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Exclusive Memory Chapter 5 Part 7

 In the last few minutes before the bell was struck, we finally reached the Riverside Square. The square is facing the confluence of the north and south rivers, and a small part is suspended, so standing on the side with the railing and looking down to see the rushing river rushing eastward under your feet, you will suddenly feel that you are on a boat. In the corner of the square, there is a huge bell tower, and many people are waiting to welcome the countdown to the New Year. This time is the most violent period of fireworks, and the gorgeous fireworks rush into the air one by one, very dense. Even people dare not look up straight, lest the soot fall into the eyes. When I saw the flying fireworks, I suddenly remembered the question I asked Peng Yu, "Teacher Mu." "Huh?" When he answered me, his eyes still fell elsewhere. "Airplanes fly into the sky according to that uncle's law, so..." "Bernoulli," he said. "So when the plane does the f...

Exclusive Memory Chapter 5 Part 6

 I stood up, walked to the railing, looked at the river under the embankment for a while, plucked up courage, turned around and said loudly: "Teacher Mu, can you tell me about you?" Then he got up and approached me, "What's the matter?" "Anything is fine, from childhood, from studying abroad, from work, from love." I was afraid that he would not agree, so I added, "In exchange, you can also ask me." "Ask you what?" "A lot. For example, I was very skinny when I was a child. Every time I made a mistake, my mother would ask me to tell myself how many times I was going to be whipped before I was whipped with a feather duster." He laughed, "Your mother is quite democratic." "What, that's a hypocritical democracy. I said at the beginning: 'Mom, just take a light pump'. However, I didn't know that not only was it impossible, but I would also be accused of not knowing my own mistakes deeply. I will b...

Exclusive Memory Chapter 5 Part 5

Twenty minutes later, the familiar CR-V stopped in front of me. I saw a long-lost face. He got out of the car, closed the door, and walked towards me, almost unreal. He and I didn't go anywhere, just wandered the street and unknowingly walked to the river. We found a sidewalk chair and sat down. In front of the chair is the sidewalk, and further ahead is the wooden railing by the river, and outside the railing is the wide river surface. The river flows quietly to the east, and the brightest lights of the city are reflected on the water. "Is it cold?" he asked. "Not cold." I shook my head. At least it's cold outside but warm inside. On such a lonely and special night, there was actually him by my side. I am neither noble nor high-spirited, and I do not have strong self-esteem, so I am willing to accept Mu Chenghe's appearance, whether sympathy or pity. Even if it is an illusion, I don't care. The corners of his mouth raised a small arc, he took out a ...

Exclusive Memory Chapter 5 Part 4

 On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, my mother and I went to my uncle's house for a New Year's dinner. When I was eating a dumpling, I bit it down, and it happened to be the one with the fifty-cent coin wrapped in it. My cousin said: "Yo, I wrapped this. It's terrible, next year Xiao Tong will have red luck." I slowly spit out the money. Grandma said: "I hope to find a good job and be able to support myself." Then aunt said: "Mom, your expectations are too low." "Yes, grandma, I can still support you, my grandpa, and my mother." Grandma continued to eat without speaking . I suddenly thought of a question, "Cousin, did you wash it when you put the money?" No matter how much the uncle and aunt persuaded us, we still didn't stay to continue watching the Spring Festival Gala, and came out after eating. When I walked downstairs, my mother said, "Actually, I think it's better for you to watch the new year with gra...

Exclusive Memory Chapter 5 Part 3

 When we woke up in the morning, Bai Lin nudged me with her elbow: "What dream did you have last night? You slept until midnight, and I heard you talking in your sleep alone." "Really?" I washed my face. "Really. And certainly not memorizing words." She said seriously. The fact that we took the fourth major exam in our sophomore year used to drive us crazy. When I am stressed, I love to talk in my dreams, and it is said that my dream words are full of English words that I memorized that day... I tilted my head and thought about it seriously, "It seems that I dreamed that you and Senior Brother Li were married, and then you insisted on it at the wedding, 'Stuff me with bouquets'. ” Bai Lin glared at me, and said viciously, "You're looking for smoke, right?" As the exams approached and the number of self-study people in the library increased, there was a tense and oppressive atmosphere everywhere. I read a few pages of the textbook...

Exclusive Memory Chapter 5 Part 2

 Mu Chenghe's class is still the same. The weather is getting colder and colder, and everyone is eager to shorten the break time and finish class early, and immediately retreat to the bed. But he still insisted on taking a break between classes. The winter vacation is less than a month away. A lot of electives are preparing for exams, as is Russian. So, after he finished teaching the tasks for this semester, he asked me to go to his office after class to get the review materials, and then see if the students would like to print them out. He said: "The review questions contain 80% of the content of the exam, so let everyone review well." I stared, "Eighty points for these two pieces of paper?" He smiled and nodded. I happily said, "Long live the teacher!" "Don't shrink the print and take it to cheat." He added. "...how could it be?" I lowered my head in embarrassment, this man really didn't open any pot and lifted it. At this...

