Chapter 20: Learning English

When Li Ya's Yangge team of their brigade came over, Li Ya's group of people shouted and cheered, and the slogans were also shouted loudly, pushing the atmosphere to **.

After a lively day, the old people decided to choose a good day to quietly worship their ancestors, but Li Ya went to his grandfather's house with a flashlight and a cart of grain on the second night. Don't look at Li Ya, who has already made a lot of corn and sweet potatoes from the space during the picnic, but there are still more than 900 catties of dry corn and more sweet potatoes in the recovered, so each of the three families also has four or five hundred catties, so that next year's grain will definitely be enough.

When he arrived at his grandfather's house and quietly hid the food, Li Ya happily told his uncle about speeding up the review. The uncle smiled happily: "You still need to say this, as soon as the news of smashing the '***' came, I knew that the college entrance examination would definitely be resumed." ”

Li Ya smiled: "This thing has to come step by step, it won't be so fast, I'm not afraid that you won't be able to wait." Uncle, how are you doing?"

The uncle thought for a while and said, "The rest is okay, but the English words are very difficult to memorize." ”

Li Ya can't help it, English first has to memorize words. Then Li Ya and his uncle combed the knowledge points together, Li Ya found that his uncle's spoken language was really poor, and said with a smile: "Uncle, this is English, not Mandarin, I will read a few sentences to you." Li Ya read a paragraph into the English book, and then said: "My spoken language is not good, but compared to the people in the village, it is much better." ”

The uncle smiled: "The owner of this set of college textbooks you found is back now, why don't we go and learn from him?"

Li Ya's eyes lit up and said, "Good thing, then hurry up, leave now." ”

Along the way, the uncle preached to Li Ya: "This is a professor at Wuhan University, named Long Chengyi, a college student in the fifties, who closed the cowshed a few years ago, and later entered the Wuqi Cadre School, and now he has been put back, but he has not resumed his work yet, so come back and see, maybe he will leave after a while, we have to seize the opportunity." ”

The two knocked on the door and shouted a few times, and only then did the door open inside, and a middle-aged man with a very poor complexion and neatly dressed stood by the door and asked, "What is the matter with you?"

The uncle hurriedly said: "Professor Long, I am Yang Cheng, the son of Yang Laifu's family, and this is my nephew Li Ya, from Siming Mountain." We've heard you're back, coming to learn from you. ”

Long Chengyi frowned and said, "I'm a stinky old man who has been criticized and knocked down, what can I teach you?"

Li Ya took over and said, "Professor Long, that was all in the past, haven't they been arrested now? We also take the opportunity of your return to learn from you, otherwise we will not find anyone to teach us when you leave soon. We've learned pretty much everything from high school, and a few months ago I found your college book in the room where the brigade kept prohibited items, and I was memorizing it in English. ”

Long Chengyi looked at the two of them for a while before sighing: "You still want to study on your own in the countryside, but those students, how can this happen? Several of my colleagues committed suicide in despair, but I am not reconciled, I have always had hope that there will definitely be a day of rehabilitation." If you dare to learn, I will dare to teach! I studied biology, and the books in the university are very backward, and there is still a lot of new knowledge that is not in them. ”

Li Ya said with a smile: "Professor Long, I plan to study physics in the future, I mainly want to learn English from you, so I don't have to worry so much about reading foreign magazines in the future." ”

Professor Long smiled: "It's a good thing that you have pursuits, but I don't understand the technical terminology of physics, so I can only teach you everyday language." ”

Uncle Li Ya smiled: "I like biology, and it is better to be able to learn earlier and learn a little more knowledge than to choose a new major." ”

Professor Long said: "Then don't talk nonsense, start now, start with English." ”

At the end of the night, Professor Long praised Li Ya and said: "You have a good vocabulary, and if you dare to learn secretly in such a situation, I have to admire your boldness." You come one day a week in the future, and you can read and practice more. As for Yang Cheng, you come every day when you have time. ”

Li Ya went home the next day and told Li's father and Li's mother, and the two of them said, "Since you are studying with others, why do you have to send some things over." They just came, there must be very little food, so send some over?" Father Li also agreed, and then took the corn to grind the flour under the big tree.

