Our Time: Unswerving until Death

Chapter 68 Am I that kind of person?

Seeing that He Qi agreed to go to the Shanghai stock market, Qian Xuan nudged Brother Xun with his elbow, and said, "We are both going, are you going or not, tell me?"

The plot of the hometown of the Chinese people is very important. Brother Xun has been out for a long time, of course he wants to go home and have a look, but the threshold in his heart can never be crossed. After returning home, his eyes are big and his eyes are small, that is a big embarrassment, shake After shaking his head, he drank the dull wine alone.

But Qian Xuan was so worried that he refused to let go, and asked tortured: "Go home and see what's wrong? You don't miss your old lady?"

"I'm so annoying, both of you are leaving, I'll stay and look after the store." Brother Xun became irritable when asked, and became more and more impatient, then lit a cigarette, took a deep puff, and kept silent language.

Qian Xuan's mouth crackled, and he said to Brother Xun: "You are a person who only knows how to escape. Whenever you encounter trouble, you bury your head in the sand like an ostrich. Is it useful to escape? Some things you You can escape for a while, but you can’t escape for a lifetime. How many times have I told you that people have to look forward and learn to accept. Fortunately, you have been living in the circle you drew. I got married at that time, and it was my brother who made the decision. Isn't it like you?"

Brother Xun squinted, snorted coldly, and said, "Same? Why is it the same? You and Xu Wanzhen are childhood sweethearts, childhood sweethearts, and I never met her once before we got married."

Qian Xuan raised his voice and retorted: "That's your choice too. If you resist desperately, who can tie you up to get married? Regret it now, regret it for a bird?"

Brother Xun was silent by Qian Xuan's words.

Qian Xuan's father was a former official of the Ministry of Officials of the Qing Dynasty. He was 62 years old and had a son. When Qian Xuan was 12 years old, he died. Because Mr. Qian was sick in his later years, he wanted to entrust Qian Xuan to his brother Qian Xun, who was 34 years older than him. , but it happened that Qian Xun was an ambassador abroad at that time and was not in China, so Mr. Qian entrusted Qian Xuan to his friend Xu Yuanzhao to be raised, that is, Mrs. Qian's family.

However, Qian Xuan refused to marry Xu Wanzhen at first. At that time, the society was initially opened up and Qian Xuan, who had accepted new ideas, did not want to accept an arranged marriage. down, but almost never see each other.

However, the eldest brother is like a father, and his father's fate is like a mountain. Qian Xuan couldn't resist, so he had to accept the marriage with tears in his eyes. He felt extremely depressed. After getting married, he lived for a while and found that Xu Wanzhen was really fragrant.

You may not believe it, but Qian Xuan is still a loyal supporter of monogamy. Although Mrs. Qian is weak and sick, and has been infertile for many years after marriage, Qian Xuan does not dislike her. Others persuade Qian Xuan to take a concubine to continue the incense, but Qian Xuan She resolutely refused to accept concubines, devoted herself to taking care of Mrs. Qian's body, and finally gave birth to three sons.

Qian Xuan continued to chase after him fiercely: "I'll have a good fight with you today. Before we got married, we only met a few times in total. That's childhood sweetheart? I went to his house when I was ten years old. That's childhood sweetheart? I It was also strongly opposed at the time, okay?"

He Qi suddenly interjected, "So Deqian is Jingze Yanxiang?"

Brother Xun nodded, deeply convinced, and took a long puff of cigarette, exhaling full of depression.

"Hmph~~" Qian Xuan sneered, and glanced at the two of them, one was a bachelor, the other was still a bachelor, and said with a look of being too lazy to say, "Huanjingzeyanxiang? Do you know what fragrance is? You two bachelors, what do you know? Do you know women?"

He Qi shook her head and said, "I just don't understand, so I asked you."

Brother Xun also moved his ears closer.

Qian Xuan picked up the empty wine glass, and He Qi immediately filled it up, took a sip, and said, "This woman is like a flower, some flowers will bloom when they are in bloom, and some flowers will bloom." But they don’t bloom, so people ignore them and think it’s a grass. In fact, they don’t bloom, it may be because of the wrong environment, the lack of sunlight, or the fact that this flower blooms at night and cannot be seen during the day. Yes. Therefore, when facing these flowers, change her environment, or move out to bask in the sun when the sun comes out, or watch her bloom at night."

