Upon seeing her best friend's excited spirit, Guo Caiying became silent for a while with a gloomy expression. Without warning, she said, "My dad has also known Old Wang for several years.
If he went to the supernatural realm to do research, even if my dad doesn't tell me explicitly, I can still tell something from his phone call. Don't lie to yourself, Chuhe. It's not worth it for a man. "
These cruel words made Ai Chuhe's eyes that were gradually brightening dim again. The bus stop was already right in front of them. The three of them walked to the stop sign silently and did not say anything until they got on the bus and arrived at a bustling neighborhood after a few stops.
After getting off the bus, it was Zhang Lisheng who first broke the silence when he saw the neon lights and the fashionable men and women dressed casually. "This must be part of Silicon Valley. The people on the street are different from what I thought."
"What do you think? Silicon Valley programmers should be wearing sweatshirts and eating hamburgers as they walk around the street?" Guo Caiying said in a harsh tone and walked across the road into a small restaurant that had a sign with two intertwined knives and forks.
The French-style western restaurant was illuminated by a crystal chandelier. The dining table and chairs were made of mahogany that was covered by a beautiful hand-woven tablecloth without any paint. It looked a little out of place in Silicon Valley that was walking at the forefront of the times.
Upon seeing the customer's entrance, a waiter wearing a white shirt and a black bow tie immediately greeted them. Before he could even open his mouth, Zhang Lisheng, who walked into the restaurant behind the girl, first asked in French, "Is there still a vacant seat?"
"Of course, sir. Miss Guo has already made a reservation." The waiter was stunned inconspicuously. Revealing eight white teeth, he brought the three of them to an empty table and handed over the menu.
"I'm starving! French food is not that good anyway …" Zhang Lisheng took the menu and explained to himself first. Then, he ordered three sets of large portions in French and opened two expensive bottles of aged red wine. Finally, he took out a 100 dollar bill. "Five more cans of iced Coca-Cola. The rest is your tip, thank you."
Whenever a waiter served in a French restaurant in Silicon Valley, he would always have some experience of encountering strange guests. The waiter took the notes without batting an eyelid and shifted his gaze to Guo Caiying and Ai Chuhe. "What can I do for you, Misses?"
Initially, Guo Caiying, who brought Zhang Lisheng to the most expensive western restaurant in Silicon Valley that she often visited just to embarrass him, did not expect the young man to actually speak fluent French. Without even blinking, he opened a bottle of red wine that cost thousands of dollars and ordered the best set meal.
She opened her mouth in surprise and casually ordered a French braised duck set that she often ate. She sent the waiter away and carefully looked at the young man opposite her. "Junior Brother, you speak French well, right?"
Zhang Lisheng, who had been living in Johannesburg, South Africa, which used to be a colony of European powers but was now a gold rush holy land, relied on the Eternal Comprehension Spell to master the languages of France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, smiled. "I can barely speak a little."
"D-Don't talk to us in the Western Sichuan dialect anymore. It's really awkward to listen to you after you speak French and then listen to these 'Western Sichuan dialect'.
Junior Brother, since you're so generous, your family must have a strong background, right? "
"I don't have any background. I'm from Qu County, Hengze City, Western Sichuan. I've been a mountain people for generations."
Stanford was one of the most expensive private universities in the US in terms of tuition and living expenses. If there was no scholarship support during the period of studying abroad, the annual cost would be at least 70,000 dollars. Of course, nobody would believe that a child from a mountain family in Western Sichuan would come here to study and speak fluent American English and French.
However, the question just now was a little taboo. Even though Guo Caiying did not believe it, she did not refute anything.
Not long after, the waiter served their dinner and the three of them began to eat. Ai Chuhe, who was depressed, had already silently drank two full glasses of red wine before eating the first dish. The tears that fell unknowingly had completely drenched her eye makeup.
The other guests in the restaurant inadvertently noticed the girl's sobbing look, causing a small commotion. Not long after, the waiter walked over again and asked politely, "Miss Ai, is there anything I can help you with?"
"No, I'm sorry." Ai Chuhe realized her gaffe and hurriedly stood up to walk to the bathroom.
Looking at her disappearing back, Guo Caiying put down her knife and fork and suddenly whispered to the young man in front of her, "Junior Brother, actually, your speculation just now is very reasonable. Now that you've reminded me, I also think that Old Wang might have been recruited by the country to do biological research in the supernatural realm. For this reason, he must break up with Chuhe …"
"Then why did you …" Zhang Lisheng asked with his eyes wide open.
"I was deliberately acting just now. Didn't you hear what Chuhe said? She wants to keep waiting for Old Wang, but who knows if Old Wang can still come back or not when he's at that damn place.
Besides, even if he can come back safely, it'll be five years later. By then, who knows how their relationship would be like? As the saying goes, it's better to get the pain over with.
Right now, the best way for Chuhe is to suffer for a while and then start all over again. I hope that if Chuhe gets drunk later and asks you something again, you can … "
"I understand! I understand!" Knowing Guo Caiying's good intention for her friend, Zhang Lisheng nodded.
Upon hearing him agreeing so readily, Guo Caiying was stunned for a moment. "I thought you'd speak up for Old Wang, so I was just thinking about how to convince you. I didn't expect you to …"
"Senior Sister, isn't your purpose the same as Old Wang? Both of you hope that Senior Sister Ai can have a new start? Isn't it the same for me to speak up for you and him?"
"Logically speaking, you're right, but … Forget it.
