Chapter 146
It was still the daily song and dance in the newspapers.
Prof. Dai was in the habit of reading newspapers, not only Chinese ones, but he used to try to get the English and French ones in the tenement to read – by picking the hotel lobby in the tenement after ten o’clock for coffee and bread, and then he would have a copy of the Post from a week or two weeks ago to read.
Some of the paperboys would come into the school and sell papers. It was a top fat job, mind you! Instead of shouting on the street for half a day and not getting a customer, the well-bred young students who cared about national affairs were very willing to pay one or two cents for a newspaper in the school.
If Prof. Dai got up early in the morning, he went to the street and walked around, and most of the time he could meet the newsboys. He came back with the newspaper, just in time to sit down and eat breakfast.
Nowadays, the breakfast in Little Red House is made by Zhang Ma, and the food is much better than the cafeteria.
Prof. Dai had the pleasure of eating it, and his shirt got tighter.
Shi Wuwei got up even earlier, he went to help Zhang Ma to make breakfast, Zhang Ma likes to ask him to knead the dough.
Zhang Ma smiled and said, “A strong person kneads the noodles well! The noodles are also delicious!”
Yang Yuchan stayed at someone else’s house, so she didn’t want to sleep in, so she woke up early every morning and went to wake up Yang Yuyan.
The two sisters went downstairs together, Yang Yuyan yawned heavily and followed behind Yang Yucan, like an answering machine.
Yang Yuchan said to Prof. Dai: “Prof. Dai, good morning.”
Yang Yuyan: “Ha …… yawn, good morning Professor Dai.”
Professor Dai sat in the morning light, holding a newspaper, looking at this pair of beautiful and lovely sisters, and couldn’t help but be happy from the bottom of his heart. People are always happy when they see beauty. There are many beauties in the world, the beauty of youth, the beauty of character, the beauty of the heart, and so on.
Prof. Dai felt that these two sisters have these three kinds of beauty, they also have the beauty of friendship, the beauty of politeness and the beauty of wisdom.
Yang Yucicang then led Yang Yuyan to the back kitchen to “help” Zhang Ma work.
Prof. Dai sat still and pricked up his ears, and in a short while he heard Zhang Ma’s voice.
Zhang Ma was shouting: “Aigoo, my ladies! Don’t make a mess for me! This place is very dirty, go out, go out, go out, wait for you to eat! This is not your job!”
Probably because her sister said something else, Zhang Ma called out again, “Be nice! Yan Yan, you go lay out the napkins, big sister go set the tableware!”
Only then did the two sisters come out, and today, they were again unsuccessful in working in the kitchen.
In the past, this small red building could only be lively when students came, when he was alone there was no sound at all, except for the sound of turning the pages of a book, or the sound of writing.
He was alone in a foreign country, loneliness and loneliness is understandable, then look forward to returning home soon, back to the home, will no longer lonely.
But finally came back, but found that his hometown is too far away, he wants to show his ambition, to show his strengths, to learn and use, can only stay here.
Already home, but still no home.
Dai Yushu has not experienced the taste of home for a long, long time.
Home is all about noise and clamor. When there are many people, it is easy to quarrel. But it’s all just a little fight, the people who say it don’t care, and the people who listen to it don’t care either.
In a family, people have different temperaments and personalities. There must be a hard-working, there is a lazy; there is a nagging, a child care; a master of the house, a group of only spend only obedient.
He suddenly wanted to write a letter to the young proprietor, to ask how the old proprietor’s health was, how his wife’s health was, and how many books the young master had read. He also wanted to ask how his parents were doing. The youngest brother, Yusheng, how tall has he grown?
Just write back, the young proprietor will write to ask him to marry or not, but also to give him matchmaking, either the grain mill’s Miss or the wine mill’s Miss, alas, think of a headache.
Immersed in his own thoughts, Prof. Dai came back to his senses and saw Yang Yuyan standing beside him, reading the newspaper with her head stretched out.
Professor Dai wanted to laugh at the sight of this lazy child, no other way, reminds him of the young master. Other people think that lazy people are stupid, but it’s actually not so. The lazier the more treacherous, if he is not smart and treacherous, how can he be lazy in a family of hardworking people? Those who can make everyone around them not hate and still continue to be lazy are all smart.
