Dad’s class this morning lasts the whole morning, a total of two and a half hours.
After class, Sheng Tang and Dad went to the canteen.
After eating, the father and daughter walked around the school.
They also ran into Dad’s student—Senior Brother Dazhou Zhou Xueqi, who is now also a lecturer at the Geological University.
"Tangtang is here? You don’t have classes today?" Senior Brother Dazhou had a particularly good relationship with Sheng Tang’s dad, all of his university expenses were funded by Sheng Tang’s dad.
"I took the day off, Senior Brother," Sheng Tang smiled.
Zhou Xueqi smiled and turned to leave.
Sheng Tang and her dad strolled for a while, and then she asked, "Dad, who was the person who ca last night?"
Dad was taken aback.
He was very surprised by this question.
"Oh....." Dad adjusted his glasses, looking quite unnatural, "He, uh, is a friend of mine."
"What friend?" Sheng Tang was curious, "Why didn’t you let et him?"
"What!?" Dad pretended to laugh, but there was a mont of tension in his expression, "It’s not that I didn’t want you to et him, wasn’t it because your brother was asking to go for barbecue?"
Sheng Tang replied with an elongated "Oh".
Dad thought of how close the siblings were, and that Sheng Zong had seen the person last night, maybe he had said sothing.
Such a grown daughter, he couldn’t treat her like a fool, afraid she would think more and more.
Dad was covering up and tried to call a cab to send her ho.
Sheng Tang still wanted to ask.
Dad seed to be holding it in.
He struggled for a while, looking into Sheng Tang’s eyes, seemingly unable to bear it: "He is my forr senior, he took care of a lot in school...."
Sheng Tang suddenly thought of that photo—the one she and her brother found up in the attic.
In the photo, there were four people, with a man and a woman standing very close, they seed to be quite close to her parents, but later she never saw them visit.
Dad’s friends sotis ca to their ho, Sheng Tang had t a few, but none of them were the two in the photo.
Grandma seed very wary of that photo, she crumpled it up in front of Sheng Tang and stuffed it into her pocket.
"It’s not that I didn’t want you to et him, just thought you wouldn’t be comfortable with a stranger at ho," Dad said.
"What’s his na?" Sheng Tang suddenly asked.
Dad froze for a mont.
"His na is Xu Bingzhi," Dad said.
Sheng Tang felt this was the real na, because Dad answered so quickly, it wouldn’t be easy to make up a na or mistake it with soone else’s.
"Oh." Sheng Tang smiled, "I thought sothing had happened at ho."
Dad seed relieved.
"What could possibly happen?" Dad said.
Sheng Tang thought getting a na was a significant victory.
She felt she had gained a lot today.
She spent the whole day at the university, went to the library in the afternoon to read, and helped her mom sort bookshelves.
In the evening, her parents took her out for dinner, and the family of three went ho afterwards.
Dad didn’t want to trouble Mom, so he didn’t ntion Sheng Tang’s questions.
And Sheng Tang, after returning ho, searched for Xu Bingzhi online.
She didn’t know exactly which characters to use for his na, so she searched for a long ti but found nothing.
She thought of Song Chen.
She called Song Chen, asking him to help look up Xu Bingzhi, who was also at the Geological University back then, probably a year ahead of her dad.
"It’d be great if you can find a photo. Brother Song, I really owe you one for this, if you ever need help with anything, I’ll definitely do my best," said Sheng Tang.
Song Chen laughed, "Tangtang, don’t be so polite with . But looking up soone from the past might take a bit longer. I’ll get back to you in a couple of days."
Sheng Tang agreed.
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