Lin Chen told Shen Yue the news, saying that he would go to Meidi with her when school started, which made the young lady very happy.
One day in early September, Shen Yue's parents took her to the airport. They originally wanted to send her to Mei Di, but Lin Chen said he was going there too. Since Lin Chen was accompanying her, they felt relieved, since it was quite troublesome for Shen Yue's mother, a public servant, to go through the approval process for going abroad.
"Yueyue, take good care of yourself over there. Don't be stingy with money. Call us if anything happens."
"I know my parents know, so I'll go for a year, and I'll basically stay at school the whole time. I'll be back soon."
"Lin Chen, then I'll leave it to you."
"Oh, don't be so polite, uncle and aunt. Don't worry, I'll make sure Chen Yue is settled in."
After a long flight of more than ten hours, the plane landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
After getting off the plane, Lin Chen stretched. Sitting on the plane for so long had made him feel dazed.
The two of them, carrying their luggage, took a taxi and checked into a five-star hotel near Columbia University.
After a night's rest, the two had breakfast at the hotel restaurant the next morning.
"Why is there only sandwiches and coffee? I really want to eat steamed buns, mantou, fried dough sticks, and porridge. If all else fails, I'll cook you a bowl of instant noodles."
The young lady looked at the huge buffet restaurant but had no appetite at all, so Lin Chen patted her head.
"What are you thinking? How could the American people possibly make steamed buns and fried dough sticks? Haven't we already said that international students who can cook are as popular as A-list celebrities when they go abroad?"
"Sigh, it's a pity I didn't inherit my mother's cooking skills; all I can do is make fried rice with eggs."
After breakfast, Lin Chen accompanied Shen Yue to the Academic Affairs Office of the University of Colombia. After submitting the relevant materials, the staff member said warmly, "We have received your materials. After we review them, we will notify you to come to class in about a week."
Lin Chen almost swore. "I've already given you the materials, why don't you just review them directly? Why does it take another week? What's wrong with you? Do you, an American, have to use Baidu Translate to translate every sentence because you can't understand English words?"
Shen Yue said thank you, tugged at Lin Chen's clothes, and left.
"No, Miss, you can tolerate this attitude? Even if it's not like our great motherland where you only have to make one trip, it shouldn't take more than a week to look at these materials."
"There's nothing we can do. That's just how things are done abroad. Forget about schools, even if you go to the hospital for a checkup, they might make you go home and wait half a month after you've registered. Otherwise, why do you think there's such a small population abroad?"
"I get it. So this is the law of nature, survival of the fittest. If you can't survive, you go to see God. If you can, it's God's blessing."
"So what do we do next?"
"I'm going to sign contracts with two investment banks tomorrow, and I don't have anything to do today, so let's go take a look."
The two took a taxi to Broadway, New York's most famous pedestrian street.
"Ah, Lin Chen, I suddenly really want to drink Heytea."
"I want to too."
Lin Chen's eyes darted around, and he said, "How about we open a Heytea shop in America, so that the people of America can also experience Chinese tea culture?"
Shen Yue looked at Lin Chen in astonishment. "Ah, no, I mean, is this what tea culture means?"
Lin Chen thought it was feasible, so he made an international call to the fat man who was still sleeping.
The person who answered the phone was actually Senior Sister Yan. Lin Chen was hit with a critical strike right from the start, and a mouthful of blood was stuck in his throat.
"Hello? Huh, why isn't anyone answering? Oops, I grabbed the wrong phone."
"Hey, Brother Chen, can you hear me?"
The fat guy took the phone from Senior Yan and said...
"Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit, you fatso, you beast!"
"Ahem, Brother Chen, you've misunderstood. We're out camping."
"Hiss, Fatty, is the indoor space no longer enough for you?"
"Brother Chen, you're practically the Lich King! Even a pure guy like me is being corrupted by you."
"Hey, Fatty, I feel like once you finish the Heytea Wanda project, you might not be alone anymore."
"Brother Chen, why are you swearing?"
“What I mean is, you might be the head of the household.”
"Hahaha, thank you for your kind words."
"However, in order to prevent anything from happening to you before you reach the legal age, I have decided to let you continue to run the Heytea branch in Meidi."
"What the heck? Meidi is opening a Heytea branch?"
"That's right. In ancient times, Zhang Qian brought tea to the Western Regions, and now Wang Kaixuan is bringing milk tea to America. How about that? Doesn't it instantly sound more sophisticated?"
"Brother Chen, can I not go?"
"Whether you come or not, your senior Yan is definitely coming. You decide what to do."
"Well, since you've put it that way, then I'll take on this great task."
“You should open one in New York first. The young lady will be staying in New York for a year, so she can often feel the taste of home.”
"Brother Chen, I'm too embarrassed to call you out on this. Okay, okay, I'll come next month."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Chen said to Shen Yue with a heavy heart, "I thought Fatty was as pure as me, but I didn't expect that there are too many temptations in this world, and no one can stick to their original intentions like I have."
Shen Yue giggled non-stop. Being able to drink milk tea from her hometown in a foreign land, especially since Lin Chen had done this especially for her, made her extremely happy.
The two spent the whole day strolling and eating on Broadway Pedestrian Street, and even saw a play, but unfortunately Lin Chen didn't understand it very well, thinking it wasn't as good as Iron Man.
That evening, the two chose an upscale restaurant and had a rather unpleasant experience with red wine steak.
Are you happy today?
"I'm so happy, hehe, but the food here just doesn't suit my taste. I don't know what I'm going to do for the next year, boohoo."
"How about I go to Chinatown and find you a cook?"
"No need for that. It's fine to just go to Chinatown occasionally for a meal to improve your diet."
"You live in the dormitory arranged by the school, so you shouldn't be allowed to cook, right?"
"That seems to be the case, and even if I could start a fire, I wouldn't know how to do it, hehe."
"Want to continue shopping?"
"I'm exhausted, let's go back."
After the two finished paying their bill and walked to the roadside to hail a taxi back to the hotel, a black man suddenly rushed out of the alley, holding a gun and pointing it at them.
This terrified the young lady, and Lin Chen quickly shielded her behind him.
"Hey, Black guy, calm down. What do you want? We're all set."
"Quickly take out all your valuables."
"OK, OK, don't get excited, I'll get it for you right away."
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