Siheyuan: I have a super purchasing system

"No need, I don't need anything."

Aunt Yu still holds the ideas of the older generation. Since she treats Yu Zhile as her junior, she naturally thinks it is better to be frugal.

"That won't do. You don't lack anything, but what about others?"

"You are the chief designer, and you don't want any reward even if you win an award. What if others win an award?"

"They would be embarrassed to accept the reward, but it would be unacceptable not to have one. They might even be poached by others."

"So you didn't get this reward for yourself, you got it for others."

Yu Zhile spoke seriously, and Aunt Yu sounded a little confused. It seemed to make sense, but also seemed a little wrong.

"Well, I'll take the reward."

Aunt Yu agreed immediately.

"That's right. I know a little about English. I'll write down the phonetic symbols for you. You should learn them first. You will rely on the phonetic symbols for pronunciation in the future."

Yu Zhile said with a smile, then took out a notebook and started writing.

If the phonetic symbols had not been engraved into his DNA when he first learned English, he would not have remembered them.

"Xiao Yu, when did you learn English?"

Aunt Yu couldn't help but ask, after all, English is something you can only learn in college.

"Oh, this is what Yu Shui wanted to learn, so I learned a little bit too."

"By the way, I'm quite busy recently. I'll get the tape recorder back for you later."

"If you still don't understand something, you can ask Yushui. You can ask Guoguo when he comes back, or you can ask me when I'm here."

Yu Zhile was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that this was not the era when all primary school students learned English, but he quickly found a reason.

"Okay, I won't be polite then. You teach me how to read these first."

Aunt Yu pointed at the written phonetic symbols, her face full of desire for knowledge.

Yu Zhile sometimes feels really emotional. If Aunt Yu had the opportunity to study, she might be a professor now.

Since he met Aunt Yu, she has hardly stopped studying.

Even during the years when she was sent down to the countryside, she knew that the people living next door were all old professors, and she often went to them to learn and borrow books.

Yu Zhile quickly began to teach Aunt Yu how to read phonetic symbols, but this was obviously quite difficult for Aunt Yu.

Yu Zhile was quite patient. Although he had nothing to do after get off work, he still had time to teach Aunt Yu some phonetic symbols.

It was not until He Yushui called them to eat that Aunt Yu remembered everything clearly.

But she is very smart and good at learning by analogy. She can open an English-Chinese dictionary and roughly read the text by looking at the phonetic symbols, although her pronunciation is not standard.

“You are learning English.”

When He Yushui came in, he saw the interaction between the two and couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, I'm learning English, but I didn't expect Xiaoyu's English is so good."

Aunt Yu praised enthusiastically.

Yu Zhile spoke a little embarrassedly. His English level was only at the level of communication and his pronunciation might not be standard.

"Brother Yu, our teacher also requires us to learn English as much as possible."

"After all, we will communicate more with the world in the future, and English is spoken the most in the world."

"I'm learning too. I'll make progress together with Aunt Yu."

He Yushui originally wanted to ask Yu Zhile how he could speak English, but when he saw Yu Zhile's expression, he changed his mind.

There is still some tacit understanding between the two of them.

"Okay, we'll make progress together then."

Aunt Yu also immediately became happy, and then they went to eat together.

After dinner, Aunt Yu saw that Yu Zhile must be busy with other things, so she pulled He Yushui aside to study English together for a long time.

"Brother Yu, when did you learn English, and how did you fool Aunt Yu?"

At night, when the two of them were leaning on the bed together, He Yushui asked with a smile.

"I'm not kidding. I just learned it in my spare time. A lot of the technical information I have is in English, including most of the advanced technologies."

"It's hard for me to explain this, so I'll just say I learned it with you."

Yu Zhile explained with a smile.

"You learned from me. You learned much better than me. This makes me look so stupid."

"No, I'm dumber than you anyway, so that's fine."

He Yushui thought about it and coaxed herself into submission, which made Yu Zhile almost laugh.

"Rainwater, why are you so cute?"

Yu Zhile couldn't help shrugging his shoulders and holding back his laughter, and the bed was shaking a little.

"You're still laughing at me."

"Humph."

After He Yushui finished speaking, she felt a little embarrassed and felt like a little girl.

But she recalled that when she was chatting with classmates and teachers at school, everyone said that she looked younger than her actual age and that it was obvious that she had never suffered any hardship.

Then she couldn't help laughing. She had suffered a lot when she was a child. She had no parents and was raised by her brother. She often didn't have enough to eat or wear.

But after growing up and being with Brother Yu, she really never suffered any hardship. Marrying Brother Yu was the luckiest thing that happened to her in her life.

"I'm not making fun of you, I really think you're cute."

"Always."

Yu Zhile spoke seriously.

"You are already an old married couple, and you are still talking about this. Aren't you ashamed?"

He Yushui couldn't help but said with a blushing face.

"You have always been a lovely little girl. Even if you are old, you are still a lovely little girl in my heart."

Yu Zhile simply hugged his wife and kissed her. She blushed with embarrassment and buried herself in the quilt.

"Oh, I have something serious to tell you."

Yu Zhile tugged at his wife and asked her why she was still shy when speaking at such an old age.

"What's the matter?"

As expected, when she heard that there was something important going on, He Yushui immediately stuck her head out of the quilt, but her face was still red.

"The underground I applied for is here. I'll leave the construction to you and Huang Lingling."

"But your main duties are supervision and financial management, so it won't interfere with your studies."

Yu Zhile didn't beat around the bush and directly explained how big the entire map was, where it was located, and how he planned to plan it.

"No problem, leave it to me. Accounting and the like, it's just right for me to put it into practice."

He Yushui was also eager to try, but after a while she seemed to remember something.

"By the way, this project of ours should be very large, right? Does it require more than one engineering team?"

He Yushui asked. Although he hadn't seen the details yet, he knew it was not a small project just by listening to it.

"Sure, what do you recommend?"

"Whether it's your friend or classmate, as long as the project meets the requirements, you can give it to anyone you want."

Yu Zhile nodded, wondering if any of He Yushui’s classmates or friends had done this.

"Well, come to think of it, he should be your friend."

"Zhang Tieshan from Luoyang Village is currently working on a project with the young men from his village."

Unexpectedly, He Yushui mentioned an unexpected person, which made Yu Zhile slightly stunned.