The ancients had four happy events: "A long drought meets a rainy day, and a foreign country meets a hometown." The cave room spends candle night, when the gold list is inscribed. "If it is said that being admitted to Jeju University Maoseong Branch during the college entrance examination is the first gold list title, being admitted to Jeju University as a graduate student is the second gold list title. When the first gold list was inscribed, the relatives and neighbors of the Wu family called Wu Dao to their home for dinner, and some gave money. At that time, Wu Dao was still very willing to go to dinner, because after more than ten years of study, he was finally admitted to the university, he felt that this was a thing worth celebrating, and occasionally a few families did not want to go, also because the food cooked there was not delicious. With the title of the first gold list, the aura of the title of the second gold list was originally much darker, Wu Dao could have stopped going from house to house to eat, and relatives, friends and neighbors could have stopped inviting him to go. But at this time, Wu He is far more fond of bragging than five years ago, as soon as Wu Dao received the admission notice for graduate students, Wu He began to brag everywhere in Xiaohuangzhuang about how powerful the graduate students are, and being admitted to the graduate school is equivalent to entering the provincial government, as soon as he graduates, he is older than the town, and he does not have to pay tuition fees for graduate students, and he also deliberately says that the living allowance for graduate students is a salary, and one hundred and fifty yuan per month is said to be six hundred yuan, although people know that he is mostly bragging, but he can't stand it every day. In addition, Xiaohuangzhuang people have always felt that university is unattainable, and it is already difficult to be admitted to university.

Before the start of school, the family invited Wu Dao to eat, and other families couldn't do it and watched without action, and the relatives and friends of the Wu family came to the door one by one and asked Wu Dao to go to their own house for dinner. At this time, Wu Dao was no longer the college entrance examination candidate five years ago, he didn't think it was a glorious thing to be admitted to graduate school, he was even more tired of socializing, and he wanted not to go, but his grandfather and parents agreed to others, and he had to go. When he went to his aunt's house, his uncle Yang Chengzhi said something to Wu Dao about joining the student union and handling the relationship with the teacher, which made him feel extremely bored, but he still had to pretend to listen seriously. He couldn't help but think of Zhao Wu, if he was replaced by Zhao Wu, he didn't know what this friend would do in the face of such a thing, and probably wouldn't participate in this kind of entertainment at all.

In the blink of an eye, it was the day of graduate admission, and on September 1, Wu Dao returned to the university, and the first thing he had to face was to choose a mentor. There is a two-way choice between graduate students and supervisors at Jeju University, with graduate students choosing their preferred supervisor first, and then the supervisor choosing whether to accept them. Before enrolling, Wu Dao thought about the tutor he wanted to choose, and he was one of the most well-known professors in the Department of Chinese at Jeju University for the study of modern literature.

On the first day of school, the newly admitted graduate students come to the admissions office to fill in the name of the supervisor they want to follow, and then go back to wait for the supervisor's reply. Wu Daoman thought that there would be no problem in choosing a mentor, and the mentor would quickly contact him and tell him what he should do next. However, things turned out completely unexpectedly. The next day, he did receive a call from his supervisor, but he was told that there were too many students who had chosen that supervisor, and that each supervisor could only enroll a maximum of two graduate students, and that he needed to go to the admissions office to choose another supervisor. Wu Dao felt very dazed, he never thought that he would be rejected by his mentor, and he didn't know which mentor he should choose.

The Graduate Admissions Office of the Department of Chinese at Jeju University has only one female teacher surnamed Lee. When he came to the admissions office again, Mr. Li told him that each of the five tutors of the modern and contemporary literature major was very good, and which one he chose was the same. Wu Dao looked at the research directions of the remaining four tutors, three of them were for the study of modern literature, and one was for the study of contemporary literature, and the research he wanted to engage in belonged to the field of modern literature, but Mr. Li called to ask the opinions of the three tutors of modern literature, and the answer was that they were full, and Mr. Li could only ask Wu Dao to choose the last tutor:

The tutor in the field of contemporary literature, surnamed Zhang, is an associate professor. He is a Ph.D. trained by Jeju University, and his research level is very high, and he is about to be evaluated as a professor, and he can obtain the qualification of a doctoral supervisor if he is rated as a professor, so it is a good choice to follow him for graduate school. ”

Although Mr. Li said a lot of good things about Associate Professor Zhang in front of Wu Dao, Wu Dao wanted to engage in research that was not contemporary literature, and he knew that there were too many taboos in contemporary literary research, so he fell into a dilemma for a while. Mr. Li also suggested that he go to Associate Professor Zhang's class before making a decision. There was no way, Wu Dao had no choice but to listen to his class. It's okay not to listen to the lecture, but after listening, Wu Dao doesn't want to choose Associate Professor Zhang as a tutor anymore. He went to listen to a lecture given by Associate Professor Zhang to undergraduates, the class was very good, and even very chic, the whole class, Associate Professor Zhang almost did not read the textbook, the content of the lecture was all outside the book, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, side references, as soon as I heard it, I knew that he was a very erudite person. Wu Dao thought for a while that it was not impossible to choose a contemporary literature tutor, and when he got out of class, he asked Associate Professor Zhang:

"Can doing research be like lecturing?"

