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"I'm a picky eater," Gu Ran said, putting his arm around her shoulder.
Su Xiaoqiang said, "Isn't that 'Nono' very pretty? I've seen her photos, her face, her legs, her slim waist..."
"But she's not as old as you..."
Before Gu Ran could finish speaking, Su Xiaoqiang interrupted her immediately: "It seems you really have compared them. So you've had those thoughts?"
"Nono has a boyfriend, a handsome Italian guy." Gu Ran realized something was wrong at this point. How did Su Xiaoqiang know about Nono?
Who's using their golden touch to poke me in the back and tattle on me?!
Chapter 116 A Mid-Autumn Festival Date in a Foreign Land
Su Xiaoqiang continued, "There's also a Russian girl in your year. I've seen her picture. She has a very delicate face, like a princess from the Tsarist era who could make people furious."
"I have no connection with her... and she looks even younger than Liu Miaomiao, I would even think she's a minor... you know me, I only like older women!"
"Some people also say that you often see female students in bikinis by the river!"
"So who exactly is snitching on me?" Gu Ran asked, staring at his girlfriend.
"Tell me, did you even look at the senior's figure?"
"Am I looking at the figure? I'm looking at the bikini!" Gu Ran said, suddenly having a bright idea.
Su Xiaoqiang sneered, "Is there a difference?"
"Of course there's a difference, a huge difference. I have my reasons for looking at the bikinis..."
Su Xiaoqiang was both amused and exasperated: "Come on, tell me, I want to hear what excuses you can come up with!"
Gu Ran smiled and pinched her delicate and cute chin: "If I can't see you, I can only think of you through these things."
Su Xiaoqiang was stunned for a moment, then remembered the afternoon when she showed him the swimsuit show.
Her face flushed red, and she punched her boyfriend's muscular chest hard with her fist.
She retorted angrily, "If you really want to reminisce over these things, I can give you a set of underwear."
"Weared?"
"Big pervert!"
The two joked around for a while longer. Su Xiaoqiang felt sorry for her boyfriend for not having eaten, so she called the front desk and ordered some food.
Gu Ran went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face.
"Sweetie, where are the clothes I sent to the dry cleaners?" He was still wearing his bathrobe, completely naked underneath, which was a little embarrassing.
Su Xiaoqiang took out a new set of sports hoodies and handed them to him. They were also black and matched the ones she was wearing.
After Gu Ran took it, she found there was also a pair of black underwear.
"Did you buy this?" Gu Ran asked, holding up the boxer shorts with her fingertips.
Su Xiaoqiang blushed, nodded, and said, "I had it washed after I bought it."
"Oh...how did you know my size?"
"Compared it to your old one..."
"What about the old one?"
"...Throw it away!"
Gu Ran's eyes darted around, thinking that the old one didn't seem to be torn or tattered, and she wondered what it had done to offend her so that it had been abandoned.
Gu Ran put on new underwear and a sweatshirt, then returned to the living room.
"Is it appropriate?" Su Xiaoqiang asked.
"Hmm... Under normal circumstances, it's quite suitable."
Su Xiaoqiang bought him a slim-fit style, which was a bit tight.
Su Xiaoqiang retorted, dissatisfied, "What do you mean by 'normal circumstances'? Aren't men and women the same? Is there such a thing as an abnormal situation?"
She quickly realized something, her face flushed again, and she muttered under her breath, "You filthy scoundrel!"
After a while, the hotel delivered the meal, which surprisingly included a stew pot.
"This hotel even has Cantonese stewed soup?" Gu Ran asked in surprise.
“I went to Chinatown yesterday to have someone make this soup,” Su Xiaoqiang said. “The old lady who makes the soup is from Guangdong Province. She came to accompany her daughter during her postpartum period. She said this soup is the best for replenishing vital energy.”
Gu Ran opened the stew pot, and a rich aroma of American ginseng wafted out.
Is it stewed chicken?
"It's pigeon meat. My aunt said that American white-feathered chicken and turkey soup doesn't taste good, and there are no yellow-feathered chickens around, but pigeons are everywhere... She said the pigeons were caught in the deep mountains, not the pigeons in the city that eat car exhaust every day."
Gu Ran took a sip of the pigeon soup and immediately tasted its sweet flavor.
It's been so long since I've had a bowl of delicious soup.
Gu Ran happily drank the soup and ate the meat, and soon finished two steaks and a pasta dish.
