Chapter 25 Calligraphy and Human Affection
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"Did Mr. Du say when he would come?"
"He said around 3 o'clock, he should be here in a moment. β
Jiang Danfeng sighed softly, standing at the door and looking at the room, the room is not big, about 30 square meters, the white lime on the wall has peeled off in some places, revealing the gray cement inner wall, which is ugly in the east and west; the window is a wood-framed glass window with a middle part, which is very poor in terms of anti-theft and windproof; the desk and bookcase modeling board are old-fashioned, painted with old jujube red paint, like a product of the sixties and seventies; the sofa looks neat, but the leather at the edge is shiny, and it is obviously some years old.
"Come in and sit, it's cold at the door. Su Wenxiu stood up and introduced himself while making tea in a paper cup: "My name is Su Wenxiu, and I am a friend of Du Qiu, you are here to help him translate the article, right?"
"Yes. Thank you. Jiang Danfeng took the paper cup with a smile, then lifted the hem of the windbreaker, sat down on the sofa, and asked, "Are you doing business in partnership with Mr. Du?"
Su Wenxiu took a golden notebook from the desk and showed it to her, and introduced: "We are making this kind of notepad. β
The packaging of the golden jade hall has been redesigned by Du Qiu, and a lot of moire patterns have been added to the envelope, which looks magnificent, but Jiang Danfeng didn't take it to heart, she looked at it casually and asked: "You guys are doing notepad business, why did Mr. Du ask me to translate computer articles?"
"Du Qiu likes to tinker with his own things, and I don't know what he wants to translate. β
At this time, the phone rang again, Su Wenxiu answered the phone, ran next door to arrange the production, leaving Jiang Danfeng alone in the office, she sat for a while, felt a little bored, and saw a few novels in the bookcase behind the desk, so she got up and walked over, ready to take one out to pass the time.
The shape of the bookcase is very traditional, the upper part is a bookshelf with two glass doors closed, and the bottom is a locker, after Jiang Danfeng opened the glass door, he saw a stack of notepads placed horizontally next to the novel, the shape is the same as what he saw just now, but the material of the cover is different, not leather, but made of brown paper, the top cover is written with two lines of text, the pen walks the dragon and snake, staggered, very beautiful, she was curious, she picked it up and looked at it, and found that there were two sentences written on it that seemed to be incomprehensible: "Ten years of learning to read, Yan Hua is still beautiful." β
Jiang Danfeng is not interested in traditional Chinese literature, I don't know that this is the poem of the famous writer Jiang Yan in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, she looks at the meaning of the text, according to the literal understanding, feels that it is very suitable for her own state of mind, three years of junior high school, three years of high school, four years of college, adding up to exactly ten years, after hard work, it is just the most delicate years in life, so you must be unrestrained, wanton swaying, enjoy all the good things in the world such as glory and wealth, so as to live up to this life.
Then pick up the rest of the books, found that the cover of each book has written words and sentences, the text is different, the font is varied, exuding a beautiful and elegant style, more tasteful than the notepad inlaid with gold and jade, Jiang Danfeng can't put it down, read seven or eight books in a row, and finally saw a famous quote that she is very familiar with and likes, the famous quote has two lines, the first line is thin gold, iron painting silver hook, outstanding, the second line is in block letters, flat and stable, plain, the two contrast, giving people a strong sense of visual impact, so I couldn't help but read it out softly: "Either choose solitude or vulgarity. β
"Schopenhauer said that you should either choose solitude or vulgarity, and I changed solitude to solitude, which I used to fool buyers, but in fact it doesn't make sense at all, it just reads a little more rhyming. β
Jiang Danfeng looked back and found that Du Qiu was standing at the door with a file bag, wearing a single-breasted black windbreaker, with a simple version and a long figure, looking quite handsome, she smiled and said, "I think it's very good, you have also read Schopenhauer's book?"
