Chapter 8: A Thousand Miles Away
After nearly 15 hours on a plane, Chen Shuya finally arrived in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, which is called the "New Gold Mountain" by countless Chinese. When she first arrived, she had no relatives, but fortunately, some of her friends who had gone abroad earlier had already helped her find an apartment and pick her up at the airport.
On the highway from the airport to the apartment, Shu Ya, who had some airsickness before, leaned in front of the car window and looked at the strange country in front of her. The sky was blue, with occasional white clouds. The sun is very powerful, and it is warm on the body. There are not as many cars on the road as in Beijing and Shanghai, and the traffic is not so congested, and there are almost no buildings more than two floors on the way, and there are large areas of green lawns everywhere, and the carcasses of small animals can occasionally be seen lying on the side of the road...... Melbourne's first impression of Shuya is simply a big rural village.
After driving for nearly an hour, Shu Ya finally arrived at her apartment, which was very small, with four walls, not to mention a bed, not even a chair. The tired Shu Ya sat on her suitcase like a flattened tire, connected to Wi-Fi, and reported safety to her family and Wendi, at this time, a former classmate of Shu Ya walked in.
"Shuya, let's go, go buy furniture, the malls here are closed very early, and it's too late if you don't leave now."
Shu Ya glanced at her watch, it was only past ten o'clock in the morning.
"No matter how early the mall closes, it will open until seven o'clock, right?"
"You think beautifully, people in Melbourne are lazy! At 5 p.m., all the shops are closed, so it's hard to buy something, so hurry up! ”
Although Shu Ya was too tired to move, her friend's kindness couldn't be refused, so she crawled out of the apartment with her classmates.
Walking in the large furniture supermarket for a full six hours, Shu Ya finally bought all the furniture supplies, and after the payment, she went to the consignment department to prepare for consignment, and the front desk lady of the consignment department had a very good attitude and a smiling face, but the results she gave made it difficult for Shu Ya to laugh.
"What? Do I have to wait four days to arrange a delivery? Shall I not sleep on the earth these four days? ”
"That's it here, in Melbourne, if you want to fart, you have to make an appointment seven days in advance." Shu Ya's classmates have long been used to it.
On the way back to the apartment, the weather turned very gloomy in a matter of minutes, and finally it rained heavily. Shu Ya, who was not prepared, was instantly drenched into soup chicken.
"Even if I'm new and ignorant, God you don't have to treat me like this, right?"
The classmate took out his umbrella unhurriedly and said:
"Hehe, do you know what day it is in Melbourne? August 30th. So Melbourne is a Virgo, turning your face faster than turning a book! Our 'Four Seasons in One Day' here is not a wasted name, just get used to it slowly. ”
After hearing this, Shu Ya thought to herself, it turned out that Melbourne was August 30, and it was the same birthday as Zhang Wendi.
The eccentric Shu Ya was already devastated on the first day she arrived in Melbourne and had no life.
After returning to the apartment, she ate the first meal of the day, and it was almost thirteen hours since Shu Ya's last meal, although she only ate instant noodles and mustard, she also felt that it was delicious in the world. After paying the rent and packing up the futon, it was ten o'clock in the evening, Shu Ya was lying on the ground, counting today's expenses, and the 20,000 Australian dollars of living expenses given by her parents were spent on one-third on the first day.
"It's not a way to go on like this, it seems that you have to work quickly to make money."
Due to Chen Shuya's outstanding appearance and wide interpersonal relationships, she soon found a job as a waitress in a Japanese restaurant. Although the boss seems to be the best and the foreman is strict, but fortunately, the salary is not bad, and Shu Ya will work here for the time being, working and studying.
One day, Shu Ya was three minutes late for work, and the short and fat female foreman made a face to the newcomer Shu Ya.
"If everybody was three minutes late every day, the restaurant wouldn't open! I'm talking about you, Chen Shuya, don't be late in the future, do you hear? ”
"Okay, I got it." Although Shu Ya was unconvinced, she didn't want to cause more trouble when she first arrived.
"You international students, don't always rely on your youth and beauty, you can be late and lazy, do you know how much trouble the boss will cause me if he blames him?" The fat foreman still refuses to give up.
