Chapter 307 Learning House + Restarting Translation
After returning home, Su Mo gave Lu Xiaolan her junior high school textbooks and asked her to review them first. If she didn't understand something, she could ask her. If she didn't understand something, she could remember it and ask the teacher later.
Su Tingqian learned that the two of them wanted to go to college, so he planned to find a few colleagues with whom he had a good relationship after returning to school to give them some practice questions. He also went to a few high schools to ask for some exam papers and practice questions.
As they were both in the education system, it was much easier for him to ask for these things than Su Mo and the others.
Lu Xiaolan was a little unconfident at first. After all, her grades were not very good when she was in school, and she felt that she might not pass the exam. But now that there are so many convenient conditions in front of her, she felt that if she didn't try her best, she would be sorry for her third brother and his wife.
It's not easy for others to find a textbook to study, but she not only has new textbooks, but also exercises given by university professors, and her third sister-in-law is by her side to teach her. If she doesn't work hard, who can she be sorry for?
So, from that day on, after Lu Xiaolan came home from work and finished her housework, she would study hard in her room and even stopped watching TV.
Su Mo reviewed the knowledge she learned in high school. After all, the foundation was there. Although she didn't remember some things very well, she would soon be able to learn them again after reading them again and doing a few questions. It was still very easy to learn.
After work, she also tried to spend more time with the children.
The child is clingy only for a few years. When he grows up, he won't be clingy even if you want him to.
A few days later, there was another person studying hard at home - Lu Changzheng. However, Lu Changzheng was not going to take the college entrance examination, but to learn a certain southern language.
After the civil war in a certain southern country ended in April this year, it began to make moves and had the intention of invading other neighboring countries.
Lu Changzheng's requirements for the special team are not only in terms of military force, but also in terms of culture. He doesn't want his team members to fail because of language barriers when they take the first step to go deep behind enemy lines.
When there is no mission, Lu Changzheng requires team members to learn all kinds of knowledge in addition to daily physical training. He also applied to the higher-ups to send some veterans who are proficient in the languages of neighboring countries to teach.
Before, they mostly learned Russian and English, and only roughly learned some common expressions in minor languages.
In the current situation, Lu Changzheng saw that the people in power in a certain southern country were turning their backs on him, and felt that there was a great possibility that the two countries would have a war, so he specially invited a few veterans who were proficient in a certain southern language to come and teach them.
As a captain, Lu Changzheng naturally had to lead by example.
After the two little ones turned three years old, there were two more children studying at home.
Commander Xu had already opened cultural classes for the two children. Knowing that Su Mo was proficient in English, he asked her to teach the two children appropriately in the evening.
So, Su Mo taught the two children English in the evening, answered Lu Xiaolan's questions, and reviewed herself, and she was very busy.
The TV at home is turned off except when we eat, which saves a lot of electricity.
In August, there was a heavy rainstorm in Henan Province, and dozens of reservoirs collapsed one after another. Many places in Henan Province were turned into swamps, and tens of thousands of people lost their lives.
Because those people fell in advance and the propaganda outlets were opened, major newspapers, media, radio and television, etc., all reported extensively on this major disaster.
The country also immediately sent troops to the disaster relief and allocated 700 million yuan for disaster relief.
According to subsequent statistics, 10.15 million people were affected by the disaster, more than 26,000 people died, 5.24 million houses collapsed, 300,000 farm animals were washed away, and the direct economic losses were nearly 10 billion yuan.
Because of media reports, people from all over the country learned about the local plight from newspapers, radio, and television, and donations of money and materials were launched in various places.
"When one side is in trouble, all sides support it," "United as one," and "Come on, Henan Province," and other words often appeared in various media. After nearly ten years of unrest, the national cohesion was unprecedentedly united again.
The Foreign Trade Center also specially organized cooperating overseas Chinese and foreign businessmen to launch a fundraising campaign. Many overseas Chinese donated enthusiastically. In less than half a month, more than one million US dollars and many living supplies were raised.
The Foreign Trade Center also launched a donation campaign. As the leader of the department, Su Mo took the lead in donating 100 yuan, which was a month's salary and a lot of money.
At the end of August, the central leadership and the cadres of Guangdong Province rushed to Henan Province with the money and materials raised, and handed them over to the relevant persons in charge. The Guangdong media and official media also reported on this matter in special editions.
Through this disaster, the country has fully realized the importance of knowledge. If the reservoir had been designed by more experienced people, perhaps there would not have been such a tragedy.
The rehabilitation work was further accelerated, and some intellectuals who had made outstanding contributions in their professional fields were brought back to the relevant fields.
The atmosphere was further relaxed!
In October, the editor of Haishi Newspaper, who had not seen her for a long time, wrote a letter to Su Mo, asking her if she had time to translate now. The novel she translated before was recently serialized in the newspaper, and the response was very good.
The leaders of the newspaper thought that Su Mo's translation was good. If Su Mo was free, she would be given priority to translate, and the price could be up to 5 yuan per thousand words.
Since Su Mo came to Guangzhou, she has not written any more manuscripts because of her busy work, but she also wrote a letter to the editor and told him her address in Guangzhou.
Su Mo thought of the more than 700 yuan translation fee last time, and felt that it was still quite good. If she squeezed it out, she could still find time. However, she still wrote back, saying that she was busy with work and might not be able to translate as fast as last time. If they didn't mind, she could take it.
A week later, Su Mo received the translation manuscript sent by Hai Shi, which was carefully divided into chapters, asking her to translate one chapter every week and send it over.
This was not difficult for Su Mo, and translating two or three chapters a week was not a problem. Su Mo decided to translate two chapters a week, and if there were more to translate, she would send more. So
, Su Mo began her career of working during the day and studying teaching and translation at night.
On this day, Su Mo finished teaching English to the two children and asked them to read aloud by themselves while she translated the manuscript in the room. As she was writing, she heard a quarrel next door.
Although the two of them tried to lower their voices, it was difficult for them to control the volume when they were angry, and the noise got louder.
Moreover, the sound insulation of the house was not very good these days. Although Su Mo didn't want to listen to other people's gossip, the noise went straight into her ears.
It seemed that Wang Cuimei had done something wrong, and Zheng Guosheng felt that she had lost his face. But Wang Cuimei disagreed, thinking that she had not stolen or robbed anything, and that she had made money based on her ability, so she was not wrong.
Su Mo listened and felt that something was wrong. This Wang's wife might be a second-hand vendor.
Su Mo didn't expect that Wang Saozi would quietly become the first person to try it.