Chapter 133 (1/2)
Cheng Mi smiled: ”well, that's good. I just called you to confirm your time to school. I thought you would like to participate in the language intensive training class contacted by me.”
A little relieved, Zheng Jianguo shook his head and refused: ”even if the training class is over, I found that I can understand most of the English when I changed the plane and accepted the interview. Considering the medical English I really want to learn, you may not be able to teach that training class, but I want to call home. Before I come out, I said it's discipline. Even my parents didn't have time to say goodbye -”
”As far as I know -”
The smile on his dark face gradually converged. Secretary Cheng looked at Zheng Jianguo and wanted to open his mouth. Only when he came to his mouth, he became: ”of course the phone can be used. Just go to the front desk and call. I also asked someone to leave you the phone of Harvard Medical School. Don't forget to call back.”
”Good!”
Zheng Jianguo looked at the magic capital watch on his wrist and found that it was more than 6:30. After converting the time difference in his heart, he turned to lock the door and went to the front desk. He heard a voice nearby: ”Zheng Jianguo, go directly to the canteen for dinner later.”
”All right, Captain!”
Looking at the captain who had said hello, Zheng Jianguo opened his mouth to the young man sitting at the front desk: ”Hello, I want to make a long-distance call to my family and report peace -”
”Are you?”
The young man's white face flashed a look. A pair of eyes scanned his chest and found that there was no national emblem, so he said, ”are you Zheng Jianguo?”
”Yes!”
Zheng Jianguo nodded and finished. The young man quickly picked up the phone and said with a smile, ”then give me the number and I'll call you for the number. I'm afraid you won't call home -”
”Good!”
He quickly opened the address book in his hand and put it in front of the young man. Zheng Jianguo thought he would call soon, but he didn't expect the young man to speak English directly before he began to ask for the number in Mandarin. Ten minutes have passed since a phone call came down. However, after he answered it, he only listened to the beeping across the street for a long time, An idea came out of my heart: ”at this point, the brigade cadres haven't gone to work yet?”
Zheng Jianguo didn't have a phone at home. At this time, even Zheng Donghua's dormitory administrator didn't have a phone installed, otherwise he could call. When he thought about it for a long time, he wanted to put down the phone, the phone opposite had been answered, and a panting voice came: ”this, this is sanlibao brigade, you, where are you --”
”Guo Zhishu, Hello, this is Zheng Jianguo.”
Thinking about hanging up with Kou Qingkai after he couldn't get through, Zheng Jianguo said cordially. He only heard that the tone in the phone was wrong: ”Jianguo, you scared me to death. I thought there was something important to call so early. How did you live in Qicheng?”
”Secretary, I'm now in Washington, America. I want you to call my father.”
Zheng Jianguo inexplicably felt a sense of acid swirling from the bottom of his heart. When he saw that he was about to rush into his nose, he only heard the voice in the microphone rise by dozens of decibels: ”what? To America?! Your boy - this is an international call. Your boy is in heaven. I'll call you your father later. ”
”OK -”
Without saying a word, Zheng Jianguo heard nothing in the microphone. Just when he wanted to say to the young man that he wanted to spend more money with an apologetic face, a faint familiar horn came: ”Dr. Zheng, Dr. Zheng, your family called you from America. Hurry up, he's abroad!”
”Hehe -”
The picture of Guo Zhishu shouting with a trumpet flashed in his mind. Zheng Jianguo also remembered his father, Zheng Fugui and Du Xiaomei, who went to the commune clinic and the commune junior high school. They were no longer at home. When they hesitated, Guo binghe's voice came: ”wait, I shouted with a loud trumpet. Your father should not have gone to work, but I'm not sure, But how did you go to America? Didn't you go to school in Qishi? ”
”Didn't you read yesterday's people's daily?”
As Zheng Jianguo said, the young man before the meeting quickly found a newspaper, turned it over and put it in front of him, stretched out his finger on a photo, and he said: ”on the right side of the fourth edition of the art exhibition commemorating the 85th anniversary of the president's birthday opened in Beijing,” China's first visiting scholars studying in the United States left Beijing - ”
Before Zheng Jianguo's voice fell, Guo binghe's roaring voice suddenly came from the microphone: ”have you been received by the big leader?”
”Yes, I came by plane that night after seeing you.”
When Zheng Jianguo finished, a voice came from the microphone: ”branch secretary, branch secretary, where has he gone?”
”Ask him yourself.”
A faint voice came, and then Guo binghe's voice rang out: ”your father is coming, I won't delay you two.”
”Thank you, secretary.”
Zheng Jianguo looked at the newspaper in front of him and said, and then a familiar voice came from the microphone: ”Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho, where are you? Are you in America? How did you get there? How did you want to go? ”
”Dad, I was appointed by the state to study.”
Trying to suppress the sour and astringent in his heart, Zheng Jianguo said that regardless of the straight eyes of the young people in front of him, Zheng Fugui in the microphone was obviously relieved: ”ah, it was appointed by the state, so you should study hard, well, why don't you say --”
”蝈 蝈 蝈 -”
Du Xiaomei's voice came faintly from the microphone. When Zheng Jianguo frowned and thought about how to tell her, he heard Zheng Fugui's voice: ”he went out to school by the state, not by himself -”
”That's good, that's good.”