Chapter 85

Zhang Ma deliberately went outside for a while before coming back, so that Zhu Yanshu could interrogate Su Chunjun.

She realized that it was almost time, and if she didn’t go back, it would be too late to make lunch, so she returned to the Zhu family building with a basket of vegetables.

When she went upstairs, Su Chunjun was long gone, and only Zhu Yanshu was at home.

She is not good to go directly to ask, first put the dishes into the kitchen, packing dishes and then pretend to come out and ask: “Mrs., how many dishes to do at noon?”

Zhu Yanshu was drawing up the guest list, put down her pen and said, “It’s just for our family, just make three or four dishes.”

Zhang Ma asked, “Mr. Su has already left for work? When did he leave?”

Zhu Yanshu: “About an hour ago.”

Zhang Ma sat her butt on the chair next to her and asked, “Did he make it all clear? What does his family do? What do his parents do? How many siblings?”

Zhu Yanshu sighed softly, “I said I made it clear, but it’s not much use.”

Zhang Ma asked, “What’s going on?”

Zhu Yanshu whispered, “His mom died a long time ago, and his dad married someone else. He still has an older brother and a married sister in his hometown. He stole out on his own, and changed his last name.”

Zhang Ma was shocked, “It’s hard to see, Mr. Su is so bold!”

Zhu Yanshu said, “However, fortunately, his family is far away, and we can’t be involved if anything happens.” Although we can’t take advantage of the situation, but we are not being held back either, so the calculation is just about even.

Zhang Ma: “Then the engagement matter, their family can not come?”

Zhu Yanshu shook her head.

Zhang Ma anxiously said, “Then who will take the position of the male parent?” It can’t just be Zhu Yanshu, that would be too much of a shame.

Zhu Yanshu: “Mr. Su is trying to ask the headmaster to take over for him, he said he’s going to ask Professor Dai. It wouldn’t be a shame if Prof. Dai and his principal could come.”

Zhang Ma wasn’t too satisfied, but there was nothing she could do about it, letting out a breath and frowning, she said, “That’s the way it has to be.”

Zhu Yan Shu laughed: “Think positively, Yan Yan will not have to serve her in-laws, not have to entertain her sisters-in-law, not have to be bullied by her great aunt.”

Only then did Zhang Ma feel better, “This is more or less the same.”

Zhu Yan Shu added: “I told him about the engagement, and not surprisingly, he said he would arrange the banquet, and that he might want to invite some of his colleagues and superiors, and that it would not be possible to order fewer banquets, and that he didn’t know how many tables to order. I didn’t insist with him, after all, our family’s little money can’t book too good a place.”

Zhang Ma: “He should have paid for it! He can’t afford not to get a penny out of it! He’s still living in our house.”

Zhu Yanshu smiled and said, “That’s good, he’ll pay for the bulk of it, and we’ll only care about the new clothes and jewelry, which won’t cost much.” She picked up the letter paper on the table and raised it, “Look, I wrote the names of so many guests, and invited them all over! Have a good time!”

Zhang Ma, who could not read or write, also went over to look at the paper and saw two long rows of names written on the paper, and laughed, “I should, I should, I haven’t been in contact for many years, so I’m just taking this opportunity to get in touch.”

After the death of the old man Zhu, Zhu Yanshu and many old friends of the Zhu family are disconnected, one is to observe filial piety, the second is that the old man Zhu has no son, only Zhu Yanshu this remaining daughter, but also has married someone. Although Zhu Yanshu hasn’t left yet, the Zhu family’s tea is almost cold. What’s more, Yang Xuhe is a useless thing, can not top the family, also can not shine the lintel, and finally let Zhu Yanshu made a big scandal, as a deserted wife, not to mention Zhu Yanshu is not willing to take the initiative to contact the old friend, is the old friend took the initiative to contact her, is she going to wish the family’s old friend to cry about the family scandal?

Now it’s not easy for Miss Yang to find a good young man as her son-in-law, Zhu Yanshu can finally raise her eyebrows.

This is the best time to contact old friends.

When you’re down and out, you don’t ask for help, but when you’re up and down, you’re willing to meet with your old friends.

Zhu Yanshu felt that Zhu Laozi did not leave her with good things, and left her with this poor love of face, really not a good father.

However, she did not disgrace the Zhu family, her father in heaven, can also feel at ease, right?

Yang Yuchan ran all morning, panting back, things down to hurry to pick up Yang Yuyan. There are more and more gendarmes on the street now, so I really don’t feel comfortable letting Yang Yuyan, a little girl, come back by herself in the car.

Yang Yuchan hard morning, ran four hotels, two newspapers, a young lady not out of the chamber of the wedding of every aspect of the surprisingly began to know as well!

She entered the door first pour down half a pot of herbal tea, holding the pot directly to the mouth, cups do not use, bold and natural!

Zhang Ma saw that she was going to talk about her, but Zhu Yanshu just smiled and said, “My girl is considered to have worked hard today, Zhang Ma, at noon, make a dish that big sister loves to eat.”

When Zhang Ma saw this, she took off her apron and said, “Big sister loves chops, I’ll go downstairs to buy ribs.”

Yang Yucan drank her fill of water, put down the jug and wiped her mouth, said to Zhu Yanshu, “Mom, I’ve written down all the morning runs in my book, take a look, I’ll go pick up Yan Yan first.” She glanced at her watch and was about to leave.

Zhu Yanshu called out to her, “Take a break, it’s okay to be a little late, your sister won’t run around.”

Yang Yucicang: “No, Prof. Dai’s place eats lunch very early, so it’s fine if Yan Yan helps out, but if I’m late, she’ll just go straight to the table and eat. Then she won’t be able to eat anything when she comes back at noon.”

