The spring breeze in February once again blows through this small coastal city, as if by magic, and the places where the wind blows become vibrant and full of spring.

Spring is also getting stronger in No. 2 Middle School, and the sunshine on the campus is brighter than ever. Spring is coming, the mood is also improving, and Jolene gets the great news - Teacher Meng has decided to send her to participate in the city's aerobics competition, and if she wins the top three, then they will be able to go to the provincial capital to participate in the competition.

Judging from the past results, there is no suspense in the top three in the second middle school, and it depends on whether they can win the championship in the city.

Jolene was thrilled by the news, she had never been to the provincial capital since she was a child! In her opinion, if she could represent the school in the provincial city to participate in the competition, it would be the same as her brother representing their school to win the elite sword!

It was a weekend afternoon, the day of the second high school holiday, and Jolene could go on the net for a short time. She did well in the final exam last time and won a "Learning Progress Award" in the second middle school, which rewarded her with a total of 500 yuan. Jolene bought a new pair of shoes for her parents, and then used the rest to buy a camera, so that she could video with her sister in the United States.

The first time I got a scholarship, it was a wonderful feeling, and Jolene never believed that she had actually won a scholarship one day. But since she took it this time, she wanted to continue to take it.

Jolene waited for the video to be with her sister, but her sister never responded. She walked around AC Milan's post bar several times and liked Kaka's post several times, but her sister's profile picture was still gray.

"Qiao Lin, maybe your sister is too tired from writing her paper and is still sleeping, don't bother her, turn off the computer first!" Li Lanzhi said.

"Okay. ”

Jolene was helpless, and at the moment when she was about to turn off the computer, the avatar of "LULU" suddenly came alive and sent Jolene a naughty expression.

Li Lanzhi rushed over almost in an arrow step, and her movements were as fast as a flash, startling Qiao Lin.

"Lulu, it's been good lately, isn't it?

Qiao Lu on the other end of the computer was wearing a loose white sweater, and her long hair was draped over her shoulders, which made her look particularly intellectual and gentle. She replied with a smile: "Mom, California has always been quite warm, the climate is very comfortable, if you have the opportunity, you must come and have fun!"

Li Lanzhi put her mind at ease and said, "You just have a good life there, we are all so old, if we want to go abroad, it is estimated that we will have to wait until the next life!"

"Mom and Dad won't go, I'll go!" Jolene said with a grin, leaning over to the computer.

Li Lanzhi sneered: "Do you still want to go abroad?

"Mom, don't keep hitting Linlin, her grades are getting better and better now, maybe she will surpass me and Qiao Nan in the future!" Qiao Lu spoke softly, making it extremely comfortable to listen to.

Li Lanzhi glanced at her youngest daughter and sighed: "Your sister is not focused on studying, and she will go to the city to participate in an aerobics competition in a few days." You said that she will not take this road in the future, and she will spend so much energy on these things, and she does not know what the point is. ”

Jolene was very angry when she heard this, she was already glaring at her mother, and she was about to quarrel with her mother in the next second. Qiao Lu hurriedly said: "Mom, in fact, I wanted to say it a long time ago, I also discussed with Qiao Nan before, if Linlin wants to engage in art work in the future, it is better to let her take the path of an art student! Don't waste her talent in dance! As for the cost, Qiao Nan and I will find a way, you don't have to worry about it." ”

Jolene was stunned, she didn't think so much about the future, but her sister thought so carefully about her!

The eldest sister is like a mother!

At this moment, Jolene understood the meaning of this sentence more deeply.

However, before the emotion passed, Li Lanzhi denied the eldest daughter's idea: "Impossible, since your grandfather's ancestors, our family is a scholar." Your grandfather was sent to the countryside, and the family was so difficult, it didn't delay our children's study. Our family is the same, a few years ago, we were so poor that we couldn't open the pot, and your father and I gritted our teeth for you to study. Lao Li's side is the root of reading, and this root must not be broken!"

"Everything is inferior, only reading is high", this is the concept that Li Lanzhi has always adhered to, and no one can shake it. She said it categorically, and there was no room for negotiation at all, which made the two sisters of the Qiao family speechless for a while. Qiao Lin said unconvinced: "Who said that the Li family is all scholars?

"Your aunt is an alternative, can you learn from her?"

Li Lanzhi blocked her little daughter tightly with a word. Qiao Lu was familiar with her mother's "transfer concept" style of play, and knew that she couldn't be persuaded for a while, so she thought about fighting a long battle. And Jolene originally didn't have the intention of learning art, but after being hit by her mother like this, her rebellious psychology was hooked, so she wanted to work against her mother.

Through the computer screen, Qiao Lu felt a faint smell of gunpowder, she held up a book, and changed the topic: "Show you something, what do you see here?"

Li Lanzhi leaned on the screen to look, but unfortunately the camera was too blurry, and she couldn't see it clearly.

Qiao Lu smiled: "This is my paper that I just published. ”

"Really?!"

Jolene and her mother were so happy that they forgot about the grievances just now and hugged each other excitedly.

"I just got the magazine yesterday, and it's the Journal of the American Chemical Society. ”

Jolene and her mom had never heard of what a magazine it was, didn't know its impact factor, and didn't know what a big deal it was to post a paper on it. Since Qiao Lu can tell them, it means that she is indeed very happy. Because, if it was a small achievement, Qiao Lu would not tell them at all.

Li Lanzhi was so happy that she didn't know what to do, and said to her eldest daughter: "Alas, you said that you are so good, your mother should send you a big red envelope, but you can't send it to you from such a distance." ”

"It's all so big, where do you need any red envelopes?"

