Chapter 4 Only Youth Exists
The teacher and the four seniors were still sitting behind their desks, watching the mother and daughter gradually move away.
The teacher said to the four students: "Collect the stall, students, you four have worked hard today, go, the teacher is in for a treat!"
The five people got up and began to clean up the table, put away the folding sun umbrellas, and the five people silently cleaned up in the warm yellow light, and no one said a word. A university should be such a place, a place to educate people. Many universities have been reduced to vocational training centers in the rolling tide of business, which is not only the sorrow of universities, but also the sorrow of a country and a nation.
This is a teacher, a student, and a classroom that only a university can have. A real university is also a classroom on the side of the road, and those universities that are not universities, no matter how modern a classroom is, are not classrooms, but just a workshop for cultivating craftsmen.
On this welcome evening, who are the teachers, who are the students, who are the lessons?
The old auditorium, with its blue bricks and tiles, cornices and arches, but on the front is four large Roman-style columns, built in 1932, during a turbulent era when East and West prevailed. Neon strips outline the spectacular silhouette of the cornices.
"This auditorium tastes so good!" Pan Hong said to her daughter.
"Then let's go in and have a look. Jingru knew that her mother was very excited, but Jingru couldn't fully understand her mother's feelings at this moment.
Only people who aspire to go to college but have never gone to college can appreciate the complicated taste of being on a college campus. However, today's Pan Hong has been in a state of excitement, although he lost his mobile phone when he was crowding the bus today, and he was blocked on the overpass when he took a taxi.
The mother and daughter placed the box on the steps, and stroked the pale turquoise Roman columns with both hands, stroking the old green bricks that had been somewhat weathered. The mother and daughter came to the entrance, "Can we go in and have a look?" Jingru asked the security guard of the auditorium.
"The auditorium is an old brick and wood building, a listed building, you can only stand at this door and look inside, of course, you can go in when there is a big event in the future. β
The mother and daughter duo entered the auditorium, stood at the gate, and saw that it looked like a big movie theater, with rows of seats, covered with purple velvet seat covers, and a purple velvet curtain hanging from a high place on the big stage in the distance. On the second floor is a ring of stands, which are also lined with rows of seats.
"It's so delicious!" Pan Hong sighed again, Jingru quietly accompanied her mother, not daring to speak, she was afraid of disturbing her mother's experience.
They walked out of the auditorium and thanked the security guards.
Jingru then said: "This auditorium was designed by a teacher who returned from studying in the United States, so there is a perfect combination of Chinese classical architecture and Western architectural elements. I heard that the university teacher was still very young at the time. Jingru seems to have become a senior who introduces the history of the school, and her mother Pan Hong seems to have become a new student who has just entered the school and knows nothing.
"Sometimes, I wonder why the new campuses of some new universities look like high-rise buildings and modern buildings, and the decoration is shiny, but the only thing that lacks the flavor of the university is that. Pan Hong said with emotion.
"Mom seems to be a master architect with a lot of thought. β
"Don't put a top hat on your mother, silly girl, your mother is just casually talking about her feelings. β
"It's so profound, just say it! How else do you feel?"
"Many of the so-called building designers today have technology but no culture, knowledge but no thoughts, fame but no feelings, and most of the buildings they design are designed to cater to the tastes of decision-makers. β
The mother and daughter came to the front of the dormitory building while talking, and followed the guidance of the aunt in charge of the building, and the two found the dormitory very accurately.
As soon as the door was pushed, the five girls had already arrived. Everyone's bed and desk are cleaned up and tidy, of course, the purpose is to leave a good first impression on others, as for a month later, it must be the original form, the pig's must still be a pig's nest, and the dog's must still be a dog's kennel. Of course, on the whole, the boys' dormitory will definitely be more like the mansion of the second senior brother in "Journey to the West" than the girls' dormitory.
"The six golden flowers in our dormitory have finally arrived!" Huang Rongrong, the self-proclaimed head of the dormitory, immediately shouted when she saw Jingru.
"My name is ......"
"Your name is Pan Jingru, you don't need to introduce yourself, the five of us have been chanting your name all day, it's dark, and I haven't seen you come to the dormitory. β
Pan Hong hurriedly explained: "I was stuck in a traffic jam on the road, and I walked around the campus just now, so I came to the dormitory late." β
"Jingru, Auntie, let's introduce ourselves to the five of you. Xiaomi, you introduce it first, I'll bring Jingru's luggage in first. Auntie, please be seated, Grasshopper, you pour Auntie a glass of water, disposable cup in my drawer. β
The girl named the grasshopper hurried to pour water. Xiaomi began to introduce herself to Jingru: "My name is Mo Xiaomin, a native of Huai'an, Jiangsu, and I was just renamed Xiaomi by Huang Rong, the head of the dormitory, this morning. Since everyone agrees with this name, I will be a minority and obey the majority, so I will call it Xiaomi. β
"My name is Guo Yuanyuan, a native of Datong, Shanxi, and I was forcibly renamed Gnats by the bureaucrat of the head of the dormitory. β
"Next. The head of the dormitory shouted.