She still took her wallet and quickly went out, Zhu Yanshu personally sent to the door, greeted her to be careful on the road, before turning back.

See how skillful her methods are! Now Yang Yucan is busy, a heart is full of things at home, she is busy worrying about her sister, Ma Tianbao has long been thrown into the back of her mind.

This is also because the Ma family now lives in the Zhu family downstairs, Zhang Ma a day to go down to see a time, eat, drink and take medication all worry, there is no need for Yang Yuchan to do what the point.

Yang Yucan got into the car and urged the yellow bus all the way to the school to pick up his sister, to the small red building, saw Yang Yuyan no fuss with other students sitting on the steps, one side also put a dozen shovels, covered with dirt, it seems to be the morning did not study, went out to labor.

She stood outside and called out, “Yan Yan.” With another wave, she saw Yang Yuyan immediately get up from the steps and turn back into a lady.

Yang Yuyan couldn’t even say anything to her classmates, rushed back to get her book bag and ran out, waved to her classmates, and left with Yang Yucan.

She now said she was going to school, but in fact she only came for half a day every day. In the morning, she followed Prof. Dai’s small classroom, and whatever the other students taught, she also followed. Outsiders thought that Professor Dai’s class must be very difficult, but in fact it was not that difficult, Professor Dai’s lecture was very grounded, but he grounded at the same time unconsciously told the foreign insights, just like in the gossip, but everyone listened to it as if they were mesmerized. After class, all the students would gather together to discuss what they had learned in class, and they could not discuss for a day more than what Prof. Dai had taught in one class.

It was a strange thing.

How can a person not have a single word of nonsense?

A professor could have the essence of every sentence in class, then it was no wonder why he was so popular with the students.

Yang Yu Cicada led Yang Yu Yan out and routinely asked her about her performance in class, “Did you speak in class today?”

Yang Yuyan felt that she was especially like an elementary school student who had been picked up from kindergarten by her mother.

When Yang Yuchan gave birth to a child in the future, her child would definitely not want to have a single secret!

She had already experienced it for her future nephew or niece now: this was a tiger mom, no doubt about it.

Yang Yuyan said confidently, ”I think Professor Dai likes me a lot. It’s not for the sake of Mr. Su and the Zhu family’s collection. He really likes me.”

Professor Dai’s fondness manifested itself in the fact that he often intentionally passed topics to Yang Yuyan in class and guided her to speak.

The result of doing so was that Yang Yuyan now had no stage fright at all. This was completely different from the first time she came to Little Red Mansion, where her back would break out in a sweat if she was stared at.

Yang Yu Cicada didn’t disbelieve her, she already felt that Yang Yu Yan was very good, even if she was anorexic in the past, it didn’t stop her from being a smart child.

She nodded: ”Then you have to perform well. What did Professor Dai lecture on today?”

Yang Yuyan: “Sister, you won’t believe it …… Professor Dai spoke about the relationship between Britain and France today.”

How did Prof. Dai talk about this today?

He is the first to talk about China’s tea, and then led to the Qing government’s tea policy, when the Qing government was relying on tea to earn millions of two hundred silver oh.

These millions of taels of silver caused the students in the classroom unanimously regret.

It’s all about money!

It is easy to come up with an equation: money equals the ability to pay soldiers, buy weapons for soldiers, and resist invaders!

If we had a strong force back then, maybe the country wouldn’t have become what it is now.

But instead of going deeper, Prof. Dai went from tea to England, and then from England to France, and then later he started talking about the relationship between England and France all the time.

To most people, Britain and France are both foreign countries, as if they are good enough to wear the same pants all the time. However, Prof. Dai said that England and France had been at war for a century because their countries were very close to each other, separated by a strait, and during the time of the rise of maritime trade, England seized this opportunity to develop its national strength, while France, because its only coastline was the one next to England, was equal to the fact that if it wanted to be a sea robber as England was, it had to cross over the watchdog that was England. The end is obvious, France was British cap, cover a hundred years, perfect miss the golden age of the development of maritime trade.

And before that, France, because it is on the continent, the development has always been better and more superior than the island country of Britain, in a long time, Britain’s official language is not English, but French.

Prof. Die: “France has been strong for centuries, but because it failed to seize the moment, it is now lagging behind Britain. And it failed to seize the moment not through its own fault, but for geographical reasons. At least mostly for geographical reasons. France was strong and stable before because of geography, and now it’s falling behind because of geography, why do you think that is? And how are we to avoid such a thing?”

This question, he had everyone in the classroom answer, including Yang Yuyan.

About this, Yang Yuyan also had her own understanding, and of course, many of these feelings came from the keyboard battles of the latter days.

She said, “The reason why our country was beaten is because we had already conquered all the enemies on this continent before. After there were no more enemies, we didn’t need to progress any further, and that’s why we lagged behind the West, and that’s why we were beaten.”

This argument was new. At least no one in the classroom had heard it before. All they had been thinking about was the corruption and backwardness of the Qing government.

Yang Yuyan continued, “When we become powerful later, how are we going to avoid becoming like Britain and France, then there is only one way: take out Britain. Then we won’t become France. Only after we are the single most powerful fist on this continent can we have true peace and happiness.”

These words took Dai Yushu by surprise, he patted Yang Yuyan’s head and said, “I didn’t expect that you, a small woman, would have this ambition.” He laughed and clapped his hands, “I would really like to see the day when our country becomes the overlord of this continent again! That must be very, very beautiful!”

All the people in the classroom clapped their hands together as their eyes sparkled with light and a dreamy smile of anticipation.