Chapter 52

The first experience with the Russian language was still a happy one.

After the meal that night, Yang Yuyan sat in the living room with her mother and sister, and Mr. Su took her to read Pushkin in Russian.

Then she kept making gurgling sounds.

She even laughed and picked up the scarf next to her and put it over her mouth, saying, “I think Russian sounds like the sound of a covered mouth, so it might be easier to learn.”

Su Chunjun and Zhu Yanshu both laughed, not angry that she was joking about learning, because it would be unlikely that she would be able to learn so happily in the future.

Zhu Yanshu has learned Russian, but that was only when she was a child, and then she stopped torturing herself, and now she has forgotten almost everything, and even some common chats are not guaranteed to go on, knowing that when she learned Russian, she was able to have a conversation with the white Russian maid in her house, from waking up to good night, and occasionally she could also chat about her hometown, and her vocabulary was the richest, and she was definitely the most familiar with grammar, and her intonation was the best. She had the best vocabulary, the best knowledge of grammar, and the best intonation.

Nowadays,……, you can barely order a meal in a Russian restaurant.

Su Chunjun’s age is a little younger, so forget not much, and he is into the university and then more systematic learning again, now it is the best time to remember, he first read once in Russian, and then say once in Chinese, a little bit of the author’s age and the situation of the Russian society at that time, and then read once in Russian, the attitude of the lecture is both relaxed and serious.

However, when he read in Russian, Ms. Yang always laughed. When she laughed, he also laughed with her, and after the two of them laughed together for a while, it was hard for him to continue speaking.

The one who was dumbfounded was Yang Yucan, who was watching Yang Yuyan in class for the first time.

She asked Zhang Ma, “Is Yan Yan always like this in class?”

Zhang Ma had seen it so many times that she wasn’t surprised and said, “No? She laughs when Mr. Su speaks foreign languages, she also laughs when she speaks Japanese, when the two of them write together, she laughs when she writes, that time I saw her writing Chinese characters in Japanese, she laughed so hard that she couldn’t even write, when I asked her what she was laughing at, she said that Japanese call their daughters mother!” Zhang Ma frowned, “Do you think this little Japanese has a bad brain? How can he call his daughter his mother?”

Yang Yucan held back until the evening reading of Russian poems was over and Teacher Su excused herself and left, only then did she remind Yang Yuyan, “You can’t laugh in class when you go to class, it’s not polite.”

Yang Yuyan stared at her, “Sister, how stupid do you think I am? I only dared to do this to Mr. Su, where would I dare to ordinary people.”

Yang Yu Cicada frowned, “That’s not good either, you’re disrespecting him like this. Even if you two are good, he was still a teacher when he was teaching you ah.”

Yang Yuyan: “We’ve always been like this, just leave it alone.”

Zhu Yanshu said a fair word: “You’re just bullying Mr. Su’s tender skin, so it’s not easy to talk about you. If I were a teacher, I would have beaten a layer of skin off you.”

As her own mother spoke slowly and methodically, Yang Yuyan also immediately became good.

“Then I won’t dare in the future.” She said smartly, “I also apologize to Teacher Su.”

Yang Yuchan Fang was satisfied and went to wash up.

Only after she left did Zhu Yan Shu say, “No need, it’s different now. Before it was called you bullying, now it’s called flirting. If you change it, Mr. Su will have to get used to it.”

Yang Yuyan’s face turned red when her own mother said “flirting”, so red that it burned her eyes.

Zhu Yan Shu look at this small appearance will not be willing to marry her off, more determined to send her into the university to study the idea, a reading at least three or four years not out, you can marry later.

Zhu Yan Shu: “Your sister compared to you, much more pitiful. Alas, I don’t know how she talked to the surname Ma, how seems to have talked with no talk ah?”

Even the flirting between men and women can not be seen, there is no empathy, this comparison, she and Ma Tianbao talk about that period of love is even more barren.

Yang Yuyan immediately said, “Mom, you don’t have to worry! I’ll help my sister find a suitable one after I go to school!”

Zhu Yan Shu laughed: “You know what’s suitable ah?”

Yang Yuyan was very confident: “My eyes are definitely better than my sister’s, the onlooker is clear, I know what kind of person she would like, I’ll let Mr. Su take a look after I’ve looked at him, and then I’ll let you take a look at him, and after you’ve all said yes, I’ll then pull my sister’s strings, surely there’s no problem.”

