If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 943 The Half-Dead World Tree
After drinking some wine and chatting enough, Xia Mi proposed to play in the water for a while, and Su Xiaoqiang and Shao Nanqin also wanted to go together. Coming to the beach of Lake Michigan and not playing in the water is like going to Beijing without climbing the Great Wall.

The seaside has the goodness of the seaside, coconut trees, sea fishing and the fresh 'sea food' that overflows the mouth, but the lakeside also has its unique advantages, that is, after choking on the water, you will never be full of mouthfuls to death. The wind that comes does not have the uncomfortable smell of the sea, which is very suitable for playing in the shallows and sunbathing.

Leaving the wooden house bar, I found a reef with fewer people. Lin Nian didn't go into the water, but told Su Xiaoqiang and the others not to go to deep water after drinking, and then sat on a larger reef to rest, looking at the water from time to time. The girls playing in the garden and Xiawang who was playing with Lu Mingfei on the beach, but Lu Mingfei looked absent-mindedly from time to time looking at the girls and at Lin Nian on the reef.

The warning line of the safe water area is basically pulled up on the lake beach of the Northern Avenue. Besides, there are no dangerous aquatic creatures on the seashore, so there is basically no need to worry about anything happening. The girls are also having a good time. Xia Mi and Su Xiaoqiang seem to be Teaching Shao Nanqin how to swim, they seemed surprised that the younger sister of the twin sisters was as good at water as a barracuda, but the older sister was a landlubber.

Shao Nanqin was fine when she was diving, and she was able to play with splashes and splashes, but once they took her to a slightly deeper place, her whole body became stiff when the water submerged her chest, her hands and feet completely lost control of her brain and she couldn't move. Those who knew thought she was having cramps, and shouted for help, her face blushing from suffocation.

Xia Mi and Su Xiaoqiang didn't know what to do, only Shao Nanyin laughed and dragged her sister into the water recklessly, comforting her while dragging: Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, you should expect that there will always be such a thing when you come to the water. One day, just drink a few more sips, there are so many people protecting you!Maybe you're really drowning and a Dwayne Johnson style lifeguard will come and give you artificial respiration or something
Shao Nanqin screamed and cried at the same time, saying that Nanyin, if I drown and become a ghost, I won't let you go!Nan Yin on the side laughed and said, "It's okay, it's okay, let's turn into ghosts and find a fair and clean scholar to make a promise!"The last time a white-faced scholar has to be Leslie Cheung's!

She is really a peerless good sister. Seeing that Su Xiaoqiang and Xia Mi were so happy, being led by Shao Nanyin boldly dragged Shao Nanqin's belly to let her try paddling. Although the first movements were puppy paddling, but The perception of a beautiful girl as a cute drowning puppy is different.

Lin Nian sat on the reef and took care of them, and also paid attention to the situation on the beach. Xia Mi and Su Xiaoqiang said they were hungry, so Chu Zihang went to the mobile dining car on the beach to buy food, and he wanted to bring eight people at a time. Things are estimated to be better for a while.

Lu Mingfei who was piling up the sand and Xiawang got along unexpectedly harmoniously, or Xiawang completely ignored Lu Mingfei, which is a kind of harmony, isn't the premise of not being disgusted is not being repelled.

Lin Nian watched them for a while, then took out his phone and stared at the screen in a daze for a while, sliding his fingers unconsciously, poking a few times, then put the phone to his ear, looking at the honey-like sky in the distance. The lower blue lake rose into the sky again, and finally put down the phone and stuffed it back into the shirt pocket.

"Who did you call?" someone asked under the reef.

Lin Nian looked down and found that it was Shao Nanyin, leaning against the edge of the rock and looking up at him on top of the rock.

"friend."

"Isn't it? It wouldn't be this kind of expression when calling a friend." Shao Nanyin saw through Lin Nian's lie at a glance.

