Doing It Over Again - Chapter 16

Since entering high school, whenever there is a holiday, as long as there is nothing else, Shen Shao will insist on going to the hobby class to learn calligraphy and piano. Although he does not have much talent in the piano, fortunately, because of his good memory, his piano level is not comparable in the interest class. But if you go to participate in various grand prixs, he will have nothing to do with him. For him, none of these matters. Learning the piano is just a dream he wants to fulfill.

In this life, he still remembers one incident when he was sixteen years old. Back then, he and a colleague from the hotel delivered a certain VIP meal to a certain family. When he arrived at the door of the family, he saw a young man dressed with a straight back next to the floor-to-ceiling window on the second floor playing a piano that he regarded as elegant.

But he hadn’t been envious for a long time, and the other party’s ant-like eyes were like pouring a basin of cold water over his head, throwing him out of his fantasy. Maybe it was because he was too young at the beginning, or maybe it was because the other party gave him a good impression at first, so although he encountered a lot of these kinds of eyes later, in his memory, only the eyes of that young man kept him fresh in his memory.

Learning the piano has become an obsession in his heart in the future, so in this life he has economic conditions, so he began to learn this musical instrument that was particularly elegant in his eyes. But now that he has been studying for three years, the original obsession has long since disappeared, and the piano has become a pastime in his life. Of course, at his level of fooling a layman, it can only be regarded as a hobby.

Compared with the piano, Shen Shao actually prefers calligraphy. In his previous life, he liked to practice calligraphy when he was free, but he only learned from copybooks, not from the teacher.

In this lifetime, he found that the more he studied hard, the more he felt that the Chinese culture was extensive and profound, and even made him feel that no matter how hard he studied, it was not enough.

His current calligraphy teacher is surnamed Tong. I heard that he is a retired professor in a certain university. He only has about ten students in the interest class. Before entering the class, each student has to pass an assessment.

Because Shen Shao has a foundation in calligraphy, he entered the class smoothly. Although Professor Tong is very strict, he still likes hard-working and conscientious children a little bit, so in private and spare time, he will also give him some additional knowledge.

After a lot of private communication, Shen Shao knew that Professor Tong was a professor of Chinese studies. Because staying at home was a bit boring, and his body was still tough, he came to serve as an instructor in the interest class opened by his nephew.

“It’s not enough just to practice calligraphy well, it also requires people’s energy,” Professor Tong nodded reluctantly after reading the calligraphy assignments handed in by Shen Shao, “As the saying goes, words are like people, not words. The shape represents the character of a person, but from the brushwork, you can observe the state of mind of a person when you write. Although your characters have some shape, they are not strong enough, and you have skipped the craftsmanship.”

Shen Shao nodded. He knew that this was a habit he had acquired from copying copybooks in his previous life, so he still had some craftsmanship in his life: “Thank you, teacher, I will pay more attention in the future.”

“Well,” Professor Tong was very satisfied with his serious attitude, and his face softened, “you will have the final exam in a few days, so you may not have much time to come here recently. However, you must not slack off on the practice of calligraphy, as the saying goes. If you don’t practice handwriting for three days, calligraphy is a matter of perseverance, I don’t want you to learn calligraphy just to show off more things.”

Shen Shao nodded again. He knew that Professor Tong was doing it for his own good. After listening to the other party’s instructions, he thanked him earnestly: “Teacher, I have written it down. After the final exam, I don’t know if I can talk to you more. Do you want to learn more about national studies?”

Professor Tong originally wanted to agree, but thinking that Shen Shao was a foreign student, he frowned and said, “don’t you go home for the New Year during the winter vacation?”

Shen Shao smiled and shook his head: “There is no one at home, it’s the same wherever the New Year is. It’s better to stay here and follow the teacher to learn more knowledge, but I don’t know if it will disturb your rest.”

“You have the heart to study, I am a teacher only for joy.” Because Shen Shao’s expression was too normal, Professor Tong only thought that Shen Shao’s parents did not have time to go home after working abroad, so he didn’t think about anything else. He patted Shen Shao on the shoulder and said with satisfaction, “If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.”

“Thank you.” Shen Shao smiled and made the New Year’s plan.

As the final exam is approaching, the students in the class have also reduced their extracurricular activities, and instead stepped up their review of in-class knowledge to strive for a good score in the exam.

At this time, Shen Shao’s usual study notes became a hot commodity in the class, and many students borrowed them to make copies. It’s not that they usually study hard, but they want to learn Shen Shao’s problem-solving ideas to improve their learning efficiency.

When the students in other classes knew about this, they were somewhat envious of the classmates in class 15. After all, not all the first in the class were as generous as Shen Shao, willing to lend their notes to others.

“Brother Shao, why can’t I solve this problem correctly?” A boy approached Shen Shao and pointed to a complex mathematical geometry problem, “Help me see, where did I solve it wrong?”

After reading it carefully, Shen Shao drew two auxiliary lines on the geometric diagram with a pencil: “You first calculate the area of ​​the shaded part, and then it will be easy.”

