Zhang Boming easily got rid of the little girl's inquiry, and ran to the dormitory area in three steps and two steps.

As far as the eye can see, behind the newly renovated garden, there are rows of bungalows. Their windows all have small round chimneys sticking out, or spewing smoke from coal stoves, or shivering in the cold wind. Icicles that were one or twenty centimeters long, or even thirty or fifty centimeters long, were pitch black and shiny, falling on the lower edge of the chimney. Icicles are made by condensing the droplets of water that flow down the chimney, and if they are not broken, they can hang down until the chimney can no longer stand it.

However, in the northern winter, it is rare for anyone's chimney to be damaged by icicles, because this is a children's play material, whether it is a casual knock or a careful plucking of a beautiful icicle, it is no less fun than a snowball fight.

Zhang Boming also grew up in the compound, and casually knocked off an icicle closest to him, and suddenly his face changed and he hid aside.

Icicles will make a crisp sound when they land, and it wouldn't be bad if they were heard by Yang Rui and Jing Yulan.

Zhang Boming waited behind the wall for a minute, and found that no one opened the door and came out, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately smiled to himself, thinking: After the exercise is over, who will prick up their ears every day and listen to the movement outside.

Thinking so, he crept to the door of the bedroom with 106 written on it, and then gently pressed his face to the crack in the door.

It's a series of English that catches your ears.

Zhang Boming was stunned for a moment, and then listened.

The volume may be up or down, the intonation may rise or fall, but English is correct.

Zhang Boming listened hard for a while and was at a loss. The sound coming from the room was very small, which made it harder to hear.

Zhang Boming scratched his ears and cheeks in a hurry, he wanted to know what was going on inside.

Yang Rui and Jing Yulan spoke in English, how did they think about it, and how did they feel wrong.

In fact, Yang Rui in the room also felt that it was not right.

Jing Yulan knocked on the door and came in, and she spoke English, for the sake of her being a beauty, Yang Rui also accompanied her to speak English. Nowadays, there is no entertainment, and chatting with beautiful women is obviously much more interesting than sitting dry.

However, when Jing Yulan told him in English, "I am the English teacher invited by your grandfather", the English conversation instantly became boring.

Jing Yulan adopted the usual method of English teachers at this time, which is a collection of various common conversations.

Starting with how?do?you?do, then continuing with transportation and hotel accommodation, and occasionally greeting both families......

The grammar she used became more and more difficult, and almost to the point where there were two clauses in a sentence, and Yang Rui was completely blind.

Many Chinese are proud and think that Chinese is extremely difficult. Of course, Chinese is indeed extremely difficult, but to speak Chinese must be more complicated than other languages, which is somewhat taken for granted.

The difficulty of Chinese is often due to the existence of hieroglyphs, idioms, idioms and ancient sayings, but since Chinese with an IQ of 80 can learn Chinese, there is no reason why foreigners with an IQ of 80 cannot learn Chinese, in the final analysis, Chinese cannot attract more foreign elites to learn. Compared with modern Chinese, Chinese in the Tang Dynasty was supposed to be more complicated, but there were countless foreigners chanting poems against each other in Chang'an, which is even more indicative of this.

English also has puzzling idioms, stereotypes, and archaic expressions. And at some point, complex clauses can be incomprehensible to ordinary Britons, and when a sentence is sandwiched with three or five clauses, and then two English sayings and ancient sayings, it is estimated that only one percent of the Britons can participate in the conversation.

Jing Yulan's level obviously exceeded Yang Rui's expectations, and in his opinion, Jing Yulan at this time has the strength of simultaneous interpretation, at least in English. And in terms of China's current thirst for foreign language talents, this beautiful woman can find a job almost anywhere.

Yang Rui didn't want to keep having a textbook-like stupid conversation with her, so he took the initiative to ask in English: "You came to be a tutor for me because of my grandfather?"

While Jing Yulan spoke, she was still thinking about the next conversation, thinking about how to fully understand Yang Rui's English Cheng dù. After being asked by him for a moment, he said frankly in English: "Your grandfather promised to solve my brother's work, and I agreed." ”

She didn't hide it at all.

Yang Rui's attitude towards her improved slightly, and he continued to ask: "Your English is so good, it's a family heirloom, why does your brother want to be a worker?"

The position of Sanmao Factory provided by my grandfather is a pretty good job in Hedong Province, but this is a worker's job after all, compared with Jing Yulan's own teaching position at the Normal College, the salary may be a lot, but the work intensity is much higher, and the social status cannot be compared.

With the current situation in the country, ordinary jobs are naturally in short supply, and the national unemployment rate is also extremely high, so it can be said that the streets are full of unemployed young people. But on the other hand, the domestic thirst for high-end technical talents is unimaginable.

Taking English as an example, Chinese in the 80s, if they could have the English level of a mid-range returnee in the 21st century, they could directly go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing to find a job. Even if the Ministry of Foreign Affairs refuses to accept it for various reasons, it will be easy for such an English-speaking talent to find a job in a ministry-level unit after a few turns in Beijing.

