In an apartment on the outskirts of Washington, three Chinese girls are busy in the kitchen chatting about gossip. These three people were all admitted to the United States from Beijing University to study, and their relationship is extremely close. This apartment is shared by Zhang Weilin and Zhao Feiran, who are studying in Washington, and the third girl is Xu Xiaoqi, who came to Washington from the University of Virginia to work, and every time she comes to Washington, she stays with her female companions.

Since they each have their own studies and have to go out to work in their spare time, they don't usually have much time to get together and cook for themselves. At this time, there was a rare opportunity to chat, and Xu Xiaoqi told her female companions the story that happened in the restaurant where she worked the day before yesterday.

"Wei Lin, Feiran, do you two remember that there is a girl named Tranquility in the 87th grade of our school?" Xu Xiaoqi asked the two female companions.

"Remember, don't those little boys in 87 call her the school flower?" Zhang Weilin said with a smile that not only boys appreciate beautiful women, but girls are also quite concerned about the best of the same sex.

"What 87 little boys, those boys in our grade are also called like this, okay?" Zhao Feiran also agreed.

Xu Xiaoqi said: "Do you know, the restaurant where I was working the day before yesterday met his brother. ”

"Really? How do you know it's his brother, do they look alike? Zhang Weilin asked curiously.

Xu Xiaoqi shook her head: "They don't look like each other at all, I remember that Ning Jing is in good shape, her brother...... Quite burly. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Xiaoqi couldn't help but snicker in her heart, using burly to describe Ning Mo, somewhat with a little emotion, objectively speaking, he is clearly a fat paper, okay? But...... Thinking of the situation when Ning Mo was majestic and protected her behind him. She couldn't help but feel that in fact, fat paper also has the cuteness of fat paper, at least it can block the wind, right?

"How did you end up with him?" Zhao Feiran asked.

"Here's the thing......" Xu Xiaoqi began to learn what happened in the restaurant to her female companions, and when Ning Mo and Qin Hai stepped forward to protect her, Zhang Weilin and Zhao Feiran both exclaimed.

"Wow, isn't this a hero saving beauty? Xiaoqi. Do you intend to make a personal promise to any of them? Zhang Weilin teased unashamedly.

"By the way, Xiaoqi, have you asked them what they do, are they cadres in the agency?" Zhao Feiran is a more pragmatic girl, and she is more concerned about whether these two heroes who save beauty are worthy of Xu Xiaoqi.

"Well, they say they're business people in a company." Xu Xiaoqi replied.

In fact, Ning Mo's current identity is the general manager of Jintang Chemical Materials Group Company, and Yu Haitao also holds the title of deputy general manager in Haijie Company, and Qin Hai's name is even more. But. Ning Mo was worried that revealing his identity would leave a bad impression of Xu Xiaoqi as an "upstart", so he concealed the identities of himself and his two brothers, and only said that he was a salesman of the Chemical Materials Group who came to the United States to negotiate business.

"Salesman, that's not worthy of our Xiaoqi." Zhao Feiran muttered.

"Why don't you deserve it?" Xu Xiaoqi retorted, but forgot that this rebuttal was quite self-confessional.

Zhang Weilin immediately grasped the mystery in Xu Xiaoqi's words, and said with a smile: "It turns out that Xiaoqi is really tempted? Tell me quickly, the one you have your eye on is Ning Mo. It's still the one named Qin Hai...... Hmm, I guess. It must be that Ning Mo, who is burly and has a manly temperament. ”

"What's the matter...... Xu Xiaoqi's face turned red all of a sudden, "I just said that Feiran was wrong, and I didn't say how I ......"

"Hee-hee, since it's not good. Why is your face red? Zhang Weilin said, reached out to touch Xu Xiaoqi's face, and then laughed loudly: "Oh, it's so hot, you can bake pizza." ”

"I'll kill you!" Xu Xiaoqi was shy and anxious. wanted to chase Zhang Weilin.

"Wait, listen, someone's ringing the doorbell." Zhao Feiran said.

The three girls fell silent together, and sure enough, they heard the doorbell of the apartment ringing.

"Who is it?" Zhang Weilin came to the door and asked in English while opening the cat's eyes.

The person outside the door of "I_am......" muttered in stiff English for a while, and finally changed to Chinese: "Excuse me, does Xu Xiaoqi live here?" ”

"Huh?" Zhang Weilin was surprised in his heart, put his eyes in front of the cat, looked out, only to see a person standing outside the door, the width of the body completely filled the cat's eye sight, from his dress and the Chinese just now, Zhang Weilin can judge that this is a person from China.

