Chapter 12 Chapter 12: McDonald's, Command & Conquer

Xiaobai said, "Take me to dinner, McDonald's." Xin Ni and Xiaobai and I went to the McDonald's on the first floor of Wangfujing Xinhua Bookstore. It is said that this is the first McDonald's in Beijing. The storefront is magnificent, and through the large glass windows, you can see the Wangfujing intersection and the Ministry of Economic and Trade opposite, Beijing Hotel, and Daming Optical Store.Four children in the store were celebrating their birthdays, "Happy birthday to you", and the ringing came every ten minutes. The largest family gathered more than ten people, and the family members also had three or five kids from the same school.The little birthday star wears a paper crown issued by the uncle and aunt of McDonald's, holds a strawberry sundae cone in his left hand, and a chocolate sundae cone in his right hand, smiling contentedly as if he could die immediately.The grandparents smiled especially sweetly, as if the grandson had eaten American McDonald's today, and tomorrow he would definitely be able to sit in the classroom of an American university and adapt to the rapid growth quickly.The little kids and classmates kept their eyes open, and when the little birthday star was admiring the cake, they frantically stuffed hamburgers with fish, meat, eggs and cheese into their mouths, just like the giant pandas that are common on the roadsides of Beijing before and after the Asian Games. A trash can shaped like bamboo.

The first time I came to McDonald's, it was also this Wangfujing store, and my girlfriend, I can't remember which time we broke up.She is losing weight, basically watching me eat, I heard that her Tsinghua boys think she is fat.I said: "It's delicious, it's delicious in the world. What do you care about so much? It's comfortable to hug if you are fat, or how painful is it?" My girlfriend said: "You and your first love are bone-to-bone, you Isn’t it the same as Liu Qing? Her breasts are not small, so she should be comfortable, right? You and your first love, maybe some pain is a kind of stimulation, right? For me, there are some things, such as beautiful and coquettish, such as a slim figure , It’s an obligation.” I said, “You should do your duty well.”

She said: "Actually, it's for myself. When I was far away from 30 years old, I didn't gain weight by eating anything, and I lost weight quickly. Now that I am close to 30 years old, it is easy to gain weight. The boys in Tsinghua University are also much more ordinary. I asked him to come once a month, and he only came once a month. Unlike before, he had to come from Tsinghua University every day for life and death. At twelve o'clock in the evening, the supper was set up, and the mobile phone called me to go downstairs to eat. The food was all meat. The next morning, no matter how sleepy I am, I have to get up and go for a long-distance run along the Wangfu Restaurant to lose weight.” I ate my food, the orange juice poured down quickly, who said it was junk food, how delicious it was.

She said, "Can I get you another drink?" I said, "Forget it." She waited a while, then swapped the straws for mine and hers, and gave me hers, which still had some orange juice in it.After eating, my girlfriend said to go to the bathroom. I thought it was to touch up makeup so that I could meet her Tsinghua boy.When she came back, she brought back a piece of McMuffin and a small orange juice, wrapped in a paper bag, "You can eat it after finishing your experiment at night." The money spent on this McDonald's meal is enough for my girlfriend's lunch and dinner for a week, and I pay for it life and death. She refuses.In the first year after I arrived in the United States, I still couldn’t afford McDonald’s. In the food court (Food Court), if I bought a hamburger, I couldn’t afford a drink, and if I bought a drink, I couldn’t afford a hamburger. It was only after doing a summer job that there was a significant change.Simple calculation, it took me a full ten years to turn McDonald's from a delicacy without money to a delicacy with enough money to eat often.How much I love junk food!

