The summer vacation is coming to an end, Qiao Lu is ready to go back to Shanghai, and Qiao Nan has also booked a ticket to the south early in the morning. Thinking that the three children are left at home, Qiao Lin is like a frosted eggplant, and the autumn wind blows the fallen leaves, feeling that she lives in the sad BGM of "Erquan Reflecting the Moon" every day.

After mid-August, there was a new book on the small desk in the wonton restaurant, called "Looking Back", and the author was Qiao Mu.

Jolene saw the book at a glance, and there was no need to ask, it must have been her aunt's new book, and her father bought it back as soon as it came out. Although he didn't look at it at all, he kept the habit of buying arbor masterpieces for many years.

Their brother and sister were obviously concerned about each other, but they pretended not to care. Jolene chewed on the fritters, and couldn't figure out why this was the case between adults.

On this day, she made an appointment with Zhao Linlin to go to the bookstore to buy counseling books, and her aunt's new books were placed in the most conspicuous position in the bookstore, and many people were buying them. There was a short-haired girl in the crowd who was looking at it intently, her focused side face was very good-looking, and her slender and toned figure was also eye-catching.

At this time, several college student-looking girls chattered and discussed: "Hey, isn't this the writer who has been divorced three times?"

"Yes, many critics also say that what she writes has depth, what kind of in-depth work can such a woman with a chaotic private life write?"

"Have you heard the reason for her divorce? I read in the newspapers that her third husband was a German composer and was in his fifties. The two of them made an appointment with Dink to grow old, but last year the old man carried her behind her back and secretly had children with other women. Writer Qiao was very angry and immediately divorced him. ”

"Tsk, it's really miserable for a woman to get mixed up with this, she has lived for most of her life, and she has nothing left, only a pitiful manuscript fee. ”

The girls couldn't help but laugh as they talked. Qiao Lin gritted her teeth and was about to rush forward, but was stopped by Zhao Linlin, for fear that she would cause something. At this moment, the short-haired girl glanced indifferently at a few college students and said, "The bookstore is a place where people who like to read come here, if you want to talk about gossip, please go out and turn right, and don't send it slowly." ”

"Che, how old are you, dare to say anything to us?"

The short-haired girl put down the book and stared at them awe-inspiringly, and the girls couldn't help but take a few steps back, and the short-haired girl said: "First, keep quiet in the bookstore, this is the minimum quality. Second, as a person who reads, he doesn't read the books written by the writer, but talks a lot about her private life, which really makes people laugh off; third, Teacher Qiao Mu has the right to choose her own way of life, maybe marriage and children are not necessary choices in her life, why do you judge her choice?"

Xu Na spoke plainly and clearly, making it impossible for them to refute it at all. "You little brat...", a yellow-haired girl had a muscle trembling on her face, and she raised her slap high, but she didn't dare to fall.

The short-haired girl chuckled and raised her head: "What's the matter? I have won the provincial taekwondo children's championship, if you want to try my strength, let the horse come!"

Although the short-haired girl is very thin, she looks very powerful, especially with a pair of big bright eyes, which are more energetic than many boys. The girls gestured on the spot several times, leaving a sentence of "don't worry about the madman", and left angrily.

The short-haired girl didn't do it, and grabbed Huang Mao's collar, Huang Mao glared angrily, but she said unhurriedly: "I'm not crazy, apologize to me." ”

Huang Mao was also ruthless, just glaring at her, but refusing to speak.

The short-haired girl clasped her hands and smiled, "So, are we looking for the administrator here to comment on the theory, or do you want to try my taekwondo?"

The three girls were about to cry, hesitated, muttered "I'm sorry", and ran away quickly.

The short-haired girl didn't give up, she clapped her hands and said, "It's a pity, the mood of reading is ruined." ”

Qiao Lin stepped forward and said admiringly, "Thank you, Xu Na." ”

The girl looked at her very strangely: "How do you know that my name is Xu Na?"

Zhao Linlin came up and said, "Who in our school doesn't know you? We don't dare to be friends with you. ”

Xu Na smiled suddenly, revealing two little tiger teeth: "It turns out that my popularity is so high? Why are you thanking me?"

"Ah, this arbor writer is Jolene's aunt. Zhao Linlin said first, now Qiao Lin can't keep a low profile if she wants to.

