Chapter 51: "Connoisseur" (Second Update, Asking for a Monthly Pass!) )
The moment he stepped on land, like every teenager on the ship, Xiaoxin looked at the ...... with curious and vigilant eyes Well, it's the port, maybe it's because of the relationship of "seeing the world" in Shanghai, so in his opinion, Incheon is not a city at all, except for a few small buildings at the port, there seems to be no more buildings, compared to Shanghai, Incheon just after Chongyang seems a little cold, so that those teenagers in single clothes are all frozen and shivering.
"Brother Xiaoxin, this, what is this place?"
Xiao San, who is only five years old, is still standing next to Xiaoxin as before, the cold sea breeze only makes him tremble uncontrollably, if it weren't for the foreign blanket he was wearing on his body, he might not have froze into something.
And like Xiao San, Dali, Shanzi, and Guzi are all standing around Xiaoxin, not only because he is the oldest, but also because Xiaoxin has been protecting them in the past seven or eight years, so that there are as few as five or six people, and as many as 20 "small gangs" scattered throughout the dock, maybe there will be a few "small groups" either because of past acquaintances, or because of the relationship they made on the ship, they have become one, but more are clearly scattered.
1,650 children from the age of four to fourteen and fifteen stood on the dock like this, the cold sea breeze caressed their bodies, and when a pair of curious and wary eyes looked at this special district that was not a city, the workers and police on the dock also looked at these children, and their eyes were equally suspicious, why are there so many children here?
Child!
Looking at this group of children, Tang Haoran's heart couldn't calm down for a while, what did these children look like in front of him? If you take off your clothes. Tang Haoran believes that they are not much better than the shocking-looking scrawny African refugees in the photos.
“……”
Moaning. Tang Haoran, who was silent, walked to the roots of these children. Looking at these skinny children, looking at their thin, thin appearance, one by one, from the left to the right, from the front to the back, I watched for more than ten minutes, and the more I looked, the more my face sank. Especially when they were still wearing single clothes, their faces were even more difficult to look at.
"Jie Qi, it's so cold, why didn't you give them thick clothes?"
They were not wearing new clothes, nor rags from wandering, but old clothes, apparently from a pawnshop or somewhere, and most of them did not fit well.
"My lord, it's not easy to get so many clothes, I didn't expect it to be so cold at the time. It's not, these blankets. It is an old blanket from a foreign ship brought from Shanghai, and I will put it on my body for the time being to block the cold! ”
For Song Yuxin's explanation, Tang Haoran just frowned helplessly, now is not a hundred years later, clothes can be bought at any time, even if the modern garment industry is just starting in Europe, and it is only military, just like the police clothing factory in Incheon, the so-called modern garment industry is actually still a military clothing industry, or a uniform industry.
After looking at these children again, Tang Haoran said to Su Yueyang, who was in charge of the discipline training of this group of children.
"These children are all dry and thin, so thin that only ribs are left, and if their bodies are not good, they will definitely not be able to study or train, you go and notify the North Korean magistrate's office, and let them send another 3,000 catties of food, 300 catties of meat, and 3,000 catties of vegetables a week, and they will be like this every week in the future, let them eat well for a few months, first eat their bodies strongly, and then send them to school......"
On the surface, the Zhonghua School is run by the Unified Supervision Office, but in fact its logistics are provided by the local government of the DPRK, although it does not "squeeze" the DPRK as much as possible, but appropriate squeezing is inevitable, not to mention that this "Chinese School" is a good deed, it is benevolent government, and North Korean officials are educated in Confucianism, how can they not practice "benevolent government", but this benevolence is aimed at the "benevolence" of the Chinese.
When this extremely young adult said this, Xiaoxin was standing beside him, he could hardly believe what he was hearing, did the adult say to make them delicious? Eat strong and go to school? School? What is the school? Could it be a school?
Is this, is this true? Just when Xiaoxin's heart was churning, he saw the adult turn his face and say loudly to everyone.
