Qing Huan was dizzy by the huge campus on the first day of class, she went to linear algebra, sat in the classroom and listened to it for a long time, only to find that the teacher was not talking about algebra, but discussing the exploration of life with everyone, she stared at the blackboard for a long time, and then asked the classmates next to her timidly: "Isn't this linear algebra?"

The classmate said no.

She stood up in awkwardness and hurried out of the classroom, happily missing the first algebra lesson when she finally found the right one.

In the second class, when Qing Huan sat upright in her seat and took notes seriously, the blonde man sitting next to her greeted her very warmly: "Hello, my name is Tom, it's nice to meet you." ”

"Hello, my name is Wendy. Qing Huan replied politely.

"Hey, Wendy, are you interested in participating in our club activities after class?" Tom smiled brightly, "Experience what it's like to be a captive animal for free, have you ever had a pet? Have you ever kept them in a cage when you're not at home......?"

Qinghuan: "......"

She suddenly remembered the joke about changing the light bulb she had read on the Internet before, how many people did Cornell's students have to change the light bulb? two, one to change the light bulb, and the other to be scared by the excellent classmates. How many do Colombian students need to change their light bulbs? Seventy-six. One changed the light bulb, fifty were responsible for demonstrating against the right to maintain the right of the light bulb not to be replaced, and twenty-five were responsible for protesting against the right to maintain the right not to be replaced. How many people do Yale students need to change their light bulbs? New Haven still looks more comfortable without turning on the lights.

Although it was a joke, it also vividly described the characteristics of major universities, so it was obvious that she was sure that she was not coming from a fake Columbia University. Because on the first day she came to the school, she fully experienced the school spirit of Columbia University's free-spirited and rights-defending.

Looking at the teacher who could even speak impassionedly about algebra in class, Qing Huan silently lowered his head.

When I returned to the apartment, I happened to meet Su Jing washing fruit in the kitchen, and when I heard her voice entering the door, I greeted her with a smile: "Wendy, are you back?"

Qing Huan supported his forehead and sighed: "I feel completely unable to adapt to it, and it is only the first day, and I have to worry about whether I can graduate successfully in two years." ”

"Take your time, after all, there are so many cultural differences, and no one can fully adapt to it on the first day. Su Jing smiled and threw her an apple, "Columbia University is a university that is more in line with the national conditions, I believe it won't be long before you can mix like a fish in water." ”

"How do you say that?" Qing Huan took the apple and asked with some curiosity.

"Haven't you heard?" Su Jing walked to the living room with the fruit plate, then sat on the sofa, patiently popularizing knowledge to Qing Huan, "The characteristics of Columbia, there are many Chinese, don't ask me why, you just need to pay attention to where the foundation donated to the school every year comes from, so here you will not be able to adapt seamlessly after a long time, and even be able to connect the domestic intrigues, gangs and officialdom culture, and after returning to China, you can also zero adaptation period and immediately integrate into the domestic culture." ”

Qing Huan looked at her stunned, like a fool.

Su Jing saw that her appearance was in line with her expectations, so she smiled with satisfaction and continued to popularize science: "It is generally difficult for you to improve your spoken English here, because everyone is from other places, you are Mexico, I am India, and he is Japan." Especially in some graduate programs, Chinese are the mainstream, and you have fewer opportunities to meet reliable American friends. In the circle, everyone is talking about finance and investment, everyone wants to be an investment bank manager, all professional people can't sit on the cold bench and want to go to Wall Street to show their skills, and all professional people are racking their brains to turn to finance. There are a lot of girls here who are Bai Fumei, basically fleeing to the United States to temporarily avoid family control for a few years, and then go back when they are happy enough to inherit the family business, or marry and have children, there are very few who really want to learn something, of course, there are some who pretend to be Bai Fumei to mix in the circle, and take the opportunity to fish for the rich and handsome. ”

Speaking of this, Su Jing glanced at her a little slyly, and suddenly changed her words and asked directly, "What about you, Qinghuan, what is the purpose of your study here?"

"Me?" Qing Huan glanced at her, and didn't want to explain anything, so he said calmly, "Of course I want to enter Wall Street, of course, it would be better if I could catch a rich and handsome man, if there is a rich and handsome fisher, who wants to marry a short and poor man?"

Su Jing didn't expect her to be so direct, and she was choked up and speechless for a while.

