At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Ming, Shanantong's roommate, came back.

"Huh? The buds didn't come to clean the house for us? ”

Lin Ming sniffed as soon as he came back, looked around the room and asked.

"Oh, I'm busy in the morning, so I didn't let her clean it. I'll clean it up. ”

Shannan thought to herself, it seems that Lin Hualei is going to come in to clean the house in the morning, and she really told Lin Ming that she is not looking for an excuse to come into the house.

"Oh yes, Senior Brother Lin, there's a business school party at six o'clock in the evening, you know?"

Shanan Nanan remembered the party at night, so he asked Lin Ming. Lin Ming is also in the Shuros Business School, and about the business school, Shannan will naturally communicate with him.

"Oh? Is it? I heard last week that there might be, but not sure. It's settled now? ”

Lin Ming checked with Shannan while taking out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket to check, there were several missed calls, and three were called by Lin Hualei. Presumably, it was all about informing him of tonight's meeting.

He called back one by one, and sure enough, they were all about to inform him of tonight's meeting. When he called back to Lin Hualei, it was estimated that Lin Hualei said that he was going to come to him, and he complained that she would not come to clean up the house in the morning, and that he would clean up the house with Shanantong, so he would meet directly, and leave the matter of cleaning up the house to the next time, and Lin Hualei on the other end of the phone would give up.

"I've heard that some alumni will also come to participate, but the standard is very high?"

Shannan inquired to Lin Ming.

"Well, in fact, if today's gathering is done well, it will be the beginning of a new project. The companies founded by those alumni are actually one of the important objects of this practical project, and they naturally want to get close to the water and make good use of the intellectual resources of the business school, especially our cheap labor. “

Lin Ming gently and skillfully told the truth of the party.

"Oh, I said, how can you be so mysterious, and go to such an elegant and mysterious place in the old place."

Shannan suddenly realized. Compared with Lin Ming, who came to Michigan to attend school after graduating from high school and is now minoring in business a year before him, he does know a lot about the situation here. The "old place" they refer to is a high-end restaurant called "Old Place" near the school, which was also opened by several alumni of the Michigan Ross School of Business, not only for their own nostalgia for their alma mater, but also to provide a good place for alumni to go, and become a landmark contact place between new and old alumni of the university.

At 5:50 p.m., Sha Nantong and Lin Ming appeared in the hall on the second floor of the "old place".

The old place looks like an ordinary café from the outside, but when you walk in, you will find that it is still very different from ordinary cafes.

There is a bar counter in the lobby on the first floor, where all kinds of wines, coffees, juices, and even Chinese teas are displayed, and almost all tastes of people from the East and the West can be satisfied here. Eating and drinking includes pastries and fruits, and behind the bar closet is a kitchenette, and the dishes are mainly Western.

In the middle of the hall is a round table made of logs, sofas, and log chairs, with different varieties of plants on the wall, and on the wall on the side of the entrance is a built-in bookshelf full of books, including classic political and economic works, as well as bestsellers in social sciences that are only three years old, and a row dedicated to art books, and another row of books written by professors and students at the University of Michigan or popular books. On the walls are some paintings of our teachers and students. At first glance, it is elegant and distinctive, and compared with ordinary cafes, it has a strong research atmosphere.

Most of the time, in addition to field trips, teachers and students often want to summarize or discuss interdisciplinary practical business projects in the business school, and they are all found in the lobby on the first floor.

The second floor is similar to a clubhouse, where relatively important and formal events are generally held, and to go up to the second floor, you also need to hold a membership card or an admission ticket issued to participants on the spot. For example, this time, when Sha Nan and Lin Ming entered the gate, someone gave them tickets to the second floor.

As for the membership card, it is not that you can do it if you have money, but first of all, you must have an old member as a referee, and then review the membership status after receiving the application, and consider the graduate school, major and credit, professional identity and achievements of the member applicant, and decide whether to give the membership card in this application after a month or even several months. Therefore, once you become a member on the second floor, it is equivalent to having a strong business card to enter the business world.

The two of them went up to the second floor and found a random place to stand. Although the second floor seems to be very high, it is actually an empty space, usually there are a few movable log round tables and chairs, but the paintings hanging on the wall are not bad, they are some contemporary masters. There is no bar, and the open space is convenient enough to be spacious enough to be arranged according to the needs of each event.

The layout of the event venue is also very simple, that is, a large rectangular table is placed in the center of the room, covered with a snow-white tablecloth, on which are placed some food such as self-made wine, fruits, snacks and so on.

There was a harp next to the piano in one corner of the room, and it was estimated that someone would play the harp in a while.

There were five minutes and six o'clock, and almost all the people in the party were there. Lin Hualei looked carefully dressed, she wore light makeup, a black dark gold silk dress covered with a black knee-length coat, her hair was coiled with a Korean pattern, a pair of gold tassel earrings, and a small gold silk snake chain pendant with diamonds around her neck, which was very temperamental.

She said hello to Lin Ming and stood beside Shannan.

Shananang is still his previous dark blue cashmere coat, with a black turtleneck sweater, a pair of black casual pants, and a pair of black leather shoes. The angular fair face is matched with his gold-rimmed glasses, elegant and elegant.

Lin Ming was wearing a black fleece jacket with a dark brown turtleneck, a pair of dark blue slacks, and a pair of muddy yellow high-top casual leather shoes. His personality is bigger and more aggressive than Shanan, but he has the same temperament as Shanan, and his dressing style is similar.

Among the students who have not yet graduated, those alumni are a little mature, but they are all dressed casually and very casually.

The meeting did not begin with an official opening statement. Some of them talked to each other, and some went to the square table to get drinks. The atmosphere is relaxed. Shannan has attended several such gatherings, but to put it bluntly, it is to get to know more people and maintain a good relationship with his classmates in the business school, so that he will not get bad reviews in the group rating of team projects. But in the party, he came to set up a project and started to do the project, this was the first time, he was also a little curious, he didn't know those alumni at all, and asked Lin Ming, Lin Ming also said that he hadn't seen it. Although Lin Hualei herself majored in business, she was not familiar with them.

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