Yelena recently discovered that Qi Min often didn't eat dinner in the school cafeteria.

"Min, are you on a diet? Or is the food cooked by Americans too bad? Yelena asked her before heading out to the cafeteria.

"No, I just have an appointment for the evening." Qi Min said happily while processing the data.

"You're dating too? It's a pleasure to see. Yelena raised an eyebrow.

"I can't make an appointment." Qi Min just stroked his hair and said, "I met a local Bolshevik, so I went to dinner and read Capital by the way—do you want to go together?" ”

"Local?" Yelena asked in surprise, and then shrugged her shoulders, "Forget it, all Trotskyists in the United States are Trotskyists, and I guess we don't look down on us CCCP veterans." ”

Qi Min just wanted to say that her new Bolshevik name was quite CCCP-style, but then thought about a person who spoke English and considered Chinese, even if the name came from Eastern Europe, it didn't seem to mean anything. Besides, her key knowledge is incidental to reading "Capital", and it would be embarrassing to let Yelena eat Chinese food with them.

"Alright then, you go eat." Qi Min waved his hand at her, "I'll finish the work in my hand and try to get off work early." ”

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It turns out that it is impossible for Qi Min to get off work early. Thanks to the junk notebook she has been using for six years, it takes more than ten seconds to open each file, and even if she does it quickly, the time is still wasted on opening the file.

So today she didn't go to the Asian supermarket with Anton - after all, under the pretext of taking him to read Das Kapital, she couldn't order as much food as she wanted.

Coming to Anton's tidy apartment, Qi Min sighed for the Nth time that living in a house is different from living in a dormitory.

Anton was cooking, and it looked like he was leaving work later than usual today. Qi Min sat on the sofa for a while, and saw a stack of bills on the coffee table, from which she saw a union bill: "Oh, you also join the union, and Chinese fast food restaurants also have a union?" ”

"No, so I joined the union of another fast-food restaurant chain." Anton came out of the kitchen and wiped his hands with a wet towel, "After the original boss left, I persuaded those who stayed to join the union. ”

"It's not a lot of dues." Qi Min put down the bill and got up from the sofa, "The question is, is it useful to join this kind of union?" They don't have time to negotiate with minority self-employed people for a few members, right? ”

"It's not realistic to negotiate a pay increase, but at least it can save people from losing their jobs." Anton said helplessly, "The trade unions have all kinds of troubles, but this is the insurance mechanism that capitalist society has opened up to the proletariat. On the other hand, however, trade unions are also a powerful means of dissolving the revolutionary character of the proletariat. ”

"For ordinary people, it's more important to live." Qi Min sighed.

"Seriously, Min, why don't you go and find a part-time job at the school and join the school's union?" Anton suddenly mentioned, "Even if you can't get paid for graduate school, you might be able to get better health insurance." ”

Qi Min thought about it, in fact, she had heard of someone doing this, but it was too troublesome to find a part-time job: "I may not have time...... And my health insurance is pretty much enough now. ”

"When is there enough health insurance?" Anton said in surprise, "I'm afraid you haven't been sick, have you?" Oh, yes, it's possible that you haven't been sick here. There are many people who don't go to the doctor because it's too expensive, and in the end, a minor illness becomes a major illness. ”16

"But I can go back to my country to see a doctor." Qi Min explained indifferently.

This answer unexpectedly silenced Anton for two seconds, and then he said in a tone that seemed to be joking: "I also wish I could 'go back to China' to see a doctor." ”

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However, probably thanks to the choice of the right union, Anton's income situation has always been stable. And he doesn't spend ahead of his time like those "Yankees", he remembers every account clearly, and like traditional Asians, he ensures that he is in a state of breaking even at all times, so that he can live a decent life with the income of a delivery man in a Chinese fast food restaurant.

Perhaps "being like a traditional Asian" may not be a big deal, given that Anton is a man who intends to read Capital in his spare time, he should be much less influenced by consumerism than the average ABC.

However, as for the reason why Qi Min went to someone's house to eat, it was not so much reading "Capital" as a miniature version of the Marxist-Leninist Theory Discussion Group. To Qi Min's surprise, Anton has really read some original books and updated theoretical articles other than "Capital", at least better than many keyboard politics enthusiasts who claim to be X-left on the Internet. In other words, the reason why he decided to read Capital only now was because he felt the need for someone to take it with him, out of a natural fear of the long book.

"Actually, I don't really understand, you used to read other articles about Marne with others? Joining a panel or something? Qi Min asked with some curiosity.

"I had a friend when I was in high school, and I was Hispanic...... I used to read these books with him. Anton explained.

"Oh......" Qi Min actually didn't know what Hispanic or Jewish was and what was the difference between ordinary Americans, "What about him now?" ”

"He went to New York after graduating from high school and wanted to make some money there." Anton replied, listening to the tone that didn't seem to agree with this decision, "High risk and high reward, I hope he can really make money." ”

"New York, but it's a big city." As a person who grew up in a city with a population more than twice that of New York, Qi Min praised on the surface, "But I'm a little curious, your preference for this theory should be from your family teaching?" Because I think the ideology of the people here is still on the right side on the whole. ”

Anton frowned and glanced at her, but Qi Min didn't seem to understand his expression at all.

"Do you think I'm going to have something like 'home teaching'?" Anton said a little angrily, "I find you strangely rude sometimes. ”

"Oh? I'm so sorry. Qi Min was a little embarrassed, "I thought you-no, I thought that young people in the United States were like this, and they would be financially independent after graduation." But she also tried to remedy it to save her image, "Maybe my definition of the term 'family teaching' is not accurate, in fact, I just want to ask if this is some kind of inheritance from parents?" ”

"So you did it on purpose?" Anton put down the book and looked at her in disbelief.

"What am I? What deliberately? Qi Min didn't understand.

Anton took a deep breath, looked at her very unhappily and said, "As a student of biology, do you think that ideology can be transmitted through genetic material?" ”

"I won't ......" Qi Min still didn't understand too much.

"So what are you making fun of me here?" Anton asked rather angrily, "I'm an orphan, I'm not a real Chinese, so it's incredible for me to read Marne, isn't it?" ”