If the conditions are more relaxed, the level of any low-level returnee will be more than enough for the customs and taxation units that graduates want to get into in the future. This year, Tianjin also recruited more than 3,000 unemployed young people to the customs and other positions, and the academic qualifications are only required to be technical secondary school or above.

The country has just opened, and any industry has a strong demand for foreign exchanges, even if it is the traditional Chinese porcelain industry, if you can refer to the bone china technology of Britain and Japan, you can earn more than one million foreign exchange a year. An English talent is really worth a lot.

Jing Yulan understood Yang Rui's doubts very well, smiled beautifully, and said: "My younger brother is different from me, when our family was decentralized, my younger brother was still young, and he was bullied in the village, and he didn't want to go to school. At that time, he didn't know when the campaign would end, and he didn't want to learn English, so he simply stopped teaching it so as not to be reported......"

She still used English, but after she finished speaking, she felt happy.

The pressure on the family is enormous, and the political pressure gives people a greater sense of powerlessness than the economic pressure. In the past, Jing Yulan never dared to say such things, for fear of causing trouble to her parents. However, chatting in English is different, especially when she uses more difficult sentences, even Yang Rui doesn't understand it, and she doesn't have to worry if the wall has ears.

And so it is. Zhang Boming, who was on the other wall, wanted to pull his ears off when he heard it, but he still didn't have time to understand the English sentence patterns at a normal speaking speed, and what he regrets most now is that he didn't learn more English from his mother back then.

Yang Rui listened to Jing Yulan's words, somewhat pity, and asked, "How old is your brother?"

"6 years younger than me, 20 years younger. ”

Yang Rui was surprised, and said in English with a smile: "You have revealed your age." ”

"It's okay, I'm not going to get married for a long time. Jing Yulan's voice was brisk.

Yang Rui was dumbfounded: "Why?"

Such a beautiful beauty does not marry, Yang Rui feels a pity and is excited.

Jing Yulan was not in a hurry, but deliberately used more and more difficult grammar and said: "In the early years, my mother still wanted to wait for my father to be rehabilitated and go back to the capital to find me a family with the right family, but it turned out that after the movement ended for so long, my father's rehabilitation opinion has not yet come out, but the family can't even pay the travel expenses. I want to work hard for a few years, save some money, and when my father comes home, I will stay at home and be filial to my parents......"

The content that could have been clearly expressed was immediately mixed into a foreign Chinese dialect that normal people could not understand.

She obviously regarded Yang Rui as the object of confiding, but she didn't want to really tell him the details.

Yang Rui can only roughly understand a few specific usages, such as her father has not yet been rehabilitated, and her mother is still on the run, as for what Jing Yulan said, Yang Rui doesn't know at all.

However, it doesn't matter if you don't understand the specific content. Yang Rui only needed a few words to guess what Jing Yulan was talking about. Contrary to what many people in later generations imagined, the rehabilitation after the movement was not achieved overnight. For example, He Long was completely rehabilitated in October '82, and by the time the Central Organization Department counted in '83, there were more than 3 million people who had implemented the rehabilitation policy, and if you think about it, you know that it will take a long time to complete this work.

Jing Yulan's experience is unfortunate, but not lonely.

Yang Rui couldn't help but feel some pity and persuaded: "The situation will always get better." Now that your brother has a job, your family doesn't have to worry about you. In a few years, whether your father's conclusions are good or bad, you will be able to take care of the elderly. ”

Jing Yulan was surprised: "Do you understand?"

Don't look at her understatement when she speaks, she hardly needs to think, but this kind of language ability is far beyond ordinary people, just a moment of dialogue, Jing Yulan felt that Yang Rui couldn't understand it, so she said it happily.

Yang Rui wanted to make a joke, but seeing her expression, his heart moved, and he said, "I guess." ”

"How do you guess?"

Yang Rui smiled and said, "There are a few transliterated words in your sentence, as well as specific usages, I know these words, and then guess the context, I almost know what you are talking about." ”

This is the basic method of English listening in later generations, whether it is college entrance examination English, or English level 4 or 6, the questioner is not prepared to let the intermediate students fully understand, in some cases, excellent level students can not understand all the listening, seven points by listening and three points by guessing is a more conscientious paper.

In contrast, although the grammar used by Jing Yulan is difficult and the speed of speech is fast, it is easier to guess because of the background of the times.

However, Yang Rui's listening and speaking ability was obviously beyond Jing Yulan's expectations, she looked at Yang Rui again, smiled, and said, "You are indeed quite perceptive, okay, from today onwards, I will be your English tutor." ”

"Hello teacher. Yang Rui obediently said hello again, and honestly and unceremoniously moved the stool to Jing Yulan's side, so that the two sat almost side by side.

The story of a tutor and a student is also the main genre of films that have raised a generation, and it is worth looking forward to.

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