A professor's rebirth: I entered Tsinghua University in 1977.

Next, the office director arranged dormitories for Tan Dexi and Liu Hongyi. They were both single dormitories, right inside the institute, next to each other. He also kept apologizing to Tan Dexi.

"I'm sorry, Chief Engineer Tan, this is the condition of the institute. We don't have a big house. Please make do with it."

Tan Dexi doesn't care about this at all. For him, as long as he has a place to sleep, it's enough.

After tidying up the place, washing my face, and brushing off the dust on my body, I immediately felt refreshed.

In the evening, Duan Weimin personally hosted a banquet in the institute's small cafeteria to entertain Tan Dexi and his apprentice.

Although the banquet was not particularly sumptuous, it was well-stocked.

Three meat dishes were served on large plates.

This is very good in this era when life is difficult and supplies are extremely scarce.

Tan Dexi was not polite either. He ate heartily and kept calling Liu Hongyi, "Eat, eat more, eat meat! Young man, this is the time to grow up."

"Well, Lao Duan, we are penniless right now. Please advance us some money and food coupons."

"No problem, no problem. We've made all the arrangements for you."

The office director immediately took out two envelopes and handed them to the father and son.

There were fifty yuan and twenty kilograms of national food coupons in the envelope, as well as twenty kilograms of Jingjiang Province food coupons.

In Jingjiang Province, they are all considered "hard currency".

In addition, there were shoe tickets, cloth tickets, and two kilograms of non-staple food tickets.

The preparations are quite complete.

Tan Dexi was not polite with his old classmate at all. He counted the money in front of him, then nodded to Duan Weimin with satisfaction and said, "Old Duan, you are so thoughtful!"

Duan Weimin smiled and shook his head: "Hey, it's really not easy to get a compliment from you..."

"Okay, now that we've had enough to eat and drink, it's time to get to work. Putting everything else aside, find me two reliable translators to translate those English documents first."

The calculation task can only be completed by Tan Dexi himself.

This is where the core technology lies.

If the institute could accomplish this, there would be no need to invite Old Tan all the way from Chuzhou.

Duan Weimin suddenly showed an embarrassment and said, "Old classmate, you know, it's easy to find a Russian translator, but it's really difficult to find an English translator... We can't just go find someone who is unreliable."

In the 1950s, we trained a large number of Russian language talents. But English majors are indeed hard to find. Things are different now than in later years; English is not a major subject. Even if the college entrance examination is reinstated next year, English will not be a compulsory subject. Only those applying for foreign language majors will need to take an additional foreign language exam.

"There are a few people who know English at the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office, but they're all swamped. As for our university, it's confidential... Old classmate, I know you're good at English, so how about I give you a break?"

Tan Dexi didn't argue with him this time. He frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "But this will slow down the progress."

After all, his energy is limited, and it is impossible for him to split himself in two and do two things at once.

Just when he was in a dilemma, Liu Hongyi suddenly said, "Teacher, how about I give it a try?"

"you?"

Not only Duan Weimin and the others were in disbelief, but even Tan Dexi was shocked.

Tan Dexi had only a short time of contact with Liu Hongyi, but he felt that he was extremely intelligent and had outstanding creative thinking, but was he also proficient in English?

Liu Hongyi smiled and said, "Teacher, I've been self-studying English for a while now. We have an English teacher at No. 1 Middle School who's pretty good. Besides, don't we have an English-Chinese dictionary? I'll learn while I work. If I come across something I really don't understand, I'll leave it blank and ask the teacher to fill it in when the time comes. It'll save me some time, at least."

Liu Hongyi had carefully considered taking the initiative to take on the task of translating the English materials.

There is no need to worry about being "exposed".

Time travel and rebirth are such outrageous things that even if you say it yourself, you have to make others believe it.

At most, I just think that his talent is too high and unbelievable.

Showing off his extraordinary talent in front of Duan Weimin, Tan Dexi, and the others wasn't a bad thing. It would only make Tan Dexi respect him even more. Duan Weimin, on the other hand, was a broad-minded man, holding a high position. Gaining his favor was a win-win.

"Okay, since you volunteered, I'll let you try."

Tan Dexi is also a very decisive person and made the decision immediately.

"Try translating a passage for me tonight. If you can, we'll continue!"

"Okay, thank you teacher."

Liu Hongyi behaved politely and responded very appropriately.

"Why are you thanking me? If you can really take on this task, it would be a huge help to me. Our research progress would be greatly accelerated."

Tan Dexi said, patting him on the shoulder and speaking encouragingly.

That's what technical people are like, they do things as soon as they say them. After dinner, they didn't even take a rest. The father and son went straight to the laboratory and got ready.

Tan Dexi picked out two pages of relatively simple English materials and gave them to him, asking him to try to translate them first.

Then he began calculating those incredibly complex equations, his abacus clacking away. Liu Hongyi watched with admiration. He was in his fifties, but when he used the abacus, his fingers were more nimble than a teenager in love.

However, Liu Hongyi was the kind of super academic master who could calm down. He soon turned a blind eye to the "noise" from the outside world and began to translate the two pages of English materials by himself.

Liu Hongyi has a solid foundation in foreign languages ​​and is proficient in the languages ​​of several countries.

He was originally a science genius.

Although he later gave up writing to enter politics and did not engage in professional research for many years, he later returned to Jingjiang Institute of Technology as a professor and started to engage in academic research again, and picked up foreign languages ​​again.

Although it is still not as good as it was in its prime, it is much better than most so-called foreign language professionals these days.

In less than an hour, the two pages of information were translated.

"Teacher, I've finished it. Please correct it!"

"So fast?"

Tan Dexi, who was busy calculating, looked up in surprise and took the manuscript. He saw neat regular script on it. Except for the technical terms, everything else was indeed translated.

Liu Hongyi also carefully wrote those professional terms in pencil in the blank spaces to make it convenient for Tan Dexi to "fill in the blanks" directly without having to check the original text and waste time.

In fact, Liu Hongyi understood most of the professional terms, and he left them blank on purpose.

You claim to be gifted, learning from Chuzhou No. 1 Middle School's English teacher and being able to translate ordinary English content and make sense. You even manage to understand professional military technical terminology. Do you believe that Old Tan will get angry and run straight to Chuzhou No. 1 Middle School to confront your English teacher?

Then they will capture you, a person who is highly suspected of being reborn, and slice you up for research!

Tan Dexi checked Liu Hongyi's translation word by word while comparing it with the English materials. The more he read, the more frightened he became, and his sparse gray eyebrows raised.

Not only are the words translated accurately, but there are also no grammatical errors.

It even retains the original flavor of the English translation.

Instead of the "literal translation" of youseeseeyou and onedaydayde.

"You, are you really a sophomore in high school?"

After a while, Tan Dexi raised his head and stared at him with a sharp gaze, his face full of disbelief.

Liu Hongyi couldn't help laughing.

"Teacher, do I look like someone who has studied abroad?"

"Okay, great!"

The old man was immediately overjoyed.

"Now we can really speed up our progress a lot."