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In 2018, Yang Zhenning left a group photo with his wife and son at the mouth of the Yellow River in the Three Gorges.
Although he is on crutches in the photo, he looks quite in good spirits.
To his left stood Weng Fan, who was 54 years younger than him.
Weng Fan had long shawl hair, leaned to the side of Yang Zhenning, and looked at the camera with a smile. Although she wears a low-key black coat, it is not difficult to see from between her eyebrows that the years are quiet.
To Yang Zhenning's right are three sons who have settled in the United States.
This time they flew back from the United States to see him, and the old man was naturally happy.
Step back in time to decades ago, in an old photograph, young Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili sat on the lawn of the house, in front of their three lovely and handsome sons.
Facing the camera, everyone laughed happily.
Now that many years have passed, Yang Zhenning has changed from a young teenager to a dying old man.
But fortunately, he is still healthy, the three sons have a successful career, and the only regret is that Du Zhili cannot accompany them.
But at this time, Yang Zhenning's side had another woman who cared about him and took care of him.
The appearance of Weng Fan lit up his lonely life in his later years, and also rewrote his original perhaps ordinary life.
Born in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, Weng Fan has been a very assertive child since he was a child.
After entering the university with excellent grades, the small universe that she had suppressed for a long time finally broke out.
Although he has an obedient face, Weng Fan's bones are maverick and yearn for freedom.
She dyed her blonde hair and let herself go on college campuses.
Of course, letting go of the self does not mean that he is willful and degenerate, and Weng Fan is still the student who was both good in character and learning when he was in college.
It is precisely because of this that she has the opportunity to contact Yang Zhenning and his wife.
In 1995, Mr. and Mrs. Yang Zhenning were invited to attend the first World Chinese Physics Conference.
Because the venue of the conference was at Shantou University, Weng Fan, as the hero of the campus, was naturally entrusted by the school with heavy responsibilities to receive them.
Weng Fan is a particularly competent little guide, taking care of the two elderly people in every detail, leaving a good impression on Yang Zhenning and his wife.
After this meeting, Weng Fan has been maintaining correspondence with Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili.
Du Zhili encouraged her to go to the United States to continue her studies, but at that time, Weng Fan was full of love and could not listen to the words of others.
After graduating from college, Weng Fan found an ordinary job in Shenzhen, and a male colleague from Hong Kong fell in love with her at first sight.
The young Weng Fan did not have much social experience and did not have the experience of falling in love.
Under the fierce pursuit of the other party, she quickly nodded.
It didn't take long for Weng Fan to marry this male colleague.
After marriage, she gave up her career and thought she could harvest a happy marriage, but suddenly found that the man in front of her was becoming more and more strange, and the pre-marriage sentence was like two people.
She was depressed every day, and it was clearly not the life she wanted.
Two years later, their marriage came to an end.
At that moment, Weng Fan suddenly felt that his life was too much of a failure, obviously the proud daughter of heaven in everyone's eyes, but now he had nothing.
She didn't want her life to be bleak from now on, and she also wanted to get rid of the trauma of divorce as soon as possible.
After some hard work, she successfully passed the graduate school of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
In October 2003, Weng Fan suddenly heard the news of the death of Yang Zhenning's wife Du Zhili.
She contacted Yang Zhenning for the first time and sent her own care and greetings.
Yang Zhenning, who is in the midst of grief, regards Weng Fan as his object of conversation, and he speaks to Weng Fan, and Weng Fan has always been his most loyal listener.
The distance between the two people is getting closer and closer.
The more he came into contact with Weng Fan, the more Yang Zhenning felt that he had regained the feeling of his youth.
Weng Fan's vitality and passion for life make Yang Zhenning more and more eager to get close to this girl and listen to her story about a colorful life.
In 2004, Yang Zhenning contacted Weng Fan for the first time after returning to China, and he couldn't wait to meet her.
After Weng Fan received Yang Zhenning's call, he was quite worried in his heart.
She and Yang Zhenning have only one side of the relationship, and almost all communication is carried out through the telephone and the Internet.
If they meet again, will they feel awkward between them?
What worries her even more is whether Yang Zhenning, who was 82 years old at the time, will be so old that he will not be able to walk well?
After meeting, Weng Fan found that all his anxieties and worries were superfluous.
Although there is a 54-year age difference between the two, there is no generation gap at all.
Yang Zhenning's knowledge and wisdom helped her quickly find the direction of life.
Yang Zhenning also regained his youthful state, and he felt that he had unconsciously fallen in love with Weng Fan.
After that, he called Weng Fan frequently, and each time he would talk for a long time, never cold.