In short, I realize that you're really a person whose mind is hard to fathom. "
"I don't think so. That's right, Senior Sister, you said that it might be difficult for Old Wang to come back from the supernatural realm. Is that place very scary?"
"Can you keep a secret?"
"I should be able to."
"I can too …" Guo Caiying smiled proudly. However, when she saw the unhappy expression of the young man in front of her after being teased, the girl's heart inexplicably softened. Lowering her voice, she said half-truthfully, "Junior Brother, seeing that you're so diligent in asking, I'll tell you a little about the situation of the supernatural realm that China discovered.
It's said that it's a world of monotheism and everyone believes in the same god. The different branches kill each other and use death to please their god. That's all I know. "
"He likes his believers to use death to please him?" Upon hearing such a description, Zhang Lisheng's eyes lit up right away. Without warning, he recalled his evil trait of being able to rely on other people's negative emotions to elevate his wizard power and could not help but mutter, "If I become a god, perhaps I'll do the same thing as him …"
"What did you say?"
"Nothing, Senior Sister. Don't you want to go to the washroom to see how Senior Sister Ai is doing?" As Zhang Lisheng was speaking, he saw Ai Chuhe walking back to her seat unsteadily.
However, even though the girl looked drunk, she did not lose her composure or ask the young man anything like what Guo Caiying had thought until they finished their dinner and took the bus back to the Stanford Central Campus.
After sending the two girls back to their dormitory, the sky was already covered with stars. With the help of the bright moonlight, Zhang Lisheng rode on the medieval highway bike that he had paid a great price to exchange for. Following the guidance on the map on his mobile phone, he followed the campus road and came to the library closest to him.
As the university that ranked second in the US in terms of book collection, most of the more than eight million books in the more than 30 Stanford libraries scattered around the campus had already been digitized and were open to the public online. However, there were still a considerable number of books that involved copyright issues. If one wanted to read them, one would have to go to the library to borrow them in person.
Moreover, reading a book on the Internet and actually holding a book in one's hand, staying in a quiet library, and reading with hundreds or thousands of similarly engrossed 'bookworms' were two completely different concepts.
For some people, the efficiency of memory and comprehension was a world of difference. For this reason, Zhang Lisheng locked his bicycle and walked up the stairs. When he pushed the door open and walked into the library that looked like a giant fast food restaurant that was bigger than the library that seemed to have been built recently, he realized that it was already overcrowded.
The more famous the university was, the fiercer the competition between students would be. Almost every year, there would be students in Stanford who would commit suicide because they could not bear the great pressure of their studies. Other than the freshmen and sophomores who could not find a goal to strive for and were moving between various departments to make up for their credits, there were very few who did not work hard.
Looking around under the bright ceiling lights at the front desk, Zhang Lisheng saw heads with different hair colors and muttered to himself, "They've been working hard since the first day of school …" Then, he began to look at the book catalog on the public computer.
An excellent biologist must at least have a profound knowledge of biochemistry, cell, and molecular biology. It would be best if they had a basic grasp of advanced mathematics and physics as well. The purpose of the young man's visit to the library was to find one or two books related to simplified learning. However, after looking it up on the computer, he was attracted by a book with a strange title, Illustrated Handbook of Biological Anatomy and Chemical Action.
"Excuse me, can I borrow this Illustrated Handbook of Biological Anatomy and Chemical Action?" He hesitated for a moment and turned the computer screen to the black girl who managed the library.
"Oh, a Stanford freshman who can't read the borrowing label?" The girl first looked at Zhang Lisheng and then at the computer before pursing her thick lips. "I'm sorry, diligent Junior Brother. Only graduate students can borrow this book.
This school really doesn't live up to its name! It always discriminates against us undergraduates, doesn't it? "
"I think it's good this way. At the very least, it can guarantee that when these books leave the library, they'll be taken away by someone who knows how to use them better." The young man smiled and pointed to his own badge. "Zhang Lisheng, graduate student of Professor Stephen Pigros, Department of Biology. Can you tell me where the Illustrated Handbook of Biological Anatomy and Chemical Action is?
I want to borrow it. "
…
Initially, he did not want to argue with the readers, but he could not help it. Sigh!
First of all, this book was from a different world, so all the university regulations could be explained with this reason. Secondly, please note that in a real American university that did not turn off the lights and check the dormitory, Stanford, Harvard, and so on, freshmen were forced to live on campus for the first year.
In addition, Europe and the United States were countries with case law. In other words, if the precedent made by the previous judge was not overturned by the federal court, it would be in effect permanently like a decree. All the untimely decrees would continue to be in effect.
Also, regarding Lili's expectations for Lisheng, we Chinese pay particular attention to 'when a man achieves the Dao, his family and dog will ascend to heaven' and 'when one is rich, one does not return to one's hometown, it's like wearing silk clothes in the dark'.
Western parents, on the other hand, 'the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.' Just look at how Spiderman and Superman were growing up, and one could tell that there was a difference in philosophy. Their son already had billions of yuan, so was it really important for him to make friends with those ordinary students in the university, live in the dormitory, and develop the habit of looking at others as equals and being humble?
If it was Pig's father and mother, they would definitely think that they were stupid to do so. Their son was already so promising, so of course, it would be better for him to stay as far away from those ordinary people as possible.
As an educator, Zhang Lisheng's mother, on the other hand, thought that this was very important, even more important than all of her son's achievements!
These settings were not because of the need of the plot, but because it had to be written like this, so Pig could not help it. Pig could only apologize to the readers who were not used to this kind of article written by a coder who was not used to being bound by the world he had sketched out and could not write randomly.
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