Chapter 2 second quarter

Mr. Navein asked me, "Scared?" "Nothing? Just—hope to get out of the hospital soon. Are you busy today, Mr. Naveen?" I changed the subject. "I didn't attend the class, and Mr. Gaoke replaced me. I will go back in the future and take over his class." He said. "Then aren't you too busy? For me alone! Go to school quickly." "We'll talk about it after you remove the gauze," he said. I asked, "When did you come? Why didn't I hear you?" "I came with the doctor," he said. I was a little puzzled: why didn't I hear his footsteps?

I still asked him to go, but he must accompany me. I was very embarrassed on the hospital bed, so I had to say something relaxing. "How was the course?" he asked. I replied: "I'm very busy, but it's okay. I'm not bored. I have a lot to do this year, ten times more than last year. Will it be the same next year?" He said: "Just look at the students themselves. Good students work hard for everything, and it takes a lot of effort to do it. Lazy students copy everything and don't go to class, so it saves trouble." I smiled and asked, "Mr. Navein is telling me to be lazy?"

"Your classmates say that you are very nervous about your homework." Nafein said. "I'm not the only one, Ai Lian in the same class works harder than me, but I'm stupid and asks a lot of questions." I said. "It would be nice to have more good students." He smiled. "They are smart, so naturally they don't want to follow the rules." He stood up suddenly, "My wife is here." "Ah." I only heard footsteps and raised my head. Mr. Navan said: "This is Miss Qiao Chen, and this is my wife." I stretched out my hand into the air and said, "Mrs. Navan, hello."

Her hand took mine, it was warm, and she said, "Hello, Joe." Mr Navean said he was going away for a while and asked his wife to accompany me.I think what has become of this?He also needs his wife to take shifts.I usually want to see his wife, but now that she is here, I can't see her.I only heard that she has a daughter who is very quiet and about twelve or thirteen years old. I said embarrassedly: "Mrs. Navein, you tell Mr. Navein that he doesn't need to see me. I'm fine." "I haven't apologized to you yet." She was fiddling while talking, not knowing what to do.

The two of them insisted that it was their fault, and I had no choice but to laugh and keep silent. Then she said, "Does it smell good?" I sniffed, "Rose!" "Just by your side." "thanks." "Would you like an apple?" she asked. I said, "No, thank you, why? It seems to be my birthday." "Bill said that you have no relatives or friends, and that you are only twenty years old. I saw that you are only fifteen years old instead of twenty." She laughed. "Half of my face is wrapped in gauze, how can you see it?" I laughed.

"Bill is really confused. He has been experimenting for so many years... It was the gas pipe that was faulty. Later, he called someone to repair it. The repairman said that if he heard a strange sound, he would just turn it off immediately." "It was very soft, and, after all, none of Mr. Navein's business," I said. "You are a good student. Bill is very sad, and I am also very sad. If there is something wrong with your eyes-you are a girl again, we will have a hard time for the rest of our lives!" Mrs. Navan said. "If it's a bad male student, let him be blind." I said with a smile.

Mrs. Navein was very talkative and cheerful. Although she couldn't see her face, she could guess that she would not be a stunning blond beauty anyway. Mr. Navein was not a handsome man either. They must be a good match. It's just that Mr. Navan's demeanor is rare, she—?unknown. In the past few days, he has been in a hurry because of me. I'm afraid that kind of lightness is almost gone. Mrs. Navan didn't leave, but a class of classmates came and chattered for a long time. Some of them knew that I was impatient and left their notes. I will give you a new one next time." I am very grateful.

The nurse came in to chase people away and told me to take sleeping pills. The doctor said that I should sleep at least twelve hours a day. Mrs. Navan did not leave. She smiled and said, "Your classmate treats you very well." "Yes, they never regarded me as a foreigner." "Maybe you didn't see them as foreigners," she said. "Maybe." I smiled, "I'm not careless. If you are in a foreign country, everything can be classified as racial discrimination. If someone steps on you unintentionally, you can think: They step on me because I am a Chinese. Then you might as well go home."

