"Mr. Lu Mingfei? Green tea or black tea?” The dapper waiter went to the table and questioned Lu Mingfei, who was caught in the middle by his aunt and uncle.
“At what price?" Uncle showed the custom of visit high places frequently.
“Professor Guderian booked the presidential suite, so they"re all free.”
“American schools are rich!" Aunt was instantly awed by Ca.s.sel College.
“Ding". The elevator opened its door and a strapping old man of grizzled hair strode toward the table that leans on a window. His left side was Ye Sheng and his right side was Aki Shutoku. A handsome boy and a beauty, majestic. He came up without saying a word but hold the hand of Lu Mingfei, “h.e.l.lo! Lu Mingfei!"
“h.e.l.lo… Professor… Guderian …" Lu Mingfei was a bit embarra.s.sed before the outpouring of enthusiasm. “You speak good Chinese.”
Professor Guderian"s eyes lit up and he scratched his head happily. "I learned from CCTV news, our college popularizes the Chinese, everyone knows that China will become the most prosperous place in the world!” He looked at Lu Mingfei with flashing eyes and soliciting expressions. “You don"t need English to join us, the whole school students speak Chinese.”
Lu Mingfei blinked. What does he mean? Speak Chinese? No need to speak English? In his life, there is no bright spot, maybe only the TOFEL transcript can be counted. If the only bright spot is ignored, why does Ca.s.sel College want him? On this first meeting Professor Guderian"s face, he can only simply see “overjoyed” expression.
“h.e.l.lo, Professor Gu. I"m Lu Mingfei"s uncle.” Uncle was unwilling to be ignored and squeezed between Professor Guderian and Lu Mingfei.
Unable to remember Guderian, he neatly simplified it to “Professor Gu”.
“Your uncle and nephew don"t look like each other at all!” Professor Guderian shook hands with Uncle.
This time it was uncle"s turn to be embarra.s.sed. Although Professor Guderian was very grand and living in the presidential suite, he seems to be a little out of line.
Ye Sheng pulled Professor Guderian"s sleeve at the back, and the three men sat across the table.
“Let"s have breakfast first.” Professor Guderian was holding knife and fork, but his sights had never leave Lu Mingfei.
Lu Mingfei felt that his eyes were like those of a gluttonous person looking at a roast chicken, full of expectation.
The expensive breakfast consisted of salmon rolls and freshly squeezed lemon juice, and the sterling silver cutlery, which was quite imposing, all at once dispelled Uncle"s displeasure, for there was no shame on doesn"t look like his nephew, anyway. The guests and guests enjoyed themselves.
Professor Guderian praised Lu Mingfei for his excellent performance in the interview. Uncle was also happy to say that he knew Ca.s.sel College was an American n.o.ble school when he saw it. This atmosphere made it impossible for Chinese universities to compare with it.
Ye Sheng made full preparations and took out a copy of the formal college license registered in the United States Department of Education for Aunt"s viewing, and took out a photo alb.u.m to introduce that this is the library of Ca.s.sel College, this is the sports hall of Ca.s.sel College, this is the concert hall of Ca.s.sel College… The college style in the photo was ancient and elegant, like a completely renovated old castle.
Another photo shows Ye Sheng himself on a sailboard, racing with thousands of sails behind him. Ye Sheng said it was the college"s annual regatta, and Ca.s.sel had beaten the University of Chicago for the third year in a row.
Aunt was also dumped, praised that our Mingfei must a blessing in previous lives to enter your school.
Lu Mingfei had a strange feeling. This seems to marry a girl; he is a daughter that will waste money to stay at home but can earn betrothal gift when married. The male side is very anxious and the girl"s family is also happy to go with the current.
He took his courage out. “Professor Guderian… What does your college see in me?”
“Comprehensive quality! Great potential!” Professor Guderian did not seem to joke at all. “We admire you so much that we not only want to admit you but also give you a scholarship. I have decided to allocate $36,000 a year from my name for the scholarship, enough for you to finish four years of college!”
Aunt and Uncle gasped at the same time.
“Professor Gu… This…… What are the strings attached? Something like paying back the money or… We must make it clear." Uncle felt wrong.
“No! Never! The scholarship is to reward your nephew because he is excellent!” Professor Guderian is very strict.
