Chapter 55 Unpleasant Dinner
So Li Mo also stretched out his hand, and held the two hands together gently.
He felt his palm being lightly scratched by the girl opposite him, and secretly thought, is this also a foreigner's habit?
Li Mo pretended not to know, quickly released his hands, walked to the dining table and sat down.
"Sir, Madam, your menu." Seeing that the guests were all seated, the waiter handed over a menu.
"Steak, lamb chops, pork chops, chicken chops, fish chops."
“Spaghetti, lansange lasagna.”
"Roast beef, roast pork, roast lamb, roast chicken, lansange, quiche French pie."
...
Looking at the menu, Li Mo regretted a little and agreed to come to this Western restaurant with Wei Xiaonian.
When having dinner with friends on weekdays, he usually likes to order "boiled meat slices" and "boiled fish" for meat, and "peanuts" for side dishes, and then two dozen beers, which is lively and unique.
Forget it, just order some steak, since I can’t eat much anyway, Li Mo thought to himself.
"I want a steak." He ordered the waiter.
The waiter bent down, wrote it down with a note, and asked: "How cooked is it?"
"How rare is it? I want it to be fully cooked! Can I still eat it raw?" Li Mo replied naturally.
"Well done?" The waiter's eyes widened with a surprised expression.
Li Mo realized that he had made a fool of himself, but he still believed that food should be fully cooked before eating.
He asked: "Yes, fully cooked, can't we do it?"
"...Yes." The waiter replied quickly. It can be seen that he has received professional training.
Zhang Xuemei, who was opposite, smiled and watched Li Mo order a "well-done" steak, and said: "I want a medium-rare steak and a mozzarella cheese salad with tomatoes."
Wei Xiaonian was obviously not very familiar with Western food. He smiled awkwardly and said, "I am the same as this lady."
The waiter went down with the menu to arrange it, and there was silence in the private room.
"Classmate Li Mo, will you not consider my suggestion of inviting you to Princeton again?" Zhang Xuemei suddenly asked with a smile.
Li Mo frowned and didn't answer yet. Wei Xiaonian, who was next to him, said softly: "Xuemei, didn't you say you just wanted to get to know Li Mo? Why are you poaching suddenly?"
Zhang Xuemei ignored him and still said with a smile: "Professor Wilson has already discussed with the college. You can directly study for the professor's postgraduate degree in the past and provide you with a full scholarship."
As she said that, she stopped and took a sip of water. Seeing that Li Mo didn't respond, she added: "Professor Wilson is very famous all over the world. Graduate students who graduated from him can easily enter the world's top 500 companies."
company."
Li Mo looked at Wei Xiaonian as if this is what you call a treat?
He tapped the water glass in front of him with his finger and said with a smile: "Are you one of the Fortune 500 companies? Not long ago, Weihua Company offered to hire me with an annual salary of 1 million, but I rejected it."
"Weihua company, the Weihua company that recently became popular all over the world with its Starry Sky mobile phone system?"
"The Chinese company that the media calls the most likely to break the dominance of China Mobile in the mobile phone field?"
It seems that Zhang Xuemei also knows the name of Weihua Company.
Li Mo nodded. He was disdainful of Zhang Xuemei's behavior. If it wasn't for Wei Xiaonian's sake, he would have left long ago.
"Sir, your well-done steak."
"Miss, your steak is medium rare."
The waiter quickly served the dishes.
Li Mo had trouble holding a knife and fork, how to use it?
Fortunately, he always followed a pragmatic approach. He picked up the fork, inserted it directly into the steak, and then used the knife to cut the steak bit by bit.
"Pfft..." Zhang Xuemei, who was opposite, laughed out loud when she saw Li Mo's "butchering" behavior.
She gently picked up the knife and fork and said, "To eat Western food, hold the fork in your left hand and the knife in your right hand."
"Look, that's it." He said while making a meat-cutting gesture.
Li Mo watched her movements and took the initiative to adjust his eating method. He thanked her: "Thank you, I don't know much about Western food etiquette."
Zhang Xuemei said mischievously: "Look, Western food is the food that civilized people should have. This beautiful technique and this lyrical music are so intoxicating, and the harmony between knife and fork is so harmonious."
Li Mo frowned, put down the knife and fork in his hand and said: "Cang Lin knows etiquette. In my mind, chopsticks are the most suitable for human beings to eat. Adults use long chopsticks, children use short chopsticks, people can always find them
Chopsticks that suit you.”
Seeing that Li Mo did not agree with her statement, Zhang Xuemei was not angry. She still smiled and said: "You have a genius brain. Only by going abroad, to the United States, to a holy place of mathematics like Princeton can you display your talent."
It’s really a waste of money to stay in the country.”
Li Mo laughed loudly, "Do you think Gauss, the prince of mathematics, went to the University of Göttingen because of its reputation, or did the University of Göttingen become famous because of Gauss?"
"Knowledge is knowledge, and science is science. In my eyes, Li Mo, it's that simple. I won't go anywhere else just for fame."
Li Mo stood up and said to Zhang Xuemei with a smile: "By the way, beef may carry salmonella or E. coli. After humans eat raw or half-cooked pork or beef containing cysticerci, the larvae develop into tapeworms in the intestines.
, causing people to contract taeniasis. Mild cases of cysticercosis may have no symptoms, while severe cases can cause the patient extreme pain and even death. Therefore, there are certain health risks in eating beef that has not been heated at high temperatures."
Wei Xiaonian, who was holding a fork to put beef into his mouth, quickly dropped the fork after hearing this.
"Okay, I usually don't eat much. I wish you a happy meal and goodbye." After speaking, Li Mo pointed at the stunned two people to leave.
After leaving the restaurant door, Li Mo breathed a sigh of relief. How did Wei Xiaonian and Zhang Xuemei know each other?
"Brother Mo, why did you come out so quickly?" Bodyguard Zhou Dayong magically sprang out from behind him, while Brother Qiu was still standing next to Wuling Hongguang in the distance.
"Why are you here?" Li Mo was a little surprised.
Zhou Dayong said carelessly: "Because this is outside the campus and I am a bodyguard."
Li Mo was stunned for a moment, "Okay, have you eaten yet?"
Zhou Dayong scratched his head: "I have eaten. These days, there are special work meals sent by the company, three dishes and one soup."
Well, Li Mo has long heard that Weihua Company has good welfare benefits, and now it seems that it is indeed worthy of the name.
Li Mozheng and bodyguard Zhou Dayong were walking slowly on the roadside. "Bidi... didi..." The phone rang, it was Wei Xiaonian.
"Brother Mo, I'm so sorry today. I didn't expect Zhang Xuemei had this idea. She just said she wanted to get to know you." Wei Xiaonian's apologetic voice came from the phone.
Li Mo said nonchalantly: "It's okay, it's not your fault. I have clearly rejected Princeton's invitation. I didn't expect that Zhang Xuemei would take the initiative to come."
"By the way, I have written two new papers and they have been sent to your email. Please review them for me. If they are suitable, please publish them in Mathematics Monthly."
Chapter completed!