Chapter 25 Fried soybeans
The next day, Li Laosan found a carriage and called his neighbors to help him, so it didn't take much effort to clean up his things.
Before leaving, Xiuni, who was sitting in the car, looked at the old house and was a little sad: "Daddy, child, you said that you were very happy to go, why did you panic?" ”
"There's something to panic about, I've wanted to move out for a long time." Li Laosan, who was sitting in front of the car, waved a whip into the air, didn't look back, and pouted: "Just that little broken house leaks everywhere on a rainy day, what kind of day is it called, I think you are used to eating rough bran and don't know how good it is to thin noodles." ”
Xiuni was not happy, and sat down and twisted it on her waist: "Look at what you can do, I don't know how many eyes Lord Ma has when I go to the inner city to work for a few days." ”
"Oh, hey, I'm in a car, and my husband is still sitting in the car!"
Watching the two of them stumble, Cheng Nuo didn't feel lonely, the small courtyard was no longer just a few empty houses, it felt more like home.
Four-legged hurried is better than two-legged, and at noon, the group rushed to the courtyard.
After unloading the things, Cheng Nuo pointed to the house in the front yard and said, "Lao Li, you and your sister-in-law will live in the front yard, see which one in the photo you want, and you can live at night with a little cleaning." ”
Li Laosan touched the brick wall and said reluctantly: "What a good big green brick, it looks like porcelain, sir, let us live in whichever room we want." ”
Cheng Nuo walked over, took a few steps around and looked at the house: "Then you can live in the north room, the lighting is good, and the winter is warm, and I will keep a few rooms in the south as classrooms at that time." ”
"Thank you, sir." After Li Laosan thanked him, he pointed to the south room and wondered, "Is Mr. going to teach at home in the future?" ”
Cheng Nuo walked to the front of the south room, opened the door to breathe, and joked: "Lao Li, let's see how it goes, bring a few students here when the time comes, just don't be noisy." ”
"Look at what you said, the house is all yours, how dare you make trouble, and besides, it's too late to be happy to have you edify my stupid boy here." Li Laosan also stepped forward, opened the doors and windows and looked at it, and the original three rooms were all connected together, and it seemed that it had been planned for a long time.
In Cheng Nuo's arrangement, he plans to go to Peking University to discover a few good seedlings, and bring them to his home to focus on cultivation when the time comes.
The classroom is not only equipped with desks and blackboards, but also some special devices and equipment to facilitate the guidance of students to do experiments in the future.
As for the four little guys, none of them went to a new-style primary school, especially the two in Li Laosan's family who haven't read a day of books and can't write their names, the best way is to send them to school first to study with their peers and lay a good foundation.
In the future, if you have savings in your hand, you can ask Mr. Tao Xingzhi to come back and run a primary school and a middle school together, and you can even run a university when the conditions are ripe.
Calculating the time, this future "unity of knowledge and action" educator is also about to graduate from Columbia University, and when the time comes, I will ask Mr. Cai to accompany him and visit him.
In fact, it is also very interesting to say, Tao Xingzhi, like Lu Xun in his early years, wanted to study medicine to serve the country. But later he found that his idea was immature, so he resolutely gave up studying medicine and came to the United States to study, studying education under American educators such as Dewey, Menglu, and Keberw.
Different from the traditional elite education in the United States, Tao Xingzhi paid special attention to rural mass education, and after returning to China, he organized the opening of civilian literacy reading offices and civilian schools many times, promoted the civilian education movement, and founded the first rural kindergarten in the history of China.
At the same time, he also founded a social university in the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War, and changed the first sentence of the Confucian classic "University" to "The way of the university is to be virtuous, close to the people, and to the happiness of the people", so Cheng Nuo admires this gentleman very much, and it is also the most important part of his future education plan.
After settling down at home, Cheng Nuoxing rushed to the street to buy a few catties of soybeans and came back, but was stopped when he wanted to soak in the water.
Xiuni rolled up her sleeves, took the soybeans and asked, "Sir, what are you going to do with the soybeans?" Let me do the rough work, do you want to grind tofu? I'm good at it, so you can rest. ”
Cheng Nuo was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly explained: "I'm making fried soybeans, isn't it easy to fry them after soaking?" ”
"I think you want to eat it with a broken mouth, then you can't soak it, won't it be soft when you fry it?" Xiuni covered her mouth and snickered: "Sir, let me do this job, you should do what you are good at." ”
As he spoke, he pushed Cheng Nuo out of the kitchen and declared his "territory".
Cheng Nuo was helpless, he forgot what he wanted to say, and finally raised his hand in the air and said loudly: "Sister-in-law, the soybeans are not for me to eat, they are for gifting, they must be fried to be delicious." ”
"Okay, you just put your heart in your stomach, we are not good at bird's nest sea cucumbers, this is definitely crunchy to eat." In the kitchen, Xiuni washed the soybeans, and muttered in a low voice: "Who is this a gift for soybeans, it's strange, that is, Mr. can know such a person." ”
This person is not an ordinary person, Cheng Nuo, the president of Peking University, and a vegetarian enthusiast - Cai Yuanpei.
Cheng Nuo gave gifts not to get promoted and make a fortune, but to maintain his feelings, and people were willing to hire him exceptionally, because they took a fancy to him as a person, and he should sit on it during the New Year.
Early the next morning, Cheng Nuo took the prepared Shaoxing specialties and half a bag of fried soybeans and set off in a rickshaw.
There are not many things and they are not expensive, but the person who accepts them knows at a glance that they are the kind that is attentive.
So when he came to the destination, Cai Yuanpei originally wanted to refuse these things, but when he saw that there was half a bag of fried soybeans, he couldn't help laughing.
"'Eat beans for three dollars a day, why do you need to take medicine for years', Zhiyuan, this is the best gift I have received this year." Cai Yuanpei couldn't help but open the bag, picked up a few of them and put them in his mouth, and looked intoxicated: "With this soybean, it is difficult to make up the dragon meat in the sky." ”
Cheng Nuo looked mysterious, took out a few more packets of soybeans from his bag, and said with a smile: "Cai Gong doesn't want to talk too much, in addition to the bag for you, I also have spicy, garlic and five-spiced ones, how about it, can Cai Gong be satisfied?" ”
In order to make the soybeans effective, Cheng Nuo prepared the ingredients overnight, and did not hesitate to take out the ingredients from his previous life in advance, he didn't believe that anyone could resist this temptation.
Cai Yuanpei took the soybeans and smiled even more happily: "Zhiyuan, you can raise my mouth now, and I guess it won't be fragrant to eat without you in the future." ”
At this moment, the guests were happy, and the relationship between the two was brought closer again, and even dinner was left to eat together.
After the tea and dinner were full, Cai Yuanpei took a document and handed it over: "Zhiyuan, you look at the new document issued by the Ministry of Education today, I don't know what you think of it?" ”
Cheng Nuo took it with both hands, and the title of the document appeared in front of him: "Consultation with the provinces: Graduates of higher education in Tokyo and Hiroshima, Japan, should be ordered to inspect the country's education situation".