Old Movies of the Republic of China(17)

Seeing that Lin Dehai was getting involved, Lin Yuhuai said directly: "Please don't get involved."

Lin Dehai let out a "ha" sound, as if he was too busy meddling in this business. He didn't say a word, he just shoveled the braised and delicious pork head meat into the bowl, and then took a sip of the wine glass.

Lin Yuhuai did not look at his father's unlucky look, but turned his face and asked Yang Zi: "When did you come up with this idea?"

Fourth Master didn't say anything. When did he come up with such an idea? He must have been following Bai Kun for a few days before he thought about it.

Yang Zi sniffed and just stared at the plate of oriental fish in front of him and took two bites. It seemed that the salty taste made him slightly uncomfortable, so he only frowned, but lowered his head and said nothing. This was not his usual behavior.

Lin Yutong brought him some vegetables and calmed down the atmosphere by saying, "Don't keep staring at the dried fish. This elbow tastes good. Try it." Everyone calls the dried fish Oriental fish. It is a red dried fish from the sea.

It’s shipped from the Japanese country and is very cheap. Two copper coins can buy a large plate. It tastes salty and is very durable. Poor people can’t afford meat, so only fish can be afforded occasionally. Even salt is available.

It was saved. Yang Zi held the steamed buns in his hand, but did not add any vegetables. He only stared at the dried fish. Since he couldn’t finish the food for the guests, he still wanted to keep it. He could warm it up and serve it next time.

other guests.

At this moment, when Lin Yutong peeled off the skin of his elbow, dipped it in vinegar and put it on the plate in front of him, he moved the corner of his mouth and then raised his head, "I heard that the Japanese country set up a school in Liaodong, and called the children

Learn Japanese. If everyone just wants to sit in the classroom and go to school, then in the future, when my children go to school, will they have to learn Japanese in school?"

Lin Yuhuai paused for a long time and then said: "Yang Zi is more promising than me. It's really not feasible for you to become a soldier now." Seeing that Yang Zi wanted to talk, he waved his hand and said, "Look at yourself.

, you are thin and small, like a child of twelve or thirteen years old. Even if you want to go, people don’t want you. They think you are just there to make a living. So, you have to make yourself strong first, and then talk about it every day from now on.

Follow me to practice martial arts. You still have to go to school. Soldiers who can’t read can become martial arts masters! Do you think that’s okay?”

Okay! Just tell yourself to go.

Yang Zi hurriedly responded.

Lin's mother thought that Huaizi was a delaying tactic. As long as she could keep the child, she could say anything. Now that life is getting better, he is eating and drinking well at home, and he probably won't want to run away in two years. Thinking like this, his face

He said with a smile on his face. He took a big piece of meat with chopsticks and said, "Your brother is right. Listen to your brother. Make your body strong first."

Lin Dehai curled his lips, stretched out his chopsticks and took a piece of fat meat to Lin Yuhuai, and then took another chopstick to Lin Yutong, "Eat! It's the same if you two have a mother or not."

Damn it! I'm dead for thinking that my son has raised you three mothers all these years. When have you ever felt bad for me? You are much better to that little brat than to the roots of the Lin family. Find out who this is.

s home?

Mother Lin was holding the chopsticks in her hands, and she was trembling a little. She didn't want to infect a mother and son like this. She glanced at her eldest son in panic, and then turned to look at Lin Yutong.

When Lin Yutong faced the fat meat on the plate, he could only tremble in his heart. The fourth master took advantage of the opportunity of the whole family over there to stare at each other, and quickly took away the fat meat.

Mother Lin didn't pay attention, so as compensation, she gave Lin Yutong another piece. Xingzi quickly stopped: "My eldest sister doesn't eat fat meat."

"..." Mother Lin was stunned on the spot with her chopsticks, "Fat meat is a good thing, why don't you eat it?"

Of course, if you live a good life, you won’t hesitate to eat.

Lin Dehai was very satisfied with Fourth Master and immediately said: "In the past, our family only had beef, mutton, and chicken, and pork was not on the table at all. Now, this pork has become the most fragrant. My daughter followed you, but it has been a good time."

