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I am a native of Hubei, and when I was filling in the college entrance examination, I applied for a local university in order to be closer to home.
At that time, there were many foreign students in our school, who came to our school for exchange and study, and we happened to have a few majors, and at a party event, I met a young man from the Philippines and quickly became good friends.
When I was about to graduate from university, he sent me an invitation, hoping that I could take him to get to know Wuhan, and I wanted to introduce China's great rivers and mountains, and wanted to take him to experience the customs of our hometown.
But who would have thought that on the way to the airport, he said to me, "Chinese girls really can't be married!", and because of this sentence, we almost got into a fight in a taxi.
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I am a native of Hubei, I grew up blowing the wind of the Han River and eating hot dry noodles from old Hankou, and under China's unique education, my personality is unusually cheerful and lively.
After graduating from high school, I was successfully admitted to a good university, but when I chose to fill in the volunteers, the other students filled in the southern cities, but I resolutely stayed in Wuhan.
As a university city, Wuhan is home to many high-end universities, and because it is my hometown, I have an inseparable connection with it, so I don't want to go too far.
In fact, it is also a good thing to be admitted to a school close to home, when other students are still worried about where to run during the holidays, I can run to the house and taste the sweet and sour pork ribs made by my mother.
Other college students still have to rely on this little living expenses to make ends meet, and when I am on a budget, I go home every Sunday for a big cleaning.
Roll all the snacks, fresh fruits, and toilet paper you buy at home to school, after all, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, and you can save a little bit.
All the pocket money I saved went into my own little coffer, so why not do this kind of thing?
I am studying architecture, there are more boys and fewer girls in our major, girls are like national protected animals, and they are spoiled by the boys in the class.
We don't need to do any dirty work, we just need to watch the class cleaning, moving books, and moving desks.
At this time, I felt that the boys in my class were more handsome than the other, and they were simply too gentlemanly, and the boy with whom I had the best relationship was from the Philippines.
As an international student, he has a fluent Chinese language, the boy's name is Xiao Ming, his skin is a little dark, but his teeth are unusually white when he smiles.
Xiao Ming's parents came to China to do business when he was six or seven years old, which also exposed him to a certain amount of Chinese culture since he was a child, because he had a yearning for China in his heart, and he also wanted to know how powerful this mysterious oriental country really was.
So when he was taking the university entrance examination, Xiao Ming deliberately applied for a Chinese university and was admitted to our college with excellent results.
His parents are also relatively enlightened people, and they feel that China's development is very fast, and it is a very good thing to be able to take root in China, so other children may learn the local language and English when they are young, and he has an additional learning task, learning Chinese under the education of his parents.
I once asked him curiously, whether your parents' Chinese is quite good, and I envy you for speaking Chinese so standardly.
Every time I praise him, he always scratches his head shyly, and it is his honest and honest personality that I like very much, which is also due to the fact that the two of us have become excellent friends.
We often chatted together, and I told him about the great rivers and mountains of China, and he told me interesting stories about life in the Philippines.
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What I remember the most is that he once told me that he and his sister went to pick coconuts secretly, and he picked them at the top, and his sister kept watch for him below.
Because the coconut tree is relatively tall, it is also more dangerous to go up the tree to pick coconuts, so his parents have always opposed him climbing high and low, but it is normal for boys to like to jump up and down at this age.
In addition, he is very athletic and can climb a tall tree in a while, so he always can't help but have an itch in his hands, tricking his sister to go out with him, asking his sister to help him keep a sentry, and he goes up the tree to pick coconuts to repay his sister.
As a result, he had just climbed the coconut tree that day, and his sister hurriedly called him, because his sister saw his mother walking this way, and said that it was easy to get up the tree and difficult to get off the tree.
I don't know what to do at this time, the coconut is too late to pick, so I try to slide down, my sister saw that her mother's footsteps were getting closer and closer, and she was so frightened that she ran home, he originally wanted to let her sister contain her mother, but she didn't expect her sister to be pitiful, and finally he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and he slipped down all of a sudden.
Although he said that he was safe on the ground before his mother arrived, he was beaten in the end, and I wanted to ask him why? He told me with a look of embarrassment that he had broken his pants because he was so fast as he climbed down.
Hearing him say this made me laugh miserably, and since we had already met honestly, I also reciprocated with courtesy, and by the way, I replied to him a story about me.
My family pays more attention to diet, my mother did not allow me to eat instant noodles since I was a child, at that time I was not in good health, and I loved to eat junk food, so I didn't eat every night.
