When Jiang Feng went to eat, Professor Li and the others had just started eating, and everyone welcomed his rice.

Jiang Feng was the busiest after eating the whole meal, he sometimes had to echo Zheng Da's words, sometimes help Chen Suhua join the topic, sometimes talk to Professor Li about the paper, sometimes care about Master Huang's body, and the rest of the time was listening to Zheng Siyuan and his analysis of the pastries he bought at the palace pastry shop yesterday.

Jiang Feng's mouth and ears were not idle throughout the whole process, and for the first time, he experienced the difficulty of being a social expert.

At the end of the meal, Jiang Feng finally found an opportunity to ask Professor Li about Fang Yaqing.

"Grandpa, that senior sister just now shouldn't be a native of Beiping, I heard her accent as if she was a southerner. Jiang Feng said.

"Your Senior Sister Fang, she is indeed not from Beiping, she is from Gusu. Professor Li said.

"Gusu?" Chen Suhua, who had been immersed in drinking soup, suddenly raised his head and realized something, "That girl can't be Xiao Fang's daughter, right?"

Professor Li nodded: "That's right. ”

"Does she know what happened back then?" asked Chen Suhua in a low voice.

Xiao Xie mentioned this matter when she came a year ago, and Xiao Xie also felt that she should not know. It's been more than 10 years, and there's no need to mention it anymore. Professor Li was obviously reluctant to mention this matter at the dinner table, and when he saw Jiang Feng looking at him with a confused expression, he said softly, "I'll tell you on the way back." ”

Jiang Feng nodded and didn't ask any more.

The dinner ended quickly, and everyone gathered together to eat this meal today, in fact, they just wanted to meet each other, they were not particularly close relatives, and it is estimated that there will not be much intersection in the future.

When he left, Zheng Da quietly tugged at Jiang Feng's coat, signaling that he had something to say, and gave Zheng Siyuan a special look.

"Xiao Jiang, when I was having dinner just now, Siyuan's boss sent me a message saying that he had found a suitable girl, and he could arrange a blind date for Siyuan in the next two days. I'll leave it to you then, and I'll let you know when the specific time is confirmed. Zheng Da whispered.

"Good. Jiang Feng nodded, wondering when Ling Guangzhao started the business of being a matchmaker for Pei Shenghua, and actually grabbed business with Pei Shenghua.

"Siyuan, their boss is really reliable. Zheng Da sighed.

Jiang Feng: ......

This may be the highest compliment Ling Guangzhao can receive in his life.

Jiang Feng had only heard others praise Ling Guangzhao for being rich, and it was the first time he had heard others praise Ling Guangzhao for being reliable.

After leaving Taifeng Building, Jiang Feng walked to Li's house with Professor Li and Chen Suhua as a walk after dinner.

Along the way, Professor Li told Jiang Feng about Fang Yaqing.

In fact, it is accurate to say that it is Fang Yaqing's father's matter.

Professor Li treats Fang Yaqing so specially, not because Fang Yaqing is his relative, but because Fang Yaqing's father was a doctoral student brought by Professor Li in his early years, and he is Professor Li's proud disciple named Fang Wenbo.

Fang Wenbo is a native of Gusu, and his parents are both university professors, and he has some friendship with Professor Li, which is why Fang Wenbo chose to study for a doctorate under Professor Li. After graduation, Fang Wenbo returned to his hometown to work as a teacher at a well-known local university, rose to professor at a young age, and became a doctoral supervisor in his thirties, and some of the students under his command were older than himself.

Until he was in his 40s, Fang Wenbo had been a winner in life. The future is bright, the family is happy, his wife is a high-level intellectual who is right with him, and his daughter has excellent grades. Although he has a strange and withdrawn temperament, he is even a little arrogant, and he doesn't even care about the students he brings with him, and he doesn't even care about his parents. I live in the same community, but I don't visit my parents a few times a year.

I don't use any social software, I have an empty mobile phone number, but in most cases, I neither answer the phone nor make a call, I only read the email, I can't talk to him if I don't come to the door. Other people's graduate students help their tutors walk their dogs every day, and his graduate students are looking for tutors all over the world every day.

Although he is often dissed by others behind his back, he has a strange temperament and is arrogant and conceited, but this does not hurt. After all, geniuses are always a little quirky.

The world is tolerant of geniuses who are outstanding in a certain area, especially in academic affairs.

Until Fang Wenbo encountered a mid-life crisis, and his mid-life crisis was more dangerous than the middle-aged crisis of ordinary people.