It’s time.”

With a few polite words, Fourth Master turned the topic to Yang Zi's studies: "The Minli Middle School is a little far from home, but the school is pretty good. I heard there are more than a thousand students..."

"The tuition is not cheap either." Lin Dehai felt a little hurt.

"Sixteen yuan a semester." Lin Yutong answered: "With our family's income now, this amount of money is nothing. It can't be considered a burden." I didn't know who I heard saying this before.

Among the middle schools in Xiangjiang, the cheapest tuition fees are over 300 per semester, while the more expensive ones are around 1,500 per semester. For many families, these are astronomical figures.

Xingzi quickly answered: "It's not a burden, my mother and I can afford it."

Yang Zi saw that the matter was settled in a few words, and he said: "As long as I pass 90 points in Chinese language and arithmetic, I can skip a grade. I think I can graduate in two years at most." The school only offers six subjects.

Courses include Chinese language, self-cultivation, arithmetic, English, geography, history, and nothing else. Especially in Chinese and mathematics, as long as the grades are up to standard, you can skip the grade. Apart from the tuition fee, the remaining textbook expenses are really unnecessary.

How much, a book costs 8 cents. A semester is less than 50 cents. Add in pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and two yuan is a lot. So the annual cost for a middle school student is about forty yuan.

Mother Lin felt happy when she saw that she really wanted to send her youngest son to study. After looking at Lin Dehai's face, she said: "Don't be like your fifth aunt's nephew. He didn't wear any cloth socks when he went to school. He has to wear foreign socks.

You have to wear leather shoes, but our family is not used to your habit."

Lin Yutong was a bit dumbfounded. A pair of men's foreign socks cost only five copper coins, but they are not durable. Half a month is the limit. Even leather shoes can be bought for three to five yuan. A boy like Yang Zi wears children's leather shoes.

Large sizes are probably fine, and they only cost a little over a dollar a pair.

She wrote this down, and on the fifth day of the first lunar month, when the shopping mall opened, she went out and bought a dozen foreign socks and a pair of pretty good leather shoes for Yang Zi. She also picked out paper and pen for him.

A congratulatory gift for entering middle school.

When we got home, the fourth master had just come back.

"What are you doing?" Lin Yutong didn't hear that he was going out. Why did he go out to do errands when he went out for a while?

The fourth master looked outside and then whispered: "Let's go and have a look. The cultural relics will be shipped tonight, and now everyone on that side is surrounded."

It's still going to be luck in the end.

The Forbidden City was evacuated.

I thought something was going to happen in the city, but unexpectedly, it was very quiet inside the city. However, in the second half of the night, gunfire rang out outside the city for half the night. At dawn, a few sporadic shots could be heard.

There were many people gathered in the yard, but none of them went out. As long as the Lin family's house was not bombarded by artillery, bullets could not fly in. The Lin family's house was a high-class house. The sound of gunfire disturbed the atmosphere of the New Year. People were panicking.

Stable.

People in Maodong have even more reasons not to go out. After the tenth day of the first lunar month, the number of people visiting relatives becomes less and less. Lin Yutong doesn’t have many guests here. He thought that this New Year’s Day would just pass. But he didn’t want to

On the eleventh day of the first lunar month, two uninvited guests came to the house.

Lin Yutong opened the door and saw two people standing outside wearing cotton robes, top hats, black woolen scarves, and old-fashioned glasses with black frames on their faces. They were only in their forties.

, exuding an air of elegance, "Is Mr. Jin Siye at home?"

Why does it sound so awkward to add a gentleman after Mr. Jin?

Lin Yutong didn't care about the awkwardness. Knowing that he was here to see Fourth Master, he nodded: "I'm here. I wonder who you are?"

"Hello, I am the dean of the normal college, Su Yingjie, and I have come to pay a special visit to Mr. Jin." After saying that, he took off his hat and buttoned it on his chest, bowing slightly.

Teachers College? It should be Teachers College.

The dean of education in a university is equivalent to the vice president in charge of education. This is probably the distinction. She didn't understand. Anyway, you are a guest when you come to the door. No matter why you come, let people in first. "Invite inside."

