Because of Shen Tiejun's relationship, the brothers and sisters of the Shen family are no strangers to foreign countries, and when he was still studying outside Yangcheng, he could hear or see his descriptions of foreign countries from time to time, until Shen Daliang was recruited to Yangcheng, and he also successfully graduated to the imperial capital, so that the Rubik's Cube began to transport information back and forth, and he had a clearer understanding of foreign countries.

Shen Tielin's letter has the word "study abroad", Shen Tiejun originally wanted her to study hard, and then give her the big satellite when the time comes, but now such a score is still so small - it is just her description of those good students in the school, everyone's goal is to go out, as if she can become different when she goes out.

In fact, Shen Tiejun didn't explain to Shen Tielin that the words of the Nobel Prize that could still appear in the letter last year also disappeared in the letter from the two this year, as if they had never appeared, but he had these in his heart, but he hadn't found what he wanted by the middle of 81, so he could only wait hard: "Then let Xiao Wu repeat his studies for a year, and lay a good foundation while he is young." ”

"She's a big girl now, and you have to communicate with her. ”

Shen Damei put away the books and went to the kitchen, Shen Tiejun shook his head and threw these words to the back of his mind, after his grandson Shen Lei was born in his previous life, he was used to not being the same, and when he didn't distinguish between feces and urine, he carried out the so-called quality education - reasonable.

Reasoning with a three- or four-year-old doll?

The flesh of his heart once appeared, Shen Tiejun couldn't remember his face clearly, and the faint sentimentality in his heart was pressed before he appeared, the fate was gone, no matter how much he said, he was just asking for trouble, not to mention three or four years old, there are still people who don't know what to do at the age of twenty-three or four!

"Is there anyone at home?"

Shen Tiejun just picked up the pen and wrote, there was a voice outside the door, Shen Damei in the kitchen served rice, although she and Shen Tiejun are northerners, but they don't think about the big steamed bread pasta or anything, but the rice is more and more delicious, so that it has become a staple food, after putting it down, when I look at it in the yard, I can't help but stop breathing slightly, and I feel that the world has changed color, and my face is curious: "You are——"

"I'm Tong Min, is Shen Tiejun at home?"

Tong Min stood silently next to the shadow wall, the tall figure was wearing an emerald green dress, the black and translucent hair was tied behind his head with a leather band, the high ponytail was draped around the snow-white neck, and an emerald green belt was tied around the waist to tie a bow on the back waist, showing the towering mountains and the waist of Yingji, and the snow-white feet were stepping on a pair of simple transparent sandals, standing there like a beauty in a fashion magazine, with a pair of ripples in the apricot eyes, wanting to say goodbye.

"Tong Min, you're getting more and more beautiful. ”

When Shen Damei appeared in the courtyard, Shen Tiejun naturally arrived at the door of the hall, but he was disturbed by the feeling of heartbeat, it is said that he has experienced the great health care of his previous life and the skin kiss of Chu Dazhao, there should be no more such a feeling similar to heartbeat, his eyes flickered and swept over the mellow mountains, so he blamed this feeling on the smell of meat, and immediately said to Shen Damei: "This is my third sister Shen Damei, this is my outside the sheep - friend, 79 graduate student Tong Min, Tong Min, have you eaten?"

"I didn't eat it, but I came with Miss Catherine, and she was afraid that it would be rude, so she asked me first. ”

Tong Min's gaze swept over Shen Tiejun, a white shirt and jacket, a vest and pants of the Prince of Wales, a pair of bright leather shoes on his feet, a pair of black eyes with affection, and a brilliant dahlia blooming on his snow-white face: "Or, I'll call her in?"

"I'll go with you. ”

Catherine is a foreign teacher outside the sheep, Shen Tiejun doesn't want to give people any handle because of his own negligence, the guest comes to the door, how can he be greeted at the door, a few steps to the shadow wall, only to find that Tong Min has not only become more beautiful, but also seems to have grown a lot taller, and he can't help but be amazed in his heart, the height of Chu Dazhao also seems to have risen in a short period of time: "You are a lot taller than before——"

"Well, I've been exercising and running for 20 minutes every morning. ”

Tong Min raised her hand to gesture as she spoke, in fact, she didn't have to compare, and she knew that she was not much shorter than him, and then she smiled and exhaled like a lan: "When you are still growing now, remember to eat more things with bone marrow, don't eat it when it hurts, it will be too late." ”

The dress is short-sleeved, Tong Min said and waved his snow-white arms and gestured, with a lot of trembling and turbulence in front of him, at this time there were few girls wearing bras, which made Shen Tiejun's eyes shrink, and a nameless fire suddenly appeared in his heart, and he immediately raised his eyes, not wanting to see Zhang Wan's amorous side face, so he quickly turned his head and swallowed his spit: "You and Catherine are on vacation?"

