As soon as she left the copy shop, Chen Ying saw Qin Hong standing under the birch tree on the opposite side of the path with a small basket for swimming.

"Thank you so much for today." Chen Ying walked towards him.

"Why don't you give me something to eat?"

"Tell me, what do you want to eat?"

"I know there's a really nice store – just outside the South Gate, how about it?" Qin Hong tentatively.

"Okay."

"You wait for me to clean up, and I'll be right away." After saying that, he hurried to the dormitory.

It is a small restaurant called "Double Horse", with only sixteen chairs, black and white posters about horses on the walls around it, and the floor is paved with blue bricks. The rush hour has passed, and they are the only customers here.

"Let me see what to eat—" Qin Hong opened the menu with the brown cover in front of him, "Let's ask for a fish-flavored eggplant rice bowl - another - um - tiger dish." ”

"I want a Yangzhou fried rice." Chen Ying closed the menu and asked curiously, "What is a tiger dish?" ”

"It's a fresh coleslaw – it's refreshing." Qin Hong showed an intoxicated expression, "It's very spicy." ”

"I'm not a big fan of stimulating food." Chen Ying whispered.

"You're missing out on a lot of food. I also love Chongqing hot pot, which has a very mellow and authentic spicy taste. ”

"Hmmm......"

"In the future, you should go out and hang out more often, and don't always eat in the school cafeteria. By the way, why haven't you been out for a run lately? ”

"Because there are so many things to do, it's very busy......"

"What's the matter?"

"A lot of things — like today, selling things — in two days, I'm going to be a tutor. I'll also make an appointment tomorrow for two paid tests in the Department of Psychology, and I'll have to go there then. ”

"There are also paid tests in the Department of Psychology? How much do you give? ”

"Twenty bucks at a time."

"How long is each test?"

"About half an hour."

"The average minute is less than a dollar......"

"It may be a little less, but as long as it accumulates, it's quite a lot." Chen Ying said optimistically.

"It's too hard." Qin Hong's eyes were full of sympathy, "Don't your parents give you living expenses?" ”

"Yes, but I don't make money because of need, it's more of a hobby."

"Hobbies?"

"It's not easy to really make money, you need to learn to adapt to society, learn to tolerate different people, learn to find the right opportunities and move forward. Making money can also allow me to gain experience in many cases, and teach me to do things well in a down-to-earth manner in order to be recognized by others. I know it's vulgar to talk about money – especially on a college campus – but I hope that by working hard today, I can one day transcend that vulgarity – and live a life that is not bound by money – of course," Chen Ying smiled calmly, "I hope that day is not too far away." ”

"It's a really special idea – I've been in school for more than three years, and it's the first time I've met someone like you."

"Really?"

"So you always don't have time to ......," Qin Hong said thoughtfully.

"Finished eating?" Chen Ying took out her wallet and prepared to pay the bill. The plates in front of them were empty.

"Well, it's good to eat." Qin Hong waited for her to finish swiping the card and asked, "What's the arrangement for the afternoon?" ”

"Afternoon? I'm going to write a paper in the afternoon, and I'm going to take a psychology test in the evening, so I'm afraid I won't be able to go for a run today. ”

"Where's that psychometric test?"

"It's on the opposite side of the small playground next to the library, in the computer room of the Faculty of Psychology."

When she returned to the dormitory, the other two girls were taking a nap, and Amy's long curly hair fell from the mosquito net and hung down beside Chen Ying's bed. The dormitory was quiet, and there were occasional footsteps in the hallway. Chen Ying flushed her face with cold water, and when she turned around, she saw that the three-flowered cat that often slipped into the dormitory was squatting at the door of the water room, with a black peach heart pattern on its head.

"Thirsty?" Chen Ying asked softly. She wiped her hands clean and crouched down, carefully scratching its chin. The cat obediently leaned over, cocked its tail, and rubbed it at her feet very affectionately.

She picked up the cat and placed it on the edge of the pool. The cat stood still and barked at her.

"Shhhh The cat twisted its neck and drank greedily, its pink prickly tongue stretching and contracting.

After a while, the cat hiccuped and barked back at her.

"Let's go down." She turned off the faucet, picked up the cat and gently placed it on the ground. The cat followed her all the way to the door of the dormitory.

