In an apartment on the outskirts of Washington, three Chinese girls were busy in the kitchen, chatting about gossip. These three people all came to the United States to study in the United States from Beijing University, and they have a very close relationship. This apartment is
It was shared by Zhang Weilin and Zhao Feiran, who were studying in Washington. As for the third girl, Xu Xiaoqi, who came to Washington from the University of Virginia to work, every time she came to Washington, she stayed overnight with her female companions.
Since they each have their own studies and have to go out to work in their spare time, there are not many times when they can cook together. At this time, there was a rare opportunity to chat, and Xu Xiaoqi told her female companions
The story that happened in the restaurant where I worked the day before yesterday.
"Weilin, Feiran, do you two remember that there was a girl named Ning Jing in the 87th grade of our school?" Xu Xiaoqi asked the two female companions.
"Remember, didn't those little boys in 1987 call her the school beauty?" Zhang Weilin said with a smile. It's not just boys who appreciate beauties. Girls also pay close attention to the best of the same sex.
"What a little boy in 87, why don't the boys in our grade also call him that?" Zhao Feiran also echoed.
Xu Xiaoqi said: "You know, I met his brother at the restaurant where I worked the day before yesterday."
"Really? How do you know it's his brother? Do they look alike?" Zhang Weilin asked curiously.
Xu Xiaoqi shook her head: "They don't look alike at all. I remember that Jing Jing has a good figure, and her brother... is quite burly."
Speaking of this, Xu Xiaoqi couldn't help but snicker in her heart. Using the word "burly" to describe Ning Mo was somewhat emotional. To be objective, he was clearly just a fat man, okay? But... I thought of Ning Mo's majesty.
With her being protected behind him, she couldn't help but feel that in fact, Fat Paper also had the cuteness of Fat Paper. At least it could block the wind, right?
"How did you meet him?" Zhao Feiran asked.
"This is what happened..." Xu Xiaoqi began to tell her female companions what happened in the restaurant. When she mentioned that Ning Mo and Qin Hai stepped forward to protect her, Zhang Weilin and Zhao Feiran both exclaimed.
"Wow, isn't this just heroes saving beauties? Xiaoqi, are you planning to commit yourself to any of them?" Zhang Weilin teased without shame.
"By the way, Xiaoqi, have you asked them what their jobs are? Are they cadres in the agency?" Zhao Feiran is a more pragmatic girl. She is more concerned about the fate of these two heroes who saved the beauty.
Is it worthy of Xu Xiaoqi?
"Well, they said they are business personnel in a company." Xu Xiaoqi replied.
In fact, Ning Mo's current identity is the general manager of Jintang Chemical Materials Group Company, Yu Haitao also holds the title of deputy general manager in Haijie Company, and Qin Hai has even more titles. However, Ning Mo is worried about exposing his identity
It would leave a bad impression on Xu Xiaoqi as a "nouveau riche", so she hid the identities of herself and her two brothers, saying only that they were salesmen of a chemical materials group and came to the United States to discuss business.
"Salesman, that's not worthy of our Xiaoqi." Zhao Feiran muttered.
"How come you're not worthy enough?" Xu Xiaoqi retorted, but she forgot that this rebuttal contained some self-confession.
Zhang Weilin immediately caught the mystery in Xu Xiaoqi's words and said with a smile: "So Xiaoqi is really tempted? Tell me quickly, are you attracted to the one named Ning Mo or the one named Qin Hai... Well...
, I guess, it must be that Ning Mo, who has a burly figure and has a masculine temperament."
"No way..." Xu Xiaoqi's face suddenly turned red, "I just said that Feiran was wrong, I didn't say how I was..."
"Hehe, since nothing happened, why is your face so red?" Zhang Weilin said, reaching out to touch Xu Xiaoqi's face, and then laughed loudly: "Oh, it's so hot, you can bake pizza."
"I'll beat you to death!" Xu Xiaoqi was embarrassed and anxious, so she wanted to chase Zhang Weilin.
"Wait, listen, someone rings the doorbell." Zhao Feiran said.
The three girls fell silent together, and sure enough they heard the doorbell of the apartment being rang.
"Who is it?" Zhang Weilin came to the door and asked in English while opening the peephole.
"i_am..." The person outside the door murmured in stiff English for a while, and finally changed to Chinese: "Excuse me, does classmate Xu Xiaoqi live here?"
"Huh?" Zhang Weilin was surprised. She put her eyes in front of the cat's eyes and looked out. She saw a person standing outside the door. The width of his body completely filled the cat's eyes. From his clothes and what he had just said,
Judging from a sentence in Chinese, Zhang Weilin can tell that this is a person from China.
"Xiaoqi, I'm looking for you." Zhang Weilin shouted. When she saw Xu Xiaoqi trotting over, she made a face at Xu Xiaoqi and whispered: "I suspect it's your burly guy who's here."
