Chapter 96 The Smell of Books
With an excited mood to rush to the financial college early in the morning, it is still early before the time of class, strolling the campus avenue, Lu Shanmin is a lot more down-to-earth, people are like this, desperate when there is no place to go, as long as there is a glimmer of hope ahead, even if it is very slim, will be desperate, just like floating in the sea, facing a ship, whether it is a mirage or not, will do their best to move forward. Being recognized by the old professor is also equivalent to being recognized by this school. The feeling of being separated from the world by layers of invisible glass covers gradually disappeared.
Luo Cheng followed in the footsteps of the people of the mountains and walked side by side. Lu Shanmin smiled at him and nodded, although the first meeting was unpleasant, Lu Shanmin was in a good mood, and it was more pleasing to the eye. In fact, Luo has grown up well, his height is a little taller than Lu Shanmin, and his skin is whiter than Lu Shanmin. The forehead is wide and clean, and it looks sunny. However, his expression was not so sunny at this time. Full of resentment and hostility.
"Last time you said you weren't a finance student"?
Lu Shanmin nodded.
Luo Cheng sneered, "There are no other colleges and universities around here, and it is really painstaking to travel so far to get here."
Luo Cheng obviously regarded Lu Shanmin as a college student, but he was not a student of a finance college.
Lu Shanmin didn't understand the implicit meaning of Luo Cheng's words, and said with a smile, "Not far away, I live on Minsheng West Road, and it's a ten-minute walk away."
Luo Cheng's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, of course he knew what kind of place Minsheng West Road was, there were all peddlers and pawns, most of them were migrant workers, in his eyes, it was a slum. If Lu Shanmin really lives there, then what qualifications does he have to fight with himself.
Luo Cheng looked at Lu Shanmin again, and his face showed a smug expression: "You are not a college student"?
Lu Shanmin nodded, "I'm just a mountain villager who graduated from elementary school."
"Hahahaha," Luo Cheng laughed and shook his head, as if he had heard a big joke. "I thought I was looking down on you, but I didn't expect to really look down on you."
Lu Shanmin was in a good mood today, and he didn't have the slightest dissatisfaction with Luo Cheng's ridicule, but his heart was full of doubts, and he never understood where he offended this person who had only met twice.
"Don't you think you're funny"?
Lu Shanmin shook his head, "I don't think it's funny."
"A mountain villager is still a rich daughter who wants to pursue college flowers."
Lu Shanmin frowned, glanced at Luo Cheng, and suddenly became enlightened. It turned out that he was Zeng Yaqian's suitor and mistakenly regarded himself as his rival.
For Zeng Yaqian, Lu Shanmin regards her more as a good friend, if you want to say that she doesn't think about it, I really haven't thought about it, he is a very self-aware person, and he clearly knows the gap between him and Zeng Yaqian.
Turning his head to look at Luo Cheng, "I never thought about her."
"Really"? Luo Cheng obviously didn't believe what Lu Shanmin said.
Lu Shanmin nodded affirmatively, "Whether you believe it or not."
Then Lu Shanmin continued: "But I don't think she will like people like you."
"What are you talking about?" Luo Cheng gritted his teeth indignantly.
"Hmph", Luo Cheng snorted coldly, "Whether she likes me or not, you don't need to worry about it, I just want to tell you to stay away from her in the future."
Lu Shanmin shook his head, "She is my friend, only she is qualified to say this to me, of course, if you can become her boyfriend one day, you can also say this, today, you are not qualified enough."
Luo Cheng sneered, "Do you know who you're talking to?"
Lu Shanmin sneered, "Whether you are the Jade Emperor or the Buddha, you are not qualified to take care of other people's affairs."
Looking at Lu Shanmin's back, Luo Cheng gritted his teeth and said three times in a row, "Good, good, good."
In a burst of commotion, Lu Shanmin walked towards Zeng Yaqian with a smile on his face.
Watching Lu Shanmin naturally and generously walk into the classroom, he was like two people trembling last time. Zeng Yaqian smiled, her smile was very sweet, such a smile had never been seen by the first-year students of the finance department of the entire finance college, and both boys and girls were completely conquered by this smile. Looking back and smiling, that's what I'm talking about.
In this class, Lu Shanmin still listened to the book of heaven for forty minutes, but this time he was not hit by despair, and still recorded every word of the old professor's speech word for word, but he would no longer write Marshall as 'mother's shoes' and Adam Smith as 'duck eggs and dead rice'.
After class, the other students still fled the classroom as if fleeing for their lives, leaving only Lu Shanmin and Zeng Yaqian. Lu Shanmin took out "Fundamentals of Economics" and walked to the podium, although this book is an introductory course in economics, but for Lu Shanmin, there are still many things that he does not understand.
"Old professor, I have some questions for you."
Ma Guodong changed his enthusiasm for the last meeting, raised his hand and looked at his watch, "I still have a class to attend, you can ask Classmate Zeng if you have any questions", and he squeezed his eyebrows at Lu Shanmin as he spoke, looking like an old naughty boy. After speaking, he walked out of the classroom with his textbook.
