Chapter 2 Exchanges of Courtesy
Just after 6 a.m. the next morning, Si Li, who had slept for less than two or three hours, got up.
The world at this point seems to have opened its eyes. The light on the horizon seemed to come out of the first open eyes.
However, the campus should still be asleep. Only the aunt sweeping the floor is waving a bamboo broom and making a rustling sound, accompanied by the song of the birds that eat insects in the morning. Everything is very quiet, like a tree, the wind is flat and the branches and leaves are quiet; Like a flower, waiting to bloom with dew.
This is the first day he has lived alone in a different place, and when he wakes up, he has no parents' care, his sister's noise, and he is not used to it. I rubbed my eyes, which were red from poor sleep, and my whole body was loose but I didn't feel sleepy. The rest of the dorm was still snoring and sleeping.
Lying on the desk, he didn't rush out of bed. Instead, he stretched out his feet through the fence and played with his mobile phone while swaying leisurely.
In the circle of friends, some of the high school students are basking in the beautiful scenery of the campus, and some are exposing the black food in the cafeteria, and their experiences are joyful and sad, but they are all accompanied by expectations for future life; On Weibo, watching the operations of various celebrities in the melon field, the strange news made him want to laugh; Only the school's forum platform is dead and silent. The latest news has passed 8 hours ago, and it is also a reminder of the senior's confidant anti-deception.
After wandering around the world of the Internet, I felt bored and had to leave the bed.
The sink is just under the balcony, and with your hand as a spoon, you can raise the water in the early autumn morning, which is a kind of sobriety that comes with the coolness. Everywhere the eye looks, things become clearer and the colors are clearer. On the school road, which can be seen from the windowsill, there are already a few students in a hurry. Or go to the library to grab a seat to review, or go to the laboratory to start a day of scientific research activities.
This is probably the epitome of university life, and so will my future self.
I went downstairs and walked out towards the main door.
"You're Zhao Sili from 1401, right? So early? Is there something wrong?" was as he stepped out of the door with his right foot, and a greeting came from behind him.
When I looked back, it turned out to be the aunt of the dormitory manager. She had only met him on the one hand yesterday afternoon, but she could call people by name.
"Ah...... Auntie, it's nothing, I can't sleep and just want to go out for a walk, and eat early by the way. Slim replied quickly.
Indeed, it is not uncommon for freshmen who do not have a course schedule or academic pressure to go out at this point. The dormitory manager cares for every student in a responsible manner.
The aunt with the tooth brushing tool seemed to be convinced of this reason, and nodded: "If you want to go out, then you need to wear more." How can children be so afraid of the cold? Moreover, the canteen only collects cash after 8 o'clock, and you freshmen don't have any meal cards, right? Give, use mine first. Also, you can come to me if you have any difficulties and problems in the future. After speaking, the aunt just wiped her wet hand casually to the corner of her clothes, and then grabbed the meal card from her pocket that had been worn out to the point where the pattern and text could not be seen and threw it over.
This concern poured into Si Li's heart like a warm current. Such words and actions are so familiar and gentle, as if a loving mother is around. In high school, he rode his bike to school. When I go out at 6 o'clock in the morning, if I am bumped into by my mother, I will hand over some pocket money or a bottle of milk.
After leaving the door, he felt very hungry, so he planned to go to the No. 3 cafeteria for breakfast first.
Canteen No. 3 also has an elegant name: Osmanthus Food Garden. Because there is a circle of osmanthus trees planted around it. Osmanthus flowers bloom in September and October, giving off a burst of fragrance. At that time, one will always see many birds pecking under the trees. Such a beautiful scenery intertwined with flowers and birds will also attract girls who love beauty to take pictures here, which is a disguised test of her boyfriend's photography skills. Once the skills are not as good as the girlfriend, it often leads to a breakup drama. Therefore, this cafeteria is also nicknamed the love testing station by the students.
The cafeteria is not far from the dormitory, only 50 steps away.
The canteen is not small, with three floors, and each floor covers an area of as much as half an acre.
The first floor is a self-service area, 33 yuan to fill up. I heard that the food is very good, chicken, duck, goose, sheep and beef and other meats are all available, and all kinds of seafood and river fresh food are also readily available. There is also unlimited free desserts and drinks. Such a price seems very affordable. But for most students, it's still a big expense. Therefore, generally the people who eat in this place are not rich and expensive, or they come to have a wave of luxury when they just get their living expenses at the beginning of the month, and they may also have a happy celebration and generosity.
