In April, the suburbs of the capital are already in full swing, with vermilion and pink wildflowers blooming all over the campus, and various trees on the mountains blooming with new green. Although there is a special person responsible for greening the campus, Sun Yuanqi believes that the original ecology of the campus should be maintained and should not be damaged too much, so the focus of greening is mainly near each building, planting a few peonies and planting a few green bamboos.

During the Chinese New Year, it was already said that he would go to the United States in May, June, and July, and considering that it would take half a month to cross the Pacific Ocean, he would have to leave in mid-April. In this way, it is guaranteed that Vera will be able to rush back to China when she gives birth.

It took three or four months to leave, and many things had to be explained to Zhang Yuanji:

First of all, the enrollment work can be started, this year's enrollment in addition to the Department of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and the Department of Electronics of the College of Engineering, in addition to continuing to enroll, the College of Literature, the Department of Foreign Languages, the Department of History, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Western Medicine and the Department of Medicine of the School of Medicine are expected to be recruited on a trial basis. The publication of the examination brochure, the determination of the location of the examination room, the printing of the examination papers, and the correction of the examination papers are all explained clearly by Sun Yuanqi.

Secondly, there is the problem of teachers, although several people recommended by Mr. Ding Yunliang have arrived one after another, there is still a big shortage of teachers, especially qualified teachers who meet Sun Yuanqi's standards, and I hope to continue to recruit some. During the summer vacation, universities and high schools are allowed to take vacations, but teachers are required to continue classes in primary and junior high schools.

Third, there is the issue of funds, and I will make some preparations for going to the United States. The $180,000 in the current account is naturally enough to pay teachers' salaries and student subsidies. However, from May, we will have to build two teaching buildings and a laboratory building, as well as pay for the construction of small hydropower stations and water pipes by paying for the construction of small hydropower stations and water pipes by the American O&C architectural design firm. What's more, there will be next year and the year after!

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In short, this time I went to the United States, but I had a lot more worries than the last time. Fortunately, with the help of Zhang Yuanji and others, otherwise Sun Yuanqi would not know if his plan to go to the United States for three months every year could be realized.

The first batch of foreign faculty members to support Jingsei University were already absent-minded when they heard that they would leave in mid-April. The bags were packed half a month ago, and the fingers were folded with his eyes and counted the days. The five people from Yale University and McGill University are fine, and they can cope with the daily work. As for the four engineering men at MIT, they are holding a bunch of electronic component design plans in their hands, and they just wait for the laboratory to show their skills, not to mention the monkey's anxious look.

Although Zhang Yuanji has been the prime minister of Nanyang College for a year, he is a big girl in a sedan chair for the enrollment work - the first time, taking advantage of Sun Yuanqi's fact that he has not yet gone abroad, he hurriedly worked with other teachers to put out the admission questions of Chinese language, history, and philosophy, and found the principal's office excitedly.

In other words, Sun Yuanqi was also full of interest in the questions of this group of academic masters, and immediately took out the top test paper, but it was the admission test question of the National Academy. Zhang Yuanji proudly introduced: "This test paper is from Mr. Wang, the dean of the National Academy of China, and Yang Yu, the vice president of the National Academy of Sciences, one for each person. Sure enough, he is a giant in the academic world, and the question is very simple and easy, but if you want to answer it well, you have to have a lot of skill. ”

Sun Yuanqi looked at the topic carefully, the first is "On the Relationship between the Eastern Han Dynasty Family and the Later Door Valve System", well, I'm sorry, it's really not very clear about the "Eastern Han Dynasty Family" and the "Gate Valve System", not to mention the "relationship origin" between the two? No. Let's look at the next question, "A Brief Description of the Achievements of the Confucianism of the National Dynasty", sorry, the buddies of "Water Scripture Note" have not been turned over, why talk about anything else? These two questions, you have to let yourself answer them, and you must hand in the blank papers.