Seeing Lu Shanmin standing still, Zeng Yaqian said lightly, "Don't come here yet."
Lu Shanmin smiled and returned to his seat, "Don't you have to go to class for a while?"
Zeng Yaqian snatched the book from Lu Shanmin's hand, "The entire financial college, Professor Ma's class is worth listening to, and listening to other courses is also a waste of time."
Throughout the morning, Lu Shanmin was immersed in a question and answer with Zeng Yaqian, Zeng Yaqian is undoubtedly a good teacher, and can always use the most easy-to-understand language to make it easy for Lu Shanmin to understand the meaning of the written word. For example, what is meant by marginal utility, the written explanation is 'the increase in the amount of utility obtained by the consumer by increasing the consumption of a unit of goods within a certain period of time'. Lu Shanmin has never understood the meaning of this sentence. Zeng Yaqian told him that the marginal utility is actually very well understood, for example, if a man goes to a barbecue restaurant to eat barbecue, the basic utility that customers get is to eat delicious barbecue, but if he goes to a barbecue restaurant for a long time and becomes a regular customer, the boss will give him a discount, and he can pay less than other customers. If you go to a barbecue restaurant to eat barbecue for a long time, you will have the opportunity to come into contact with some girls, and maybe you can even soak a girl, which saves money and picks up a girl is the marginal utility.
In this way, Lu Shanmin can easily understand the concept of marginal utility.
Lu Shanmin was very puzzled, a simple truth, why should textbooks be described in obscure language, if they all use language like Zeng Yaqian, wouldn't it be easier to learn and understand. Zeng Yaqian's explanation is that if they don't make it so sophisticated, how can they reflect the ability of their economists.
The food in the school cafeteria is not delicious, but it is very affordable, and the same dishes are much cheaper than the small restaurants on Mingming West Road. Lu Shanmin couldn't help but come to the school cafeteria to eat in the future, and he could save a lot of living expenses a month. However, when asked about the meal card in Zeng Yaqian's hand, only students from this school are eligible to handle it, she had to give up this idea.
The entire canteen is hundreds of square meters in size, and this is the first time Lu Shanmin has seen such a spectacular eating scene. Hundreds of college students gathered together, men and women, in twos and threes, it was spectacular.
Zeng Yaqian ordered a lot of dishes, but she didn't eat much, she ate two bites casually, and stared at Lu Shanmin with a smile.
Lu Shanmin was in a good mood, his appetite was naturally better, and he devoured it like a storm. When she looked up and saw that Zeng Yaqian had been looking at herself, she slowed down embarrassedly.
"Is it delicious"?
Lu Shanmin nodded and grinned, "The food in the university cafeteria has a bookish smell and is particularly fragrant."
"Mountain people, you are indeed different from him." As he spoke, he pointed to the college students who were eating around.
"Oh, what's the difference".
Zeng Yaqian kept having a gentle smile on her face, "They can't eat any books." As he spoke, he turned around and patted a boy who was eating behind him, the boy was not satisfied with the noon meal, someone patted himself for no reason, turned around with anger on his face, and when he found out that it was a beautiful woman who was captivating the country and the city to pat himself, his face instantly turned from cloudy to clear, "Beauty, do you need any help?"
"Was the lunch meal good today"?
The boy smiled, "The food in this cafeteria is similar to pig food, beauty, or I will invite you to a restaurant outside the school to have a good meal."
Zeng Yaqian pointed at Lu Shanmin lightly, "I have a boyfriend."
The boy looked at Lu Shanmin and smiled awkwardly. With a melancholy face, he turned his head and continued to eat his pig food.
Lu Shanmin knew that Zeng Yaqian was trying to prevent the boy from continuing to disturb, and he didn't take her words seriously. It's just that a slight blush flashed on his face, and he hurriedly buried his head in eating.
"Look, I'm right."
Lu Shanmin raised his head and smiled, "They are full men who don't know how hungry men are hungry."
"So I think in three years, you'll be better than them."
Lu Shanmin smiled, thinking of what Zeng Yaqian said about fighting side by side that day, and asked: "You said last time that you wanted me to fight side by side with you in three years, what kind of war was that?"
Zeng Yaqian held her chin with both hands, and a hint of blush appeared on her face, "Wait until you defeat everyone in this school first, and then tell you."
Lu Shanmin frowned, "They are all regular college students, even if I study hard for three years, I don't have a graduation certificate, how can I defeat them."
"The diploma of this school, giving you a mountain is not enough to get a ticket to that war."
"Huh"?
"So this diploma is not the key."
Lu Shanmin sighed, and did not continue to ask, as a mountain villager, it was a great opportunity to get such a learning opportunity, he didn't think about what would happen in the future, he only knew that the road was step by step. No matter what kind of war it is, as long as you work hard enough now, you will naturally be able to see the victory or defeat at that time.