Brainoid

Although the New Year's Day holiday lasts only three days, for ordinary office workers, it is the only thing they look forward to during the busy year-end work.

Qi Min originally planned to stay at home for three days, but he saw on WeChat that someone in a group of high school classmates suggested getting together on New Year's Day. She has never been used to organizing activities, but as usual, the few guys who like to carry big flags have already discussed the arrangements for the party: this year's one is more novel, it is to go to Shichahai for skating at one o'clock in the afternoon, and then there . Find a place to eat.

Qi Min told Anton that she was going to a class reunion, but Anton just complained. Influenced by his previous Chinese restaurant owner since childhood, he mainly celebrated the Spring Festival and did not pay much attention to New Year's Day.

However, when she was about to have breakfast after washing the next day, she received a call from Yelena.

Qi Min thought it was just an ordinary New Year's greeting, so she said in her plastic Russian with only a few sentences: "С_новым_годом, Лена!"

"Happy New Year, Min!" Yelena's voice sounded quite excited, "I have arrived in Beijing - I'm sorry for not telling you in advance. In fact, I also suddenly decided to go to China..."

"What? Where are you now?" Qi Min couldn't help but be surprised.

"I'm at the Capital International Airport." Yelena said happily, "I wonder, when can we meet?"

"Wait..." Qi Min glanced at Anton, quickly took his mobile phone to the balcony and said, "Lian Na, have you booked a hotel in Beijing?"

"No, I suddenly remembered that there is no visa requirement for groups between Russia and China. I just signed up for a tour group." Yelena said, "Self-guided travel."

"Uh..." Qi Min just felt that she was too thoughtless. Is this the Russian personality? "Is there anyone in Beijing to help you?"

"No." Yelena said matter-of-factly, "I'm just having fun during the holiday."

Qi Min had to say: "Then... shall I pick you up?"

"Okay." Yelena was not ambiguous.

Qi Min hung up the phone and looked up to see Anton holding a bowl of porridge and looking this way. She suddenly felt a little guilty, and then she thought that she really had no illicit relationship with Yelena, and Anton's idea that Yelena was a pedophile was simply a figment of his imagination. What was there to feel guilty about?

Qi Min came out from the balcony, filled a bowl of porridge, sat back at the dining table, and helped Mimi peel an egg.

"How's it going? When are you leaving?" Anton asked.

Qi Min was just thinking about how to explain that she was going to pick up Yelena in the morning. When he asked, he seemed to have forgotten that she only went to the party in the afternoon, so he just said, "I'll leave right away."

"Didn't you go skating at one o'clock?" Anton asked again.

It turns out he remembered. Qi Minxin asked, was this digging a hole for her? But I also know how Anton could have predicted Yelena's coming. It's just because of her guilty conscience.

"I...go to school first." Qi Min said in a confused way, "Well...there is a laboratory safety inspection at the end of the year."

"Aren't you coming back for lunch?" Anton asked.

"I'm not coming back." Qi Min said a little guiltily while burying his head in his porridge.

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When Qi Min met Yelena at the T3 terminal of the Capital Airport, Qi Min saw a slender young Slavic girl wearing a gray jacket, denim pencil pants, and a large mountaineering bag walking out from a distance. Behind her was a large group of dragnets. The obese elderly Americans wearing big bags and small bags - it looks like they are indeed a tourist group.

Yelena also saw Qi Min, and immediately ran over and hugged her tightly, almost knocking Qi Min's head.

In fact, Yelena is about the same height as Qi Min, but the weight of her bag obviously increases her momentum a lot.

"Lian Na, have you had breakfast?" Qi Min was in a good mood when he saw the pretty girl, "Would you like something to eat at the airport?"

"Breakfast is provided on the plane." Elena was quite happy to see Qi Min again, "Of course, I don't mind if you want to treat me to something to eat."

Qi Min glanced at the time and it was not even ten o'clock. It was too late to have breakfast and too early to have lunch. So he said: "Let me book a hotel for you first. Put your things in the hotel first, and then I'll treat you to lunch - by the way, Lian Na, is there anything you want to eat?"

"Uh..." Yelena thought for a while and said a little embarrassedly, "No... What are the specialties of Beijing? Chinese пельмени?"

"What is пельмени?" Qi Min asked.

"It's...a kind of Dumplings." Yelena made a "pinch" motion with her hand.

"You mean dumplings," Qi Min understood. "Dumplings are so common in China that they are not a specialty of Beijing. You can find a place to put your bag down first, and I will take you to eat something truly special."

Yelena simply booked a B\u0026B not far from Qi Min's school on Airbnb, then took a taxi to drop off her luggage.

In the car, Qi Min asked her why she suddenly wanted to come to Beijing. Yelena said bluntly: "My paper was sent out. I had nothing to do during the holiday, so I went out to travel."

"Congratulations!" Qi Min smiled and patted her shoulder, but didn't ask how her hair went. She and Yelena are completely like friends, they don't talk about serious things and only think about eating, drinking and having fun. "Hey, then why don't you stay in Petersburg and spend Christmas?"

(Note: Russian Orthodox Christmas is on January 7)

"I don't want to stay there." Yelena waved her hand, "I broke up."

"Why?" Qi Min couldn't help but be a little surprised. She remembered that Yelena's boyfriend was still her classmate when she was an undergraduate student. His family also had a little money, so he should be considered a good marriage partner in Russia.

"Sigh. Now I think you are right." Yelena sighed, "There is no money to be made, but the other half is not good-looking, and it really makes me upset just looking at him."

Qi Min couldn't help laughing when he heard this, but still said: "Appearance is not everything."

"This is not what you said." Yelena smiled at her and said quite seriously, "After much thought, I think it would be better to find an Asian girlfriend. - Don't get me wrong, Min, you are me One of the most important friends, I will not tarnish our friendship. And I want to find a younger girl."

If a white man said this, Qi Min would definitely feel physically uncomfortable and would think it was a slight against Asians. But the person who said this was Yelena, and as a friend Qi Min found it understandable. After all, Yelena has always made her views on mate selection obvious. The idea of ​​finding a young and beautiful Asian girlfriend is superficial, but if it is a beauty like Yelena, it is actually a good match.

Qi Min teased her: "How young do you want to be? A bachelor's degree graduate?"

"Do you think you can find someone younger? He graduated from high school at the age of eighteen, right?" Yelena asked.

Qi Min couldn't help but frown: "Let's not talk about whether we can find it, why do we have to find it so small?"

"Isn't this illegal?" Yelena said, "Although Asians look young, many adult girls still look like girls..."