"Xiao Chu, where do you learn all this stuff from?" Wang Ziwen asked curiously.
"I read it in a book!"
"Which book? I've never read it before?"
"Uh...it's an English book."
"You can still read English books?"
Li Qin asked the question, and the others were so shocked that they were speechless.
"OK."
"How come I didn't know you could read English books?" Ding Qiunan looked at her husband beside her and suddenly felt a little guilty. She, who always prided herself on understanding her husband, seemed to be not as good as she thought.
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“Xiao Chu, I remember you studied Russian in school, right?” Li Qin suddenly felt that the younger brother in front of her was a little unfamiliar.
"It's definitely Russian; I taught myself English."
Then he turned to his wife and said, "You know those English books on our shelf, right?"
"I know, I remember you even bought an English dictionary."
"Yes, I learned it by referring to the dictionary."
Well, he taught himself, so what can anyone say?
Wang Ziwen looked at her brother-in-law and asked with interest, "Xiao Chu, what's your English level?"
"Well... I think I can read most English books and magazines that aren't particularly specialized."
"Wow, that's amazing! Can you say no?"
"I don't know that, after all, I don't have the means to speak English with anyone."
"Brother Chu, could you help Yangyang with his English? His English is terrible; he always gets single digits on tests," Lou Xiao'e couldn't help but interject.
Li Chu said with a wry smile, "Xiao'e, it's not that I don't want to agree, but what I've learned is self-taught, and it's completely different from what's taught in school. What they learn in school is for exams, and if they learn from me, they definitely won't do well on the exams."
He didn't want to take on this task. He genuinely considered Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e as friends, but he looked down on their son, Xu Yang, because of his habit of skipping school.
Lou Xiao'e listened to Li Chu's words and thought about it, and she agreed with him. After all, he was not a teacher, and if he taught differently from a teacher, wouldn't that be harming the child?
"Xiao Chu, if we need to receive foreign guests in the future and we don't have enough translators, could you come and help?"
Li Chu stared wide-eyed at Wang Ziwen, who was speaking: "Brother-in-law, did I hear that right? You want me to help you translate?"
"Yes, there are too few people who can speak foreign languages these days, and sometimes translators have to wait in line for others to finish their shifts."
"No, brother-in-law, are you sure you're not mistaken? I can't just participate in foreign affairs activities. If you go through the proper approval process, it'll take even longer than waiting for those translators."
“Uh…” Wang Ziwen was stunned for a moment before he realized that his brother-in-law could not participate in those activities to receive foreign guests without the approval of his superiors.
"Never mind, never mind, forget I said anything."
"Xiao Chu, I remember you were against learning English, or any foreign language, right? How come you're secretly learning it yourself?"
Li Chu was taken aback by her sister's question, and it took her a while to come to her senses before asking, "Sis, what are you talking about? When did I ever object to learning a foreign language?"
"That's what Uncle Wang said. When he came over to chat last time, he said that the Ministry of Health was soliciting opinions that all doctors would have to take a foreign language test in their future level assessments. The State Council had already approved it. But at the conference, you argued with a bunch of experts about whether or not to learn a foreign language, and they ended up not being able to say a word. In the end, the foreign language test was canceled."
"Haha," Li Chu laughed out loud.
"It's not that exaggerated, sis. In the end, they just canceled the foreign language exam for TCM doctors."
"So it really happened? You actually argued with someone at a conference?"
Li Qin knew about this because Uncle Wang told her privately that day, and she treated it as a joke.
However, Li Chu never mentioned this matter when he returned. Ding Qiunan only knew that her husband opposed Chinese medicine doctors taking foreign language exams, but she was unaware of his confrontation with people at the conference.
"It's hardly an insult!" Li Chu waved his hand. "At most, it was just that everyone had different opinions, and the leader eventually adopted my suggestion. It's not as serious as insulting someone."
As Li Chu said this, he sighed inwardly. He wondered how the story had been spread about this matter outside.
This time, I've really offended those experts.
But he didn't care, since they weren't in the same field, and it seemed like everyone was an expert.
Xu Damao looked at Li Chu sitting opposite him with admiration in his eyes, thinking about the kind of people and things that Li Chu dealt with every day.
These days, they attend meetings that determine the fate of an entire industry, and the opinions they offer are directly addressed to the higher-ups.
Wow, that's real vision.
He felt genuinely sorry for Qin Huairu, who had reported Li Chu. Although he didn't know why she did it, the siblings didn't seem to take the report seriously at all and continued chatting as usual.
“Young man, why are these two children asleep on the playmat?”
Everyone was engrossed in listening and didn't notice that the two children were playing there and had actually fallen asleep.
Lou Xiao'e quickly picked up her third child, and Ding Qiunan also held Xiaoyu in her arms.
Li Qin came over to take the child, but she made a bit of a commotion. The child opened his eyes, looked around, and then snuggled closer to Ding Qiunan.
This left Li Qin both amused and exasperated.
"Sis, it's okay, you can sit down. I'll hold you."
Li Chu carried the kettle to the side, filled it with cold water, and then placed it on the honeycomb briquette stove next to him.
After sitting back down, I started making tea for everyone again.
The three families sat in the pavilion in the backyard, enjoying the gentle breeze, listening to the rustling of the leaves, watching the red carp in the small lake, and chatting casually, enjoying themselves immensely.
They didn't go home until it was almost time for dinner.
Li Qin invited her younger brother and sister-in-law to her place for a meal, but Li Chu refused, saying that they couldn't really go there to freeload every day.
After everyone left, Li Chu stretched on the sofa. He felt that chatting with relatives and friends every day was the best kind of life.
Ding Qiunan came out of the bathroom and ran over to him, clinging to him.
Her favorite thing to do was to snuggle up to her husband and cuddle in his arms.
"Honey, what should we eat? Should we go to my mom's?"
"No, let's not make things worse. But Chen Na's family is really something else; they didn't even bother to come and see their daughter when she gave birth."
Ding Qiunan gave a bitter smile. Her sister-in-law was also a pitiful person. They didn't know much about her before, but they found out after she gave birth. Goodness, her family was a bit too sexist.
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