Xiaobai invited us without saying why.Xin Ni bought two Big Macs, I bought Big Orange Juice and Fish Oatmeal, and Xiao Bai bought four of the most classic beef burgers. He removed the bread and only ate meatloaf.Xiaobai said that in winter in Boston, he saw a big black man eat twenty-one of these patties in twenty minutes, and then drove a pickup truck to walk. "I want Xiaohong, tell me how to chase after me." When Xiaobai said this, he didn't look at me or Xin Ni at all, and looked straight out of the glass window with a determined expression.Later, Xiaohong asked me, why didn't you stop Xiaobai during the planning stage, what are you two mouths for, how can you usually talk so much?I said, if you see that look, you will give up trying.At that time, if Xin Ni or I put a kitchen knife in Xiaobai's hand, Xiaobai could put down the beef patties, kill every policeman who dared to stop him from looking for Xiaohong from Dongdan to Gongzhufen.

"Don't you have a girlfriend who learns piano with you? The one who looks a bit like Guan Zhilin, and you still have a photo." I asked. "Girl friend." Xiaobai replied. "Qiu Shui, Yao Dao said, theoretically speaking, when looking for a girl, one should pick the talented one, who is smart and beautiful. The second picks the wealthy one, who has a lot of money. What is your standard?" Xin Mi didn't seem to hear Xiaobai What to say, ask me. "If I'm looking for a wife, I'll look for someone I can rely on, so that I can rely on each other to live. I want to do something, and I don't know what it is, but it weighs more than one hundred catties, sixty or seventy years old. It's boring to eat and wait to die. My first love is about to marry. For the rest of the day, I have to do something, right? There is a risk in doing things, and it is possible to wake up one day and find that I am begging. The window of McDonald's, watching Xin Ni eating a Big Mac, my saliva flowed into my stomach, I knocked on the glass, and gestured to Xin Ni, meaning, if I can't eat, I will throw the rest out of the window, thank you So, seeing beggars on Dongdan Street and picking up broken things from trash cans, I always feel that this is my future. So, if I have a wife, I hope, she will be my back. If I have such a day , she can come with me, take a stick or something, tell me, the brain is there, the tongue is there, it doesn't matter, we can start all over again."

"Don't be sensational. You just feel extremely insecure." Xin Ni said. "I'm also thinking, who can I trust, and who can I give my back to? After thinking about it, I found two rules. First, it doesn't work. My first love likes to control the situation by myself, and I like big dicks that can't be blocked by ordinary dicks. Exhaust port Mercedes. Liu Qing, no play, I don't know very well, but she has her very fierce place, when it breaks, I have seen her dealer who repaired her. My girlfriend, maybe. But she counts Accurate and full of worldly wisdom, I will definitely not let me do those great things that are out of tune and have no ass hole. Second, judging by this standard, the more reliable you are, the less interested you are.” I said, thinking at the same time Thinking about Xiaohong, I don't know, I have no idea.

"The Demon Sword can do it. The Demon Sword has very human spiritual power. As you know, she had very bad luck applying to American universities, and she didn't get any of the Ivy League schools. Around the anniversary of her father's death, she has been strolling by the Weiming Lake. I Knowing that she is not good at swimming, I stayed with her for three days and did not dare to go far. Before she boarded the plane to the United States, she told me that I must go to Harvard, Stanford or MIT, regardless of the tuition fee, no matter how expensive it is. , she begs for food and loans to help me make up for my tuition. Yaodao stipulated weekly homework for me, two sets of GMAT test questions, two sets of GRE test questions, and two sets of TOEFL test questions. Yaodao told me that she is looking for a lawyer and plans to apply With the emigration of outstanding persons, she has a green card, so I have the opportunity to directly take the BOARD exam and become a doctor in the United States."

"Yaodao is amazing, how does she meet the definition of an outstanding person? Founding a religion?" I asked. "I want Xiaohong, please tell me how to chase her." Xiaobai repeated. "Actually, Fei Yan is not bad either. She is obedient and in vain. I've seen her come out of the bathroom just after taking a shower. Her hair is loose, wet and pretty." I said. "He's a little short, with a hunched back." Xin Ni said. "Xiaobai is not tall, he is a good match. And his skin is fair, his hunchback is modest, and his smile is so sweet." I said.

