Chapter 65

Yang Yuyan’s task today is to organize the bookcase.

It’s not a big deal for her to help Professor Dai to organize the bookcases, and she had a lot on her mind today. She wasn’t in the mood to learn Russian, and she was worried that Professor Dai would be angry if she was distracted in class when she arrived at the Little Red House.

In the end, Professor Dai asked her to help her organize the bookcase, but also left her tea and cookies, and then left, letting her do whatever she wanted.

She could safely and boldly organize her bookcase while she was lost in thought.

Yang Yu Cicada hurried back home after dropping her off, before she left she sternly said, “Don’t wander off, I’ll come pick you up at noon and take you home for dinner!”

Yang Yuyan said thoughtfully, “I can take the car home by myself.”

“No way.” Unfortunately, the newly appointed head of the jail was so unselfish that Yang Yuchan forbade her to go home by herself and had to wait for someone to come and pick her up.

“Sis, I’m already eighteen.” Yang Yuyan complained, but she shouldn’t have followed it up with, “You’ll definitely be a tiger mom when you have kids.”

Yang Yucan was so angry that her face turned red, and she left without being able to say a word.

Yang Yuyan heart rose three guilty, but she used to think that Yang Yucan’s character is too serious, will drill the bull’s-eye, but at that time, Yang Yucan has not managed her, her experience is not deep, now Yang Yucan seems to be because of the frustration in the matter of the Ma Tianbao, the family suddenly sent out a huge sense of responsibility and sense of duty, she is the youngest of the family, became Yang Yucan’s target, began to vaguely feel that they will be more than a Mom.

She was the youngest in the family, and became the target of Yang Yuchan.

The “tiger mom” was also prepared for herself.

So her guilt soon disappeared.

She was in charge of organizing the study that Professor Dai had opened for students to use, and it was said that there was another study upstairs that was Professor Dai’s own study, which was filled with the professor’s treasures, and the students were all very eager to read the books there.

But in her opinion, if she read all the books in this study, it would be enough to become a great writer.

Before organizing, she asked Professor Dai what order she wanted to put them in, and how the books were arranged on the bookcase.

Prof. Dai said that there were a few guidelines to follow: First, the bookcases on all four walls were divided by country, so books by authors of the same country were placed together.

Second, books by authors of the same idea can be placed next to each other, while books of different ideas are placed on adjacent bookcases.

Third, books by the same author should of course be placed together, and if that author is also a translator, then the translated books are also placed together. If an author has more than one pen name, then the ones she knows are together, and the ones she doesn’t know can come and ask him.

Finally, if there was anything she couldn’t figure out, she was welcome to come to him.

Yang Yuyan then began her big job of moving books.

Although the books in this study room used by the students were still very neatly arranged, most of the students would try to put them back in their original places after using them. But there are still books that are in the wrong place, and many books that may have been used in the classroom that were not put back in the bookcase in time after they were moved back, but are just stacked up on the table or on the floor or on the trolley.

Yang Yuyan starts with the books she recognizes, and it’s easy to tell if she recognizes a book: just pick it up and look at the cover.

Some of the books she has read or heard of, picking up the book is like meeting an old friend with a familiar face that she has not seen for many years, flipping through it and putting it back.

Some books are home or she has bought, that is too familiar to be familiar, greetings do not have to play, directly put back.

Some books she has not read, but at least can read the text on the book cover, she will carefully read a chapter or two before looking for a place to put it.

The last kind were the ones she couldn’t even recognize the words on the spine, or the ones that she knew the words but couldn’t read them, and she put those in separate categories to be tackled at the end.

Like an industrious little bee, she ran back and forth in this study, and in a short while she felt her body getting hot, so she took off her jacket. After a while she still felt hot, so she rolled up her sleeves. Finally, still feeling hot, she opened all the windows, and the door, letting the cool wind blow in, blowing away the dryness and the slight sweat on her forehead.

There was a knock on the door, two polite thuds.

