zero second lore

Chapter 302 How old are you
"Leave today?"

Lu Yuan did not expect Tang Mi to say that she would leave Los Angeles today and go directly to San Francisco, and then watch the game in San Francisco the next two days, which means staying in San Francisco for two nights.

Tang Mi knew that Lu Yuan was worried about the accommodation, so she directly said that the accommodation, travel expenses, and food were all included, and he didn't need to spend a penny.

Having said that, Lu Yuan became even more worried, because he knew that there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world, and those who were neither relatives nor old friends were willing to bear such a large amount of expenses, just to satisfy him to watch McDonald's All-Stars, Lu Yuan picked Anyway, the brain is still there.

However, the temptation to go to the McDonald's All-Stars is indeed too great. After thinking about it, Lu Yuan said to Tang Mi: "I can promise you, but I will give you all the expenses on the way, and I won't cost you a penny."

At this time, Lu Yuan won't feel bad about money anymore. The so-called cannibalism and softness, he can go to San Francisco to watch the game by accepting favors.

Tang Mi didn't say much, but nodded in agreement. Anyway, her task was to get Lu Yuan to agree to go to San Francisco. She was satisfied when Lu Yuan agreed, and told Lu Yuan to wait for their car at the gate of the school at four o'clock this afternoon.

Lu Yuan was about to leave, he wanted to make a phone call with Jason, and he was going to train with Teresa tonight, it seemed that he was going to ask Teresa for leave.

At this time, Tang Mi suddenly said: "Lu Yuan, you have finished all the exams, can you give me that textbook?"

"Textbooks? What textbooks."

"It's the ESL textbook, which was issued when the school first started."

Lu Yuan remembered that at the beginning of school, Ms. Popper gave everyone a textbook for the ESL test. They were not new, but old and second-hand. Everyone needed to buy this textbook.

In the United States, buying paper books is a luxury for students. New books cost tens of dollars a copy, especially textbooks. Some advanced textbooks may cost hundreds of dollars.

Therefore, most of the textbooks in the school are second-hand, third-hand or even N-hand old books. After students use them up, they usually resell them directly to the next batch of students who need them.

For courses such as language classes, which have a short course of study and do not need to pay attention after the exam, students basically use old books. For the convenience of students, the school directly purchases such second-hand textbooks from the Internet, and then sells them to students at a low price .

After the students use it up, they can return it to the school and get back the book money depending on the newness, or they can resell it by themselves.

Lu Yuan was going to return the old book to the school and get the money back. Tang Mi suddenly asked for this book, which made Lu Yuan feel a little strange. She is already a sophomore in high school and has already passed the language class. Why do she need this book?
Seeing that Lu Yuan was a little puzzled, Tang Mi quickly explained: "Well, it's a school girl of mine who needs it, and she's going to study in the United States soon, so I want to collect some textbooks for her earlier so that she can study in advance so that she won't fail the exam. "

This explanation is reasonable, but Lu Yuan didn't bring the book with him today, because today is the exam, he read the book last night, and finally threw the book on the bedside table.

"I left the book at home, shall I bring it to you next week?"

After hearing Lu Yuan's words, Tang Mi's face flashed with disappointment, and she muttered, "Why do you keep bringing books home..."

Many students in the United States don’t bring books home, but put them in classrooms or lockers. Lu Yuan’s habit is to bring books home, because he still needs to read after returning home.

Lu Yuan didn't quite understand why Tang Mi valued this book so much, maybe that school girl had a good relationship with her.

The two were speechless, Lu Yuan said goodbye to her, and planned to go to the basketball team to practice after lunch, and then called Jason to tell him about going to San Francisco to watch the game, and asked Jason to take a leave of absence by the way.

Lu Yuan didn't dare to go to Teresa directly, let Jason do this kind of troublesome matter.

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At noon, Lu Yuan was still sitting with his African brother Labo. The two could communicate well now. Lu Yuan also taught Labo a few sentences in Chinese, and Labo taught Lu Yuan some French.

While eating, someone suddenly sat next to the two of them. Lu Yuan saw that it was Chu Yuanliang who was usually a loner and taciturn.

Chu Yuanliang seemed to be in a good mood today. He probably did well in the exam, and a big burden was removed from his body. It seemed that a person who had been constipated for a month suddenly became unobstructed.

Seeing that he took the initiative to sit over, Lu Yuan asked him how he was doing in today's exam. Chu Yuanliang raised his eyebrows and said, "It's okay."The typical Chinese student's answer can be seen from the expression, it must be very good.

Anyway, try to pass the language test, the score is not very important, Lu Yuan didn't ask any more questions.

Chu Yuanliang asked, "Hey Lu Yuan, do you have a good relationship with that Tang Mi?"

Chu Yuanliang mentioned Tang Mi, and he saw Lu Yuan and Tang Mi talking in the corridor after the exam in the morning. Lu Yuan nodded, then shook his head, and said, "It's so-so, but they seem to have some club, and they're going to San Francisco tomorrow. Watching the game, I happened to want to go too, so I went with them."

