When Chen Zikun followed the old man into the classroom, the students who had been waiting for a long time immediately burst into laughter, Peking University has always been the cradle of progressive culture, and it is naturally very ridiculous that a professor with a robe and a horse coat and pigtail pigtails appeared on the podium.

The classroom was overcrowded, even the aisle was full of people, and there were a lot of people standing behind, the students of Peking University were quite gentlemanly, and gave the best position in the middle of the front row to the female students, Lin Wenjing and Wang Yueqi were also among them, seeing their own coachman follow the professor in, Lin Wenjing's face was full of surprise, Chen Zikun squeezed his eyes at her, and he was very proud.

The old man instructed Chen Zikun to sit in the front row, walked up to the podium by himself, and said slowly: "Foreigners say that when you come to Beijing, you can not look at the three major halls, but you can't ignore Gu Hongming. ”

There was another burst of heart-warming laughter in the audience, Gu Hongming took off his melon skin hat, turned around in place, put on his hat and said leisurely: "The braids on my head are tangible, but the braids in your hearts are intangible." ”

The laughter stopped abruptly, the students of Peking University were the best among the people, and Professor Gu's words woke them up suddenly, and they had to re-examine this legendary strange old man.

Gu Hongming said: "Thanks to President Cai's affordability, he hired Gu to come to Peking University to teach Latin, and to learn Western studies, you must learn Latin, just as you must learn classical Chinese to learn Sinology. ”

Suddenly, a person stood up in the audience and said loudly: "Professor Gu, I don't agree with your words. ”

Everyone's eyes were focused on this handsome young man, Wang Yueqi leaned on Lin Wenjing's ear and said: "President Xu is so courageous, he dares to debate with Professor Gu, I really admire him." ”

"Well, the senior is very bold." Lin Wenjing also looked at Xu Tingge with a look of admiration, and Chen Zikun saw it, and knocked over the vinegar bottle in his heart.

Almost all the eyes of the students in the classroom were focused on Xu Tingge, and he was greatly encouraged to talk eloquently

Said: "Today's world, is the world of the great powers, among the great powers, and to Britain, France and virtue first, if our generation of Chinese students want to apply what they have learned, rich country and strong people, they must abandon some outdated and backward things, such as classical Chinese, such as Latin such an obscure language and writing, after the European war, all kinds of waste to be rebuilt, my Chinese students should catch up, how can there be spare time to learn these European nobles used to vassal elegant writing, I think, the school should abolish Latin and classical Chinese courses, the national language advocates vernacular, Foreign languages advocate English and French, and I remember Mr. Hu Shi once said......"

"Hu Shizhi's English is vulgar, is he also worthy of talking about words?" Gu Hongming's goatee pouted, and he interrupted Xu Tingge's speech disdainfully, "I thought you had something new, it turned out to be Hu Shizhi's set of things." ”

Xu Tingge also wanted to argue, Gu Hongming didn't give him a chance at all, "If you don't drink alcohol, but drink mixed bad wine, what is the reason, learning classical Chinese is the same as learning Latin, it is the inheritance of the essence of the nation, foreigners still know how to learn Latin, but Hu Shizhi They want to engage in a literary revolution and abandon classical Chinese, which is really a great disaster for a hundred years." ”

Xu Tingge shouted: "Professor Gu, please allow me to say, Mr. Hu Shizhi's advocacy of vernacular is for the sake of 40,000,000 compatriots, and the Chinese is obscure and difficult to understand, which is greatly disadvantageous in improving the wisdom of the people, and the same is true of Latin, the German poet Heine once sighed because he could not memorize it, "If the Romans had to learn Latin first, they probably would not have much time left to conquer the world, and I want to say that if the purpose is not to study culture, the university still takes the study of English and French as an important course." ”

There was applause from the audience, and the classmates looked at Xu Tingge more eagerly, and even Lin Wenjing couldn't help nodding, presumably she also had a deep pain in Wen Yanwen.

Gu Hongming had already expected this answer, he said disdainfully: "Heine is just a rotten Confucian, how can it be used as an example, classical Chinese is the foundation of Chinese culture, after learning well, vernacular is naturally not a problem, just as Latin is the originator and prototype of Germanic languages, learning Latin, English, French, Spanish is not a problem, there is no course in the world that cannot be learned, only students who do not work hard, this classmate, I dare to make a bet with you, as long as you are willing to learn, even if you are uneducated, you can learn Latin." ”

As he spoke, he pointed at Chen Zikun: "Boy, you come up." ”

Chan stepped up to the podium and bowed to everyone.

The audience was in an uproar, and they didn't know what medicine Gu Hongming was selling in his gourd.

"This person is the coachman I was looking for at the door, I didn't know him before, he is about to have a winter vacation, I am going to use this time during the New Year to teach him to learn Latin, at least to the level of no less than you, who dares to bet with me?"

There was a buzz in the classroom, today is the last class before the winter vacation, there are students from the preparatory department and undergraduate of Peking University who come to listen to Gu Hongming's lectures, as well as audit students and probationary students, men and women, gathered together, young people are impulsive, there is no reason to retreat on this occasion, Xu Tingge said proudly: "I bet a hundred yuan, bet on him whether he will learn?" ”

Gu Hongming twisted his goatee and smiled: "Is there anything else to follow, buy it and leave." ”

An arm is raised,

"I'll bet ten dollars!"

"I'll bet two!"

"Five cents!"

The classroom was turned into a casino, and the students and teachers were very happy about it, and Gu Hongming also specially found someone to record the names and bets of all the bettors.