"Oh, I see!" Xu Na suddenly realized.

"You helped me teach that group of people, so I'm very grateful to you!" Qiao Lin said sincerely, "Otherwise, you come to my house, and I will invite you to dinner!"

Xu Na excused herself, but she couldn't withstand Qiao Lin's warm invitation, so she followed her to the Jixiang Wonton Restaurant. Along the way, the three little girls of the same age quickly became acquainted. Xu Na had heard of the three brothers and sisters of the Qiao family for a long time, but she didn't expect Qiao Lin to be the youngest daughter of the Qiao family.

When they arrived at the store, Qiao Lin briefly explained the situation to Qiao Jianjun, and Qiao Jianjun replied, "I should thank others", and ordered three bowls of wontons. After a while, Sun Ruiyang pulled Wei Chenglin to lunch, he and Xu Na were both members of the No. 2 Middle School Olympiad team, and they were very familiar with each other, but they didn't expect that Qiao Lin would become good friends with her.

"With your social skills, you can become a diplomat in the future. Sun Ruiyang quipped.

"I would like to, but didn't my mother keep saying that I could only take an ordinary second exam at this level, how could I become a diplomat?" Jolene said distressedly.

"If you can like math as much as you like Kaka, then it's not a trivial matter to get into the Foreign Affairs Academy?" Sun Ruiyang continued to quip.

Xu Na's eyes lit up: "You like Kaka?"

Jolene nodded: "Well, it's a pity that he's not very famous yet." ”

"Coincidentally, my dad likes AC Milan a lot, and when I watched with him, I had a crush on Maldini. ”

Jolene became as excited as if she had found a soulmate: "Wow! I didn't expect you to know football too, so we can be confidants." ”

Xu Na said modestly: "I don't understand, I'm just interested." According to my dad, Maldini is not only a good player, but also very loyal, and I like loyal men the most. ”

The two girls chatted for a while, and Xu Na suddenly proposed: "I remember that your essay is well written, and I have seen your essay in the propaganda column." If you like Kaka, why wouldn't you want to be a journalist?"

Jolene froze for a moment — being a journalist? In her plan for the future, she just wants to be admitted to university, find a decent job, and live a peaceful and stable life, and may not be able to leave Hong Kong City for the rest of her life. Of course, she envies the reporters of "World Football" or "Football News", who can not only run around the world, but also get close to those stars.

But what does this scenery have to do with herself? Whether in the Qiao family or the Li family, she is the most mediocre one with the most mediocre talent. After the blows again and again, she didn't dare to dream anymore, but dared to move forward cautiously.

Xu Na propped her arm on the table and said very seriously: "If you like Kaka, then set a goal - one day, you will go to the Apennine Peninsula to interview him, meet him face to face, look into his eyes and chat with him." In any case, there must be ideals in life. When we are young, we have to fight for our ideals at least once. ”

Look into Kaka's eyes and chat with him!

The blood around her body boiled all of a sudden, and Jolene unconsciously agreed: "Okay! Then my goal is to be a reporter and interview Kaka!"

At this moment, Qiao Lin's body seemed to have a thousand rays of light, and Xu Na smiled with satisfaction. The children chatted enthusiastically, but none of them were as happy as Jolene—not only had she made a new friend, but she had also found her ideal in life! Uncle was right when he said that every friend has a different meaning.

Xu Na also had taekwondo training and left the wonton hall early. There are usually no customers on summer afternoons, and the remaining four children do their homework in the store, and Qiao Jianjun rests in the back room for a while.

Jolene felt sorry for her father, and she didn't allow her friends to speak loudly, so as not to disturb her father's rest. If someone flips through a book a little louder, Jolene will be unhappy. Therefore, the wonton restaurant is rarely very quiet, and there is no sound at all.

In this silence, Qiao Nan walked in with a hum and shouted: "Qiao Lin, go to Wei's house to borrow a ladder and come over, and I'll install a TV for our house." ”

The son shouted, and Qiao Jianjun woke up suddenly, so angry that Qiao Lin stomped her feet. Qiao Nan looked innocent: "How do I know that my father is sleeping?"

