This university has several student apartments, which are also equipped with a cafeteria. Eating in the cafeteria is much cheaper than eating outside.
Of course, even if the food is cheaper than outside, it is not free. University is not a public school in a poor community.
In addition to eating in the cafeteria, you can also cook your own meals. The student apartments here are all single-person apartments. Each apartment has a usable area of about 20 square meters, with one bedroom and one living room, where you can cook some simple meals.
Lin Yuxun slept all night on the folding bed that Shi Wenzhen had placed in the small living room. He got up early the next morning, first packed up his quilt and bedding and put them in the cabinet, then folded up the folding bed, and then went to the cafeteria to buy two breakfasts.
The breakfast in the cafeteria is much better than the free breakfast in public schools, but the types are similar, just sandwiches, hamburgers and the like. It is obvious that they are prepared by outside food companies and sent to the school, and then heated up and sold at the school.
This is what most schools here do.
After breakfast, Lin Yuxun suggested going out for a walk.
Shi Wenzhen wanted to accompany him, but Lin Yuxun refused. He didn't want to trouble Shi Wenzhen too much.
Lin Yuxun spent the whole morning walking around the area, getting to know the school and the area around it, and bought some food. It was already late when he returned, so he stopped by the cafeteria to buy lunch.
When he left, Cheng Hao gave him all their money, a total of $2,500.
He didn't want to waste a single cent of this money.
Cheng Hao makes money by boxing, while he studies comfortably outside... He can't do this, and he will feel that he is too hateful.
He wanted to find a way to make money, and when he couldn't, he would try to save money, such as cooking, which he could do himself.
The ingredients purchased from the supermarket have basically undergone simple processing. It is very quick to cook these foods. It does not take much time and can save a lot of money.
Moreover, Cheng Hao said that people cannot study all the time. They always need to take a break and exercise in between. He decided to regard going out to buy groceries as exercise and cooking as rest.
When Lin Yuxun returned to Shi Wenzhen's apartment, Shi Wenzhen was still studying in her room. He put the set meal he bought from the cafeteria on the table, and then took out the ingredients to cook.
Chicken wings are quite cheap here, so he bought some and stewed potatoes with them, then stir-fried some vegetables and made a tomato egg drop soup.
The last two dishes were taught to him by Cheng Hao, and he often made them when he was at home.
By the time Lin Yuxun had finished preparing the tomato soup and vegetables, the potatoes and chicken wings stewed together were already smelling delicious.
Although no seasoning was added, the chicken soup was very delicious, and the stew was particularly fragrant.
"What's that smell? What did you buy?" Shi Wenzheng came out of the bedroom and was excited when she saw the stir-fried vegetables on the table: "Stir-fried vegetables!"
The green vegetables that Lin Yuxun bought were just green vegetables, and Shi Wenzhen had never seen this kind of vegetable in China.
But even so, this is still stir-fried vegetables!
Not to mention that Lin Yuxun didn't just stir-fry vegetables, he also made egg drop soup and stewed chicken with potatoes!
Shi Wenzheng took a deep breath. "I didn't expect you could cook! I haven't seen home-cooked meals like this in two years! Two years!"
Ever since going abroad, Shi Wenzhen has been eating foreign food.
He rarely has the chance to eat meat in China, and he is not averse to eating hamburgers and the like, but he misses the rice in China very much.
There are also stir-fried dishes, egg drop soup... He was moved when he saw these home-cooked dishes.
"You like these? Then you can eat more." Lin Yuxun said, "But I'm not very good at cooking."
As Lin Yuxun spoke, he served Shi Wenzheng a plate of stewed potatoes and chicken wings.
Shi Wenzheng didn't have chopsticks, so he used a fork to pick up a piece of potato and put it in his mouth. Even though it was burned, he was reluctant to let go. "What's wrong with your cooking? Your cooking is really good! It smells so good!"
Lin Yuxun's cooking skills are actually very average. After all, he has not received any special training. Moreover, in the United States, he lacks various seasonings and cannot find the ingredients that Cheng Hao wants.
To Cheng Hao, the food made by Lin Yuxun was not really that delicious.
But Shi Wenzhen is a person of this era. When he went out to study, the material resources in the country were very scarce. Many of the seasonings that Cheng Hao liked in modern times were actually not available in China before 1980.
At that time, many people only had three things in their homes: oil, salt and soy sauce.
At the same time, due to the lack of supplies, the food they cooked was watery and not tasty at all.
Shi Wenzhen's family was relatively well-off, but his mother was reluctant to use too much oil when cooking, and stewed chicken was a rare treat.
Lin Yuxun’s cooking skills are already very good to Shi Wenzheng!
Now there’s only one thing missing: “Where’s the rice?”
