Not long after Isabella's vacation began, she found herself a job: teaching Lin Mingfei to study.

"You, I can see it, it's the kind of character that can't be idle." Lin Youde sighed beside him, "It's the same as Viola." ”

Viola really has nothing to do these days, so she went to participate in the community activities of the residents of Potsdam, and she was also drunk when she mixed up with a group of uncles and aunts to do community public welfare work or something.

However, this approach further increased Lin Youde's prestige, and since Viola herself was willing, Lin Youde had no reason to stop her.

"After the war, everyone has become idle." Isabella watched Concubine Lin Ming answer the question, and said to Lin Youde, "Viola must think that community labor is much better than fighting on the battlefield. ”

"Definitely, if I choose it, I will definitely choose community labor, war or something, or experience it in artworks, and it's better to be peaceful in real life." Lin Youde stretched, "If you don't experience a real war, you don't know the value of peace, I really understand this sentence." ”

After Lin Youde finished speaking, he saw Concubine Lin Ming staring at him with her little face up, so he asked, "Concubine Ming said yes, the war is terrible, right?" ”

Concubine Lin Ming tilted her head: "Well, it's terrible, there are cannons every day, explosions everywhere, and many people die." But what happened after the sound of the cannon was gone, it was even more terrifying. ”

"Oh, why is that?" Lin Youde asked with interest, "Isn't it good not to shoot guns?" ”

"No more cannons, the uncle with the hat with the net is here." Concubine Ming shrunk her neck slightly, "They will bring out the chocolate, we are so hungry that we can't stand it, so we beg them to give us a little." But they will ask us to pay, and if we can't pay, they will ask my mother to go out with them. Every time my mother came back from going out, she would sit on the bed and cry, and my father would smoke one dry cigarette after another. Whenever this happens, I'm scared. ”

Lin Youde gritted his teeth, there is no doubt that the so-called hat with a net refers to the US military steel helmet with a camouflage net, it seems that the Yankees are not necessarily more gentlemanly in China than the Japanese soldiers in China.

Lin Youde can already imagine what the Ming occupied area was like in World War II, which is almost the same as Saigon during the Vietnam War.

And Isabella, who also understood what was happening, gently stroked Concubine Ming's head and said to her gently: "Don't worry, Concubine Ming, those days have passed forever and will never come back, you are safe here." Each of your moms is powerful enough to be able to fly 10,000 of those bad uncles by herself. ”

Concubine Ming turned her head to look at Isabella, hesitated for a moment before asking, "Mother Yi, how can I become as powerful as you?" Or, it's okay to become as powerful as Lu......"

"Xiaolu, but she's the most powerful of all of us." Isabella whispered, "As for you, Concubine Ming, you don't have to become as powerful as us, because we will protect you." ”

"I don't want to be protected by others, I want to protect others." Concubine Ming said clearly, "Xiaolu is obviously my sister, but she has protected me many times, she caught me who fell from the tree, and also supported me when I was careless, I would be bad without her." I want to be able to ...... like her."

Isabella showed an embarrassed expression, she glanced at Lin Youde, so Lin Youde said: "Concubine Ming, it is impossible for you to become like Xiaolu or Yi's mother, they have been different from you since birth. But Concubine Ming, you can become like Sister Ysera, Sister Isera doesn't have the strength of Xiaolu and Isabella, can you? But now she has helped us all with her ingenuity. We can't move without her, so as long as you study hard, you can also have the power to help and protect others. ”

Concubine Ming turned her head to look at Lin Youde, her expression seemed to be a little disappointed.

"I can't have the power of Xiaolu......"

Isabella hugged Concubine Ming from behind: "It's okay, Dad said it just now, isn't it, you just need to become like Sister Isera." In fact, Sister Ysera has played a greater role in this era of peace than Xiaolu and me. ”

"Really?" Concubine Ming turned her head to look at Isabella suspiciously, "Is this true?" ”

"Of course, the fact that we have so much food and clothing now is all because of Sister Ysera's ingenuity."

After Isabella finished speaking, Concubine Lin Ming frowned, looked at Lin Youde and said, "Aren't those because of Dad's intelligence?" ”

"Of course, my intelligence is also important," Lin Youde hurriedly replied, "but if it weren't for Sister Ysera, my intelligence wouldn't have produced so much value as it does now, you know?" In short, Concubine Ming, you don't have to worry, as long as you work hard, you will definitely be able to become a useful person in the future. ”

Concubine Lin Ming nodded at this time, and looked down at the title in the book again.

Isabella gently touched Concubine Lin Ming's head, then stood up, walked to Lin Youde and sat down.

She lowered her voice and said in a volume that would not disturb Concubine Lin Ming: "This child is so cute, it makes me want children even more." ”

"Wouldn't it be nice to treat her as your own child?" Lin Youde said.

