Chapter 50

After Prof. Dai finished his tea, he let Yang Yuyan and Su Chunjun sit in the tea room.

“Today you came coincidentally, stay for lunch, someone sent me a lot of vermicelli, today I’ll make a big dish for lunch!” Prof. Dai said.

Su Chunjun immediately took off his jacket and said, “Professor lend me an apron, I’ll also go and cook a dish.”

Yang Yuyan looked at the two men and thought that she should also stand up and express her willingness to cook, but she didn’t know how to cook. Lack of self-confidence caused her movements to be slightly hesitant, Second Miss Yang hesitantly stood up and spoke in a thin voice, “I also ……”

Su Chunjun and Prof. Dai looked at her together, and their gazes and expressions were exactly the same.

Su Chunjun pressed her back into her seat: “You don’t have to, I’ll go.”

Prof. Dai nodded to Su Chunjun and said the same thing: “Yes, you don’t have to either, you stay and talk with Miss Er and read a book.”

Yang Yuyan interjected, “Professor Dai calls me Yan Yan, my nickname is Yan Yan.”

Prof. Dai smiles at her, “Good, then Yan Yan, sit here with your brother Junjun and read, don’t let him go to the kitchen, your brother Junjun ruined my box of tea when he had to make tea for me the first time he came to class.”

Yang Yuyan instantly turned quiet, her face burning with curiosity!

Su Chunjun might as well expose his shortcomings casually on behalf of the professor, knowing that his image in the eyes of Yang Er Miss can always be a reliable and good man ah! How could one say something about him not even knowing how to make tea?

“Professor.” His eyes were pleading, his eyes were aggravated, his face was embarrassed and nervous.

Professor Dai smiles and continues to “whisper” to Yang Yuyan, “Let him tell you what’s going on.”

Then Prof. Dai went upstairs to change his clothes and went to the kitchen to cook.

The tea room is a place where Prof. Dai treats guests, students will not come in. Once the door to the room was closed, only Second Miss Yang and Teacher Su remained in the room.

Second Miss Yang pulled Mr. Su’s sleeve and tugged him to sit down, a pair of eyes big, bright and godly, and can also talk.

Mr. Su was looked at by this pair of eyes, had to reveal his own shortcomings: “Alas, I was ……”.

It was four years ago, he just came out of his home, money spent on the road, brought luggage are pawned, which did not starve to death before entering the university.

The days were much more comfortable after he got into college, the school had scholarships for the best students and free food and lodging when he got into college. He can eat three meals a day in the school cafeteria to solve, but in any case not used to living in the student dormitory. So he moved out of the school on the pretext that he had relatives here who were willing to subsidize him, looked around for a house, and finally moved to Zhujialou, where he has been living since now, and he doesn’t intend to leave after living there.

The school’s professors are not all worthy of worship, some people have high academic knowledge, but the character is not good. Professor Dai is in these professors he admired the most people, heart like crystal, clear and transparent.

Although the school is an ivory tower, but in the end is still in the red dust, high and low, still can not be avoided.

But he was different, no matter rich and powerful, or poor people, as long as he could not make him admire, he did not care to take care of.

At that time, this was a “principle” that he was very proud of.

Professor Dai looks all the habits of the old aristocracy, like to drink afternoon tea with exquisite porcelain, dressed very well, but never say his own family, only said “Yu Shu” this name is to go to school after Mr. give, the rest do not mention.

In his heart, he secretly regarded Prof. Dai as his friend.

One day, Prof. Dai was in the middle of his lecture and was thirsty, so he had to leave his seat to make tea. A student volunteered to take the professor’s place.

He naturally disdained this kind of ass-kissing behavior, and in his heart, he felt even more afraid that this student did not even know what kind of tea Prof. Dai drank, not to mention making it.

Professor Dai then swept around the classroom and asked who could go and make a pot of tea for him. In a flash, he met Professor Dai’s eyes, and Professor Dai smiled at him, and he couldn’t help but stand up. Prof. Dai then said, “Then let Pure Jun go.”

He was still smug, thinking he was better suited to make tea than anyone else in this classroom.

But it was not until he stood in front of the teapot that he realized …… he had never made tea!

Even though he had grown up drinking tea, from his home to England and back, and had drank everything from Chinese to Indian tea, but – it was all made by underlings.

Just because he’d drank it didn’t mean he could brew it.

He picked up the tea box, this tea recognize, familiar ah, Darjeeling, but how to brew it? How many minutes?

