Cheng Mi smiled: "Well, that's good, I just called to look for you, I want to confirm the time when you are in school, I think if you want to participate in the language intensive training class I contacted here." ”

Slightly relieved, Zheng Jianguo shook his head and refused: "Forget about the training class, when I was in transit and being interviewed, I found that I could understand most of the English, and considering the medical English I really want to learn, you may not necessarily teach that training class, but I want to call home, and before I came out, I said that it was discipline and I didn't even have time to say goodbye to my parents——"

"As far as I know—"

The smile on his slightly dark face gradually faded, and Cheng Mi looked at Zheng Jianguo before he wanted to open his mouth to say something, but when it came to his mouth, it changed: "Of course the phone can be used, you can go to the front desk to call, I also asked someone to leave the phone number for you, don't forget to call someone back." ”

"Good!"

Zheng Jianguo looked at the magic watch on his wrist, and found that it was already half past six, and after calculating the time difference in his heart, he turned around and locked the door to the front desk, and heard a voice next to him: "Zheng Jianguo, I will go directly to the cafeteria to eat later." ”

"Okay, Captain!"

Blink of an eye at the captain who had greeted him, Zheng Jianguo said to the young man sitting at the front desk: "Hello, I want to make a long-distance call to my family to report safety——"

"You are?"

The young man's fair face flashed with a look of scrupulousness, and a pair of eyes swept over his chest and found that there was no national emblem, so he said, "You are Zheng Jianguo?"

"Yes!"

Zheng Jianguo nodded and finished speaking, the young man quickly picked up the phone and said with a smile: "Then you give me the number, I will help you call to ask for the number, I am afraid you will not call the country-"

"Good!"

Quickly unfolded the address book in his hand and put it in front of the young man, Zheng Jianguo originally thought that he would dial it quickly, but he didn't expect the young man to directly use the English balabala call, and then changed to Mandarin to start asking for the number, and when the phone was about to come down, ten minutes had passed, but after he took it, he only listened to the other side for a long time and no one answered, and he couldn't help but have a thought in his heart: "At this point, the cadres of the brigade haven't gone to work yet?"

Zheng Jianguo's home doesn't have a phone, and at this time, even Zheng Donghua's dormitory administrator didn't have a phone, otherwise he could have called, and when he wanted to put down the phone after a circle in his mind, the phone on the other side had already been answered, and a panting voice came: "This, this is the Sanlipu Brigade, you, where are you-"

"Guo Zhishu, hello, I'm Zheng Jianguo. ”

Thinking about hanging up the phone to Kou Qingkai after he really couldn't get through, Zheng Jianguo suddenly opened his mouth and said cordially, only to hear the tone on the phone was a little wrong: "Jianguo, you scared me to death, I thought there was a big deal to call so early, how did you live in Qicheng?"

"Secretary, I'm in Washington, D.C., and I want you to call me my father. ”

Zheng Jianguo inexplicably felt a sour whirl from the bottom of his heart and then swing away, and when he was about to rush into his nose, he only heard the voice in the microphone suddenly increased by dozens of decibels: "What? Go to the United States?! You kid - this is an international call, you kid is in the sky, you wait for me to call you dad." ”

"Okay—"

Before he finished a word, Zheng Jianguo listened to no movement in the microphone, and just when he was full of apologies and wanted to say to the young man that he wanted to spend more money, a faintly familiar loudspeaker voice came: "Doctor Zheng, Doctor Zheng, your grasshopper has called you from the United States, hurry up, he is abroad!"

"Huh-"

The picture of Guo Zhishu shouting with a loudspeaker flashed in his mind, and Zheng Jianguo also remembered that his father Zheng Fugui and Du Xiaomei went to the commune clinic and the other went to the commune junior high school, and the two of them were no longer at home, and Guo Binghe's voice came when he hesitated: "Grasshopper, wait a minute, I shouted with a loudspeaker, your father shouldn't have gone to work yet, but I can't say, it's just how did you go to the United States, didn't you go to school in Qi City?"

"You didn't read yesterday's People's Daily, did you?"

As Zheng Jianguo spoke, the young man in front of him quickly found a newspaper, flipped through it and put it in front of him, stretched out his finger and pointed at a photo, and he said: "On the right side of the fourth edition of the "Art Exhibition to Commemorate the 85th Anniversary of the Chairman's Birth in Beijing", "China's First Batch of Visiting Scholars to Study in the United States Left Beijing"——"

Before Zheng Jianguo's words fell, Guo Binghe's yelling voice suddenly came from the microphone: "You were received by the big leader?"

