Buy a house with 30,000 yuan and live in a small town

Chapter 510 If You Love Him, You Must Accompany Him
After the vegetables were cooked, Gu Xuefeng and Liu Nanshan and his wife took them to the living room of the small building. Gu Xuemei and her friends had just finished their visit, so they all came to the kitchen to wash their hands and help serve the food and get the bowls and chopsticks.

As Liu Nanshan walked towards the kitchen, he took out his cell phone and looked at it. He frowned, his eyes full of confusion.

Xu Qingsong was walking towards them carrying two dishes. When he saw them, he asked, "Uncle, what's wrong?"

Liu Nanshan handed the phone to Xu Qingsong and said, "Can you help me see what Xiao Li meant by this? Why do I feel like the translation is wrong?"

Liu Wangxue came over and heard it, then laughed, "Dad, you had a good chat with Richard. Your English has improved."

Gu Xuemei walked over here with a rice cooker filled with rice. Upon hearing this, she asked her, "Who is it? What's your English name? Does your dad have foreign friends?"

Liu Wangxue went to the living room with her aunt and explained to her who Richard was.

Because Liu Nanshan's "pitiful" filter for Richard became thicker, and he learned that Richard had no plans to travel during the Spring Festival holiday, he added him as a friend and invited him to his home for dinner, saying that he would provide three meals a day.

Liu Nanshan and Richard do not speak the same language, but they can usually communicate without any obstacles by using body language. But now it is the holiday, one is at home and the other is in the studio, so body language is useless.

Liu Wangxue taught Liu Nanshan and demonstrated the built-in translation function of the chat software. Liu Nanshan usually didn't use this thing and had never paid attention to it. This was very convenient. After adding Richard as a friend, he sent a few messages to test it out and found it very useful. If he wanted to find Richard for something, he didn't have to wait for him to come over or eat. He could just send a message and Richard would reply when he saw it.

However, this built-in translation system has its shortcomings. It works fine for short sentences, but if it comes to long sentences, the words won't express the meaning. But it doesn't matter, both parties understand and can understand what the other party wants to express.

Today is the first day of the holiday and relatives are coming to visit again. Liu Nanshan and Gu Xuelan feel sad when they think of Richard being all alone, so Liu Nanshan sends a message to Richard asking him to come over for lunch.

Richard had just returned from Shen Nian'an's home when he received Liu Nanshan's message. The reason why he didn't go out to travel was because of financial constraints and because he had to learn Chinese.

When Richard first came to Taojia Village, he said he wanted to hire a private teacher. Liu Wangxue and the others thought that Shen Nian'an and Gu Qingyue were teachers of this profession, so they helped to make the connection. The two teachers said they would discuss it after they returned from winter vacation.

After Shen Nian'an and his family came back, Richard took the time to visit them to discuss the Chinese classes with the two teachers.

Shen Nian'an had finished writing his thesis, so he had nothing to do during the winter vacation. However, Gu Qingyue was the opposite. Gu Qingyue's work at school was less busy than Shen Nian'an's, but after returning to Taojia Village, she had something more important to do.

This matter goes back to the summer vacation half a year ago, when everyone learned that Tao Qinglei wanted to apply to Communication University of China.

Tao Qinglei was only passionate about "taking the entrance exam to Communication University of China" at that time, and knew nothing else. When Gu Qingyue, a teacher, found out about it, she helped Tao Qinglei consult with teachers at Communication University of China, printed out a stack of information for Tao Qinglei, and helped him find an art teacher to guide him in the art exam. Then Tao Huayu used his connections to enroll Tao Qinglei in a painting studio in the city, and asked him to go there for training to prepare for the art exam.

Tao Qinglei is a very motivated and talented child. His hard work paid off. He passed the provincial unified examination and the first test of Communication University of China at the end of last month. Yesterday, Gu Xuelan went to teach Qinglei's mother how to embroider cross stitch. Qinglei's mother said that the results of the second test have come out. Tao Qinglei passed successfully and will prepare for the third test next.

Qinglei's mother was overjoyed when she said this. The first and second tests were both online. The third test would be held at the end of this month, and they would need to go to Communication University of China in Beijing for an offline test, as well as an interview. Their family had already started preparing for going to Beijing.

During the summer vacation, because of Tao Qinglei's college entrance examination, Gu Qingyue had a clear understanding for the first time of the education and resources that children in rural areas received. She then went to the village committee and, with the help of Wang Junpeng, visited the homes of children in the village who were attending junior high and high school.

The results of the visit were not very optimistic, and the children were almost confused about their future.

After Gu Qingyue and Shen Nian'an discussed it, they decided to give as much help as they could. Shen Nian'an agreed very much. He was a child from Taojia Village, and he had never thought that he could give back to his hometown in this way. He felt ashamed.

When Gu Qingyue brought Jinghe and Youyou to Liu Wangxue's place to play, she mentioned this matter during the conversation. Everyone thought it was very meaningful, so they set up a "student aid alliance" together. Everyone integrated the resources they could use into this place to help the children in the village plan their studies. In a broader sense, it is also equivalent to planning their lives.

