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

At half past nine in the morning, the sun was shining outside the window, Lin Nian opened his eyes and sat up on the bed.

Contrary to his usual spirit, Lin Nian sat on the bed with his eyes staring blankly as if he was in a daze, but it was not like that, he was just remembering, I vaguely remembered that I had a strange dream last night.

But after sitting on the bed for a few minutes, Lin Nian could hardly recall the details of the strange dream, which made him very helpless. Although he has a superb memory, such things as dreams are often unreasonable. If you say you forget it, you forget it , you can't even say you actually remember it.

Guai Meng Lin Nian simply chose to give up, changed his pajamas, folded the quilt, went out of the room and went to the bathroom to wash, and when he walked into the living room, he saw that Lin Xian's room was wide open and there was no one in it. There is a bowl of soy milk and two steamed buns on the dining table, and a note is pasted next to it.

[I went to work, I won’t eat at home at noon, and I will come back in the afternoon]

Lin Nian tore off the note, went to the rice cooker and opened the lid, and saw that it was empty, then turned and walked back to the dining table, picked up the bowl of soy milk and put the 20 yuan lunch money under it into his pocket, and then He took a bun and stretched it in his mouth.

The plan of a year lies in spring, and the plan of a day lies in morning. Regardless of season or time, this morning should be the best. Lin Nian walked to the window of the living room and opened the curtains. The dazzling sunlight shone on the frame outside the window. On the flower bed of the garden, several small pots of dahlias and February orchids raised by Lin Xian bloomed, and the colors were extraordinarily bright under the sunlight.

Lin Nian took a deep breath, swallowed the steamed stuffed bun in two or three gulps, walked back to the dining table and drank the soy milk in one gulp, cleaned up the dishes and was ready to go out.

If it was normal, he should be exercising in the morning now, but today is different. Today he has an appointment outside. The reason for his dream last night was that he woke up late this morning. The time for morning exercise was naturally squeezed out. Now he can only break it for several years. Go straight out to the appointment.

Going downstairs and turning from the alley to the main street, Lin Nian estimated the time and found that the agreed time was almost here. If he took the bus, he would definitely be too late, and he has always been a person who doesn't like being late, so he can only sit on the side of the street. He waved his hand and called a taxi to get on the bus.

"Nanshan Cafe, hurry up."

After reporting the name of the place, the driver master sparked with lightning all the way, and almost ran through the red light. He finally delivered him to the destination before ten o'clock. Looking at the price list, at twenty, Lin Nian could only put his last lunch money on him. I handed it over.

Pushing open the glass door and entering the Nanshan Cafe, Lin Nian looked around. The Nanshan Cafe didn't seem to be doing very well. It was deserted at this time of day. He just took a glance and saw something related to him. dated person.

"Here!" Near the window, a blond girl wearing a white bottoming shirt and a pink suit jacket waved at him.

The sunshine outside the window shines on the girl's blond hair, which is as dazzling as gold, reminiscent of precious soft silk and satin. Thinking about this girl who cherishes her hair very much on weekdays, it is hard for Lin Nian not to notice her at first sight, even if This cafe is overcrowded, probably the first thing he will see when he walks in is this overly beautiful girl,

Lin Nian strode over and sat at the table opposite the blonde girl, and found that the other party had prepared a cup of hot coffee for him, and the latte art on it was a half-decayed tree, which looked familiar.

"Same as my QQ profile picture, this tree is called the World Tree. In Norse mythology, a huge ash tree connects the nine worlds. It is also the school emblem of our college." The blonde girl said in fluent Chinese, I can't hear any foreign accent at all.

"Your Chinese is really good, how do you address it?" Lin Nian nodded and said.

"Let me introduce myself, Mandy Gonzales, a third-year student at Kassel College. You can call me Mandy." The blond girl who called herself Mandy said with a smile.

"You said on the Internet yesterday that you are from Kassel College?" Lin Nian cut to the chase, and looked Mandy up and down again. We don't talk about style and habits when we meet for the first time, but the outfit on the other party is probably worth a lot of money. It is also in line with Zhao Menghua's statement that the students of Kassel College are all elite nobles.

"Yes, it's true." Mandy spread her hands.

"Why is it called a sword lover?" Lin Nian asked after thinking about it.

"I thought you would directly ask me about Kassel College directly, but I can answer this question for you, because after I saw you yesterday morning, I felt that there should be a lot of girls who added you to QQ in your school. With your personality, not all of them Agree, so if I don't use some tricks, there is a high probability that your friend application will be rejected by you." Mandy said.

"Do you know my character? Where did you come from?" The starting point of Lin Nian's question is very critical.

"Don't worry, they are all legitimate means of investigation. We transferred your student status from your school, Shilan High School, and learned about your life in the orphanage where you grew up. But based on these points, I dare not say that I Now I know you, so I asked Norma to hack your computer in the Internet cafe and observe you quietly." Mandy stirred the coffee in front of her: "Your personality is not withdrawn, but you are definitely not withdrawn. Just be extroverted."

"When did the household registration unit also recruit foreigners?" Lin Nian said lightly.

"I'm not checking the household registration, I'm in the admissions office, although the two methods of doing things are similar." Mandy said leisurely.

"You called Dean Li to do our work yesterday morning?" Lin Nian asked suddenly.

"Yes." Mandy nodded and admitted: "If we suddenly contact you and introduce yourself as a foreign college that wants to recruit you, then most of you will think that we are some kind of pheasant university, so you are going to attack yourself from the sidelines. Come get to know us."