"No, we are here to complete the English project of the Republic, and we have followed the railway from Yangcheng all the way to the north, which is almost the same for now. ”

Seeing that Shen Tiejun didn't dare to look at herself, the corners of Tong Min's mouth drew an arc, she came from major colleges and universities all the way, and many students of the opposite sex didn't even dare to look at each other, of course, she didn't think that this person's psychological quality was insufficient, but that there was a ghost in her heart - thinking about it, the smile on her face became brighter and brighter.

The concept of Republican-style English was proposed by Shen Tiejun, and later given to Tong Min, Professor Lan and Li Guiju did not express their opinions, and he learned from her letter after he went north, as if he had found Wei Yixian's way to sponsor: "It seems that you can have a good time this summer, and your graduation thesis has been chosen?"

Sideways with Shen Tiejun out of the door, Tong Min spoke: "On Conrad's Narrative Technique." ”

"How did you remember to study Conrad? His works are all tragic. ”

Shen Tiejun's graduation thesis topic at that time was a bit flattering, William Gelding's "Lord of the Flies" almost began to read it before he entered the school, but that's the case, he didn't get a high score in the graduation defense, and finally gave a good evaluation, that is, he was covered by the halo on the door of his head: "What, what are you going to spend two years to prepare?"

"Recommended to me by Teacher Cathery, Condela was a Roman Catholic since childhood, but he doesn't recognize any religion—"

Tong Min arrived at the door without finishing her work, Catherie was wearing a dark green dress, her hair was obviously permed, and the big waves hung down next to her fair cheeks, so she changed her words: "Teacher Catherly, we are not looking for the wrong place." ”

"Hello Teacher Catherly, welcome to the Imperial Capital. ”

Shen Tiejun looked Catherine up and down, and the latter also looked at him with a surprised face, and his voice was full of surprise: "Oh, Shen Tiejun, you have changed too much, the Prince of Wales's clothing, have you just come back from abroad?"

Catherly's voice fell, and a few bicycle bells came from the distance, and the two bicycles stopped one after the other, Shen Tiejun found that the two girls looked over, and they didn't care about greeting Catherly, so they hurriedly said hello: "Brother Xi, Brother Yu." ”

Xi Yuan turned over and got off the bicycle, his eyes swept over the two girls and Shen Tiejun at the door, and said with a smile: "The documents that Guoguang took from you two days ago will be sent back to you now, if it's okay tomorrow night, brother, I'll be the east, let's go to Lao Mo to sit?"

"Forget it, Lao Mo, it's better for us to eat our own people than to go to Quanjude. ”

If Yang Gang came to invite, Shen Tiejun would definitely bring a sentence that it is not easy for you to make money, but he didn't dare to say this with him, and then said: "There are no outsiders." ”

"Brother Gang took them away, otherwise they must all be called, that is, the two of us have public offices, and if we want to go out, we have to say hello in advance, okay, then according to what you said, we will leave first." ”

As soon as Xi Yuan spoke, Yu Guoguang handed the black document bag in his hand to Shen Tiejun, who took it and didn't look at it, followed two steps to send the two away, turned around and looked at the two women and said, "If you haven't eaten, just make do with me here?"

"Then bother. ”

Catherly smiled generously, Tong Min also laughed, the previous person left a deep impression on her, a pair of eyes turned to the streamer, and said crisply: "I don't want to see people's faces anymore, smaller restaurants have this or that, larger restaurants can't afford to eat, a standard meal of twenty or thirty." ”

"That's why you followed Catherly. ”

Tong Min uses English, which is to take care of Catherly beside her, and Shen Tiejun can only speak in English, this foreign teacher has been in China for more than half a year, and he will only have some simple Chinese, especially the simplified Chinese characters have caused a little trouble for her, who is already familiar with traditional Chinese characters.

Nowadays, there are some individual restaurants operating on the street, after all, the first restaurant also entertained 2-level cadres during the Chinese New Year, which is affirmed by the state, so those who have that idea also follow suit, but subject to ticket restrictions, the meat is almost always duck-based, because this thing does not want meat tickets.

