Chapter 100: The "Sweeping Monk" at Moscow University!

"Oh my God, let me see who this is?" Jia Lei followed Professor Wang to find his old classmate, and the other party immediately recognized him.

"Rashid, I've come to see you, how are you doing?" Professor Wang asked after giving his old classmate a hug.

"Yes, of course!" Professor Rashid said happily, and Jia Lei silently put the gift he brought on the table.

"What are you doing here, Wang, and who is this child?" Professor Rashid asked curiously.

"This is my grandson, who recently brought me back to see you from a recent business in Moscow, and this is a gift I brought to you. Professor Wang pointed to Jia Lei and said.

"I'm glad you came to see me, but the gifts you brought are too expensive for me to accept!" Professor Rashid said, looking at the fruits, liquor, and groceries on the table.

"You used to invite me to dinner, and these things are nothing. I brought a lot of gifts with me this time to give them to my teachers and classmates, but when I inquired at the school, all the professors were gone, except for Professor Luria, and even the principal had passed away......!

"Isn't it? Since the Sino-Soviet Union became hostile, the ties between you and our classmates have been severed! Coupled with your domestic political movements, we don't dare to write to you at all. This time I didn't want you to find it yourself, I thought you were dead. Professor Rashid said.

"I'm lucky that I just lost one leg, and my life is still there! It's a pity that I won't be able to see the professors this time......" Professor Wang said, touching his injured leg.

"Actually, it's not like I can't see him, Professor Luria is still in the school, I can take you to see him later. Professor Rashid said.

"Great, I'm finally seeing my teacher again!" Professor Wang said excitedly.

"Wang ...... You have to be prepared for a while, Professor Luria is very different from what he used to be. Professor Rashid hesitated for a moment before saying.

It's a pity that Professor Wang was still immersed in the joy of the reunion of teachers and students, and he didn't notice this at all!

However, Jia Lei frowned and glanced at Professor Rashid, who wanted to speak and stopped!

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"Where the hell is the teacher, why are you bringing me to the dormitory?" Professor Wang asked puzzled as he followed Professor Rashid.

The teacher retired more than ten years ago, but this year's economic situation is not good, and he has no choice but to go back to school. Professor Rashid said with a sigh.

"Go back to school and work, but Professor Luria is 83 years old this year, right? Can he still take graduate students?" Professor Wang asked puzzled.

"The teacher is not going back to school this time to be a professor, but to be the administrator of the dormitory for international students!" Professor Rashid stopped at the door of a dormitory building, and Professor Wang's eyes were red when he saw the familiar old man sitting in the guard room.

"Professor Luria, how did you become like this?" Professor Wang asked, crying.

"Who is this, why do you cry when you see me?" asked Professor Luria, whose snow-white hair squinted at Professor Wang.

"Teacher, I'm Wang Qingya, it's the graduate student you took forty years ago, do you remember me?" Professor Wang asked, squatting in front of him.

"Wang Qingya! Remember, remember, are you my Chinese student who studied very hard? I haven't seen you for decades, how did you get old like this?" said Professor Luria, touching Professor Wang's face.

"I'm 65 years old, and my eldest grandson is about to marry a daughter-in-law, can I not be old. Professor Wang said with tears in his eyes.

"Why do you still cry so much when you're so old? I remember when you were in school, you would hide alone and cry secretly during the Spring Festival in China. Professor Luria recalled.

"The traffic conditions were not good. I can't go home once a year when I go out to study, can I miss home during the Chinese New Year? My grandson is still here, how can you tell me such a shameful thing!" Professor Wang said embarrassedly when he heard this.

"Haha! Didn't I pay attention for a while, in my memory, you are still the hairy boy who is not married. Professor Luria said with a smile.

"Teacher, Wang Du has been graduating for forty years, how can he not be married? He is not the research maniac who spends all day in the laboratory of Suniaev, and now Wang has children and daughters, okay!" Professor Rashid said quickly.

"Hey...... There's nothing wrong with beating a single! At least Suniaev doesn't have to worry about his children like I do. Professor Luria said with a sigh.

"Huh, teacher, why do you say that? I remember that your children are very filial, why would they want you to come to the school as a dormitory administrator?" Professor Wang asked puzzled.

"Hey...... They are just too filial, so I worry about them. My children are over 65 years old, and they are all retired and staying at home. Now that the government gives them such a low pension, if I don't come out to work to help them, they will probably go hungry. Professor Luria said worriedly, and then he took out his tobacco leaves and rolled a cigarette for himself and smoked it.

"But even if you have to work, why should you go back to teaching and taking graduate students? But why did you come to the international student dormitory to be a dormitory administrator?" Professor Wang asked distressedly.

"Actually, the school was very welcoming when the teachers and the school asked to come back to work, but now there are too many people who quit their jobs, and almost every week professors leave the school to work abroad. But the teacher said that he was too old to take a graduate student, and insisted on coming to the dormitory to be an administrator. Later, when the school thought that the dormitory administrator's salary was higher than that of the professor, it agreed. Professor Rashid explained.

"How good is the job of a dormitory administrator, I can now get paid by smoking, drinking, drinking tea, and watching TV every day during the day, and at night when the students don't go out, I can still drink! And there are people here to chat with me every day, and the vice principal is my student, and no one dares to bully me, because I studied Chinese with you at the beginning, and he also assigned me the most oily dormitory for international students. Professor Luria was particularly pleased.

"What kind of oil and water can a broken dormitory have? You have invented a lot of patents and presided over many top-level scientific research projects. Shipbuilding is your specialty!" Professor Wang said distressedly.

"Huh, Uncle Luria, do you have any guests here today?" asked a few Chinese students who had just returned from outside.

"Yes!" Professor Luria said with a happy nod of his head to greet them.