"That's right," Isabella smiled, "but I don't know if she's willing to do it, after all, I'm just an irrelevant person in her opinion, and you are at least related to her, albeit far away." ”

"I think she likes you a lot, so it's fine." Lin Youde patted Isabella on the shoulder, "Just put your mother's love on her." ”

Isabella didn't answer, she looked at Concubine Lin Ming, with a gentle smile on her face, she looked at Lin Youde's adopted daughter so gently, and she didn't look away for a long time.

Eventually, she swallowed: "You're right, it's more important than waiting for a child who doesn't know when it will come, or the cute girl right in front of you." ”

With that, Isabella stood up and returned to Concubine Lin Ming's side, and looked at the topic she was meditating on.

"The definite article is to be used here." Isabella pointed to a line in the book and said, "And then the pronoun is not right in this position, think about how I taught you." ”

Concubine Ming bit the tip of the pen, and after thinking for a while, she suddenly realized, quickly erased what was written in the book, and filled it in again.

Isabella had a smile on her face, she looked back at Lin Youde, and then pressed the electric bell to call the maid.

"Go to my room and bring me the lines and weaving tutorials from the bedside table drawer."

"You still learned to knit?"

"It's sweater-making, a craft that Chihiro taught me, and said that I can use this craft to adjust my mentality."

"She can also wear sweaters......" Lin Youde made no secret of his surprise, "I didn't expect it." ”

But on second thought, Matsudaira Chihiro had taken a full bridal course before she met him Lin Youde and became Lin Qianhiro - at least she claimed it was - so it wasn't surprising that she could make sweaters, and she might have more home skills.

Lin Youde couldn't help but sigh: It's really worthy of being a Yingzhou girl, although it is that kind of personality, but there are a lot of advantages that Yamato Nadeshiko should have...... If you think about it, the lethality of this kind of girl is too sufficient, and few men will not like her after getting to know her better.

At this time, the maid sent a sweater and needle and thread that had just been made, as well as a tutorial with a simple schematic diagram, and Lin Youde glanced at it from a distance and found that the tutorial was actually in Chinese. So he asked Isabella, "Then you can understand Chinese now?" ”

"Isn't this nonsense!" Isabella said in Chinese, "Language is such a thing, it is only a matter of time before I learn to read after learning to speak, although Chinese is a little more difficult, because I have to memorize glyphs, but I am a god, I can learn it very easily, okay." ”

"Oh, I'm very confident, then let me ask you, 'He almost didn't fall to his death', is 'he' dead in this sentence?"

"Not dead. Don't think that this kind of question can stump me, I have long understood that when you Chinese say sentences that seem confusing such as "almost didn't fall to death" and "almost fell to death", you are actually denying the worst-case scenario, so just distinguish whether the described situation is good or bad. ”

"Hmph, you're too naïve," Lin Youde pretended to sneer, "I ask you, what's the matter with 'almost passing'?" ”

"Didn't pass."

"Isn't this a denial of a bad situation for Mao?"

"Because the context is different, although I can't say it clearly now, although this almost passing grade is similar in structure to the almost falling death just now, it is actually different. I used to think that these distinctions were the strict zhòng cheng dù of the situation described, but then I found out that this was not the case, and then I gave up using reason to distinguish these strange usages, and after giving up, I became able to distinguish them accurately. Isabella spread her hands to Lin Youde, "It's so strange, I have to say that Chinese is indeed the most difficult of all the languages I have encountered to learn, but not enough to stump my Cheng dù, understand." ”

"Understood, understood." Lin Youde replied with a smile.

At this time, Lin Mingfei said: "I think English is difficult, and it took me a lot of effort to distinguish various tenses." ”

"Chinese is also in the tense," Lin Youde smiled at Lin Mingfei, "and the tense of Chinese is more troublesome to use, and foreigners are often confused when they learn Chinese." But Concubine Ming, you are Chinese, you have lived in a Chinese environment since childhood, you yourself have a strong sense of Chinese, which allows you to immediately distinguish the tense of Chinese you hear, and you don't even need to think about it to understand. ”

"That's right......"

"That's right," Isabella chimed in, "and in English, we English kids rarely test any definite articles, tenses, and the like, because they're too basic." ”

"That's ......"

"And you, Concubine Ming, in fact, you don't need to answer these questions, as long as you insist on talking to me in English every day, you will soon be proficient in English."

"It's hard for me to stick to German every day." Concubine Ming looked embarrassed, "Let me use English again...... I'd better figure out the basics first. ”

"It's also good to figure it out first, anyway, after you can use German proficiently, you can learn English quickly, after all, they are all alphabetic languages have a certain commonality." Lin Youde said.