"But I don't know much about you now." Lin Nian shook his head.

Mandy smiled and said, "I'm not afraid that you don't understand, but I'm afraid that you don't want to understand."

After finishing speaking, she took out a stack of documents from under the table and pushed them to Lin Nian. After Lin Nian took the first document and opened it, he found that it was a copy of the official university license registered by the US Department of Education, and then there were photos one after another. Various college facilities in luxurious style, library, gymnasium and concert hall, from the distant view, this Kassel college seems to be located on the halfway of a mountain, the whole looks like a renovated old castle, some dressed in The students in uniforms stood at the school gate together with the gray-haired professors. At a glance, regardless of their nationality, they were all handsome men and beautiful women, and the faces of the professors were written all over their battles.

"First of all, let me introduce myself. Cassel College is a private university located in the outer suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is a fellowship school with the University of Chicago. Every year we jointly hold equestrian and rowing on Lake Michigan." Mandy suddenly read halfway He glanced down at something, then raised his head and continued with a normal expression: "Hot-air ballooning, swimming and other inter-school competitions, in addition to more extensive academic exchanges. We are very honored to be selected from the list of foreign exchange students of Shilan High School in the second half of the year. Having obtained your information, we believe that you have met the admission standards of Kassel College, and hereby invite you as a preparatory student.”

"Preparatory student?" Lin Nian said looking at Mandy who finally finished memorizing the book and breathed a sigh of relief.

"This is specially prepared for students who have not yet reached the third year of high school but have the qualifications for admission. For example, you can enter the preparatory class in the second half of the second half of high school, and you can take the entrance examination after graduating from the third year of high school. If you pass, you can directly enter Illinois. If you go to university at this department, if you fail to pass the college entrance examination, you can go back to China for the college entrance examination, which can be said to be the same." Mandy explained.

"I have the qualifications? Why do I have the qualifications?" Lin Nian asked after chewing the word qualifications carefully.

"Because you are outstanding enough." Mandy gave Lin Nian a meaningful look and said, "Our Kassel College only recruits students who are exceptionally outstanding, or even exceptionally outstanding. Your excellence is even enough for us to skip the exam directly." The official interviewed to recruit you."

Lin Nian pinched the handle of the spoon unobtrusively, and asked with the same expression on his face, "It seems that I have no reason to refuse an olive branch offered by a ready-made prestigious university?"

"If other people receive the admission letter from Kassel College, even the preparatory class will have to wake up from their dreams." Mandy said quietly.

"But I refuse." Lin Nian put down the coffee spoon and shook his head.

"What's the reason?" Mandy didn't seem surprised and just took a sip of coffee.

"I can't afford it." Lin Nian said succinctly, "Universities like yours sound expensive."

"Pfft." Mandy couldn't help but chuckled, and Lin Nian on the opposite side was not angry, because the other party didn't mean to laugh at him: "If the student that Kassel College likes can't pay the tuition fees or buy the air ticket If you choose to give up, probably our school will be completely reduced to a laughing stock."

"You pay for the tuition?" Lin Nian finally showed surprise.

Mandy nodded and said: "Of course we cover, not only all the tuition fees for students from poor families, but also all the board and lodging expenses when they are studying in the preparatory class. The school board will set up a special fund for funding. , then congratulations, you can get a scholarship of 36,000 US dollars per year for your excellence. This scholarship is enough to cover all your food, clothing, housing and transportation expenses for four years of college, and you can even mail it back to subsidize your family.”

"It sounds a little fake, like pie in the sky." Lin Nian said bluntly.

36,000 U.S. dollars, at the current exchange rate, is enough to exchange for about 240,000 RMB, and it will last for four years. If the exchange rate does not fluctuate too much in the future, this scholarship is enough to be called a huge sum of money.

"But now the pie is really falling in front of you. You can go to various places to ask various people, and various official agencies to verify whether we really exist. You can even call the academy headquarters to see if there is any My number, I can tell you in advance that my student number is Al082321B, you can check it in the college, if you still don't believe me, you can ask them to send you a fax of my ID photo." Mandy shrugged He shrugged and said, "I'm still very confident in my ID photo."

Lin Nian took a serious look at Mandy again. Indeed, this girl has a face that can stand the test of the iPhone's front-facing camera.

Speaking of this, Mandy has already shown an attitude of not being afraid of you not checking, but afraid of you being too lazy to check.

"Why, are you afraid that we will sell you to dig coal in the Middle East?" Mandy said jokingly.

"It's too far away," Lin Nian said.

"What did you say?" Mandy thought she didn't hear clearly.

"I said the outer suburbs of Chicago are too far away." Lin Nian said, "Sorry, but I still refuse."

"No, the preparatory class is not in Chicago, this year's preparatory class is in San Antonio, Texas." Mandy subconsciously said.

"Farther." Lin Nian shook his head.

"You said you couldn't afford to read it, but I can understand if you refused, but what do you mean by saying that it's too far away?" Mandy finally showed a tangled expression on her beautiful face.

"Too far is too far. I live with my sister, and I don't feel at ease leaving him alone in China." Lin Nian said: "The United States is too far away. If something happens to her in China, I'm afraid I can't make it back in time."

"This..." Mandy paused. She had considered all the circumstances of Lin Nian's refusal to enroll, but she hadn't considered the current situation.