Chapter 403 Event ends

Chapter 403 Event ends

Chapter 403 Event ends
"Teacher Qu, is there a big difference between this and dozens of people?" Gu Lu asked.

When everyone reached the corner, they saw a bustling crowd.

The students were standing in the corridor, and the teacher was trying his best to maintain order. It was just like cooking dumplings, when you put too much stuffing in the dumplings and the skin broke.

"This... Oh my!" Teacher Qu was nervous. "Didn't I tell you not to force the children to participate?"

It is reasonable for teachers to be nervous. Last year, the girls' school, Chung Hwa Middle School, forced students to register. It was first reported by Lianhe Zaobao to criticize the school, and then the Straits Times reported on it again, criticizing Huaxia for using hegemonic thinking to spread culture, etc.

The former, Morning Post, is a comprehensive Chinese newspaper, while the latter, Straits Times, is the largest English newspaper. Do you understand what I mean?

It is like this. In recent years, the United States has frequently accused China of hegemony, and China has also frequently accused the other side of being unfree. Both have become the people that the other side hates.

"Don't be nervous. We have already discussed this when we organized it. And with previous experience, the school authorities know the severity of the situation." Professor Lu's voice was steady, which made Teacher Qu feel much more at ease.

Gu Lu roughly understood the whole story from just a few words. If it was an unintentional mistake of a certain school last year, then this year it must have been intentional.

There is a traitor, terminate the deal! When he was about to tell the professor about his idea, Gu Lu caught a glimpse of Professor Lu's serious face from the corner of his eye. It was obvious that the latter had also considered this problem.

Yes, if he can consider these aspects, how could Professor Lu not think of them?

The professor looked calm and contacted local acquaintances to discuss changing the venue.

No matter what the situation, we have to change places because it is too crowded now.

The world is a huge makeshift team. Gu Lu felt a little bit unfamiliar. The event was officially organized after all. Lion City didn't arrange a person in charge to organize it, and there was no backup plan! Even the essay competition organized by "Our Literary Club" was more reliable than this.

The teacher who got the news came back in a hurry and said, "Professor, the reason why so many students signed up is because of Gu Lu. He is very popular among the post-00s generation in Singapore."

Teacher Qu's words were slightly complaining, "Student Gu Lu, if you had told us earlier that you have this kind of appeal in Lion City, we would have chosen a bigger venue."

Hey, isn’t this an exaggeration to shift the blame? Gu Lu doesn’t even know that he has such appeal in Lion City.

"Hahaha, Xiao Gu didn't expect that his works would sell so well in Lion City. Especially The Little Prince, young people should like it." Professor Lu said with a smile.

"They don't seem to be here for the work," Teacher Qu said hesitantly, as if he didn't believe what he said. "They seem to come here because Gu Lu is good at basketball. They come here to see the basketball star. Also, because Gu Lu is good at reasoning and fighting?"

"?" Professor Lu was rarely so confused about something. He turned his head and looked at his last disciple.

"The students were discussing anime, and since several cartoonists are my friends, they designed several cartoon characters based on me." Gu Lu wasn't clear about the connection between himself and Taiwanese dramas, so he didn't know much about the fighting scenes, he just explained what he knew.

King Gollum suddenly thought of that guy Junji Ito, and he must not look for any prototype in him.

Upon hearing this, Mr. Qu and Professor Lu had very different reactions. The former said, "Young people are just making a lot of noise and doing meaningless things."

Professor Lu from the latter felt the generation gap, but still tried to summarize it in a language he understood, "It turns out that Xiao Gu is an alternative movie star who has appeared in many animations."

That seems to be okay? Gu Lu hesitated for a moment and then nodded.

"Ordinary writers don't have such high popularity. We should have invited you, Xiao Gu, last year." Professor Lu said, "Last year's event was too old-fashioned. The students had stiff expressions and were not interested. Any cultural promotion should start with young people."

"It would definitely be great if you could provide some help to our activities," said Gu Lu.

That’s right, Gu Lu thought, since he has a foundation in Lion City, he must quickly ask Yao Xiaoju to sell the books here and strive to become a world-class best-selling author as soon as possible.

Pictures are greater than words, and videos are greater than pictures. Animation is so widely spread that it has such exaggerated publicity without him noticing.

After a while, Professor Lu answered the phone. After a brief exchange, he hung up and began to assign tasks, "Teacher Qu, we have found a new location. Go talk to the teachers."

"Xiao Gu, go to the new address first to avoid any major mistakes." Professor Lu said briefly. He wanted to report the matter.

The organization of the event is at the level of a makeshift team, but the approval process is in line with international standards, which is quite troublesome.

