"Leaving today?"

Lu Yuan didn't expect Tang Mi to say that she would leave Los Angeles today and go directly to San Francisco, and then watch the game in San Francisco two days after tomorrow, which means staying in San Francisco for two nights.

Tang Mi knew that Lu Yuan was worried about accommodation, and bluntly said that accommodation, travel expenses, and food were all included, and he didn't have to spend a penny.

Saying this, Lu Yuan was even more worried, because he knew that there was no free lunch in the world, and those who were not relatives or friends were willing to bear such a large amount of expenses, just to satisfy him to watch McDonald's All-Stars, Lu Yuan picked and picked, and his brain was still there.

However, the temptation to see the McDonald's All-Stars is indeed too great, Lu Yuan thought about it, and said to Tang Mi: "I can promise you, but I will give you all the expenses on the road, and it will not cost you a penny." ”

At this time, Lu Yuan will no longer feel sorry for money, the so-called eating people are short and soft, and he can go to San Francisco to watch the game if he accepts favors, if he eats and drinks for nothing, Lu Yuan doesn't want to owe people so much.

Tang Mi didn't say anything, nodded in agreement, anyway, her task was to get Lu Yuan to agree to go to San Francisco, and when she saw Lu Yuan's promise, she was satisfied, and told Lu Yuan to wait for their car at the school gate at four o'clock this afternoon.

Lu Yuan was about to leave, he was going to make a phone call with Jensen, and he was going to train with Teresa tonight, and it seemed that he was going to take a leave of absence from Teressa.

At this time, Tang Mi suddenly said: "Lu Yuan, you have finished the exam, that textbook... Can you give it to me?"

"Textbooks? ”

"It's the ESL textbook, which was given out at the beginning of the school year. ”

Lu Yuan remembered that at the beginning of the school year, Ms. Popper gave everyone a textbook for the ESL exam, which was not new, but old and second-hand, and everyone needed to buy this textbook.

In the United States, buying paper books is a very luxurious thing for students, and new books often cost tens of dollars a book, especially textbooks, and some advanced textbooks may cost hundreds of dollars.

Therefore, most of the school textbooks are second-hand, third-hand or even N-hand used books, and after students use them, they are generally sold directly to the next batch of students who need them.

For the convenience of students, the school buys such second-hand textbooks directly from the Internet and then sells them to students at a low price.

After the students use it, they can return it to the school, get back the money for the books according to the old and new, or they can sell them themselves.

Lu Yuan was going to return the old book to the school and get the money back, Tang Mi suddenly asked for this book, which made Lu Yuan feel a little strange, she was already in her second year of high school, and the language class had already passed, what else did she want this book for?

Tang Mi saw that Lu Yuan was a little confused, and hurriedly explained: "Well, it's my schoolgirl who needs it, and she is about to come to the United States to study, I want to collect some textbooks for her as soon as possible, so that she can study in advance and save the exam." ”

This explanation is also reasonable, but Lu Yuan didn't bring the book today, because today is the exam, and he looked at the book again last night, and threw the book on the bedside table.

"I've left the book at home, I'll bring it to you next week, right?"

Listening to Lu Yuan's words, a trace of disappointment flashed on Tang Mi's face, and she muttered, "Why do you keep bringing books home......

Many students in the United States don't bring books with them when they go home, they put them in the classroom or lockers, but Lu Yuan's habit is to take books home, because he still has to read books when he goes home.

Lu Yuan didn't quite understand why Tang Mi attached so much importance to this book, maybe that senior girl had a good relationship with her.

The two had nothing to say, Lu Yuan said goodbye to her, and after lunch, he went to the basketball team to train, and then called Jensen and told him about going to San Francisco to watch the game, and asked Jensen to ask for a leave of absence for him by the way.

Lu Yuan didn't dare to go directly to Teresha, so let Jensen do this kind of troublesome thing.

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At noon, Lu Yuan still sat with the African little brother Rabo, and the two can now communicate very well, Lu Yuan also taught Rabo two sentences of Chinese, and Rabo taught Lu Yuan some French.

was eating, and suddenly someone sat next to the two, and Lu Yuan saw that it was Chu Yuanliang, who had always been alone and taciturn on weekdays.

Chu Yuanliang seems to be in a good mood today, it is estimated that he did well in the exam, and he has unloaded a big burden on his body, as if a person who has been constipated for a month has been unobstructed all of a sudden, his food is fragrant, and his brows are not wrinkled.

Lu Yuan saw that he took the initiative to sit over, so he asked him how he did in today's exam, Chu Yuanliang raised his eyebrows and said, "It's okay." The typical Chinese student-style answer, as you can see from the expression, is definitely okay.

Anyway, the language test is trying to pass, and the score is not very important, Lu Yuan didn't ask more.

Chu Yuanliang asked, "Hey Lu Yuan, you have a good relationship with that Tang Mi?"

