Chapter 269: Discrimination
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With Ms. Lily's shout, everyone froze, including the security guard named Smith, who was still on his knees, but he was no longer screaming, as if he had forgotten the pain.
Smith's eyes widened, looking at the scene in front of him in disbelief, he couldn't believe his eyes at all, he couldn't figure out why Ms. Lily knew that Chinese, could they really come to Mr. Principal to go through the procedures? But even so, Ms. Lily shouldn't know it, right? You know that there are so many people who come to Harvard every year, if she wants to know each one, then I'm afraid her head will explode long ago.
In fact, not only Smith couldn't figure it out, but even ~~~m Zhou Ming didn't expect it, Zhou Ming also looked at her in surprise and asked, "I am Zhou Ming, this Ms. Lily, do you know me?"
"Yes, Mr. Zhou Ming, you are a special guest of Mr. Principal, he said that you may come in the next few days, I was also fortunate to see your photo at Mr. Principal, I was originally going to the hotel to meet you, but I didn't expect you to come so early, I'm sorry. ”
Ms. Lily replied slightly apologetically, at this time she had recovered from her initial surprise, and she had only found Smith kneeling on the ground, and she asked in surprise, "Mr. Zhou Ming, what is going on?"
"It's nothing, it's just a little misunderstanding, it's okay, I don't mind. Zhou Ming said and said to the security personnel on the ground, "Mr. Smith, am I right?"
Smith was about to refute, but he saw Ms. Lily's eyes, so he immediately nodded and said, "That's right, Ms. Lily, I just had a little misunderstanding with Mr. Zhou Ming just now, it's good that Mr. Zhou Ming doesn't mind, please take him to Mr. Principal, if I delay something serious because of me, then I will go to hell!"
Ms. Lily's eyes were puzzled, and she didn't even believe a single punctuation mark in their words, but there was one sentence that Smith was right, that is, it was more important to take Zhou Ming to see Mr. Principal now, so she didn't bother with these things and said to Zhou Ming: "Please Mr. Zhou Ming come with me." ”
As she spoke, Lily took Zhou Ming and them into the principal's building, and watching them walk into the principal's building, Smith slowly got up from the ground, muttering very obscurively: "What's the matter? These damn yellow-skinned people, they only deserve to eat poop, how can they be qualified to see Mr. Principal? These yellow-skinned little bitches, they must have used some shady means, they are so bad!"
Smith was scolding very uncleanly, and he couldn't help but scold, because the situation just now was obviously that he was injured, but he still had to pretend to have a smiling face to thank Zhou Ming for not minding, as if this was a great gift to him, how could this not make him annoyed?
But as he was scolding, he felt a sudden pain coming from his lower body, as if he was retaliating, and he immediately reached out and covered his underneath.
"Damn yellow bitch, let me see you again next time, or I'll have to push you into the Charles River to feed the fish, oh grass, it hurts me, my eggs are ......"
When Smith was worried about whether he could still be humane at the door, on the other side, Zhou Ming and the others had already followed Ms. Lily to the principal's office, Ms. Lily knocked on the door first and went in to report the situation, and only came out after a while to invite Zhou Ming in, Zhou Ming nodded to her and thanked her and then pushed the door in.
According to what I learned in advance, the current president of Harvard University is named Lawrence, and he has been the president of Harvard for 20 years from 70 years to the present.
The principal's desk was not facing the door, but was divided into two rooms by a partition, and Zhou Ming followed Ms. Lily around the partition before actually entering the principal's office.
Lawrence was sitting behind his desk, he was short and stocky, and he didn't wear glasses, and when he saw Zhou Ming, who came in after Ms. Lily, he asked, "You are the Chinese Zhou Ming, right? As far as I know, you should have twenty-five more students." ”
Zhou Ming knew in his heart, this Lawrence was worthy of being a veteran of the history department, and it was as serious and stereotypical as the rumors, not only did he not have a smile, but he didn't even ask himself to sit down, of course, this was also because he didn't have any identity in front of him.
Zhou Ming will think that these are naturally not dissatisfied with Lawrence's performance, but he has been in the business world for a long time, and Zhou Ming has become accustomed to adopting different language methods according to the other party's personality, so it is less easy to cause any misunderstandings.
"Hello Principal Lawrence, I'm Zhou Ming, I did bring twenty-five students with me, but considering that it was inconvenient, I let them stay outside. Zhou Ming replied succinctly.
"But if you don't bring it, how do I know how many of your students you have to go through?" asked Lawrence.