At first, this "student aid alliance" was just a small charity organization they set up privately, with its base at Tao Huayu's home, and Tao Huaxin was responsible for reception and contact. When it was first established, Tao Qinglei helped to promote it, and the first people to get the news were the senior high school students in the village who were in his class.

Some of these children have good grades, while others have poor grades.

After hearing about it, the students with good grades went to Tao Huayu's home immediately. At that time, the summer vacation had not yet ended and Gu Qingyue was still in Taojia Village, so they talked to Gu Qingyue face to face. Within two days, they received planning suggestions. The children were all delighted and felt that their goals were clearer. The rest was to work hard to get into the university of their choice.

The kids with poor grades basically didn't take it seriously. They didn't even want to finish their senior year of high school, but were forced to go to school by their parents: "I heard that college students are worthless now, and it's hard to find a job after graduation. I don't expect you to go to college, but if you don't even have a high school diploma, what can you do after you graduate?"

So when their family heard about this and forced their child to come for consultation, the fall semester had already started, and Gu Qingyue and Shen Nian'an returned to Beijing. So Tao Huaxin helped to contact them and did the online consultation.

The attitude towards learning cannot be changed overnight. Gu Qingyue just wanted them to see the tangible benefits of studying well and how these benefits can play a role in the future. The best example around him was Tao Qinglei, who had already gone to the city's painting studio for training. These children usually went to school and played together, so they would know this. It would be a lie to say that they were not envious.

After one or two conversations, although they did not start to work hard, they gradually calmed down and started to study hard, and every point improvement was a good thing.

Change, especially positive change, is painful, but as long as you grit your teeth and hold on, the rewards will be bountiful.

With these senior high school students as role models, children from other grades also came to Tao Huaxin to register. Some came by themselves, while others were brought by their families. They registered first and lined up to wait for Gu Qingyue to give them one-on-one consultations.

Wang Junpeng knew about the "Scholarship Alliance" not long after it was established. He took the time to come and understand the specific situation and reported it to the village committee. This was obviously a good thing. The village party secretary expressed his strong support, so Wang Junpeng also came from time to time to see if there was anything that needed help.

In late September, the crew came to the village to film. Qiu Xiangrong began to send afternoon tea to the crew, and Tao's parents were also very busy. At that time, Tao Huaxin had not quit her job as a cashier in the town supermarket, and the family was busy with work.

After learning about this, Wang Junpeng proposed, in order to lighten their burden, to move the "Scholarship Alliance" to the village committee and give it an independent desk. Tao Huaxin and others could go there whenever they were free, and he would take care of it at other times. This was also to demonstrate the "strong support" that the village party secretary mentioned.

Tao Huaxin felt that she had no say in this matter. After all, it was Gu Qingyue who first proposed it, and it was only established after everyone joined in. So she asked everyone in the group first.

It was a good thing to have the support of the village. Gu Qingyue joked that their small private group would now be backed by the organization. After the "Student Aid Alliance" moved to the village committee, Wang Junpeng added a table next to his desk and put up a sign on it that read "Academic Counseling Office". This was also changed after he discussed it with Gu Qingyue and others.

Later, Qiu Xiangrong opened a private baking shop, Tao Huaxin quit her cashier job in the town and went to Du Yunkai's studio to open a drink bar. This "Academic Counseling Office" was gradually taken over by Wang Junpeng, and he also took over the contact with Gu Qingyue.

Now there are more than just Gu Qingyue and Shen Nian'an volunteer teachers providing academic counseling for the children. The couple talked about this with several of their teacher friends. Since it is a good deed and a piece of cake, these teachers also signed up to help.

In addition, Xu Qingsong also told his parents about this matter, and the number of teachers in the "Academic Counseling Office" suddenly increased a lot.

Du Yunkai also told his family. His family already had a charity project, a poverty-stricken mountainous area student aid fund founded by Du Shaohua and Yin Donglei, which has funded many children to go to college. Du Shaohua and Yin Donglei set up a new department in the foundation, called the "Taojia Village Student Aid Department", to provide assistance to children like Tao Qinglei who have artistic talents or other specialties. Of course, they also have to sign an agreement, and like those sponsored college students, they have to serve the Du Group for a certain number of years after graduation.

Gu Qingyue and Shen Nian'an have always been very responsible in their work. They help children with academic consultation. They don't just give advice after the consultation. They will also make a return visit. However, they work in Beijing, so Wang Junpeng can only do the on-site return visit in the village. They contact each other by phone from time to time.

Now that Shen Nian'an and Gu Qingyue are back, of course they have to do their part. However, the house needs to be cleaned inside and out these days. Some furniture has been in disrepair for a long time and needs to be renewed or refurbished. Shen Nian'an mainly stays at home to handle these trivial matters, and Gu Qingyue goes out to do the return visits with Wang Junpeng. Sometimes Shen Nian'an will go with them after she is done. Gu Qingyue has regarded this matter as her second career and is very concerned about it, so she also goes to the village committee to work.