"Don't talk nonsense!" Xu Xiaoqi glared at Zhang Weilin, and then asked through the door: "Who is looking for me?"
"Is it Xiaoqi? I'm Ningmo." The person outside the door responded, with a hint of excitement in his voice.
Xu Xiaoqi's heart jumped inexplicably. She quickly took off the sleeves she had just put on her arms for cooking. She smoothed her hair and tidied her clothes as quickly as possible before opening the door shyly.
He said quietly: "Brother Ning, why are you here?"
"Well... yes... it was Qin Hai who asked me to come. No, I told Qin Hai that he asked me to come. Qin Hai said that he wanted to ask you to help with something. I don't know if you have time... I think
This thing is pretty good, I just don’t know if you are willing to accept it..." Ning Mo stood outside the door and said hesitantly.
"It's Brother Ning, come in quickly, Xiaoqi was talking about you just now." Zhang Weilin poked her head out from behind Xu Xiaoqi and greeted her loudly.
Ning Mo timidly entered the living room of the apartment and was led by Zhang Weilin to sit on the sofa like a puppet. There were three girls lined up in front of her. One of them had a blush on her face and lowered her head to play with the corners of her clothes. The other two
The other looked at him up and down with X-ray-like eyes, somewhat like a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law.
"You...I..." Ning Mo had a sense of crisis like a sheep in a wolf's den.
"Weilin, Feiran, what are you doing?" Xu Xiaoqi finally got angry. She pushed her two female companions and signaled them to stop playing Ningmo.
"Haha, you chat, you chat, I'll cook for you." Zhang Weilin giggled and ran back to the kitchen.
"Yes, yes, Brother Ning, you can eat with us. Xiaoqi, please accompany your guests." Zhao Feiran also made a funny face at the two of them, and ran into the kitchen behind Zhang Weilin.
"Based on my countless experience of reading people, these two people must have been connected." Zhang Weilin whispered to Zhao Feiran in the kitchen.
Zhao Feiran looked outside and lowered his voice: "I think the two of them are a bit unworthy. How can a small salesman be worthy of a female international student? Besides, this Ningmo looks..."
"Well, he's quite burly." Zhang Weilin covered her mouth and smiled.
"A little too burly, how could Xiaoqi fall in love with him?" Zhao Feiran wondered.
Zhang Weilin said: "You don't understand. Things like phone calls are simply unreasonable. Alas, now I'm starting to believe in love at first sight again..."
The two bastards were muttering in the kitchen. Although Xu Xiaoqi couldn't hear clearly, she could guess what they were talking about. Until now, she couldn't rush into the kitchen to clean up the two female companions.
Able to have an ostrich mentality and pretend not to know anything. She pulled up a chair, sat two meters away from Ning Mo, and asked: "Brother Ning, what did you just say that Brother Qin wants me to do?"
Do, what exactly is it?”
"Oh, that's it. Take a look at this first..." Ning Mo then remembered the purpose of his trip, or rather, the excuse for his trip. He took out a few pieces of paper from his pocket and handed them to
He gave it to Xu Xiaoqi and said, "You take a look first, and I'll explain it to you while you look."
Xu Xiaoqi took the pieces of paper and found something densely written on them. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be some statements about the latest research progress in polymer materials.
"These are new materials and new processes that our company is planning to research in the future. Qin Hai said that research in this area is still relatively backward in China, and we need to refer to the current research status abroad. Aren't you studying chemical engineering? Qin Hai wants to invite you.
Help us retrieve the latest research papers and related books in these areas here in the United States, and help us make a research review on these aspects." Ning Mo followed Qin Hai's instructions and said to Xu Xiaoqi.
"So many..." Xu Xiaoqi was a little embarrassed. Ning Mo, Qin Hai and the others had helped her, and it was natural for her to do something for them. However, there were enough research projects listed on these pieces of paper.
There are more than a dozen items, and each item needs to be reviewed, which takes a considerable amount of time. If she spends all her spare time doing this, she will have no time to work, and her livelihood in the United States will be affected.
.But how could she say this?
Ning Mo said: "Don't worry, I haven't finished speaking yet. Qin Hai said that these tasks will definitely take up a lot of your time, so we will pay you the necessary remuneration. According to the research projects listed above, each
The remuneration for the project is calculated as US$500, and we will be responsible for the cost of buying books and copying materials. What do you think?"
"500 U.S. dollars?" Xu Xiaoqi was dumbfounded. She was serving dishes in the restaurant, and her hourly wage was only 4 U.S. dollars. Even if she worked 20 hours a week, she could only earn 80 U.S. dollars. Ning Mo casually said, it was 500 U.S. dollars.
The remuneration for a project. She has just calculated that by doing the literature review of these research projects in her spare time, she can complete one in two weeks. Doesn't this mean that she can earn a monthly salary?
1,000 US dollars, which will make her the richest among all international students in the United States.r1152