Chapter 4 The Gate of Cassel (2)
Once after watching three consecutive movies of "The Matrix", Lu Mingfei suddenly felt that he should have a very magical ability that had not been discovered yet. Like "Neo", it was "theone". One day, there will be a mysterious person to discover his ability, and he will transform himself into everyone's burning eyes... and do something earth-shaking.
But when the Chinese teacher criticized, he looked forward to the last rows of classmates who were dozing off in the classroom, and did not even give Lu Mingfei the light from the corner of his eyes, so Lu Mingfei could only shrink his head and give up explaining his mental journey.
No one discussed this great idea with him, he could only conceive the details himself. When Lu Mingfei entered the third year of high school, this fantasy had been transformed into a scene. Every time the school held a Spring Festival party, the little beauty Liu Miaomiao, who had a level 10 piano in the class, played the piano on the stage, and the boy in the same class danced around the piano in a black dress. Lu Mingfei held his cheek and sat in a forgotten corner, thinking that maybe a helicopter would come down from the sky to pick him up, and there were a group of black-clad sunglasses.
The man walked into the venue with the coldness of CIA agents in the movie and said calmly, Mr. Lu Mingfei, it's not the time to watch the Spring Festival Gala, the organization is summoning you. They will put Lu Mingfei in black military uniforms and long windbreakers, and surrounded him and left the venue with his classmates' eyes. Outside the venue, a pitch-black helicopter roared, and the huge rotor wings blew up, like a knife cutting the face. At that time, whether it was the little beauty Liu Miaomiao or the dancing boy, they would stop and look at Lu Mingfei's back.
The focus of this story is not on how he will save the world, but on the eyes of others looking at him.
Super cool!
Lu Mingfei actually understood that this imagination was just to pass the time. But he really couldn't find any advantages in himself to be proud of. For him, the future should be to go to an unknown university, fall in love in college, find a job and rent a house. Perhaps his parents would urge him to get married when they think of him occasionally, and then he got married, gave birth to a child, and went to work every day.
With this letter from the United States, his life as stagnant as a pool of water was about to change. But in this family meeting, he was like an outsider, huddling in the corner of the sofa, his hands were honestly placed on his knees, and the endless nagging of uncles and aunts and Lu Mingze echoed in the living room.
He stood up and walked out of the living room. No one noticed the departure of the protagonist, and the remaining three people were still arguing about the authenticity of the interview notice. Aunt and Lu Mingze were a little hit. If the letter was true, it would be a huge lucky person. He could not fall into one person for ten years, but Lu Mingfei was lost. Aunt was not used to this wilted child suddenly shaking up. How could Lu Mingze win in the future?
Lu Mingfei returned to his room, connected to QQ, staring at the girl wearing a baseball cap. The avatar was still gray, offline or invisible, and he didn't leave any message anyway. Lu Mingfei glanced at the wall clock on the wall. He left a message 18 hours ago, asking Chen Wenwen if she wanted to participate in the literary club event tomorrow night.
Chen Wenwen actually doesn't wear a baseball cap. She has long, thin, straight hair, very beautiful, and there is no need to cover it with a baseball cap. Lu Mingfei knew Chen Wenwen on the day he entered the school. Chen Wenwen was sent by a Passat in a low-key manner, wearing a white cotton skirt and a pair of lace-lace white socks, and a hairpin with a "HelloKitty" on her long hairpin. The hottest girl in Lu Mingfei's class should be the "little girl" Su Xiaoxiang, who was dressed in DK that day.
NY, sent by a Mercedes-Benz S500, her eyes and eyebrows were full of pride. She said goodbye to her father who was in the coal mine business and then came to the class to report. She looked at the boys in the new class with a scrutiny look, and also hoped that they would look back with a startled look. But the boys all looked at the corner by the window. After completing the procedures, Chen Wenwen sat on the bench there with a copy of Duras's "Lovers". The sun shone on her cotton skirt and skin, and everything seemed to be transparent.
"Little Tiannv" has been proud for fifteen years. On the first day of entering high school, he was defeated by a young literary girl, full of resentment. But a boy with no eyes stood beside her, pointed at Chen Wenwen, lowered his voice and said to "Little Tiannv", "That's probably the class beauties of our new class."
"Little Heavenly Girl" has never been bullied like this. She stomped on the boy's feet and turned around and left.
That boy is Lu Mingfei.