"It's you, Su Jing, do you belong to the type of person who wants to inherit the family business when you return to China in the future, or is it the wave of getting married and having children?" Qing Huan glanced around the apartment and looked at her with a smile and asked.

She learned from David that this apartment was originally rented by Su Jing alone, and later she felt bored living alone, so she sublet the other rooms, so the three of them could rent such a good location and comfortable house at such a cheap price.

"How can I be considered Bai Fumei, not counted. Su Jing shook her head modestly and waved her hand again.

When she said this, Qing Huan wordlessly turned her head and glanced at the Mercedes-Benz coupe parked at the door, which was Su Jing's car in the United States.

"I don't have any family business to inherit, and I don't plan to go back to get married and have children, I came here to study for only one purpose, you know who it is, is XXX's son also in the big brother? Su Jing smiled like a lazy fox, such an expression had a bizarre sense of disobedience with her gentle appearance, and strangely, it was annoying.

"Didn't you say dead?" Qing Huan raised his head suspiciously and asked, the XXX that Su Jing said was one of the domestic e-commerce giants, this giant's private life is quite low-key, and the outside world knows almost nothing about his family situation.

"Rumors! That's definitely a rumor!" Su Jing suddenly sat up straight, "Do you believe it or not, I will definitely find him out?"

"But don't you think that he looks like that, will his son be ......"

"That's okay, I'm not disgusted. ”

Qinghuan: "......"

After the initial mutual temptation, the two of them involuntarily began to talk nonsense seriously, and when it came to the back, Qing Huan and Su Jing couldn't help but laugh on the sofa.

In this way, Qinghuan began her career of studying in the United States, her adaptation period began with a few roommates she shared a house, Su Jing is Chinese, everyone's cultural differences are not big, so they can get along quickly and get acquainted, and Davy, is a typical American, enthusiastic and generous, good and cool, willing to participate in various weekend parties, sometimes to pull Su Jing and Qinghuan together, Qinghuan was a little refused at first, because the people at the party did not know anyone, it would be embarrassing to go, but Su Jing wanted to pull her alive, saying that she wanted to really integrate into this environment and circle, then she must not lock herself in the room。

So in the first month after Qinghuan arrived in the United States, she began to mix in all kinds of parties, and after a long time, she found that her understanding of the local culture of the United States has improved greatly, and many spoken languages that she didn't understand before have gradually come to understand, in general, it is a good start. She also calmed down and started her new life well.

S City

On the way to the hospital, Chen Yidong pursed his lips and did not speak, and the assistant kept quietly observing his face, but he didn't dare to say anything. When he arrived at the hospital, he saw the brightly lit inpatient building, and as soon as he got out of the car, he asked, "How is Grandpa?"

"Chief, he ......" The director of the hospital who greeted him spoke with some difficulty, "I was already confused when I sent it, and we tried our best to rescue it, but we still couldn't ......"

Such terrible words, one after another, came out of the other party's mouth, Chen Yidong stood there stunned, everything fell apart, the whole world was darkened in front of his eyes, and he suddenly felt a blackness in front of him, followed by a burst of dizziness.

When he opened his eyes again, he was already in his hospital bed. He silently counted the drops in the dropper, hoping that as he did when he was a child, his grandfather would suddenly push the door in, and then said in a loud voice: "You kid, why is your body so weak, how did grandpa tell you before leaving......?

Tears suddenly flowed irrepressibly down the corners of his eyes, and Chen Yidong felt a sharp pain in his heart, he understood that the grandfather who loved him the most, the man who grew up with him and was regarded as a giant by himself since he was a child, had completely disappeared from his life.

No, he couldn't cry, grandpa hated boys tears the most, he reached out and wiped two handfuls of tears, then turned his head and saw the lead-gray sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and the heavy clouds spread very low, as low as if they were within reach. Such a sky seems to be a shot of a futuristic city in a movie. The huge glass window was covered with water droplets, one horizontal and one vertical, and then the wind blew it out diagonally.

The news of Chen Yidong's grandfather's death is very big, and all the major newspapers and news websites are headlines, because it means that some weather vane changes, which means that many things will quietly change in the near future. So although Qing Huan was far away on the other side of the ocean, he still learned the news from the Internet. She sat in front of the computer in a daze for a long time, and then clicked into a website to commemorate Chief Chen and offered a bouquet of white chrysanthemum.