Chapter 56
After breakfast, Dai Yushu delivered the gift he brought.
A bouquet of flowers and a carrier bag.
The flowers were of course for Ms. Zhu. Having studied in England for many years, he thought it was polite to send flowers to a lady, but of course, after he returned to China, the people he sent flowers to were all old ladies who were over a hundred years old.
But as far as he knew, Ms. Zhu was a completely westernized woman. She had not been educated in the three virtues and had not had her feet wrapped around her.
In a photo treasured by his colleague, he could see Ms. Zhu riding a bicycle on the lawn in the sunshine, smiling complacently and glamorously, and in the photo she was about 17 or 18 years old, the perfect age of youth, not inferior to the movie stars in the pictorials, who might not have the joy and freedom she had at that time.
After Ms. Zhu’s marriage, there was less about her, and it was not until Yang Xuehe’s divorce was published in the newspaper that people got to know a little bit about her life after marriage.
In the divorce petition published in the newspaper, Yang Xuhe said, “You are as beautiful as a flame, but I dare not approach you” and “Touching you will hurt me”.
Some people took this to mean that Ms. Zhu was too forceful in her family life, making her husband suffer. In that case, how can a man be blamed for leaving a tigress who is not gentle?
However, in the university, those who knew old Mr. Zhu or knew Ms. Zhu, it was a completely different story.
Ms. Zhu was enthusiastic, studious, and good at making friends. She spends her days with many friends, reading and playing together.
A colleague said he had the honor of rehearsing a play with Ms. Zhu, Shakespeare’s masterpiece Romeo and Juliet. However, Ms. Zhu was very naughty, she wanted all the participants to add their own comments after finishing their lines, so as to make it interesting.
So after reading Juliet’s line about meeting Romeo, someone said, “Juliet must be surrounded by ugly people”.
The next person said that it was because the noble girl must have never left the house and seen too few men, so she was attracted to Romeo.
Another person said that Juliet is still young, would not have seen too many people, and then she usually is to go out in a car, the roadside to see are not clothed slaves and overworked and premature aging of the common people, that naturally can not make her heart.
In conclusion, Juliet and Romeo’s love for each other is not accidental at all. They are from the same family, the most famous family in the city, so their affection for the city, their theological education, the friends they have, the people they know, and so on, are all basically the same! And they were all people in the family who didn’t like to fight. So as soon as they meet and then talk, they realize that the other is their soul mate, because they have so many similarities.
This already very familiar play, because of Ms. Zhu’s suggestion, was performed from the rehearsal time to the official performance with great enthusiasm and full of joy.
In the end, it also became one of the fondest memories in this colleague’s heart.
After much thought, Dai Yushu brought along a bouquet of flowers. There was no intention of courting in it. He just thought that sending this bouquet of flowers on a winter day would be more pleasant and beautiful. And Ms. Zhu would never consider it as an insult or offense to her.
When Zhu Yanshu saw the flowers, she immediately got up and took them with both hands, smiling, “It’s wonderful to see such nice flowers in winter! Zhang Ma, quickly insert them!”
Zhang Ma had already taken the vase out and said, “Last time or Mr. Su sent two flowers to be inserted for a few days.” She happily took the flowers to the vase, then took them out and set them on the small table in front of the window in the living room, placing the jukebox inwards so that the sunlight just poured onto the bouquet, further accentuating the flowers beautifully.
Mr. Su took the opportunity to glance at Miss Yang, and the two of them exchanged glances in front of the teachers, and then each of them turned away with a low smile, very satisfied.
Because of today’s reception for Prof. Dai, Ms. Zhu brought her two daughters to sit on the long sofa, while Mr. Su and Prof. Dai sat on the single sofa on the opposite side. Mr. Su only had a sofa chair to sit on, and had to stand up from time to time to help Mrs. Zhang pick up and pass things.
It was as if there was a heavenly river separating him from Second Miss Yang on the other side.
Yang Yuyan sat on the sofa, her fingers wrapped around her braid, brightly lost in the adults’ conversation, saw Mr. Su approaching, quietly reached out her foot and gently touched his pant leg from behind.
Ms. Zhu and Professor Dai, who were sitting above, both saw it and pretended not to see it, continuing to chat enthusiastically.
Zhu Yanshu: “This flower has cost a lot of money, right?”
