Chapter 23 Flower Season and Rainy Season - Chapter 23 Welcome to be a Chinese Bride

In the first semester of high school, the oral English class is taught by foreigners.This semester hired a foreign teacher Miss Elizabeth. Miss Elizabeth has a very good relationship with her classmates.Everyone likes her very much.She is young, beautiful, lively, and humorous, and many girls in the class secretly imitate her behavior.She can also speak a few words of Beijing dialect, and her Mandarin is comparable to that of many Cantonese.She also corrected the Mandarin of the students in Guangdong: "We use 'fat' to describe people, but 'fat' to describe animals. Strictly speaking, it is a misnomer to call fat people in Guangdong. Look how proud she is! She also said that she likes Lu Xun's novels, but she doesn't think so about Lu Xun's essays.

Her teaching method is very different from other teachers, her class is very relaxed and the class is very active.However, many students failed the test because the "foreign teachers" did not understand our syllabus well.It is said that teachers in European and American countries have the right to decide what textbooks to use and how to teach them.She believes that the key is to let students learn as much as possible. One class was a dialogue, and the students asked a series of questions: "Why do you want to learn Chinese?" "What is life like for middle school students in Western countries?" "Is Western food better or Chinese food better?" Ms. Elizabeth always answered seriously , unambiguous, and often witty.

Yu Fa asked Ms. Elizabeth: "Which country are you from? Because some people said she was British, and some said she was German. Later, many people couldn't figure out which country she was from. "My mother is German, but she also has Jewish ancestry. My father is Irish. I studied in the United States. After graduating from university, I first went to Taiwan to learn Chinese. Then I went to Peking University to study." "No wonder your Chinese is so authentic." "Where, he speaks with a southern accent." "Ah, you can even speak 'Nanqiangbeibeidiao'!" Liu Qing said.

"I can still 'talk about the mountains'!" Miss Elizabeth was a little "proud". Yu Fa still asked stubbornly, "Which country are you from?" Miss Elizabeth pretended to be contemplative and frowned. After a while.He smiled and said, "I am a person from the world." "World people?" "I have so many ethnic origins. If I marry a Chinese again, what is it if I am not a 'world man'?" People from the world is another contemporary buzzword, what a Elizabeth.What a world! I am pleased to admire Ms. Elizabeth's experience, and she has traveled almost all over the world at a young age: "The earth is so small in your eyes, but it is so big in our eyes.

"So now many Chinese students study abroad in developed countries. After they finish their studies, they come back to serve the motherland. When China develops one day in the future, foreigners may go to China to study like Chinese people go abroad now. At that time, please You took care of me! Miss Eli Zabeth bowed like a Japanese. How nice of her! Miss Elizabeth is a Christian.She is devout and open-minded like all believers.This also aroused the curiosity of the students. In Yu Fa's eyes, this is a mystery: "Man was transformed from a monkey. This is common sense. How could it be created by God?"

"Did you come from a monkey?" Miss Elizabeth was still smiling. The students laughed coaxingly, and Yu Fa blushed: "I, of course I am not." "Which one came first, the chicken or the egg?" Miss Elizabeih asked again. "I don't know. The students have been arguing about this issue for a long time. But there is no result. Or the answer is far away. "The question is simple for us: God created everything." Everyone has their own outlook on life, Miss Elizabeth smiled.The students also laughed. Miss Elizabeih talked with her classmates about everything, she talked about her "PuppyLove".She was 5 years old that year, and she was very close to a 7-year-old boy next door. Later, the neighbor wanted to move.With the help of her mother, she made a heart-shaped cake overnight for the little boy.The little boy also gave her a bouquet of flowers.the next day.When the neighbor left, she cried sadly, and her parents drove her to the airport for several hours to let the "little lovers" see each other for the last time.Looking back now, she is still very moved, not only by PuppyLove at the time, but also by her parents.

The students were in an uproar: "Chinese parents will never do this!" Xiao Yao said with a smile: "The differences between Chinese and Western cultures are all reflected here." Wang Xiaotian then asked loudly and embarrassedly: "Miss Elizabeth, Do you have a boyfriend?" Immediately, there was a big "coax" in the class, which made Wang Xiaotian blush. Miss Elizabeth acquiesced with a smile. The students asked curiously, "Who is he?" Miss Elizabeth was not angry.He also told the story of "him": he is a Chinese, they met at Peking University, from acquaintance to falling in love, and are planning to get married.

