Chapter 141 Monk from afar...
My name is Qian Qing, and his name is Qian Mi. We met in the United States more than 30 years ago.
Now he is sitting across from me, wearing a neat navy blue suit, polished leather shoes, but wearing a yellow satin tie embroidered with gold dragons, seems tacky, this is Qian Mi.He may feel shabby looking at my faded blue tunic suit.
In the late 1940s, I got a bachelor's degree in biology from a famous university in China, and I also got a scholarship from a famous university in the eastern United States to study.Because of the good grades, I was appreciated by the head of the department, Dr. Wilson, and I wrote master and doctoral thesis with him.After getting his Ph.D., he kept me in the department as his assistant.
It was at this time that I met my wife Ai Guo.She is from Taiwan, but she yearns for everything about the motherland in the mainland.She is also a biology student, and she has a lot of contact with me, and knows that I am from Beijing. She always chases me and asks about the places of interest in Beijing, saying, "It would be great if I could go back and have a look!" She also said: She Her name was originally "Yingying", but because she loves the motherland, she removed the word "ying", because "Aiguo" means "patriotism" when called.At that time, Taiwan and the mainland were absolutely not allowed to communicate with each other. I liked her from the bottom of my heart, so I joked with her: "Unless you marry me, I can take you back." She blushed and slapped my arm, She has always been very reserved, and she has never shown this kind of expression.I boldly took her hand and said, "If you marry me and return to the mainland, you will not be able to return to Taiwan." Still blushing, she lowered her head and said, "In my Taiwan home, there is Brothers and sisters, I have younger brothers and sisters, my parents don’t miss me too much.” In this way, we got married in the United States, and a year later we had a pair of twin daughters, one named “Ji Zhong” and one named “Ji Zhong” "Nianhua" is also the name Ai Guo gave them.
It was at this time that Qian Mi came from China. He was studying abroad at his own expense and wanted to study biology. He knew that there were Chinese teachers in the department, so he came to see me.But his English level is very poor, so I recommend a girl who is eager to find a job to help him with tutoring.The girl's name is Linda (her mother is black, but she looks completely Caucasian, with fair skin, blue eyes, and curly fair hair, because she has never met her father and does not know his name, She took her mother’s surname), Qian Mi and her soon fell in love, and Qian Mi’s family must be very rich, because we saw Linda wearing a big diamond ring. (After they got married, Qian Mi also spent a lot of money to send Linda's mother to her brother in Chicago, because he was afraid that his friends would see that he had a black "mother-in-law".) After Qian Mi got married, the two In the middle of the year, two daughters were also born, one named Linda and the other named Lucy. They often came to our house to play.We all speak Chinese at home, Linda and Lucy can't understand it, because their father never taught them to speak Chinese, even a simple word or two!But Ji Zhong and Nian Hua attended American primary schools, and they can converse in English.
The more than ten years in the United States have passed in a hurry. Under the urging of Dr. Wilson and the urging of my alma mater, I still chose the path of returning to China.At this time, Qian Mi came to me again and asked if I could find him a place in the university where I was teaching. He smiled and said, "I heard they call you 'Qian' and 'Qian' affectionately. Maybe they'll let me, 'Qian', fill your gap."
I gave him a bored look and said, "Go and talk to Director Wilson yourself." Our family was busy packing up and heading back home.
This was all many years ago.In the past twenty years, he has returned to China several times. Before Chiang Kai-shek died, he returned to the mainland once, and he must go to Taiwan once. He also said that he was visiting relatives and friends, and he also tried to give lectures in various universities.After Chiang Kai-shek's death, he stopped going to Taiwan and went to the mainland.According to my letter from a Chinese friend in the United States, he claimed that a domestic university invited him to give lectures.Every time he came back, he always had to meet government leaders through the foreign affairs department as a Chinese-American professor, so there were short reports and footage of government leaders meeting him in newspapers and TV... He was very attentive to me. Asking about our recent situation, I said:
"I still teach my book. Ai Guo is an associate professor in the biology laboratory. Ji Zhong is a graduate of Beijing Normal University and is now teaching a middle school. Nian Hua is a medical graduate and is doing an internship in the university's affiliated hospital. .” At the same time, I also asked him, and he laughed and said:
"Linda is an authentic American wife and mother. My two daughters are married to Americans, and they are both business people. As for what business they do, I didn't ask in detail. Anyway, they are all living well. Good, because none of them have to go out to work."
Ai Guo brought out the refurbished tea and put it on the tea table. We were about to start drinking tea when the car horn rang outside. Qian Mi hurriedly threw down the tea towel, stood up and said, "I'm sorry, I'm going to be under the supervision of the leader." I met with you...have you met these leaders?"
I also stood up with a smile and said, "An ordinary professor like me would have the honor of being summoned? It's just that during the CPPCC meeting, I quietly listened to their reports..." Qian Mi didn't know if he heard it, but her footsteps Already stepped out of the door.
We sent him to the car, Ai Guo closed the courtyard door, turned around and smiled at me, "This is really a monk from afar who likes to chant scriptures!" On the morning of April 28, 1988