Chapter 53: The Empty House
The "crowd" after class had passed, and only Jiang Yu and Luo Ji were left in the corridor.
Jiang Yu almost raised his head, boss, your reaction is too much!
He took a deep breath and said: "Yes, I am Professor Ye Wenjie's assistant, and I met Professor Yang Dong at work."
Luo Ji was stunned: "I remember Professor Ye is an authority in astrophysics. Why would you, a student from the School of Social Sciences, be your assistant?"
Jiang Yu said confidently: "Maybe it's because I'm handsome."
Luo Ji curled his lips and didn't know how to answer the question.
"I heard Professor Yang say that Teacher Luo Ji and she are classmates." Jiang Yu returned to the topic.
Luo Ji took a deep breath: "In her eyes, I should be considered a deserter, right?"
Luo Ji initially studied astronomy and physics, which was closely related to Yang Dong's major, and later changed to sociology.
"What deserter? Professor Yang Dong admires your choice. After all, not everyone has the courage to change their major."
This Jiang Yu didn't lie at all, he just exaggerated appropriately. Yang Dong did say something like "not everyone has the courage to change majors", but he didn't "admire" him.
During this time, Jiang Yu often talked about Luo Ji with Yang Dong and Ye Wenjie. According to Ye Wenjie, when Yang Dong was in high school, Luo Ji often came to play at home.
Otherwise, in the original work, when Ye Wenjie saw Luo Ji, she wouldn't be able to recognize him as "Little Luo" at a glance.
Jiang Yu guessed that Luo Ji and Yang Dong might not be just ordinary high school classmates.
It's just that Yang Dong is a little slower in this regard. In her eyes, Luo Ji is just a handsome high school classmate.
Yang Dong bluntly said that it took several years for her to realize that Luo Ji seemed to be chasing him.
Poor Teacher Luo Ji, maybe he still doesn't know that Yang Dong didn't reject him by "pretending to be confused", but that this girl was really confused in this regard!
After hearing Jiang Yu's words, Luo Ji sighed and said, "Time flies so fast. I heard that she and Dr. Ding Yi are getting married soon?"
Jiang Yu was stunned: "I've never heard of this."
He paused and said again: "Professor Yang Dong's invitation?"
Luo Ji waved his hand: "I won't go. I haven't seen you for so many years. It's quite embarrassing to meet him suddenly."
"But Professor Yang Dong sincerely invites her. She has said several times that she would like to get together with her high school classmates." As he said this, Jiang Yu was thinking in his heart:
"I'm sorry, Sister Dong. For the sake of the welfare of all mankind, I can only tell a few lies."
Luo Ji hesitated and did not rush to refuse again.
Jiang Yu followed up and persuaded: "Teacher Ye heard that you were teaching at Yenching University, and he also talked about you, saying that your work place is so close, so I didn't know how to go and chat with her."
Luo Ji recalled Ye Wenjie's kind eyes, and he estimated that his little thoughts back then could not be hidden from the old professor.
Recalling his high school life, Luo Ji gradually felt nostalgic: "Thank you Yang Dong for the invitation. I will go to her birthday party."
Jiang Yu breathed a sigh of relief: "Then we've agreed. After class next week, we'll go together."
That day, he planned to stare at Luo Ji all day long until he brought Luo Ji to Ye Wenjie.
After confirming the situation on Luo Ji's side, Jiang Yu began to worry about the birthday cake again.
Naturally, cakes and flowers cannot be discussed with Yang Dong, and must be prepared "secretly".
Logically speaking, Teacher Ding Yi should be responsible for this, but Jiang Yu asked Yang Dong for Ding Yi's contact information, but Yang Dong said that he never saved the name of the contact person and did not know which number was Ding Yi's.
Jiang Yu almost blurted out the words "lying to your face". On the night when Yang Dong committed suicide, when Ding Yi called Yang Dong, he remembered that the caller ID was "Ding Yi".
Jiang Yu estimated that the two of them had quarreled again, and Yang Dong was still angry, so he said this.
He heard Ye Wenjie say that since Yang Dong failed to commit suicide, the two of them often chatted and broke up on bad terms.
Jiang Yu was worried about Ding Yi at first. They had such a fierce quarrel before they even got married. This was a "strategic mistake"!
Since Yang Dong didn't give him contact information, Jiang Yu had no choice but to ask Ye Wenjie for it.
However, Ye Wenjie did not have Ding Yi's contact information. She only roughly knew Ding Yi's address from previous chats.
Jiang Yu was helpless and said to himself that a good person will always do his best. If Teacher Ding Yi is so unsatisfactory, he should come to your home for tutoring once.
The next day was Saturday, and Jiang Yu went to find Ding Yi at the address given by Ye Wenjie.
Ding Yi's home is in a newly built community. As soon as Jiang Yu entered the door, he smelled the smell of alcohol. Ding Yi asked drunkenly: "Why are you here?"
Jiang Yu smiled and said, "I came to discuss something with you."
He looked around and saw that the room was very new, not much decorated, and had little furniture or furnishings.
The large living room looks very empty, and the most conspicuous thing is a billiard table placed in the corner of the living room.
Jiang Yu was somewhat excited. Ding Yi had used this pool table to demonstrate to Wang Miao that "there are no rules in particle collisions."
Ding Yi didn't have any objection to Jiang Yu's uninvited visit. She even took a wine glass and asked, "Would you like a drink too?"
Jiang Yu took a cigarette from the cigarette case on the table: "I'll take this."
Ding Yi nodded, filled up his wine glass, and the two of them sat on the single wooden sofa.
"This house was bought three months ago," Ding Yi said, "Why should I buy a house? Will she really come into the family?" He shook his head with a drunken smile.
Jiang Yu took a puff of cigarette and said, "Are you two quarreling? It's a normal thing."
Ding Yi took a sip of wine: "It's not a quarrel, it's a breakup."
Jiang Yu almost lost his grip on the cigarette. No wonder Yang Dong said he didn't know that was Ding Yi's number. It was blacklisted.
This... this is embarrassing. He is also planning to discuss ordering cakes and flowers with Ding Yi.
They’ve already broken up and there’s no point in discussing it!
Ding Yi was very eager to talk, and he continued: "She is like a star, always so far away, and the light that shines on me is always cold."
He drained the red wine from the glass in one breath: "Most of the communication between me and her was like a physics seminar.
"None of us know how to deal with emotional problems. We are tired after the past two years."
Ding Yi looked at Jiang Yu and said, "She should have a better destination."
Accepting Ding Yi's eyes, Jiang Yu slowly looked behind him.
Ding Yi smiled: "Don't be so unsure."
Jiang Yuxin said: "Teacher Ding, your state of mind is really high. You can talk about this kind of topic so freely. Fortunately, I always thought that my state of mind was lofty. Compared with you, I still checked the level."
Ding Yi waved his hand as if to drive away something: "By the way, what do you want from me?"
What else could happen? I originally had the mentality of coming to my home for counseling, but ended up being counseled instead.
Jiang Yu pressed the butt of his cigarette into the hill-like butt and said, "I came here because Professor Wang Miao said that you drink all day long.
Chapter completed!