After saying that, he made way out and asked people to come in first. This man was very polite. He didn't walk around in the yard after entering the door. Instead, he waited for Lin Yutong to close the door before following Lin Yutong without looking left or right.

The yard itself is not big, and it is only a few meters to reach the entrance of the main room. The fourth master listened closely to what the two of them said at the door. He stood at the door of the main room to greet him: "It turns out to be Mr. Su, whom I have admired for a long time."

"Jiu Yang" is of course a kind word. I have never heard of such a person before.

Su Yingjie seemed not to have expected that the Fourth Master was so young. He was stunned for a moment and then said: "After reading Mr. Jin's article, I thought he was an old Confucian, but I didn't expect him to be such a young and talented man. It's really surprising."

Just now I thought the girl who opened the door was Mr. Jin's daughter, but now it seems that they are clearly a young couple.

Fourth Master hurriedly invited people inside: "You are really flattering me."

Lin Yutong went to make tea for the two of them and served it to them.

Su Yingjie opened the tea lid and said "good tea" repeatedly. When he put down the tea bowl, he glanced at the inside of the square table. It seemed to be a manuscript. After another look, it turned out to be a theory on meal matching. This was also compiled by Lin Yutong when he was free.

.Just think of it as a change of mind.

"This is also Mr. Jin's masterpiece." Su Yingjie pointed at the manuscript and asked the fourth master hurriedly.

The Fourth Master waved his hand: "That was compiled by my wife. I know nothing about it."

Su Yingjie looked at Lin Yutong in surprise: "I really came to the right place this time. I didn't expect that there were unexpected gains."

The fourth master looked at Su Yingjie: "I haven't asked Mr. Su yet, but you are a noble person and have a humble footing. What do you mean?"

"Mr. Jin is being too modest." Su Yingjie looked at Fourth Master with warm eyes: "I came here this time to ask Mr. Su to come out and teach in our normal college."

Teach?

This was completely beyond the expectations of Fourth Master and Lin Yutong.

"How did you find me here?" Fourth Master was a little surprised.

Su Yingjie was also a little embarrassed, "That's right, I live not far from here, separated by two alleys. I have read your husband's articles in the newspaper before, but I never thought that he is so close to me. I am at home during the New Year.

, I heard that the children around me called Mr. Jin the Great Good Person Jin, so I inquired about it and found out that you are Mr. Jin who writes articles for the newspaper. So, I took the liberty to come and ask you to teach."

Lin Yutong and Fourth Master understood. There is a saying nowadays, "Beida is old, Normal University is poor, Qinghua and Yanjing are accommodating." This saying was later misunderstood by many people, thinking that it meant that Peking University was too old, and Normal University was poor.

University is too poor. Yanjing and Qinghua University have easy entrance exams and can be accommodating. In fact, it is not the same thing at all. This is completely a mate selection standard for intellectual women in the capital. This Peking University boss means that he studied at Peking University.

People are older and most of them are married; Normal University is poor because the students who went to Normal University were basically from poor families at that time. Normal University does not require tuition fees, so Normal University is poor; Qinghua and Yanjing can be accommodating

, that means those who go to Qinghua and Yanjing are good candidates for mate. They have better family backgrounds and good schools, so they can be considered.

This normal college is probably the same thing as the National Normal University. It recruits students from poor families and studies for free. In this case, the salary of the school teachers is a problem. Jin Siye, a great Jin Dashan, is obviously a person who does not value

Money, then in Su Yingjie's mind, the salary is easy to talk about.

Fourth Master understood what was going on and asked first: "I don't know which subject you want to hire me as a teacher?"

"Your knowledge in Chinese language and history can be seen in the article. It is extremely profound." Su Yingjie saw that there was a way to do it and hurriedly gave him a high hat.

But this is not what Fourth Master wants to teach. Thinking about what he will do in the future, the most lacking thing is talents, so he said: "I can agree to this offer, but I don't know if your school has science and engineering subjects. What I want to teach is physics."
To be continued...