Chu Yuanliang mentioned Tang Mi, it seemed that Lu Yuan and Tang Mi were talking in the corridor after the morning exam was over, Lu Yuan nodded, shook his head again, and said: "It's so-so, but they seem to have some kind of club, and they are going to San Francisco to watch the game tomorrow, and I just want to go too, so I'll go with them." ”

Hearing Lu Yuan's words, Chu Yuanliang's face showed a strange expression, and he asked again: "Hey, do you know what kind of club they are?"

Lu Yuan shook his head, he had heard Tang Mi mention this club a few times, and asked him to join, but Lu Yuan was not interested at all.

Seeing this, Chu Yuanliang snorted and said, "Lu Yuan, does your family have a lot of money?"

"No, I think there is. ”

"Do you want to do it, then do you have any big officials in your family?"

"No, my friend has it at home. Lu Yuan thought of Bai Ye, and Rabo.

"It's useless to have a friend's house, so I advise you, it's best not to play with people from this club. ”

"Why, it's a second-generation group, I'll just go to watch the game, and I'm not interested in the others. ”

Chu Yuanliang also wanted to persuade Lu Yuan, but he didn't expect Lu Yuan to be stupid at all, and he immediately understood that this club must be a small group of overseas second-generation parties.

Nowadays, a large number of Chinese study abroad, especially in the United States, the age of going abroad is getting younger and younger, in the past, doctorate, graduate students, now middle school students and even primary school students.

And families who can send their children abroad so early are often either rich or expensive, that is, the so-called second generation.

These second-generation people came to a foreign country early, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and they live a carefree life with domestic financial support; in terms of academics, first, there is no parental control, and second, the teaching environment abroad is relaxed, so they have more free time; in addition, they are young and playful, and they are easy to be lonely and empty abroad, so many second-generation young people with similar backgrounds get together to form small groups.

Some of them were able to help each other and take care of each other and became good friends, while there were also some people with poor self-control and bad conduct, who learned early to get drunk and dream, get drunk and obsessed with money, and do a lot of ridiculous things.

Lu Yuan has heard of these things for a long time, like Bai Ye often reminds him to "play less outside", Jia Yumeng will send messages every day to check the post, and the "No. 6", and he told him a lot of precautions for studying abroad, as if he was afraid that Lu Yuan would study badly abroad.

In fact, even if Lu Yuan wants to play, he doesn't have time, his enthusiasm is in basketball, he is not very interested in girls, and he is poor, and his friends' worries are completely superfluous.

Chu Yuanliang swallowed back some words in his stomach when he saw Lu Yuan's door, in fact, when he first arrived at Wilson High School, he really wanted to get into this club, but people didn't bird him at all, and now Lu Yuan has the opportunity to enter but not bird this club, which makes Chu Yuanliang feel a little jealous, but also a little refreshed in his heart.

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In the afternoon, Lu Yuan first went to the basketball team to participate in training, and today the basketball hall is used by the women's team, so the men's team can only train on the cement court.

Since Lu Yuan joined the team, everyone's training has been much more active, because Lu Yuan is too hard and serious, and the power of example is indeed infinite.

In contrast, head coach Hart is not so energetic, and after a few weeks, the team still failed to win, and every game is a pity, and it has been a heavy defeat in the past, which shows that the strength of the team has indeed improved a lot.

But no matter how much he progressed, he couldn't touch the threshold of winning, which frustrated Hart's aggressiveness, and his face began to grow again.

It's April, and the league in California is about to start in May, and last year the team won 1 and lost 27 in 28 games, which couldn't be worse.

No matter what, we must strive to win more than 5 games this year, otherwise Hart's position as head coach is estimated to be in jeopardy.

In comparison, the players didn't think about it that much, everyone was training and playing, today is Friday, the last day of the week, and tomorrow there is no game, it's time to be happy.

In this way, the training ended quickly, Lu Yuan changed his clothes, looked at the time, and left in about another half an hour.

Lu Yuan called Jensen first, saying that he would not go home tonight or train, and would go to San Francisco to watch the McDonald's All-Star.

Jensen didn't worry at all, but let Lu Yuan have fun, Jensen was already running around the world with his friends when he was Lu Yuan's age.

"Oh, and one more thing, if you have any problems, you can go to a friend of mine, who is also Chinese. ”

As he spoke, after hanging up the phone, Jensen sent Lu Yuan a business card, and Lu Yuan saw that it was a person named Zhao Ming.

Lu Yuan thought that maybe he really needed it, after all, he went to San Francisco with a group of strangers he had never seen before, and he was still a little unstable in his heart, and if Jensen's friends were there, he could rest assured.

After that, Lu Yuan was waiting at the gate of the school, he saw Tang Mi, and the two waited together for about five minutes before they saw a long black GMC parked at the school gate.

The car door opened, Tang Mi beckoned Lu Yuan to get into the car together, Lu Yuan got into the car door with a short body, and saw a familiar and unfamiliar face.

"Hi, see you again, Lu Yuan. ”

"Ho old are you?"

The person Lu Yuan saw was Zhou Junlu, her original long straight hair turned into fluffy curly hair, sitting in a position with Erlang's legs crossed, looking at Lu Yuan's eyes revealing a cunning light.