If you don't buy a house, you have to live a normal life. After Jolene returned to Beijing, she often stuck with her sister. Because her sister is in a cold war with her boyfriend and doesn't date as often as she used to, Jolene often spends her apartment eating and drinking.

Xu Na also often comes over to play on weekends, and she knows all the big and small things in the Qiao family. What she doesn't understand is that a person who urgently needs money to buy a house actually has to help others, and it costs 200,000 yuan as soon as he makes a move? What makes her even more puzzled is that Qiao Lu and they are going to get married, can't they be honest with each other?

"Sister Qiao Lu, if he really helped his friend get through the difficulty, would you mind?"

For a woman my age, my heart has been floating before I bought a house. However, if it was really a hundred thousand urgent things, I would definitely follow him and scold him in my heart. ”

Xu Na asked again: "Do you know all his friends? He told you, which friend it was and what happened to him?"

"Not a friend of Beijing. Qiao Lu was also skeptical about this: "He said that it is a credit card debt, and the interest accumulates more and more, and he can't afford to pay it back." ”

"That'...... Why can you spend so much money?" Xu Na pondered: "If a family member is sick, it is excusable and the most appropriate reason. Even if it is a loss in business, it is understandable. ”

Qiao Lu didn't think so deeply, and listened to Xu Na say to herself: "But I'm afraid that he is helping people who don't follow the right path, gambling, and taking drugs...... Or those who are too vain buy luxury goods every day, and no matter how big the family business is, it is not enough to lose. If you lend money to those people, you're going to be in trouble!"

Qiao Lu's expression became more and more solemn, but Xu Na stopped the end of her words and said with a smile: "I'm just talking nonsense, don't believe it! An elite person like Brother Xiaolin must have made friends with people who are similar to him." His friends should have spent their money on the right path, right?"

Qiao Lu's face turned pale, and she had already guessed wildly. My sister's best friend looks as cool as a boy, but she is thoughtful, and some of the things she says inadvertently often become facts.

Xu Na also knew that she was talking too seriously, and hurriedly said a few soft words to make Qiao Lu not so worried. Qiao Lu is not a child either, and soon regained her former demeanor, quipping: "Xu Na, you are so smart and can see everything so thoroughly, which boy dares to associate with you?"

Xu Na immediately said: "I won't fall in love...... If I had announced my relationship that day, I would definitely not be in the country. ”

Qiao Lu didn't understand what this sentence meant, Qiao Lin knew the bottom of her heart, but chose to keep it a secret for her good friend. After graduating from college, Xu Na lived a leisurely life, although the salary was not high, but she had a lot of spare money in her hands - her parents couldn't give her company, and she could always give money, right?

She had a very comfortable life, and most of her salary was spent on renting. She spent a lot of money to furnish the house in a warm and beautiful way, which didn't match her cool appearance. She has two cats, buys a lot of records, and plays guitar and sings folk songs whenever she has free time. On weekends without friends, she rode her little electric donkey through the old alleys to learn seal carving from an old grandfather.

After her work, she occasionally sang in bars and performed with her best friends from college bands. At that time, there were many original websites on the Internet, and on a certain website, Xu Na still had many fans, but her copyright income was almost zero.

Although she didn't sing for the purpose of making money, she was also very helpless about the situation at that time: "Do you know why Wei Chenglin registered with the American Society of Composers? At least people's copyrights are guaranteed." ”

Qiao Lin secretly asked Wei Chenglin, what level of song did Xu Na write? Wei Chenglin said: "It's very simple, it's good." ”

Qiao Lin disliked him for being perfunctory, and Wei Chenglin explained: "There is really no need to make artistic creation so complicated, it is really rare to return to the basics." Sister Xu Na's level is very good among amateur players. ”

It is not easy to be recognized by professionals, Xu Na did release an album later, but it was only a very niche album, which was regarded as a memorial of her youth.

After sending Xu Na away that day, Qiao Lu thought a lot, and just wanted to talk to her boyfriend, but Xiao Lin found her first. Xiao Lin invited her out to dinner and bought her a bouquet of flowers. Girls, they always like to be coaxed, Xiao Lin did this, and Qiao Lu's anger really disappeared a lot.

Xiao Lin sincerely apologized to her and discussed with her about buying a house. Xiao Lin said that if they could buy the house they saw for the first time, if they bought that, they would have to pay a down payment of about 800,000 yuan.

The house is really at the end of Line 4, some way from the subway station. At that time, the whole Daxing had just been developed, and everywhere was quite desolate. The house that Xiao Lin looked at was really deserted.

Qiao Lu flatly refused: "There are no supporting living facilities there at all, and there is no school, so we both have to go to work for an hour and a half." The house there is nothing more than a place to sleep. Of course, there is a reason to be cheap, and we have already ruled it out as soon as possible!"

