Yuan Dutian will call Qin Xiaotian every day, and if he is not busy at work, he will also video chat with Qin Xiaotian on QQ at night. The peaceful time always feels like it flies quickly, and half a month has passed before you know it.

During this time, in order to fill the gap in the absence of his lover, Qin Xiaotian desperately rushed to the paper and submitted his resume, and finally drove out the first draft of the paper, and the work was ready to start the written exam.

"Hello, classmate, I'm sorry, I want to ask, that ......" A man with a huge figure and a somewhat bookish look called Qin Xiaotian.

He was wearing a wide-striped, short-sleeved T-shirt and slacks, and his dark brown leather shoes were shiny, and he didn't look like a school person. Qin Xiaotian was a little curious about what he wanted to ask, so he stopped and waited for him to finish.

"Well, by the way, you should call it the cafeteria." He was clearly glad he remembered the name.

"Are you going to our school cafeteria?" Qin Xiaotian wanted to confirm.

"Yes, the cafeteria." The good-looking man nodded, smiling shyly.

"From here, go straight to the library, turn left, and you can see it past the art building." Qin Xiaotian raised his finger to show him.

The man memorized the route very seriously, and nodded his head to say thank you.

"I don't think you're from our school, are you?" Qin Xiaotian asked gossipingly.

"It's not." The man was a little embarrassed.

"Oh-" Qin Xiaotian thought about whether he should turn around and say goodbye, and the man spoke: "I want to taste the food in your school cafeteria, I haven't eaten in the cafeteria in college for a long time." I don't know if I can eat it? ”

"Huh?" Qin Xiaotian grew his mouth and felt that this person was a little interesting.

"But you're not from our school, and without our card, you can't swipe your card to eat!" Qin Xiaotian felt that it was fortunate that this man had one more mouth, otherwise he would have to run away in vain.

"Can't you just pay for a meal?" The man was a little incomprehensible.

"In the past, the three canteens of our school were closed to the public from the beginning of this semester, and if you want to eat the canteen, you must have a card." Qin Xiaotian patiently explained.

"That's it!" The man was a little disappointed.

Qin Xiaotian saw that he really wanted to try the cafeteria, and was glad that he met her today, and he was lucky, because she was in a good mood today. Early in the morning, she received a package from Beijing from Yuan Dutian, a new set of business casual clothes, a white pinstripe short-sleeved shirt on a light blue background, a dark gray A-line group, a dark gray blazer, and a complete set of Daoxiangcun pastries. She smelled the unique smell of the new clothes, stroking the smooth and textured fabric, as if she had touched the smell of Yuan Dutian's body. Tian Li laughed at her that she hadn't closed her mouth in the morning, she opened the pastries of Daoxiang Village, generously distributed them to her roommates, and didn't forget to put on her clothes to show off. Tian Li said that she gave a little sunshine and it was bright, and she forgot the pain when she gave it a little sweetness.

"A few days ago, you were still suffering from gains and losses, and you were so spineless that you were stunned by so many clothes!" Tian Li ridiculed her. Qin Xiaotian replied to her indifferently: "I'm just so spineless, you see that he knows that I am looking for a job recently, and I am about to enter the interview stage, so I will buy clothes and send them immediately, what does it mean, it shows that he thinks about me!" Tian Li couldn't stand her boasting and narcissism, and hurried out.

"Otherwise, this girl is in a good mood today, I invite you to eat in the cafeteria!" Qin Xiaotian waved his hand, smiled brightly, and retracted his thoughts just now.

"Huh? Isn't that good? How embarrassing is this! The man took a small step back, even more embarrassed.

"What's the matter, you can't eat much by yourself. Let's go! After speaking, Qin Xiaotian beckoned to the man and asked him to come with him.

"Otherwise, you help me swipe the card, and I'll give you the money for the card." The man followed.

"Oh, no, no. What a lot of money, what a big deal! Qin Xiaotian waved his hand, looking very generous.

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Phliex, and my Chinese name is Jiang Feili." The man stopped and politely stretched out his right hand to shake hands with Qin Xiaotian.

Qin Xiaotian had no choice but to raise his hand and quickly shake it with him.

"You're not Chinese?" Qin Xiaotian heard him introduce his English name, and he thought he was Chinese.

"I'm Chinese-American."

"No wonder, I'll just say that looking at your dress and accent, it's a bit like Chinese people speaking Mandarin." Qin Xiaotian looked up at the man who was a head and a half taller than her.