"That's a superficial phenomenon. Fei Yan belongs to the ancient city. The outer city has beautiful mountains and green waters and is undefended. Anyone can come in and stroll around. Fei Yan is polite to everyone, and she is obedient and in vain. But further inside , No one can come in easily, trenches, archers, rolling wood and thunder stones. During the military training, the 23 boys studying mathematics were bored on duty at night. They played on the phone and found Fei Yan who was on duty. On the second weekend, they asked for leave together and went shopping in Xinyang City. girlfriend.On the street, walking together, no matter how you look, you look like male and female students, checking the exam answers together or discussing the teacher's clothes. "Xin Ning said.

"I want to chase Xiaohong, you tell me how to chase." Xiaobai repeated, this time, his eyes were fixed on Xin Ni. "Are you sure? How is Xiaohong? Xiaohong will be a female doctor of clinical medicine in the future. She will be raised at home, and she will be taller than a cactus. Isn't it so spectacular? Don't set your only goal so quickly, right? The indicators I set for you before have made obvious improvements to the two standards of the demon knife, three major items: material, talent, and wealth. It also clarifies the definition, material refers to face and figure, talent refers to character and intelligence, and wealth refers to family power and marketable securities. It also clarified the weights, materials accounted for 40%, only accounted for 30%, and wealth accounted for 30%. Is the spreadsheet I gave you still there? We should systematically Continue to proceed, such as how many candidates should enter the selection system in total, how to collect candidate information, how many people in one batch, how many batches in total, etc.? Be bold and careful. Actions heal, wisdom The rounder it is," Xin Ning said. "Yao Dao is still the number one scholar, talented girl and school beauty, are you afraid? I don't like to think too much, the more I think about it, the more I don't understand. I like to do what I like to do. I like Xiaohong, and Xiaohong is not my dad's girlfriend either. It's not your girlfriend, neither married nor have children. Xiaohong is good, has a good heart, and has big breasts." Xiaobai said. "Good rabbits don't eat grass by the side of their nests. If they are in the same class, it would be great if they end up as married couples. But if it is not done well, they will become strangers and enemies, and they will have to see them every day. Eating in the same cafeteria and attending classes in the same classroom, how awkward. Ah." Shinji said. "Isn't Qiu Shui pretty good now? His ex-girlfriend is not vicious every time she sees him." Xiao Bai said. "It will be very difficult. Xiaohong has a brother beast. Brother beast, when he is 40 years younger, he is still in this hooligan state. It is unbelievable. His charm index is several times higher than ours. Think about it, brother beast is a little girl in Beijing. Hooligan grew up, grand, broad, manly enough. Can play the piano, met several poets and installation artists, has temperament. Like you, he has international contact, has ridden foreign girls and foreign horses, and is even more fashionable, brother beast. The girl's place is the lair of capitalism, Europe, Budapest, and Amsterdam. Brother Beast has traveled thousands of miles, and he also learns foreign languages. He has read a lot of books, dated N girls, and has experience. He is also in business, somewhat Money. Now there are still a few horse boys with power. When the hooligans are so old, the best destination is to find a beautiful and intellectual girl like Xiaohong, who is a medical student, or the best medical school in China. Damn, It would be strange if you didn't hold Da Yuanbao in your arms and lick it every night." Xin Ni went on to talk about the difficulty of strategy implementation. "That's why I invited you to McDonald's and asked your ideas." Xiao Bai said, still looking out of the window. "Okay, let me help you analyze the similarities and differences between you and Brother Beast, and then based on these similarities and differences, we will formulate a strategy for seizing love, determine the resources needed, including money and human resources, and finally formulate an action plan and each stage. Milestone." Xin Ning said. "I don't understand, what should I do?" Xiaobai said. "Okay, let me ask you, what is your advantage compared with Brother Beast? What is