Mrs. Navan smiled, "Bill said you were cute, and you really are." I was silent for a while and said, "When? When did Mr. Navein say it?" "It's been a long time, maybe last year, he said that he accepted a Chinese female student, she was silent, very cute, she didn't talk much, and one sentence must be 'it's a teacher'." She said with a smile. I blushed, and argued: "Of course what the teacher said is right. I respect the teacher very much. They have prepared lessons for more than ten years, how could they be wrong in the classroom?"

Mrs. Navan said: "No wonder Bill said that as long as half of the students are like you, it will be easy to teach in college. Unfortunately, more than half of the students attend the lectures to find fault with the teacher." I smiled, foreign students are like this, endlessly arguing and making noise with the teacher, I don't do this kind of thing.If you think a teacher is not good, just don't go to his class. Then my head became heavy, and I felt drowsy, and the sleeping pills took effect. I wondered why they told me to take the medicine, probably because they wanted me to sleep more.I don't know when Mrs. Navan left.

I woke up feeling cold, the windows and doors were open, there was wind, but I didn't know if it was day or night, and the roses were very fragrant.Because it was very cold, I think it was night.I fumbled for the calling bell and was about to press it when I heard the sound of someone flipping through white paper. There must be someone. "Who is it?" I asked in a low voice. no answer. "Which one? Were you there last night?" I raised my voice a little. "You're awake!" the nurse laughed, "Why did you kick the blanket behind your feet?" "Really? Please pick it up for me." I smiled. "Did you sleep well?" she asked. "I don't know anything—when?" "Five in the morning." "Oh." "What's wrong with you?" she asked, "Not feeling well?" "I'm sweating profusely, I'm a bit cold now, and I'm hungry." "You should sleep until seven o'clock in the morning. Now that you have eaten something, you can't eat breakfast." "Then I'll stop eating," I said. "Very nice." I laughed and said, "Everyone treats me like a child, I can't stand it, what's going on?" "How old are you?" "Twenty years old!" "My God! Looks like twelve!" said the nurse. "It's been three years less. Yesterday afternoon, a wife came to see me and said that I'm fifteen years old, and I'm shrinking back more and more." "what happened to you?" I was a little dizzy and very tired, so I had to fall on the bed. The nurse approached and touched my head, but it didn't make a sound, and walked away immediately. I went to feel it myself.I am a little annoyed: how did it happen? When the nurse didn't come back, the other hand came up silently, and I exclaimed, "Who?" "I." "Mr. Navan!" I lost my voice, "Why are you still here?" He doesn't answer. The nurse came back and put the probe in my mouth. I understand, he didn't leave at all, it was him yesterday, it's him today, he didn't leave at all, he was here for three days and three nights. Why bother, even if I die, he is just missing a student, so guarding like this makes me feel sorry.I was crying and singing the night before, and it seemed that he saw it, how embarrassing it is!And the nurses helped him hide it from me. The nurse took the heat probe back and called the doctor immediately.The doctor on duty came and did not make any noise. He tossed and checked me for a while, and then gave me two injections. I just feel heavy in the head and cold.I asked the nurse for a blanket and she covered me tightly and told me to lie down.I wanted to ask something at first, but I didn't bother to ask. Anyway, I'm in the hospital, so it's not bad.Breakfast came and I ate a lot. I don't know what to say to Mr. Navean, I can't drive him away. I asked, "Mr. Navean, do you have breakfast?" He smiled, "It's also from the nurse. I'm eating, didn't you hear me?" I was angry and funny, he really treated me like a child. After eating, I rinse my mouth as usual. (I must ask the nurse to allow me to brush my teeth tomorrow, it's so dirty.) I asked, "I'm sleeping, did you talk in your sleep?" He was a little embarrassed, and he replied: "No, very good." "You must be very tired, Monsieur Naveen," I said apologetically. "The doctor said you can remove the gauze the day after tomorrow, but there are only two days left." "Really?" I was surprised. "But you can't be discharged from the hospital, and you will stay for a few days." "Just take off the bandage." I laughed. "But why did you have a fever again?" He asked. "I don't know." I said. I just said I don’t know, I felt nauseous, I couldn’t help it, I vomited up the breakfast just now, the nurse came in to clean it up, I apologized, but I couldn’t help it, so I had to lie down, this time I didn’t feel sick When I got up, my body temperature was getting