In Qiao Nan's opinion, all positions in this world are not fixed, and no one must do anything. However, when he saw his sister working as a waitress in a bubble tea shop, he still felt that that was not the position where his sister should stay, and it was not suitable for her.

"So where do I go, and where does it suit me?"

Qiao Lu asked rhetorically, and Qiao Nan didn't know how to answer.

Back in the United States, a place with no relatives or lovers, only a few sporadic friends, it looks glamorous, but when you are tired, you don't even have a place to lean on, and when you are sad, you don't even have a drinker to drink with. It's cold everywhere, and after a long time, even the heart becomes colder, and people become more and more closed.

When she returned to the laboratory, the place where almost all her hard work was drained, many PhDs would press one or two papers in order to evaluate their professional titles, and wait for them to be sent after returning to China and joining the company. But Qiao Lu never had that kind of mind, she took the salary of the research room, she dedicated all the results to the research room, and did not keep a little selfishness for herself. That wasn't enough, her boss wanted her to stay there and drink her last drop of blood.

Qiao Lu is a female doctor, and a female doctor in science and engineering. When many people ridicule them as "third humans", almost no one knows how they work all night in the laboratory, risking radiation overdose every day, and constantly beware of fires and explosions. In that extremely lonely scientific research career, they all became coffee poisoners, and without coffee, they couldn't survive the long nights.

Loneliness, indeed loneliness. Qiao Lu is not close to smoking and drinking, and all the pressure is vented by crazy hair loss. In the middle of the night when she broke down and cried because of the unsatisfactory results of the experiment, in the moment of day and night in order to catch up with the paper, she was accompanied only by a cup of strong coffee, English songs constantly looping in her ears, and psychological books at hand from time to time (she was also afraid of psychological problems).

Qiao Lu was surprisingly calm when facing her younger brother, she said: "In the past six months, the song I have listened to the most is "IStartedAJoke" (I made a joke), and every lyric is a portrayal of me. When I joked, the whole world cried, when I cried, the whole world laughed, when I died, the world got better, if only I could find out that the joke was on me. Oh no! that joke was on me!'"

The wind on the overpass blew Qiao Lu's hair, her eyes were so confused, she seemed to say to herself: "Look, I'm just living a joke like this." ”

"Sister, how can you live like a joke? It's someone else who did the wrong, why do you want to punish yourself like this?"

Qiao Lu covered her face and hid her sadness: "I'm twenty-seven, I have achieved nothing, I have no lover, no friends, and I don't even have a career...... I'm not a joke what?"

"But you still have this home! Didn't grandma say that you are the eldest treasure of the Qiao family!" Qiao Nan hugged her, he never felt sad because of his sister, but he had never been so gentle: "Sister, you still have a lot, you are only twenty-seven years old this year, but your academic achievements are beyond the reach of many old professors in their lifetime." It's not that you don't have friends, I read your email just now, and many classmates are asking when you will go back and if you need help. It can be seen that there are still a lot of warmth in this world, but you are too busy to pay attention. ”

The little boy who shouted "sister" all day long has grown up and can become the person she relies on the most, and Qiao Lu can rely on it to her heart's content. After crying, she said: "I originally planned to talk about these things to my family after the Spring Festival, but as soon as I got off the plane, I heard the news that you were injured." Those days were hardly human, and you have no idea how scary you looked, or how many critical illness notices we signed. In that case, how could I possibly tell the truth? Now that your body is almost recovered, I have been thinking about how to tell you for the past two days, and you know in advance, and I am relieved. ”

"Qiao Nan, I said that I was looking for a classmate from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to do an experiment, but I didn't lie, but after I met her, I learned that she had dropped out of school, and the owner of the bubble tea shop just now was her. After talking to her for a long time, my thoughts have changed a lot. I plan to leave Beijing after you have fully recovered, go to Yunnan or Sichuan, open a small shop, and live an ordinary life. I've never experienced that kind of life, and I yearn for it. ”

Qiao Nan held her sister's hand and said, "Sister, every time I encounter a setback, I want to report and leave, but can I really go? In the past few months, I have dreamed every day that I have been running along the mountain road, shooting guns at the shooting range, climbing barbed wire, and shuttling in the jungle...... Sometimes I wonder if I would have had a different life if I had done something else. But I can't make that assumption, because I don't have a gun with me, I can't hear the wake-up call, and my soul is going to be lost. ”

When he was hovering on the edge of life and death, he once had a dream - ah, is it a dream, or is it a parallel time and space? In short, in that world, he is a successful person that everyone envies. But he still thought that in this life, he would always have to run with a gun on his back.

