"Disband!"

With the instructor's order, Zhou Yingzhuan pulled the foot board that focused on a thousand catties, and entered the cafeteria weakly, and the roommate Zhuang Ling next to him pulled her hand and almost didn't tear her down: "Come on, your pen pal is here." ”

"You almost fell on me~"

Protesting against Zhuang Ling, Zhou Ying slowly came to Shen Tiejun's table, looked at the soup and vegetables on it and sniffed: "Thank you, Shen Tiejun." ”

"Eat quickly, go back and rest well after eating, the afternoon will be difficult. ”

Shen Tiejun was a little speechless, he completely forgot Zhou Ying when he made the suggestion, otherwise he couldn't let his daughter-in-law suffer this crime, he originally thought that he couldn't catch up this year, who knew that he reported it directly after passing the meeting, I don't know which bigwig's eyes, in September 1980, in various universities in Yangcheng, military training was in full swing, and the result was that Zhou Ying was unlucky.

"I heard from the seniors that there was no military training before~"

Zhuang Ling's skeleton was thin, seeing that there was food and drink on the table, and knowing that this and Zhou Ying were not outsiders, she hurriedly picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of braised pork, then stuffed it into her mouth and closed her apricot eyes, and her little face showed a satisfied look: "Well, it's so fragrant~"

As if infected by Zhuang Ling, Zhou Ying had a little appetite, picked up the chopsticks and stuffed a piece into his mouth, then heard the rumbling stomach, and looked at Shen Tiejun with a red face: "You eat?"

"Well, I've eaten it, you eat it. ”

Shen Tiejun said that looking at the eyes of people coming and going, in more than a month, his hairstyle has been saved, his sideburns and green hair are thinned and combed back, lined with a non-standard melon seed face, giving people a very visual impact of ruffianism, the fly in the ointment is that there are a few small pimples on his broad forehead, which can be regarded as revealing his true age.

It is naturally impossible to wear a navy blue vest with such a hairstyle, instead of a cotton short-sleeved plaid shirt bought by Zhou Weilin, with khaki suspenders and brown leather shoes, in Li Guiju's eyes, it can be regarded as evolving from a gourd baby to a foreign teacher.

The reason for this is because Yangwai finally introduced a foreign teacher, and due to business cooperation, Wei Yixian's company came forward and recruited Catherie from England to Yangwai, who is proficient in English, French and Italian Chinese, and serves as a grammar teacher for English and French classes.

Blonde, blue-eyed, high-nosed, deep-eyed, casually tied her long hair behind her head, wearing a floral dress and stepping on high heels, Catherine was already familiar with the intentional or unintentional gaze of others, holding her stainless steel dinner plate and glancing at the noisy dining hall, the skirt fluttered with the twisting of her waist, and when she arrived at the target, she put the rice bowl on the table, and her voice was crisp: "Jimmy, have you eaten?"

Similar to a few small pimples on Shen Tiejun's forehead, Catherly's tall nose was adorned with a few small freckles, looking at the steak and vegetables on her plate, Jimmy was the English name Shen Tiejun gave himself, and said: "Teacher Catherly, I've eaten it, how are you doing, are you still used to it?"

Nodding at the two girls next to her, who were obviously students, Catherine sat next to the two, holding a knife and fork and smiling: "Life is much better than Hong Kong Island, but the steak they make is a little too raw, I like to eat fully cooked, but look at this, is there seven medium rare? And there are no feminine products in the store, many people have never even heard of it, I plan to go to Hong Kong Island to buy it when I am rest~"

"Feminine products?"

A word flashed in Shen Tiejun's mind, and then he glanced at Zhou Ying who was full of question marks next to him, the two of them have been communicating in English since they greeted each other, and they couldn't help but be a little glad when they came back to their senses, and they were also surprised by the open-mindedness of these international friends, colleagues of the opposite sex can talk about privacy things so frankly, and said: "I can help you reflect this to the school." ”

"Thank you then!"

Catherie pinched the knife, fork and chopsticks, quickly cut the beef on the plate, and then clumsily picked up the chopsticks, like a toddler slowly picked them up, opened her mouth and took it, with a triumphant smile on her face: "Well, that's great! Well, Jimmy, your pronunciation just now is a little stuffy~"

I have listened to the correct pronunciation with my ears pricked up, which is why Shen Tiejun doesn't want to contact her, and he has to pinch his nose to communicate, the concept of republican English is still proposed by him, even if he is ready not to go abroad, but in order to increase his knowledge, he also has to learn, so he chatted without a sentence.

You have come and gone to ask for advice, Catherine has a general understanding of the young teacher, although the food is not very palatable, it seems to eat slowly but not slowly, full of curiosity: "Jimmy, do you have a religious belief?"

"No~"

Shen Tiejun subconsciously spoke, quickly remembered the poem he had written, and then smiled: "Do you believe in hope?" ”

"Many nights we have prayed earnestly~"

With a look of disappointment on her face, Catherine put down her knife and fork and said, "I thought you and I were both the Lamb of God, but your prayer is a figurative manifestation, I can't imagine how terrible a person without faith can be, well, I'm not saying you're terrible, I mean that-"

"I understand what you mean, maybe my expression was not very appropriate, I don't have your kind of faith based on some kind of religious ritual, but I have an imprint from the depths of my soul, and this imprint seems to me to be my "faith".

This stigma requires me to do what I can and cannot do, and I need to bear the price of what I can't do, and in terms of the constraints it embodies, it is very similar to most denominations. ”

Shen Tiejun's brain is running at a high speed, and the door to change has been opened, and any friend who enters this country will more or less feel the backwardness of this country, and the all-round criticism from material to spiritual has caused a group of people to lose confidence in this country.

Catherine looked curious, she still couldn't imagine this: "Jimmy, I can't understand-"

"In most denominational beliefs, the existence of prayer can help people solve their troubles~"

Shen Tiejun carefully worded, and for the first time found that his English vocabulary still had a big shortcoming, and said: "In the legend of the 5,000-year-old civilization of the Republic - the sky is broken, our ancestors refine stones to make up for the sky, the flood comes, our ancestors dig rivers and dredge, when they are sick, our ancestors taste all kinds of herbs for elixir, and the sun in the sky is so much that it roasts the earth, then shoot down a few;

Someone once asked, "What do you think is a meaningful thing," and what I answered was that a meaningful thing is to live a good life, and when the person asked what a good life is, I answered him - do a lot of meaningful things.

I feel that this attitude towards life is the foundation of the Chinese nation's continuation for 5,000 years, that is, my current belief, which is not given by any invisible and untouchable god, but by countless Chinese ancestors in these 5,000 years.

Therefore, when we worship our ancestors, we will bow and worship, and after the sacrifice is over, we will eat what we should eat and drink what we should drink. ”

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