That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 655 Don’t Compare Them with Us
"Kyoto University is pretty good. When I was in China, I had a friend who was also from Kyoto University. He wrote to me a few days ago and said that he is now a section chief. Hahahaha"

Xia Zhemin did not "get angry" with Li Ye. Judging from his hearty laughter, it seemed that he was disdainful of competing with Li Ye, a young man who had not even graduated from college.

He smiled and said to Sister Zhen, "Shujun and I are going to talk to Jiao Yaqiang. Xizhen, do you want to come with us?"

Sister Zhen said calmly, "I am a rough-handed girl, not a young lady who has never had to deal with women. I am busy cooking for everyone and don't have time to chat with people."

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Xia Zhemin smiled and shook his head, then shook a large bag in his hand: "I also brought a lot of beef. I'll invite everyone to try my new cooking skills later."

Sister Zhen said with disdain: "You can cook? I thought you had just hired a new cook! But even though Ruan Shujun works in a restaurant, she is not as good at cooking as Jiang Minzhi!"

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"Xizhen, you still have the same temper as before. It hasn't changed at all."

Xia Zhemin looked at Sister Zhen awkwardly and led Ruan Shujun away.

After they took a few steps, Li Ye, who had excellent hearing, faintly heard the whispers of Ruan Shujun and Xia Zhemin.

"So what if I'm a section chief? It's only a little over a hundred yuan a month."

"That's not true. My friend may be promoted to director in a few years."

"The director only makes a few hundred yuan? You make tens of thousands of yuan a month!"

"Haha~"

Ruan Shujun and Xia Zhemin were discussing Li Ye, but they didn't know that Sister Zhen and others behind them were also discussing them.

"Sigh~"

"Hasn't Ruan Shujun been pretending to be sick these days? Why isn't she sick now? She's so flashy, who is she trying to hook up with?"

"Is there any need to ask? She must be trying to hook up with Xia Zhemin! In the two years since she came to Dengta, I haven't seen her study hard. I've only seen her dating other people."

"Not necessarily. Maybe he wants to hook up with Jiao Yaqiang, who just received a bonus from his mentor."

"Impossible. Jiao Yaqiang, that nerd, only cares about scientific research data. Ruan Shujun is so cunning that she will definitely not waste her efforts."

A university professor once said that intellectuals are also human beings, especially those who earn several thousand yuan a month. Their elegance and bookishness are either superficial or imaginary.

International students in their twenties like Sister Zhen will also make malicious assumptions about girls they don't like.

Of course, Ruan Shujun did dress up carefully today, which made her look significantly different from Sister Zhen, Zhen Rongrong and others.

The calfskin boots looked expensive. Her pale and bloodless face looked a little sickly under the thin layer of makeup. The waisted women's windbreaker was a little thin, which made her look even more pitiful.

Just looking at this outfit, it is not what Sister Zhen and others call "flashy", but a higher level of "pure white lotus".

It’s just that women admire strong men and men admire pure men, and that’s what the big pig’s trotter likes.

So if you expect her to kill chickens and cook like Li Ye, Xia Zhemin will not agree. He will only let her do some work like chatting with others.

Li Ye killed the last chicken in his hand and bled it, then asked, "Sister Zhen, the chicken is finished, how do you want to eat it? I brought some cabbage, how about making Dongshan fried chicken for you?"

An international student asked in surprise: "How come you can actually cook?"

Li Ye pointed at Wen Leyu and said, "I learned this from my girlfriend. She's the head chef and I'm the waiter."

"Hahahaha~"

"Rongrong, your two classmates are the real match! Look at those fake ones, and you can tell who's better."

Several female international students were older than Li Ye and Wen Leyu, and when they heard Li Ye admit that he was a "househusband", they half-jokingly teased him.

Sister Zhen, who was in a bad mood, laughed. She knew Li Ye's style. He had bodyguards and lawyers. He was much more powerful than Boeing's engineers.

Looking at Wen Leyu's clothes and temperament, Ruan Shujun is even more unworthy of mention.

However, what Sister Zhen admires most is Li Ye's magnanimity.

If Sister Zhen had Li Ye's status, she would have spat in Xia Zhemin's face just now.

But after hearing everyone's teasing, Wen Leyu drooped his face.

"Please don't compare us with others, especially with Ruan Shujun. We are not the same kind of people."

"Hahahaha, right, right, we were wrong, little sister. What I meant was that you two are a perfect match, and they have their own ulterior motives."

Hearing the words "talented man and beautiful woman", Wen Leyu glanced at Li Ye unhappily and stopped caring about it.

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"It's time to eat. It's time to eat. Freshly cooked dumplings and delicious stewed chicken. This year's New Year's Eve dinner is unprecedentedly sumptuous."

"We have barbecue here! Fat and tender roast beef, it makes you feel rich at first glance."

Wen Leyu didn't want to compete with Ruan Shujun and Xia Zhemin, but when the meal started, the two groups coincidentally collided with each other.

Because Li Ye, Sister Zhen and others made a big pot of stewed chicken, as well as a lot of dumplings and stir-fried dishes, while Xia Zhemin brought a group of fans to play the lighthouse people's favorite barbecue.