Saying it like this, the success rate is very high ah.

Zhu Yan Shu smiled, “That’s good, if you help your sister find a suitable match, I’ll award you fifty dollars!”

In the eyes of someone who only had two dollars a month for pocket money, fifty dollars would be more than two years of pocket money.

Yang Yuyan immediately made a military order: “I promise to fulfill the task!”

The next day, in order not to miss Professor Dai’s class, at eight o’clock, Zhu Yanshu got everything ready. She even had Zhang Ma call a hair combing lady from the street, combing her hair at six in the morning before getting up to wash, have breakfast, and get dressed.

When Yang Yuyan yawned and walked out of the bedroom, Su Chunjun was already sitting in the Zhu family’s living room continuing to talk about Professor Dai with Zhu Yanshu, and incidentally introducing the other students in Professor Dai’s classroom.

Professor Dai only teaches third- and fourth-year students in his daily classes, and he teaches Russian, German, and a political science class called International Relations. All three classes require a letter of recommendation and not all students can enroll.

It is said to be because the school’s director made a special order after reporting Professor Dai and the courses he teaches to the Education Bureau.

“At that time, the director of the Education Bureau wanted to only allow students from the military department, or students with a letter of introduction and recommendation from the military department, to attend Professor Dai’s classes. However, after Prof. Dai strongly refused, it was changed to allow all students to enroll as long as they have a letter of recommendation, and the letter of recommendation is not only valid if it is issued by the Education Bureau and the Military Department, but also the letter of introduction from the principal is also valid, and he himself can choose the right students.” Su Chunjun said.

Zhu Yanshu’s eyes widened in surprise, saying, “This professor’s character is so tough, he must not be well liked in the school.”

Su Chunjun laughed and said, “Professor Dai’s learning is praised by all in unison. There are indeed some people who are not as learned as him who speak ill of him behind his back.”

The implication was that anyone who said bad things about Prof. Dai was a narrow-minded person.

Zhu Yan Shu was happy: “This student of yours is very defensive of your professor. That’s what makes you a good student!” Instead, she thought Su Chunjun was right to do so. Her own father is Zhu Laozi, although he did not teach in the university, but his life took in countless peaches and plums, which of course there are ungrateful people, but until now still remember the friendship of Zhu Laozi, and there are still many people who send postcards every year. Zhu Yanshu of course prefers students who love their teachers.

Yang Yuyan came out in her pajamas and pajama pants, and Zhu Yanshu took one look and said, “Why are you coming out like this again? Unruly!”

Yang Yuyan hurriedly ran to the kettle and poured a cup of water, gulping it down before running back to the house to change her clothes. She only came out to drink water because she was thirsty, who knew that Mr. Su would come so early again today!

Second Miss Yang, who had changed her clothes, had just gone to the kitchen to wash her face and brush her teeth when she was rushed to the bathroom by Zhang Ma: “The hot water has been brought over for you, go over there and wash! Don’t make a mess for me here!”

She came to the living room for the third time after washing up and noticed Zhu Yanshu’s unusual dress: her hair was combed extraordinarily delicately, and she was wearing a new coat that was newly made this year, but she was wearing an old shawl?

She sat down and said, “Mom, what happened to your new shawl? Is it hooked or burned? Why are you wearing this?”

Zhu Yanshu smiled and got up as Zhang Ma said the table had been set and called them to breakfast. She took her youngest daughter and said, “I’m doing this so that I don’t get dirty during dinner, so I’ll just put on an old one.”

Yang Yuyan: “So are you going out today? Why are you dressed so neatly?”

Zhu Yanshu smiled, “Why don’t I dress more neatly? I don’t want to embarrass you.”

Yang Yuyan was puzzled, not only was she in a daze, but she also reasoned wrongly, thinking that Zhu Yanshu was dressed like this because of Su Chunjun’s visit.

But it wasn’t the first time Mr. Su came back.

Could it be that they are to be engaged?

The two at the table, Yang Yucan who happened to come to the table, and Zhang Ma who happened to bring the buns over, together saw Second Miss Yang’s little face redden.

So Zhu Yanshu, Zhang Ma, and Yang Yucan all went to look at Mr. Su Chunjun Su.

Teacher Su was very bewildered, and after receiving the condemning, contemptuous, and wary gazes of the crowd, he was still puzzled, but he also opened his mind to blindly guess the young girl’s heart, and ultimately guessed himself into a big red face as well.