Shu Ya has always been unable to listen to other people's verbosity and bullying others, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, so she turned around and reasoned with the foreman:
"You make it clear, who is always late and lazy, I'm late for the first time today, just three minutes, can you? Besides, the boss didn't say anything, what are you calling here? What's wrong with our international students, what's wrong with being young and beautiful? It can only mean that you admit that you are already old, of course, this is an ironclad fact, and you can't change it. You've been here for more than ten years, and you earn three dollars more than us every hour, don't you feel very sad? Every day, I know that we children are taught to brush up on achievements and a sense of existence, and I see that you are really sad from the inside out......"
The fat foreman was stunned for a full minute by Shu Ya's words, and then he was about to have a seizure just in time for the boss to come out to mediate.
"It's okay to say a few words, I'm still in business here. Shu Ya is new here, and she doesn't understand many rules, so don't be late in the future, let's disperse, let's disperse......"
The fat foreman heard the boss speak and did not pursue it further. It's just the foreman who is in charge of scheduling, and from now on, he will only give Shu Ya a dirty and tiring night shift.
It's weekends again, and the restaurant has a lot of customers, and the waiters are busy. Shu Ya followed the instructions on the order and served a plate of teriyaki chicken nuggets to a table of guests, who knew that the teriyaki sauce was too much and spilled on Shu Ya's hands, Shu Ya was already busy and confused, just put down the plate, picked up the napkin on the customer's table and began to wipe his hands. The four guests around the table were all dumbfounded when they saw this, and looked at Shu Ya in unison. Shu Ya found that everyone was looking at her, only to realize that she had caused trouble, and hurriedly apologized to the guest.
Seeing this, the fat foreman naturally couldn't spare Shu Ya, and while comforting the guests, he taught Shu Ya a lesson. Most of the guests at this table are Melbourne locals, and only one is an Asian girl, dressed in a black leather coat, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and short hair, revealing a "heroic spirit" from the inside out. Seeing that the fat foreman behaved excessively, the girl in black hugged Shu Ya upset.
"That's a big deal, we're eating here, what are you yelling about? Isn't it just a napkin, sister, I asked her to wipe it, what's the matter? ”
The Australian friend next to him also hurriedly said, "don't worry, it'sfine!" (Don't worry, it's okay)
"Hi, beauty, you look familiar, are you a student at the University of Victoria?" Before Shu Ya could thank her, the girl in black accosted her first.
"Thank you for helping me out just now, I am an accounting major at the University of Victoria, and my name is Chen Shuya."
"I'm an art major. Hello, my name is Ou Xinyan. ”
Later, Ou Xinyan often went to Japanese restaurants to eat, and gradually became friends with Chen Shuya. Shu Ya learned that Ou Xinyan came to Melbourne alone when she was thirteen years old, and it has been ten years now. In his spare time, he likes to ride motorcycles, play drum kits and get tattoos. When Shu Ya mentioned Ou Xinyan in an online chat, she described it like this:
"Wendy, I recently met a girl, although she is a girl, but I always feel that she is more like a man than you......"
People say that you don't need many friends, and it is enough to have one who can help you at a critical moment. Ou Xinyan is this kind of friend, who saves Shuya from danger at the most critical time.
One night, Xinyan went to a Japanese restaurant to eat after class, and found that Shu Ya was not here today, so she asked other waiters and said that the boss handed Shu Ya to the office to explain something. On the way to the bathroom, Xinyan found Shu Ya and the restaurant owner at the door of the office, whispering something.
"Shu Ya, how are you thinking about it?"
"No need to ask, it's impossible."
"My wife is in China, and she won't be back this year, you think about it, and then I'll let you be the foreman......" said the boss and began to do something to Shu Ya.
"If you're like that, I'll shout?" Shu Ya screamed in fright by the boss's actions.
"No need to shout, I've recorded it." I saw Xinyan holding her mobile phone and filming the whole process of the incident.
"Oh, I'm sorry, make way for the guests." The boss thinks Xinyan is a passing customer, so he shows his hypocritical smile.
"Uncle You! Old pervert, if I post this video on the Internet, your restaurant will be busy, whether it is a women's protection agency or a fair trade agency, you have to come to your door every day and you can't get by. You won't know that sexual harassment is a big crime here, you can't seem to bear it, look at your own obscene appearance in the video, take it to court to testify, and kill you in minutes! At this time, Xinyan couldn't wait to slap the boss twice.
