Autumn 2010

Providence, Rhode Island, USA

"Excuseme, excuseme," I shouted as I ran wildly around the campus, five minutes late for the first class on the first day of the new semester. I roared in my heart, "Yu Xiaoyu, why don't you go back to Zhoukoudian with so much hair." "If she hadn't asked me to go downtown early in the morning to deliver her razors, I wouldn't have been stuck in the waterman road that runs through the school, and that road is exactly what the name suggests.

What's even more unfortunate is that when I finally found a place to park on the side of the crowded street, I was in a hurry, my hand slipped, my eyes were dazzled, and I scraped the butt of a red car in front of me. I rushed to class, didn't have time to think about it, left a note and clipped it to the windshield wiper of the car, and hurried to the classroom. While running, I finally had my mind free to ponder, hey, what brand was that car just now? That logo is golden, black, and red? There seems to be a horse in the middle? That's not, Bao, Bao...... I don't dare to think about it anymore.

When he arrived at the classroom with a snort, the teacher had not yet arrived, and only a tall, lanky black-haired boy was wiping the blackboard. In the distance, Maggie was waving excitedly at me, she was the American girl I had just met last semester. I moved over, took a long breath, and took a sip of the instant coffee I had brewed at home, when I saw the Asian boy in front of me wiping the blackboard turn his head, smile slightly, and stuck his throat, "OK, let'sgetstarted!"

Seeing his pretended deep face, I panicked as if I had just finished the toilet and found that there was no tissue in the sanitary napkin, and I choked on a sip of coffee in my throat, and I couldn't help but cough wildly. I coughed for about three or four seconds, and I didn't feel like I was about to stop, and I saw that I was about to die. The boy stopped, with a slight displeasure in his calm face, as if he was a little angry that I had disturbed him, and asked me in a light tone, "AreyouOK?" I tried to suppress the breath that was about to come out of my throat and nodded slightly. He didn't ask more, soothed his expressionless face, blinked his eyes, smiled at his classmates, and began to introduce himself, telling everyone that he was a doctoral student in the Department of Economics and a teaching assistant in our "Microeconomics" course, mainly responsible for grading homework and answering questions after class. Since the professor was temporarily absent today, he was temporarily in charge of a class.

I slumped on the table, lamenting that I was unlucky, just catching up with a teaching assistant who I knew and hated me. I sighed and turned on the computer, and the classroom instantly rang:

"One, two, three, four, I've heard of it, I haven't seen it, twenty-five thousand miles ......"

Before going out, I just hurriedly closed the computer and pulled out the headphones, but forgot that the music inside was not turned off. The whole classroom burst into laughter, and the face of the teaching assistant on the stage was as black as ink, and in a trance I thought he had turned his head to me with the back of his head.

I cursed in my heart, "You laugh like you ...... you understand." I sighed and smiled awkwardly at the teaching assistant, who finally began to speak calmly again. I sat absent-mindedly and looked at him, September was the best time of year, he was wearing a clean and crisp plaid shirt without the heat of summer but the weather was fine. The sunlight outside the window shone in, shining a little warm on him, the edges and corners of his face were not as clear as before, but there was a warm feeling, and his eyes were like paint, looking smart and charming.

That teaching assistant, named Xia Zifeng, is a friend of my sisters Liao Xiangxiang. We've had two meetings in total, and I'm pretty sure he didn't have a good impression of me.

The first time was when the three of us girls first arrived in the United States, he took Liao Xiangxiang, Yu Xiaoyu and I to buy things in the supermarket. At that time, when I first arrived, I spent my father's hard-earned money, and I liked to convert everything into RMB. I hesitated in front of a four-knife and six-knife shampoo. "Well, which bottle to buy?

Four knives are cheap, but six knives should be better for hair, right? At this time, a big hand reached out to me and grabbed both bottles and threw them into my basket, "It's good if you can't buy both, go home and try which one is better next time." ”

"How can it be done, how much does it cost, in case there is a bottle that doesn't work! I'll search for reviews on the Internet and compare them. I pulled out my phone and was ready to search for reviews.

Xia Zifeng glanced at me, "It's so troublesome, how much time does it take to search and evaluate everything you buy", seeing that I was still stunned, he took out the two bottles from my basket and threw them into his basket, "I'll buy it for you, right?" What's the matter......" said and turned to leave.

"How can I do that, senior, how can I make you pay for it, not to mention that it's the first time we've met."