As soon as she turned around, she saw Shi big head standing in the doorway was smiling at her.

…… So look at his head really a little big. Maybe it was the hairstyle? She stared at his thick watermelon-covered head in deep thought.

Never let Mr. Su cut this kind of hairstyle in the future!

“We’re going to start cooking, why don’t you eat here for lunch too?” Shi Wuwei walked in and said.

“No, I’ll eat at home, my sister will come to pick me up.” She shook her head.

Shi Wuwei walked over to the table and saw stacks of books neatly arranged on the long table, he picked up one and looked at it and said, “This one is by the German author Schneider, his books are over there.” He pointed to a bookshelf and said.

Yang Yuyan walked over and probed, “Oh, so that’s German.” She didn’t know German, “You know German? What does this Schneider write?”

Shi Wuwei probed over mysteriously and whispered to her, “Actually, this book wasn’t written by Schneider.” He flipped open the book’s cover and went all the way to page seven before pointing to the title on it and saying, “Reflections and Memories, this is Bismarck’s memoirs.”

Yang Yuyan felt that this was a name she had somewhat heard of, but she couldn’t recall it for a moment.

Shi Wuwei saw it in her expression and immediately said, “He was the Chancellor of Germany, a very powerful man. Prof. Dai feels that his approach might just be the right one for our country.” His young face showed both agreement and incomprehension with this statement. He believed Professor Dai’s words out of trust in him, but his own limitations prevented him from interpreting the words and the book more deeply.

Yang Yuyan: “Then what did this person do?”

Shi Wuwei flipped through the book, he had already read it many times, incredibly Professor Dai used this book precisely to give him an introduction to the German language, and it was only after he finished reading it that he realized how …… daring it was for Professor Dai to let him use this book to learn German in the first place.

The Acting Professor’s reasoning for letting him use the book in the first place was, “No one else reads this book, and you can keep borrowing it without your classmates taking it away and borrowing it.”

With everyone wanting to possess more books, these words struck him deeply!

It was only when he had struggled to read it for two years that he realized the other meaning of no one reading it: it was too hard.

He didn’t even know how he finished it.

But after reading it, probably because he had read every page no less than a thousand times, and he knew where every line of text was, he developed a deeper affection for it, and held it up as if it were a part of himself, so familiar that it brought tears to his eyes.

So he didn’t need to turn over another one to simply summarize it for Yang Yuyan, in his own words.

“This German Chancellor took Germany and fought all around him, started several wars, and made a fortune in war. And he’s very good at making money and doing business. The Acting Professor says it’s called he has a knack for economics. The professor said that after a country has money, and then self-confidence, it becomes powerful.” Shi Wuwei said in a very small voice.

He seldom said this to his classmates and never dared to say so when they were discussing. This was because he felt that the meaning of Professor Dai’s words was a bit dangerous. If their country is also going to go this way, doesn’t it mean that they also need to rely on the battlefield to find confidence, and then let the country make more money before the country will become better? The former is too violent, while the latter …… no one feels that their country is being bullied because it is poor, everyone knows that it is because their country is too rich that it has attracted so many jackals.

Although Prof. Acting’s own usual words in class were even more extreme than this, Shi Wuwei still didn’t want to say it in front of everyone.

It would definitely draw a lot of opposition.

It wouldn’t matter if he said it to Yang Yuyan, she was a few grades behind them, and even if she enrolled after spring, she wouldn’t be a classmate of his.

He finished after saying that, not expecting any comments from the young female student beside him who hadn’t yet enrolled in school.

“Professor Dai is right.” Yang Yuyan nodded lightly and said, “We’re being beaten now, we definitely need to fight back, not only do we need to beat the other side painfully, but we also need to tell our own people through the war that we’re already strong. As for money, how can we fight without money? How can the people eat without money?”

Shi Wuwei heard this novelty and did not take it to heart, thinking that Su Chunjun had told her.

