At nine-thirty in the morning, the sun was shining outside the window. Lin Nian opened his eyes and sat up on the bed.
Out of his usual spirit, Lin Nian sat on the bed with his eyes straight, as if he was in a daze, but that was not the case. He was reminiscing. I vaguely remembered that I had a strange dream last night.
But after sitting on the bed for several minutes, Lin Nian couldn't remember the details of the strange dream, which made him helpless. Although he had an excellent memory, things like dreams were often unreasonable, and he would forget them if he said they had. , you can’t even say you really remember it.
Lin Nian couldn't recall the strange dream and simply gave up. He changed out of his pajamas, folded the quilt, walked out of the room and went into the bathroom to wash up. When he walked into the living room, he saw that Lin Xian's room was open and there was no one inside. There was a bowl of soy milk and two steamed buns on the dining table, with a note attached next to it.
[I went to work, I didn’t eat at home for lunch, and I didn’t come back until the afternoon]
Lin Nian pulled off the note, walked to the rice cooker, opened the lid and saw that it was empty. Then he turned and walked back to the dining table. He picked up the bowl of soy milk and put the twenty yuan lunch money underneath into his pocket. He took a bun and put it in his mouth and stretched.
The plan for a year begins with spring, and the plan for a day begins with morning. No matter the season or time period, today's morning should be the best. Lin Nian walked to the living room window and opened the curtains, and the dazzling sunshine shone on the bracket outside the window. On the flower bed, several small pots of dahlias and February orchids raised by Lin Xian were in bloom. The colors were particularly bright under the sunlight. Just looking at them made them feel much better.
Lin Nian took a deep breath and swallowed the buns in three or two mouthfuls. He walked back to the dining table and drank the soy milk in one gulp. He packed up the bowls and chopsticks before getting ready to go out.
If it were normal, he should be doing morning exercises now, but today is different. Today he has an appointment outside. The reason for his dream last night was that he got up late this morning. Naturally, the time for morning exercises was squeezed out. Now he can only break the rules that have not changed for several years. I had planned to go directly to the appointment.
After going downstairs and turning from the alley to the main street, Lin Nian estimated the time and found that it was almost the appointed time. If he took the bus, it would definitely be too late. And he never liked being late, so he could only stay on the street. I waved my hand and called a taxi to get in.
"Nanshan Cafe, in a hurry."
After giving the name of the place, the driver almost ran a red light with sparks and lightning, but managed to get him to the destination before ten o'clock. Looking at the price list, it was twenty, so Lin Nian could only spend the last lunch money he had. Handed over.
Pushing open the glass door and entering the Nanshan Cafe, Lin Nian looked around. The Nanshan Cafe didn't seem to be doing very well, and it was actually very crowded at this time. He just glanced at it and saw the person with whom he was related. The person you dated.
"Here!" Near the window, a blond girl wearing a white bottoming shirt and a pink suit jacket waved to him.
The sunshine outside the window shone on the girl's blond hair, which was as dazzling as gold. It reminded people of precious and soft satin. Considering that this girl usually took good care of her hair, it was difficult for Lin Nian not to notice her at first sight. Even if This cafe is crowded, and probably the first thing he will see when he walks in is this overly beautiful girl.
Lin Nian strode over and sat at the table opposite the blond girl. He found that the other party had prepared a cup of hot coffee for him, and the latte art on it was a half-decayed tree, which looked particularly familiar.
"Same as my QQ avatar, this tree is called the World Tree. It is a huge ash tree that connects the nine worlds in Nordic mythology. It is also the school emblem of our college." The blonde girl said in fluent Chinese. There is no accent unique to foreigners at all.
"You are really good at Chinese. How do you call me?" Lin Nian nodded and said.
"Introduce yourself, Mandy Gonzalez, third year at Cassel College, you can call me Mandy." The blond girl who called herself Mandy said with a smile.
"You said on the Internet yesterday that you were from Kassel College?" Lin Nian got straight to the point and looked Mandy up and down again. Let's not talk about style and habits when we first met, but the outfit she wore was probably worth a lot of money. It is also in line with what Zhao Menghua said that the students of Kassel College are all elite nobles.
"Yes, it's guaranteed to be genuine." Mandy spread her hands.
"Why are you named Kendo Lover?" Lin Nian asked after thinking for a while.
"I thought you would directly ask me about Cassel College, but I can answer this question because after I saw you yesterday morning, I felt that there should be a lot of girls in your school who have added you on QQ. With your personality, not all of them Agree, so if I don’t use some tricks, there is a high probability that your friend application will be rejected," Mandy said.
"Do you understand my character? Where do you come from?" The starting point of Lin Nian's question is very critical.
"Don't worry, it's all legitimate investigation methods. We transferred your student status from your school, Shilan High School, and learned about your life in the orphanage where you grew up. But based on these few points, I don't dare to say that I I know you well, so I asked Norma to hack your computer in the Internet cafe and secretly observe you." Mandy stirred the coffee in front of her: "Your personality can't be said to be withdrawn, but it's definitely not Just be outgoing.”
"When did the household registration units also recruit foreigners?" Lin Nian said calmly.
"I'm not checking household registration, I'm working in the admissions office, although the two methods of doing things are similar." Mandy said leisurely.
"You called Dean Li to do our work yesterday morning?" Lin Nian suddenly asked.