Dai Yushu laughed: “It’s not worth a penny, this is something I had my students cut from the school’s greenhouse.”
When the school was built, the teachers in the school said that they wanted to cultivate all kinds of abilities in the students, and could not end up teaching a bunch of people who could not work hard, could not distinguish between the five grains, and could only read.
So the school raised cows and chickens and sheep, planted fields and wove cloth and raised silkworms, and did everything and anything.
When the time Yushu raised the opinion that should not just let the students learn to plant fields and grow wheat, they are in the city ah, to be adaptable, to pay more attention to economic benefits. In other words, teach students to make money to support their families.
The principal thought it made sense and asked him to be more specific.
He then suggested that the school hadn’t built a greenhouse to grow vegetables? You can also grow flowers! How can growing vegetables be as profitable as growing flowers?
“It’s also not as fast as growing flowers.” Dai Yushu pointed to the bouquet of flowers in the bottle and said, “This bouquet of flowers on the surface to sell at least to sell a 50 cents 80 cents.”
Su Chunjun laughed, “In front of the theater can be sold for a dollar.”
Dai Yushu pointed at him and said, “Look, there’s someone here who knows what he’s doing. Now in the school only the flowers in this greenhouse are profitable, the rest of the chickens and goats that are raised are mostly given to the students to add to their dishes.” He then pointed at Su Chunjun, “If you don’t believe me, ask him if he’s ever stolen an egg from a chicken coop? Has he ever stolen any chickens?”
Su Chunjun shook his head, “The chickens haven’t been stolen, just picked up eggs.”
Everyone in the room laughed.
Zhang Ma even asked, “Mr. Su, do you know how to make eggs? And how do you eat the eggs you’ve picked up?”
Su Chunjun immediately said, “Why wouldn’t I? I can cook poached eggs!”
The crowd wanted to laugh even more.
Dai Yushu looked at Su Chunjun again, as if he had just realized, “I didn’t notice two days ago, you’ve gained weight. You used to be as skinny as a piece of paper, but now your face looks like it has meat on it.”
Su Chunjun turned his eyes to look at Zhang Ma, rose and bowed, “This is all thanks to Zhang Ma.”
Zhang Ma was startled and quickly dodged, “Yo, I wouldn’t dare! It’s a shame!”
Dai Yushu said, “There are also a few thin gifts, really no honor.”
The rest is the New Year’s visit to the door of the old things, although the year is over, but the gift can still continue to send, in addition to candy in the bag, there is only one thing is he seriously prepared.
Is a pair of imitation paintings, that is, on behalf of the Yushu own painting.
Although he served as a professor, a month’s salary is not quite a lot, and he ate and lived in the school, wearing all the old clothes and old shoes, and there is not much need to spend money. But he spent almost all the money on students, so there is no savings. When it came time to give gifts, he had to do it himself.
Zhu Yanshu was very surprised when he saw the scroll, holding it in his hand and looking at Dai Yushu: “Professor Dai, this is ……”
Dai Yushu: “It’s just a clumsy work, it’s hard to get into the hall of elegance, just for your leisure time enjoyment.”
Zhu Yanshu stood up and gently unfolded the painting.
The unfolding is very vulgar and very beautiful Zhong Kui exorcism picture, at first glance and New Year’s paintings are very similar, but a closer look will know that it is not simple, because it imitates Wu Daozi’s style and painting, and there are already seven points of God’s qi within.
This painting, even Zhang Ma also like ah, although she can not see what style of painting, just a glimpse of it said: “This is good! This is what we should hang in the first month!”
Zhu Yanshu hurriedly said, “Yan Yan, you clear the case over there.”
Yang Yuyan hurriedly got up, Su Chunjun also ran very fast, the two people together will move the things on the wall of a case, and then move the case to the right center of the room, Zhu Yanshu quickly step up, will be the painting flat and spread, and only then to appreciate the strokes and intention of the painting.
Wu Daozi’s style of painting combines realism and realism into one, so that people can recognize what characters are in the painting at first sight, with essence, vitality and spirit. Nowadays, many people imitate Wu Daozi’s paintings, because his paintings are very close to the structure of Western paintings nowadays, as if they are on the same path, and Wu Daozi is an ancient person, which makes Westerners inferior to the ancients, and those who hold this concept are not a minority.