Three days later, Gu Biao drove his second generation of Volga back to the capital by car.

The road conditions in this era are really rotten, and there is no high speed. Fortunately, the Beijing-Shanghai route is finally plain and smooth, and it is no problem to drive 60 kilometers all the way.

Seeing Gu Biao appear in a private car, all the classmates were shocked, but they were more normal than the relatives and friends over there in Qiantang.

After all, they are all accustomed to seeing the world in the capital, and the leaders of the ministry and even the principal of the school have crowns to open. At the division level and deputy director level, they also have Volga, or they can be "borrowed" for a long time. The students are no strangers to these cars, but they didn't expect them to appear as "private cars" instead of "official cars".

Then, as usual, he distributed gifts and asked for introductions on business trips, including various situations at the Canton Fair, and it took a lot of energy for Gu Biao to deal with it.

After getting off work that night, Han Ting took time out alone and called Gu Biao to the office:

"Originally, it was a matter of two or three days, but it dragged on for more than ten days! I didn't know what kind of trouble I was going to make when I went to Iraq. I've said hello to a few teachers, and I've simply dropped the final exams for the two of you in advance, so you can just go back in early June, and I've discussed it with Director Bao on his side. ”

The sales mission to Iraq was originally very mobile and flexible, unlike the Canton Fair or the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, where you had to make up the other party's time.

Now that it is almost late May, if the school can make special arrangements for him to advance the final exam to early June, it is indeed more appropriate to go abroad after the exam.

So Gu Biao immediately agreed to this arrangement, and also thanked Han Ting for thinking about him.

"Thank you, Mr. Han, I can't say enough to express my gratitude to you. This time I went to Guangdong to bring back some southern specialties, and you can taste them in a while - rest assured, this time it is really worthless, everyone has it. ”

Han Ting originally wanted to make rules for Gu Biao with a straight face, but seeing that Gu Biao was so cautious, she couldn't bear it, so she accepted the gift.

She patted Gu Biao's shoulder gently: "Xiao Gu, don't have a psychological burden, I am purely because you are the first class I have brought and the most promising student I have ever bred." I hope you can contribute more to the country and give full play to your talents.

So it's right for me to help you, it's business. You can't have the idea of repaying the favor in private, that is the remnant of feudalism. If I don't carry you, there will be no more competitive students for me to support, will I?"

"Teacher Han, don't worry, after what happened last time, I already understand your feelings. ”

"While you are preparing for the final exam, don't forget to communicate with Ishmina Jado to make up for the delayed preparations, she has been waiting for you for a long time. ”

"Understood, there is no delay. ”

……

In the next few days, Gu Biao was nothing more than studying hard.

Then Madrina Isminaya came to him every day and asked him about the preparation of the translation.

The other party dismantled and read and wrote the individual technical terms in Arabic and checked them with Gu Biao, and then discussed how to create some synthetic technical terms. Or find out if there is a ready-made dictionary, or ask the teacher to consider it together.

Most of the technical vocabulary is ready-made, but there will be three or five words that need to be translated on an ad hoc basis every day - and these words can not only be used in this negotiation, but also compiled into papers and published in domestic linguistic journals first, and can also be contributed to domestic translation publishers when the time comes, and the new technical terms will be added to the Arab-Chinese dictionary.

It is normal for teachers and students here to publish articles and discuss the translation methods of some new terms in the new era. It's just that in the past, it was more about translating between the languages of technologically advanced countries such as English and Japanese.

Ten days later, on June 3, Gu Biao passed the final exams of all subjects this semester ahead of schedule. There are two teachers who really don't have the time to release the paper in advance, and they also used the method of temporary one-on-one oral examination to investigate and give a score.

Director Bao learned that the preparations were almost over, so he set a date and asked everyone to fly to Baghdad together on the 9th.

After all, Director Bao himself also has a busy schedule, so he still has to cater to his time slots. In addition, it is necessary to allow some time for the relevant departments of the foreign side to react.

This is a semi-official mission between an official business visit and a private sales pitch, and the necessary foreign affairs etiquette must be paid attention to.

After setting the date, Han Ting asked Gu Biao to eat with Ishminaya every day, and he was not allowed to touch wine and pork again.

It is said that the canteen also specially opened a small stove and slaughtered a one-year-old lamb that had just been transported from the Inner Mongolian grassland, and the school also borrowed a master from the Friendship Hotel to make them a variety of Middle Eastern-style barbecue to eat.

From Turkish kebab to Cyprus kebab to Baghdad kebab.

There is also a seconded etiquette teacher who teaches Gu Biao how to eat all kinds of barbecue and finger meat elegantly - who made the previous Western food etiquette classes all aimed at European and American countries, and there was a blank on how to respect the cultural customs of Middle Easterners.

Within a few days, Gu Biao was disgusted when he ate mutton—although the quality of the meat itself was really good.

……

Another evening, Gu Biao finished chatting with Isminaya and went to the cafeteria for dinner.

Ishminaya took care of the senior's physique, which was not used to eating mutton every day, and endured so hard for the sake of the motherland, and was also a little distressed, so she proposed:

"Why don't you change the way you eat today? I asked the small canteen to borrow raw meat and charcoal, and use our method to make it for you to eat? Those ways of eating in the Middle East are indeed too heavy in spices. I'll make you red willow lamb skewers and pilaf. ”

These days, this beautiful elementary school girl has a deeper understanding of Gu Biao, and her respect for him is also increasing day by day.

