Chapter 58
At the beginning of the Chinese New Year, Su Chunjun sent Prof. Dai downstairs to Zhu’s house. Although it was already dark, the New Year had just passed, and people were still immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year festival. There were still many vendors on the roadside, and the night patrol of the military police had not yet come out.
The yellow bus on the side of the road saw the two of them standing on the side of the road, and hurriedly came over to pull passengers.
Su Chunjun waved his hand to signal, and the yellow bus stopped right beside them.
Prof. Dai was holding in his arms a handwritten copy of the book he had just borrowed from the Zhu family and cherished it to the core. He was not in a hurry to get on the bus, turned back and patted Su Chunjun’s shoulder, pondered for a moment, and said, “This family are all good people, it’s your luck that you can meet them.”
Su Chunjun smiled, “Professor, I think so too.”
Professor Dai looked deeply at him and nodded, “That’s good. Don’t let down the people who are good to you, I’ll leave first, tomorrow it’s still you who’ll be seeing off the second young lady right? We’ll talk again then.”
Saying that without waiting for him to answer, Prof. Dai turned around and got into the car.
Su Chunjun stood by the roadside and watched the yellow car go away before turning back.
In front of Zhu’s house he knocked on the door, Yang Yuyan ran over to open the door for him, he poked his head in and saw that Zhang Ma was busy, Zhu Yanshu had accompanied the guests all day today and had gone back to her bedroom to rest, and Yang Yucan wasn’t there either.
“I won’t go in, you guys rest early.” He said softly to Yang Yuyan.
“Good, you also go back to rest.” Yang Yuyan smiled and said, “Mom said she’ll let my sister send me off tomorrow, so you don’t have to accompany me.”
Su Chunjun remembered the words he had just delivered on behalf of the professor and shook his head, “I’ll give you another ride tomorrow, it’s your sister’s first time going to the professor as well, so it’s more convenient for me to introduce you guys.”
Yang Yuyan agreed and sent him away, before closing the door of the house.
The next day, after having breakfast at Zhu’s house, the three of them got on a yellow cart and left.
Yang Yucan and Yang Yuyan rode in a car, and the two sisters leaned together. Yang Yuyan felt that Yang Yucan didn’t look too good, and hugged her arm and asked: ”Sister, this is the first time you’ve gone back to school since the vacation, right? Do you want to go see your classmates later?”
Yang Yucan’s heart was torn. In this short yearly vacation, it was as if she had already experienced many years, enough for her to make a cut of her feelings with Ma Tianbao. But as soon as she returned to school she realized that in fact only twenty short days had passed, and the students at school still thought that she and Ma Tianbao were a couple. If they knew that she was going to break up with Ma Tianbao after going home for the New Year, how would they guess the reason? When they learned that she broke up with Ma Tianbao because of his family, how would they judge her? This huge dilemma had given her the idea of escaping for the first time, and surprisingly, she was able to understand why Yang Yuyan refused to go to school back then. Because she wouldn’t want to go back to school to see her classmates right now.
Unlike Yang Xuhe’s situation at that time, at that time, she knew that it was Yang Xuhe who had done wrong, and that she was not at fault for being his child, so even if the rumors were rife, she was able to be honest.
Now, it is her own weakness, it is she became a deserter of love, it is she is concerned about the reality, the poor love rich only want to break up. Perhaps Ma Tianbao did fall in love at that time is not only her knowledge and thought, perhaps he also had a lot of calculations, but after all he did not hurt her.
On the heart is not perfect ah.
And now she is not in the heart of him and his family on the scale of calculating thinking it?
If there is a mistake, then she is not innocent.
Yang Yucan in the bottom of the heart to himself after fifty big board, fell into a deeper silence.
Under such silence, they arrived at the university, and walk through the long dirt road, on the way to meet the pig herding classmates and duck herding classmates, the two sides even quarrel, so they stopped to watch five minutes of hilarity, before continuing to start, to the generation of the professor of the small red building.
Probably because they came early, today’s small red building has no students, only on behalf of the professor.
Professor Dai, dressed in earthen cloth, stood in front of the door to greet them and said with a smile, “Come on in, don’t mind me, I just got up.”
Su Chunjun knew Prof. Dai and said, “Professor, you must have read all night again last night.”
Prof. Dai laughed, “How can I bear to stay up all night when I get a new book?”
Su Chunjun then laughed, because this statement, on behalf of the professor in the classroom also said, there is no female students, so on behalf of the original words of the professor is “a new book is like a newly married wife, how can you tolerate a night before touching?
