Different parts of the earth have different days or snow or rain or wind or wind, but nights are mostly similar.
Zhang Man leaned on the man's shoulder and suddenly thought of a person.
She raised her head hesitantly and looked at the man for a moment, her eyes a little complicated.
"What, what are you doing wrong? Look at me like that."
Li Wei stretched out his index finger and poked his wife's forehead. Seeing her fixated eyes, he touched her head again.
After so many years of marriage, as long as the two of them are in private, he still treats her like a child more than ten years ago.
"Before you came on stage today, apart from my mother and Chenchen calling, you... your grandfather also called, and I answered."
When the man heard this, his eyes were flat.
He leaned back, but there was nothing strange in his tone: "What did he say?"
Zhang Man grabbed the sleeves of his pajamas, grabbed his fingers for a while, and then unnaturally grabbed his fingers: "He said, he found out some very bad diseases, and it may not be long... Waiting for your next return to China. When he wants to see you, what do you think?"
In fact, Li Wei's grandfather contacted them for the first time.
The first time, was ten years ago
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Ten years ago, California, USA.
After Li Wei received his Ph.D. at Stanford, he did a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley, while Zhang Man was a visiting MD for the third year at Stanford.
Everyone knows that there are two world-renowned top schools in the Bay Area, Berkeley and Stanford, facing each other across a bay bridge.
It takes two hours to drive back and forth between the two schools.
After his postdoctoral research, he successfully landed a faculty position at Princeton University.
The domestic good media have reported the news. There are not many Chinese who hold teaching positions in the world's top universities, but there are very few people like him who have obtained a full professorship at Princeton University at the age of twenty-five.
Even the doctoral students under him are older than him.
Theoretical physics, like medicine, has a very high threshold for entry and requires a lot of knowledge accumulation, that is, it takes time to grind. It is very common for many researchers in this field to go to various research organizations or universities around the world to do postdoctoral fellowships for three or even six years after completing five or six years of doctoral studies.
However, Li Wei has always been ahead of his time. He has already taught himself the contents of his undergraduate course in junior high and high school. During his undergraduate period, he published several high-quality papers that were difficult for others to publish at the doctoral stage, including two top journals in the field, Physical Review Letters (PRL). ).
So, it took him three years to complete his Ph.D., and he got a teaching post after only one year of postdoc after graduation.
This kind of achievement is really rare among young Chinese scientists, and even caused a sensation in the academic world. Physics researchers around the world know the name of this young scientist. Of course, domestic media are scrambling to report, hoping to bring a positive and positive impact to the society.
In the first month of Li Wei's inauguration, Zhang Man had just arrived in Princeton, and while accompanying him, he submitted his resume to major hospitals and prepared for interviews.
That day, Zhang Man happened to receive an official offer from a hospital near Princeton University.
She held her laptop and danced excitedly in the carpeted room. Seeing that the man on the bed didn't show any excitement, she ran over to show him off with great dissatisfaction: "Look, I got the offer! Alas, These news media all know that our Prof. Li is very good, but no one knows that his wife is even better."
The man looked at her like this, with tender and petting lips hanging on his lips, but there was still no surprise or excitement.
Zhang Man was so annoyed that he put the laptop down heavily, turned over on the bed and pressed him: "Why aren't you surprised? Do you know what this means? It means that I can legally stay here to work and stay with you all the time. by my side!"
Then the man smiled, kissed her little nose, and suddenly hugged her: "These years, you have worked hard for you, Manman."
- Thanks for your hard work, you have been walking towards me all the time.
He often thinks that being able to have her probably took all the luck of his previous life.
How can there be such a girl in this world? He had never seen anything he had never heard of.
From B University, to Stanford, and now to Princeton…
During the summer vacation of the first year of high school, she was in the kitchen of his house and solemnly told him to make him believe her that she would go to a university with him and never leave him in the future.
In his senior year, he secretly signed a postgraduate application for University B, but she was discovered by her. That night, when the two were walking by Weiming Lake, she suddenly hugged him, pressed against his forehead and said, "Boyfriend, I have survived such a difficult physics competition, and I can go to Stanford. Trust me again. once, okay?"
A few months ago, she was hugging his waist on the bed, in a coquettish but serious tone: "I will definitely go after I get a teaching position, husband, I will stay by your side, trust me again, okay? ?"
