Chapter 292: Spring Festival
People in various states in the United States have very different personalities, and California has more than 200 sunny days a year, so the people there are also very sunny and cheerful, and Jane is such a Californian girl.
She walked around the campus and greeted everyone with a big smile, and almost everyone responded to her happily.
"Jane, how do you know so many people?" Zhong Yuemin asked as he followed Jane, holding a large bag of food.
"I don't know. Jane shrugged, "It's been a habit since we were kids to greet people we meet, and I like to make friends with people! ”
"That's interesting, are Californians just like you?" Zhong Yuemin curious.
"Of course, we're all like that over there. "The people of Pittsburgh are a little too reserved, and the Washingtonians are too cold." ”
"It's really boring to have a poker face every day. Zhong Yuemin said.
"What do you mean by poker face?" Jane wondered.
"It's like a king on a poker card, with a blank face. Zhong Yuemin imitated and made an expressionless face.
Jane was so amused that she almost couldn't straighten her waist, "Min, you not only know how to cook, but also tell jokes!"
"Generally third in the world!" Zhong Yuemin said.
"Haha, hurry up, I can't wait to eat your food!"
Almost all Chinese students can become good cooks after spending a few years abroad, not only because of the talent of Chinese, but also because of the lack of food for foreigners.
Zhong Yuemin had been eating in the school cafeteria at the beginning because of his heavy studies, but it didn't take long for him to be driven crazy by the fried chicken, fries, hamburgers, and salads in the school, and quickly went to Walmart to buy pots and food, and cooked himself in the dormitory.
As a result, the aroma of the chicken pot attracted Jane, who lived upstairs, and greeted and chatted with Zhong Yuemin with a big grin, asking Zhong Yuemin what kind of food he was cooking.
Zhong Yuemin saw that she seemed to be about to leave her saliva, so he invited her to eat together, and Jian unceremoniously agreed.
In the end, a large pot of chicken pot was consumed by Jane, but fortunately, she didn't like to eat rice, otherwise she would starve Zhong Yuemin to death.
In this way, Zhong Yuemin and Jian met, and they came to eat at two ends of three days, and often brought their own ingredients to make dishes.
Jian and Zhong Yuemin have the same major, two years higher than him, and often serve as a teaching assistant for some professional courses.
"Min, your learning ability is amazing, you didn't understand anything a month ago, but now you are the best student in your professional class!" Jian said as she ate the braised pork made by Zhong Yuemin.
"You have a part to play here, and I wouldn't have been able to adapt so quickly without your help, especially with Professor Anderson's accent, which is so incomprehensible. ”
"Haha, Professor Anderson is from Texas, and his accent is really hard to understand!" Jane laughed, "Even it took me a long time to get used to it!"
Zhong Yuemin looked at the plate that had lost more than half of his time for a while, "Jane, these are all fat, are you sure you want to eat them all?"
"No, don't remind me!" Jane cried out in pain, "I only eat oatmeal and salad every day, and once in a while I have to indulge!"
"Sorry, sorry, I shouldn't have reminded you!" Zhong Yuemin hurriedly made up: "Your figure is already great in my opinion, there is no need for you to lose weight anymore." ”
"Thank you! I'm not losing weight, I'm just keeping in shape!" Jane twisted her waist and looked at her body with satisfaction, "You don't understand what the girl thinks, we have to pay attention all the time, if I relax a little, my body will get fat!"
"Sorry!" Zhong Yuemin took a mouthful of food into his mouth, indicating that he was gagged.
"This is my rare happiness, don't spoil it!" Jane said as she ate, "Why is the Chinese food you make so delicious?"
"You've had Chinese food before?"
"Of course, I've tried it in Chinatown in New York and San Francisco, but it doesn't taste good!" Jane complained, "The food has no soul!"
"Haha, you are really an understanding person!" Zhong Yuemin said with a smile: "The Chinese food in Chinatown is all improved according to the taste of Americans, and it is all sweet and sour!"
"Unfortunately, most Americans don't know how to appreciate and are arrogant! they don't want to try new things, including food. Jane shrugged, "Except for the countries that make them feel good, they will all find the food weird!"
