Jolene remembers that her grandmother once said that in this world, there are always a few people who are staring at you more than staring at their work. As long as you are doing a little better, they will go crazy with jealousy.

My brother also told her that when you are only ten steps ahead of others, others will be jealous, and when you are a hundred or a thousand steps ahead, then jealousy will turn into envy.

At that time, the children of the Qiao family were still in the stage of being jealous!

In 2013, Qiao Nan was most concerned about the two things, one was that his wife was pregnant, and the other was that he graduated with a master's degree. When he made time to care for his sister and sister, he found that his sister was on the verge of breaking up.

There is no doubt that the two text messages that Qiao Lu received at midnight were both sent to her by Wang Chao. Qiao Lu calmly asked her why she did this, and the other party replied - your happy appearance is really disgusting.

Qiao Lu was trembling with anger, but she didn't take it personally, but replied very gracefully: "If this thing is true, then I want to thank you, you helped me recognize the true face of a person, and I can seek true happiness." ”

There was no reply over there, and I guess I was half angry with Qiao Lu's reply!

Qiao Lu didn't ask her for photos, she didn't sleep all night, and finally decided to give her boyfriend another chance. At dawn, she called her boyfriend on a business trip and asked straight to the point, "Can you tell me who the person who borrowed money from you is?"

Xiao Lin suppressed his impatience and said, "Didn't you say it many times, a friend in Shanghai." ”

"What kind of friend? Is it more important than me?"

"Lulu, can you please not do this. The money has been lent out, and I regret it and am trying my best to make amends, what else can you let me?"

Qiao Lu held back tears and said, "My foot has been twisted for three days, when will you be able to come back?"

"This afternoon's plane, I am sorry for you, and when I return to Beijing, I will make up for you. ”

There was a crackling sound, like rain pounding on a window. Qiao Lu asked casually: "It's also raining in Shenzhen?"

“…… Well. ”

"Will the flight still take off normally?"

"It shouldn't be until the afternoon, right?"

Qiao Lu hung up the phone and found Qiao Lin standing at the door of the bedroom with her hair disheveled, angrily pushing the mobile phone screen in front of her sister's eyes.

"Sister, why did he lie? Did he really go on a business trip?"

Qiao Lu's temples hurt terribly, and she buried her face in her knees, looking very tired.

"Sister, let Qiao Nan beat him, and he will tell the truth, right?"

"I don't need to ask him at all, I know what's going on......" Qiao Lu, who had seen strong winds and waves, became more calm the more critical moments came: "Qiao Lin, you take a screenshot of this weather situation first." ”

Qiao Lin intercepted it obediently and sent it to her sister on WeChat. Qiao Lu washed casually, blew her hair, and painted a light makeup, covering the thick dark circles under her eyes, and wearing a little blush, which looked very good. She also had to give lectures to undergraduates in the morning, and she had to make herself radiant.

Qiao Lin was still very worried about her sister's coming, but when she thought about it, in the small dark room of the American airport back then, she could calmly talk about the crowd, and this little scene could still crush her?

So, with a truly powerful aura, you don't need to draw a flaming red lip, draw the tips of your eyebrows into the clouds, and then make your nails grow...... Like my sister, if a big thing is on her body, and she can still work and live normally, then she is already very powerful.

Qiao Lin learned again, in the future, she will no longer rely on bright red clothes to strengthen her aura, and she will cultivate a strong heart like her sister.

That night, Xiao Lin really came to find Qiao Lu, he was so dusty that he didn't even bring a suitcase. Qiao Lu asked with a smile: "You have been on a business trip for several days, and you don't need luggage?"

"Ah...... The taxi passed by my house and I dropped off my luggage. ”

Qiao Lu was slightly disappointed: "So that's the case, I thought you couldn't wait to see me, and you couldn't even go home." ”

……

As soon as they met, Xiao Lin was forced to ask these two questions in a cold sweat. He barely squeezed out a smile and said, "Lulu, why bother with this?"

Qiao Lu really didn't care about this, although it was nine o'clock in the evening, she still went out to eat with Xiaolin. After a rough question about his business trip in Shenzhen, Kobayashi answered them one by one, without revealing any flaws. Qiao Lu held her phone and had an urge to show him the screenshot of the weather, but she told herself that it was not yet time.

Kobayashi looked hungry, but the bowl of barbecued pork ramen was really painful. Qiao Lu drank barley tea and said lightly: "I have met old classmates in Beijing in the past few days, and I learned from them that Xu Wei, who is my ex-boyfriend, has been upgraded to become a father and has a little girl. ”

Xiao Lin was stunned, and then said unhappily: "How many years have you both broken up, and what are you still mentioning him?"

"yes, time flies, I haven't seen him since he got married. I only found out about him through other people. ”

Xiao Lin was still not very happy, and said: "It's all irrelevant people, what do you mention him for." ”

"You see, he's become irrelevant, and I'm telling you all these stories. How's that, I'm honest enough with you, right?"

