Life is a Game

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

After the whole meal, Jiang Feng was the busiest. He sometimes echoed Zheng Da's words, sometimes helped Chen Suhua join the topic, sometimes chatted with Professor Li about the thesis, sometimes cared about Master Huang's health, and spent the rest of the time listening to Zheng Siyuan Analyze with him the pastries bought at the palace pastry shop yesterday.

Jiang Feng's mouth and ears were not idle the whole time, and it was the first time that he experienced the difficulty of being a sociable aunt.

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

"Grandpa, that senior sister just now is probably not a native of Peiping, I heard her accent seems to be from the south," Jiang Feng said.

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

"Gusu?" Chen Suhua, who had been burying her head in the soup, suddenly raised her head and realized something, "That girl can't be Xiaofang's daughter?"

Professor Li nodded: "That's right."

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

"Xiao Xie mentioned this matter when she came here years ago, and Xiao Xie also felt that she should not know about it. It has been more than 10 years, and there is no need to mention it again." Professor Li was obviously unwilling to mention this matter at the dinner table Seeing Jiang Feng looking at him with a puzzled face, he said softly, "I'll talk to you on the way back."

Jiang Feng nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

The dinner party is over soon. Today, everyone gathers for this meal. In fact, they just want to meet a familiar face. They are not particularly close relatives. It is estimated that there will not be too many intersections in the future.

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

"Xiaojiang, when we were having dinner just now, Siyuan's boss sent me a message saying that he found a suitable girl, and he can arrange a blind date for Siyuan within two days. I'll leave it to you then, and I'll let you know when I confirm the specific time." Zheng Zheng Da whispered.

"Okay." Jiang Feng nodded, wondering when Ling Guangzhao started a matchmaking business that was exclusive to Pei Shenghua, and he actually competed with Pei Shenghua for business.

"Siyuan's 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 Guangzhao for being rich, but this was the first time he had heard others praise 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.

Actually, to be precise, it was Fang Yaqing's father's business.

Professor Li treats Fang Yaqing so special not because Fang Yaqing is his relative, but because Fang Yaqing's father was a doctoral student under Professor Li's early years, and was also Professor Li's favorite student named Fang Wenbo.

Fang Wenbo is a native of Gusu, 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 graduating, Fang Wenbo returned to his hometown to work as a teacher in a well-known local university. He was promoted to a professor at a young age, and became a doctoral supervisor in his thirties. Some of his students were older than himself.

Until his 40s, Fang Wenbo has always been the winner of the series of winners in life. The future is bright, the family is happy, his wife is a senior intellectual who is in the same family as him, and his daughter has excellent grades. Although he is eccentric and aloof, he doesn't interact much with others, and he doesn't even care about his students, and even his parents don't care. Even though they live in the same community, they don't visit their parents several times a year.

He does not use any social software, has a mobile phone number when he is free, but most of the time he neither answers nor calls, only reads his emails, and cannot talk to him unless he blocks people. Other people's graduate students help their tutors walk their dogs every day, while his graduate students search for tutors all over the world every day.

Although he is often dissed by others behind his back, he is eccentric, arrogant and conceited, but it doesn't hurt. After all, geniuses always have some eccentricities.

The world is always tolerant of geniuses who are outstanding in one aspect, especially academically.

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

Because of personality problems, Fang Wenbo doesn't have any friends in the academic circle, and has always been doing research on his own. This also caused him to encounter huge obstacles in his career. Although there is no shortage of projects in hand, it is particularly difficult to go further, such as evaluating scholars.

Just when his career was not going well, Fang Wenbo encountered a family crisis at the same time. His wife who had been married to him for more than ten years proposed to divorce him because he could no longer bear his weird personality.

Fang Wenbo knew that there was something wrong with his personality, that it was difficult for him to get along with others, and that he could not raise and educate his daughter alone, so he chose to leave the house and let his wife raise his daughter and concealed the divorce. I didn't talk to anyone other than Professor Li.

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

He hanged himself in the living room of the rental house and was not found until two weeks after his death. Will it be discovered because an undergraduate reported to the Academic Affairs Office that he hadn’t gone to class for two weeks. The teacher of the Academic Affairs Office contacted his ex-wife. His ex-wife came to look for him. After knocking on the door to no avail and asking the neighbors, he found that something was wrong. Call the police. The policeman broke open the door of the rental house and found that he had already been hanged in the living room. When he was found, the body was in a very bad condition.

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

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, which added a bit of black humor to this slightly heavy and sad story that made people laugh.

"We all know that he has a personality problem. In fact, from the current point of view, he should see a psychiatrist, but how could we have this awareness at that time? We always think that he is smart anyway, but he just doesn't like to talk to people and It doesn't affect his academics, so let's not talk about it, we all chose to indulge." Professor Li looked a few years older when he talked about this incident.

"As long as I think about it for so many years, I regret it. When he sent me an email to tell me that he was divorced, I thought it was nothing. I didn't care too much about him and didn't ask his parents. At that time, I thought it was just that the relationship between the husband and wife had faded, and the child was so old. Now, it’s not a big deal to let the flow take its course and just get divorced. It’s easy to remarry on his terms, but he forgot that after his divorce, he doesn’t even have a family member who can talk to him a few words a day.”

"How can a person not talk? It's fine if you don't talk for a day or two. If you don't talk for a few months, you can suffocate people to death."

"Then..." 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 dish details, and suddenly seemed to understand something.

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

"Did Senior Brother Fang do anything before committing suicide? It's impossible for him to commit suicide for no reason?" Jiang Feng asked.

"During the funeral, I chatted with his parents. They said that Wenbo called them suddenly on Yaqing's birthday and asked them to go home to have dinner to celebrate Yaqing's birthday. They were quite happy at that time. Just..." Professor Li sighed, "That kid just got into a dead end, there is no obstacle in this world, hey."

"Senior Sister Fang knows..."

"She doesn't know. Others didn't dare to tell her the truth about Wenbo's suicide. They just told her that Wenbo died in a traffic accident, and they lied to her that the body was too badly hit to prevent her from seeing it." Professor Li said, "That child In fact, we don't have a good relationship with Wenbo, but Wenbo is her father after all, so I can't tell her the truth and 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 personality problem but chose to indulge him, and finally killed him."

Now Jiang Feng understood everything.

Fang Wenbo didn't go on a business trip. He moved out of his home because of his divorce, and that's why there was an empty bookshelf in the study.

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

He doesn't want to live anymore, but he wants to spend the last birthday with his daughter.

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

As mentioned in the details of the dish, the shortbread contained Fang Wenbo's paternal love that Fang Yaqing never spoke of but surpassed all emotions in the world, but Fang Yaqing did not feel it.

She needs to feel it.