Fall in love with the ex Bai Yueguang

Chapter 14 The Oort Nebula 6

This person is too naive, Xie Li thought.

He was about to puff up with anger, folded his arms and glared at Tan Ke.

So Tan Ke smiled even more happily.

Professor Fang came out of the bedroom and saw his nephew, very disgusted: "Why are you here again?"

Xie Li ran over to help Professor Fang go downstairs.

Tan Ke then stood up: "I heard that the old man is here again, I'll come to see my sister-in-law."

Professor Fang showed a clear face: "Auntie called you." She sat down, "Don't worry, my father-in-law has gotten better recently. And the doctor said that being with his family will help stabilize his emotions. I spend all day They are all at home, so let them send him here when they are free. It is better than him running around by himself."

Seeing that Professor Fang was determined to take care of the old man, Tan Ke had nothing to say: "Then I can rest assured, but my sister-in-law needs to call me if there is something to do. There is still something to do at the company, so I will leave first."

Professor Fang stopped him: "Hey, by the way, help me send Xiaoxie off. It's such a hot day, it's hard work for this kid to run around."

Xie Li wanted to refuse, but after a second thought, he agreed again.

He got into Tan Ke's car, a very common Audi A6, and the interior was also standard.

Xie Li doesn't know much about cars, but he also recognizes the one that Tan Ke took when he went to the Observatory last time, which is obviously more luxurious than this one.

The car drove out of the courtyard and turned into Falin Road.

Pieces of pistachio hang shoulders and shoulders, and occasionally a little spot of sunlight falls.

"Mr. Tan, can I trouble you with something?" Xie Li mentally typed for a long time before finally speaking.

Tan Ke drove the car, humming casually.

"The gentleman in sportswear I saw in Longjing last time happened to be my teacher's neighbor. He promised to help me find some information some time ago and pass it on to me through my teacher, but the teacher doesn't seem to have any contact with him recently. Meet. I don’t have his contact information either. Could you please tell him about this for me?”

Xie Li felt a little embarrassed, as if he was urging the other party.But if he really had no other choice, he would not take advantage of this alone time to make a request.

Tan Ke didn't speak, his sunglasses covered half of his face, and he couldn't see any expression.

Xie Li couldn't figure out what he meant, but felt that the silence was embarrassing.

He secretly speculated that maybe this Mr. Tan didn't want to have too many contacts with him.After all, there was Song Yi in the middle, so speaking of it, the other party also felt very uncomfortable.

So he spoke again, trying to make the atmosphere less awkward: "It's okay if you don't see that gentleman recently. I'll just look for it myself."

Tan Ke glanced at the co-pilot under the cover of his sunglasses. The little boy looked very aggrieved, with his head down, listless.

"What information do you want, and he has to give it to you?" He finally asked.

Xie Li hesitated: "Well, it's just some practice materials for spoken English."

Tan Ke pushed down his sunglasses: "Fang Xian went to London when he was nine years old, and he poured out his English from the local environment for more than [-] years. What oral practice materials can I give you?"

Xie Li didn't expect the fact to be like this, so he couldn't help but let out an ah.

In Tan Ke's view, this is really stupid.

Stupid puppy.

The last road was also blocked, and Xie Li felt desperate and desperate, feeling that there was really no way out.

He clenched his fingers, thinking about how to find a reason to talk to Shen Zhichuan about what he couldn't go.

Her delicate brows were wrinkled, and her lower lip was bitten back and forth, revealing a deep blush.

A rain-soaked cat squats on the side of the road, yelling at people softly, and will always catch a soft-hearted passerby.

Tan Ke felt that he was the passer-by, couldn't help it, and asked, "What's wrong with your spoken English?"

Xie Li was dumb for a while: "...That's right, I speak poorly."

"How bad is it?" Tan Ke turned the steering wheel and turned off the expressway.

"It's bad, it's..." It's embarrassing to explain this to others. If the person is Tan Ke, Xie Li feels even more embarrassed.He bit his lip struggling, "I can't read well, I'm nervous when someone is around."

Tan Ke nodded: "How nervous?"

Xie Li stopped talking.

Tan Ke reached out and took off his sunglasses: "The most basic thing, if you want to ask others for help, you should at least explain your problem clearly."

He looked sideways at Xie Li, and Xie Li opened his mouth subconsciously: "I didn't either..."

"Nothing? Didn't plan to ask someone for help?" Tan Ke raised his eyebrows, "You can't solve it yourself, and you don't plan to ask others for help. Then what are you going to do? Don't you need to go abroad for exchanges in research?"

Xie Li didn't speak, feeling unhappy.

The reasoning is very good, but everyone is very busy, who has time to worry about these things.

He turned his head away and stared out the window without saying a word.

Tan Ke was used to talking impolitely with his subordinates, and he regretted that his tone was not very good.He originally wanted to tell the child to go to a language training class, but he didn't think of a few words to call him autistic.

This little boy is obviously very lively and outgoing, but at certain moments he will suddenly retract himself into his shell, forming a ball, which is pitiful.

