Chapter 120
Prof. Dai and Shi Wuwei sat at the Zhu family’s breakfast table for the first time. Both of them were not here for the first time, but it was the first time they saw the bowls on the Zhu family’s breakfast table.
Exquisite, small.
Outside the colorful paintings, the inner lines of gold, a small bowl, not like eating utensils, but like a plaything.
Shi Wuwei shocked, he stared at the small bowl in front of him, which is loaded with a mouthful of noodles, began to get nervous!
He ate noodles are bite by bite shivering! I heard that rich people eat noodles one by one, so is it true?
Next to Professor Dai is much more calm, but also talk to Su Chunjun next to him: “Zhongyong, you come over for breakfast every day, are used to it, right?”
Su Chunjun smiled and said, “We’re all family now, so I’m not polite.”
Zhu Yanshu saw that the tableware had been changed, and knew that Zhang Ma didn’t want to make any more effort to cook, so she fooled around. Of course, she can’t tear down her own family, holding a small side of the bowl, crossed her fingers, smilingly greeted: “Don’t be polite, eat ah, if you don’t have enough to eat, there are still buns.”
Shi Wuwei will cast his eyes on a small plate of buns in front of Yang Yuyan, that small a dish, square inches big, put two buns is not as big as an apricot.
This bun, he didn’t know how to eat it.
He is sure to be able to bite one, but …… in case people eat this bun and pay attention to it?
Shi Wuwei really helpless, can not help but learn from the “Dream of the Red Chamber” Lin Mei to, only the eyes to others to see, see how the sisters are eating, he followed the example of the gourd then.
Yang Yuyan took another plate, and Su Chunjun poured a few drops of vinegar and a few drops of sesame oil on it for her. Yang Yuyan picked up a bun, gently dipped it, put it to her mouth, blew on it, bit …… it to open a mouth, and sucked the juice inside.
Oh, this bun originally want to eat so ah.
They do not have a person in front of a dish of two buns, but in the middle of a large plate, put the appearance of ten buns, the middle of the two dishes, a pouring vinegar, a pouring soy sauce.
At first glance, very nice.
But Shi Wuwei sighed darkly at the ten buns.
He could eat them all by himself.
But now that three people were sharing, how was this going to be divided?
Su Chunjun sat next to Yang Yuyan, on the opposite side. Shi Wuwei and Professor Dai sat on the other side, and the three of them looked at each other, with that right there in the middle of the table on that plate.
Su Chunjun smiled, first let the guest, to be Shi Wuwei on when to raise the chopsticks, Su Chunjun quickly and accurately hold a bun stuffed in the mouth.
Shi Wuwei stared at this familiar teacher and brother, the two were in the same school for several years, the past is vivid, at this time one by one recalled, adding to the feelings.
–This is a bad guy ah.
Dai Yushu took advantage of the two brothers to fight the eyeball battle, he himself one bun one bun eating, slowly and methodically, the movement is not fast and not slow, between the immobility, five buns down the belly.
After all, he had already eaten breakfast, and eating this meal again would be just a taste. Now that the five small buns had been eaten, he was already satisfied.
“You guys eat, you eat too.” He said to the two students.
Shi Wuwei turned his head to look at Professor Dai, adding infinite emotions to his heart.
Professor Dai softly facetiously said, “You know what? In foreign schools, it’s all buffets. Just like this one, a large plate is placed on the table, and you go over and get it yourself. Moreover, there is definitely not enough food, so you must be quick and decisive.”
Shi Wuwei was shocked, “Don’t they give enough school cafeteria food in foreign countries?”
In his young mind, he was not immune to the filter of a fuller moon in foreign countries. His own family lack of food and clothing, foreign countries certainly food are piled up into a mountain ah, not so how can you call it a foreign country.
Shi Wuwei is very puzzled.
Professor Dai shook his head and said with certainty, “It’s not enough.”
Su Chunjun ate the buns and said, “The main thing is that the things they have there, we are not used to eating.”
The above two people both had experience studying abroad, and their words caught the attention of the entire table.