"Of course not. Lectures are lectures, research is research, and there are many rules for the study of contemporary literature, which cannot be compared with the study of ancient literature, let alone the study of foreign literature. Associate Professor Zhang said.

Associate Professor Zhang's words completely shattered Wu Dao's dream, and he returned to the admissions office again and told Mr. Li that he did not want to choose a tutor for the contemporary literature major. Teacher Li said:

"We have a lot of majors in the Chinese department, if you can't change a major, the department will let every graduate student find a suitable supervisor."

Wu Dao remembered Associate Professor Zhang's words, and suddenly realized that it would be a good choice to transfer to the major of ancient literature or foreign literature, so he replied:

"It's okay to change majors, ancient literature or foreign literature."

"In our department, ancient literature is a popular major, and the tutor has been recruited, and if you want to change your major, you can only change it to foreign literature. However, you have to think clearly, the influence of our school's foreign literature major is far less than that of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, and there is no doctoral program, and changing majors is risky, which may affect your future employment, and even affect the rest of your life. ”

Wu Dao doesn't care about future employment, no matter how bad the job is, it will not be worse than the Hecheng Town Government, as long as the right mentor can be selected, it is better than anything else, not to mention who can say for sure what the future employment will be. He thought that he liked French literature the most when he was an undergraduate, and he also liked French intellectuals like Sartre and Foucault very much, and what he wanted to engage in was intellectual research. Thinking of this, he asked Mr. Li:

"Is there a tutor for the study of French literature in the foreign literature major?"

"There is a tutor who studies French literature, an associate professor, named Tian Mowen. However, he has not recruited graduate students for two years, and if he can't recruit any more students, his tutor qualification will be cancelled, and no student has chosen him this year. If you choose him, you can help him keep his mentorship. Teacher Li said.

"That's Mr. Tian."

"Are you sure to choose Mr. Tian, don't listen to his class, get to know him better, and then make a decision?"

"No need, just choose Teacher Tian."

"Okay, I'll help you contact him and ask for his opinion."

Mr. Li immediately called Tian Mowen and asked him if he would like to accept a graduate student who transferred from the major of modern and contemporary literature, and Tian Mowen gladly accepted. Teacher Li gave Wu Daotian Mowen's phone number and asked him to contact him again. Coming down from the office building, Wu Dao immediately made a call to Tian Mowen. He wanted to visit his mentor's home or office immediately, but Tian Mowen asked him to have dinner together in the evening, and then talk about graduate school in detail, so he had to return to the dormitory first and wait.

When he returned to the dormitory, his classmates in the same dormitory asked Wu Dao who he chose as a tutor, and he told him about choosing a tutor. The four people in Wu Dao's dormitory are all graduate students in the direction of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, and one of the classmates is escorted by the university.

"Don't you know that foreign literature is the weakest subject in our department? The Department of Chinese at Jeju University has a number of ancient literature and modern and contemporary literature in China, and the foreign literature major is at most second-rate, or even third-rate, not a grade. ”

"I was an undergraduate student at Maocheng Branch, so I didn't know much about it. When I changed my major, Mr. Li from the admissions office told me that the influence of foreign literature is not as good as that of ancient Chinese literature and modern and contemporary literature. Wu Dao said.

"Then you still change majors, aren't you jumping into the fire pit by yourself? It will be very troublesome to find a job and take a doctoral exam in the future. ”

"There is no way to do it, there is only one associate professor Zhang in the direction of contemporary literature left in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, you know that what I want to study is not contemporary Chinese literature, not to mention that there are too many taboos in the study of contemporary literature, and there are no decent results in research, if there is any other choice, I will not choose contemporary literature anyway. To change majors, there is no quota for ancient Chinese literature, so you can only transfer to foreign literature. ”

"You must not have contacted the tutor in advance, which tutor you want to follow, you have to contact him before enrolling, and it will be a little late to choose again when school starts, so you can only depend on luck. A supervisor can take up to two graduate students, and if the supervisor has accepted two students in advance before the start of the semester, you will have no chance and can only choose another one. ”

"I just didn't contact my mentor in advance to get the results I have now."

"There are also four tutors in the foreign literature major, why did you choose Tian Mowen in the direction of French literature?"

"Among foreign literature, I like French literature the most, Balzac, Hugo, Maupassant, Sartre, Camus and other French writers, all of which I like very much. I want to engage in intellectual studies, and the word intellectual was coined in France, and many French writers are very typical intellectuals, and for me, the direction of French literature is the most suitable for me to major in foreign literature. ”

"Do you know Tian Mo asked?"