There was also Zhang Yuanji's hopeful gaze next to him. Sun Yuanqi secretly thought in his heart: Perhaps, these are the most basic problems in Chinese studies, and he only blames himself for being a layman, so he doesn't understand it at all; Moreover, the Academy of Chinese Studies recruits high-level talents who study Chinese culture, and those who have bull's head and horns may be as easy and simple as reading Newton's classical mechanics questions. Thinking of this, he forced a smile and said, "It's really a good topic!" ”

As he spoke, he quickly put down the test paper and took another one.

Zhang Yuanji was praised so much when he looked at the first test paper, and he was even more proud: "Baixi, the Chinese language exam paper you are reading now is from Mr. Sun Yirang and Chen Yan of the Department of Chinese Literature, and it is also very exciting." ”

Sun Yuanqi laughed at himself: I don't know about Chinese studies, when it comes to Chinese language, isn't it language, buddy has also studied for more than ten years, so I can't understand it, right? There are only two questions in the whole volume: first, "What is the "Four Voices and Eight Diseases"? For example, "four voices and eight diseases"? Wouldn't that be a topic of medicine? Let's take a look at the next one, "The Red Rain in the Court Falls Silently and Gives Sound Words, Imitates the Righteous Mountain", it seems to be really a Chinese language test paper...... Meow meow, it seems that the language of the past ten years has been learned in vain!

After reading the Chinese language test paper, Sun Yuanqi no longer had the confidence to read it, so he asked tentatively: "Mr. Jusheng, is this question a little too difficult?" ”

"Is it difficult?" Zhang Yuanji's eyes widened, and the hand that was stroking the mustache on his lips also stopped, "We all think it's good!" ”

"Since everyone thinks it's good, let's leave this year's exam questions like this. After all, for these subjects, we have no exam experience, and the right is to experiment. If there is no problem, you can continue to take the test like this; If there is a problem, we will fix it again! Sun Yuanqi can only try this way.

A few days before leaving, I went to the city to say goodbye to Mr. Sun, Ding Yunliang, and Conger. When I got home, I found Lao Zhao, Lao Zheng, and Tong Yi and told them that they were going abroad for a while, and they must listen to Mr. Zhang's arrangements during this time. The big guys all responded. It's just that Lao Zhao looked like he wanted to say and stopped, Sun Yuanqi had doubts in his heart, so he didn't say it at the moment. waited for everyone to disperse, and then found Lao Zhao and asked: "Lao Zhao, I see that you seem to have something to say just now?" ”

"Hehe, I know that I can't hide it from Mr.'s eyes." Lao Zhao smiled innocently, "It's Jinghui who asked me to tell me that I don't want to go to school......"

"Why?" Sun Yuanqi asked in a lost voice, this is the first student to ask to quit since the establishment of the school, so he can't help but care.

Lao Zhao scratched his head: "I don't know, she just asked me to tell you this." ”

The student wanted to quit school, so Sun Yuanqi naturally wanted to ask clearly, so he called Zhao Jinghui again. While talking, Zhao Jinghui came. Seeing Sun Yuanqi, he respectfully blessed him, and called "Dad" to Lao Zhao again, standing beside Lao Zhao.

Glancing at Zhao Jinghui, Sun Yuanqi couldn't help but feel that time flies and time is like water, thinking that when they first met, she was still a shy and red-faced little girl who said a word, but now she has become a big girl who is generous and like a flower. Thinking that he is almost entering middle age, and then thinking about his previous life, it is not just a lifetime, it is like a dream of Nanke.

"Jinghui, your father hasn't been talking to you lately, has he?" Sun Yuan asked at first. In the eyes of the late Qing Dynasty represented by Lao Zhao, Zhao Jinghui had already reached the age of marriage and childbirth. Lao Zhao and Lao Zhao's family also prompted a few times in front of Sun Yuanqi, either explicitly or implicitly, but they were all consciously ignored by Sun Yuanqi. Because in Sun Yuanqi's opinion, although they say that Jinghui is seventeen or eighteen years old, in fact, according to the age of one, he is only sixteen years old, and he is completely a flower and a bone. In the next life, how can you get married when you are still in high school! The old Zhao family saw that Sun Yuanqi didn't say anything, so they didn't say anything anymore. Now that I've dropped out of school, I'm afraid that the old couple is talking about something again, and Jing Hui heard it, right?

