Seattle in 2002 had not yet met Beijing.

On the first day Lu Fei got off the plane, it was raining in Seattle for a week.

He remembered that when he was in San Antonio, he came to Seattle with the team to play, and Duncan, who had always been wooden, suddenly said that he had just asked a child when he was out of the house: "Hey, kid, won't the rain stop here?" ”

The child replied, "How do I know?" I'm only six years old! ”

Of course, Duncan's jokes are always cold, like the cold wind that blows in Seattle every morning.

He's just complaining about Seattle's rainy season in a dry-humor way.

Lu Fei always thought that the place he was going to study was Washington, but it wasn't until he got on the plane that Lu's mother told him that the school he was going to was only Washington University in Seattle.

Studying abroad in Washington and studying abroad at the University of Washington are two different things entirely.

In fact, there seems to be some misunderstanding of the place name Washington among Chinese at that time.

Our high school geography teacher once told us that the capital of the United States is called Washington, D.C., but the teacher did not tell us that its full name is Washington, D.C., and that there are no less than 20 cities in the United States called Washington.

The University of Washington, where Lu Fei studied, is not in Washington, D.C., the reason why it is called the University of Washington is that this university is located in a place called Washington State in the United States, so this university is called the University of Washington.

Washington State is located in the northwest corner of the United States, while Washington, D.C. is the easternmost part of the United States.

It's a long way away!

There are also many universities named after Washington in Washington State, such as Washington State University, Central Washington University, etc., and the most prestigious of them is the University of Washington located in Seattle, Washington.

Lu Fei's parents returned to China after completing all the formalities for him, looking at the old couple running back and forth, Lu Fei was a little emotional, and a little moved, when they left, they kept telling Lu Fei to call home often, don't be afraid of expensive phone bills, eat better, and tell my mother that I am not used to it.

Lu Fei responded one by one.

There is nothing wrong with him, after all, he has lived in the United States for many years.

He bought a mobile phone, and it only had his parents' phone numbers, and the previous phone was lost, and the numbers were all gone, but fortunately at that time, mobile phones were not the main means of contact - because there were not so many people with mobile phones.

It was raining again in the gray sky.

Lu Fei put the book on top of his head, ran through the drizzle, and ran all the way back to the dormitory.

The dorm was a double room, and he was opened by the same freshman as him, Anthony Washington, a Seattle native, but he prefers to live on campus, in his words: "Hey, bro, I've been in the care of his parents for more than a decade, and I should have gone to college to live independently." ”

The dorm is not very big and there are not many things.

There is a writing desk next to Lu Fei's bed, and there are only a few books that he has just received on the desk, and opposite his desk is Anthony's desk, which has a brand new computer on it, and on the wall behind the computer are several posters of Angelina Jolie, which are said to be his idols.

Lu Fei reminded him that your idol seems to be wearing a little less.

"Hey, Lu, you're out of class?"

Lu Fei had just put the few books on top of his head on the table and wiped off the water stains on the cover with a towel when he heard Anthony rubbing his eyes and asking.

"yes, didn't you go to class again?"

"I'm tired from training for the basketball team, so don't give me those damn lessons, do you still want to use a computer?"

Lu Fei would borrow his computer for half an hour every day when he came back, which had become a routine.

Lu Fei smiled and nodded.

Anthony lay down on the bed and said lazily, "Use it, use it, but be careful not to take the movie I just downloaded, uh, that kind of movie, don't delete it, that's the only comfort I have for my tired body after my daily training." ”

Lu Fei made an OK gesture.

He finally understands why Anthony Washington can't play in the NBA, and what kind of highlights can you expect from a big guy who silently shoots at the computer at the end of every day of practice to play in the NCAA arena?

Anthony Washington and Brandon Roy, Will Conroy, Dean Smith, the four led the team through Washington state that year at Garfield High School.

All four are now students at the University of Washington and are members of the University of Washington basketball team.

Among them, Brandon Roy and Will Conroy are the main players at the University of Washington.

And Anthony Washington is still battling Jeffrey Day for the starting spot.

Jeffrey Day is a senior this year, and he will participate in the NBA draft next year, but it is estimated that there is a high probability of not being selected, and Anthony Washington thinks that even if Jeffrey Day is a year, it is nothing, and coach Lorenzo Romar prefers to let Anthony Washington play as a starter.

He wasn't worried at all.

However, Lu Fei remembers that by the time he was a sophomore, with the arrival of Hakeem Rollins, Anthony Washington was completely reduced to a substitute, although Hakeem Rollins was only a center of average level.

Lu Fei turned on the computer and logged in, it was three o'clock in the afternoon American time, and the time difference between Seattle and Beijing was 15 hours, that is, it was six o'clock in the morning in China, and it was estimated that few people were online early in the morning.

He opened the browser and browsed the official website page of CUBA, although Liu Zhuang often reported the results of the game to him, but Liu Zhuang always woke up at noon after the game ended the next day before he buckled and told him that sometimes he fell asleep at that point.

On the day after he left, Pengcheng Mining University finally defeated the host Jinling Institute of Technology after two overtimes, but when it came to competing for the championship of the Southeast Division, it still lost to Huaqiao University by a large score. However, this runner-up has also given Pengcheng University a chance to enter the quarterfinals of the South Division.

Lu Fei hasn't played here yet, and he usually has itchy hands when he passes by the court, but playing on the field is obviously not his goal. The University of Washington's basketball team has always been selected directly from the best players in the high school team, and their coach will not run around the court without luck, hoping to find a dark horse on the field.

However, he is not in a hurry, as long as he has the strength, it is a matter of time before he enters the basketball team.

He watched the news for a while and was about to go offline.

The avatar that buckled the friend bar flashed, it was a girl's avatar, and the screen name was "Begonia Still", Lu Fei was stunned, this is ...... Gu Tang?

After he added Gu Tang's button, the two of them haven't chatted much, during the time they came to the United States, they lost their mobile phone and lost Gu Tang's number, and they wanted to contact her with the button, but she was not online, and after leaving her a message with her phone number in the United States, there was no movement for several days.

Is this online? He opens the dialog box.

Haitang is still: "I just saw your message, I have gone through the procedures for going abroad these days, I have no time to surf the Internet, I am now in Washington, D.C., I am at Johns Hopkins University, which school are you in?" ”

John Hopkins?

Lu Fei smiled bitterly, and was just about to reply to the past, when another message came from the other side,

Begonia is still: "I haven't seen you for a long time, can you come out and sit down if you have time?" ”

Lu Fei could imagine that when Gu Tang typed this sentence, his face must have been red like a red apple.

He reluctantly typed a line.

Non: "I'm at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA......"

Begonia still: "......"

The distance seems a bit far.