The man hugged his girl, feeling each other's heartbeats, and suddenly there was an indescribable warmth and sourness in his heart.
In fact, at every stage, he was ready to take a step back and be by her side, but she was able to take a step forward at the best time, stand by his side, and hold his hand.
As early as the age of seventeen, he knew that this girl was gentle and powerful, and she was his lifelong belief and hope.
The man made her lie down on top of him, kissed her forehead, and there was a delicate pain on the top of her heart: "Manman, you... don't you feel hard? Don't you feel... mentally unbalanced?"
When he was in B, he had heard what some of her friends said about her. They said that in their relationship, she had always been on the disadvantaged side, saying that she loved him all the time, always followed him, and would suffer in the future.
Even he felt bad for her. When he thought of her writing questions day and night during the competition, when he thought of her staying in the laboratory for several days, when he thought of how she was so busy working on the paper, his heart twitched.
He didn't want her to work so hard at all.
Seeing that Zhang Man asked with a serious expression, even the atmosphere in the room became calmer.
She burst out laughing.
"Well, I'm very mentally unbalanced, for other women."
"Why are their husbands not like you?"
No one has ever loved her like he did.
He picked her up every morning, made her breakfast, and often had to coax her out of bed.
During the year he was a postdoc at Berkeley, he stubbornly lived near Stanford. No matter how busy he was, he still personally picked her up every day, but he had to drive two and a half hours back and forth between Berkeley and his home.
For her, he learned to eat spicy food. It is not so convenient to eat authentic Sichuan and Hunan dishes abroad. He learned from the recipes himself, and now boiled fish and spicy chicken are no problem.
Over the years, he took her to see Hainan in winter, Jiangnan in the drizzle, and Lake Baikal in the spring breeze—every word she had said, he remembered in his heart.
At the wedding that year, he solemnly told Zhang Huifang and Uncle Xu that he would take good care of her in the future. After more than three years of marriage, he has done it piece by piece, piece by piece.
She was by his side, enjoying the happiness she had never had before.
Zhang Man leaned against the man's warm and thick chest, listening to his shallow breathing and regular heartbeat, his nose suddenly became sore.
From the age of sixteen to twenty-five years old, she had been with him for nine years, and she had long understood.
—I have followed you a long way, but how can I be up to you, overcoming all the darkness and torment, even after thousands of hardships, I still have to turn around and hug me with a smile.
In the slightly drunk night, Zhang Man lay on top of him, the ambiguous breath getting stronger and stronger. The man's eyes were dark and dark, and finally he couldn't help it, he took her lips and kissed her lingeringly.
However, such a good atmosphere was ruined by the bell, and the man frowned in displeasure.
Zhang Man smiled and sipped him again, turned over, and pushed him: "answer the phone first."
After he picked it up, he was silent for a long time, stood up and walked to the window, and came back after a few minutes. He kept his head down and didn't speak.
Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Zhang Man was joking, and asked him sourly if he was a good friend.
The corner of the man's mouth rose: "Manman, you know, the person who called was my grandfather who disappeared for nearly 20 years. He said that he is now in the United States and asked me if I would be free in the next two days. Let's have a meal together. meal."
"He said there was something from my father that I forgot to give to me earlier."
When Zhang Man heard this, he couldn't help but be silent.
What is his father's thing, he hasn't given it for so many years, why did he just remember to give it to him as soon as he got a teaching position in Princeton? It's just an excuse.
"Then are you going?"
She knew that his grandfather had contacted him in his previous life, but he did not recognize his grandfather until he committed suicide.
The man sat on the bed with an unknown smile on his face, playing with her hair: "I don't want to go, my life is limited, I don't need to do some meaningless things."
At that time, he was only twenty-five years old, and he had completely adjusted his mentality ten years later. When he said these words, he brought a sharp tone that even he himself noticed.
He still cares.
Zhang Man couldn't help but his heart skipped a beat, turned to hug him, and said in a sullen voice, "Well."
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The night in Stockholm is dark and peaceful, and it seems to be the same as N City, Beijing, California, and Princeton.
"Your grandfather said that he was really sorry for you in the past. I hope you can forgive him for his age. He also said... that the descendants of his Li family will come home one day."
Actually it's all a lie.
