Chapter 84:

Sixty years later, Beijing, CCTV, the recording site of "Their Life" program.
The hostess has a gentle face and is about fifty years old. She is dressed in a light gray suit and looks dignified and comfortable in front of the camera: "Good evening, dear audience friends, and welcome to the "Their Life" column every Friday night. This is the host Shu Xue."
Different from the relatively open aesthetics of modern people, the host’s temperament of this show is very classical, and even the smile conforms to the standard of smiling eight teeth decades ago: "The guests we invited in this issue are different from the past. Not the interviewee himself, but his daughter, everyone should be familiar with it. Let us welcome Ms. Li Chen, a famous modern Chinese journalist and editor-in-chief of the magazine "Zhi Shi"."
After enthusiastic applause from the stands, a woman with gray hair and excellent temperament walked onto the stage. Her figure was slender, her skin was white, and her facial features were three-dimensional. Although her face had wrinkles and sporadic spots that corresponded to her age, she did not cover it at all. The temperament of living in the dust is graceful, but there is a kind of casual and elegant with the age.
"Ms. Li, please sit down."
The host took a lot of seriousness after seeing Li Chen with a kind smile on his lips.
"Hello, Ms. Li, I'm Shu Xue, the host of this show. I am very happy to invite you as our guest of this issue."
Li Chen nodded and smiled, "I am also glad to meet you."
The host shook hands with her, respectfully asked her to sit down and started the question interview.
"Today should be a very special day for Ms. Li, right?"
Although Li Chen had already obtained the question book before coming, he also knew that the first question was to draw the protagonist of today's interview.
But after hearing the host's question, she paused for a moment.
After about ten seconds of silence, Li Chen stroked his sideburns white hair back and nodded: "Yes, today is the third anniversary of my father's death, Mr. Li Wei."
The host sighed cooperatively. Half of the performance was for the effect of the program, but the other half was really nostalgic and lamented: "Time flies so fast, I did not expect that Mr. Li Wei has left us for three years. I still remember three Years ago, our program team contacted the old man and wanted to invite him to record a program in person. He agreed. But when the day was about to be recorded, the program team received news that the old man was seriously ill and went to the hospital... "
The host said with some emotion: "In this blink of an eye, three years have passed. I really didn't expect that I would be able to do this interview again, although not myself."
Li Chen lowered his eyes and looked at the transparent coffee table set up on the scene for a while, then raised his head after a while and looked at the host with a smile: "My father made a great promise in his life, and he failed to do what he promised. I am very regretful, and I have also told me that if I have the opportunity, I hope to do this interview for him later."
She looked at Shu Xue sincerely, and this glance made the always calm host slightly stunned.
Like, really like her father.
Three years ago, Mr. Li was critically ill. She once visited N City on behalf of the program team. The legendary academic elder was lying on the hospital bed with gray hair and pale face. There was almost no sound and ups and downs, but it was quiet. The old face makes people feel calm and at ease with a glance.
That is a great force accumulated over the years.
"Mr. Li has created too many miracles belonging to human science in the 92 years of his life. Let us take a look at the photos left by the old man."
The host raised his hand and signaled the scene to play photos and some short videos.
These photos are provided by Li Chen himself, many of which have never been seen before and are very precious.
The first one is naturally the photo of Li Wei at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony sixty years ago.
An extremely young man in a suit and leather shoes, with an outstanding posture, his handsome face and a slight smile on his lips make him look like a sluggish, diligent scientist, but a star attending a film festival.
The audience was naturally a rush.
There were also many young people in the audience. When they were born, this great contemporary Chinese scientist was already old. Although everyone knows that he is still outstanding in his old age, he still exclaimed when he saw the photos of him when he was young. sound.
The host was also stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "I saw this photo when I was a child, and it was posted on the wall of my mother's room. I heard my mother say that at that time, they worshiped Mr. Li as an idol. When the old man was young, there must be a lot of suitors."
Li Chen smiled: "I don't know this, but I think it should be. My father is a very good man."
After that, the photo was turned back and it was a group photo. The photography technology of sixty years ago is already advanced enough, with extremely clear pixels, without the feeling of old photos at all. In the photo, on the turquoise sea and golden sands, the young man gently embraced a smaller sweet woman with a warm smile.
The host looked at Li Chen: "May I ask what this photo is?"
The gray-haired, her eyes were nostalgic, and her voice was much softer: "This picture is of my father and mother. My grandmother took them the year after I was born. It is by the sea in N City."
The host followed the photo and started the discussion: "People say that behind geniuses and great men, there is often a great wife. Through Mr. Li's life experience, we also know that your mother, Ms. Zhang Man, once followed him all the way. , From B to Stanford, and later to Princeton University where he taught. And the two returned to China after middle age and taught at B until the old man retired, Ms. Zhang Man accompanied him to N City to recuperate. For decades. She has always been by his side for the time she has been with him. This kind of lifelong support and company, I believe not everyone can do it, your mother really loves your father."
