Jade is not jade

Wang Min and Yu Nian took the subway from the airport to the city center. The store signs and street signs along the way were all in English, and the people around them also spoke English.

After leaving the subway station, the crowds of all kinds and Caucasians who came and went in a hurry made these two college students who had just arrived full of freshness.

Although I have passed the English level required for the exchange before coming here, in such an international capital full of all kinds of accents, that level is not enough.

Wang Min found Wang Rui in the crowd - his cousin who was studying in England.

Wang Rui took them to exchange schools in a cab. The driver spoke English with an Iranian accent, chatting with Wang Rui about politics, the weather, and the two silent teenagers sitting behind.

Although the two "dumbs" spoke shyly, they could still understand what Wang Rui was talking about.

When the driver learned that the two were from one of the best universities in China, he expressed his appreciation without hesitation.

The two could only answer "Thank you!", "Thank you very much!" in embarrassment...

Despite his enthusiasm, he did not miss a dollar when he went to the place, and Wang Rui paid him an extra two pounds as a tip.

Wang Min and Yu Nian got out of the car, embarrassed by their clumsy speech just now.

Wang Rui laughed and patted them on the shoulder: "It's okay, you guys must be better than me in a few days! You are all top students from prestigious universities, and you are a master with a score of 7 in IELTS. I think I only got 5.5 in the exam back then. I came to high school in a hurry, and I can't use more than 100 words!"

Yu Nian: "..." To be so low in the exam is to be a master~

Maybe Wang Rui's IQ and test ability are not as high as those two people behind him, but his personality is much more cheerful than theirs, and he dares to try something recklessly.In terms of adaptability, they may not be as good as Wang Rui, who came from childhood to travel abroad.

Universities in the UK are different from those in China. Most college students who study in the UK have to solve the problem of accommodation by themselves, live in boarding families, or share houses with friends and classmates.

The land in London is expensive. Generally, universities are located in the city center and are integrated with the city, so students rarely can rent suitable apartments around the school.

It can only be a freshman's treatment to be arranged to live in a school dormitory, although the dormitory is overcrowded in the eyes of most British people.Wang Rui lives in a large villa in the suburbs with a group of foreign friends.

Wang Min and Yu Nian were arranged to live in the student dormitory of the exchange school. It was a British Victorian-style building. From the red brick walls and cornices to the old wooden floors and bay windows inside, everything gave people a sense of nostalgia. a feeling of.Like an ancient building in a fairy tale, there are memories of the times buried everywhere.

Although the building is old, its internal thermal facilities are not inferior to the small hotel outside.

The inside is decorated as an apartment-style suite, one room per person, and three or five people usually share a kitchen and living room.The only downside in the separate bedroom is that the bed is too small.The hard board beds in Beijing University are all [-] centimeters wide, but in the dormitory they live in now, the beds are only [-] centimeters wide!

As soon as Wang Rui saw the arrangement, he thought of his hard life in British high school, and suddenly felt chest tightness, shortness of breath, depressed, and found an excuse to go out for a walk first.

After putting down his luggage, Wang Min took out his laptop and was anxious to connect to the Internet.

It was eleven o'clock in the evening domestic time, and it was almost time for Xiao Long's bedtime!He logged on to QQ, and sure enough, he saw Xiao Long's little penguin head bouncing from left to right.

Click on the window and see a bunch of messages, "Did you go to school?", "I'm back from self-study", "Brother, get online soon!", "I'm going to take a shower first, come quickly!"...

The corner of Wang Min's mouth raised unconsciously, he tapped the keyboard, and sent——

Yushi Feiyu: "Here we come."

Xiaolongnvbunv sent you a Window Jitter.

Wang Min: "..." Didn't you say I went to take a bath...

Xiaolongnv Bunv sent a video request.

Wang Min clicked to accept, and saw that the picture on the screen kept shaking up and down. When the angle stabilized, several curious heads appeared on the screen...

Xiao Long sat in the middle wearing pajamas, his eyes wide open, his face curious and excited.

He was surrounded by Yu Zhizhi, Deng Bin, Huang Yu, Zhao Bai, Luo Xingtun...

"Wow! Brother Wang, have you arrived in England?"

"where are you?"

"You've become a foreigner, you're different from us!"

"Hello! How is the Great Britain!"

"elder brother!"

"Cough." Wang Min talked for a while, dismissed the curious gossip group, and was finally able to chat with Xiao Long alone, and Xiao Long asked with a silly smile: "Brother, what are you doing?"

