Chapter 73

Yang Yuyan was worried that she would be questioned by Prof. Dai, because she hadn’t read at all during her day off, and she didn’t remember many of the words and phrases she had learned earlier.

But what she was worried about didn’t happen!

Because Professor Dai was giving a math class today.

Spanning from the Nine Chapters of Arithmetic in ancient China to Archimedes. There was no textbook. For the first time, Yang Yuyan learned about Archimedes, who was a Greek, and whose achievements were not only in math, but also in theology, astronomy, physics, and human anatomy, as well as politics.

Her knowledge of Archimedes had taken a quantum leap this morning! She guaranteed that if anyone ever mentioned Archimedes to her again, she wouldn’t just think of the phrase “Archimedes’ Principle”, but she would also review in her mind the fact that Archimedes, the pioneer of mankind, possessed wisdom that transcended the ages, as well as superb luck and political literacy, had managed to escape from all kinds of roundups and captures for half his life. After all, at a time when everyone thought the world was a flat plane, when everyone believed that the gods controlled the rising of the sun and the setting of the moon and lived in the sky, you suddenly told everyone that the emperor and the government were wrong, which was shaking the foundation of the country! If not you, then who?

When Prof. Dai said this, all the students underneath laughed heartily. Yang Yuyan because of his young age, was authorized to sit in the first row of seats against the wall, right under the eyes of Professor Dai, distraction is impossible to be distracted, Professor Dai from time to time to look at her, said that when the funny place will look at her to laugh, and he spoke for thirty minutes at least to make everyone laugh a dozen times, how can she be distracted? How could she be distracted? Wouldn’t she not be able to hear the funny parts?

However, Professor Dai’s lectures are really bold, he occasionally interspersed with a few newspapers or the government on the matter, the words are full of pungent, attracting laughter at the same time, but also thought-provoking.

For example, when the gendarmes suddenly appeared on the streets after New Year’s Eve, Prof. Dai said, “The soldiers have to come out to work after New Year’s Eve, which is really too hard. Luckily, the adults were kind enough to let them spend the New Year’s Eve at home.”

The crowd laughed again. Everyone knows that the adults are more willing to sing and dance, no one is willing to work. As for whether it was because of the sympathy from above that things were done after New Year’s, or whether the adults were not happy to have to work hard at New Year’s and miss out on collecting their money, this was clear to everyone.

By the way, she had learned a dozen Greek letters, which were mathematical symbols and certain elemental symbols, which meant that when she memorized them she had learned three in one sitting! This was really good news for the school dropouts, she could see how much cuter those letters became when she looked at them again.

At the end of the class, Yang Yuyan just couldn’t get enough of it, she had never felt that class time had gone by so fast before. The students didn’t want to leave the class, begging Professor Dai to speak for a while longer, and she felt the same way, tapping on the table and stomping her feet along with everyone else, playing the trick of not wanting to leave the class.

This kind of thing was simply unthinkable in the past!

Even when Ms. Su was in class, she didn’t want to get out of class.

What kind of student likes to go to class?

Today, she, the authentic scum, was able to experience this once-in-a-millennium wonder.

Professor Dai glanced at his watch and said, “Then let’s talk for another five minutes.” He thought for a moment and said, “Let’s do it this way, each of you name a few of your favorite books to read, so that we can all share what we have, and all take this opportunity to expand your own book lists. But first things first, you can borrow books from your classmates, but you can’t force them. Any book will do.” His eyes flicked around the classroom and Yang Yuyan’s heart lifted, and sure enough he looked over.

He grinned, walked over and sat on her desk, saying cordially, “Yan Yan, the books you usually read, casually tell everyone a few. Just say the ones that impress you the most. Any book will do, let’s relax now, no need to be too serious.”

The eyes of the entire classroom focused over.

Yang Yuyan was instantly nervous, but Professor Dai was right beside her, invariably bolstering her courage, and she didn’t want to disappoint Professor Dai’s hopes, so she gave him a tentative look.

She didn’t want to disappoint Professor Dai, so she gave him a tentative look.

She has not read any serious books, all novels.

Professor Dai reread, “Any book will do.”