Li Chen also knows that the guests invited by this show are all elites from all walks of life who have contributed to human society in recent decades, but the focus of the show is not their career achievements, but the little-known life behind the glamour. .
So when she heard the focus of the host's question, she did not evade.
She thought for a while, a gentle smile appeared in her slightly muddy eyes.
"My mother's support and following of my father must be known to everyone. When I search the Internet about my father's family or emotional experience, most of the drafts come out. Behind him, there is a silent supporter. Wife."
"But in my opinion, the relationship between them is not as simple as support and following."
"It's love and salvation."
When the host heard her answer, his expression was slightly surprised: "Save? I have never heard this statement before."
She smiled and motioned for her to continue.
Li Chen stretched out his left hand and gently dialed the sandalwood Buddha beads on his right hand: "After so many years, most of the insiders of the year have passed away. So there is one thing that many people don’t know. Even when I am an adult, my mother told mine."
Her voice trembled slightly: "My father, he used to be a diagnosed schizophrenia and delusional patient, and his condition was very serious. He lost his father and mother when he was young, and therefore spent his entire childhood in the welfare home. During the period, he was abandoned by his family and squeezed out and abused by many of his peers. Therefore, due to his family inheritance and the gloomy childhood experience, he suffered from extremely severe schizophrenia. The people who exist, one is his mother and the other is his playmate. These two emptiness'people' have been with him until his high school."
Li Chen slowly said, but there was a small commotion in the whole studio, and everyone gasped in air.
Unexpectedly, Mr. Li was so miserable in the same year. Also, schizophrenia? Paranoia?
These secrets are really amazing.
Even the hostess was stunned for a long time.
"As far as I know, Mr. Li has been working diligently in scientific research during the years when he returned to N City to recuperate before his death, and he appeared in public several times over the years without any symptoms of schizophrenia. This... …"
Li Chen smiled: "Yes, it took him several years to keep his mental state and psychological state at the level of a normal person. But before, the situation was really dangerous. I heard from my mother that he was in his second year of high school. In 2009, I learned of my illness due to some accidents, and thus suffered from severe depression, self-rejection, and extremely world-weary. Without my mother's company by his side, he might not be able to get out at all."
With a smile on her face, she talked about many things in those years, including Zhang Man's search for more than ten days, and later careful companionship, and afterwards, she studied neurobiology for him, and finally became his personal psychologist.
Her words were very plain, but such a faint narrative made many young audiences in the audience blush.
This kind of love with great strength in calmness can make people feel deeply in the heart no matter what age.
"Many doctors have a certain stage in the treatment of patients, but my mother's treatment of my father is the salvation of a whole life. For him, she can be said to be alive belief and the meaning of all persistence."
After listening to her, the host played a short video, the last paragraph of Li Wei's speech when he won the Nobel Prize.
There was a commotion in the stage, the host felt a little after watching, and lightly clapped his hands: "'There are two most important things in my life, physics and her. Physics has given me the ability to think in the dark, and She gave me light.’ This passage was once jokingly called the best love letter template for the 21st century by netizens, but until today, I don’t know the true meaning."
"Yes, even my name is related to this. The word'chen' refers to passion and sincere affection. According to my father, it is like the early sun that disperses the long night. My nickname is'Chenchen'. It also means."
...
The interview lasted for an entire hour and a half. A week later, the ratings broke the historical record of the show, and a wave of modern people's thinking and discussion about love was set off online.
Today, sixty years later, with the development of society and economy, the distance between people has become clearer, the divorce rate has become higher and higher, and blind dates have become more common. Thus, this unswerving love gave thousands of netizens a very violent heart attack.
A week later, the night after the show was broadcast, Li Chen was preparing to have dinner with her husband at home in Beijing, but received a call.
It was Shu Xue, the host of the show. She didn't contact her through the show team, but a private phone.
"Okay, then seven o'clock."
One hour later, a coffee shop in Zhongguancun.
When Li Chen arrived, Shu Xue was already there. She didn't have any makeup today, her hair was casually tied behind her head, and she had some spots and wrinkles on her face.
Li Chen was startled, and almost didn't recognize it.
Shu Xue had seen her a long time ago and waved at her: "Here."
The two are more than ten years old. They recorded a show together before, and they talked very happily, and they were not formal at the moment.
"I should be eleven years younger than you. Can I call you Sister Li?"
Li Chen nodded cheerfully.
In fact, her personality is not like Li Wei and Zhang Man. It can be said that she has grown up since she was young, and she loves making friends most.
Last time I spent an hour and a half in the interview fashion with dignity and elegance, it made her face stiff.
"Of course, Xiao Shu."
"Sister Li, I came to you today mainly because of a sentence you said later in the last interview. It is true that your mother loves your father very much, but your father's love for her is so profound that you cannot describe it. ""Because of the limited time of the show, you don't seem to want to talk more, just a few words in the show. But afterwards, I was really itchy and could not sleep, so I took the liberty to contact you... This feeling is like Chased a novel, but did not finish reading the end."
Li Chen rarely smiled heartily: "Xiao Shu, I didn't expect you to be so gossip at this age."
