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What made everyone feel strange and embarrassed was that as soon as the wine and food were served on the table, Gu Xiaojun euphemistically said that the meal on the side of Jiang Tianlou was also ready, and he and his wife had to rush back to accompany their parents. There is no doubt that he doesn't want to disturb the long-lost reunion of Tian Wenjian and others. I was afraid that I, an "outsider", would spoil the atmosphere of the dinner.

Unable to persevere, Tian Wenjian and Xiao Na could only fulfill their wishes. After sending them out of the compound of the China News Agency, they beckoned the three people who were looking through the photos of Tian Wenjian and the others studying in the United States in the room to take a seat.

"It's been four years since I left, and I haven't even written a letter, brother-in-law, you really have no conscience."

Xiao Chili, who thought that the gift was "big", learned that Dr. Tian and his wife had only brought back a few large boxes of books, so they had an unhappy expression on their faces and pretended to complain angrily.

Xiao Pepper's reaction reminded Tian Wenjian of the memories of the two of them when he was first assigned to the health team a few years ago, and couldn't help but roll her eyes, and said angrily: "You are a lieutenant officer of the emergency combat force, and you are not an ordinary person, isn't it to ask for trouble when you write a letter or call you?" ”

In the past few years since Tian Wenjian was studying abroad, Sino-US relations have been very tense, and it is indeed not appropriate to rashly write a letter to an officer of the Air Force Division, an ace division of the Air Force.

Thinking of this, Xiao Pepper nodded slightly, then changed the conversation, pouted and muttered, "Then you have to bring some gifts when you come back, right?" ”

Everyone immediately burst into laughter, Tian Wenjian even pointed at her nose and scolded with a smile: "It's more than twenty people, and it's not a child, what kind of gift do you want?" Besides, we are studying abroad, not doing business, and we are poor students, so we can't be generous if we want to. ”

"I know that crying poor is still the same German surname."

It's a bit unreasonable to come back from afar, and it is indeed a bit unreasonable to bring nothing, Xiao Na pondered for a moment, and couldn't help but smile and asked: "I came back in a hurry, I really didn't take these things into account." Xiaomei, if you don't dislike it, I have a few bags there, and if you like it, take it. ”

"Really?" Pepper put down the chopsticks in her hand with an excited expression.

"Really."

Xiao Na nodded heavily, then turned around, and continued: "Actually, I didn't buy it, they all came back a little when Sister Ling went to France, there are several, you can pick one later." ”

Zheng Xiaolan was not as heartless as her, she shook her head again and again: "Sister, I'll forget it." Staying in the army all day, and not going out much, even if you ask for it, you can't use it. ”

Without waiting for Cortana to speak, Pepper pulled her arm, and smiled coquettishly: "Silly girl, don't be in vain!" Besides, who is Sister Ling? It's not a good thing, can she get her hands on it? ”

The country is easy to change, the surname is difficult to change, and they are all captains and officers, and they are still the same German surname. Tian Wenjian sighed secretly, raised his glass, and said with a smile: "Yang Jie, three women in one play, let's not mix, drink." ”

After two hours of getting along, Yang Jie let go a lot, and when he saw Tian Wenjian toasting himself, he quickly stood up, with a sincere expression, and said solemnly: "Old dean, I should be honored by me for this glass of wine, first, thank you for your concern for Lanzi all the time; Second, please rest assured, I will definitely treat Lanzi well and will never let you down. ”

Straight to the point, in the end, he is a soldier.

Tian Wenjian nodded with satisfaction, raised the glass and drank it all, then put down the wine glass, patted him on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "A hundred years of cultivation can be crossed by the same boat, and a thousand years of cultivation can be slept together." China is so big, Tiannan Haibei, it is indeed not easy for you to come together, cherish this marriage. ”

"Yes, old dean!"

The last hurdle finally passed, Yang Jie was so excited that he didn't know what to say, so he simply "snapped" and gave Tian Wenjian a military salute again.