higher and higher, and I was a little confused. I just remember vomiting non-stop, falling asleep after vomiting, and when I didn't wake up, I had saline glucose hanging from my arm.When I was a little calm, I always thought: It's over, this time it's over.I'm not afraid, I just think it's meaningless. This kind of muddleheaded illness has been done for a lifetime. My parents know about it, but I don't know how sad it is. When I rushed here, I had already been lying in the refrigerator for many days. I just felt exhausted, and passed in a coma for an unknown number of days, but I knew that Mr. Navan was by my side.We didn't speak a word, and I didn't even get a chance to apologize. After the fever receded, I knew I had pneumonia. I had the fever for ten days, and my face was swollen. I was lucky that I didn't become an idiot.His eyes were still covered with gauze, what the hell, he stayed in the hospital in a daze for more than half a month. I was so weak, the doctor came to remove the gauze, I opened my eyes, the ward was dark, and I was alone, they were afraid that I would be infected, so they separated me, I opened my eyes, the first consciousness was to find my mother, and then The requirements are lowered, only a mirror is required.When I looked in the mirror, I was startled and my heart was beating. In just two or three weeks, I had lost more than three or four pounds. There was a light red scar on my left eye, which was swollen, and both eyes were red. Her cheeks were bruised by gauze, her hair was messy and knotted, and her face was pale. I thank the doctors and nurses - I'm leaving the hospital. They don't allow it and ask me to raise it again. I reject. Last year, a classmate lost his father, and he was only absent from school for two weeks. I had to go back. I can walk, but my steps are a little floating, and I am sweating and panting. The doctor said: "It's too dangerous. Some nights I burned up to 103, but my eyes are healed." I don’t make noise, and some nights, I couldn’t see anything when I opened my eyes, so I had to slap and beat. Fortunately, I didn’t have the strength, and I was always held by Mr. Navan, (I think it was him, his hands were strong and warm, and I was very happy. I felt safe, and during those ten days, his hand was my only hope). He came in the afternoon. When I saw him, I was taken aback. He was thinner, and the apology on his face was so thick, and there was a complicated look in his eyes. He approached and said, "Is your eye okay?" I nodded and touched the scar lightly. He quickly said, "The doctor said it will disappear." "I don't mind." I leaned on the bed, "Mr. Navan, I want to go home." "I understand, but who takes care of you?" "Myself." "Joe, would you like to come and live with us?" I smiled, "Mr. Navan, there are more than a thousand students in the school, and everyone lives in your house, so what's the matter? You are so kind to me, I am really grateful, if you do this again, I dare not See you, look at me, I have nothing to do, I can go back." He sighed and put his hand on mine. My eyes fell on his hand, which was large, with well-manicured nails, thick hair on the wrist, and a gold wedding ring on the ring finger.I was a little embarrassed. When I was confused, it didn't matter if I held his hand. Now I am sober. His hand weighs as much as a thousand catties. I can't shrink or move. My face flushed again. He doesn't think so. He said quietly: "You recover, I am the happiest person, I almost killed a student, so many professors do experiments, I am the worst." mustache. I smiled, he always took this account on himself, I don't understand. Lorien is here, glad to see me. She didn't say I was ugly, which comforted me a lot. Mr. Navan sent us back. It happened to be Friday afternoon. He told me to call him if I had anything to do, and not to go to class on Saturday if I felt unwell. I agreed. Luo Lian said: "Look at how thin he is, how calm and calm he is usually, but these two weeks are really a little flustered, and he can't even smile." I don't ring. After a while, I asked, "Luo Lian, am I ugly?" Luo Lian said: "Oh my God, you survived, everyone doesn't know how surprised you are." She said without holding back, "You still think you are ugly! I will go to see you and call you, but you won't even answer. Dozens of bottles are hanging from the ceiling, flowing back and forth, I saw Mr. Navan sitting there with an ashen face, I dare not even breathe, Miss, I thought your little life would be over now, and I don’t know what to do. Why did you write a letter to inform your family, and you still have a headache, I didn't expect you to live again, hahaha!" "Is it really that dangerous?" I asked blankly. "From this we can see that the idiot is lucky, and he recovered. God, you got acute pneumonia. Two doctors came to see you. One team looked at your eyes, and the