Guan Jingzhi's English is very good. She saw her communicating with others in English when she was only twelve years old.
Although Lushan City is small, it has everything. Last year, the Cultural Palace invited some foreign children to visit. Guan Jingzhi was also there and chatted with those foreign children directly in English.
Zhou Meiling's strengths are Japanese and Korean. Actually, we have to put quotation marks about Korean. She only stayed in Korea for more than a year. She can't be said to be proficient in it. She can only speak some basic knowledge and knows what's going on. She speaks Japanese quite well. After all, she has been in Japan for nearly ten years.
But the little girl in front of him turned out to be Guan Jingzhi's English tutor...
Zhou Meiling could only think that some people were probably geniuses who were naturally good at learning languages.
Thinking of this, she felt uncomfortable with her pettiness today. No wonder she, who had been to Japan and South Korea, would eventually settle down in such a small city and get a fixed salary.
She has taught so many students that she actually misses her life in Japan. Usually at the Cultural Palace, she can't find anyone to speak Japanese with, read Japanese books, or watch Japanese movies. Sometimes people gossip about her and say she is pretentious and aloof.
She was also afraid. She was afraid that she would forget all these things, forget her past, and become like a small civil servant who grew up in Lushan City and had never left the house.
I originally had a utilitarian mentality, but now I really want to teach well.
The other person's sense of language is so good, it seems like he has been to Japan.
Zhou Meiling even added Xiaoqi's WeChat after class.
I have a class scheduled for Friday.
Xiaoqi was also surprised. She originally thought that Teacher Zhou was a person with a rather arrogant and pretentious attitude, a bit like her Chinese teacher when she was in school, very petty bourgeois.
At that time, the Chinese teacher asked everyone to buy the latest edition of a modern Chinese dictionary, which cost 105 yuan. Xiaoqi's weekly living expenses were only 100 yuan. She didn't have time to go back to ask her parents for money, and it was not convenient for her to ask her aunt for money. Moreover, she had bought a Chinese dictionary before, but it was not the latest edition. As a result, during the morning reading class the next day, the Chinese teacher actually asked her and two other students who had not bought the dictionary to stand while reading.
Xiaoqi felt that feeling of humiliation deeply.
So she was particularly cautious towards her Chinese teacher and observed her very carefully. Even at first glance, she felt that Teacher Zhou was the same as her own Chinese teacher. She was also well-dressed and had high demands on herself and others. Although the teacher did not do it on purpose, her behavior was very inconsiderate.
Unexpectedly, Teacher Zhou seemed to have a different attitude. He encouraged me to study hard and said that I had a talent for languages. He was much more sincere than before.
Xiaoqi was deeply touched. If you work hard and excel, people around you will be more tolerant.
Today is Wednesday, the 14th, and it’s only a week away from the swimming competition. Xiaoqi still hurried to the swimming pool after class.
But today Guan Jingzhi also went along.
She brought a swimsuit and went to the swimming pool to swim seriously without disturbing Xiaoqi.
When Xiaoqi was swimming, she also took some photos and videos and sent them to their Seven Fairies group.
This group name is a bit awkward, it was chosen by Liang Jiajia.
Liang Jiajia was the first to see it and started screaming in the group, regretting not coming together.
The others were also talking about it curiously. They didn’t expect that Teacher Xiaoqi was such a good swimmer and looked so professional.
Guan Jingzhi also agreed. There were very few people in her life that she admired because she herself was very outstanding and grew up surrounded by all kinds of praise. She had not met anyone who made her feel a sense of sympathy and admiration.
But after getting along with Teacher Xiaoqi, I found that she is really nice, excellent and hardworking.
Teacher Xiaoqi ranks first in WeChat Sports almost every day, with almost 30,000 steps.
Guan Jingzhi once asked out of curiosity, and Teacher Xiaoqi actually said that she was doing long-distance running and ran every day.
She also ran for a while, but she couldn't stick with it after a while and gave up.
After swimming, Guan Jingzhi had a car to pick him up, and he asked the driver to give Xiaoqi a ride. It wasn't really on the way, but Xiaoqi didn't refuse because of the other party's kindness.