Thinking of this, Qiao Nan said to her sister again: "Sister, I'm not forcing you to do something, I'm thinking, in this life, there must be a lot of things you want to do, and in this, there are things you want to do the most." I, sometimes, really want to be an electrician, a technician — no, to put it more broadly, a tech leader. But in the end, I found out that my favorite is still the gun, and I want to be friends with it all my life. ”

Qiao Lu sighed silently thoughtfully. She had had blazing dreams that no one else had ever experienced, and of course, she hadn't forgotten that blazing.

Qiao Nan's injury this time is equivalent to getting an "indefinite" long vacation. It was said to be indefinite, but according to what the chiefs knew about him, he would definitely be eager to return to the team after his injury. But this guy is actually unusual, and he has no intention of coming back, which is really happy.

Of course, this is just a joke, his situation, the chiefs are also very clear, and for his right eye, they also feel distressed. It is unlikely that he will continue to stay in the combat unit, and where to place him is a question for them to consider.

Qiao Nan was still doing rehabilitation training, and when he heard the word "placement", he felt uncomfortable all over his body.

However, according to his current physical condition, what could be more suitable than "placement"?

Therefore, every time the army called, in addition to asking about his physical condition, the most talked about was how to "place" him.

- Qiao Nan, what do you think? We always have to respect your opinion.

- Report, I'm in ...... Imitation.

......

No matter how much ideological work he did, no matter how dry he spoke, Comrade Qiao Nan's answer was often only this one.

The leader of the unit was helpless, what to do, and he could not be sent to the frontier.

What's more, such an excellent warrior suddenly can't charge into battle, and he has a reason to hesitate.

Then wait until he thinks it through.

Wen Jing has to supervise him to do hot eye compresses twice a day, which is stricter than she makes her own face mask. At first, Qiao Nan was disheartened, thinking that hot compresses were useless, and it was useless to take nutrients, but Miss Wen asked him to do it very seriously, so he could only cooperate.

But after doing it for a few days without any effect, Qiao Nan laughed at the rising sun outside: "Lao Tzu has a special function, no matter when, you can see sunspots!"

However, after only three seconds of pretending to ×, the strong sunlight almost pierced his eyes, especially his right eye, and tears flowed out immediately.

He didn't dare to challenge the sun anymore, Wen Jing was so angry with him that she couldn't cry or laugh, and patiently persuaded him: "Where can my eyes recover all at once?" I don't believe it, I insist on giving you a hot compress every day, watching you take nutrients, at least for three years. If it doesn't work, I won't do it. ”

Stick to it for at least three years.

Qiao Nan put away her hippie smile and promised seriously: "Miss Wen, I will definitely fully cooperate with you." ”

After seeing through her sister's lies, Wen Jing once joked, saying that their sister and brother are really the same fallen people, and the two of them are brilliant together, and they are also hesitating together.

Qiao Nan was surprised, Miss Wen would actually quote ancient poems? Wen Jing smiled mysteriously, so she didn't want to tell him the little secret. She knew that Li Lanzhi looked down on herself, so she was ashamed and courageous, learning a little bit every day, and the next time they met, Teacher Li would definitely be surprised.

Wen Jing really changed her way to give him food therapy, forcing him to drink a glass of carrot juice every day. Qiao Nan joked that Miss Wen was feeding rabbits. Miss Wen was just about to nag about the benefits of carrot juice for her eyes, and Qiao Nan immediately attached to her ear and said that he was willing to be her rabbit.

Wen Jing will always be blushed by his unexpected and twisted little love words, he is really a cunning electrician.

On the evening of the second day after discovering her sister's lies, Qiao Lu and Wen Jing were cleaning up the house, and Qiao Lin came over after class to search for delicious food. Wen Jing happened to buy dresses for the Qiao sisters, and the three girls all went to the bedroom to change clothes.

