As the dean of the most popular department in Shu University, Mai Mingdong deliberately did not work overtime tonight, just waiting for his precious granddaughter and Zhou Zhi to come.
The result never came. Mai Mingdong did not dare to call his granddaughter. He only dared to send text messages to Zhou Zhi, and the reply he always received was quick.
It was not until after nine o'clock that the doorbell rang at the door.
The person who opened the door was a woman in her fifties. She was dressed simply and looked very upright. She smiled when she saw Mai Xiaomiao: "Xiaomiao, are you back?"
Mai Xiaomiao said lightly He said softly "Hmm".
Zhou Zhi immediately felt it from Mai Xiaomiao's mood. This may be the reason why Mai Xiaomiao was unwilling to return to the Academician Building.
"Xiao Miao is back? Have you eaten? Mother Liu has prepared food for you. If you haven't eaten, come over and have some." Mai Mingdong's voice came from the stairs. He must have been busy in the study just now.
"Oh, just right. I thought something was wrong. It turned out that I didn't have dinner!" Zhou Zhi agreed while putting on the shoes handed over by Liu's mother: "Dean Jiang is unreasonable and didn't take care of the meal." Let’s have a meal!”
After that, he also expressed his gratitude to Mother Liu: “Thank you, Mother Liu.”
“Thank you, Mother Liu.” Mai Xiaomiao followed Zhou Zhi and said, lowering his head. .
Liu's mother showed a look of joy and surprise on her face: "Classmate Zhou, right? I always listen... Come in, come in, you can just sit for a while and go to the coffee table to eat some fruit. I'll heat up the food for you. It's very cool." Hurry.”
At this time, Mai Mingdong had already walked down quickly, wearing a Wearing a comfortable thick nightgown, this person has different living habits from Mr. Gu. He is a famous night owl: "Why do you come back so late?"
"Grandpa, we are back." Mai Xiaomiao imitated Zhou Zhi said hello to Lao Chiri every time he returned to the grain station, and he also said hello to Mai Mingdong.
Although the time is a little wrong, the younger generation should greet me first when meeting, but it does not prevent Mai Mingdong from being happy: "Hey, Xiaomiao is sitting, and you are sitting on the elbow too. It was quite hard after running all day today. ?"
"It's okay." Mai Xiaomiao nodded: "He has a lot to do, so we went to the history department first. Why is there a mage in the history department of Shu University?"
"Master?" Mai Mingdong was stunned for a moment: "Oh, that's Tenzin. He is responsible for Tibetan studies in our school. The courses include the history of Tibet, the history of Tibetan Buddhism, the history of economic and social development in Tibetan areas, etc. He also He is also the dean of the Sichuan Tibetan Buddhist College. That place is for cultivating those and that... that and that..."
" Zen Ranba and Zhilamba." Seeing that Mai Mingdong couldn't explain, Zhou Zhi said, "Ramba is the abbreviation of Ranjangba, which means "Zen" and "Zhi", which are the primary and intermediate levels. It means. Equivalent to our bachelor's degree and master's degree. "What about doctors?" Mai Xiaomiao was curious.
“It’s called Torampa.” Zhou Zhi said: “I heard these things when I chatted with Master Tenzin before, but it seems that the Tibetan Buddhist Academy in central Sichuan does not have the qualifications to train Torampa yet. Their requirements are even more difficult than the doctoral qualifications from the Chinese Department of Shu University.”
“It’s not easy to be a monk, right?” Mai Xiaomiao asked, “That’s what you always talk about. …”
"All snakes bite people." Mai Mingdong said.
"Grandpa, you also know?" Mai Xiaomiao chuckled: "Do you often hear elbows say this?" Mai Mingdong said: "Actually, it is not difficult for you to qualify for a doctorate. So everything still depends on who does it. It seems that Mr. Gu follows the research topic of experts. I’m here to ask you, right?”
