056 Best Roommate (Part I)
Chinese The taxi driver asked me in English what was going on, and it took me a long time to try to say a few words and tell him I had lost my wallet.
Then the driver gestured with his hand while talking, and finally took out a piece of paper and wrote and drew that he could take me to the place where I lived first, and then find someone to get the fare.
I pointed to the house on the paper, shook my head, lost my wallet and lost the address inside, I didn't know where I lived.
The taxi driver could only shrug his shoulders and say that he couldn't help me, and then he got out of the car to help me with my suitcase, pointed to the airport, and told me that I could go to someone for help.
I said thank you, and then the people in the back queue to get on the bus pulled the suitcase and wanted to go back to the airport in surprise.
When I came out, I followed the flow of people and barely looked at the road, and it took a lot of time to find the original place, and when I contacted my mother through the airport staff and waited for her to find someone to pick me up at the airport, it was already more than three hours later. And because of the waste of several hours on the previous transfer and departure, it was exactly two o'clock in the morning when I arrived at the apartment.
The foreigner is already very ** at my age, and the teacher who came to pick me up asked me if I could go upstairs by myself.
I said yes, and then a person climbed up to the eighth floor of the apartment without an elevator carrying a box of almost thirty kilograms.
With the note that the teacher had rewritten to me, I found my room and pressed the doorbell, the apartment was shared, and my mom said that my roommate was a Chinese girl who was already in graduate school.
I also know that it would be rude to ask her to open the door for me when I lost my room card when I arrived at the apartment at this time, but I had no other way than that.
The doorbell rang five or six times before the door finally opened.
It was my roommate, who looked to be about twenty-five or sixteen, who yawned and asked me, "Are you the new roommate?"
I nodded, "I'm sorry, I arrived so late, I lost my wallet, and my room card was inside." β
"It's okay, let's come in first. β
She smiled and opened the door, and helped me carry the suitcase in, I wanted to say no, but she had already carried the suitcase into a room.
"By the way, my name is Zhou Li, this is your room, the kitchen, bathroom, and living room are shared, and the next door is my room, so you can find me at any time. β
"Thank you. β
"You're welcome. By the way, you haven't bought a computer or a mobile phone yet, have you?"
"Well, but I've lost all my money, and it may take a few days to ......"
"It's okay, it just so happens that my boyfriend will also rest tomorrow weekend, and they know better about buying a computer, I'll ask him to take you to buy it, I'll help you with the money first, and then pay me back when you have it." β
"Thank you. β
"Okay, you're welcome, go to sleep, I'm sleepy too, I'll see you tomorrow morning. β
After Zhou Li finished speaking, she yawned again, and then covered her mouth and went back to her room.
I took a deep breath and thought that I had met a roommate who was easy to get along with, and that my luck was not terrible. Of course, it wasn't long before I realized that I was really naΓ―ve.
I didn't sleep well this night, although I was so tired that I didn't even have the strength to pack my luggage, but the first night in a foreign country was really difficult, so meticulous that even the feeling of air was different, the decoration of the room was also an unfamiliar style, and the signs full of English on the street when I opened the window also made people feel strange.
I didn't fall asleep until almost the middle of the night, and at eight o'clock in the morning, Zhou Li came to knock on the door and called me to get up, she said that she made breakfast and told me to eat quickly, and we set off after eating.
Zhou Li doesn't wear makeup, she still looks quite delicate, and she feels gentle and sensible, like a big sister. During breakfast, she asked me about my situation in China, and I answered truthfully except for some inconvenient ones. She also asked me how my English was, and I shook my head embarrassedly.
After eating, Zhou Li took me out, and met her boyfriend after arriving at a big electrical city.
Zhou Li's boyfriend is also Chinese, about the same age as her, and he seems to be stable and reliable, and on my first day in the UK, I really didn't have the slightest defense against these two people, and I believed whatever they said, and then did it.
When I arrived at the electrical city, I learned that because I was underage, so I couldn't handle a mobile phone between them, and Zhou Li told me that if it was very troublesome to go through the formal process, they could take me to a store that specializes in selling mobile phones to Chinese people to get a mobile phone, and the price was much cheaper. I hesitated, but I believed it.
After getting a mobile phone, I bought a computer, I didn't speak English well, and I heard the salesperson seem to say that buying a computer would give me a supermarket shopping card worth about 20% of the price of the computer, but when I got the computer, I didn't see the shopping card. Because of my introverted personality, I was embarrassed to ask Zhou Li about the shopping card, I think there are only two possibilities, the clerk didn't give it to me, or I heard it wrong, and now I am not in the mood to worry about it, let alone cause trouble to my new roommate.
Zhou Li also took me to apply for a bank card and taught me how to use my mobile phone to make an IP call back to China, and I don't know how many words of thank you I said to her and her boyfriend on this day.
After all this was done, I called my mom and she quickly got a friend in the UK to put a sum of money on my card.
After I took out the money, I first exchanged the money for Zhou Li's computer and mobile phone, and in order to thank them for their help today, I invited them to dinner, and in the evening Zhou Li took me to the supermarket to buy daily necessities, and I also bought some vegetables and fruits by the way. I don't have any idea about the pound sterling, except that half of the money my mom called me was used up that day.
When the day was over, Zhou Li hesitated for a long time and asked me, "Now that the subway is out of service, can I let my boyfriend stay with us for one night?"
To be honest, I don't want to, although I have my own room, but I am not used to living in the same suite with strange men, but after thinking that they have helped me so much today, I can only agree.
But I didn't expect that this was just the beginning.
The next morning, when I was about to wash my face, I saw Zhou Li's boyfriend brushing his teeth in our bathroom wearing only underwear.
I was startled, but I could only say sorry and hid back in my room.
Later, a similar situation happened a few times, and Zhou Li would often bring her boyfriend back for the night, sometimes because she missed the last subway, and sometimes because he was working nearby.
But in addition to this incident, Zhou Li is really good to me, I am not used to eating British food, she will cook meals for the two of us every day, and the two of us will take turns to buy vegetables, in contrast, she will buy some cheap vegetables, and I think she will help me cook, so when it is my turn to buy vegetables, I will buy a little better, some fruits Zhou Li likes to eat but I don't eat them, I will also buy them for her.
Less than a month after arriving in the UK, I had already exhausted my mother's living expenses, but she quickly called me a second and never told me I needed to save anything.
But when I returned to the apartment after class that day, I saw Zhou Li holding some slips with a sad face, and she said, "Xiangxiang, our water and electricity bills this month are too expensive." β
I took it and looked at it, but I still didn't know how long it had been and how many months it had been.
Zhou Li said: "I have calculated, if the two of us are like this, each of us will have almost 10,000 yuan of living expenses per month." β
I was shocked to hear her say this, when I was in China, my mother's job was considered a high salary, but her monthly salary was less than 10,000.
I said, "So what are we going to do?"
Zhou Li said: "Then don't do it, my classmate is renting a house, a girl, also Chinese, I want to sublet my room to her, and then the two of us live in one, and I will give you half of the rent every month in the future." The rent also accounts for the majority of the living expenses, and we are much easier to save half of the rent. You think that's okay, right?"
"However, my room is too small for two people. β
"We can change to bunk beds, I can live in the top bunk, and it just so happens that someone upstairs has moved out, and they can sell us the bed cheaply, okay?"
Seeing that Zhou Li had already planned so much, I was really embarrassed to refuse her, so I had to nod and say yes.
This is a wrong decision, if the first tragedy in my life is to know Si Chen, the second tragedy is to be forced to go abroad and meet a roommate like Zhou Li.
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