Metropolis: My Rising Life

There is not only one canteen in the school, this canteen is very close to the classroom and office building, and it should be prepared for teachers.

Chen Yi has never been to other canteens in the school, so I don't know what happened. However, this canteen occupies a relatively small area and there are not many people. Most of the people who eat here are still students.

The first floor is the typical big pot rice-style canteen, and the second floor is a place with many snacks such as mala Tang, braised pork rice, rice bowls, etc., similar to a food street.

Compared to the meals on the second floor, the meals on the first floor are naturally cheaper.

Yu Zixi lined up honestly, Chen Yi didn't say much, but followed her.

Most boys at this age don't know how to dress up.

And Chen Yi wears a Hermès. It doesn’t matter how expensive the clothes are. The most important thing is that his collocation is very fashionable. The color of the clothes is not the black and white style that ordinary boys are used to. In addition, he is a handsome guy and has a temperament bonus. It is easy to be the object of girls' attention.

Many girls around will take a look, but Chen Yi is also used to these gazes.

The school’s meal card has not been issued yet. It is estimated that it will be issued at the class meeting this afternoon. Therefore, the cafeteria for these two days still accepts WeChat and Alipay payments.

When it was Yu Zixi's turn, she looked at the food very seriously. Chen Yi knew that she was not looking at the food at all, but at the price.

Sure enough, in the end she just ordered a piece of rice, and ordered two very cheap dishes like cabbage, which together only cost about five yuan.

Now in 2017, it’s hard to get enough to eat for five dollars. It is estimated that you can find places like university cafeterias. If you eat outside, you can’t buy anything for five dollars. .

The aunt who served food took a look at Yu Zixi and gave her more food and vegetables. It was obvious that she was a poor student.

But because of her work principles, she didn't dare to add anything else to Yu Zixi.

"thanks."

Yu Zixi whispered thanks.

Then Chen Yi saw her take out her mobile phone to pay.

Fortunately, there is nothing that she doesn’t even have a smart phone. It’s just that the phone is a kind of miscellaneous brand. You can buy it for a few hundred yuan, but at least it can be used. The basic functions are all complete, such as Alipay and WeChat. She can also use it, but it doesn't work well.

It seems that the country's poverty alleviation work is still very good. Although some places are still very poor for various reasons, at least there is no complete disconnection from the mainstream society.

When it was Chen Yi's turn, he directly ordered three chicken drumsticks, four more dishes, and two bottles of water by the way.

Looking back, I saw that Yu Zixi hadn't left, so she stood beside him with a plate and waited.(Read more @ wuxiamtl.com)

"What are you doing while standing stupid? Hurry up and occupy the ground. It will be gone for a while."

Yu Zixi nodded shyly, and sat down at an empty table with Chen Yi.

Taking a look at the chicken drumsticks in the plate, Chen Yi sighed a bit, this kind of "food for the common people" felt like I haven't eaten it for many days, and I really miss it.

He picked up the chopsticks and directly picked up one of the chicken legs and placed it on Yu Zixi's dinner plate, and then fiddled with one of the meaty dishes he bought.

Yu Zixi didn't react when he saw the chicken thighs, and looked at Chen Yi's movements dumbly. When he started to fiddle with the food, he finally recovered, and quickly stopped and said, "...Classmate, what are you doing?"

"It's nothing. If you order too much, it's wasted. I can't finish it. I can't waste food, right? You have to throw it away if you can't finish it. I think you order quite a few. Let me eat it."

Yu Zixi looked at the extra meat on his dinner plate and dared not put down his chopsticks for a while.

Chen Yi didn't care at all. He opened the two bottles of drinks, took a sip at one of them, and put the other in front of Yu Zixi, saying: "...Hey, please."

Seeing what Yu Zixi had to say, Chen Yi just said impatiently: "...all classmates, what's wrong with asking you to drink a bottle of drink for a meal? Don't think so much."

Chen Yi thought that Yu Zixi would continue to linger, but she didn't expect that she was not hypocritical, lowered her head, pursed a slightly dry lips, and said, "...Thank you, then I'm not welcome." "

With that said, she raised her head to look at Chen Yi, and then blushed and lowered her head, like a shy girl in Huansha by the stream.

They are all 18 or 9 years old when they are interested in the opposite sex. Boys and beautiful girls will be shy when chatting, and girls will also be shy when they see those handsome boys.

Poor people can’t stop people from liking handsome men and beautiful women.

Chen Yi only discovered at this time that this girl named Yu Zixi seems not to be that kind of girl with a particularly timid personality. She may have come out of a poor mountainous area for the first time in this kind of international metropolis. Only then will I be nervous and afraid, and dare not speak.

This is also very good, if it is really the kind of girl who is particularly timid or too persistent, it is actually quite annoying.

It doesn't matter if you give tens of thousands of things to refuse. If you have a meal or a drink, you will refuse it strictly. It will only make the people who do good things feel bad and think that kindness is regarded as a donkey liver and lungs.

Being too stubborn is not good.

"You are welcome, everyone is classmates. It should be helpful to help each other... By the way, my name is Chen Yi, Li Tianwang. It is our class counselor who told me about your situation, so you have any difficulties or problems in life. Find me."

"...So there is a problem, don't carry it by yourself or don't talk about it, it will be too troublesome then."

Chen Yi can be regarded as polite, and he is carefully observing Yu Zixi's emotions.

Some people in very poor families have strong self-esteem. They don't want to talk about their own family situation, and they even prefer to use deception instead of letting other people know that their family is poor, just for the sake of being so face.

But seeing that Yu Zixi didn't evade his family situation, Chen Yi just let go of his heart, and feels more fond of this girl.

"I see, if it is really difficult, I will say it..."

Yu Zixi said in a low voice, she secretly raised her eyebrows and glanced at Chen Yi again, after thinking about it, she said, "...that, thank you, Chen Yi, you are a good person."

"puff--"

Chen Yi almost laughed and shook his head helplessly: "...What age is this, why do you still use such words to praise people? You don't know that the taste of'good people' has changed now."

Seeing Yu Zixi's face in doubt, Chen Yi waved his hand and said, "...Forget it, let's eat."

This girl can't be the kind of surfing the Internet every day, and it's normal to not understand some "stalkers".

Yu Zixi said nervously at this time: "...Am I saying something wrong? If I say something wrong, I apologize. I really don't understand some things."

"It's okay, you didn't say anything wrong. In the future, you can find more time to go online and learn more about the world. It is not very useful to study alone these days. You need more insight and grabbing information."

Chen Yi thought for a while and gave a more pertinent suggestion.

Some impoverished mountainous areas are really backward. People who haven't been there in person can't imagine the lives of those children, so they don't understand a lot of modern things, and there is nothing ridiculous.

It’s like the train station can always see some dark-skinned, honest-looking people from small places, carrying a big bag, because they are shocked by the bustling city, standing there at a loss, don’t know what to do What, I dare not ask.

Yu Zixi is obviously such a girl. The drunken international metropolis is incompatible with the poor mountainous area where she once lived. It makes her nervous and cautious not to speak, because she can't understand what many people say.

Her character is not necessarily so introverted, just because she is still a little uncomfortable.

However, human adaptability is very strong, and the assimilation of the city is also very fast. It may not be long before Yu Zixi will adapt to the new life and know more things.

Yu Zixi squeezed the rice, but she remembered Chen Yi's words in her heart.

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