Chapter 204: Flower Protector
Because he was full of joy to see Gege's growth, Lin Yi finished washing as fast as he could, and when he walked to the living room, he found that the dining table was already neatly laid out for breakfast.
Gege was sitting on the side with a smile waiting for him, looking like a little chef waiting for the judges to score in a cooking competition. Lin Yi gently massaged the wrist of his left hand with his right hand, and after doing it, he was pulled by Lu Yichen and lifted the iron, and the posture was not right, and he pulled it up a little. He sat down and looked at his little girlfriend with a smile.
"Let me guess, are you secretly turning your back to look at your phone these past nights studying this?" Sure enough, Gege nodded happily, this is a great pastry app she found, which teaches a lot of Western-style simple meals.
Since they are likely to come to study abroad in the future, it is necessary to learn some basic life skills as soon as possible. She didn't pay attention to it before, but she will redouble her efforts to make up for it later. And to her surprise, not only all the utensils are available in the kitchen of the Lin family's apartment, but even the ingredients and seasonings are in order, and no one lives in it at all like he said.
Of course, this is all carefully arranged by Melissa. Including these children going out during the day these days, Xiao Wang of the company also came to change the refrigerator from time to time under Uncle Huo's arrangement, and updated the ingredients appropriately, so Gege opened the refrigerator and saw all kinds of fresh vegetables and meat very unexpectedly.
She made a simple sandwich, the bread and vegetables were ready-made, just a simple fried egg, but I have to say, fried eggs are still very tested, at least in the past few days she has learned how to control the amount of oil, and also learned to cover the pot and use the water vapor in the pot to make the egg whites condense, which does not need to be turned over and will not stare at one side of the frying to cause that side to be super old, and finally sprinkle a little black pepper when it comes out of the pan, and the appearance and taste are excellent.
I really didn't expect that even a fried egg was very knowledgeable, and Gege felt that he really underestimated the skill of cooking before. At the same time, Lin Yi loves to eat vegetables, so she also paired a simple vegetable salad, but instead of using high-calorie salad dressing, she replaced it with guacamole.
Paired with a cup of rich fresh milk and a clean and tidy red checkered tablecloth, the whole breakfast looks a little more emotional.
After eating breakfast, Lin Yi gave Gege a big praise with satisfaction, affirming her efforts in the past few days, and then looked at the time and prepared to leave for school. At this time, Gege's mobile phone rang suddenly, and when I looked at the caller ID, it was Xiao Xiao!
"Hey, dear, I probably won't wait for you to come back, I just saw a special ticket on the website, and I booked it...... Well, the day after tomorrow ticket...... Let's go back to City B and reunite...... No more, wait for you and Lin Yi to come to Australia to play with me...... Okay, you guys have fun, we'll see you again. "It turned out that Xiao Xiao booked a plane ticket, and before they could wait for them, Boston would fly first.
There is no banquet in the world, although it is only a short reunion, but Gege cherishes this friendship very much in his heart, and originally bought a gift for Xiao Xiao, which seems to have to be given next time.
Hung up the phone and off happily. At Gege's request, today they stopped driving and took the subway instead. There are so many legends about New York's subway, such as the Guinness Book of Records for the subway system with the most stations in the world.
However, about the New York subway, the rumors are more about its negative evaluation, one word - dirty!
Compared with the clean and tidy subway built in many big cities, the subway in New York is really notoriously dirty, and you can often look at the leading bosses of the subway - the big mouse brothers during the subway period. These Gege have only been mentioned by others in the travel guide, and today she wants to experience the city in a more intuitive way. What's more, in the past few days, she has seen Lin Yi driving around Manhattan every day, and she also knows how difficult it is to be a driver here, and she has long been very distressed.
In short, Gege made an appointment with New York University in the morning and Columbia University in the afternoon, and today she decided not to let Mu Mu be the driver, and the first stop in the morning is NYU! This is a university that appears quite frequently in the popular American drama Gossip Girl, and Gege can finally bring the TV series to life!
Speaking of reading, Gege remembered a discussion with Sister Qing, and on the way there, she also relayed this discussion to Lin Yi. In Sister Qing's eyes, reading is not just about the school or teachers, but also the resources provided by the entire environment. Therefore, in the past, when the children of relatives and friends at home were admitted to college to fill in the volunteers, she would suggest that the other party consider urban resources. For example, City B is the capital in the end, and the children's vision and insight are incomparable to those small cities, so even the universities in City B that are not outstanding are not necessarily inferior to the so-called famous universities in other provinces.
Of course, this criterion is not dead, and the child's personality must be taken into account. In a fancy world like New York, if it is a child who has no self-control to go to school, and the parents are too high to worry about the emperor and can only stuff a lot of money, it is easy to take a detour.