The second floor is a life experience area and a slum that students deride themselves. For a cheap meal, you can buy a small chicken leg for 3 yuan, 5 and a half pieces of small fried chicken, and a Turkish barbecue rice for 8 yuan. In terms of breakfast, 1 yuan of soybean milk, 8 cents of small buns and 4 pieces of a bowl of dumplings can be said to make Sili feel satisfied.
As for the third floor, it is said to be a small restaurant with a good taste and low price, and it is often full. But today I have no intention of going up.
After breakfast, Si Li had to go on a shopping spree for her daily necessities and clothes.
Because he has always prided himself on being unruly, he does not like to come to school with large bags and small bags, so he only came to this school with a bank and a backpack with a charger, a set of clothes, and report materials. Even the quilt that I slept on last night was borrowed. And on the issue of not sleeping all night, he has a more fundamental reason: there is someone else's smell on the quilt, and he is clean. If you don't buy your own business, it is estimated that tonight is not just a matter of sleeping for an hour or two, but it is not surprising that you have not slept all night.
Before the school arrived, he specifically checked the transportation, food and supermarkets around the school. Although the old campus of this school is not large, it is located in a densely populated area of the city, which has great convenience in life. There is a large supermarket right at the north entrance of the school. The supermarket is open 24 hours and is well stocked and very personal.
North! Consume!
Ten minutes on foot, he arrived at his destination. Along the way, he got his first glimpse of the city, which was already busy at 7 a.m. Passing by him, there are primary and secondary school students who are rushing with backpacks, professional white-collar workers who are dressed properly, and aunts who walk their dogs slowly. The expressions of the crowd varied, but they were mainly anxious and nervous. The early morning light fell on everyone's shoulders and faces, with a slight hint of slow persuasion, perhaps because the temperature was not enough, and no one noticed this kindness.
In the huge supermarket, the crowd has long been clearly distributed. In front of the vegetable stall, there are people who pick carefully. Pick up the residual leaves, break off the rotten branches, and put them into the bag with a square and wide heart; At the fish and meat stall, everyone is a detective, looking for quarantine seals, playing meat to distinguish freshness, it is really eight immortals crossing the sea to show their magical powers; There are only other areas such as home textiles and sundries, which are sparsely populated......
And he became an alternative crowd, not following the crowd. I saw that the trolley in front of me was gradually loaded with various items, including pillows, quilts, toothbrushes, toothpaste, towels, etc. It may be that he has no tools to dress up, and his lack of makeup has caused some people to stop and watch. Perhaps, in people's ideology, very few people shop for groceries early in the morning as if they were going to run away from home.
But he adhered to the principle that I am not embarrassed, but others are embarrassed, so he ignored the eyes of outsiders.
Half an hour later, he was done.
"Hmm...... How much do you think it is? That's just more than 3,000 pieces. "Comfortable," he said with a sense of accomplishment as he took the bank card from the cashier. A truckload of goods cost 3,000 oceans, which is very satisfying for him. The bedding alone is almost 2,000 dollars. He has always had high requirements for sleep quality, and he buys pillows and quilts to choose the best.
"Silly?"
"Huh?"
Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind. Si Li turned her head to look.
"Mu Qing?" Si Li was very surprised, wasn't this woman still cold yesterday? Why did you take the initiative to say hello to me today? And she is still wearing such a "solemn" professional dress today, and next to her is a girl who is 5 to 6 centimeters shorter than her but has her own cute attributes. What are you? ”
Mu Qing changed her previous seriousness, and said with a smile: "I'm going to go to the library library to get a library card, and then borrow a few books to take a look." In the past week or two, we don't have any classes in our major for the time being, so let's pass the time. ”
Last night, Wu Di shook out a lot of information about the girl in front of him: a scholar, a good reader, a quiet man, and so on. Judging from these words, Wu Di's information has been verified one by one. For such a scholar's arrangement, Si Li only nodded in approval. It was at this moment that he found that Mu Qing was following someone: "Who is this?" ”
"Ai Xiaomu, from our class, share a dormitory with me." When these words came out of Mu Qing's mouth, the girl next to her was still looking at her phone. It's as if the affairs of the world have nothing to do with her, and only the mobile phone can accompany her to live happily.
