In late September, Qiao Lu officially moved into the bearded Chris's house. The bearded man didn't lie to her, his parents were indeed warm and friendly, and they were very tolerant of international students. His father also spent two years in China and was very affectionate towards China, often chatting with Chinese students, like a big parent. Qiao Lu was extremely fortunate to find such a home.

Qiao Lu is smart and quick-witted, usually doesn't talk much, and spends almost all her time studying. She is quiet and polite, very well maintained, and is an ideal roommate, and quickly wins everyone's affection.

Qiao Lu is very calm, but she is an out-and-out anxious person in learning, and what worries her the most is that she can't do experiments. Graduate students don't do experiments, just like players don't train. Players can't score goals if they don't train, and graduate students can't write papers without experiments.

When she first entered the laboratory, the professor usually arranged for one or two seniors to take her to do experiments. When Qiao Lu first came in, she was the only Chinese student left. Europeans and Americans can't talk about being friendly to her, nor are they bad, in short, they are just indifferent! Qiao Lu's personality was also a little cold, so she didn't take it to heart, she just wanted to do her own thing.

However, doing experiments is a big thing, for example, Qiao Lu's research direction is mainly the conversion of new energy, which requires the use of spectrometers. Some precision experimental instruments are not just usable, not only to agree with others on the time, but also according to the external conditions required by the instrument, set the indoor temperature in advance, open the machine to preheat, input data, etc., in short, it is a more troublesome process.

Qiao Lu came to the laboratory for three months, and only did two or three experiments, and the rest of the time the equipment was occupied by the predecessors of the laboratory. Especially an American named Bella, she and Qiao Lu have roughly the same research direction, except that she is a doctor, and she is about to graduate, soak in the laboratory every day, doing experiments day and night, and the degree of hard work is impressive.

Bella has a withdrawn and strong personality, and if anyone dares to delay her experiments, she will mercilessly drive him out with the roar of the Hedong lion. Qiao Lu debugged the equipment several times, but Bella ignored it, set up her own data very roughly, and started experiments on her own, ruining Qiao Lu's hard work very casually.

Faced with Qiao Lu's angry questioning, she chose to ignore it. Anyway, these days the students are arguing, but they can't argue with them, if you sue the professor, and the professor is also on his side, why waste time arguing with them?

Qiao Lu, who has always been strong, doesn't know how many times she cried secretly, if she followed the routine of the Heavenly Dynasty Palace fighting drama, she would probably have turned black a long time ago, and she would have to silently recite "People will be destroyed for themselves", and then implement the revenge plan. But Qiao Lu didn't, after wiping away her tears, she continued to go back to the laboratory, and when she couldn't do experiments, she just read books on the sidelines, or watched other people do experiments. She's still so quiet, but her eyes are still so powerful.

Bella didn't want her to stay in the laboratory, and was very tired of letting her out, Qiao Lu shot back very strongly: "The professor asked you to take me to do experiments, so you have the obligation to teach me, and I have the right to learn." If you have not fulfilled your obligations, will you not allow me to enjoy my rights?"

Qiao Lu said it reasonably, and Bella was choked back, so she had to continue the experiment.

In this round, Qiao Lu won perfectly, and she praised herself in her heart - good, don't be cowardly!

Qiao Lu's words reminded Bella of the task assigned to her by the professor. Although this task is not so important, it is also related to one's image in front of the professor. So, she taught Qiao Lu some basic operation methods without being salty or light, and Qiao Lu recorded them very carefully. In return, Qiao Lu bought her a cup of coffee and said "thank you" to her very sincerely.

Bella drank coffee and vaguely felt that this Chinese girl was not easy to mess with. She probably didn't know that Qiao Lu's soft and rigid temperament was the most difficult to deal with.

This relaxation does not mean that the two are close, Bella is the typical elitist mentality - on the premise of not violating others, she does her best to climb up, and she doesn't care how others see her, or what others have become because of her. Qiao Lu was used to her self-righteous shamelessness, and she was no longer angry, but slowly grinded with her.

Bella no longer teaches her, but Qiao Lu still persistently follows her to learn. One day, Bella was in a bad mood, and when she arrived at the laboratory, she happened to see Qiao Lu meticulously arranging the equipment, and a nameless fire arose spontaneously, and she yelled at Qiao Lu.

"I've done enough for you, you've delayed me too long, please don't bother me with experiments in the future, okay?"

Qiao Lu said without humility or arrogance: "It was the professor who asked you to guide me, if he asks next time, what will you let me say?" I am here to observe, and I have not peeked at your experimental data, let alone steal your ideas, and I have not taken up your time. I've learned something, and you've completed the task your professor has given you, so why not?"

Bella was blocked by Qiao Lu and couldn't say a word, in her impression, the students of the Celestial Empire were not very willing to have conflicts with others, and they generally swallowed silently when they were wronged, but Qiao Lu's resistance made her see the other side of the students of the Celestial Empire.

Qiao Lu fiddled with the experimental equipment and said, "Look, I have set up all the experimental tables, and you can do experiments when you come to the research room, does this save you time?"

Bella saw that the bottles, cans, tweezers and other things were indeed placed according to her usual habits, and the infrared spectrometer and everything were also turned on. Qiao Lu smiled faintly and stepped aside.

