1441, too lonely
The next day, Yuan Wangqiang and Chen Ziyang fell to the subway and came to Xia Xue’s current apartment early in the morning to help her move.
A girl has only been in France for half a year. Xia Xue’s luggage doesn’t look much, but that just looks. People who have moved the house have the most experience. When they moved, all kinds of bottles and jars came out. Three people, trolley boxes, woven bags, various pockets, shoulders and backs, ran twice in a row. It was almost noon that they moved Xia Xue’s luggage to her new apartment.
Since it was already noon, Xia Xue didn't have time to clean up her new home of five or six square meters, so she called the two to go out for dinner together.
"Brother Qiang, Brother Yang, look, it's noon now, why don't I invite you to a buffet?" Xia Xue said to the two of them, feeling that she has gone to Chinatown to buy vegetables, and then took it to Yuan Wangqiang's dormitory to cook it. When it's done, I'm afraid it's going to be one or two o'clock in the afternoon.
The two helped her all morning with heavy and laborious luggage. The distance was long. In order to save money, they didn't dare to take a taxi. They had to fall into the subway, which really made them tired. After returning to the new apartment, they were sweating profusely and their T-shirts were wet. Xia Xue couldn't bear to starve the two senior brothers.
"What buffet is eaten? The taste is not authentic and expensive! Let's go, Xuexue, or go to Chinatown to buy hot pot ingredients, and go to my dormitory to burn the hot pot." Yuan Wangqiang glared at Xia Xue and said.
Chen Ziyang also advised him that he and Lao Yuan had a lot of breakfast today and were not very hungry now. He couldn't eat much at this time, so he couldn't eat much at the buffet, which was not cost-effective.
Xia Xue had no choice but to go to Chinatown with her two senior brothers to purchase.
A pack of Shuangqing hotpot base ingredients, duck sausage, tripe, pork roll, mutton roll, beef roll, chicken wings, sausage, ham sausage, cabbage, vermicelli, potatoes, cucumbers, fungus, green vegetables... Xia Xue kept throwing all kinds of meat dishes and vegetables and cola beer into the cart until the cart was almost full. Yuan Wangqiang and Chen Ziyang kept saying that enough was enough, and she threw it away again, and they went home directly. Xia Xue gave up.
It's like a hill, three people can eat at least several meals and pay for the last time, 66 euros, which is so cheap that it's simply unreasonable.
Of course, it can be calculated in euros! If it is changed to RBM, it is also a bit expensive.
Yuan Wangqiang and Chen Ziyang were carrying a large bag of hot pot meat dishes, and Xia Xue was holding a bottle of big coke and sat on the shaking subway. Half an hour later, she came to the apartment where Yuan Wangqiang and Chen Ziyang lived. There was a bathroom and a kitchen, and a suite about the size of a domestic college dormitory.
The two men and women are not tired of working. The three of them work together, washing vegetables, and cooking pots. When they learned that Xia Xue was coming today, the two men cleaned their own smelly socks and smelly inner warehouses and hid them. They also sprayed at least half a bottle of air cleaner, which suppressed the strange smell everywhere in the room, barely looking like a place where people live.
When the food was officially started, it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon. After most of the busy day, the hungry three people were not polite. They waved their chopsticks and feasted. After eating for several minutes, most of the hunger in their stomach disappeared.
The three of them started to chat while eating, talking about Chen Ziyang's work, talking about the topic of Yuan Wangqiang's graduation thesis, and Xia Xue's own French learning.
This is not a pleasant thing.
Chen Ziyang has submitted countless resumes every day, but only a few can receive interview notifications. After the interview notification, there is no one who is willing to give him a job so far.
Yuan Wangqiang's paper selection was not very smooth either. He had considered at least seven or eight topics, but he still had no decision on which one to choose in the end.
Xia Xue's language learning is also moving forward in difficulties. Before staying in France, she studied French for a year in China, but after coming to France, she found that her sudden learning level was not enough. She still had to study for at least one year of preparatory courses, and first passed the language before considering applying for the major. Of course, there are great advantages to learning French in France, but it also requires a lot of time to practice.
Not long after coming to France, she felt the price increase here, and the account balance was drastically reduced every week and every month. Xia Xue, who was in average, followed the footsteps of countless students who were living in her own expenses and started working part-time to subsidize her family. Within a few months, she went to a Chinese restaurant to wash dishes, brush dishes, and worked as a cashier. Now she uses her spare time to work as a nanny for foreigners' kids, taking the kids out for sunbathing and taking them for a walk, doing one work after another that she could not do in China and would not bother to do.