The restaurant owner, knowing that he was wrong, hurriedly apologized to Shu Ya and promised that he would never harass Shu Ya again in the future, and Shu Ya escaped safely.
Afterwards, Shu Ya invited Xinyan to dinner and expressed her gratitude.
"You've helped me so much, I really don't know how to thank you."
"Don't talk nonsense, let's just be together!"
Shu Ya was stunned by Xin Yan's request, and Xin Yan laughed when she saw Shu Ya's awkward expression.
"I'm kidding, you're scared, you're not my cup of tea at all."
"So, you are ......" Shu Ya said halfway, embarrassed to continue.
"That's right! I do. Xinyan seemed to understand what Shu Ya wanted to say, so she took over the conversation:
"I think whether I like men or women is my own business, and it has nothing to do with others, and I don't care what others think or think. In the blink of an eye, how can there be so much time wasted thinking about right and wrong? ”
Shu Ya listened to Xinyan's words and felt that she lived a very chic life, if she and Wendi could have been so chic at the beginning, they might not be so far away now.
Wendi, who has entered her senior year, is not having a good time, the original four friends have lost three at once, and campus life has suddenly become extremely boring, plus the previous rumors have not subsided, so Wendy walking on campus will still cause a lot of white eyes. Fortunately, the classes in the senior year were not very tight, and Wendy simply stayed at home to avoid being at school when there were no classes.
Chen Hui has never appeared again since the last study room conflict, and Wendi has repeatedly tried to reconcile with Chen Hui, but unexpectedly, Chen Hui even changed his phone number, and even Zhou Wei couldn't find him.
One day after class at noon, Wendi went to Chen Hui's supermarket to buy stationery, and when he was picking out a ballpoint pen, he heard someone shouting from behind:
"I'll take care of the cash register and say that if you come to buy something in the future, I'll charge double the price!"
Wendy turned around and found Chen Hui behind him, with his hands in his pockets, tilting his head to look at him, and from his tone, he could hear that Wendy had not yet been forgiven.
Chen Hui took Wendi to the office and sat down, and asked straight to the point:
"I heard that you've been looking for me lately, is there any other conspiracy to hide from me that you're going to tell me?"
"No, I feel like I owe you an apology, sorry."
"That's right, you owe me, but you kid don't know what you owe me and come to apologize, you have a bad head, right?"
"I know that you have been chasing Chen Shuya all these years, I shouldn't be angry with my friends and dig into your corner, but I want you to understand that Chen Shuya has no feelings for you, you can't be domineering what you can't get, and you won't let others have it, right?"
"I said you had a bad head, are you stupid? You still don't know why I was so angry and beat you up that day. Zhang Wendi, you are usually quiet, but you are actually very self-righteous, and you always feel that you can solve all problems with one effort, look at the mess you are leaving now, isn't it ugly enough? It wasn't the thing that surprised me the most when I saw a photo of you and Chen Shuya in the coffee shop that day, what surprised me the most was that the date on the photo was about a year ago. My good friend has been dating the girl I like for more than a year, and I don't even know it. Another good friend of mine is even more kind of who helped you hide from me for a year. I, Chen Hui, think that I have done my best to you and Zhou Weiren over the years, and I have always been the first to help you out if you have anything to do at school. I didn't expect that in the end, you guys would join forces to deceive me. Zhang Wendi, please put away your hypocritical face, you are too scheming, if you want to do something bad, you have to turn eight corners first, I, Chen Hui, have always been straight, and I can't stand your roundabouts. ”
Wendi was so trained by Chen Hui that he had nothing to say, so he could only ask:
"Have you changed your phone number, at least tell me and Zhou to be the only one."
"I don't think so, we're not all the way, and there's nothing to say in the future."
In this way, Wendi and Chen Hui broke up completely.
Time flies, and it has reached the second half of the fourth year, in this half year, in addition to preparing for IELTS, Wendi is applying for foreign graduate courses everywhere, experienced students say that this kind of application should be more and better, and when they get the invitation letter from the school, their choices will be wider. Therefore, Wendi almost applied for admission to Melbourne's universities, and sometimes he didn't have time to check, and even other provinces in Australia, and even other countries' postgraduate study applications. Due to Wendi's excellent academic performance and the fact that the courses in the university are all taught in English, in less than a month, he received a large number of invitations for master's studies from foreign schools. Wendy picked a few letters from well-known universities as alternatives. Among the many letters, there is a letter that is very special, the postmark turned out to be American, and Wendy opened the letter and read it carefully.
