Chapter 176 The Old Scholar
Professor East Wood is a typical old-fashioned Langton gentleman.
He is over 70 years old and teaches at Royal Langton University. He has been working as a teacher for decades since he was forty years old. Whether he is said to be conscientious or rigid and does not know how to adapt, for A person who can abide by the rules he has set for thirty years should still have some respect.
Professor East's background is not considered good. His mother is just the daughter of a knight family, and his father is a local blacksmith.
If there are no surprises from such a background, the most likely thing for him is to inherit the family business, become a blacksmith apprentice, and then see if he can inherit his grandfather's sword and armor and become a knight's squire.
But he was lucky. When he was a child, the Victoria Empire was in a period of drastic change, and the impact of military reforms caused his father to be drafted into the army.
Then he died on the battlefield.
Professor East's mother worked hard to raise him up. Fortunately, as a knight family, the family still has some wealth.
So Professor East received the best education his mother could give him when he was a child. She sold the family land and sent him to Manchester City School, a public school funded by the royal family. School.
In Victoria, public schools were originally places that provided education for the children of poorer families or common people.
However, after the industrial revolution began in the empire, it gradually developed into an aristocratic school. The basic requirement for admission to such a school was not tuition fees, but family background.
The school will first consider whether the applicant's family is in line with the school's school spirit, that is, whether the family belongs to the middle class or the aristocracy, before deciding whether to recruit the student.
Easter’s grandfather had a knighthood, so he could barely afford to attend a public school. However, the high tuition fees were beyond what his family could afford, so his mother had to sell the family home. of fields.
It is precisely because of this that after graduating from Manchester City Public School, East did not continue his studies at university, but found a job as a bank clerk in Manchester City.
Perhaps due to luck, young East met the daughter of a professor at Royal Langton University. The two soon fell in love and later got married.
Later, under the care of his father-in-law, East got a job as a teaching assistant at Royal Langton University, and spent more than ten years slowly rising from an assistant teaching position to the position of associate professor. He stayed there for forty years. .
Because of this, although he is also a professor at Royal Langton University, Professor East himself does not have much academic achievements. He is more good at teaching.
It is better to say that he is a teacher than a scholar.
But forty years have already made this old gentleman, who only relied on his qualifications to get to the position of professor, think that he deserves the title, and he is proud of his status as a professor at Royal Langton University. .
Also because of this experience, Professor East has a deep repulsion, or jealousy, towards those who rise to power through various relationships.
Because he couldn't rise to the top like them back then and had to work hard to gain qualifications. How could he not be jealous?
It is for this reason that Professor East is extremely disdainful of the Earl of the North, who is now famous and popular in Langton. I think she is just a female figure who only relied on some sleight of hand and sensationalism to get to the top.
If he had been to the East, he might have learned an Eastern proverb to express his views on this matter: "There are no heroes who make Shuzi famous."
< br>But jealousy was jealousy, and he did not dare to openly show his dissatisfaction with Purficott.
After all, she was the most powerful earl in the empire, a popular person in the eyes of the military, and even Her Majesty the Queen appointed her as the vice-president of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
Standing in the corridor of the Royal Academy of Sciences, watching a group of people rushing to welcome a little girl younger than his granddaughter into the office of the president of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Professor East's eyes were already jealous. It's going to bleed.
That was the office of the president of the Royal Academy of Sciences. He had worked hard all his life and only when he was almost seventy years old did he obtain the title of academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences by relying on the connections he had accumulated over the years and his relationships with some of his students. , as a result, that little girl directly became the dean!
Is there any fairness in this empire? Does the Royal Academy of Sciences still have a chance for my generation to succeed?
Although his chest was full of resentment, he still did not dare to show anything. He could only grit his teeth secretly, put the crutch on the ground for a heavy pause, and then turned around to leave.
"Professor East, please stay." Someone called from behind to stop Professor East.
Professor East turned his head and saw a "young man" in his early forties, a student he had a decent impression of.
"Ronald? Why are you here? Are you here to see that little girl too?" Professor East did not express his emotions to his former student. It was not that he was a teacher of ethics. The wind is so good just because Ronald is a director of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
He was added as an academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences. He also had a relationship with Ronald, and he also contributed to this matter.
So Professor East still maintained a relatively cordial and friendly attitude towards Ronald, even though Professor East was known for being strict when he was in school.
"Professor, are you talking about Earl Brandlis? She is indeed very young." Ronald took a deep look at his former professor, an imperceptible light flashed across his eyes, and then he talked to Professor East The conversation started: "With Professor Qin's temper, I guess you can't stand this kind of thing, right? She is just an ordinary little girl, and she almost couldn't keep her family title, but in the end, she jumped into the world because of the protection of Her Royal Highness the Princess. He has become the most popular Earl of the North in the empire! Any upright gentleman will not understand it."
Ronald is familiar with Professor East, and he clearly remembers that he was very used to this professor. Hitting the floor with a cane when angry.
So when he spoke, he also deliberately guided in the direction that would most anger the professor.
Hearing what his student said, Professor East nodded immediately and sighed: "So what if I don't like it? I have the support of the royal family and the protection of Her Royal Highness. , who is still a very powerful Earl, how can an old scholar like me, who only teaches, be able to offend me?”
“What if someone is willing to support you, Professor?” Ronald? A smile couldn't help but appear on the corner of his mouth.
(End of this chapter)