He hesitated for three seconds, trying to explain his inability to make tea to Prof. Dai on the grounds that he didn’t have a watch and didn’t know how to calculate time.

–But what if Professor Die lent him his watch?

He reached the kitchen with the teapot in his hand, and caught a glimpse of a small desk clock sitting in the hallway outside the kitchen.

Very well, there was no reason for it.

There was hot water in the kitchen, just not quite warm enough. He filled the pot with water and put it back on the stove, poking the eye of the stove – thankful that he’d built his own stove when he’d gotten out.

The water quickly reached boiling point, tumbling and bubbling.

Next, all that remained was to pour the tea leaves into the teapot and fill it with hot water.

Second Miss Yang was very generous and didn’t even laugh when she heard this, still looking at him with her cute little face tilted up.

Su Chunjun unconsciously felt that telling an embarrassing story would actually help to bring the two of them closer together, look at how close they were sitting now.

“At that time, I was too embarrassed to go back and say that I didn’t know how to brew or couldn’t brew, so I was going to just brew it regardless. So I grabbed a handful of tea leaves and put them into the teapot ……” He also raised one hand in a grabbing motion to show how reckless he was at that time.

Second Miss Yang interrupted him for the first time, “Wait, what size pot?”

Su Chunjun: “Just the pot you use in your house, about the same size.”

She holds his fist, “You put this handful of tea??”

Su Chunjun was shocked, “You can make tea?!” He actually saw the problem at a glance! He was still making it before he realized that the amount of tea leaves didn’t seem quite right! Surprisingly, he was not as good as Second Miss Yang in terms of common sense!

Yang Yuyan could see that he didn’t look right and didn’t dare to hit him, “It’s also okay ……”

Who doesn’t know how to make tea?

I didn’t expect Mr. Su to even know how to make tea before!

From now on, she’s going to look at him with a whole new set of eyes.

Su Chunjun lost his smile, and told all the back story as well, there was nothing more humiliating.

“I found out that I put too much tea leaves in, so I held it out and threw it outside, and redistilled the water into it, but Prof. Dai found out later, and he only drank a sip of it before putting it down, and made a tea tofu dish to treat us to in the evening.”

Yang Yuyan was very facetious and laughed.

In fact, there was something even more humiliating behind it.

Prof. Dai told them all later that he actually used to be a hired slave. His family couldn’t afford to feed their children, so they sold him. He was sold to work in the largest oil mill in the area.

The owner of the oil mill was not only the largest oil mill in the area, but also the largest landowner in the area. They owned fields for hundreds of miles around, and most of the local people were his family’s hired peasants. Although he was sold, he actually knew where his home was and who his parents were, and the oil mill owner never restricted him from going home to see his parents.

Later, he studied with the oil mill boys, and because of his good grades, the oil mill owner sent him to the city to study, and later sponsored him to study abroad. Before he went to study abroad, the oil mill owner canceled his family’s debts and canceled his contract of sale.

At that time, he was dumbfounded under the stage.

On the stage, Prof. Dai’s smile is not gloomy at all: “Knowledge will change our destiny, it will give us the power to change not only ourselves, but also the people around us and the environment around us. The background doesn’t mean everything. I went from a small laborer in an oil mill to the professor in front of you now, and there are still people guessing that I’m after a former Qing official with the surname Aisin Gioro, hahahahaha!” He braced himself on the table and laughed, “I am not! I am just a slave who has changed his fate with knowledge! If I can, so can you all!”

The class applauded, but he fell into an ice cellar.

He discovered how terribly discriminatory his condescension and indifference were, which in turn led to more prejudice and greater mistakes.

From that day on, he became more peaceful.

And more able to separate himself from his past self.

If he had remained the person he was then, would he have been able to have such a wonderful Yang Yuyan now?

No.

This made him even more thankful that he had come to his senses at that time.

He touched the tip of Yang Yuyan’s braid, close to her and said: “And then, I just entered the school when ……” There is a one, there are two, get used to it, not to mention that in front of their favorite people that can be called shame? That is called to draw close to the distance.

He lowered his voice, attracted the second Miss Yang also unconsciously closer to him to hear more clearly.

At this time the door was pushed open by Prof. Dai without greeting, just in time to catch.

It was useless for Su Chunjun to sit up straight with lightning speed, and Professor Dai’s eyes were filled with wisdom.

Professor Dai smiled and said, “I knew it.”