In fact, Lu Mingfei is a very frank person. He thinks Chen Wenwen is better than the "Little Heavenly Girl". He said that, who knew that he had been enemies with the "Little Heavenly Girl" for three years. At that time, there were seven or eight boys watching around Chen Wenwen. Each of them thought so, but everyone else understood the principle of "silent appreciation". Later, these people formed a literary club, and the core of the literary club was Chen Wenwen. He had activities every week to read some cold and sad European and American literary works, and wrote reading comments to the Chinese teacher for correction. According to Uncle Lu Mingfei, he read books read by "middle-class white women" and did not understand why a guy like Lu Mingfei, who had a thorn in his head was a director of the literary club.
For Lu Mingfei, Chen Wenwen was the first female idol in his life, and he established him as a good girl who is suitable for family and IKEA. At the age of fifteen, Lu Mingfei felt that the greatest happiness in the world was to marry Chen Wenwen. Lu Mingfei felt that he had a little hope because he was invited by Chen Wenwen to join the literary club. President Chen Wenwen only invited two members, one was Lu Mingfei, and the other was Zhao Menghua, who was determined to win the "little girl". It was simple to describe Zhao Menghua. He was the guy who was most likely to become "the second in Chu Zihang" in the school.
Zhao Menghua was also applying to go abroad and did not get any admission, but this confused Cassel Academy actually sent the interview notice to Lu Mingfei.
"Cut a plate?" A big-faced cat portrait on QQ jumped and its name was "Nuo Nuo". Lu Mingfei didn't remember when he added this person, but he never refused other people's invitations. There were very few people who added him.
"Okay." Lu Mingfei answered casually.
Lu Mingfei still operated with red dots. He was lazy. Moreover, "Nuo Nuo" heard that his name was a girl. The channel was really good at playing well were all uncle-level figures. But soon, Lu Mingfei discovered that this opponent was not only fierce and cunning. When he was distracted, the worker bee sent out to explore the way was ambushed by the other party with two puppies. Losing a worker bee was nothing, but the delicate little trap made Lu Mingfei alert. He strengthened his defense at home and patrolled around him at the same time. This saved his life. A group of puppies from the other party was noticed by him at the first moment of invasion. The dog team that lost the opportunity to attack could only retreat immediately.
Lu Mingfei dared not neglect any more and connected the mouse.
The formal fierce battle began. The main troops of both sides upgraded from puppy to piercing snake, and sent flying dragon air strikes to attack on the two-line attack. When the queen appeared, the fight between the two sides had become fierce. Both sides had four bases, and mixed troops launched a fierce tug-of-war on the central clearing ground. A piece of plasma was splashed on the battlefield. Lu Mingfei's forehead was sweating, and his hands were beating on the keyboard as if playing a piano. He probably didn't think it was easy for the other party. Both sides were fighting so hard that they could almost compete with professional players. Lu Mingfei encountered such a strong opponent for the first time and became competitive. He decided to risk upgrading the main base to level three and dispatch the "three sets of cars" of Devourers, Guardians and Mammoth. This is a fundamental strategic transformation. If the other party hesitated and did not take advantage of the gap in which he spent his resources to upgrade, Lu Mingfei would definitely win.
The upgrade progress bar was slowly advancing, and Lu Mingfei's heartbeat accelerated and sweated his palms. He bluffed and added a team of stingers and three lurkers outside. If the other party believed that Lu Mingfei was hoarding heavy troops and did not dare to attack, then she would be fooled. Lu Mingfei only had those soldiers, and he consumed all his resources on upgrading.
It's soon, and the upgrade will be completed soon. Once the "three sets of cars" appear, the open space will move forward together, and one by one can steadily eat the enemy's base.
Lu Mingfei felt the dawn of victory.
"You are upgrading to the third-level base." A line of words popped up below the screen.
Lu Mingfei was stunned.
"You retreat, I have four teams of snakes and four teams of dogs here, all of which have been promoted to level 2 offense and defense." Nuonuo continued to type.
The progress bar is about to end, but Lu Mingfei can only type "GG". While typing, Nuonuo shared his vision with him. Outside the level 3 base where Lu Mingfei is upgrading, Nuonuo's soldiers are approaching. Once attacking, they will be a great victory like a destruction.
Lu Mingfei quit the game, returned to the QQ interface, and said to Nuonuo, "I admire you!"
Nono did not answer, leaving an expression of laughing wildly with big teeth on his face, and was offline.