Zhang Ma wanted to drive this miscreant to the living room for dinner.

Zhu Yanshu glanced at the time and sighed: ”Let’s call it a day. Yan Yan, eat quickly, we’re busy today.”

Yang Yuyan lifted her pretty face, “Are we going out today?”

She reflexively went to look at Teacher Su. Zhang Ma suddenly appeared and placed the buns in front of her, “Second Miss, eat quickly! I went to buy them as soon as he opened the door today, eat quickly.” Blocking Teacher Su out.

This family’s buns were indeed very tasty, Yang Yuyan had eaten them for two years without getting tired of them, they had become a familiar flavor to her. One day of absence is like three autumns. This New Year’s Eve, this dozen days have not seen, has succeeded in raising Yang Yuyan’s hopes to a high level. So when she saw the buns again, she immediately threw Mr. Su to the back of her mind.

Today’s breakfast is also done just right, Zhang Ma intentionally served a little less than usual, so the second Miss Yang effortlessly ate it all, and did not ask to add more. Zhang Ma was satisfied, as for Mr. Su must have eaten enough, she bought him four big vegetable buns!

After breakfast, Zhu Yanshu changed into a shawl, and only then did she talk about going to visit Prof. Dai. Yang Yuyan didn’t know about the conversation that happened in the living room last night about her future, so she wasn’t clear about the original story, but the two people she trusted the most in her life both said they were going to visit Prof. Dai, and said they would take her with them, so she readily accepted the good advice.

Yang Yuyan: “Good. Sister, why don’t you go too?”

Yang Yucan knew last night that Yang Yuyan might have to go to college with her after the new year, and being very worried about her sister, she said, “I’ll go too.”

When she went downstairs and got on the yellow bus, Zhu Yanshu took her along and she remembered to ask, “Mom, what are you going to see Professor Dai for?”

Zhu Yanshu joked, “To find you a stepfather, okay?”

It sounded like a joke, Yang Yuyan didn’t take it seriously, but she thought for a moment and nodded, “That’s not bad, Prof. Dai is very elegant and has a good job. Better than that.”

Zhu Yanshu smiled and teased her, “Such a high evaluation?”

Although Yang Yuyan only met Prof. Dai once yesterday, she already had some understanding of his character, she said, “I think that no matter how far Prof. Dai has fallen, he won’t go to write an article about looking for fangs.”

She couldn’t guarantee that Prof. Dai would definitely not be a philanderer, after all, there were two fathers to testify that a man’s self-control in this regard was zero, and she really didn’t have any confidence in this aspect either. But she could see that Prof. Dai was very noble, kill him, he wouldn’t write small articles for prostitutes for money to be published in the newspaper for people to masturbate and seek fang.

Although many people nowadays have used the slogan of sexual freedom to break the feudal tradition, saying that women have the right to sell their bodies and men have the right to look for their wives, in fact, to put it bluntly, they just want to show off their animal desires.

Many people either pretended to understand or pretended to be confused, and they all applauded for this kind of people. So many innocent girls have been lured into thinking that this is a progressive idea, but fell into the quagmire.

You Er Sister in Dream of the Red Chamber told us that while men amuse women, women can also amuse men in reverse. While she was forced to make such a remark, the spirit of resistance to the centuries-old sexual oppression of women is very precious.

Yesterday, when she talked to Prof. Dai about Yang Xuhe, she mentioned You San, but of course she didn’t make it very clear, she just said, “Why don’t you follow You San’s words?”. Professor Dai laughed out loud and praised her as a progressive young woman with a truly progressive mindset, and that people outside were misinterpreting her.

Because of the chat with Prof. Dai was very happy and happy, let her to Prof. Dai’s impression is very good, and even have a hint of sense of knowledge.

That’s why she dared to make a judgment on Professor Dai’s character today.

Just like Yang Xuhe was a villain, Professor Dai was a gentleman.

Zhu Yanshu now really had a lot of curiosity about Professor Dai. She knows her own little daughter, not a big person, also quite good coaxing, but let her truly believe in someone is very difficult, she is naturally suspicious, thinking, thinking, family changes plus she is in the most difficult to understand the age of eighteen, Yang Xuehe’s matter even more so that she is full of distrust of men. She became a girl with the most unlovely temper.

Of all the people she had met, only Mr. Su had gained Yang Yuyan’s favor and trust.