"Yes, I came by plane that night after I saw him. ”

After Zheng Jianguo finished speaking, a voice came from the microphone: "Branch secretary, branch secretary, where did the grasshopper go?"

"Ask him yourself. ”

A faint voice came, and then Guo Binghe's voice sounded: "Your father is here, I won't delay your grandfather's chatter." ”

"Thank you. ”

Zheng Jianguo looked at the newspaper in front of him and said, and then a familiar voice came from the microphone: "Grasshopper, Grasshopper, where are you? Are you in the United States? How did you get there? How do you think about going?"

"Dad, I was appointed by the state to study. ”

Trying hard to suppress the sourness that appeared in his heart, Zheng Jianguo ignored the direct gaze of the young man in front of him and said, and listened to Zheng Fugui in the microphone and was obviously relieved: "Ah, it was appointed by the state, then you have to study hard, well, why don't you say it to your family in advance——"

"Grasshopper—"

Du Xiaomei's voice faintly came from the microphone, Zheng Jianguo frowned and thought about how to tell her, when he heard Zheng Fugui's voice coming: "The gnats went to school by the state, not by himself-"

"That's good, that's good. ”

Du Xiaomei's happy voice came, Zheng Jianguo couldn't help licking his lips, and then Zheng Fugui said in the microphone: "The country has appointed you out, just study hard, your mother and I don't have to worry about it, by the way, the last time the chicken was killed by He Dana's mother and put it at our door, but it wasn't poisoned, your friend Luo Gang asked the public security comrades to give her a beating, your mother saw that she was a poor widow, just, forget it-"

"Forget it, just pay attention to your mother and you. ”

Hearing that there was no poison in the chicken's stomach, Zheng Jianguo breathed a sigh of relief, just looked at the curious face of the young man in front of him, and quickly said: "Dad, it's not easy for me to call you here, this is still for people to help call, if it's okay later, I'll write a letter to my family, if the leading cadre of the brigade dares to be crooked, you let the fourth sister go to Luo Gang to deal with it, just say I'll let her go to find it, you give the phone to my mother." ”

"Okay, if the leading cadre of the brigade dares to be crooked, I will let your fourth sister go to Luo Gang to deal with it, okay!"

Zheng Fugui's loud voice came, and Zheng Jianguo knew that his father said this for other people in the brigade department, so he felt that his father had also made significant progress, Zheng Fugui didn't know so much about the form of use before, but his idea hadn't disappeared yet, and Du Xiaomei's voice came: "Grasshopper, Grasshopper?"

"Mother-"

Before he finished shouting a mother's word, Zheng Jianguo's eyes instantly turned red, but fortunately, at this time, Du Xiaomei's voice in the microphone came: "Grasshopper-"

"What kind of grasshopper, let's call it Jianguo. ”

Zheng Fugui's voice came faintly, Zheng Jianguo listened to Du Xiaomei's voice in the microphone, and then said: "Grasshopper, you have to study hard outside and listen to the teacher's words, don't have conflicts with your classmates, by the way, you know about my mother going to work in the commune junior high school, right?"

"I only know that you went to work at the commune junior high school—"

Zheng Jianguo raised his eyebrows and directly denied it, he didn't know if Zheng Donghua had told Du Xiaomei about Kou Bin, if he said that Zheng Donghua asked Kou Bin to find someone to solve it, it would be considered to find out the relationship between the two, but his idea has not disappeared, Du Xiaomei has already spoken: "Your fourth sister said that your father's work was done by someone else, so she asked her friend to help her mother find a job as a handyman in the commune junior high school——"

"Okay, the fourth sister said, don't worry about this matter, then I'll ask the fourth sister how to repay this favor, mother, I'm going to hang up here, the cost of long-distance calls is too high, you and your father should pay attention to your body when it's cold——"

I didn't expect Zheng Donghua to tell my father and mother about this, even if Zheng Jianguo was relieved, the favor of these two old people always asked him to repay it, the difficult thing is how to mention this matter to the two old people, I can't say that my father and mother have found a place for the two of you to work, and you will be considered a working class in the future?

