Ye Lan

After recovering from illness, life is still the same.I met Assistant Professor Li at the entrance of the service station, but before he could speak, he said, "Have you passed the preliminary round?" , she's worried about you." I walked into the service station, disappointed in myself.But if I really want to say something, even I don't know what to say.

During the training that day, Feng Huo looked at his mobile phone and said, "It's fatal! The competition said that the nomination of teachers is suddenly needed." A certain Zhang got up from the ground and asked, "What nomination?" ..."

I leaned over to look at Feng Huhu's cell phone.It turned out that the competition party issued a notice saying that due to several unpleasant disputes during the preliminary competition, in order to ensure the high level of the semi-finals, the contestants must be recommended by teachers, and the teachers need to publish several articles in national first-level journals To be eligible for recommendation and so on... "What unpleasant dispute happened?" Feng Laohu was trembling with anger, and said, "Bah! It's just that a few related households played too badly in the preliminary round and had to be eliminated. Later, they asked the judges to refund the bribe , This is an unpleasant dispute! Now that the judges are fine, and they want someone to recommend them, they should laugh."

A certain Zhang stretched himself. "Tell you this game is very dark..." Feng Huo turned off his phone. "You have to fight even if it's dark, and they will be mad at them! Let's contact the teacher in the next few days."

Feng Huhu said it very lightly, but it was as difficult as heaven to connect.I checked the contact information and tried to find a few teachers who taught us.Some of them couldn’t even see anyone, they were either in meetings or socializing, and just met with their teaching assistants every day;I was really helpless, and even found Director Guo of the Department of Microcosmic Effects. I opened the door and walked in and said, "Ms. Guo, we..." Unexpectedly, he was standing behind a girl, smiling all over his face, holding hands Taught to debug the drive.Seeing that the situation was not good, I was about to run away when I saw his eyebrows raised suddenly: "I'm not a child anymore, can't I even knock when I enter the door? I don't have any basic manners. Who taught you? Now Young man! It’s really not as good as one generation..." I was speechless, and after being scolded by him, I quit nonchalantly, only thinking that I was stupid enough to come here.A week passed in a blink of an eye, and the three of them had nothing to gain, so they had to look at each other every day, anxious and helpless.

At this time, I suddenly thought of Assistant Professor Li.I asked: "That said... must be a professor?" A certain Zhang came to his senses: "Assistant Li? Has he published articles in any first-level journals?" We picked up our mobile phones and checked for a while, and found He did post a lot of articles, but the first author was Professor Guo.We debated for a while whether this counted or not, and finally had to accept the fact that there seemed to be no other way but to find Assistant Professor Li.

I then went to the micro-action sub-experiment building and found office No. 705.The door was closed, so I knocked on the door, and when I heard Assistant Professor Li say, "Come in!", I pushed the door open and went in.The door of the room is facing a floor-to-ceiling window. The room is small, but the inside is quite bright, probably because the walls and ceiling are undecorated and only palely reflect the sunlight.On the right wall is a wide bookcase and a workbench with strange tools and parts on it. In the middle of the tabletop is a standing glass tube with a diameter of three to four centimeters.The flocculent substance floats in the tube, faintly emitting dark blue light.These two pieces of furniture have basically squeezed out the space on the right.On the left side next to the door is a white washbasin. The electric kettle for boiling water is somehow not installed, but is hung by two ropes on the iron shelf for towels.Assistant Professor Li's desk is on the left side away from the door. It is not tidy. There are several shelves of materials around the desk. Thick newspapers and periodicals surround the desk, like a thick city wall.He poked his head out from behind the wall, looked over and said, "Oh, it's you. What's the matter?—you can sit there." He pointed to the workbench.I pulled a low plastic stool from under the workbench and sat down.

I was nervous, but told him about it and he said yes right away.I was worried that he was actually not eligible for such a nomination, but I didn't know how to say it, so I had to let him read the notification webpage again.He watched for about 2 minutes and sighed.

"No problem, you can. It's just that there have been a lot of things recently, and I'm afraid I can't give you any practical guidance..."

Anyway, I think it's over.The rematch is still in late October, and we can prepare for more than two weeks before that.A certain Zhang and Feng Laohu were also very happy, so we ordered a 100 yuan takeaway, and I ran to the service station to buy beer.It was evening, and Uncle Decadent was wearing a thick gray cloth coat over the old man's vest, with a cigarette in his mouth, and he was pulling the shutter door.

"Boss, wait a minute!" I yelled from a distance.

"Yo, what are you buying?"

"Three bottles of beer."