Xiaolan also has a home, Xiao Pepper's heart is sour, and she can't help muttering: "This is not married yet, look at the pleasure of you, it is really useless." ”

Xiao Na realized that she was not too young, and while giving her chicken wings in a bowl, she said with a smile: "Xiaomei, you are Lanzi's sister, and it doesn't matter if you pull behind me for life, but can't you also pull behind Lanzi." ”

"I remember what Cortana said, you're twenty-three this year, right? No, you can't delay it any longer, and if you drag it any longer, you'll become an old girl. Tian Wenjian nodded, with a deeply approving expression.

Going around and around, it actually went around to herself, Xiao Pepper was anxious, but she didn't want others to see the clues, so she quickly changed the topic and forced a smile: "Didn't you say that you are in charge of your own affairs?" Don't worry about my affairs, give me this dirt bun who has never been abroad, and talk about the things in the United States and the people in the United States, so that I can also have a long insight. ”

Zheng Xiaolan reacted, and hurriedly echoed: "Yes, yes, let's tell us about your study in the United States, I want to hear it too." ”

"What's there to say about that?"

Tian Wenjian pondered for a moment, and while holding the plate of peanuts and beans in front of him, he laughed and said: "There are too many things in the United States, and I can't say why I can't come up with them for a while." As for the Americans...... It is to eat fish will not spit thorns, and the food on the ground will be wiped directly to the child to eat, even if the kitchen equipment is advanced, but you can not make a delicious meal by looking at the manual, you don't need to support your parents, you always like to engage in the AA system, and you have to bring your own food to a friend, and you have to use a whisk to beat an egg. ”

Everyone burst into laughter, and Pepper leaned back and forth with laughter. After laughing, Zheng Xiaolan couldn't help but ask, "Uncle Tian, what are the Chinese like in the eyes of Americans?" ”

Tian Wenjian didn't answer her question, but turned around, smiled at Xiao Na and said, "This question is too challenging, you have a lot of contact with Americans, so you should answer it." ”

After thinking about it, Xiao Na looked around at everyone and said with a smile: "Contrary to how we look at them, in their eyes, Chinese like to eat chicken feet and duck necks, when eating fish, they actually suck fish heads, eat animal offal, especially like to sing karaoke, plastic bags are wrapped outside the remote control, never kiss their parents, compete to pay after eating, only use chopsticks to beat eggs, never use egg beaters." ”

Before they could react, Tian Wenjian suddenly added: "When I drink tea at home, I always use a teacup with a lid." ”

Little Pepper was happy, and couldn't help but smile and ask, "It's that simple?" ”

"It's as simple as that." Cortana nodded heavily and confirmed with a smile.

To Tian Wenjian's surprise, Yang Jie actually stepped in, with a thoughtful expression, and said, "Don't look at it as just some trivial things, but it's not simple at all." This is a huge difference between Chinese and Western cultures, and it is not possible to communicate with each other without understanding each other's culture. ”

There is a doctorate, two masters, and even Zheng Xiaolan next to her is a bachelor of clinical medicine. Xiao Pepper didn't want to discuss cultural issues with intellectuals like them, so she immediately changed the topic, held her chin, and asked with interest: "Sister, brother-in-law, when you first went there, you didn't know the place well, and you didn't understand the language, how did you persevere?" ”

"Xuebei, what else can I do?"

The experience of working part-time is too hard, and Cortana doesn't want to ruin everyone's interest, so she haha. Seeing Xiao Chili inadvertently showing a disappointed expression, Tian Wenjian pondered for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "On the issue of language, we can be regarded as suffering from the old nose." The most memorable thing is when I first arrived in Boston, I had to go to the toilet, so I asked the people around me, "Where's the toilet?" ”

It was strange that Americans didn't understand it, and it took a long time to figure it out, and it turned out that Americans understood toilet as 'toilet', and toilet should be said to be 'bathroom' or 'restroom'. It's not at all the same as what the teacher taught it in the English dictionary, and I really doubt that American English is English. ”

Obviously, Xiao Pepper's interest in whether Tian Wenjian found the toilet is far greater than the interest in how the toilet should be read. As soon as Tian Wenjian's words fell, he continued to ask, "Then can you understand the class?" ”

"If you can understand as much as you can, if you don't understand, you will ask someone after class."

