22. The first meal at university

  The course schedule for the first semester of freshman year was finally released two days after the start of classes, and the birth of this course schedule once again confirmed the rumor that "although the courses in the Chinese department are dull and uninteresting, the class hours are far less than those of other majors." However, the arrangement of the first and last classes followed a rule that left everyone feeling puzzled, but all the students understood that this was something that could only be passively accepted and not questioned.

  In fact, for students who live in the dormitory, what time to take classes does not make a difference. Even if they forget the class time, they can still rush to the classroom in time. However, for students like Zhi Hua who commute to school, whether the class schedule is reasonable or not is a very important issue - apart from calculating the arrival time, when there are classes in both the morning and afternoon, they also need to consider lunch arrangements.

  For example, on the day she just got her class schedule, Zhihua had to worry about solving the problem of lunch because there was a physical education class from 1:00 to 2:30 in the afternoon.

  Because of the rush, she didn't even get a meal card. In the cafeteria, they only accepted card payments and no cash was taken. Plus, she was completely unfamiliar with the surroundings of the school and its vicinity, and wasn't familiar with her classmates either. So, she decided to go to the convenience store at the school gate to buy some bread to hold her over.

  "Alas, how pitiful!" After class, Zhihua walked out of the classroom, sighing and lamenting, "I never thought that my first meal in college would be so miserable! Not only was I alone, but I couldn't even find a restaurant to eat at! Ha! Is this really the beautiful and elegant ivory tower life? It's simply the tragic world depicted by Victor Hugo..."

  "Hi, Thindy!" Just as Zhihua was still silently complaining in her heart, someone suddenly called out her English name from the front.

  Xī huāng tiào tóu yī kàn, yǎn shén zhōng lì jí shǎn xiàn chū le jīng yà de guāng liàng: "yā"

  "What brings you here?"

  "Haha, I was wondering, how did you end up here?"

  "Me? I'm here for class! How about you?"

  "I'm also a student here! What major are you?"

  "How about you?"

  "Interior Design!"

  "Haha, so you're a student from the Art Institute! No wonder your current image is so unconventional!"

  "Thindy, we rarely meet here, can't you be less sharp with me like in the past..."

  The person who performed the scene of "old friends meeting" with Zhi Hua is named Jia Nan, a male, born in the same year as Zhi Hua and also a Gemini. In fact, Zhi Hua and Jia Nan were not in the same class or school. They became acquainted solely because of Zhi Hua's cousin.

  It turns out that Zhihua's cousin is not only a professional English eight-level master, but also a serious and responsible good teacher, and Jianan is one of her many students.

  The blow of the middle school exam failure to Zhihua was fatal. In order to avenge her past shame, from the first year of high school onwards, Zhihua often asked her cousin to help improve her English level. The place where she and Jianan met for the first time was also at her cousin's school.

  "Zhi Hua, today there will be a boy of the same age as you coming to class. I've been teaching him for a long time, his foundation isn't very good, but he's very smart, so today I'm letting him come over and listen to class with you, see if he can keep up. When he arrives, don't bully him!" Zhi Hua had just entered the classroom when her older cousin said this to her with a serious tone.

  "Sister, don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who bullies the weak!" Zhihua said while flipping through her textbook, "If he's stronger than me, I'll consider him as an opponent. But since his foundation is poor... forget it."

  "Jianan, what are you doing standing outside? Come in quickly!" Seeing her cousin suddenly speak up, Zhihua instinctively turned her head to take a look. It turned out that, without knowing when it started, there was actually someone standing behind her.

  "Hello, Teacher Song!" said the boy named Jia Nan as he sat down beside Zhi Hua.

  "Jianan, this is Zhihua, I've mentioned her to you before, she's my sister. Zhihua, this is Jianan."

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