Brother Beast's advantage? Your advantage is that you are closer to Xiaohong, and the bed you sleep on is the same as Xiaohong's bed. A hundred meters away. You and Xiaohong have more in common, and you both have to face the "Internal Medicine" exam. You are more pure and youthful, Brother Beast is too routine, Xiaohong is a person with wisdom, maybe you will read it Get it, don’t be fooled by him. You have the time advantage. Brother Beast is a businessman. The realization of Xiaohong's dream will be shortened by at least five or six years." Xin Ni analyzed. Before Xin Ning went on and on, I interrupted Xin Ning, I looked into Xiao Bai's eyes, and I asked: "Xiao Hong is a good girl, she is one of us. I ask you, you answer honestly and seriously." "I haven't laughed all this time, Xin Mi is laughing." Xiao Bai said. I asked, "Do you really like Xiaohong?" "like." "You think Xiaohong is very important?" "Important. More important than "Internal Medicine", more important than myself. I am willing to regard Xiaohong as my outlook on the world and life." "If you don't chase Xiaohong, can you fall asleep?" "Can't sleep." "Okay, in Chinese it's called Yuanjia, and there's another idiom called Yuanjia Luzhai. I can't analyze so many things. If I were you, I would do one thing, treat Xiaohong well, and treat her better than others. , a hundred times thicker, other people include Brother Shou, her mother and father. Brother Shou thinks about Xiaohong for half an hour every day, and you think about Xiaohong for fifty hours a day. Brother Shou buys one thing for Xiaohong every month, and you Just buy one hundred pieces for Xiaohong every month. It’s not about the money, it’s about the mind.” I said to Xiaobai, then drank the last straw orange juice, rushed back to the gynecological oncology laboratory, and continued to try the in situ hybridization method to detect the RNA of apoptosis-related genes. RNA degrading enzymes are hard to guard against, headaches. Xiaohong said: "After the "Internal Medicine" exam, please three of you come to our house for dinner." Xiaobai didn't speak. After the McDonald's meeting between the three of us, we didn't see any movement, Xiaobai just became more silent.The four of us still often wander in a diamond formation in the territory of Beijing that can be reached by Xiali taxi, eating restaurants of great value for money.Xin Ti and I didn't urge Xiaobai. Xin Ti said that if Xiaobai and Xiaohong were two together, we would be redundant.If it doesn't go well, one of Xiaohong and Xiaobai must not be able to mix with us anymore.In short, the four of them could no longer be together, and Xiali's car was more spacious.Me, rely on. Xiaobai seldom stayed in his room in the North Hotel, but always stayed in our two or three dormitories, playing "Command and Conquer" day and night.Our dormitory used to have a super badly assembled computer. Except for the original Pentium CPU, other parts were handmade by farmers in Haidian who lost their land in the process of urbanization. In the middle of the night, Xin Nie often puts an aluminum lunch box on top to heat the buns left over from his dinner for supper. The skin of the buns is slightly browned, but they won’t be mushy. I didn’t know until I went to Shanghai that it’s called shengjian.Xin Ni said that it was better than the boilers of the entire 24th Squadron during military training.Xin Ni baked wild snakes killed by cutting wheat on it, a small aluminum lunch box, sprinkled salt evenly, added a little ginger and green onion, the boiler is a water heating type, and the crispy skin cannot be baked.The computer was assembled by seven or eight of us, Hailong Computer City assembled it, and Huang Qi and I rode a flat tricycle in the school cafeteria to pull it back.The chassis is overheated, so I asked a profiteer to make a theory. The profiteer said, you have to spend 3,000 yuan to match the configuration of IBM's main machine, so please bear with the hot spots. Help the heating in winter, and summer?In summer, why don't you go to the next door to buy an electric fan, which costs more than 100 yuan, can shake your head, and has a time display. The total cost is 3,100 yuan, which is still two-thirds cheaper than IBM's main machine.Xiaobai brought his original GATEWAY computer here, and I made a fake modem cable with him to connect the two computers and play "Command and Conquer" online. The fake modem cable was fifteen meters long. Xiaobai and I bought two suitable connectors and a cable with three wires, and connected the