Xiao Mu, such a person. The slightly baby fat face has a childish and cute atmosphere. Compared with Mu Qing's sky-high heels, her slightly pink canvas shoes suddenly lowered her surface age, wearing light casual clothes, and even the Pikachu-shaped mobile phone shell diffused with a young and "childish" taste.
"My name is Zhao Sili." Slim's self-introduction was not responded. So, his innate humor seems to have turned into a passive skill as an artifact to ease embarrassment: "How does this feel like your sister?" Be well-behaved and quiet, just follow behind you and don't speak. It doesn't look like we're in the same class, does it? Looks so young, how many times do you have to skip a grade? I don't believe it, she's supposed to be a high school student. Hey? Call Brother Sheng? ”
The sudden question was mixed with Si Li's smiling expression and provocative gestures in the air, not surprising, making people think that why this man was so obscene? Mu Qing was stunned again.
"Uncle Sili~" Xiao Mu, who was looking at the phone, shouted without looking up, his voice was sweet and playful.
Then, Mu Qing was stunned again. And Si Li was also very angry.
"Fortunately, the criminal law and the principle that I don't touch women saved you." Si Li viciously gave such a girl who didn't know "things" a roll of the eyes. He didn't review whether the humor just now "hurt" others, he only knew that he was "hurt", and the "injury" was not light.
Now it's Mu Qing's turn to save the scene. She looked at the cart full of stuff and asked, "What are you?" "However, temperament can also become a passive skill, and there is more familiar seriousness in this question.
"Being away from home and relaxed. Instead of doing the same thing as moving, it's better to use local materials. Si Li's words seem to be an idiom used indiscriminately, but there is a little truth. Suddenly, he added: "Xiao Mu, you can send some cuteness to Mu Qing." ”
"What do you mean?" Mu Qing tilted her pretty face slightly and threw out an angry white eye. There is no seriousness in the white eyes, and there is more cuteness.
"Sister Qing, we'll go here for dinner later, this restaurant has a high evaluation on the Internet." Xiao Mu, who was looking at his mobile phone, seemed to have discovered a recently highly rated restaurant, and cut off the topic between the two.
"Didn't you just have breakfast? How did you come up with lunch? For Xiao Mu's gluttonous behavior, Mu Qing was a little helpless and embarrassed. But this may be the characteristics of Xiao Mu, a girl, at least Si Li can see this girl's enthusiasm for food from this behavior. At this moment, depression crawled on his face along with his cognition of Xiao Mu. Because none of the women he has come into contact with in the past two days have been able to seriously pick up his topic. Did you do something wrong? Or is it a joke that goes too far?
"I'll ask you later, and you'll come over when you're done. I'll be waiting for you at the store at 12 o'clock," with an apology, Sili hurriedly invited. Without waiting for the two beauties to agree, he pushed the cart to the delivery point. And Mu Qing and Xiao Mu also looked at each other, quietly doubting the boy's motives, and acquiescing to this kindness.
This supermarket is very good at business. Considering the proximity to the community and school, it is inconvenient for customers to bring back more goods, so we have specially launched a home delivery service. He only needs to pay a small hardship fee, and he can pick up the goods downstairs in the dormitory at any time before 11 p.m. He went to buy a meal card, a hot water card, and other "permits" needed for school life. Unsurprisingly, he lined up with the other freshmen and became the heirs of the dragon. It is not surprising that he could not do each one without spending half an hour, a commonplace phenomenon in the university, and he gladly accepted and endured it.
It was half past eleven in the morning, and he had finished his last card. Going to the appointment on schedule is an important aspect of a man's gentlemanly demeanor, so tidy up your clothes, open your navigation, and go!
The two girls also lived up to Si Li's expectations and arrived on time.
Since the concept of Internet celebrity was proposed, various products with Internet celebrity labels on the Chinese mainland have been overwhelming. After entering the restaurant, Si Li pondered to give this Internet celebrity store a score. The eyes of the two female classmates with different characteristics who had been looking at them turned to the other. This decoration is delicate and contradictory, and the dining room with a slight Japanese-style design intention is placed with ordinary square plastic chairs. Why not a whole wooden antique chair? This atmosphere, romantic in the flaws taste. With the dim lighting and Japanese-style décor, the restaurant has a romantic atmosphere. But the noisy diners made it less quiet than it should be. Therefore, he silently gave the store a passing score in his heart.
