Chapter 54 - Vest and Vest
Chapter 54 - Vest and Vest
Lin Shengjia did not immediately agree to cooperate with Ning Fei, and Ning Fei said he would give him time to think about it.
However, after returning home from evening self-study that night, Ning Fei walked with Lin Shengjia all the way and went to Lin's house again. He didn't come to complain that Lin Shengjia was late in the morning, but took the initiative to tell the Lin couple that he happened to be Lin Shengjia's teacher. Anyway, it is my job to improve Lin Shengjia's grades now. I am willing to tutor Lin Shengjia in English for an hour every night, and I can also do it on weekends.
Lin Shengjia: “…”
In front of Lin's parents, the time traveler couldn't say no, because he still had to pretend to be a good kid who loved to study in front of them. Naturally, the couple's attitude towards Ning Fei was warmly welcoming. In order to repay Ning Fei, they also suggested that Ning Fei could come to visit them often and have a simple meal, it would just be a matter of using a few more pairs of chopsticks. It just so happened that Ning Fei usually ate in the cafeteria and was too lazy to cook on weekends, and there was no takeout in those days, so he agreed to this disguised "supplementary tuition fee".
So, after Lin Shengjia finished his evening self-study at nine o'clock every night and returned home, he had to attend tutoring from nine-thirty to ten-thirty.
This tutoring is much more tiring than attending classes and doing homework. Lin Shengjia thought Ning Fei would use the tactic of doing a large number of exercises, but he didn't expect that he would actually start correcting and teaching from phonetic symbols. He is also very strict, and strives for perfection in listening, reading and writing. Even Lin Shengjia's pronunciation with his old accent was corrected little by little by Ning Fei.
Lin Shengjia couldn't help but ask, "Isn't this just foreign pinyin? You can teach me how to read it anyway, and it won't be marked on the test paper. Why should I learn it now? Besides, there's no oral English test in the college entrance examination here."
Ning Fei was too lazy to explain: "Just learn what I told you to learn, why so much nonsense."
Lin Shengjia had no choice but to hold his breath and learn. It was not until two days later that Lin Shengjia was finally able to read unfamiliar words correctly, and Ning Fei began to use the "flooding" technique. It was at this time that Lin Shengjia realized how much help familiarity with phonetic symbols would be in memorizing words and doing dictation.
Ning Fei not only reinforced the content that Lin Shengjia was currently studying, but also asked him to review it from the beginning of his freshman year. He even gave Lin Shengjia a mini recorder and several tapes containing the listening comprehension sections of recent college entrance examinations. Ning Fei asked Lin Shengjia to play these tapes continuously when he returned home and did other things before going to bed. If Lin Shengjia needs some "sleep music" when he sleeps, you can also play a half-hour recording at a fixed time.
Lin Shengjia couldn't help but said, "Why do you want to play this? I don't understand it."
Ning Fei said the same thing: "I didn't ask you to understand it right away, can't you even use it as background music?"
The Lin couple were also informed of this matter and immediately expressed their willingness to do their best to assist their son with his English studies. So not only before Lin Shengjia went to bed, but as long as Lin Shengjia was at home and not studying or doing other things that required concentration, those continuous English sentences would keep echoing in the house, like magic music piercing his ears.
Lin Shengjia was really annoyed.
He was already confused by his studies at school, and now he was even more dizzy when he got home. He wanted to talk to Ning Fei, but the only time he could calm down and think alone was before going to bed at night. However, even if he could block out all the gibberish in English, he would just fall asleep as soon as he hit the bed, and it was really difficult for him to set aside a long period of time to think carefully.
——Tsk, forget it, let’s wait until after this month’s exam to see if this method of remediation is effective.
***
Time has come to the weekend.
Luo Chenghong went to visit his sister on Saturday. When he didn't see Lin Shengjia, he asked, "Where is my nephew?"
"He's tutoring English at Teacher Ning's house across the street." Luo Xiuping replied with a smile, "You don't know, Teacher Ning is very capable, and he happens to be Jiajia's teacher! So now every night and weekend, he helps Jiajia with English for free. When Jiajia comes back later, we will also teach English at home. This is called... Oh, creating a language environment!"
