[Comprehensive British and American] Safe Neighborhood

The bleak autumn passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the cold winter followed.

The bulletin board of the online university announced that the final exam will start after mid-December, and it is expected to end the school year before Christmas Eve.

From the end of November, Sally's inner alarm bell was ringing, and she entered the intense final exam preparation. The five compulsory courses made her exhausted every day, and she was struggling on the verge of collapse.

She lived a depressing life of three points and one line, and she just wanted to get through this disaster quickly...

Ah... English is a pain that can breathe, it lives in every corner of my body...

It hurts to talk, it hurts to eat, even silence hurts...

...Oh, why are you still humming a song!

learn learn...

Realizing that her thoughts had stalled, Sally pulled back her thoughts, pursed her mouth, raised her right hand and slapped her right cheek fiercely, refocused her eyes on the desk, and began to write quickly with her head down.

The days of preparing for the exam were extremely hard, but it was also fleeting. Soon, Sally ushered in the final exam.

Every time she finishes an exam, she feels that a heavy sheet has been lifted from her body, and she feels relieved.

After the exam was over, she was in a good mood, and went out with Fry for a whole day of crazy shopping, and went to the mall to buy some clothes.

While shopping in the mall, she accidentally saw a pure gray scarf knitted with woolen yarn. For some reason, she suddenly remembered Lucas' face and the little white scarf he gave her a few months ago. teddy bear.

...He is still a child who takes his parents' pocket money. Although Lucas looks rich at home, according to Diandra's personality, he will definitely not give him too much.

She had just wandered into a toy store that specializes in dolls, looked around casually, and found that it was exactly the same as the bear that Lucas gave her, and the price was $130.

...$130!What a concept, the original heroine Ashley's total assets are only $500!

...this damn capitalism.

However, $130 is definitely not a small amount for Lucas, and it may be the pocket money that the bear has saved for several months.

"..." Thinking of this, Sally turned over the sign on the scarf and looked at the price.

...$13.

Then took it without hesitation.

...Almost, just one less zero, just treat it as a gift to Lucas.

Sally thought without changing her face.

...She won't take advantage of the bear kid for nothing.

Sally took the scarf to the counter to pay.

After shopping for a whole day and buying a lot of things and returning to the dormitory, Sally was already lying down with sore legs and tiredness, but Flynn still had the leisure to make herself a cup of coffee.

...a goddess is a goddess, no matter what she wears, she is neatly dressed, which is in stark contrast to her female sand sculpture.

"Actually..." Flynn, the big beauty with her two slender legs gracefully tilted up, while stirring the coffee with sugar cubes with a small spoon, said with a troubled face, "...I have recently felt Confused."

"Confused about what?" Sally asked, looking at Flynn's face.

"Hmm..." Flynn stammered, "A boy from China from another school confessed to me a few days ago..."

"!" Sally, who smelled gossip, instantly forgot the soreness of her legs, jumped up from the bed in a second, and wanted to jump on Flynn, "How is it? Is it handsome? Do you have a picture?"

"Hmm... yes." While speaking, Flynn turned on the phone to find pictures from the photo album, and swiped the phone screen to show Sally.

"...This is a photo I took when I went to McDonald's for a summer job, and we were colleagues at the time."

Sally leaned over to take a look, and saw a photo of Flynn and an Asian boy. In the photo, Flynn still had that pretty face with a gentle smile, while the boy next to him looked handsome with slightly pursed lips. It looks a bit youthful and shy.

"... Isn't this handsome!" After seeing the photo, Sally raised her head and gave Flynn a white look, and asked anxiously, "...So why are you still hesitating?"

Hearing Sally's question, Flynn slowly raised her chin with her right hand, and said slowly with a confused face, "Honestly...well, I don't think he likes me. I was scared when he confessed to me two days ago." One jump."

"Although we have exchanged contact information with each other... But he never took the initiative to talk to me, unless I asked him for help..."

