After a big quarrel with Min Rou, Qiao Lin returned home and immediately gave her brother a vaccination: she is not allowed to be close to Min Rou in the future, otherwise she will not recognize this brother.

Two days later, my brother's message came back, still in that familiar tone, still in that concise and clear style.

"Oh. ”

In Jolene's opinion, there is only one thing that her brother has been best at since she was a child, and that is how to make her fury with one word. When she was a child, she could still greet her with a fist, but when she grew up, she could only be angry like this.

Parents are not very anxious about this matter, Li Lanzhi said: "Min Rou has been spoiled since she was a child, no matter how much you say, she will not be able to enter the oil and salt." Don't quarrel with her in the future, and don't worry about your brother, he won't like Min Rou like this at all. ”

Yes, my brother's heart is the key. After figuring out this layer, Qiao Lin suddenly relaxed, and she no longer had to worry about Min Rou becoming her brother's girlfriend.

This holiday, she visited relatives and friends everywhere, went to a neighboring city to visit her teacher Meng, and followed her mother to school to play. I heard that Qiao Lin is an English major, and my brother's former homeroom teacher, Mr. Lu, joked: "Didn't you compete with your brother? ”

"That's ...... He's smart!" Jolene was so weak that she didn't dare to compete with her brother casually. If she is compared to her brother, wouldn't she be very ashamed?

She wanted to avoid this topic, but her mother didn't expect her to make up for it again: "In these years, learning English well has become a necessary condition, and it is not easy to find a job if you don't speak English well." You are not like Mr. Lu, who is a teacher and goes directly to school after graduation. What about you? You're not a university Chinese a foreign university, and if you don't study the top, you really don't have much competitiveness. ”

However, my mother didn't say anything to death, and comforted a few more words: "It's good if you like it, and it's good to try to get a test in the future and be an English teacher." ”

Maybe in my mother's opinion, being an English teacher with a career editor is the most ideal career path for me. After returning from school, Jolene was depressed for two or three days. My mother once said that my brother is a conductor professional, so he usually trains a lot. Even so, my brother still won a double degree with excellent grades. And Jolene doesn't have such a heavy training task, and she already wants her life when she learns, and she wants to live a few more years if she studies another major?

She also asked her mother why her brother's energy is so good and he learns everything faster than others? The biggest advantage of your brother and sister is that they are good at summarizing and organizing. When I was a child, I wrote the date neatly in my homework book without the teacher's advice, so that it would look clear at a glance in the future. If you make a mistake, not only correct it, but also write why it is wrong next to it. Even exercise books that don't need to be turned in are organized like that. I've taught so many students, and I'm as rigorous and organized as your brother and sister, and it's nice to see two or three a year. ”

Jolene was unconvinced: "Then why don't you teach me to write homework like that?"

"That's not what I taught, in terms of organization, I'm still a long way from your sister, she did it herself. When I was a child, your brother did his homework, and your sister taught him all of it, so he learned it. ”

Hearing this, Jolene was deeply ashamed, and hurriedly slipped away with oil on the soles of her feet. What if her mother asked her why she hadn't learned? When she came back from the country, her sister was in junior high school and didn't have much time to teach her. Her homework was checked by her brother, who was anxious about her sluggishness and tried his best to teach her with the greatest patience. Jolene is extremely dissatisfied with her brother's attitude, and spends all her limited time arguing with him. Alas, I really couldn't hold back for a while, and it caused endless troubles!

There must be a lot of good habits of my brothers and sisters, and I may not be able to finish talking about them for a few days. But at least during that summer, Jolene learned a little bit that she had to be a rigorous and organized person.

During that holiday, my aunt also contacted her family and said that she was going to Peking University as a visiting scholar next semester. It's time for Joey to learn to speak, she says, and she wants her son to learn her native language during the golden age of language learning.

My aunt also said that the older you get, the stronger your sense of belonging to your homeland will be. No matter how well you live in a foreign country, you can't fill the gap in your heart. She will definitely let Joey learn to speak Chinese, and she can't let him forget that he is half Chinese.

Qiao Lin was so happy that she jumped high, and Xu Na was equally happy, after all, she had liked "Teacher Qiaomu" since she was a child. She told Jolene that she must take Teacher Qiao Mu's class next semester, and the two of them went to listen together.

As the summer vacation draws to a close, Jolene reminds herself that it's time to take her heart and learn. That day, she also specially asked Sun Ruiyang and Xu Na to study at KFC, but Xu Na brought a copy of "Being and Nothingness", and Sun Ruiyang took a copy of "Three-Body Problem II., Dark Forest", and only she took an English newspaper to do reading comprehension.