output of the first interface (the second pin) to the second Connect the input (pin 3) of the first interface, connect the output (pin 2) of the second interface with the input (pin 3) of the first interface, ensure that the output and input are crossed, and finally connect the ground of the two interfaces Wire (seventh pin) connection, and you're done.Fighting between people is much more fun than fighting between people and machines. There is nothing worse than people. The secret trick of stacking sandbags at the door of the enemy's house and then installing the fort becomes ridiculous because the enemy is a real person.Substitution, the machine does not stop, the loser goes down, and the person at the front is replaced, just like queuing up around the concrete table to play table tennis in elementary school.Xiaobai was too strong, he defeated all of us, took over the machine and became a dick machine tyrant.I was captured by Xiaobai in fifteen minutes. I refused to accept it, saying that it was because Xiaobai used the original American machine.Xiaobai didn't say a word, got up, moved to the Shaobao assembly machine, sat down, his right hand had already stiffened into the shape of a mouse, "come again".Fifteen minutes later, Xiaobai took my military flag again.Xiaobai basically didn't sleep, and drank water occasionally. If he couldn't move and couldn't lose, he automatically gave up his seat and went to the self-study room on the seventh floor to review "Internal Medicine" and read the original "Hill's Internal Medicine" mailed to him by his father ( Cecil Textbook of Medicine), first-class printing, two volumes, more than ten catties, white and hard paper.Xiaobai fell asleep after reading it for three minutes, his head fell on the left side of the spread "His Internal Medicine", which occupied less than half of the area, and the saliva slowly flowed from the corner of his mouth to the right side of the spread "His Internal Medicine". The side pages bulge with water, showing clear veins.I occasionally think about how the order of the world is formed, how the order of the local small world is formed.If the medical school does not test "Internal Medicine" but "Command and Conquer", Xiaobai will be the boss. If the world judges men not by money, education, and appearance, but by the ability to capture the flag in Command and Conquer, Xiaobai Bai is the best, he can sleep with anyone he wants, including Xiaohong of course. Xin Ni asked Xiaohong: "Why did you invite the three of us to your house for dinner?" I said: "Why do you have to ask me to eat? I'll go. If you don't go, I'll eat two servings. If Xiaobai doesn't go, I'll eat three servings." Xiaobai said, "I'll go." Xin Ning said, "I'll go." Xiaohong's house is on the side of the Northwest Second Ring Road, very close to JJ Disco. After the "Internal Medicine" exam, the four of us jumped out of the classroom 210 in the old building with a room temperature above 30 degrees, got into a Xiali car, and entered Beijing's dry and cold winter.Xiaobai was still wearing big shorts and a T-shirt, wrapped in a down jacket, thick cotton socks and Nike basketball shoes, and body hair was exposed between the socks and the bottom of the trousers. But the hair seems to have been shaved yesterday, with obvious signs of newness, and some hairspray or something.Xin Ni was still wearing his training uniform, with disheveled hair. The boss's building, the third floor, has three bedrooms and one living room. Xiaohong has a younger sister, two sisters have one room, Xiaohong's mother and Xiaohong's father have one room, and the third room is used as a living room.Little sister Xiaohong opened the door. She was taller than Xiaohong, stronger than Xiaohong, had bigger eyes than Xiaohong, and her breasts were not as obtrusive as Xiaohong's.Sister Xiaohong's big eyes quickly scanned the three of us like a searchlight, and said to Xiaohong: "Sister, someone gave me chocolate today, it's disgusting." "Xiaohong's parents were already sitting on the sofa in the living room, and we called together: "Uncle, Auntie." Xiaohong's parents said, "Okay, okay, come in and sit down, isn't it cold outside?" I didn't enter my parents' room, and I vaguely saw that it was all furniture issued by the public, with a nameplate with a public number, solid wood, thick and thick, and I didn't see any books.We piled up our coats on the desk in Xiaohong’s room, and there was a photo of Xiaohong in middle school on the desk. Her twin breasts were wrapped in a leather jacket, she was