"Do you have something on your mind? My dad said that men shouldn't frown. It's easy to convey a negative emotion to others. If you spread it to others, no one will play with you anymore." Li Yi was a clever person. She could tell that Fu Yao had something on his mind.
"Sorry, I'm just a little upset." Fu Yao scratched his head and sighed.
"Hey, you don't have to force yourself to smile." Li Yi looked at him and said, "What's wrong? Tell me. Maybe I can help you. "
"It's nothing big. I'm just a little narrow-minded." Fu Yao pointed at his bicycle. "I just delivered food. The customer was very rude and unreasonable, but I put up with it. Tell me, am I very useless? "
"Ah, it's normal. In the service industry, you'll always meet such uneducated people." Li Yi moved closer to him and comforted him. "There's a lot of trash like this. If you really care about it, it'll be boring."
"Thank you, but my mom always said that a man should have the anger of a common man." Fu Yao still lowered his head, looking disappointed.
"Shakespeare said that if a man thinks too much, he'll lose the joy of being a man. How about I treat you to dinner? Consider it my apology. "Li Yi stood up." Let's go. I'm not in a good mood anyway. Don't deliver food. "
"But you're driving. You can't drink while driving." Fu Yao hesitated. "There's nowhere to put my bicycle."
"Where do you live?" Li Yi asked.
"Yeshiva University Dorm, Manhattan."
"That's easy." Li Yi opened the trunk of the car. "Fold the bicycle and put it in."
"Thank you." Fu Yao didn't object. He took the box from the back of the bicycle, folded the bicycle, and put it in the trunk.
"Get in," Li Yi said.
"Do you know the way? Do you want me to drive? "Fu Yao suggested." Don't worry. I usually drive. "
He didn't trust Li Yi's driving skills. She almost hit him just now.
"Do you know which school I'm from?" Li Yi looked at him with a smile. Before he could respond, she said, "I'm from Columbia University … Haha …"
Yeshiva University and Columbia University were within a straight line of each other, less than twenty minutes by car.
"Ah … I didn't expect it to be so close." Fu Yao got into the passenger seat.
The two of them sat together and suddenly couldn't find a suitable topic to talk about. After a while, Li Yi asked, "What do you want to eat?"
"Why don't we go to the entrance of your school to eat? After drinking, you can go straight back to the dormitory. You don't need to drive. I can still ride my bike after drinking." Fu Yao was completely considering from her perspective.
"Good idea." Li Yi was not a long-winded person. "It just so happens that there are a lot of good food at the entrance of my school. Western food or Chinese food, I'll listen to you."
"I don't eat Western food," Fu Yao said with a red face. "I don't have enough to eat."
"Great minds think alike," Fu Yao asked curiously. "You're a Singaporean, so you should like western food."
"My mother is from China." Fu Yao looked out the window from time to time. "We eat Chinese food at home."
"Oh, no wonder your Chinese is so good." Li Yi suddenly realized. "No wonder your Chinese is so good."
"I've always been attending a Chinese school, and I've always learned Chinese." Fu Yao smiled. "Actually, I don't know many idioms. As long as you don't say them, I can understand them."
"You're too humble. You speak very well." Li Yi smiled. "My mother and I are not picky about Western food and Chinese food, but my dad can't. He said that other than seafood and beef, he can't eat anything else. Even if he can, it'll be gone in two or three bites. Sigh, anyway, he's stubborn and unreasonable. He always does the opposite of what others do. He's the kind of stubborn old man I mean."
The car was parked in a nearby garage. Fu Yao took out his bike and loaded it into a takeout box.
"You take the elevator up, and I'll ride from the garage exit."
"Let's go together." Li Yi followed him to the garage exit.
She walked in front of them and entered a Cantonese restaurant with ease.
She found a secluded spot and asked for Fu Yao's opinion before ordering the dishes. "Baijiu, beer, red wine, grape wine, cocktail?"
"Beer." Fu Yao was amused by her. He hesitated for a moment before asking, "Are you from China?"
"Yes." Li Yi first asked for a bottle of milk. She inserted a straw into it and drank while asking, "Do you want to know which China you're from?"
"No, no, there's only one China." Fu Yao hurriedly made his position clear.
"Why are you so nervous? I'm from the mainland." Li Yi smiled. "You can't tell from my accent."
"My mother is from China, and many of his friends are Chinese. I've been to China with him a few times," Fu Yao said with a smile. "But we didn't have much contact. There are very few Chinese in our school.
Many of my friends are of Chinese, Malay, and Indian descent. "
Li Yi suddenly remembered something and laughed. "Sorry, I haven't introduced myself. My name is Li Yi, and I'm studying physics at Columbia University."
"My name is Fu Yao, and I'm studying business at Yeshiva University. My major is finance." Fu Yao shook her hand. He had an inexplicable feeling in his heart, as if he had known her for a long time.
He didn't understand why he was willing to give up his job to have dinner with a girl he didn't know, and this girl almost bumped into him.
No, it was definitely not because she was beautiful.
He had met a lot of beautiful girls, but he had never felt so close to her.
"Then we're friends from now on. I'll take care of you the next time you go to China." Li Yi took the beer he opened. "We can go to the Great Wall and the Forbidden City. There's a lot of fun."
"Thank you. I've been to all of them."
"Do you like China?"
"It's alright." Fu Yao smiled reluctantly. "But there are too many people."
"My dad is the same. He's afraid of crowded places. He says it's a vacation, but he goes to places with fewer people. He rarely goes to scenic spots."
"You respect your dad a lot." Fu Yao suddenly felt envious.
"Why do you say so?"
Fu Yao said, "Because you've mentioned your dad many times."
"Have I?" Li Yi didn't realize this problem.
"Yes, you've mentioned it many times. It means your dad is very important to you," Fu Yao said with a smile. "You two have a great relationship."
"Do you have a bad relationship with your dad?"
"My dad passed away when I was very young."
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked this question." Li Yi felt a little uneasy seeing his lonely expression.
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