Kobayashi is a very shrewd person, and out of professional habits, he will think about how to make a profit in everything. Going to the wilderness to buy a house with slow growth is obviously not in line with his style. After being rejected by his girlfriend, he didn't defend himself, just bowed his head and drank sullenly.

Qiao Lu was very suspicious, her boyfriend was very enthusiastic about her friend, but did that friend give him something to lower his head?

Qiao Lu asked again, "When will your friend pay back the money?"

"It's very difficult for him, and it will take a year to pay it off at the earliest. ”

Qiao Lu didn't get mad, but asked the waiter for a glass of ice water and said, "Then let's discuss marriage in a year." ”

By then, house prices had already skyrocketed, and by waiting another year, there would be even less choice. In just two years, the price of the house Qiao Nan bought has almost doubled. Qiao Lu admires her brother's courage, but she is anxious because her boyfriend can't distinguish priorities.

That date didn't alleviate the conflict between the two much, Xiao Lin only said that he would make up the money as soon as possible and would not make Qiao Lu wait too long. Qiao Lu is also very conflicted, of course she wants to buy a house quickly, and she is worried that her boyfriend will do something illegal, so she can't bear to urge him.

On the contrary, she also told her boyfriend: "If you can't make it, forget it, don't do anything illegal, just wait for your friend to pay back." ”

Qiao Lu didn't want these little things to disturb her brother, but Qiao Nan was quite concerned about her and asked her how she was doing with buying a house. Qiao Lu took the opportunity to ask her younger brother: "Qiao Nan, if it were a critical moment to buy a house, would you lend money to a friend?"

"It depends on the situation, if it is 100,000 urgent, and it is taken to save lives, it must be borrowed. If it was something else, I wouldn't have borrowed it. Lao Tzu is also so poor that he has to buy a house and marry a daughter-in-law, where can he have so much spare money to help others?"

Qiao Nan's personality is still very similar to his father, he is very economical in himself, but he will not be ambiguous in doing big things or personal contacts. It is precisely because of his character that Xiao Yang didn't tell him when he returned to his hometown to get married, for fear that he would have to break the bank when he was poor.

That day, Wen Jing wanted to invite Xiao Yang to a meal for a long time and called him, so he said that he would hold a wedding in his hometown. Wen Jing was very angry, saying that it was too uninteresting for him to do this. Xiao Yang said that he settled in his hometown, the cost of living is very low, and there is no pressure on both sides of the family to help, but the old platoon leader has bought a house in a big city, and he has to decorate and hold a wedding, and he must be very tight on money, so he doesn't plan to let him spend money.

Wen Jing didn't speak for a long time, and then stalked, asked him for an address, wrapped a big red envelope, and sent it to him. Yes, it's the red envelope that Jolene saw on the day she came back from the wedding dress.

Qiao Nan also reprimanded Xiao Yang later, and of course, he was also moved by his sensibility for a long time. Qiao Nan and they all know that between adults, even if they are good friends, they must maintain a proper "sense of proportion". This sense of proportion is not alienation, but putting yourself in the other person's shoes.

Xiao Yang, who hasn't read many books, understands this kind of truth, but why doesn't Xiao Lin's friend understand it? What kind of friend just borrowed a large amount of money from him at the critical moment when he was buying a house? The more Qiao Nan thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he said to his sister: "Why don't I talk to him?"

"No need, this little contradiction, I don't need you to come forward. Qiao Lu said: "He said that he would find a way to raise money, after all, the house waits for no one." ”

One day in mid-March, Qiao Lu participated in a badminton competition for faculty and staff and accidentally twisted her foot. The injury is not serious, but it is more difficult to go up and down the stairs. Jolene was too thin to carry her sister up to the fourth floor. Seeing her sister's struggling appearance, she couldn't help complaining: "Where is Brother Xiaolin? I used to bring you cold medicine in the heavy rain, but now I can't even see a figure." ”

"He's on a business trip, what's the solution?"

"I'll really pick a time to go on a business trip!" Qiao Lin was still indignant: "How come he, like Qiao Nan, has become a person who can't be counted on at a critical moment?"

Qiao Lu smiled dumbly: "You can't say that, everyone has accidents, can Sun Ruiyang be by your side all the time?"

Only then did Jolene keep her mouth shut and stop arguing with her sister. That night, it was raining lightly outside the window, and Jolene listened to the rain and fell asleep on the sofa in the living room. Qiao Lu was still in the bedroom to revise her paper, and it wasn't until her phone vibrated twice that she picked it up and looked at it.

At that time, it was already one o'clock in the morning, Qiao Lu thought it was a condolence message from Xiaolin, but she didn't expect it to be a text message from an unfamiliar number, and both messages were very simple.

"Your boyfriend's ex-girlfriend is in Beijing, you know?"

"I have a picture, do you want to see it?"