(The storyline is completely fictional, the official must not sit in the right seat, if there is any similarity, it is purely a coincidence)

In China, Chen Dongliang, the director and a few other people were drinking outside, pushing glasses and changing lamps, and praising each other, which was so lively. However, the conversation between these people seemed to be sincere, and the smiling faces were all oily, and during the banquet, the sound of laughter continued to erupt, and it was obvious that everyone was communicating very happily. The waiter standing next to him looked wooden and dazed, he had not been working here from the countryside for a long time, he didn't understand it very well, and he couldn't see why these people could be so happy to eat a meal, and he could maintain his excitement for two or three hours.

The director mentioned the previous time Chen Dongliang got drunk for the work of the department, and praised him vigorously: "Xiao Chen, you are really real, you have a lot of alcohol, you have a good taste, you have a future, you have to cultivate well, come, I have to toast you a ......"

Chen Dongliang was flattered, and hurriedly raised his glass first, drank it all, and did it first.

Director Rong Shengli also took out a small glass of liquor, pursed his lips, and said, "Can you trouble your girlfriend who is studying in the UK to help buy a few things and send them over?" When the time comes, you go and send it to Mr. Lan, as well as Zhang Ju and Yu Ju, otherwise how can our department complete this work so smoothly. ”

Chen Dongliang immediately said: "Okay, okay, Rongzhi, no problem, I'll contact her." ”

Rong Shengli said: "It is said that we can buy it globally, and it is very fast, but it is more reassuring to find your daughter-in-law." It's just bothering her. ”

Chen Dongliang smiled happily, nodded and said: "You are right, other channels, don't buy a fake, look for her, more assured, it's not troublesome at all, she bought it for us by the way, you don't have to be polite." ”

He immediately sent a WeChat message: Jing Hao, if you go to London recently, remember to go to the New Bond Street area, those luxury brand stores, help see what suitable things can be used as gifts, we have to buy three things for gifts, one is for a woman in her fifties, and two are for men, all of whom are fifty-four or five years old, you receive a reply to me as soon as possible.

Jing Hao immediately replied to him on WeChat: When I have time to go, help you take a look, in addition, you can also check it on the official websites of those brands yourself, choose what you want, send me a picture, I will follow the map, let me go to the current selection, you may not be satisfied with what I choose.

Chen Dongliang replied to her: After all, what you see on the official website is a picture, you go to the store to see, whether it is BURBERRY or LV or GUCCI those things, whether there is a style and color that is more suitable for Chinese, the price is not outrageous, you take a few pictures and send them to me, I let Director Rong pick one, choose, and trouble you to buy it.

Jing Hao replied: Okay, I just need to go to London, and I'll help you see it.

I just finished reading my boyfriend's WeChat, and Jing Hao received an email from Harry again. Harry was serious, giving her new homework.

Harry wants her to enjoy a BAFTA Award-winning film "Atonement" as soon as possible, not a new movie, and the reason why she must watch it as soon as possible is that the film is covered in the later courses, and it is necessary to cut different scenes and do plot twists and progressive analysis of the film, which is part of the compulsory content of the film narration course.

Harry said: I happened to be invited to a special exchange seminar for this film tomorrow in Oxford, and I got two tickets, and I had a colleague going to join him, but he had something to do in London, so if you're interested, you can go along.

Why is there something temporary? Jing wondered if this Harry would deliberately use this as an excuse, but it was too easy to be seen through if the same reason was used back and forth, and when I thought about it this way, it should probably be the real reason.

With the experience of the last Italian passion film, Jing Hao was very careful, and first checked the content introduction of the movie on the Internet, and it turned out to be a sad love story film, and there was no taboo of love and sex in the last Italian movie. She happily replied to the email: Thank you very much, please send me the specific place and time, and I will go directly to meet you tomorrow.

After that, quietly humming a song, looking for clothes and gesturing in front of the mirror, preparing to go to the appointment the next day. She took a picture left and right in front of the mirror, and then ran to Mr. Chen's room and knocked on the door, borrowed Mrs. Chen's old curling iron, and tried to make several large fluffy curls of her hair, and looked in the mirror, which was not bad.