"It's not an important call." Lin Nian didn't look at her, but focused on the shallows in the distance, "Aren't you going to accompany your sister? She seems to be afraid of water."

"People are already in the water, and they get used to it when they are afraid. It's like this in everything." Shao Nanyin said, "But you didn't get through the call just now, right? Did you refuse to answer or did the other party not bring their mobile phone with you? "

Lin Nian didn't want to answer this question, and he didn't quite understand that the girl Shao Nanyin's EQ shouldn't be able to tell that he didn't want to talk about this issue, but the other party kept asking about this aspect, which made people feel a little excited annoying.

"The call is for your sister, right?" Shao Nanyin said suddenly.

Lin Nian looked down at him and said nothing.

"You two have conflicts." Shao Nanyin patted the water, "I saw your little girlfriend react wrongly when she mentioned your sister when we were chatting before, so I probably guessed something."

"It's not a big deal." Lin Nian said.

"I think so." Shao Nanyin had nothing to say, "After all, based on the relationship between the two of you, it's impossible for any serious conflicts to arise. Is she in the country now?"

"You care about her?" Lin Nian asked.

"Basically, after all, she was one of the few old friends I could talk to in the orphanage back then." Shao Nanyin shrugged, "I just find it a bit strange to see you but not her, after all, you have always Inseparable. So what happened?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Lin Nian said concisely, not everything he would like to share with others.

Shao Nanyin leaned against the reef and closed her eyes to feel the touch of the lake water rippling on her lower abdomen. The ripples refracted by the water surface shimmered on her cheeks.

For a long time, she didn't speak, neither did Lin Nian, only listening to the sound of the lake hitting the rocks.

In fact, Su Xiaoqiang and the others didn't know that Shao Nanyin was indeed acquainted with him a long time ago, but he was not familiar enough to open his heart. Even in the former orphanage, Lin Nian's attitude towards the sisters was a little strange. , but Lin Xian had some weird tacit understanding with Shao Nanyin at that time, which led Lin Nianaiwu and Wu Di to have a different view and sense of identity towards the Shao Nanyin sisters.

"There is nothing difficult between siblings. Just like Nanqin and I, quarrels are quarrels. When I go home the next day, I will still bring her a cup of her favorite milk tea." Shao Nanyin raised her head and opened her eyes. .

"I know, we didn't quarrel." Lin Nian said.

"That's the best." Shao Nanyin suddenly smiled, "Looking at your current living conditions, you don't seem to be prone to quarreling, unlike me and Nanqin, every day she has to complain to me about the bank's work and talk about strange things The depositors are all kinds of unreasonable, as long as I can't handle her well, she will have to quarrel with me."

"Working environment and living environment do affect personality, and front desk jobs in public institutions are usually not very good-tempered." Lin Nian expressed his understanding.

"I think you have a pretty good personality now. I used to think that when you grow up, you will become that kind of soft-spoken, cute and irritated boy, but I didn't expect you to be so generous now." Shao Nanyin tilted his head. Looking at Lin Nian Xiangyang's side face from the bottom up at 45°, "I thought going to university in a foreign country would make you trendy like those hip-hop boys, but I didn't expect you to become so calm and mature."

Lin Nian was noncommittal about this. What other people think of his personality is never his final decision. Only the eyes of others can label this kind of thing. At least in the eyes of most people in high school, he was a very good person. Dumb, silent, weird guy.

However, after Kassel College, the so-called shortcomings have also been repackaged as advantages, and rigidity is regarded as indifference, silence is regarded as efficient, and weirdness is regarded as elite.

Perhaps this is the "sense of identity" advocated by Hilbert Jean Angers in his philosophy of running a school?Caesar Gattuso's speech in the Ambo Pavilion mentioned that "we are all lunatics who cannot be tolerated by the world! We are all ignited as firewood for supporting the heliocentric theory." It is also well-founded.