"So, it's not that these flowers are not beautiful, but that they lack a pair of eyes to discover beauty."

It seemed to make sense, He Qi nuzzled and said: "You really understand!"

Although Brother Xun also felt that there was some truth, he couldn't help but sneered and said, "He eats hundreds of catties of oranges a year, can you not understand?"

Qian Xuan clicked his tongue and said, "It's boring to talk about peaches when you insist on talking about plums."

He Qi said: "But I think what De Qian said makes sense."

Brother Xun threw the cigarette butt on the floor, stamped it out with his foot, turned around and said with a smile: "You eat several hundred catties of oranges a year, and you think it makes sense."

Qian Xuan didn't bother to talk to Brother Xun, he was very satisfied with He Qi's humbly asking for advice, and said: "I'll introduce you another day, and the incense of your old He family must continue."

He Qi became vigilant in an instant, shook her head and said, "Deqian, I don't want the one you used."

"Haha!!" Brother Xun couldn't stop laughing.

Qian Xuan poked his neck and argued with a blushing face, "Am I that kind of person?"

Brother Xun squinted and said with a sneer, "Don't you dare to say that you are not?"

He Qi suddenly understood, and kept laughing wildly, Brother Xun, this is the victim's testimony.

The moon gradually settled on the top of the holly tree, and the night became darker, and the small courtyard under the bright lights was covered with a layer of smoky yellow tulle, quiet and warm. After drinking for more than half a jar, the interest of several people continued to chat nonsense, and they talked about the matter of going to Mr. Taiyan's place earlier.

Qian Xuandao: "Brother Yubai, you said the other day that Chinese people urgently need a comprehensive ideological revolution, and that vernacular can be used to revolutionize Chinese people's thinking. How do you say that?"

Brother Xun frowned, thinking about it carefully, he didn't find such a thing, and hurriedly said: "When did he say that? Didn't he say punctuation marks?"

Qian Xuanbai glanced at Brother Xun, twirled a peanut and threw it into his mouth, and said firmly: "That day what he was going to speak was vernacular, but I deliberately diverted it, so I said punctuation marks, if you don't believe me, ask yourself he?"

Brother Xun looked at He Qi.

He Qi said: "Yes! At that time, I really wanted to speak vernacular Chinese, but I forgot to be in front of Mr. Taiyan, and almost made a mistake."

Qian Xuandao: "There is no one now, please explain carefully."

He Qi said: "Actually, I have said everything that needs to be said. It is a common saying that a class should not only focus on the top students. If you want to improve the average score, the effect will be significant only if you improve the scores of the poor students with a large base. There are 99 million people in our country. [-]% of them are poor students. If you want to improve national strength, you must first improve the people's ideological awareness. How to improve? It is written in vernacular, which is easy to understand and clear at a glance. Don't be afraid of the jokes of you two. Now some articles can be done in one sentence To make sense, you have to pay attention to antithesis and rhyme, and blindly pursue gorgeous rhetoric, but I have a hard time reading it. Some classical Chinese texts have eight allusions in one sentence, and I can't understand them at all, let alone ordinary people. What era is it now, and the set of thresholds for reading has been eliminated, which is already outdated. When I was in Western Europe, people started basic universal education. Children don’t need money to study, and the government spends money on compulsory education. Although we I can’t do it, but at least I can lower the threshold of literacy. A few days ago, I wanted to send Gouwa to school after the operation, so I asked about it, and guess what happened?”

Qian Xuan's eyes became brighter the more he listened, he had long been aware of these problems, and answered subconsciously: "What's wrong?"

He Qidao: "I went to the elementary school for a while, but people told me that they would not accept me because Gouwa had missed the school age. I tried to talk about it, and people finally agreed, but Gouwa is 13 years old and has to go to the school. Higher elementary school. Gouwa has never been to school for a day, and he doesn’t know a single character. Isn’t it a waste of time to go to higher elementary school? I asked if I could let Gouwa go to elementary school. From the basics, at least you must know characters first. .As a result, people said again, they are all based on age, and they don’t care if you have a foundation or not.”

