windy city rainy season

Tao Yu lost his job.

After this surprise inspection, the restaurants and shops in Chinatown had to lie dormant for a period of time, not daring to use unscrupulous workers in the limelight.Tao Yu's boss had a good impression of him, and after paying him this week's salary, he promised to come back to him after a while.Tao Yu was not relieved because of this, he had to continue looking for work, otherwise the little money in his hand would not be enough for him to sit and eat.

A child named Liuzi who worked with him introduced Tao Yu to an errand to help move pork in the cold storage.The cold storage is also near Chinatown, supplying these restaurants and supermarkets. Due to the large volume of shipments, the cold storage has to be replenished every day, and the replenishment time is usually in the middle of the night.

Tao Yu made up his mind, and it seemed that school was about to start, and he might have classes during the day, and the night shift would be suitable, so that night, he followed the address given by the six sons, and went there without hesitation.

Tao Yu originally thought that he was a young man in the prime of his life, and doing some physical work was nothing, but after moving for two nights, he felt his whole body was stiff like a dead pig, and he couldn't get up.He complained to the six sons: "How did the Mexican grow up? He is as thin as a potato, but he is so strong that he seems to be playing with a rib in one hand!"

The six sons said disapprovingly: "Old Mo is an animal. I used to work with a decoration team. I went to the employer's house to dismantle the bathtub. Lao Mo didn't even need any tools. He just shook it and pulled it down. The bathtub was still built with cement. What about the ground?"

Tao Yu snapped: "This must not be the same ancestor as ours, this fucking evolved from a rhinoceros!"

The six sons smiled "hehe", started the Crown that was older than him, the exhaust pipe shook like a tractor, and dropped by to send Tao Yu home.

"Brother Tao." Liu Zi said, "You are a cultural person, why do you have to work hard like us?"

Tao Yu disagreed: "Who said that educated people can't do hard work? Just ask the illegal workers in Chinatown. Eight out of ten are studying for a master's degree, and two are studying for a doctorate."

The six sons smiled and said: "For those who can come to study abroad, there is no one who can't get rid of the pot at home. They work part-time for a few more pocket money. It's great to wash dishes and serve dishes. It's rare to see people like you."

Tao Yu thought to himself, our family is indeed not incapable of uncovering the pot, but I will soon be.He didn't want to tell outsiders this, because he always felt that publicizing family affairs outside, regardless of good or bad, was like showing his chest to outsiders, not a matter of face.

"Just treat me as performance art." He said, pointing to the side of the road, "I'm here, stop here, and you go home early."

The six sons drove away. Tao Yu put his hands in his pockets and walked towards Tang Hainan's house. He heard the sound of an engine behind him just two steps away. Looking back, he saw that Dr. Chang had returned from get off work.Tao Yu looked at his watch, it was four o'clock in the morning, alas, we are also poor people in Tianya.

Chang Zheng locked the car and walked over with his schoolbag in his hand. Before he got close, he unconsciously sniffled and asked, "Have you found a new job?"

Tao Yu nodded.

Chang Zheng: "Isn't it killing pigs?"

Tao Yu: "..."

The two returned home lightly and washed up separately.Tao Yu collapsed on the sofa, so exhausted that he didn't have a single spot from head to toe.While he was half asleep and half awake, he felt someone move his pillow.

"Doctor Chang?" Tao Yu half-closed his eyes and asked in a daze.

"It's okay, you can go to sleep." After Chang Zheng finished speaking, he went back to his room and closed the door.

Tao Yu slept until noon the next day, and when he woke up, the other two in the family had gone to work.He got up from the couch to make the quilt, and found two Subway Sandwich Shop vouchers, each twenty dollars, under the pillow.

Tao Yu smiled and stuffed the two cards into his wallet.

Two days later, school started, and when he stepped into the campus again, Tao Yu had an inexplicable feeling of being reborn from the Jedi.

When he was an undergraduate, he studied thermal energy and power engineering, which sounded like something related to energy, but he actually repaired boilers.Two years of work experience gave him a better understanding of this industry. When he applied for school, he switched to environmental engineering. He applied for a Ph.D., which is equivalent to a combined master's and doctoral degree in China.Don't think that he is dedicated to learning. The only reason for applying for a doctorate is that he may get a scholarship from the second year onwards. Don't try to cheat money from the school if you study for a master's degree.Tao Yu has no money, and the money to go abroad is earned by himself at work, and he didn't ask for any money from his family.His money is only enough to pay the tuition fee for the first semester, and he can survive the second semester by working hard. Later, he hopes to get a scholarship by getting along with his tutor, otherwise he will work half-study, and the most likely result will be money. I didn't earn it, and I didn't read the book.

Studying in the United States is different from that in China. You choose your own courses. The compulsory courses are taught every year. You can choose to take this year or later according to your own progress. Anyway, you can finish it before graduation.The result of such free course selection is that people who enter the same major in the same year may not have met a few times until graduation, especially many postgraduates in engineering, who come and go after class and have no chance to communicate at all.

Compared with local working students in the United States, international students have more contact with each other. According to regulations, international students must register as full-time students, which means that they must take a certain amount of credits each semester, take more classes, and meet each other. There will naturally be more opportunities, and you will become familiar with it once you come and go.There are five foreign students that Tao Yu is acquainted with, one is from Taiwan, one is from Korea, one is from Russia, one is from Spain, and one is from India.

The name of the Taiwan compatriot is Luo Feng, from Tainan, he is not tall, with a simple and simple air.Tao Yu was originally worried that there would be a political estrangement with his Taiwan compatriots, but he soon realized that worrying was unnecessary. Luo Feng didn't care about any Chinese issues at all. What he cared about most was who would be invited to do it today when Kangxi came. guest.

Tao Luo and Tao Luo didn't get along very well at first, because Tao Yu unfortunately has no interest in variety shows at all.But then it was catalyzed by the Korean stick like a shit stick, and the compatriot love between the two quickly became thicker than water.The cause of the incident was as follows. One day Xiao Han and Luo Feng went to the school supermarket together. The little brother who sold goods asked Xiao Han casually if he was Chinese. He pointed to Luo Feng and asked why he didn't say he was Korean.Luo Feng and the little brother couldn't quite understand Xiao Han's inexplicable behavior of blowing hair.Seeing that his questioning failed to arouse resonance, Bangzi committed the problem of "the whole universe belongs to Korea", and he babbled at Luo Feng, "Changbai Mountain belongs to Korea", "Zongzi belongs to Korea", "Dragon Boat Festival is from Korea". Korean"……

With Luo Feng's indifference to politics, he has always held the attitude of "this is my ass" to such provocations, but that day, he didn't know which muscle was wrong, and suddenly became passionate, arguing with Xiao Han about "historical problems" ".

At this time, Tao Yu happened to pass by, and lightly said "Korea belongs to China", and before Xiao Han was ready to fight back, he added "historical problem", and then left.

According to Luo Feng, after Tao Yu left, Xiao Han's face turned red, he didn't say a word for a long time, and finally ran away angrily.

The two laughed obscenely behind their backs like little girls chewing their ears, and they forged a deep friendship ever since.