Chapter Twenty-Three: Translators and Neighbors

The grace of saving lives, it is not a joke to be repaid, especially last night's case also involves Jiang Danfeng's name, if you really meet a scoundrel who begs for revenge, you will be entangled for the rest of your life, although Du Qiu's actions are not in line with the etiquette of communication, but in front of everyone, it wrote off last night's kindness, which made Jiang Danfeng's parents relax a lot, and the couple said dry polite words while carefully putting the receipt into their pockets. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Du Chunhua's mood was first suppressed and then raised, after taking a roller coaster, he felt that Du Qiu was bright and unconventional, and he gave himself a long face, and felt very happy, the fire of gossip was burning, and he asked with a smile: "Classmate Jiang, which university in the capital are you studying?"

"At Jingcheng Business School. ”

"What major?"

"International trade. ”

Du Qiu felt that Jiang Danfeng didn't look like a quiet and introverted person, he pretended to be reserved all night, and his soft-spoken speech was a bit fake, and he had never heard the name of this university, international trade was one of the hottest majors in the 90s, and it was a university, so he didn't take it to heart, and scooped a bowl of pigeon soup with a soup bowl by himself, and was about to drink it, but he heard Du Chunhua ask again when he had nothing to say: "You learn international trade, English should be very good, right?"

Jiang's mother didn't talk much just now, but now that she was relaxed, she began to talk more, and introduced proudly: "Our Danfeng has been very good at English since he was a child, he scored 137 points in the college entrance examination, and he was able to work as a translator at an international conference when he was a sophomore, and he also helped a professor translate American novels last year. ”

Yo, what a coincidence, I really slept and met a pillow......

Jiang's mother's boast aroused Du Qiu's heart, he is not a hard-working student, he lost his English after passing the fourth level, and later he had to consult English materials often when he worked and studied in graduate school, so his ability to "read" was not bad, but "listening", "speaking" and "writing" The three items are very sloppy, the afternoon writing articles are all in Chinese, originally planned to use the auxiliary translation software installed in the laptop to translate into English after writing, and then hard to polish themselves, do not ask for literary talent, as long as it is barely smooth, now I met a master who understands English, it is better to ask her for a favor.

"Mr. Jiang, I have a few articles to be translated into English recently, 100 yuan each, are you interested?"

"Alas, what Mr. Du said, just ask Danfeng to translate it for you, and you don't need to give money. ”

Du Qiu ignored Jiang's mother's politeness, stared at Jiang Danfeng, Jiang Danfeng pursed his rosy lips, and took the initiative to ask for the first time in the whole night: "What kind of article is it?"

"In terms of computers, you don't have to worry, I will provide annotations for professional terms, and you will mainly help me straighten out the grammar and polish the sentences. ”

Jiang Danfeng hesitated slightly, then nodded, and Du Qiu wrote a note to her, saying, "Are you free the day after tomorrow?" At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, you come to Yunda, if you can't find it, just call the phone above, and I will pick you up." ”

"Okay. ”

After the dismissal, in the taxi home, Du Chunhua praised Du Qiu a few words, but not praised him for being a man, but praised him for being a girl: "Little brother, you are very scheming, you want to indulge in the past just now, first clear up the kindness, and then use other excuses to invite classmate Jiang to your side, so that you don't have to worry about others gossiping, and you can also use her gratitude to get the moon." Oh, my sister used to worry that you were too boring and wouldn't please girls, but now that I look at it, it turns out to be a master of flowers!"

Du Qiu couldn't cry or laugh, and explained in vain: "Sister, your imagination is too rich, right? I don't have any other ideas, I really just want her to help translate a few articles." ”

"Come on, you just came back from Japan, and you're busy making notepads every day, how can you have any articles to translate into English, and besides, can you write articles?" Du Chunhua didn't believe it at all, and continued to make up in his mind: "You go to the Yunda Library tomorrow to get a few articles out of random, and give them to her to translate the day after tomorrow, right?"

"Yunda is on holiday, and the library is not open. ”

"Wenxiu is the administrator, and he has the key, so it's not easy for you to get in. When Du Chunhua said this, he raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, and said with a very distressed look: "Actually, Wenxiu is not bad, she has a gentle temperament, she is very clever, and she is very serious in doing things, I am very satisfied, but I am a little shorter, and my appearance and figure are not as good as Jiang Danfeng." ”

"Sister, you might as well stop going to work in the Children's Palace and start a matchmaker company instead. ”

"What kind of matchmaker company, that's called a marriage agency!" Du Chunhua laughed, patted Du Qiu's shoulder happily, and said: "Little brother, do you know, as soon as I heard Jiang Danfeng's name in the afternoon, I felt that she was very close to you." ”

"Why?"

"Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty has a poem "Visiting Autumn", the last two sentences are very famous, called "Diligence to Report Autumn", but there is Danfeng. Look, there is an autumn character in your name, her name is Danfeng, isn't it fate?"

"Li Shangyin is a poet, not an old man, if everyone is as far-fetched as you, then you don't have to fall in love when you get married in the future, just take out your ID card and make up your name. ”

Du Chunhua laughed again, clapping his hands while laughing, laughing crookedly, making the taxi driver inexplicable, thinking that she was drunk and crazy, he frequently looked up in the rearview mirror and reminded: "Dude, you look at your sister, if she wants to vomit, tell me quickly, don't vomit in the car." ”

Du Qiu couldn't hold back any longer, and laughed with his mother, and the laughter came out of the window, floating in the air, filled with happiness and warmth.

From getting off the taxi to returning to the door, Du Chunhua never stopped laughing, chattering non-stop, like a drunk lark, flying and singing in the night, which made Du Qiu surprised and emotional, because in his impression, his mother has always been a gentle and steady person, and she has never laughed and laughed like a silly big sister.

It turns out that when my parents were young, they were colorful, they could make mistakes, they would make mistakes, they would be funny, they would be funny, and they were not as dull as in the yellowed photos, nor as old-fashioned as in the vague memories......

It's a great feeling......

"Little brother, I think about it, I think you might as well soak the two girls, Jiang Danfeng as a virtuous internal helper, Su Wenxiu as a virtuous external assistant, so that I have two younger siblings, and I command them to work every day, hahaha......"

"Sister, I think you've drunk too much and been talking nonsense all night. Du Qiu took out the key and opened the door, and said, "And you have a problem with your vision, Jiang Danfeng definitely can't be a virtuous helper." ”

"Really, you know everything that you don't mean anything to her?"

As soon as the door opened, I heard the sound of "a pair of K" and "two 2s" coming out of the house, and at the same time there was a little girl shouting crisply, "Careful words, get up and have breakfast", walked in to take a look, and found that Lin Dawei and a few neighbors were sitting at the dining table playing poker, two little girls with bows took Lin Jinyan to play in the living room, and there was a half-year-old son about ten years old sitting on the sofa, staring at the TV without blinking and watching the video.

"Yo, Mr. Du is back. ”

"Teacher Du, is this your younger brother who saved a beautiful woman last night?"

"You're so tall, no wonder you dare to take a pillow to save people, you're a good man, and the security of our community will depend on you in the future." ”

Du Qiu moved out of this community after finishing elementary school, and was 12 years old at the time, so he still has an impression of these neighbors, and got to know each other under Du Chunhua's introduction, walked into his bedroom after greetings, locked his backpack in the wardrobe to prevent the child from turning it out, and then returned to the living room, sat next to the half-grown child, and asked knowingly: "What kind of movie is this?"

"Drunken Fist 2". ”

"Drunken Fist 2" is one of Jackie Chan's masterpieces, the plot is funny, the martial arts are wonderful, very classic, Du Qiu has seen it many times before, he waited for Jackie Chan to finish playing the drunken eight immortals at the door of the hall and asked: "What's your name?"

"My name is Chen Yuanqi. ”

"Your father is Chen Xinmin?"

"Hmm. ”

Du Qiu no longer spoke, but his heart was quite uneasy, if Wang Guanguan is a brother with the same smell, then Chen Yuanqi is also a confidant of a teacher and friend, he is 6 years older than Du Qiu, but the two have similar personalities, interests and hobbies are very similar, very close to each other, often get together to play since childhood, although they are not in a city after adulthood, they often contact each other by phone, and exchange various troubles and funs encountered in life and work.

It's a pity that the age gap between me and him is too big now, and it is impossible to be friends anymore, and I have lost a confidant and friend in my life......

"Lin Jinyan, you said that you should be a wooden man, you can't move, why do you want to move?"

"I didn't move, it was Fei Fei who pushed me. ”

"Fei Fei, I won't take you to play if you mess around again. ”

"I'm going to move, I'm going to move, what can you do with me?"