My mother was always angry about this incident, and she would never let me touch my favorite instant noodles, ham sausages and other junk food.
But I surprisingly like to eat instant noodles, anyway, I think instant noodles are more fragrant than other meals, but I don't dare to eat them in front of my mother.
So when my parents left the house, I would open all the windows in the house, secretly eat instant noodles on the windowsill, and destroy the evidence before they returned.
I thought I was doing it seamlessly, but as soon as I got home, my mother angrily accused me and asked me if I was stealing instant noodles again.
Hearing my mother say this, I immediately pretended to be innocent, after all, she often used this method to deceive me, as long as I bite to death and I don't say anything, I will destroy all the evidence, she will definitely not be able to find it.
Seeing that I said no so firmly, my mother didn't say anything, turned around and put my clothes back in the room, I thought that everything went smoothly for me and everything was fine, but I didn't expect my mother to come back with a horse pistol.
I was startled by my mother's sudden gentleness, and before I could think about it, I listened to my mother ask what flavor of instant noodles I was eating, and it smelled quite good.
At that time, I may have a little axis in my brain, and I didn't react for a while, so I went directly into the set given to me by my mother, and when I opened my mouth, I came to the taste of braised beef, and I was successfully beaten.
My mother beat me very hard, firstly because I secretly ate instant noodles again, and secondly because I lied to her, and Xiao Ming was very surprised to hear that my mother beat me.
"Shouldn't you Chinese girls be spoiled, and why are you still being beaten?"
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When I heard him say this, I felt a little embarrassed, after all, I was so naughty at that time, even boys were not as naughty as me, and I couldn't tell him.
Because I'm like a bandit every day, I challenge my mother's bottom line again and again, right? I had to tell him in a serious way, because there is an old Chinese saying that "filial piety comes out of a stick", and a childhood that has not experienced the ravages of sticks is not a complete childhood.
On the eve of graduation, Xiao Ming invited me to play around Wuhan with him, and during this time in college, he spent most of his time learning Chinese and research, rarely came out to play, and was not very familiar with Wuhan, so he wanted to ask me to be his tour guide.
After all, he is an international friend, I politely accepted Xiao Ming's invitation, and made a three-day plan, these three days we saw the Yellow Crane Tower, ate Hubu Lane, visited the Yangtze River Bridge, and also took a beautiful cruise.
Looking at the lively scene on the cruise ship, Xiao Ming sighed with emotion, "I really didn't expect that Chinese ships are so powerful, and only the rich can afford this kind of ship in the Philippines." ”
"Of course, China's shipbuilding industry is very powerful!" After listening to others praising my country, my heart was also very happy, "This is just for tourists to visit, our country also has all kinds of ships used for military purposes, aircraft carriers and other fleet ships, which are the important weapons of the mainland!"
After listening to my introduction, Xiao Ming's originally glowing eyes were a little distracted, and we sat on the steps next to the Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan that night and chatted for a long time.
He asked me a lot of questions, but it boiled down to one sentence, how can I stay in China?
"You can join us in China and become our son-in-law in China," I joked with him, and she got serious.
"Then how can I become a son-in-law in China?"
"You want to buy a house in China, buy a car, prepare a bride price, and marry a beautiful Chinese daughter-in-law!" After hearing me say this, he was stunned for a long time, and after hearing the housing price, he was even more frightened and almost fell to the ground.
The next morning, we took a taxi to the airport, and his study abroad career would end here, sitting in the car, Xiao Ming looked at the crowd coming and going with emotion, and couldn't help but sigh.
"You Chinese women really can't marry!"
When he said that, I was a little angry, "What do you mean? Why did the Chinese girl mess with you?"
"Alas, you Chinese are too pragmatic, it is a bride price, a house, and a car, only in this way can you get married, so how can the poor marry their daughters-in-law?"
"The house and the car are the guarantee of love, and the bride price is a guarantee for the families of both sides, which is a traditional custom in China since ancient times, and it is a kind of protection for women, so there is no such widespread gender discrimination between men and women in our country, and it will not be like some countries, women are called as cattle and horses!"
Hearing me say this, Xiao Ming lowered his head, and looked at me with an angry face as he left, and he was embarrassed to bow to me and apologize.
"If I have the opportunity, I hope I can stay in China, the culture here amazes me, China is very strong, everyone talks about equality between men and women, China has indeed done it!"
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