"You all listen, from today onwards, give me to eat to death, grow more meat on each person's body, this is an order, that kind of hungry and full day, there will be no more, but you must remember, in the camp, in addition to eating, you must also show good!"
Looking at the noisy more than 1,000 children in front of him who didn't know why they were lined up, Tang Haoran said with a stern expression.
"This is good, that is, obey the orders of the chief, learn to line up, and be united as one, these principles will be taught by the chiefs, in this place, white rice can be eaten casually, and you can eat meat every day, but my Tang Haoran's rice is not so delicious, the minimum rule is discipline, since I can bring you from the country, I can send you back!"
Whether it's a threat or a preaching, in short, for these children, Tang Haoran can be said to be full of expectations, but these children are not just hungry days, not just thin, not a bad complexion, these can be seen at a glance,
According to later generations, these street children always have too many psychological problems, such as these young minds have been facing complex social environments for a long time. In order to survive, they develop bad habits such as lying, autism, violence, etc., so that their psychology and personality are distorted. From the point of view of later generations, their psychological problems are very prominent, and they generally have psychological problems such as distrusting others, poor interpersonal skills, difficulty in controlling their temper, and habit of violence. And these psychological problems are Tang Haoran's headaches, after all, these teenagers mean the future of China in a certain way.
"You have to remember that from now on, there will be no more past contradictions and hatred between you, all I can do is to give you a bed, a book, and a bowl of rice, which looks like a home, but who is the family of this family? Just look at your left and right,"
A semi-threatening lecture was followed by a tactful persuasion. And in this persuasion. Tang Haoran mentioned home. The experience of volunteering in college has made him deeply aware of what the deepest desires of street children are, which is home and family, which is the fundamental reason why street children are even willing to sacrifice for each other, and they never pay for their families.
And the family in this family is they and each other, but who is the head? Tang Haoran knows the answer, and these children also know the answer. And that's what he needs.
Seeing that the four or five-year-old child next to him was shivering from the cold, whether it was a show or from the heart, Tang Haoran bent down and wrapped the blanket he was wearing tightly, and then commanded Su Yueyang.
"Hurry up, take them to the camp, and tell the gang to boil hot soup, put more pepper, warm up first, and as for training. Wait until the repair factory makes the clothes, and then talk about ......"
It's just simple words. But when it came to the ears of those children, these children, who had almost never been cared for, listened to Tang Haoran's words, their eyes were hot, and their hearts were even warmer.
A three- or four-foot-long bunk covered with a half-foot-thick straw mat was covered with twenty or so children, covered with a thick quilt and new legs, and these children who had just taken a bath looked at each other with joy on their faces.
"It's a dream!"
Xiao Xin, who was lying on the bed, looked at the roof of the wooden house, muttering to his lips, all the qiē was like a dream, he was sixteen years old, and he couldn't remember how many years he hadn't eaten a full meal, as for sleeping in the warm quilt, it seemed to be a matter of the previous life, but now he was lying in this warm quilt that made people's bones soft.
Is this really the life he wants to live from now on?
"Brother Xiaoxin, will we live here in the future?"
Xiao San, who was lying in the quilt next to him, looked at Xiao Xinge with longing, and his tone was full of uncertainty and disbelief.
His question made Xiao Xin dumbfounded, and he didn't know how to answer, but Xiao Shan on the side said.
"Didn't that lord say, this will be our home in the future!"
Home, this is a strange and longing place, Xiaoshan's words are not loud, but the words still reach the ears of everyone in the whole wooden house, home, although it still feels extremely strange here, but perhaps, home is like this.
What is it like to be at home, perhaps, this is what it feels like, warm bedding, hot meals, clean clothes, and ...... Parents, when I think of my parents, Xiaoxin's mind comes to mind of the adult on the dock, perhaps, he is our parent!