Zhu Yanshu was also curious, she didn’t go to study abroad back then not because of the objective reasons such as Zhu Laozi’s feudalism or her family’s lack of money, but because the school Zhu Laozi went to, only accepted male students.
Zhu Yanshu also felt that the moon was rounder in foreign countries when she was a teenager, but when she learned that foreign schools did not accept female students at all, she felt that the world was as black as a crow.
She asked, “Then what do you eat over there?”
Dai Yushu said, “The English eat very poorly, especially in the schools; perhaps they are afraid that the male students will get into trouble if they eat too much. The staples are bread, potatoes, and corn, and there’s plenty of meat, but it’s all poorly cooked.”
He ate roasted pigeons, roasted swans, and roasted any other birds of prey he could catch on the lake.
That school had easy access to □□□ and bows and arrows in the boys’ dormitories because of the traditional sport of fox hunting. He had learned archery with the young master back then, not realizing that after running away to England, he had fed his stomach with this. It is evident that there is no limit to the number of arts.
Su Chunjun also confirmed that the food in the cafeteria was indeed not good.
Yang Yuyan curiously asked, “Then what did you do then? Go outside the school to eat?”
Su Chunjun shook his head and said, “The school’s location is very remote, and there aren’t as many stores and vendors selling food over there as we have here. Their stores are all concentrated on one street, and there are none near the school.”
And his solution was this: spill money.
There were many students like Su Chunjun who couldn’t get used to eating in the school cafeteria, ah, how could those pampered young masters and young lords at home get used to the same old food in the cafeteria?
The way they do it is to pay a maid or manservant to go to the kitchen to get some snacks or something, and come back to open a small stove.
There were also those who brought their own cooks, and those were big nobles.
Su Chunjun also brought a servant into the school, the food is not accustomed to, then shell out money to buy their own favorite ah, although this side of the chef will not do Chinese food, but occasionally customized one or two of his favorite food, but it is also very easy to do.
Prof. Dai was ashamed of himself, “Oh, so that’s how it is.”
Shi Wuwei was shocked, alarmed, and disturbed.
Prof. Dai knew him well enough to know that he could neither learn from Su Chunjun to spill money, nor could he have his guts to dare to catch the school’s animals for wild sacrifices, so he could only say, “Just get used to it.”
He patted Shi Wuwei’s back and comforted him, “After you get used to it, you’ll think that baked potatoes with cream isn’t a bad meal either.”
Shi Wuwei knew about cream, but he didn’t understand how that sweet stuff could be associated with baked potatoes.
He was at a loss.
Su Chunjun followed and hit him with, “The food over there is basically everything boiled in butter, baked in butter, and fried in butter. It’s not really that bad to eat, but I think you might need to bring a box of chili peppers over there.”
Shi Wuwei was even more alarmed, “Don’t people over there eat spicy food?”
Su Chunjun: “It’s different from what you eat.”
After breakfast, Shi Wuwei just ate a bun, but felt that he was already full.
Professor Dai had to go back to class, so he left Shi Wuwei behind, telling Yang Yuyan, “Wuwei is going to study abroad, but he definitely won’t be used to going out like this.”
Yang Yuyan was very much in love with her classmate and nodded her head, “Then I’ll give him more encouragement and let him have more confidence.”
Professor Dai shook his head, “No, you just hit him like yesterday, the harder the better.”
Yang Yuyan was shocked.
Prof. Dai: “If he can’t get over it, then give up the idea before it’s too late. If he gets over it, then he’ll feel that things aren’t that hard when he gets out.”
Yang Yuyan agreed with sympathy for Shi Wuwei in her heart.
Professor Dai smiled and asked her, “I heard Wuwei say that you’ve been studying French recently? Are there any difficulties?”
Yang Yuyan said sincerely, “Are all French people particularly good at math?”
Is that number pronouncing method of theirs meant to torture people?
Professor Dai knew where she was stuck as soon as he heard it and said with a smile, “No, actually the French aren’t very good at math, at least the few I’ve encountered are very bad. I guess it’s because it’s too hard, so they simply don’t learn it properly.”
Yang Yuyan, who was a scum, believed it as soon as she heard it.
