Chapter 1 (2/2)

In the end, Ning An An laughed, “Even though this room is on the fourth floor, there’s still a lot of dust It’s still better to have aa mosquito tent, the rooht, what’s your naain?”

“Xie Xiao Qiu”

No one asked me which city I was from They were afraid they wouldn’t have heard the of it before, or that I would be too embarrassed to say

In the afternoon, I went to the general store and bought a mosquito tent for forty yuan (‘Yuan’ is the Chinese unit of currency)

And then bought textbooks for the acade one hundred thirty yuan I only had thirty yuan left The school dining hall was extraordinarily expensive, each meal cost at least two yuan

When I returned to the dor inside her mosquito tent She was called Xiao Rui Tiny stature, ed eating chocolate, looking like an elf

“Tonight the school auditoriu a o After the uard going to coht!!” Everyone raised their hands, except for me

“Do you want some chocolate” Xiao Rui handed me a piece, “It’s Dove, I don’t eat any other brand”

“Thank you, I…don’t really eat sweets”

“Have a piece, give me some face, ok?” She continued to stuff it into my hands

“Ok, thank you”

“You’re welco, then all of a sudden said, “I think it’s only fair that this upper and lower bunk arrangee each semester For example, those who are in the bottom bunks will be in the top bunks next semester Those in the top bunk will be in the bottom bunks next semester That way everyone has a chance to be in a bottom bunk, that’s the only fair way Xiao Qiu, what do you say?”

I nodded

Feng Jing Er’s face looked soave us an evenAn An said with a smile, “Next semester is still far off, let’s discuss this in more detail when next seotten used to it and won’t want to move down”

Xiao Rui took a bite of her chocolate saying, “I will definitely want to ht now”

Wei Hai looked at me and asked, “What about you, Xiao Qiu? Do you not want to be in a top bunk either?”

“I think Xiao Rui’s idea is not bad I don’t care whether I a is that it’s fair” I said eo watch theAn An picked up her purse and walked out Everyone filed out

“Xiao Qiu, are you really not co?” Xiao Rui asked

“Sorry, I ht”

“Haven’t even started studying foreign language, and yet you’ve already forgotten your Chinese grammar Miss, the tiiggles came from outside the door

Actually, I had alreadyfrom my hometown She and I were from the same small town She was a History Depart I met up with her in the afternoon After so

“It is really expensive to live here You need to work part-tireed vehemently I promptly told her I had already spent ht She suddenly re Originally I was planning on going It’s soet there, so I changed o? It’s a Starbucks, as a waitress, not tiring work It has ht shi+fts, the tin Language Departners there Tell ive theift fro my head

She helped , she handed me a tube of lipstick

“We are from a small town Our accents are already backward, if you don’t dress fashi+onably, ood?”

“Not bad,your tongue, the people here even ’” (Southern accents tend to drop the “h” (the tongue rolling part) and the “g” when pronouncing words such as “chi” or “ling”)

“I will certainly relish in your speech as possible Don’t always tell the complete truth, don’t arbitrarily reveal all your cards When you are too honest, you will be taken advantage of Understood?”

“Definitely, thank you for your pointers” Iat the café is an university student, et corrupted Don’t learn from those bad students from your depart beco mistresses, in order to keep up with their expensive habits”

“Oh”

After Lin Qing finished giving pointers, she went out and made a call Upon her return, she informed me that the café had a three day trial period I would start tonight She asked whether I illing to work the night shi+ft, froht There was no other ti