Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 790: Showcasing Special Skills and Making Old Diplomatic Friends, News of Another Class Reassignment (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)

After today's events, the fact that our class monitor, Fang Yan, has a photographic memory spread throughout the class.

Even people from other classes knew about it.

Hossué from the international class even came to confirm this.

He brought several books with him for this purpose.

I want to confirm whether dialects can truly be remembered after a single photograph.

Of course, for this matter, Hosu also invited Fang Yan and his roommates Du Heng and Yan Yifan to lunch together, along with other students from their class.

Among them were East Germans, Poles, Czechoslovaks, and Yugoslavs.

These were all classmates with whom Hossué had a good relationship.

These people all learned Chinese from a young age. Although their pronunciation wasn't perfect, they were all within the range of communication. A group of foreigners speaking in dialects while the three of them spoke Chinese was something you could only see here.

Normally, they prefer to communicate with their own people in their own language.

This group, like Hosseou, was interested in whether dialects could be memorized after just one reading.

They chatted while eating, and after finishing their meal, Hosseou took out the magazine he had brought and showed it to Fang Yan so that he could memorize its contents.

Upon closer inspection, several of the books turned out to be "People's Literature".

Moreover, it was when my younger brother started publishing a few issues of "Birch Forest".

After Fang Yan asked Hosué, he indeed confirmed Fang Yan's guess.

“Friends, this is the most popular book among you young people, of course I have to study it.”

“I really like the story ‘Birch Forest’ in it. It made me realize the lives of young people in your country and gave me a new perspective. The story is also very exciting. I can’t wait to know what will happen next.”

Fang Yan asked Hossué:
"So you're planning to have me memorize the contents?"

Hossué nodded and said:

"Of course, I know you've probably seen it before, but it's okay, we've seen it too. But no one can remember everything. You just need to say a random part and be able to match it to the description. That means you have a photographic memory."

He said in dialect:

"Okay, then I'll talk about a section from each book."

Then, without any preamble, Fang Yan began to speak.

He explained everything clearly, from the first page of the book to the content, in dialect, word for word, leaving Khossouye completely bewildered.

He hadn't really believed before that someone could have such a good memory, like a human camera, until Fang Yan showed it to him on the spot, and then Hosseille believed it.

He spoke in dialect:

"Friend, you're amazing! No wonder they say you're a human from the future."

What Hosseou actually meant was the direction of human evolution, but he misspoke and referred to future humans.

This made the person with the dialect feel a pang of unease.

After Hossué explained it clearly, Fang Yan finally understood what he meant.

You're making yourself all nervous.

Afterwards, Hosseille showed off to the rest of the class, and these children of high-ranking foreign officials all looked at Fang Yan with respect and envy.

One of them said with a laugh:

"This ability only appeared in my childhood fantasies. Back then, when I was memorizing Chinese, I wondered why I couldn't have the ability to pick up knowledge directly from a book and stuff it into my brain?"

Upon hearing this, another person added:
"Haha, I thought about that too. I even thought about writing the content down on paper and then eating it to see if I could absorb the knowledge into my body."

These foreigners are likely to become high-ranking officials in their respective medical fields when they return to their home countries. If Fang Yan wants to strengthen the influence of traditional Chinese medicine or gain some of their support through connections, it is quite necessary to be on good terms with them.

So I took this opportunity to chat with each of them one by one.

Then they discovered that the dialect was quite knowledgeable about their country's culture, and even knew some of their country's slang and customs very well.

This excited the group of foreigners. They had never met anyone who understood them so well, and they all wanted to make friends with the dialect. They began to introduce themselves in detail.

The one from East Germany was named Carl Schneider. His father was the head of the Medical Devices Department of the East German Ministry of Health, and his mother was a professor of pharmacology at Humboldt University of Berlin.

The family controlled 70% of the medical microscope production quota in East Germany.

