Chapter 160
At five o’clock in the morning, Yang Yuchan woke up Yang Yuyan for morning reading, and the two sisters stood on the balcony, each practicing their phrases.
Yang Yuyan was yawning, while mechanically chanting “You’re perfect, he’s perfect, she’s perfect” in Russian. After practicing Russian, she practiced French.
Yang Yuchan practiced Japanese next to her. Considering the fact that there will soon be a group of Japanese students in the school, and we may become classmates, Yang Yuchan was deeply concerned that her Japanese language was not solid enough, and she was afraid that she would not understand what her Japanese classmates said, which would affect her communication, so she started to give herself extra lessons now.
After practicing for an hour, the two sisters were called down by Zhang Ma to wash their faces and brush their teeth.
Zhang Ma smiled and said, “Come down quickly, Big Head cooked some wontons this morning.”
Shi Wuwei’s big ravioli with vegetables and meat was a masterpiece, and he could already be a master. Although the skin was still a bit thick, but from kneading the dough to chopping the filling to wrapping it to seasoning it, there was no need for Zhang Ma to intervene. So as long as he makes wontons, Zhang Ma can be lazy and enjoy the leisure.
Yang Yuyan heard this and said, “Did Zhang Ma roll the skin or did he?”
Yang Yuchan said, “I can’t stop eating. Go back and change your clothes.”
Yang Yuyan got up too early, the belly sound like a drum, also can not care about the thickness of the wonton skin, hurriedly wash up and ran down to eat breakfast.
It was only seven in the morning.
When Yang Yuyan saw the time, she said: “It’s too early to get up. Sister, can you not come to call me so early next time?”
Yang Yuchan ignored her and saw that Shi Wuwei didn’t come over to eat, so she said, “I’m going to call out to Mr. Shi, you’re not allowed to eat first!”
Yang Yuyan put down her spoon and looked at her with eager eyes, “Then you go quickly.”
A while later, Yang Yuchan came back and asked Zhang Ma, “Where did Shi go? Why isn’t he in the kitchen?”
Zhang Ma said, “Why isn’t he there? Wasn’t he there?”
Yang Yuchan: “There’s no one there.”
Zhang Ma realized on second thought that Shi Wuwei was probably bashful. Being told what was on his mind, he was embarrassed.
She also felt a bit guilty, so she covered up for Shi Wuwei and said, “Probably went out to get firewood, you guys eat first. You don’t have to wait for your mom and Prof. Dai, they came back late from the meeting last night. Eat, I’ll put down another pot for the three of them later.”
Yang Yu Yan and Yang Yu Cicada then ate first. After the two finished eating, they were still not allowed to be idle. Yang Yuchan pulled her to continue to memorize words in the living room, this time memorizing French, Yang Da Jiao said thoughtfully: “For you to change your brain, only memorizing Russian is too monotonous, the brain will get numb.”
Yang Yuyan was deadpan: “Do you want me to say thank you?”
The two of them studied seriously for another hour, Prof. Dai and Zhu Yanshu both got up, the two of them came downstairs one after another, as soon as they saw the sound of books downstairs, Prof. Dai laughed, “Seeing this scene in the morning, it really lifts one’s spirits. Yan Yan is really diligent.”
Yang Yuyan was very happy to be praised, the resentment of waking up early to memorize books was swept away, but also more energetic, enthusiastically said, “Professor, is my pronunciation accurate?”
Having not practiced for many days, of course it was not quite accurate.
However, Prof. Dai would not hit her face to face for fear that she would lose her motivation to study, and turned to ask, “Where’s Wuwei? Why isn’t he studying with you guys?”
Yang Yuyan said, “He was the one who made breakfast in the morning, we all ate, and he didn’t know where he went.”
Zhang Ma said Shi Wuwei went to carry firewood and didn’t come back after carrying it for an hour, this is now going to the mountains to cut firewood, right?
People will not be lost in the school, on behalf of the professor asked a question and put it down first, turned to wash up.
Zhang Ma rushed to go down the ravioli.
Wonton down good, Zhu Yanshu also got up, yawning downstairs, saw Zhang Ma said: “Zhang Ma, give me a cup of coffee.”
Professor Dai came over and said, “Zhang Ma is busy, I’ll make it. I also need a cup, I slept too late last night, I don’t have much energy in the morning, I probably can’t top it off without coffee.”
Professor Dai went to boil water and pick the beans, and before long, the coffee scent filled the living room.
Zhu Yanshu went to wash up and came back, a cup of fragrant coffee and a pot of milk were already on the table, as well as Yang Yuyan’s cookies – a gift from Su Chunjun.
Zhu Yanshu sat down to drink the coffee and eat the cookies.
Yang Yuyan brightly put down her books and ran over to ask, “Mom, who did you and the professor go to last night? How was the chat? Why did you come back so late?”
Zhu Yanshu put down her coffee cup and said with a smile, “I looked for a few professors and went to visit my new Japanese colleagues, where I drank their tea, which is why I came back late. Alas, Japanese people are so tired of talking in a roundabout way.”
Yang Yuyan on the church girls in the middle school only nuns, her understanding of the Japanese are on the surface, now there is a living Japanese around, it is difficult to resist the curiosity.
She urged Zhu Yanshu: “Mom, tell me more, what are the Japanese like?”
Zhu Yanshu: “Just like that. After a while, you’ll know, those Japanese teachers have a lot of heart. They’ll have to give you lessons before they’ll let Japanese students come to our classes.”
Mr. Yamamoto spoke as if the Japanese were eager to make friends with the Chinese, but the attitude of the Japanese teachers indicated that they were actually very wary of the Chinese as well.
