Chapter 144
Zhu Yanshu’s first class took two weeks to prepare.
She didn’t want to talk about some broad things, say some plausible reasoning. But she couldn’t decide where the scale should be. If she spoke shallowly, the students would look down on her and think that she was not real; if she spoke deeply, she would easily get herself into trouble.
So she wrote several versions of her lesson plan and asked Prof. Dai and Yang Yuyan to help her listen to it and see how it went.
Even Zhang Ma was invited over to sit and listen together.
Zhang Ma had never been to school, nor had she ever listened to a lesson, she couldn’t read, but she could do the math very quickly, faster than Yang Yuchan could even dial the abacus.
She sat on the chair and said, “Ouch, what do you want me to listen to? What do I know?”
Zhu Yanshu didn’t let her go and said, “Yan Yan hold down Zhang Ma! Zhang Ma, you help me listen to it, I’m very nervous now, you help me listen to it, see how it works.”
Yang Yuyan also said, “Mrs. Zhang, Li Bai always asked Big Mother to listen to his poems, saying that only when Big Mother understands them can others understand them. Just help my mom.”
As soon as she said that, Shi Wuwei asked curiously, “Which piece of wild history was this written down? Or was it fabricated by later generations?”
Yang Yuyan was surprised, how come there is no such story now? Obviously she was touched by this story for a long time when she was a child.
“Maybe I read it somewhere, I don’t remember.” She muddled through.
Zhu Yanshu waited for the people underneath to finish chatting, Professor Dai sat on the side of the first row and “quietly” advised her: “You have to be more powerful, and when you see the people underneath talking, you have to stop them. Use the whip to knock on the table.”
Zhu Yanshu suddenly realized, and immediately struck the table with the whip, and it snapped!
Yang Yuyan and Shi Wuwei hurriedly sat up straight.
Zhu Yanshu greeted everyone with a serious face and turned around to write her name on the blackboard, one stroke of the brush, a matchless style.
Professor Dai thought to himself, so it turns out that Miss Zhu practiced the Liu character.
“Hello everyone, today I will be the one to teach you.” Zhu Yanshu didn’t dare to smile for fear of being underestimated by the students, and said with a stern face, “I’m afraid that everyone has heard of my name long ago, and even if you haven’t heard of it, I’m sure you know my story. But today is a class, if the class goes well, at the end of the class I will leave five minutes for everyone to ask me questions, I will know everything and say everything, never hide anything.”
Professor Dai nodded his head below.
Everyone thought that once Zhu Yanshu stepped into the lecture hall, there was no way to avoid her old affair with Yang Xuhe, and the students were bound to talk about it, and there were bound to be people asking questions in class.
Dai Yushu has been a professor for many years, dealing with students is very good, he said that you can not stop the students to ask questions, they are not asked in class, but also will be discussed in class, when the students began to be interested in the teacher’s privacy, his fear of the teacher will be reduced and disappear.
So, you can’t avoid it, but you have to take the direction and turn passive into active.
And now that women’s activities are in full swing, women’s power is also a trendy and popular topic.
Zhu Yanshu becoming a professor in a woman’s body was an eye-catching event in itself.
In the past, it was Yang Xuhe who occupied the right to speak, he would say black is white, and Zhu Yanshu couldn’t refute it.
Now that she stepped onto the podium, she had the same power as Yang Xuhe! She could finally speak out and sweep away the words that were not in her favor!
When there was only one voice, people could only listen to one person. When there were two voices, people had a choice, and while there were certainly people who would believe Yang Xuhe, there were also people who would believe Zhu Yanshu.
Dai Yushu said, “For the first lesson, you have to nip these hidden dangers in the bud! As long as the first shot is good, there will be hundreds of people who will speak up for you in the future. Yang Xuhe’s gang will never want to use you and the Yang sisters again.”
Zhu Yan Shu hesitantly stood on the podium.
The first lesson she chose was not aimed at love and marriage, which everyone was concerned about nowadays; she focused on women’s self-knowledge.
Who are you really?
And, what kind of person do you want to be?
Many girls are hit by the wave of the old and the new, they long to change their destiny and get out of the house, but where do they go afterward?
They don’t know, and no one tells them.
So many women can only walk out and then walk back, at least there is a living road, although full of shackles, but at least it is a living road.
There was no way out, it was the same as a dead end.
When the day came, the classroom was packed, and many others stood at the door of the classroom to watch.
The principal and the acting professors all came to help, and all the other professors in the school who could came also came, some of them were curious, some watched, and some just didn’t care.
The Yang Yuyan sisters and Shi Wuwei all sat in the first row so that they could be the first to assist and help wish Yan Shu a successful lesson.
The classroom was half male and half female, there were more male students, but the female students were all the girls from the entire school, and they all sat in the front row.
Zhu Yanshu was wearing delicate makeup, a cool silk cheongsam, and curled her hair, standing on the podium in a graceful manner.
Her outfit was really unexpected.
It wasn’t that women couldn’t dress themselves up, but the female students in the school were still mainly plain.
When everyone saw such a female professor, they instantly talked about it, and buzzes rose under the podium.
Zhu Yanshu already doesn’t have stage fright after two weeks of exercise.
With Yang Yuyan, the barbarian, plus the help of Prof. Dai, she had already been through a hundred battles and would never be nervous on the podium again!
She smiled and said, ”Oh, I see so many people who are unimpressed, so many people with surprised faces. It seems the newspapers have a point; a woman’s sleeve an inch shorter, a few curls in her hair, and whether or not she’s wearing stockings are bigger than the sky, and are enough to make everyone in the audience as surprised as if they were on pins and needles.”
This was Yang Yuyan’s first bar, and because she hit the nail on the head, she was complimented by Prof. Dai, who said that she could write editorials and would surely be a hit.
If there was an American word for “political correctness” at this time, it would be “fuss”. This is especially true in the world of schools and literati. If you want to debate someone, just criticize them for “making a fuss”.
A woman’s sleeve is an inch shorter? What’s so surprising about that? What’s the big surprise?
Women don’t wear pants anymore? What’s the surprise? Big surprise!
Adults, the country is broken, the emperor has run away, the Eight-Power Allied Forces have attacked, how many big events are not enough for you to worry about, and you are “fussing” over such trivial matters every day, what’s it like?
If you add “women”, then even more can not make a fuss. Once someone makes a fuss over a woman, it means that the person’s vision is narrow and his character is not good; otherwise, why would he focus on “women”?
The country, the army, the people, the food …… have so many big things not to care, but to stare at women?
Zhu Yan Shu said, the buzz inside the classroom instantly disappeared.
Prof. Dai laughed: “No, no. I think Professor Zhu is quite good like this. Everyone says right?”
He intentionally turned around and asked, and was rewarded with a mountainous chorus of “Yes!” .
The principal also laughed with the other professors around him, “Prof. Zhu is as beautiful as a flower, has a high moral character, and is very knowledgeable.”
The other professors laughed together, “Yes, yes.”
–Those who dare to say no will have to go up for a debate. If you win, you are bullying the female professors invited by the president, and your brain is in the water; if you lose, you will be even more embarrassed.