the bag on the dining table while supporting Wenxuefeng.
"Mr. Wen."
"Xuefeng."
Li Zheng and Zhong Peng spoke at the same time. Zhong Peng's heart was far from being as calm as he appeared on the surface.
He remembered that the first time he met Wenxuefeng and Ma Wenmin was thirteen years ago. At that time, the two were still in their thirties. Although Wenxuefeng encountered setbacks at that time, he was still full of hope in life. , that vigorous and energetic appearance made several of them envious.
However, the current Wenxuefeng seems to be wrapped in skin and bones. Although there is still a smile on his face, he exudes a deadly feeling from his bones.
"Mr. Zhong, Mr. Li Zheng." He smiled and nodded to the two of them.
"Wenfeng, take care of your body!" Zhong Peng said in a deep voice.
Wen Wenfeng smiled and did not answer.
Ma Wenmin quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said to Wen Wenfeng with a smile: "Xuefeng, you go to rest first, I'll entertain Mr. Li Zheng and Mr. Zhong."
The United Nations Health Organization in later generations has long included cancer on the list of chronic diseases. According to relevant surveys, a large number of cancer patients do not die from the spread of cancer cells, but they cannot bear the pain of cancer and die. Wenmin Wenmin is already in the late stage of liver cancer. He has to endure the pain of cancer every day. Ma Wenmin sees it in his eyes and hurts in his heart.
Wenxuefeng lowered his eyes slightly, and glanced at his anxious wife from the corner of the corner. He didn't insist, so he slowly got up with the help of Ma Wenmin and walked into the room slowly.
After returning Wenxuefeng to the room, Ma Wenmin closed the door, and immediately went to the study to get a large stack of documents.
The information is very thick, Li Zheng is about fifteen centimeters high at a glance.
"This is?"
"This is all the scientific research results of Xuefeng and I in the past few years. I beg the two of you to take a look."
Li Zheng pursed his lips, picked up the top book and flipped through it.
Seeing this, Zhong Peng motioned to Ma Wenmin to put the things on the table, and then he took a document from the bottom and looked at it.
There was silence in the living room, only the sound of turning pages "swipe" echoed in everyone's ears.
Li Zheng frowned more and more the more he looked at it. After flipping through one, he quickly picked up the second.
For three full hours, Li Zheng kept flipping through the materials. Zhong Peng stopped reading when he saw the penultimate book, because the genes and clones involved in this book were not his expertise, so he could only see some superficial things.
Li Zheng is also not very good at this aspect, but he has the big plug-in of memory of later generations, standing on the shoulders of giants of later generations, it is much easier to see this thing.
After reading the last line of words, Li Zheng's mouth was tightly pressed into a straight line. From the project initiation, to the final and second stages of demonstration, the data is clear and the logic is clear. Many wrong routes are marked, and there are detailed data and theoretical arguments. After so many years of research, Li Zheng dares to say The person who can come up with this manuscript is definitely the absolute owner of this research result.
However, Li Zheng just saw these data and conclusions in an authoritative journal a few days ago, and the author is not Wenxuefeng or Ma Wenmin.
"Dong Juncheng took your scientific research results?" Li Zheng asked with a frown. Dong Juncheng was the old professor Li Zheng thought was good. He has published a series of papers on genes and cloning in the past few years. Not low.
If it really was plagiarism, Li Zheng really wanted to scold him in front of him. After all these years, he had lived on a dog, and he actually used the scientific research results of the younger generation as a facade.
Ma Wenmin bit her lower lip tightly, the bitterness on her face almost overflowing.
"When Xuefeng and I went to Xiangjiang, we only had academic qualifications, so we could only be hired as lecturers. Lecturers cannot have their own laboratories, and Xuefeng is a person who can't live without a laboratory. It happens that Dong Juncheng is just like us. , are very interested in clone. Xuefeng and him hit it off, and we joined Dong Juncheng's laboratory as ordinary researchers."
"At that time, we only formally signed a letter of appointment, and there was no detailed stipulation about the ownership of experimental scientific research results. Dong Juncheng often said that everyone had the same interests, and he would definitely help those who should help, and this letter of appointment was only signed so as not to cause problems. Other lecturers criticized, you can use the laboratory as you like, and discuss any academic issues together."
"In the beginning, everyone got along very harmoniously. When we were too busy, Dong Juncheng would ask his assistant to help. But everyone was in the same research direction, so there was no friction. When he found out that we When his research progress was faster than his, Dong Juncheng's attitude changed obviously."
Ma Wenmin said this with a sarcastic look on his face, "I remember very clearly that that day Wenfeng went out with a letter in high spirits, which was our first stage of research results. He said that as long as this paper was published, We can get an associate professor or even a professor, and then we can apply for our own lab.”
"However, a few weeks later, the sample journal was sent, but there was no paper in the sample journal. Instead, it was an academic paper signed by Dong Juncheng with similar data and similar argumentation logic."
"At that time, Xuefeng was very angry and broke into Dong Juncheng's office angrily with the sample magazine. Do you know what Dong Juncheng said?"
Li Zheng rubbed the watch on his wrist. After Ma Wenmin said he had signed the letter of appointment, he had already guessed the ending. Although the letter of appointment does not stipulate the ownership of the academic achievements born in the laboratory, which part-time worker can say that because the product is made by me, the ownership of it is mine.
Li Zheng guessed that Dong Juncheng really loved talents at the beginning. Judging from Dong Juncheng's age, he even had the idea of letting the two inherit the mantle. But the strong may sympathize, pity and lend a helping hand to the weak to show the superiority of the strong, but when he finds that the weak he thinks is not the weak, or even stronger than him.
At this time, Dong Juncheng's mentality changed.
Because the experiments of Wenxuefeng and Ma Wenmin were conducted in Dong Juncheng's laboratory as the employed researchers, it is understandable for Dong Juncheng to be the corresponding author of these papers, and the one who can accuse him is that he completely erased the work of Wenxuefeng and his wife in this project. Contributions to scientific research projects, even the second and third works are not given to them.
But this kind of accusation is only a moral condemnation. Compared with the losses of Wenxuefeng and his wife, it is really insignificant.
"I remember that Dong Juncheng's series of papers have only reached the second stage. You don't have any other materials left in his laboratory, right?" Li Zheng said suddenly.
Ma Wenmin shook his head, "We have only reached the second stage, and we will naturally refuse to do it later. But Wen Feng and I don't have our own laboratory."
She paused when she said this, "We stopped for two or three years, and now the conclusion of Dong Juncheng's third stage is coming out, we can't catch up."
"You... don't want to try?"