Qiao Lu held her cheeks and smiled, but Xiao Lin felt a chill spread from the top of her head to the tips of her toes. He steadied himself and said, "Lulu, I know that I haven't bought a house, you are angry in your heart, and I am also angry with myself." I swore to you, it was really the last time I helped him. I'm trying to raise money to buy the house as soon as possible. ”

Qiao Lu was still smiling, but her heart was already cold. She said: "The real estate we are optimistic about is probably not able to catch up...... If there's no suitable one for a while, forget it. I still have to go to Osaka for a conference in May, and the deadline for submission of papers is at the end of this month. I'm also quite busy, I'll talk about the house later. ”

Xiao Lin didn't say anything anymore, took a taxi to send Qiao Lu back to school, and insisted on carrying her upstairs. Qiao Lu said: "I'm not hurting my muscles and bones, I've been much better in the past two days, and walking is not too much of a hindrance." ”

Xiao Lin couldn't help, and he was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to do. Qiao Lu didn't call him upstairs, but only left a sentence: "We don't have enough money, the house won't wait for us, and the money we make up will be useless; ”

Qiao Lu was really soft and strong, and she didn't say a hard word, but it really made Xiaolin suffer a lot of shock.

Lying on the bed, Qiao Lu lost sleep again. She flipped through the photo albums on her mobile phone, most of which were photos of the two of them checking in to Beijing food restaurants. Before the money borrowing turmoil, the two were really sweet for a long time.

is also a gentle boy, but Xiao Lin is still very different from Xu Wei, after all, he was a second-class school bully, and he was admitted to a prestigious university with his true skills. Outstanding work ability, self-motivated, step by step in the big city to gain a firm foothold.

Some of his qualities - calm, organized, and willing to use his brains are all very admired by Qiao Lu. On a date, he saw that Qiao Lu's hair was a little messy, so he directly bought her a brand new hair dryer. Qiao Lu was surprised and asked, "I didn't even say that my hair dryer was broken, how did you know?"

"Someone like you who pays attention to image blows his hair out of waves every time he meets me, but last time he didn't, and his hair was still a little wet. You're not the kind of person who rushes out the door, so I guess maybe your hair dryer is broken and you're waiting for your hair to dry naturally. ”

Qiao Lu was so surprised that she only blinked her eyes, and she admired his meticulousness and cleverness. Another time, when Xiao Lin invited a colleague to dinner, and his colleague's child was drilling under the dining table, his first reaction was to protect his hand on the child's head, so that the child would not be hit by the corner of the table as soon as he raised his head; every time they ate together, he would always ask for a plastic bag, pack a few bones and take them away, saying that they were brought to the stray dogs in the community.

His patience and kindness are what Qiao Lu likes very much. She has thought more than once that if she has a child in the future, Xiaolin must be a good father who is extremely careful.

Therefore, Qiao Lu didn't choose to be with him just because he was suitable. She really liked him, and in some things, she relied on him extraordinarily.

The two people who were originally talking about marriage were at a stalemate like this, and Qiao Nan should have noticed that something was wrong. The three brothers and sisters simply had a meeting, and Qiao Nan's eyes were cold, which frightened Qiao Lin and persuaded him: "You can't go and beat people!"

……

Probably in Jolene's eyes, her brother was a reckless man with a high military value.

"Even against the enemy, it is a salute before a soldier, not to mention that person may become your brother-in-law. ”

Qiao Nan threw down this sentence, and soon confirmed Xiao Lin's whereabouts, and found out his ex-girlfriend by the way. Qiao Nan said that the woman didn't know what she had done, she owed a lot of card debts, and went to find an online loan. It is estimated that he was forced to have no choice, so he asked his ex-boyfriend to borrow money.

Qiao Lu thought of Xu Na's words, some people do not follow the right path, they may take drugs, gamble, or spend extravagantly and spend all their money on luxury goods. Xiaolin's ex-girlfriend is very likely to have done some of these things to end up where she is now.

Qiao Nan said: "He used the money to help such a woman, and I also took it." Sister, what's the matter, do you want to have a showdown with him?"

"Actually, I can guess that the reason why I didn't make it clear to him was that I was waiting for an opportunity for him to confess to me in person. ”

Qiao Lu said and burst into tears. She is thirty years old, and when she talks about meeting each other's parents twice, does it end in failure?

When Qiao Lu was crying so much, Mother Lin called her and said, "Qiao Lu, Shufeng told us, and his father and I also felt that he did something inappropriate. We borrowed more than 200,000 yuan from relatives and friends, and I transferred the money to buy a house. ”

"Auntie......"

"You also know that Shufeng is a warm-hearted person and has made many friends. Don't be angry first, discuss it with him, and buy the house first. ”

Qiao Lu wanted to tell her the truth, but as soon as she realized that she was just an innocent mother, she temporarily held everything back to her heart.