Now there was another one, Prof. Dai.

When she arrived at the Little Red Building on the yellow bus and saw Professor Dai for the first time after getting off the bus, she blossomed into a polite and courteous, cold and appropriate smile and extended a hand, “Professor Dai, I’ve heard a lot about you, and I’m honored that I’ve met you today.”

Professor Dai was hurriedly called out from the classroom by Su Chunjun, with chalk marks on one hand and fountain pen ink stains on the other, although he was wearing a shirt and wool undershirt, it was still not decent enough. He smiled bitterly with both hands open, “Ms. Zhu, please don’t mind, please come inside and have a seat, I’ll let Chunjun make some tea.” With two hands like this, how could he shake her hand?

If he didn’t shake her hand, shouldn’t she be angry?

He could tell at a glance that Zhu Yanshu was a big lady, or one who was used to being courted, one who was hard to deal with as she never suffered any anger or disadvantage in her life. He guessed that Zhu Yanshu, who could raise two daughters on her own, would not be an ordinary woman, but he did not expect that she would be the most difficult one for him to deal with.

He had no choice but to show her both hands.

Unexpectedly, Ms. Zhu didn’t hesitate to change her hand, took hold of one of his chalk dust-stained hands and shook it, then coolly put it down, unconcernedly patting the chalk dust that came over on her hand, and said with a smile, ”Professor Dai is in the middle of a class, isn’t he? Hurry back and don’t keep the students waiting. It’s fine for me to sit and wait for a while. It’s me who came too boldly, I heard that Professor Dai takes great care of Yan Yan, so I had the audacity to come to the door, and it’s me who has to say I’m sorry.”

She walked up the steps herself, not needing him to lend a hand or lead the way, attentive and courteous, only urging him to quickly return to his students.

“My father is a teacher, he would never leave his students behind in class. Professor Dai quickly go back to the classroom.” Zhu Yanshu looked up and down in the foyer and turned to Professor Dai with a more amiable smile.

Professor Dai has good taste and his family background seems to be quite good, so he is worth making friends with.

Professor Dai complied and went back to the classroom.

Su Chunjun, as a disciple, a tenant and the future son-in-law of Ms. Zhu, took the mother and daughter of the Zhu family to the tea room, then made tea and brought snacks, very considerate.

Zhu Yanshu called out to him with a smile, “Chunjun, come and sit down. Do you know what this Prof. Dai’s family does?”

Su Chunjun was stunned, realizing that he had forgotten one big thing when he introduced Professor Dai! He had forgotten to introduce Professor Dai’s origin! Now Ms. Zhu had clearly misunderstood!

If it was in the Zhu family, then there was no harm for him to talk about it. But now that he had arrived at the Little Red Mansion, it would be inappropriate for him to discuss Professor Dai’s origins.

He stammered, “Professor Dai’s family ……”

Professor Dai, however, had already settled the students – assigned homework – and hurriedly arrived just in time to hear, so he answered himself, “My parents have been farming for generations. But I was sold to work in an oil mill when I was five, so really, I should be a slave.”

He was never ashamed of this, so he naturally spoke easily and happily.

However, he might as well have thrown a huge stone between the Zhu family’s mother and daughter!

Professor Dai and Ma Tianbao’s origins are similar!

Zhu Yanshu and Yang Yuyan looked at Yang Yucan in unison, while Yang Yucan could no longer control her expression and was filled with shock. At a time when she had already decided to break off her love with Ma Tianbao, she met Professor Dai, who proved that birth doesn’t mean everything!

But she had already betrayed this love from the bottom of her heart.

Prof. Dai notices that Zhu’s mother and daughter don’t look right, but only smiles at Su Chunjun.

Su Chunjun immediately took the opportunity of pouring tea for Prof. Dai to break the awkwardness.

Zhu Yanshu calmed her mind and spoke, “Professor Dai is really marvelous, young and promising.”

Prof. Dai smiled and said, “It wasn’t me alone. The oil mill owner who bought me at that time has been subsidizing my studies, and later the young proprietor even sent me to study abroad so that I could learn and return to my country to serve the nation.”

The more he said, the stranger the Zhu family’s mother and daughter looked.

Professor Dai’s rare curiosity also rose, but he also knew that it was inappropriate to ask at this time, and only turned his head to Yang Yuyan and said with a smile, “The book that was given to you yesterday, have you gone back to read it yet? Do you like it?”