Having witnessed his grandfather use acupuncture to relieve the frostbite of soldiers on duty at the Berlin Wall, he is now secretly researching the "correlation between meridians and the microcirculation system" and plans to introduce traditional Chinese medicine theory into grassroots medical stations in East Germany.

He said he carries a Leica microscope and often compares and observes tongue coating cells with the "Tongue Observation" atlas.

There's a kind of meticulousness that's unique to Germans.

In exchange, he also gave Fang Yan a notebook.

The notebook cover is printed with "VEB Carl Zeiss Jena," which, according to the dialect, is the logo of the East German state-owned Zeiss factory.

The Polish woman was named Anna Kowalski. She had blonde hair adorned with an amber hair clip, which was said to have been a gift from her mother, who believed that "the natural energy sealed in ancient resin is connected to the aging theory of traditional Chinese medicine."

They don't quite understand the thought processes of foreigners, even though they speak dialects.

However, her uncle is a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, in charge of agricultural cooperative reform, and her mother is the vice dean of the Warsaw Medical School, leading a national project to study traditional Chinese medicine as an alternative to antibiotics.

Her family owns a hundred-acre chamomile plantation outside Krakow and is trying to combine the processing methods in the Compendium of Materia Medica with traditional Polish herbal baths.

After reading Fang Yan's "Traditional Chinese Medicine Processing", she was inspired and wanted to arrange a private meeting with Fang Yan.

However, since Comrade Fangyan is already married, he said he couldn't make an appointment.

However, she still gave Fang Yan a pocket watch, making her the most generous among them.

The Czechoslovakian was named Jan Novak. His father was the head of the medical department at the Skoda car factory, and his uncle was a traditional Chinese medicine enthusiast who fled to Switzerland after the Prague Spring. His uncle sent him a photocopy of "The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion" through underground channels. When the young man saw that others were giving gifts, he gave his own fountain pen to Fang Yan.

The last one is Milos Popovic from Yugoslavia. His grandfather was a member of Tito's private medical team, and his mother worked at the Belgrade Military Medical Academy, where she was responsible for researching battlefield first aid in guerrilla warfare.

He always carried with him a silver needle case that Tito had given to his grandfather, which was engraved with the emblem of the Yugoslav People's Army.

He is currently writing "The Application Prospect of Acupuncture Hemostasis in Mountain Guerrilla Warfare". His level of traditional Chinese medicine is probably the highest among them. He is very practical and has the highest enthusiasm for learning. He even expressed his desire to study emergency pills, powders and ointments for battlefield use with Fang Yan.

He gave Fang Yan a delicate handkerchief, saying it was made by his mother over a long period of time.

At this moment, Du Heng and Yan Yifan also looked at Fang Yan with envy.

Brother Fang is truly a talent; he's so popular wherever he goes.

……

Time passed in the afternoon.

After the conversation during lunch, Fang Yan has now become a hot topic in both first-grade TCM classes.

During the last class in the afternoon, Fang Yan and his classmates were in classroom 101 of the main building, studying the political lesson "Hygiene Thoughts," when their homeroom teacher, Fang Yaozhong, walked in and announced something.

"According to the decision made by the school leaders, in order to better complete the learning tasks, our class will be split into three classes again. Based on the different learning progress of each person, a small class teaching system will be used. The class will be divided tonight during evening self-study, and everyone must be present."

As soon as these words came out, the whole place was in an uproar.

Some people were clearly panicked, such as those in Group C.

Many more people are happy. Those who already had a foundation in the subject were not used to the current teaching method that caters to beginners. They were mostly learning things they had already learned. Now, things are much better, and they can finally be divided into classes.

Fang Yan had guessed beforehand that this day would definitely come.

I just didn't expect it to come so quickly.

I hadn't even had a chance to get comfortable as class monitor before I was effectively laid off.

I don't know who I'll be assigned to in my new class.
P.S.: I still owe you 53000 words after finishing this chapter.

That's all for today, please come early tomorrow.

Lao Feng is working hard to write tomorrow's code.

(End of this chapter)