"Since you have guests here, then you don't smoke your own cigarettes! I'm not talking about you, your e-Ross cigarettes smell very stinky and don't have a filter, you just take half a tube of tobacco and roll it up in paper, and it can choke people to death and be spicy when smoked. How can you use this to entertain guests, or use mine. A Chinese student said as he took out a cigarette from his pocket and helped Professor Luria hand out one to everyone present.

Except, of course, Jia Lei!

"Hey, it's still your Huaxia filter cigarettes that are easy to smoke!" Professor Luria said, taking the cigarette and smoking happily.

"That is, our country has the best tobacco! After Zhao Liang finished speaking, he also smoked one.

"Teacher, you're so old, why don't you smoke less?" Professor Wang said worriedly.

"I've lived for more than 80 years, and I've lived enough! Now that I live every day and earn a day, don't you even care if I smoke? I knew I wouldn't have picked you as my graduate student in the first place!" Professor Luria said unhappily.

"Teacher, huh, Uncle Luria, have you ever been a teacher before?" asked several Chinese students curiously.

"Of course I've been a teacher, and my students came from Huaxia to see me today!" said Professor Luria, patting Professor Wang on the shoulder with great pleasure.

"In that case, then you master and apprentice should have a good chat! After Zhao Liang finished speaking, he pulled his classmates and left.

"I've always felt that the Chinese people are the friendliest, and these Chinese students are very cute. They usually ask me to smoke when I call here, and I don't have a lot of self-esteem and don't blackmail students like other people, so they always secretly leave me half a box. Professor Luria pointed to the cigarette that Zhao Liang had left on the table.

"Teacher, when I was in school before, I had an accident while doing an experiment, and you punished me for cleaning the laboratory for half a year. At that time, I took out the gold bars I brought from home to bribe you, hoping that you would be accommodating, but you refused!

"They are not graduate students I have taken with me, so this is not a bribe! Now life is not good, and the pension of our retirees is less than 2,000 roubles a month. My wife and children and I are retired, and now we have four elderly people to support, but I only have one grandson and one granddaughter, and they can't support so many of us. So I can save a little bit now, and I regret it now!, why didn't you take that gold bar of yours in the first place!" Professor Luria joked.

"Teacher, you're having a miserable life now, why don't you go back to Huaxia with me. I'll give you a pension!" Professor Wang cried.

"No, I can't go! I'm leaving, and my wife and son will have no one to support. When they retire, they don't have as much access as I do and can find new jobs. With only the five dollars a month's pension, they may not even be able to eat. Professor Luria shook his head.

Li Jun is now working in the Ministry of Education, and with your position in the scientific community, he can definitely help you arrange a professorship position in our school. Although the salary of our school is not as good as that of Western countries, professors can still get about $200 a month. Foreign professors like you can still get a house!" Professor Wang said.

"Hey, people from many countries have come to the university to pull people in, but unfortunately I'm too old and no one wants to ask for it! I'm not going to trouble you. Professor Luria shook his head.

"Teacher, how can no one want such a powerful person, you can teach in our school is definitely an honor of our school, and it won't cause me trouble!" Professor Wang hurriedly said.

"In fact, recently, several foreign universities have wanted to invite teachers to give lectures, but the teachers refuse to leave the school. The teacher said that he had taught at Moscow University all his life and wanted to die here. Professor Rashid said with a sigh.

"Yes, this is my country! I will not abandon it, whether it is good or bad. Professor Luria nodded.

"Since you don't want to leave, teacher, then you must accept this money!" Professor Wang shuddered and took out all the money from his pocket and stuffed it into Professor Luria's hand.

"It's dollars, isn't it? $500 is not a small amount, it's too much money for me to collect!" Professor Luria said as he glanced at the money in his hand and shook his head.

"Teacher, you can accept this money! We Chinese people pay attention to being teachers for one day and fathers for life, and it is appropriate for students to provide for teachers in their old age!" Professor Wang hurriedly said.

"That's right! Wang has brought a lot of gifts to all of us this time, and he can now earn 200 dollars a month. You can take the money with peace of mind!" Professor Rashid also advised Professor Luria.

"I can accept the gifts you brought, but I really can't accept the money! Teaching and educating people is my duty, and I don't want to exchange these things for money. Professor Luria said stubbornly, and then he put the $500 and the $200 on the table next to him.

"Grandpa, there is a saying in our country, it is better to teach people and fish than to teach people and fish, but Professor Luria doesn't want this money, so forget it!" Jia Lei said suddenly.

"Forget it! That's not good! I can't look at the teacher so old and come out to earn money to support the family, right? I must help the teacher!" Professor Wang shook his head and said.

"I didn't say we wouldn't help your teacher, I just wanted you to help him in a way that Professor Luria could accept. Jia Lei said speechlessly.

"What is the way that the teacher can accept?" Professor Wang asked, puzzled.

"How do I know if there is any way that Professor Luria can accept? Can we ask him personally?" Jia Lei said.

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"Hahaha, what do you think I'll accept, what do you think I'll accept?" asked Professor Luria.

"I heard that you have a grandson and a granddaughter, so what do they do now?" asked Jia Lei.

"My granddaughter is like my wife, she has a bright brain and is good at studying, and now she is also teaching at Moscow University! Professor Luria said.

"Isn't there anything wrong with being a worker, at least now a worker is paid much more than a professor!" Professor Rashid said to his teacher.

"Hey...... You're right, there's nothing wrong with being a worker in this world......" Professor Luria said with a sigh.

"I'm doing business in Moscow, and I have opened several companies below, I don't know if your grandson can drive?" Jia Lei asked.

"Yes, we have two cars at home, and everybody can drive them. Professor Luria nodded.

"I can arrange for him to be a driver in my company, can you see it?" Jia Lei asked.