"Hehe, it's all about losing by betting on old decay." Gu Hongming took the list and sighed, and suddenly shouted as if he had discovered a new world: "Yo, there is actually a female doll who bets on the old man to win, Lin Wenjing, two dimes, this classmate, please stand up." ”

Lin Wenjing stood up in response, lowered his head shyly, and pinched the corners of his clothes with his hands.

"Classmate Lin, can you tell me why you believe that old decay can win?" Gu Hongming asked with a smile.

Lin Wenjing blushed with shame, her voice was as low as a mosquito, and Wang Yueqi helped her and said, "She said that she didn't believe that Professor Gu could win, but because it was their coachman, she bet on your side." ”

There was a burst of laughter, and Gu Hongming laughed heartily: "The little girl is a true temperament, haha, so why do you only bet two dimes?" ”

"Because she only has two dimes a month for her pocket money!" Wang Yueqi explained loudly.

Chen Zikun, who had not spoken, was moved to tears, and said in his heart that his daughter-in-law has your support, let alone Latin, even the Book of Heaven I have to learn.

Gu Hongming said: "A total of 213 yuan to bet on the decay to lose, two corners to bet on the decay to win, this odds are really big enough, if you lose, the decay will lose all the money, if you win, the money will not be kept, all to the coachman, little brother, what is your name?" ”

"My name is Chen Zikun, and my name is Kunwu."

This is the first time that Chan's name has been remembered by Peking University.

After class, Gu Hongming took out his business card to Chen Zikun: "If you want to make money, you will come to Donghuamen Chunshu Hutong to find the old decay." ”

"Don't worry, sir, I will definitely earn this money." Chan swears.

"Haha, the talent I fancy is naturally reassured." Gu Hongming floated away.

Someone outside shouted: "Mr. Chen Duxiu gave a speech on campus criticizing the current situation, everyone go and listen!" ”

The students immediately rushed out, and in an instant, the classroom was clean, leaving only Lin Wenjing alone.

"That...... Uncle, I bet two dimes, that's all my belongings, you must win. Lin Wenjing stared at her round eyes and said seriously.

Chen Zikun nodded vigorously: "I will definitely live up to your high expectations, Miss." Holding out his little thumb as he spoke, "Let's pull the hook." ”

Lin Wenjing tilted her head and looked at Chen Zikun, feeling that this old man was quite cute, so she also stretched out her little thumb and hooked up with him: "Hang yourself on the hook, and you will not change for a hundred years." ”

"It won't change for a hundred years." Chen Zikun's deep baritone is full of emotion, youth campus, vows, this scene is more romantic and more romantic.

Lin Wenjing is not as complicated as Chen Zikun thought, the call for the speech outside is getting higher and higher, she can't hold it back, she takes out a red celluloid pen and says: "Start now, I'll write a few words, you just copy it, don't be lazy." ”

As he spoke, he tore off a piece of paper from his homework book, wrote a few lines, and blushed a little after writing, "Actually, I don't know Latin, I can only teach you some of the most basic culture, okay, you can write it according to it, the pen is given to you, do you know how to hold a pen, it is different from holding a brush, I will give you a demonstration, by the way, that's how you hold the pen." ”

Chen Zikun looked at it fixedly, and wrote a few lines of simple Chinese characters on the paper: upper, middle, lower, mouthful, one, two, three, four, five.

In the distance, there was an impassioned speech: "Shameless! The authorities are so shameless that they are ashamed of their 40,000,000 compatriots! This was followed by a thunderous cheer.

Lin Wenjing walked quickly to the window, pushed open the window, looked at the exciting scene in the corner of the campus, and couldn't help clenching his fists and said: "The responsibility of revitalizing China is on the shoulders of my generation, I am going to support Mr. Chen, you write well here, and I will check my homework when I go back." After saying that, he ran away, and only the sound of young and invincible hurried footsteps came from the corridor.

Although he really wanted to go to the campus to shout a slogan or something with his classmates, Chen Zikun still stayed in the classroom and started his homework, he first put the red pen under his nose and sniffed, a faint fragrance, with the body fragrance of a girl, Chen Zikun couldn't help but feel shocked, and he wrote hard.

A cold wind blew from the window, Chen Zikun got up and closed the window, who knew that the wind blew up the writing paper on the table and floated out of the window on the other side.

"Lao Tzu's homework!" Chen Zikun struggled to grab it, and the paper had already flown away like a butterfly.

On campus, the crowd was excited, Lin Wenjing stood with a group of girls, Wang Yueqi asked, "Lin Wenjing, why do you say Professor Gu is making this bet?" ”

Lin Wenjing sighed and said: "Professor Gu is so busy, how can he have time to teach a coachman to learn Latin, in fact, I know that he is using the method of agitation to force the students to take the initiative to learn Latin, and we can't live up to the teacher's hard work." ”

In a corner of the campus, two professors wearing long shirts and glasses walked side by side, one of them picked up the writing paper from the ground, and couldn't help laughing: "I didn't expect that my Peking University students are also children, this is obviously the content of kindergarten calligraphy, but it was written by a pair of men and women, how interesting, Uncle Shen might as well take a look." ”

Another gentleman with a sick face took the paper and looked at it and said: "The upper is a woman's handwriting, delicate and graceful, presumably practiced in a private school with a very strict family education, and the words below are drawn with gold hooks and iron, and the strength penetrates the back of the paper, which is quite a man, and must be a strange man in the world." ”