This statement is certainly not elegant, but it is appropriate.
The most interesting thing is that Prof. Dai added one more sentence after finishing this sentence, “Having said that, I have never married a new wife, so I really don’t know what is the difference between a new book and a new wife.”
On the contrary, nine out of ten of the students in the hall have married wives, and those who haven’t have also gotten married. Standing in the hall counted, to this age still have no wife only three people, that is, on behalf of the professor, he and Shi big head.
If he were still at home, he would be talking about marriage by now. Shi big head is poor, he can follow Professor Dai study is Professor Dai wrote his own letter of recommendation, pulled him over. Professor Dai said that he is mixed up in various classrooms, half of it is to learn, half is to find students, if you really listen to the principal and the leadership of the various bureaus can only rely on the letter of recommendation to find students, then he came to the university to teach what?
Prof. Dai opened the door for the three of them to come in, and then commanded Su Chunjun to go to the stove to make tea for the guests, and he went back upstairs to change his clothes.
Yang Yuyan led Yang Yucan to the tea room, pulled open the curtains, and the scenery outside the window came into view.
The lawn outside the window had already turned from yellow to green, as if in these few short days, spring was already approaching, its footsteps were near.
A man carrying firewood came from the distance, passing by the floor-to-ceiling window along the path, heading towards the kitchen.
Yang Yuyan pulled Yang Yucan to sit down and said, “Professor Dai is very kind, sister, you sit.”
Yang Yucan could not sit comfortably even when she sat down, as if she was sitting on a needle felt. Yang Yuyan didn’t know who Prof. Dai was, but she knew exactly. Among the group of returned professors that the principal personally invited back, Professor Dai was quite a famous one. Not only for his talent, but also for his temper, he was famous for not rubbing sand in his eyes. Of course, he was not a bad person, he was just particularly serious in certain aspects. In terms of governance, some less serious, more love to fame and fortune-telling professors can’t escape when they meet him, and some students are more willing to bully others, he was never polite, he was withdrawn from the school there are several of them.
At this moment, there was a sound outside the door, Yang Yucan immediately bounced up.
He was pushing a cart with hot tea, bread, butter and hard-boiled eggs, a very rich breakfast.
Yang Yucan froze at a glance, yesterday in the Zhu family dinner on behalf of the professor did not show that he likes to eat Western food, on the contrary, he said a lot of his favorite meals when he was a slave, which is the most respected oil dregs, he said that the oil dregs of how to eat are delicious, empty mouth to eat is delicious, on the steamed bread on the cake is delicious, wrapped up into a package of buns, dumplings are also delicious, is the world’s most delicious things.
But this trolley is full of western food.
Su Chunjun has long taken off his jacket, cut the bread and butter on a plate and handed it to the Yang sisters, saying, “Eat, this is all sent to the professor by others, he is a guest of honor before taking out.”
While talking, Prof. Dai had already changed his shirt and pants and came over, he came in with a big stride and said happily when he saw this, “I’m going to starve to death.”
Su Chunjun hurriedly sliced him thick bread and buttered it as well.
He took it but first said to Yang Yuyan, “Yan Yan, do you know? Russian bread is awful!”
Yang Yuyan had heard a lot about Russia in the past few days and was filled with curiosity about Russia, immediately looking up, “Their bread is hard to eat?”
Prof. Dai deplored shaking his head and affirmed, “It’s hard to eat! It’s hard and salty. Maybe their king eats a little better, the bread from the bakeries I’ve eaten is not very good, you can only soak it in hot soup and eat it. The best thing they have there is all kinds of treats and sweets, because they put a lot of cream, butter, cheese, and sugar in it, and a lot of nuts, dried fruit, and chocolate, so it’s very good.”
After Prof. Dai finished speaking, he taught Yang Yuyan two more words, one for bread and the other for beet soup.
Yang Yuyan listened to half a day of Russia’s difficult bread and hot soup for soaking bread, and remembered these two words exceptionally well, hearing them once and memorizing them.
After barely eating another breakfast, Professor Dai urged Su Chunjun to go to work.
“What’s your reasoning for not going to work and wandering around all day long?” Professor Dai asked with a smile as he tapped Su Chunjun’s head with his pen.
Yang Yuyan was learning to write the Russian alphabet, she herself had imitated it at home, and wrote it with great skepticism, but Zhu Yanshu and Yang Yucan both said that Russian was just like that, not only were the letters difficult to write, written and handwritten were different, and the words were all tremendously long!
