Twelve Difficult Study Abroad Life

Some people have the wind in their blood and are destined to wander.

Twelve didn't feel much about wandering and wandering at first.She has lived in her home for 18 years, and she did not even go out of the province for university. Now, by chance, she goes abroad to study. Before she has experienced the feeling of wandering, she finds that there are actually many Asians and even Chinese around her.Occasionally, there would be a sentence or two in Chinese that floated into her ears while walking on the road, allowing her to occasionally taste a strange sense of belonging besides the usual loneliness.

Li is different.

He has not been at home since he was 12 years old, to be precise, he is not in the country.

At first he was in junior high school in Singapore, and his mother stayed with him for two years to see him getting used to life in Singapore, so he went back to China by himself.Since then, high school, undergraduate, and graduate school are all his own decisions.At that time, he was still ignorant like a green onion that had just grown, but he came to this country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean alone because of the "look at this world" that he couldn't suppress no matter what.

On the day he got off the plane, he was carrying two 28-inch suitcases and a large travel bag with half of the strap on his back.People come and go.The men shaking hands, the women embracing, the sadness of parting and the joy of reunion are noisy in this small hall.

He raised his head, the blue sky was familiar yet unfamiliar, and the strong sunlight made him cry uncontrollably.

"That was the first time I got homesick." Li took a sip of his beer, frowned, and commented, "It's not good."

"Don't you miss home during the holidays?" Twelve asked curiously.

She has been abroad for less than two years.Last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon was not visible on the balcony at home, so she sat alone on a deck chair by the public swimming pool in the community with a box of Oreos that were too sweet to watch the moon in the middle of the night.

The tea in hand went from hot to cold, and the night wind blowing in all directions mixed with the water vapor from the swimming pool made her shiver.

Finally, Twelve took a photo of the yellow and greasy moon with the text: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.

Li shook his head: "I don't feel anything, I haven't been home for the New Year in three years."

"What about your parents? Won't they call you home?"

"No." Li shrugged, "Just make a phone call normally."

He told about his experience of wandering since he was a child, without any emotion, as if it was a story that happened to someone else.

"...But sometimes, it's still a little bit." He thought for a while and added.

In his sophomore year, Li hadn't yet taken his driver's license test.At that time, his computer was broken, and nothing else mattered, but he had to find a way to get out the notes, homework and reports stored in the computer.

Unfortunately, the repair place is far away from the house he rented.He had no choice but to try to contact an American classmate who had a car to take him along.Begging for short manpower, it was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening when they set off.

"I know that place, and it will be open at night." The American classmate comforted.

The American was a tall and strong boy, with dark blond hair fixed into a combed-back shape with hairspray, and a tight-fitting T-shirt on his body against his well-developed muscles, making Li even more obedient and thin.

"Okay, thank you." Li sat on the passenger seat holding the computer, looking at the night outside the window.

"My friends live nearby. I'll go play with them for a while. Send me a message when you're done here." The American parked the car in the parking lot, let Li get out of the car, and left with a hit of the accelerator.

The winter night is very cold, and the heater brought down from the car dissipated completely in a short time. Li looked at the flip-flops on his feet, and secretly cursed himself as a fool.

"It turns out that Americans don't open shops to repair computers at night." Li rubbed his chin and concluded helplessly.

"And then?" Twelve said, "Did you call the American to pick you up?"

Li nodded: "When I arrived, I found that the door was not opened, so I sent a text message immediately. But he didn't reply for a long time, and I called again, but he didn't answer."

"I guess I didn't see it because I was having fun." Twelve was very sympathetic.

"Probably so," Li said, "He didn't come back until almost twelve o'clock, and he said he didn't look at his phone. I apologized, but that's fine. After all, it's someone helping you, so you can't say anything, right?"

He looked at the ceiling, took a sip of beer, and said, "Actually, it's nothing. It's just a matter of drinking for a while and the phone... It's just that there are a few homeless people in the middle, which is a bit troublesome."

Twelve was stunned.

She always walks around the homeless people here.She heard a lot of advice from her seniors and Chinese people who lived here for a long time, all telling her to stay away from those homeless people, and don't even show a little sympathy, just ignore it.Sometimes good intentions can't be exchanged for good rewards. When going out alone, safety is the most important thing.Twelve is timid, and always pays attention to these things.

"and after?"

Li looked at Twelve's furrowed brows, stunned for a while, and then suddenly smiled: "I bought a car later."

Twelve interrupted: "I mean a homeless man. Is anything wrong?"

"What do you think?" Li raised his eyebrows, obviously he didn't want to describe the process, so he laughed, "Do you think I'm fine now?"

twelve:"……"

The young man in front of him laughed wantonly, but there was an inexplicable indifference in his eyes.

Twelve had never experienced this kind of thing, and couldn't imagine what would happen to a boy of eighteen or nineteen who encountered a group of homeless people alone in the dark night of a foreign country, so he could only vaguely say: "Oh...that's right. It's fine now. "

Li put down the empty jar, looked away, looked at the time, and said generously: "Let's go, for the sake of borrowing me to copy homework, I will treat you to dinner."