467: Chapter 467 Senior Brother, Can You Play Ball?

After finishing his meal, Qin Chuan left the cafeteria and couldn't help but smile again. Young girls these days were truly enthusiastic.

At the same time, he was quite satisfied with the cafeteria food; it was affordable, tasty, and the dining environment was nice. He wondered if the other cafeterias were the same.

After the meal, Qin Chuan returned to his office.

The office environment was quite good. It was spacious, covering over a hundred square meters. The largest area was taken up by several large bookshelves filled with all kinds of books.

Upon entering, seeing so many books gave the place a strong scholarly atmosphere.

The desk was also large, the executive chair was very comfortable to sit in, and the reception area had a sofa, a coffee table, and so on.

Next to the main office was a small room, about twenty or thirty square meters, which had a brand-new, comfortable double bed, a wardrobe, a private bathroom, and so on.

Qin Chuan thought to himself that a double bed was a bit excessive; a single bed would have sufficed. However, since it was already prepared, he didn't ask his subordinates to change it. He had a good nap on the bed at noon.

Since taking office, quite a few people had come to report their work and show their faces; it wasn't like when he first took office in Dongjiang City, where the office was deserted.

Jiangnan University's President Wang Shuguo was sixty-one years old and an academician of both academies. After interacting with him, Qin Chuan felt he was easy to get along with.

Qin Chuan was the Party Committee Secretary of the school, mainly in charge of the school's Party building, personnel, publicity, ideology, and other work.

Besides being fully responsible for the daily work of the school, President Wang Shuguo also focused on research. In fact, to be precise, he didn't spend much time on management, so much of the work needed to be handled by the Party Committee side.

Sitting in his spacious office, because school hadn't officially started yet, there weren't many tasks, and the documents and meetings that needed to be handled were relatively few.

Just after finishing the only two documents on his desk, there was a knock at the office door. The person who pushed the door open was Director Xiao Xueli.

"Secretary Qin, hello."

Qin Chuan nodded slightly. "Director Xiao, what is it?"

Director Xiao Xueli replied, "Leader, these are the candidates for your secretary that I have scouted for you. Please take a look."

When a leader takes office, the first priority is to have a satisfactory secretary. Qin Chuan hadn't brought a secretary with him and was prepared to choose one at Jiangnan University.

Taking the folder, Qin Chuan began to flip through it. "Hmm, I'll take a look at their profiles first."

Director Xiao Xueli tactfully withdrew and gently closed the office door, wondering which of these people would become the lucky one.

Qin Chuan sat in his executive chair, looked through the profiles of these people, and then used the system to check each of them.

The system was the most reliable; he quickly identified his secretary candidate.

Secretary Yuan Hua, 31 years old, section-level officer, doctoral degree...

He had graduated from Jiangnan University with a doctorate and stayed on to work at the school. Anyone who could stay on to work must be very outstanding, and he had performed well over the past two years.

Holding a red pen, he put a checkmark next to Secretary Yuan Hua's name, then set the folder aside for the moment, picked up a book from the bookshelf, and sat down to read.

It had to be said that the school was truly a good place for academic pursuits. This environment could stir up a deep interest in learning.

The whole afternoon was quite relaxed. Apart from a few people coming to report work and subordinates sending documents for him to sign, there was basically nothing else. Qin Chuan finished two books in one afternoon.

This, of course, had a lot to do with his super learning ability. Not only was his memory super strong—almost photographic—but he also possessed superior comprehension skills. Things that others found profound and obscure, Qin Chuan could fully understand after reading them once and form his own perspective.

When it reached five o'clock in the afternoon, Qin Chuan changed into sportswear and put on sneakers, preparing to go to the sports field to exercise. Sitting for a day, he felt a bit uncomfortable without moving around.

It would be best to play a game with the students. He heard that Jiangnan University's basketball level was very strong; they had taken third place in the national college basketball tournament last year.

On his way downstairs, he met many people in the office building.

Having been in office for three days, some people already recognized Qin Chuan and took the initiative to greet him.

"Secretary Qin, are you off work?"

"Secretary Qin, are you heading out to exercise?"

Qin Chuan nodded to each of them, responding to everyone. When he reached the first floor, he unexpectedly ran into Xia Shiwen and Jia Wenwen.

Both were in the Student Union; Xia Shiwen was even the Vice President of the Student Union and the Minister of the Arts Department, so it was normal for them to appear in the school office building.

They had just finished reporting to the Minister of the Student Affairs Department regarding the work of welcoming new students and had just come out from there.

Xia Shiwen was the first to see Qin Chuan. She was stunned for a moment and quickly tugged at Jia Wenwen's clothes.

Jia Wenwen looked pleasantly surprised and immediately said enthusiastically, "Brother Qin Chuan, what a coincidence!"

Qin Chuan smiled slightly. "It's you two. What a coincidence, we meet again."

Jia Wenwen said, "Brother Qin Chuan, where are you going?"

Qin Chuan didn't hide it. "Going to the sports field to exercise."

Jia Wenwen was pleasantly surprised. "Really? We were also planning to go to the sports field to watch basketball."

Xia Shiwen was speechless. They had agreed to go back to the dormitory together; how did it turn into watching basketball? What was so good about that?

Jia Wenwen didn't care; she pulled Xia Shiwen along to catch up, all the while looking for topics and taking the initiative to chat with Qin Chuan.

She even tried to find out indirectly how old Qin Chuan was, whether he had a girlfriend, and so on.

Qin Chuan understood this young girl's intentions very well, and he didn't want to deceive her. Seeing her beating around the bush, he didn't hide anything.

"Hmm, I should be a cycle older than you. I'm married, and my wife gave birth to a pair of boy-girl twins. They are three and a half years old this year and are in a nursery class at kindergarten."

Upon hearing this, Jia Wenwen was extremely disappointed.

Xia Shiwen covered her mouth and chuckled. Her best friend had finally taken a liking to a guy, but it turned out he was already married with three or four-year-old children.

Qin Chuan just smiled. They weren't familiar with each other, so he didn't pay attention to the disappointed Jia Wenwen. He quickened his pace, and after a while, he arrived at the large sports field of the stadium.

It was truly lively here; there were people running on the track, couples chatting, and on the basketball court not far away, people were playing basketball.

One of the courts had players with pretty good skill levels, and their equipment was quite good—all wearing basketball jerseys and basketball shoes, unlike some people who played basketball wearing leather shoes or casual shoes.

Qin Chuan became interested. As the Party Committee Secretary, he naturally wanted to understand the school's basketball level and watch the students play a few games.

However, he hadn't been watching for even two minutes when someone on one of the teams accidentally sprained their ankle. There had been a substitute player, but he had made an excuse to go buy water and hadn't returned; everyone suspected he had been called away by his girlfriend.

The game had already started; they couldn't just stop playing because they were a person short.

Perhaps it was because Qin Chuan looked sunny and handsome, standing there like a crane in a flock of chickens, or perhaps it was because Qin Chuan was in sportswear.

A student walked over and invited him, "Senior, do you know how to play basketball? Can you join us for a game?"