"A lonely person is not necessarily vulgar, and a vulgar person is not necessarily not lonely. Du Qiu was not interested in discussing Schopenhauer with her, raised the document bag in his hand, and said: "I have four articles here, which have been roughly translated, you can help me revise the errors and omissions in them." β
Jiang Danfeng put the few notepads in his hand back on the bookcase, but left the first one, and asked, "You wrote the words on this?"
"Hmm. β
"Do these notepads sell? I want to buy a copy. β
"This is customized by Wenxiu for classmates and friends, if you want to buy it, you have to make it separately. Du Qiu put the file bag on the desk and said, "Miss Jiang, my business is very urgent, you can take a look at these articles first, and estimate how much time it will take to revise them all." β
Jiang Danfeng saw that his expression was serious, and he did not dare to delay any longer, so he opened the file bag and took out a thick pile of printing paper from it, the articles were in duplicate, one in Chinese and the other in English, she looked at the two of them, quickly skimmed through them and separated the four articles, and said: " The first part is very well translated, and there is basically nothing that needs to be changed, the second part has some small errors, but it is not a big problem, the third and fourth articles are relatively long, and there are many errors, if you just revise the word choice and grammatical errors, it will take about two or three hours, and if you want the whole article to be smoother, it may take a day. β
"Then you can fix the grammatical mistakes first, and then I'll see if I need further polishing. β
"Okay. β
At this time, Su Wenxiu came back and discussed with Du Qiu about recruiting a few more workers, and after the discussion, Du Qiu said: "Wenxiu, I'll go back to cook, and I'll go over directly when your brother and Sister Huihui get off work." What do you want to eat?"
"Last time, the shrimp tempura was very good, and the potato cakes were also good, my brother likes teriyaki chicken thighs, and Sister Huihui also wants to eat sushi. β
"Forget about the sushi, it's too cold, I have limited conditions there, there is nothing to keep warm, it will be cold soon after kneading, and I will make it after the Spring Festival." β
"Whatever, I'll be able to eat tempura anyway. β
Among the four articles, the first article completely copied the original English version of the open source software definition and protocol, the second part copied the English documentation of some open source software, and the third and fourth articles were all translated by translation software, so the most errors and omissions, Jiang Danfeng distinguished it in a short time, so that Du Qiu had confidence in his ability, before leaving, he took out 400 yuan and said: " Miss Jiang, although this place is a little simple, but there are all the things that should be there, you revise it here first, if you don't finish it before 6 o'clock, go to my house with Wenxiu and them for a light meal, you don't have to worry, if it's too late, I'll send you home. β
Jiang Danfeng completely disobeyed his mother's advice, and took the money very simply, but returned one back and said, "Mr. Du, the first article does not need to be revised, I will not be punished." β
"Oh well. β
After Du Qiu left, Jiang Danfeng took out a fine fountain pen from his bag, sat at his desk, and asked while outlining the mistakes in the article, "Miss Su, does Mr. Du know how to cook RB cuisine?"
"You don't have to be so polite, just call me by my name, it's too formal to sound like you're used to it. Su Wenxiu moved a chair and put it next to the desk, put the heater on it, so that both of them could keep warm, she was busy with her work, and said: "Du Qiu has lived in RB for more than ten years, and he has only been back for a few days, and the RB dishes he cooks are very authentic." β
"He's an international student who studied at RB?"
"No, I've stayed in RB. Su Wenxiu vaguely said a few words, then picked up a Chinese article and looked at it, and found that it was all computer professional terms, and I knew every word, but I didn't know what it meant when I put it together, so I put it back and asked: "Miss Jiang, how did you know Du Qiu?"
"You don't have to be so polite, just call me by my name. Jiang Danfeng raised his head and glanced at her lightly, and asked, "Didn't Mr. Du tell you?"