He laughed, “Our country is rich, you don’t know how much silver the imperial court lost to foreign armies, do you? They beat us just for the money. When the emperor ran away, he moved all the vaults in the Forbidden City, and now it’s all in the hands of the Japanese.”

He thought this was enough to convince Yang Yuyan, but unexpectedly Yang Yuyan not only wasn’t convinced by him, but instead looked at him with the eyes of an idiot and grunted, “Money is only called money if it can be spent, what is money if it can’t be spent? Silver is just metal. Our country now is no money, is poor. Because of poverty, there is no money, no soldiers, no weapons. Otherwise, if we want to go to war now, do we have to buy all the weapons from foreign countries? Do we have to buy all the guns and ammunition? Do we have to buy medicine? Do we need to pay our soldiers? This is all money. We just don’t have any money right now.”

Shi Wuwei puffed up his chest and said, “We can also not buy them, we can learn and build them ourselves!” They were learning now so that they wouldn’t have to beg later!

Yang Yuyan spoke quickly like a pearl: “By the time you spend ten years to build it, the yellow flowers and vegetables will be cold! It’s faster to buy, buy first and fight first, buy and build at the same time without delaying each other! It doesn’t say that you can’t build it if you buy it, and it doesn’t say that you can’t buy it if you build it, so why do you have to cut off one of your own paths before you can go on it when you can go on both paths in parallel?”

Shi Wuwei didn’t want to admit that he was dumbfounded by a little girl and forced himself to say, “It’s not that we don’t have money! Our money is all snatched away by foreign countries!”

Yang Yuyan: “Then how can we snatch it back without fighting? Rely on the mouth cannon? To fight we need to use force, to use force we need to have weapons, to have weapons we need to have money, in the final analysis, in addition to guns, we do need money ah, the Qing dynasty’s money is not falling from the sky, it is also the people a point by point earned ah.”

Shi Wuwei couldn’t keep up, he stared at Yang Yuyan and muttered, “You can be much more powerful than Su Jian ……”

Professor Dai had been listening outside the door for a long time, at this time, he walked in with a smile and clapped his hands, “Alright, Big Head, this time it’s you who lost.”

Yang Yuyan and Shi Wuwei realized that there were many people standing outside the door, besides Professor Dai, there were seven or eight students, both male and female, all staring at them in the room with curious faces.

Prof. Dai turned around and asked the students, “Does anyone want to speak? Anyone with a different opinion can come out and speak.” He then turned around and pointed at Yang Yuyan and smiled, “This is student Yang, you guys don’t underestimate her just because she’s young.”

A female student then walked in and asked curiously, “Fellow student Yang, my surname is Zhuang, and my name is Wei Jian. I would like to ask you, do you have any other opinions?”

Yang Yuyan started to get nervous as soon as she saw the crowd and hurriedly shook her head, “I don’t have any opinions.”

A male student walked in right after her and said, “Hello, student Yang, my name is Fan Li Chun. I think that when we can put pressure on those countries that robbed us of our wealth through other countries in the international arena, and after they return our country’s wealth, we can slowly develop, and we don’t need to go through a war to achieve our goal.”

Yang Yuyan stared at him and didn’t say anything.

Professor Dai walked over to her side and like a leaner, gently held her shoulder and said, “Yan Yan, if you have something to say, it’s okay.”

It was only then that Yang Yuyan uttered a phrase familiar to her: “The truth is within the range of the cannon.”

Not to mention Prof. Dai, Shi Wuwei immediately shouted, “Haven’t you never read this book?” He held up the copy of Bismarck’s memoirs and said.

Yang Yuyan was even more surprised.

Seeing her blank face, Prof. Dai understood and said with a smile, “Read it somewhere else, didn’t you? She didn’t read the book and probably may not remember that it was Bismarck who said it, she should have read it somewhere else or heard someone else talk about it.” He said to Shi Wuwei, shaking his head and sighing as he finished, “The Zhu family’s tutelage is truly renowned.”