Tian Wenjian put down the chopsticks in his hand and continued: "In fact, the most difficult thing is not speaking and listening, but English composition. The teacher's request is very simple, that is, to explain a thing clearly in the simplest words. To illustrate the importance of this point, he took a long time to give an example of how sometimes on the battlefield there are wounded on the front line but there is no doctor, and the wounded cannot be transferred immediately, so the soldiers need to operate on the wounded.

Of course, the fighters could not carry their own knives and do it out of thin air, but under the guidance of the rear doctors via radio. At this time, whether the lives of the wounded can be saved depends to a large extent on the language skills of the fighters at the front and the doctors at the rear.

First of all, the fighter needs to tell the doctor as accurately as possible about the condition of the wounded, including what type of wound, the location of the wound, the depth, the state, etc. The doctor then needs to make a judgment about how to treat it based on these descriptions, and then tell the fighter where to cut it, where to sew it, and how to perform the operation. In the course of this series, the slightest deviation in any single sentence of language can lead to the failure of the entire operation. In other words, a word can be a life. ”

After four years of experience as an international student, Tian Wenjian unconsciously accepted Harvard's concept of "teaching students according to their aptitude". Even telling jokes to Pepper and others is as realistic as possible and described in a way they can understand.

The current Yu Xiaomei is the head nurse of Longjiang Air Force Hospital, and she often enters the operating room, how can she not understand the important surname. Looking at her listening with relish, Tian Wenjian changed his words and continued: "Many things are easy to say, but difficult to do. The first exercise question given by the teacher is: Suppose the teacher is a fool and never knows how to tie his shoes, and you need to write a short paragraph to explain in detail how the shoelaces are tied? Then, according to your description, he strictly followed step by step, and if he could tie the shoelaces, then he was qualified. ”

"Did you write it then?"

"Of course not."

Tian Wenjian shook his head and said with a wry smile: "From childhood to adulthood, adding up all the challenges I have experienced, it is not as difficult as asking a Chinese student who has just been to the United States for half a year to explain how to tie his shoelaces in English." ”

Seeing them smile and lean back, Xiao Na pinched her nose and said with a depressed face: "Our teacher has also tested us like this, it seems that something so simple, children will do." But when it comes to coherent explanations, I can't find a place to put my mouth out, let alone use English that I'm not familiar with. ”

"And then?" Pepper was happy, with an impatient expression.

"All the international students were dumbfounded, for a whole class, everyone honestly thought that many people repeatedly tied their shoelaces with decomposition actions, but in the end, none of the students could really complete it in one class."

"The American teacher is really insidious enough to use such a troublesome problem to make things difficult for you."

To everyone's surprise, Tian Wenjian shook his head, with a serious expression, and said solemnly: "Actually, this is not a difficulty, I just want to let us master English as soon as possible through this simple way." In fact, this kind of education is still very distinctive, not like the domestic teachers only know indoctrination, but pay more attention to more discussion and communication with students, will listen to the voice of students, from a single knowledge imparter to gradually become a promoter, participant and organizer of student learning, respect students' free expression, create a relaxed classroom atmosphere, and seek common growth and progress in this harmonious teacher-student relationship. ”

Yang Jie reacted and couldn't help asking, "Just like the public class you took in the afternoon?" ”

"Yes, but I'm not strictly a teacher after all, and I don't have relevant work experience. In comparison, there is still a big gap in standards. ”

Tian Wenjian paused, and while beckoning everyone to eat, he continued: "In addition, there is a big problem with the textbooks, people can compile mathematics textbooks into stories, and look at mathematics from multiple perspectives such as agriculture, economy, and war; Even statistics can be written in an interesting way, and it is connected to practical problems everywhere. And the vast majority of our courses have the same textbooks and abominable teachings. Even teachers can't read it, and it's hard to ask students to learn purely from the interests of the subject itself. ”

"yes!"

Xiao Na nodded slightly, and added thoughtfully: "When people talk about chemistry, they start with why salt is salty and why sugar is sweet. It's even more interesting to talk about physics, because he won't tell you what Newton's theorem is, but will try to give us an idea of how Newton's ideas were formed step by step. ”

"What do they say?" Zheng Xiaolan pondered for a moment and couldn't help asking.

