Chapter 835

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Protagonist:

Fang Ziye

"Chen Shu, please accept my condolences! ~" Fang Ziye suddenly changed the subject.

Chen Guangbai couldn't adapt for a moment; Fang Ziye's topic span was too large: "Ah ha?"

"I can tell, Chen Shu, your respect for Old Dean Chen comes from the bottom of your heart! ~"

Fang Ziye pointed at his own eyes: "Chen Shu, this place here cannot be deceived."

Chen Guangbai fell silent for a while, his expression shifting slightly: "My father's passing this time is a white joy. His regret is beyond human power to change."

"He wasn't a man to stay idle either; if not for this, I'm afraid he would never have been able to settle down."

Chen Guangbai looked toward the direction where his father was: "Look, look at him now, how peaceful. In such a noisy place, he can still quietly close his eyes and rest."

"My dad, he was influenced too deeply by his teacher."

"Of course this is also a good thing; only with such pure dedication can one cultivate medicine to reach that level of mastery."

"It's time to rest; which person can work eighty or ninety years?"

"Even machines have to retire." Chen Guangbai wasn't particularly grief-stricken, just murmuring in a drawn-out tone...

Fang Ziye did not disturb further the emotional expression belonging solely to Chen Guangbai.

As long as the father isn't extremely weird, every boy should have a unique sentiment toward his own father.

Whether it's the initial worship, later discovering one's father is ordinary, and even later discovering oneself is also ordinary.

One will still feel one's father is quite extraordinary, a real man.

After Fang Ziye stood up, he walked away from the coffin, looking at the circles of people around, the things those circles of people were doing, and only then called his own parents.

Old Dean Chen Song's funeral was divided into inner and outer circles; the inner circle was for only the closest people to enter, the outer circle was prepared for ordinary people, those wanting to make connections.

Chen Guangbai did not bring Fang Nan and Liang Xia into the inner circle because of Fang Ziye.

After hearing Fang Nan mention this matter, Fang Ziye didn't feel there was anything improper at all: "Dad, so where are you guys now? Resting?"

"Me? I'm playing cards at your aunt's house, your mom's here too. Are you and Tingzhu coming over?"

"Is there a place to stay? As long as there's a place to stay, we'll just rest here..." Fang Ziye replied.

Given Old Dean Chen Song's status and Chen Guangbai's reputation, if they really let everyone with ordinary connections in, they could trample this courtyard flat.

At least in Enshi it is so.

Fang Ziye didn't sleep, but kept vigil all night, and by noon the next day, rushed back to Han City.

Luo Tingzhu didn't stay long either, but returned to Han City together with Fang Ziye.

On the way, Luo Tingzhu got a bit sleepy; after sitting down in the first-class carriage, she rubbed her eyes and asked: "Senior Brother, we left without waiting for Old Dean Chen to go up the mountain, is that really okay?"

"Seeing someone off at the end isn't about sending Old Dean Chen into the earth, but about saying goodbye to him! ~"

"If Old Dean Chen has a spirit and saw we came, he'd be satisfied; he'd want to talk to us but we can't hear, so it saves him the anxiety."

"If there's no spirit, death brings peace."

"Actually, seeing someone off is for our own peace of mind, for our personal attachment, not to comfort the one who left."

"If you go to see someone off just to comfort the other person's emotions, that's human relations and social obligations."

"Tingzhu, we all have to slowly go from learning human relations and social obligations to slowly getting used to fading them out, and do our own selves well! ~" Fang Ziye said.

Fang Ziye's words were a bit convoluted.

But Luo Tingzhu listened very seriously and replied: "Senior Brother, you mean, before we were still very weak, so we needed human relations and social obligations to strive for certain resources."

"Now us, what we need more is clear, calm thoughts, to accomplish what we want to do? And we shouldn't waste more time striving for resources?"

Fang Ziye nodded and shook his head: "More or less, thinking like that isn't wrong."

"I also don't know if this is right or wrong; anyway, this is just my personal understanding. Interacting with people is indispensable."

"But in different periods, how to interact with people still has its particulars; interacting with people while most clearly understanding one's own positioning is what makes oneself most at ease."

"Before, if we didn't go visit teachers often and still waited for teachers to feed us opportunities, that would be too stupid, too passive, too arrogant."

"Now we similarly need politeness and respect for others, but more importantly we still have to find the interaction style most suitable for us."

"Right now you see a peer and are extremely enthusiastic, extremely proactive in greeting them, even a bit fawning in getting along; others might fear you have designs on them."

Luo Tingzhu said: "What could I have designs on?"

"You know, but others don't know, ah?"

"Since you don't have designs on anything either, there's no need to live this tiredly; greetings and such, just do them perfunctorily."

"Of course, right now, if we want to find like-minded friends, the point of connection might also be in daily interaction, but it requires us to discover it very seriously."

"Not only talent on the same frequency, but also ideology on the same frequency, only then is there a chance for deep friendship." Fang Ziye said.

Luo Tingzhu looked thoughtful, thought for a while, then said: "Senior Brother, could it be that this is the reason you refused those few people who wanted to take you as master?"

Fang Ziye this year is still a Doctoral Supervisor and Master's Supervisor; up to now, many people have sought Fang Ziye as a teacher, but Fang Ziye hasn't agreed to a single one.

"It's not exactly a reason; it's that these people's purposefulness is all too strong."

"When I probed their thinking and ideas indirectly, their replies were all too official."

"Sincerity is the ultimate killer move in interaction."

"Take Hu Qingyuan for example; at the start, he wanted to test me out..." Fang Ziye said, laughing.

At first, Hu Qingyuan just followed Fang Ziye for internship; at that time Hu Qingyuan had also heard Fang Ziye was very powerful, but he was still examining his 'supervisors', hadn't decided on a direction yet.

Luo Tingzhu replied: "Senior Brother, you can't look for students by Hu Qingyuan's standard, ah; if you do, you won't find anyone."

Fang Ziye said very casually: "Can't find anyone, then at that time just randomly pick a few, modal particle?"

"Isn't distribution just division?"

"That's how I was accepted as a disciple under my Master Yuan Weihong."

Fang Ziye has quotas for PhD and Master's Students, and he definitely won't waste them; if he can't find suitable candidates, he'll just randomly pick a few to bring along after the Re-examination ends.

Not finding someone here is not the same as not finding someone there.

Even if a pig were hired as a PhD Student Supervisor and had quotas for PhD Students, there would still be plenty of people applying for his PhD program.

The Doctoral Assessment is becoming more and more competitive, and the number of participants is growing larger and larger.

"By the way, Senior Brother, how is that Doctor Liao you took out of the Sanatorium doing now? Can he go on stage?" Luo Tingzhu asked with a laugh.

"He's still a bit short of being a Fire Candidate, but I estimate it won't be long before he can."

"Of course, this 'not long' is still a bit long; it might be after October." Fang Ziye said.

"The Entry Threshold for this Puncture Technique is still a bit high."