Chapter 18: Serendipity
After a few turns in the small bookstore, Feng Yiming saw that the girl's mind was on English textbooks, so he took out a copy of "Selected Song Ci", walked over and said, "Have you heard of Gu Hongming?"
Zhang Jingjing shook her head suspiciously, "Who is this?"
"A legendary figure in modern Chinese history, born in Nanyang, studied in the West, married in the East, and served in Beiyang. What is even more amazing www.biquge.info his incomparable talent for foreign languages and philosophical views is the little pigtail on his head and his strange theory of marriage. ”
Zhang Jingjing tilted her head and thought for a while, "What strange marriage theory?"
Feng Yiming complained weakly in his heart, can you think about it not to be so jumpy, and hesitated for a long time before saying, "He is in favor of marrying a wife and taking concubines, in fact, the marriage he just said is in the East, which refers to the RB concubine he accepts." ”
Zhang Jingjing glared at the boy, turned around and was about to leave, Feng Yiming hurriedly caught up, "Gu Hongming went to Europe at the age of ten and returned to China in his twenties, and he was already proficient in more than ten Western languages at that time, don't you want to know how he learned it?"
The girl stopped, but did not look back, Feng Yiming looked at the girl's small and exquisite, but red ears, "Ten-year-old Gu Hongming has been in England and Germany, and he doesn't know foreign languages, so he relies on one way to memorize foreign masterpieces from beginning to end, and memorize them until they are ripe, and then read and understand them sentence by sentence." ”
Zhang Jingjing turned around, "Are you kidding me?"
Feng Yiming was a little helpless, "How is it possible, in fact, Gu Hongming can still recite Goethe's "Faust" in large sections until he is old. ”
"You're trying to tell me that's how you memorize your English?"
Feng Yiming handed the "Selected Song Ci" in his hand to the girl, "I want to tell you that I admire this person very much." Gu Hongming has a very high status in the history of Chinese translation and literature, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature with Tagore that year. But after he returned to China in his twenties, he immersed himself in Chinese studies for a long time, and his greatest contribution to China was to translate a large number of ancient Chinese books into foreign languages and spread them to the Western world in his own unique way. For example, the "Analects", "The Mean" and "University" in the "Four Books" were all translated and disseminated by him. This is the reason why Westerners said at that time that when they went to China, they could not look at the three major halls, but they could not fail to see Gu Hongming. ”
Feng Yiming pointed to the "Selected Song Ci" in the girl's hand, "English is just a tool, just a way to communicate, I hope you can also read more of these when you keep reading foreign classics." ”
Zhang Jingjing nodded hesitantly, "Many of these Song words are in Chinese textbooks. ”
Feng Yiming smiled, "In high school and junior high school, there are only 6 Chinese textbooks in total, take it home and take a look at it first, I think you will like it." ”
The two who picked up the books walked out of the bookstore side by side, Feng Yiming looked up at the snowflakes that were fluttering and falling in the air, "It's almost 11 o'clock, and it's snowing again, why don't we simply eat outside and go back." ”
Zhang Jingjing hesitated for a while before nodding, "Find a phone booth first, and talk to your family." ”
After walking for a while in the wind and snow, he found that there was a phone booth on the side of the road, watching the girl walk into the phone booth, Feng Yiming pricked up his ears sideways, and heard the girl's explanation intermittently, "Okay, I know, it won't...... Come back after eating. ”
Watching Zhang Jingjing come out after making the call, Feng Yiming, who had a blank adolescent love resume, was thinking, on a snowy day, this is an opportunity, should he take the initiative to reach out, but when he looked up, he saw Zhang Jingjing's meaningful eyes.
"Feng Yiming, why are you here, you came out to play on the first day of the holiday, isn't Auntie at home, how can you let you out?" A series of crisp questions sounded from behind him.
Feng Yiming turned his head and looked at Ye Zizi with an excited face in despair, Qingping is so big, can this be bumped into?
Sitting in the food stall, looking at the girls holding hands and looking like good sisters opposite, Feng Yiming, who was dejected, fidgeted like a thorn on the chair. Feng Yiming thought in frustration, after eating, maybe he could still press the road, chat, and send the girl home no matter how bad it was, but it was all smashed.
Ye Zi was anti-guest and ordered the dishes, Zhang Jingjing sat quietly on the side, sometimes nodding, sometimes shaking her head, and occasionally looking at the boy with a look of good show.
Feng Yiming snatched the menu, looked at the orders on it that were either sour or spicy, and said angrily, "What are you messing with, you like to eat spicy food, who do you order sour food for?"
Ye Zizi raised her eyebrows and said angrily, "Don't, I want to eat something sour today." ”
Feng Yiming's hand holding the menu trembled, and he didn't dare to peek at Zhang Jingjing's expression, "Hey, boss, don't do this, add another duck soup, don't want wine, just serve rice, that's all." ”
Feng Yiming, who was eating this meal, called a sour, looking at Ye Zizi, who kept provoking conversations, and chatting a few interesting things from his childhood from time to time, his expression was calm, Taishan collapsed in front of him and his color remained unchanged, but from time to time he sandwiched a few chopsticks and sauerkraut to Zhang Jingjing of the leaves, Feng Yiming thought that it was better to get out of the way as soon as possible, sandwiched between these two little goblins, maybe he would be burned later.
Feng Yiming walked out of the food stall after settling the account, one is on the left and the other is on the right, one of the two girls is cheerful, the other is quiet and introverted, and they can't play together at all, and the two of them don't say as much as they have in a meal today.
Feng Yiming raised his hand to stop a taxi, "The snow has stopped, it's time for you to go home, send you back?"
Zhang Jingjing politely declined, turned around and nodded to Ye Zizi, sat in the car, Feng Yiming closed the car door politely, and the girl whispered, "Thank you, I'm very happy today." ”
Ye Zizi on the side of the road looked at Feng Yiming, who was excited and kept looking, stomped his foot and slapped Feng Yiming on the back, "What else are you looking at, it's long gone!"
Feng Yiming turned his head and said angrily, "I owe you in my last life, and now you are here to make trouble?" I said you ......."
Before he finished speaking, Ye Zizi turned his head and left, Feng Yiming chased after him and moved his shoulder, only to find the tears in the girl's eyes.
Feng Yiming opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't say anything, but the girl raised her head bravely, "Brother Yiming, do you like to study well?" This is a hidden rule in the love of students in the city's No. 1 middle school. Ordinary students? The two words of the college entrance examination can crush you to death, do you have the time and energy to fall in love?
Feng Yiming remembered the college entrance examination in his previous life, Ye Zi's grades were good, although he was not top-notch, but there was no problem with the general key universities, and when he filled in the first choice, he filled in SH University of Finance and Economics as his first choice, but he was not admitted by one point, and he took the second choice of Jianghe University of Technology, which made many teachers feel sorry.
Feng Yiming nodded, "Well, by the way, you are not allowed to talk nonsense about today's events, let alone make a small report, have you heard?"
Ye Zizi pouted and said, "Got it, when did you start?"
Feng Yiming was angry, "It was stirred up the first time, what do you say?"
At this time, Ye Zizi suddenly became excited, and kept shaking Feng Yiming's arm, "It's okay in the afternoon, why don't you go to my house to play, my dad is at home today, you know that he likes you the most, and he will talk about you twice in three days." ”
Feng Yiming struggled to break free of his arm, "No, no, I have to go back to school in the afternoon, the final exam results are coming out today, I'll go back to see the scores, you wait for my call at home." ”
Ye Zizi tossed for another half a day, until Feng Yiming promised to make at least one phone call a day during the holiday, and then he reluctantly went home.