Chapter 56 Where has the beauty gone?
Except for those who did not return to school, all thirteen students of the Classical Literature major followed Zou Shifang. When they entered the basement, they saw piles of ancient books and their eyes immediately lit up.
Although the school has ancient books for them to study, those ancient books have been read countless times and a lot of research results have been published.
These ancient books of Liu Hongmin were all newly bought. They can study them from scratch and verify the knowledge they have learned.
"Are you all here?" Liu Hongmin introduced Ma Weidu to them.
When Ma Weidu saw so many top students from Peking University, he felt inexplicably inferior.
Ge Chaoguang and his team were quite easygoing. They greeted Ma Weidu and went straight to the ancient books. They were professionals in ancient books and quickly classified them.
"Hongmin, most of these ancient books you have are not available in the school. We don't know if they are worth studying, so we need to go through them first."
Liu Hongmin: “What do you need?”
"The most important thing is to improve the environment of the basement, keep it ventilated and dry, buy some peppercorns, wrap them up and place them near the ancient books. The most important thing is that it must not come into contact with modern paper for a long time, otherwise it will damage these ancient books..."
Liu Hongmin waved his hands repeatedly, "I don't understand these, Lao Zou, what should we do, you discuss it with Lao Ge."
Zou Shifang was speechless, "I just owe you."
Ge Chaoguang said mockingly: "You owe him."
Everyone laughed at once, "Old Zou, now you know that Liu Hongmin's food is not that delicious, right?"
"That's right, there's no such thing as a free lunch. You have to pay a price."
Zou Shifang shrugged helplessly, "Who made me greedy!"
Everyone burst into laughter and the atmosphere suddenly became lively.
Liu Hongmin and Ma Weidu sorted out all of Qi Baishi's paintings and then prepared lunch for everyone.
Liu Hongmin handed the task of renovating the basement to Zou Shifang, who was familiar with the task and invited back the workers who had previously renovated the courtyard house. Liu Hongmin then took over the task of buying electrical appliances, not only refrigerators and televisions, but also ventilators and other equipment needed for the basement.
After a few days of hard work, the basement was finally renovated. The ancient books were also classified, and the only thing left was to study the contents.
Students majoring in classical literature decided to come to the courtyard to study on weekends. Liu Hongmin welcomed this very much. He bought ancient books just to know the contents and whether they had any historical significance.
Liu Hongmin excitedly rushed to Beijing University when the new semester started. He hadn't seen Zha Jianying for a while and missed her very much.
After finally making it to noon, Liu Hongmin immediately went to the girls' dormitory to wait for Cha Jianying to come back from get out of class.
After waiting for a while, I saw Wang Xiaoping coming back with other roommates.
He hurried over to greet her, "Xiaoping, where is Jianying?"
Wang Xiaoping said puzzledly: "I just wanted to ask you! Jianying didn't come to class!"
"What?" Liu Hongmin was stunned. "That shouldn't happen! She told me that she would be back before school starts."
Wang Xiaoping was stunned. Where did Cha Jianying go?
At this time, the roommate next to him said, "I seemed to have heard yesterday that Zha Jianying went abroad as an exchange student. I don't know if it's true or not."
"What?" Liu Hongmin was stunned for a moment. He remembered that Cha Jianying should have gone abroad after graduating from university. Moreover, even if Cha Jianying wanted to go abroad, he should have told him!
"No way?" Wang Xiaoping couldn't believe it. "I haven't heard Jianying say that! Even if you want to study abroad, you don't have to be so anxious, right?" "I don't think it's possible!" the roommate said, "But Jianying didn't come today, so I think this might be true."
Liu Hongmin asked: "Who told you that?"
"I didn't see her, but she said Jianying's parents helped her with the paperwork. You can ask our professor and find out."
"Thank you!"
Liu Hongmin thanked the girl and immediately rode his bike to the Chinese Department's teaching building. When he got downstairs, he didn't even park his bike, but ran straight in. He ran all the way up the stairs and finally stopped the professor of literature, "Teacher, I heard that Zha Jianying went abroad to study, is that true?"
The professor of literature knew Liu Hongmin and knew that he had a good relationship with Cha Jianying. So he nodded and said, "It is true. Cha Jianying's father came to the school yesterday to handle the formalities."
Liu Hongmin suddenly felt dizzy and asked calmly, "Did Cha Jianying leave a letter or something like that for his classmates?"
The literature professor shook his head and said, "Cha Jianying's father left nothing behind. He just completed the formalities and left."
Liu Hongmin couldn't hold on any longer and sat down on the ground.
Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Zha Jianying would not have left him a letter.
Soon, he thought of Cha's father and mother's attitude towards him. It was obvious that they didn't want him to be with Cha Jianying.
"Classmate, are you okay?"
"No...it's okay!"
Liu Hongmin felt his strength slowly recovering, so he got up and slowly walked out of the literature professor's office. Then he walked faster and faster, ran downstairs, picked up the bicycle from the ground, ran a few steps, jumped on it, and headed straight for Zha Jianying's home.
After knocking on the door for a long time, no one opened it. Until the neighbor next door got impatient and walked out the door and said to Liu Hongmin: "Stop knocking, the family has already gone abroad."
Liu Hongmin asked quickly: "Uncle, when did they leave?"
"Left yesterday!" the old man said, "You are the boyfriend of their daughter, right? I have seen you before."
"Yes! Yes! It's me!" Liu Hongmin asked again: "Did my girlfriend leave yesterday too?"
"That girl hasn't come back yet!"
The old man said, "It was Lao Cha who came back by himself and handled the paperwork for his daughter. After that, he went to the airport."
Liu Hongmin gave up and sat on the ground. He was sure of the answer in his mind, that it was Cha's father and mother who broke up the couple. But, to Liu Hongmin's disappointment, Cha Jianying actually agreed.
It turns out that she doesn't really cherish the relationship between us?
It turns out that studying abroad is so important to her!
Seeing that he was no longer making trouble, the old man could not help but shake his head and went home.
However, Liu Hongmin was unwilling to give up. He stood up, rode his bike back to Beijing University, and wrote a letter to Luo Baoming, asking him to help find Zha Jianying. If he could find her, he would give her the letter.
Cha Jianying's sudden departure left Liu Hongmin distraught for a long time.
It was not until Sanlian Publishing House sent him the less-than-packaged Japanese edition manuscript fee that Liu Hongmin began to cheer up. More than million Hong Kong dollars, converted into foreign exchange certificates, amounted to nearly million yuan. Liu Hongmin went to Rongbaozhai without stopping and bought a copy of all the ancient books in stock there.
Many women say that shopping can relieve stress. After spending 800,000 foreign exchange coupons, Liu Hongmin did feel much better.
(End of this chapter)