"Really? Haha, we rarely speak Chinese, a little rusty. But because my parents are all from China, there are still many Chinese customs in the family, and we all have Chinese names. Felix laughed.

Soon the two of them walked to the cafeteria, it was only past 11 o'clock, and there were not many people in the cafeteria, Qin Xiaotian took Phliex to make a good meal and free soup, and found a place to sit down.

"Wow, it's only 11 yuan for 4 dishes, it's so cheap!" Phliex felt incredible, and after speaking, he took out his wallet from his jacket pocket to take the money to Qin Xiaotian.

Qin Xiaotian blocked his hand back and said, "No, I really don't need to!" ”

"That's not good, you're a student, and you don't have the obligation to invite a stranger to dinner, accept it!" Felix suddenly became serious.

"Well, if you insist on giving me money." Qin Xiaotian didn't want to leave a bad impression on a Chinese-American because of the 10 yuan, so it would be a good intention to do bad things.

After receiving the money, Qin Xiaotian pointed to Phliex's dinner plate and said, "Try it, it doesn't suit your appetite." ”

"You're welcome, then." Phliex picked up a piece of braised pork with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, then gave a thumbs up and praised: "It tastes good, it's better than I thought, I thought it would be bad if it was cheap." ”

"If it's delicious, then you can eat more, and if it's not enough, go to the window to fight." Qin Xiaotian also lowered his head and ate a piece of cucumber.

"By the way, you're not from our school, so what are you doing in our school?" Qin Xiaotian remembered that he had never asked people if they came to the school for sightseeing, errands, or other things.

"I'm looking for someone." Phliex is simple and straightforward.

"Looking for someone? Is it a student or a teacher? Qin Xiaotian turned on the problem baby mode again.

"Teacher, from law school." Felix glanced at Qin Xiaotian and asked a little hesitantly, "By the way, what are you studying?" ”

Qin Xiaotian thought for a moment and asked, "Do you want to ask which academy I am from?" ”

"Well, yes, that's what it means." Felix nodded incessantly.

"I'm from the Faculty of Humanities."

Phliex doesn't seem to understand.

"It's about literature, history, journalism, and so on." Qin Xiaotian explained.

Phliex suddenly realized.

Being interrupted by Phliex, Qin Xiaotian forgot that he wanted to ask him which teacher he was looking for in law school just now. Law school, Qin Xiaotian is still somewhat familiar.

"Did you find someone, then?" Qin Xiaotian continued her previous question.

"No, I heard that I went on a business trip."

"Oh...... Aren't you running for nothing? Qin Xiaotian felt sorry for him.

"It's okay, I'm going to stay here for a while." Phliex doesn't have any unpleasantness.

"By the way, I actually have a cousin who used to study here, but he went back to the United States last year." Phliex said suddenly.

"Oh, really? It seems that the world is quite small, and we are also fated today. Qin Xiaotian finished drinking the soup in the bowl.

"Is this called a fate to come thousands of miles to get together?" Phliex is a bit laborious to use a bit of broken Chinese.

"Hahaha, sort of. Have you eaten well? Qin Xiaotian handed Phliex a napkin.

Phliex nodded contentedly.

"Let's go!" Qin Xiaotian took the lead in standing up and led Phliex to return the plate.

"Actually, it's my first time in Xiangcheng, and I've only been to Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an before in China." Phliex walked out of the cafeteria and slowly opened up the conversation.

"These places are very good!"

"Xiangcheng, I just heard a very good friend of mine mention that this is her hometown, and I want to come and see it." Phliex's lips curled into an incomprehensible smile.

"So you're here for her?" Qin Xiaotian asked curiously, she guessed that Phliex's friend must be a woman.

"I didn't come to your school to look for her." Phliex deliberately sells off.

"Didn't you say you came to our school to find someone?" Qin Xiaotian was a little puzzled.

"It's looking for someone, but not for her I told you." Phliex doesn't seem to be willing to reveal too much about her.

"Looks like she's not ordinary to you." Qin Xiaotian quipped.

Phliex didn't say anything, and after a while, said word for word in a deep voice, "She's my patient." ”

"Huh?" Qin Xiaotian's mouth opened wide.

"Isn't it weird? The doctor comes to the patient. Phliex also felt weird.

"yes, at least in China, I don't think there is a doctor who would have to travel across the ocean to find a patient in the United States." Qin Xiaotian suddenly felt that the gap between developed and developing countries was too big, and he looked at how caring the doctors in the United States were.