He could eat three bowls of potato and chicken soup mixed with rice! The gentle Shi Wenzheng now had a big appetite.
"Rice?" Lin Yuxun was stunned. "I didn't buy rice. I'll just eat potatoes today."
For Shi Wenzhen, chicken stewed with potatoes is just a dish, but Lin Yuxun actually treats it as a staple food.
To him, this is a dish that is easy to make, tastes good, and combines staple food and meat together, no different from a hamburger.
He picked up his plate of chicken stewed with potatoes and started eating.
Shi Wenzhen: “…” Shi Wenzhen could only treat the dishes as a meal and eat them.
He missed rice even more.
After Lin Yuxun finished his meal, he borrowed a book from Shi Wenzheng.
He was actually a little uncomfortable being in an unfamiliar environment and interacting with a stranger like Shi Wenzheng, but when he started reading, he forgot everything around him.
He was even happier when he found out that he could use Shi Wenzheng's library card to borrow books from the library.
Unfortunately, the library is closed these days.
On the first day, Lin Yuxun did nothing except adapting to the environment, but on the second day... Lin Yuxun took the initiative to knock on the doors of other students in the apartment building, introduced himself, and said that he would go to the supermarket to buy things every morning in the future, and if they had anything they needed to take, he could help them.
This school is one of the top schools in the United States. Most of the students here are American, but there are also international students from other countries. Most of the people living in this apartment are international students.
Although it is vacation time now, most international students do not go home and stay here.
It was freezing cold and many people were reluctant to go out. When they heard that Lin Yuxun was willing to help them carry things, many of them were tempted, and some even immediately listed a few things they wanted Lin Yuxun to help them carry.
Lin Yuxun wrote them all down and brought them for them.
He told Shi Wenzheng about this.
"You want to build a good relationship with them?" Shi Wenzheng said, "Actually, it's not necessary."
"I want to have a good relationship with them, maybe get some tips." Lin Yuxun said.
Cheng Hao once said that knowledge is important in college, but connections are equally important.
He is not a formal student now, so no one will take the initiative to make friends with him, so he has to take the initiative himself.
As for tips... people here are actually not short of money. If they give him extra money to buy things, he will not accept it when he wants to return it.
Of course, he values money and hopes to use it to earn his living expenses, but his focus is not just on this amount of money. Relatively speaking, connections are definitely more important.
At the same time, if he really meets someone arrogant and unreasonable, he will ignore them.
Cheng Hao said that they are equal and dignity is very important.
Lin Yuxun spoke neither humbly nor arrogantly. Shi Wenzheng looked at him and suddenly felt a little admiration for him.
In the following days, Lin Yuxun was very busy.
He goes out twice a day to buy groceries and cooks at home, and spends all the rest of his time reading.
He even took a notebook to write down some key points in the book, and then he would look at it on the way when he went out to buy things.
Shi Wenzheng is not an introvert, but when he went abroad and faced a large group of people with different skin colors from him, he became less communicative. He didn't know most of the people living in the same apartment building.
However, Lin Yuxun had only been here for a few days when he could already call out the names of most of the people he met on the road. The ones he couldn't name were simply because he hadn't communicated with them yet.
Not only that, Shi Wenzheng also discovered that everyone here actually liked Lin Yuxun very much. As a result, some people who were not familiar with him before would now say hello to him.
Shi Wenzheng gradually stopped treating Lin Yuxun as a child. "When I first met you, Cheng Hao was the only one talking, and you didn't say much. I thought you were shy, but I didn't expect you to be so lively."
"I'm not lively at all." Lin Yuxun said. He was actually afraid of communicating with others, and he didn't even dare to take the initiative to talk to others. He preferred to stay in Shi Wenzheng's apartment and read books every day.
But he can't do that, he needs to grow up.
So, with a little utilitarianism, he took the initiative to contact the people in the apartment.
But he remained true to himself and never tried to take advantage of small gains, so he managed to maintain the relationship.
Shi Wenzheng thought Lin Yuxun was just joking and didn't take it seriously, and Lin Yuxun didn't explain anything.
He went to the bank to open an account for himself, and after opening it at the library, he spent most of his time in the library.
He is of yellow race. In this university, he is not the only one, but he is one of only two. He is conspicuous enough and can leave a deep impression on people... Lin Yuxun read all kinds of books and observed the people in the library. He mustered up the courage to ask the professors in the school various questions.
Cheng Hao once said that you have to fight for your own opportunities. If you want to apply to a university, if you only send one email, people may just read it and put it aside. But if you contact them a few more times and make them remember you, they may accept you.
Among many similar people, they will definitely choose the one that looks familiar.
He tried hard and he performed very well.
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