As a result, she was afraid that she would not have time to teach Richard Chinese, so she gave this task to Shen Nian'an.

Richard was also very busy with his job, so after discussing with Shen Nian'an, Shen Nian'an suggested that he start with a holiday in the studio and use these ten days to concentrate on studying. First of all, he should master the four tones and pinyin. After all, pinyin is a tool to assist in reading and is one of the compulsory courses for beginners.

And Youyou is just in time to learn pinyin, so he was allowed to have some fun in the first few days after he came back. From today on, Shen Nian'an forced him to sit with Richard in class.

The two brothers had just sent Cha Cha home. Little Youzi heard the news as if it were bad news. He still wanted to go play with Yaya and Xiaopang, so he acted like a spoiled child with Shen Nian'an and said, "Dad, I won't study, okay?"

Shen Nian'an held him tightly and asked him the reason very patiently.

Youyou first looked at his grandma and grandpa who were walking through the living room and about to go out, and cast a look of help in their eyes, but they responded with an expression of "can't help". He turned around and tried to look for Gu Qingyue, but Shen Nian'an reminded him not to look for her because his mother had already gone to work.

Then Youyou's eyes fell on Richard who was sitting upright at the table. In front of Richard were books, some notebooks and some pens. Richard waved and smiled at him in a friendly manner when he saw him looking at him.

Youyou understood that this person was not a “friendly army” either.

Finally, Xiao Youzi looked at Jinghe, pointed at him, and said to Shen Nian'an: "Because, if my brother doesn't learn, then I won't learn either."

His little brain was very smart. He knew that these were things Jinghe had already learned. Since he had already learned them, he definitely didn't need to learn them again! If his brother didn't learn them, then he had a reason not to learn them either.

Unexpectedly, Jing He walked to Richard's side without saying a word, pulled out a chair and sat down, took a portion of the notebook and pen in front of Richard and placed them in front of him, then smiled and waved at You You: "Come on, little You Zi, I have forgotten all this knowledge, and now I have to learn it again, can you come and accompany me?"

Little Youzi was shocked, and then she was dejected. She climbed down from Shen Nian'an's knees and walked towards Jinghe. She sighed deeply and talked to herself as if she was trying to convince herself: "Well, who made me love my brother? If I love him, I have to accompany him."

Shen Nian'an almost laughed to death after hearing this, but he didn't dare to laugh out loud.

After a while of class, Yaya and Xiaopang came over to play with Youyou.

Shen Nian'an: "That's great, let's study together, and then play together after study, sit down."

Yaya and Xiaopang sat down obediently. There was nothing they could do, as Teacher Shen was online and had his own authority.

The two children were detained by Shen Nian'an and sat together with Youyou to learn pinyin. So Jinghe became a little assistant, responsible for managing the three children.

Shen Nian'an's classes are highly rated by both international and domestic students. He is always good at presenting boring knowledge in an interesting way. For example, sometimes he would suddenly go off topic while teaching, and students thought they were listening to a joke, but after laughing, they suddenly realized that this was just the "XX theory" in the book!

Occasionally, students from other majors come to attend the lectures - they just accompany their boyfriends or girlfriends, and they listen with so much gusto that they have the illusion that "linguistics is not difficult."

Shen Nian'an's self-created Pinyin teaching method is also interesting and impressive, suitable for both adults and children. He first explained it to the three children in Chinese, and then explained it to Richard in English.

The two hours in the morning passed quickly. Richard took the notebook back to the studio. He had to go back to eat quickly and review what he had learned in the past two hours. He would come back in the afternoon to continue studying.

As soon as he returned to the studio, he received a message from Liu Nanshan, asking him to come over for lunch. Richard told Liu Nanshan that he had already started the class and declined his invitation.

Liu Nanshan thought it was just a meal, there was no way he didn't have time, so he sent another message to Richard to come over. He was mainly worried that it would be difficult for Richard to eat in the studio during the holiday.

In fact, the two chefs in the canteen left something for Richard. Originally, Richard did not allow them to leave anything, because he said he could not understand the seasonings of Country Z, let alone use them, and he did not know how to cook some ingredients. Anyway, there were many restaurants in the town, and he could cook some simple ones himself, so how could he starve? The two chefs were still worried, so they worked overtime to make a lot of dumplings and wontons, and froze them in the freezer of the canteen, so that he would remember to eat them. They also left some noodles and rice vermicelli, and even matched the dishes and seasonings according to the portion, so that he could just throw them into the pot and cook them when he wanted to eat.

This is what Richard said in his reply to Liu Nanshan.

But I don’t know if there is something wrong with this chat software. The translated things seem to be upside down, and Liu Nanshan frowned as he saw it.

When Xu Qingsong saw it and asked, Liu Nanshan handed him the phone. After Xu Qingsong translated it for Liu Nanshan, Liu Nanshan finally understood.

Liu Nanshan said: "How could I not know? I just feel that dumplings and wontons are filling but not tasty. I've made a whole table of dishes..."