other team looked at your body. Hey! You are so amazing. Steal the spotlight, even in the hospital, just say: 'That Chinese girl...' and you'll know your ward number." I tilt my head, shrugging. "How much weight have you lost?" Luo Lian asked. I shook my head weakly, "I don't know." "Can't go anywhere else on Monday, be careful to drag your life away!" I nodded cautiously. On the weekend, Mr. Navean came again. He is in better spirits than yesterday.He bought fruit and gave me his past notes and homework.He saw Luo Lian cooking porridge for me, so he felt relieved. I ended up taking another week off before going to class. Seeing a lot of homework, I was so anxious that I rushed desperately. I stayed up all night every day. Luo Lian kept scolding, and I laughed with me. Lian helped me with laundry, ironing, tidying up the room, and preparing homework for me. After chasing after a month, doing double work, it seems that I just caught up. The professor advised me not to be too nervous. Mr. Navan took special care of me and told me to put my body first and my homework second. One Wednesday, he saw me in the cafeteria and asked, "How is it?" He bought a cup of coffee and sat next to me. This is the first time I've spoken to him at school since I got out of the hospital. I said, "The exam will be in another month." He laughed, "You don't have a second thing on your mind?" I also laughed, "I am in good health, everyone has a cold, I have no share, I only worry about the exam." "Be careful—are you eating well? She's very thin," Nafein said. "Chinese girls are all skinny." I said, "Don't worry about me." He nodded. I looked at him with a smile, without making a sound, I touched the scar on my eye with my hand, the doctor lied, my scar has not disappeared, but forget it, I seem to have a little personality, everything is over, Looking back, it wasn't the same thing, it was a catastrophe, and if I didn't do well in my homework this year, it would be due to this indiscriminate disaster. Mr. Navein asked, "Your homework is not a problem, is it?" I said, "Basically, it's not a problem. I don't know how to do accounting, so I can't get a high score. Unfortunately, the average score is low." He finished his coffee and sat still. If he doesn't leave, I'm too embarrassed to move. He was a charming man, with a mature beauty, and those boys couldn't be more beautiful. I looked at him and kept smiling. Finally he looked at his watch, and he said, "I'm going to class, I wish you good grades." I quickly said, "Thank you." After he left, I always had a feeling, as if his hands were on mine, overlapping each other, giving me a sense of security.I exhale.It's a little embarrassing to think about it. When you are sick, people always show their true colors.How much did he see? I took the test, and my grades were average.I was a little unhappy, but there was nothing I could do about it, so I was promoted.The grades are good in the first year, mediocre in the second year, and don’t change to the same level in the third year, my God. Summer vacation is long.I didn't go home, and the small house on this floor couldn't be preserved when I got home, and the start of school was also bad. I lived far away, and I couldn't bear to walk for half an hour every day.I went to Italy once.I was exposed to the sun in the south, and my face turned golden brown. After applying a layer of oil, it looked good, and the scars on my eyelids were no longer visible. After such a long time, I still have lingering horrors when I think about it—if I really went blind at that time and asked someone to settle the score, it is no wonder that Mr. Navan was surprised when I think about it. It was indeed dangerous and dangerous. up. Luo Lian returned home, she graduated. When I came back from Italy, my life was very lonely.I read a little and went for a walk in the park in my free time. Life is really sad. I bought seven or eight leather bags in Italy and took them out to look at them every day. However, after this year, I have grown up a lot.Now that I die in a foreign country, I probably won't shed a single tear. People are trained in this way. Unfortunately, when they are close to perfection, the Western Paradise is also close. As usual, my mother said that I would not write letters. When the school was about to start, I bought some clothes piecemeal and changed into fresh ones.In the third year of reading, the freshness has long since disappeared. Some people actually gave up reading and went to become a paratrooper. It may be better to choose the one you like, but now you can't memorize it by heart. The first thing to do at the beginning of school is to choose a subject. After a moment of hesitation, I chose the subject of accounting and Mr. Navan.Accounting is easy to get points, which is much better than business management and economics.Then I randomly