chapter 022
Longmen Square is another of the more famous Chinese restaurants near Columbia, on 1009th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Boulevard, just seven blocks away from the main entrance of Columbia.
When he was a freshman and sophomore, Mak Qixian rented a house on 1008th Street, and he hadn't applied for the school dormitory at that time, so often when Yu Hui came to him, Mak Qixian would ask Yu Gui to help bring a takeaway from Longmen Array, and Yu Gui was more familiar with this place.
However, since the junior Mai Qixian moved to the dormitory, Yu Gui rarely went to this area, and he didn't come for a long time, and this time he decided to eat here with Yan Shu and felt quite kind.
"Yu Gui, let me have a treat today to celebrate your hiring, what do you want?" Yan Shu sat down at this moment and asked with the menu.
"No, I'm going to invite you today." Yu Gui's faint voice was full of pressure, leaving Yan Shu no room for bargaining.
Yan Shu put the menu down again, looking a little silly: "I just want to celebrate." β
"Yes, that's why I'm going to invite you to dinner, and by the way, to express my gratitude." Yu Gui said seriously.
Yan Shu was stunned for a moment, his expression was even more embarrassed, and he said awkwardly: "You don't have to be so polite with me, what do you feel ungrateful ......?"
Yu Gui couldn't help but smile lightly: "Just kidding, I'm not so polite, but I really want to thank you." If you have the chance, you can also help me thank your friend, thanks to whom I was able to hand in my resume. β
"Well," Yan Shu nodded hesitantly, "I'll tell him." β
"Thank you." After Yu Gui finished speaking, he continued to look at the menu, and when he finished ordering all the dishes, he looked up at Yan Shu and found that this person was staring at him intently.
"What are you doing?" Yu Gui was almost laughed at by him.
Yan Shu pursed his lips when he heard Yu Gui's question, smiled embarrassedly, and said, "I'm looking at you." β
Yu Gui looked a little helpless: "What do I have to look at." β
"Well, it's good." Yan Shu stared at him and replied quite seriously, but Yu Gui thought that it was not a question just now......
"By the way, did you mean you were going to the West Coast on Thanksgiving?" Yan Shu asked with great interest at this time.
Yu Gui snorted, he had actually rejected Yan Shu's request to accompany him very euphemistically last time, saying that the air tickets and hotels had already been booked, and it was not convenient to add more people, and this was indeed a fact.
Many people in the United States travel for Thanksgiving, and several major cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas are the most popular.
When Yan Shu asked, Mai Qixian had already bought all the tickets for the three of them, and it was said that there were not a few seats left when he bought them, which shows his popularity.
Yu Gui didn't want to deceive Yan Shu, so he was relieved when he learned that this was the case when he booked the ticket, at least he didn't have to make up other reasons to refuse him.
It's just that Yu Gui didn't know that he had already made it clear before, why did Yan Shu ask about this matter again this time, was it because he didn't give up?
Unable to think of a reason for a while, Yu Gui waited for a moment before replying, "That's right, it's going to the West Coast." β
"That's a coincidence, I'm going to see my uncle in California on Thanksgiving, and we can still play together if the time is right!" Yan Shu said with a smile.
Yu Gui felt strange when he heard it: "But aren't all the tickets sold out?" When are you leaving? β
"Next Wednesday! It should be the same day as you! Yan Shu puffed out his mouth and smiled: "My uncle helped me buy a ticket in advance, but he didn't tell me about it until the day before yesterday." β
"That's right." Yu Gui responded very dishearteningly, and pretended to ask casually, "Where are you flying?" β
"Los Angeles! What about you? β
"Me ...... too"
"That's even more coincidental! Maybe we'll still have one flight! Yan Shu looked at Yu Gui excitedly, took out his mobile phone and flipped through his flight information, and then asked: "I'm from Pan American Airlines, which one are you?" β
"Sorry, I don't remember much." Yu Gui felt that he was simply saying this sentence without conscience.
When Mak showed him all the information about the air tickets they had booked, he only glanced at them twice and remembered them all, and there was no such thing as zΓ i forgetting.
And he did remember that the flight they were going to take next Wednesday to Los Angeles was Pan Am, and it was really the same class as Yan Shu.
Yan Shu looked a little regretful when he heard Yu Gui say that he had forgotten, but his spirits quickly lifted up again, and he said as if betting: "It's okay, I have a hunch that we should be on the same trip!" β
"Well, hopefully." Yu Gui said insincerely, but Yan Shu didn't seem to see that he was not sincere in what he said, and he seemed quite happy.
Yu Gui looked at him for a while, then silently withdrew his gaze, he didn't know what else to say.
Before it happens, no amount of worry is superfluous. And when it happens, there's no need to worry.
Yu Gui sighed and persuaded himself not to think too much about it first.
Let's talk about it when it does.
