Chapter 17 Section 16

An Jie jokingly asked: "What kind of appearance is a mistress?" "I can't tell, anyway, I can tell at a glance—" She added another sentence: "Then you see if I look like a mistress?" Wu Gang frowned and said, "Why are you doing this - spoiling yourself?" She also felt that the joke had gone too far, and said sarcastically, "Just kidding—but there must be something wrong with my appearance, because all I meet—SECOND-HANDMEN—" Wu Gang looked at her suspiciously, and answered irrelevantly, "You heard me right, don't get involved with Cui Ling—"

An Jie thought it was funny, Wu Gang and Cui Ling, you speak ill of me, I speak ill of you, Wu Gang said that Cui Ling meddled in other people's families, Cui Ling said Wu Gang was a big cunning.Wu Gang told her not to get along with Cui Ling, and Cui Ling told her not to get along with Wu Gang.She thought, if these two people were not natural enemies, or they had been in love before, and for some reason they blew it up, so if they didn't become love, they became enemies. She couldn't make up her mind who to listen to, and finally decided not to listen to anyone.Even if Wu Gang is cunning, what can he do to her?Did he really trick her into selling her?As long as she doesn't lend him money or sleep with him, how can he lie to her?It was nothing more than deceiving her feelings.But she thinks that feelings can’t be said to be cheating or not. Feelings are produced by yourself, not stuffed into your heart by others. If you have feelings for an illusory thing, you don’t need to blame that thing for deceiving you. It's only your fault that you can't see that it's unreal.She felt that she didn't have any deep feelings for Wu Gang, and Wu Gang couldn't cheat even if she wanted to.

As for who Cui Ling should be, what does it have to do with her?Anyway, she doesn't have a husband, not even an authentic boyfriend, so she's not afraid of Cui Ling robbing her.Since Wu Gang avoided Cui Ling, the two of them usually would not meet each other, so they didn't know who she was getting along with.These two people, one is her cook, the other is her landlord, and the two are in charge of her daily necessities, how could it be possible not to get involved with them? So she continued to eat the meals made by Wugang, and also continued to do ROOMMATE with Cui Ling, and went shopping together.She likes Cui Ling's convertible car very much, because now she has ridden in different cars, and she knows the benefits of a convertible car. Among other things, she just feels much better. Every time she goes to refuel, the boy at the gas station She was very attentive to them, and she didn't feel superior when she drove her own car to get gas.

She thinks this is the same as wearing famous brand clothes. Sometimes she doesn’t think there is any difference between famous brands and non-famous brands from the outside, but the price is different, so it feels different to wear. Wearing famous brands makes her back straighter.For this reason, she even envied Cui Ling a little in her heart, how could others be so lucky?The suitor spends so generously, has such extraordinary taste, eats at French restaurants, drives a convertible, and presents roses. It is said that Cui Ling’s boyfriend can also sing English songs. An Jie once told Cui Ling Mu Yahua’s words about Enrique Iglesias, saying that many women said that if someone sang HERO in their ears, they would die for him all willing.Cui Ling said disapprovingly: "What's the matter? My boyfriend sang that song in my ear."

An Jie didn't believe it: "That song is in English—" "What's the matter with English? My boyfriend has been in the United States for so many years, can't he still sing English songs?" Cui Ling sang a few lines casually in order to confirm that her boyfriend sang the song that An Jie said: Would you dance if I asked you to dance? Would you run and never look back Would you cry if you saw me crying Would you save my soul tonight? Would you tremble if I touched your lips? Would you laugh oh please tell me these Now would you die for the one you love?

Hold me in your arms tonight? An Jie was dumbfounded when she heard this, and she was overwhelmed with admiration.The stories she had seen and heard about mistresses before were all about the age of men, full of fat in their stomachs, who either worked in a greasy job like a restaurant owner, or were cheated and abducted in the mall. They despised themselves after making a little ill-gotten wealth The wife of the bad health, hides her beauty in the golden house outside.But Cui Ling said that her boyfriend is only in his thirties and graduated from graduate school, so she never thought Cui Ling's boyfriend was a married man before, but now she believes it a little bit after hearing Wu Gang's analysis.