He turned around and frowned, "You also know that this is the first time we've met?" ”

I was stunned for a moment, but I didn't understand.

"Ever heard the story of Bill Gates and Ten Dollars?" He then asked.

I shook my head.

"If Bill Gates was walking down the road and saw ten dollars on the ground, it wasn't worth bending down to pick it up. You know why? ”

"Nonsense, if you were Bill Gates, would you care about that ten dollars?"

Because he can create far more than ten dollars in the time he bends down to pick up money, and if he picks it up, he will waste time making more money, and he will lose a lot of money. Do you know how much of my precious time you've wasted by sourcing here today? Do you know how much I can do in the meantime? I have a paper that is due tomorrow and I haven't finished it yet......" he said there seriously, but I thought he had told a joke, laughed for three seconds, and saw him turn his head away with a serious face, and I felt that something was wrong, "Oh, you are serious......"

"Cut, I don't believe that you have lived for more than 20 years and have not achieved anything, but you can create something earth-shattering in these few minutes", I whispered in the back.

"Okay Qiqi," Liao Xiangxiang stabbed me, "Brother Zifeng has been rushing to a deadline recently, and the time is tight, let's hurry up and let him go back to code words, the big doctor is not as idle as us." ”

"But why does the big doctor leave his homework for the last day like us", I was not convinced, "and he was very patient and very gentle just now to help you choose a bedside lamp for half a day!" ”

"What's the matter," Xiangxiang's face turned red. Yu Xiaoyu interjected beside him, "Don't you understand, men only look at their faces, and they have patience with beautiful women." ”

"Me, I think I'm pretty good-looking." I was even more unconvinced.

"Good-looking is also divided into three, six, nine and so on. Don't talk about other people, just talk about yourself, there are not one or two seniors who want to take you to buy vegetables, why don't you stalk Xia Zifeng to buy vegetables? Don't you see that he looks better than others? ”

I'm still wondering if Yu Xiaoyu's words make sense, she has already grabbed two bottles of shampoo from the shelves and shouted in front of her, "Senior, I'm not sure which one I want, you can also help me pay all by the way, right?!" ”

As for my second meeting with Xia Zifeng...... Let's not mention it...... Hehe.

When I first chose the course, I didn't say who the teaching assistant was on the Internet, which made me hate it for eternity. Don't think about getting an A in this class.

After class, I patiently waited in the classroom for everyone to be gone, and followed him out of the classroom, this time I had no choice but to do my best to please him.

"Hey, senior, senior?"

He lowered his head and tilted his head to look at me.

"What a coincidence, you're actually my teaching assistant, hehehe."

I saw him frown, his big eyes sweeping me, "I'm sorry, we know each other?" ”

Burst...... I almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, "Senior, you are really a noble person, how forgetful!" ”

"Oh, by the way, you're the girl who plays music in class, you actually like Cui Jian, I thought a little girl of your age didn't know who he was."

"I love listening to his songs to refresh me, hehehe." I smiled flatteringly.

"Is there anything wrong with you?" He didn't look at me, stared at his phone, and asked lightly.

"Oh no, we only met a few months ago, I'm Liao Xiangxiang's sisters, you forgot, you still took her to buy the car I drive now!"

This string of explanations did not bring back memories in his brain in the slightest, and this guy must have seduced the head of the department with such a memory. He narrowed his eyes, "Liao Xiangxiang? Does she have a friend like you? Hey, I really don't remember, speaking of which, she and I haven't seen each other for a while. ”

I was just about to continue to explain, but he patted me on the shoulder with an anxious face, "This classmate, I still have to rush to the group meeting, I won't tell you, if you have any questions about schoolwork, just send an email or call my office!" After speaking, he turned his head and walked like flying.

"Hey, you took me to the hospital last time, did you forget?" I was annoyed and angry, although my sister said that she was not as "demure as Xiangxiang as delicate flowers shining on the water, and acting like a weak willow supporting the wind", but at least she was still with good facial features and clear eyebrows. "Hey, forget it, it's normal if you don't remember me, some people just don't stand out in the crowd."

A constipated expression crossed his face, "I want to give you a staircase and you don't slip out of the way, how can I not remember you?" You just sit on the ground on that snowy day and can't get up, you have to send you to the hospital, and when you get to the hospital, you have to ask me to buy sanitary napkins for you, I bought you and you say that the model I bought is not right, that unlucky child, right? ”

…… So I don't really want to mention our second meeting......