Zhang Jiasen studied in Japan with his fourth brother in 1906, and went to Germany in 1913 to study for a doctorate.

He always adhered to the idea that the purpose of pursuing education was to improve politics and save the country and the people. After three years in Germany, it coincided with the First World War, and his studies were forced to be interrupted. At the end of World War I, China's crushing defeat at the Paris Peace Conference made him realize that there is only power in the world, there is no justice, and there is no diplomacy for weak countries!

This time, I came to Europe again to study in Germany. He believes in the power of science and hopes to become a powerful country in science and technology.

Picked up my sister, took care of the affairs at hand, and took her to Germany.

In order to let her sister live with peace of mind, she took matters into her own hands and enrolled her in early childhood education at Pestaloch College.

Shen Mengxi couldn't cry or laugh when he saw the professionalism. It is also a magical fate, Shen Mengxi studied in middle school and came back to teach primary school, Meng Fanxi studied at Beijing Normal University and came back to teach university. Now Zhang Jiayu is studying early childhood education again, and will he return to China to open a kindergarten?

Now that you've signed up and paid the fee, just go for it. Shen Mengxi studied German while studying, and some courses were taught in English, but she could keep up, Zhang Jiasen hired a German foreign teacher for her, and the study went smoothly.

The brother and sister live in an apartment, they didn't hire a maid, cooked, washed and cleaned, and most of the housework was undertaken by Shen Mengxi, Zhang Jiasen looked at his sister with complicated eyes, and couldn't bear to look at her fingers with flat nails dexterously pinching dumplings, "Yu'er, you have been to the Xu family for all these years, and you can do anything!" ”

Shen Mengxi raised his head, "It's better to know something." ”

Half a year later, Zhang Jiasen accompanied a scholar to China to give a lecture, will return to China, before leaving hesitate to take his sister away, Shen Mengxi is very resolute to stay in Germany, she knows that Xu Shizhe has returned to China, is the limelight, she does not want to return to China at this time to join in the fun, add news gimmicks to the newspaper.

Zhang Jiasen left all the money in hand to Shen Mengxi, and left Germany with only one ticket. Shen Mengxi was a little moved, blood kinship is the most long-lasting relationship for no reason.

Shen Mengxi continued to rent Zhang Jiasen's apartment, riding a bicycle to class every day, and the pedestrians on the road had a high rate of turning heads, especially if she was a yellow woman, Shen Mengxi ignored these, if she was given a horse now, she would immediately throw away the bicycle and ride away.

The curriculum of early childhood education is also very complex and covers a wide range of fields, which also reflects the importance that Germany attaches to children's education.

Education, Psychology, Vocal Music, Dance, Fine Arts, Early Childhood Psychology, Health Sciences, Human Anatomy, Foreign Languages, Physical Education, etc. Shen Mengxi suddenly understood Zhang Jiasen's intention of choosing this major for his sister, even if she didn't have to be a preschool teacher, learning vocal music and dance could also cultivate her sentiments. It will also be useful to educate your children in the future.

Shen Mengxi's German tutor is a woman named Helen, 40 years old, single, tall, slightly fat, with a serious expression on weekdays, looking older than her actual age. She is a friend Zhang Jiasen met when she first came to study in Germany, knows some Chinese, and is usually very strict with Shen Mengxi in class.

After eating the food cooked by Shen Mengxi once, she asked Shen Mengxi to learn German more strictly, and often taught overtime for free, so that she always missed the meal, and had to stay and cook with Shen Mengxi to eat together.

Helen is 1.70 meters tall, tall and big, and has a great appetite, Shen Mengxi watched her eat a whole pork knuckle with sauce, and as soon as the elbow came up, she took it for granted that it was her own, and directly took it over and ate it, and then poured it with soup and dried up a big bowl of rice. Shen Mengxi, who watched it, was dumbfounded.

On this day, Helen brought six kinds of German pork sausages at once, and hinted that Shen Mengxi wanted to return some food as a gift, which was in line with etiquette.

In desperation, Shen Mengxi had no choice but to buy half a pork rib and a chicken, and was busy for half an afternoon. Helen, who was full, took away the remaining sweet and sour pork ribs and saliva chicken, and left a bunch of homework for Shen Mengxi before going home satisfied.

Shen Mengxi smelled the smell of oil smoke on his body and resigned himself to taking a bath.

In the second month of the divorce, Xu Shizhe's father remitted 200 US dollars as usual as living expenses, which is equivalent to about 800 German marks, enough for Shen Mengxi to study, eat and live in Germany and even hire a nanny.

But Shen Mengxi asked Zhang Jiasen to return the remittance as soon as possible, the marriage was divorced, and he was still unclear about the money, so he would do it if he was stupid.

Zhang's family has been an official for generations, and when it comes to Zhang's father, he is a doctor and a Confucian, Zhang's father has practiced medicine for many years, and he is very prestigious in the Baoshan area. Her father and brothers loved Zhang Jiayu very much, because she was the seventh child in the family, but she was the first girl. When she married Xu Shizhe, she almost took away half of the Zhang family's net worth at that time, first, the Xu family was extremely rich, and there must always be an equal dowry, and second, Zhang's father really loved this eldest daughter.