Shu Xue blinked: "What's wrong with my age? Gossip is human talent!"
Also, in this age, in addition to changing appearances, there are very few restrictions on everyone's behavior. The stereotypes of ‘what old people should do’ seem to have long ceased to exist.
On the streets of Beijing, there are many old ladies wearing camisole and short skirts, as well as old men with headphones and sneakers around their necks who are going to the gym.
Li Chen smiled with white teeth and did not appetite her: "Actually, I didn't talk about it last time. I really feel that those things are detrimental to my dad's image—"
"If there are prizes for strict wife management in this world, my dad will definitely win another Nobel Prize."
After Shu Xue heard this, she laughed out loud, "Wife is strict? No, Mr. Li?"
"Really, my grandmother told me that when I was six years old, after my dad won the prize, my mother suddenly became like a different person. Her temper was getting bigger and bigger, and she always insulted my dad. But they both It's really a willingness to fight and a willingness to suffer."
"I still remember when I was fifteen years old, the three of us went back to China for a vacation and went to climb Huangshan together. When I came down, my mother said she wanted to exercise, so she decided not to take the cable car. But she climbed halfway through. I didn't move anymore. Later, my dad carried her down."
"He’s over forty years old. He went down the mountain with his wife on his back and was scolded while carrying him. My mother scolded him, knowing she couldn’t climb, and didn’t persuade her to take the cable car. I followed them and I could hear them. Unbelievable, it doesn't make sense. As a result, my dad, alas, willingly scolded her, not only had to admit her mistake, but also had to make her happy..."
"..."
"The other time I was particularly impressed. When I was just in the first grade of elementary school, my mother was pregnant with my brother. That time seemed to be the only time my dad said something serious to my mother. The reason was that my mother went out again without checking the weather forecast and ended up catching a cold."
"Obviously my mother was at a loss. She was pregnant and always took advantage of my dad to go out for a walk without an umbrella... But, just because my dad said something serious, he knelt for three nights. Keyboard..."
When Shu Xue heard this, she was a little shocked, a sip of coffee stuck in her throat: "My God..."
Kneel the keyboard? Isn't it? This is too inconsistent with Mr. Li's image, right?
"I didn't lie to you, it's really kneeling on the keyboard. Every time one kneel is broken, my mother will continue to place orders on Amazon without changing her face..."
As he grew older, his speech rate became much slower. As Li Chen said, while drinking coffee to moisturize his throat, his voice suddenly dropped.
"But to say how much my dad loves my mom, I only fully felt it three years after my mom died."
"My mom walked three years earlier than my dad. One month before she died, my dad happily accompany her in the hospital every day. Such a serious old man actually laughed more than in previous years. many."
"One day before my mother died, she finally woke up and suddenly avoided my dad, so that my brother and I should pay attention to his mental state afterwards."
"We are very nervous, but during the period after my mother died, he behaved like a wise old man who couldn't be more normal. When talking to us and students, he had clear thinking and sharp logic. However, we later discovered that , He is actually abnormal. There are some things that I still feel uncomfortable when I think of it now."
"He was ninety years old. He was really very old and had inconvenient legs and feet. In fact, he had not personally cooked for many years. But during that time, he started cooking again."
"At first it was around 7 o'clock in the morning one day. I saw him fry two eggs in the kitchen and put them on two plates. After they were fried, they were brought to the table. I thought they were fried for me, but waited for me. When I walked to the dining table, I heard him say to the empty chair next to him,'Manman, today is your favorite single-sided sun egg, eat it.'"
"Later, he carried us on his back and secretly began to make some Sichuan dishes that my mother loved. I had something to do with the magazine that day, but the aunt at home told me."
"The range hood at home is remote controlled. He didn't find the remote control, so he cried to tears while frying the spicy chicken. Later, he sat at the table by himself, eating the spicy chicken while putting the empty plate next to it. Vegetables, and carefully sort out all the peppers and peppercorns inside..."
"One morning, my dad didn't come out to eat. I knocked on my dad's door and he said to me after he opened the door, let me be quiet. My mom has a cold and is sleeping. I froze at the door and watched him walk to bed. On the side, lightly patted the empty quilt and muttered to himself:'Manman, go to sleep, don't be afraid, I'll be by your side.'"
"On another occasion, when he had dinner, he smiled and told my brother that he would be free from work. In the spring of next year, he would take him and my mother to Jiangnan and said that he thought they were both older. Too much trouble, it was my mother who clamored to go. Later, the next spring, my brother asked him to take him, but he was already very sick."
When Li Chen said this, he was a little choked.
"He is normal to anyone, only my mother... We all know that he relapsed when he was young. But until his death, we didn't dare to tell him this. Probably before he died, he was still happy. "
...
No one knows that the month before the death of the old gentleman, he woke up.
He was soberly aware that the person he had loved all his life had been gone for three years, and he was about to find her.
The world is like a vast universe, and my planet has finally successfully completed its final evolution. How fortunate to be able to live in this world and hold you for life.