Chapter 53
Prof. Dai sent off the Zhu family’s mother and daughter, and did not continue to teach Miss Yang. He understands these people in the land of the creamy Liang Jinxiu, after all, he was the young proprietor as a book boy for nearly ten years, writing homework on behalf of this kind of thing from the time he can hold the pen never dumped down.
Most of them are gentle and proud of their character, living a good life, and all the people they see are friendly, so they are slow to feel in interpersonal interactions, not too sensitive to malice and prejudice, and it is difficult to feel their own harm to others.
To compare one’s heart to another’s means to use one’s own heart to measure another’s heart, and for these young ladies, their hearts can be too high, and when they use it to measure another’s heart, they will inevitably be biased, causing many misunderstandings.
Prof. Dai had known the young master for many years and knew all his vices well, and the one that angered him most was laziness!
When he first became the young master’s scholar, he went to private school with the young master. He was four years older than the young proprietor, and after a year in the oil mill, he had gained weight, grown taller, grown his hair back, and was very much loved by the young proprietor’s mother. This honorable and lovely wife treated him as if he were her own child, and every time she saw him she would first touch his hand and ask him if he was cold.
He was one of the best-looking children in the oil mill. He could not deny that it was for this reason that he not only became the most impressive boy of the wife, but also became the servant boy of the young master, and had to go to school with the young master.
The young master is the eldest son of the oil mill, looks exactly like the master, square face, wide mouth, very strong, he loves to run and play, he has been following him, accompany him to play, climbing trees, chasing dogs and chickens, there is nothing they have not played, the oil mill’s front and backyards were used as a playground by them. He felt that the fact that he didn’t get sick much when he studied abroad later was the good foundation he laid at that time.
What such a young proprietor hated most was studying and writing.
While being a book boy, he read books easier than drinking water. No matter what the text was, if he read it once, he could recite it by heart. What the teacher taught him, he could learn by example in the same class. Copying texts, too, was no problem for him, and he could even learn to write very fast, as if he could just know how to do it, and then all the words would be written beautifully.
And for the young proprietor, studying was really the hardest thing in the world for him. He was more interested in getting outside and playing quickly than in slumping at his desk until three o’clock.
So, in order to get outside to play even earlier, as soon as he got home, he had to finish both of his homework, and then help the Young Master with roughly a bit of memorization, so the two of them could go outside the house to play.
It wasn’t until a year later that he realized he was doing the young master a disservice by doing his homework for him.
So he refused to do his homework for him anymore.
So the young proprietor was spanked, but he wasn’t punished because the master and mistress thought he was just doing what he was told.
The young proprietor was spanked, and after that he slept on his back for the entire annual festival and couldn’t go out to play, but he didn’t hold it against him at all, and was rather pleased that the lord and the wife had found out so late.
“I thought they’d find out in a few days, I didn’t realize it took so long to fool them! Hehehe!” The young proprietor said to him smugly as he lay on his back on the bed.
He confessed that he had intentionally not written it, and that he had been the one who had snitched when Mr. asked. And since he used to write all the homework, the young proprietor couldn’t even think of checking whether the work handed in was blank or full of writing.
The young master was shocked, “You did it on purpose?” Then after two days of careful recollection and embarrassment, he asked him, “Is it because I made you do too much work and you’re angry with me? Then I’ll be nicer to you in the future, so don’t be angry with me.”
Of course he wasn’t angry with the young proprietor.
And the young master still let him continue to do his homework for him. However, he was much smarter this time. He would let him do the writing for him and then copy it himself! He even evolved into a person who would read it a few times and then memorize it.
Because of the beating he got from the young master the first time he told on him, he didn’t dare to tell on him again. And every time he planned to refuse the job of writing homework for him, the young proprietor would feel guilty and say, “Yushu, you’re working too hard, I’m always making you work so hard that you can’t go out to play, don’t be angry with me.” Then he would be doubly kind to him. When he wanted to read a book, the young proprietor would buy it! All the paper and pencils he used, the young proprietor never stinted. And every time he raised his courage to exhort the young proprietor to take his studies seriously, the young proprietor would bring out the book he wanted the next day. Later on, it was as if he was blackmailing the new book with his homework, which made him feel extremely uneasy.