Before Zhao Jinghui could speak, Lao Zhao couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly stood up and waved his hand again and again: "Sir, I didn't talk nonsense!" ”

"Sir, the matter of dropping out of school is my own idea, and I don't do my father's business." The girl saw that her father was wronged, and hurriedly stepped forward to decompose. When she speaks now, she doesn't have the same Shandong flavor as when she first came before, but the standard Beijing film is crisp and raw.

Sun Yuanqi saw that Lao Zhao's demeanor did not seem to be fake, so he said, "Lao Zhao, you sit down." Jinghui, tell me, why did you drop out? Is it because the teacher didn't teach well? Or what's the problem? ”

"It's not someone else's problem, it's that I want to drop out, I don't want to study." Again, that's the same sentence.

The girl was stubborn, and Sun Yuanqi also had a headache, "Then what will you do after you drop out of school?" Have you thought about it? ”

"I've thought about it," the girl's eyes widened, staring at Sun Yuanqi, "I'm going to serve my wife!" ”

"......" Sun Yuanqi opened his mouth wide and was speechless for a long time. Turning his head to look at Lao Zhao, the result surprised him even more: Lao Zhao's face was full of joy, and he nodded again and again, with an expression of "yes, yes, you did it very right".

Looking at Sun Yuanqi's surprised expression, the girl pursed her lips and said, "Sir, I always remember the winter of the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu. That winter, my family starved at Dashilar and couldn't find a way to live. At that time, it was cold, and I didn't eat the last meal, and I starved to death every day. Many families, in order to have a full meal and live a few more days, sell their daughters to the kiln. My father and mother love me, and I am reluctant to sell me, and the family takes turns to go out to beg for food, but they still can't fill their stomachs, Jing Xing and Jing Fan shout hungry every day, and my father and mother often save their share and give me and my two younger brothers to eat. At night, I often woke up from freezing, without a trace of heat in my hands and feet, and I felt like I was going to die. At that time, I thought to myself, if anyone wants to feed our whole family, I, I will be sold into the kiln, and I will be abused every day, and I will be willing......"

The room was quiet, and Lao Zhao wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve from time to time.

"That day, I heard that someone bought the eldest brother, our family was sad and happy, and finally someone in the family found a way to live, and the Zhao family did not end up and cut off the incense. As a result, the eldest brother came back and said that they were kind and wanted to take in our whole family. I thought at the time, this person saved our whole family, I am just a cow and a horse, and I have no complaints, I must repay it well! As soon as I went out, I saw you, sir. Although you gave us a silver dollar when we first met, and let us go to dinner and buy clothes......" At this, the girl's voice was a little choked.

Sun Yuanqi sighed: "Alas! Don't talk about it, let the past pass. ”

"Nope! I'm going to say. The girl relented, "Finally, our family finally had a full meal." That meal was the most delicious meal I've ever had in my life, really. After eating, our family found the Horse Temple again. Mr. and kindly, arranged a place for us to live, and brought us a new quilt. In the evening, I remember eating steamed buns, including white flour steamed buns and mixed flour steamed buns. White-flour steamed buns are only eaten in our hometown for the New Year or for visitors. Ever since our home was hit by a disaster and we have been fleeing, we haven't eaten for a year or two. Looking at the hot white-flour steamed buns, me, my two younger brothers, and Jing Yao were all hungry, looking at them with a blank eye, and drooling. But there were only four. As a result, the husband gave one to each of us, but he ate mixed noodles and steamed buns......"

"Since I arrived at my husband's house, I have never let us do any work, and I sit with my husband every day and eat the same meal. Not to mention fighting, even scolding has never been scolded. Not only that, but they also sent us to school and told us to be literate, year after year. Nowadays, my husband often goes out, and only my wife is at home alone, and my wife has a body again, so it is inconvenient to do anything. Although my mother and Aunt Zheng can occasionally go to see it, after all, they don't know English, and my wife is not very familiar with the official language, so it is inevitable that the communication is inconvenient and the care is not good. Speaking of this, the girl knelt down with a "snap", "Sir, I know that you are a good person, but our Zhao family also has a conscience." Now that I'm grown up and understand things, you, you just let me repay it! ”