Hearing what Lu Yuan said, Chu Yuanliang showed a strange expression on his face, and asked again: "Hey, do you know what kind of society they are?"

Lu Yuan shook his head. He heard Tang Mi mention this club a few times and asked him to join, but Lu Yuan was not interested at all.

Seeing this, Chu Yuanliang snorted and said, "Lu Yuan, does your family have a lot of money?"

"No, I think so."

"If you don't think so, is there anyone in your family who is a high-ranking official?"

"No, my friend's house has it." Lu Yuan thought of Bai Ye and Labo.

"A friend's house is useless, so I advise you, it's best not to play with people from this club."

"Why, it's a second-generation group. I'm just going to watch the game. I'm not interested in the others."

Chu Yuanliang also wanted to persuade Lu Yuan, but he didn't expect that Lu Yuan was not stupid at all, so he immediately understood that this association must be a small group of overseas second-generation party members.

Nowadays, a large number of Chinese study abroad, especially in the United States. The age of going abroad is getting lower and lower. In the past, they were doctors and postgraduates, and now they are middle school students or even elementary school students.

Families who can send their children abroad so early are often either rich or expensive, the so-called second generation.

These second generations came to a foreign country early, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away. In terms of life, they are carefree and have domestic financial support; in terms of studies, once they are not controlled by their parents, the teaching environment abroad is relaxed, so they have more freedom. Time; coupled with being young and playful, it is easy to be lonely and empty abroad, so many second-generation young people with similar backgrounds gather together to form small groups.

Some are able to help each other and take care of each other, and become good friends; there are also some who have poor self-control and misbehavior, and have learned to live and dream, to be drunk, and to do a lot of absurd things early on.

Lu Yuan has heard of these things for a long time, like Bai Ye who often reminds him to "don't go out and play around", Jia Yumeng sends messages every day to check the post, and that "No. [-]" told him a lot of precautions for studying abroad, It seemed that he was afraid that Lu Yuan would fail his studies abroad.

In fact, even if Lu Yuan wanted to play, he didn't have the time. His passion was in basketball, he was not very interested in girls, and he was poor. The worries of his friends were completely unnecessary.

Seeing that Lu Yuan was well-mannered, Chu Yuanliang swallowed some words in his stomach. In fact, when he first arrived at Wilson High School, he wanted to get involved in this club, but they didn't like him at all. Now that Lu Yuan had the opportunity to join, he didn't The bird club made Chu Yuanliang feel a little jealous, but also a little refreshed.

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In the afternoon, Lu Yuan first went to the basketball team to participate in training. Today the basketball gymnasium is used by the women's team, so the men's team can only train on the concrete field.

Since Lu Yuan joined the team, everyone has been very active in training, because Lu Yuan is too hardworking and serious, and the power of role models is indeed infinite.

In comparison, the head coach Hart is not so energetic. After a few weeks, the team still failed to win, and every game was a narrow loss. In the past, it was a disastrous defeat, which shows that the team's strength is indeed strong. Great progress.

But no matter how much he made progress, he couldn't touch the threshold of winning, which frustrated Hart's aggressiveness, and his face began to grow unshaven again.

Seeing that it will be April, and starting from May, the California league will start. Last year, the team had 28 win and 1 losses in 27 games. It couldn't be worse.

No matter what this year, we must strive to win more than 5 games, otherwise Hart's position as the head coach is estimated to be in jeopardy.

In comparison, the players didn't think much about it. Everyone was laughing and joking while training and playing. Today is Friday, the last day of the week, and there will be no game tomorrow. It's time to be happy.

In this way, the training was over soon. Lu Yuan changed his clothes and checked the time. He would be able to leave in about half an hour.

Lu Yuan first called Jason and said that he would not go home or train tonight, and would go to San Francisco to watch the McDonald's All-Stars.

Jason wasn't worried at all, instead he let Lu Yuan have fun. When Jason was Lu Yuan's age, he had already traveled all over the world with his friends.

"Oh, and one more thing, if you have any problems, you can go to a friend of mine who is also Chinese."

Saying that, after hanging up the phone, Jason sent a business card to Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan saw that it was a man named Zhao Ming.

Lu Yuan thought it might be really useful, after all, he was still a little uneasy when he went to San Francisco with a group of strangers he had never met before, and if he had Jensen's friends around, he would be much more at ease.

Afterwards, Lu Yuan was waiting at the gate of the school. He saw Tang Mi, and the two of them waited together for about 5 minutes before seeing a long black GMC parked at the gate of the school.

The car door opened, Tang Mi greeted Lu Yuan to get in the car together, Lu Yuan got into the car door shortly, and saw a familiar yet unfamiliar face.

"Hi, we meet again, Lu Yuan."

"How old are you? (How old are you?)"

The person Lu Yuan saw was Zhou Junlu, her original long straight hair turned into fluffy curly hair, she sat on the seat with her legs crossed, looking at Lu Yuan with a sly look in her eyes.

(End of this chapter)