Seeing her boyfriend enjoying his meal made Su Xiaoqiang happy too.
It took her a long time to find someone to make soup yesterday.
The $500 was well spent.
After dinner, Gu Ran asked his girlfriend, "What date did you book your flight back to China?"
Su Xiaoqiang came to Chicago this time to spend the holiday with him.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and she felt sorry for Gu Ran because he had no family, so she wanted to come over quietly to give him a surprise.
"Tomorrow at noon," Su Xiaoqiang said. "My dad and mom are coming to Shanghai on the 6th, and I have to go back to see them."
"Okay, I'll have time to see you off at the airport tomorrow," Gu Ran said with a smile. "Shall we go out for a walk now?"
"Ah."
……
Chicago is a city full of skyscrapers. It is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes. Lake Michigan stretches as far as the eye can see, and from the shore, it looks like a vast ocean.
Gu Ran and Su Xiaoqiang had no interest in skyscrapers, so they took a leisurely stroll along the lake.
They went to the naval dock, which used to be a US naval base. During World War II, many naval personnel trained on this lake.
However, the Chicago government has now turned this area into a park, where many citizens are enjoying leisure and recreation on the artificial island, and bands are performing.
Gu Ran thought for a moment, then went over and borrowed the guitarist's guitar, and sang Jay Chou's "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion".
Regardless of romance, I'll write this preface and wait for your reply.
The suspended brush is exquisite, depicting the waves layered a thousand times on the shore.
How can I interpret the word "love"? No matter how I try to write it, it doesn't feel right.
But what I lack is your understanding of my entire life.
Su Xiaoqiang stood gracefully to the side, listening to her boyfriend's singing.
She understood the meaning behind his singing of this song.
After he finished singing, the crowd around him gave him a warm round of applause. These foreigners couldn't understand the lyrics and thought Gu Ran was using the song to woo his girlfriend.
Then, an older man started egging Su Xiaoqiang on to agree to Gu Ran's request, and the people around them joined in the commotion.
Su Xiaoqiang smiled, reached out and hugged Gu Ran's neck, stood on tiptoe and kissed him.
The people around them applauded and cheered even more enthusiastically.
"Does it sound good?" Gu Ran asked, hugging his girlfriend.
He sang it on a whim, feeling that the song perfectly suited the situation.
"It sounds nice," Su Xiaoqiang said with a smile.
His singing skills are average, but he has a very good voice.
"Are you ready to learn about my entire life?" Su Xiaoqiang asked.
“Of course…” Gu Ran said, “The question is, are you prepared to explain this to me in a simple and easy-to-understand way?”
"……Stinking rogue!"
The two walked hand in hand along the water's edge, occasionally stopping to kiss and enjoy a relaxing time.
"I'll take you somewhere." As it was getting dark, Su Xiaoqiang held her boyfriend's hand and said mysteriously.
Gu Ran followed her, got into a taxi, and finally arrived at Chinatown.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chinatown is decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations. The shops are filled with lanterns and paper-cuts of Chang'e, the Moon Rabbit, and other figures.
On the cultural stage in Chinatown, several elderly men and women were singing Kunqu Opera, creating a lively atmosphere.
Su Xiaoqiang led Gu Ran to a Cantonese dim sum shop.
She ordered two hundred mooncakes here.
“These are all handmade mooncakes; two hundred a day is their maximum production,” Su Xiaoqiang said to Gu Ran. “That should be enough for you to take back to school and give to the Chinese students, right?”
It turns out that even while he was asleep, she was still thinking about helping him maintain his relationships with his classmates.
Chapter 117 The Sense of Ritual My Girlfriend Wants
Gu Ran put his arm around her slender waist and kissed her forehead: "Did you find this place specifically?"
"No, I just happened to see it." Su Xiaoqiang leaned on her boyfriend's shoulder, saying it didn't matter, but in her heart she was thinking, "Praise me, keep praising me, praise me a few more times."
At that moment, an elderly woman in her sixties came out of the shop.
She saw Su Xiaoqiang and Gu Ran hugging and thought to herself that the handsome man and beautiful woman were really a perfect match.
She laughed and said, "This must be your boyfriend drinking the soup, right? Your girlfriend really cares about you..."
The older woman said that Su Xiaoqiang spent the whole afternoon in Chinatown yesterday, asking each household who was the best at making soup, and that they had to have good, fresh soup ingredients.
Unlike in China, Americans don't have easy access to freshly slaughtered ingredients.