The content of the letter is not much different from other invitation letters, nothing more than what has received your application, and you are welcome to study at this school, etc., all the same, except that the signature at the bottom of this letter attracted the attention of Wendy - John. Hennessy. When Wendy saw this, he thought the name was familiar, and then he knew the real source of the letter - Little Leland, California, USA. Stanford University.
Wendy became the first student in the college to receive an invitation from Stanford University, and the news quickly spread in the college, while her friends were happy and admired Wendi, Wendi clutched the invitation tightly and fell into a dilemma.
Stanford University is the cradle of great men and has graduated from countless world-changing people. Although private schools are more expensive, they should also seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But unfortunately, Stanford University is in California, not Melbourne, Australia, and if he is really invited to the United States, he will have reneged on his promise to Shuya, and the two may never see each other again. When Wendy returned home, she didn't dare to show the invitation to her parents, for fear that her parents' opinions would affect her decision. When he ran out of ideas, he thought of discussing it with Shu Ya on the other side of the ocean.
The video was turned on at the appointed time, and Shu Ya's smiling face appeared on the computer screen.
"Shu Ya, I have something I want to discuss with you, I need you to give me some advice, I received an invitation letter from a school today......"
"Wait, I'll show you something first." Shuya interrupted Wendy. He pulled out something like a scoreboard from the back.
"Wendy, you see, this is what I did myself, according to your original schedule to arrive in Australia, there are still one hundred and thirty-three days at most, I made this record card, tear off one every day, which means that the time for our reunion is one day closer, and when this card is torn up, you will come, and we will be together forever."
Maybe because he was too busy studying in Australia and too tired from work, Wendy found that the smiling face on the screen seemed to be much thinner than before, and he couldn't bear to tell her about the invitation, because this Stanford invitation letter may be the beginning of his successful life, and it must also be a verdict that shatters Shuya's hopes.
"Didn't you just say that there was something to discuss, what kind of invitation?" Shu Ya saw that Wendi was silent, so she inquired.
"It's okay, there is good news, the invitation letter from Monash University in Melbourne has arrived, and I can go to Australia to study."
looked at Shu Ya's elated appearance, and thought: Stanford, it seems that it can only be Nan Ke's dream.
Although Wendi has privately given up the idea of going to Stanford for further study, this matter is still hotly discussed by his classmates, and even students from other departments have begun to inquire about Wendi, who has constantly appeared positive and negative news. A girl from the art department entrusted Zhou Wei's girlfriend to help introduce Wendi, and she was scheduled to go to the restaurant for dinner together after class on Friday night. Wendi didn't want to make any more troubles, so he politely declined the invitation, so only Zhou Wei, Zhou Wei's girlfriend and his girlfriend were left to eat together.
"This Wendy is really not a thing, we sleep in Xiaojing, there are many boys who can't chase after it, and he even releases our pigeons." Zhou Wei's girlfriend looked dissatisfied.
At this time, Zhou Wei had already eaten four bottles of beer, and his tongue began to knot.
"You save it, Wendi's girlfriend is not a good type, Chen Shuya is the number one goddess and female man in our department, and she was also sought after by countless boys back then."
"So what, when Wendy goes to the United States, won't they still have to break up in the end?" His girlfriend's best friend Xiao Jing was also a little unconvinced.
"If you don't believe us, bet that Wendy won't go to Stanford to report at all, and even if he goes, he and Chen Shuya will not be separated!" Zhou Wei's face was flushed with drinking, and he shouted with a wine bottle.
"Their relationship is really so good, the last time Zhang Wendi made other girls' bellies bigger, Chen Shuya didn't share it with him?"
"I said, who are you listening to make this up? It's all, I have to vindicate my brother today! Zhou Wei lost his words after drinking and told the truth about the day of the conflict in the study room.
"I'll go, there's a lot of new things in their department, it turns out that the girl with a weird temper is really a third party?" After listening to Zhou Wei's words, Xiao Jing looked at Zhou Wei's girlfriend and said.
I saw Zhou Wei's girlfriend with a wicked smile on her face and said: "I don't know if it's a third party, anyway, the Chen Hui who runs the supermarket now is 100% a spare tire!" ”
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