The love story of this pair of foreign lovers may sound plain, but everyone knows that this "foreign-related marriage" is really extraordinary. "Will you go to Germany after marriage?" "No, we stay in China." "Welcome to be a Chinese bride!" In today's "foreign marriage". In China, where the "going abroad fever" exploded, a European girl is willing to form a partner with a Chinese boy in this land of China.The students were very touched.Especially Liu Qing, she thinks of Liu Mei and Big Beard, and thinks of "TOEFL class".

"For going abroad and marrying abroad, people don't need to applaud and worry about it, Liu Qing thought. In the language room, Miss Elizabeth did not play the listening tapes over and over again like other teachers, but played a piece of music: "Listen carefully and tell your feelings. Miss Elizabeth often asks students to give speeches on the podium to overcome shyness and timidity. Obstacles. She always encourages students to express. She believes that expression is a basic skill and an art. This is the unique teaching method of foreign teachers.It looks easy, but invisibly it cultivates the abilities of appreciation, memory, word choice, sentence making, speech and so on.Chinese students who are accustomed to the teacher's "Fol1ow me, again" find it difficult to adapt to this teaching method in Western countries for a while.However, the melodious, melodious and beautiful music quickly attracted these middle school students.

"Understand? "understood. "Then I will ask the students to speak on stage. Tell what you hear and how you feel. Pronunciation must be accurate and not too fast. Who will come first? The boy yelled poorly: "Lady first, Lady first." The girl laughed: "This is the Gentlemen of China!" The boy became angry when he was provoked.Xiao Yao took the lead: "I heard applause in the music, and the applause was thunderous. When I was in elementary school, I performed a duet on stage. I don't know why I was chosen. During the rehearsal, I sang very vigorously and devoted myself. My music teacher sat under the stage and applauded desperately: "Is the singing good?" My classmate called: "Good! ’ The teacher said: ‘Do you want another one? 'The students shouted:'Yes! ’ So I sang it again, singing more vigorously and devotedly. After singing, the teacher applauded again: ‘Is the singing good? ''it is good! ''Do you want another one? ''want! ' And so I sang it six times.After singing the sixth time, I was exhausted.The teacher applauded again and repeated: "Is the singing good?" 'I quickly said:' Not good! ’ The teacher asked again: ‘Do you want to do it again? ’ I yelled out: ‘Don’t! ’ The teacher said: ‘You finally understand. 'I was so embarrassed at the time, it turned out that they asked me to sing correctly before letting me stop.The story is not over yet. During the actual performance, while singing and singing, there was a burst of warm applause.I don't think I should play drums with ulterior motives like the teacher again, besides, I sing well.In order to thank the audience, I sang very hard, and my duet partner, who stopped singing, stared at me.Presumably she was terrified.The applause was still ringing, and at this moment, the teacher came: "Xiao Yao, stop singing, your 'Mai' is silent." 'I suddenly realized that the microphone was broken at some point.Therefore, applause is sometimes not a good thing.

