Chapter 87: Chapter 74: The Sunlight Outside the Window is Just Right (10/10 Request for First Subscription, Request for Monthly Pass)_2

The landlord renting out the property was a former professor at the school, who had just retired and finished his first reemployment period. His son had just had a granddaughter, so he planned to move in with his spouse, who had passed away, to accompany the growth of their grandchild. That's why this old house became vacant.

The house is 120 square meters, with a layout of three bedrooms and one living room.

The design concept of the houses from the '90s still followed the past style: a small living room and large bedrooms, with only one bathroom.

Fortunately, the house had been renovated by the old professor six years ago when he had just retired, and it had been well-maintained.

At least Li Jiangao and Su Mucheng were quite satisfied after seeing it.

"Change the sofa in the living room to a long table for meetings. The master bedroom is the largest and can fit six computers as an operations room. The other two bedrooms will be kept as they are for temporary rest when we need to work overnight," Li Jian quickly arranged the use of each room neatly.

"What about the original furniture?" Su Mucheng was a little worried as she looked at the old furniture.

"I know the landlord. He said that if we need to make changes, we can move the furniture we don't need to the storage in the basement. The rent is 3,500 a month, paid annually, and won't increase during the contract period. We are responsible for the utilities.

But he has two conditions: first, if it's rented for a project, the contract has to be at least three years; second, the project can't be too noisy to avoid disturbing the elderly neighbors upstairs and downstairs," Li Jian explained, somewhat helplessly.

He thought the second condition was not a big deal, but renting for three years at once seemed a bit long.

However, Li Jian could understand.

After all, it would be troublesome to move the landlord's furniture around for the project and then have to restore everything back to its original state afterward. A short rental period indeed didn't make much sense.

"So what are we waiting for? The price is right, and the landlord's requirements aren't high. We're usually quiet, so we definitely won't disturb the neighbors below. By the way, if we're afraid that walking sounds during overnight work will bother the neighbors downstairs, we could simply lay down wall-to-wall carpet. That would provide perfect sound insulation!" Su Mucheng suggested excitedly.

"Um..." Li Jian hesitated for a moment but still reminded her, "Su Mucheng, based on the contract, just the rent alone will cost us 126,000 yuan over these three years."

"That's not expensive, right? And we get to use it for three years! Besides, it won't be vacant here; after this project is finished, we can start the next one," Su Mucheng said seriously.

Li Jian laughed bitterly: "If this project fails, that's one thing. But if it's successful and Qiao Ze stays at the school, I doubt very much that we'd be able to carry out the next project here. Even if the school had to cut all other projects, they would support Qiao Ze's. At that time, it's likely that the school's supercomputers would be prioritized for his project, not to mention a location.

He might even be given an entire floor. This is decided by the school's innate utilitarian nature, so..."

Su Mucheng blinked and said, "Then it's even less of an issue. If, as you say, Qiao Ze's project is that impressive, would we still care about a loss of over a hundred thousand in rent if it fails? If it succeeds, would it matter to pay an extra year or two of rent? Plus, this house will be useful later; if we want to study, we won't have to compete for a spot in the library with other students!"

After spelling it out on her fingers, Su Mucheng suddenly had an epiphany: "Oh, I get it. Is it because the project's funds should be allocated to something more useful? That's easy, I'll cover the rent and specific renovation costs myself. The previous funding can be used to purchase the operational computer equipment. Right, don't mention this to Qiao Ze, alright?

After all, for a genius who could write a top-tier journal quality paper in eight hours, spending a few days to design an algorithm framework was quite reasonable.

It seems like he forgot something.

Luckily, Su Mucheng was still by his side.

"Uncle Li, did you forget to tell Qiao Ze about the dinner Dean Xu invited him to tonight?"

"Oh, right!" Li Jiangao suddenly remembered, slapping his forehead.

Indeed, deep down he was still quite surprised.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have forgotten such an important matter.

He quickly picked up the phone and dialed again: "Hello, Qiao Ze, put aside your current tasks first, tonight Dean Xu wants you to accompany the three professors visiting from Yanbei for a dinner. Just wait in your dorm around five-thirty, and your advisor will come to get you... Yeah, we have to show Dean Xu this courtesy!"

"Mhm, mhm, in any case, you're just going for a meal, nobody can say anything if you don't talk. Alright..."

After hanging up, Li Jiangao sighed and glanced out the window where the sunshine was just perfect.

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"So that's basically it, during the initial data feeding, you must choose the right libraries. Later on, it's not necessary to pay special attention, as these libraries will start to merge as a large volume of data comes in. If you make a mistake, or if there's a system error, just use the recall command I just taught you to redo it.

Once the system has finished digesting, you will see a prompt, which is the percentage progress bar here, don't let it fill up..."

In the dormitory, Qiao Ze was patiently teaching Chen Yiwen how to operate the software to feed data into the framework.

As he said before, the work wasn't hard.

Basically, if you understand computers, you can do it.

Of course, you still need to remember a few specific commands, but for students from the School of Mathematics who have taken C programming courses, this is not a problem at all.

At exactly five-thirty, the advisor Liu Hao arrived punctually at the dormitory, displaying extreme enthusiasm: "Qiao Ze, Dean Xu sent me to pick you up, are you ready?"

"Yes!" Qiao Ze nodded, as he had nothing special to prepare.