However, Gu Biao didn't think much about it, and he didn't have selfishness. He didn't even inquire into the background and family background of the schoolgirl, but just handled it according to the collaborator relationship at work.

"I'm sorry, don't bother with it. Gu Biao politely refused.

"It's okay~ I can only be a translator, I can't do anything. Senior Gu, you are different, if you are in a better state, will you be able to fight for more benefits for the country? Besides, I'm tired of that. Ishminaya lowered her posture.

Maybe it was because the white girl was naturally easy to give people the illusion that it was easy to make friends, which made Gu Biao infected, and after he thanked him, he didn't stop it.

I didn't expect Ishminaya's hands to be quite skillful, and she looked quite quick to do her work. Naturally, there will be no red willow in the capital, but she still replaced it with other clean wooden skewers, which can be regarded as a cottage.

Seeing the younger sister busy working by the small charcoal stove, Gu Biao decided to find some topics to break the embarrassment.

"Actually, my family is a worker, and the last three generations have been workers, what about you. ”

This is really a very clumsy conversation, and it is purely useless. But with Gu Biao's straight male attribute who is not good at flirting with girls, he can only talk about this.

"Then you are really from a good background, I am not so lucky, the ingredients are not very good. Ishminaya brushed the condiment and sighed.

"Uh......" Gu Biao was speechless for a while.

When he provoked this topic, his mind was still driven by the inertia of later generations' values, so he felt that "the three generations of his ancestors were workers" was a gesture of self-denial.

After all, after 30 years, if a man and a woman make friends, the man comes up and says, "My ancestors have been workers for three generations", and the woman will probably just throw her bag and leave.

Forget that the working class is now a plus for domination.

So he hurriedly revealed himself: "It's not purely working-class, my mother has relatives on the other side, so she died a few years ago." If my grandfather is still alive, he will be considered an old soldier. So my family also drew a clear line, and it was not easy to survive. ”

As soon as she said this, Isminaya's inferiority complex immediately dissipated a lot, secretly wiped the corners of her eyes, and said with a forced smile: "Actually, don't look at me like this, my ancestors are also patriotic soldiers, and I also have Han blood."

My great-grandfather was a Han Chinese from the mainland, a soldier brought by Zuo Zongtang when he returned to Xinjiang. It's just that the country can't control the wars of the later generations, and the Han people are gradually weakened, and some of them have joined the local people's families.

By my grandparents' generation, just in time for the establishment of the Soviet Union, my grandmother was a down-and-out nobleman from White Russia who escaped across the border, and my grandfather was also miserable when the army was in chaos.

So I'm one-eighth Han Chinese, one-quarter White Russian, and the remaining five-eighths are Uighurs - you won't dislike me for having White Russian elements, so you won't treat me as a friend, right?"

When Gu Biao heard this, he was quite emotional in his heart.

This is also the difference in the times, which will lead to a beauty like Ishminaya who has low self-esteem because of her background. So much so that in school, she was very quiet and low-key in front of other 78 classmates.

If she had been born more than ten years late, and when the Soviet Union collapsed, where would she have inferiority because of her White Russian blood. Among the white beauties in the country in later generations, which one is not well mixed.

Gu Biao patted her on the shoulder encouragingly: "What are you thinking, we have long said that the Soviet Union is Su Xiu." What's the big deal about the Belarusian component? Our country itself has a Russian ethnicity, which is actually the same. ”

Isminaya's eyes moistened slightly.

The meat skewers were grilled, and two people wearing green military uniforms came in at the door of the small canteen, and after hearing the news from the staff with a letter of introduction, they walked straight to Gu Biao's side.

"May I ask if you are classmate Gu?" asked politely, as if he had a sense of awe for the reader.

Gu Biao looked the other party up and down a few times: "I am, could it be that you are ......"

The person who came breathed a sigh of relief and introduced himself: "Luo Yongxin, Liu Zhuang, I only went to report to Director Bao last week, and he asked us to come to you to meet after completing the formalities - I heard that you have been taking the final exam, so I didn't dare to bother two days ago." Mr. Gu, thank you so much for helping us introduce this errand. ”

It turned out that these two were comrades-in-arms that Xiao Sui met when he was in Vietnam, but because of Xiao Sui's radical war report, they temporarily lost their honor by mistake. Later, Gu Biao promised to have the opportunity to help find an errand.

This time, the Foreign Affairs Bureau went to Iraq to negotiate, and the level was not enough to use the foreign military attachés of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the establishment of security forces (those are all special agents and cannot afford to use them). The level of the director of the package is not enough), so a temporary budget was approved, and two people who were not prepared were found to be temporary bodyguards.

They should have gotten the letter of introduction, and in the days when Gu Biao took the final exam, they first went to report and "interview" with Director Bao, and now they came to thank Gu Biao in private.

"It turned out to be Sister Xiao's comrade-in-arms, have you eaten, let's sit together." Gu Biao said politely.

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This week's strong push, Friday's shelves, I want to take advantage of the strong push to hit the click list. Therefore, the next three days will be changed to 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. respectively. Pulling away for more than six hours can give double the number of clicks to those chasing more.

If you can chase more, please ask everyone to chase it, and it will be pushed during the period.