Only when you have no relatives and no one can rely on others, and only by relying on yourself can you survive, can you deeply understand the hardships and difficulties of life, understand the hardships of your parents, and can you lose face, give up your self-esteem and do some jobs that you used to think were "lowly".
For many ordinary students from other families, studying abroad is not as beautiful and poetic as they say to their parents, classmates, relatives and friends after returning to China. Many of the sadness, grievances, and ups and downs are not enough to be spoken by outsiders.
Of course, those who are not short of money will have second-generation officials who drive sports cars and live in high-end apartments or even large villas as soon as they go abroad, except for the second-generation rich people.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit solemn, Yuan Wangqiang, the most optimistic among the three, knocked on the bowl with chopsticks and said with a smile:
"Old Chen, Xuexue, don't be depressed, look sad, there is no way out. For example, Lao Chen, your technology is there. Because of the Internet bubble in the past two years, those who have studied computers in the past two years are not as popular as before. France is not the Silicon Valley in the United States, and there are not so many high-tech companies. However, isn't the Internet slowly recovering now? Even if you can't find an ideal job in France, you, as a returnee, have great potential to return to China.
"Let's talk about Xuexue. Although your French is not very good at present and is still a long way from complex communication, you also have to see your progress? Thinking back to the time when you came to France, you had a lot of French dishes. You didn't even dare to ask about the road on the road - by the way, do you still remember the first time I saw you? Because you couldn't understand the teacher's class at all, you couldn't communicate with your classmates, you were confused about the future, and you were so scared that you hid alone in the corner of the campus and cried sadly after school.
"What about now? Take a car, buy things, rent a house, do all kinds of odd jobs outside, communicate with classmates, teachers, and all kinds of people in society. As long as you don't involve complex content and don't have a deep conversation, there is almost no big obstacle, right? It's only been a few months now?
“So, you have to believe in yourself completely and see your own great progress in just a few months.
"I believe that at this speed, in another half a year, you can pass TEF (TTOEFL in France) and then get into your ideal major."
"Brother Qiang, you laugh at me again!" Xia Xue lowered her head embarrassedly. Why didn't she remember the first time she met Yuan Wangqiang? At that time, she came to Paris, faced with a strange environment where there were no acquaintances, and she couldn't even see many Chinese people. She couldn't understand the class and could hardly communicate with teachers and classmates. She was so scared that she didn't know what to do.
Then, I met Senior Brother Yuan Wangqiang, who took the initiative to come up to communicate, talk to her, encourage her, and gave her various help in her subsequent study and life. Then I met Senior Brother Chen through Senior Brother Yuan.
"Haha, I'm not laughing at you! But whenever I think of your pitiful crying look when I first met you, I feel coke. Then when I see you now being independent, self-reliant and capable, I feel that the change is so big." Yuan Wangqiang laughed and stared at Xia Xue in front of me, a girl who made him feel heartbeat at first sight.
The three of them ate the late lunch from 2 o'clock to 3:30, and they ate for an hour and a half before they finished.
Yuan Wangqiang, who was full of wine and a flushed face, patted his round belly, burped, and nude at Chen Ziyang, who was also blushing: "Old Chen, go and boil some boiling water, make a cup of tea for Xuexue, or coffee - Xuexue, are you drinking tea or coffee?"
"No, Brother Qiang. It's almost four o'clock in Mashan. I have to go to Mr. Franvasso." Xia Xue shook her head, stood up from the small stool where she was eating, took off the bag hanging on the wall, and stradded it diagonally on her shoulder.
"Didn't you just took his child for a walk two days ago? Is it still there today? Now he asked you to take him three days a week?" Yuan Wangqiang knew that Xia Xue's part-time job in Franvasso was twice a week, two or three hours a day, and was paid 30 euros at a time, mainly to take the child of the family out for a walk. Sometimes, Yuan Wangqiang deliberately accompanied Xia Xue, such as helping to push a cart, making fun of dolls, etc.
"No, Brother Qiang, Mr. Franvasso asked me to go and get my salary this afternoon." Xia Xue said with a smile.
"Receive your salary? Congratulations! I'll take you to the subway entrance."
"No need, Brother Qiang, please stay at home and rest."
"It's okay! I ate too much at noon today and my stomach was bloated. I happened to go out to digest my food." As he said that, Yuan Wangqiang also stood up. Xia Xue's complexion looks good recently, and she has been on the right track for work and study. Now she has moved to a satisfactory home. Yuan Wangqiang felt that his relationship with Xia Xue is as plain as water, and her senior brothers and sisters seems to be at the right time to take another step forward.
Chapter completed!