"Including China?" Zhong Yuemin said self-deprecatingly, "I believe that one day my country will be taken seriously by all Americans." ”
"I believe that. Jane sincerely affirmed: "If the Chinese are like you, China will impress everyone sooner or later." ”
"Thank you!" Zhong Yuemin said happily: "Thank you very much, Jane, since I arrived here, only you have really helped me, what others say, polite but separated by distance." ”
"Because they don't care about anyone but themselves!" Jane said: "I was also a little uncomfortable when I first came, they were not enthusiastic at all, they seemed very polite, but they didn't care who you were or where you came from!"
"Yes, that's it!" Zhong Yuemin said with a smile: "To put it mildly, they are all too arrogant! There is more than the United States in the world! Jane, you are different from them!"
"Haha!" Jane laughed, "of course, I'm from sunny Galifos!"
"Hey!
Zhong Yuemin saw Jianmei beckoning to him from afar, and Zhong Yuemin quickly got off the bus.
"Teacher Xie, why are you waiting for me here?"
"Haha, don't you know that there are yellow pages in the United States?" Xie Mei said proudly: "I called the bus station, there is only one bus from Pittsburgh to Washington today, I think you must take the bus from the bus station, so calculated, the time will be clear!"
"It seems that you are used to life in the United States!" Zhong Yuemin smiled and looked at the rejuvenated Xie Meidao.
"I have no choice but to follow the local customs!" Xie Mei said helplessly: "There are all kinds of clothes in American schools! I went to class on the first day and wore a black coat, but my classmates thought I was a teacher! They all asked when an Asian professor came to the school!"
Zhong Yuemin didn't expect Xie Mei to encounter such a thing, and said with a smile: "It's so normal! It snowed two days ago, and I also saw an old black wearing a sweatshirt on his upper body, and he wore a big pants when he seeped down, I thought to myself, isn't this fucking brain disease, why don't you freeze to death!"
"Hahaha" Xie Mei laughed, "It's better to listen to you speak Beijing dialect, I listen to them speak English in school every day, my head is big!"
"What's the matter, you haven't met a Chinese speaker at the University of Washington?" Zhong Yuemin asked.
"Nope. Xie Mei said: "I was very happy to meet two Asians at the beginning, but when I asked, one was Japanese, and the other was Chinese, but he couldn't speak Chinese!"
"That's probably a yellow-skinned banana!" Zhong Yuemin said.
"What is a yellow-skinned banana?"
"Yellow-skinned and white-hearted, even with the face of a yellow race, in fact, he has been educated in the United States since he was a child, and he is also an American in his bones!" Zhong Yuemin said.
"Haha, you're really good at choreographing!" Xie Mei was happy, "Oh, no! I just met you for ten minutes, and I laughed more than I did in the previous month!"
"Then I'll be a little more restrained, otherwise you will laugh out for a while, and you won't have to ask me for compensation?" Zhong Yuemin joked.
"Go!" Xie Mei gave Zhong Yuemin a punch.
Zhong Yuemin was suddenly a little stunned.
"What's wrong?" Xie Mei said strangely, she didn't have much strength in her punch, why did Zhong Yuemin react so much?
"Nothing. Zhong Yuemin smiled reluctantly, "Let's go quickly, it's too cold outside!"
In fact, when Xie Mei punched Zhong Yuemin, he thought of Qin Ling, which used to be Qin Ling's habitual action, but no one beat himself like this for a long, long time.
A large part of the reason why Zhong Yuemin came to the United States this time was for Qinling, and Zhou Xiaobai's father provided him with very limited information, only mentioning that the relevant departments had recruited secret front personnel in the whole army, and these people would receive special training, and then they would be sent abroad to complete various tasks.
And Zhou Zhennan guessed that Qin Ling was very likely to have participated in this recruitment, and it was more likely that he had already gone abroad, but no one knew where he went.
Zhong Yuemin initially speculated whether Qin Ling was sent to India, after all, she studied Hindi in college, but he quickly denied it, because from the historical trend he mastered, India was not important to China, even after thirty years, and it was not worth a special mission.
But the information that Zhong Yuemin can obtain is really limited, he doesn't even know if Qin Ling has really gone abroad, he can only seize any possible opportunity to try, at least he has a chance to get more news abroad.
"Students, Happy Chinese New Year!"
The Chinese Liaison Office in the United States was officially upgraded to an embassy on January 1, and Director Tang, who raised a glass to toast everyone, also became Ambassador Tang.