The students were overjoyed, and the foreign teacher also laughed hard, laughing and shouting: "Oh, cute child, cute little boy!" As soon as Yu Fa stepped onto the stage, he scratched the back of his head: "I heard the wind blowing the leaves, our house is by the sea...how should I say it? I can't express it in English. "Try your best." The teacher encouraged him. "OK, in our village there is a... how to say lychees... There is a lychee forest. When we were young, we used to steal lychees. Once, we were caught by the tree watcher. He didn't beat us, but punished each of us. I ate 10 catties. I was very happy at first, but then I couldn’t take it anymore. 10 catties, too much! It was horrible! I felt like throwing up until the end. Since then, I don’t want to eat lychees anymore, eat Lychee is a horrible thing to me. As soon as Yu Fa finished speaking, the students from the mainland shouted in unison: "Yu Fa, please accept our help!" Yu Fa was taken aback. "We love lychees!" "If you don't eat it, send it to my house next time, the more the better!" It's the girl's turn to speak.Liu Xia told a "Love story". I don't know whether it was a search for words or embarrassment, but my eyes were always looking at the ceiling. "I think Liu Xia is very suitable to be the Minister of Health. Even now. Her eyes are looking at the ceiling. She is checking for spider webs!" Ms. Elizabeth's words made the students burst into laughter. Liu Xia quickly corrected her eyes and faced everyone, but everyone still laughed. They were so happy. The teacher made a "stop" gesture, and everyone calmed down. Liu Xia went on to tell the "romantic love story with twists and turns" vividly. Some students "cheated" and laughed: "Which one is the male protagonist?" "Do you still need to ask?" Someone provoked. Another roar of laughter. After the students finished speaking, they waited for the teacher to grade. Ms. Elizabeih said: "Of all the arts, music is the most loyal to people, no matter what skin color. No matter what level of education, no matter what age, people can say that they understand it. As long as you listen to it with your heart and comprehend it, you will understand it. " Division of arts and sciences is embarrassing Xiaoxu's diary X month X day In the past few days, everyone is talking about the division of arts and sciences.It seems that some people tend to study science with good grades, and liberal arts if they are not smart and study hard.Xiao Yao and Chen Ming are all studying science, while people like me take liberal arts. It is a matter of course for me to take liberal arts, so I am not as overwhelmed as other students.You can get rid of the hateful physics and chemistry, and feel relieved for a while.I am really afraid of learning.Although I don't want to admit it, I have to admit it: I have a problem with understanding.In terms of endorsement and memory, I'm not bad, but I just read books by heart.In the next school year, I have to study literature and concentrate on studying literature. I have confidence in the university entrance exam. Liu Qing is about to drop out of school.Her mother dropped her out of school to specialize in English at home.Ready to go abroad.Will she really drop out? Xinran will probably go back to Shanghai.Her registered permanent residence is not in Shenzhen.It would be great if her account could come, she would be very happy.Can the account come? And Liu Xia, I heard that he also encountered trouble in choosing essays and rationale, who knows. Xiao Yao and Chen Ming are competing for the top student, who will be chosen? Alas, each has its own way, when I think of our class to be dispersed.I am very sad.I like this class very much.There are so many classmates.Such a good teacher. Little Beibei's piano skills have improved a bit.Her mother happily took her to McDonald's today to see how happy little Beibei is. My future is not a dream Xinran is really going back to Shanghai. In the past few days, the family has been talking about Xinran, and the parents mean that Xinran should go to college. What happened to Tang Yanyan hit Xinran a little bit, but it didn't change her original intention, just like a person who is on a journey with a goal. When he encounters a river on the way, he may have the idea of ​​stopping, but he has no idea of ​​turning back. Xin Ran longed to become a college student. Since she was a child, she had thought that she would have a school badge that could be worn by a prestigious university, so as to win glory for her parents and fulfill her wish.Although female college students have many difficulties in graduation assignments, despite the reality in China that their brains and bodies are upside down, even though they are happy to know that when they go back to Shanghai and go to university, their household registration cannot be detoured to Shenzhen.She still has to take the exam, no matter what others think of college students, Xin Ran is still eager to go to college.Four years in college will fully enrich a person.Xinran yearns for fulfillment, and she's off to college! "Xin Ran, since you have made your own decision, you must be firm. Don't be like Tang Yanyan. He hesitated on the way. If you have that kind of mentality in your studies, you will definitely not be able to concentrate. You can only think 'I must go to college', It's a lot of energy." Dad said. "You guys prepare a big rope for me. A big pheasant. When I get back to Shanghai, I'll 'hang the beam with the head and stab the buttocks', okay? "Look at you, you're not in shape." My mother smiled and cursed lovingly, "Go back to Shanghai during the summer vacation, so you have enough time to adapt, and you can find a good school, don't be like some people."Gao Shang hurried back to the mainland, which greatly affected his mood.Go back to Shanghai to study!The teaching level in Shanghai is high, and the teachers are hardworking. "Xinran, can you still speak Shanghainese? Don't let people treat you as a foreigner when you go