fat, and she had braids. A healthy and good child was bathed in the sunshine of the motherland at that time. . "It was a silly photo when I was a child," Xiaohong said. "Not stupid." I said. "Dare to say stupid!" Xiaohong said. There is a bed on each side of the desk, the same floral bed sheet and floral quilt cover, I close my eyes slightly, and suddenly smell the intertwined smell of hair, body, shampoo, shower gel, cotton cloth, and washing powder. The bed on the right must be Xiaohong. of.Xin Ni's eyes wandered around, as if the house management department was checking the house for water leaks.Xiaobai stared straight at the bed on the right. On the pillow, a long jet black hair twisted two or three times from one side of the pillow towel, crossed the four words "happy life" embroidered on the pillow towel, and extended to The other side of the pillowcase. The dining table has been set in the living room, and all kinds of calendars are hung on the wall of the living room, those of stars, hosts, landscapes of the motherland, foreign styles, cute children, all kinds of huge and inferior handicrafts, the most prominent is a boat Huge yellow jade dragon boat.One and a half meters long, one meter high, three sets of sails, one side of the hull is engraved with "Smooth sailing" and the other side is engraved with "Lucking wealth and making treasure", and the flag is engraved with "Motherland's post and telecommunications business".Looking closer, it's not jade, not even stone, it's made of plastic powder, and it feels sticky to the touch. The dinner table has been set, a roast chicken, obviously bought from a store, a plate of sauced beef, obviously bought from a store, a plate of cucumber mixed with bean products, which should also be bought from a store, and a plate of stir-fried spinach, Xiaohong said , "Sister, I fried it, I just learned it, don't say it's not delicious." At the round table, Xiaohong's parents sat together, and we three outsiders sat together.Little sister Xiaohong seemed to have not seen Xiaohong for a long time, she squeezed Xiaohong to sit, and slapped Xiaohong's chest: "Sister, I will give you a poop palm." "If you don't eat poop for three days, it will become poop." Xin Ni continued. "How do you know?" Sister Xiaohong asked. "This palm of the god of defecation has been circulated among the people in Beijing since I was a child. There are two types, the twenty-four and the forty-eight. Your palm, judging from the strength and the route of the palm, should be the simplified twenty-four posture of the palm. If it is the true 48th style, the power is three times greater. If you get a palm, if you don’t eat poop for a day, you will turn into poop. In fact, the most powerful one is the best poop palm. People have to eat poop right away, otherwise it will turn into poop immediately. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to do this yet.” Xin Ti said. "Eat, eat." Xiaohong said. "Do you want some wine?" Xiaohong's mother asked the three of us. "No need, auntie." I saw that Xiaobai's eyes were blurred, he looked at the roast chicken, waited, and replied. "Didn't you just finish a major class? It's okay to drink a little beer." Xiaohong's father persuaded. "Go back and read the book again." I said.When I drink beer, my face blush after just one cup, and the blush is still uneven after ten bottles, one part is white and the other part is red, as Xiao Hong said, like a leopard or a beast.So, I bite the bullet and leave a good impression. "Well, eat more vegetables, eat more vegetables." Xin Ning was talking to Sister Xiaohong all the time, Xiaobai was silent all the time, and the chopsticks didn't stick out anywhere else, they were stretched out straight in front of him, and he ate most of the roast chicken in front of him.Xiaohong picked up food for Xiaobai a few times, but Xiaobai didn't give in, just ate it. After the meal, I didn't know what to say. Xiaobai sat blankly, and Xin Ni's topic kept on pooping. I said, "Uncle, auntie, thank you, let's go back first." "Sit down, it's still early." "Go back and read the book again." I said. "Hurry up so fast?" "Time is like urine in the bladder, as long as you squeeze it, there is still some," Xin said. Two months later, after the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival in 1997, Xiaobai and Xiaohong each wore the same short windbreaker with a bronze corduroy collar, held hands, stood in front of Xin Ni and me, and said: " We invite you two to dinner, school starts, Landmark River Building, Hard Rock."