"Hello! What should I eat? Our store focuses on sashimi...... "Internet celebrity stores may have a reason for their popularity, some rely on the water army, some rely on deliciousness, and this store probably relies on the beautiful appearance and sweet voice of the waiter." Before the three of them could sit down, the waiter came with the menu under his arm and tea.
“Ladyfirst!” Si Li's sentence is very admirable. The use of English as a vehicle for etiquette highlights his high atmosphere; The palm of the right hand is facing upwards and the fingers are brought together as a sign of respect. This elegant demeanor seems to tell the girl that he has been mixed with all kinds of social parties for a long time, and the gentleman's etiquette is familiar and overflowing. However, Mu Qing and Xiao Mu once again acted as if they hadn't heard it, and naturally took the waiter's menu and began to order.
"It's nice to have someone pay! Salmon sashimi looks good, let's have one. I heard that their grilled eel is also good......" Xiao Mu was in charge of commenting, Mu Qing was in charge of ticking, and the perfect cooperation between the two interpreted the ruthlessness of women when they blackmailed men. The words in the communication room are so heart-wrenching! Wrong! It's a wallet. Because of Si Li's casual glance, I just saw that a sashimi costs 188 yuan. This meal has to cost 1,000 yuan. The remorse in my heart suddenly won the hospitality, but if it comes, it will be peaceful.
"What are you eating?" After hooking nearly 6 dishes, Mu Qing suddenly raised her head and asked Si Li. Slim was a little unexpected.
"Uh...... Udon noodles will do. Si Liyi replied with a flattered look.
"What? Didn't go out to dinner with the girls? So nervous? Mu Qing was a little funny when she saw this scene, and a little smile appeared on her face.
"My mother, is my sister counted? The day before yesterday before I went to school, we ate together. My sister cried so pitifully...... "Si Li, who had just shaken her head, smiled in return."
After just two days, Mu Qing has become accustomed to the way Si Li answers questions. The man in front of him always speaks a little surprisingly, but it can make people think. However, at this moment, she had no intention of listening to Si Li continue to tell the story of her separation from her mother and sister, as if she was reflecting on herself, how long had she not been with her mother at home?
"Hey? You okay? Si Li seemed to find out that something was wrong with Mu Qing and cut off the story of "driving people away". It is estimated that he thinks that if the story continues, Mu Qing and Xiao Mu Bacheng will rush home to accompany their parents to do their filial piety.
"Oh...... Oh...... Not...... It's okay! Mu Qingna seemed to be a little flustered, but she was afraid that others would see through it, which should make Si Li a little obsessed.
"Xiao Mu, it seems that there are not many students in our class who have come from thousands of miles like me......" Si Li, who always loves heroes and saves beauty, hurriedly found a topic to change to avoid embarrassment.
After that, the three of them said a word to me, and unconsciously spent three hours. Towards the end, Si Li got up to pay for the broken reason of going to the toilet. The two beauties know his routine, so let him go.
After all, men want to save face. What's more, the God of Wealth can't stop him from doing anything.
Out of the door of the restaurant, the girl didn't want to trouble this hard-working boy anymore, and she didn't want to send him off. Therefore, the three of them "parted ways".
Si Li walked back a little unsatisfied. Suddenly, the avatars of the two beauties just added to WeChat lit up with a red mark, indicating that there were red envelopes that had not been received. Without any look of surprise, it seemed that this was within his expectation, after all, he taught his sister not to eat strange uncle's things for nothing when he was a child.
"Liu Muqing, 180, Ai Xiaomu, 180......" In the school lane, I happened to see the school's love fundraising activities, and Si Li did a good deed in their name according to the amount in the red envelope.
It's a pity that when Mu Qing passed by in the afternoon, she saw her name and the amount of donations, but Si Li couldn't see it. But maybe he could imagine it, maybe it was surprise, maybe it was the charming smile on the corner of his mouth.
At ten o'clock in the evening, a small yellow car dragged the light that was not soft, and pulled Si Li's goods downstairs in the dormitory. He had an extra takeaway in his goods, a cup of milk tea, a bowl of hot dry noodles, and a small note with a smiling face......
Si Li was very happy to know who the good Samaritan was. When he walked through the dormitory room, he borrowed takeaway to offer his aunt as a reward for breakfast.
Such an exchange of gifts made him sleep well all night, and he slept so thoroughly that he could no longer hear Wu Di's snoring.