picked three subjects, a total of five subjects. I just wanted to finish reading and go back, and there was nothing else to do. Mr. Navan was not too surprised to see me. He knew that I had enjoyed his subject. We were wearing white lab coats, and he asked me what I was doing my homework on, and I said, "Study the effects of infrared light on food." There was a lot of joking. he laughed. The accounting teacher was taken aback when he saw me. When the class officially started, Mr. Navan planned a good homework for me. I listened to him and answered naturally, "Yes, teacher... yes, teacher... yes, teacher." Then he laughed. I like him, and he also likes me, but he treats every student so well, what's special about me?I just nearly blew my eyes out in one of his experiments, that's all. He sometimes said, "My wife greets you, and she says you're welcome to our house for the holidays." He was very easygoing when he spoke. I just said: "Ah." I have no intention of going to anyone else's house for the holidays, not even Mr. Navein's.I think as long as this year has passed, it will be fine. In fact, it has not been a year, it has only been nine months.I thought, since I survived last year, I can endure another year. Classes are in session and classes are in session, life goes by whether it is fast or slow, and it will be winter all of a sudden. I do homework for Mr. Navan and see him a lot.The classmates laughed: "Be careful, he has a wife." At first I didn't think so, I just thought it was a joke, but later I thought they talked too much, so I was very careful not to get too close to Mr. Navan. Luo Lien wrote to ask: "How is Mr. Navan?" William Navan.Bill Navan. I said he was fine.I corresponded with Luo Lian, she is an interesting girl. I kept saying that I would marry a foreigner, but I still went back. I wrote to her and told her that it was strange that people misunderstood me and Mr. Navan. She wrote back and wrote very well: "Now that I am older, it doesn't matter if I think about it. , Falling in love with a teacher is also very common, after all, he is someone who meets every day, but unfortunately he has a wife, and her daughter is only a little younger than you... Otherwise, you don’t have to be so lonely, you will be alone in Paris.” I smiled, even she misunderstood. Sometimes after finishing the experiment, Mr. Navan and I walked all the way to the parking lot, discussing the homework just now, and saw the shadows of two people on the glass door. He is so tall, I only reached his ears, and he is not afraid of the cold , still wearing a suit and a woolen vest, but my hat, scarf and coat were wrapped like a little ball. Standing next to him, he seemed more and more chic like facing the wind. He was talking to me, with his head sideways and his body slightly bent. I sigh. Mr. Navean often wants to take me home, but I always decline, saying that the traffic is heavy and going in different directions, so I should walk faster. I don't like people gossiping. He likes me because I'm a good student, not for anything else. Of course we also chatted, we sat in the lab most of the time, and I had a lot of opportunities to talk to him. He is often late, I copy notes and wait for him.Mr. Navein is getting more and more busy, and he is going to be promoted to vice-principal recently. When he arrived, he always apologized repeatedly.Such a busy person was late even for teaching. During that time, he was guarding me in the hospital every day. I don’t know how he managed to spare the time. He sometimes asks me: "Is Italy fun?" "Not as good as France," I replied. "Every place is different," he said. "I have only lived in the United States for a while, and I have never been to other places." "Really?" I wondered, "Most British people look down on America." "Have you been there?" Nafein said. "I've been here." I said. "I think the US is good, we're going to learn from them now." I laughed, he is a scientist after all, and he is not very nationalistic. I am afraid he is the only British person who is willing to say such a thing. "What are you doing in America?" I asked him. "Reading," he said. Mr. Navein is very strange. It is said that he does not have a Ph.D. degree, and he specializes in various master's degrees. It is said that he has three or four master's degrees.He said that studying for a Ph.D. is too specialized, and the scope of study is very narrow. He doesn't like it. This man's insight is very special, but I can't imagine his class situation.he?student?I thought about smiling often. He probably didn't know about the jokes made by his classmates, and once I got angry about it.A large group of us were sitting in the dining hall, and I was looking at my homework without looking up.Suddenly they pushed me, "Hey! Mr. Navan is looking for you and calling for you!" I quickly put down my notebook and stood up, "Where