The girls' laughter came to an abrupt end with a powerful sound of the door opening. It should be that Qiao Nan came back from exercise, as if she was still talking to someone on the phone, and the three girls were silent.

"Don't talk about those useless things for me, when Lao Tzu is here, which competition is not the top three? You just take care of Lao Tzu for so many days, and the results will fall blindly?...... Don't be blind - (the next syllable is still beep), the next time in the five kilometers, one of them can't run for 20 minutes, let them all run again until they all run for 20 minutes...... What kind of bear thing, Lao Tzu is not comfortable in all of them...... You mumble a ball, Lao Tzu will be the first to clean you up when I go back......"

The expressions of the Qiao sisters froze, Qiao Lin cried and explained to Wen Jing: "Sister, my brother usually doesn't talk like this......"

Wen Jing lowered her head and smiled, packed up all her clothes, and said easily: "I know, the beauty of words is Wen!"

The three of them came out of the room one after another, and Qiao Nan, who was drinking water, was almost choked into a pulmonary hemorrhage again. He thought that there was no one in the family, but he didn't expect that they were all there, and there was actually one more Jolene.

(It's over, now she is going to sue again, maybe she will sue the ancestors of the Qiao family directly, ask them to bring a dream, and let them take care of this sweary descendant of the Qiao family.) ）

Qiao Nan thought back to what he had just said, and felt that there was nothing to explain, so he silently returned to the sofa, picked up a book casually, and (pretended) read it very attentively.

Although his younger brother swears a lot, it is not worth advocating, but only with him does Qiao Lu feel that he is alive. She rethought what her brother had said, and for some reason, she suddenly missed those test tubes that she had been away from for a long time.

That night, Qiao Lin and Wen Jing slept in the same bed, and the two became chattering again, chattering non-stop. Qiao Lu listened to the radio and heard about the selection of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and her heart itched again.

She also has a fiery dream about chemistry, a dream that will be laughed at when she says it.

Even so, she still wanted to continue to be obsessed with that dream.

She wanted to wake up her brother, but Qiao Nan didn't sleep at all, he sat on the carpet and looked at the moon in a daze.

"Above the moon...... There are sunspots, too!"

When he's away from work, he's still the same simple and stupid big boy, who can always turn sad things into funny.

"Qiao Nan, can you still return to your unit?"

"Yes. Qiao Nan suddenly became firm: "No matter what way, I will try my best to try." ”

"But your eyes ......"

"Sister, there are two outstanding generals in our army, that is, meritorious generals, both of whom wear glasses, and there is a star named Davies in the Netherlands, who also wears glasses. They wear glasses to lead soldiers to fight, and they can also wear glasses to play football, why can't I?" Qiao Nan's eyes became hotter and hotter, and he had regained his previous look: "Now that the technology is so advanced, one day, my eyes will be cured, even if it can't be cured, I'll order a pair of glasses...... It's man-made, I don't believe in fate. ”

Qiao Lu was suddenly moved, the eyes behind his lenses were still so clear, and there were countless desires, and of course, there were countless powers.

Qiao Lu nodded and said, "You're right, I have to at least finish what I want to do the most, and then do the rest." ”

"Sister, you decided to go back?!"

"It was the decision to get a degree certificate. Under the moonlight, Qiao Lu's eyes were equally firm: "If the negotiation fails, I can file a lawsuit, and my former landlord has expressed his willingness to provide me with legal support more than once." If the lawsuit still doesn't work, then I will seek help from the embassy or consulate. As soon as I got my diploma, I left the place. ”

"Ha! this is my sister!" Qiao Nan laughed happily: "Sister, don't be afraid, as long as you need money, our whole family will find a way." We also had quite a few in the U.S. that year, and I tried to reach out to them to see if they could help. ”

Qiao Lu nodded: "I was too cowardly before, but this time, I won't retreat anymore." ”

"It's not cowardice, it's too lonely. Sister, Mom, Dad, me, and Jolene are all your backing, even if we are not by your side, we will find a way to help you. We are a family, sharing blessings and difficulties, and there is no hurdle that cannot be overcome. ”

Qiao Lu's blood boiled and tears welled up: "Yes, we are together, and there is no hurdle that cannot be passed." When I come back next time, your eyes will be fine!"