Su Chunjun couldn’t help but stand up to find an excuse.

Professor Dai ignored him and walked in and said to Yang Yuyan, “Yan Yan, come on, let’s go eat, do you know how many points your Mr. Su scored in his worst class when he was in school?”

How could Yang Yuyan resist the temptation? Immediately, she was called away by Professor Dai.

Su Chunjun hurriedly followed, helpless against Professor Dai.

The three of them didn’t go to the dining room, but to the kitchen. Surprisingly, a long table was already set up right in the kitchen, and seven or eight students were arranging the dishes on the table and bringing the dishes to the table. They were both male and female, more boys and fewer women, all wearing aprons and working together in the kitchen, and Yang Yuyan heard a girl directing a boy when she came in, “Shi WuDou, you bring this pot of fried radish over.”

Shi Wuwei shouted cheerfully, “Coming! This is my specialty! Fried radish with chili peppers!”

Professor Dai smiled and said, “Yes, Big Head has several specialties, and I still remember a chili pepper fried cabbage.”

The rest of the students immediately chimed in, “There’s also fried dried tofu with chili peppers.”

“Stir-fried bacon with chili peppers.”

“Fried pumpkin with chili peppers.”

Yang Yuyan, listening from the side, couldn’t help but say to Su Chunjun, “So it’s chili pepper fried everything.”

Su Chunjun heard it, and so did Prof. Dai, turning back to her, he smiled and said, “Yang Yuyan said it accurately. Big Head ah, from now on, just introduce yourself as being good at stir frying everything with chili peppers!”

The crowd then laughed out loud, and they all followed suit and looked at Yang Yuyan, who was standing beside Su Chunjun.

Yang Yuyan instantly broke out in a cold sweat on her back, her body was hairy, and the expression on her face froze.

Su Chunjun immediately noticed and stepped forward to block her, saying to Shi Wuwei, “Big Head Shi, your name still hasn’t changed.” While saying this, he shook his head and sighed.

This time the crowd’s eyes ran back to Shi Wuwei, and they even laughed.

Shi Wuwei was accustomed to being teased about this matter, and didn’t care, smilingly said, “I now take worming medicine once a year, and sooner or later I will no longer be called Shi Big Head!”

Speaking of this, many of the students in the audience have a heart.

At this time, the dinner table was set up, and all the people were seated.

There are no rules for eating here, the dishes are set out, the rice is on the table with a big pot, whoever eats who sings.

Su Chunjun pulled Yang Yuyan to sit in the corner, squeezed her to sit inside, do not have to be next to others, he sat outside. After sitting down, he stood up and served the rice for the two of them.

At this time the others at the table were still talking about the bug fight.

They only took the worming medicine as a group after they arrived at school, and before that they never knew they had worms in their stomachs, how scary it was! There were also people who were scared sick by this.

However, the professors repeatedly taught them not to be superstitious, and not to go to the Immortal to ask for a charm to drink, as the charm does not cure the worms in their stomachs, but rather, the more they drink, the more they are likely to get more and more of them.

The concept of hygiene was rooted in their minds along with a pill of worming medicine in their stomachs.

Shi Wuwei was such a person. He used to be thin but thought he was just hungry. To the school after eating the worming medicine discharged the worms only to know that he is so thin because the body has parasites, and parasites are home to eat water and food are unhygienic before running to the stomach.

Shi Wuwei is still recalling sigh: “I was really close to falling into the pit when I saw it.”

Seven or eight hands reached out to beat him.

“Eating!”

“Don’t say it again!”

Shi Wuwei was unconvinced and called out to Su Chunjun, “He was the one who brought up the issue first, so why don’t you beat him up?”

Su Chunjun was so preoccupied with taking care of Ms. Yang in a strange and crowded place, how could he care about his old classmates? A single glance at him was enough.

Most of the other students were buried in their meals, too, and had no time to look away. Only a few people who have a good eye can see that Su Chunjun is taking extra care of the girl beside him, and they have been guessing the relationship between the two of them, from brother and sister, to cousin, to unmarried couple, to young married couple, all over the place.

Alas, after all, it is hard to have pure friendship between men and women in the middle of a college campus. Even teachers and students can’t stop love from arising, not to mention this pair of men and women who are not too different in age.

Besides, Su Chunjun can be called handsome, the girl is also elegant, the two sit close to each other, talking also head to head, to say that these two people do not have a relationship …….

A girl asserted: “Liar! They are definitely related!”

