The next morning, Jiang Manyue knocked on the door of the "educated youth yard" early with the gift of apprenticeship that she had prepared.
Although there were older intellectuals like Zhang Chengji and Hao Yuanming among these intellectuals, the people in the team still called them educated youth, and the yard where they lived naturally became the educated youth yard.
Because they knew Jiang Manyue was coming, Yu Zimo and Wu Yongyuan got up early. As soon as Jiang Manyue knocked on the door, they quickly opened it.
Just when Yu Zimo was about to say that she forgot to take something from yesterday and would definitely take it back later, Jiang Manyue directly raised the basket in her hand.
"This is the gift I prepared for my apprenticeship. It's not a good thing, but I hope the teachers don't mind."
As she spoke, Jiang Manyue walked to the main room and took out the things in the basket one by one.
Yu Zimo and Wu Yongyuan followed her and tried to persuade her to take everything back, but they were shocked by what she took out.
Several pounds of pastries, more than ten sausages, a bag of rice, a bag of millet, and seven servings of soap and towels.
These things were scarce commodities for these intellectuals who went to the countryside, and they were good things that were hard to get.
"This, this is too much. How can we accept it? Comrade Manyue, you should take it back. We are just teaching you Russian. This is too expensive."
Jiang Manyue hid the empty basket behind her. "This is the gift I prepared for becoming a disciple. If the teachers don't accept it, how can I have the nerve to come and study here? Everyone has to pay tuition to learn something."
Yu Zimo and Wu Yongyuan were both college students and not very good at speaking. Seeing that Jiang Manyue was unwilling to take it back, they had no choice but to put the matter aside for the time being and wait until Zhang Chengji and the others got up before finding them to persuade her.
"Why don't we start studying first? We won't have time to teach when we have to go to work."
Wu Yongyuan poked Yu Zimo and pointed at Zhang Chengji's room with his chin. Yu Zimo understood and no longer mentioned the apprenticeship gift. Instead, he asked Jiang Manyue to take out the textbooks and they would go to class first.
Jiang Manyue happily took out the textbook and turned to the first page.
She also flipped through a Russian book yesterday, but couldn't understand it at all. She wanted to prepare for the lesson but didn't know where to start.
Yu Zimo and Wu Yongyuan also knew this, so they started teaching the Russian letters directly.
The pronunciation of Russian letters is also a bit difficult for Jiang Manyue because she is good at English, and the pronunciation of Russian letters is completely different from that of English.
Moreover, Russian also has rolling tongue sounds, and Jiang Manyue couldn't play it out after trying for a long time. Yu Zimo had no choice but to ask her to remember the pronunciation and practice more at home.
After studying for a long time, Jiang Manyue was still confused. In the end, she had no choice but to use the stupid method of phonetic memory to force herself to memorize.
It was not until Zhang Chengji and the others got up and prepared breakfast that Jiang Manyue reluctantly added sounds to half of the 33 Russian letters.
"Russian is indeed difficult. It's only the first day, so there's no need to rush. Go back and practice the pronunciation of the letters you can remember to consolidate your knowledge. Continue tomorrow."
It was almost time to go to work, so Yu Zimo and Wu Yongyuan stopped teaching pronunciation and asked Jiang Manyue to go back and practice more and continue learning tomorrow.
Jiang Manyue was also dizzy from studying. Seeing that the time was up, she put away her textbook and was about to go back.
"Hey, Comrade Man Yue, your things haven't been taken away yet."
Yu Zimo gave Wu Yongyuan a wink, and Wu Yongyuan quickly went to find Zhang Chengji, wanting him to help persuade Jiang Manyue to take the things away.
When Zhang Chengji came over and saw the pile of things, he was also shocked. His first reaction was to refuse.
"Comrade Manyue, you've already helped us a lot, and we haven't repaid you yet. And you've sent us so many things. How can we accept them? Take them back!"
As Zhang Chengji said this, he was about to take something and put it into the basket at Jiang Manyue's feet, but Jiang Manyue dodged it.
"Teacher Zhang, children learning a craft have to pay tribute to their master. How can I not accept the apprenticeship gift? If others find out, they'll accuse me of taking advantage of you and letting you teach me for nothing!"
Jiang Manyue righteously refused to take the things back. "I'm not the kind of person who takes advantage. My partner said that I'm a military family member, so I have to have a correct mindset and not take advantage of others."
She brought out all these high-sounding words, and even Zhang Chengji didn't know how to persuade her.
"Teacher Zhang, just accept it. It's not something valuable. Just consider it a favor between our team members and the educated youth."
After saying that, Jiang Manyue grabbed her basket tightly, covered it with one hand, walked around Zhang Chengji and others, and trotted out of the educated youth's yard.
"What should we do, Teacher Zhang?"
Yu Zimo and Wu Yongyuan didn't know what to do and both looked at Zhang Chengji.
"Hey, Comrade Manyue has good intentions. Please accept it. We owe her another favor. If there is anything we can do to help her in the future, we will also do our best."
Although he said so, Zhang Chengji knew in his heart that apart from teaching her Russian, there was very little they could do to help Jiang Manyue. He said this just to give himself psychological comfort.
After listening to Zhang Chengji's words, Yu Zimo and Wu Yongyuan looked at each other and accepted what he said.
"Okay, put the food and meat in the kitchen, distribute the soap and towels to everyone, and then hurry up and finish breakfast and get back to work."
Zhang Chengji carried the food and meat into the kitchen himself, and asked Yu Zimo to call everyone over. He distributed the soap and towels, and asked them to save the pastries for everyone to fill their stomachs after work.
"This, these weren't all brought by Comrade Man Yue, were they? Are you just going to accept them like this?"
Tang Zhenyi looked at the soap and towel in her hands, surprised and not knowing what to say.
Zhang Chengji repeated what he had said before. The others had nothing to say, so they could only sigh and accept the gift.
After Jiang Manyue left the educated youth's yard, she went straight to the county post office, bought an envelope and stamps, and sent it out directly.
It took several days for the letter to arrive at the Yunzhou Military Region. Lu Lin's comrade Qi Xiangrong happened to go to the post office to send a letter home. When he saw Lu Lin's letter, he took it back to the dormitory.
When Lu Lin returned to the dormitory, Qi Xiangrong raised his chin at him and said, "There's your letter on the table. I brought it back to you."
Lu Lin thanked him and walked towards the desk. Qi Xiangrong squeezed over and gave him a mischievous smile, "This time, the sender's name is a lesbian. Is she your wife from back home?"
Jiang Manyue's name was written on the envelope. Lu Lin took a look and nodded, "Yes."
Because Lu Lin never talked about his family, his roommates only knew that he was married in his hometown, but they had no idea what the situation was between him and his wife there.
Qi Xiangrong smiled and bumped into him. "It's only been a few days since you came back, and your wife has already sent a letter. She's so clingy. How could you bear to leave her at home and not let her go with the army?"
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