When the children in the wooden camp were thinking about the changes in their lives, the Incheon Local Affairs Office in the Chinese Concession was still very lively a kilometer away, and hundreds of scholars from China and students from the church school gathered in the office to participate in the welcome banquet held by the Unified Governor's Office. Everyone has their own ideas, this sentence is true, and some people regard Tang Haoran as a role model, thinking that one day they will achieve a similar career.
A banquet guests and hosts are also exhausted, after the banquet, the things that should be done still have to be done, from these students to study in the East Asia Tongwen College, and then to many things arranged, one by one, Tang Haoran had the opportunity to sit down with Gu Hongming and have a good chat, since Hubei after a farewell, the two only occasionally contacted in the letter, although there is not much contact, but the relationship is not thin, even closer than in the past.
In the next hour or two, Tang Haoran and Gu Hongming talked a lot, from some ideas of his own control of North Korea, to the idea of the Special Administrative Region, and the idea of giving those street children a home, and so on, the two chatted freely until the end, the two talked about the textbooks of the "Chinese School", from Gu Hongming's ideas about the textbooks, to the setting of punctuation marks and pinyin, if it is said that in the preparation of the text, Tang Haoran could not interject, punctuation and pinyin, etc., Tang Haoran immediately discussed with him with great interest, after all, in later generations, whether it is punctuation or pinyin, it is a "compulsory" from elementary school, and Tang Haoran naturally has the right to speak in this regard.
"Punctuation is in line with, I think the full stop should not be used dots, the introduction of European and American punctuation marks is just to introduce its system, not blindly imitate, just like we accept Western civilization, not to abandon my Chinese civilization, but to take its strengths, and complement our Chinese civilization, so, this period, can be changed to." And then there's ......"
Although he didn't understand the reason for the punctuation marks of later generations, Tang Haoran still formulated punctuation according to his own habits, and listening to Tang Haoran's explanation, Gu Hongming remembered that when he first proofread "Tai Xice", the punctuation in the first draft was different from that of European punctuation.
"What Zi Ran said is that China's civilization has been inherited for thousands of years, and it must not be abandoned, let alone blindly admire the West and ignore its own country."
Gu Hongming agreed again and again, it was precisely because he was proficient in Chinese culture that he would say this. After the two talked for a while on the issue of punctuation, they talked about pinyin, although on the boat, Gu Hongming already had some ideas, but when Tang Haoran took out the Chinese pinyin table that the kindergarten needed to learn in later generations, he was even more surprised, only Tang Haoran simply explained, he immediately realized that this set of "Hanyu Pinyin" is different from Wechsler Pinyin, which is more suitable for China than accommodating English writing.
What surprises him even more is probably this set of pinyin, although the Latin alphabet is used, but in order to adapt to the Chinese phonetic value, learn from the previous schemes, bring forth the new, stipulate the pronunciation of finals and initials, and create the name of the Chinese pinyin alphabet, but after a little phonics, he still found the shortcomings of this set of pinyin. Theoretically, this reflects the characteristics of the Chinese language and the independence of the national language, which seems to be good. However, the disadvantages of using this method to prescribe the pronunciation of names are also very obvious.
"Ziran, the basic structure of Chinese character pronunciation is two parts of initials and finals in addition to tone, with a total of 6 vowels, in this set of pinyin, it is 5 vowels plus a u, and 39 finals, 21 consonant initials......"
Gu Hongming, who is very talented in language, quickly pointed out the shortcomings of this set of pinyin, and some words could not be read at all in this set of Chinese pinyin.
"Ziran, that is to say, this set of pinyin is too accommodating to the Latin alphabet, maybe some words are used less, but after all, it is a Chinese character, and the Chinese character naturally has its original pronunciation, Ziran, I think ......"
After a moment of silence, Gu Hongming expressed his thoughts.
"I think this pinyin compilation can not only learn from your plan, but also should refer to Peiwen Yunfu and other rhyme books to formulate and write pinyin, I don't know what Ziran thinks?" (To be continued......)