back. Xinran rarely speaks Shanghainese with her parents at home. "Little bastard, little red guy." Xin Ran spoke the authentic Shanghai dialect. Parents were amused, "Back to Shanghai, where do I live?" Xin Ran thought of a very important question. "Live at your second uncle's house. Mom greeted them, and they agreed. Your eldest cousin lives on campus, and your uncle and aunt share one room, and you and your little cousin share one..." "Mom, you want me to live in a room with a boy?" Xin Ran said with a sad face, "No, I won't!" "He's only 12 years old, a kid who doesn't understand anything." "That doesn't work either. Lin Xiaoxu's younger brother is only 12 years old. She and her younger brother will each live in one room." "I think you have been arrogant and comfortable in Shenzhen for three years! The housing in Shenzhen is spacious. You can go back to the mainland and have a look. There are many three generations living under the same roof. It's not like you haven't stayed in Shanghai. The house in Shanghai is so tight. The second uncle is willing It would be good to take you in and give you a bed." "I don't live with my cousin anyway. What it looks like." "I didn't learn anything in Shenzhen, and I developed a lot of bad problems. There is no way to do this. The second uncle's family has a house, and the other uncles. The mother's house is tighter. Don't complain. When you go back to Shanghai, you can't show it. Second Aunt will not be happy to see this kind of expression. Your eldest cousin used to live with her cousin." "Mom, it's not like you don't know how the second aunt is. I'll live in her house for a day or two. After a long time, she will definitely look good. I don't want to live by her face." "No way, you can't sleep on the street. At most, your dad and I will send you living expenses frequently." Xin Ran made a bitter face and stopped talking. Xinran hung up on Tang Yanyan's house. Xinran hadn't seen Tang Yanyan for a long time, so she didn't know how she was doing. The phone was connected, but Tang Yanyan was not there. Her grandma said, "Yanyan is at work, wait for her to come back. I will ask her to find you. When Tang Yanyan appeared in front of Xinran, Xinran's eyes lit up, and she didn't recognize her.The dress of Tang Yanyan's entire working class is much more mature and prettier. "Oh. It's beautiful!" Xin Ran said. "Was I ugly in the past?" Tang Yanyan asked with a smile. "It's more beautiful. Where is it developed now?" "South wine." "Go to Shekou and do it, how are you doing?" "It's so-so. Occasionally, when I think about the college entrance examination in two months, I feel very confused. I don't know what the outcome of this gamble will be." Tang Yanyan said. The high school life for the purpose of the college entrance examination is over, and going to school is meaningless , she came out to do things, but she felt empty after she came out.” "By the way, let me tell you, I bought a Guangdong hukou and spent 7,000 yuan. Now my hukou is in Dongguan. It is easier to recruit workers with a Guangdong hukou. Without a Shenzhen green card, it is difficult to find a job. I almost see a job every time. We all hit a snag, we were all fooled, it seemed like all the employers were in collusion." Xinran was silent for a moment, then said seriously: "Yanyan, I want to tell you something today. I'm going back to Shanghai to study." "Decided?" "Decided." Tang Yanyan nodded thoughtfully. "In my eyes, a university badge is more attractive than a Shenzhen 'green card'." "Congratulations on your admission to college." Xin Ran smiled: "What about you? In the future..." "Take one step at a time." "What about the other students?" "They're all revolving around the baton of the college entrance examination." At this time, Tang Yanyan looked at her watch: "Not good! I have to go to work." Before going out, Tang Yanyan touched Xinran's head with her hands, pursed her lips, and said like an adult, "Do it well!" "What are you doing?" "Life. I believe you will do better than me." Xin Ran felt that her words were touching, but also a little desolate.Xin Ran couldn't bear it.Deliberately and easily sang: "My future is not a dream." Tang Yanyan also sang: "My future is not a dream." I really hate to drop out of school It's another Saturday, and boarders always pack up by Friday.By Saturday afternoon, I would carry the big and small bags home. Liu Qing was walking home with a big bag.The bag contained dirty clothes and two pairs of smelly socks.Liu Qing did not wash at school, and there were few faucets in the dormitory.There are so many people, Liu Qing can't always get in the line, and no one can reserve a seat for her.I simply took it home to wash, and brought it back on Monday. Finally squeezed into the No. 10 bus.This is the first unmanned ticket sales car in Shenzhen.There is no one selling tickets on the bus, which is learned from Hong Kong.Liu Qing got into the car and put the money into the cash box.The carriage was a little crowded, Liu Qing hugged her big bag tightly, like holding a big money bag. Many people in the car were talking about stocks.The stocks have been falling every day for a week, and people who bought at high prices are anxious like ants on a hot pot.Yufa is also one of them.When stocks soared, I had already thought of the law of "extreme things must be reversed".It is expected that the stock will fall, but there is always a fluke, maybe it will go up, maybe I can earn more, but in the end it is "over"!Insatiable greed may be a common feature of human beings, and Yu Fa can't escape it. The stock market plummeted, and Yu Fa was so angry that he didn't want to go to class. Guan Yu was "in Cao Ying and his heart was in Han". After criticizing him and talking with him for a long time, Yu Fa was able to calm down and think about it.Let it go, isn't it fashionable to say that "heartbeat" now! Yu Fa is better than Liu Qing's mother, and Yu Fa has Teacher Jiang to enlighten her; Liu Qing's mother has no