“Well, it’s a big topic, ancient Chinese pronunciation.” Zhou Zhi quickly introduced his liberal arts research topic to Mai Mingdong. The first step is to collect the national dialect pinyin genealogy and use information technology to analyze the current Based on the initial consonants and finals that exist in Chinese local languages, we constructed the most complete consonant and final table, and combined it with the fanqie annotated pronunciation in "Ji Yun" to derive the most scientific and authoritative one so far. Pronunciation of medieval Chinese characters"
"Now we have. We have already achieved some results. We used Xiaozhi's function to segment the collected audio information into rhymes, summarize parts and rhymes, and summarize the tones. This set of speech analysis algorithm programs is currently in use. It's quite interesting." Mai Xiaomiao said that her job is quite smooth.
"Is this what a master's degree should do?" Mai Mingdong was a little speechless: "Isn't this what a master's degree supervisor should do?"
At this time, Liu's mother came over: "Xiao Miao, classmate Zhou, food Okay, you guys hurry up and eat first. . ”
For a gourmet like Zhou Zhi, Liu’s mother’s food is quite good, whether it is the reheated green pepper shredded pork, the homemade radish and pork ribs soup, or the chestnut braised pork, they are all delicious. Still done authentically.
The origin of chestnut is three in the north and three in the south, but it does not include central Sichuan. Due to the current inconvenient transportation, chestnut is still only available in central Guizhou and central Yunnan, which are close to the southern chestnut producing areas. have.
This is produced in some counties of Liangshan and Manzhou, so people in Shu rarely use chestnuts to cook braised pork.
"I have also made this dish of pork elbow." Mai Xiaomiao said with some surprise: "I didn't expect you, Mother Liu, to know how to do it."
This is the first time that Mai Xiaomiao has such a formal exchange with Mother Liu, Mother Liu smiled and said: "This is Hometown food, I haven’t seen it before in Sichuan. These chestnuts are the ones you sent back last time. They are bigger than the chestnuts we have there and not as sweet. I added some sugar to them and they taste good?”
“Eh? I ..." Mai Xiaomiao was about to say, "I haven't sent anything home," but Zhou Zhi touched her foot gently, and then heard Zhou Zhi ask: "Where is Mama Liu's hometown?"
< br>"I am from Lu Province, Fei County , do you know?"
"I know it very well, Yimeng Mountain Old District." Zhou Zhi smiled: "We cannot avoid Yan Zhenqing in learning calligraphy. He is a famous person in Fei County."
"There is another one, one of the seventy-two sages of Confucius, and a character in the story of the Twenty-Four Filial Piety. Min Ziqian is also from your Feixian County."
"Really? Yan Zhenqing, I know that this Min Ziqian is me. None of the locals have heard of it.”
“Min Ziqian’s story... His mother died when he was young, and his father married his stepmother. The stepmother favored her two biological children and often abused Min Ziqian, but Min Ziqian did not tell his father to avoid affecting the relationship between his parents. "
"One winter, the stepmother gave herself to him. The children made cotton-padded jackets and pretended to give them to Ziqian, but the clothes were actually filled with It was reed. One day, my father took the three brothers out in a carriage, and asked Min Ziqian to drive the carriage. Min Ziqian was unable to drive the carriage due to cold and hunger, and the carriage slipped into the ditch beside the road."
"My father was very angry. Angry, he said: 'You are such a worthless kid, look at you even though you are wearing such thick clothes! Brother, the cotton-padded jacket is thinner than yours, and it's not as cold as yours.' After scolding him, he whipped him, and the clothes were torn, revealing the reeds. The father then pinched the other two sons' cotton-padded jackets, and he understood in his heart. He wronged Min Ziqian, then scolded his wife for being unvirtuous, and decided to divorce her. ”
"Min Ziqian knelt down in front of his father and pleaded for his stepmother, saying, 'When the mother is alive, the children are cold, and when the mother is gone, the three children are single.' This means that with the mother here, I will be the only one to suffer the cold; if the mother leaves, the two younger brothers will have to stay with me. Together we endure the loneliness without maternal love It was so painful that my father stopped divorcing his wife, and my stepmother was deeply moved and changed her ways. "Hmph! If it were me, I would run away from home and live on my own, leaving them alone. Not even that!" Mai Xiaomiao expressed that he looked down on Min Ziqian. (End of this chapter)