The young proprietor was a shrewd man, and so was the one in front of him.
“Here’s one for you, sit down and read it.” He pulled out a newspaper and gave it to her, shouting for her to pull out a chair and sit down.
Yang Yuyan obediently moved a chair to sit next to Prof. Dai, both hands shook, swished, unfolded the newspaper and read it intently.
When Yang Yuchan came out and was ready to find her together to find something to do in the kitchen again, he saw her sitting in front of Prof. Dai as if she was studying hard, hesitated for a moment, and then decided not to call her. Thirty seconds later, Shi Wuwei helped Yang Yuyan bring over the pot and bowl.
Yang Yuyan, who was reading the newspaper, didn’t even raise her head, but the corners of her mouth hooked up.
Professor Dai smiled and asked her, “What did you see? So pretty?”
Yang Yuyan hurriedly scanned around the newspaper and really let her find one, immediately pointing and saying, “Look, is this person writing about my mom?”
He has already seen that report, although the whole article did not name, but “Ms. Zhu” “lost marriage”, this is really talking about Ms. Zhu.
Nowadays, the literati are learning to be shrewd, afraid of being sued by lawyers and going to the police station for tea and dinner, they refuse to name people right and wrong.
Zhu Yanshu cleaned up and came down from upstairs, a room of people gathered to listen to Yang Yuyan read the newspaper.
Because although this article has some faults, overall it is still complimentary. It was the use of certain words and phrases that made people unhappy.
Yang Yuyan read it and wanted to frown, but Zhang Ma liked it, so she couldn’t show it.
“…… Its not seen the phase of depression and sadness, stuck at home, although there is no female chastity virtue ……” Yang Yuyan luck, his eyebrows twisted into a lump, “However, its courage to explore, still enough to praise.”
After reading and closing the newspaper, she let out a long breath.
Zhang Ma said happily, “Look, how many years has it been, someone finally put in a good word for your mom in this newspaper. In the past, they all spoke in favor of the one surnamed Yang, now there is finally someone speaking in our favor.”
She got up and saw Zhu Yanshu, and was busy reporting the good news: “Miss, come and see, someone praised you in the newspaper!”
After Zhu Yanshu moved out of the Zhu Family Building and moved here, Zhang Ma changed her tone and always put the word “Miss” on her lips.
In the past, it was not good to call her that in the Zhu family building, the neighbors there all know Yang Xuhe, know Zhu Yanshu is a married woman, although divorced, but spittle can drown people, can not give others a little bit of a handle. If Zhu Yanshu had changed her name to unmarried lady, her reputation would have been ruined.
Now that she’s moved, she’s still in school, and Zhang Ma knows that the students are the boldest of the bold, and they don’t look at married women or married men, and they take elopement as a meal every day in pursuit of love. She was not used to seeing this group of students, but she felt that this was a good opportunity for Zhu Yanshu.
So, she changed her words first, slowly letting everyone know that Ms. Zhu was a single person and could be pursued!
Zhu Yanshu is also more happy to be Miss Zhu, not Mrs. Yang, in the past in the Zhu family building, there is that ungrateful people call her “Mrs. Yang”, every time she heard that she had to roll her eyes.
She walked over and said with a smile, “What is it? Let me see.”
She picked up the newspaper and with a glance, quickly scanned through the piece and threw it down with a smile, “But it’s just making a play out of me, let’s just eat breakfast first.”
Miss Zhu also got up, then breakfast could be opened.
If Miss Zhu didn’t get up, it would be useless if the whole family got up, Zhang Ma would never set food on the table.
The noodles kneaded by Shi Wuwei were indeed delicious, sinewy and chewy.
Not that the noodles made by Zhang Ma in the past weren’t good, but there was really no way to compare.
Yang Yuyan ate the thin noodles in her bowl, worrying that Su Chunjun would not have anything to eat at Zhu Jia Lou. Alas, even if there is something for sale outside, how could it be so coincidental that there is a stall every time? Besides, there are only a few things on the stall, you will get tired of them.
Zhu Yanshu still has the same yellow fish noodles.
Little Red House’s meat and vegetables are all purchased by the school cafeteria and then sent to the school cafeteria is not only for the students to eat, but also professors and principals, and some important people, such as Japanese professors.