Yang Yuyan thought for a moment, the last novel she read was that Chinese and Western combination of Romeo and Juliet. So she said this one.

The whole story is very simple, it’s about two young men and women who fall in love, get torn apart by their families, and agree to kill themselves. Compared to the real Romeo and Juliet, it’s certainly more interesting.

For example, Romeo becomes Mr. Law, known as the Idle Willow Dweller. Juliet became Juliet, and there was a Red Queen by her side.

All the students who have seen the West Wing or read The West Wing laugh heartily.

Of course, not everyone among the students has read Romeo and Juliet, seen The Western Wing or read Yingying’s Tale.

There were others who had seen a play, but had never seen a piano.

What Yang Yuyan found funny did not resonate with everyone.

Shi Wuwei, for example, had never seen a play, let alone The Western Wing. He had only heard of opera in his hometown, and that was only when there were celebrations and funerals in the same village; he had never been to a theater after he came to the city, and that was a place for young men and young women, and he couldn’t afford to pay for a ticket to go there. He was not exposed to Western literature until after college. He knew Shakespeare, but he had never read Romeo and Juliet. He knew the piano, but he hadn’t heard much of it.

She said that the piano and Erhu playing together made her laugh, and only three or four people in the whole classroom laughed with her.

If Prof. Dai hadn’t been with her, she wouldn’t have dared to continue.

After listening, a female student asked her, “Why do you find this story laughable? Perhaps it has many shortcomings, but aren’t their feelings touching?” She was still holding a handkerchief in her hand, and apparently had even cried just now after hearing that the lovers in the story had killed themselves.

Yang Yuyan had been unable to resist looking at her since a while ago, and at this time, hearing her ask a question, she also wanted to ask her, “Was what I told you so touching? Why are you crying?”

Her wide eyes showed that she was really asking from the bottom of her heart, without any pretense at all.

Because in the entire classroom, excluding those who didn’t understand, she was the only one who cried, and some of the remaining girls just felt a little embarrassed to hear this kind of story about a man and a woman falling in love and having a private meeting, and a few of them blushed and lowered their heads. This she could understand, but she really didn’t think her narration was that contagious.

Still, it was really thanks to this girl who was listening to the story attentively, otherwise she wasn’t sure she could have lasted through it.

The students in the classroom went to look at this female student again, and the female students beside her hurriedly patted her shoulder and arm to comfort her.

Professor Dai made a gesture and looked at the female classmate gently, “I’m also curious, why?”

That female classmate had long since calmed down, she looked back at her concerned female classmates before answering Yang Yuyan, “Because it’s so hard for them to hold on to their feelings, no one understands them. You can’t understand either, right?”

Yang Yuyan nodded, “Right.”

The female classmate shook her head, “Then I don’t need to bother with more words.”

Yang Yuyan frowned, she hated being disliked, right now she felt disliked, probably this was inherited from her previous life’s mouth cultivation, the hostility she brought from her previous life made her unable to vent it out until now.

She raised her voice and said heavily, “Killing yourself is the stupidest thing you can do, as long as you live, it’s only possible to end up with the love of your life, and I don’t think that love is that important, there are a lot of things I want to do in my life, and I’m going to go and kill myself just because my love with a man didn’t work out? Never.”

A few students in the classroom gently applauded. Shi Wuwei was also applauding, he and many of his classmates wanted to make a career now before they would study hard, nothing could make them give up their efforts.

Love was never the most important thing.

Nowadays, newspapers are always advocating the freedom of love, the sanctity of love, the feudal society oppressing people’s free will and such things.

Prof. Dai said that this is because people in the newspapers do not dare to tell the truth, and that the “love” they talk about is not really just love, but is a substitute for many things.

It is not love that is free, but “freedom”. Feudal society does not just oppress the freedom to pursue love, it oppresses too many things, which are too many things can not be discussed in a dignified manner, so can only borrow the mouth of “love” to express their views.