Now that her father has been woken up, Qiao Lin doesn't plan to be angry with her brother anymore, and Wei Chenglin and Sun Ruiyang are even more happy to find a ladder. Qiao Lin wanted to go out to see what was going on, but Zhao Linlin didn't dare to go out. She didn't dare to talk to Qiao Nan until now, and as soon as she spoke, she became stumbling.

Jolene ignored her, ran outside to take a look, only to see her brother dragging a pot-lid-like thing back. She crouched down to take a closer look and asked curiously, "What is this?"

Qiao Nan was so tired that he was sweating profusely, lifted his clothes to wipe his face, and said, "Knowingly, isn't this a cauldron lid?"

Qiao Lin couldn't help but argue with her brother: "What kind of big pot lid, can it be used for stir-frying?"

Qiao Nan explained tiredly: "This is the satellite receiver, okay? Isn't our cable TV often out of signal, with this cauldron lid, you can receive many, many stations, even foreign stations." ”

"Wow, that's great!" Qiao Lin suddenly admired her brother, and was a little worried: "What if you don't pick it up well and break our wire?"

Qiao Nan approached Qiao Lin and said confidently: "Look, this is your brother! A leader in the field of future communications! How could he miss?"

Jolene stuck out her tongue when she heard this: "Don't brag, let's talk about it when you're fine." ”

Sun Ruiyang and Wei Chenglin carried the ladder over, and Qiao Nan climbed onto the roof with the cauldron lid on his back. Qiao Jianjun washed his face, looked at the lid of the cauldron, and asked, "Where did you get this?"

"The foreign English teacher was leaving, and he was cleaning up the furniture, and I saw the lid of the cauldron and asked him for it. Qiao Nan said dryly.

"We haven't seen much of this thing, can you put it up?" Qiao Jianjun asked worriedly.

"I just saw how to install it at the foreign teacher's house, try it first!"

Jolene had little interest in any of this, but during that time, Qiao's cable TV was indeed unstable, and sometimes there was no signal all morning. If my brother can install it, then I don't have to worry about watching TV.

But Jolene didn't want to give much hope, if it was really that good to install, then there would be no need to spend money on specialized skilled workers. Why is my brother so confident?

So, Qiao Lin continued to do her homework with Zhao Linlin, and the three boys were busy outside. The hardest thing was Qiao Nan, jumping up and down to work, and after connecting the lines, he jumped on the roof again and adjusted the signal little by little.

Wei Chenglin answered him on the ground and changed the channel according to his instructions, but no matter how hard he tried, the TV screen was a snowflake.

Uncle Dong in the barber shop next door couldn't stand it anymore, and shouted loudly: "Qiao Nan, don't toss, it's easy to get heat stroke this day!"

"Oh!" Qiao Nan agreed, his hands still busy.

"Hey, this stubborn boy!" Uncle Dong shook his head helplessly and went to shred his hair again.

Qiao Nan was busy from three o'clock to more than six o'clock, and guests gradually came to the wonton restaurant, and he was still making marks on the adjustment lever, debugging it very patiently. The expressions of the two little boys were numb, and they sat lazily on the steps, only Qiao Nan was still busy.

"Eh, don't let your brother do it, find a master to install it!" the guest couldn't stand it anymore, and said to Qiao Lin.

Qiao Lin puffed out her cheeks and said helplessly: "Uncle, we repeated this sentence almost a hundred times in the afternoon, but Qiao Nan couldn't listen to it at all!"

Several guests shook their heads with a wry smile: "Old Qiao, your son is really stubborn." ”

Qiao Jianjun heard too many such comments, so he could only smile bitterly. He glanced outside worriedly, the sun was so poisonous just now, could his son be able to withstand it?

Zhao Linlin originally wanted to wait to witness the miracle, but it seemed that she was going to wait in vain, so she reluctantly packed her schoolbag, and a clear signal suddenly appeared on the snowflake TV screen.

Jolene's bitter gourd face immediately turned into a flower: "Wow! My brother is so good!

Qiao Nan's sweaty face also showed a smile, he climbed down the ladder in three or two steps, rushed into the house and manipulated the remote control, looking at the signal after channel 100, Qiao Jianjun also became proud.

"Tsk, the son of the old Qiao family does have two sons, what major did you apply for at the university this time?" The guests also praised Qiao Nan.

"Information and Communication Engineering. Qiao Jianjun proudly introduced: "It's still a command!"

The guests didn't know the difference between "conductor" and "non-conductor", but they applauded as they sounded so good.

