Xie Tiantian said: "It's better not to start the meal so early! Look, it's only 11 o'clock, let's start the meal in another hour and a half." Besides, my sister isn't home right now. ”

Chen Wen asked, "Your sister is very busy, and she is going out again?" Yesterday afternoon, when it was almost dark, I saw her coming back from outside. What is she doing running around all the time?"

Xie Tiantian said: "My sister went to the library of the University of Versailles. ”

Chen Wen nodded seriously: "Well, she is a good student, you are my good roommate, and you two are good boys!"

Xie Tiantian smiled sweetly: "you! How old are you, you say I'm a good boy in an old-fashioned way!"

Chen Wen said: "I am 19 years old. ”

Xie Tiantian said: "I'm also 19 years old." ”

Chen Wen said: "I was born in January '74. ”

Xie Tiantian said: "Oh, then you are a little older than us, my sister and I have a birthday on June 23, 1974. ”

Chen Wen smiled: "It turns out that I am half a year older than you, and I can finally be a brother!"

In the past half a year since his rebirth, most of the girls around Chen Wen are a little older than him. Qin Yang is 67 years old, Tang Jin, Xu Meiyun, Su Qianqian, Lin Linger, Zhang Wan, Tong Yan, and Chen Feier are all 73 years ago.

The girls younger than Chen Wen are Xu Xiaoqian, Zhang Juan and Liao Lifang, and the three of them are also 74 years old like Chen Wen, and they are two or three months younger than him in the month.

Xie Tiantian grinned: "I'm used to being a sister, don't argue about being a brother in front of my sister, she doesn't like to be a sister." ”

Chen Wen pretended to be vicious: "Okay, she's my aunt!"

Xie Tiantian sneered: "Don't be poor, what are we going to eat at noon!"

Chen Wen said with a smile: "The ingredients are all here, cucumbers must be made for your sisters to eat, and for the rest of the dishes, you can order them, and I will be in charge of the kitchen." ”

Xie Tiantian asked, "Are you good at technology?"

Chen Wen smiled evilly: "My technique, you will know if it works if you try it once." ”

Xie Tiantian was very simple, she didn't hear the bad idea in Chen Wen's words at all, and said with a smile: "I want to eat egg fried rice." ”

Chen Wen reached out and touched her forehead: "You're fine, right?"

Xie Tiantian slapped Chen Wen's hand away: "What are you doing!"

Chen Wen said: "I'll try if you're sick or not, how can you talk nonsense." ”

Xie Tiantian said, "I don't have a fever." ”

Chen Wen said: "You don't want to eat Atlantic cold-water shrimp, you don't want to eat ham sausages, you don't eat so many dead and expensive vegetables, you want to eat egg fried rice?"

Xie Tiantian stomped her foot: "I just want to eat egg fried rice and cucumber!"

Chen Wen said with a smile: "Okay, listen to you! I'll make a fried rice with onion and ham and eggs, plus a cucumber! I will make braised prawns in oil for you to eat at night!"

Xie Tiantian jumped and clapped her hands.

Chen Wen cleaned up the ham and sliced it and diced it, and Xie Tiantian cooked the rice in the rice cooker. Cucumber onion is not in a hurry, get it again when you make it

Otherwise, cutting it in advance will oxidize the taste.

When cleaning up the dishes, Chen Wen asked, "Your sisters are a little strange." ”

Xie Tiantian asked, "What's so strange?"

Chen Wen said: "Your sister spends time in the library, you are so idle, shouldn't you both study diligently?"

Xie Tiantian said: "My sister didn't go to the library to read. ”

Chen Wen said casually: "If she doesn't go to study, is she going to steal books?"

Xie Tiantian said with a mysterious face: "Sort of!"

Chen Wen was startled and pretended to have an exaggerated expression.

Xie Tiantian giggled with a smile, looking at Chen Wen's surprised expression, she was even happier.

After laughing for a while, Xie Tiantian explained what Xie Tingting was doing when she went to the library.

On the French side, books are expensive, especially textbooks. A 500-page textbook is most likely priced at more than 100 francs.

Two sisters, Xie Tingting studied finance and trade, Xie Tiantian studied architectural appearance art design, the first year of the year about 20 courses each, each course an average of 2 textbooks, each textbook is 40.

Expensive, right?

The two sisters can share a bedroom, but they can't share teaching materials. There are 40 textbooks for one person and 80 for two people. A textbook is calculated at 100 francs, and 80 textbooks exceed 8,000 francs.