"And what kind of doctor are you?"

"Psychologists, mainly psychological counseling and psychological intervention."

Qin Xiaotian nodded, with a look of "you are so powerful".

In the end, Qin Xiaotian didn't know which teacher in the law school this Chinese was looking for.

After sending Phliex away, Qin Xiaotian went to the library again and met Na Chunming, who knew that Na Chunming's job search had not been smooth recently.

"A few days ago, you said that you voted for Xinhuanet, how is it?" Qin Xiaotian asked with concern.

"No news yet, I guess I'll be notified next week." Na Chunming opened the laptop.

"Xiaotian, you are, have you thought about where to work?" Na Chunming asked.

Qin Xiaotian shook his head and sighed: "Anyway, I saw a suitable resume on the Internet, but there is no news yet." ”

"You're going to defend your dissertation next week, how are you preparing?"

"The paper is finalized, and it can be printed after the final polishing, and this time is to look at the materials and papers, think about the questions that the tutors may ask, and see how to justify themselves!" Qin Xiaotian took a sip of water and wiped his mouth. The weather is getting hotter and the water demand is getting bigger.

"Well, I'm almost waiting for the defense to be over and I'm looking for a job wholeheartedly." Na Chunming actually wanted to be in the same city as Qin Xiaotian, but he knew that her heart was not with him, so he still had to pursue his dream.

The sooner I graduated, the more I felt that time had flown by. Hu Xiaojuan returned to school a week before the thesis defense, she asked the TV station for half a month off, ready to defend well and get together with everyone, she said that it is estimated that when she gets her graduation certificate, she just comes back to take a photo, and has no time to get together again, because they have a new program to be on in the summer, and she was sent to be an assistant to the executive director. Qin Xiaotian's dormitory hasn't been so lively for a long time, because there has been an empty bed, Hu Xiaojuan lives in the dormitory, and mixes with Tian Li and Qin Xiaotian every day. The three of them ate together, went to the library together, printed materials together, discussed papers together, and cherished this last rare time together.

Early in the morning on the day of the dissertation defense, Qin Xiaotian deliberately wore a newly bought pale pink skirt, wanting to ask for a favor, but he still couldn't suppress the tension in his heart, and he didn't eat a few bites early. In addition to the graduates of this year, there are also junior brothers and sisters of the first and second years of research to observe and learn, and the small conference room on the second floor of the Science Museum is full of people. Qin Xiaotian's defense was the third in the afternoon, although she answered a question from a tutor unsatisfactorily, in the end Qin Xiaotian still passed the defense with 4 votes and 1 vote against. It was 7 o'clock in the evening when the defense was over, and after learning the results of the defense on the spot, Qin Xiaotian told Yuan Dutian as soon as possible that a big stone in her heart had finally fallen, and now she could concentrate on finding a job.

"Let's go and find a place to eat to comfort my wounded heart." Hu Xiaojuan took Tian Li and Qin Xiaotian and walked outside the school.

"You are already very good, you can still complete the thesis with such difficulty, you can rest assured, since the blind review of the thesis has passed, and if you change it during this time, there will be no problem in the second defense." Qin Xiaotian comforted that this time only Hu Xiaojuan's on-site defense in their class did not pass, and a second defense was needed, and she and Tian Li felt sorry for Hu Xiaojuan.

Hu Xiaojuan was very unhappy, although she had thought that she might postpone her graduation, but when she announced that she was going to enter the second defense with her classmates from other majors, the whole person was not good. "Hopefully, I'm a little scared now, and if I don't do it again, I'll have to defend it until next year. Then I have to take another week off, alas! ”

"Don't be afraid, most of the second defense is a formality, and you can generally pass it." Tian Li also comforted Hu Xiaojuan.

"Who said that, we had a senior brother in the last class who postponed his graduation by one year, don't think I don't know." Hu Xiaojuan was depressed.

"Don't be like this, let's go eat delicious food now, let the food fill your stomach first, and we'll accompany you to have a big meal after your second defense." Qin Xiaotian patted Hu Xiaojuan's shoulder.

"That's the only way, eat first and then fight the paper!" Although Hu Xiaojuan was depressed in her heart, she could only cheer up twelve points now.

The three of them came to a super invincible and delicious shrimp night snack restaurant that others had introduced before, ordered two crayfish, and put on gloves to eliminate all the two pots of crayfish without mercy. Hu Xiaojuan's taste buds were stimulated by the fresh and spicy crayfish, and her mood didn't seem to be as bad as before.