Chapter 185 Appointment
Afterwards, this rare beauty complained to her about the American-style Chinese food in their fast food restaurant, and Qi Min also expressed her "high opinions" on Chinese food. In short, the other party seemed quite happy to have someone who grew up eating real Chinese food to talk to him about Chinese food, so much so that the two parties left each other's contact information before leaving.
After entering the phone number, the beauty asked Qi Min: "So... what is your name?"
"Qi Min." Qi Min pulled down the search bar on his phone, typed out her name in Chinese and handed it to the other party.
This rare beauty took it over and looked at it for three or four seconds, and then smiled a little awkwardly: "I'm very sorry...can you say it again? My mobile phone does not have a Chinese input method..."
For his level of Chinese, it is indeed understandable. Qi Min couldn't help but feel that this person might be more than two generations of ABC, although judging from the degree of his mixed race, it seemed that he was at least half Asian.
"Just write Qi Min, I don't mind this kind of thing." Qi Min said.
The other party took her phone number and called her. Qi Min saved the caller's number and asked, "What's your name?"
"You can call me 'Anton,'" said the beauty, "which spells out—"
"Oh, of course I can spell this word." Qi Min looked at him in surprise, "I just didn't expect your name to be so... СССР style." She asked again, "What's your last name?"
"My last name... it's not very important." Anton said hesitantly, "I mean, it's not my last name on my passport..."
"Oh, okay." Qi Min asked, "This is not a file registration, so I can just record your real last name?"
"My last name is..." Anton paused for a long moment, and then had to say, "Forget it, I can't come up with a new last name in such a short time."
Qi Min was a little surprised. She had heard that some Chinese surnames were difficult to pronounce in English, but this didn't seem to be a problem when facing another Chinese person, right? "Don't you know how to pronounce your last name?"
"No, I don't have a surname." Anton said quickly in a low voice, "That's strange, isn't it? Why do people have to have a surname? For example, the Burmese people don't have a surname. Can't they live just as well?"
This sounds a bit strange, but Qi Min still understands social etiquette. Since the other party doesn't like to be addressed by his last name, then forget it. "OK, it's good not to have a last name, and... you don't have to use last name often here."
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Qi Min felt that luck might really be conserved. After she met a rare beauty, she experimented with bugs for several days in a row, so much so that she had to go back to school to work overtime on Saturday.
Yelena stayed with her in the laboratory all morning, and at one o'clock in the afternoon, the results under the microscope were finally normal.
"To be honest, I think Boss asked you to do this project just to find someone to repair the microscope." Yelena held her chin and said, "I heard Gary said that this microscope has been having problems for two years."
"Didn't Gary just come here last year?" Qi Min asked while taking off his lab coat.
"Oh, you are finally leaving." Yelena stood up from the chair, "Are you going shopping in the afternoon?"
However, before Qi Min could reply, Yelena's cell phone suddenly rang, and she answered it: "Freda! My dear... Oh, I remember, of course I remember... I was, uh, I was washing my face, I just got up... Zhou It’s really hard to get up at six…Okay…just give it another half hour…KISS YOU…”
"Your little girlfriend?" Qi Min asked with raised eyebrows.
"I almost forgot." Yelena jumped down from the desk, "Then... should I leave first? Let's go out together next time when Freda has class."
"Oh no no, don't sound like you have two girlfriends." Qi Min joked.
"You know, I've really thought about this problem..." Yelena suddenly said seriously.
Qi Min said quickly: "I have never thought about it."
"Oh, Min, I'm not talking about you." Yelena said as she changed out of the slippers she wore in the laboratory. "The friendship between Bolsheviks cannot be tarnished, and I hope you think so too." She continued, " If you want to play, just play Americans, they are very easy anyway."
She couldn't bear to look at these three views, but objectively speaking, the American proletariat turned to imperialism after being bribed by the capitalists, which is indeed a great threat to internationalism. And one thing she said is right, Americans are very easy.
Yelena happily went to find her little girlfriend, and Qi Min was thinking that she should also find someone. It's best if this person doesn't treat hanging out together as a serious matter like dating or falling in love, so as not to call her "LOSER" like Qin Zhenjun did again.
Qi Min opened WhatsApp and sent a message to Anton: "Are you free today?"
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Qi Min didn't know what exciting place Yelena took her little girlfriend to. However, when she asked Anton to go out for a walk, they just went to a park. It wasn't that she didn't want to go to a more expensive place, it was because the salary of a doctoral student was too high. few.
But because the weather was nice, the park seemed a bit interesting. There were picnickers everywhere on the lawn, and there were many children and dogs. This scene was pleasant, and Qi Min was in a good mood, but she found that Anton was looking down the whole way, as if he was not interested in the surroundings at all.
"Hey, you don't seem happy." Qi Min asked, "Do you think it's boring here?"
"No..." Anton raised his eyes and looked away uncomfortably, "I'm just...a little sleepy."
"Really? How about you go back first?" Qi Min said.
"No, no, I'm not sleepy." Anton had to admit, "I didn't wear contact lenses today because I just threw away the last pair of contact lenses yesterday, but I couldn't find the next pair."
"Oh...are you short-sighted?" Qi Min felt a little strange.
She herself is short-sighted, and 90% of the people in her college class are short-sighted, but for a young ABC delivery worker, myopia is a bit out of place. But it’s normal to think this way in your heart, and saying such things may offend others.
But regarding this issue, Anton said somewhat covertly: "The degree is not deep...it's actually just hereditary..."
"Hereditary, that's really unlucky." Qi Min said with a smile, "I remember studies showing that the heritability of myopia can be over 50%. But there is no way, people cannot choose which part of their parents to inherit before they are born. ,Yes or no?"
"Yes." Anton smiled at her, and it was like a spring flower blooming for a moment.
It was only a long time later that Qi Min realized that when he smiled, it didn't always mean he was happy. In other words, her observation skills were not yet proficient enough to tell whether Anton was happy or hiding it.
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1. Inherited parents → no parents → heartbroken
2. Myopia→NERD→Asian stereotypes→heartbreaking