"Xiaoqi, I'm looking for you." Zhang Weilin shouted, and when she saw Xu Xiaoqi trotting over, she grimaced at Xu Xiaoqi and whispered, "I suspect that your burly man is here." ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Xu Xiaoqi glared at Zhang Weilin, and then asked through the door, "May I ask who is looking for me?" ”

"Is it Xiaoqi? I'm Nimmer. The person outside the door answered, and there was obviously a bit of excitement in his voice.

Xu Xiaoqi's heart jumped inexplicably, she quickly took off the sleeve on her arm that she had just put on for cooking, and then pulled her hair and tidied up her clothes as quickly as she could, before she opened the door and said shyly: "Brother Ning, why are you here?" ”

"Hmm...... Be...... It was Qin Hai who asked me to come, no, I told Qin Hai to let me come, Qin Hai said, there is something I want you to help do, I don't know if you have time...... I think this thing is pretty good, but I don't know if you're willing to accept it......" Ning Mo stood outside the door and said upside down.

"It's Brother Ning, come in, Xiaoqi was still talking about you just now." Zhang Weilin poked her head out from behind Xu Xiaoqi and greeted loudly.

Ning Mo timidly entered the living room of the apartment, and sat on the sofa like a puppet supported by Zhang Weilin, three girls lined up in front of him, one of them had a blush on his face, bowing his head and just playing with the corners of his clothes, and the other two looked at him with X-ray eyes with a little bit of a mother-in-law's demeanor looking at her son-in-law.

"You ...... I ...... "Ning Mo has a sense of crisis like a sheep in a wolf's den."

"Wei Lin, Fei Ran, what are you doing?" Xu Xiaoqi finally made a move, she pushed the two female companions, signaling them to stop playing Ning Mo.

"Haha, you talk, you talk, I'll cook for you." Zhang Weilin smiled and ran back to the kitchen.

"Yes, yes, Brother Ning, you can eat with us. Xiaoqi, accompany your guests. Zhao Feiran also made a funny face at the two, and ran into the kitchen behind Zhang Weilin.

"Judging from my experience of reading countless people, these two people must have been electrified." Zhang Weilin whispered to Zhao Feiran in the kitchen.

Zhao Feiran looked outside, and also lowered his voice and said: "I think the two of them are a little unworthy, a little salesman, how can they be worthy of a female international student?" Besides, this Ning Mo looks ......"

"Well, pretty burly." Zhang Weilin covered her mouth and smiled.

"It's a little too burly, how could Xiaoqi like him?" Zhao Feiran wondered.

Zhang Weilin said: "You don't understand, this kind of thing is simply unreasonable." Alas, I'm now starting to believe in love at first sight again......"

The two eight women were muttering in the kitchen, and although Xu Xiaoqi couldn't hear it clearly, she could guess what it was. So far, she can't rush into the kitchen to clean up the two female companions, so she can only have an ostrich mentality, pretending that she doesn't know anything. She pulled over a chair, sat two meters away from Ning Mo, and asked, "Brother Ning, what did you just say Brother Qin, what do you want me to do, what is it?" ”

"Oh, that's it, you look at this first......" Ning Mo then remembered the purpose of his trip, or rather, the excuse for his trip. He took out a few pieces of paper from his pocket, handed them to Xu Xiaoqi, and said, "You take a look first, while you read, I will explain to you." ”

Xu Xiaoqi took the pieces of paper and found that there were some things densely written on them, and after a closer look, it turned out to be some statements about the latest research progress of polymer materials.

"These are the new materials and new processes that our company is preparing to study in the future, Qin Hai said, this research is still relatively backward in China, and it is necessary to refer to the current situation of foreign research. Aren't you studying chemical engineering, Qin Hai would like to ask you to help you search for the latest research papers and related books in these fields in the United States, and help us make a research review in these aspects. Ning Mo said to Xu Xiaoqi according to Qin Hai's words.

"So many ......" Xu Xiaoqi was a little embarrassed. Ning Mo and Qin Hai helped her, and it was only natural for her to do something for them. However, there are more than a dozen research projects listed on these sheets of paper, and each of them has to be reviewed, which takes a considerable amount of time. If she spends her spare time doing this, she will have no time to work, and her livelihood in the United States will suffer. But how could she say that?

Ning Mo said: "Don't worry, I haven't finished yet." Qin Hai said, these jobs will definitely take up a lot of your time, so we will pay you the necessary remuneration. What do you think about the research projects listed above, where the remuneration for each project is $500, and we are responsible for the cost of buying books and photocopying materials? ”

"$500?" Xu Xiaoqi was stupid. She serves dishes in the restaurant for only $4 an hour, and even if she works 20 hours a week, she can only earn $80. Ning Mo said casually, it was a reward of 500 US dollars for a project. She has just calculated that doing a literature review of these research projects and doing it in her spare time can be completed in two weeks. Doesn't that mean she can earn $1,000 a month, which will make her the richest person among all the international students in the United States? (To be continued......)