"Yes." Mandy nodded and admitted: "If we suddenly contact you and introduce yourself as a foreign college that wants to recruit you, then most likely you will think that we are some kind of pheasant university, so we will prepare to attack you from the side. Come get to know us.”
"But I don't know much about you now." Lin Nian shook his head.
Mandy smiled and said, "I'm not afraid that you don't understand, but I'm afraid that you don't want to understand."
After saying that, she took out a stack of documents from under the table and pushed them to Lin Nian. Lin Nian took the first document and opened it and found that it was a copy of a regular university license registered by the U.S. Department of Education, and then a photo with a classical classic in it. Various college facilities in a luxurious style, libraries, sports halls and concert halls. From a long shot, the Kassel College seems to be located halfway up a mountain. The whole thing looks like it was renovated from an old castle. Some of them are wearing Students in uniforms and gray-haired professors stood together at the school gate. At a glance, they were all handsome men and beautiful women regardless of nationality. The faces of the professors were full of experience.
"First of all, let me introduce myself. Cassel College is a private university located in the outer suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is a fraternity school with the University of Chicago. Every year we jointly organize equestrian and rowing on Lake Michigan..." Mandy read Half of them suddenly lowered their heads and glanced at something, then raised their heads and continued with a normal expression: "Inter-school competitions such as hot air ballooning and swimming, as well as more extensive academic exchanges. We are very honored to have foreign exchange students from Shilan High School in the second half of the year. We have obtained your information from the list. We believe that you meet the admission standards of Kassel College and would like to extend you an invitation to be a preparatory student."
"Preparatory student?" Lin Nian said looking at Mandy who finally finished memorizing the book and breathed a sigh of relief.
"This is specially prepared for students who have not yet reached the third year of high school but have the admission qualifications. For example, you can enter the preparatory class in the second half of your second year of high school. After you graduate from high school, you can take the entrance exam. If you pass, you can directly enter the Illinois university. I'm going to college here, but if I fail, I'll go back to China and take the college entrance examination, so I can say that I'm doing both right and wrong," Mandy explained.
"Do I have the qualifications for admission? Why do I have the qualifications?" Lin Nian chewed the word qualification carefully and asked.
"Because you are excellent enough." Mandy glanced at Lin Nian meaningfully and said, "Our Kassel College only recruits students who are exceptionally outstanding, or even outstanding. Your excellence is even enough for us to skip the exam directly. The official is interviewing to recruit you."
Lin Nian pinched the handle of the spoon inconspicuously and asked with an unchanging expression on his face: "It seems that I have no reason to refuse the olive branch offered by a well-known and well-known university?"
"If other people receive the admission notice from Kassel College, they will laugh out of their dreams even if they are in the preparatory class." Mandy said quietly.
"But I refuse." Lin Nian put down the coffee spoon and shook his head.
"What's the reason?" Mandy didn't seem surprised and just took a sip of coffee.
"I can't afford it." Lin Nianyan said concisely: "A university like yours sounds very expensive."
"Pfft." Mandy couldn't help but chuckled. Lin Nian opposite was not angry because the other party did not mean to laugh: "If the students favored by Cassel College cannot afford to pay tuition or buy air tickets, If we choose to give up, our school will probably become a laughing stock."
"You cover the tuition?" Lin Nian finally showed surprise.
Mandy nodded and said: "Of course we guarantee that for students from disadvantaged families, not only all tuition fees, but also all the room and board expenses when attending the preparatory class. The school board will set up a special fund to fund it. If you successfully pass the entrance examination of the preparatory class, , then congratulations, you can get a scholarship of US$36,000 per year based on your excellence. This scholarship can cover all your food, clothing, housing and transportation expenses for four years of college, and you can even mail it back to support your family."
"It sounds a bit fake, like pie in the sky." Lin Nian said bluntly.
US$36,000 is enough to be converted into about 240,000 RMB at the current exchange rate, and it lasts for four years. If the exchange rate does not fluctuate too much in the future, this scholarship is enough to be called a huge sum of money.
"But now the pie has really fallen in front of you. You can go to various places to ask various people, find various official organizations to verify whether we really exist, or even call the college headquarters to see if there is any As a person like me, I can tell you in advance that my student number is Al082321B. You can check it in the college. If you still don’t believe it, you can ask them to send you a fax of my ID photo." Mandy shrugged He shrugged and said, "I'm still very confident in my ID photo."
Lin Nian looked at Mandy carefully again. Indeed, this girl had a face that could withstand the test of the iPhone's front camera.
Speaking of this, Mandy has shown an attitude of not being afraid that you won't check, but that you are too lazy to check.
"Why, are you afraid that we will sell you to the Middle East to mine coal?" Mandy said jokingly.
"It's too far." Lin Nian said.
"What did you say?" Mandy thought she didn't hear clearly.
"I said the outer suburbs of Chicago are too far." Lin Nian said, "Sorry, I still refuse."
"No, the preparatory class is not in Chicago. This time's preparatory class is in San Antonio, Texas." Mandy said subconsciously.
"It's further away." Lin Nian shook his head.
"I can understand you saying you can't read and refuse, but what do you mean it's too far?" Mandy's beautiful face finally showed a tangled expression.
"Too far is too far. I live with my sister, and I don't feel comfortable leaving him alone in the country." Lin Nian said, "The United States is too far away from here. If something happens to her in the country, I'm afraid. I couldn’t get back in time.”
"This..." Mandy paused. She had considered all the situations in which Lin Nian refused to enroll, but she had not considered the current situation.