"..." It seems that Chinese boys are generally sullen, and it still hasn't changed when they go abroad...

...But who let this matter make her fall in love? !

She, Sally, a purebred Chinese with a soul, she will never allow this damn sweet love to be strangled in the cradle!

Like a worried old mother, Sally grabbed Flynn's slender hand and said earnestly, "Chinese boys are generally more reserved! But they are really gentle in private. He didn't take the initiative to seek you out because he was shy. But when you take the initiative to ask him for help, he will help you every time, which means...he likes you!...fool!"

Seeing Sally's logical analysis, Flynn asked hesitantly, "...do you know Chinese boys well?"

"Of course!" Sally patted her chest and asked, "Have you heard of Little Milk Dog, Little Wolf Dog?"

"?" Flynn shook her head.

"Little milk dog, little wolf dog, is a typical character of Chinese boys," said Sha Li Kepu. "It mainly refers to Chinese boys who are single-minded, gentle and considerate, and never play tricks, take their feelings seriously, and always do things with less talk and more action." , and has a strong sense of responsibility, pampers and loves his girlfriend, is a little milk dog in front of his girlfriend, is obedient and cute, and treats other people completely differently."

In order to show Flynn the advantages of Chinese boys, Sally almost used her life-long boasting vocabulary.

After listening to Sally's popular science, Flynn paused for a few seconds, "But... isn't it strange to compare people to dogs?"

"...What's so strange???" Sally asked suspiciously.

After a few seconds, she realized that this was the difference between Chinese and Western cultures.

European women are generally sunny and generous. They pay attention to the equality of power with men. Take their family relationship as an example. Parents and children, husband and wife, the relationship is mostly respectful, and they respect each other's private space. .

But on the contrary, Chinese women are introverted, gentle and delicate, and what they seek more is unreserved soul harmony with their families and partners.

Therefore, the word "little milk dog" is a complimenting term in China, but it has become an insulting derogatory term in Europe...

...Well...So the contradiction between Chinese and Western cultures has been fighting for hundreds of years...It really can't be explained clearly in a few words.

Sally decided to skirt the subject, she really didn't know how to answer.

So she asked Flynn back, "...and you, do you like this guy?"

Flynn blushed slightly, "...his type is actually quite attractive to me...but..."

Saying this, Flynn paused.

This made Sally very anxious, and she couldn't help asking anxiously, "But what??"

"But... I searched for some information about Chinese boys on the Internet. Some scientists reported in magazines that the size of Chinese boys... is generally... small."

Before the words were finished, Sha Li's eyes were wide open, and she shouted with righteous indignation, "...nonsense! Nonsense!"

"It's obviously seven times a night, so you can't even close your legs, okay?"

Hmph, why, did your European scientists come to China with a ruler to measure them one by one? !

Sha Li, an older leftover woman who has been single for 27 years, has never been in a relationship and never had a boyfriend, but she reads romance novels in Jinjiang every day!How can I say that there are hundreds of books a year!

Even if Jinjiang is not allowed to describe below the neck, but according to her book age of 10 years stationed here, the indescribable things she has seen before can already become the capital for her to talk about this aspect!

Thinking back to those romance novels, which of the novels in which the male protagonist is not crazy and cool?All of them are beautiful in appearance and super capable, and in terms of being with the heroine, they are all big, lively, good, and have many poses...

...Suddenly there are some indescribable pictures in my mind...

cough...

Sally coughed lightly, restraining her increasingly flirtatious smile...

Flynn said softly to Flynn, who was just startled by his roar, "...In short, there are a lot of false information on the Internet, so don't believe all of them. If you are really curious...uh... that The size of the person, you can...you can ask him to go swimming!"

A fake old driver, Sally, began to give bad ideas to the ignorant girl Flynn, "Think about it...go swimming...you can..."

As she spoke, she raised her eyebrows excitedly at Flynn twice, her eyes filled with crazy hints of "Do you understand?"...