I was actually very tired after swimming.
When I got home, my aunt had prepared the meal and the dishes. She had also braised the meat and bought some pancakes and roast chicken. It was a very sumptuous meal.
Recently, Su Simei saw that her niece was very busy, so sometimes she cooked. She would ask her niece about her cooking techniques which were different from her own. Although the cooking was not as delicious as Xiaoqi's, it was much better than what she had cooked before.
"What day is it today, Aunt? Why are you cooking so many dishes?"
"You forgot, tomorrow is the Ghost Festival. We celebrate the day before here. Don't run around too late at night. Remember to come with me to burn paper after dark."
Xiaoqi just remembered that today is the Zhongyuan Festival, also known as the Ghost Festival. When he was a child, his family seemed to buy a lot of gold foil, silver foil, and yellow paper money a month in advance, and stack gold and silver ingots. The paper money had to be torn apart one by one into the shape of a big mop. The more powerful families would even make clothes, houses, and ships by hand, and burn them for their deceased ancestors on the night before the Ghost Festival.
Xiaoqi only knows how to make gold and silver ingots. It’s very simple, a bit like folding small boats.
However, when I saw the things my aunt was preparing to burn, they were not that complicated. They were all ready-made things bought from the store. There were also paper money with a face value of 100 million, paper clothes and bags, and a gold necklace, which was probably also made of paper.
There is only one elder that Xiaoqi needs to burn paper money for, and that is her grandfather. It is said that her grandfather passed away shortly after she was born.
So she didn't have any impression of it. She just looked at her grandfather's photo, and saw that he was a handsome young man in military uniform.
After dinner, she was clearing the dishes when the mother of the groom with a broken leg from upstairs came over with a big bag of fresh sweet potatoes.
"Girl, we are about to be discharged from the hospital. We don't have any good things. These are the sweet potatoes grown at home. I give them to you." The old lady was afraid that she would not want them, and she also felt that the things she took out were too worthless, so she left them embarrassedly.
She thanked nurse Su for his care and usually used the nurse's pot to make soup, but she felt it was inappropriate to give it to him in the ward, so she specially sent it down.
It was such a big bag that Xiaoqi felt it was a bit heavy to carry. When he opened the bag, he saw that it was full of bright red-skinned sweet potatoes weighing more than one kilogram each.
I looked up and saw a very short figure upstairs, standing as if he were sitting on the ground.
There was a big bag of stuff behind him and a small trailer.
After staying in the hospital for a while, I had so many things that it was like moving house.
People come and go in the hospital, but I don’t remember many of them, and not many of them will say hello.
Xiaoqi put the sweet potatoes away and went upstairs. He saw some family members of other patients helping to move things and loading the things into the car for the mother and son.
The mother and son, one old and one disabled, felt that their future life would not be easy, but seeing that the young man always had a smile on his face, they did not feel it was forced.
The patients at the back were still gathered there chatting.
"This young man is pretty good. I heard he's already found a job repairing cars and rented a house. He and his mother will live in the city together from now on."
"Yes, if you work hard, you will survive."
"I heard there's news about the driver who caused the accident. If he can get the compensation, maybe he can get a prosthetic limb. The young man is energetic and will have a stable future."
Xiao Qi listened to everyone's chatter, most of which were praises, and remained calm. He felt that this mother and son were really nice people. During their time in the hospital, they had a very good relationship with the people around them.
Xiao Qi watched the car drive away, leave the hospital, and disappear.
Liu Anquan sat in the seat in the car, like an ordinary person, and waved goodbye to everyone.
Xiaoqi felt that the other person seemed to be looking at her, so she waved back.
I feel a little sad, but also a little relieved.
This was the first time in her life that she had given so much money to someone else, hoping that the other person would live a good life.
While Xiaoqi was distracted, her phone vibrated and she found a friend request from a stranger, but she ignored it.
Then the familiar mechanical voice sounded again: "The host did good deeds without leaving a name, and received a sincere blessing from the pious at the cost of his life."
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