"In the end, someone suggested that I go to a private school to ask. I asked again, and when I looked at the place, the old gentleman inside was enlightening the children? They still use the Fanqie method. For example, you use "Lu" and "Lang Gu" Come to spell, but the problem is how old are the children who are enlightened, and they don’t know the word Langgu, what should I do? I can only memorize it by rote, which is too difficult for children.”

Brother Xun wondered, "Isn't that how we all came here?"

Qian Xuan also wondered: "Yes, we all came here like this."

"English has a total of 26 letters, and each letter has a special phonetic symbol for phonetic notation. It is divided into five vowels and 21 consonants. As long as you memorize the 26 phonetic symbols, you can use the phonetic symbols to spell even if you encounter unfamiliar words. Read it out. But what about us, how many words do we need to memorize using the anti-cut method?" He Qi asked back: "Can't we use this method in English?"

Qian Xuandao: "Do you have a good idea?"

"You wait." He Qizi slipped into the room, took a pen and paper, wrote a set of Hanyu Pinyin on the spot, and briefly demonstrated it a few times, which made Qian Xuan, a phonologist, astonished, as if he had found a treasure , holding the piece of paper and couldn't put it down, and hurriedly asked: "Where did you come from?"

He Qi patted his forehead, suddenly felt dizzy, secretly thought that he drank too much alcohol, something bad happened, and was speechless for a while.

Brother Xun was keenly aware: "It seems that it is not comprehensive, and some words cannot be read."

This happened to be for He Qi to go down the steps and down the donkey, saying: "I just figured it out by myself, and it hasn't been perfected yet."

Even so, Qian Xuan still finds it inconceivable, because this set of literacy method has a clear idea and a preliminary outline. It is much simpler than the phonetic method that was shelved after a few years of quarreling, and is more suitable for promotion and application.

Qian Xuan carefully put away the piece of paper, and said solemnly: "Brother Yubai, you have been thinking about it recently. If this set of literacy is done well, it will be more useful than your punctuation marks. It will benefit the country. Great deed for the people."

He Qi nodded in agreement, she let go of her grip, and finally got over the matter.

There was a matter just now, Brother Xun hadn’t figured it out all the time, this would make him free, so he took the opportunity to ask: "Brother Yubai, you just said that you need to revolutionize the thinking of the Chinese people in order to cure the disease and cure the country. It is like a bowl of good medicine. The fire is there, it is written in vernacular, what are the medicinal materials in the medicine jar?"

Qian Xuan took it immediately, and blurted out: "It's the science and democracy proposed by Cheng Zhongpu! In Cheng Zhongpu's article, he said that the reason why modern Europe is superior to others is that the prosperity of science is not due to human rights. Two rounds... Chinese people want to get rid of the age of ignorance, and they are ashamed to be superficial people, so they rush to catch up, and they should pay equal attention to science and human rights."

Brother Xun asked again: "That's what you said, but how can you do it?"

Qian Xuan was tongue-tied and said indignantly: "Naturally, it is to write articles to wake up those ignorant, superstitious, and blindly obedient people, such as arranged marriages, keeping chastity, binding feet, and preventing girls from going to school, etc. All unreasonable things."

Brother Xun looked at He Qi and said, "Is that right?"

He Qi nodded.

The drink tonight opened up a new world for Qian Xuan, and he didn't forget to encourage Brother Xun, saying: "Yucai, go to the Shanghai stock market with the two of us, Cheng Zhongpu now has medicinal materials but nothing." After the fire is boiled, we will give it to him. Didn’t you always say that this country is hopeless? Now that the medicine is available, how dare you not move?”

Brother Xun was smoking a cigarette while thinking about something, neither talking about it, nor saying that he couldn't say it.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the big red door, and the sound of "bang bang bang" was extremely ear-piercing. It was very strange to visit late at night. The three of them looked at each other and felt that it was unusual. Going to open the door, Qian Xuan immediately followed.

When the door bolt was removed, He Qi pushed half of the door open, and what came into view was a fat figure with a big belly. It turned out to be Ju Chang, a person He Qi was very reluctant to see.

(End of this chapter)