Xin Zhai

Su Xiaoqian received a letter of recommendation from the dean at the end of May.The dean is the only academician in the department and has considerable popularity and influence in the field of mechatronics.His recommendation will play a key role in applying for foreign schools.And the dean likes to be serious, how many students come to him, and those who can get his name on the recommendation letter are really rare.

Needless to say, students with mediocre grades, such as Guo Qi, the monitor of Class 50, can rank in the top ten in the class in terms of credit score, and it is definitely no problem to get into the top [-] in the department. Don't even think about going to the dean to get a recommendation.Guo Qi has been working hard on the IELTS test for the past few months. He wants to study in an Australian university, and he will have to send his application letter this summer at the latest.

Because Ye Li had been studying there for a while, he came over to ask about the situation several times.Later, he decided to apply with all his strength to the school where Ye Li was studying. He had a long back and forth with a professor over there, and then unexpectedly learned that he and Tong Yan had a good relationship, so he wondered if he could let Tong Yan Give him a recommendation.

"I said?" When Guo Qi found him, Ye Li was surprised, "It doesn't work if I say it."

"You can help me lobby, it will definitely be useful. I have approached Mr. Tong several times, but he always ignores the answer, saying that he doesn't understand my situation and can't write a recommendation."

Although Ye Li is the monitor of Class [-] and Tong Yan is the class teacher, their relationship is not good enough to help others.Guo Qi didn't say it clearly, saying this to him was actually tacitly acquiescing the special relationship between him and Tong Yan.

"I..." Ye Li was beating drums in his heart. He looked at Guo Qi and felt that his eyes were sincere and natural, without any hint of unfriendliness, so he asked instead, "What did he say?"

"He began to say that he had no qualifications, and it was useless to recommend me. Later, I explained that the supervisor I was interested in had a good relationship with him, and he said that he was busy recently, and asked me to send my resume to his email. The letter is gone. I have looked for him twice, but he is not in the office. "

"Oh." Ye Li asked again, "Have you written the letter of recommendation?"

"I wrote one, but I'm not ashamed to show it to him now."

"You made him sign it? I think Xiaoqian wrote it all by himself."

"Hey, what kind of resume is Su Xiaoqian, just write it casually, my recommendation letter is exaggerated." Guo Qi smiled embarrassedly, "Tong Yan is not a big deal, I'm afraid he will say me, I want to wait for him Agreed, take it out again."

"Oh, that's right." Ye Li nodded, "Then send me a copy of your recommendation letter."

"Okay, great Ye Li, I knew you would help me."

"I, I can only try to mention it to him... If he doesn't want to care, he won't listen to me."

Ye Li didn't know what Tong Yan thought about this matter, if he didn't want to recommend it, it would be useless for him to say anything.

He knew that Tong Yan was busy with the mid-term report of a project recently, and was in the laboratory almost all day, so he called Tong Yan at noon the next day. He estimated that he had just finished eating, but he hadn't started working yet. .

After the call was connected, he heard the voices of Lin Li and another senior brother talking on the other side of the phone. He thought that Tong Yan would find a place where no one was around, but the noisy chatting over there continued.

"Have you eaten?" Tong Yan asked him.

"Eat." Ye Li didn't gossip, and asked straight to the point, "Are you familiar with a professor named Ben in Australia?"

"Ben? I know such a person, but I don't think I'm familiar with him."

"Guo Qi is going to apply for his doctoral student and wants you to write him a letter of recommendation."

"Oh, the monitor of Class [-]?" Tong Yan thought for a while, "He looked for me."

"Then you... forgot?"

Tong Yan stopped talking for a while, as if he had come out of the laboratory: "That's right. Because our school has a good communication with the other side, and the majors are suitable. I guess there are quite a few people who want to study with Ben. This month, apart from him , and two other people from our department came looking for me."

"Oh."

"To be honest, I don't know much about these three people. I can only look at their resumes. How do you choose?"

Ye Li thought for a while: "I recommend them all."

"That's not good. After all, I still know Ben, so I'm so unprincipled?"

"Then...then recommend the best one?"

"I also want to do the same, but I can only rely on the resume, which actually loses the meaning of the recommender itself. The recommender must know the student well."

"Guo Qi, you also teach him, why don't you understand."

"Yes, but to be honest, I don't have a deep impression. Maybe this is also my dereliction of duty."

Having said that, Ye Li guessed that he might have someone he wanted to recommend, so he hesitated to ask.

At this time, Tong Yan said: "He asked you to talk about this?"

"Well, he said you ignored him, let me ask for help." Ye Li thought of Guo Qi's excited look at that moment, and decided that even if he couldn't help, he should at least ask what happened.

"Are you trying to recommend someone else?"

"That's not true, I plan to not push any of them."

When Ye Li heard it, he felt that there was still hope, and hurriedly said: "Then you can read Guo Qi's information, I think he is very good."