The young master was not stupid, on the contrary, he was very smart. He knew how to do “business” from such a young age, and made him a good employee.
When he sent him to study abroad, the young proprietor confessed to him, “Actually, I know you don’t want to do my homework for me, so I’ve always made you feel guilty, so that you can’t persuade me anymore. Yushu, you’re too nice, you don’t want to owe anyone anything. In fact, I’m very uneasy about letting you go out, you’re too easy to get screwed over with this character. In the future, you have to learn to be a little smarter and a little more roguish, that’s how you can get by.”
At that time, he regretted that he did not help the Young Master to change his laziness when he was a book boy. He had been too attached to the difference in status, but had mistreated someone who was truly good to him.
Now that he had become a teacher, he vowed to supervise his students’ studies, especially for those who were as lazy and smart as the young proprietor, he could not let them go even if they could get by on their own little wits!
These students actually knew how to be good and wouldn’t miss out on people who were truly good to them. As a teacher, he had a responsibility and a moral imperative to help them become better.
That was what he should really do.
Second Miss Yang is just like the young master, sensitive and smart, but willing to be plain because of her rich life, and all she thinks and wants is for her family to be happy and safe.
She is different from Su Chunjun. Su Chunjun is alone in the world, the original warmth and kindness has long been replaced by sharp, pride into arrogance, noble into indifference, only the clever mind has not changed, so that he can see the hearts of people, traveling in all directions, easy to obtain wealth.
Although Su Chunjun was poor when he was studying, but looking at this student’s dress and talk these days, he knew that he had already regained his status and self-confidence through his own hard work and heartfelt efforts, and first he had a status, then he could be more self-confident.
Perhaps he still has a point of purity in his heart, perhaps Second Miss Yang is his purity.
But can a warm heart provide heat for a frozen heart for a long time? If Second Miss Yang lost her childhood innocence and curiosity during her long family life, and became as ordinary and commonplace as the rest of the world, without the brightness and delicacy of her teenage years, what would become of her and Su Chunjun’s future?
Dai Yushu does not want to speculate too much about the future, just that he has seen the partners, happy together permanently too rare, most of the good love in the face of life withered. Those who are either too late to get rid of the old love to rush to find another good love, or in the mutual torture of each other hate each other.
Only the oil mill in the hometown, because life has remained unchanged for years, has been transformed into a paradise outside the world.
Everything in the city is changing too fast, time is like an engine installed, flying forward, people also installed the engine, will run everything faster. In the time it took to drink a cup of coffee, love arose, exploded, declined, and died.
Dai Yushu swept these thoughts from his mind; after all, he wasn’t a party to this, nor was he their friend or relative; he was only their teacher, if he must say so, and he wasn’t in the business of love; apart from love poems and love novels and a few social dances, he was as unfamiliar with love as he was as distant from politics.
All he had to think of now was how to give Miss Young Second a lesson.
First of all, she was a child who gave up easily and had a habit of being lazy. So don’t let her get frustrated too quickly.
He decided to skip grammar and memorization, the two most frustrating elements, and start with the most straightforward language first. Teach her a sentence of dialog every day and slowly build her habit of speaking in Russian. When she felt herself to be at ease with Russian, then she would be guided to a deeper study of the language.
After all, language is only a tool for communication, and proficiency in the use of tools is for building bridges. If the bridge had already been built, there would be little difference between a crude tool and a refined one.
Dai Yushu considered the difficulty of ordinary conversational Russian, as well as the few Russian students in the school, and when the time came to find a few classmates for Miss Yang Er who could tell her a little bit about the Russian customs, it would definitely inspire her to speak.
He chose to start with the Russian language because in China nowadays, the country’s door is wide open, foreigners walk in grandly, and Chinese people can only take the initiative to learn how to communicate with foreigners if they want to occupy a place in the struggle. If you don’t even understand each other’s words and know nothing about the foreigner’s country, how can you talk about victory? If you know what you know, you will not be in danger in a hundred battles. This is the truth that the Chinese people knew thousands of years ago, and every Chinese person now should learn this saying and act according to it.