Du Qiu's eyes turned to the two little girls, and couldn't help but smile, one of these two girls is called Lin Feifei, 6 years old this year, living on the fourth floor, and the other is called Wang Xiaoya, 8 years old this year, living on the opposite side of the corridor, they are all Du Qiu's childhood sweethearts' playmates, although they have not met much since they grew up, they have always kept in touch, especially Wang Xiaoya, who has to hurt each other a few words every time they meet, and went to Pujiang to attend her wedding banquet not long before the crossing.

"The three of you quarreled, shall I be a wooden man?"

"Uncle, you can do it, but you have to obey my command. ”

"No problem. ”

In the early 90s, the domestic real estate market has not been activated, the house price is very low, Lin Dawei smuggled the car to make money quickly, and he did not feel distressed when he spent it, and bought the largest apartment in the community, with a usable area of more than 140 square meters, four bedrooms and a living room, a kitchen and two bathrooms, and a large balcony, the space is very spacious, Du Qiu ran around with three children, one would play hide-and-seek, one would play games, and the house was full of children's screams and laughter.

"Teacher Du, your brother is really a child king, I was about to be killed by Xiaoya, and he was still having a good time. ”

"Xiaoya is too noisy, she is not quiet, if only she could neutralize it. ”

"Female junior, hugging gold bricks, Boss Wang, it's better for the two of us to get married, and the children born in the future will definitely be lively and quiet. ”

"Dawei, as long as you give the dowry, I will now leave my daughter in your house as a child daughter-in-law. Wang Xiaoya's father's name is Wang Yong, a construction contractor, he laughed and joked, and then threw the cards in his hand and said: "Don't play, tonight is lucky, lost more than 100, and if I continue to fight, my wife will turn the sky upside down." ”

"Hey, Boss Wang, you just finished taking the cards and you withdrew from the table, not very good, this game is over. ”

"Hit it! I'm actually a good hand, don't regret losing later." ”

Several neighbors finished the last game with a grin, and then got up to beckon their children to go home, Wang Xiaoya and Lin Feifei were a little tired from playing, and followed their parents very obediently, only Chen Yuanqi was reluctant to go, because "Drunken Fist 2" was about to reach the climax of the end, and Jackie Chan was preparing to enter the steel plant to single-handedly challenge the villain boss.

"Boss Chen, sit down and have a cup of tea, let Xiaoqi finish reading before leaving, anyway, it's just a matter of ten minutes. ”

Chen Xinmin was originally a teacher at the correspondence school of the University of Electrical Engineering, and later resigned to open a computer store that sold printers and compatible machines, the computer market developed rapidly in the 90s, but there were few people who knew how to do it, and the price was not transparent, so it was very profitable, he was not interested in movies, and said with a teacup: "Dawei, I just saw that the computer in your study is gone, and it was sold?"

"No, Ah Qiu moved to a rented house in Yunda, saying that he wanted to learn programming. ”

"Du Qiu, are you interested in programming? I have time to communicate more, I have been learning recently, and the two of them learn from each other, which is faster than learning alone. ”

"Good. Du Qiu shook hands with him very formally and said, "Brother Chen will take care of him in the future." ”

"Everyone takes care of each other. Actually, AC programming is fake, I mainly want to trick you into buying a computer from my store, hahaha......"

Du Qiu also laughed, when he was in kindergarten, Chen Yuanqi taught him how to play games with dos commands, when he was in elementary school, Chen Xinmin taught him how to write games in basic language, if you use the rules of ancient private schools, Chen Xinmin is the enlightenment teacher, and Chen Yuanqi is the senior brother.

"Brother Chen, how much does an IBM laptop cost now?"

"IBM's is not cheap, to be honest, I have sold computers for more than three years, and I have only seen two IBM laptops, and they are all second-hand goods that have been eliminated by others. Chen Xinmin sighed slightly, and said: "IBM has several models, among which 700C is the cheapest, but the cheapest is more than 30,000, I suggest you buy a second-hand one, eighty percent of the new is estimated to be about 10,000, and there is no difference between using it and the new one, if you really want to buy it, I can find someone to help you bring one back from Pujiang." ”

Are all electronic products in the 90s made of pure gold, and they are so expensive......

You have to sell at least 5,000 notepads to buy a laptop with dividends......

Note: IBM's ThinkPad 700C, which was released in 1992, costs $4,350, or 36,801 at the January 1995 exchange rate.