Chapter 20 Li Li, who teaches English as a substitute
In the 1980s, there was only a five-day holiday during the Spring Festival, and she officially went to work on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.
The deserted unit became lively, and Fang Minghua still performed his duties in the guard room. I study in my spare time, and also go to Western University to take correspondence courses on weekends.
Today is the 12th of the first lunar month, another weekend. Fang Minghua rides to Western University early in the morning. The school has not started yet, so his diligent and studious sister can only stay at home, but he still tells Fang Minghua to go to class on time.
I rode alone to the Western University campus, entered the classroom on the third floor, and found a young man wearing a blue ski jacket sitting in the back row.
It's Zhao Hongjun.
So Fang Minghua walked over to the empty seat next to him and asked, "Hey, you haven't been in class for several weeks, why don't you skip class today?"
"Dad If you keep skipping class, you'll beat me up." Zhao Hongjun replied lazily, and then asked: "You are a great writer now, and you still come to class?"
"Why is a great writer not so great? As a writer, I said, brother, please don’t reject me.” Fang Minghua replied: “Actually, I don’t want to either. My sister is forcing me.”
Both of them laughed.
This class was an English class. Not long after they opened the textbook, they saw a beautiful girl with short hair walking in. I thought he was a student in class, but he walked up to the podium.
Is it her? !
Isn’t this Li Li from the literary club?
Have you become a teacher today?
Li Li took out her textbook and said generously to the dark crowd below: "My name is Li Li. I am a sophomore majoring in English in the Department of Foreign Languages. Teacher Yang is on rest due to illness, so this class I'll do it for her. Please turn to the fourth lesson of the textbook for dialogue exercises. Please read aloud to me, WhereisMrGreen?/WhereisMary?
At first, the students in the audience were talking a lot, but with Li Li's standard pronunciation, they all stopped talking and started reading aloud.
“This girl has a nice voice and is beautiful.” Zhao Hongjun began to comment in a low voice.
“Stop talking and read quickly!” Fang Minghua reminded.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Hongjun said plausibly: "As a dignified Chinese, how can I learn English? Besides, what's the use of learning this thing?"
"Short-sighted! Don't you want to do business in the future? Don’t you want to do business with foreigners? How can you do it if you don’t understand English?” Fang Minghua retorted.
"Oh, I can't refute your reason? It seems that I have to study hard." Zhao Hongjun immediately took the book and started reading after the teacher.
Sorry, I don’t know
Because many students in the correspondence class have not learned English at all, the teaching is relatively simple, basically based on junior high school textbooks, which is not difficult for Li Li.
She once learned Russian from her father, and followed her parents' request to major in English when she went to college. It's easy to learn Russian well and English well.
While she led everyone to read aloud, she glanced at the classmates below, and soon found Fang Minghua sitting in the back.
As expected, he was a classmate in the correspondence class.
Hmph!
How dare you talk to your deskmate in class? !
Thinking of this, Li Li stopped reading and looked at Fang Minghua: "The student in the military coat sitting in the fourth row from the bottom is you, please stand up!"
"Minghua , the teacher is calling you." Zhao Hongjun looked gloating.
Fang Minghua had no choice but to stand up.
"What's your name?" Li Li asked.
"Fang Minghua"
Huh?
Fang Minghua? Why do you have the same name as the writer Fang Minghua?
Li Li was surprised.
I am a writer, so how come I am taking a Chinese correspondence course?
It must be the same name!
This name is very common. Just like my own name, Li Li, there are several in the school.
Thinking of this, Li Li regained her composure: "Classmate Fang Minghua, please re-read what I just read in English!"
Fang Minghua had no choice but to reread what he had just read.
Hmm.
The pronunciation is quite standard.
Li Li nodded with satisfaction.
"Let's continue"
In class, Li Li asked questions while speaking. She especially liked to call Fang Minghua, which made him speechless.
Does my name sound good?
Very common, right?
However, the questions were very simple and Fang Minghua answered them smoothly.