"'Creating a language environment' is not such a simple thing. Is it the same thing you learned abroad? Just copying it mechanically." Luo Chenghong didn't care. He just sat down and stood up again. "I'll go and take a look and see how they 'create an environment' over there."
Luo Xiuping pulled him and said, "Hey, don't disturb their class."
"It's Saturday now. If we don't let the boys out to play, they'll go crazy, right?" Luo Chenghong said, "I'll go and take a look. If it's inconvenient to disturb them, I'll come back. After they finish their studies, I'll take Jiajia out for some fresh air."
Luo Xiuping felt that her brother had become very opinionated recently and it seemed that he was not easy to convince her, so she had no choice but to say, "Well...Okay, then you go. I'll cut a fruit plate and you can take it over for Teacher Ning and Jia Jia to eat."
So ten minutes later, Luo Chenghong knocked on Ning Fei's door, holding a fruit plate in one hand.
Ning Feilai opened the door. Seeing that it was this strange uncle, Ning Fei raised his eyebrows slightly.
"I'm here to send some fruit to comfort the teachers and students who are studying hard." Luo Chenghong heard the English announcement from inside, and then saw Ning Fei standing at the door without moving, and smiled insincerely, "You won't let me in?"
"Uncle, you can only speak English when you come in...ah."
Lin Shengjia had just uttered half a sentence in the living room at the back when Ning Fei glanced back and covered his mouth.
"So, is that so?" Luo Chenghong looked at Ning Fei, "I have to speak English when I go in?"
Ning Fei opened his mouth and spoke fluent English: "Yes, when you step through this door, you have to speak English too."
Luo Chenghong sneered and continued in Chinese: "Is this the 'language environment' you are creating?"
Ning Fei continued in English: “You can think so.”
Luo Chenghong glanced at Lin Shengjia over his shoulder and asked, "Can he also communicate in English?"
Ning Fei: "So he was almost mute the whole morning, and that was the first thing he said."
Luo Chenghong: "Puff..."
The conversation between the two, one in English and one in Chinese, sounds a bit humorous at first, but it is surprisingly smooth. For some reason, Ning Fei was not too surprised that this "street kid" could understand English. Perhaps he had already determined in his heart that this "uncle" had problems, so he was in a state of "observation, not surprise" towards all the other party's actions.
Luo Chenghong also listened carefully to the English broadcast that was going on in his ear, and asked again: "Is this also part of high school English? Shenzhen's economy?"
Ning Fei: "If Lin Shengjia wants to know the information about Shenzhen City, read him the English economic newspaper."
"Who read it? You?"
"No?"
"..." Luo Chenghong looked him up and down, as if he was re-examining this person, "You are indeed quite interesting."
"Thank you, but I don't need you to give me this evaluation again." Ning Fei reached out to take the fruit plate from his hand, "If Mr. Luo doesn't want to come in, you can leave."
Luo Chenghong dodged his hand and said, "Why don't you want to go in? I'm going to Shenzhen, and I also want to know about Shenzhen's economic situation."
Then he really came into the house, bringing a fruit plate with him.
Lin Shengjia was stunned. Seeing Luo Chenghong put down the fruit plate and sat on the sofa, he could not help but squeeze out a sentence in English with difficulty: "You can speak English too?"
For a moment he couldn't remember how to say "uncle" in English.
Luo Chenghong shrugged and said nothing.
Ning Fei closed the door and came back to glance at him, wondering in his mind the real reason why this man came in, but on the surface he was still focused on tutoring, as if Luo Chenghong didn't exist.
And Luo Chenghong really didn't interrupt. He just remained silent and watched the interaction between Ning Fei and Lin Shengjia until the morning tutoring was over.
***
At noon, Ning Fei and Luo Chenghong both had lunch at the Lin family.
Luo Chenghong tried listening to English while eating, and still didn't take it seriously. However, Lin Shengjia's almost unbearable look of frustration pleased him. Even though Lin Shengjia kept giving him hints with his eyes during the meal, he turned a blind eye. Even after finishing the meal, when Lin Shengjia was about to open his mouth to say something to Luo Chenghong, Luo Chenghong turned his head and asked Ning Fei: "What is the degree of Teacher Ning's glasses?"
