Volume 5 Five Mountains are Light Chapter 43 The Lady Appears
Yangon's summer is like a stove, and Lu Zheng minimizes the need to attend outdoors.
The trees of the official residence manor are towering, and it is a little cooler than the outside, Rao is so, take a turn outside, and his body must be wet with sweat, Du Xiaohu was covered with sweat when he entered the lounge, and he cursed the ghost weather of Lao Myanmar even quietly.
This two-story wooden building was built next to the pond and had a wide view, and the previous ambassadors used this wooden building as a reception room to receive guests from China, and Lu Zheng used it as a lounge for enjoying the shade, and rarely met guests here
When Du Xiaohu came in, Lu Zheng was chatting with Wang Xiaoqi about the situation in Myanmar.
U Thant now basically controls the military and political affairs in Myanmar, coupled with the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the turmoil in the Soviet Union, the eyes of the NATO camp are all focused on Europe, and there is no time to pay attention to the demands of the democratic parties in this poor small Southeast Asian country, which also makes U Thant's road to power extremely smooth.
"Huzi, you tell Lao Huo, contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lao Myanmar tomorrow, I think, it's time for me to officially meet with Wu Dan." Lu Zheng looked at the note in his hand for a while, and then lit a fire and slowly burned it, the note was just given to him by Wang Xiaoqi.
Du Xiaohu agreed, then gritted his teeth and said, "Brother, happy newlywed, if you want me to say, you Yu Crisp has rested and rested in the past few days, and accompanied your sister-in-law to go out for a walk, always bored at home, how boring?" ”
Lu Zheng glared at Du Xiaohu and reprimanded: "What little sister-in-law? Sister-in-law is sister-in-law, and there are little sisters-in-law and big sisters-in-law? Huzi, you have a long ability" Although, it must be reported that the white yarn bag is full of age outside, but how to look at it, the age of the white yarn bag is also quite young, and no one will inquire about the age of his little bride, just the Yu Department in the embassy, I am afraid that all I am thinking about in the past few days is this matter, even if no one talks about it openly, in private, I am afraid that I don't know what to think about it.
Du Xiaohu scratched his head and didn't dare to say anything, of course he didn't mean to ridicule Lu Zheng, but he didn't want to, he committed Lu Zheng's taboo.
Lu Zheng stared at him a few times and said, "I heard, you found Guo Honghong?" I also wrote her a letter recently."
Du Xiaohu's face immediately turned red, and he said, "No, it's nothing, I just want to ask her if she is doing well." ”
Lu Zheng asked: "She is doing business in Lingnan now, right?" ”
Du Xiaohu drooped his head and nodded.
Seeing his situation, Lu Zheng also sighed in his heart, and said: "It must be very difficult for a woman to do business by herself outside, what about you, if you want to contact her, just contact her, if you need my help, squeak." ”
Du Xiaohu nodded lightly.
Speaking of Guo Honghong, Du Xiaohu immediately wilted, and he no longer had the happy look.
Lu Zheng gently patted him on the shoulder and didn't say anything more.
In the afternoon, Lu Zheng accompanied the women's group of the embassy to the Miaoshan Chinese School in Chinatown to express condolences.
As the ambassador's wife, Iris naturally became the leader of the embassy's women's group, but it was the first time she participated in the embassy's women's group activities.
Chinese schools in Myanmar used to bloom everywhere, but in the 60s, because the Communist Party of Burma posed a huge threat to the central government of Myanmar, and Red China was the driving force behind the Communist Party of Burma, Chinese schools were completely banned, and then turned underground, until in recent years, with the collapse of the previous military government, Chinese schools entered the stage of recovery.
Miao Shan Chinese School is an underground school during the strict control of the military government, and now it has just obtained the registration qualification, only a primary school system, the school building is only a few bungalows, three teachers, only one of whom is a full-time principal, and only a few dozen students, which can be said to be the epitome of many small Chinese schools in Yangon.
Because Chinese schools do not receive official education funds, they are self-financing and rely on meager tuition fees to support the school, although there are enthusiastic school managers and members of the community who donate funds, but the scale is usually very small, and they are in a state of self-fending chaos.
At present, the Taiwan authorities attach great importance to and support the work of teaching overseas Chinese in Burma, especially in the southern region, and as far as Yangon is concerned, many Chinese schools use teaching materials from Taiwan, but for various reasons, the Republic has not done enough in this regard.
Miao Shan Chinese School used Taiwanese textbooks, the earliest school was also from the donation of the Taiwan school manager, the current principal Zhang Siwei, is the cousin of the Taiwan school director, for him, in the Chinese shijie family and friends, mostly in Taiwan, so, to say that in terms of emotional identity, he is more identified with Taiwanese society, rather than the red power in the north. It's just that the Republic is now a country with diplomatic relations with Myanmar, and its school funds are in difficulty, and he can't get help from Taiwan's commercial office in Yangon, so he wrote a letter to the Republic's embassy in Myanmar with the mentality of just in case, but he didn't want to, and half a month later, he ushered in a condolence delegation from the Women's Association of the Chinese Embassy, and he didn't expect that the Chinese ambassador was also among the members of the condolence group.
Seeing the Chinese ambassador so young, Zhang Siwei was stunned, and when the young ambassador smiled and said: "This is the activity of the women's group of the embassy, and I am just a family representative, you don't have to worry about me, my identity today is to accompany the guest." Zhang Siwei felt that this ambassador seemed to be a little different from someone from the Northern Republic.
Wait for the introduction of the person next to her, the blonde and blue-eyed doll-like beautiful girl is the ambassador's wife, Zhang Siwei only feels that his shijie concept has been completely subverted, how can I say this, it's incredible.