In his previous life, Li Ye had heard an exaggerated saying that whenever the Lighthouse people had a meal together, they would grill anything. If they were not allowed to grill, they would not know what to eat. In fact, Li Ye also liked to eat barbecue, but today was the Spring Festival, so shouldn't we eat Chinese food?
Besides, Xia Zhemin only brought more than ten pounds of meat, and there were hundreds of people eating it. Could each person get a piece of meat?
Moreover, Xia Zhemin and his friends didn't seem to be very skilled, and the meat they grilled wasn't very tasty.

On the contrary, Li Ye has been good at making fried chicken since he started working at the Erliang Store. The fragrance of his fried chicken can be smelled from a hundred meters away, attracting a group of foreign students who come to join in the fun.

"Eng~, how is this chicken stewed? It smells so good. And where do all the vegetables come from?"

"Here, it was made by that classmate from Kyoto University. He's good-looking and cooks delicious food, but it's a pity that he has a girlfriend."

"Eat your food! You have food and drink, but you're still wondering if someone has a girlfriend."

"I'm not thinking about them! I'm just thinking about my mom. She's worked hard all her life, and my dad didn't even help when he fell down. Sigh."

While Li Ye was having fun with Zhen Rongrong and others, he was quietly observing the situations of the foreign students around him.

Although there were only about a hundred people at the scene, it condensed the epitome of international students studying in the United States of this era.

Someone once said that if there are many people growing flowers in any place, small groups will emerge, and ten people can be divided into at least three groups.

The hundred or so people at the scene were divided into at least five or six small groups.

Among them, there are newcomers like Zhen Rongrong who have just arrived at the Lighthouse, and ordinary students like Sister Zhen, who account for at least 60% of the total number.

The other thirty or so people are either "successful people" like Xia Zhemin, or reservists who are eager to find a job like Xia Zhemin and are stranded in Dengta.

Li Ye looked towards Xia Zhemin and suddenly asked Sister Zhen: "Sister Zhen, is the one wearing glasses Jiao Yaqiang?"

Tian Xizhen looked at it and asked curiously: "Yes, how did you know?"

Li Ye smiled slightly and said, "I also know that if you call Jiao Yaqiang now, he will definitely come over and join us."

Sister Zhen was stunned for a moment, then she opened her throat and shouted, "Jiao Yaqiang, do you want to eat dumplings?"

"Hey, here we come."

The student wearing glasses and with a dark complexion really walked towards Li Ye and the others, and he seemed to be impatient.

Sister Zhen asked in surprise: "Student Li Ye, how did you figure that out?"

Li Ye said: "Just now I saw Xia Zhemin constantly talking to Jiao Yaqiang, Jiao Yaqiang has long been impatient."

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After Jiao Yaqiang came over, Sister Zhen asked him, "Old Jiao, what did Xia Zhemin say to you just now that made you so impatient?"

I don’t know if it’s because Jiao Yaqiang has a straightforward personality or because he has a particularly good relationship with Sister Zhen, but he told the truth directly: “He wanted to get me to work at Boeing, but I didn’t want to go, so he kept persuading me.”

Sister Zhen frowned and said, "You don't want to go to Boeing?"

Jiao Yaqiang shook his head and said, "I haven't decided whether to stay in the lighthouse. Do you think I should trust Xia Zhemin? He treated Jiang Minzhi like that back then, so he might not treat me the same way in the future."

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Li Ye, Zhen Rongrong and others all looked at Jiao Yaqiang in surprise, and then at Sister Zhen, just like the audience who have heard "If you want to know what happens next, please wait for the next episode" in a storytelling, eagerly wanting to know the content of the sequel.

Sister Zhen sighed and said, "Old Jiao, Xia Zhemin, and Jiang Minzhi are all international students from Tsinghua University. Old Jiao is one year older than Xia Zhemin and Jiang Minzhi, and they have always had a good relationship."

"Later, Xia Zhemin and Jiang Minzhi became lovers. Jiang Minzhi worked with Xia Zhemin on a project, but Xia Zhemin published it privately under his own name and got a job at Boeing. Jiang Minzhi returned to China in anger."

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Li Ye, Wen Leyu and others looked at each other, and then looked at Xia Zhemin with an unfriendly look.

You can just steal things if you want to, but you actually stole from your own wife. How despicable and shameless.

But just when everyone was looking at him unfriendly, Xia Zhemin came towards Li Ye with a plate of barbecue.

"Everyone should try my cooking."

Xia Zhemin sat down and said with emotion: "It's the Spring Festival again. I still remember the first time we came to Dengta. No one had money. We couldn't even afford the leeks to eat dumplings stuffed with leeks and eggs."

"But you didn't buy any leeks today!"

Sister Zhen glanced at Xia Zhemin coldly and said indifferently: "Even if you earn $30,000 a year now, it won't change your selfish and stingy nature, so don't talk nonsense to us here."

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Xia Zhemin looked at Sister Zhen, swallowed his saliva and was about to explain, but Jiao Yaqiang said again: "Old Xia, you don't have to say it. I don't plan to go to Boeing with you. My mother is old and she misses me very much. I may have to return home soon."

"Are you crazy, Yaqiang?"

Xia Zhemin stood up suddenly and said loudly: "Your talent is useless in the mainland. Only the Lighthouse is the stage for you and me."

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Li Ye's eyes narrowed.

Everyone has their own aspirations and you cannot force them, but if you use your perverse ideas to mislead others, then you are wrong.

(End of this chapter)