The venue was booked, but considering the large number of students and the difficulty of moving, Professor Lu changed the venue to one that was basically the same as the original one, just two floors up.

A banquet hall, decorated rather hastily due to lack of time, with some messy plastic chairs, and the balloons and red ribbons had not been cleaned up yet.

"That's Gu Lu? He doesn't look very strong, is he really good at basketball?" "The comic says that he relies on his IQ to play basketball, but he has no muscles in his arms, so he is definitely not good at fighting." "I actually want to ask, why does he appear so frequently in Japanese comics?" "My friend in Japan told me that it's because Japan particularly likes the writer Gu Lu." "I came here especially to meet Gu Lu"...

The students discussed with each other, occasionally speaking English, which is the official language of Singapore.

Professor Lu, Gu Lu, and Teacher Qu cleaned up for a while. Because the professor was old, he needed to do the hard work, so Gu Lu did more.

A quarter of an hour later, the event began with Professor Lu’s opening speech, followed by representative teachers from Chung Hwa Middle School, Hwa Chong Institution, Nanyang Middle School and other schools introducing themselves one by one.

Then, the teachers began to share their experiences in teaching Chinese. Gu Lu, as the Chinese speaker, also had to share something on the theme of Chinese characters.

"Hello everyone, I'm Gu Lu who can cook, reason and play basketball."

After Gu Lu finished speaking, he heard a burst of laughter from the audience.

"It seems that my classmates all know me. After all, I feel that I look similar in the three-dimensional world and the two-dimensional world."

The best way to bring a speaker closer to the audience is to make fun of yourself. There is no need to explain the difference between the second dimension and the third dimension, so it seems that Gu Lu is bragging, but in fact it is another level of self-mockery.

A few students uttered "Eeh", but most of the students did not dare to speak because the teacher was around.

"The topic I'm sharing today is 'Why learn Chinese'. Since you all know me, I must give a good talk."

"Just like this topic, why do you want to learn Chinese characters? No matter what your answer is. My answer is - because I like very beautiful things."

"There's no need to elaborate on the history of Chinese characters, but what about the beauty of Chinese characters?" Gu Lu spoke without a script, having memorized it long before coming. After all, he must have put in a lot of effort in advance for this trip. "Good medicine tastes bitter, and the Chinese names for medicines are very beautiful. Baiwei, Baizhi, Zisu, Chanyi, Banxia, ​​Ziyuan, Xuchangqing, etc. are often used as names."

"In addition to January, February, March and April, the months can also be beautiful. January is the beginning of the year, February is the apricot month, March is the kite season, and April is the beginning of summer. There are also peach month, lotus month and osmanthus month. Just look at the names to know what flowers are in bloom. It can be even more beautiful. The description of July in "Flower Month Order" is: Sunflowers leaning towards the sun. Jade hairpins scratching the head. Crape myrtles soaking in the moon. Hibiscus blooming in the morning. Polygonum flowers are red. Water chestnut flowers are ripe."

"This is even more true for colors. Apricot yellow is more realistic than yellow, dark green looks better in writing than green, moonlight white has more layers than white, and deep blue looks better in articles than blue," said Gu Lu. "It's beautiful."

They were still interacting, and Gu Lu said, "We should have all learned poetry, right? We all know the names of the ci tunes, right?"

The junior high school student who was looking at the No. 1 high school student in history blurted out, "Ru Meng Ling!"

"It's a dreamlike, short-lived piece of music. Just hearing the name of Ru Meng Ling sounds beautiful, not to mention that many poets have written classic works. The dream is broken, the mouse peeks into the lamp, the frost sends the morning chill into the quilt. Can't sleep, can't sleep, the horse neighs outside the door and people wake up. Waking up from a dream can also write a cool and beautiful feeling." Gu Lu continued, "Anything else? Only Ru Meng Ling?"

The second half of the sentence seems to be something that teachers used to say often.

"I know Huan Xi Sha." "Que Qiao Xian, I feel Que Qiao Xian sounds better." "The best-sounding ci tune name must be Yu Mei Ren." "I prefer Dian Jiang Chun, but it seems I can't remember a single ci tune with this name." Wait, after the first voice came out, the rest of the voices came out one after another.

"Right, they are all beautiful." Gu Lu said, "Even Chinese can be so beautiful that it makes reality feel stressful. There is a city in Shandong Province called Qixia, which is under the colorful clouds. There is a town in Xuancheng called Qinxi, which is a clear stream like a guitar string. It is difficult for reality to achieve this beauty."

Then King Guru gave many examples, such as the beauty of age, the beauty of antithesis and rhyme, etc.