“That sounds so fake.” Uncle shook his head.
“There are other reasons, of course. Lu Mingfei"s parents, who happen to be our honorary alumni, have donated money to the college. Under the same conditions, we will give priority to the children of our alumni."
Lu Mingfei suddenly looked up. There"s like a little bunny jumping. He has forgotten how long he has not received news from his parents, and every time his mother wrote a letter is just to tell him to take care of himself and study hard, all the same. Lu Mingfei sometimes felt that those letters were perfunctory to him like his parents did not care about him.
“They care about you.” Professor Guderian said: "I haven"t met them either, but I"ve heard that they"ve been working on very important projects all over the world over the years. I have a picture of them here, oh, yes, and a letter from your mother to the college about you."
He took a photograph out of his pocket and put it in front of Lu Mingfei. The photo shows the garden in summer, the Ca.s.sel college in the setting sun in the distance, and the vine wall nearby. It"s dark and transparent green. A man and a woman are walking in the vine wall hand in hand. The man is in a loose white shirt and flares, with a pair of plank wooden slipper. The woman wears white cotton clothes.
Lu Mingfei put out his finger and gently touched the two faces on the scene. The handsome man and the beautiful woman were his parents, but they were so far away from him, in the corner of the world where he would never go. His nose was a little sour. The picture showed a man and a woman looking at each other"s faces with a warm smile. It was obviously a two-person world, and they probably forgot about having a child together.
Aunt made a pointed comment. “Two old people but very romantic!”
Professor Guderian handed Lu Mingfei another letter, very short, typed, probably an email:
Dear Principle Ange,
I haven"t contacted you for a long time. I hope you are as healthy as before.
We should not see each other for a long time. Recent research has made new progress and we can"t leave.
There is something I would like to ask you. My child, Lu Mingfei, is over 18 years old. He is a smart child and his grades may not be so good, but we both believe that he can do something. If it"s possible, please Ca.s.sel College provides help on receiving this child.
Can"t say to him personally, I have to ask you to convey for me that daddy and mommy love him.
Sincerely,
Jovany
Lu Mingfei read the letter silently and did not speak for a long time.
Professor Guderian cleared his throat and suddenly looked at Lu Mingfei"s eyes, with a very affectionate tone and not quite standard p.r.o.nunciation, “MingFei, daddy and mommy love you."
Lu Mingfei stared and dumbed down.
“The princ.i.p.al insisted that I must take your parents" greetings to you. He CARES about you, too.” Said Professor Guderian.
This awkward conversion made Lu Mingze can"t help but laugh, the same as Aunt and Uncle. Lu Mingfei"s mother Jovany said that sentence so gentle, it moves people to tears, but it was told by a white-bearded old man, then there is a burst of dislocation. Ye Sheng and Aki Shutoku also shook their heads and smiled bitterly. Professor Guderian put out his arm and patted Lu Mingfei"s shoulder vigorously.
The atmosphere at the table was suddenly harmonious.
“I"m going to the bathroom.” Lu Mingfei stood up.
Lu Mingfei backed against the bathroom door. He was quiet for a while then tears flew down silently.
The people all laughed, but he saw nothing funny about this.
In fact, it is very touching. It"s been so many years, he grew to 18 years old, no one EVER CARES what he thinks, no one EVER CARES what he does, again and again on the way home from school to watch the students were picked up by the car. Looking back at the dust of the cars and thinking that he should say maybe no one in the world loves him?
“Mingfei, daddy and mommy love you.”
Lu Ming did not believe that when he saw it on the paper, he actually did not feel anything, but it"s told from Professor Guderian"s mouth, he suddenly believed.
“I love you” is something you have to speak by mouth. It"s not the same as writing it down on paper. Especially to a wilted child who lacks love.
Lu Mingfei felt like it"s silly too, but the sadness in his heart cannot be eliminated, so he had to hide in the bathroom. He leaned on the door to crouch down and drew circles on the ceramic tile. He will wait until the tear did not flow again and he can go out.
At this time a pair of dark purple running shoes appeared in front of him.
Lu Mingfei looked up in surprise. In front of him stood a girl with running shoes, a pair of skinny jeans, a small white vest, a short blue shirt with vertical stripes and a baseball cap on the top of her head.
