Xin Zhai

A few days later, Ye Li received a message from Tong Yan: "The application to go to Australia has been approved, come to the office to see me."

When he got there, Tong Yan was discussing the issue with Xiao Meng.As soon as he entered the room, both of them fell silent.

Tong Yan took a paper bag from the file rack on the table and handed it to him.

"All the documents you need are here. Go apply for the visa first, and prepare to pack your things." He stood up as he spoke, and rolled out a large trolley case from the corner of the office.

"I have a useless box here. There is a notebook and a hard disk in it. You can take it away and use it."

On the side, Xiao Meng crossed his legs and looked at Tong Yan with disgust: "The notice has just been issued, and the visa has not yet been issued? You just packed his things?"

"Give him what you think of first, and forget it later."

Xiao Meng sighed, stood up and walked out.

Tong Yan said again: "The winter over there is not too cold, but the summer is hot and relatively dry. You should bring more summer clothes."

Ye Li took a step closer and said, "Okay."

"Have you discussed it with your mother?"

"Ah."

When Ye Li talked about this with his mother, he said that there was no need to spend tuition fees, and a living allowance would also be given.The mother agreed as soon as she heard it.In fact, the tuition fee can be reduced or exempted, but you still have to pay part of it yourself, and there is definitely no living expenses.

Up to now, Ye Li has saved some money, which can barely cover the tuition.He plans to go to work again.After paying the tuition in his freshman year, being almost penniless, and staying up late to work in a supermarket, he felt that he was not afraid of anything.

Tong Yan nodded, and opened the drawer to find something: "I still have a power bank here, you can take it too."

"No, I don't have these things now, and I'm living a good life."

Tong Yan ignored him, opened the box, and put all the prepared things in: "The public computer in the school over there doesn't even have Chinese, which is still inconvenient. I want to write something when I go home at night, how can I write without a notebook?"

"Then I will pay you back later." Ye Li said.

After hearing this, Tong Yan was so angry that he glared at him: "Well, well, make a clear line with me."

In the end, Ye Li choked him up by saying, "Didn't you tell me to draw a line with you and come to you if I have nothing to do?"

Tong Yan babbled a lot, because he went there on a long trip for a month the year before last, and he even told him how to take the bus, where the supermarkets opened by Chinese people are, and where the cheapest things are sold. .

On the day of departure, the school uniformly dispatched two buses to take the students to the airport.The three people in the dormitory sent Ye Li to the north gate to take the bus together.When we arrived at the north gate, there was a lot of voices at the gate, all of them were classmates and parents who came to see us off.The three of them couldn't walk in if they stood in the outer circle, and they simply didn't squeeze in.

Ye Li bid farewell to the three people, pulled the suitcase and walked towards the bus door, wondering if Tong Yan would come to see him off, because he had asked him the departure time yesterday.Thinking of this, he looked around, but found no one.

He put the suitcase into the luggage area under the car, and as soon as he straightened up, Tong Yan stood beside him and patted him.

"Something happened just now, and I almost missed it." The engine had already started to hum, and the students got on the bus one after another.

Without waiting for him to speak, Tong Yan handed him a thick envelope.

"I went to the bank yesterday to exchange some Australian dollars. You can take it with you, it's convenient."

"I changed some."

"Take it."

Ye Li didn't want to push him around in this kind of place, so he opened the backpack on his back and put the envelope in.

Tong Yan wanted to tell him to be optimistic about his own things on the road, but it was unnecessary to think about it. Ye Li's ability to survive was much stronger than him.The voices of the parents of the students next to me came over, saying "be careful", "call when we arrive", "study hard" and so on.The two stood facing each other, not knowing what to say.

After standing for a while, Ye Li said, "I'm in the car."

"it is good."

He walked to the car door with his head down, took two steps up, and was about to turn around and walk in when he heard Tong Yan shout from below.

"Hey!"

Ye Li hurriedly turned around and bent down again, only to see him under the car with his head squeezed among a bunch of people, and gestured to him to make a phone call.

He shouted down: "Got it!" He waved his hand vigorously, then turned and walked inside.

Ye Li found a seat on the side opposite the door and sat down, leaning his head on the backrest of the front row with his eyes closed, hoping that the bus would leave quickly.

This is the first time for him to experience this kind of parting scene, uncomfortable, like a broken love.

No wonder his mother never took him to the train station.

It was a sunny day when the plane landed.Ye Li followed this group of students to the school's airport pick-up bus. After driving for about 40 minutes from the airport, a scary blue lake appeared in front of him.Flocks of seagulls by the lake, and unknown birds.

Someone said: "What a blue lake."

A Chinese senior who picked me up said, "It's not called a lake, it's called the Swan River."