This is still calculated according to the lowest unit price, in fact, if the sisters buy all the new books in the first year, it will definitely exceed 10,000 francs, and it is likely to be close to 12,000!

The cost of textbooks is a large expense, equivalent to a quarter of a person's first-year tuition.

There are three ways to save money.

The first is borrowing from the library.

The library card for international students is an annual fee of 100 francs a year, which is negligible for each book. However, there are drawbacks to this method: other books are borrowed for three months, while textbooks are borrowed for only 15 to 30 days. You return the book and want to borrow it again, it may have already been borrowed by another student.

The second is to buy second-hand books from former students.

This method works well in established universities, but it is not suitable for the University of Versailles. Because the University opened last year, the students are all new, and there is no senior graduate who needs to be cleared urgently.

Sophomores at Van University are not in a hurry to sell books for various reasons. For example, if someone fails the course, they need to retake the exam. Another example is that some sophomores take the same amount of time as some students in this year's new class.

The third is the method that Xie Tingting is using: copying!

Books are expensive, but photocopying is cheap.

Xie Tiantian said the price, and Chen Wen laughed in shock.

For a 100-page book, the photocopying fee is only 3 francs. A 500-page textbook costs only 15 francs for a single copy.

Xie Tingting used a 50% smaller copy, that is, the two pages of the textbook were reduced by half and printed onto one page of A4 paper, so the textbook was only 500 pages per book

It costs 7 points and 5 francs!

Chen Wen boasted: "You sisters really have a way!"

Xie Tiantian said: "This is also a way out of the way, who called us so poor!"

Chen Wen said: "I will also go to the library in the afternoon to make copies of my textbooks!"

Chen Wen is not bad for money, but in line with the mentality of Chinese people who are fools who are cheap and don't make money, he is very happy to save thousands of francs for textbooks, and use this money to buy AC Milan 1-1 Inter Milan match, maybe he can earn back tens of thousands of francs!

Tens of thousands of francs, equivalent to Xie Tiantian's one-year tuition, can allow her and her sister to eat two king crabs a day for a year.

Xie Tiantian said: "There is a technique in photocopying textbooks. ”

Chen Wen asked: "Isn't it just 50%?" ”

Xie Tiantian explained and gave Chen Wenchang knowledge again.

If you take a 500-page textbook and go to the library copy office and make copies from pages 1 to 500, the librarian of the University of Versailles will definitely confiscate your book.

This kind of behavior is a blatant digging into the corner of French capitalism, and it must be spurned and hated by the French people!

The correct way to open it is to take a 500-page textbook, make a partial copy of it at a time, and copy the whole book in a few days to make a complete copy of the textbook.

The borrowing quota for each international student is 10 books, and these days, Xie Tingting has been running to the library every morning and afternoon, borrowing 20 books successively, and copying one-third of each one.

It took about a week to make complete copies of the sisters' 40 textbooks.

Chen Wen sighed: "The wisdom of my Chinese students is really endless! I used to hear that our compatriots were masters of exams in foreign universities, but I didn't expect that they would be so good at teaching materials!"

Xie Tiantian said: "My sister and I have a division of labor, and when a large number of international students did not come, we got all the textbooks, and the textbooks in the library will be very short in a few days." ”

Chen Wen asked: "There should be another division of labor between the two of you, your sister runs the library, and you do laundry and cook at home." ”

Xie Tiantian smiled: "I'm a slow person to do things, and I'm a little dizzy with numbers, and I may mess up copying textbooks." My sister is good at math and does things quickly and accurately, so she is more suitable to go to the library than me. ”

"I had to go to the library in the afternoon. ”

Xie Tiantian said: "I'll go with you, my sister will go too, and the three of us will act together." ”

Chen Wen agreed solemnly: "Well, the three of us must act together!"

While talking, Xie Tingting came back with a big schoolbag.

Yesterday evening, Chen Wen saw Xie Tingting carrying a schoolbag outside the villa, but he didn't pay attention to the details. With Xie Tiantian's narration today, Chen Wen observed again and immediately found that Xie Tingting's schoolbag was very heavy.

Can a copy of a textbook packed with a school bag not be heavy?

Xie Tingting put her schoolbag on the sofa in the living room, walked to the kitchen and asked, "Chef Chen, what did you cook for us at noon today?"