Yang Zhenning also invited Weng Fan, who loves to travel, to hang out with him, and in the process of climbing the mountain, he extended his hand to Weng Fan, and Weng Fan did not avoid it, but had a feeling of heartbeat.
If he didn't receive a call from Yang Zhenning one day, Weng Fan would feel uncomfortable and be unguarded all day.
When she was with Yang Zhenning, her heart was calm and relaxed, a feeling that no one else could give.
Yang Zhenning found that he could not put down Weng Fan, and he wanted to find an opportunity to confess to Weng Fan.
After all, he was 82 years old and didn't have much time to waste.
He specially invited Weng Fan to go to Beihai with him during the National Day holiday.
During that time together, Yang Zhenning firmed up his idea that he wanted to marry this girl home.
Yang Zhenning called and told the children in the United States about his thoughts.
Perhaps because of their Western education, the children were very open-minded and expressed strong support for their father's decision.
It didn't take long for Weng Fan to receive a marriage proposal from Yang Zhenning.
At that time, Weng Fan had already developed a good feeling for Yang Zhenning, although there was no diamond ring or flowers, but she still agreed.
But on the side of Weng Fan's parents, their feelings still encountered certain obstacles.
Of course, Weng Fan's family respected Yang Zhenning, but never considered marrying his daughter to him.
However, Weng Fan has made up her mind that her parents, who have always loved her, can only compromise in the end.
For the choice of his daughter, Weng Fan's father said this: We fully understand and support the choice of our daughter.
Xiaofan is willing to make sacrifices to take care of Professor Yang's old age, which is a virtue and an honor!
On December 22, 2004, Weng Fan put on a wedding dress and became Yang Zhenning's bride.
For all kinds of doubts from the outside world, Weng Fan has never paid attention to it.
Yang Zhenning's family also expressed puzzlement, everyone is an ordinary person, why can't they pursue their own happiness?
After Du Zhili's death, Yang Zhenning had no intention of remarrying, after all, he was already an octogenarian.
But when love comes, it really can't be stopped.
After marriage, Yang Zhenning's life and work were all taken care of by Weng Fan.
In order to let Yang Zhenning rest better, Weng Fan changed the bad habits of young people such as staying up late on the Internet and developed a good habit of going to bed early and getting up early.
She will cook for Yang Zhenning, organize notes, etc., as long as it is Yang Zhenning's affairs, she will handle it all herself, because only she knows Yang Zhenning best.
Weng Fan enjoyed the life of strolling with Yang Zhenning after dinner.
Their conversations were not short parents, but academic discussions, or Yang Zhenning told her the stories of those physicists one by one, opening up a completely different world for her.
However, with the increase of age, Yang Zhenning's physical condition also began to decline.
In September 2010, Yang Zhenning suddenly became comatose with a high fever and even some gibberish, and was directly pushed into the intensive care unit.
If it were not for Weng Fan being by his side all the time and taking good care of him, it is difficult for us to imagine whether the elderly Yang Zhenning could survive this difficulty.
Of course, while taking care of Yang Zhenning, Weng Fan did not give up his studies.
In 2011, she was admitted to the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University and began her Doctoral studies.
We often say that there is a generation gap in three years, but this problem never seems to exist in Yang Zhenning and Weng Fan.
There is always an endless topic between them because of common interests.
They are not only partners in life, but also partners in the soul.
When the two married, Yang Zhenning was old, because there would be too many unknown factors in the future, and more for Weng Fan's future considerations, they decided not to have children.
Some people say that Weng Fan married Yang Zhenning for the sake of fame, but in fact, Yang Zhenning has already done a property notarization, and Weng Fan has nothing but the right of residence of the Qinghuayuan villa.
Weng Fan's care for Yang Zhenning, Yang Zhenning's three sons are all in the eyes.
They got along very well with Weng Fan and often thanked Weng Fan in public.
Because Weng Fan took good care of their father, Yang Zhenning, who is already 100 years old, is still healthy.
Weng Fan did pay a lot for Yang Zhenning, from the age of 28 to 46, she gave Yang Zhenning her best youth.
Someone was not worth it for her, thinking that she was just a nanny, but only Weng Fan knew that in this marriage, she had gained far more than she had lost.
Yang Zhenning is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, and his thinking and realm are naturally higher than ordinary people.
Weng Fan is with him, and believes that invisibly he will also be subtly affected, so that his understanding of life has a higher level.
Marriage is like a person drinking water, cold and warm self-knowledge.
Weng Fan, who is now 44 years old, has more calm and indifferent on her face, perhaps this has explained everything, and her choice is not wrong.
Each of us should become the master of our own life, no matter what happens in the future, cherishing the present is the most correct choice.