Chapter 536 Is This a Joke?
This man with gold-rimmed glasses is very clean and tidy. He is not handsome, but he pays great attention to his appearance. The clothes fit well and looked clean and neat.
There are many hipsters nowadays, especially those in China, who actually don’t know how to dress up at all. The so-called tide is simply chasing fashion. What kind of shoes are popular to buy, what brands are popular to buy, and Uniqlo's joint kaws can make these people crazy. As for whether it looks good on your body or not? They don't care, as long as the tide is fine.
It's like someone chooses to wear a sleeveless vest because they have strong and obvious triceps and biceps. When the arms are bent, they can show their muscles, showing a sense of size and strength. Especially many European and American stars and athletes will choose such clothes.
And there are many trendy people who follow the trend of celebrities and the same style are actually as thin as chickens, or they are not heavy but have a high body fat percentage. The loose flesh of their arms is like pork that has been soaked in water for a long time. Same. Just like this, you have to wear the same clothes as European and American star athletes. This is really not trendy, but silly.
The man in front of me dressed up very energetically, which is actually quite good. There are so many trends now that many people have forgotten how to dress themselves clean and tidy.
He stepped into Lao Zhang's shop and asked Zhang Tong: "Boss, do you have breakfast?"
Now the construction of Hive City is not perfect, and there are also breakfast shops, but not many. Many people choose to buy rice balls at the Family Mart convenience store for a meal. So currently the only Family Mart convenience store in Hive is overcrowded with customers every day.
Zhang Tong does not sell breakfast, but there are noodles. When the door opened at nine o'clock in the morning, he met a customer who wanted to have breakfast. Zhang Tong tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "Only noodles, do you want to eat?"
"That's fine." The man with gold-rimmed glasses smiled. He was really hungry. Now the convenience store's snacks were sold out, and the cafeteria's breakfast was also sold out. It's really inconvenient to have a hot breakfast.
The noodles in Zhangtong’s restaurant are the same old ones, with alkaline water noodles and various toppings. The soup base is boiled water + lard + homemade shrimp head soy sauce. It is simple but delicious and fragrant.
Shredded Pork Noodles with Pickled Vegetables, simple and delicious. It's good to eat a bowl of noodles like this hot in the morning.
Looking at the man who was eating noodles, Zhang Tong asked curiously, "You are the teacher of Honeycomb No. 1 Middle School, right?"
"Huh?" The man with gold glasses raised his head, "Why do you think so?"
"It's easy to guess. The population of Hive City is very small now. The factories have not yet been fully relocated to start work. The main population is students and parents of students from Hive Middle School, plus various civil servants. There are also a small number of service industry personnel. It doesn’t look like you are in the service industry by your clothes. If you are a civil servant, you should have gone to work by this time, and you are already late after nine o’clock. You are dressed very formally. If you are not a civil servant, you can only be a teacher. "
Zhang Tong seemed to deduce logically, pretending to be Sherlock Holmes.
The man with gold spectacles was taken aback by Zhang Tong's reasoning: "You really deduce that I am a teacher?"
"No, it's mainly because the teacher's card in your pocket is exposed." Zhang Tong pointed to the teacher's card that was about to fall out of the pocket of the man's trousers with gold rim glasses.
"Oh oh oh, hi! I really thought you deduced my identity as a teacher. I was surprised and thought I met Sherlock Holmes here." The man with gold spectacles laughed: "You boss is really interesting."
"Teacher, what do you teach?" Zhang Tong is also idle, anyway, now that Huo Zheng is helping the coolie in the back kitchen, he can relax a lot.
"My surname is Xu. I may teach mathematics part-time and may also teach chemistry part-time." The man with gold spectacles pushed his eyes and smiled.
"Oh. That's good, the teacher is very good." Zhang Tong touched the back of his head, and he muttered in his heart: Didn't he teach supernatural powers? Hmm, maybe they have higher attainments in mathematics and chemistry?
"Mr. Xu, you are good at math and chemistry? It's nothing else, it's just that I like to chat. There are few people in Hive City now, so I like to chat with people."
Teacher Xu said slowly after eating the noodles: "Mathematics and chemistry are not bad. I graduated from Harvard ten years ago with a master's degree. I majored in mathematics for my undergraduate degree, and transferred to chemistry for my master's degree." Although the voice of this teacher Xu said It's quite gentle, but there is a bit of self-satisfaction in the tone.
Yes, I graduated from Harvard with a master's degree! That was more than ten years ago, and there were not many Chinese who could study at Harvard more than ten years ago. At that time, it was very difficult to study abroad. Either my family was very well-connected, or top universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University had an exchange student policy. Otherwise, do you want to be admitted to Harvard in China? That is as difficult as climbing the sky.
Zhang Tong was surprised when he heard Mr. Xu's words: "You are a high-achieving student at Harvard! Disrespect and disrespect." No wonder you came to teach mathematics and chemistry. It turns out that such a high education is much better than teaching supernatural abilities. What about Harvard's top students! Zhang Tong still admires people who can read, after all, it is not easy to be a top student.
Especially for those who served the country after studying in top foreign universities and returning to China, Zhang Tong admired him even more, especially more than ten years ago. More than ten years ago, the gap between China and the United States was still quite large, and the gap in quality of life and level of development was so large that it was clear at a glance. At that time, many international students chose to work in the United States. If it were not for the subprime mortgage crisis, many of them would never return to China in their lifetime. And China also suddenly began to explode after the year of the subprime mortgage crisis. This can be clearly found from the video of the visualization of GDP growth and the visualization of the growth of residents' purchasing power.
At the age of Zhang Tong's birth, China has made many movies and TV dramas praising overseas students returning to China to serve the motherland. Zhang Tong didn't miss watching it when he was a child, and he was influenced by this kind of patriotism.
So when Mr. Xu finished eating the noodles, paid the money and left, Zhang Tong cleaned up his dishes.
"Master students from Harvard University come to teach. Very good, teaching mathematics and chemistry, the teaching quality... um? Master students from Harvard University come to teach middle school students. Wait, is the education level of this school already high enough?" Zhang Tong scratched his head, feeling a little unbelievable, but he had to believe it.
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Jiang Hua is now running on both ends, one is working at the Honeycomb Middle School, and the other is working at the Special Investigation Department. Fortunately, Huang Gang has handled all the administrative work, so Jiang Hua's workload is very easy. Huang Gang does not need her to manage the administration, but only needs her to solve the front-line work when problems arise.
Jiang Hua likes this kind of distribution very much, and she is not a person who is greedy for power and position. She still finds it troublesome to leave the administrative work to her.
Compared with the ease of the special investigation department, the work of the Hive No. 1 Middle School is much more cumbersome. Because it is not easy to manage this group of students with special abilities.
You have to be able to convince them. This is not easy for many teachers. So sometimes Jiang Hua had to help some teachers who had no supernatural powers and only educated general knowledge to deal with some deterrent work.
"Teacher Jiang is here too. We have a new teacher today. Let me introduce you." The principal of the tool man walked into the classroom office with a new teacher.
"Xu Tianming, Mr. Xu. He graduated from Harvard University. He is a mathematics and chemistry teacher and the team leader of our school's mathematics and chemistry teaching. Welcome everyone."
The teachers in the classroom office looked at each other in blank dismay, a Harvard graduate to teach middle school students? Is this really not a joke?