After curling her hair and trying on a few clothes, she stood in front of the mirror and suddenly stared at herself inside - usually she really doesn't pay attention to dressing and wearing hats, and she doesn't have time to pay attention to it, what's wrong today?

Harry replied to him at the address and time: meet tomorrow at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the South Gate of Beddington Park. Jing Hao pushed his curly hair and put on a little lipstick to join Harry, who noticed the subtle change in Jing Hao's appearance at a glance, and he smiled lightly. The two walked together to Oxford's Old Town for a special film screening.

The activity was very interesting, Jing Hao saw it for the first time, and the audience each held a glass of red wine and took a few sips while watching a movie. After the movie, the service staff guided everyone to the front hall, drinking red wine or drinks, eating small sandwiches and some pastries on the dining table, and chatting with each other about the movie......

Jing Hao said to Harry, "What kind of film seminar is this?" It's a buffet. ”

Harry deliberately asked, "Isn't it strange that you young people eat popcorn while watching movies?" ”

Jing Hao said: "Hehe, where am I such a young man, I never eat those snacks when I watch movies." However, when watching movies, everyone is indeed used to eating popcorn, but few people drink red wine to watch movies. ”

Harry said: "Hehe, in the UK, some people have been drinking red wine and watching movies like this. ”

Jing Hao said, "Really? ”

"Yes, so it's easy to see things that we're used to as normal, and the habits of a few people we don't know with are more or less abnormal," Harry said. ”

Jing Hao said: "It's not that I don't think it's abnormal, I've never seen someone drink red wine while watching a movie, and it feels funny." ”

Harry said: "If you are interested in the future, there will be a lot of invitations to such events, and I think that the more you participate, the less strange it will be gradually." ”

Jing Hao said: "Of course, thank you very much, I can often participate in such movie activities, of course it's good, it's useful for learning, but also enriches life, it's just that I always follow the professor to watch movies and eat buffets alone, if other students see it, will it be considered abnormal?" ”

Harry was sensitive to the statement: "Abnormal? ”

Jing Hao said: "Yes, maybe I think I always give you a follower for the sake of scores." ”

Harry didn't understand: "Follower? ”

Jing Hao said: "That's what the assistant means." Assistant. ”

Harry smiled, "Oh. ”

Jing Hao said: "So, if you have the opportunity, you can also bring all twelve of us to participate together, which is equivalent to coming out to class!" ”

"My two PhD students do this several times a year," Harry said. You have a large number of master's students, I didn't expect it to be okay, hehe, I'll look for an opportunity next time. Your suggestion is good! Thank you so well! ”

Harry still couldn't pronounce her well, and always called her "so good". When he says that there are many people, he always says that "the number of people is large", just like talking about the body, he always says it: "the size of the body". If you say that he has a grammatical problem, it seems that there is none, but the real Chinese will definitely say "how many people" and "fat and thin".

Jing laughed funny.

Harry added, "However, you may be interested in attending once, and if you do it twice, many people probably won't come." ”

Jing Hao asked, "Why?" ”

Harry said: "They, maybe also you, hehe, anyway, as long as the teacher asks them to do something, no matter how good it is, it will slowly become a burden!" ”

This is the truth, Jing Hao couldn't help but grin.

Harry also smiled and said, "You young people are like this, hehe, it's good to be young, but when you're young, you don't know how good it is to be young, and you're always wasting your youth, thinking that you can always be young!" ”

Jing Hao smiled again. Harry is not very old, but Europeans are older, forty-four or five-year-olds, and when they smile, their faces are full of wrinkles, and they are much older than their Chinese peers.

On the streets of the old town of Oxford's West End, there are many lintels marked with old houses from 1903, 1907, and even 1898 and 1809.

Jing Hao and Harry walked out of the movie theater after participating in the movie screening, only to find that the sky was blue just now, but now it was gloomy and raining heavily.