Exclusive Memory Chapter 5 Part 1

 Generally, before the tenth of each month, I have to hand in the thought report of the previous month. There are five of us in the department plus me, and after graduating from the amateur party school, they are all training targets for preparatory party members. Every month, we are asked to write a thought report. In the first two months, Chen Ting was there, and we handed it over to Chen Ting. He is a teacher of the Youth League Committee. Now that he was not there, he had to hand it over to the teacher Li who occasionally appeared in the West District. I don't know about other schools, anyway, but in addition to student work, our Youth League Committee also manages students' promotion students to join the party. I thought that if I really joined the party, maybe Chen Ting would become my introduction to the party. Before he went to the training, he talked to me from time to time to understand the dynamics of my thoughts. He and Secretary Wu of the academy may have a little ...

Exclusive Memory Chapter 4 Part 7

 So, I have been digesting what Brother Li said. It was only after connecting a series of things that I realized my carelessness. The first time Mu Chenghe asked me to go to the office to ask about the class situation, he said, I have never taught undergraduates. At that time, I directly understood this sentence as saying that he had never been a teacher. The second time Mu Chenghe came to the police station to pick me up Bai Lin, the policeman said to Mu Chenghe, I have seen you in the newspaper. Even if his mental calculation can be so strong, I have never doubted anything. Then, he told me and Peng Yu about those things, and the director of the science and technology museum also knew him. So many details were overlooked by me, how careless. I take a bus back to the West District with Bai Lin. At that time, the campus bus carrying the two of us turned around at the door and went to the bulletin board for half a circle. Through the orange street lamp, I could see his name in ...

Exclusive Memory Chapter 4 Part 6

 At night, I get up to go to the bathroom. Walking by the balcony, I saw the snowflakes drifting bigger and bigger outside, covering the treetops with a thin layer of white. Just now I was so encouraged by them, I really had a little, a little... I went back to bed and went through the events of the past month or so in my mind like a movie, so I couldn't fall asleep even more. I pulled out my phone from under the pillow and checked the time. Then I couldn't help but open the short message and typed the three words "Teacher Mu"(in chinese characters it's 3 words). But what to type next, I am stumped.  I thought about it, and deleted the three words of Teacher Mu and replaced them with "you". What should be written after "you"? I deleted it again. "Thank you for inviting me to dinner." After I typed these seven characters, I read them again and again. In the end, "you" was replaced with "you" (informal to formal), an...

Exclusive Memory Chapter 4 Part 5

 Later I saw an orange-red, fat model helicopter with the front marked Mi-26, and now I was no longer confused. I knew in my heart that this must be the plane of the Miri Design Institute. Thinking about it this way, I suddenly felt that these things were also interesting, so I continued to search for planes starting with the word "米" (meter), and sure enough, most of them were helicopters. I feel very happy in my heart, and I have an inexplicable sense of accomplishment. I was about to turn back to show off, but I didn't expect someone to come and shout "Chenghe——". It was an elegant middle-aged man with a work card on his chest. "Director Qin." Mu Chenghe reached out to shake his hand. I took a look, but fortunately Mu Chenghe stretched out his right hand, otherwise the two would collide. "Why are you so free to come to visit us!" Mu Chenghe said, "I've brought my two children to take a look.” Then they exchanged pleasantries and w...

Exclusive Memory Chapter 4 Part 4

  It's hard at home, I know. Grandpa's monthly medical expenses while lying in the intensive care unit are a huge sum of money. Mom's work sounds good to say, but that's all it is. (Meaning she doesn't make much.) Originally, she used to give me 300 yuan a month, 10 yuan a day. Later, the prices went up, so she gave me an extra 100 yuan. In fact, I saved most of the money and didn't move it much, unless I didn't have any from tutoring, so I kept some out for emergencies. I went back to school and had dinner before I went to self-study with Bai Lin. When I came out at nine o'clock, I was a little hungry, so I went to the canteen to see what there was to eat. There are several TVs hanging in the hall of the cafeteria. After 7:30, the TV signal was cut off in the dormitory, so some people gathered in the cafeteria to watch TV. In fact, the TV can only watch provincial channels, but everyone still looks up and watches with relish. During this period, the sat...

Exclusive Memory Table of Contents

 Hello! I have decided to pick Exclusive Memory  by Mu Fusheng (My One And Only Love) AKA Somewhere Only We Know (Cdrama on Netflix - great watch!) The Novel is divided into chapters and parts; i.e., Chapter 1 Part 1 The wonderful Fei's Heaven Fei-fei started this but has not uploaded in a a while, however her translations and notes are awesome, please go give her some love. Reading her version is what made me want to translate the rest of this so please please please support her. I will post links to her chapter releases here over mine so please read her versions from her site. I will update this if she releases more. I am hoping she will continue to do translations because I really enjoy reading them when they are coming from someone who actually speaks the language. I am sure there are a lot of idioms and phrases that I will misinterpret or won't understand correctly in mine, but I will do my best. I will also post a link to her chapter list at the bottom in case I do not s...

Introduction to Very Bad Translations

 Hello everyone.  As the name goes, this is a place for very bad translations... meaning I am translating Raws without speaking the original language. This is mostly due to me wanting to read certain books that have not been translated yet, but since I am already translating them for myself, I figured I may as well post them here for others to read. I will not have any type of schedule for what I'm posting here, it's just whenever I have free time. Thank you for visiting, I hope they are at least enjoyable :)