Because of personality problems, Fang Wenbo does not have any friends in the academic circle, and has always been engaged in research by himself. This also made him encounter a huge obstacle in his career, although he had no shortage of projects in hand, but it became particularly difficult to go further, such as criticizing scholars.

Just when his career was not going well, Fang Wenbo encountered a family crisis at the same time, and his wife, who had been married to him for more than ten years, filed for divorce because she could no longer stand his eccentric personality.

Fang Wenbo knew that he had a problem with his personality, and he also knew that it was difficult for him to get along with people normally, and he knew that he could not raise and educate his daughter alone, so he chose to leave the house and raise his daughter by his wife and concealed the divorce, and did not tell anyone except Professor Li.

Fang Wenbo, who was not accompanied by his family, became more and more withdrawn, and when his family and career were hit by a double blow, and he also lost the most basic social interactions, Fang Wenbo chose to commit suicide half a year after the divorce.

He hanged himself in the living room of the rental house, where he was found two weeks later. It was discovered because an undergraduate student reported to the Academic Affairs Office that he had not been to class for two weeks, and the teacher in the Academic Affairs Office contacted his ex-wife, who came to his door to find him and called the police after knocking on the door to no avail and asking neighbors. The police broke open the door of the rental house and found him hanging in the living room, and his body was found in very bad condition.

At that time, information was not as developed as it is now, and the school deliberately blocked the news, and the local media did not report it in a big way.

Slightly ironically, Fang Wenbo's parents didn't know that their son had divorced half a year ago until the day of their son's funeral, adding a bit of black humor to this slightly heavy and sad story.

"We all know that he has a personality problem, and from the perspective of his practical point of view, he should see a psychiatrist, but how can we have this consciousness at that time? We always feel that he is smart anyway, he just doesn't like to talk to people and it doesn't affect his academics, if you don't say it, you don't talk about it, we all choose to connive. "Professor Li looked a few years older when he talked about it.

"After so many years, as long as I think about it, I regret it, when he emailed me to tell me that he was divorced, I didn't think it was nothing, I didn't care too much about him, and I didn't ask his parents. At the time, I thought that it was just that the relationship between the husband and wife had faded and the children were so old, and it was not a big deal to divorce as it sits. It's very simple to want to remarry on his terms, but he forgot that after his divorce, he didn't even have a family member who could accompany him two words a day. ”

"How can people not speak, it's okay not to speak for a day or two, but if you don't speak for a few months, you can suffocate people to death. ”

"That ......" Knowing the cause and effect of the incident, Jiang Feng recalled the scene he saw in his memory, and the last gift described in the details of the dish, and suddenly seemed to understand something.

He suddenly seemed to understand why Fang Wenbo had to go home for dinner on his birthday that day.

"Did Senior Brother Fang do anything before committing suicide, it can't be that he committed suicide for no reason, right?" Jiang Feng asked.

"I chatted with his parents at the funeral, and they said that Wenbo suddenly called them to go to the house for dinner on Yaqing's birthday to celebrate Yaqing's birthday together, and they were quite happy at that time, who would have thought that Wenbo's child would ...... in a few days" Professor Li sighed, "That kid is just drilled into the horns, there is nothing in this world that can't be overcome, hey." ”

"Senior Sister Fang, she knows ......"

She didn't know that the others didn't dare to tell her the truth about Wenbo's suicide, but just told her that Wenbo died in a traffic accident, and lied to her that her body was hit too badly to let her see it. Professor Li said, "That child actually doesn't have a good relationship with Wenbo, but Wenbo is her father after all, and she can't tell her the truth to let her know that her father's death has something to do with her mother." ”

"We are also responsible, I am Wenbo's teacher, I knew that he had a problem with his personality but chose to indulge him, and finally killed him. ”

Now Jiang Feng understood.

Fang Wenbo did not go on a business trip, he moved out of his home because of his divorce, and it is precisely because of this that there is an empty bookshelf in the study.

There was no suitcase, and he didn't buy a gift for Fang Yaqing, because the birthday gift he gave to Fang Yaqing was to call the whole family to have a meal with Fang Yaqing.

He didn't want to live anymore, but he wanted to spend one last birthday with his daughter.

The special buff of shortbread is prepared for Fang Yaqing, she is the most suitable diner, and Fang Wenbo still loves her even if he doesn't love this world.

As mentioned in the details of the dish, the shortbread contains Fang Wenbo's fatherly love that Fang Yaqing has never spoken, but it is better than all the emotions in the world, but Fang Yaqing did not feel it.

She needs to feel it.