This may be possible in a few decades, but at this time, it is a little disregard for the old man's face, although it is a kind of ability to say it, it is better to be in this state, hearing this, Zheng Jianguo is about to put the phone on the phone: "I gave the fourth sister a passbook, you remember to ask her when she goes home." ”

"Then I won't say much, you're paying attention outside alone, hang up-"

As Du Xiaomei's voice disappeared, Zheng Jianguo also put down the microphone, only to see the young man take the microphone and put it away, only then did he remember that there were still some things that had not been said, the luggage sent to Zheng Donghua and the letter forwarded or something, but thinking about it, it was not too important, and immediately smiled and said: "Thank you, I'm sorry for your trouble." ”

"You're welcome, this postcard is for you, take two and send it to your family. ”

The young man said and took out three postcards from the drawer, Zheng Jianguo took them and nodded: "Thank you! I have to call Harvard Medical School back, can you help me find it?"

"Oh, so you're the youngest graduate student—"

The young man looked stunned and quickly opened the notepad next to him, found the latest record, picked up the phone and said, "Then I'll call you, but they may have already left work, and the Americans here are more punctual about time, and they will get off work at the end of the day——"

As he spoke, he picked up the microphone with his left hand and began to dial with his right hand, and after the young man quickly dialed it, he heard three busy tones from the other side, and said: "Generally, if no one answers three times, it means that no one - oh, it's through." ”

"Hello, I'm Zheng Jianguo—"

Hurriedly took the microphone from the stunned young man, Zheng Jianguo quickly said in English, and then heard a slightly eager voice from inside, but I don't know whether it was deliberate or original, the English speed that came out of the microphone was much slower: "Oh, Zheng Jianguo, if you don't call again, I'm going to get off work, are you convenient to talk now? I have a few more private things to talk to you about——"

"There is no problem with this, sir. ”

Zheng Jianguo looked at the curious young man in front of him, as an outsider, it was naturally impossible for him to let people avoid it, after all, he had troubled people to help contact his family before, and if he opened his mouth at this time, it would be too much.

"Hi Zheng Jianguo, I'm the school's school secretary, Cormit Brody. ”

The speed of the voice on the phone was still slow, especially in the interval between words, Zheng Jianguo also understood that people were taking care of him, of course, because of the consideration of whether the original speed of the school secretary could be guaranteed to understand, he also pricked up his ears to listen to the voice coming out of the microphone: "Zheng, please allow me to congratulate you on the publication of your research results in "LA", which is a height that many doctors with medical licenses have not been able to reach, so the school specially arranged for me to be responsible for your study and life in medical school.

Considering that your native language is not English and that you have a strong oral language problem, I have decided to include a significant part of your language study in your curriculum after you have completed the admission process, which of course does not generate credits, and in view of your existing clinical knowledge, the college has decided not to limit the grade level at which you enter the school.

However, the college requires that if you want to pass the medical school graduation certification, you need to get enough credits according to the requirements of the college, so as to ensure that you can make targeted learning after admission, such as medical English involving drugs and equipment in the foundation, you need to follow the first-year students to study this part of the course, and pass the assessment.

After all, although we at Harvard University have enough authority and status, we still hope that you can stand on the starting line with other college students when facing the physician review process required by national law, which will be of great benefit to your learning and future career growth——"

"We welcome you here, but we don't want you to enjoy more privileges than other students in the school!"

Zheng Jianguo's mind flashed through this long list of English meanings, and he felt that this decision was obviously not something that the school secretary could decide, although he didn't know that in the Harvard management system, the school secretary was usually the vice principal, and according to the list of school board members, he was the fourth in command after the president, the treasurer, and the provost.

Hearing the other party's voice, Zheng Jianguo also spoke: "The purpose of my choice of Harvard this time is to study and continue my research, if it is just what you said, I think it is still fully taken into account my conditions, thank you very much, I am willing to accept this request of the school." ”

"That's great~"

The voice in the microphone said a little cheerfully, as if to confirm that Zheng Jianguo did not continue to speak, and then a voice came out of the microphone: "Assistant Teacher Zheng Jianguo, when do you plan to go through the admission procedures?"

"I want to be as soon as possible—"

Zheng Jianguo glanced at the young man in front of him, and then continued to speak: "If you can go through the enrollment procedures as soon as possible, you can also complete my studies as soon as possible, how do you feel about tomorrow?"