"You can't come in." Chen Ying thinks it's better not to encourage it too much, "Go play, I have to do my homework too." ”

As if he understood, the three-flowered cat slowly walked towards the door of the building with his tail upright. It looked back before going out, as if wondering if Chen Ying would change his mind, and after seeing that there was no hope, it jumped away.

Opening the dormitory door, Chen Ying returned to her desk lightly. She slowly scanned the rows of books on the shelves, hoping to find a clue from the academic classics that would help her with her thesis on intermediate macroeconomics. Her fingers ran over Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Pombavik's Capital and Interest, Veblen's Theory of the Idle Class, paused before Pigou's Welfare Economics, and finally hesitated between Hayek's The Road to Serfdom and Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.

"Sure enough, I've been reading too many sociological books lately." Chen Ying thought to herself, sighed softly, and pulled out the second volume of "The Wealth of Nations", but her eyes were still fixed on Hayek's book.

"Let's just take it out and take a look - maybe we'll find common ground." She said to herself as she took both books down contentedly. She hunched over her desk and flipped through it carefully, taking notes on her computer as she watched.

Chen Ying sat at the table like this all afternoon, the midday sun slowly crawling westward, leaving a purple-red sunset in the sky before disappearing. It wasn't until Amy, who was sitting behind her, suddenly shouted to go shopping for food that Chen Ying realized that it was already evening.

"Gotta buy something to eat quickly, or I'll be late for the test in a while." Chen Ying rummaged through the cabinet while thinking, took out the small white bread she bought a few days ago, opened two casually and put them in her mouth, and looked at the stock market while chewing, the securities market was already closed at this time.

After eating bread, Chen Ying got up and moved her cervical spine, picked up a wooden comb and combed her long hair separately on both sides, hanging it on her shoulders. Most of the notes in the computer have been organized, and the basic idea and structure of the paper have been formed. She went to the toilet to wash her face, picked up half of the book she had read before going to bed last night, and hurriedly walked to the Department of Psychology. The afternoon class has ended, and the campus is full of students rushing to the cafeteria with schoolbags on their backs, as well as couples, holding hands.

She lowered her head and followed her usual path, walking towards the small playground little by little. The Department of Psychology uses the original academic building of the university, which is built in an antique architectural style, and has only three floors with a small attic. The appearance of the building has not changed much, but the original wooden partition windows have been changed to red broken bridge aluminum windows, except for a few large classrooms, almost all of them are the administrative offices of the college, the so-called computer room, which is transformed from a smallest office, and there are only four desktop computers in it.

Chen Ying stood at the door and made an appointment call, waiting for someone to come and lift the curfew. After a while, she heard the sound of rapid footsteps coming from the gray-green security door.

"Yo, the millionaire of the future is here again!" A girl opened the door and looked at her with a smile. This girl is the same level as Chen Ying, taller than Chen Ying, and also has thick long black hair, she is wearing a white coat, a round face, and a pair of round glasses with a very deep degree. She and Chen Ying were in the same class when they were in high school, and they were admitted to this university together after graduation.

"Yes, Liang Jing." Chen Ying smiled lightly, "How are you doing?" ”

"It's not just an experiment—" she said as she took Chen Ying upstairs, "After dissecting the rabbit, drawing a cranial nerve map, looking at the hormone secretion level spectrum—and looking for you 'guinea pigs'." What about you? Still researching how to make money? ”

"Pretty much." Chen Ying was confused.

"I said you shouldn't always think about making money - you should still find a boyfriend, and many people say that if you don't get a boyfriend in college, it's all in vain."

"What about you?"

"Me? Writing lab reports all day long, I think my college must have been in vain. And recently, the college has been short of funds, and volunteers can't be hired - many people think that the pay is too low, and sometimes I want to learn from you and earn some research funds. ”

"How many people did you 'trick' into coming today?" Chen Ying asked deliberately.

"Count you only five. However, in the afternoon, another person signed up - he just came, so I let him go in first. ”

"Hmm."

They reached the end of the second floor, pushed open the bronze door, and saw a boy sitting in a chair near the window.

"Hello, Chen Ying." Qin Hong said with a smile, revealing a row of neat teeth.