Lao Zhao also knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, "Sir, you just agree!" ”

Sun Yuanqi hurriedly stepped forward to help, Lao Zhao and the girl were all screwed up, and they couldn't help them, so they had to take a step back: "It's okay, when I leave, you will go and live with Vera." However, you still have to learn the usual lessons. When this semester is over, Vera shouldn't be taken care of, so you go to learn medical skills from Teacher Manle Dao, and in the future, the school will set up a school hospital, and the female patients in it will have to trouble you. ”

As the saying goes, "The power of example is endless." ”

With Zhao Jinghui's bad role model, Zheng Jingyi and Song Jingyao also followed suit and came to Sun Yuanqi, hoping to drop out of school to serve Vera. was lectured by Sun Yuan: "You are a thirteen-year-old child, why do you want to stay in the school and study?" I had to pout and obediently go to class.

Not only girls, but also boys are excited. Zhao Jingxing took advantage of Lao Zhao's inattention, quietly went to the principal's office, and knelt on the ground: "Sir, I want to quit school, I don't want to go to school!" ”

Sun Yuanqi stopped writing, glanced at the gap between the manuscripts, and continued to write. Ignore him.

After a long time, seeing that Sun Yuanqi did not react, Zhao Jingxing was afraid that he didn't hear it, so he climbed a few steps forward and said, "Sir, I don't want to study anymore." ”

Sun Yuanqi still ignored him.

The kid knew that people were deliberately ignoring him, and he was a little depressed, so he stood up and leaned over to the desk: "Sir, I don't go to school, I can help you bring those security guards." I promise, I take them with me, absolutely 'obey orders and listen to commands'. If you let the east go east, you let go west, if you let the dog go west, you let the dog be beaten, and if you let the chicken be beaten, the chicken will be beaten. Really, do what you say! ”

Sun Yuanqi stopped his pen and glanced at him: "Will you bring security guards?" ”

"Yes!" The young man immediately straightened up, gave a standard military salute, and replied crisply.

"Cut-" Sun Yuanqi looked at him disdainfully, "Have you read "The Art of War"? ”

The young man was stunned for a moment: "This ——, as long as you let me take the security guard, I promise that I will memorize "The Art of War" backwards for half a year, no, three months!" Really, I promise! ”

"So, have you read Clausewitz's "On War"?" Sun Yuanqi asked again.

"......" The young man was speechless, and only said after a while, "Sir, with that group of security guards, a code of conduct compiled by you is enough, why bother reading so much?" ”

Sun Yuanqi looked at him playfully: "Look at it, what else do you say'? Now let you read a few books, and you won't be happy. Bring security guards in the future, will you still listen to what I say? ”

"That'...... Well, as long as I bring the security guards, I'll definitely read that "On War" by what and what! The boy had no choice but to submit.

"It's Clausewitz. Besides, will you learn ballistics? Sun Yuanqi teased the poor boy like a cat and mouse, "If you can't, if you have foreign guns and cannons in the future, you won't use them!" Not to mention the conductor? ”

The young man finally understood that Sun Yuanqi was playing tricks on him, and he was a little depressed: "Sir, how can I bring these security guards?" ”

"Do you really want to bring security guards?" Sun Yuan asked.

"Really, I think that with this group of security guards, even if I sweat and blood, my heart is beautiful." The boy replied firmly.

"That's right," Sun Yuan nodded, "Then when you graduate from high school and learn Japanese well, I'll see if I can send you to the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School." When you come back from Japan, if you still want to bring a security guard, I'll let you take it. Otherwise, no way! ”

The boy didn't get the answer he wanted, and quit the headmaster's office in a huff. As for whether he should go back to study hard, or dispel this idea from now on, this is not something that Sun Yuanqi can consider.

On the one hand, the second batch of foreign teachers were arranged to do a good job in the decoration of the laboratory building and the safety of the experimental equipment, and on the other hand, they "occasionally" made part-time guest appearances as teachers of various subjects. With reluctance and concern, Sun Yuanqi said goodbye to his relatives and friends, and embarked on the familiar "Gerald" cruise ship with the first batch of nine foreign teachers.

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