Another boy said: “It’s a love relationship.”

The second boy said, “Is it a pure love relationship?”

The third boy said, “Even if it’s pure now, it won’t be pure for a few years.”

The girl rolled her eyes and the three boys snickered.

But as they looked over together, they also all felt that the fourth one had a point.

Su Chunjun was over twenty, and the girls looked seventeen or eighteen. Even if the girl wasn’t in a hurry, Su Chunjun would be in a hurry.

It’s true that purity can’t last for more than a few years.

Prof. Dai just ate when he got to the table, and was the first one to put down his bowl, and the plate of food in front of him was eaten cleanly, with not even a drop of vegetable soup left.

Yang Yuyan was also almost full, she didn’t have much of an appetite outside and couldn’t eat as freely as she did at home.

Su Chunjun is too skillful, see Yang Yuyan’s bowl bottom still have two mouthfuls of rice, natural to the extreme end over to dial his mouth.

Professor Dai covered his mouth and held back his laughter with difficulty.

The four students just now had already made sure of it.

Boys three: “Already married, right?”

Boys two: “Not married but also certainly already engaged.”

Boy 1: “…… My dad never even eats my mom’s leftovers.”

Girl can’t hide her envy: “They have a good relationship ……”

Soon, the entire table of students understood that the girl Su Chunjun’s classmate had brought was his wife/fiancée.

Shi Wuwei pondered, “Is it better to be called sister-in-law then? Or is it better to be called sister-in-law?”

A girl next to him corrected him, “Neither is good! She has to be addressed as Ms. Yang. This is a school, don’t be as old-fashioned as the people outside, calling a woman must be from the man beside her to be able to call her.”

Shi Wuwei pronounced “Ms. Yang” a few times, but he felt that there might be a misunderstanding at her age.

To avoid Yang Yuyan sitting awkwardly, Prof. Dai talked to her. He did not ask her where she studied, nor did he ask her what she had read, not to mention the question of the test, but like an occasional poetry, began to talk about some of his feelings during this period of time, from a green leaf outside the window in winter, to a small article in the newspaper, or a paragraph of an article, a line of poetry, the sky is the limit, everything.

This kind of cloudy and foggy chatting style, Yang Yuyan was already very accustomed to it. In the past, Zhu Yanshu and Yang Yucan liked to talk like this, and she couldn’t interject while listening from the side; later on, there was Mr. Su, and Mr. Su also chatted with her like this, and she was able to interject all of his words, because most of them were things he had said a few days ago.

What Prof. Dai said, she could pick up 30%, and then slowly became 50%, and when the table was wiped out all the dishes and rice on the table, what Prof. Dai said was already understandable to her.

After the meal, Prof. Dai still took Su Chunjun and Yang Yuyan to the tea room to talk, while the other students spontaneously started to clean up the kitchen.

Professor Dai led them back to the tea room, invited them to sit down, and said to Yang Yuyan, “Today is the first time we’ve met, so I don’t have anything to give you. I have a book, I think it should be something you would like, wait a moment, I’ll go get it.”

Yang Yuyan hurriedly got up to excuse herself, but she didn’t really don’t want it, it’s a normal socialization to receive gifts from elders for the first time, you can’t be too polite. This way, when she comes back to visit next time, she can also bring gifts openly and honestly, this back and forth, the relationship between the two sides will be connected.

She sat down and said, “I wonder what book Professor Dai will give me?”

Not long after, Prof. Dai came back, in his hand was a thin book of poems, he handed it to Yang Yuyan: “This is in Russian, it was published by a Russian publishing house. When we were chatting just now, I thought you liked Pushkin’s poems.”

It’s true that I like it, but it’s in Russian.

Yang Yuyan felt that this book was a bit hot, she knew English and Japanese, but not Russian.

Professor Dai gave Su Chunjun a wink.

Although Su Chunjun sympathized with Yang Yuyan, he smiled gently and said, “It’s okay, I’ll teach you how to read it.”

–He had forgotten that Professor Dai was a very, very strict professor.

A student under him was bound to learn many, many things. This was the way he loved his students, constantly spurring them on, making them keep learning!

Yang Yuyan flipped through this thin – thin book of poems, thinking that even if she read it down, even if it was in Russian, she shouldn’t need to memorize too many words, not to mention that she had already read the English version and the Chinese version, so it wouldn’t be too difficult to cross-reference the three compartments.

So she smiled and said, “Yeah.”