In the evening, Li Ya pushed the cart to Professor Long's house, and it happened that his brother-in-law was also there, and the two ignored Professor Long's obstruction and carried the cornmeal into the house. Professor Long complained: "I have food here, and you don't have much food, why do you bring so much here?"

Li Ya said with a smile: "Professor Long, you don't know, this year I opened a wasteland in the old forest, and I didn't manage it much, but in the autumn, I harvested a lot, enough to eat." ”

Professor Long sighed: "You are bold, but you really dare to do this." ”

Li Ya said helplessly: "This is also a helpless thing, the food distributed by the production team is not enough, I am just when I have a large amount of food, I don't want to do something, but I can't do it, and my stomach will make a revolution." ”

The brother-in-law also said: "My family and his second uncle's family have been delivered, and I won't be hungry anymore this year." ”

After entering the winter leisure, everyone also has time during the day, and they gather in piles to study, but at this time, Li Ya has time to learn to weave baskets. Make the bamboo scorn flowers, polish them, and then steam them once, so that the bamboo scorn is much softer, it is easy to weave, and the basket is also beautiful. Li Ya plans to learn to weave a box and put his clothes when he goes to study in the future, so that the luggage will be easy to carry.

While Li Ya is learning to edit, he can also explain the doubts and difficulties to others. However, it was made up and dismantled, and when everyone finished studying in the evening, Li Ya made up the bottom. Regretfully: "If I had learned earlier, it wouldn't be so difficult to make a basket now." ”

Li Yuanfang asked: "There are many people in the village who know how to make craftsmen, what have you learned?"

Li Ya smiled: "I learned this to weave a suitcase, and when I went to study, I packed my luggage, and they couldn't make it up to my requirements." You should also have one, why don't you put it in a sack when you study?" Everyone thinks Li Ya's method is good, but they have to wait for Li Ya to make it up and see how it goes.

More than a week later, everyone looked at the box made by Li Ya and pointed at it, and felt that this bamboo weaving thing was also very good-looking, Li Yuanjing said: "This box can be sold in the department store, it is much better than the other materials sold inside, and I also want one." ”

Li Ya smiled: "Do you want to find someone to make it up yourself, I plan to give this one away." I'm going to make a new one, and another picture on the top lid, so that it looks better. It's just that it's too difficult to punch holes, otherwise I would like to make a bag, which is similar to those leather bags of other people, and it is very elegant to hold books. "Girls can also make backpacks and handbags.

When the Chinese New Year was approaching, Professor Long received a letter from the school, asking Professor Long to return to the school. Li Ya gave the first box he made to Professor Long, and said, "Professor Long, you have taught us for so long, and there is nothing for you, this box is made up by myself and sent to you to load things." ”

Professor Long touched the box and said, "Well done, there are two wheels underneath that you can pull and walk." It took a lot of time, didn't it?"

Li Ya smiled: "This is the first box I learned to weave, and it took some time. Later, I made up a better one, and I also made a picture on the lid. So hehe, I'll give this to you. ”

Professor Long smiled: "That's it, if you make a picture on it, it won't be suitable for people of my age." With such a good style of box, I won't be envious of it if I bring it to school?"

Li Ya smiled: "Then count the letters, count them as cheaper, ten yuan each." ”

The uncle smiled: "Ten yuan is still cheap?"

Li Ya said: "If this is exported to foreign countries, there are many people who buy it for ten dollars, and people just like this kind of handmade handicrafts, and they can't buy it if they have money." ”

Professor Long also smiled: "The economy is indeed much more developed, and the labor price is also expensive. ”

When he came out, Professor Long said: "You won't have to send it tomorrow, I will come back in the future, and I will retire and come back here to retire." ”