So there were all kinds of meat, and fish of course.
When Zhang Ma learned of this, she immediately had the cafeteria send fish over every day! It didn’t cost a dime! Zhang Ma thought it was too cheap to let people buy two or three fish, so she asked for a pot.
Therefore, in addition to Zhu Yanshu, there are two more people who can eat yellow fish noodles on the table.
One is to eat all kinds of fresh Yang Yuyan, there is a big contributor, on behalf of the professor, after all, is to borrow his face to bring the fish, do not have others out of the share is not appropriate.
Yang Yuchan can eat anything, not picky and do not raise the requirements, Shi Wuwei even more will not mention, so the two of them and Zhang Ma are eating the simplest shredded pork noodles, tenderloin cut into shredded pork fried in lard, put on the noodles, very fragrant.
Prof. Dai could finish a bowl of yellow fish noodles and another bowl of shredded meat noodles every day.
After eating breakfast, not too busy to get off the table, Zhang Ma and will be fruit snacks and so on up, let everyone continue to sit and chat, now this house has too many people in common, every day chat enough.
Yang Yuyan followed her sister to help bring a plate of melon seeds, sat down and clicked on it, and also Shi Wuwei, Professor Dai and Zhang Ma grabbed a handful.
Yang Yucan used a small knife to peel an apple and glared at her.
Yang Yuyan immediately looked for a topic to come out and asked Zhu Yanshu, “Mom, I see that you don’t really like that article either.”
Zhu Yan Shu laughed: “Little wit, that person is giving me a ladder, be careful that if you go up, you won’t be able to come down.”
Yang Yuyan brought the newspaper over again, nitpicking word by word and sentence by sentence, as if every sentence in the article pissed her off, the people at the table were made to laugh and all looked at her.
Zhang Ma laughed and said, “Little thing, you’re talking nonsense again, what do you care if what they say is right or wrong? It’s fine if they can help us speak.” Although she didn’t understand, she felt that what Yang Yuyan said was definitely better and more correct than this author.
Yang Yu Cicada felt that Yang Yu Yan was showing off and playing smart, but Zhu Yan Shu and Prof. Dai both accused her, so she couldn’t speak up and could only quietly glare at Yang Yu Yan from the side, making her wary.
Zhu Yanshu also brought the newspaper over, pointing at Yang Yucan: “Big sister look at this sentence, you all, ah, give me to remember, this word is the most pitiful.”
Yang Yucan was blocked from seeing and couldn’t transmit any more airwaves, so she could only look down at the newspaper, seeing Zhu Yanshu pointing to the word “celebrity”, she wondered, “What’s wrong with this word?”
In the article, Zhu Yanshu was called a “famous woman”, there is nothing wrong with it. In terms of family background, education, character and cultivation, Zhu Yanshu is worthy of all of them.
Zhu Yan Shu laughed: “You also see what kind of talent can be a famous woman?” She counted on her hand, “I don’t know. She counted on her fingers, “The first one, the family should be good, parents are famous, the family is a government official, but also very rich.” She said, “The second rule is to marry a good husband who has a good reputation. It’s not good enough to be rich alone, that’s called being a profiteer. Poor students even more can not, poor teaching also can not, small businessman do not even have to mention, not the general character, can not be counted!”
Prof. Dai laughed on the side.
Zhu Yan Shu said with a smile, “Married, but also filial piety in-laws, harmonious sisters-in-law, children, top good children!” She sneered, “Finally, one must also be passionate about causes, care for the public welfare and the poor, and also look as beautiful as a flower, have good manners, and be fluent in a few foreign languages.” She spread her hands, “Where is this celebrity? This is the whole person!”
Professor Dai couldn’t stop himself from laughing, he was busy covering his mouth and coughed a little.
Zhu Yanshu glanced at him and said to the two sisters, “Look at this, is such a person something a mere mortal can do?” She waved a hand, “There are some little girls out there who specialize in staring at prestigious men and jumping on them regardless of whether or not they have wives and children, and it’s not because these famous women have brought a bad head?” She said to the two sisters, “You two don’t follow the example of such people, if someone calls you a famous woman, don’t listen to them, it’s all going to tire you out!”