"Xiao Chu, where do you see these things all day long?" Wang Ziwen asked curiously.
"I read it in a book!"
"Which book? Why have I never read it?"
"Uh...it's an English book."
"Can you still read English books?"
This question was asked by Li Qin, and several other people were shocked and speechless.
"OK."
"Why didn't I know you could read English books?" Ding Qiunan looked at her husband beside her, and suddenly she felt a little guilty. She, who always claimed to know her husband, didn't seem to be what she imagined.
"Xiao Chu, I remember you studied Russian in school before, right?" Li Qin also suddenly felt that the younger brother in front of her seemed strange.
"It's in Russian, that's right. I learned English by myself."
Then he turned his head and looked at his wife and said, "You know those English books on the bookshelf in our study, right?"
"I know, I remember you bought an English dictionary of some sort."
"Yes, I learned it from the books and dictionaries on the bookshelf."
Well, what can anyone say about someone who is self-taught?
Wang Ziwen looked at his brother-in-law and asked with interest: "Xiao Chu, how good is your English?"
"Well...basically, it's not particularly professional English books and periodicals, you can read them all."
"Oh, so powerful? Can you say no?"
"I don't know about that. After all, I don't have the conditions to speak English to anyone."
"Brother Chu, can you help Yangyang with his English? His English is so bad that he gets single digits every time he takes the test." Lou Xiao'e couldn't help but interrupt.
Li Chu smiled bitterly and said: "Xiao'e, it's not that I don't agree, but I am self-taught, which is completely different from what is taught in school. What they learn in school is for exams. If you learn from me, the exams will definitely be the same."
not good."
He didn't want to take this job. He treated Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e as sincere friends. However, Li Chu looked down on their son Xu Yang because he skipped school.
After listening to Li Chu's words, Lou Xiao'e thought about it and agreed with it. After all, he was not a teacher. If he was different from what the teacher taught, it would be a trap for the children.
"Xiao Chu, if we are to receive foreign guests in the future and there are not enough translators, can you come and help?"
Li Chu stared at Wang Ziwen who was speaking with wide eyes: "Brother-in-law, did I hear you correctly? Do you want me to help you translate?"
"Yes, there are too few people who can speak foreign languages now, and those translators sometimes have to wait in line for other people's time."
"No, brother-in-law, you are not mistaken. I cannot participate in foreign affairs activities casually. If you follow the formal approval process, it will be slower than waiting for those translators."
"Uh..." Wang Ziwen was stunned for a moment before realizing that this brother-in-law could not casually participate in activities to receive foreign guests without the approval of his superiors.
"Forget it, just pretend I didn't say it."
"Xiao Chu, I remember that you are not opposed to learning English, or a foreign language? How come you still learn it secretly?"
Li Chu was stunned by his sister's question. It took him a while to come back to his senses and asked: "Sister, what you said is that when did I object to learning a foreign language?"
"Uncle Wang is talking about it. When he came over to chat last time, he said that the Ministry of Health asked for opinions. In the future, all doctors will have to take a foreign language test during their grade assessment. The Government Affairs Council approved it. As a result, at the conference, for
This issue of whether to learn a foreign language or not made many experts speechless. In the end, the foreign language test was cancelled."
"Haha" Li Chu laughed out loud.
"It's not that exaggerated, sister. In the end, we just canceled the foreign language test for doctors of traditional Chinese medicine."
"So this is really true. Did you really insult someone at a conference?"
Li Qin knew this because Uncle Wang told her in private that day, treating it like a joke.
But Li Chu never mentioned this matter when he came back. Ding Qiunan only knew that her husband opposed the foreign language test for doctors of traditional Chinese medicine, but she didn't know about the insult at the conference.
"It's not like blaming others!" Li Chu waved his hand: "At most, everyone has different opinions. In the end, the leader accepted my opinion. It's not as serious as blaming others."
When he said this, Li Chu also sighed in his heart. I don't know how this matter has been spread to the outside world.
This time, the experts were offended to death.
But he didn't care, since everyone was not in the same field, and it seemed like no one was an expert anymore.
Xu Damao looked at Li Chu, who was sitting across from him, with admiration in his eyes, looking at all the people and things he came into contact with in a day.
Nowadays, people attend meetings that decide an industry, and their opinions are raised directly to the leaders above.
Gee, this is the pattern.
From the bottom of his heart, he felt sad for Qin Huairu who reported Li Chu. Although he still didn't know why she did that, the brother and sister didn't take the report seriously at all and continued to chat.
"Hey, why are these two children lying on the floor and falling asleep?"
Everyone was sitting here and listening so enthusiastically that they didn't notice the two children sitting there playing, and they actually fell asleep.
Lou Xiao'e quickly picked up her third child, and Ding Qiunan also held Xiaoyu in his arms.
Li Qin came over and wanted to take it, but the movement was a bit loud. The child opened his eyes and looked at it. He was not willing to be hugged by his grandma, so he arched into Ding Qiunan's arms.
It made Li Qin dumbfounded.
"Sister, if it's okay, you can sit down and I'll just hold you."
Li Chu carried the kettle and ran to the side to get another pot of cold water, and then put it on the briquette stove next to it.
After sitting back, I started making tea for everyone again.
The three families were sitting in the pavilion in the backyard, blowing in the breeze, listening to the rustling of leaves, looking at the red carp in the small lake, chatting casually, and having fun.
It wasn't until it was almost time to have dinner that everyone went back to their homes.
Li Qin asked her brother and sister-in-law to go to her place for dinner, but Li Chu refused. She couldn't really go there every day to make a living.
After everyone left, Li Chu stretched out on the sofa and chatted with relatives and friends every day. He felt that this was the best day.
Ding Qiunan came out of the bathroom and ran over and lay on top of him.
Her favorite thing is to lean on her husband and nestle in his arms.
"Honey, what should we eat? Do you want to go to my mother's place to eat?"
"Farewell, let's not cause trouble, but Chen Na's mother-in-law is really good. She didn't even watch her daughter give birth."
There was a wry smile on Ding Qiunan's face. Her sister-in-law was also a hard-luck person. They didn't know it well before. Only after giving birth this time did they realize that my mother-in-law's family is a bit too patriarchal.