Wang Min: "I'm chatting with you, idiot."

"You're an idiot~" Xiao Long continued to smirk, "Have you eaten yet?"

Wang Min: "What do you think?" He came all the way non-stop to "see" you!

Xiao Long: "I'll go to sleep after seeing you, you have to remember to eat."

Wang Min: "Yes, I know."

Xiao Long: "Where's Yu Nian?"

Wang Min: "He lives downstairs from me. We ate several meals on the plane, and we're not hungry yet. We'll eat later to adjust the time difference. It's only past three o'clock in the afternoon here."

Xiao Long: "Hey, I really want to go to England with you."

Wang Min: "My visa won't expire until the end of October this year. Do you want to come and play during your vacation?"

Xiao Long: "Visa fees are so expensive, and air tickets are so expensive, I can't afford them."

Wang Min: "..."

Their exchange trip was not as expected.Wang Min originally thought that he had to pay for all expenses except tuition fees, but he didn't expect the school to give him a scholarship.In other words, most of the expenses they incurred during this process can be reimbursed, including the round-trip air ticket costing nearly 1 yuan.

Halfway through the video, Wang Min received a text message from the respondent.

Both of them are Chinese, and one is a senior who graduated from Peking University. Yu Nian met through a friend from the student union.Two directly subordinate students were coming to exchange, and he enthusiastically expressed his willingness to receive them personally.

The other is a Chinese student who was found by the seniors at the age when they were going to join the class. He came to the UK to study as soon as he graduated from high school.The other party knew that friends from Beijing University came to exchange, so naturally they wanted to get acquainted!

Wang Min and Xiao Long said good night, packed up their things briefly, and then went to meet those two friends with Yu Nian.

The four of them knew each other and exchanged pleasantries, and each reported his family history.

At this time, the communication between people is often no longer "you", but "who you are".

It seems like old friends at first sight, but hidden behind it is the "profit" that has never been brought to the surface: maybe one day you can help me, but before that, I will do my best according to the value you can provide to help you.Maybe as soon as we turned around, we seemed to have never known each other—such a strange social relationship.

The senior took them to buy phone cards, and then invited them to drink coffee.

Yu Nian's mobile phone has been unable to receive the signal, and he just remembered that his 500 yuan gadget may not support foreign use.

At the instigation of his senior, Yu Nian decided to sign a contract mobile phone locally, and the price was not so unacceptable.

At this point, he doesn't want to make himself look a bit out of place, even though he has received too many shocks since he got off the plane, from the mineral water converted into RMB 30 in the airport shop, to the tip of more than 20 yuan for just taking a taxi, Then there is the coffee with a price of nearly [-] yuan... This level of consumption is simply horribly high!

If it weren't for the school's monthly subsidy of [-] pounds, he would not be able to live in this city with his own ability.A year before this, Yu Nian never thought that he would "go abroad".Maybe he didn't feel anything at all during this step-by-step process, but in the blink of an eye his life has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Generous scholarships, a first-class academic environment, a gradually improving living standard, an ever-improving ideological realm, and high-level people in contact...all of these made him feel that he was no longer the narrow self he used to be.

"What are you thinking? So preoccupied." The senior in a gray sweater sat across from Yu Nian and asked with a smile.

The senior is Luo Heng. After graduating from Peking University, he studied in the UK. He plans to study for a doctorate at the same school next fall, focusing on the securities industry. Although he still plans to continue his studies, Luo Heng is not the kind of nerd who thinks he is studying. My uncle who works in a securities company is an intern.

Luo Heng was originally the vice chairman of the Student Union of the School of Management when he was at Peking University, and it was no accident that he met Yu Nian.When I returned to Beijing for Christmas last year, I was invited by my old classmates to watch the New Year’s Eve party of Beijing University. It was there that I met this beautiful boy with a hint of melancholy in his eyes.

After that, I paid close attention to this person all the time, and asked my schoolgirl to help him find a part-time job. When I learned that he was going to take the IELTS test, I asked someone to send him the test materials.

Yu Nian always thought that friends from the student union were helping him, but he never knew that the mastermind behind this was Luo Heng.

Luo Heng hid it well, did not reveal his purpose, and expressed his enthusiasm just right.

Yu Nian said: "It's nothing, I just feel a little weird."

Luo Heng: "Huh?"

Yu Nian: "Yesterday I was in Beijing, but now I'm drinking coffee in London."

