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Because of my connections at the second cafeteria, I often invite international students to dinner. Once, Fei Jialing and her friends insisted on treating me to a meal on Qingdao Road, going Dutch, and told me not to pay. Another time, during a night march, when buying soda at the Drum Tower, they also wanted to split the bill, but I ended up paying alone.
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During a march, I stuck a paper flyer on the back of a female international student, she didn't blame me, and continued marching with the flyer on her back, which made everyone laugh.
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Senior Wen Deshu from the same village and a different university in Nanjing, I only saw him once during my four years in college at Nanjing University, coincidentally during the 1989 student movement. He seemed to be waiting for me near my dormitory on the way, and I told him I was going to Beijing. After 1989, I stayed at school, and when my uncle came to find me, he was very angry and immediately took me home. It turned out that Deshu had returned to his hometown and told my father that I was going to Beijing, which worried the whole family. My grandmother said my father had lost his spirit for work, and my father said, "What's the point of working when people are gone?"
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During the 1989 period, when I returned home once, my classmates told me that many people had posted big-character posters to resign from the Communist Youth League. Fei Jialing asked me, "Will you self-immolate?" It was the first time I heard this term and didn't understand its meaning.
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When I went to the restroom below the Tiananmen City Tower, it was so clean, I had never seen such a clean restroom before, with water constantly flushing.
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Before returning to Ning, I walked on Wangfujing Street with David Yang, barefoot, carrying cloth shoes, and David was smiling.
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After 1989, students from Beijing played recordings of the 1989 scene at our school's radio station, hearing a burst of gunfire, followed by people shouting "beast," and this cycle continued.
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Once, walking on campus with a female international student, I threw away a piece of scrap paper, and she insisted that I pick it up no matter what.
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A female international student told me not to refer to black international students as "black," but to call them African.
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During the march, a female international student talked to me about how there are many rapes in the United States. She first mentioned an English word that I didn't understand, then she said the word to another female international student in Chinese, who translated it as "rape," and then she told me in Chinese.