"Actually, I think English and German are pretty good," Ming continued, "and math is the hardest." ”

"But mathematics is a discipline that you will need to use in all kinds of work in the future," Lin Youde said in a serious tone, "If you want to work in the liberal arts, you often need to use mathematics to make statistics, let alone engineering." ”

"Don't believe him," Isabella smiled at Concubine Ming, "I'm not very good at math, but it doesn't affect my work much. ”

"Don't believe her, because she doesn't know mathematics, she governs the country badly, and finally puts herself in the pit."

"I admit that I am bad at governing the country, and I admit that I have pitted myself into it, but what does this have to do with my poor math?" Isabella sounded speechless.

Lin Youde laughed.

"Just kidding."

Hearing that Lin Youde was joking, Concubine Ming breathed a sigh of relief: "I was scared to death, I thought mathematics was really so important." ”

"Concubine Ming," Lin Youde called to his adopted daughter softly, "Do you know what you want to do in the future?" ”

Concubine Lin Ming tilted her head and thought about it, and finally shook her head.

"That's right, you don't know what you want to do. Because of this, you don't know if you'll need to know math in the future. That's why you have to learn it, because the ten years from now are the golden time for you to learn things, and after this time, the difficulty of learning will increase exponentially, and then it will be too late for you to regret it. So, instead of discovering what you really want to do in the future and sadly realizing that you don't have the knowledge base to do it, it's better to work hard to learn every subject now. ”

Lin Youde's words were not his personal experience, but the conclusion he came to by watching what happened to his classmates. When Lin Youde was in junior high school, there was a very rebellious guy who was just popular at StarCraft, so he even wanted to be a professional player - of course, he didn't make it in the end. After the dream of a professional player was shattered, the guy wanted to be a writer again, and the school stipulated that everyone should write a weekly diary every week, and then the guy wrote on the weekly diary: Life should be colorful, not the monotonous color of black and white like it is now - Lin Youde only remembers so much, anyway, it was a prose that touched Lin Youde very much at that time.

At that time, the head teacher read this weekly diary aloud at the class meeting, and then laughed at the guy and said: "With your current grades, you can't be colorful, it's all the color of the red cross." ”

A few years later, Lin Youde, who had finished the university entrance examination, attended a class reunion, but was surprised to see that the guy did not forget to read the formula when he was at the party, and when he asked, he learned that the factory technician he worked for had a high salary, and he had to take the exam if he wanted to be promoted to a skilled worker. At this time, he was starting from the junior high school textbook and making up for mathematics - because if he did not even have a foundation in junior high school mathematics, it was impossible to pass the guò senior technical exam.

Of course, Lin Youde didn't tell Concubine Ming about this, and it is estimated that she wouldn't understand it - even if she could, she wouldn't be willing to listen to it. I think Lin Youde was the same way back then, until he experienced it, young people would take the clichés from their elders as the wind in their ears, and both men and women seemed to be similar in this regard.

However, Concubine Ming is still an obedient child, although she doesn't know how much she listened, but she immediately said that she understood and would work hard to learn mathematics well.

After a while, after Isabella's sweater had finally been ticked, the clock in the corner began to ring.

Concubine Lin Ming raised her head and looked at Lin Youde.

Lin Youde smiled, waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's go play." Xiaolu should have nothing to do today, you should be able to find her in the yard. ”

Concubine Ming cheered and trotted away.

Isabella glanced at the table she had left behind, sighed, put down her sweater and began to help her clean up. That posture and movement, it is Concubine Lin Mingfei's mother who is alive.

While cleaning up, Isabella asked Lin Youde: "Can Xiaolu and Concubine Ming still play together now?" ”

"Yes, why not. Xiaolu has always wanted a sister, so she will treat Concubine Ming as her sister at this time. Of course, Concubine Ming herself didn't realize it. Xiaolu is very sensible, so she doesn't break this, and the two get along well. What are you laughing at? ”

"It's nothing," Isabella shook her head, "I just remembered what Lydia said a few days ago, she said that she was wise and foolish, did she know what wisdom and foolishness meant?" I think Xiaolu is wise and foolish. ”

Lin Youde also smiled.

"Yes, speaking of which, Xiaolu is becoming more and more like Oh-chan, do you feel this way?"

"Yes, there is." Isabella nodded, then quipped, "Are you starting to suspect that Xiaolu is the child of Oh-chan and Angelita?" ”

"It's the first time I've known that Shinji also has the function of same-sex reproduction."

Isabella laughed as she finally finished cleaning up the table and got back into her place and started knitting.

"By the way, who are you going to give this sweater for?" Lin Youde asked.

"There is a teenage girl among my personal maids, and the family conditions are not very good, and I want to give her one."

"It seems to be a little girl who is very close to you." Lin Youde touched his chin, "I'm a little interested, I want to see it." ”

"Yes, but it's forbidden to do anything to my maid." Isabella admonished.

Lin Youde just shrugged his shoulders.

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