is it?" I asked.Mr. Navan was already walking in front of me, I chased him and asked, "Looking for me?" He was taken aback.I knew right away that he had only come to buy coffee and hadn't been looking for me at all. My face slowly turned red, and even my ears and neck were hot.I said to him, "Sorry, I made a mistake." As a result, I didn't talk to those classmates for a week. Luo Lian said to me, "You, you believe what people say." As a result, the professor was stopped by the crowd, and he was speechless. How many people watched? Mr. Navan knew it, and said with a smile: "This is also very common. They will play tricks on you because they think you are stupid." I suddenly quarreled with him, "I'm not stupid! Who says I'm stupid?" He was taken aback and looked at me, a little surprised. I won, and I said, "I sometimes say, 'No, sir'." He smiled and shook his head. Sometimes I look at him, and I can't tell what attracts him at all. He wears the most old-fashioned and grayest clothes, and the color of his hair and eyes is not prominent, just brown. Nafan's figure is not beautiful, and he bends slightly, and he is deaf, but when he sees his appearance, he forgets all of these. The real value of a man is his demeanor and knowledge. In the end, as long as I saw him in the crowd, I would smile in a daze, and I admired him.In the experiment, no matter what problems I encountered, he would solve them within three minutes as soon as he came, and he still explained to me carefully and gently. I decided to marry someone like him in the future.The older ones give me a sense of security like a mountain. I graduated. Mom told me to go home immediately. I went to thank each teacher and said a few words to each teacher, the most important thing was "goodbye". When it was Mr. Navan's turn, I didn't know what to say, so I smiled. He was sitting on the sofa, but when he saw me stand up, he let me sit down. I asked him to sit and pulled a chair myself. "You didn't wait for the diploma? We'll send it to you," he said. I said, "Thank you." He said: "I am very happy that you graduated successfully, and your grades must be very good." "Don't dare to take it." I still smiled, and for some reason, my smile was a little stiff. "Are you going to work?" he asked concerned. "Well." I said, "Let's rest for a few months and then talk about it." He turned his head, looked at me, and smiled, "The scar is still there. Your boyfriend must be very angry." I said, "I don't have a boyfriend." He smiled, "It's almost there, why don't you have a boyfriend?" I was silent for a while, and I said, "Goodbye." "Leaving tomorrow?" he asked, "Is everything packed?" "No, tonight, the luggage was sent early." "Bon Voyage." "is teacher." He suddenly smiled, put the cup on the table, and patted my shoulder with his hand. I finally asked him, "You will remember me, Mr. Navean?" He said: "Naturally, if you come to the UK again, please come and see us." I'm leaving. When I got home, I began to feel lonely, boundless and aimless loneliness. I didn't get a job, and I didn't get a boyfriend.Finding a job is relatively easy, but I don't want to do a job that is not ideal. Needless to say, finding a boyfriend is too difficult. It suddenly occurred to me that I had too many opportunities to go out with all kinds of boys in the past, and I gave up all of them. For homework, for other things, now I am free and want to be alone, but I can't find it. When my relatives saw me coming back, they were very excited at first, but later they saw that I still had two eyes and one nose, and it was not so good. After a while, seeing me staying at home, they began to say: "Why do girls stay in school?" ? Very weird!" I ignore it. During my time in a foreign country, the most frightening thing was the month when I was hospitalized with eye injury and pneumonia, and it was also the most memorable one.I looked at the scars on my eyelids and thought of Mr. Navean. If I see him again, I should call him "Bill," Bill Navan. I have been home for a year, I have grown up a lot, and I am also a lot more depressed, I want to leave. It took me a year to find a job, and I didn't use what I learned. I fought openly and secretly, and I had to learn the tricks from scratch.I had no choice but to escape back to school, preferring to stay in the laboratory all day long.After a few months of doing it, I became bored and bored. My mother knows me very well. She asked: "What should you do? Do you want to study for a few more years? Anyway, there are masters and doctorates, but after finishing the studies, you will eventually come out to be a human being!" I said: "Let's hide for a while, I'm afraid of this world, and the school is the only refuge." "Then you go." "Mom, I'm sorry," I smiled, "I can't accompany you again." "You go this time and come back once a year, you know?" "I know." I agreed.