Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

"He Lai, can you teach me Russian?" Shen Dandan came over.

"Um, how do you want to teach? To be honest, I have trouble reading these mechanical Russian texts."

He Lai put down his pen and said to her.

"Then how do you remember these words?" Shen Dandan asked.

"Then use your brain and notes. How else can you remember? If you write more, your brain will remember it naturally."

He Lai said.

"Oh, you're so awesome. Can I ask you if there's anything I don't know in Russian?"

"Sure. How about you take a copy and translate it first, then write down the sentences you don't understand and I'll explain them to you later?"

He Lai was eager to have someone to share the burden, so he took out a book and handed it to Shen Dandan.

"Okay, then I'll take one and try it." Shen Dandan took the instruction manual.

……

"Are you sure you are not here to cause trouble for me?" He Lai said, looking at Shen Dandan's face.

"That's not something I can do. I don't recognize many of the words on it!"

Shen Dandan's face turned a little red.

"Then why don't you borrow a Russian dictionary from the library and look it up yourself first, otherwise I won't be able to do it, okay?"

"Ok."

"It's okay. Russian is like this. It's boring, long and hard to read. Let's not think about reading it for now. It's okay as long as we can understand it. Take your time. You will understand it after reading it more."

He Lai still didn't want to discourage this ambitious person.

Shen Dandan didn't answer and wanted to take the notebook from He Lai.

"I'll translate for you this time. You sit next to me and listen to me explain it to you again."

He Lai looked at Shen Dandan's sad expression and softened his heart. He put the notebook in his hand on the table, picked up a pen and started translating.

Shen Dandan sat aside, listening and watching.

……

"The words above are basically all in the dictionary. You have to accumulate vocabulary slowly. Just take your time."

He Lai returned the notebook to her.

"Thank you."

When Shen Dandan returned to her seat, the other two girls started chattering around her.

"He Lai, you really don't know how to be gentle with women. You don't even give any face to Shen Dandan, the most beautiful girl in the factory." Liu Mu said with a smile.

He Lai rolled his eyes and said, "If you go to the afterlife, you won't think like that anymore! That beauty will probably make you unable to walk."

"Brother Liu, you've been sitting here all day again today. You're really good at slacking off." He Lai said softly.

"Haha, everyone is like this. Look at the people in our department, everyone is idle.

Do you think everyone is like you, knowing everything? The machine can tell where the problem is just by listening to the sound. With you here, our department will have less trouble with those people in the Ministry of Industry in the future."

Liu Mu didn't mind at all. There was nothing he could do. He had little work to begin with, because the maintenance workers could solve most of the problems, so he didn't need them at all.

Now that He Lai is here, things are much easier.

"Okay, okay, stop showing off. I'm going to eat first."

He Lai was no longer in the mood to translate, so he decided to go out and have a good meal.

"Take one with me, take one with me. The guy serving the food will give you more dishes when he sees I'm with you." Liu Mu hurried to catch up.

……

"Sister Yuru, two steamed buns, shredded pork with fish flavor, and braised eggplant."

He Lai came to the food window and handed the lunch box to Qin Yuru.

"Got it." As soon as Qin Yuru saw that it was He Lai, she immediately took the lunch box, filled it with the two dishes, covered the lunch box, and then placed the steamed bun on the lunch box.

He Lai looked at Qin Yuru's skillful movements, gave her a thumbs up, and handed over the meal ticket and money.

There was no way. If the people behind found out that so many dishes were given to He Lai, they would be dissatisfied. Qin Yuru had also become accustomed to this practice.

"Comrade, He Lai and I are together, same dish, thank you."

Liu Mu couldn't wait to hand over the lunch box and spoke.

Qin Yuru glanced at Liu Mu, picked a little more food, packed it up and handed it to him.

He Lai and Liu Mu took their lunch boxes and found an empty seat to sit down. Liu Mu looked at the food in front of him and nodded with satisfaction, "He Lai, if you were a woman, I would definitely marry you!"

"You'd better marry the lunch box." He Lai rolled his eyes at him speechlessly.

Liu Mu didn't get angry. He picked up the food and started eating with a smile.

At this time, Shen Dandan and the other two came over and sat on He Lai's table.

"He Lai, thank you for helping me. I'll treat you to lion's head."

As Shen Dandan said this, she picked up a lion's head and put it into He Lai's lunch box.

"You're welcome. Colleagues should help each other. Maybe one day I'll need your help. Come on, I can't finish this dish, let's share it."

He Lai pushed his lunch box to the middle, and the others also pushed their lunch boxes over.

"But He Lai, you are really amazing. Look at the food in your lunch box. It's almost as much as the two of us."

Shen Dandan said enviously.

"Hey, hey, didn't I tell you that the chef of the First Canteen is my brother, who dares not to give me face!"

He Lai said with a smile.

"Okay, stop bragging. We all know it. I heard that two Soviet experts came to the factory. I wonder how the talks are going?"

Shen Dandan interrupted He Lai's bragging and started talking about things at the factory.

He Lai was also surprised. It seemed that the relationship between the Soviet Union and us was very tense and they were about to withdraw at any time. He Lai was also surprised that the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill could still hire people at this time.

"What's wrong? He Lai. Why are you in a daze? Do you want to meet those Soviets?"

Yanagi joked with a smile.

"Hey, what's there to see? They must be men, very strong, with blue eyes, and I heard their noses are very long. They act like they are so important. I won't pay any attention to them."

Although He Lai said that he didn't want to see her, for some reason the image of Valieva skating was always in his mind. She was so beautiful.

"Hey, He Lai, you're drooling."

Liu Mu shook He Lai and reminded him.

He Lai was startled and quickly slurped it up. Shen Dandan and the other two immediately looked at him with contempt, which made He Lai very embarrassed.

"What if there are women? I heard that Soviet women are very beautiful, but I have never seen one."

Liu Mu also said yearningly, but He Lai didn't respond and thought it was more important to eat his own steamed bun.

"Hmph, Yunxia, ​​Fangyu, let's go." Shen Dandan took her lunch box, covered it, and left angrily.

The other two women also glared at He Lai and Yanagi and left.

He Lai smacked his lips, and Yanagi knew that he was being disrespectful in front of a female comrade, so he ate his meal in silence.

The two finished their meal quickly.

"Brother Liu, I'm going to the kitchen to see my brother Zhuzi. You go back first."

He Lai took the lunch box and said to Liu Mu.

"Row."

……

Silly Pillar Lounge

"Brother Zhuzi, I heard that we are hosting a banquet for the Soviets today?" He Lai asked Sha Zhu.

"Yes, two old Russians, half a head taller than me, isn't that strange?"

Sha Zhu was eating the vegetables he had dug out and talked to He.

When He Lai heard that there were no girls, his interest dropped by half. Aren't there foreign girls following other people? Why is there no foreign girls here?