On behalf of the professor looked at the female students, and then averted his gaze: “Now many people take advantage of this shareholders wind, will be benevolent people in the mouth of the love of love in a narrow understanding of male and female love, a convenient, you have to have the ability to distinguish.” However, after he finished speaking he smiled and said, “I’ll only interject this one sentence. You guys go on, go on.” He said to the female classmate, “Yang Yuyan has already stated her opinion, so don’t be shy and share your opinion with everyone.”

The other students all looked at the female student, Shi Wuwei led the way and said, “Tell us about it, class discussion is not relevant.”

The female student thought for a moment, organized her words, and said, “Because none of you understand how strong the pressure from the family is. They will constantly force you to follow their will. And when you do listen to them, every step in the future, you will only be able to follow their words, and you will never be able to have a mind of your own.”

She hung her head down, seemingly overwhelmed.

The classroom became silent and oppressive. Perhaps it would have been easier to shout slogans, but no one could relate to another person’s pain, so none of them could speak in her place.

And as they read in this windowed classroom, each one of them had a difficult pain of their own. It was just that the others hid it deeper and went unnoticed.

Yang Yuyan remained silent for a while and said still firmly, “But killing yourself is still the stupidest decision!”

The female classmate glared at her angrily, “You’re not them, how do you know what kind of suffering they’re going through? It’s certainly easy for you to stand aside and say so!”

Yang Yuyan thought of Miss Jin at this moment, perhaps this female classmate had encountered the same situation as Miss Jin.

If it was Miss Jin, what should she do? Is there only one way out, to kill herself? If she doesn’t kill herself, how can she break the trap?

YANG YUYAN: “If it was the young man and woman in this story, their love was opposed and they had to marry each other and could not see each other again.” She paused and said in a loud voice, “But their parents will surely die before them!”

The classroom was silent.

Yang Yuyan knew how treacherous these words were, and that probably her reputation would be over.

But she was afraid that this female classmate would actually choose to kill herself. If she had encountered the same thing, if she had gotten into a corner, if she thought it was easy and romantic ……

She consoled herself in her heart, anyway, the newspaper said anything, this is supposed to be a hundred times, the old gods broken, the new gods have not yet been established, the group of devils and demons …… She has a Yang Xuhe as a pro father, say anything, all counted on his head.

“They can wait, and they will absolutely wait until that day. After the people or things that oppressed them are no longer there, if their love is still there then, then they can be together.”

The shock of these words was big enough, not to mention the fact that they were spoken by Yang Yuyan, a little girl who was even younger than them and appeared to be a lady of the house.

Everyone was thinking, and no one spoke for a while.

The female students obviously did not think that there is this “who will live longer than” option. After all, love must happen at the age of youth, if you can’t be united with the love of your life, then the love will be broken, if you are forced to be united with someone else, then the love will be even more shattered.

She shook her head and stammered, “That, that’s how! That would …… be love!”

“It wouldn’t be love?” Yang Yuyan asked her back, “Unless you both change your hearts by then, of course you can be together. Or must you be in your teens and twenties, when you are both young and beautiful, but also both pure body, love can be complete? Is it pure love that you seek, or is it the one you love? When you are old and gray, and he is full of wrinkles, can you not love each other?”

The female student was dumbfounded, obviously, she was greatly stimulated.

Yang Yuyan did not take advantage of the situation, after all, this is just a “classroom discussion”.

Prof. Dai glanced at his watch and announced, “Class is over.” He patted Yang Yuyan’s shoulder and said, “Let’s go, I’ll find you two books to read!” He looked around, signaling her to keep quiet, “Let’s not tell anyone, I’ll give them to you quietly.”

In college, books were the most valuable of all. Yang Yuyan instantly comprehended it, and like a Sun Monkey, she pretended to follow Prof. Dai as if nothing had happened.

All the students went out one after another, the female student was left at the end, she absentmindedly packed her things, and when she looked up, she could no longer see Yang Yuyan.

Shi Wuwei walked over and called out to her, “Are you looking for Ms. Yang Yuyan?”

The female classmate glared at him in an unfavorable manner, “What’s it to you?”

Shi Wuwei: “Although she is young, she has a point. Are you still not convinced? Or are you convinced and want to find her to discuss it again?”

The female classmate threw her book bag, didn’t answer a word, and went straight out of the classroom.