In Jolene's opinion, they were both reading extracurricular books, but the extracurricular books they were reading were also unintelligible to her.

She remembers very clearly that she was doing a popular science article about mammals that day, and many new words she didn't recognize. She originally wanted to look up new words after reading them, but the frequency of a new word was too high, and she couldn't check it.

"Penis, Penis, what the hell is this?" said Jolene, opening the electronic dictionary.

As a result, after hearing her murmuring, Sun Ruiyang and Xu Na looked at each other, and their eyes were a little frightened. In the end, Sun Ruiyang gently covered her mouth: "Ahem, classmate Qiao Lin, don't put this word on your lips in public!"

Unconvinced, Jolene said, "What's the big deal?"

As soon as she finished refuting it, an explanation of the word appeared in the electronic dictionary. It turns out that it only takes a second to go from being a word to being red-faced.

Jolene slumped on her back in her chair and spread the newspaper on her face, pulling her hair in frustration and saying, "I don't want to live, forget it when I die......"

Sun Ruiyang took down the newspaper with a smile and persuaded gently: "It's okay, it's so noisy here, no one hears it at all, besides, many people don't know what Penis means......

Jolene's face was still like a red apple, and she rested her chin on the table and asked softly, "Then you all know?"

"That...... I'm a medical student, how could I not know?"

It's understandable that her boyfriend knows, how did Xu Na know? As soon as she came into contact with Qiao Lin's gaze, Xu Na was also a little unnatural, she said, "That...... There is a literary phenomenon called ...... this phenomenon. It's when the masculinity is heavier...... Well. ”

Jolene nodded so-so, but her heart was frustrated. It's not that she's shy about the word now, it's that she's ashamed of her own level of business. Look, a top student in the English Department was kicked out of the hall by a researcher of infectious diseases and a researcher of Chinese language and literature.

When she got home, Jolene had already made up her mind that she wanted to take another major and get in touch with more knowledge.

Just like his elder brother, he is not only proficient in military theory, but also can do the work of an electrician; like Xu Na, he not only reads through famous books, but can also talk eloquently about certain philosophical theories; like Sun Ruiyang and his sister, he has no professional knowledge and his English is also excellent. Even Wei Chenglin, in the near future, can become the kind of person she admires.

A lot of the time, Jolene thinks the people around her are cool and powerful. Now that she still has time, she doesn't want to choose to be a sideliner, but to push herself to work hard.

In this way, she seems to have found the meaning of not going abroad next semester, perhaps...... Just to let yourself find another direction!

Before going back to school, she told her parents what she thought. To her surprise, her parents were not too pleased, but persuaded her to think about it carefully.

Dad's concerns are especially deep: "You had a serious illness in the summer of your sophomore year of high school, and when I think about it, I always feel that we put too much pressure on you, and you don't have to work so hard." People say that if you live a little easier, you won't get sick. ”

Mom also said: "Linlin, don't keep thinking about comparing with your brothers and sisters, they work hard, but their IQ is indeed better than that of ordinary children." The same concept that takes other children three days to understand may take them just one day. We are all very pleased that you can achieve today's results, and we don't want you to have a hard time. ”

Little Betty arched in Jolene's arms and didn't seem to be very supportive of her decision. Qiao Lin thought for a while and said with a smile: "Dad means that I'm worried that I'll be tired out of a major, and Mom means that my IQ is really average, so it's good to live like this, don't do things that are beyond my ability?"

The Qiao family and his wife looked at each other for a moment and nodded silently.

Jolene lowered her head and stroked little Betty before saying, "Mom and Dad, to be honest, you have thought deeply about me, and I am very touched. But I thought, since my legs are fine, it may be that God told me to do more, my brain is very average, but don't forget, I went from the bottom of the whole grade to the sixth place in the liberal arts. I also want to try it out and see where my boundaries are. If it's too reluctant, don't you read it! At least I have a professional guarantee, don't I?"

Neither parents spoke, Qiao Lin leaned over to her parents and said affectionately: "You two old party members, tell me, should you grasp the limited time in life and do more meaningful things?"

Hearing this, Li Lanzhi's eyes suddenly brightened, she stroked her daughter's head and said, "You, you've really grown up!"

Qiao Jianjun straightened up, turned his back to his wife and daughter, and wiped the family photo again: "When I took this family photo, your sister was not as old as you were at this time! In the blink of an eye, you are going to be a sophomore, and your sister is about to graduate with a doctorate." This year, you must let your brother and sister go home for the New Year and take another family photo. ”