There are several student apartments in this university, and it is also equipped with a cafeteria. Eating in the cafeteria is much cheaper than outside.
Of course, even if the food is cheaper than outside, it is not free, and universities are not public schools in poor communities.
In addition to eating in the cafeteria, you can also cook by yourself. The student apartments here are shared by one person. Each student apartment has an area of about 20 square meters, one bedroom and one living room, and some simple meals can be cooked in it. .
Lin Yuxun slept all night on Shi Wenzheng's folding bed in the small living room. He got up early the next morning, first packed his quilt and put it in the cabinet, and then put the folding bed away. Then he went to the cafeteria to buy two breakfasts and came back.
The breakfast in the cafeteria is much better than the free breakfast in public schools, but the types are similar, just like sandwiches and burgers, which are obviously prepared by outside food companies and delivered to the school, and then reheated and sold by the school.
The schools here basically do this.
After Lin Yuxun had breakfast, he proposed to go out for a walk.
Shi Wenzheng wanted to accompany him, but Lin Yuxun refused, he didn't want to trouble Shi Wenzheng too much.
Lin Yuxun spent the whole morning wandering around the neighborhood, learning about the school and its surroundings, and bought some ingredients. When he returned, it was already late, so he stopped by the cafeteria to buy another lunch.
When he went out, Cheng Hao gave him all their money, a total of two thousand and five hundred dollars.
He didn't want to waste any of this money.
Cheng Hao makes money by boxing, and he reads comfortably outside... If he can't do this, he will feel that he is too hateful.
He wants to find ways to make money. If he can't make money, he tries to save money, such as cooking, which he can do by himself.
Basically, the ingredients purchased in the supermarket have already undergone simple processing. Cooking these foods is still very fast. It doesn't take much time, but it can save a lot of money.
And Cheng Hao said that people can't study all the time, they always have to take a break and exercise in the middle. He decided to take going out to buy vegetables as exercise and cooking as a rest.
When Lin Yuxun returned to Shi Wenzheng's apartment, Shi Wenzheng was still studying in the room, so he put the set meal bought in the cafeteria on the table, and then took out the ingredients to cook.
Chicken wings are quite cheap here, so he bought some chicken wings and used them to stew potatoes, and then fried a vegetable to make a tomato and egg drop soup.
Cheng Hao taught him the latter two dishes, and he often made them when he was at home.
By the time Lin Yuxun finished the tomato soup and green vegetables, the stewed chicken wings with potatoes were already fragrant.
Although there is no seasoning added, the chicken soup is very delicious, and the stewed ground in this pot is also very fragrant.
"What's the smell? What did you buy?" Shi Wenzheng opened the bedroom and came out, and when he saw the stir-fried vegetables on the table, he was excited: "Fried vegetables!"
The vegetable that Lin Yuxun bought was just a green vegetable, which Shi Wenzheng had never seen before in China.
But even so, this is stir-fried vegetables!
Not to mention that Lin Yuxun didn't only make stir-fried vegetables, he also made egg drop soup! Made chicken stew with potatoes!
Shi Wenzheng took a deep breath: "I never thought you could cook! I haven't seen such home-cooked food for two years! It's been two years!"
Ever since he went abroad, Shi Wenzheng has always eaten foreign food.
He doesn't have the opportunity to eat meat very much in China, and he doesn't dislike things like eating hamburgers, but he misses the rice in China very much.
There are also stir-fried vegetables, egg drop soup... He was also moved when he saw these home-cooked dishes.
"You like these? Then you can eat more." Lin Yuxun said, "But I'm not very good at cooking."
Lin Yuxun said, and served Shi Wenzheng a plate of stewed chicken wings with potatoes.
Shi Wenzheng didn't have chopsticks here, so he used a fork to fork a piece of potato and put it into his mouth. Although it was scalded, he still couldn't bear to let go: "What's wrong with your cooking skills? Your cooking skills are very good! It's so delicious!"
Lin Yuxun's cooking skills are actually very average. After all, he has not learned it specially, and in the United States, he lacks all kinds of seasonings, and he can't find the ingredients that Cheng Hao wants.
To Cheng Hao, the food made by Lin Yuxun is really not that delicious.
But Shi Wenzheng is a person of this era. When he came out to study, domestic materials were not abundant. The various condiments that Cheng Hao liked in modern times were actually not available in China before 1980.
At that time, there were only three things in many people's homes: oil, salt and soy sauce.
At the same time, because the supplies are not abundant, they cook dishes that are clear and watery, which is not delicious.
Shi Wenzheng's family is considered to be in a good condition, but his mother is reluctant to put too much oil in cooking, and it is rare to eat stewed chicken.
Lin Yuxun's cooking skills are already very good for Shi Wenzheng!