Lin Shengjia's words were interrupted, and the next second, he was pulled by Luo Xiuping to help clear the table and go into the kitchen to wash dishes. Lin's father also left the living room and went away for some unknown reason, leaving only Ning Fei and Luo Chenghong in the living room.
Ning Fei pushed the gold wire frame on the bridge of his nose and asked instead of answering, "Why are you asking this?"
In fact, this is a plain mirror, purely for appearance. Ning Fei made it to create a persona and deceive people.
"Nothing, I just want to invite Teacher Ning to go out and buy a helmet this afternoon so that he can help me with some advice. Then we can go out to the suburbs to have some fun and drive a sports car." Luo Chenghong leaned back in his chair, speaking lazily, "If Teacher Ning's glasses have a low degree, I can lend you my car to play with. If they have a high degree, you can only sit in the back seat."
Ning Fei was amused by his words - he thought they were so ridiculous that it was like hearing a joke.
"Mr. Luo, can I understand your words as an invitation to go out and play?" Ning Fei lowered his eyes and smiled, "You seem to be sure that I will agree to you, but why should I agree to you?"
"It was Teacher Ning who suggested buying a helmet. Shouldn't we do a good thing to the end? Teacher Ning has studied abroad and has a lot of experience. He can teach me how to choose a helmet." Luo Chenghong said leisurely, "Besides, since you said you just transferred to this city, you probably don't have many friends, right? It's normal for us to make friends and go out to play together."
Ning Fei raised an eyebrow: "Why should I be friends with you?"
"Because we have common topics, such as..." Luo Chenghong glanced meaningfully at the kitchen, then turned back and blurted out, "Shenzhen's economy?"
Ning Fei saw clearly that he turned his head to look just now, and when he heard the words "Shenzhen economy", he couldn't help laughing out loud. But he did not expose Luo Chenghong, and only replied with four words: "No. No."
Luo Chenghong looked at him and asked, "Why?"
——Because you are too oily.
Luo Chenghong's appearance is okay, but his words and actions are really not Ning Fei's type. Ning Fei was too lazy to play with him, nor was she interested in acting with him.
"No reason." Ning Fei pushed his glasses and stood up. "I'm going back to prepare for class. Mr. Luo, go play with your nephew."
Luo Chenghong looked at him and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will take my little nephew out for fun?"
"Ha, whatever you want. We're in the second year of high school now, so both students and elders should be a little more self-aware." Ning Fei glanced at him with a half-smile, then turned around to greet the Lin family.
The Lin couple quickly stuffed a few more fruits into his mouth and sent him out the door. Lin Shengjia took the opportunity to sneak up to Luo Chenghong and said, "Uncle, can you take me out to play this afternoon?"
Luo Chenghong glanced at him nonchalantly: "...Okay."
***
In the afternoon, Luo Chenghong took Lin Shengjia for a stroll in South City.
To be precise, we went to some places in Lin Shengjia to wander around and discuss some things. As they chatted, Luo Chenghong suddenly asked, "Have you encountered any particularly bad luck recently?"
"Unlucky?" Faced with this sudden question, Lin Shengjia didn't react immediately, "No, right... Does running into that particularly annoying Ning Fei count?"
"This doesn't count." Luo Chenghong said casually, as if he was chatting. "Since you met him, have you encountered any bad things that are still fresh in your memory or even affected your life?"
"No." Lin Shengjia was confused, but still answered honestly, "If I was unlucky to that extent, my parents would definitely know. My mom loves publicity, so she wouldn't be able to hide it from you."
"Really? Think about it carefully."
"Really? It's only been a week. Do I have amnesia?"
Luo Chenghong finally stopped asking questions and just seemed to be thinking about something.
——Didn’t use classic tricks to threaten people? Is there such an innocent and kind-hearted guy among that group of people?
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Ning Fei: I am a slut, but I am also picky about food:D
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