In Lu Mingfei's life, for the first time, he felt that someone had seen through him. He was like his closest friend, who had been separated for many years and came back to find him again. He sat there and posted for a while, clicked to check Nuonuo's information, but it was blank. He searched for his memories and was sure that he had never known such a good player in the battle of StarCraft, and he was still a girl.
Chen Wenwen's avatar jumped in the list, but it was gray, which means that Chen Wenwen had crossed the line, but had already left.
"Go, see you the day after tomorrow." This is the message Chen Wenwen left to him.
He waited for almost nineteen hours, and only saw these five words. But his low mood suddenly seemed to have evaporated. He jumped onto the bed and whistled, twisted his waist, his face full of spring, and forgot about losing to Nono.
When Lu Mingze walked into the bedroom shared by him and Lu Mingfei, he looked up and down at his cousin and said impatiently, "My parents called Professor Guderian and said that they would go to the Regent Hotel for an interview the day after tomorrow and ask you to prepare well."
The next night.
"Hey, Lao Tang, do you know what questions will be asked in American university interviews?" Lu Mingfei typed in QQ.
"What? Have you got an interview opportunity?" Old Tang's panda avatar kept jumping.
Lao Tang is the only person who can help. Lao Tang lives in New York, USA. He is a Chinese. His surname is probably Tang. Everyone calls him Lao Tang, but he is not old. It is said that Lao Tang grew up in the United States since he was a child, so he doesn't speak Chinese very well, but he can still type online. Lao Tang is a man with no other problems except for his own feelings. His life goal is to become an Indiana Jones.
"Well, I'll have an interview tomorrow morning, but I searched online for a long time and didn't know what to interview." Lu Mingfei answered honestly.
"This...the interview questions in different schools are different, such as the New York University and Harvard University are completely different."
"Then are you familiar with Harvard or New York?"
"Didn't I tell you that I went to work after graduating from high school?" Old Tang posted a frustrated panda face on the screen.
"The four words 'entering society' will make you have obvious progress in Chinese!"
"It's great, let's have video and voice, I'll give you the tutoring and pronunciation." Lao Tang said.
Lu Mingfei glanced at Lu Mingze who was sleeping on the bed next to him and hesitated for a moment, "Then you can just say a little bit, my cousin is asleep."
"no problem."
The video voice "beep" sounded twice and then connected. A guy with his eyebrows drooping in the window waved his hand, and the sound was as loud as thunder, "Hey! Brother!"
Lu Mingfei was so scared that he almost rushed over and ate the speaker.
"Silently! Silently!" Lu Mingfei waved his hand to Old Tang, unplugged the cable of the speaker and plugged it in the headset.
"What's the big deal?" Old Tang murmured, "The house I rented is close to the light rail line, which is quite noisy. Where are you? So careful."
"I live in my uncle's and aunt's house." Lu Mingfei whispered.
"Oh," Old Tang nodded, lowered his voice, and spoke out of out-of-tune Chinese, "Brother, if you have successfully applied, you can go out and live by yourself? I've said it earlier, I'll have my interview package!"
"Old Tang, you are so nice." Lu Mingfei gave a thumbs up.
"As the first place in the interstellar on the channel, it's not good enough to be the second place. Doesn't it seem like a big brother like me is useless?" Old Tang said, "Haha!"
Lu Mingfei was a little moved in an instant and became more confident about tomorrow's interview. He wandered all day during the day, and still watched the sunset on the roof in the afternoon, and had no idea. No one could tell him what the interview was like in the American university. Other people who participated in the interview were probably correcting their pronunciations word by word under the guidance of their tutors or parents? But Lu Mingfei couldn't find anyone to help him. After he had been shaking the Internet for a long time, he happened to see Lao Tang's QQ avatar jumping, and he knocked him with the mentality of trying it out. He was not familiar with Lao Tang.
It turned out that in a corner he could not have imagined, there was still someone who could help him, and he had an inexplicable mentality of taking care of him, the younger brother.
Loyalty, this is loyalty!
"Speaking of it, I am also a person whose parents have both died," Lao Tang continued to sigh, "You know that it is not easy to get into the United States, especially those who have both died of both parents. Fortunately, I can receive social relief..."
"Ah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, who both died? My father and mother just went out and were not at home!" Lu Mingfei spat hard.
"Oh, Sao Rui, Sao Rui, you will be wrong about your feelings." Old Tang bowed his hand repeatedly in the window.