"Hehe," Tong Yan seemed to realize that Ye Li was doing things for a good friend through "personal friendship", and teased him, "How good is it? How is it compared to you?"

"Compared to me? Better than me... He is very nice and has done a lot of public welfare activities... His grades are also good, and his grades should be about the same as mine."

"Oh... Anything else?" Tong Yan seemed to want to continue listening.

Ye Li rationalized his thoughts, and added: "He likes to study, and usually likes to discuss problems. He has made a racing car model and won an award from the school. It's just that he may be afraid of you and doesn't communicate with you much." The second half of the sentence was guessed by Ye Li himself.

After saying this, Tong Yan smiled and said: "Oh...it's amazing, but it's far behind you."

Ye Li said "Ah?", and heard him say, "I'll go check out his profile, and look for him later."

Three days later, Guo Qi happily invited Ye Li to dinner.Tong Yan quickly read his resume and transcript, revised his recommendation letter, and asked his opinion.Guo Qi looked at it, and Tong Yan deleted many descriptions that were not realistic, but added some things that Tong Yan thought were more important.Guo Qi quickly thanked him and wanted to invite Tong Yan to dinner, but he turned him down.

"Teacher Tong is so serious. I have never heard of a teacher who would change the recommendation letter for a student." Guo Qi took Ye to the restaurant outside the school, and the two chatted while eating.

"Well, he is like this. He will take care of the things he wants to take care of to the end, and will push aside the things he doesn't want to take care of." Ye Li thought, this year, who did the chores that Tong Yan didn't want to do?

"However, I'm still a little afraid to talk to him. I always have to think about it for a long time when I say something."

Ye Li chuckled: "Not at all."

"Really. In that class, I kept two classes waiting, and called all those who skipped the class, and it was still a recitation class! It's too...perverted."

Ye Li quickly explained: "He cares about people very much. He knows every student in our class very well. That time, he got angry when there were too many absenteeism."

"The main thing is that I'm not in your class, and I'm not very familiar with it. Thank you, Ye Li." Guo Qi said, "You helped me a lot."

"It's nothing..." Ye Li was a little embarrassed to see him thanking him so solemnly.

The two had a good relationship, but after a meal, they talked more casually.

Guo Qi asked curiously: "Hey, when you are with Teacher Tong, do you have to listen to him?"

Ye Li was stunned and said, "No." On the contrary, in fact, Tong Yan listened to his opinion on most things.He clearly remembered that when Tong Yan asked him to do a project, the essence was to provide him with a job opportunity, he asked him "Can you do it?"From the beginning to the present, Ye Li made all the decisions by himself. These decisions are enough to affect Tong Yan, but Tong Yan never mentioned anything to him.

"Anyway, we all think that you are the only one with a good temper who can bear him. And he is so much older than us... like an antique."

When Guo Qi said it casually, Ye Li was still a little unhappy, and immediately retorted: "No, he is very good. The brothers and sisters who are familiar with him are rushing to be his students."

"I know, he's fine." Guo Qi smiled, "We outsiders don't understand, as long as you feel happy."

Ye Li took a bite of the last fruit that came up, and when he heard this sentence, he was suddenly moved.

This is the first time an "outsider" in the department talked to him about his relationship with Tong Yan, and told him "just be happy".Although this was not an explicit support, Ye Li felt it was an affirmation.

"Thank you, Mr. Tong, for me. I want to invite him to dinner, but he said he's not free." Guo Qi said again, "But I'm afraid to have dinner with him alone, so I don't know what to say haha."

Ye Li followed suit with a laugh, and imagined that if he had dinner with the old Wei who taught great things, he would also feel embarrassed.

It seems that Tong Yan is on the same level as Old Wei for some students.

He chatted with Guo Qi all night and was in a good mood. He went back to the dormitory and lay on the bed, happily sending Tong Yan a WeChat message.

"Isn't it against your will to write a recommendation for Guo Qi?"

After waiting for a while, the children's actor replied by voice: "I'm at the airport and I'm about to board the plane. I'm on the plane for a while, and I'm going to Shanghai to attend a meeting."

Another business trip.Including these four days, Ye Li hadn't met Tong Yan alone for two weeks.The last time Tong Yan went to the library to look up information one day, and he happened to be in the library too, so when he found out, he ran over to look for him.The two whispered while looking for books, wandering around the foreign language reference room all afternoon.

"Oh, when will you be back?" he asked.

"The night after tomorrow." Tong Yan said again, "I read Guo Qi's profile, it's pretty good."

"Really?" Ye Li heyed twice at the screen, and then pressed another sentence, "I will thank him for you when you come back, and treat you to dinner?"

After waiting for a long time, Tong Yan sent a very short voice, which was very different from the previous sentences, but it was gentle all at once.

"Okay, see you the day after tomorrow."

Ye Li listened to these five words many times.Tong Yan's gentle voice is probably the only one who has ever heard it.