Zhou Ming shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, Mr. Lawrence, if you insist, I can call all my students over, but I don't recommend this, because people come and go is not good to Mr. Lawrence, so I'd rather Mr. Lawrence, you criticize me and say that I am not sensible." ”
Lawrence thought for a moment and said, "Since it's inconvenient, forget it, I trust you." ”
From Lawrence's words, Zhou Ming has the bottom in his heart, Zhou Ming just guessed that Lawrence is a very strong person from Lawrence's invitation to the performance, and he can only be obedient to this kind of person, but if he doesn't go his way, he will be very unhappy.
"Thank you very much Mr. Lawrence for your trust. Zhou Ming said.
Lawrence then took out a piece from the drawer and handed it to Zhou Ming and said, "This is your entry letter, which was signed by President Walsh himself." ”
"What? Is it a sign signed by President Walsh himself? Do I need Mr. President's approval to get into Harvard?"
Although he has experienced a lot of surprises since arriving in the United States, this time, Zhou Ming was still surprised.
"This is indeed signed by Mr. President himself, because we have always been very strict in admissions at Harvard, and I'm sorry to say that we have never admitted more than five Chinese at the same time, so this time your country sent twenty-six at once, if it wasn't for Mr. President personally signing the order, I think neither I nor the board of directors would allow it." ”
Lawrence paused here and then said: "Of course, there is another thing I need to remind you of, I don't know what kind of dirty deal your country has made with the White House in order to send you here, but Harvard is a sacred place, it is a place for Xi, we will give Mr. President a face, but if you don't behave well in any way, or your Xi is very unqualified, then the school still has the right to expel you at any time!"
After Lawrence finished speaking, Zhou Ming did not answer immediately, but paused for a while before saying: "Please rest assured Mr. Lawrence, we will not let you down, then we will leave first." ”
After Zhou Ming finished speaking, he picked up the document signed by the President of the United States on the table, and when he was about to leave, Lawrence said again: "Another point, according to Mr. President's order, we at Harvard University only accept twenty-six Chinese students, if this number is exceeded, then I'm sorry, I will kick you all out, so please don't play any tricks." ”
Regarding the last warning given by Lawrence, Zhou Ming still replied with "Please rest assured Mr. Lawrence, we will not let you down".
Walking out of the principal's building, the security guard named Smith was gone, but no one cared, Huang Yi was more concerned about the piece in Zhou Ming's hand, he said excitedly: "It's incredible, it turned out that we came to the principal's building here to get a copy signed by Mr. President himself, this is amazing, you are a special Harvard!"
Zhou Ming glanced at him, but didn't reply to him, but turned his head and asked Ye Ning on the other side: "What do you think?"
Ye Ning shook her head lightly and said, "This Mr. Principal really looks down on people, and the last words he said are simply us, saying that we will be empty, as if we are rare." ”
What Ye Ning said was actually what Zhou Ming thought in his heart, just now from hearing Lawrence say the first sentence of admission strictness, every sentence of his words annoyed Zhou Ming, what is never admitted more than five Chinese, what is it called to Mr. President? What is dirty political dealing? And that sentence that has the right to be expelled at any time, isn't every sentence of this sentence discriminating against Chinese? Just like Smith at the door.
It's just that Lawrence, as the president of Harvard, speaks more tactfully and nicely than Smith, but in the final analysis, discrimination is discrimination.
Huang Yi also heard Zhou Ming and Ye Ning's anger, he sighed and said, "Teacher Zhou and Ye Ning are the same, there is no way to discriminate. ”
Hearing Huang Yi say this, Zhou Ming and Ye Ning turned their heads to look at him, and Huang Yi continued: "After all, the United States is the most powerful country in the world, and Harvard University is the top country in the world. ”
"If we are lagging behind now, will we be lagging behind for the rest of our generation?" Ye Ning said immediately.
Zhou Ming raised his hand and asked Ye Ning not to say anything, because Zhou Ming heard the helplessness in Huang Yi's tone, Zhou Ming said to him: "It seems that you and our Chinese compatriots are not in a good situation here, but just like Ye Ning said, we are falling behind now, but we will not lag behind forever, we are here now, we are here to strive for self-improvement, to catch up with or even surpass these Western countries, so that they no longer dare to discriminate against us, are you willing to work together?"
Zhou Ming stretched out his hand to Huang Yi as he spoke, Huang Yi was stunned for a moment, then shook Zhou Ming's hand vigorously and nodded and said, "Yes!"
Huang Yi's accumulation made Zhou Ming feel very happy, but Zhou Ming didn't expect that the goal they had just set would suffer a major blow soon after.