Kassel College has reshaped Lin Nian, or in other words, he has protected Lin Nian's true appearance, which has to be said to be a kind of luck.Continuation, sublimation and strengthening of those characters have created the current Lin Nian.

"It seems that you and your sister have encountered a lot of things after leaving the orphanage? Are you interested in telling me? I feel that you have changed a lot." Shao Nanyin looked at Lin Nian carefully and said, "For example, you are more independent and more independent. Is it reliable?"

"Tell me, is there anything special about the days after leaving the orphanage?" She asked with interest.

"Nothing special." Lin Nian shook his head, "I went to high school and college normally, and met a lot of unreliable seniors in school, so I can only rely on myself."

"Is that so?" Shao Nanyin nodded and changed the subject, "Did you meet Su Xiaoqiang in college?"

"Students from high school, just went to the same university."

"A very beautiful girl, she matches you very well."

"Thank you." Lin Nian said.

"By the way, what is the name of the university you are attending now? I heard Su Xiaoqiang said that it is in Chicago, which Ivy League school is it?" Shao Nanyin asked with a smile.

"Cassel College."

"Cassel College?" Shao Nanyin repeated Lin Nian's pronunciation, then tilted his head and frowned, "I feel like I heard it somewhere."

"Have you heard it?" Lin Nian lowered his head and glanced at Shao Nanyin.

"I don't remember much, but it sounds familiar. Maybe the dean mentioned it when he talked about you and your sister when we returned to the orphanage?" Shao Nanyin thought for a while, but still had no clue, "The address of your school is at Where? How's the environment? How's the score?"

"Private school, the environment is not bad. The teaching buildings are all old buildings. The location is located on a mountain, so the greenery is very good. You can hear birds singing every morning, and occasionally there will be mountain fog. The visibility is very poor. Many students When I didn’t wake up and went to class, I would hit a tree.” Lin Nian recalled what he could say about Kassel College and said briefly, “Admission does not depend on the score, but mainly depends on the interview, which is similar to Harvard, focusing on personal ability and character. "

"An ancient college hidden in the mountains, or is it a special enrollment system?" Shao Nanyin became a little interested, "It's a bit like Hogwarts! Can I visit it?"

"It's similar to other universities." Lin Nian wanted to dispel Shao Nanyin's interest.

"I didn't go to college. I dropped out of middle school."

".It won't work in the near future, because there was a fire accident in the school last year, and a lot of vegetation was burned. The school buildings and mountain greening are being repaired. They haven't fully restored their appearance yet, so the campus is temporarily closed to the public. Open." Lin Nian explained in a compromise.

"Forget it, let's talk about other things. What major do you study? Are you from the finance department like Nanqin? I think you are more similar. The boys in the finance department are very cold." Shao Nan said with a smile.

"I'm from the history department."

"It's really hard to tell. I think you are more like the science department, just like the handsome guy with short hair and no expression who was with you." Shao Nanyin tilted his head and commented.

"Are you talking about Chu Zihang? He is indeed from the science department, or engineering department." Lin Nian nodded, "Our school doesn't have a clear division of arts and sciences."

"What about your sister when you were in school? You live on campus, and she lives alone in China?"

"She lived in the school dormitory like me, and she found a job at the school."

Hearing Lin Nian's explanation, I knew Shao Nanyin's expression was like this, "Let me just say, she used to be so precious to you, she wouldn't even let me touch you, how could she let you go away somehow."

"What do you mean don't let me touch you?" Lin Nian felt that this sentence was a bit strange.

"Did your sister tell you that even in the past, you were a very special child in the orphanage?" Shao Nanyin asked Lin Nian.

Lin Nian shook his head.

"I'll tell you a little bit of common knowledge. When I was a child, I liked to attract people's attention by means of attracting people's attention. For example, the boys in the back row would pull the braids of the girls in the front row." Shao Nanyin said with a smile.

Lin Nian tasted the words silently for a few seconds, then understood the meaning of the words, and glanced at Shao Nanyin strangely.