"You..." Tan Ke seldom hesitated, and he hesitated to speak, "Do you know the youngest Wolf Prize winner?"

In fact, he didn't expect Xie Li to really say it, it was just a technique to open the topic.

But Xie Li thought about it seriously: "The one that predicted the depth nonlinear scattering scale? I know, the physicist at Princeton, Carson Hawes, right."

Tan Ke is still a little hesitant to tell about his senior brother. After all, Carson himself never mentions it to others, and he always listens to Fang Xian.

But Xie Li had already been aroused by him, and was looking forward to his next words, looking at him with bright black eyes.

"Well, when he was young, he had catatonic aphasia." Tan Ke's heart was broken. Anyway, his senior brother is separated from here by the Pacific Ocean, and there is Shen Zhichuan in the middle. Maybe the little boy will never see Carson in his life. , "When he was at his worst, he didn't speak at all. The school teacher almost suspected that he had autism."

Xie Li opened his eyes wide: "Why?"

"Bullying at school. He didn't grow up in the UK either. He spoke with a heavy English accent and was ridiculed." Tan Ke said, "The main reason is that he was a mixed-race illegitimate child, and British high society is very particular. Blood and parentage. His father sent him to public school with the intention of upholding the family tradition, but there was a great deal of hostility from the people there, especially from his peers."

Xie Li was very surprised.

He'd seen pictures of Carson Haws or it was on the news.

The youngest winner of the Wolf Prize in history, he paved the way for high-energy physics to identify point-like components in nucleons.Everyone is optimistic that he will win the Nobel Prize before the age of 40.

Tan Ke slowed down the car: "That kind of bullying is terrible. They don't know how to do it, and they don't know how to throw schoolbags and splash ink. This group of people has been fighting with cousins ​​and illegitimate children since childhood, and they are very good at beating others mentally. Bully each other by showing your superiority." Tan Ke said with a smile on his lips, "A superior."

Xie Li thought of his two teammates when he participated in the modeling competition, and suddenly wanted to laugh.

He stretched out two fingers, bent them on top of his head, and repeated in imitation of Tan Ke's tone: "Your Excellency."

Like a little rabbit with very moving ears.

Tan Ke couldn't hold back, and laughed.

That gesture was originally Carson's favorite. It means double quotation marks, which means sarcasm and irony. Usually, Carson uses this gesture when he wants to scold others for being stupid, but it is inconvenient to speak directly.

Shen Zhichuan has been with Carson for a long time, and he also learned it.

Now Shen Zhichuan passed this set on to his students.

But when Xie Li did this action, he didn't have the vitriol of those two people. Instead, he was like a little rabbit who used his ears to amuse others, making people want to rub his little furry head.

Xie Li found a little sympathy in the comfort of "it turns out that great scientists also have this kind of past", and unconsciously opened up the conversation.

"I used to do experiments when I was in college. I have never seen some instruments and I don't know how to handle them." He said, "A classmate likes to help me very much, but every time he tells me, 'Why don't you know about this thing? , We used to say 'like this in high school. I felt very uncomfortable. Later, my senior brother said that this kind of person is not really helping, or just looking for a sense of superiority."

"Will they laugh at you?" Tan Ke suddenly asked, "Will they laugh at you when they speak English?"

Xie Li clenched his fingers and nodded.

Tan Ke asked again: "What are you laughing at?"

"The pronunciation is very strange," Xie Li opened up his scar with difficulty, "it's very earthy, it's hard to hear, and he said he couldn't understand what I was saying."

He had an inexplicable trust in his heart, knowing that Tan Ke would not laugh at him, but he was still very afraid that Tan Ke would say "Then tell me something."

Fortunately Tan Ke did not.He just asked Xie Li: "Do you know how many people use English in the world?"

Xie Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief and shook his head.

Tan Ke glanced at him: "If you don't know, just check."

Xie Li obediently took out his mobile phone Baidu, and reported the number: "Nearly 14 billion."

Tan Ken hummed and said, "But there are only [-] million native speakers. Do you know what this number means?"

Xie Li didn't quite understand his intentions, but still cleverly made a subtraction: "It means that the remaining one billion people are not native speakers?"

"Yes." Tan Ke said, "These one billion people come from all over the world. Can everyone speak an authentic New York or London accent?"

Xie Li was stunned by Tan Ke's question, but he had never thought about this question.

"So what if the pronunciation is not standard? Carson Cox speaks Latin American English, but when he speaks, the whole world holds its breath."

Tan Ke parked the car at the destination.

He turned to look at Xie Li: "It doesn't matter if you don't speak well, what matters is what you say. Standard fluent pronunciation is worthless, only what you say will give language value."

It took Xie Li a while before he said, "Then what if what I'm talking about is worthless?"

Tan Ke narrowed his eyes and looked at him: "You didn't even open your mouth, how do you know it's worthless?"

The author has something to say: Shen Zhichuan: I have a premonition that when you hit your next episode, you will lead my little apprentice to do some nasty things.