“Sure enough, it’s much simpler, thank you, buddy,” the boy did the math, and as expected, he sorted out his thoughts, patted Shen Shao behind his back, “Brother Shao, your brain is easy to use.”

Shen Shao patted his shoulder with a backhand: “Who are we and who, but something like IQ can’t be envied?”

“Give a little sunshine and it will be bright, you are so beautiful!” The boy grinned, kicked the stool under him, and ran away like a monkey.

Liang Cheng next to him watched Shen Shao fight with other students, and sighed rather melancholy. As the first place, does Brother Shao still have the aloof temperament that belongs to the first place?

Liang Cheng didn’t know that this was Shen Shao’s method of integrating into the class. Now it seems that the effect is really good. At least the boys in the class have a good relationship with him.

The final exam is coming soon. After the baptism of the exam, the students of Class 15 finally ushered in the long-awaited winter vacation.

When every classmate’s face was full of joy, Zhou Zeyu’s mood seemed a little complicated.

He and Shen Shao were the first to know each other in the class. After getting along for the past few months, he realized that Shen Shao had lost his parents long ago. For them, the winter vacation was a day for family reunion, but for Shen Shao, they could only stay alone in an empty house. He thought that Shen Shao would welcome the millennium alone like this, and he felt that there was not much to be happy about this winter vacation.

On the day of the holiday, Zhou Zeyu deliberately avoided the other students in the class, and pulled Shen Shao to a corner for a while and said, “Shen Shao, my parents have decided to settle in Furong City. If you don’t go back to Peng County for the winter vacation, then come here. Are you coming to my house for the New Year?”

After hearing this, Shen Shao smiled gratefully. He knew that Zhou Zeyu cared about himself, but the Spring Festival was a day for family reunion. How could he, an outsider, destroy this atmosphere? So despite Zhou Zeyu’s repeated invitations, he still rejected the other party’s kindness.

Seeing Shen Shao’s resolute attitude, Zhou Zeyu couldn’t force someone to his house, so he had to repeatedly stress that his house was very close to where Shen Shao lived, and he had to tell him if there was anything, and then he found Liang Cheng while Shen Shao was not paying attention and asked Liang Cheng to do so. The family should take care of Shen Shao more. After all, Liang Cheng and Shen Shao live in the same community, don’t they?

Of course Liang Cheng would not refuse. In his heart, Shen Shao had become the first idol in his life. Now that the idol is celebrating the Spring Festival alone, it is surprising that he is not worried.

Shen Shao didn’t know that in the hearts of the two friends, he had become a key protection target. This winter vacation is also of great significance to him, because Professor Tong has officially accepted him as a disciple.

It’s not the superficial teacher-student relationship of the hobby class, but the direct disciple who officially worships tea. After becoming Professor Tong’s direct disciple, Shen Shao knew how profound Professor Tong’s knowledge was, and finally understood why others called Professor Tong a master of Chinese studies.

Tong Zhenghua knew that Shen Shao was an orphan without father and mother only because of taking Shen Shao as a disciple. He remembered Shen Shao’s daily performance, which was not like a child without parents at all. This attitude to life makes him feel very valuable. Sometimes, no matter how good a person’s talent is, if they don’t have a good attitude, they can’t achieve great things.

But Shen Shao is different. He has both personality and talent. What’s more, he is still young, and he has such determination. It can be seen that he is a rare good seedling, and he does not want to miss it.

Nowadays, due to the collision of Western ideas, some young people blindly pursue Western culture, but ignore their own traditional culture. In fact, not only young people, but even some middle-aged people in China have begun to take pride in pursuing the West, and gradually forget that China also has many traditional cultural treasures.

As a professor of Sinology, he is both distressed and helpless about the current development trend, so seeing that Shen Shao is interested in Sinology knowledge, and his memory and comprehension are good, how can he not love and cherish talent, and decide to accept him as Direct disciples are even more normal.

However, this kind of important matter naturally needs to be discussed with Shen Shao’s parents, so Tong Zhenghua learned of Shen Shao’s life experience from Shen Shao’s mouth only after Tong Zhenghua mentioned to Shen Shao that he wanted to see his parents.

“It’s not easy for this child,” Tong Zhenghua sipped tea after Shen Shao left his home, and sighed to his wife who was watching TV series next to him, “He has a good temperament and is down-to-earth, so it’s right to find such an apprentice.”

His wife, Teacher Ning, didn’t turn her head and said, “He is indeed much more down-to-earth than you were when you were younger.” She and Tong Zhenghua are also childhood sweethearts. Tong Zhenghua also had a period of arrogance and arrogance. Thinking about it now, the old wife’s Behaviour is simply a bummer.

Tong Zhenghua: …

Let this kind of dark history dissipate in the wind, aren’t they talking about his apprentice now? How did it get involved with him?

Women are really strange creatures, but he has nothing to do with them.

Ugh.

Tong Zhenghua sighed deeply.