Yunding Ranch

Chapter 90 Take the initiative
Walking out of the door, he closed the office door. Lu Li walked to the side, put the paper manuscript in his hand on the wall, picked up the pen in his hand, and was about to record it. He found that the pen cap was still on it, so he bit the pen cap with his teeth, and went out. After a while, he quickly recorded the key points of the conversation on the manuscript.

"Fourteen." Alice saw Lu Li's figure from a distance, walked over quickly, and took the initiative to say hello. Lu Li turned his head and glanced, "Hey, Alice." But he turned his head immediately, " Give me 1 minute." Then he continued to write at a brisk pace.

Alice pulled the shoulder strap of her backpack, looked up at Lu Li in front of her.

At this moment, Lu Li was concentrating on recording. In the dim light of the corridor, he could only vaguely see the outline of a side face. The eyelashes, nose bridge, lips, and thick eyebrows cast a shadow, and the shimmering light in his eyes flowed in the shadow. The white and neat teeth are biting the pen cap, and the soft lips are tense because of the concentration; the neat short black hair hangs sparsely around the ears, and outlines the ears, sideburns and hair lightly and delicately. The curve of the jaw.

"Sorry." Lu Li's voice came vaguely, and Alice realized that her eyes had been staying on the pen cover, watching the shape of the lips changing, and hearing the voice, Alice was startled and flustered. She avoided her sight, lowered her head, and her hair fell down uncontrollably. She brushed it behind her ears in a panic, but then she realized that the roots of her ears were very hot, so she quickly let her hair down again.

"...Alice?"

Lu Li's voice seemed to come from the other side of the valley, and then suddenly exploded in her ears. Only then did Alice realize that she didn't hear what Lu Li said when she was distracted just now, which made Alice raise her head in panic. , "Uh? What?" She just bit the tip of her tongue lightly, annoyed at her idiot.

Lu Li was amused by Alice's words, "I'm asking you, are you here to see the professor too? I just came out of the office."

"Oh, no, I'm here to see the teaching assistant." Alice shook her head, and the stiff brain circuit finally recovered gradually, "I met the professor last week, and the first draft of the thesis was scolded bloody, almost Overturn and rewrite. Let me come over and ask, when the professor will be free in the next two weeks, I need to write the second draft as planned, and then make an appointment for another time. What about you? What does your dissertation professor say?"

"Uh...he said everything is fine." Lu Li shrugged, "However, the research background is still too weak, which affects my conclusion analysis. He wants me to add two different theories, and then write the conclusion again. The professor said a lot of things just now, and I can't remember them, so I wrote them down while my memory was still there." Lu Li shook the paper in his hand and explained what he did just now, "Then go back and reorganize. Send an email to the professor to confirm. If there is nothing missing, I will continue to prepare.”

"It would be great if my professor was like you." Alice and Lu Li's professors are not the same, and the style of instructing papers is naturally very different, "My professor hardly said anything, he only said, I wrote it like this It's not right, but why it's wrong, where it's wrong, and how it's right, he doesn't say anything! Not even the direction."

"Your professor is Starr, right?" Lu Li remembered, Alice's loveless expression confirmed his guess, then Lu Li shook his head with a smile, "I thought it was just rumors, now Come on, you are in deep water. If it is useful, as far as I am concerned, it is very helpful for me to read some papers of previous graduates.”

Alice nodded, "That's what I planned too." With a long breath, Alice shook her head, trying to shake off all the negative emotions, "Let's not talk about the thesis, how is your manuscript?"

At the party last night, Lu Li mentioned the matter of submitting an article to the "New York Observer", and Alice would ask this question, "The editor said there is potential to be tapped." Lu Li showed a big smile, "She let me Go back and revise it, and then post it in the column. There are two more opportunities to see the market response.”

"Jesus Christ!" Alice's eyes widened, her face full of joy, "This is really amazing! Congratulations, congratulations!"

"This is a start, although it's just three chances for the 'New York Observer'." Lu Li accepted the congratulations frankly. Americans don't like modesty, and Lu Li has gradually gotten used to it after four years of university life. "What about you? Didn't you intern at the Post?"

Compared with Lu Li, as an American, Alice has a different level of internship. The New York Observer is just a tabloid, and the New York Post is one of the top ten best-selling newspapers in the United States.