Professor Dai added, “There were two Frenchmen in my dorm room back then, and every time I played cards I could beat them by at least twenty dollars.” He held up two fingers and shook them proudly, instructing Yang Yuyan, “You can find French people to play cards after you learn French, they can’t even count the points, so it’s especially easy to pit them.”
With the ideal (?) of being able to go pitting in the future, Yang Yuyan finally took a look at the French. , Yang Yuyan finally raised her confidence in charging the French numbers again.
Su Chunjun also went to work, and before he left, out of friendship with his classmates, he quietly taught Shi Wuwei where to find a cookie box if he was hungry.
Su Chunjun: “Actually, the best time is to wait for Yan Yan to eat, you follow along, but it’s best to eat just one piece, then Zhang Ma won’t be angry.”
Shi Wuwei tells him to get lost.
Su Chunjun even taught him before he left the house, “Yan Yan will definitely eat the cookies after breakfast, just wait.”
Shi Wuwei: “Get lost, I think my senior sister still can’t marry a bad guy like you.”
He threw Su Chunjun out the door and came back to see Yang Yuyan and Yang Yucan already sitting in the living room where the sunlight is the best, and on the coffee table in front of the two sisters were books and notebooks, as well as a cookie box.
Second Miss Yang opened the cookie box, biting a piece in her own mouth and letting her sister.
Yang Yu Cicada inclined her head to avoid her enthusiastic sister, “I’m not eating, I just had breakfast and you’re eating cookies.”
Yang Yuyan: “Biscuits are sweet, eat something sweet to finish off the meal. Wuwei, you eat too.”
With a swish, the cookie box was raised in front of him.
Shi Wuwei felt a pair of eyes behind him staring at his back, he looked back, Zhang Ma smilingly stood there: “Shi students, do you drink tea?”
Shi Wuwei shook his head, “No, no.”
The enthusiastic Yang Yuyan still stuffed a cookie into Shi Wuwei’s hand to accompany her so that she would not be lonely.
Then the enthusiastic discussion started again.
The two sisters continued to quarrel following the tail of yesterday’s discussion.
Shi Wuwei listened from the side as the two sisters finally disagreed at the end of yesterday’s discussion.
Yang Yu Yan thought that the way out for women now was for the bottom women to start changing.
Yang Yuchan thought that the way out for women was for the upper class women to start fighting for power in order to change the current situation of women’s lives today.
Yang Yuyan shakes her head, “There is no passage at all between the upper and lower class women. It’s not like women can take the imperial examinations like men, and besides, there are no imperial examinations now. Take you and me as an analogy, the living conditions that you and I can get, Wu Xiaoping can’t get. This is the dividend brought to us by class, which not all women can enjoy. So if they want to change their fate, they can only start with themselves themselves.”
Yang Yuchan can’t say that about Yang Yuyan. She said that women can actively participate in social activities and fight for their voices. Yang Yuyan then said that the most important task for women at the bottom of the social ladder is to fill their stomachs and have a job to earn money, and it would be great if the job is not cheap and nasty, but can also improve their social status.
Yang Yuyan: “Don’t make it difficult for them to make their voices heard. Unless they have some unfortunate story to tell that can be written up in the newspaper, it’s not their turn to make their voices heard. As for participating in social activities, not to mention the big ones, even opening a store requires capital and skills, and they can’t participate in bigger social activities, that’s all men’s work.”
Yang Yuchan: “We can fight for it! We can do the same work as men, we need to let people know that women are not inferior compared to men.”
Yang Yuyan: “The status quo is that women are only hired when men can’t be hired to do the work, and the wages are reduced accordingly. So the point is not to go into a war of words with men, but to try to develop jobs that women can participate in.”
The two sisters were talking back and forth.
Shi Wuwei, facing two women, was self-conscious that he was alone and shouldn’t speak up, so he listened quietly. He felt that both sisters were right, Yang Yucicang advocated for voice, Yang Yuyan advocated for practicality, and the combination of the two was even better.
But the two tigers threatened, he only dared to observe, dare not speak out ah.
When they were thirsty, he brought a kettle and poured tea.
Zhang Ma from the kitchen to see this scene, Fang satisfied nodding, no longer staring at that side of the look.