Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 176 Old Scholar

Professor Eastwood is a typical old-fashioned Langton gentleman.

He is teaching at Royal Langton University and is over seventy this year. Since he got the teaching position at the age of 40, he has been doing it for decades. Whether you say he is conscientious or rigid and does not know how to adapt, for a man who has been able to do this for thirty years People who abide by their own rules every day should still have some respect.

Professor East's background was not considered good. His mother was the daughter of a knight family, and his father was a local blacksmith.

If there were no surprises from such a background, the most likely thing for him would be to inherit the family business, become a blacksmith apprentice, and then see if he could 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 was able to receive the best education his mother could give him as a child. She sold the family land and sent him to Manchester City School, a public school established with royal funds.

In Victoria, public schools were first used to provide 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, 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.

East's grandfather had a knighthood, so he could barely afford to attend public school. However, the high tuition fees were beyond what his family could afford, and his mother had to sell the family's land.

It is precisely because of this that after graduating from Manchester City Public School, East did not continue to enter 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 qualifications to get to the position of professor, think that he is worthy of 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 in other words jealousy, towards those who have risen to power through various connections.

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 managed to get to the top by relying on some uncanny skills and sensationalism.

If he had been to the East, he might have learned an Eastern proverb to express his opinion on the matter: "There are no heroes to make Shuzi famous."

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 who was younger than his granddaughter into the office of the president of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Professor East's jealous eyes were about 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 relationship with some of his students. As a result, the little girl directly He 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 didn't 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 had a good teacher's ethics, but just 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.

Therefore, 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 would not understand him."

Ronald was familiar with Professor East. He clearly remembered that the professor was used to tapping the floor with his cane when he was 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, and I am still in a high position of power." How is it possible that an old scholar like me, who only knows how to teach, can afford to offend the earl?"

"Then what if someone is willing to provide support for you, Professor?" Ronald couldn't help but smile.

(End of this chapter)