There are also chickens, fish, meat and eggs that don't need meat tickets, but the price is generally much more expensive than ordinary ones, and the purpose of pouring these things is to make money, not to eat enough and have nothing to do, but also to risk being caught by the city management committee to serve the people.

In addition, Catherine followed by Tong Min, you can know that she is an international friend at a glance, the set meals in the major state-run restaurants are prepared for friends, and it costs ten or twenty yuan for breakfast, and about thirty or forty yuan for lunch and dinner, and you can eat very well for three or four yuan on the street.

Of course, as a foreigner, there is no way to find the two, Shen Tiejun carried a black briefcase and brought the two into the yard, Shen Damei was standing at the window of the kitchen and looking out, and saw that there was a foreign friend with him, thinking that it was the same as that Alxi, he shook the water in his hand and went to the door: "Why don't I fry two more dishes?"

"No, it's a matter of adding a pair of chopsticks. ”

Tong Min said heartily, and smiled at Shen Damei: "There are no outsiders." ”

"Well, there are no outsiders, this is my grammar teacher Miss Catherie outside the sheep. ”

Shen Tiejun nodded, he could feel Tong Min's overflowing feelings—although she hadn't said a word related to feelings from beginning to end, he hoped that it was caused by his own illusion, and looked at the dishes on the table in the kitchen and said, "What about Master Li?"

"You were in there just now, Wang Le was called away by Lin Yang, saying that there was something, Master Li and Master Zhao said that they would not come back at noon. ”

Shen Damei looked at the three dishes and one soup on the table, braised pork ribs, green peppers, stir-fried meat, radish and beef offal, and the soup was tomato and egg drop soup, and as she spoke, she picked up the lid of the pot and began to serve rice, turned her head to look at Tong Min, who was washing her hands by the pool, and said, "Tong Min, Tie Jun said earlier that you are a master's student?"

"Well, Sister Mei, I'm a master's student at the level of 79, I heard Tie Jun say that you and Xiao Wu are both college students in the first year after the resumption of the college entrance examination, it's time to graduate, right?"

Tong Min finished washing his hands and saw Catherine start to wash, swept over a towel hanging next to him, and said quickly, "Common?"

Shen Damei's eyes flickered and pointed to the hanging towel, and said, "Well, this one belongs to the Iron Army, and this one is mine." ”

"Teacher Catherly, will you use this?"

Tong Min picked up Shen Damei's towel and handed it to Catheri, who had washed her hands, and picked it up Shen Tiejun's and used it, and subconsciously said, "His towel is still so clean-"

"Huh?"

Shen Damei was stunned, Shen Tiejun asked Chu Dazhao to call her sister, at that time it was to show the relationship between the two, and now when she saw Tong Min's overflowing feelings, she knew that her younger brother was not a simple one, this girl looked at him before, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, only talking about her education and appearance, this person named Tong Min is higher than that Chu Dazhao, I don't know how much, but no one is rich-

Fortunately, Shen Tiejun is not short of money, after a few months of living together, Shen Damei once asked Wang Le how much he had in savings, but the result was not to mention Wang Le's outsiders, not to mention the money abroad, even he himself did not know: "Tiejun said that the opportunity to work is available at any time, and now the opportunity to take the postgraduate examination is rare, so I am ready to apply for graduate school, and I am preparing for the exam now." ”

There are three women and one man in a room, and the lowest education is not Shen Damei, but Catherie, who graduated from college, but this is a teacher, and what he talked about during the meal was around the aspect of learning, and it happened that Shen Damei was studying at the Foreign Affairs University, which was also one of the purposes of Tong Min's trip.

Chinese English has existed behind closed doors for more than half a century, especially in the last 30 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there is not much problem with official dialogue, after all, they are all the elite of the elite, but in the field of education, the pronunciation difference caused by the accent of each place alone is enough to attract attention.

Of course, there is also this problem with changing English to Mandarin, but it is to turn on the TV to see and listen, and at this time, the bigwigs also speak with a little rural accent from time to time, after all, it is a young and young old man who has left his hometown, and the hometown accent is difficult to change.

Writing down the pronunciation and ambiguity of a word in a notebook, Tong Min glanced at Shen Tiejun, who was sitting next to him eating silently, his eyes were as tender as water: "Tiejun, how did you study in the Academy of Social Sciences?

"Yes, it's self-taught. ”

Shen Tiejun put down the chopsticks he was holding, he rarely spoke when eating, but at this time, he couldn't help but speak, looked at his pretty face, and then said: "But I'm working now, and I'm a working doctoral student, and I didn't tell you in my last letter." ”

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