Lu Mingfei felt something wrong, but he could not understand so he can only blink.
The tall and bright girl looked sideways at Lu Mingfei. The silver four-leaf clover pendant on her earlobe was rickety, and the diamonds embedded in it were dazzling.
“This is the women"s washroom.” The girl slowly revealed the problem to Lu Mingfei.
Lu Mingfei returned to the table with his head down, and the pretty tall girl followed him with a cold face.
“Aye? Nuo Nuo, I thought you ran out to play." Professor Guderian stood up, “Introduction, grade two student Chen Motong, Chinese, our student examiner; this is your new schoolmate, Lu Mingfei."
“Nuo Nuo?" Lu Mingfei stunned, the name sounds familiar.
“I had a meal in a roadside restaurant last night and my stomach was not very well. I was in the bathroom before.” Chen Motong sat next to the wine.
“Why didn"t you ask me to join you? I want to eat that kind of thing called roadside restaurant very much.” Professor Guderian was sorry. “I"ve heard about it in the news.”
“You know that from the news about gutter oil?” Chen Motong picked up her knife and fork and took the last salmon roll from Ye Sheng"s plate.
“I have one more. Give it to you, too.” Aki Shutoku forked her salmon roll to Chen Motong.
“You work together as a couple. Why don"t you get married?" Chen Motong mumbled, her mouth was stuffed with salmon rolls.
Ye Sheng and Aki Shutoku looked at each other with a little reluctance and embarra.s.sment.
Lu Mingfei was very grateful that the girl did not say his embarra.s.sment, but after she appeared at the table, the atmosphere immediately dissipated. Chen Motong sat at the window of the position and looked no one. She"s just smearing b.u.t.ter on the bread. The sun rendered her long hair to an extremely dark red, like wine.
This was the first ever time Lu Mingfei had met a girl like this. Not like Su Xiaoqiang, she did not care so much about the way others looked at her. Either like Chen Wenwen, so delicate and silent that she avoided the eyes of others. Chen Motong looks like a proud princess who doesn"t care about anything. Even when she looks at you directly, she makes people feel that she doesn"t really have you in her eyes.
Uncle was peeking at the wrist of Chen Motong. Lu Mingfei knew what he is looking at, it"s the silvery OMEGA watch on her wrist that inserts diamond.
“Do you mind if I eat yours?” Chen Motong took the napkin to wipe her mouth and stared at Lu Mingfei.
Lu Mingfei had to nod his head. It was not easy that such a proud princess would look at his eyes and talk to him… For a salmon roll.
“Nuo Nuo, be polite and take care of your new schoolmate.” Said Professor Guderian.
“He has no appet.i.te,” Chen Motong glanced at Lu Mingfei. "You see, he"s so perturbed that he might go to the wrong washroom."
Lu Mingfei stunned, Chen Motong spit out her tongue and took the whole breakfast plate to her side.
“Oh? Really? Mingfei, you still have problems?” Professor Guderian looked into Lu Mingfei"s eyes and said, “The opportunity to enter Ca.s.sel college is very rare! You must cherish!”
“I… I have to think about it." Lu Mingfei bowed his head.
Uncle, Aunt and Lu Mingze were silly and began to doubt the mind of Lu Mingfei. What else did he think? That"s a pie that all people want, he should open his mouth to catch it.
Professor Guderian was very nervous, "The college can do anything for you!”
“No,” said Lu Mingfei, shaking his head. “I… “
“It"s a girlfriend.” Chen Motong was turning her fork with Lu Mingfei"s salmon roll. “Let"s see, white… Long-haired… Very gentle… Quiet…… 1.65 meters tall… Cla.s.smate girl. Well, that"s about it."
She looked out of the window and chewed as if n.o.body were there.
Lu Mingfei shivered. Lu Mingze"s ears became upright immediately, Uncle and Aunt also cast suspicious sights. There was a sudden silence on the table, except for the clear sound of Chen Motong chewing the salmon roll.
“Nuo Nuo, stop that now.” Aki Shutoku said.
“Just kidding.” Chen Motong pushed the empty plate forward and showed her bright white teeth. She threw a beautiful but unkind smile at Lu Mingfei. "We are not familiar with each other, aren"t we? Even if he had a girlfriend, I wouldn"t know who that was."
