Chapter 182: Old Fox Smith
As a glorious people's teacher, Li Qingzhu gave full play to his duty of preaching and teaching and solving doubts, and successfully made these children have a great interest in Han culture.
He educates and entertains, using body language and image metaphors, so that the knowledge in books has become a simple thing that can be learned only in the activity, the children are willing to learn, and he teaches with all his heart, so the learning progress is very fast, so that in just a few days, there are already one or two people in the class who can speak one or two sentences in Chinese.
And Zhang Huaiying and Zhang Huaitong have also made great progress during this time, and they first made friends with Powell and Blackett.
Blackett of Mune is not good at words, so he listens most of the time.
Powell is different, although he is only 7 years old, he is very talkative, only a little better than Susanna, he is not verbose at all.
With foreign friends, the two little girls have also made great progress in their foreign languages, and they have also learned a lot of words and phrases used for conversation.
In short, everything is moving in the direction of haode.
Smith is an old naughty boy, that refers to his character, in fact, he likes to read quietly very much, which is not at all similar to his usual performance, at least Li Qingzhu did not see it.
So when he walked into Smith's office, he was surprised that it wasn't like a place where an old urchin could calm down.
"Welcome, Lee, please sit down and want something to drink? I personally recommend you to drink some honey milk, I love this sweet thing. ”
Smith looked at Li Qingzhu with a smile, a pair of reading glasses on the bridge of his nose. After all, he was so old, if he didn't use reading glasses, he really couldn't read such small words.
"Nope. Although I also have a sweet tooth, the honey milk is obviously a little too greasy. ”
Li Qingzhu waved his hand and rejected Smith's kindness, even though he also liked sweets, he still couldn't stand Smith's taste.
Smith looked very sorry and said to him with a little annoyance, "Oh, it's all my fault. I should have thought a little more carefully. ”
Li Qingzhu sighed slightly, in fact, after so many days of contact, Li Qingzhu already knew that this seventy-four-year-old man was actually an old fox.
You can talk for so long about a sweet tooth. Obviously, the point of this old guy is still to come.
"Smith, you didn't call me to tell me about honey milk, did you? You know, it's my time off work. ”
Li Qingzhu shrugged and looked at Smith innocently.
Smith gave him a funny look and said, "You know what. From the first time I saw you. I knew you were going to be able to succeed here and make the kids like you, in fact, you did, Lee, you were the most contagious teacher I've ever met, and I had listened to your classes. It's just wonderful. ”
"Xiexie, I don't think I've done enough."
Li Qingzhu smiled modestly with a formulaic slight bow.
"Still. Lee, can you tell me what you want to do? You know, a curriculum that's too contagious might not be great for kids, and it will make them lose some of their judgment. ”
Smith looked at Li Qingzhu with a smile, and a spiritual liliang burst out from his deep eyes, which made people feel a sense of oppression.
The old man who has lived for such a long time is really not a simple character, and he vaguely saw that Li Qingzhu had other plans.
Li Qingzhu had to reflect, did he go too far?
But no matter what, it is a fact that the old guy found some clues, and what Li Qingzhu has to think about now is how to deal with the past.
"Smith, do you think I'm going to have something to do with a bunch of kids?"
Li Qingzhu asked Smith rhetorically, looking at him with an incredulous expression.
Smith was unmoved, still smiling calmly.
"Oh no, I can tell from the look in your eyes that you really love these children, and if you say that you are bad for them, I am the first to disbelieve them."
Smith's words made Li Qingzhu squint his eyes slightly, it seemed that he was not looking for trouble with him as Li Qingzhu imagined.
The current situation is more like Smith noticed something, but he couldn't figure it out, so he directly found Li Qingzhu and asked him clearly.
Don't think that such an act doesn't have jishu content, in fact, many times the more direct it is, the better the effect.
"Smith, you are a good person, but I believe that you are a wise old man, and I believe you should know the significance of the consul asking me to teach these children about Han culture."
Li Qingzhu sighed slightly and looked at Smith with a serious face.
Smith also nodded when he heard this, "Yes, I know very well, I am disgusted by this kind of behavior of using children's futures for war. ”
"Then you should understand what I'm doing? I just want to smooth out these negative influences with beautiful things. ”
Li Qingzhu said in a calm tone, hoping to put Smith at ease.
Who knew that Smith just smiled and shook his head, he reached out to the glass of honey milk in front of him, took a sip gently, and said, "Lee, you are still lying to me." ”
Li Qingzhu was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Okay, okay, you old fox, Smith, I find out now that I really don't like you very much." ”
Smith smiled and said nothing, he either ignored Li Qingzhu's evaluation, or selectively filtered it.
"OK, I admit that I don't have more than that, I just want these children to learn more about Han culture and maintain a close attitude towards China, and I don't want my students to go to war with my motherland when Britain deals with China in the future."
Li Qingzhu spread his hands and looked at the old fox in front of him with a smile, he knew that this guy had already seen a little clue, and it was easy for him to see the lies, so he simply said that there were nine truths and one falsehood, and for deeper reasons, he believed that this old guy would not be able to guess.
And the fact is also the same, after listening to Li Qingzhu's reason, Smith did not use that undeniable smile this time, he looked very melancholy.
"War is a cruel thing and it's very realistic, and children are growing up at the age when they are growing up, and I don't want them to be contaminated with these things at this time."
"Culture, like music, is a kind of art, it should not be used as a tool of war, Lee, I hope you can use what you are good at, to give children a beautiful childhood, we don't know what their future will be, and we can't decide what path they take, but we can give them a happy present, what do you say?"
Smith's expression looked very tired, he had seen too many things like this in this particular era.
He has believed in Jesus all his life, and he especially likes children, he very much does not want to see such a situation, which is tantamount to instilling the dirty shijie of adults into children in advance, and also polluting their innocent hearts.
Li Qingzhu gradually had a sense of recognition with Smith's words in his heart, and the sense of rejection he had just now gradually disappeared under such circumstances.
It is undeniable that Li Qingzhu is also a person who likes children, and he also agrees with Smith's point of view.
"Smith, please rest assured, the affairs of adults are always the affairs of adults, I will not involve children as well, I will do my best to give them a beautiful haode now, and teach them as much as I can to teach them. Years from now, if they can still remember me, that's what I'm happiest. ”
Li Qingzhu had a warm smile on his face, and Smith could see that this was from Li Qingzhu's heart, and he nodded with satisfaction, which was regarded as agreeing with the fact that Li Qingzhu continued to teach here.
"Li, I am very satisfied with your answer, please forgive me for being such a villain, I believe you can understand that I am also for the good of the children."
Smith said to Li Qingzhu with a lot of guilt, Li Qingzhu didn't mind, this kind of behavior of a villain first and then a gentleman, Li Qingzhu was not disgusted at all.
"Yes, I can understand that we are all for the sake of children, so is it possible for today's matter to end? Smith, you're taking almost an hour of my break, and I think you should pay me accordingly. ”
Hearing this, Smith directly lowered his head and began to rummage through some information, and said while looking for it: "Huh? What about the information I just put on the table? ”
Li Qingzhu looked at this old man with black lines on his head, Zuihou was out of sight and out of mind, and turned around and left his office directly. (To be continued......)