Businessmen value culture and face more seriously. If Li Wei hadn't won the Nobel Prize, I'm afraid this phone call wouldn't come again.
This time, she answered the phone in person, and after listening to the old man for a long time, she was uneasy.
"Then... are you going?"
Zhang Man's hand circled around the man's chest.
His eyes tightened suddenly, and he turned over to hold her down: "Instead of talking about those irrelevant people or things, it's better to do something more meaningful."
Zhang Man looked up at him.
He clearly said something similar to what he said ten years ago, but there was no more fluctuation and pain in his eyes.
It's good, in this world, not all encounters should be forgiven.
She hooked his neck with a smile and bent her eyes: "Okay."
At the beginning of the cloud and rain, the sky gradually turned white.
The two dressed up in the room, opened the curtains, turned on the chandelier, and made a video call across the Pacific.
The video was quickly connected. It was noon in N City. Zhang Huifang had just finished eating with her child and was teaching her to do arithmetic.
The woman in her fifties still maintains a slender figure, her hair is slightly curled, and she wears a beautiful little dress. Sitting next to her is a six-year-old girl, with a pink and lovely smiling face, and her eyebrows and eyes are very similar to him. .
The woman's face was a little crazy: "Five plus seven, five plus seven equals twelve, not fourteen!"
The little girl over there opened her big eyes and smiled brightly: "No, no, I counted with my fingers, it is equal to twenty-one. Grandma, look at me, one, two, three..."
"So why does your ring finger come down every time you break your pinky finger?"
The little girl thought about it for a long time, scratched her head, and her eyes were confused: "It seems... but it just came down with it, and I don't know why."
I was troubled for a while, when my eyes suddenly caught sight of the large ipad screen, so I lost count and ran down from the chair: "Dad! Mommy!"
"Well, Chenchen baby."
Zhang Man turned to look at him.
The man's voice seemed to contain a ball of cotton, with such a gentle expression on his face, full of smiles.
The father and daughter began to play guessing games across the screen in a tacit understanding, while Zhang Huifang took another iPad and made a video with Zhang Man.
"If I said, let Chenchen go back to China to study. Look at the kindergarten she studied in the United States. She is almost seven years old, and she has to break her fingers in arithmetic."
Zhang Man smiled: "Here we pay more attention to children's hobbies and thinking development. I think it is more important than learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division at a young age."
She said and blinked: "Mom, is it because my brother has grown up that you want to have children again?"
Zhang Huifang gave birth to a big fat boy in her sophomore year, and she is in high school this year.
"I get angry when I mention him. High schools in China aren't like yours now. They don't allow self-study in the evening. He's better. Every day after school, he runs to the Internet cafe. Uncle Xu and I have caught him several times."
"Okay, don't worry, I'll call him next time to ask what's going on..."
"Can I take care of him? As soon as I told him, I would definitely quarrel, so you can take care of him when you return to China. Also, your Uncle Xu's legs have been a little bad recently. I thought about asking you to bring him some calcium tablets when you come back next time. , I had a good meal before..."
"Well, where's grandma? How is grandma these two days?"
"Your grandma is in good health, she goes out dancing with me every day, she's light..."
The mother and daughter rambled about some daily chores.
A phone call and a full hour.
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Man looked at the smile on the man's lips, couldn't help but jumped up and kissed him several times, until his handsome face began to turn red again.
The man's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and he hugged her: "Manman, if it goes on like this, do you still want to sleep today?"
Seeing that the sky is bright.
She leaned into his ear badly and said something, then bit the mole on his earlobe, and as expected, he heard a breath.
The man rolled over and pressed her down, and the clothes she just put on began to be messy again.
"You can have as many babies as you want..."
The early morning sun shines into the house through the gauze curtain, dispelling the darkness of the long night.
The man deeply kissed his wife in his arms and unknowingly tightened the arms that hugged her.
What grandfather, what is going home, is too unreal to him, like a phantom dream when he was young.
He already has his own home.
The author has something to say:
This series is officially over! Regarding the uf line in the past life, I have been thinking about it for a long time. I don’t know if it is necessary to write it. After all, this life is the rebirth of the previous life. If I write another if line, it feels strange how to round it. If you write it, it may be to write the original tragic ending. Do you still want to watch it... hhh, I'm panicking just thinking about it.