Chapter 18: Fiona pretending to be strong

After working with Jim, Lip now earns $6,000 a month, and over the course of a year, he earns more than $70,000.

However, he never thought that he would use the money to pay for his education at the University of Chicago!

The reason why he knew that he would be caught, but still risked being sanctioned by the National Council on Education, and substituted for someone else in the SAT test, Lip had to wait for the professor at the University of Chicago.

Since it was the professor, out of love for talent, who took the initiative to invite Lip to apply for the University of Chicago, Lip of course took the opportunity to put forward some conditions, such as providing a full scholarship and so on.

Lip's bottom line is that tuition is free of charge, and if the accommodation fee is really not waived, Lip can rent a house outside, or simply go home to live and go to school every day.

After his seventeenth birthday, Lip will apply for a full driver's license and buy himself a used car to get around.

The second-hand car market in the United States is very prosperous, and cheap second-hand cars only cost one or two thousand dollars, and if you don't pick and choose, you can even get a few hundred dollars.

Lip has first-hand mechanical repair skills, and can even buy a car case and assemble a car by yourself!

This is not uncommon in the United States.

Although Lip has a high academic performance in high school and a perfect SAT score, he is already far behind compared to those who are really proud of the sky from wealthy families.

In the fourth season of "Shameless", after Lip was admitted to college, because in high school, he fell behind too many courses compared to other classmates, so he was left behind by his classmates in the course at the beginning.

In high school, he could earn fifty yuan per class paper, but in college, he could only get a "D" grade.

This was a very heavy blow to Lip, and he lost the confidence to continue his studies for a while.

After regrouping, being able to get a "B+" evaluation has made him very happy!

That's what Lip will go through in the series, and Lip now certainly won't let anything like that happen again.

Therefore, when applying for college is basically worry-free, the problem of money has been temporarily solved, and Lip has spent his spare time on preparing for college courses.

Before his rebirth, Zhao Lipu was a scumbag, he was barely admitted to a junior college that did not enter the stream, and he was mixed up in three years of college, and in the end he didn't even get his graduation certificate, which led to his complete salted fish after entering the society.

Once reborn, of course, Lip doesn't want to repeat the salted fish life, and he happens to have this mind that is much smarter than before his death, and Lip naturally wants to make good use of it.

And, really calming down, Lip found that learning is actually a very interesting thing, and every day you can learn new knowledge beyond your own mastery, this sense of accomplishment is not lost in bed.

Lip goes to Karen less often than some time ago.

All the time saved was spent on reading books.

In addition, I also found a guitar from the second-hand market and played it when I had nothing to do; I stole a few steel pipes from the scrap factory, installed a horizontal bar and a parallel bar in the open space behind the house, and found some dumbbells and barbell plates discarded by others, and exercised in my spare time.

Fitness is a very popular form of exercise in the United States, and there is no threshold to enter the industry, you just need to take action.

Lip does not have any advantage in height and appearance, and if he wants to attract better girls, in addition to being admitted to college, finding a good job, and earning a lot of money, he can also train a body of muscle through fitness, so as to attract the attention of girls.

Having a good body is a very popular thing in the United States!

Moreover, through fitness, improve your physical fitness, and your quality of life will also be greatly improved.

Although Lip's fitness journey has only just begun, the results are already beginning to show - when I had an in-depth conversation with Karen, the persistence has become longer, the daily mental state has improved, and the quality of sleep has also improved.

For Lip, everything is very good right now.

Interested in looking at the boring economics textbook, Ian pushed the door and walked in.

Lip put the book down and said to him, "Ian, what's up?"

Ian replied, "Nothing!"

Lip nodded.

His relationship with Ian has changed a bit lately, since he was reborn.

Although he has reached a company with Ian in his gay identity, Lip was born in a new society after all, grew up under the red flag, and has never been in contact with comrades in his previous life, and there is no way to completely accept Ian's identity for a while.

I'm even more afraid that if I behave too much, it will stimulate Ian's sensitive nerves - Ian is a potential bipolar patient, bipolar disorder is a very serious mental illness, once the onset of the disease, you must take the medicine on time to control it, and the bipolar patients after the onset of the disease, the mood is not controlled at all, how can you honestly take the medicine on time?

According to the development of the plot, Ian's bipolar disorder will not develop until after he goes to join the army, but Lip is not sure that before that, he will not develop early if he is strongly stimulated by other strong stimuli.

Out of an abundance of caution, Lip actually deliberately reduced his contact with Ian.

Ian certainly felt this too, so during this time, he also became lukewarm to Lip.

Lip doesn't have a good solution for this for the time being.

I was thinking about how to say a few more words to Ian and ease the cold relationship, when I suddenly heard Fiona's shouting.

Lip asked, "What's going on?"

Ian replied, "Frank was drunk again and fell asleep on the floor. ”

"I know!"

Jumping out of bed and going downstairs, I just saw Fiona squatting next to Frank, holding Frank's hand, patting her on the shoulder, and saying in Flac's tone, "You're awesome! Fiona, if it weren't for you, I really don't know what to do with our family, thank you for all these years of hard work!"

Then he said in his own voice, "No thanks, Dad! this is what I should do!"

Lip suddenly felt a pang of sadness.

Raised his voice and shouted, "Fiona!"

Fiona was shocked, and quickly scratched her face with her hand, wiped the tears from the corners of her cheeks and eyes, replaced them with a smiling face, and replied, "Hey! Lip, haven't you slept yet?"

Lip walked over, stretched out his hands, gave Fiona a big hug, and said to her, "Fiona! Thank you!

In the arms of her brother, who has grown up, Fiona can no longer control the pent-up emotions that have been suppressed, and cries bitterly.