Alice curled her lips, "I passed the first round of auditions, but I have to wait for two more rounds—at least. You know, this is the case for large newspapers. The competition is so fierce, and the one who interviewed with me even has A graduate student from Columbia University, God, a graduate student who came to apply for a reporter? I don’t know what he’s thinking.”

"But at least you have passed the first round. This is not easy." Lu Li gave Alice a thumbs up.

Alice saw Lu Li's bright smile, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up, "I'm a girl, and it's not that easy to find a position in a newspaper." In the news industry, men always occupy more than women. This is also a microcosm of the whole society.

"What era is it now? Even if they still discriminate, you can't be discouraged." Lu Li clenched his fists to cheer Alice up, "You have to tell them that you have the ability, that you are good enough, and that you are a potential talent. Excellent journalists, gender is not your disadvantage, but your advantage."

Alice was amused by Lu Li's impassioned gesture, "I'm serious." Lu Li shrugged, "As a foreigner, it's extremely difficult to find a job here—and a job as a reporter. But in the end I was able to win the opportunity because I turned my disadvantage into an advantage."

Character determines destiny, and attitude determines the future.The same thing, from a pessimistic perspective, is the beginning of death; but from an optimistic perspective, it is another way of success.If you are always immersed in the pessimistic mood of self-pity and self-pity, you have denied the possibility before the battle begins, and naturally there will be no future; if you choose to fight hard and give it a go, the result may be the same as failure, but at least you have a possibility.

Alice couldn't help clenching her fists, "Looks like I have to work harder!" Seeing the bright smile on Lu Li's face, Alice's heart couldn't help beating slightly, and she swallowed the words that came to her mouth, but she still didn't say anything. Hold back, "Fourteen, would you like to look at my paper for me?"... It wasn't what she wanted to say, but the words were insincere, and the brain seemed to have started to knot up, "I mean, at least you can look at it , what do you think is not right?"

Lu Li chuckled, "If you don't mind that English is not my mother tongue."

The teasing words made Alice laugh, "Of course I don't mind. So, does the invitation to the ranch still count? I plan to go to the cowboy convention at the end of May with a group of friends."

"Of course you are welcome." Lu Li opened his arms in a gesture of warm welcome.Alice's cheeks became slightly hot inexplicably, "Before you are ready to leave, give me a call, and everything will be ready on time, and I will sprinkle flower petals in the bathtub just like receiving the British royal family."

"Haha." Alice was amused again, "At that time, maybe you can teach me some interview skills, you know, I need some guidance, otherwise I'm not sure about the next two rounds of auditions for the 'New York Post' .” No, that’s not what she was going to say either.God, what the hell is going on with her brain?Why do you keep saying weird things.

"Are you sure?" Lu Li showed a puzzled expression, "That's the 'New York Post', I've never even entered it, if you use my skills, will you be eliminated as a result?"

The joking and witty rhetorical question made Alice chuckle, "Who said just now that you must meet the challenge with a positive heart?"

"It's not me, it's definitely not me." Lu Li pretended to be concerned, "We didn't talk just now, could it be..." Lu Li looked to the other side of Alice, showing a terrified expression, like the air There is an invisible ghost in it.

Alice didn't realize it for a while, she was taken aback, but soon realized that this was Lu Li's prank, she couldn't help but bit her lower lip, "Lu Shishi!"

"Haha!" Lu Li threw his head back and ran away laughing, "Then it's settled, cowboy convention, welcome to the ranch!" After speaking, Lu Li waved goodbye and turned to leave.

Alice raised her right hand and waved it vigorously, looking at Lu Li's back in the sunlight, speeding briskly along the forest road full of spring, as if the whole world brightened up, and finally disappeared into the blur in the halo.Alice only felt her heart fly high, then slowly fall, like a free fall, unable to find a support point, the corners of her mouth gradually drooped following the falling heart, and she sighed, after all, there was still nothing. Say it:

She wanted to invite Lu Li to attend the graduation ceremony together.

Although it's not high school anymore and there's no prom, they also throw a little party after graduation where everyone can bring their buddies.After learning about this party, she has always wanted to invite Lu Li to attend. After missing today's opportunity, she is not sure if she can succeed. What if someone else invites Lu Li?Or worse, Lu Li sent invitations to others...

Just thinking of this possibility made Alice feel depressed for a while. "God, what's wrong with me." Alice covered her face in annoyance, and every time it came to a critical moment, her mouth would be awkward, feeling that her brain could not control her words at all.So, what should she do now?

Is it an invite on Facebook?
(End of this chapter)