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The day before Thanksgiving, in order to catch the plane at 7 o'clock in the morning, Yu Gui, Mak Qixian and Li Chujin gathered at the subway station at the gate of Columbia before 5 o'clock in the morning.
Because of the distance taken into account, Yu Gui stayed in Mak Kai Yin's dormitory the night before, and as a result, Mak Qi Yin was happily chanting all night, "The sun is coming out in the west!" Yu Gui lives with me! β
He was so excited that Yu Gui couldn't sleep, and in the second half of the night, he was so sleepy that he almost didn't kick Mai Qixian directly off the bed, and then thought about it, after all, this is someone's room, and he can bear it.
For this reason, now Yu Gui feels a little dizzy, and he feels that he has been woken up by the alarm clock after sleeping for less than half an hour, and he washes up like a march, dresses up, carries a box out, and then rushes to the gate of Brother's University, this series of actions is almost completed by subconscious.
Li Chujin didn't look very good, wearing a very European and American style army green long windbreaker and standing half-leaning on his large box, the hair that was longer than his shoulders was rarely tied up, so he was loosely draped, and his face still had a sleepy-eyed and hazy expression.
In fact, it is quite understandable if he is in a bad mood to return, after all, it is not pleasant to go out so early in the morning to travel with someone he doesn't want to see.
And in stark contrast to the state of the two of them is Mak Kai Yin.
Obviously, he slept less than Yu Gui last night, but now he seems to be extremely excited, a pair of eyes can be used as a light bulb, and he is still chattering next to him all the time, Yu Gui also feels very weird.
"Hey, aren't you?! We brought a box with empty inside, why did you bring two? And this one is so big! As soon as Mak Qixian saw Li Chujin, he pounced on him and said.
Li Chujin avoided his direct "attack" with a little disgust, stood to the side, and said in a voice with a sense of getting up: "Can't I have a lot of things?" β
"Yes, you can, but you'll have to check it in." Mai Qixian stared at Li Chujin's two boxes with some worry and said.
Because in the United States, airplanes are a very civilian means of transportation, usually air tickets are much cheaper than train tickets, and the airlines themselves have low profits, so they will not provide various free benefits, whether it is in-flight meals or baggage check-in, all must be charged, and free luggage is only allowed to bring a standard boarding suitcase that is not overweight, and at most a backpack is added.
Yu Gui probably visually measured the weight of Li Chujin's two boxes, but I was afraid that they were in the category of overweight.
"Hey, I'm spending my own money on the consignment, can you stop meddling." Li Chujin said to Mai Qixian impatiently at this time.
Mai Qixian pouted unwillingly: "Haven't I thought about you yet." β
"I don't need to." Li Chu said unappreciatively.
"Alright, let's get off the subway first, don't miss the plane." Yu Gui saw that Mai Qixian was about to "reason" with Li Chujin again, so he rushed in front of him and said.
However, Li Chujin sneered twice when he heard his words: "It's just right if you make a mistake, you don't need to go." β
"What do you say! This hapless boy! Mai Qixian snatched the big box from Li Chujin's hand in the past, and then ran two steps to the subway entrance and shouted at Yu Gui: "Guigui, buddy can't take care of you for the time being!" Carry your own suitcase! β
"Mak Qixian, you put the box down for me! I don't need you to mention it!! Li Chujin was directly sobered up by Mak Qixian's move, and pulled up the small box and chased down, but Mai Qixian was faster than him even if he was carrying two boxes, which meant that when he went down to the platform in a hurry, he saw these two people facing each other, and Mak Qixian pushed Li Chujin's big box to the edge of the track, looking at the posture, it was obvious that he was saying "If you dare to rob me, you dare to push it down."
Yu Gui was a little heartbroken by this scene.
He walked straight to Mai Qixian's side and directly snatched the box, pushed it to Li Chujin, and then said helplessly to the "Mai Yingdi" who was already aggrieved and shocked in his eyes: "How adult-like are you, don't be so naΓ―ve." β
"Return...... You elbow ...... out" Mak Kai-yin turned on his soaring acting mode again.
It's a pity that Yu Gui knows him too well and won't be deceived at all.
"You're almost done, and I'll settle last night's account with you if you put it on." Yu Gui said lightly.
ββ¦β¦ ......" Mak Qixian glanced at Yu Gui very reluctantly, and then looked at Li Chujin, and began to mumble something as if he was chanting a mantra.
At first, Yu Gui didn't hear what he was talking about, but after a while, Mai Qixian should have deliberately let him and Li Chujin hear, so he walked between the two of them and amplified his voice a little more and said: "Two shakers, two shakers, two shakers......"
Yu Gui was almost laughed at by Mak Qixian.
He glanced at Li Chujin and found that Li Chujin was also looking at him silently, and after the two looked at each other, they rarely had a feeling of reaching a consensus in their hearts.
At this moment, they are all people who want to push Mak Qixian off the railroad tracks.