"Okay." The decadent uncle sneaked into the store from under the rolling shutter door, and came out after a while, holding a beer in his hand, and blew the smoke into the grass next to him. "I heard from Assistant Professor Li that you passed the preliminary round? It's time to celebrate."

"It's not certain whether we can pass the semi-finals. I'm probably lucky ahead."

"Ask Assistant Professor Li to give you advice? He still didn't say anything about it in the past, Qiang Na."

"He also participated in the Cup of Courage?"

The decadent uncle smiled.

"I used to study in Gyeonggi, and I didn't have the Courage Cup at that time. They are specially recruited military-oriented majors, and the competition organized by the whole country. Assistant Professor Li's group is only [-] or [-] years old, and they won the fourth place. They are also people who have been in the newspapers! At that time they were called young elites."

Listening to his words, I was simply describing an existence that has nothing to do with us.

"Then why is he still a teaching assistant now?"

"That's hard to say! Let's go, I'm going to close here too."

I silently watched him put his fat body on the handle, and finally closed the shutter door completely.He looked back at me and asked, "Aren't you leaving? I really have nothing to say." I don't know why, but I suddenly wanted to finish listening to this story.I said, "What's the matter if you didn't say half of it?" He froze for a moment, then slowly took out a cigarette from the upper pocket of his gray cloth coat, and lit another one.

"Sit here. Tell you, it's really hard to say! Don't you find it strange, he is not a rich man, how can he afford Yunding Shanjiayi?"

"..."

I watched in silence the smoke rings he exhaled.We were all sitting on a bench by the grass: the setting sun was about to sink into the end of the night sky, leaving only the dark red afterglow seeping from the branches and leaves of the pine forest in the distance.A crow screamed in the dark air.There is no wind, only the cool air wraps the skin, which makes people fall into a deep sleep.

"You know that Xiao Congyan, the one who used to engage in the student movement in Gyeonggi. They were good friends at that time, and Xiao Congyan gave him the drive."

Since I was in high school, I have often seen this woman named Xiao Congyan in video materials as a negative teaching material for patriotic education.It is said that she was born in the home of a senior diplomat in Gyeonggi. During a certain upper-level political struggle, she rallied students from the Gyeonggi Superpower Training Institute to take to the streets. Later, she attempted to carry out an armed rebellion, but was finally suppressed and went abroad. Became a political refugee.Naturally, her accomplices were executed by shooting, gangsters were murdered, and the rest escaped by chance and scattered like birds and beasts.Over the past few years, I can occasionally see her face on the Internet, appearing in some conferences abroad, with a flattering smile and saying "the air of democracy and freedom is extraordinarily sweet".However, such videos are often deleted by relevant departments after a day or two, and they are never seen again.To be honest, the so-called "two people have a relationship" is more incredible than "Assistant Li used to be a young elite".I saw the decadent uncle spit out another smoke ring, and said leisurely:

"Assistant Li is not bad, and he is a student majoring in military orientation. We called them Class A Class Zero at the time, and their class teacher is that Liu Zhengqing—you may not know this, but he is still squatting in prison. , I’m afraid I’m going to die of old age in it—it just happens to be a member of the Peace and Renaissance Party. Oh, that Xiao Congyan is the best friend of Assistant Professor Li, and the other side is also dating him, so that he can follow the Peace and Renaissance Party wholeheartedly. He finally They organized an armed rebellion by Class A Class Zero members, who wanted to attack the central government directly and kidnap the chairman of the parliament and the president."

"and then?"

"Then? Then it was revealed. It was the secret tipped off by Assistant Teacher Li. People from Class A Zero Class rushed in, surrounded by a garrison guard, and fought all night. They didn't surrender, and bombed the place with plasma bombs in the early morning In a house, fourteen men, women and men were all killed. They drove their military cards and dragged their bodies to the central square at 20 or [-] o'clock in the morning. Two people survived, one was Assistant Professor Li and the other That night I asked Liu Zhengqing to send him out to chase him, but he didn’t die, and he seemed to have secretly fled abroad. This happened almost [-] years ago.”

"……and then?"

"What's the point of this? It's a life-and-death thing. Assistant teacher Li reported meritorious service, but after all, he was in Class A, Class Zero, and no one dared to use it. I had to rely on my family's connections to come here to be a teaching assistant. It's been almost 20 years and I'm still a teaching assistant. No, you asked me why he is still a teaching assistant, and I told you, so there should be nothing to say now. It’s dark now, so go back quickly.”

Uncle Decadent exhaled the last smoke ring, and threw the cigarette butt into the grass.Standing up, he climbed onto the bicycle leaning against the bench with a wheeze.I don't think a fat man like him can ride so fast.