Everyone exhaled in unison, and Professor Guderian was relieved.
“Our Mingfei not going to fall in love, right?" Aunt was quite gratified, Lu Mingfei did not hide from her secretly looking for a girlfriend, this let her feel that her leadership in the home has not been shaken. And she also felt that no one should be so blind to love Lu Mingfei. All the schoolgirls are princesses in the home, why him?
“Who would love me?" Lu Mingfei chewed and chewed with asparagus in his mouth so that his mouth was always moving. By this, he didn"t have to pretend to be anything.
“Study life always needs to go first,” Uncle said.
“You"re updating your base to level three.” Chen Motong said of a sudden.
Lu Mingfei"s heart trembled and his asparagus fell onto the plate.
In the dead of night, Lu Mingfei was sitting in front of his laptop, hanging two things on the screen at the same time, QQ and StarCraft.
He was complained by Uncle and Aunt about a whole day, said he was completely ungrateful and left Professor Guderian there and said he should consider this.
“What else do you want? You want to go to Harvard?” Aunt finally snorted disdainfully out of her nostrils.
He was guessed correctly by Chen Motong. It"s because of Chen Wenwen.
Lu Mingfei read a StarCraft novel, called “The b.l.o.o.d.y Totem” 1), said that a giant robot fighting on the alien planet while chatting with an earth girl. The “G.o.dzilla” giant robot shooting Zergling under leaden clouds, while talking with the little girl warmly.
One day G.o.dzilla told the little girl that I was going to die. My battery was running out of juice.
The little girl said you were funny. You thought you were really a big robot? If you don"t want to talk about it, just don"t. See you tomorrow.
G.o.dzilla said it was nice talking to you.
Then it was forced to disconnect. On a distant planet, a grumpy Zergling jumps onto the wreckage of a giant robot and tears its circuits with claws.
Lu Mingfei feels like he is a giant robot, and Chen Wenwen is the little girl. Sometimes Chen Wenwen will talk about her secrets with Lu Mingfei, which made him happy and replied to a variety of lovely expressions to show he is listening carefully. But Chen Wenwen will never find why Lu Mingfei did so, nor why he hanging on QQ to wait for her. One day the circuit of this giant robot was broken, he will also don"t know if Chen Wenwen will feel sad.
Lu Mingfei thought about and felt sad. There is a kind of feeling of battery fluid flowing from his heart and circuit crackling around him.
The chatting group of the literary club was quiet. If Chen Wenwen is absent, their literature will never be discussed. People talk about the beauty of literature, mainly because of the beauty of Muse, Muse wears a white cotton dress sitting in the sun, her hair fluttering, which is the beauty of literature.
In the StarCraft channel, Old tang was teaching secrets with a group of people, since he defeated the Lu Mingfei, he boasted himself as first place in the channel.
The icon of big face cat was flashing, “Nuo Nuo” went online.
Lu Mingfei hesitated. “Is that you?”
“Ah, Chen Motong.” Nuo Nuo"s answer seems lazy, “There is nothing to do so I come to play."
“How do you know my ID?
“Human flesh search. Hey. you are using such a girly ID ‘mingming" …… and ‘Sunset Marks"… So weird."
“How could you search for that? Keep it a secret. I just use it to play with my brother."
“Kidding. Norma found it. It"s a piece of cake for her. You"re good at StarCraft.”
“Nah, I lost to you.”
“I lost, Norma and I played together, and the two of us controlled the base. At last, I knew you were at level 3 because Norma had secretly opened the map and seen it."
“Cheating kills the whole family!" Lu Mingfei typed this sentence.
Just casually, this word in the group was said by everyone, no one really ever took that seriously.
“I"m the only one in my family.” Nuo Nuo replied.
Lu Mingfei froze for a moment. “I"m sorry.”
“Sorry about that? “Nuo Nuo answered very insipidly, “Play a game?”
“Not in the mood.”
“Lovelorn?
Lu Mingfei trembled slightly. Nuo Nuo, likes a little witch, had seen through his everything so that he had no place to live.
“Not yet… I have even no girlfriend and can"t be brokenhearted certainly, what do you want sis?” he typed.