Now her dowry is still in the Xu family, her father and brother are embarrassed to ask for it, and the fourth brother admires Xu Shizhe more than the second brother, but I am afraid that it is possible for the two of them to still drink freely. Although the two families are no longer married, they still have economic contacts, and the Xu family also has affairs to ask for help to the fourth brother, and the dowry can only wait for her to return to China and deal with it in person.

The Zhang family has twelve children, eight boys and four girls, Zhang's mother attaches great importance to boys, and only says that there are eight children, even if four of the eight boys are not her own, she also loves and attaches the same importance to her, in her concept, the children born by concubines are all children born for her. And when the daughter is raised, once she gets married, she is a member of someone else's family, and she can no longer be counted as her own child.

Now that five of these eight sons are studying and spending money, and two are waiting to marry a wife, Zhang's mother is unwilling to take out any more money to remit money to Zhang Jiayu.

Helen also knew about her divorce, and when she learned that she had no domestic financial resources recently, she refused to stay for dinner, and promised to help her keep an eye on her and find a suitable job.

Shen Mengxi still left her to eat, saying that it was too lonely to eat alone, as long as she usually talked to herself more. Helen was a little embarrassed, but when faced with the food, she only hesitated for three seconds and stayed.

After eating boiled fish once, Helen told Shen Mengxi her story, she once had a childhood sweetheart's fiancé, who went to England to do business when she was young, but he secretly married the daughter of a rich family in England, and came back and hid it from her, until she found out, at that time it was difficult for her age to marry someone else, and then the war broke out, Helen has never been married, and the man later died of the flu. Helen has also been disappointed in men since then, and simply lives alone until now.

She thought that her experience could comfort Shen Mengxi, and persuaded her: "Men are naturally fun-seeking species, and you must not take them to heart." When necessary, use them to have a baby, and then kick them away! Ha ha! ”

"Helen, do you want a baby?"

"I can't give birth now." Helen muttered and tidied up the table. "That damn man, changed the fate of my life, damn man!"

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After coming to Germany for more than three years, Shen Mengxi likes the quiet life here, mails some toys and clothes to her son Ah Huan every year, and occasionally writes a letter to Baoshan, she even wants to live here for the rest of her life.

She usually works two jobs, one as a piano tutor and the other as a college librarian, which is enough to make ends meet.

On this day, Shen Mengxi was riding a bicycle, with a cloth bag hanging on the handlebar, in which was a handful of greens, a few onions and potatoes, as well as a piece of pork and a fish, she gently hummed the song Xu Xiaofeng's "Season of the Wind", "The cold wind blew gently, quietly entered the ...... of my clothes", pedaling briskly, the breeze by the river blew her hair, very comfortable.

A car rushed off the road and drove straight towards her, Shen Mengxi jumped out of the car and ran away, narrowly dodging, the car ran over the bicycle and hit the railing on the side of the road, and fell into the river under the dam.

The pedestrian exclaimed, only to see the car quickly sink to the bottom of the river, the driver broke the window and came out first, swam to the shore twice, and then returned to save people, a woman showed her head in the water, and sank again, Shen Mengxi jumped into the water without hesitation, swam to the woman, and when she was exhausted and pulled the unconscious woman up to the riverbank, the driver also dragged a boy about ten years old to the shore.

Both of them fainted, and Shen Mengxi first untied the woman's collar, cleaned her mouth, slapped her shoulder and shouted, "Madam! Lady! "There was no response, and when I probed again, there was no pulse or breathing. Shen Mengxi immediately performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the driver over there had already controlled the boy's water.

After several rounds of compressions and rescue breaths, the lady woke up, spat a few mouthfuls of water, and immediately began to shout: "Frank! Frank! ”

Shen Mengxi ran over to treat the boy again, the boy was delayed for a long time, and after twenty minutes of rescue, there was still no sign of waking up, Shen Mengxi did not give up, although she was almost out of strength.

"Wake up! Wake up! ”

The boy's mother sat helplessly and cried, and Shen Mengxi shouted, "Is there anyone who will help?" ”

No one answered. Shen Mengxi had no choice but to continue pressing, her sweat mixed with the water in her hair, dripping onto the boy's body, Shen Mengxi leaned down and blew into the boy's mouth again. The boy opened his eyes in that instant, blue eyes misty.

Shen Mengxi was overjoyed, and immediately turned him into lying on his side, reaching out to touch the root of his tongue, causing him to spit out the river water in his abdomen.

Frank spat out some water and lay weakly on the shore, his mother pounced on him and turned around to hit the driver, it turned out that Frank had a fever and was in a hurry to take him to the hospital, but the driver drove the car into the river instead of driving it incorrectly.

The boy was shaking and his forehead was hot. Shen Mengxi told the driver to immediately go find a carriage or other car, took out a thermos cup from his cloth bag, gave Frank warm water, and put a fever-reducing patch on his head, watching them get into the carriage and leave, only to remember that his bicycle had been scrapped, he reached out in vain and shouted twice, and returned home wet.

After a hurried shower, she lay down on the bed, so tired that she didn't have time to dry her hair, and fell into a deep sleep.

I woke up in the middle of the night and had a terrible headache. She knew she was sick.

After finding a pill to eat, she drank a lot of boiling water, made herself a bowl of hot soup noodles and ate it, and then fell asleep again.

The next morning, he was almost recovered, and Shen Mengxi sighed again, the young vitality is really tenacious.

After breakfast, he was a good man again, and continued to go to class.