Jing Hao said: "Oh no, I didn't check the weather forecast in advance. ”

Harry shook his head and said, "I didn't know it was going to rain today, and I took out the umbrella in my bag and didn't bring it with me." ”

Harry advised: "Let's go to the Italian restaurant opposite for a cup of tea, sit and shelter from the rain." ”

Jing Hao said: "Okay, that's the only way." ”

The two of them braved the rain and quickly crossed the street into the Italian restaurant opposite, and sat down. Who knew that the rain was pouring and dripping all the time, sometimes big and sometimes small. At five o'clock, it became a steady heavy rain, and it was really impossible to walk without an umbrella. At Harry's suggestion, the two had dinner at an Italian restaurant.

During the meal, Harry told Jing Hao a Bean-style English joke in English: "There was a middle-aged man who went out and encountered rain, but he threw his umbrella in his hand and walked quickly in the rain, and his hair was wet from the rain. An elderly woman who met him was puzzled and asked him why he didn't open his umbrella. The man replied very seriously: Didn't you see that it was raining? I'm afraid I'll get my umbrella wet......"

It's quiet, I really don't think it's funny at all, where is the laugh? According to the Chinese habit of listening to jokes and crosstalk, it is obvious that there should be a big burden that needs to be shaken out, but this British joke has ended without a beginning or an end.

And Harry himself couldn't control his laughter, and he couldn't be happier; Seeing this, Jing Hao hurriedly laughed twice, in fact, it was completely out of politeness and comfort.

Harry listened to her laugh slowly and reluctantly, and joked in English that she was so funny that she seemed to be disguised*.

Jing Hao didn't expect it at all, thinking that she had a hearing problem and heard something wrong, so she was stunned, her cheeks were red, and she didn't know how to respond.

Seeing this, Harry realized that what she said was inappropriate, and immediately explained that he was not saying that she was laughing like a pretend*, but that she didn't think the joke was funny at all, and pretended to be funny. And then he said: It's like two people doing that thing, and one of them is not happy but pretends to be sexual* in order to comfort the other, and usually the person who pretends to be a woman is a woman, because there is an objective criterion for judging whether a man has attained * or not.

Harry said this, as naturally as he was saying "turnips, cabbage, coffee and black tea", but Jing Hao listened to this metaphor, and was even more overwhelmed, his cheeks became redder, his throat was dry, and he didn't know how to respond, there were only two people in total, he told jokes, she was listening, such a metaphor, who else could the "two people" in Harry's mouth go back and forth? If she was the one who pretended to be that, wouldn't Harry be "the other man"? Oops, embarrassing, sweaty in the head...... But the expression on Harry's face was clean, and Jing Hao didn't dislike him, and he really didn't think he was deliberately harassing with words, but Jing Hao still looked embarrassed.

Her embarrassment made Harry immediately feel that he was speaking inappropriately, and quickly apologized, saying: "The British are boring, they have no other sense of humor, so they often joke about sex and politics, maybe it is not funny to you." ”

Jing Hao said: "This is really a cultural difference, and the Chinese are not so straightforward. ”

"I'm really sorry, I don't mean anything else, I don't suggest anything, please don't feel offended or embarrassed," Harry said. ”

Jing Hao hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay, I know you don't have malicious intentions." ”

But her heart "suddenly" jumped, after all, the two of them suddenly turned to such a topic, from rain without an umbrella, suddenly leaping to sex*, it was too sudden.

To lighten the mood, Harry coughed twice and changed the subject. He pretended to discuss the movie he had just watched with Jing Hao seriously, and asked Jing Hao, what is her standard for evaluating a movie?

Jing Hao relaxed a little and said: "Probably, it was lively when I watched it, and I forgot about it soon after watching it, this is a bad movie; And when you watch it, it may be bland, but what you can't forget for a long time is a good movie. In other words, what is unforgettable, the longer it lasts, the more mellow it is, it is good. Anyway, I am such a standard. ”

Harry snorted a few times: "You standard, very interesting. It's not that it doesn't make any sense. ”

Jing Hao joked: "If you think about it carefully, my standard is still very powerful, it is a spiritual standard!" ”

Harry looked at her, but didn't answer. Harry is actually a scholar who uses the scientific method to analyze films, a bit like a serious scientist, and he often doesn't express his attitude clearly about theories that have not been fully verified.