"No, he said he asked you to translate a few articles. β
Jiang Danfeng was a little surprised, but also a little warm-hearted, heroes saving beauty is a glory worthy of boasting for many men for a lifetime, judging from what they said just now, Du Qiu and Su Wenxiu have a very close relationship, but they did not reveal what happened that night, in this way, this person is either very proud, or has thoughts about her, no matter which one it is, it is gratifying, and there is no need to worry about gossip everywhere in the future.
"I know Mr. Du's sister, we had dinner together a few days ago, and we talked about translation at the dinner, so I came over to help. β
Su Wenxiu sighed, her eyes turned on Jiang Danfeng, and she didn't say anything more.
Du Qiu naturally didn't know the conversation in the office, he bought some ingredients in the vegetable market near the school, and was about to go back to the rental room, when he received a text message from Du Chunhua: "Please don't invite Jiang Danfeng at night?"
Mom, you're such a gossip woman......
As early as the day after he recognized his parents, Lin Dawei gave Du Qiu a BP machine, but he felt that this thing was too troublesome to use, and he didn't know a few people at all in 1995, it was purely for decoration, so he kept it at home as an alarm clock, and after the hero saved the beauty, he was forced by Du Chunhua to take it on his body, so that he could contact him in case of emergency, and now it has become a special machine for her to inquire about gossip news, and from time to time send a text message to harass her, ignore it, go home at night and must be nagged, pay attention to it, and there is nothing to say, thinking about it, Du Qiu felt that it was still his mother's nagging more terrifying, so he found a phone booth and calledγ
"Sister, you send text messages indiscriminately during working hours, and you don't do your job, I want to kill my relatives in righteousness, and go to your director to complain. β
"Little brother, you have learned a lot of idioms in the past few days, you have made progress, and you even know about the righteous killing of relatives, haha...... In the evening, my sister will also go to your place to eat, make more. β
"I have a small place there, and I can't sit down on your great god. β
"Alas, little brother, you hurt my sister's heart too much, my sister has never eaten your own food when she is so old, and she cheekily begged once, but you actually refused?"
"Did the eel rice you ate last night fall from the sky?" Du Qiu had no choice but to learn from his own father, took out his childhood self as a shield, and asked, "You are here, what should I do?"
"Dawei plans to take Jinyan to Wang Chang'an in the evening to pay a visit to Wang Chang'an, I don't want to cook at home alone, and I am idle, so I am ready to help you start. β
"Alright then, you just come here. β
"There's not much to do today, I can get off work at about 5 o'clock, and I'll go over as soon as I get off work. Du Chunhua restrained his ridiculous smile, and said seriously: "The Su brothers and sisters and that Wang Huihui are good, you are right to cook and invite them personally, so it seems sincere, although business is business, and favor is favor, but many times favor is more useful than interest, you have to do a lot of things to do when you go back to your hometown this time, you can only return to Yuncheng after the fifteenth day of the first month, at least you can't go to work for more than 20 days, the company relies on them to help, and make a grand evening a little bit, don't be too casual." β
Mom, you and your father have an insight into the world, a person with good feelings, and high emotional intelligence, why can't you handle the relationship between husband and wife......
In the past few days, in order to cover up the truth of the broken marriage, you and your father have acted in their own plays, trying their best to play treasures and amusements, but the two of you almost never communicate directly with each other, everything passes through me or is a bridge in the middle, it seems to be lively and lively, but in fact it is cold, do you really think I can't see or understand......
The bell must be tied to the bell, this dead knot, only my grandfather can untie it all day, I hope everything goes well when I return to my hometown during the Spring Festival......
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Note 1: The original text of Jiang Yan's "Ten Years of Learning to Read" is as follows: Ten years of learning to read, Yan Hua is still beautiful. Do not chase the people of the world, the eastern suburbs of cockfighting. Wealth is like floating clouds, and gold and jade are not treasures. Once the pelican chirps, the frost is strong grass. Ambition is lost, and he cries and embraces.
Note 2: The original text of Schopenhauer's "The Wisdom of Life" is as follows: People choose either solitude or vulgarity in this world, and there is no other choice.