"Don't get me wrong." Shao Nanyin said immediately, "That's not what I mean, it's just that I was interested in you at the beginning."

"Why?" Lin Nian didn't understand.

"Because you were the only child in the orphanage who didn't get close to me because I took the initiative to express my affection?" Shao Nanyin said leisurely, "You can be a girl's rebellious psychology. When you see a stone that doesn't drip, you always want to try it." Try to wear some sewing or something. But because of your sister, I stopped playing tricks on you."

Lin Nian didn't really want to understand this kind of psychology. Judging from Shao Nanyin's casual attitude of talking and laughing now, the other party probably didn't take it seriously, so he didn't have to think about it, it was just one of the jokes and conversations in the past. .

Lin Nian was silent for a while, and asked, "You and my sister used to have a good relationship?"

"Why do you ask?"

"She used to treat some people very rarely in the orphanage, but you are one of them. I think she seems to be able to chat with you."

"Did you remember correctly? Your sister used to be nice to everyone."

"It's special treatment, not kind treatment. She treats everyone very well, but she only has different ways of contacting certain people." Lin Nian said.

"If you want to say it, I can only say that she and I have a common topic in some aspects, but she is much stronger than me, but if I can talk to her about a topic, she will force me to compromise on that fancy body Like your donut that was robbed?" Shao Nanyin recalled.

"I don't quite understand." Lin Nian had reason to suspect that this guy was acting as a riddle.

"Oh, by the way, do you have a picture of you and your sister? I want to see if your sister has grown into the 'sister-type' girl that everyone expected after so many years." She suddenly reached out her hand towards the reef.

Lin Nian subconsciously wanted to refuse, but there seemed to be no reason to refuse, just looking at the photo.He took out his phone and opened the photo album, and found a photo easily.

In the photo is a photo of him and Lin Xian in the flower bed at the entrance of the college. It was taken when he first entered school. The person who took the photo was Mandy. In the photo, Lin Nian was wearing the dark green school uniform of Kassel College. Standing beside him with a gentle smile in front of him was a dark blue Chevrolet parked in the distance.

"Don't slip around." Lin Nian handed her the phone.

"Won't slip weird stuff in your phone."

Lin Nian did not insist that there was no such thing at all, because he really had it in his mobile phone, and most of it was sent to him by Finger and Lu Mingfei and he forgot to delete it. Fortunately, Su Xiaoqiang caught strange videos a few times The name of the file, he was too clever to be perfunctory. (In fact, it’s just that Xiaotian doesn’t understand women’s clothing)

"Wow, this is exactly the same as I imagined her when she grows up." Shao Nanyin fell on Lin Xian the first time she saw the photo, and said enthusiastically, "I knew she would become like this .”

"She hasn't changed since she was a child." Lin Nian said flatly.

They all lived day by day, and it seemed that Lin Xian should always be the same Lin Xian, and it was impossible for him to change much.

Shao Nanyin didn't respond and just looked down at the phone. Lin Nian didn't pay much attention to it. He just thought that she was caught in the memory of something, and he just turned his head to look at Su Xiaoqiang and Xia Mi. Waiting for Shao Nanyin's response.

But in a place he couldn't see, Shao Nanyin's relaxed and charming expression on the face of the reef in the water disappeared, and suddenly tensed up uncharacteristically?
The water shimmered on the side face of the beautiful girl, and her dark pupils were fixed on Lin Nian's dark green school uniform on the phone—specifically, the collar of the school uniform, because There is a clear school emblem of the semi-decayed world tree.

Kassel College. The emblem of the Half-Dead World Tree?

A tinge of white gradually appeared on Shao Nanyin's cheeks that had been tanned rosy by the sun, and in her clear pupils there was also an emotional panic that even her older sister Shao Nanyin had never seen in her younger sister in the past 20 years.

(End of this chapter)