The male student could obviously understand the words, but he still shook his head, “I still think the world is reasonable.”

Yang Yuyan shook her head, she didn’t agree, she said, “If he is unreasonable, can you do anything about him? Those countries that invade us, who can punish them? If there is no punishment, why should they be afraid?”

The male student stopped talking; he didn’t know how to retort.

Prof. Die said, “There is no one to punish them, we can only do it ourselves!” He clenched one fist, “No one to beat them, we’ll beat them up ourselves! Let them never dare to come again!”

Through this unexpected discussion, Yang Yuyan managed to get to know a few of her “classmates”.

Professor Dai introduced them one by one for her.

Previously, they knew her by the nameplate “Su Chunjun’s fiancée”.

Now they knew her by her first name, “Yang Yuyan”.

One by one, they came up and said, “Ms. Yang, my name is Wang Yuyan, hello.”

“Hello, Mr. Yang, my name is …….”

The library became a new classroom, and everyone sat down for a lively discussion.

Professor Dai wasn’t so formal that he had to make everyone go back to the classroom again and let them discuss here.

School still hadn’t started today, but there were quite a few people who had returned to school now, so there were a dozen or so students in the little red building even if they weren’t in class.

Most of these students were a few years older than Yang Yuyan, two or three, four or five, seven or eight.

Professor Dai said that Yang Yuyan came to organize the bookcases automatically, earning her a lot of goodwill, so the students all went along with organizing the bookcases together, talking and chatting with Yang Yuyan at the same time.

“So you know Japanese and English.” A female student said with a smile, “That’s awesome, can you read and write and speak both?”

Yang Yuyan shook her head, “I can read and write, but I haven’t conversed with too many foreigners, I’ve only spoken to my mother, sister and Mr. Su at home, they said I can, I don’t know if I can or not.”

Another female student asked, “Are you learning Russian now?”

Yang Yuyan smiled and admitted, “Actually, Professor Dai gave me a book of poems in Russian, and I wanted to read it, so I had to start learning it. It’s kinda fun.”

The two female students and the male student behind them laughed.

The male student turned his head and said, “Then you have to be careful, Professor Dai loves to give us books when we meet, but ……” he shook his head and turned back to sigh long and hard, “you have to suffer.”

During the conversation, they learned that Yang Yuyan’s father is Yang Xuhe, and Yang Yuyan is very nonchalant to call him “that person”, and in his words, he very much despises Yang Xuhe and his new wife.

Yang Yuyan: “She was cheated. If Yang Xuhe hadn’t cheated people with all that free love and free marriage nonsense, which twenty-something girl would be willing to be married to a forty or fifty year old man?”

The male students all laughed and praised her for her wisdom.

Shi Wuwei then began, “I’ve always wondered how those old men always have young female students eloping with them. It would be fine if they were like Zhang Xueliang, who is young and powerful. What’s so good about half an old man?”

Among the female students, there were one or two who did not look right.

One of them retorted, “Love is pure, it has nothing to do with age, wealth or social status.”

Yang Yuyan immediately retorted, “That also requires the other party to be sincere. What if the other party is not in love with your soul, but only your youth and beauty?”

That female student looked at her and said through clenched teeth, “Love should trust each other, not doubt each other.”

Yang Yuyan: “If there is nothing to be suspicious about, then there is nothing to be suspicious about. But if there is something suspicious, but you close your eyes and pretend not to see it, then you deserve to be unlucky.”

The female student frowned: “Why are you talking so harshly?”

Yang Yuyan then apologized, “Well then, let’s change it to have nothing to do with people and no grudges already.”

Prof. Dai laughed when he heard this, “What a good one, have nothing to do with others, have no grudges with already. Yes, every choice in life is made by oneself, time can’t be reversed, and the road chosen can’t be turned back. When you come to the fork in the road, I hope that each of your life choices will be made in a way that has nothing to do with others and no grudges with those who have already made them.”