"Please, brother, can you stop using your bad Chinese! What Saorry? Is it good to be sorry? Isn't we accent tutoring time now?" Lu Mingfei was out of his way out of line.
"Yeah, yes, after tutoring, I have to play a few more sets, hurry up! Start now!" Old Tang cleared his throat, "The most commonly used opening question in the interview is, why do you apply to our school, Whydidyouapplythiscollege, pleaseshowmesomereason?"
"But I didn't apply..."
"Come on! Don't talk nonsense, practice with me! Brother, I will be responsible for your life! Thegreatfacultyisthekeyreason,..."
"Thegreatfacultyisthekeyreason,..." Lu Mingfei followed Lao Tang with one pronunciation.
The night was getting deeper and deeper, and the small southern town was silent. Street lights illuminated the empty streets. Most of the lights in the buildings were extinguished, leaving only a few windows of people who were sleepless. In one of the windows, the boy repeated certain sentences repeatedly with his unclear pronunciation, and temporarily crammed, while a guy tens of thousands of miles away was eating yogurt, shouting No, No, No to every wrong pronunciation he made!
Lu Mingze rolled his eyes, glanced at Lu Mingfei, hummed impatiently, stuffed his ears tightly, and turned over.
On the morning of the third day, Regent Hotel.
This is the most luxurious hotel in the city, a global chain, five-star rating. Lu Mingfei knew about this hotel because his uncle liked to drink tea in the lobby here and chat with friends. He kept asking the waiter to refill the water until the ginger tea turned into boiled water. This was not expensive and he could also give him the superiority of enjoying the world's top service.
Lu Mingfei had never entered the glass door of this hotel. At this moment, he stared at his eyes that were red when he stayed up late and looked left and right.
This hotel is so fucking luxurious! American schools are so fucking rich! Lu Mingfei is so amazed in his heart.
He sat outside the conference hall on the administrative floor, with 17 chairs outside, each of the 17 interviewers, with one chair, not too much. No one asked them to show any ID. When Lu Mingfei stepped into the door of this hotel carefully, a waiter smiled and said, "Are you a classmate who came to participate in the interview at Cassel College? Please follow me to the administrative floor. Then he was taken to the room by a beautiful sister wearing a skirt and ten centimeter high heels and saw his acquaintances."
Chen Wenwen, Su Xiaoxiang, Zhao Menghua, and Liu Miaomiao are all here. Some of them have seen but cannot be named, they are also from his school, and some have never seen them.
"Lu Mingfei?" Everyone who knew him made such a surprised voice, as if it was a very strange thing for him to appear on this occasion.
Lu Mingfei had to wave the letter in his hand, grinned and said, "I'm here too..." He swallowed, "It was for the interview."
Then he sat down to the last chair in shame, with a form and a pencil on it, which were filled in with some names, ages, and other things. Lu Mingfei flew around while filling in it.
The situation looks terrible, everyone is prepared, and they are all strong rivals. Needless to mention Zhao Menghua's pronunciation, his tutor is an American, and Needless to mention Su Xiaoxuan's pronunciation, she lived in the United States for a year in junior high school. Chen Wenwen, who has always been very casual, also carefully matched her clothes, a dark blue skirt, white lace-edged socks and flat-soled black leather shoes, with a white scarf, and the hairpin on her head was replaced with pearl shells, like the school uniforms of the British aristocratic children on TV.
Lu Mingfei scratched his head and sighed.
"It looks so good." After he lost interest in comparing strength, he turned his head and looked at Chen Wenwen.
The waiter brought the refreshments, croissants and a cup of hot milk. Lu Mingfei ate bread and drank hot milk. After solving the problem of hunger, food and clothing, he continued to look at Chen Wenwen. After a while, a thought flashed in his mind... Maybe he was lucky enough to go abroad with Chen Wenwen?
He looked up at the roof and suddenly laughed twice, which scared everyone around him.
"Lu Mingfei, don't speak out. The examiner is here, right inside." Chen Wenwen covered her mouth and whispered to him, pointing to the conference room inside.
"Are you ready?" Lu Mingfei smiled and went up to interrupt. This was nonsense. He just wanted to hear Chen Wenwen talk.
"I'm not sure," Chen Wenwen glanced at Su Xiaoxiang and Zhao Menghua over there, lowered her eyes, and seemed a little depressed, "I'm not as good as the two of them..."
Chapter completed!