Bella was stunned for a moment - Qiao Lu is indeed a smart and measured student, and the most rare thing is that she has a tenacity that will never give up. The road of scientific research is boring and boring, and it has to experience countless failures, if there is no firm belief, it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to survive, and they often give up halfway.

For foreign students, it is difficult for them to integrate into the laboratory, and over time they are prone to psychological problems, which makes their scientific research path even more difficult. Qiao Lu has been here for more than three months, and Bella asked herself, they didn't treat this Chinese girl well, but it was difficult to see any emotional ups and downs on her face, she was still so quiet and calm, and her eyes were still so determined.

Bella suddenly admired her a little.

"Lu, you can be my assistant. Bella said casually, pretending to be casual with her hands busy.

"Huh?"

"You can help me analyze the composition of these smoke gases first. ”

Qiao Lu thought she had misheard at first, and it wasn't until Bella said, "I'm busy, please don't waste a second," that she quickly got moving.

Sure enough, you can only be happy when you are busy, and unconsciously, Qiao Lu has a smile on her face, and the movements in her hands have also accelerated. In this round, she won again, and of course, she cried tears of joy again.

After moving to a new house and gradually integrating into the research room, Qiao Lu's mood became more relaxed than ever, and she dared to contact her family. Occasionally, she would instruct her younger brother to talk to his family on the phone more, but the wood on the other side of QQ would only say "um", and then what to do.

Qiao Lu had a headache, his younger brother was a stubborn wood, he listened to it on the surface, but after listening to it, he didn't know that he had forgotten that corner. As the saying goes, nature is hard to change, and Qiao Nan's character can't be changed.

Of course, Qiao Lu occasionally replies to the emails of Qiao Nan's good brother. Maybe the conversation before going abroad stung him after all, he no longer contacted him frequently, and the occasional email was like a weather forecast, reminding Qiao Lu of the change of seasons. He carefully avoided words like "missed" and seemed to only care about her from the perspective of the brother next door.

But Qiao Lu's exquisite mind, how could she not guess what he was thinking? But her future was full of too many uncertainties, and there was still a big shadow in her heart, so she could only be ruthless and not give him any hope.

Qiao Lu's life in the United States is gradually getting on the right track, but she has always been too careful, so she doesn't have many friends. At the house of the bearded Chris, she would only watch quietly from the sidelines while others were partying, applauding and smiling at the right time, but rarely took the initiative to participate. In the face of other people's closeness, she also habitually avoids it.

Qiao Lu is not indifferent, on the contrary, she is friendly to everyone, but she has a temperament that rejects people thousands of miles away. Even Chris's parents said the girl was too difficult to approach.

At Christmas, Chris and his family have a party, Wei Wei scrambles the simplest scrambled eggs with tomatoes into a plate of unidentified red and yellow liquid, and Chen Chen, a Chinese boy, squeezes lemon juice into a biochemical weapon, and the two laugh at each other, and finally almost fight with a wok.

Although he lost face in front of foreigners and lost his racial talent of "being able to cook", the atmosphere was very joyful, everyone smiled and bent over, and Qiao Lu rarely showed a bright smile.

"Hey, LuLu, you smile so beautifully!" Chris said.

Qiao Lu was a little panicked and hurriedly ran back to the room, leaving Chris with a blank face.

It's beautiful to laugh at.

That's what another boy told her.

In that era when the Internet was not developed, Qiao Lu liked to look through the old photos she brought. There are not only her longing family members there, but also the kid who keeps calling her "Sister Lu".

When did that kid who messes around with Qiao Nan all day start to think crookedly about himself?

Qiao Lu only remembers that when he was a child, he learned to walk, with one hand in his pocket, the other hand against the stick, his hair flicked around, and he thought he was cool, but he was dragged home by his parents and beaten half to death;

remembers that he is like Chao Tianwang in "Water Margin", and he is the most generous child in Jixianglu. Of course, he was also taught countless times by his parents, and his pocket money was confiscated, and he even had to rely on poor Qiao Nan to help;

I remember that he followed Qiao Nan's ass and swore brothers in the compound with a group of little kids. They also made a banner of "walking for the heavens" to imitate the heroes of Liangshan, but they were exterminated by the teachers in the compound in a short time. Their deeds are still circulating in the compound, but Qiao Nan went to college in other places, and this kid is left to be ridiculed.

In retrospect, in front of himself, he often made very exaggerated acts, for example, he always exaggerated and laughed loudly, exaggerated and spent a lot of money, and even exaggerated to the point of going to the mall to buy a new shirt and carrying a tag to "date" himself.

Now that I think about it, all the things he did were nothing more than trying to get his attention, right?

Qiao Lu looked at the old photos, as if reviewing his growth process again, and finally fixed his eyes on the group photo of several children before she went abroad, he sat beside him, smiling brightly like the summer sun.

The corners of Qiao Lu's mouth have been curling - a boy who has just fallen in love, he is so cute and clumsy that he makes mistakes frequently. Not every girl has the patience to wait for them to grow up, but before she knows it, she wants to wait.

She wanted to know, what would this boy look like when he grew up and matured?