"..." Flynn nodded slowly following Sally's movements, "I seem to understand..."

With this one step in hand, Sally continued to be persuasive, "So, what's your next step?"

"I told him online that I would like to try dating him first..." Flynn replied with a smile. "Maybe we'll get along very well."

Hearing her words, the old mother Shali shed tears of relief in her heart, and secretly gave herself a thumbs up.

...Brother, I can only help you so far!

A few days later, Sally and Flynn said goodbye to each other, packed their bags and prepared to go back to Nale's house to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas at the end of this year.

On the day of her return home, Berkeley and Occam came to pick her up at the gate of the university.

Unknowingly, she has been in this strange world for nearly a year. During this year, the Nalai and his wife took care of her a lot, which made her feel the love of her parents in a foreign country after a long absence. They didn't know about Sally's existence, and they just treated the original heroine as they should.

But this does not prevent Sally from repaying their kindness.

In fact, as early as a few days before returning home, she was thinking about what she could do for the Nalai couple. At present, she is still a college student who cannot work and even asks them for money. After thinking about it, she feels that she is the only one What I can do for them is to cook a rich meal for them on Christmas Eve and Christmas Eve.

...I heard that Chinese food is famous all over the world, and there should be no one who doesn't like it, so let her, a local, show her skills.

On the way home, Sally told Berkeley that she had researched Chinese recipes on the Internet during her school days, but because the school didn't have a kitchen available, she had to go home and try it out, and prayed that the two of them would be kind to her on Christmas Eve. Dishes for tasting.

Hearing that their daughter was going to cook for them, the Nalei and his wife were very surprised, and then clapped their hands vigorously in agreement.

After returning home, she put her luggage away, and took the "ingredient sponsorship fund" given to her by Occam and Berkeley to the nearby Wal-Mart supermarket.

Because it was a holiday, Wal-Mart was crowded with people, so Sally pushed a cart and went to the vegetable and fruit section to buy ingredients.

...She first bought some fresh fruits and meat products, and then went to the imported food section to find some Chinese seasonings and sauces she needed.

After selling what she needed, she estimated the total price, and found that nearly half of the food sponsorship fund was left, and there was still a lot...

I also thought about whether the dishes I cooked would be too homely and simple. After all, if you celebrate the festival, you still have to eat a variety of them to have an atmosphere...

Thinking of this, Sally pushed the cart and began to stroll around the supermarket slowly.

After this visit, Sally made an incredible discovery.

She actually found some handy Chinese food in the freezer in the frozen food section!

These Chinese dishes are all prepared and frozen, as long as they are heated in a microwave oven, it will be no different from what she made by herself...

Uh, it's not that she wants to cheat the Berkeleys, it's mainly because she really can't cook some dishes... It will be ok to explain to the Naleys.

An old man in casual clothes was standing next to her. He was holding a magnifying glass in one hand and a convenience food in the other, carefully studying the ingredients on it.

...It seems that Chinese food is really liked by many people.

Sally's heart was full of pride from heaven and earth, and her mood became joyful.

Sally also stood in front of the freezer and began to pick out convenience food.

There were various pictures of food on the dazzling bags, and she picked them up one by one to look at them.

Egg Fried Rice...

Forget it, she'd better cook this for Nalai and his wife herself.

Convenient Xiao Long Bao...

After thinking about the difficulty of making Xiaolongbao, Sally threw it into the shopping cart.

...beef stir fry with broccoli.

Silently put in the freezer.

Chinese Orange Chicken.

I have never heard of it, but there is a word for Chinese, it must be very authentic Chinese food, buy it!

Next, Kung Pao Chicken...Convenient Siu Mai...Convenient Wontons...

Until Sally found a bag with big purple words on it: Kung Pao Chicken Mochi Buns...

Looking at the picture again, I saw that the bun skin made of mochi was wrapped with the stuffing of Kung Pao Chicken...

! ! ! ? ? ?

...Is there really such a dish in heaven? ? ?