If it weren't for the various official letters and prior contact and contact procedures, Zhang Siwei would really think that he had encountered a group of scammers.
In a dilapidated bungalow classroom, Chinese children performed singing and dancing for the guests, and Zhang Siwei knew that the leaders of the northern republic liked this form of fun with the people.
"Dongfang Hong, the sun rises ......" more than a dozen schoolchildren with red faces stood neatly in front of the blackboard and sang together, but the singing voices were a little uneven, obviously, the rehearsal was very hasty.
Zhu Qiong, deputy director of the administrative office, who is also the deputy head of the women's group of the embassy, nodded with satisfaction when she watched the show
She turned sideways and looked at Iris, in fact, this was her instinctive action, in the previous activities of the women's group, although she was in front of everything, but only according to the wishes of the ambassador's wife, the wife of the former ambassador Yang, seemed to be low-key and easy-going, but if it went against her will, she would often be given a cold reception.
But at this moment, Zhu Qiong looked at the charming childlike face of the new ambassador's wife, her lovely long eyelashes, her long platinum hair as dazzling as the goddess of anime, and the cumbersome and gorgeous costumes, and the faint arrogance of the aristocracy, she couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart, this is really, alas, I don't know what to say, our ambassador is really not an ordinary person.
The ambassador's little lady suddenly turned her head sideways, and her dreamy colorful eyes stunned Zhu Qiong, and she didn't even hear anything to herself, but the fresh breath made Zhu Qiong, a woman, have an impulse for a moment, and she wanted to lean over and suck her cute red lips.
Zhu Qiong couldn't help but glance at Lu Zheng, and couldn't help but have a weird feeling in her heart, why did she feel that the young ambassador was a little shameless, such a delicate doll like a work of art, he was embarrassed to spoil it?
Zhu Qiong didn't know that Lu Zheng was now working on the floor every night.
After a while, Zhu Qiong came back to her senses, but saw that the ambassador's wife had already turned her head sideways and spoke softly to Lu Zheng.
When Lu Zheng got up and beckoned to her, Zhu Qiong followed Lu Zheng to the outside of the classroom
Iris said she was ready to donate to the Chinese school. Lu Zheng looked at Zhu Qiong and asked a little strangely, "Don't you understand what she says?" Why do you stay in a daze? ”
Zhu Qiong was a little embarrassed, if it was said that before, Wei Shi felt that the young ambassador in front of him was unattainable, the red child, the young deputy department level Yu Ministry, but he didn't know Weishenme, but now he feels that this young talent has ruined Iris because of the beautiful doll, Wei Shi is too amazing.
Lu Zheng didn't know that his status in the eyes of his subordinates had plummeted now, and he had faintly become a beast, so he just said to himself, "Iris is going to be a school director, donate more money, open a junior high school class, and make this Chinese school the largest Chinese school in Yangon, of course, it must be formalized, you tell Principal Zhang Siwei what she means, if the amount of donation, the first amount is about 100,000 US dollars." ”
Zhu Qiong has heard that the new ambassador's wife is from a Western capitalist family, and now she is afraid that it is the kind of top wealthy family, 100,000 US dollars, just like the feeling of a female comrade in the embassy donating 10 yuan, right?
Following such an ambassador's wife, it is really confident, Zhu Qiong is thinking nonsense, and I don't know why, as a deputy director-level state minister, he actually has the idea of mixing with capitalists to be very glorious, Zhu Qiong smiled bitterly in her heart, perhaps because, from the first time she saw the ambassador's wife, her head was a little cloudy, and it is estimated that it will take a few days to slowly digest this kind of confusion.
Lu Zheng didn't enter the classroom again, and when he was pacing between the school buildings, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and Zhang Siwei walked over.
Zhang Siwei had a look of disbelief on his face, thinking that Zhu Qiong had already told him about Iris's preliminary jihua.
"Mr. Ambassador, you and your wife are really meritorious" Zhang Siwei said this, still feeling dizzy, mainland, is this about to change the sky? How can there be such ambassadors and ladies, it is really unheard of.
Lu Zheng smiled and said: "It is the responsibility of all Chinese to maintain the traditions of our Chinese society, we Chinese, there are many people living overseas, but, how to say, in terms of cohesion, it is far inferior to some minorities, such as Jews, in any country, they are not to be underestimated, just because they are united, of course, we Chinese pay attention to inclusiveness, not like these minorities xenophobia, we can't change this." ”
Zhang Siwei nodded silently, immediately remembered something, and said: "In the future, we will order textbooks from the mainland, and in terms of teachers, we also hope that the ambassador can help contact China to help." After all, Miaoshan Chinese School is from a Taiwanese background, if you want to get this injection, if you really want the ambassador's wife to become a school director, it is inevitable to change the "political outlook", fortunately, the children are learning knowledge, political tendencies, and the school will fade into it at that time.
Lu Zheng nodded slightly, and said: "Actually, the teaching materials, I think we can learn from each other, Taiwan's take a little bit, the mainland take a little bit, you guys, write your own suitable teaching materials, the mainland and Taiwan, in the past, will be a family, in the future, will be a family, are all inheriting Chinese civilization, but there is no need to use running a school as a political bargaining chip, in short, I hope that we overseas Chinese, can look at history objectively, look at the relationship between the mainland and Taiwan, I think that maintaining the status quo, you can look at each other in the mirror, learn from each other, there is no harm, It's just that in the general righteousness, we all have to safeguard the interests of the Chinese nation, don't you say? ”
Zhang Siwei nodded again and again, and his heart was even more surprised, this diplomat from the mainland, enlightened Ruosi, could it be that the closed country has really changed the sky?