Qiao Nan faced the guests, turned his back to the TV, and made an introduction while pressing the plus sign: "Look, now they are all foreign channels!"

A group of big men and two little boys were all deeply attracted, and their eyes flashed with curiosity and impatience. Only Qiao Lin and Zhao Linlin covered their eyes, hating that they only had two hands, and they couldn't cover their ears and block those unbearable sounds.

Qiao Jianjun happened to come out with a plate of cold dishes, and when he saw this situation, he kicked Qiao Nan without saying anything: "You bear thing!"

Qiao Nan was inexplicable, turned his head to look, only to find that there was an indescribable picture between men and women on the TV screen, and there were scattered Chinese characters in the background.

It turned out that the cauldron lid actually found the signal of an adult station abroad, which made Qiao Nan unexpected. Fortunately, the picture was very blurry, and the children did not see it clearly.

Qiao Nan was so embarrassed that he wanted to hit the wall, and hurriedly turned off the TV. An uncle quipped: "Qiao Nan, why did you unlock these channels?"

Qiao Jianjun kicked Qiao Nan again: "What kind of thing have you installed, you can't teach people to learn well!

Qiao Nan was full of grievances, and he didn't want to let an afternoon's hard work go to waste because of this one stage. He immediately made a package ticket with his father: "I'm going to lock this channel right away, and I won't let it appear again!"

Qiao Jianjun was furious and insisted: "Quickly withdraw for me, put the wire up!"

Qiao's father was also stubborn, the father and son looked at each other for a while, and finally Qiao Nan swallowed all the grievances and unwillingness, didn't say a word, and climbed the ladder again.

The restaurant fell into absolute silence, and an uncle coughed a few times and said, "Old Joe, the child is also kind, and if you do this, it will break his heart." ”

"The TV is good, he has to fool around, who makes him so fond of moving?" Qiao Jianjun was still angry, and lowered his voice and said: "But the station just now was not deliberately tuned by him, it was all about the cauldron lid." Take care of yourself, don't tell anyone more, I'll add another dish for you. ”

"Okay, it's been a neighborhood for many years, what is there to say about this matter, you don't have to be busy. A few uncles took out the money for the meal and put it on the table, and they dispersed.

Qiao Jianjun's face was full of gloom - although this matter is very small, but Qiao Nan is a person who wants to be a soldier after all, in case he has not yet joined the army, his reputation will be affected, so how can it be good?

Thinking of this, he yelled at Sun Ruiyang and Wei Chenglin again: "You two are not allowed to go out and talk!"

The two little boys were suddenly named and nodded in fright.

Qiao Nan sat on the roof like a statue, and Li Lanzhi, Qiao Lu, and Qiao Lin couldn't shout when they took turns. Qiao Jianjun didn't know how to talk to his son, so he just sat sullenly in the back room, looking at the narrow bed and distracted.

After eight o'clock, Qiao Jianjun walked out with a black face and shouted at the roof: "The wontons are covered with pot lids." ”

"Oh. Qiao Nan knew that even if his father made peace, he struggled in his heart for a while, but he obediently walked down the ladder.

That night, Qiao Jianjun fell asleep very early, and vaguely heard his son tinkering with the TV outside, but he pretended not to hear it. The next day, he woke up at four o'clock as usual and saw his son already asleep in bed, a worn-out ceiling fan buzzing above their heads.

Qiao Jianjun had already walked out, folded back again, and put a small blanket on his son's stomach. Qiao Nan snorted twice, still asleep.

Qiao Jianjun walked outside and saw a note left on the table, with strong handwriting: "I got the TV right, and only the channels that should be left are left." ”

Qiao Jianjun laughed, and didn't turn on the TV to confirm, he believed his son's words. Even so, the relationship between father and son has undergone subtle changes, and the two people, who were already silent, have nothing to say now.

And Qiao Nan suffered from heat stroke unexpectedly, although it was not serious enough to go to the hospital to hang the bottle, but it was also uncomfortable for two days. Qiao Lu changed the cold towel on his forehead and scolded him softly: "Tell me yourself, why do you have to suffer this crime?

Qiao Nan lay on the bed and smiled with great satisfaction: "Don't worry about the TV running out of signal now, after I leave, they can also watch TV properly!"