“Quite sweet on calling sister,” said Nuo Nuo, throwing a grin. “Come on, tell me what"s going on, and I might be able to help.”
“What are you going to do? You don"t even know her."
“I DO don"t know Chen Wenwen.” The little witch Nuo Nuo replied very quickly.
“How much do you really know?" Suddenly he was frightened.
“Too much.”
“What…… Who are you?" Lu Mingfei"s hand was shaking a little.
The b.l.o.o.d.y Totem: It"s basically a Chinese StarCraft story. Because the relevant chapter is short I"ll just translate it here.
First Day:
Little girl: Hi, shall we talk?
G.o.dzilla: Ok, I"m free now.
Little girl: Where are you now?
G.o.dzilla: Planet of Lance.
Little girl: Oh. It must be a bleak desert.
G.o.dzilla: Yep. It"s a colony with a red sky.
Little girl: I"m on earth. Our sky is blue and it has lots of white clouds.
G.o.dzilla: Sounds beautiful.
Little girl: Have you been to earth?
G.o.dzilla: No. It"s too far from me.
Little girl: Feel free to come. It"s spring here and the azalea is blooming.
G.o.dzilla: Feel free… Our boss is calling me. I need to go. Bye.
Little girl: Bye.
Second Day:
Little girl: Hey, glad to see you again.
G.o.dzilla: Me too. I"m standing guard.
Little girl: Guard? Are you a soldier?
G.o.dzilla: Yep. I"m killing bugs here.
Little girl: LOL. Do I need to borrow you an insecticide?
G.o.dzilla: Seriously. There are lots of Zerg here.
Little girl: Zerg? Is it a new kind of bug?
G.o.dzilla: Bigger than bug… They are even bigger than humans. They had a really sharp claws.
Little girl: Do you have a gun then?
G.o.dzilla: Yes, it is a high-speed automatic machine gun with a diameter of 32.5 mm, the range of 1500 meters and a firing speed of 900 rounds per second.
Little girl: Wow, sounds so powerful! That must be a heavy weapon.
G.o.dzilla: Yeah. But there"re always endless bugs for me to kill.
Little girl: Horrible.
G.o.dzilla: They are coming. I need to go offline.
Little girl: Take care, see you tomorrow.
(On the next day the little girl told her deskmate that she knew a Lance Warrior on the internet. Her face blushed when her deskmate showed admire expression.)
Third Day:
Little girl: Wow, are you still alive?
G.o.dzilla: Not yet. I"m tough and big.
Little girl: Big can"t help you. I think you said there"re lots of them.
G.o.dzilla: Yes. From yesterday to right now, their attack had never stopped.
Little girl: Oh yeah? So you had a hard fight, right?
G.o.dzilla: They had killed all the people here.
Little girl: Oh my G.o.d. You must run for your life now.
G.o.dzilla: I can"t run. My head and feet were bated.
Little girl: ……Do you feel pain?
G.o.dzilla: I"m lying in the corpse of bugs, their blood is smelly.
Little girl: Bugs are walking in the base all around.
G.o.dzilla: …….
Little girl: I"m dying. My batteries are leaking and I"m run out of power.
G.o.dzilla: I"m really dying. A Zerging is coming to kill me.
Little girl: You…
G.o.dzilla: Goodbye. It"s good to talk to you girl.
"G.o.dzilla" was offline.
Lance Planet. In the human base, A Zergling quickly ran to a big broken human machinery dipped in the pool of blood, the Zergling c.o.c.ked its head to see for a while, it"s a human armoured robot. On its pieces of chest armour, metal hole cracked all sorts of colour of wires were exposed with twittering electronic equipment operation noise, doing some unknown thing. The Zergling raised its sharp silicon paw fiercely and pierced the armour to plunge into the circuit. The ugly human mechanical beating and remains no action.
A little metal piece was flying out when the Zergling grabbed out its claw. There engraved two lines.
"Earth Federal Army, 755 Marine Corps, Heavily Armored Combatbot"
"Armed Sequence GOLIATH, Production number IV454765, Contact t.i.tle — G.o.dzilla"
After 3 hours, Human Military sent the official announcement that Lance Planet was taken by Zerg. But a report about Combatbot IV454765 sent a private message using the military channel invalidly was lost in the war forever.