Wu Gang's reasoning seems to reveal a truth: those who are rich are married, and those who are unmarried are poor.Since Cui Ling's boyfriend can afford a convertible, he must be married.What An Jie didn't understand was: Is it true that you can earn money only when you are married, or that you are unmarried only if you can't earn money? Does this tell people that girls should wait until men are successful before marrying them?If you marry early, you will either struggle with them for the rest of your life, or when the man succeeds, the woman will become a yellow-faced woman and be caught up by the young girl.But men seem to marry before they are successful, so all girls meet are married successful people, and in the end they have to be the third party.However, the end of the third party seems to be not good. Either the man procrastinated and refused to divorce, or there was a fourth party after divorce, or just like her aunt, the husband’s ex-wife kept coming to make trouble, Just thinking about it makes me upset.

An Jie sometimes wanted to tell Cui Ling the story of her aunt, to remind Cui Ling, but she felt that it was unnecessary. She didn't know if Cui Ling was a third party, so why did she tell those things?And soon she was too busy to care about Cui Ling's affairs, because there was a MIDTERM in the algorithm class, which was her first exam after arriving in the United States, and she had to take it seriously. An Jie did well in that exam, scoring 95 points.Mu Yahua also did well in the exam, getting 90.Mu Yahua said that it was thanks to An Jie, because with An Jie's answers, she could understand those questions well, and as long as DR. CANG asked similar questions, she could HANDLE.Most of the questions in this test are similar to the usual homework. Only one question is more difficult, probably the so-called "slope question", which is a bit different from the usual questions. Mu Yahua's points are mainly lost on this question. superior.

Wugang did very badly in the exam. Maybe he just copied his homework and didn't bother to understand it at all, so even if he encountered similar questions, he wouldn't do it.Wu Gang only scored 65 points, but he is not in a hurry, because he will go to D University to study for MBA next semester.He said that he originally wanted to drop the algorithm course WITHDRAW, but because international students have credit requirements for each semester, if the WITHDRAW course, the credits are not enough, so he had to continue to mix down. An Jie doesn't like Wugang's lazy style. Generally speaking, she doesn't like boys whose grades are not as good as hers.She said to Mu Yahua: "If it were me, even if I knew I was no longer studying computer science, I would not miss the exam. The score is not high, and it looks ugly on the report card. It will definitely affect the job hunting in the future, right? "

Mu Yahua said: "Actually, it's nothing. When you are looking for a job, you don't need to show your transcript to the employer. Some units will ask for the transcript, but most of them will not ask for it. If you have good grades, you can use your GPA Write it on the RESUME; if the grade is not good, just don’t mention it.” An Jie said, "I am a person who studies to get high grades. Regardless of whether it is related to job hunting or not, I have to get high grades. If I deduct one point, I will feel uncomfortable. Scores, points, the lifeblood of students." Mu Yahua agrees very much: "I didn't think so when I was in China, but when I came to the United States, the score is really the lifeblood, because the score is directly related to whether we can get a scholarship. A graduate school scholarship like you is The real SCHOLARSHIP does not have to work. The money we get in the department is not actually a scholarship, it should be called a 'teaching assistant's salary', because we have to work more than ten hours a week. But because you don't have to work, so The requirements are also higher, if your GPA does not reach 4.0 this semester, you will not get money for graduate school next semester. Our requirements are lower, if our GPA does not reach 3.5, the department will not give money .”

