I started a senior citizen university after being unemployed, and I became the favorite of my uncles

Old Jack, whose back pain was cured by the miraculous Chinese medicine, immediately put on his equipment and started the wall-building competition with the sleepy and yawning Grandpa Zhou.

It was also the first head-on confrontation between the skills of Chinese and foreign craftsmen.

The uncles in the physics class, led by Uncle Wang, were busy cheering Uncle Zhou on.

"Old Zhou, do your best! This is a great opportunity to win glory for our country."

Uncle Zhang massaged Uncle Zhou's shoulders, and Uncle Li massaged Uncle Zhou's hands.

Uncle Zhou crossed his arms and showed great enthusiasm: "Don't worry, this is a skill I have relied on for a living for decades. I guarantee I can do it."

Having said that, Uncle Zhou was still nervous.

He has been a bricklayer for most of his life and has laid countless bricks. It is a job he can do with his eyes closed, but he never thought that one day his bricklaying skills would be accepted in international competitions.

And he had never seen a foreigner climbing the wall.

He couldn't lose to foreigners on his own turf, otherwise he would be laughed at by his old friends when he returned. Thinking of this, Uncle Zhou felt suddenly excited.

The 16-year-old man showed the same enthusiasm as when he apprenticed to learn the craft at the age of , and he started working hard as soon as the whistle sounded.

Their wall project is not just a simple wall, but requires using bricks of different colors to form a number on the wall.

There are two colors available on site, one is the common khaki color and the other is red brick.

The number they are trying to spell is 101.

It symbolizes October 10st of each year - International Day of Older Persons.

Uncle Zhou took the trowel and dipped it in cement in one hand, and handed the bricks with the other hand, and quickly laid the bricks on the bottom layer.

He didn't dare stop for a moment, for fear of falling behind.

There were exclamations from the onlookers at the scene.

Uncle Zhou's heart was even more flustered, and he kept speeding up his movements. He had already completed three layers.

On the other side, Old Jack calmly laid the third brick.

Uncle Zhou kept moving his hands and glanced at Old Jack quickly out of the corner of his eye.

"No, does he look down on me? Why is he so slow?" Uncle Zhou couldn't help but raised his voice.

Old Jack raised his head and retorted, "I'm already fast."

Uncle Zhou looked at his progress and then at his own progress, and began to doubt whether he was a professional.

The two people were competing face to face, and they started chatting across the aisle less than one meter away.

"Jack, how many years have you been doing this?"

Old Jack answered with a sense of leisure: "More than forty years."

“I started when I was 20.”

"Oh, then we are about the same age." Uncle Zhou spoke as familiarly as if he was chatting with the villagers.

"How much can you earn working there for a month?"

"5000 yuan."

"So, we are about the same. You make a little more than me. When I was a teenager and just started working with my master, I only made a dozen yuan a month." Uncle Zhou replied with a smile.

"It's a big difference." Old Fu just finished counting on his fingers and took a breath. "The five thousand he said is British pounds, which is about 5 a month."

"What!" Uncle Zhou paused while building the wall. "5 a month, and you're working without a break?"

Old Jack understood this and answered quickly: "I'm taking a break. I work 8 hours a day."

"What? Only eight hours. How many bricks can you lay in a day without getting fired?"

"About three or four hundred yuan."

Old Jack's light words made Uncle Zhou drop his jaw in shock. You know, in China, if you make less than 1000 yuan a day, you will be fired.

Grandpa Zhou slammed the brick and stood up, "The senior citizen university has been suspended. I am in my sixties and it is the right age to venture out."

No matter what he said or how much he quarreled, Uncle Zhou was very serious about his work.

One wall was completed in only two-thirds of the allotted time.

Now it was Old Jack's turn to be shocked. "Are all Chinese people supermen? How come everyone has special skills?"

Old Jack excitedly held Uncle Zhou's hand and wanted to become his apprentice.

After he learned this trick, he returned to his country to reorganize the British bricklayer industry.

Uncle Zhou won the first game.

Aunt Zhong followed closely behind and represented the Evergreen Senior University.

She was going to participate in a cooking competition, and her challenger was a chubby, bespectacled, kind-faced foreign aunt.

The war is about to start.

……

Lin Qinglan was chatting with representatives of the organizer and leaders of foreign senior citizen universities.

The leader of the foreign senior citizen universities is Miss Jones, Secretary General of the British Association of Senior Citizen Universities.

About the same age as Lin Qinglan.

Lin Qinglan's English was average, so Miss Jones slowed down her speaking to accommodate her.

"Lin, I think the philosophy of your school is very interesting." Miss Jones had learned about the Evergreen Senior University before coming here.

She thinks the most interesting aspect of Evergreen’s development philosophy is sustainable teaching.

A large part of the courses selected by Lin Qinglan cover the fields of cultural heritage protection and art appreciation, making the elderly the backbone of student development.

We also allow them to set up communities based on the content they are good at and carry out secondary dissemination, which will expand their circle of influence.

"Lin, if I have the chance I would like to visit your school." Miss Jones said sincerely.

Xiao De was surprised, "Host, our school is becoming more and more prosperous, and now it is taking the path of internationalization."

I guess Djokovic never imagined that not only would we need to keep up with the international standards, but there would also be international students in the future.