"I have always wanted to study modern Chinese literature, that is, literature before the founding of the People's Republic of China, but I have never thought of studying foreign literature, and I know almost nothing about the foreign literature teachers in the department. You are escorted by the department, you should be familiar with Teacher Tian, right? Tell me about this teacher first. ”

"Speaking of Tian Mowen's teacher, he can really be called the person with the most story in the entire Chinese department. Born in the South, he graduated from a prestigious university with a doctorate, and it is said that he also studied in France for a year during his doctoral studies. It stands to reason that with his conditions, he has worked for more than ten years, and now he should be rated as a professor and doctoral supervisor, but he is a very eccentric person, he doesn't get along with anyone, and often says something out of place. When the school merged and established a branch school, he published an article in the newspaper criticizing the school's practices, which caused headaches for the school leaders and department leaders. In addition, he doesn't pay attention to dressing up, he wears whatever clothes he sees every day, and he doesn't match it at all. He also rarely gets a haircut, often only once every six months, and he says it's a complete waste of time. Not to mention that his hair is very long, he often doesn't comb his hair during class. The head of the department talked to him a few times and asked him to pay attention to his image, but he was always like this. Later, he also participated in the district mayor election, during that time, he made himself very clean and tidy, and went everywhere to publicize and canvass for votes, and the school and department leaders persuaded him to give up, and the more others persuaded him, the more he wanted to run. What the leader is afraid of is not that he will really be elected as the district head, because he will not be elected at all, but that the leader is afraid that he will shout everywhere and destroy the relationship between the school and the government. Although the level of Jeju University is much higher than that of the district government, after all, it is on other people's territory, and there are many things that still ask people for help, and if you offend the district chief, there will be trouble in the future, and if there are a few hard backstage behind the district chief, you will also offend them, and the consequences will be even more serious. The result can be imagined, Mr. Tian was a complete failure and became the laughing stock of others. After coming and going, Mr. Tian's behavior annoyed the school and department leaders, and only arranged a few classes for him every year, and did not let him go when he had the opportunity to visit abroad, so it was difficult for him to evaluate professors. ”

"In this way, this Teacher Tian's experience is really legendary."

"That's not all, his emotional experience is also dramatic. When he was young, he liked to write poetry, especially love poems, and it is said that he chased many women at that time, two of whom were still married, and when he saw the woman he liked, he kept writing poems to others, completely ignoring the feelings of the other party. Mr. Tian was not good-looking, and he was so unkempt on weekdays, think about it, which woman can like his image when she sees him? He said that women nowadays don't understand art and don't understand love. Later, he was sick and hospitalized once, met a beautiful little nurse in the hospital, and launched a crazy pursuit, although Mr. Tian's image is not good, but after all, he is a university teacher, no matter how beautiful the little nurse is, after all, the education is very low, and the job is not good, I am very happy to have a university teacher who likes me so much, and finally married him. Doctors and nurses work in hospitals, and they are very hygienic, and some of them have a habit of cleanliness. Looking at Mr. Tian's appearance, you can guess what his family is like, of course the little nurse can't stand it, so she forces him to pay attention to hygiene and pay attention to his image. The little nurse is also not good, and for a while it really made Mr. Tian clean, like a different person. But there is a good saying, the country is easy to change, the nature is difficult to change, it is impossible to make Mr. Tian completely change his living habits, and within half a year, he has become the same again. The husband and wife began to quarrel every day, and no one let anyone. One of the two people is a university teacher who graduated with a doctorate, and the other is a nurse who graduated from a health school, and they don't have much in common, and this start to quarrel, and the relationship between the two gets worse and worse. Later, the nurse became pregnant, and the relationship between the two returned to peace. What Mr. Tian never expected was that when the child was born and the blood type was tested in the hospital, he found that the child's blood type did not match his own, and it could not be his. Only then did the little nurse tell the truth, it turned out that when the two of them kept arguing, she once had a one-night stand with the doctor in the hospital. The result can be imagined, and the two divorced soon. Mr. Tian no longer believes in love, no longer writes poetry, and vows not to marry again for the rest of his life, after that, he has never chased other women, and now he is forty-six years old and still single. ”

"This kind of emotional experience is indeed dramatic, and it can be called rare in the world."

"Who's to say it isn't! He had few classes, his image was poor, his status in the department was very low, and after experiencing a failed marriage, he himself had some meaning to see through the red dust, and he did not seek academic progress, and he became the most unpopular tutor in the foreign literature major. Graduate students pay attention to the popularity of tutors, and well-known tutors are not only capable but also have a wide range of contacts, everyone wants to choose such tutors, and those with low visibility often fail to receive students. Foreign literature in our department is the weakest, and we can't recruit students every year, and Mr. Tian is considered to be the worst tutor in the major, so naturally we can't recruit students. You did him a great favor by choosing him. However, in my opinion, Mr. Tian's research level is still very high, he has very few classes, and it took three years to accept you as a graduate student, maybe he can train you into a great talent. ”

After listening to his classmates' words, Wu Dao suddenly felt that he had chosen Tian Mowen to be a teacher after changing his major, which was a very correct choice. This is his own arrangement in the dark, and he is very much looking forward to meeting Tian Mowen for the first time.