Yang Yuyan laughed, “I like it. Although I only read the first poem, or Mr. Su led me to read it, I can’t read it well, I just feel that the Russian pronunciation is covered with my mouth, it’s quite funny.”

Prof. Dai laughed and said, “You have a point. Because Russia is very cold, they people there go out and freeze their noses and lips very easily, everyone wraps themselves very tightly when it’s cold, so maybe they developed the language with their mouths covered.”

“So that’s it, so there’s this reason.” Yang Yuyan was just talking nonsense, but she didn’t expect it to seem very plausible in Professor Dai’s explanation, and she immediately became even more interested in the Russian language.

Professor Dai then covered his mouth and spoke a string of Russian, then asked Yang Yuyan: “Doesn’t it sound very Russian?”

Yang Yuyan nodded her head, “Yes, it sounds like Russian!”

Prof. Dai said, “You can also cover your mouth and learn it, it will be very similar.”

Yang Yuyan was driven by him, and really covered her mouth to learn a Russian sentence, although she didn’t even know what the meaning of this sentence was, she also learned it very happily. And no matter what she learned, Prof. Dai praised her, “You really look like him! Come again!”

The surrounding circle of students watched Professor Dai teach Yang Yuyan Russian for fifteen minutes, although there was only one sentence: “Good morning, it’s too cold.”

But after these fifteen minutes, not only did Yang Yuyan not get bored with learning, but her interest in learning remained high.

This not only broke the embarrassment between the Zhu family mother and daughter just now, but also dispelled Zhu Yanshu’s doubts with facts.

By the end of the fifteen minutes, Yang Yuyan was still saying “Good morning, it’s too cold” over and over again with her mouth covered, although she was saying it in a strange way, but it wasn’t hard to understand. Zhu Yanshu did not say anything, directly said to Professor Dai: “Mr. Dai, my daughter is entrusted to you, please whip her well.” Then took out a check.

When Professor Dai saw the check, he hesitated for a moment, but still pushed it back and said, “I know that you are a teacher, I shouldn’t push back. But I have been favored by others to have been able to study and pursue my education, and I have vowed from the time of my attainment that I would teach my knowledge freely in this life to all students who are willing to seek it from me. I can’t repay the people who gave me the favor, so I can only spread this favor all over the world.”

Zhu Yanshu heard these words and knew that he was not another Ma Tianbao. She was silent for a moment and asked, “When you say that you can no longer repay your benefactor, what is the reason for that? If there is something I can help with, I am willing to assist you.”

Professor Dai may not have enough ability, but Zhu Yanshu thought that she could still find one or two people with energy, and it was not a loss to promise this favor to Professor Dai. After all, a good teacher is something that can’t be found. After all, a good teacher can not be found! Must he owe the Zhu family’s favor can not!

Prof. Dai was shocked, and hastened to excuse himself, crying and laughing: “The young proprietor who financed me is still running the oil mill, but after I return home, I can’t go back to the oil mill to do the accounting and bookkeeping, that is, I’ll send all the monthly salary back, but also not much money, on the contrary, it will make people angry and irritated. Therefore, although I returned to China for several years, in addition to going back to visit the young proprietor’s family, the other is not a penny back.” He also thought of teaching the son of the young proprietor’s family, but unexpectedly the young proprietor’s family flatly refused!

The Young Proprietor: “I only have this one heir, what if he refuses to inherit the oil mill after being taught by you? When I have a few more sons, I’ll send you another one to teach, and I’ll teach him whatever he wants.”

Now the young proprietor still sends him a lot of things from his hometown every year, so he has to buy some fresh things from the city and send them back. Although the love between the two sides was long, he still had his heart set on repaying the great kindness of the young proprietor’s family.

ZhuYanShu can’t use the favor to tie up Professor Dai, very helpless, so she can only leave her little daughter behind, and take her leave for the time being, so that she can think of another way in the future.

She thought left and right, finally before leaving the door smiling and shaking Professor Dai’s hand, said: “said my father left many old books, why don’t you come home to take a look at Professor Dai a few times, maybe there is something you can use? It is my father’s many years of collection ah, in the bookcase is like a pearl in the dust, it is a pity.”

Sure enough, Professor Dai asked and took the bait.

Prof. Dai said with glowing eyes, “Then if you don’t mind, can I pay a visit tomorrow?”

Zhu Yanshu was all smiles, “I will welcome you with open arms.”