Now there is one thing missing: "Where is the rice?"
Potato stewed chicken soup is mixed with rice, and he can eat three bowls in one go! The polite Shi Wenzheng has a big appetite now.
"Rice?" Lin Yuxun was stunned: "I didn't buy rice, I just ate potatoes today."
For Shi Wenzheng, stewed chicken with potatoes is a dish, but Lin Yuxun actually regards it as a staple food.
For him, this is a food that is easy to make, tastes good, and puts the staple food and meat together, no different from a burger.
He took his plate of stewed chicken with potatoes and started to eat.
Shi Wenzheng: "..." Shi Wenzheng could only treat vegetables as food and eat a meal.
He misses rice even more.
After Lin Yuxun had eaten, he borrowed books from Shi Wenzheng to read.
Being in a strange environment and getting along with a strange person like Shi Wenzheng, he was actually not used to it, but when he started reading, he forgot everything around him.
He was even more happy when he knew that he could use Shi Wenzheng's library card to borrow books from the library.
Unfortunately, the library is closed these days.
On the first day, Lin Yuxun did nothing but adapt to the environment, but on the second day... Lin Yuxun took the initiative to knock on the doors of other students in the apartment building, introduced himself, and said that he would go there every morning When shopping in the supermarket, if they have something to bring, he can help them.
This school is one of the top schools in the United States. Most of the students here are American students, but there are also international students from other countries. Most of the people living in this apartment are international students.
Although it is the holiday period, most of the international students do not go home, so they live here.
It was freezing cold, and many people were reluctant to go out. Many people were moved when they heard that Lin Yuxun was willing to help them bring things. Some people even immediately said a few things that they wanted Lin Yuxun to bring.
Lin Yuxun wrote it all down and brought it for them.
He told Shi Wenzheng about this.
"You want to have a good relationship with them?" Shi Wenzheng said, "Actually, it doesn't have to be like this."
"I want to have a good relationship with them, and maybe a tip." Lin Yuxun said.
Cheng Hao said that knowledge is very important in college, but connections are equally important.
He is not an official student now, no one will take the initiative to make friends with him, so he can only act first.
As for tips... People here are actually not short of money, they give him more money to buy things, and they don't charge him if he wants to pay them back.
Of course, he valued money and hoped to get his own living expenses with it, but he didn't just focus on this little money. Relatively speaking, connections must be more important.
At the same time, if he really encountered someone who was arrogant and unreasonable, he would not talk to him.
Cheng Hao said that they are equal and dignity is very important.
Lin Yuxun said neither humble nor overbearing, Shi Wenzheng looked at him with a little admiration suddenly.
In the following days, Lin Yuxun was very busy.
He would go out twice a day to buy things and cook at home, and all the rest of the time he spent reading.
He even took a special notebook and wrote down some key points in the book, and then when he went shopping, he would read it on the way.
Shi Wenzheng is not an introvert, but when he was abroad, facing a large group of people with skin colors different from his own, he still didn't communicate with them very much. He didn't know most of the people who lived in the same apartment building.
However, only a few days after Lin Yuxun came here, he was able to call out the names of most of the people he met on the road. Those he couldn't name were only because he hadn't communicated with them yet.
Not only that, Shi Wenzheng also discovered that the people here actually liked Lin Yuxun very much, and even some people who were not familiar with him before would greet him now.
Gradually, Shi Wenzheng stopped treating Lin Yuxun as a child: "When I first met you, it was Cheng Hao who was always talking, and you didn't say much. I thought you were a shy person, and you didn't Thinking of you being so lively."
"I'm not lively at all." Lin Yuxun said, he was actually afraid of communicating with people, and he didn't even dare to take the initiative to talk to others. He prefers to live in Shi Wenzheng's apartment every day and read books.
But he can't do that, he needs to grow.
Therefore, with a little utilitarianism, he took the initiative to contact the people in this apartment.
But he kept his heart, never greedy for petty gain, so he maintained this relationship.
Shi Wenzheng only thought that Lin Yuxun was joking, but didn't take it seriously, and Lin Yuxun didn't explain anything.
He went to the bank to open an account for himself, and after the library opened, he spent most of his time in the library.
He is of yellow race. In this university, he is not the only one, but he is also the only one. He is conspicuous enough to impress people... Lin Yuxun read all kinds of books and observed the people in the library. Have the courage to take the initiative to ask the professors in the school all kinds of questions.
Cheng Hao said that you have to fight for opportunities by yourself. If you want to apply for a university, you just send an email and people may read it and put it aside, but ask them a few times to let them have an impression of you, and they may accept it. is you.
Among many similar people, they must choose the one they are familiar with.
He worked hard and he played really well.