The Swan River is azure blue on sunny days and gray on cloudy days.Seagulls by the river will aggressively grab people's food.There are giant banyan trees covering a radius of tens of meters in the school, the bell of the main building will ring on the hour, and there are exquisite carvings on the windows.He once wanted to buy those succulents that he couldn't afford and was afraid of raising them to death, so they appeared here densely and everywhere.

Tong Yan was right, it was indeed too different here.

Strangers here would smile at him, the vegetables in the supermarket were terribly expensive, and the food in the school cafeteria was terrible.

This place is so different that he can forget a lot of things from the past.Not many people know him, and if he doesn't say anything, no one knows that he is from Class 5, he is a poor student, and he has done a lot of stupid things.

He has two roommates who share an apartment.One is Wang Xin, from the Civil Engineering Department of University A, and the other is David, a Chinese who came to school very early.They found that Ye Li's cooking was delicious, so they divided their jobs on the second day they lived together. Ye Li cooked, Wang Xin cleaned up the dishes, and David paid for all the food.

Because the food here is quite expensive, David not only pays for the food, but also buys all kinds of alcohol, drinks and snacks.Ye Li didn't care, Wang Xin weighed the pros and cons and thought it was okay, so it was decided.

It took Ye Li two or three weeks to get used to the life here. On the second day here, he asked his seniors and sisters to help him find a part-time job. Later, he took on two jobs teaching Chinese.It costs 80 Australian dollars an hour, which means that he can earn about 4 yuan a week by spending 1600 hours.

The students from University A came here, and they communicated a lot with each other, and they became more united.Because Ye Li's cooking is delicious, and he quickly learned special dishes such as grilled steak and lamb chops, so their temporary residence became a gathering place for the group from University A. They would come here every now and then to eat and drink, and they even discussed weekends together. Go to the suburbs to play.

Ye Li was delighted to find that when he got here, his mood was indeed relaxed. He couldn't explain why, but the things that pressured him and made him unhappy in the past all disappeared.His desire to disappear from everyone after his freshman year was easily fulfilled here.

After he arrived here, he used David's mobile phone to call Tong Yan, and then reported to his mother that he was safe.After that, he applied for a mobile phone card, and he also installed WiFi in his place of residence.There is no time difference between here and City Y. One night after dinner, he thought, why not make a video with Tong Yan?

"Can you make a video?" Ye Li glanced at his watch. At 7:[-], Tong Yan was probably in the office, so he sent a WeChat message first.

"For a while, wait for me to go back."

Ye Li went out to pour a glass of water, and after a few words with Wang Xin, the phone rang.He connected the video call button, and Tong Yan's face appeared on the phone.

"Going back to the dormitory?"

"Ah."

"So fast." Ye Li couldn't help laughing, and Tong Yan also smiled at him.

"Let me show you where I live." Ye Li walked around the house with his mobile phone, "This is the kitchen, this is the living room..."

As he was talking, Wang Xin leaned over and looked into the screen: "Who is it?"

"My head teacher."

"Ah, hello, Teacher Tong. Ye Li always talked about you."

Ye Li turned his head and asked, "Nonsense, why do I keep talking?"

"What did Peter say in class last time? We didn't understand it. You told us after class, and then you said, 'Teacher Tong told me that long ago'. What are you talking about again?"

Ye Li was a little embarrassed, and walked to his room with his mobile phone: "Okay, I'll go to my room and talk about it."

"Oh, yes, we saw a man in school. The girl from the mathematics department said he was so handsome, but you said he looked like your head teacher!" Wang Xin shouted from behind.

Ye Li ignored him and went into the bedroom with his mobile phone.Tong Yan didn't speak, just looked at him with a smile.

"This is my bedroom, it's quite big." Ye Li went into the toilet again, "Look, there's also a toilet and bathroom!"

"Hehe, it's good."

Ye Li smiled and sat on the bed: "Well, I haven't lived in such a nice place. By the way, I found two tutors, and I can earn 400 yuan an hour. I also found a cashier in a Chinese supermarket. Quite a few."

"Oh."

"It's just that the food is a little expensive, but because I cook for them, David said that I don't have to pay for the meal."

"That's daring."

"They said that the ones I made were better than the ones in the school cafeteria, so I made a lot more at night, and the next day at noon, all three of us would bring meals, and just heat them up in the school's microwave."

"Oh."

"The beef here is delicious, and grilling your own steak is super cheap."

Ye Li nestled on the bed and reported the recent events in detail.

"The course is okay, it's not particularly difficult, and I think it's our professional course, but the class is small and there are few people."

"And then there will be English classes, which are much more interesting than in school. The old lady who teaches us English is super good, she is 80 years old! She is very energetic."

This "school" naturally refers to A University.Tong Yan said with a smile: "Well, the classes over there have their own characteristics and different styles. The teachers are also very different."

Tong Yan didn't explain, but he could see clearly that Ye Li was very happy, and in his impression he rarely talked to him like this.He thought, it was right to let him go out, just being happy was enough.