After packing up the dormitory, Lin Xiaoguang and Cai Wenjing left together to eat out.
On the way, Cai Wenjing became worried: "That person just now was not friendly to you. I think you may suffer in the future. If it doesn't work, how about changing dormitories?"
Lin Xiaoguang shook his head and said: "We came all the way from the mainland. Many people in Xiangjiang don't like us, but can we go back home just because we don't like it? Some things, no matter how difficult they are, need to be faced with difficulties.
Simply avoiding it will not solve the problem."
Cai Wenjing tried to persuade her. After hearing what he said, she felt that it made sense, so she stopped trying to persuade him immediately.
Lin Xiaoguang suddenly remembered something and asked: "How are you preparing for the wedding? Will your work be changed after the wedding?"
Hearing this, Cai Wenjing lowered her eyes and said casually: "That's it."
"As for work, they want me to go back, but I don't want to go back. What can I do if I go back? I can find a boring job to pass the time so that I can free up time and serve an old snack shop. When I think about it, I will have to live like that in the future.
, I have a dead heart, it’s better to stay in Xiangjiang.”
After saying that, she turned her head and looked directly at Lin Xiaoguang with piercing eyes, and asked: "Do you want me to go back or stay here?"
Lin Xiaoguang smiled bitterly, Sister, you said you didn't want to go back. If I said I wanted you to go back, I would have to ask for trouble. He blurted out at that moment: "Of course I want to stay here, we are partners."
As he was walking, a young foreigner suddenly walked over to him. When he saw Cai Wenjing, his eyes lit up and he whistled. When he caught her eye, he smiled frivolously.
Cai Wenjing's face suddenly turned cold.
The foreigner didn't take it seriously, smiled playfully, and walked away.
The two continued walking. After a while, Cai Wenjing asked again: "Xiaoguang, what do you mean by love?"
Lin Xiaoguang was stunned, and after a brief silence, he said: "I have heard such a sentence, I don't know if it is accurate, but I think it makes sense."
"What words?"
"I love you not because of how you look, but because of how I look when we are together."
"What's the meaning?"
"It means..." Lin Xiaoguang thought for a moment and found that any explanation was very pale. He immediately shook his head and said, "You need to experience this yourself and understand it with your heart. You will understand it after you think about it slowly."
"I'm a high school student with low academic qualifications, so I can't understand it."
Lin Xiaoguang was really helpless, thought for a while, and said: "There is another sentence, pain often comes from comparison, and happiness mostly comes from gratitude. I firmly believe that when a person misses another person, he should think quietly
…”
"What do you mean? Is happiness just unrequited love? Isn't happiness something that we should strive for?"
Lin Xiaoguang had a headache and didn't know how to explain it. Suddenly something came to his mind and he said: "A woman has two men like this in her life, at least two. One is a down-to-earth and gentle gentleman, one is a romantic and passionate talent, and the other is warm.
Time is an amazing time, just like every woman has two pairs of shoes in her life, one pair of flat shoes and one pair of high heels..."
"Flat shoes are comfortable and easy to wear, while high heels are stunning but difficult to wear. A person's life is long, love has a shelf life, and high heels cannot be worn forever."
After saying this, Cai Wenjing seemed to understand and smiled: "Xiaoguang, you know so much."
Lin Xiaoguang smiled reluctantly.
"You go back, I'm leaving." She happened to reach the bus stop, waved her hand, turned around and got on the bus.
"Aren't you going to eat?"
"Suddenly I don't want to eat, I have no appetite..."
Standing there, watching the bus go further and further away, Lin Xiaoguang had mixed feelings, which was very unpleasant.
The day passed like this. That night, he did not return to the Qiyuan dormitory, but returned to the house in Victoria Garden, took a hot shower, and then lay back on the bed, looking at the night view of the Xiangjiang River outside the floor-to-ceiling window, thinking about things,
I fell asleep very late.
As soon as school officially started, I woke up in the morning, cleaned up, and rushed to school early in the morning to meet with my tutor Laura.
On the way, he went to a convenience store to buy breakfast, ate it and wiped his mouth. He arrived at the office before the school bell rang, knocked on the door, and waited for "Please come in" from inside before pushing the door open and entering.
“Qin, come here.” Laura sat on the office chair to recruit.
Lin Xiaoguang walked over.
"A Master of Arts not only has to teach, but also conduct research. This is your course schedule. The courses are in the afternoon and evening. You don't have to come so early tomorrow morning. You can go to the Academic Affairs Office with the course schedule to pick up the textbooks later.
After that, just take classes seriously according to the curriculum. Whether it is professional courses, basic courses or public courses, you need to take them seriously."
Laura handed over the course schedule and continued: "This is the reading list. Before next month, read these ten books. After reading each book, you must write 10,000 words of reading notes. You must do this every Monday.
Come here, I will conduct an inspection."
"And this, this is a topic I assigned. You can study it outside of class time. You have to come here on Monday too."
"Any more questions?" Laura crossed her arms and looked at him with a smile.
Lin Xiaoguang looked at the course schedule, which included public courses, basic English, applied English (English for academic communication), applied English (English translation and writing), foreign languages (minor languages), general humanities, general world history, and general philosophy.
"As a minor foreign language, can I choose French?"
"Okay." Laura nodded: "All languages in the world except English are minor languages and can be chosen at will, so you choose French as a foreign language?"
"Yes, it's French."
"Okay, do you have any other questions?"
Lin Xiaoguang looked at the book list. He had to read these ten books in one month, read one book in three days, and write 10,000 words of reading notes. This was not an ordinary task.
This list of books includes "Religion and Literature" by Gardner, "Theology and Contemporary Literary Thought" by Welder Kun, "Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope" by Tracy, and "The Great Code - Bible and Literature" by Frye
", "The Language of Divine Power" by Frye, "The Liberation of Jerusalem" by Tasso, "The Pilgrim's Progress" by Bunyan, "Anecdotes of the Age of Charles IX" by Mérimée, "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" by Flaubert
", "Paradise Lost" by Milton.
"Why are they all related to literature and religion?"
"In the first half of the year, you need to study literature and religion, literary theory, philosophy and aesthetics. The first one is literature and religion. I hope you can focus on your studies and not be distracted." Laura stared at his eyes seriously.
Lin Xiaoguang had some malicious thoughts. This might be the British method of religious brainwashing to completely Westernize his thoughts.
Thinking about it, he nodded: "Okay."
"Do you have any questions about the topic to be studied this month?" Laura asked again.
The topic is Christian culture in "The Divine Comedy".
Even if he has read "The Divine Comedy" before, if he writes about this topic this time, he will have to read "The Divine Comedy" countless times. In other words, including "The Divine Comedy", he will have to read eleven books, plus seven public courses.
textbooks, ten basic courses, and forty professional courses, a total of sixty-eight books.
For a moment, his head felt huge.
However, basic public courses and professional courses are courses within two years and do not need to be completed in one month, so you can read the textbooks of these fifty-seven courses slowly.
Lin Xiaoguang took a deep breath and nodded: "No problem."
Laura was very satisfied: "Well, if there is no problem, you can go back and start class in the afternoon."