Luo Heng laughed loudly and said, "Then I'm much slower than you. I stayed in London for half a year before I realized that I was abroad."

Everyone laughed.

While stirring the brown liquid in the cup, Wang Min looked at the time on his wrist, it was already midnight at Xiao Long's place, should he sleep, would he dream of himself?

In the evening Luo Heng wanted to invite them to dinner, but Wang Rui had already made a reservation for the meal, so he changed it to the next night.

By dinner time, Wang Min and Yu Nian were already yawning uncontrollably. It was early morning in China, so they hadn't slept all night.

At eight o'clock after eating, the two went back to the dormitory. Wang Min woke up once at one o'clock and once at three o'clock, half asleep until four o'clock in the morning, and finally couldn't help getting up.

In winter in London, it will be nearly nine o'clock before dawn.

Wang Min boiled a pot of hot water and surfed the Internet for a while out of boredom, but Xiao Long was not online.

It was dark outside, Wang Min felt a little lonely, and suddenly missed Xiao Long, his voice, his smile, his acting like a baby to himself, and his softly asking: "Brother, what are you doing..."

……

At this moment, Yu Nian was also lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling with his eyes open.

He believes that there are two periods of time when people are most vulnerable: one is when they cannot fall asleep late at night, and the other is when they wake up early in the morning.

At this moment, he thought of Yang Jiayue.

It is only now that I feel that in China, it seems to be a very convenient thing to get in touch, but now, it is a bit troublesome to go online to report safety.

Sitting on the bed with a laptop in his arms, connected to the wireless network, logged on to the barely used QQ, and found Yang Jiayue.

Yang Jiayue's name on QQ is "Si", while Yu Nian takes his original name. There are not many people on his QQ, and all of them are people he knows in real life.

Yu Nian remembered that he once asked Yang Jiayue why he was called "Si", and Yang Jiayue said that it was because there were people he missed.

Yu Nian asked, who do you miss, your girlfriend?Yang Jiayue refused to say any more, and cleverly changed the subject.

There is Yang Jiayue's offline information on QQ, a few simple words: message me when you arrive.

Yu Nian also replied to him very succinctly: Here we are.

It is the style of their communication.

Looking at Q again, seeing that Wang Min is also online, Yu Nian clicked on his profile picture and sent: "[Drip Khan] Are you awake too?"

Wang Min: "[Dihan] Well, I haven't adjusted the jet lag, so I can't sleep."

Yu Nian: "It's very interesting for us to chat like this."

Wang Min: "Hehe, yes, upstairs and downstairs."

Yu Nian: "Are you hungry?"

Wang Min: "Fortunately, I have some biscuits here, would you like?"

Yu Nian: "Well, I'll come up."

When Yu Nian went to Wang Min's room, Wang Min was digging out two packs of vegetable garden pancakes from the box, as well as snacks such as shredded squid, vacuum-packed braised duck legs, and plums.

"So much food, you really want it." Yu Nian said.

Wang Min smiled and said, "Xiao Long bought it."

There was only one stool in the room, and Wang Min piled food on the floor, and the dormitory was carpeted.

The two sat on the floor, and Wang Min boiled a pot of water. He kept using the disposable plastic cups brought over from the airport.

Yu Nian didn't have a cup, so Wang Min poured plums on a paper towel and gave Yu Nian a jar of plums. The two ate duck legs and drank with relish.

"You and Xiao Long are so nice." Yu Nian said suddenly.

Wang Min nodded: "Well, he is the most important person in my life."

"Why?" Yu Nian was taken aback when he heard that. Who can become the most important person in his life?And it's not one of them!What about after that, if someone more important appears? "What about your parents?..."

"Oh, no," Wang Min replied without thinking at all, "Parents are just parents, they can't accompany me through the whole life, they raise me up, give me the affection I deserve, and complete the tasks that should be done. I also have the responsibility to fulfill them, as a son, that's all. If someone else is their son, they will do the same."

Yu Nian: "...Then, if you get married in the future, what about your wife and children?"

Wang Min smiled and said: "I won't get married. When it comes to children, it's the same as what I just mentioned. If I have a child, I will give him the father's love he deserves. He has his own life. He will also find his most important person, and I cannot accompany him to the end."

Yu Nian: "..."

Wang Min: "Only Xiao Long is different. He will accompany me all the way. He only belongs to me, and I belong to him. If it were someone else, I don't have the confidence, but he, I don't think we will be separated."