"My name is Lin Yu, a local. Lin Yu, who is fat like a sumo wrestler, introduced himself, "Don't call me Lin Daiyu, Lin Daiyu died too early, and her name is unlucky." β
βNEXTONE.β Huang Rong changed to English and shouted at the bed that had closed the curtains.
The curtain slowly opened, and a cold beautiful girl holding a GRE English book showed her head. She took off the headphones stuffed in her ears, "My name is Mary, my surname is Ouyang, and I am in Jimei, Xiamen." Then he quickly plugged in his headphones, closed the curtains on his bed, and hid in the hut to form a unity.
"Next, my name is Huang Rongrong, everyone calls me Huang Rong since I was a child, and I was the first to come to our dormitory, so I appointed myself the head of the dormitory, and I can change my election in the future. Huang Rongrong introduced herself.
"After that, everyone took more pictures of each other, and when I saw everyone, I felt that I was 20 years younger. Pan Hong said to everyone with a smile.
"Auntie, you haven't had dinner yet, if you go to Xuewu Canteen to eat, you have to hurry up, it is estimated that it will close soon, and you don't have to think about morning and evening when you go to eat outside the school. Huang Rong reminded.
"Mom, let's put down our luggage first, and then make the bed after eating. Jingru said to her mother.
"Okay, let's go down first, classmates. β
"Auntie, goodbye!" several girls said goodbye to Pan Hong.
When Pan Hong and Jingru walked out of the door of the dormitory building, they heard Huang Rong's shout coming from the window behind them: "Jingru, go to the five canteens, don't let the most beautiful waiter eat." β
Pan Hong and Jingru stopped, turned their heads to look at Huang Rong who was lying on the window and shouting loudly.
"Why?" asked Jingru with her face tilted.
"That woman, the seniors call her a beautiful snake, her face is like a peach blossom, and her heart is like a poisonous snake. Give the least food to the students. Remember, remember, my seniors asked me to convey it to every new student. β
"Thanks, remember! You've relayed it to the whole building now!"
"Okay, you guys go quickly, I hope you don't run into that beautiful snake. β
"Where are the beautiful snakes? We have all kinds of beautiful snakes here!" Suddenly, someone in the boys' dormitory opposite shouted.
"Beware of snake venom!" Huang Rong actually started a wireless conversation, but it was not electromagnetic waves that conveyed the sound, but air waves.
"Snake venom can be pharmaceutical. β
"What kind of cure?" cried the grasshopper to the window.
"Lovesickness!"
Pan Hong stopped and quietly listened to the dialogue that only youth has.
Jingru stopped, Ren's mother stood there, in fact, Jingru's stomach had already transmitted hunger signals to her brain along the nerve lines, but this hunger signal was blocked by excitement, and her intestines kept gurgling and wailing.
"These kids are really interesting. Where is the Xuewu canteen?" Pan Hong realized that the top priority of the mother and daughter was to solve the problem of food and clothing.
The bright Xuewu cafeteria was already empty, and the masters had begun to wipe down the counter to clean up the pots and spoons, the two walked in, Jingru charged the meal card at the bar at the door, and her mother immediately took out a stack of money and handed it to the waiter, who looked up at Pan Hong, "It's a little too much, Auntie? β
"Isn't it okay to charge more?" Pan Hong asked.
"Absolutely. β
"Mom, do you want me to be a pig? I can't get married, you have to raise me for the rest of my life. Jingru shook her mother's arm and said.
"Raise it for a lifetime, raise it for a lifetime, anyway, I don't drink milk powder and I don't wet the bed, and my mother can afford to buy radish pickles. β
At my mother's insistence, I still filled all the stacks of money into the meal card.
Mom ordered fish-flavored shredded pork and a portion of rice, which was Jingru's favorite food, and Jingru ordered red braised crucian carp, which was her mother's favorite food. Jingru asked her mother to sit still, and went to the counter to bring it to her mother one by one, and Jingru brushed two more bottles of yogurt. Ran to the door of the restaurant and took two pairs of chopsticks from the sterilization box, the faint purple light in the sterilization box was always on, and the chopsticks were still hot when they were pulled out.
"As soon as you enter the door of the restaurant, take your chopsticks first. Pan Hong began to educate her daughter, "so that you don't have to run back to get chopsticks after eating, saving precious time." β
"That makes sense, Mother. Jingru fished out a crucian carp and stuffed it into her mother's mouth.
"This chopsticks are hot, they must have been sterilized, the management of the university canteen is still very regular, the restaurant tableware outside is generally not sterilized, the disinfection cabinet is very electricity-consuming, and it is a decoration to cope with the inspection, so try not to ...... it outside in the future" A chopsticks of fish-flavored shredded meat are stuffed into the mother's mouth.
"Yes, you have a bottle of yogurt. It's time to drink soup. Jingru popped the straw into the yogurt bottle and handed it to her mother.
In the university cafeteria with a clear window, only Pan Hong and her daughter are eating, and the waiter is wiping the table and mopping the floor.