"Hey, is this girl attracted to you? Why are you always staring at you?" Seeing Fang Minghua sitting down to answer the question, Zhao Hongjun immediately joked in a low voice.
Fang Minghua glared at him, and before he could answer, he heard Li Li say: "That classmate, the one sitting next to Fang Minghua, the one wearing jeans, please stand up and answer this question." Huh? !
Zhao Hongjun had no choice but to stand up.
Of course I couldn’t answer, so I had to sit down dejectedly.
The English class was over, Li Li assigned a lot of homework and finally the get out of class was over.
"Let's go out and get some fresh air. I'm suffocated." Zhao Hongjun stood up after saying this.
Fang Minghua followed and walked out.
The so-called ventilation is just smoking.
The people who come to class are all young people from society, and all of them are smoking addicts and standing in the corridor puffing away smoke.
Fang Minghua doesn’t smoke and doesn’t like to smell second-hand smoke, so he simply walked out of the corridor and outside the teaching building.
School hasn't started yet, so the campus seems a little deserted.
Fang Minghua stood on the side of the road and saw a girl riding a light bicycle. It was Li Li who had just been in class.
Li Li was riding her bike home. When she saw Fang Minghua standing on the side of the road, she got off the car and stopped next to him: "Classmate Fang Minghua, your English foundation is very good."
"I studied by myself some time ago."
Li Li nodded after listening.
In fact, correspondence courses have relatively little time, and students mainly rely on self-study in their spare time. The teacher tests the students' level through examinations.
"Fang Minghua, your literary quality is also very high. You will definitely graduate successfully in the future. Come on!" Li Li encouraged.
"Thank you."
"You go to class, we will exchange literature when we have time. Goodbye!"
"Goodbye!"
The girl rode her bicycle away, and Fang Minghua also returned to the teaching building.
At work the next day, Fang Minghua received another letter from his female pen pal Li Li.
In the letter, Li Li said that Fang Minghua's understanding and understanding of "suffering" made her feel very novel, and after thinking about it later, it made sense.
At the end of the letter, the girl also talked about her troubles.
“Teacher Minghua, I like literature very much. I originally applied for the Chinese Department, but my parents didn’t agree and insisted on letting me learn English. They said that English will definitely be very popular in the future, although I am not good at English. It’s not bad, but I don’t like it from the bottom of my heart.”
Fang Minghua smiled when he saw this. It seems that this girl's parents are well-educated and have a broad vision.
In the 1980s, English was definitely a very popular major. The country's reform and opening up required a large number of talents who knew foreign languages and could communicate with foreigners. This was much more popular than computer electronics.
He can also understand the girl's distress. There are too many mismatches between her profession and her interests.
So he wrote in his reply: "Classmate Li Li, actually you don’t have to worry about this. There is no conflict between learning English and loving literature, because English is also a door to foreign literature. You can do it with English Read the original works of Shakespeare's complete works, as well as Dickens's "Oliver Twist", Charlotte's "Jane Eyre", and Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind". Feel the beauty of foreign literature, and it can even be translated into Chinese so that more people in China can read it. Yes, this is a very interesting and meaningful thing.”
Be a close sister again.
Today is the first day of school. Li Li just arrived at school on her bicycle. Before she entered the dormitory, she saw the life committee member of the class calling her: "Li Li, I have your letter!"
"Thank you."< br>
"It's from Teacher Minghua!" Li Li saw the envelope, quickly opened it and stood on the roadside to look at it.
Ah, to be a translator? Translate classics?
Why didn’t I think of that? Do you always think about what your parents said about learning foreign languages and going abroad or engaging in diplomacy in the future?
Teacher Minghua is indeed a good teacher!
Thank you!
The girl suddenly felt very happy.
Carefully stuff the letter back into the envelope, put it into the green satchel on your back, and then continue riding towards the dormitory.
Wow. Spring is here.
Li Li saw that the grass on the roadside had sprouted.
(End of this chapter)