In the afternoon, the weather in Shanghai changed to cloudy.

But there is no cloudy smell.

Fang Nian took Lu Weiyu's hand and walked into a niche cafe by the Pujiang River.

There aren't many customers in the store, and I don't know if the coffee doesn't taste good or if it's too expensive.

After seeing the menu, the childish Fang Nian suddenly strongly recommended Lu Weiyu to order the ‘flat white’.

Although Lu Weiyu worked as a cashier in a coffee shop, she didn't know much about coffee - she doesn't really like drinking coffee yet.

So Lu Weiyu listened to Fang Nian's deception.

Fang Nian, on the other hand, ordered a fruit drink that he knew would be delicious just by looking at the fruit in the name.

Soon, the waiter brought the drink, and Fang Nian drank it happily. Lu Weiyu frowned after taking the first sip.

Then he pretended to be nonchalant and said: "It tastes really good, let's drink it instead."

He said and pulled out the straw.

Fang Nian couldn't hold it back and laughed out loud, but he still said seriously: "Since we have to change the drink, we must also change the straw."

Lu Weiyu understood now: "Xiao Fang, your current thoughts are a bit dangerous~"

Fang Nian didn't hide it. He blinked and made it clear that this was what he meant.

Lu Weiyu thought for a while and said casually: "It's better to order a new drink and change it."

Fang Nian raised his eyebrows and suddenly had a strong smile: "Okay."

After changing to a new drink, Lu Weiyu took a few sips before exchanging it with Fang Nian. She gritted her teeth and said, "You are satisfied now, you childish devil!"

Fang Nian nodded with a playful smile, his heart bubbling with beauty...

As for why Lu Weiyu frowned and couldn't drink the cup of 'flat white'.

The reason is also simple.

Compared with 'flatwhite', another name that Chinese people are more familiar with is the flat white that Starbucks mainly recommended 15 years later.

Rumor has it the taste is somewhere between a latte and a cappuccino.

As for the actual taste, it can only be said that people have different opinions.

Fang Nian always remembered that when he went to Starbucks one time, he saw the name of this young man, and he immediately ordered a cup with excitement, and took about three sips.

Then I didn't go to Starbucks again for at least five months.

At that time, like Lu Weiyu now, he frowned, and the feeling was still fresh in his memory: the first sip thought it was uneven, the second sip thought it was a mistake, and the third sip confirmed that it was true, it just tasted bad.

After changing drinks, Lu Weiyu suddenly started talking about being ‘for fun’.

"I've often seen your company's promotions in the news this month. What kind of competitions are you doing recently?"

Fang Nian hummed: "I don't know the specifics, but it is said that it was very successful."

After saying a few words, Lu Weiyu changed the topic: "Did your assets increase a lot again?"

Fang Nian thought for a moment and replied: "The specific statistics will not be known until the first of next month, but from October 7 to now, the operating income has increased by at least 100 million, which may be a lot."

"I used my own money to open a tea restaurant and it will open at the beginning of next month, so now my personal assets are only 8 million." Then Fang Nian said seriously: "How is it? Do you feel that you are one step closer?"

Lu Weiyu's eyes moved up and down slightly, and then she said seriously: "It has indeed shrunk."

"..."

Before dinner, Fang Nian sent Lu Weiyu downstairs to the rental house and then rushed back to Fudan.

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In the evening, a purely free discussion class for Philosophy Class 1, Grade 09.

There are no professors, and it is impossible to take roll calls. Credits are not counted and it depends on self-consciousness.

So some people will miss class.

On Tuesday, Fang Nian promised Su Zhi and the others that they would come to participate in the discussion class, so naturally they would not be absent.

The topic of this discussion is divergent free discussion: Can freedom of thought and political philosophy coexist?

This is considered homework. I will give a concluding speech in the next discussion class.

This is one of them.

The second is that qualified students can ask senior seniors to lead discussions on some slightly more complex propositions, which may not be limited to philosophy.

If you have the ability and resources, you can hire a PhD student.

Therefore, Su Zhi and Gao Jie invited a graduate student from their department to the group.

When Fang Nian arrived in the classroom, one member of the group arrived, Luo Qiao.