one to enlighten her, and her father keeps complaining that she is greedy, and the stock price has risen by 5 yuan without selling it.In fact, I didn’t sell it at that time, and a large part of it was my father’s responsibility. He always said that stocks were buying up and selling down. Liu Qing got out of the car, carrying a large bag of things, walking home with one shoulder high and the other shoulder low.The sky began to darken, and occasionally a plane flew by, Liu Qing stared blankly for a while.No energy, no energy to go home.I have to listen to my mother's harsh curses and see my father's elongated face.What's more, stocks are at a low ebb these days and are in a bear market.Her mother's attitude towards her must also be in a bear market; Cong said that stocks are a barometer of economics and politics, and Liu Qing said that stocks are a barometer of her mother's attitude towards her.Now that the stock has fallen, my mother's face is not getting better. When Liu Mei and "Big Beard" got married, "Big Beard" gave their parents 5,000 shares of "Development" as a bride price.Later, "Development" rose to 40, and my mother sold it, earning 200,000 yuan, and my mother tasted the sweetness from it.Later, "development" rose to 80, and my mother regretted it.I regret that I sold it too early, otherwise it would be 400,000, what else to worry about in this life?Mother was determined to recover the "loss", so she used all the 200,000 yuan she earned earlier to speculate in stocks.So he became a "professional drummer (stock) player".Housewives are now the main force on the stock exchange.The stock exchange is where my mother must go every day. Collecting stock information, opening and exiting positions has become her daily homework.There are gains and losses in this process.When I was lucky, I would earn tens of thousands of dollars from it as soon as I woke up, and my mother would be happy and smiling; really.As soon as Liu Qing entered the house, her mother scolded, "You are back from death." Liu Qing pursed her lips and did not speak.Their "Bao'an" stock was bought at 25 yuan, and now it has fallen to 15 yuan.Mom is as popular as taking gunpowder every day.She wanted to scold Liu Qing for taking too long in the bathroom; she wanted to scold her father for drinking soup too loudly. Liu Qing was watching the farce "Richness and Overpowering" starring "Fat" in Hong Kong, when her mother suddenly yelled, "Where's the remote control? Where's the remote control?" She grabbed it and transferred it to Shenzhen TV. The "Weather Forecast" is over, and the "Stock Quotes" should have started, but until the end of "Foreign Exchange Prices", the stock market quotes have not appeared, and the TV series "Longing" will be played. "Crazy line." Mom got angry at the TV. Why did the stock market suddenly disappear today?Oh, Liu Qing remembered that today is Saturday and the stock market is closed, so she said, "Today is Saturday." "That's right." Mom suddenly realized, "I said, I'm so mad at you! "It's none of my business again?" Liu Qing thought."Longing" is being rebroadcasted on the TV station. Cantonese people don't listen to the local work with "sons" in Beijing, but they all love to watch this touching story. Dad kept blaming mom: "It's all because you are too greedy. You refused to sell it when it rose to 30 a few days ago. Now it's all right, it dropped to 15, and you lost 20,000 in one fell swoop. Mom was paralyzed on the sofa, and she didn't even have the energy to quarrel with Dad: "I thought it would rise to 40. Next time it will rise to 30, and I must throw it away, definitely! "You are just greedy." "What do I earn so much money for? Not for this family, but for you. For Liu Qing." Parents often shifted the topic to Liu Qing while they were talking. Even though she only came back once a week, she still couldn't escape this "catastrophe".In the whole family, Liu Qing is a consumer and eats rice.Whenever she gets angry or angry, she rushes to Liu Qing, as if it is her duty. "Liu Qing, if you look at you, you know how to spend money. It would be great if Liu Ye and Liu Mei were here." My mother said all day long, "It doesn't matter if you can't read well, you must learn English well, and you must be rich and powerful to find a husband's family."The family members believed that Liu Qing was a money loser, and they all said that Liu Qing was redundant in high school, and the full-time high school in the last high school was more practical.When her family scolded her, she never spoke back, and when she spoke back, she scolded even more.Liu Qing also has a "shield" against these piercing "spears", that is, to happily think about other things, think about happy things, or fantasize about some beautiful things.Liu Qing would imagine many things, completely forgetting the reality.Totally immersed in the dream. "Have you decided yet?" "I, I don't want to go abroad so early, let alone drop out of school. I don't go to school at my age. It will make people feel inappropriate." "I want you not to be a lady at home, but to study English. There are too many subjects now, such as geography and history, all of which are useless. You give me a heart to learn English at home!" "Now I can't learn well even if I have a teacher. I myself... well, you don't understand, and you haven't passed the college entrance examination!" "Got you! If it wasn't for the 'Cultural Revolution', I would still have entered Peking University and Tsinghua University!" Her mother asked Liu Qing to drop out of school, study English at home, and go out in a year or two.Liu Qing hesitated, saying goodbye to her middle school days like this, really reluctant. "Hurry up and watch English!" Mom turned off the TV with a "snap".Don't watch it yourself and don't let others see it.Really! "Longing" is broadcasting when Liu Huifang has worked so hard to raise Xiaofang, "Not everyone who is born loves her so much, but what about me?" Liu Qingzhen wondered if she was born by her mother.