"Did the teacher send for you?"
Lin Mingyuan sat back in his chair, his hands crossed and placed on the tabletop.
"No, it was my own idea. I just inquired about your situation from the teacher and then got permission to return to the country, and here I am," Meng Zheng also pulled out a chair and sat down across from Lin Mingyuan.
"Brother, you resigned so abruptly, I guess there must be a reason..."
"Nothing much, just that I have a family now, and the environment at the teacher's place is no longer suitable for me."
"After settling down and starting a family, shouldn't you value your work more? If you had gone to another laboratory or taken up teaching at a university after returning to the country, I would have found that to be normal. But instead, you chose to build a house in the countryside and hole up in a place like this..."
Meng Zheng looked around the basement furnishings, his gaze lingered momentarily on a door that seemed to lead deeper inside, then moved away.