Three or Two Things about Rebirth

Qiu Luming returned home, hugged He Manshu who was cooking, and acted like a spoiled child, "Mom, I missed you so much!"

"You thought I was still lingering in Beijing and not coming back, and you even took your second sister-in-law with you!" He Manshu pretended to be angry and slapped her daughter's butt.

"Ah! It hurts!" Qiu Luming screamed and slipped into the living room.

"Change your shoes! Wash your face!" He Manshu shouted in the kitchen.

"Got it!" Qiu Luming rolled her eyes and her sight fell on the phone. She picked up the phone and dialed the number: 0. The call was connected. Qiu Luming lowered her voice slightly, "Hello, please help me pass, yes. ... I'm home, everything is going well, don't worry! Yoyo. ... Yoyo Luming's Yo, add a young "you" next to the word "kou", um, thank you!"

After hanging up the phone, she turned around and found that the whole family was looking at her, with Fang Yuan having a playful smile on her face.

Qiu Luming was not embarrassed and smiled, "I just want to report that I am safe."

Just as Qiu Jiashu was about to speak, He Manshu said, "Wash your hands and eat noodles, then have a good sleep, and report to work in the afternoon. After all, tomorrow's delivery is a big deal!"

"Okay, got it!" Qiu Luming was halfway through washing his hands when his pager rang. Qiu Luming quickly wiped his hands, took out the pager from his bag, pressed the buttons, and the green screen displayed, "Received. Have a good rest and prepare for tomorrow's mission! Long voyage."

"Eat, you need to watch it a few times!" Qiu Jiashu called her, "If you don't eat, the noodles will clump together!"

Qiu Luming then put down his pager, sat down at the dining table with a smile, scooped a spoonful of sauce, and poured it on the noodles in his bowl, "Dumplings on the bus, noodles on the bus, I want two bowls!"

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Not only in early spring, Heilongjiang also has an ice flow period in early winter, which is the running of ice floes. After about half a month, it officially enters the frozen period.

Although goods can be transported in winter, the three-foot-thick ice does not form overnight. It must be severe winter before the ice surface is frozen enough for trucks to run. Cleaning the river surface by then is a big project, and the severe cold also places many restrictions on the goods.

Therefore, this transfer of goods before the ice age is very important.

Director Wu looked at the two boxes of snacks that Qiu Luming had placed on his desk and said, "What else did you buy? Take it back now!"

"It's just some food. You're welcome." Qiu Luming handed over a file bag in his hand, "Director, please take a look at this."

"What's that? It's so mysterious?" Guanzhang Wu untied the rope on the file bag and looked inside the bag. His eyes suddenly lit up. "Luming is thoughtful! How do you know I like these?"

In the file bag was a small stamp album and two first-day covers. One was a blank Great Hall first-day cover, and the other was the same, except that it had the address and name of Director Wu written in Qiu Luming's beautiful handwriting, and was stamped with the Beijing postmark and the Jiayang landing stamp.

She chuckled and said, "I have a friend who works at the post office. I asked him to help me stamp a landing stamp for today. Just think of me as the postman, and deliver it all the way from Beijing to Jiayang."

Director Wu laughed, took out a pair of tweezers from the drawer, and carefully picked up a stamp. "Oh, this is Queen Victoria, a Hong Kong stamp!"

"Yes, after the handover in a few years, there will definitely not be this kind of stamps. I have an informant in the post office, and I know that the Commissioner has already ordered commemorative stamps and special stamps for the whole year of next year. I was shopping with my sister-in-law in Beijing, and I happened to see a stamp album for sale. I don't know much about this, so I thought that the Commissioner should have all the domestic stamps, so I bought this album of foreign stamps, including those from the UK, the US, Russia... and Hong Kong and Taiwan. I don't know if you like it?"

"I like it! I put a lot of thought into the first day cover." Wu Guanzhang put down the tweezers. "Luming, you are so polite. You even brought back a gift after taking the exam. How was it? Did the exam go well? Did you meet your boyfriend?"

Qiu Luming answered her questions one by one, and Director Wu gave her a few more instructions, asking her to concentrate and deal with the cargo.