Without waiting for Xiao Na to speak, Tian Wenjian smiled and said, "In our consciousness, Newton was born to play with learning. He was born to be a great man, and those great laws should be discovered only by him. This is not the case with the American teacher, whose explanation will completely shatter these myths. In their informative introduction, Newton was just a mere man, an ordinary man like me, who had all sorts of problems like all of us.

The only difference is that Newton fought unrelentingly after encountering problems and difficulties, analyzed and thought about the problems scientifically and systematically, and advanced step by step, and finally not only solved the problems, but also found a set of methods to solve similar problems.

Through his reconstruction of this history, you will find that the basic principles of calculus turned out to be as simple as that. As long as you can imagine dividing something into infinitesimal and making it disappear. And then add up these infinitesimal and restore this thing. In other words, if Newton had been lazy, maybe you would have been able to figure it out when you were happy. ”

Yang Jie pondered for a moment, suddenly put down the cup, and suddenly said: "It turns out that the gap between ordinary people and great people is so small, I finally understand where we lost in science." Dean, if I'm not mistaken, the reason why you don't talk about the esoteric philosophical questions of chicken or egg, but guide students to criticize utilitarianism and absolute morality through some dilemmas, is to subtly cultivate their critical thinking ability. ”

"It turns out that you also have some research in philosophy, and I really can't see it."

Tian Wenjian nodded slightly, and said meaningfully: "There is no learning and training of logic courses in domestic middle schools, and there is no learning and training of real philosophical thinking courses. As a result, almost all middle school students find it difficult to understand philosophy, and even when they go to university, as long as they are not philosophy majors, there are few people who can easily read and understand philosophy, which should be a reflection of the lack of an aspect of the education system.

It seems that philosophy is useless, but if people do not understand logic and philosophy, their critical thinking is very weak, and it is difficult to make correct judgments and correct decisions.

This is true for a person, for a nation and for a country, and there can be no real revival and rise. It is imperative to learn philosophy and logic, so that all Chinese are no longer ignorant, and all Chinese have the ability to read and think, then China can truly rejuvenate and rise. ”

The bird's nest knew the ambition of the bird, and everyone realized that Tian Wenjian's ambition was thousands of miles. Just when everyone was reflecting on his words, Xiao Pepper suddenly burst into a sentence: "Yang Zi, as soon as you grab the scalpel, you dare to make an axe in front of my brother-in-law and talk about utilitarianism." ”

In her eyes, Yang Jie is a nerd who knows how to read books in addition to work. So much so that after learning about his relationship with Xiaolan, he strongly objected, after all, it was too boring to live with such a man. Seeing that this kid actually made Xuefu Wuche's brother-in-law treat him differently, Xiao Pepper couldn't help but provoke.

"Sister Xiaomei, according to the old dean's theory, everyone is a philosopher, why can't I discuss philosophy?" Yang Jie was anxious, reversed his previous attitude of going against the grain, and defended himself-for-tat.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Pepper stood up, snatched the wine bottle in front of Tian Wenjian, and said with a provocative smile: "Then you tell me what utilitarianism is, in front of my brother-in-law, if you can't say one, two, three, four, then you will be fined three glasses of wine." ”

Seeing Tian Wenjian staring at him with a smile, Yang Jie, who wanted to leave a good impression on him, pondered for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "Sister Xiaomei, you can't understand the theory when I tell you, I'll give you an example." ”

"Whether it's a theory or an example, as long as my brother-in-law says yes, it's okay."

"It's like when I'm on duty in the infield, you and Lanzi ask me to eat together. The soldier's street is a little closer to me, and the old squad leader's restaurant is closer to the two of you. But you always choose to eat at the old squad leader's restaurant, and remove the factors of taste and price of the food, that is, let me run alone is better than two people, and this is in line with the principle of utilitarianism. Why should you sacrifice the interests of the two of you at the expense of mine alone? From a philosophical point of view, this is the legendary tyranny of the majority. ”

This is not an example, but an iron-clad fact, everyone immediately burst into laughter, Xiao Pepper pointed at his nose, gritted his teeth and scolded: "Okay, you Yang Jie, you have long held a grudge against the two of us." The two of us are beautiful women who accompany you to eat to give you face, and you have been wronged by this? ”

"No, no, no, I'm just giving an analogy."

(To be continued)