She was surprised: "Huh? There are these regulations? Why don't I know?" "It's written on the website of the graduate school and the department, and the CO-ORDINATOR also talked about it at the orientation meeting. You may not have paid attention to it." "What does this 4.0 mean?" "A is four points, B is three points, C is two points, and so on, 4.0 is STRAIGHTA, 3.5 is half A and half B." She broke out in a cold sweat. It turned out that this score is really the lifeblood of a student! Fortunately, Mu Yahua told her, and fortunately she is a student who strives for every point, otherwise, her points would be deducted by a broken TA like "Vegetarian Chicken" , Maybe I lost the scholarship for next semester. She asked nervously: "What if I don't get all A's? Then I won't have money to study next semester?" Mu Yahua said: "It's not that scary, you can go back to the department to get the money. But the department usually starts to get the money from the fall semester, and there is very little in the middle, because the department has already allocated the money." Mu Yahua Yahua said comfortingly, "What are you worried about? Your grades are very good, you must have all A's." She calculated carefully. If there were no accidents, she should get A's in several courses this semester, so the money for the next semester would be no problem.Only now did she realize why Wugang was so worried about money. It wasn't like in China. It was not a big problem to have no money for a day or two, but it was a big deal to find another job.But as a foreign student in the United States, having no money means not being able to study;In this way, she can really be regarded as Wu Gang's savior. Wugang did not do well in the algorithm class, but the Ph.D. from the School of Education did quite well. The dissertation defense passed. The rest is to revise and polish the dissertation according to the requirements of the defense committee, and then submit an electronic version to the graduate students The courtyard will do.Wu Gang was free for a while, so he took this opportunity to go to D University, saying that he would meet people from the Business School he was going to study there, and meet An Jie's brother-in-law to get acquainted with what he was going to do. s project. After my sister met Wugang, she called and said that the young man is quite smart, has a decent manner, and speaks good English. I'm afraid he really is a good candidate for an MBA.My sister joked with her again: "If it wasn't for your face, your brother-in-law would definitely not give him the position of RA." Thinking of the gossip about Wugang that she heard these days, she said conservatively: "I am just a friend with him, mainly because he can't find a job and has no money to study, so I sympathize with him and do him a favor." .You must not make any 'brother-in-law' jokes in front of him, otherwise, he will laugh at me for being sentimental." Wu Gang stayed at D University for more than a week. An Jie was really worried for him, afraid that the professors who taught the class would find out that he missed so many classes, but DR. CANG and DR. BLACK didn't seem to notice, at least not mention this. But Cui Ling found that Wu Gang hadn't come for a few days, and asked An Jie curiously: "Why hasn't Wu Gang been here recently?" An Jie was also curious: "How do you know he's not here?" "Whether he has been here or not, I can tell at a glance. As long as he has been here, there must be some dishes in the refrigerator. You have started to eat instant noodles these days. It must be that he hasn't come for a few days. I didn't What do you mean by dismantling, I am just warning you out of good intentions, believe it or not, and whether you listen or not, it is entirely up to you." "It doesn't matter whether we break up or not, because he and I are not boyfriend and girlfriend in the first place." "really not?" "Really not, he just came to help me cook. We have never said anything beyond ordinary friends, and we have never done anything beyond ordinary friends." She remembered that time when he kissed her in the MOTEL bathroom, But she thinks that doesn't count, it's just a special event that happened under special circumstances, it's just a GAME. Cui Ling said: "If he didn't kill you, it means he still has a little conscience, otherwise, he would have sores on his head and pus on his feet—it's so bad!" "why would you say so?" "Because he has a girlfriend, he used to study in our Institute of Education, and later transferred to D University——" As soon as she heard that Zheng Jie was in D University, she seemed to understand something suddenly. She felt that she was really sold by Wugang, and she was still counting the money for him.Wu Gang's approach to her and courtship to her must be all to get her brother-in-law's RA, so that he can stay with Zheng Jie in D University.Although Wu Gang pretended not to know that her brother-in-law was at D University, he was Nie Yu's ROOMMATE, and she told Nie Yu that her brother-in-law was an associate professor in the computer department of D University on the first day she arrived in the United States.Nie Yu must have told Wu Gang, that's why Wu Gang came to court her so that she could get him an RA from her brother-in-law at D University. When she thought of this, she became very angry. Isn't this too bullying?If he is a handsome guy, it can be said that he has fallen for his beauty tricks, and it is still worth it.This Wu Gang is not a handsome guy, he is just a "vegetable guy", and he is here to deceive people, what is wrong with the world! Cui Ling seemed to see her excitement, and said comfortingly, "These things all depend on how you look at them. He can't stay on two boats for the rest of his life. As long as you hold on tightly, he might throw the other side—" An Jie didn't want to tell Cui Ling that Wu Gang's problem wasn't a matter of being in two boats at all, but that she tricked her into getting the RA position for him.Compared with this deception, it is better to be on two boats, because it is always based on feelings. Although the feelings are not specific, there is still half of the feelings, right?Even if it's just to lure her into bed, it shows that she has the charm of women.This situation is the worst now, it has nothing to do with emotional charm or anything, it's just because of money, not her money, but the money in her brother-in-law's hands.She is just a stepping stone to cross the ditch, a springboard to board the boat, Wu Gang approached her and courted her, all for money.And the reason why Wu Gang is so jealous of big money is just to be with Zheng Jie. With this understanding, looking back at Wu Gang's performance, it made her feel angry.Wugang has always been such a gentleman, it seems that he just doesn't want to sell himself for money.Wu Gang is also really skilled. He has not been unfaithful to his girlfriend, but also got money.Maybe Wu Gang is jokingly talking to his girlfriend at D University about how he got the money by using "Brother Cai's trick".