Qiu Luming brought small gifts to all his colleagues, including five temporary workers, and kept saying, "A gift from a thousand miles away is a token of love, so don't despise it!"

Everyone received the gifts, thanked happily, and everyone was happy.

Since being transferred to the customs, Qiu Luming has not dared to slack off for a single day. He reads books, looks at materials, memorizes words, watches news on Russian TV for half an hour every day, and asks his sister-in-law to help buy undergraduate textbooks for Hebei University.

After returning from the exam, she made good use of her time and made key preparations for the goods to be declared and the known information about Russian trading companies. She also put the quick translator given by her third brother in her purse.

Influenced by He Manshu, Qiu Luming takes her work very seriously. Her current job is not as carefree as working in the library, nor as clever as working in the TV University to cope with exams. To some extent, she wears a uniform and carries the official emblem on her shoulder, representing the country. She cannot bring shame to her parents, let alone the country.

In fact, Russian is a language that is easy to learn at first, but becomes more and more difficult the more you learn it. Qiu Luming feels that, regardless of the way of thinking in Russian, the complexity of Russian grammar is at least twenty times higher than that of English.

For example, a word can have more than 20 letters, and it is a long string. One of them may be a "typo".

Nouns are divided into feminine, masculine and neuter genders, while pronouns and adjectives change according to the part of speech of the noun. My father, my mother, my name, these three "my" are three different forms.

After a large number of different prepositions, nouns, pronouns and adjectives will have six case changes, nouns and plural forms will have twelve, and the key stress will change place at any time.

Verbs can be divided into transitive verbs and, transitive verbs, directional verbs, non-directional verbs, imperfective and perfective aspects. There are also six personal conjugations, and many special conjugations of verbs.

Verbs require different declension of the following nouns. For example, I help you and I love you, the two "you" are different.

There are two different systems for the past tense of verbs for men and women.

The same root word with different prefixes can have very different meanings, and many verbs often have more than ten extended meanings, which are very easy to confuse.

The most difficult thing is that there are many homonyms. In the Russians' extremely fast speaking speed, they have already mumbled it by before you can hear it clearly. What's hateful is that there are many bearded men. If you don't drink well with him during dinner, he will deliberately pronounce unclearly and then look at you with embarrassment with a smile.

The border inspection station and the Sixth Border Defense Regiment did not have a full-time translator. Qiu Luming's most common job was to follow the border inspection on board ships for inspection. He also participated in a meeting between the Chinese and Russian border guards. He encountered this situation that time. The bearded man spoke in a southern dialect quickly. Although Qiu Luming took shorthand notes in his notebook, there were still a few places that were unclear.

So she immediately hinted to the Chinese head of the delegation to use more military terms, idioms and proverbs. Then, she sat behind the head of the delegation and watched the handsome Russian translator stuttering in embarrassment.

After the first negotiation, the Russian translator came to ask her what the sentences “All’s fair in war”, “We are close neighbors”, “The friendship between gentlemen is as pure as water”, “If you don’t fight for three days, you will tear down the roof” meant.

Qiu Luming answered his questions very enthusiastically and solved his own doubts at the same time.

As a result, the meeting was negotiated four times, and things went more and more smoothly. Qiu Luming was praised by Director Wu, and her colleagues said that she would definitely be an advanced worker this year.

*

Although she had important work to do the next day, Qiu Luming still took two bags of snacks to Fei's house after get off work, but found the door was locked. She waited for a long time in surprise, but no one came back.

A neighbor came out to take out the trash, "Hey, aren't you Yuanhang's girlfriend? Yuanhang was injured and hospitalized. His parents were so worried that they went to Beijing yesterday! How come you didn't know that you were his girlfriend?"

The woman stared at Qiu Luming, as if she didn't know that Fei Yuanhang's injury was a pleasant thing.

Qiu Luming felt as if he was struck by lightning, his head was buzzing, and it took him a long time to calm down and ride his bike home.

The woman stood at the Fei family's door, holding a swill bucket, and said, "Tsk tsk, this guy is a bastard!"