Zhu Yan Shu and Prof. Dai both approached the principal and called in a few more professors, and after discussing it, they all agreed that instead of letting the students try out the Japanese students, they should just open up this opening and put them in a classroom together. That way there are teachers watching so that things don’t go wrong.
Otherwise, things like what happened in front of the Japanese building yesterday could easily happen again.
Speaking of this, Zhu Yanshu smiled and touched Yang Yuyan’s small head, “I heard that you did a big thing yesterday.”
Yang Yuyan had a sincere face, “Mom, what did you say?”
Zhu Yanshu looked at Yang Yucan. As a result, her eldest daughter also avoided her gaze this time, pretending to go upstairs and ran away first, clutching her textbooks.
The simple eldest daughter had also learned from the bad.
Zhu Yanshu smiled and said, “It was your professor Dai who saw through you.”
Yang Yuyan instantly twisted her head to look at Professor Dai.
Professor Dai was sitting across the table and had been drinking coffee and reading the newspaper as if he was an outsider. Seeing that the topic had burned onto him, he put down the newspaper and said mildly to Yang Yuyan, “Yan Yan, do you know where you broke yesterday?”
Yang Yuyan is still seriously playing dumb: “What break? Professor Dai, I can’t understand what you guys are saying.”
Professor Dai smiled and said, “You are not going to work on your own accord.”
Yang Yuyan was stunned.
Zhu Yan Shu: “Get it? Your sister and Shi Wuwei don’t have as many ideas as you do, the most they can do is to go up and persuade people to either pull them away or drive them away. And you would actually break the mold and run to help clean up the table that was crashed by the crate truck, which is very unlike you. Say, are you such a hard worker? Do you love labor so much? How many times have you cleaned the classroom hygiene?”
Yang Yuyan speculated on the tone and look of her own mother and the Acting Professor, and cautiously remained silent at first.
Zhang Ma, who had been listening for half a day, understood and joked, “Yan Yan, in all your life, you’ve only helped me wipe the table twice after you were discharged from the hospital.”
It could be seen how rare the number of times Yang Yuyan’s classmates had labored in order to make it fresh in everyone’s mind.
Yang Yuyan thought for a moment and said righteously, “I’m also considering the impact. At that time, in that situation, we couldn’t let them continue to give speeches there ah, if Sis and Shi Wuwei went up to persuade them, they might not be able to persuade the people to come down. That’s why I said to either scare them.”
Pushing the crate carrying pigweed and pretending to lose control of the car and crashing through it, the speakers and onlookers all dispersed in time. Then it crashed through the tables and chairs and no one gave any more speeches.
What a good thing, a storm was wiped out just like that.
Zhu Yanshu smiled and said: ”So, mom is not criticizing you. You made the right judgment at the time and did it in time.” She pointed at Professor Dai and said, “Your Professor Dai is also just teaching you how to act more like that next time.”
Professor Dai also smiled and said, “Next time, remember to be more in line with what you’ve always done so that the cracks are gone.”
Yang Yuyan thought deeply for a moment and couldn’t believe it, “…… Could it be that you guys are praising me?”
Impossible, right?
Professor Dai said, “It’s just complimenting you. Doing things in a small way, this is your merit, to carry forward ah.”
Yang Yuyan still couldn’t believe it.
Zhu Yanshu: “I won’t lie to you. The Japanese teacher is going to give you a lesson soon, and there will be more situations during the lesson. You’ll have to see what happens then.”
Yang Yuyan was terrified, “Rely on me? Can I do it?”
Prof. Dai comforted her, “There won’t be any big problems. You’ll understand once you’ve attended the Japanese teachers’ classes, there will be no conflicts in class, and this can be completely trusted to the Japanese teachers. The problem is in the classroom.”
Yang Yuyan seemed to understand.
It wasn’t until she went to the Japanese teacher’s class that she understood what Prof. Dai and Zhu Yanshu meant.
A Japanese teacher stood on the podium, and as soon as he went up, he first stood upright, bowed ninety degrees deep to the classroom full of students, and said in his not-so-smooth Chinese, “Hello everyone, I’m Kobayashi Masatoku, and you can call me Mr. Kobayashi, and I’m in charge of the curriculum education of Japanese history. Please give me your guidance!”
Some of the students in the classroom had come with hostility, but this Kobayashi was too polite, speaking in Chinese as much as possible, and apologizing from time to time, “I’m sorry, my Chinese isn’t very good, so I’m sorry for the trouble I’ve caused you all”. If a student asks a question or interrupts him, he stops the lecture immediately and listens to the student’s question very carefully, no matter how strange or out of place the question is, he listens to it very carefully and answers it very carefully.
Including some students who asked him questions about the emperor, his answers were also very serious and earnestly divisive.
He answered, “Yes, the Emperor is a great man,” and at the same time, “Yes, the Shogun has always had more power than the Emperor.
He kept saying, “I came to China to tell you about the real Japan, so please believe me”.
Since he really didn’t look like a slippery person, and he did answer everyone’s questions seriously, it forced the students to curb their hostility, and even those who had intentionally caused trouble at the beginning were silenced in such an atmosphere.
For the last fifteen minutes, everyone was quiet and listened to this Kobayashi’s lesson.
When the class ended, this Kobayashi was surprisingly moved to once again say to everyone “Thank you for your cooperation, I am very grateful that you have given me this opportunity to let me give you a lesson, thank you!”
Then, there was another deep bow.
When Yang Yuyan saw the expressions of the people around her, she knew that if all the Japanese teachers had this kind of attitude, it would not be long before everyone accepted them.