Jia Lingling finished what she had to do, walked out of the room, and went to the study on the second floor. She walked in front of Jia Youwei and habitually sat on the desk.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he snatched the book from his hand and closed it on top of his hand. She saw the four big characters "Jinghua Yanyun" written on the cover of the book.

"Everything you told me to do has been done. Jia Lingling said unhurriedly: "You are really leisurely and elegant." If I'm not mistaken, you used to finish reading the English version of "Jinghua Smoke Cloud", and now, you have come to see the Chinese version of "Jinghua Smoke Cloud". ”

"The Smoke and Clouds of Jinghua was originally a long story written in English by Lin Yutang between August 1938 and August 1939 when he lived in Paris.

The English title of the book is "Moment in Peking", "Jinghua Smoke Cloud" is the title of the book after he translated it into Chinese, and there are also translations that translate the book as "Moment in Peking", and the first English version was released in 1939.

I suspect that the reason why Lin Yutang wrote it in English must have been carefully considered. In other words, he writes in English in order to gain international fame.

To this day, English hegemony still dominates the world around us. Jia Youwei leaned back on the chair and said calmly.

Jia Lingling deliberately took off the shoes on her feet, turned her buttocks, and then faced him face to face. She lifted Erlang's legs, obviously with the meaning of teasing the other party.

Jia Lingling held the book in her hand and said: "Lin Yutang, although he has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twice, is late in the Nanyang University incident. ”

"It is basically true that Lin Yutang is not guaranteed to be in the evening. However, I was thinking, at that time, Lin Yutang was a lot old, and he was buried in the soil to his neck, why was he still so fanatical about money?

It stands to reason that the older people get, the less they value money. I don't believe that he didn't realize that the reputation he had been running for most of his life would be lost before he did this.

Why did he still do that? Would he rather use the reputation he had worked so hard to manage for most of his life than exchange it for money? Could it be that he was in financial crisis at that time?

Or, after seeing through all the vanity in the world, and thus feeling that only money is the most practical good thing?" Jia Youwei said thoughtfully.

"Lin Yutang is also a human being, and he also needs to spend money. Especially a big celebrity like him, then he will definitely pay special attention to a delicacy in life.

Just one person who does not get tired of eating and eating is not tired of being fine, and he can spend money like running water. The aspects of "Dream of Red Mansions" about writing about food are not all clear.

A crab feast in Jiafu is enough for a farmer like Grandma Liu to live for a year. A farmer like Grandma Liu is not a poor middle peasant, at least a rich peasant.

Once you pay attention to delicacy in life, then you are destined to incur a lot of expenses. In addition to food, there are also many expenses such as clothing, housing, and transportation.

When people chase these things, they will naturally never end. To put it bluntly, how much money does Lin Yutang have to support a luxurious life? Not everyone is you, and you have an inexhaustible amount of money.

Your distress lies in the fact that you were born with a huge amount of wealth. Zhang Boju, one of the four sons of the Republic of China in the same era as Lin Yutang, only inherited the ancestral property of more than 6 million taels of silver, and it was only then that he had the other party's later collection of calligraphy and paintings.

Although even I don't know how much money you inherited, the sum of a hundred Zhang Boju at that time is not as much money as you inherited.

Every day you wake up, you start thinking about how to spend your money. As a result, you spend more and flow back more.

So, you spend more money, and then more comes back. The cycle has become what it is now. Jia Lingling put the book in her hand on the book table next to her, and expressed her personal views and opinions.

"It's like how luxurious I am. I'm all acting as a cow and a horse for you. Each of you has enough money for each meal for me for a year. Jia Youwei said half-seriously and half-jokingly.

"I'm not as extravagant as you say. Aunt Ziyu is what you say, each meal must be one hundred and eight dishes, completely in accordance with the standards of Lafayette Cixi at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Jia Lingling hurriedly lifted Jia Ziyu out and used it as a shield.

Jia Youwei's eyes did not fall on her beautiful legs, but looked at "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds" on the table and said: "The bottom of "Dream of Red Mansions" is "Golden Vase Plum". The bottom of "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds" is "Dream of Red Mansions".

Lin Yutang's late festival is not guaranteed, but it sets off the famous history of the businessman Chen Liuzhi. Nanyang University was also ill-fated along the way.

Not only did he encounter a Lin Yutang, but he also suffered from the Chinese language education of the Singapore government, and was constantly suppressed by the government.

It was eventually forcibly incorporated into the National University of Singapore in 1980. Later, it was spun off from the National University of Singapore to form the Singapore Institute of Technology.

What touched me a lot was the perseverance of many teachers and students at Nanyang University. Today, many of them are pillars of Singapore, and they do not recognize their student records as belonging to the National University of Singapore or the Singapore Institute of Technology.

They only recognize themselves as Nanyang University. The purpose is very clear, not to have to get along with the Singapore government and protest against the injustices it has suffered, but to remember that it was not easy to establish Nanyang University back then.

From them, you can see that intellectuals should have the integrity to distinguish between right and wrong. What I oppose and disapprove of is one thing, the government's injustice at the beginning has always demanded rehabilitation, and it is another thing for me to do my duty and do my part, love Singapore and contribute to Singapore. ”

"Both the National University of Singapore and the Singapore Institute of Technology are world-class universities. In terms of status, it is my country's Peking University and Tsinghua University.

Among the donors in Nanyang University, there is also money contributed by the ancestors of our Jia family. Its reputation and teaching quality are also of a super high level, and you can be exempted from exams when you go to study in famous universities in Europe and the United States. Jia Lingling said with emotion.

At that time, who made the quality of the people poor? Businessmen often preferred to set up education to save the country, and only education could save the country.

Xiamen University, founded by Tan Kah Kee. Later, Li Ka-shing founded Shantou University. Ningbo University, founded by Bao Yugang. Jia Youwei said calmly.

"You have forgotten that there is a university that also has the money of our Jia family, and that is Huaqiao University. Ernie chan, you're not going to start a university?" Jia Lingling added with a smile.

"Nope. Universities don't produce real writers. Jia Youwei said concisely.