"If you have the opportunity to come to China in the future, you can go to the National Library of China. The four books, Sikuquanshu, Dunhua Yishu, Zhaocheng Jinzang and Yongle Dadian, are the four treasures of the National Library." Gu Lu said at the end, "Unfortunately, three of the four treasures have been lost, and Zhaocheng Jinzang was almost lost. So many books that record beautiful Chinese characters can no longer be seen, and many very beautiful texts can no longer be seen. So this activity is very meaningful, to let Chinese characters communicate and make them come alive, so that they will not be lost."

After that, the applause that Gu Lu received when he stepped down from the stage was the warmest so far. It was also because the content was relatively light-hearted and did not talk about anything heavy. After all, they were all students and could not understand complicated things.

The speech was also quite heartfelt.

First of all, Gu Lu is not discriminating or anything. He truly thinks Chinese is the most beautiful language in the world, no doubt about it!

"Not quite." said Professor Lu.

"Please give me some advice, teacher." Gu Lu said immediately.

“You should install a projection screen to display subtitles of your speech,” Professor Lu said. “You should still see the text. A lot of beauty can’t be felt just by oral description.”

I only heard Professor Lu continue to say that the next time he goes to Malaysia and gives a speech again, projection must be arranged.

That makes sense. Gu Lu thought back to when he entered high school, his teacher also told him how beautiful "Chu Ci" was.

Most of the students present were confused at the time, but now it’s okay because they are all relatively commonly used words and phrases.

"The beauty of Chinese characters comes largely from the visual sense of pictograms." Gu Lu breathed a sigh of relief and listened to the speeches of other teachers.

The theme he originally wrote was the visual sense of Chinese, starting with Huang Tingjian's "Free and easy near the border road, rest and comfort tiredness". Later, thinking of taking care of overseas Chinese, he changed it to today's topic, and I have to say that the choice was right.

The sensation of the Chinese teaching hero lasted for about three hours, and there must have been a break for toilet breaks in the middle. Even so, after two hours, the students' patience was exhausted, and many students were impatient, but overall the result was good.

After Gu Lu was ready, his classmates came to him for autographs. There really were two of them...but why were they holding basketballs and markers?

I rested in Lion City that day and flew to Kuala Lumpur the next afternoon.

Malaysia's economy is still much worse than Singapore's, and Gu Lu's influence in Malaysia is slightly weaker than Singapore's. This is mainly because the influence of Taiwanese dramas and Japanese comics is a little weaker, but the number of students is still much larger than in previous years.

To put it bluntly, even if Gu Lu did nothing, the publicly funded food, travel and accommodation expenses were well worth the money. Moreover, Gu Lu's sharing at the two events won the students' applause.

Professor Lu really helped Gu Lu with the subtitles the second time, so the beauty of Chinese conveyed the second time was more accurate than the first time.

Following the teacher's business trip to the end.

"Teacher, I'll fly directly to Paris as I have something to do." Gu Lu and Professor Lu went their separate ways at the Kuala Lumpur airport.

"Have you made up your mind, Xiao Gu? Do you want to accept the job of teaching Chinese?" Professor Lu asked before they parted.

The activities of Chinese teaching heroes may sound a bit silly, but they are actually a very important part of the promotion of Chinese characters. Only by training more Chinese teachers can we teach more students. If we continue this path, our position in China will be very stable.

Look at the look in Teacher Qu’s eyes, he really wants to take over this class.

"No, teacher," Gu Lu talked about his experience as an expert in a think tank and the tasks that followed.

"No wonder you don't need it. It turns out you have a heavier task than me." Professor Lu said with a smile, "The more capable you are, the more work you have to do. Hahaha."

Seeing his closed disciple standing so tall, Professor Lu also showed a satisfied expression.

Teacher Qu's pupils were shocked. Professor Lu, as the head of the Chinese Department of Peking University, was an expert. There was no problem. The key point was that Gu Lu was also an expert!

Two flights, one return and one to Europe.

On the return flight, Professor Lu saw that Teacher Qu looked gloomy, and the former couldn't help but comfort him, "Little Qu, don't think too much. Some people are extremely talented, so don't compare yourself to them."

"No, I just remembered that I didn't seem to buy any souvenirs for my daughter." Comparing myself with Gu Lu? Teacher Qu is not crazy!
"It seems... I didn't buy it either." Professor Lu also fell silent.

A few days after Professor Lu and Teacher Qu returned to China, the Global Times broke the big news.

Main title: "Why is it him!"

Subtitle: "The youngest recipient of the French Order of Arts and Letters"

(End of this chapter)