Just when Jing Hao was chatting with Harry in the rain at the restaurant, Jing Hao's roommate Li Ruoshi accidentally slipped due to the rain on the way to McDonald's on her bicycle in a hurry. The severe pain was like electricity, from the ankle to the waist quickly, and he couldn't even stand up, but thinking about the free hamburger for dinner that day and the daily part-time job could guarantee that he could send back 300 pounds a month, that is, about 3,200 yuan, he endured the severe pain and got up in the heavy rain, gritted his teeth and insisted on signing in to the restaurant, wanting to do the day's 3-hour hourly work.

In the Italian restaurant, the lights are orange and yellow, warm and dry. Outside the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, rain falls, and columns of water trickle down the large glass, which is the wall stream that can be seen everywhere in the city of Oxford, and is also the one that people here are accustomed to.

The scenery of Oxford's old city outside the window is more beautiful than a postcard, and in the dense rendering, it looks like a watercolor painting with a lot of flavor is being unfolded under the painter's brush.

Harry said: "Your theory of judgment is probably the crudest, simplest, and most interesting statement of all I've heard about movie evaluations. ”

He took a sip and said: "If you don't mind, I would like to borrow this theory and divide my students into two categories: one is that they are very active in school and communicate with teachers very warmly, but they are quickly forgotten by teachers after graduation, or gradually forgotten by teachers; There is also a group of students who may have been uneventful with their teachers when they were studying, but I will remember them for many years or even a lifetime after graduation. The reason is that it is bland but deep, warm but superficial. ”

Jing laughed, and it seemed that Harry understood what she meant.

Harry said, "Aren't you curious at all about what kind of class I'm going to put you in?" ”

Jing Hao blinked, not knowing how to answer.

"I think it's the second category, where our conversation was uneventful, but it was very deep," Harry said.

Harry said sincerely, smiled shyly, and said, "Thank you, Professor! I think what you just said is an encouragement to me! ”

Harry smiled and nodded, as if that was the case.

Harry naturally told Jing Hao that about two weeks later, he was going to London to attend a cultural event, and there were two lectures in the morning, one of which he was the keynote speaker and the other was his friend as the keynote speaker, because Mayo was gone, and he had no other internship teaching assistants for the time being, and he asked Jing Hao if he was interested in going with him and helping him as an assistant, and the school would cover the cost of the round-trip, and also gave her a little subsidy, not much, 50 pounds.

Harry joked, "At least a little bit more than the salary of working at McDonald's, right?" ”

Jing Hao replied: "Yes, it is indeed higher than my roommate Li Ruoshi to work at McDonald's, McDonald's is six or seven pounds an hour, and it takes three or four days for part-time workers to earn 60 pounds." ”

Harry said: "I hope you can go with you, and if you think the school subsidy is too small, I can give you a little more." ”

Having said this, Jing Hao was no longer easy to shirk, and remembered that Chen Dongliang asked her to help pick out gifts, so she could drop by, so she readily agreed to Harry. She joked, "I'm honored to be a cheap labor force for you, and the salary is a little higher than McDonald's, hehe......"

When Harry heard this, he became serious and said, "Well, uh——, otherwise, the school will give you 50 pounds, and I will also give you 50 pounds, okay?" I don't think I'm going to go away with your whole day. ”

Jing Hao hurriedly waved his hand: "I'm joking with you, I'm just joking, you're so polite." I don't actually need to be paid. I don't want the 50 pounds......"

Harry said more seriously: "No, no, I mean really, if you need it, I can give another £50 one." After all, you are now a full-time student, and you don't go out to work, so you have no income. And you young people, the opportunities to spend money are like hormones, much more than people my age, I understand. ”

Jing Haowen was even more embarrassed when she heard this, her face turned red, and she waved her hand and shook her head: "Really, really don't need it, you really, really don't have to!" I'm glad I can go and be your temporary assistant, even if I don't get paid. It's my pleasure, really! You don't have to be polite......"