Chapter 7 Sixth, the year of study tour

The scope of my adult life is too great to describe here.Roughly speaking, the years when my wife and I studied abroad were the period of my greatest intellectual activity, but it was also the period of my social immaturity.We were originally a pair of ignorant, honest and innocent young people who depended on each other. Although we had a brave and adventurous spirit and a belief in the future, we had little cash and insufficient life experience.My wife has more common sense than I do, so she can count the silver dollars one by one, and know that we can stay in the foreign country for a few more days, but I have absolutely no idea of ​​our financial situation.Somehow, my self-confidence can always be passable, and now looking back on the magical four years of staying in a foreign country, I think my concept is pretty good.We are so passable that we have been studying abroad for four years. ——Of course, thanks to the price drop of the Deutsche Mark.The two of us have made a few social blunders together, at least personally, because to this day I can't remember clearly that the butter knife should not be placed on the tablecloth, but only on the small plate of bread. Up.Moreover, when I drink tea or drink, I still take someone else's cup by mistake.We went into a professor's house once--a week before the invitation was appointed--and told the maid that we were invited to a party and would not hurry back.We live together: my wife does the laundry and cooks good meals for me, and I do the dishes.When I was at Harvard, I knew nothing about college life, and I never even saw a Harvard-Yale football game, which is the most important part of a Harvard or Yale education.However I from tour BlissPerry, lrvingBabbitt, LeoWerner,

Several famous professors of vonJagemann have increased a lot of real knowledge.At the end of my life, my half-official tuition quota stopped—the half-tuition quota was 40 gold yuan per month, which was earned by my three years of service in Tsinghua University.So I threw myself into France, that is, at the end of the First World War. While serving the Chinese laborers at the French Youth Association, I saved some American gold dollars so that I could go to Germany.We first went to Jena, a beautiful little city, and after a semester we transferred to the University of Leipzig, which is famous for its linguistics.There, we went to school together, and we did laundry and cooking together as usual.Because we sold gold dollars too early and suffered a loss, we were sometimes forced to sell my wife's jewelry to make up for daily expenses.Yet the move is well worth it.Outsiders did not know whether we were husband and wife or brother and sister, because we had no children at that time.When my wife became pregnant and the funds gradually ran out, I had to decide to return to China to give birth.That forced me to be very busy for the doctoral exam in the hot weather.However, that was my old thing—I would not panic if I passed the exam, but my wife was a little terrified, and we actually booked a place on the ship to sail back to China from Zhenya two weeks after the exam.We are scheduled to leave Leipzig on the evening of the day when the exam is over, and travel to Venice, Rome, Naples, etc. for two weeks.I still have the unwavering self-confidence I once had.After the doctoral dissertation exam and the final oral exam, I ran from one professor's room to another until twelve o'clock.My wife has been leaning on Lu to look at. "How is it?" she asked. "Passed!" I replied.She gave me a kiss on the street, and we both went to the Rathaus restaurant for lunch together.

①It is now translated as Jena.