"You study hard, I will remember all the results you have achieved, and when you come back, I will make up the red envelopes for you!"

Because of Qiao Lu's achievements, the mother-daughter relationship, which was tense just now, immediately became happy. After talking about herself, Qiao Lu asked about her younger brother. But as soon as Qiao Nan was mentioned, Li Lanzhi couldn't help but sigh.

"There's no news since I left, I don't know what I'm up to. ”

Qiao Lu smiled and said, "Can't you ask Xue Dongmei? The student you personally recruited back then, but you didn't expect to recruit a daughter-in-law!"

Li Lanzhi only smiled bitterly: "Xue Dongmei has no more contact with him than us, I only heard that he has entered what combat class, or what class? Really, just a student, where are there so many secrets?"

"I'll ask him someday and see if I can ask anything. ”

The mother and daughter of the Qiao family cherished each other, and reluctantly turned off the camera. The first thing after chatting about the day, Li Lanzhi taught her little daughter a lesson, telling her not to focus on dancing, to learn more from her sister, and to be a veritable scholar.

Qiao Lin was extremely disgusted by her mother's words, covered her ears, and hid in the wonton restaurant. Jolene tells her dad that her sister's paper has been published. Qiao Jianjun was immediately overjoyed and asked his youngest daughter, "Can you buy that magazine back?"

Jolene's eyes widened suddenly—her sister had just said the English name of the magazine, and she didn't remember it at all! Besides, even if she did, she wouldn't be able to buy it through ordinary channels.

"I told my sister to send the magazine back. As soon as the words came out, Jolene was impressed by her wit.

"Forget it, writing a paper is almost like taking off a layer of skin, don't let her run around, and the postage is not cheap. ”

"Oh......" Jolene agreed, but thought to herself, just sending a magazine, how tiring it can be, how much can it cost, and if my sister can send the magazine back, Dad will definitely be very happy.

My brother's magazine on the news is already in the wonton restaurant, and my father is proudly and low-key showing off every day, and if my sister's magazine is put here again, he will be so happy that he can't keep his mouth shut!

When Qiao Jianjun is not too busy, his heart is always messy, his daughter who is far away in the United States, and his son who is in the military academy, are all his inseparable concerns. Although his daughter is far away, he is already very content to be able to contact him once or twice a week, and his son, I don't know if he is busy with love or other things, anyway, every time he leaves home, it is like forgetting the Qiao family.

"Dad, what do you want?"

Qiao Jianjun pondered: "I always feel that your brother didn't tell me the truth last time he came back, he must have something to hide from us." ”

"Oh, is my brother going on some secret mission? He's only a junior, isn't he?"

"I don't know. Forget it, I won't worry about it anymore, he's grown up, let's watch it myself!"

After Qiao Jianjun finished speaking, he went to the back kitchen to get busy again. The perennial hard work left him with a lot of sequelae, such as his right shoulder, which hurts so much when it rains. Jolene heard her father's forced inhalation, and very sensibly went into the kitchen and rubbed her father's shoulder.

"Last year, my brother told you to find a dishwasher, but you just didn't listen and stuck to this point. If you do get sick one day, won't it cost you more?" said Jolene, clenching her little fists, and said to her father with a straight look.

"Your father is a person who has been on the battlefield and crawled out of the pile of dead people, what is this little problem?" Qiao Jianjun tried his best to pretend that nothing happened: "A dishwasher costs a lot of money, and our family still has a lot of debts that have not been paid off, so it will be over if we insist on it." ”

My brother and father are simply carved out of a mold, as long as they pay attention, no one can shake it. Jolene said to herself, "Anyway, my brother won't listen to what you say, and you never listen to what my brother tells you." ”

Qiao Jianjun smiled, moved his shoulders, and said, "Yes, now my fist is also strong, if you press it like this, I will be much more comfortable, worthy of my father's little padded jacket." ”

Jolene raised her chin triumphantly, then leaned on her father's back and asked, "Dad, I'm going to participate in the city's aerobics competition in a few days, do you support me to go?"

"Yes, of course yes! As long as you brothers and sisters like to do things, how can Dad not support them?"

Jolene put her face on her father's back and said softly, "It's better to be dad!"

A few days later, after Qiao Lin finished training, Teacher Meng deliberately left her behind and asked bluntly, "Are your eyes short-sighted?"

"Well, I wear glasses in class, not at other times. ”

"To make sure the game goes smoothly, you'd better have a pair of contact lenses!"

"Crypto, contact lenses?"

"Well, you have to make sure that everything is foolproof on stage, if you can't see clearly, you can make a mistake, so I recommend that you wear contact lenses. ”

Qiao Lin agreed to Teacher Meng, but the moment she walked out of the dance studio, she was in a difficult position - it costs money to get contact lenses, and she doesn't know how to talk to her parents?

Anyway, her mother didn't support her dancing, so she went straight to her father. At that time, "contact lenses" was still a very unfamiliar concept to the people of Hong Kong City, and most people would not consider wearing invisible lenses unless there were special occupational requirements.

"I don't know if that thing hurts the eyes, what if the eyeballs are worn out?" Qiao Jianjun said worriedly.

Teacher Meng said that before she had myopia surgery, she also wore contact lenses, and she wore them for several years, and there was nothing at all. ”

Qiao Jianjun thought about it for a while, and finally made up his mind: "Okay, don't you take two classes off on the weekend? I'll take you to get glasses when the time comes, okay?"

Jolene was so happy that she jumped three feet high and hugged her father and kissed her non-stop. Although Qiao Jianjun felt sorry for the money, he saw his daughter so happy, and he also followed suit.