But it is definitely not a bad thing for people like Lin Yi and Gege who can manage their children well and have the opportunity to experience in a big city like New York. The nation's largest metropolis is irresistible to young people, and its actions have a direct impact on the world's economy, finance, media, politics, education, entertainment and fashion. With the headquarters of the United Nations and many of the world's international agencies and multinational corporations in New York, it is no wonder that there is a classic line that says, "If you love someone, you send him to New York; If you hate someone, send him to New York, because it's hell! ”
Gege has yet to see the hellish side of New York, but in just a few days, she has been able to deeply appreciate the very different temperaments between New York and Boston, two large cities that represent the highest level in the eastern United States.
Along the way, she also seriously discussed higher education in the United States with Lin Yi, after all, the only regret of this trip to the United States is that it seems to affect Lin Yi's original plan to apply for MIT, although he himself does not care, but before this, Gege always felt that it was because he had delayed him a little. However, after visiting Columbia and NYU today, she deeply realized what it means to be diverse.
There are really too many good universities in the United States, and no matter which one you walk into, it will make people feel like a bright village. Thinking about it like this, an MIT is really nothing, is Lin Yi so good that he is afraid that there is no good place to go? They need to think carefully about what kind of school they want to choose.
What's more coincidental is that they ended their campus tour at noon and met Lu Yichen and Vivian at NYU, and they also learned that they were going to Columbia University in the afternoon. However, Vivian's campus trip was more targeted than Gege's entire campus tour.
She just came to visit the law schools of these two schools, although the former is an Ivy League school and the latter is not, but the law schools of both schools are firmly ranked T6, which is an order of magnitude higher than T14. Vivian has always been curious, in terms of overall university strength, there is still a gap between NYU and Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, but what is the charm of being able to rank T6 all year round? So he pulled Lu Yichen over for a walk.
The four of them happily found a Hong Kong-style restaurant in East Village, a food gathering near NYU, and had lunch together, Lin Yi paid the bill quietly, and when the meal was almost finished, the waiters swarmed up, holding the cake and singing the birthday song together.
Seeing the surprise in Lu Yichen's eyes, Lin Yi replied angrily: "Since such bad luck has happened, let's reluctantly celebrate it for you." Originally, today they also wanted to choose a gift for Lu Yichen seriously, but since they met, it would save trouble, and it was very attentive to invite a meal, and the cake in this Hong Kong-style restaurant looked very good.
Lu Yichen hugged Lin Yi excitedly, leaned over with a handsome face, and said affectionately: "I knew that Mu Mu had me in your heart." But he felt Lin Yi resisting violently, he was really afraid that Lu Yichen would kiss him in the next second, and he would definitely tear him with his own hands......
Seeing the two handsome guys hugging each other so intimately, the next second it seemed that there was a restrictive picture, and the people in the entire restaurant were boiling, in the end, it was a big twist of cultural openness, everyone was not surprised by such a thing, and at this time, someone immediately coaxed "Kiss one!" Kiss one! Gege and Vivian laughed back and forth, not at all trying to help Lin Yi explain.
After they blew out the candles and ate the cake, Lu Yichen finally remembered the matter, he wanted to call the second sister last night, but the time didn't catch up, at this time he looked at his watch and felt that it was a good time, so he dialed Xing'er.
"Hello? Sister, it's me, are you busy? ”
"Just woke up, not busy, what's wrong?" Xing'er currently works in Los Angeles, which is daylight saving time, so there is a 3-hour time difference from the eastern United States.
Xiao Lu was just about to speak, when he suddenly heard a man's voice on the other end of the phone, "Baby, who are you talking to?" Then the phone suddenly seemed to be silent, and it took dozens of seconds before I heard Xing'er's voice again.
"Is your boyfriend? Drake? Lu Yichen seems to remember hearing her mother mention this name.
"It's not." Xing'er didn't say much, but it was clear that Drake was already in the past......
Xiao Lu is obviously not that interested in Sister Xing'er's gossip, the key is that he can't keep up with the rhythm...... The gossip about chasing her can easily make fans feel frustrated, so they simply give up.
"Sister, I want to ask you, do you know why Sister Yue'er broke up with Chris?"
The four children of the Lu family, Xing'er and Yue'er are of the same age, Lu's mother originally planned to seal her belly after giving birth to Xing'er, but then it took many years before she suddenly decided to have Fei'er and Lu Yichen again.
Therefore, the relationship between the eldest sister and the second sister is closer, and they are also each other's closest friends. Lu Yichen was too young to understand Chris's affairs, but Xing'er still knew a little bit.
"Why do you suddenly ask that?" Xing'er didn't answer directly, but there must be a reason why Lu Yichen mentioned it.
"You tell me first." Lu Yichen felt more and more that there was something strange about this matter, the Lu family never beat around the bush when they spoke, why did everyone deliberately avoid asking about this matter, it was too abnormal.
Xing'er paused, she suddenly thought that today was Lu Yichen and Fei'er's birthday, she was really busy and dizzy, she forgot such an important day, they are a year older this year, many things should be understandable.
Thinking of this, she told Lu Yichen the whole thing in a flat tone as much as possible, and you can imagine how shocked he was at the moment. It turned out that it was such a tragic reason......