But under Prof. Dai’s teaching, it was as if the letters weren’t that hard to write, just a horizontal bar with an apostrophe, a downward stroke, and a vertical crook!
Listening to Professor Dai lecture Mr. Su, she laughed from the sidelines without any semblance of comradeship.
Su Chunjun saw that she was adapting well, so he decided to take his leave first.
Professor Dai put down his pen and said with a smile, “I’ll see you off then.” After saying that, he pushed him out, and the two of them walked through the corridor to the front door before Professor Dai said, “I have two things to ask you.”
Su Chunjun saw Professor Dai’s serious look and hurriedly said solemnly as well, “You say.”
Prof. Dai: “First, when do you plan to do this job? And how far do you intend to go? You don’t have to answer me, think about it yourself.”
Su Chunjun was stunned, and swallowed back his words as they came out of his mouth.
Prof. Dai: “I see you and the second young lady are also considered to be in love, although her age is comparable to you, but is a rather naive child, I see she can only live a small life, can not be a wise wife. You’re stepping up in the government department, are you thinking of letting her go on to become an official wife in the future?”
Su Chunjun’s expression moved slightly and did not reply.
Prof. Dai stared at him and looked towards the sky, “From the time you were here with me, I could tell that you have big ambitions in your heart, only I don’t know where exactly you are pointing this ambition. I thought you graduated early to devote yourself to the officialdom, but as a result, you are involved with a good woman.”
Su Chunjun laughed bitterly: “Professor, you make it sound as if I am the bad guy who seduces young girls.”
Prof. Dai: “Cut the crap, think about it yourself. I can not care about you, because I know you are a smart person, you have your own measurement in your heart, no need for me to say more. I only look forward to the happiness of my students, whether it’s you, or Second Miss.”
Su Chunjun sighed deeply in his heart and nodded heavily, “I understand, Professor.”
Professor Dai said, “There is one more thing, about student Yang.”
Su Chunjun reacted that this was a reference to the eldest Miss Yang, Yang Yucan.
Professor Dai: “You’ve graduated, so you probably haven’t heard about it. I heard that she was in love with a male classmate, and now that the male classmate is in trouble, she abandoned him.”
Su Chunjun immediately retorted, “This is nonsense! This is a rumor!”
Professor Dai frowned, “What are you yelling about! How could I not know that this is a rumor? I’ve already notified Yang’s professor and department head about this matter, the school will clarify the rumor, but …… it will definitely still be circulated among the students, this matter, I was not able to directly speak plainly to Ms. Zhu yesterday, after all, as a professor, once I open my mouth, it is possible that I am representing the school. You have to go back today and tell Ms. Zhu that if the rumors are too hurtful, it is best to let student Yang stay at home for a while before returning to school.”
Su Chunjun was already furious, “How could this happen? What kind of people are spreading rumors?” His brain was quick, it was almost the New Year when the Ma family’s accident happened, and Ma Tianbao was about to graduate, not to mention that Ma Tianbao was locked up by the Jin family after the accident, and then went straight to the hospital, there was no way that he could have run to the school on his own to spread the rumors.
Putting it all together, it could only be a common acquaintance between Yang Yuchan and Ma Tianbao.
“The book club, it’s their people.” Su Chunjun frowned.
Professor Dai was not surprised, “Where there are people, there are fights. Ms. Zhu and her two daughters are people who don’t care about money and materialism, and funding the Book Club is entirely out of the public interest. But in the eyes of others, the book club is a good place to gain fame and fortune. Now that Ms. Yang is about to graduate, planting dirt on her head is just the thing to drive her out of the book club, and then pocket the book club.”
Su Chunjun looked at him in surprise, “Professor? That’s not like you at all!”
Dai Yushu laughed, “I was sold into slavery at the age of five, but I’ve seen more of the world than you gentry. Isn’t it just that kind of fighting? It’s meaningless, but there are people who go after them.”
Su Chunjun laughed coldly, “The books bought with the Zhu family’s money, where does it allow others to reach out?”
Even if he doesn’t bully people, he still lets others bully his door?
Dai Yushu laughed all of a sudden, “Is your surname Zhu? How come you’re in charge of the Zhu family’s money? Or are you planning to join the family?”
Su Chunjun: “What’s the harm in that?” This surname of his was originally a mother’s surname, and it would not be wrong to change it to his wife’s surname again. He turned back and said, “Professor, let me borrow the phone.”
Professor Dai nodded, “In the living room, go.”
He watched Su Chunjun go in quickly, walking behind himself, and thought to himself that this child was more active than his own affairs.