"Have you eaten? Do you want some snacks?"

Luo Qiao was busy eating potato chips and other snacks, like a hamster, with bulging cheeks. When he saw Fang Nian, he hurriedly said.

Fang Nian rubbed the tip of his nose with his left thumb, suppressing his uncontrollable laughter, and replied with a smile: "I've eaten, thank you."

Luo Qiao made a sound and continued to stuff three different snacks into his mouth.

Fang Nian took the opportunity to sit next to Luo Qiao and watched with interest as Luo Qiao ate snacks as if no one was around.

On Rojo's desk is "The Apology of Socrates", and he occasionally turns a page.

Fang Nian even bothered to observe Luo Qiao's swallowing times.

He suspected that Luo Qiao was like a hamster, always feeling like he didn't have enough to eat, so he had to hide some in his cheeks.

Not long after, Zeng Yiren walked in from the back door of the classroom.

After saying hello to Fang Nian, he sat next to Luo Qiao and said, "Qiao Qiao, if you continue to eat like this, you will get fat to death."

Luo Qiao snorted: "Nonsense, I haven't even finished a bag of potato chips, how can I be fat?"

While talking, there was no food left in his mouth.

Inexplicably, Fang Nian remembered a certain adapted lyrics that he had heard at some point.

"I secretly hid a lollipop and said I'm fat~ Huh, I'm the most beautiful anyway~"

Just as I was thinking about it, a slightly noisy sound came from the back of the classroom.

As soon as I heard it, I knew it was Su Zhi and Gao Jie.

It’s been almost a semester, but I can still distinguish the voices of Su Zhi and Gao Jie.

"Ah, you are all here." Su Zhi chirped.

Then he pointed at the young man who came with them and said, "Senior Cheng Qian, let me introduce you to him. This is Yi Ren, this is Qiao Qiao, and this is Fang Nian."

Cheng Qian, who is wearing glasses and well-dressed, looks about 27 or 28 years old. Perhaps because he is a graduate student, he looks a little older.

Cheng Qian greeted Zeng Yiren and Luo Qiao politely.

Then he looked at Fang Nian, smiled, and reached out his hand: "Cheng Qian, nice to meet you, classmate Fang Nian."

Fang Nian quickly stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Hello, Senior Cheng Qian, Fang Nian, nice to meet you."

Fang Nian's group came relatively early. Everyone was here and they didn't need to wait for others. They gathered at the table and started discussing.

In this group, Su Zhi is always the one who talks the most.

"Senior Cheng, can I ask an off-topic question first?"

Cheng Qian pushed up his glasses and softened his expression: "You tell me."

Su Zhi asked without any hesitation: "Why do we want to study this political philosophy issue? Moreover, many of the discussion topics since this semester are useless. It will only count for credits, and it won't do anything."

Cheng Qian replied in a gentle tone: "I also wondered about this question when I first entered Fudan University;

Looking back now, I realize that this arrangement of the school is actually to allow us to have more extensive and comprehensive exposure to some knowledge content during college. It is not required to understand more, but to dabble in it.

Especially in a discipline like philosophy, which deals with a wide range of big issues, sometimes it feels like there is no way to be specific at all.”

After a pause, Cheng Qian smiled, and then said: "If it is specific to the category of political philosophy, there is another reason, but it kind of means saying bad things about the school;

At present, domestic philosophical research is not as comprehensive as that in the West to some extent. For example, the current curriculum does not include political philosophy and other contents, but it cannot be completely understood."

When Cheng Qian explained it this way, the meaning became very clear.

Due to practical considerations, it is temporarily beyond our ability to start classes, but some issues that are within the basic scope must still be covered by students, otherwise students will suffer disadvantages in the future.

As for the fact that some disciplines are not as good as those in the West, Fudan may not even deny it.

Because some disciplines are built following the trend of the West or the world.

Whether it is training talents or teaching staff, there are gaps.

As far as Fang Nian had heard from hearsay, it was said that the philosophy department at Fudan became great because of the joining of some outstanding people, but now, those outstanding people have not yet come.

Learning this matter is not just about learning today, but also having to learn it tomorrow.
To be continued...