It was the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the international students who had traveled from here to various schools more than a month ago had reunited, and of course they were not just here to celebrate the Spring Festival. All the more so because tomorrow the Prime Minister will arrive in the United States.
This is the first visit by a Chinese leader to the United States, and it is also the most meaningful visit since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.
"Ambassador Tang, we are ten hours later than in China. Some classmates who were familiar with Ambassador Tang joked, "It's already the first year of junior high school in China, and we're still here for 30!"
"You bastard, do you know if I know?" said Ambassador Tang with a smile, "Many classmates are far away, so we can only arrange dinner in the evening." It doesn't matter if it's the first day of the new year, the important thing is that we spend the Spring Festival together!"
"Good!" everyone applauded.
When the applause stopped, Ambassador Tang said, "Don't say much, everyone eat and drink well!"
"Oh oh oh!"
"Finally eating Chinese food!" Many people sighed, "After eating bread for a month, the birds have faded out of their mouths!"
"Haha, I've already prepared a rice cooker! I cook and eat in the dormitory every day!" someone said proudly.
"What is a rice cooker?"
"An electrical appliance invented by the Japanese, specially used to cook rice, plug it in, and the rice will be cooked in twenty minutes!" replied the man.
"Alas! This is a good thing, the country uses a white iron pot and coal stove to cook, and it can't be cooked in half an hour, and someone has to watch it all the time!" Someone immediately became interested, "Where did you buy it?"
"There are them in Asian supermarkets, but the price is a bit expensive!"
"No, which school are yours, why is there an Asian supermarket?"
"I'm in New York, where there are only Japanese and Koreans, and the food is different from ours, but I can make do with it. ”
"Do you know where I am?"
"Where?"
"New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University, there aren't even a single yellow race there, let alone an Asian supermarket!"
"You unlucky one, how did you get there?
"I'm engaged in education in China, and I just wanted to see what education is going on in the United States, so I chose Yale, and I didn't think that even eating would be a problem now!" the man complained.
"Our Chinese's stomach is really strange!" So someone sighed, "No matter where you go, you want to eat at home! This American meat is a lot, and when you eat it, you will find that it is still rice noodles and vegetables!"
"You're really right!" someone chimed in, "Before I came to the United States, I had never been so liberal in eating meat, I ate meat three times a day, and I ate pork, beef, and mutton in turns! As a result, within three days, I had been running around for a whole week, and I almost collapsed!"
"Phew, you won't let people eat!" someone scolded.
"Haha" Xie Mei laughed so much that Coke spewed out.
Ambassador Tang toasted to Zhong Yuemin's table, and everyone quickly stood up and toasted.
"How's it going? Everyone is still comfortable at school, right?" said Ambassador Tang with concern.
"Adapt!" said the group politely.
Originally, it was all a scene, and the joy passed, but there were always people who were more serious, "Ambassador Tang, why is our Chinese New Year's Eve dinner all meat?" Can't we get some green leafy vegetables?"
"Hehe," Ambassador Tang said with a smile: "It's not just you, even I eat meat and my face is green now! If someone had told me a year ago that one day I would be able to eat meat and vomit, I would have smacked him! The gap between our country and the United States is still too big!"
Students, the country spent so much money to send you here, just so that one day you will return to the country after completing your studies, so that we Chinese can also try the feeling of eating meat and vomiting!"
Ambassador Tang's last two words raised his voice, and everyone present heard them and applauded one after another, and some of them were full of emotion and left tears in their eyes.
"Ambassador Tang, don't go!"
The sharp-eyed one immediately stopped Ambassador Tang, who had just finished speaking and was about to go to the next table, "Can we get some green?"
Ambassador Tang smiled bitterly and gritted his teeth, "Let Master Li in the kitchen give each table a plate of cabbage!"
The assistant next to him frowned, "Ambassador, let's just have some cabbage!"
"The embassy is everyone's home, we can't let our classmates go home, and they won't be able to eat well!" Ambassador Tang said solemnly: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up!"
"Hey!"
"Oh oh oh" this time everyone is so happy!
The severe cold outside the house made it even more steaming and lively in the embassy, and Zhong Yuemin looked at the people eating and drinking, and he was a little drunk. Fupin Chinese