Although the current situation of Huaxia has given Aji many impacts, Aji still yearns for and likes many things about Huaxia.

Therefore, Aji also gave himself a ridiculous-sounding Chinese name, which is called Zodiac Jiri.

The auspicious day of the zodiac has both a good omen for everything and a yearning for a better future.

For Aji, every day in China is an auspicious day for his zodiac.

This is not only because the Chinese people are warm and hospitable, but also because in addition to chess, he has found two cultures that are not available in their country.

These two cultures that do not exist are sword culture and poetry culture.

He likes to watch martial arts movies very much, and he also likes to watch those dashing heroes who dance with swords on the screen. He would love to be such a dashing person.

Drinking a pot of turbid wine, carrying a long sword, holding his head high, smiling at the injustice of the world, and drawing his sword to help.

Obviously, judging from Aji's yearning, he is indeed a very simple person, otherwise how could he fall in love with poetry culture after chess culture and sword culture?

He likes poetry, ancient poetry, and modern poetry.

is also because of the square Chinese characters in Huaxia, and he likes Chinese characters.

He would often wave his fingers after playing chess, like dancing a sword, and chant an ancient or modern poem.

Because of this, he is also a big and small celebrity in school.

Whether it is a poetry club competition or a recitation competition, he is an active member of the school.

Of course, in the chess competition, he is the main force of the school.

He has just been a sophomore, and he has long led the school's chess club to sweep the city's major colleges and universities.

He has even won several first-class chess players, and is known as the first chess master of Huaxia University.

Aggie plays chess quickly and ruthlessly, without any mercy.

Just like the martial arts movies he once watched, he pays attention to fast, accurate, and steady.

But after the chess game was over, his modesty, his smile, made all the opponents opposite him angry with him at all.

He's such a person.

Simple, cute, and very persistent in some things.

Oh yes, Aggie is still a patriot.

Although Huaxia is much stronger than his country.

Although the Chinese are much kinder and more lovely than their compatriots.

But, as a "person".

He loves his country very much, and the more he sees the strength of other countries, the more impulsive he will become, and he will be so impulsive that he wants to build his country better.

This kind of patriotism is common.

It's ordinary.

But nowadays, it is valuable and commendable.

Especially after experiencing poverty and darkness, you can still have hope in your eyes, and you can have the courage to reach out and grab your blood-boiling heart.

It's worth learning from.

But who would want to learn from this stupid Aji?

……

The winter break of the university is obviously much later than that of the junior high school.

This year, Aji does not plan to go home during this Spring Festival, but plans to take advantage of this Spring Festival to find a part-time job that earns more money.

In the pure heart of Aji, although he was sent by the state to study.

However, he wanted to save money for the country.

After all, his country is not rich, and he has a younger sister who is also going to high school, so it is time to use the money.

Naturally, he had to work harder.

But he seems to underestimate this society.

At first glance, his face does not look like that of a Chinese, and he has repeatedly encountered a wall when looking for a part-time job.

Some people dislike that he is not from China, and some of them have a pitiful salary, of course, they are more suspicious that he was born in a poor country and will break the rules in his part-time days.

It seems that at the beginning of this winter vacation, he finally understood a modern poem.

The author of that modern poem is called Lao Zhang.

That's what the modern poem says.

"School is a wall, good people are inside the wall, and real people are outside the wall."

He seems to have read the second half of the poem.

That is, "those who are inside the walls envy those who are outside the walls, and those who are outside the walls often remember what is inside the walls." But those inside the walls will eventually get out of the walls, and those outside the walls will not be able to return to the walls. ”

Although this modern poem is too popular, many people complain that it is a primary school student's writing.

But Aggie doesn't think so.

The beauty of poetry lies in the artistic conception and feelings.

For someone like Aggie who needs to learn, he attaches more importance to the truth of poetry.

He likes to listen to reasoning and wants to learn it.

In this way, when he returns to China, he will be able to teach his sister more truths at home.

can also make yourself a truth.

……

Aggie searched for almost a week and finally found a part-time job.

Although the price offered for this job is only two-thirds of the usual price.

But he cherishes this job opportunity very much, because this job is not too tiring.

He also had more time to read poetry, study, and play chess.

This job is the job of a cashier at a convenience store.

I heard that this convenience store was originally not short of people, because as long as you work eight hours a day, you can earn about 4,000 yuan a month.

However, the most feared thing about work is numbness.

In this convenience store where the smell of rice and tea is always wafting.

People's hearts and eyes will become numb because of the endless stream of customers.

Aggie's partner is a numb person.

After graduating from college, she worked at the convenience store.

Every day, the convenience store is mechanically taken care of, and the food handed by customers is also mechanically heated.

The vitality that belonged to her age was long dead.

She's like the mechanical sound of "Welcome" that always rings in this store, making people feel like her life has been frozen at a glance.

She said very little, and when she saw Aji, she didn't ask questions like Aji's classmates, except that Aji was a foreigner.

She's mechanical, but she's also responsible.

She taught Aggie how to register money, how to sell goods, how to process semi-finished barbecue, and how to cook oden.

She also teaches Aggie to smile, even though her smile has become stiff.

But she still takes Aggie with her and smiles at all kinds of customers.

Perhaps, only a smile can mean that she is not a numb woman.

Aggie is grateful to her, and even though he and she have only known her for three days, Aggie treats her for drinks every day.

The sweet and sour juice costs Aggie almost an hour's salary.

But Aggie didn't care.

Because, he felt that what he learned from her could not be bought with money.

He and she will also work night shifts together.

Just because the price of the night shift will be better.

There is a nightclub opposite the convenience store that young people love very much, and every day at three or four o'clock, this nightclub is the brightest time.

The neon signs hanging in front of the nightclub seem to light up the night, and people will never forget it when they look at it.

She must hate this nightclub because there are still customers at three or four o'clock in the evening.

She also often told Aggie not to go there, because it was a man's gold cave, and as long as he went in and fell in love, it would be easy to lose his fighting spirit.

She kept saying that, but she probably wanted to go.

Because, she is only twenty-four, and she is a fun-loving age.

But what is holding her back from yearning?